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The Heavenly Army didn't dig a crypt at all, and any water tank or blind man was a waste of work. Whether it is in the south or north of the city, the cobweb-like trenches are dug one person deep, and when they are connected, they form a communication ditch, in which the soldiers of the Heavenly Army come and go freely. Especially when they reached the city wall, the cannons could not be bombarded, the bows and arrows could not be shot, and people did not dare to come out, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city did not know what the heavenly army was doing in the trenches.

The Heavenly Army had already finished eating before noon, and the Demomen gathered on the front line each picked up one explosive bag after another, waiting for the normal meal time of the Qing soldiers. After more than ten days of observation, both sides seem to have figured out some of the other's habits. The city is accustomed to the earthwork below, and I am not afraid of the movement that cannot be heard in the tank anyway. The city also knew the time of the meal, and except for the monitoring post at the head of the city, other officers and soldiers would go down to the city to eat. As a result, the Changsha siege battle Shi Dakai chose noon.

When the hands of the pocket watches in the hands of Shi Dakai and Shi Xiangzhen pointed to twelve o'clock at the same time, the north and south directions, almost at the same moment, dozens of figures sprang out from the trench near the city wall. With only twenty paces away, it was a step away from the Celestial Army's Demomen.

At the head of the city, when the Qing army's surveillance post was stunned, followed by bows, arrows, and sundries, in the trenches behind, the foreign guns, guns, guns and other firearms of the heavenly army, which had already been concentrated, were also immediately sprayed at the head of the city to suppress the Qing army. Packets of explosives were quickly stacked under the walls, and as the last of the Demoman tumbled back into the trench, a deafening explosion rang out. Then there was a silence, as if the air had frozen.

The solid city wall was blown down, and the huge gap more than ten zhang wide, and the original Qing soldiers on the head of the city were long gone in the roar. The soldiers who were scrambling for food, and who heard the alarm and threw down their rice bowls and rushed to the city, were stunned by such a strong sudden explosion, and instinctively covered their ears, squatted, or found a place to hide, and made a mess for a while.

Don't say that the Qing soldiers are shocked, even all the soldiers of the Heavenly Army on the front line are also shocked. What used to be achieved by digging a burrow and sending a large amount of explosives into a coffin or a large wooden box can now be achieved by placing only two dozen medicine bags under the city walls. In particular, the blasters who put the explosives bag under the city wall by hand, they are all coal diggers in the mines, and as a branch of the Celestial Army, they have made many achievements in the siege battles. Digging burrows and filling them with explosives is their forte. However, it was the first time they had used this kind of explosive pack, and although there were instructions on the specific usage and dosage of the explosive pack in advance, everyone still felt that the step was too reliable, and deliberately doubled the dosage.

Shi Dakai, who was also crawling in the trenches, held up the binoculars, opened his mouth and was stunned for a while, and glanced at Wei Jun beside him, "Rush!" ”

Wei Jun jumped out of the trench as if he had woken up from a dream, "Beat the drum, kill the demon!" ”

The drums rumbled, the trumpets sounded in unison, and the soldiers of the Celestial Army rushed to the gap in the blasted city wall, and wrenched together with the Qing army, which had also just woken up.

Bao Qibao left the governor's yamen, did not go to the city, to the north or to the south? It's the same everywhere, he knows very well in his heart, it's useless to go anywhere. He gloomily returned to his admiral's yamen, sat quietly in the back hall alone for a while, picked up the pen and tried to write something, thought about it, and dropped the pen in his hand. He walked to the wall, took the sword that hung on the wall, and drew it, and the eerie light of the sword made his body tremble slightly. This sword was a token of love given to him by his wife back then, when he was still studying. It's better to read a book!

He gritted his teeth, and the sword slashed his throat in pain.

Luo Bingzhang didn't want to die, he walked around the yamen for a long time like a fly without a head, and he couldn't think of what he should do. At this time, he really can't do anything. The knife can't be used, and even when the staff member Jian yì Governor offered a reward to encourage the soldiers of the Futai Yamen to fight to the death with the heavenly army, he still had a terrible pain in his flesh and refused to die.

Until the sound of the cannon was sparse and the sound of killing was getting closer and closer, standing at the gate of the yamen, you could clearly hear the "capture the demon head Luo Bingzhang!" from afar! It was only when he shouted that he clearly realized that death was already his only way out, and all that remained was to choose which way to die. You can't be captured alive, if you are captured alive, a big man like yourself will be a thousand cuts, and that taste is really unbearable.

Luo Bingzhang returned to the lobby tremblingly, his voice trembling and hoarse for a long time, and finally called a cook. The Futai Yamen had already fled and scattered, and no one was willing to stay with him.

"It's really a tribulation!" Luo Bingzhang looked at the old cook brought from his hometown of Guangxi, and squeezed out a few tears in his eyes, "They all ran away, just you"

"Sir, maybe the villain shouldn't have brought it up at this time," said the old cook, hanging his head, and said cowardly, "It's almost the end of the year, and the lord hasn't paid the villain a penny for this year's wages." ”

Luo Bingzhang looked at the old cook in a daze for a while, and hurriedly ran into the back hall to take out a large bag of gold, silver, and jewelry and put it on the table. He clasped his arms tightly around the treasures, looked up at the old cook, gritted his teeth and pleaded, "This official wants to ask you one thing for all." After a while, you will find a rope to help the official cut himself, and all the treasure will belong to you, and it will be counted as wages. You can take the rest of your worries back to your hometown and deliver them to your wife. This official is under the Nine Springs, and he will not forget your kindness! ”

Alas! A dignified governor, who still asks for people to commit suicide, and is stingy to death and keeps money, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is really intolerable!

Luo Bingzhang, with the help of the old cook, hanged himself. The way he died, no matter what, would make Shi Dakai feel uncomfortable in his heart. Lin Haifeng had already told him that this guy was the one who personally ordered Ling Chi in Chengdu.

No matter what, Shi Dakai was still more happy than disappointed. Although the Battle of Changsha lasted nearly 20 days, the losses of the Celestial Army were very small, and their morale was particularly high. The preparatory preparations for the siege of Changsha were not only a major training exercise for Wei Junbu, but also a major rest since he left Wuchang. Therefore, he only rested in Changsha for one day, and handed over Changsha to Shi Xiangzhen to guard, while he personally led Wei Junbu to return to the northwest and march to the northwest with Shi Fengkui, the defender of Yuezhou.

However, before leaving, he also dealt with one thing, which was Zuo Zongtang.

At the public trial meeting in Xiangxiang, seeing the hated brothers, Liu Rong and others going to the guillotine one by one, Zuo Zongtang thought that he was going to die, but he felt that he was really dead, and even had a sense of shame. In the end, he was the only criminal left on the platform, he had already lowered his head, closed his eyes, and waited for the death warrant to be issued, and then when the soldiers of the Heavenly Army behind him dragged him to the execution ground with his braids like a dead dog, Yang Fuqing did not issue a death warrant to him. However, he later clearly heard Yang Fuqing say in a thick voice, "In view of Zuo Zongtang's deep crimes, his disposal should be directly handled by the kings of the Celestial Empire to warn the world, so this general escorted him to Tianjing." ”

As a result, Zuo Zongtang was first transferred from Xiangxiang to Xiangtan. In Xiangtan, he was heavily shackled and detained in a room alone, with no one to take care of him. With the conquest of Changsha, he was immediately escorted to Changsha again, and the route of the escort was precisely the route of the Heavenly Army's attack on Changsha.

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