Let me explain, there has been something at home in the past two days, the ninth day of the first month, the father-in-law has a fifty yin birthday, and the thirteenth day of tomorrow (lunar calendar) is the third anniversary of his death, because the father-in-law did not die normally (fell to death from the construction site), and was only 47 years old when he died, so all things about him, the bones must be treated solemnly. My father-in-law doesn't have a son, and my son-in-law must do his best to control it, and I can't let relatives and friends speak, so there are relatively few updates in the past two days, so please forgive me. What is certain is that there will be absolutely no family impact update next month, so please rest assured

When the Qing army at the east gate was stunned by the sight, the other three Qing troops did not know what was happening, and the loud noise just now made many Qing soldiers think that the thieves had attacked the city, and they brought artillery just like last year's old thieves.

"The thief hits. Cannon! ”

"The thieves are attacking the city!"

There was a frightened shout of the Qing army officer, the loud noise just now almost frightened him from the city wall, after stabilizing his mind, he looked out of the city, but there was silence in the field of vision in front of him, and there was no figure.

What about thieves?

The Qing army on the city wall was also at a loss, they stared blankly at the outside of the city, and no one knew what was going on, until someone pointed to the east gate and was startled, they woke up like a dream and saw the black smoke that had risen into the air.

"The thieves are attacking the east gate, it's the east gate!"

After discovering that the loud noise came from the direction of the East Gate, the Qing army, which did not know that the city wall of the East Gate had also been blown down, immediately dispatched troops to reinforce the East Gate, in their eyes, the Taiping Army with artillery was definitely not an ordinary bandit, but became a threat similar to Li Dingguo's army. Last year, Li Dingguo's army bombarded the Xinhui city wall with dozens of artillery pieces and remembered it vividly, and even now, there are still a few city walls that still look strong on the outside. But behind it is hastily cast, not as strong as before.

According to the usual practice, after the cannon is fired, the thieves will definitely attach ants to attack the city. At this time, the defenders must have sufficient strength, and there must be no gaps. Otherwise, the thieves will definitely take the opportunity to climb up to the city. Out of experience, the Qing army guards at the other three gates all transferred a certain amount of manpower to the east gate.

Su Xianting didn't go to sleep at night, after escaping back from Guifeng Mountain, he was faced with a thorny question, why did the general soldier Wu Jinzhong die, but he Su Xianting came back alive, and he also buried his banner soldiers cleanly.

As the clothed servant of the prince of Pingnan, Su Xianting knows better than anyone the significance of these Han army-inlaid blue flag soldiers to the king of Pingnan. You must know that when the king of Chupingnan, Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and Geng Zhongming, the king of Jingnan, were ordered to go south together, there were only more than 7,000 people under the banner soldiers under the command of the three kings, and there were only more than 2,000 on the heads of each prince.

With this point of bannermen, the three kings went all the way south from Beijing, unstoppable, and they were forced to pacify several provinces for the Qing court, and Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, successively occupied Hunan and Guangxi, and the king of Pingnan and the king of Jingnan also occupied Fujian and Guangdong successively. If it weren't for the Great Western Army going north from Yunnan, and there were fierce generals such as Li Dingguo, I was afraid that Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, would have tied up the Yongli puppet emperor in Beijing. The Qing Dynasty dominates the world, and there is no more Nanming in the world!

Although the king of Dingnan died in Guilin, he was in Guangdong. The four or five thousand banner soldiers under the command of Pingnan and Jingnan also withstood Li Dingguo's two attacks, although they failed to completely occupy Guangdong, they also controlled most of Guangdong Province, so that Nanming's gang did not dare to look east at Guangzhou.

The Han army banner fought more than ten battles before and after Guangdong, and there were two vicious battles in Zhaoqing and Xinhui, but the loss of more than 1,000 flag soldiers under the command of the two princes was only more than 1,000 people, but now they buried more than 200 at once, which made Su Xianting happy that he picked up his life and came back, but also worried about whether his head could be saved. That's more than 200 flag soldiers. Not more than two hundred battalions! In the eyes of Prince Pingnan, even the two thousand green battalion soldiers are not as heavy as his two hundred banner soldiers!

It's not too late to make amends. After Su Xianting fled back, he thought about it repeatedly, and only by successfully holding Xinhui City could the anger of the prince of Pingnan be calmed for a while. Of course, there is another important point, he must say that the thief who defeated him is as powerful as the old thief Li Dingguo, at least he must not let King Pingnan know that it was actually a rabble of bandits who defeated him.

If you want to do this and save your own life, the cooperation of Zheng Guodong, another guard of Xinhui City, is very important, the flag soldiers who fled back are all his subordinates, Su Xianting is not afraid that they will betray him, so he has shown favor to Zheng Guodong as much as possible, but he is used to being a banner person, and he is used to playing prestige, and he always inadvertently looks down on Zheng Guodong who was born in the green camp between words, so the effect of winning over Zheng Guodong is not great, and the other party does not give any guarantee. Therefore, Su Xianting can only put his hope on the success of defending the city, as long as he succeeds in defending Xinhui, the prince is no longer dissatisfied, and he can offset a little bit of anger, so that although this leader can't be done, his life can be saved, and he will not be used as a slave to his family.

The prince of Pingnan is still very nostalgic, as a loyal servant who has followed his old man for almost ten years, Su Xianting thinks that he is still familiar with the temper of this old prince.

Guarding the city is equal to his own head, Su Xianting naturally didn't dare to take it lightly, Zheng Guodong went to sleep in the second half of the night, but he didn't go to sleep, although he slept badly, he still stayed in the city. He also has been in the army for ten years, he knows that the period before dawn is the time when thieves like to attack the city, and Li Dingguo's department had attacked twice during this period last year, so he is not at ease, and he must personally guard the city until the reinforcements from Guangzhou arrive.

There are a lot of large water tanks buried under the city, and Su Xianting sent his own soldiers from time to time to inquire about the green battalion soldiers who are responsible for monitoring the movements underground. But at the dawn of the day, a loud noise suddenly came from under the city wall, and the violent shaking made Su Xianting's sleepiness disappear in an instant, and he was also greatly surprised: The thief has artillery!

"Watch out for cannonballs!"

Su Xianting subconsciously shouted to a few pro-soldiers behind him, but as soon as the words fell, he saw two pro-soldiers pointing to the left section of the more than ten zhang with blank faces, and screamed in fear: "It's not good, the city wall has collapsed, run!" ”

The screams of the two soldiers were accompanied by countless splashes of stones and dirt, a puff of black smoke rising into the air, and a stunned section of the collapsed city wall!

Screams and screams came and went.

Su Xianting couldn't believe it, his upper and lower teeth trembled involuntarily, he couldn't imagine what kind of weapon could make the city wall that was impregnable and tens of thousands of thieves couldn't help it.

How is it possible, how is it possible? How can it be!

Su Xianting's eyes turned black, and the screams of his own soldiers sounded in his ears again: "My lord, the thieves are coming!" (To be continued)