Jia Liu was anxious to settle the battle, not because he was afraid that Shu Hede would come over to grab the credit, but because he was worried that Shu Hede would order the slaughter of the city.

As soon as Qianlong's highest central characterization of "not resisting or rebelling" came out, it undoubtedly opened Pandora's box and completely loosened the moral bottom line of the Qing army.

There is also a living example of Jia Liu, the prime minister who was dismissed for preventing the massacre of the city, it is certain that once the Linqing New City is breached, tens of thousands of innocent people in the city will definitely be slaughtered.

This time, no one will stand up and order the knife to be sealed.

In order to avoid a tragedy, Jia Liu could only take Linqing City before Shu Hede arrived, when he, the laid-off prime minister, still had some power.

Persuading people to surrender is not to give Wang Lun a way out, but to give those thousands of victorious troops a way to live, and also to give tens of thousands of people in the city a way to live.

Although Wang Lun was mentally prepared to refuse to surrender, when Wang Lun ordered someone to hang a banner at the head of the city that read "The mountains and rivers are dying of China, and the sun and the moon reopen the Han sky", Jia Liu's heart still hurt.

He was familiar with this slogan, the slogan of the Red Turban Army in the last years of the Mengyuan Dynasty.

Wang Lun changed one, and "Song" changed to "Han".

The complexity of the heart is like the thief hanging out on the bunker back then, "Eighty days of wearing allegiance, showing the characters of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Taizu; 100,000 people die with one heart and righteousness, and save the three hundred miles of rivers and mountains in the Ming Dynasty".

At the head of the city, looking at the Qing army outside the city that was preparing to attack the city, Wang Lun changed his royal clothes, put on the Langzhong clothes he used to treat people in the early years, looked at the endless sky, put his hands together, and recited to the congregants who looked at him with great devotion above and below the city: "Vacuum hometown, no biological parents." Kill the Qing and kill Hu, and the sun and the moon will return! There is a saint in my heart, protect my homeland! ”

"There is a saint in my heart, keep my homeland!"

The victorious army composed of thousands of Qingshui Sect members roared in unison.

Their weapons were poor, their situation was dangerous, but when the Sect Master appeared in front of them, their originally low morale was suddenly reinstated.

What he saw in front of him and what he heard in his ears made Jia Liu have to face up to the combat effectiveness of the Changsheng army again.

He knew that faith was infinitely multiplied.

It is foreseeable that even after the city is broken, the Qing army will inevitably be greeted by extremely cruel street fighting.

Jia Liu glanced at the military advisor Fan Wei on the side, and the other party sighed slightly and shook his head.

It seems to say that there is no way not to die.

"Siege!"

Jia Liu issued an order to siege the city.

With the sound of the horn, the Shandong Green Battalion, the Zhili Green Battalion, the River Green Battalion, the Eight Banners Forbidden Army, the Guanwai Sauron, and the Mongolian Horse Team rushed towards the Linqing New City like a tide according to the pre-war deployment.

The morale is high and the fighting spirit is strong.

Especially those officers who led the troops, one by one, they were extremely positive, and they were like two people who had been defeated by the enemy before.

For, an hour ago, they had received a secret order, and after the city was broken, the treasury was divided equally among the silver.

The premise is that no indiscriminate killings are allowed.

All the consequences will be borne by Lord Jia Jia alone.

After Yang Jingsu, the political envoy of Zhili, knew about this, he did not have good intentions to persuade Shikai Xian's brother that this move was likely to be impeached by the imperial history, and the emperor would investigate it at that time, even if he broke Linqing City and destroyed the Qingshui Sect, in exchange for the emperor's anger, or even complete dismissal.

"Ning Chaotang scolded me for being domineering, Emperor Ning scolded me for indiscriminately rewarding, and he didn't let the Shandong people scold me Jia Jia Shikai Butcher!"

After saying this, he hesitated, and finally whispered to the seniors in the meeting: "Shikai Zushang is also a Han person, although it is Manchuria today, but he can't bear to slaughter the Han people to be promoted to the rank of knight, if the people in this city can be preserved, even if the frontier heart is also safe." ”

Yang Jingsu was stunned and didn't say anything for a long time.

After a round of artillery bombardment, the besieging Qing army reached the city walls.

Jia Liu did not choose to continue to consume the Qing army this time, but directly ordered Zamur to lead the team to blow up the city gate.

After the same loud noise, the north gate of Linqing New City was blown down, and the Qing army, which had been prepared, jumped up from the ground and surged up the collapsed city wall.

Just as Jia Liu expected, a fierce street battle took place.

Although the Qing army was equipped with advanced equipment and used muskets and bows and arrows to continuously shoot and kill the Changsheng army, under the stubborn resistance of the Changsheng army, the city was broken for half an hour and failed to achieve great results locally.

Seeing this situation, even if he was reluctant, Jia Liu had to order a fire.

Fires soon raged all over the city, and the heat and flames eventually forced the recalcitrant victorious army to retreat into the city.

Some of the victorious troops retreated to their houses and were surrounded by the Qing army but still refused to surrender, and the Qing soldiers set fire to them until the houses were completely burned down, and none of the Qingshui sect members inside came out to surrender.

The only one in the Shandong general army who heard that Wang Lun might be hiding in a large pawnshop, and the only one who was bent on capturing Wang Lun personally took hundreds of officers and soldiers to the big pawnshop here to search for him.

As a result, more than 100 Qingshui sect members held on to this place, struggling to resist the Qing army, and even more than a dozen women fought desperately with the Qing army with wooden sticks and hoes.

Under the onslaught of the traitor Yan Fengyuan, the big pawnshop was still lost, and all the Qingshui sect members guarding here were killed, but Wang Lun was not found, but Wang Lun's younger brother Wang Zhu was found in the corpse.

When Jia Liu's armor was advancing towards the city surrounded by his personal guards, a member of the Qingshui Sect suddenly jumped from the roof of a burned shelf, rushed towards Jia Liu with a knife, and was killed on the spot.

This method of attack made Jia Liu a little frightened, so he did not go deeper, and set up a front-line general headquarters on the spot, urging all departments to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city.

As the street fighting progressed, the victorious army and the Qing army fought for every street and every house. Except for the Sauron soldiers and Chang Wei army, the rest of the Qing army had average hand-to-hand combat ability, and was even killed by the Chang Sheng's army.

However, although the Qing army suffered heavy casualties, the Changsheng army was completely caught in the situation of fighting on its own, and they were destined to be wiped out by the Qing army one by one because of the lack of unified command.

"My lord, according to the people's confessions, Wang Wei lives in the mansion surnamed Wang in the city!"

After Jia Liu, who was sweating profusely, learned of this information, he immediately shouted: "Debu, Yingjitu!" ”

"The last general!"

Both will be listed at the same time.

"Order the two of you to lead the troops to attack Wang's house quickly, and be sure to capture and kill the thief Wang Lun!"

"Huh!"

Without saying a word, Debu and Yingjitu led the troops to rush to the Wang family's mansion, and when they arrived at the ground, they found that the mansion was very large, and there was a five-story building in the courtyard.

Since there were a lot of Qingshui sect members gathered outside the gate, after Yingjitu discussed with Debu, he led a dozen people to climb through the courtyard wall, wanting to take advantage of the chaos to capture Wang Lun alive when the attention of the Qingshui sect was attracted to the gate.

Since Yingjitu didn't recognize Wang Lun, Liu Huan, the former deputy marshal of the Changsheng Army who had surrendered, infiltrated with him.

After this Qing soldier team climbed over the wall, they first killed several Qingshui Sect members who found them, and then rushed directly into the courtyard.

Before Wang Lun could react, Yingjitu and the others rushed up to cut down several thieves and grabbed Wang Lun. But just as he was about to retreat, dozens of Qingshui Sect members rushed out from both sides to save Wang Lun.

Yingjitu was unwilling to run away, and led people to fight with the Qingshui Sect, but he scuffled with Meng Can, the thief marshal who arrived, on the ground, and finally Yingjitu was stabbed in the throat by Meng Can with a dagger.

Liu Huan and others saw that the Ying guards were killed in battle, and they didn't dare to fight, so they hurriedly escaped over the wall.

"What?!"

Knowing that Yingjitu was killed, Jia Liubei came from his heart, took off his hat and vowed to avenge Yingjitu.

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