Chapter 622: The Golden Cicada Sheds Its Shell
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
A full 120 cannons lined up in three columns and began to fire without interruption, and the already thick walls of Quanzhou City were peeled off piece by piece by shells.
"Zheng Feng, order the artillerymen to open fire, give me a return shot!" Zheng Zhibao roared angrily.
The fire word flag has dominated Luzon for ten years, and those who have always been beaten can't pay it back, how can they ever be so passive.
"Counselor, we ...... Our artillery could not hit that far, and when we reached the positions of the Ming army, the shells were no longer lethal. Zheng Feng said in a disgraced manner.
"Bastard! Are you deaf? I'll let you shoot! Zheng Zhibao slapped Zheng Feng in the face and said angrily.
How could he not know the effective range of his own artillery, he just couldn't get angry.
Judging from the power of the shells, it is obvious that this distance is not the limit of the artillery of the Ming army, and if it is like this, it will not be able to hold out until tomorrow, and the city wall may not be able to support it for several hours in a row.
Boom - Boom Boom -
The Zheng family's artillery at the head of the city also began to fire back as if demonstrating, which frightened Kong Er under the city.
The Zheng family army in the city still has the city wall as a defense, but his Shenji battalion does not have it, and it took nearly 20 days to transport the artillery over.
Have you already arranged your position outside the effective range of the Zheng family's artillery? Why are you still firing?
Kong Er was stunned and had such a thought flashing in his heart for a moment, but the next scene almost made him scold his mother.
The artillery at the head of the city seemed to be quite loud, but the shells were basically hit dozens of paces in front of the position of the Shenji Battalion.
After the shells landed, the 'aftermath' continued to roll forward, straight to the position of the first row of artillery of the Shenji Battalion, and the gunners of the first row of artillery were stunned when they stared at the shells under their feet.
", what are you stunned about, continue to bombard me, my lord said, go into the city to eat meat tonight!" It turned out to be a false alarm, Kong Er was stunned and kicked on a soldier in a daze and yelled.
Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom
The artillery at the head of the city only went off after two rounds, and Zheng Zhibao also knew that it was just in vain to vent like that, but the Ming army's Shenji battalion continued to bombard the city gate and the three directions on both sides of the city gate.
Liu Hong's ears were itching from the continuous shelling, and he had to poke his fingers from time to time.
The shelling continued until dusk, and the 50,000 Sichuan troops formed dozens of phalanxes and stood almost motionless for several hours.
In more than a year, the white pole soldiers have already realized the transformation from spears to self-firing muskets.
The guns are naturally front-loading rifled guns, in order to show the characteristics of the white pole soldiers, Liu Hongjian also specially greeted the ordnance station, the musket butts of the Sichuan army are all made of ash trees abundant in Sichuan and Shu, that is, the same raw material of the white pole guns originally equipped by the white pole soldiers.
Coupled with the special silver-white military uniforms of the Sichuan army, the entire 50,000 Sichuan troops are like heavenly soldiers and generals, reflecting the sunset in the west is very spectacular.
Liu Hongjian was very satisfied with this Sichuan army that came from Sichuan and Shu over the mountains and mountains, and even the Beijing camp army was not necessarily comparable to this ironclad discipline.
Old General Qin is the pillar of the Ming Dynasty! Liu Hong sighed lightly.
"My lord, cracks have appeared in the wall on the left side of the city gate, and I guess it will collapse in a while." Chang Yu rode on a horse and carried a telescope while observing the wall side of the city wall of Quanzhou City.
During siege warfare, defenders usually fill in the stone behind the city gates, which are more difficult to breach most of the time than the walls paved with blue bricks.
"My lord, something doesn't seem right!" Chang Yu's telescope looked left and right at the head of the city.
"What, is it possible that you still ran away?" Liu Hong gradually lay on the Taishi's chair and squinted slightly, taking the telescope from the hand of the bull mallet.
The shelling lasted for several hours, and in line with the principle of being able to lie down and never sit, Liu Honggradually simply ordered someone to borrow an old-fashioned Taishi chair from a nearby village.
This guy still thought that the chair was too hard, so he spread a futon on the chair, and he was so comfortable to lie down on the soft chair, and he lay down for several hours.
"Shhh Liu Hong gradually stood up from the Taishi's chair, turned over his mount and looked at the city.
I saw that the city gate and the city walls on both sides of the city gate were bombarded with cracks, and the city wall on the left side was almost collapsed, as for the city head, hehe.
It turns out that from time to time, soldiers come out to take a look, but where are there still people now?
Boom - boom - at this moment, the wall to the left of the gate could no longer support it, and it collapsed with a bang.
"Rush into the city for me! Kill! Without Liu Hong's order, the third elder of the Qin family, who had been waiting for a long time, roared angrily and rushed towards the city with thousands of cavalry.
Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming led the musket phalanx and began to march towards Quanzhou City in a neat pace.
A moment later, the cavalry of the Sichuan army swarmed in, and the cannon fire of the Shenji battalion finally stopped.
"Lord Qiqi, there are no enemy troops in the city, they ...... They fled by boat from the southeast of the city. Qin Zuoming hurried to report in a hurry.
The east of Quanzhou City is adjacent to Lanxi, and the south of the city is Lingyuan Mountain, and Lanxi flows into the Daming Sea to the east, which happens to be the dead end of the encirclement of the Ming army.
The Zheng family army in the city must have already arranged a big ship in the lower reaches of Lanxi, Lingyuan Mountain is not high, and when retreating, Zheng Jiajun only needs to go over the mountain from the south city, and board the boat at the bottom of the mountain to escape.
"My lord, it seems that this Zheng Jiajun has already thought of a way out." Chang Yu spread out the map and looked at the road.
"Oh, bad, bad!" Uncle Han Yu, who had been following him, shouted when he heard this.
He didn't think about the escaped Zheng bandit army but Liu Hongji, if Liu Hongjian ordered the siege of the city before the artillery arrived four days ago, it would be good to say, even if the Zheng family bandit army escaped, it could be regarded as an explanation, after all, they did their best.
This is good, the prince did not attack the city, and slept in the big tent for three days, causing the Zheng family bandit army to flee, if this matter is spread to the imperial court, especially the old ministers of the East Palace, I am afraid that there will be more trouble.
"If you escape, you will escape, Lord Han doesn't need to chatter, go, go into the city and eat meat!" Liu Honggradually did not get too angry, ignored the nagging Han Yu, and walked towards the city by himself.
He didn't really want to fight with Zheng Jiajun, but now it seems that Zheng Zhilong has the same idea, if he guessed correctly, it is estimated that Lao Zheng did not plan to fight the court in the first place.
Don't think about it, in the past few days, Lao Zheng must have been busy transferring his family property in Anping.
If it weren't for the sake of saving some face for your Xiao Zheng, this king would have rewarded you with a gun as early as the negotiation, Liu Hong gradually snorted coldly in his heart.
The sky was completely dark, and the entire Ming army camp was filled with an unhappy atmosphere, including Kong Er of the Shenji Battalion, who was busy for most of the day, and the barrels of the cannon were red, but he only got an empty city.
Only Liu Hong gradually tore the thief fragrance of a chicken leg without heart or lungs, during which Uncle Han also suggested that Liu Hong gradually take advantage of the victory to pursue and smash the Zheng family's old nest Anping, but Liu Hong gradually refused.
What's the tossing in the middle of the night? What is the benefit of eliminating the Zheng family to the Ming Dynasty? Who will deal with the red ghosts of the South Seas? Is it just the 10,000 people of the Beiyang Naval Division?
The real purpose of the conquest of the Zheng family is not to eliminate the Zheng family, drive them out of the territory of the Ming Dynasty and let them scourge the red ghosts, and that is enough.
As for the court, there are too many lice and it is not itchy, and it is a big deal to provoke him to come to the corruption punishment campaign again, there are Lao Cao of Dongchang, Lao Liang of Jinyi Wei, and those courtiers can still turn the sky upside down?
Why is Wei Zhongxian so bullish? The carpenter emperor's trust is only, the courtiers are just chickens and dogs in front of him, even if there are many crimes, but the emperor just doesn't believe it, do you say angry?
But Liu Hongjian is not Wei Zhongxian, and he is too lazy to deal with those courtiers who like to impeach people at every turn, unless he can't help it.
After a night of repairing in Quanzhou City, Liu Hongjian led an army of 50,000 people towards the Zheng family's real nest Anping.
There, there is the first luxury villa complex in Jiangnan built by Zheng Zhilong with a huge amount of money.
There, there are countless forts arranged by Zheng Zhilong in order to protect the safety of his property.
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