On the 70th anniversary of the victory of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, I wish the motherland a stronger and more prosperous life!

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Daming Palace in Jiading County, originally owned by the Yang family during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, the children of the Yang family declined during the Qing Dynasty, and was bought by the banner man Jin Zhengxiang at a low price, and after several expansions, it became the first mansion in Jiading County.

The knife will capture Jiading County, kill Jin Zhengxiang, seize his property, and change it to the palace of the Ming Kingdom.

At this time, Zhu Jie, the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, was holding a meeting with Liu Lichuan and other core members of the Little Knife Society, and they had learned that Li Weiguo personally led an army of 20,000 to Jiading, and was arguing over whether to fight or escape.

"Jiading is the last city in my Ming Kingdom, and I can't just give it to Li Weiguo!"

Zhu Jie is the most resolute person against escaping, although he has no real power as an emperor, but as a descendant of the Zhu family, the great cause of restoring the country is very important, even if he is a puppet emperor, he can satisfy his vanity and be worthy of his ancestors.

"But what are we going to do with Li Weiguo?" Xu Yao told the truth, he knew that although there were still many soldiers and horses in the Little Knife Society, but after several battles with Li Jiajun, he found that in front of muskets and artillery, the weapons of broadswords and spears alone were simply sent to death, if it was said that the muskets used to deal with the Qing army could also choose to attack opportunistically in rainy days, but now it is different, the muskets of the Qing army are not useful in rainy days, but Li Jiajun's muskets can still fire in rainy days, so there is no possibility of tricks.

"Even if you can't beat it, you have to fight! Li Weiguo killed my eldest brother, I must kill him to take revenge, even if I am the last soldier in the battle, I will die without regrets! Zhou Xiuying's eldest brother Zhou Lichun was killed by Li Weiguo with one shot, so Zhou Xiuying will lead the decisive battle.

Zhou Xiuying's statement made many members of the Little Knife Club agree, after all, Zhou Lichun is also one of the leaders of the Little Knife Club, and there are many diehards under him, and they have expressed their support for Zhou Xiuying.

Liu Lichuan was embarrassed, and he didn't come up with a plan for a long time, you must know that Li Weiguo's army set off from Zhenyang County, and it would take one day to arrive in Jiading, and the time was getting more and more urgent.

Jiang Tao's pseudonym Chen Tao has not revealed his identity, at this time, he wants to support Zhu Jie and Zhou Xiuying to fight to the death, so that Xiaodao will fight to the death with Li Jiajun, it is best that both sides lose, so that Jiang Tao can feel the joy of revenge. However, after all, Jiang Tao used to be the help of the Jiang Zhu Gang, what can be done or not, he knows better than anyone else, and knows that even if the knife will be wiped out, he will not be able to kill Li Weiguo.

Jiang Tao then said: "It's better to take refuge in the Taiping Army!" I heard that the Taiping army won successive battles, and the Qing army was terrified, and the generals would come to Jinling in the near future, and once they captured Jinling, they would become the cause of the king. ”

Liu Lichuan had already thought about it, and shook his head at this time and said: "I told the chief helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society and the other masters of the mouth incense before, and they all agreed to attach themselves to the Taiping Army if they really can't do it, but the Taiping Army has conditions, we must give up the Great Ming Kingdom and change it to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, otherwise they will not accept us." ”

When Zhu Jie heard this, he immediately objected: "Why should we be attached to others? I don't believe that Li Weiguo has three heads and six arms, although it is difficult for us to defeat the Li family army on the frontal battlefield, but what will our heaven and earth do? Some of the killers in the rivers and lakes are that as long as a few people are sent to slaughter Li Weiguo, the Li family's army will naturally be easy to deal with without a leader, and maybe we can recruit them for our use, and we will not be afraid of the Qing court and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time. ”

This plan is very tempting, and many people are tempted.

Only Xu Yao shook his head and said: "I'm afraid this matter is difficult, Li Weiguo has a thousand personal soldiers around him, guarding him day and night, and the security is probably similar to that of the Dog Emperor in the Forbidden City, it can be seen that this Li Weiguo has long been on guard against us, and it is too difficult to assassinate him." ”

Jiang Tao suddenly said at this time: "Didn't Li Weiguo worship Su Sanniang, the master of the Flame Hall?" We asked Su Sanniang to cooperate with us, and there should be a chance to kill Li Weiguo! ”

Without waiting for Xu Yao to answer, someone said for him: "That's even more impossible, the people of my Heaven and Earth Society attach the most importance to the word love and righteousness, although Su Sanniang is a woman, but she is also a well-known hero, do you think she will listen to you to harm his brother?" ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, we have to come up with a way, Li Weiguo's army is not far away, if we don't make a decision, we will all die in Jiading City!"

Liu Lichuan couldn't help but get angry, and there was no depth of a leader at all.

Jiang Tao then said: "Go to the Taiping Army, since there are Su Sanniang and other congregations in the Taiping Army in the Heaven and Earth Society, why can't we?" It's a big deal to give up the name of the Ming Kingdom for the time being, and when we accumulate strength, it's not too late to rebuild the Ming Kingdom from scratch, anyway, the Republic of China has been dead for more than 200 years, and it's not too bad to wait a few more years. ”

Liu Lichuan looked at Zhu Jie and Zhou Xiuying and asked, "I decided to join the Taiping Army, what do you mean?" ”

Zhu Jie saw that Liu Lichuan had decided, so he didn't insist, anyway, he was a puppet, without soldiers and power, and only by relying on Liu Lichuan could he hope to restore the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Xiuying thought for a while and said: "Jiading is still a long way from Jinling, and there are a large number of Qing troops in the middle to chase and intercept it, and someone has to be in charge of the palace. ”

Seeing Zhou Xiuying's resolute attitude, Liu Lichuan didn't say more, but said: "Xiuying, if you can't do anything, you can withdraw it, I will Chen Tao lead my brother to answer you, don't be brutal, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years." ”

Zhou Xiuying looked at Liu Lichuan with complicated eyes, smiled faintly, and said, "I know, Brother Liu, you go first!" ”

It's almost a farewell, everyone knows it in their hearts, they just don't say it.

Zhou Xiuying led 5,000 people from the headquarters to stay in Jiading County, and Liu Lichuan led the army to evacuate, because Li Weiguo's army was about to arrive, so Liu Lichuan did not have time to carry a large amount of baggage, and only left with some gold and silver treasures, ready to be dedicated to Hong Xiuquan as a capital for promotion.

Li Weiguo led the army to arrive outside the city of Jiading County, surrounded the eastern, southern, and northern three gates, leaving only the west gate without soldiers and horses, which is called encircling three missing one in the art of war, the purpose is not to make the defenders desperately resist, reduce the pressure of attack and casualties.

It's just that before Li Weiguo sent troops, Wu Yong sent someone to send him a letter. Wu Yong does not build yì Li Weiguo will annihilate the knife in Jiading County, then Su Songtai will no longer have rebels, although it is very beneficial for Li Weiguo to rule Su Songtai, but the problem is that now Li Weiguo only controls Songjiang Mansion and Taicang Zhili Prefecture, as for Suzhou Mansion There is no room for interference at present, after all, there are no rebels in Suzhou Mansion, and Li Weiguo has no excuse to "manage" Suzhou Mansion.

Therefore, Wu Yongjian yì Li Weiguo deliberately surrounded the three missing one, ostensibly the use of the art of war, in fact, the West Gate is the fastest way to enter Suzhou Mansion, Li Weiguo is to force the knife to flee into Suzhou Mansion, so that he has an excuse to enter Suzhou Mansion, and then the military governs Suzhou Mansion, and truly realizes the complete control of Su Songtai and the three places.

Li Weiguo acted according to the plan, concentrating his forces to storm the south gate, and the north gate and the east gate as a feint.

Outside the south gate, the Li family army marched to attack the city.

Li Weiguo applied Napoleon's tactics to the battlefield, first concentrating all the artillery bombardment, giving the enemy overwhelming artillery damage and deterrence, first defeating the enemy psychologically, and then attacking the city with infantry.

The art of war is the first to attack the city, but Li Weiguo used the art of war properly, and it was just right to use it to deal with the knife.

The sound of artillery rumbled, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

With the fierce shelling of Li Jiajun's army, the fire on the wall of Jiading County was rolling, and the sand and rocks were flying. The Knife Society soldiers did not dare to show their heads, and all of them hid behind the battlements, trembling in fear. Despite this, there were still many soldiers whose backs were blown off by shells, and their flesh flew sideways, or they were hit by fragments, and they were drenched in blood.

Occasionally, the knife would ignite the Qing artillery on the city to return fire, but the effect was very poor, and the longest range was only one or two miles, and it could not hit the position of the Li family's artillery at all. And the flowering bullets are even more none, all of them are solid iron bullets, and they can't move the direction to adjust the shooting angle at will, so the soldiers of the Li Jiajun can avoid casualties as long as they avoid the firing range of the cannon.

The cannons of the Little Knife Society could not take advantage, and they were soon eliminated by Li Jiajun's artillery team one by one.

The infantry phalanx of the Li family army was less threatened by artillery fire, so it advanced.

At this time, the knife army will return fire with guns and guns, these firearms are captured from the Qing army, some firearms can even be traced back to the Ming Dynasty, although they can still be fired, but it is too difficult to use, especially the soldiers are hung with a bundle of lit fire ropes, accidentally caused a fire, so that they are injured. And those few people carried the long lifting guns used, although the range was relatively long, but unfortunately it was too cumbersome, and one firing was equivalent to ten shots by the soldiers of the Li family.

In this way, the musket firepower of the Little Knife Society was quickly suppressed by Li Jiajun, and he had no power to fight back.

Li Jiajun had the experience of several siege victories, and at this time it was much easier to attack Jiading County, and only needed to draw a gourd in the same way, concentrate artillery fire on one part of the city wall, so that the city wall was loosened and then collapsed.

However, this time, the Li Jiajun was well prepared, and the infantry carried a large amount of explosives, and continued to blow up the city wall with artillery attacks.

With a loud bang, the city wall could not withstand the saturation attack of Li Jiajun's artillery fire and explosives, and finally collapsed a hole more than ten meters wide.

The drums and trumpets of the charge suddenly sounded in the Li family's army, and the soldiers carried the ladders and screamed to charge towards the gap.

"The city is broken!"

"I can't hold it!"

"Evacuate!"

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The only hope of the soldiers of the Little Knife Society to defend the city is that the city wall is not broken, and now that the city wall has been breached, their last hope is also shattered, it is a group of ragtag troops without strict training and a strict command system, and at this moment they suddenly turned into birds and scattered, abandoning the city and fleeing.

"Stop!"

Zhou Xiuying has been patrolling the city, seeing the soldiers scattering and fleeing, she hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but the defeat was like a mountain, in the face of the Li family's crazy impact gap, more knives will be frightened by the soldiers, abandon the city and flee, so that other people around also flock to follow, Zhou Xiuying can't stop it if she wants to.

Zhou Xiuying sighed, although she had long known that she couldn't hold it, she always had a hint of fantasy, and now that she saw the city broken, she was completely dead. She wanted to fight to the death, but her subordinates persuaded her to stay in Qingshan without fear of running out of firewood, so Zhou Xiuying gave up her stubborn defense and led the crowd to evacuate from the West Gate.

An hour later, Li's army captured the county seat of Jiading.

At this point, the entire Su Songtai two prefectures and one state have all fallen under Li Weiguo's control.