Judging from the banner of the Qing army, Hong Chengchou sits in the city, and the five towns of Jingbiao, Jiangxi and Jiangxi are also in the city, and the head of the fortress is the banner of Bu Shilong, the general soldier of Guangxin Mansion. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The five towns of Jingbiao were damaged in the two battles before and after Yushan County, especially the field battle between Chen Wen, the center, left, right, and back four battalions in the five towns of Jingbiao were even more damaged, especially the middle town was almost completely wiped out, and the main force of the city defense of Guangxin Fucheng was naturally Liu Guangbi and Yang Jie's subordinates. As for the defender of the fortress, Chen Wen really hadn't heard of this general.

There is a priority when it comes to besieging a city. Grain and grass, the Ming army can rely on water transportation, but the size of the army is really not small, but it is not possible for a long time, and the land route has the advantage of the Qing army's cavalry on the side, the best way is to break the city as soon as possible to avoid accidents. And between this Guangxin Mansion City and the Fortress, Chen Wen and Hong Chengchou also have the same idea, it must be to break the Mansion City first, and then attack the Fortress.

It is impossible for the Qing army to have reinforcements arrive in a short period of time, and the fortress is a hard stubble no matter how you look at it, first easy and then difficult, for the Zhejiang Ming army, which has just experienced a big war, it is the safest.

On the first day, Chen Wen did not rush to attack, and the army set up a stable camp east of Guangxin Fucheng, and everything was carried out step by step, showing a steady and steady attitude.

This is what Hong Chengchou wants to see, the more the Ming army seeks stability, the more time will be delayed, and the greater the pressure on grain and grass, although his cavalry suffered a lot in the battle of Yushan, but it is still in an advantage compared to the Ming army. The territory of dozens of miles east of Guangxin Mansion has long been made into a no-man's land by the Qing army, and it drags on like this, relying on the cavalry cruising and raiding, and the Ming army will not be able to hold on sooner or later.

On the first day, the Ming army still did not move, but according to the reports of the horses and the cavalry that went out of the city to harass, the Ming army has been transporting timber with the help of the Xinjiang River for the past two days, so as to build siege equipment.

Water transportation, which is difficult for the Qing army to interfere with. Although the Xinjiang River goes straight into Poyang Lake, but Guangxin Fucheng has a pontoon bridge on the Xinjiang River all the year round, which is an important traffic route of Guangxinfu City, and it is upstream, the hardship is abnormal, and the upstream may be traced upstream, and the raid is really beyond its reach.

However, on the third day, the Ming army, relying on professional sappers and a large number of auxiliaries, quickly built a huge number of siege equipment, and soon approached the east of Guangxinfu City.

Due to the geographical location and terrain, the east wall of Guangxin Mansion was originally built relatively tall and strong, coupled with the stationing of heavy troops at the east gate, and the focus on setting up the military department at the east gate, which is the focus of the entire city defense system. When the chaos in Zhejiang intensified, Hong Chengchou also dedicated himself to reinforcing the eastern city wall, coupled with the grinding of guns in the past few days, it can be called a strong city in the four southeastern provinces.

The Ming army approached the range of the artillery at the head of the city and began to line up, and the artillery, siege equipment and large army lined up in turn, putting on a full set of siege postures.

On the way back, he vomited blood and fainted, and when he returned to the city, he was always bedridden, and all the arrangements and work were coordinated by the Nanchang shogunate and his generals. In general, Hong Chengchou's in-law, Huang Zhixuan, was in charge of logistics, while Hong Chengchou's assistant in military affairs, Hu Quancai, was in charge of coordinating the generals. But seeing that the Ming army was about to start attacking the city and dragging the sick body, Hong Chengchou still rushed to the city to sit in person.

"Master Jingluo, why are you so troubled?"

On the way, Hong Chengchou shocked the morale of the army, making the escape of the soldiers far less than under normal circumstances, coupled with the attraction and comfort of the Qing army after returning to the city, which made Hong Chengchou's prestige in the army also rise to a certain extent. It's just that this is only compared to normal circumstances, but the actual battle losses of the army are still not small.

Jiangxi Tibiao and Jiujiang Zhenbiao are in the position of besieging the city, and the retreat is also the most rapid, basically without too much damage, and will be the main force in this battle. In the five towns of Jingbiao, the middle battalion was almost completely wiped out from Daniel Zhang down, and the rout troops who escaped were all unorganized, and there was no combat effectiveness to speak of; The left and right battalions were also affected, and more than half of the formations were severely damaged; Aside from the former towns that had already fought a war on the banks of Yulang Creek, only the back towns were less damaged.

"In today's situation, if the old man still doesn't come out, I'm afraid that the soldiers will have no fighting spirit."

In the words of Lang Zhong, Hong Chengchou is now hanging with his own beliefs, otherwise he would have died a long time ago. The heart attack made the old man who was more or less supported by his will during this time.

"Jiangxi is already empty, and once the city of Guangxin is lost, Chen Wen will be difficult to contain in the southeast. When the time comes, the overall situation in the southeast will be corrupted, and through the ages, I am afraid that not only the Han people will scold the old man for being a traitor, but even the Qing Dynasty will not say a good word about the old man. ”

The spirit is above the body, which should be respectable, but Hong Chengchou's purpose is like this, and probably only these minions around him who are loyal to the Manchu Qing can understand it.

Hong Chengchou appeared at the head of the city, which greatly boosted the morale of the defenders, after all, it was the eunuch for decades, the Liukou, the Qing army, and the Southern Ming Dynasty all fought each other, only the battle of Songjin and these two attacks on Zhejiang suffered a crushing defeat, but the reduction of prestige was not enough to reach the point of destruction.

Although it was May, it was getting hotter and hotter, but the wind was still not small in the city. Supported by Wang 1's auxiliary ministers, Hong Chengchou sat down in front of the windswept East City Gate Tower, but he had already consumed too much physical strength, and it was impossible to command the battle. However, when he came here, the meaning of his existence was nothing more than a spiritual symbol.

The Qing army at the head of the city had already set up a posture, and the Ming army under the city was also prepared after a while, but to the surprise of the Qing army, the Ming army did not send a messenger to persuade him to surrender at the first time, but instead brought a large ox cart pulled by two oxen to the front of the two armies.

"Admiral Zhang!"

It was Daniel Zhang who caused the Qing army at the head of the city to exclaim on the ox cart, the first-class Jing rebel marquis, hereditary replacement, compared to the poor third-class light car lieutenant of Hong Chengqian in the future, and the title of hereditary fourth was as much as fourteen levels higher, and Hong Chengqian Chen Wen did not plan to keep it, let alone Daniel Zhang.

"The tartars in the city listened, the rebel Daniel Zhang, when he first followed Zuo Liangyu, cruelty to the people, doing all kinds of evil, called an official, but in fact a thief. Since the captivity, he has encircled and suppressed the righteous teachers and slaughtered the people, and his crimes are too numerous to mention, and the slaughter of the city in Ji'an is really a man with a human face and a beast's heart. Cut it before the battle now, in order to set an example. ”

The herald put away the iron horn, turned the horse's head and returned to the Ming army's front, in the Ming army's battle formation in the direction of the cheers, the Nanchang shogunate officials at the head of the city were either iron blue, or pale, and no one had the slightest color.

"Chen Wen, this is forcing the defenders to fight to the death."

"No, he has the confidence to break the city, and this move is just destroying the morale of the soldiers."

Hu Quancai spoke, swallowed his saliva involuntarily, and looked at the Ming army battle formation outside the city with a look of fear, as if he remembered something.

"You have to watch out for those Iron Mask Men and never let them get close to the city defenses!"

The grenadiers directly led to the crushing defeat of the Qing army in the last battle, and undoubtedly left a great psychological shadow in the hearts of every Qing army who participated in that battle. Just imagine, once the grenade explodes in the Qing army again, I am afraid that there will be no need for the Ming army to enter the city at all, and the Qing army will collapse on its own.

"What Hu Daotai said is the best thing for soldiers, and you must not let those guys get close."

"Exactly, exactly."

“……”

The twitter sounded on the head of the city, and the Ming army under the city officially began the punishment of Daniel Zhang.

Just like the process of Ling Chi Ma Jinbao back then, the executioner on the ox cart patted Daniel Zhang's chest, and screwed his right breast down with a knife......

Ling Chi began to stage, but this was not the purpose of Chen Wen leading the army to come, after the battle, thousands of captured Qing troops changed into the military uniforms of the Ming army, but they did not wear armor. With Chen Wen's order, the Ming army auxiliaries holding scissors stepped forward one after another to cut off the braids of these Qing troops.

"Er has been rebellious for a long time, and it stands to reason that they should be like that Daniel Zhang. However, God has the virtue of a good life, for the sake of you all Han people, my national father will show you a way of life today - as the vanguard of our army, those who attack the head of the city will be exempted from capital crimes, and will be forgiven for five years as slaves in coolie camps; cut off the head of a tartar, forgave the death penalty, and went to a coolie camp as a slave for a year to forgive his sins; Cut off the heads of two Tartars, exempt from capital crimes, and send someone to send you across the Yangtze River and return to your hometown; If they were able to kill or capture alive the officials of the Nanchang shogunate and the guerrilla officers of the garrison, they could select 2 to 50 people from the prisoner camp to return to their hometowns; In the end, if you can capture Hong Chengchou, you will be rewarded with five hundred taels of silver! ”

Among these captives, they have already gone through the first round of purging, and those Qing prisoners who participated in hand-to-hand combat have already turned into corpses in Yushan County, and the rest are either the troops behind the palace, or the phalanx behind them that were bombarded by grenadiers as soon as they saw the Ming army, which happened to be used in the ant-attached siege city.

"Those who are willing to fight for this way of life will receive weapons before the battle, and if they are unwilling, they will leave their heads, and their own citizens will not raise idlers."

As soon as Chen Wen's words came out, the Qing army immediately volunteered to join the death squad. There is still a chance to survive, and if you are lucky, you can have a chance to return to your hometown, if you don't go, it will simply be a dead end, this nominal choice question has no room to choose with them, and soon these Qing troops made a choice. However, in order to prevent them from being half-hearted when they stormed the city, Chen Wen still added a layer of insurance inside.

"Keep your head without hair, keep your hair without your head, this is what the Tartar Emperor said, I hope you still remember."

Subconsciously touched the back of his head, whether it was so or not, those Qing soldiers all shivered. However, the Ming army was strong, and the Manchu Qing side cut braids meant that he would become the first rank in the eyes of others, and there was only one way to live, so he had to obey the arrangement of the Ming army.

A moment later, the punishment of Ling Chi in front of the two armies continued, and the Qing prisoners of the brigade came to the front of the formation, and as soon as the war drums sounded, they began to rush to the city.

The first step in the siege was to remove the wooden stakes and low walls, which were used to hinder the advance of the siege engines. There are still these things under the city, Chen Wen naturally can't dispatch siege equipment, and he always has to let these cannon fodder clean up the site.

A large number of Qing prisoners were dispatched, and most of the guys in their hands were just a hammer and hammer, and if they were lucky, they could mix the axes and shovels of the Zhejiang Ming army engineer system, and rushed to the wooden stakes to start the demolition work. These stakes were all within the range of the city's artillery, and once they began to be cleared, the Qing artillery began to fire mercilessly.

In this era, the shooting accuracy of artillery was not high, and professional artillery required good, long-term and scientific training, which was really impossible for the Qing army. Therefore, when the shelling began, the prisoners' efforts to clear the wooden stakes were not disturbed much, but many shells were fired at their own fortifications outside the city.

These things are used to delay time, and no one has anything to look at, but they invisibly save a lot of effort from these cannon fodder. However, as the clearance deepened, casualties inevitably appeared.

On an additional fort at the head of the city, the Qing army fired a cannon and hit a wooden stake. The stake was being dismantled by a few captives, but they only had a broken blade in their hands, and it was really difficult to dismantle. However, no matter how hard it tried, it only took some strength, and this bombardment there directly knocked several prisoners to the ground, and the huge kinetic energy wrapped in the cannonball was transmitted to the bouncing stake, and even beat the prisoner in front of him to spew out a large mouthful of blood.

The wounded captives lay on the ground, blood gushing from their mouths and noses, and a large depression in their chests. Seeing that they were not alive, the captives who were sad about the dead rabbit and the fox did not dare to stop, this is just a matter of luck, if they can't complete the task assigned by the Ming army, it will be a dead end.

Ling Chi in front of the Ming army was still continuing, and Daniel Zhang, who had walnuts stuffed in his mouth, could only make a whining sound, but as the flesh on his body was cut off piece by piece, the movements of those prisoners who were under invisible pressure became faster and faster, and they soon cleared out a large piece of wooden stake and arrived at the location of the low wall.

This kind of low wall was used by Chen Wen during the construction of the outer fortifications of the fort in Anhua Town, and also in Europe, and could be used as a simple fortification for musketeers and artillerymen, but in this case, it could only be used to hinder the advance of siege equipment.

At the beginning, the Ming army in Anhua Town was small in number and was not suitable for defense out of the city, but today, the Qing army, which had just suffered a crushing defeat, did not have the courage to send bird gunners out of the city. However, Hong Chengchou had already taken this into account when designing this low wall, which can now be used as an obstacle and a simple distance coordinate for the city's head artillery.

The captives began to tear down the low walls, and the Qing artillery on the top of the city was also dense. Seeing this, Chen Wen ordered the next group of prisoners to come forward to help in the battle, so that the low wall could be demolished as soon as possible.

After a long time, after paying a lot of casualties, the captives finally demolished a large part of the low wall, and the impending obstacles to the Ming army's siege equipment were greatly reduced.

There were also a number of wooden stakes within the low walls, as well as a moat that led to the Xin River, but it was not enough to hinder the Ming army's movement speed too much. As the siege equipment and a large number of artillery began to push forward, Chen Wen also gave an order to Li Ruixin.

"Get the cavalry ready, it's their turn right away." (To be continued.) )