The next day, near noon, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, and Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, launched an attack.

The siege was chosen near noon, not for anything else, but to wait for the bowstrings of their archers to become drier and harder, so that the arrows could shoot farther...... If the bowstring is elastic, it cannot be used...... Little kids toyed too.

Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, arranged for Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and his half-brother Shang Kefu, the general of Pingnan, to attack the city of Guangzhou from the other two directions, and the siege tools were the same, all of which were a long ladder more than three zhang long.

Each long ladder was carried by twenty southern barbarians, and then escorted by the soldiers who had taken prisoners during the southern expedition, and if they reached the top of the city, they began to climb up, and then attacked, as simple as that.

These surrendered troops were mainly captured by the current owner of the Blue Banner Banner, Prince Zheng Jierharang, after he put down Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren's rebellion against the Qing Dynasty in the Huguang area.

And Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, Geng Jimao, the king of Jingnan, and Shang Kefu, the general of Pingnan, respectively commanded Wuzhen Chaoha, and watched the enemy behind this formation to get a glimpse of the enemy's situation.

Wuzhen Chaoha is a Manchu language, Wuzhen is the meaning of heavy soldiers, and Chaoha is the meaning of the Han army, which will make people understand their identities at once.

In fact, the main source of Wuzhen Chaoha is relatively simple, it is the late Ming Dynasty initiative to annex or in the subsequent war, was captured by the Later Jin and its successors in Liaodong by the Qing Dynasty, in fact, they are mainly Han Chinese, there are also a small number of Sinicized Jurchens and Mongols who have been officials in the Ming Dynasty, etc., at first all under the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

Due to the harsh policies of the Han people during the period of the Qing Taizu Nurhachi, their status was not high at first. After Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, he tried to change this situation. Before 1631, there were no cannons in the Later Jin army, and it was inevitable that the siege would be greatly hindered.

So in that year, Huang Taiji because of the battle of Yongping captured Wang Tianxiang to build cannons, ordered him to cast red-clothed cannons, and began to formally organize the Han army a banner, the flag is cyan, led by the forehead Tong Yangxing this "heavy army".

The reason why the Han army is called "heavy soldiers" in the Manchu language is also because of the surrender of the Han people casting and taking charge of artillery, so it can be seen that the Han army played the role of "heavy artillery troops" in the Eight Banners Army at the beginning of its creation, and it is certain that the importance of artillery to the Later Jin army also made the status of the Han army improved.

By July 1637, the Han army was expanded to two banners, and the banners were still blue. Two years later, it was increased to four flags, and the flags were pure blue with yellow, pure blue with white, pure blue with red and pure cyan.

However, whether it was the period of the first banner, the second banner or the fourth banner of the Han army, the native nationality of its people was under the Manchurian flag, and the flag color of the Han army at that time was only to distinguish the types of troops.

In June 1642, due to the victory of the Qing Dynasty in the Battle of Songjin, the Qing Dynasty set up the troops of this battle and the troops of the previous Daling River to form the Eight Banners of the Han Army, and the original Han Leaders formed the Eight Banners of the Han Army, the same color as the Eight Banners of Manchuria, so that the Han Army began to have an independent banner.

At this point, they had completely completed their transformation from Han Chinese to Tatars, and began to develop in the direction of barbarism.

These people were the key players who really contributed to the Qing Dynasty's conquest of the Central Plains.

Especially after the Qing army entered the customs, the Han army was more familiar with the terrain of the Central Plains and the enemy's situation than Manchuria. Moreover, in the face of millions of anti-Qing armed forces, the Han army increasingly showed stronger combat effectiveness than the Manchurian Eight Banners, making them the vanguard of the Qing Dynasty's expedition to the south and west.

Especially in the siege and the mountainous areas in the south, the Manchurian cavalry was not allowed to use, and the Han army became the main force of the Qing Dynasty to conquer such areas.

On May 14, 1650, at the end of this day, Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, sat on a tall horse, pointed to the city of Guangzhou with a horse whip in his hand, and shouted only two words: "Siege!" ”

Suddenly, the trumpets were in the sky, and three streams of people poured out from the three main attack directions, like three thick poisonous snakes pounced on the big city of Guangzhou!

Halfway through, the three thick poisonous snakes were scattered, and it could be clearly seen that they were several squads, one team and one long ladder, and they were the people from the surrounding area of Guangzhou City-

Go to the city wall first, and the whole team will be twenty taels of silver!

Go up to the city wall first, and the whole team will have two hundred taels of silver!

Attack the city first, and the whole team will have two thousand taels of silver!

The first one to run back, the whole team, including the soldiers of the escort team, were all executed!

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi looked at the current siege brigade and felt good, the rewards and punishments must be clear, and this is the only way to have combat effectiveness.

Then he didn't look at it anymore, and he happily said to a general next to him: "Sixth brother, since I defected to the Qing Dynasty, I have never missed it, and the battle must be fought like this...... right."

His sixth brother is Pingnan's deputy general Shang Kecai.

His sixth brother said: "The second brother is full of strategy, and he will definitely be able to survive a hundred battles!" ”

Wang Shang Kexi of Pingnan waved his hand and said, "Roll the calf, you kid even shoots the second brother's fart?"

This war is a morale fight. What about this morale, it is a Nian Xing'er, our Han army, we are waiting to give them silver taels, and those who want the land will also agree, that is, it is really all given, how much land can we occupy with a total of 20,000 Han troops? But how much can they give me to wait?

What about the surrender of the army? Sue them, if they are fought, they will be officially accepted into the Han army, and then they can be allowed to ask for seven days after the city is broken, and the loot they have robbed will belong to him, do you say that they can not sell their lives? Is it hard for them to grab good things better than we can? Laughing and talking in general——

Heh, heh, of course, I can't rob more than my Daqing, to be a minion, you have to have this idea to do it for a long time - never betray the Daqing, this is all taught to me in vain.

As long as my Shang family is good, what do I care about others?

Prince Zheng Jierharang personally handed me 50,000 troops, and I dared to take over...... I'm not afraid to give me another 100,000, why?

I'm waiting to arouse the evil anger in their hearts - why did Prince Zheng order the slaughter of the city after breaking Xiangtan on the 21st of the first month of last year, and slaughtered until the 29th? At that time, almost all the people in Xiangtan City were killed, and there were less than 100 people in the city, right? That is to arouse the evil spirit of these surrendered troops - do you want silver? Want a field or not? Want a woman no? As long as you have a steel knife in your hand, everything will come out - follow me and wait, they will have it, are you afraid of their betrayal? Never, loyal.

Don't worry about the southern barbarians, don't do it? Do we have steel knives? Even if you survive, rob it, kill it! You say sixth brother, can they go with us? What is the destiny of heaven, should be six and-"

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi looked around, and whispered: "It's all-it's just a life-and-death hacking, killing the other party, everything is yours, you can say anything-if you show me any 'Tianhe' and 'posterity comments' in the future, I will really beat you, what are you kid not good to learn, learn from them Mingren?"

Tianhe? Where is the day? Where is there and? All you need is a steel knife in your hand, and you can believe it!

Posterity's comments? Is it the descendants I am waiting for, or are they the descendants?

Second brother, I killed all those who dared to resist, leaving those who were afraid of death - how do you know that the descendants I am waiting for are not the opponents of their descendants?! If the descendants we are waiting for are not as good as their descendants, hey, what do we want them to do with such descendants??! is clearly an incompetent person -

It's hard to say, look at it, the descendants of those who are afraid of death still praise me and others, do you believe it or not! ”

These words pierced the heart of Pingnan's deputy general Shang Kecai like a steel needle, and he suddenly understood why the second brother was so serious - he was too weak, too unreasonable, his knowledge was originally higher than that of Shang Kefu, and he was well versed in the method of leading troops, that Shang Kefu was a reckless man, and he only knew how to kill! ——

But the second brother gave him the official position of a general and kept himself by his side - this is a deep meaning.

Pingnan's deputy general Shang Kecai's heart suddenly hardened, his eyes were a little red, and his body was also a little murderous, and he turned his eyes to the battlefield.

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi happily watched the transformation of the sixth brother, and cleaned his nasal cavity with satisfaction, Kuku.

Yes, I didn't figure it out back then, but when I was over forty years old, I really understood what was right and wrong? The steel knife in my hand is right and wrong - kill you, and I will be right.

I hope the sixth brother can figure it out, Kuku.

Pingnan Wang Shang Kexi didn't care about the things on the battlefield at all, he was just happy to see that the horse under the sixth brother was a little restless, haha, the murderous aura on this kid was finally summoned.

The battlefield was a little more miserable.

At the head of the city, Du Yunhe, the governor of Liangguang, was still in battle, he waved the pine sword in his hand, and kept shouting something, and no one could hear clearly.

The army commander Zhang Yue really didn't have time to stay with him like last time, the Tatars were more ferocious this time, I really didn't expect that more than 100,000 troops could come to the siege this time!

After walking around the city walls, he regretted it a little, damn it, he was fooled in the first place!

This Tartar attacked the city with cavalry, this is to test our firepower, otherwise, how can their army stand outside the range of artillery?! I really dare to test the cannon with cavalry - my old Zhang is reluctant.

The army commander-in-chief, Zhang Yue, like Shang Kexi, the king of Pingnan, didn't care about the long echelons that swarmed up.

The big city, with this title, is not above three zhang - how can hundreds of long ladders be taken down? This is a waste of our cannons and cannons, strange, as long as people reach the hands of the Tartars, the civilians will be so heroic?

If it weren't for the Governor's War, he would have really wanted to put some up, catch it, take a good look, and examine it carefully, why are these individuals really so bold - really related to shaving their hair?

But the governor must not let it, and the army commander Zhang Yuegao shouted: "Within 100 steps, only one round is allowed!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom!"

When the men who were running with long ladders came within a hundred paces, a round of cannons rang out on the city wall - although the people were scattered, the artillery still showed its power, whether it was the iron balls that seemed to roll slowly on the ground, or the iron bullets that scattered diagonally, causing a large number of casualties at once.

In this direction, which was personally guarded by General Zhang Yue, the commander of the army, a single round of artillery killed and wounded more than 30% of the stormers.

The people who are missing arms and legs are shouting desperately under the city, and there are those who keep rolling, as long as it doesn't hurt too much—

The army commander-in-chief, Zhang Yue, didn't even look at them, he raised the monocular in his hand again, and looked at the Tartars still lined up in the distance—their mounts only jumped a few times, and then they reached out to soothe them.

Lose your mother, you can calm down-

On the city wall of Guangzhou, there was no more cannon sound.

There was a wail under the walls—but no one heeded the wails—and the panicked men, after being slashed by dozens of escorted soldiers, began to rush towards the walls again.

To go back is to die, and all the soldiers know this, and at this time, only they have weapons in their hands.

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