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Not long after the Red Army broke through the city defense of Fuzhou, Shi Dakai's general offensive against Ganzhou, which was a strategic point that "according to the important meeting of the Five Mountains, strangles Jiangxi, Fujian, Guangdong, and Hunan Province" and has been "connecting the south to the north, calling the east to the west, the south to the Baiyue, and the north to Zhongzhou", also officially launched.

With Shi Dakai's order, outside the east gate, the artillery fire of the heavenly army began to pour into the city, and in the trenches, guns and firearms sprayed flames into the city. At the same time, two assault teams organized by Yoo Hee Ha flew out of the trench almost simultaneously. The grenades flew up the city wall one after another, and in the explosion, the dense Qing soldiers were dispersed, and several ladders were set up on the city wall, and the agile soldiers of the Heavenly Army jumped on the ladder with steel knives in their mouths.

When Fuzhu Hong'a in the east of the city was struggling to cope, Xu Guangjin was not easy, he was running at both ends of the south gate and the west gate. As soon as Changmao arrived here, the mobs in the areas of Chengsand Nanshi, Stairling, Nankangtankou, Huangxoli, Cai Sanshan and Fengshan rose up one after another, and more and more people gathered. Now, the Xijin Gate and the South Gate of the Urn City of the West Gate are also under fierce attack.

Nearly half an hour passed, and the offensive of the Heavenly Army was as fierce as a wave. The Xijin Gate was blown up, the Heavenly Army broke into the urn city, and Wang Baoyan, the Qing Patrol Dao who presided over the defense of the West Gate, was killed. At the east gate, when everyone's attention was focused on ascending the city and anti-ascending the city, with a loud bang, the zài no longer existed, and the focus of contention between the two sides immediately shifted from the head of the city to the cruel battle for the open city gate. Nancheng, several times the Heavenly Army rushed to the city, although they were all counterattacked by the desperately struggling Qing soldiers, but then it was broken through again.

Under the impact of the tireless heavenly army that is not afraid of life and death, the three gates of Ganzhou are in an emergency at the same time, and the only little mobile force is not enough to cover the expenditure.

Fuzhu Hong'a felt that it was really difficult to rely on the existing strength to stop the pressure from the huge gap in the city gate, and in desperation, he urgently dispatched some men and horses of Yang Yucheng, the prefect of Ganzhou stationed in the northern city, to reinforce the battle for the east gate.

The city gate hole of Nuoda has been filled with the corpses of countless soldiers killed on both sides, and the soldiers on both sides who have killed red-eyed still do not flinch. Fuzhu Hong'a even came up with a way, stuffed barrels of gunpowder into the city gate hole and ignited them, and rolled down the city wall with buckets of collected lamp oil, and the ignited lamp oil formed a raging wall of fire outside the city wall in an instant.

In the firelight, Yoo Hee-ha's team was forced to stop. Seeing hundreds of his subordinates fall on the battlefield, and seeing that the victory in hand was about to pass by, Liu Xihe's heart was bleeding, his eyes were red, and his teeth were even more clumsy. Is this the end of it? No, if the offensive is frustrated, the blasted gates will be sealed, and the blood of the brothers will be shed in vain.

But this fire ......

Just when Yoo Hee Ha was almost in despair, a chance discovery reinvigorated him. When a brother withdrew, he threw a grenade into the cave at the city gate, and with the roar of the grenade, the flames burning at the gate were immediately broken into small pieces by the blast of the explosion.

Why this happened, he didn't have time to think, and he didn't allow him to think about it, he just sensed the existence of an opportunity out of an instinct to win.

"Master Liu, His Royal Highness the Wing King asked, do you need to change it down to rest and recuperate, and transfer other divisions up?"

"No, you don't! Sue Your Highness, Ganzhou is about to break through. Liu Xihe didn't even look at the herald, a few leaps jumped into the first trench, and grabbed a grenade from a brother next to him, "Throw the grenade into the fire and blow it up!" With a shout, the grenade drifted into the sea of fire outside the city gate......

Now, the only quiet place is the northern city of Ganzhou. On the opposite side of the river guarding the city, there is the camp of the Heavenly Army, perhaps to prevent the Qing reinforcements from rushing from the back, or maybe just to block the escape of the future rout in the city, they are quietly guarding something, just like the Qing army on the opposite side.

This place is easy to defend and difficult to attack, coupled with the temporary peace, plus the alarms everywhere, the more than 2,000 people originally stationed here have been transferred to a few hundred.

Yang Yucheng, the prefect of Ganzhou, stood at the head of Jianchun Gate, and his legs were a little numb. It was not very far from the east gate, and when you looked at the past, the firelight that appeared there reflected half of the sky, and the continuous sound of explosions shook the hearts of all the officers and soldiers, including him.

Around him, all the officers and soldiers paid attention to the three-sided battlefield that was fighting urgently, and secretly prayed for the blessing of the Bodhisattva to bless Ganzhou to avoid this catastrophe.

"My lord, do you think we can hold this Ganzhou?" A Qian's face was a little pale, perhaps frightened.

"Yes." Although Yang Yucheng was not sure in his heart, what he said was very certain. He raised his hand and pointed in the vigorous direction of the fight, "From ancient times to the present, although Ganzhou is a place where soldiers must fight, and there have been many wars, however, to take Ganzhou, except for the long siege and long-term siege, resulting in a shortage of food and ammunition in the city, and the soldiers can win without fighting spirit, there is no precedent for a drum to win." As long as we can resist their initial momentum and dampen their vitality, Ganzhou is indestructible. As he spoke, he turned around and pointed to the Heavenly Army camp hidden in the night away from the other side, "They don't dare to act rashly, they are worried about our Qing reinforcements who may arrive at any time in Ji'an and other places." ”

Mr. Qian's face seemed to look a little better, and the soldiers around him who listened to the prefect's high-minded remarks also nodded their heads frequently. I don't know if I'm convinced, but people who have any illusions anyway will always find some side evidence to confirm or comfort themselves.

In fact, Yang Yucheng is not talking nonsense simply to stabilize morale. Since the first month of the first year of Guangqi at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Qianzhou Haojie Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo took advantage of the uprising of peasants from all over the country to gather troops to capture Qianzhou at that time. Lu Guangchou proclaimed himself the history of Qianzhou Assassin, with Tan Quanbo as his military advisor. After that, it began to expand the city of Qianzhou on a large scale, build city walls, add city gates, dig moats, and build worship platforms, and determined the scale of Ganzhou city for more than 1,000 years. Since then, Ganzhou has not been captured lightly by the enemy.

In the history of Ganzhou, there have been two of the largest battles. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang's general Xiong Tianrui occupied Ganzhou, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, sent Chang Yuchun, a general known as the victorious general, to attack Ganzhou, and Xiong Tianrui held on to the city. Chang Yuchun adopted the strategy of long-term siege, Xiong Tianrui held the lonely city for more than five months, and finally surrendered to the Ming army due to the disparity in numbers, no reinforcements outside, and lack of food and salary inside.

And in April 1664 (the third year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty), the soldiers and civilians of Ganzhou, who deeply felt the hatred of the country, composed a national ode here. The Qing army attacked Ganzhou on a large scale, and Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the Ming Army, together with the Ganzhou defender, held on to the city of Wanji. In May, Yang Tinglin's general Zhang An failed in a fierce battle with the Qing army at Meilin in the east of the city, and in June, after receiving support from soldiers and horses from Guangdong, Ganzhou's shape improved. Soon, the shape shì was extremely urgent, and the Qing troops adopted a strategy of encircling Ganzhou for a long time with heavy troops due to the setback of the attack. Ganzhou military and civilian fortress city heroic resistance, in the lack of reinforcements, lack of grain and grass, "starvation to death" and "people have no rebellion", Ming and Tang Dynasty King Zhu Yujian learned of the heroic behavior of the Ganzhou army and civilians, for this purpose also gave Ganzhou Mansion the title of "Loyal House". Similarly, the soldiers and civilians defending the city first lost the water battle, and then because they were trapped in the lonely city for a long time, the soldiers were exhausted, especially when the news of the killing of the king of the Ming and Tang dynasties in Tingzhou came, and the morale of the soldiers defending the city fell greatly. One night in early October, the Qing army landed in the city to dismantle the battlements and swarmed into the city. The strong men and women and children of the whole city are grinding the lance to fight for themselves, and the dead in the city and street battles abound, and the loyal and brave people are even more martyred by their families. At dawn, the Qing army occupied the city of Ganzhou. 10,000 yuan Ji threw himself into the Gongjiang River and died, Yang Tinglin rectified the sword, and threw himself into the Qingshuitang in the west of the city to be martyred.

History never always repeats itself.

Outside the Jianchun Gate, like the bridge across the Zhangshui River at the Xijin Gate and the South Gate, there is also a pontoon bridge that was built in the Song Dynasty during the Song Dynasty connecting the east and west banks of the Gongshui River. The total length of the pontoon bridge is about 400 meters, the width of the bridge deck is 5 meters, and it completely relies on every three wooden boats as a group (some also have a group of two wooden boats), and then the wooden boats are erected on the beams, and then the beams are laid with planks, and the whole pontoon bridge uses 33 to 35 knots (can be increased or decreased depending on the water level) about 100 wooden boats are combined.

Yang Fuqing, the former Fifth Army on the northeast bank of Gongshui, was indeed guarding against Qing troops and horses that might be reinforced from Ji'an, Ningdu and other directions, so as to protect the flank of the former army. Although this possibility is unlikely, Shi Dakai is still cautious and prepared. However, Yang Fuqing didn't just sit there and wait. When the battle on three sides in Ganzhou became more and more intense, and the fight became more and more stale, Yang Fuqing began to act according to the plan in advance. The commando of the 1st Division, which he had long been lurking on the side of the pontoon, quickly crossed the pontoon bridge, and under the cover of various firepower, more than a dozen explosive bags were sent under the city gate by the death squad.

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