The first town, the main force of the Taiping Army, under the command of the town general Ge Yi, assembled under the city of Ji'an from three directions. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 At the same time, the fifteenth town and the new first town also began to attack the remaining three gates of Ji'an. Originally, according to the pre-war deployment, the fifteenth town and the new town were only assists to contain the defenders of Ji'an, and the main direction of attack was still the south gate, and the first town was responsible. But after the battle began, the town commander of the new town. However, the auxiliary minister sent Pegasus to ask Zhou Shixiang for his life, requesting that the assist be changed to the main attack. Zhou Shixiang readily agreed, and ordered Dong Changqing to revise the military order, and all departments were the main attackers, and the first to go to Ji'an was the first to take the lead. This order, coupled with the fact that the Military Marshal's Mansion has just awarded the military merit knighthood system, the generals of all towns do not want to be awarded the first meritorious service, so everyone is brave and has a high fighting spirit.

The four gates attacked at the same time, and the Qing army immediately felt the pressure. Zhou Shixiang ordered the artillery to move forward with the fast-moving tiger squat cannon and all kinds of light copper cannons, and suppressed the Qing army in Ji'an with fierce artillery fire. The Qing army was also desperate, Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others moved the equipment that could be used to defend the city to the city, "ten thousand enemies", fierce fire bottles, lime, wood, stones piled up all over the city, and the cauldron was burned with hot oil and dung juice, just waiting for the Taiping army to come up and fall down the city, scalding them to death.

The first town approached the city wall, and the troops received the order to retreat, and they were immediately pardoned, but they knew that they could not attack the Taiping army's array from the front, and they bypassed it from both sides very carefully.

The artillery of the Qing army was basically muted, and now it is the artillery of the Taiping army that is roaring. Looking at the red sea under the city approaching the city wall little by little, the Qing army was extremely nervous.

General soldier Yang Wenyuan held the saber tightly in his right hand, and he didn't dare to gasp, staring straight at the Taiping army that was oppressing, and he didn't hear the foul smell of boiling gold juice from the cauldron behind him. The same is true of the Qing soldiers around, everyone stares straight at the Taiping army, but their faces are pale and bloodless. Some of the archers' hands were strangled with deep seals because of the tightening of the bowstrings. The young men are also colorless, everyone is afraid, but they grit their teeth and stick to their posts. Some people even fantasize that when the long-haired thief climbs the city, he can get away with killing one person so that he can catch silver in the Admiral's silver chest.

To the surprise of the Qing army, after the Taiping army attacking the south gate arrived, it did not rush up to the city like those descending troops, but formed a phalanx under the guidance of drums and suona.

The Qing army didn't understand what the Taiping army was doing, and their eyes were full of confusion, but they soon figured out what the Taiping army was going to do.

"Ready, put!"

Following the officer's order, more than 3,000 soldiers from the first town aimed their guns at the city and fired the guns in their hands. Rows of soldiers took turns firing, and the lead was overwhelming, and the sound of lead bullets whistling over the entire city wall was everywhere, and the city wall was also beaten with a "bang" sound. The Qing army in the city was unprepared at first, and was swept down by the dense guns, and then realized that there was no one in the city anymore, and they were all lying down to avoid the guns.

The Qing army was all aggrieved, and the Taiping army did not attack the city, but only suppressed the city with dense firearms, so that they did not dare to raise their heads, let alone kill and injure the enemy.

Yang Wenyuan, the general soldier of Ji'an, had never experienced this kind of fighting, and he panicked for a while, and when he reacted and wanted to probe the movements of the Taiping Army, a gun hit him with red cherry blossoms on the top, which shocked his helmet and shrank back in fright.

The 300 soldiers in the first town who are equipped with the latest flintlock pistols are all veterans of the army, compared to the arquebuses that are not very good at the head and have a slower rate of fire, these flintlock pistols fired by flint are not only easy to use, but also extremely powerful, the only regret is that the medicine reloading has not been improved, but overall it is much more powerful than the arquebuses used before.

300 flintlock muskets were aimed at an area at the head of the city, and a team of 100 people fired non-stop. With such dense firepower, although the Qing army in the city had the cover of the city wall, there were also many casualties, and there was even a feeling that they were overwhelmed and couldn't raise their heads. That feeling is like not being able to breathe in the water, so oppressive that people's hearts beat and people want to go crazy.

"Boom", a solid big iron bullet impartial Liu Guangbi general flag on the central city tower, the flagpole "squeak" fell, frightened Liu Guangbi hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to raise the flag again, otherwise it would be an extremely heavy blow to the morale of the defenders.

After Liu Guangbi beat Jin Tiancong, he fought with the Eight Banners, and he had never seen the Ming army with such a powerful firearm, and he had always led the troops to fight against the Ming army, but this time he was pressed by the Ming army to beat them, and the feeling in his heart was very uncomfortable. At the same time, he also secretly admired that thief Xiucai really deserved his reputation, no wonder Pingnan King Shang Kexi, Jingnan King Geng Jimao, Prince Jian Jidu, Jingnan General Luo Tuo, Guangxi Admiral Line Guoan They beat him However, even Hu Wensheng's death was not wronged. With such combat power and such tactics, who can be the strongest soldier in the world?

Admiration at the same time, but even more hateful, since the rebellion of the displaced people during the Chongzhen period, the world has been in chaos for 30 years, and now it is not easy to pseudo-Ming Zhu Youlang abandoned the country, Yungui is pacified, and the Qing Dynasty is about to dominate the world.

Liu Guangbi gritted his teeth, eager to devour the thief Xiucai alive, but at this moment, he was trapped in the city tower and couldn't move.

When the Qing army at the south gate was pressed at the head of the city and could not move, the offensive of the Taiping army at the other three gates became more and more intense, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties. With the passage of time, the gunners of the Taiping army were also familiar with the fighting, and the artillery was more and more accurate. Some soldiers jumped out to avoid the stones thrown by the cannons, but as soon as their heads came out, they were beaten by the guns under the city.

The casualties are so large that Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others are already unacceptable, and no matter how many young and strong people die, they don't care, because these can be replenished at any time. As long as there are people in Ji'an City, there is no fear of not being able to recruit people. But the losses of those veterans cannot be replenished, especially the supervising soldiers, these are their survival capital, and if they are gone, they will be gone.

Liu Guangbi's heart twitched violently, at first, he expected to use Qingzhuang to consume the Taiping army's firearms, deplete their troops, and then use the descendants to oversee the pacesetters to severely damage them, but the Taiping army's combat method of only relying on powerful firearms to suppress the city and not attacking the city made him unable to use it.

The sound of cannons and guns kept ringing, as if it would never stop, and God knows where the long-haired thief got so many guns and medicines.

Liu Guangbi had a feeling of madness, as if he was going to torture people, but he refused to finish the torture at one time, so he scraped down one by one, scraping him all over his body, scraping his blood like a column, scraping his flesh to the bones, and scraping his life.

Some young men in the city could not stand the oppression of this beating, and began to flee in the city. The Qing army immediately suppressed it, Yang Wenyuan's personal soldiers raised their swords and fell, that is, dozens of heads fell to the ground, and those young men panicked, did not dare to flee to the city again, and squatted there against the city wall.

No matter how fierce the Taiping army's cannons and guns were, as long as they did not attack the city, the city could not be lost. Let the Taiping army fight for a while, some people in the Qing army secretly breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that the Taiping army was very stupid, if they climbed to attack the city at this time, how could the defenders in the city have the strength to counterattack. These fools don't take advantage of this to seize the city, they just put guns there, and how many medicines can be used. When the medicine is finished, you don't have to climb and capture the city, and the defenders will also come to their senses at that time, and how many lives do you have to fill with the eighteen kinds of weapons.

There are not a few generals of the Qing army who have this idea, and Liu Guangbi thinks the same, but they don't know that a group of soldiers with red sleeves in the Taiping army under the city have already entered the hole in the city gate with objects wrapped in silk in a square shape.

Zhou Shixiang held a clairglass and stared at the south gate, waiting for the loud noise. Soon, a loud noise came, and I saw that the hole in the city gate was full of black smoke, and the heavy city gate was blown away, and the stones piled up behind the city gate were smashed towards the city head and the city like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers.

"The gates are broken!"

The Qing army was shocked, and the young man who was waiting for his life under the city was frightened, Liu Guangbi was excited, and he didn't care about the cannons and guns flying above his head, he leaned on the wall and looked down at the city, and suddenly took a breath of cold air, and in his sight, countless red-clothed Taiping soldiers had poured into the city gate.

As soon as the south gate was broken, the Qing army was in chaos, and Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others hurriedly led the army to drive out the Taiping army that had entered the city. Thousands of young people in the city were urged by the Qing army to fill the city gate, but they couldn't stop the Taiping army rushing in. Some young men were anxious to flee for their lives, and this bone eye directly picked up weapons and fought with the Qing army that pressed them.

This happened, Liu Guangbi knew that it was bad, and he could no longer control the situation in the city, so he took advantage of the fact that the Taiping army had not completely captured the southern city, and led his own soldiers to run to the north gate, wanting to take advantage of the chaos and escape to Jishui. But before the people arrived at the north gate, a group of defeated soldiers retreated from the north city, and there was no need to ask, the north gate was also lost.

Liu Guangbi only felt that the world was spinning, and he had nowhere to go in a hurry, so he led the remaining soldiers to run around the city like a lost dog, and was finally surrounded by the Taiping army and set on fire to death.

The general soldier Yang Wenyuan led the troops to resist bravely and stubbornly after the city was broken, and then retreated into the government with the prefect Lu Guoxiao and others. Yang Wenyuan knew that there was no reason to live, so he was very crazy, fought to the death and did not retreat, and finally was captured alive by the Taiping army with all his strength, tied to the front of the government and beheaded on the street. The prefect Lu Guoxiao, the same governor Tu Wenjun, and the county magistrate Liu Tongying and other Ji'an officials and their families were all executed by the Taiping army. The Taiping army entered the city from street to street, door to door to search for Qing soldiers and young strong, all soldiers were found immediately killed, and young and strong people were pulled out of the city, planning to kill more than 4,000 Qing soldiers, and capture more than 20,000 young and strong. That night, the Taiping army divided the young Zhuang into several battalions, and beheaded the three people who drew one ding, killing more than 6,000 young and strong. The next day, Zhou Shixiang ordered all the gentry and their families in the city to be escorted outside the city, and more than 1,560 people, including the old and weak, were driven into the river and drowned.

The search in the city lasted for three days, and nearly 20,000 gentry and Qing soldiers were killed.

(To be continued.) )