Zawang turned over and dismounted, and with the help of Goshha, he untied his soaked cotton armor, and he had just led his troops to rush and kill for a while, driving back a group of Shandong rebels who were trying to sneak up on the artillery positions. The www.biquge.info beheaded three hundred in this battle can be said to have taught the traitors in Jining City another lesson.

Outside the city of Jining, tall wooden pillars were newly erected by the Qing army, and their heads were hung all over them, and some of the heads were still dripping with blood.

After continuous battles, the Qing army captured many strongholds of the Shandong Righteous Army outside Jining City, such as Wangmuge Lake, Sanliying, and Guanyin Pavilion, and completely advanced to Jining City.

The latter, as a famous and rich place along the canal, has a high city and deep pools, which cannot be underestimated. But after the devastation of the previous war - the siege of the Mixed Yuan Sect and Kong Zhaohuan, in addition to the broken city walls, you can also see that the city was extraordinary in the past, and the outside of the city was already a white land, and Jining had fallen no different from ordinary state cities.

The Qing army seized the time to build artillery positions and arrange artillery. Heavy firepower was something that the Shandong rebels defending the city lacked, so in the past two or three days, the defenders often went out to attack and kill, harassing the progress of the Qing army. But then it didn't happen!

"Boom, boom, boom......"

In the afternoon, the Qing army, with the last cannon also in place, launched a fierce bombardment of Jining City. The people who were crushing the city could not lift their heads. According to the advice of the staff of the Fu Han Army, Kong Zhaohuan transferred a large number of people to the city wall in advance, and in addition to artillery, there were only a small number of shotguns in the city. Now it has been proven right.

Under the city of Jining, the sound of cannons shook the sky, arrows and stones flew sideways, and a large group of young men who were forced up by the Qing army also took advantage of the opportunity of the defenders in the city being suppressed, and rushed up like locusts.

After seizing Jining City, the Shandong Minyong did not have time to vigorously repair the city wall, and even the fortifications outside the city were simply dredged the moat, and then several trenches were dug. These trenches, which were not even moats, were less than a hundred meters from the city walls, and this distance was already within the range of the earthen artillery muskets at the head of the city.

Although Chen Ming did not vigorously arm the Shandong Minyong, he still gave them 2,000 bird guns, 500 flintlock guns, 20 three-catty cannons, two-catty cannons, and some tiger squat cannons and mortar cannons, but the latter [Shandong Minyong] suffered a series of defeats in the area west of the canal, and many firearms, especially artillery, had been almost lost.

At this moment, there are only three two-catty cannons at the head of Jining City, and one three-catty cannon is still firing back, and the tiny lethality of the iron bullets they shoot is really not enough to make the young people who fill in the ditch scattered. But the two mortar cannons, the flowering shells they fired deliberately cut the fuse, and every time they exploded in the air above the heads of the young and strong, the lethality was much stronger than those solid iron balls, and the deterrent power was also much stronger. But the number is too small. The unlucky young men fell to the ground and wailed in pain, and no one came to help them, and some of them were even tradled mercilessly by the panicked crowd behind them.

The sandbags and dirtbags that fell quickly filled in the trenches, and in one day, the trenches on the north, south, and east sides of Jining City were filled with two or three hundred meters of passages.

Some people in Jining City were terrified, "Grandpa, hurry up and rescue His Royal Highness the Prince." The artillery of the Qing army was too powerful...... "They were frightened by the fire of the Qing army." From the west of the canal to the east of the canal, in just a few days, the Qing army retaught them how to behave.

Kong Zhaohuan was always expressionless, and the patriarchs of the Meng Yan Zeng clan were all expressionless.

This group of idiots, rotten wood cannot be carved.

Chen Ming asked them to attack Jining Prefecture in the west, then attack Caozhou Mansion, and then let them defend Jining, the intention of a series of actions was obvious, that is, to consume their strength to the greatest extent. One or two thousand people, a whole Yanzhou Mansion.

Even if Kong Zhaohuan handed over all of these people to the Fu Han Army, the Fu Han Army would be impatient.

Kong Zhaohuan, Meng Yuhan, Yan Xiyan and others knew this, and they made up their minds to win Chen Han's trust even if all the men and horses under them were wiped out.

They are all some farmer who can't read a single word, and when they die, they die. Being able to preserve the inheritance of the Four Saints and the interests of their respective families is much more important than ten thousand lives in the eyes of Kong Zhaohuan and others.

What they are most afraid of now is not that their Minyong has suffered heavy casualties, but that after their respective strengths are seriously damaged, they still can't get Chen Han's trust, which is the saddest thing. But the 'Four Saints' who only had such a path in front of them, they could only do it so hard.

"Boom! Rumble! The rumbling cannon sound resounded throughout Jining.

First, there were two 15-pound guns, then four 10-pound guns, and then two Portuguese 12-pounder guns.

These cannons can be fired every two or three minutes, and one by one solid bullets hit the city wall, although the outermost layer of the Jining city wall is covered with large pieces of masonry, the contacts are all cracked and shattered.

Then the young men carried the long wooden ladder forward, like ants. Braving the guns and cannons in the city, under the coercion of the Qing army behind him, he tried his best to move forward and move forward.

Jining's moat is ten meters wide, which is not a remarkable number, but it is not easy to build a long ladder across the opposite bank. The Shandong people on the head of the city may have been scattered and shattered by the firepower of the Qing army long ago, but they were able to hold on tenaciously in defending the city. Armed with muskets, cannons, bows and arrows, he fought back with all his might.

The cannons of the two-catty cannon, the three-catty cannon, and the tiger squat cannon were all replaced with shotguns, and dozens or hundreds of broken iron horns, broken nails, and even gravel of different sizes were stuffed into the barrels. "Boom ......"

Iron horns, broken nails, and gravel erupted from the smoke of gunpowder, with a scream that cut through the air, and slammed into the ranks of the city. That's the invitation of Lord Yama, and each shot can take the lives of several people.

It is not that the defenders of the city have few cannons, otherwise the young men under the city would have collapsed long ago.

Of course, this is also because of the low quality of the gunners of the Minyong team, if the gunners of the Fuhan Army are allowed to operate, whether it is a three-catty gun, a two-catty cannon, a tiger squat cannon, or a mortar cannon, even if the speed of one shot a minute cannot be maintained in the battle, two rounds in three minutes are enough.

There are sixteen or seventeen artillery pieces of various sizes on the three city walls, of which more than seventy percent are concentrated in the southern city, which can almost be regarded as a rate of fire of seven or eight rounds a minute. Even if you play ten rounds and stop for a while, a quarter of an hour is enough to shoot seventy or eighty rounds. Now that the young men have rushed to such a close range under the city, how can they kill a few with one shot, right? That's a few hundred. A few hundred people, even if you make a discount, one or two hundred people will not be less, right?

With the tenacity of the young people, how long can they hold on?

It's a pity that Shandong Minyong's artillery can't fire one shot in three minutes, and they can't aim yet, and if a shot goes out, it will be like a blind cat hitting a dead mouse, and the number of 'one shots' that can harvest human lives like harvesting wheat is too few and too few.

Young and strong are not fools. The corpses that fell on the open ground outside the city, of course, they would choose a place with fewer corpses, so that the actual lethality of the cannons at the head of the city would be even less. Coupled with the bombardment of the Qing artillery, the gunners or artillery on the head of the city were under a threat, and the only three-catty cannon stepped into the dust of destruction, and the continuous shells hit its vicinity, and the masonry fort collapsed, and five or six gunners and the three-catty cannon were completely reimbursed.

But even so, during this period, there were still young people who couldn't hold on to the torment and collapsed and fled. Then the one or two thousand young men in Jining Nancheng all ran backwards in a huff.

The Qing army horse team that had been lined up in the rear outside the city finally made a move at this time, they divided a wave of cavalry, or all the Eight Banner horsemen, these Manchu cavalry wearing cotton armor and lightning rods rode towards the scattered young man, and then surrounded the fastest 100 people in the middle, as for the large group behind them, the nature was different. A group of Qing infantry armed with knives and guns contained the latter, and the Manchu army's Jiwei and swords and guns, the mud-legged people did not have the slightest idea of resisting, and were obediently divided into two groups, one large and one small, by the Qing army's infantry and cavalry.

Only then did the young men in the small group feel that something was wrong with their breath, and there was a commotion in their group, but it was too late.

The Eight Banners horsemen with lightning rods waved the swords and guns in their hands, slashed and slashed their horses, and blood splashed under the trampling of the horses' hooves, which made people stunned, and made the large group of young people as quiet as cicadas. The young men who were lucky enough not to die were also killed one by one by the Qing soldiers who came forward to mend their swords, and both sides inside and outside Jining South City were stunned for a while.

On the fifth day of the Battle of Jining, that is, when the Fu Han army under the city of Xuzhou had fully controlled the initiative.

On this day, Chen Ming, who was outside Xuzhou City, decided to ink ink; The Qing army outside Jining City really began its own onslaught.

The continuous attacks, especially the Qing army's concentrated heavy artillery attacks on the walls of Jining City, caused the latter to suffer far more pressure and trauma than the damage caused by Shandong Minyong's attack on Jining not long ago.

Large swaths of outer brick walls shattered and fell, and the rammed earth inner walls cracked, not to mention the women's walls. Some sections of the city walls were beaten bald, and the battlement walls were swept clean.

There are tens of thousands of Shandong people in Jining City, at this time can only stay at the foot of the city wall, when the city head of a cannon is destroyed, when the Qing army's cannons are getting closer and closer to the Jining city wall, the entire Jining City is shrouded in the Qing army's firepower.

Kong Zhaohuan had already come out of the state government and transferred to Chongjue Temple, because the iron tower in Chongjue Temple is the tallest building in the entire Jining.

But Kong Zhaohuan, who was hiding here, didn't have any sense of security, and a picture always flashed in his mind: a house with a big hole in the roof, and the sunlight shone through the hole into a large bed in the house, which was full of blurred flesh and blood......

It's not that Kong Zhaohuan is nervous, but he really saw this scene, and the victim is still a member of the Kong family, and in terms of seniority, he is still his uncle. Now as soon as he closes his eyes, his mind is full of blood!

"Kill......"

The fighting on the city continued from the night of the fifth day. When these Qing troops fought against the Fu Han army, their morale was very average and average, but when it was their turn to deal with the people of Shandong, it would be as high as 'the gods descended from heaven'.

Attacking during the day doesn't count, but at night you can launch two or three attacks!

No matter what the actual effect is, it disturbs the whole Jining and is not peaceful. Then under the bombardment of heavy artillery, the section of the city wall in the south of the city finally collapsed, which was like a shot in the arm for the Qing army, and soon they set off a new round of attack.

Day 7 & Day 8......

In just a few days, Kong Zhaohuan's chubby round face has been thinned into an oval like a winter melon, Meng Yuhan even broke his leg, Yan Xiyan's eyes were bloodshot, and a gauze was wrapped around his forehead, which was a wound caused by the bricks that flew from the Qing army's artillery when he went to the front line to boost morale. Now it seems to be very ordinary, not very serious, but the feeling at the time was that he almost blinded his eyes.

"Resist, resist. A total of 1,000 people died, and there are tens of thousands of people in Jining City. Do you want to keep your family? ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not yet taken Xuzhou. We can only stand it, and if we can't stand it, we have to top it! Deadtop! ”

"I tell you, don't even think of asking for help? We're going to die in Jining this battle. ”

"You're dead, I'll fill it in. Unless His Royal Highness the Crown Prince takes the initiative to return to the rescue, you don't want to see a reinforcement! ”

"Don't think I'm joking."

Kong Zhaohuan was under a lot of pressure in his heart, but there were still many pig teammates around him, and he finally understood the words. A hysterical yelling made the faces of the dozen or so leaders below change constantly, some were frightened and inexplicable, some were so, and some were hard and hard.

Kong Zhaohuan is not the only smart person, these family leaders may have weak knees when facing knives, but when it comes to intrigue, everyone has their own shrewdness. And Kong Zhaohuan's words are straightforward enough.

"To tell you the truth, all of us died in Jining, His Royal Highness the Prince, and His Majesty the King of Han in Nanjing City will be the happiest." Winning the king and losing the world, winning the world has always been a winner-takes-all game. (To be continued.) )