The army marched from the clouds and along the avenue in the direction of Zhao'an.

On one side of the official road, there are golden rice fields, and the local people recruited by the auxiliary troops to harvest the ripe rice. On the other side of the avenue, there is an overgrown field. In the wilderness, there are abandoned villages, burned houses, and all you can see is a dilapidated scene. What's even more shocking is that the skeletons of white flowers can be seen in the field from time to time, which are innocent villagers who were cut down by the Qing soldiers in order to go to the sea to fish. Ants are still stealing life, let alone people! Don't they want to live, and they have to use their lives to fight against the sea ban? No, because they are fishermen who fish for a living in the era, and they have left the sea where they depend for their livelihood, they have no land, no farming skills, and they have to abandon the old houses and family businesses left by their ancestors, so what do they do for a living?

Rather than starve to death, it is better to venture into the sea. outcome

The small fishing villages and small towns near the sea are almost all abandoned, and even if there are people, they have long become camps for Qing soldiers. But now those Qing barracks have long been empty, and when they heard that the Zheng family army was coming, the green battalion soldiers had already run out.

"This is the scourge that the ban on the sea has brought to the people!" Chen Python said angrily.

"The Tartars have imposed a ban on the sea, and we have moved the people for their own good! What kind of life do they live here? It's a pity that these people don't understand our hard work at all! Wang Xinyu looked angry, but he knew very well that this was only a ban on the sea, and the most cruel order to move the sea had not yet been issued. That had to wait until after Shunzhi's death, in order to help his friend Dasu exonerate him, Ao Bai approved the sea relocation order played by Dasu and others.

It is said that Shunzhi's death is not only related to Concubine Dong E, but also related to Da Su's gang with Bei Ziluo to bully the monarch. In the second year after the defeat of the Qing army in Xiamen, Dasu and Luo Tuo concocted a big lie of "attacking Xiamen Island and killing Zheng Wei, the leader of the bandits". As a result, soon after, Shunzhi received news of Zheng Chenggong's eastward expedition to Taiwan. The angry Shunzhi even quarreled with Xiaozhuang, wanting to go to Fujian in person, but in the end it didn't work, coupled with the death of Concubine Dong E, Shunzhi was angry and sad, and soon hung up.

After Shunzhi's death, Ao Bai asked Kangxi to issue an edict banning the sea. As a result, the inhabitants of the seaside moved 30 to 50 miles inward, and countless innocent people were forced to leave their homes. Those who starved to death because of the loss of their land, those who were unwilling to move, those who were killed, and those who died of disease added up to hundreds of thousands, and the bones in the wilderness were horrible. After the people were removed, the Qing court also drew a line 30 to 50 miles from the sea, dug a trench two zhang wide, and dug up the soil to build an eight-foot-high earthen city wall, which was patrolled by Qing soldiers around it. If you find that the people have crossed the trench, you will be killed.

Now that the order to move to the sea has not yet begun, there is only one ban on the sea, and the coastal areas have been made desolate by the Qing court, and the fishery, maritime trade, and shipbuilding industries have all been dealt a heavy blow.

When the Ming army arrived outside the city of Zhao'an, it was already noon, and the Ming army did not attack the city immediately, but camped in the village.

In Zhao'an City, there are only more than 300 green battalions, and there are some officials who catch fast and the like, and they don't have much defense capability at all. And Zhao'an is a small city, it has been broken by the Zheng family army many times, although the city wall has been repaired, but because it is not as important as Yunxiao City, the repair is not too good, and there is not even a moat outside.

However, the magistrate of the Qing court knew that if he abandoned the city and fled, then a crime of losing his land would not only move his head, but also his family would be implicated. If you surrender to the Ming army, it will be even more terrible, and it will be a serious crime to destroy the nine clans!

"Only by fighting to the death and martyrdom can we be worthy of the kindness of the court!" The magistrate stood at the head of the city, looking at the Ming army who were camping outside the city.

But the magistrate still has a fluke idea: with the city wall, he will recruit another 3,000 people to help defend the city, and he should be able to resist the Ming army for four or five days, right? Although the rescuers in Zhangzhou are no longer expected, Wu Liuqi and Shang Kexi in Guangdong have already received an urgent report from Fujian and should be able to come to the rescue soon. But this magistrate didn't know that Zheng Chenggong's small partial division appeared on the sea in Guangdong, which made the Qing army in Guangdong panic all day, and they didn't know when and where the Ming army would land, so they could only stare at the Ming army.

In Quanzhou Bay, Zheng Tai even sent dozens of cavalry ashore, penetrated into fifteen miles, attacked several small villages, killed the gentry who supported the Qing court, and harvested a lot.

Li Shutai still did not dare to leave Zhangzhou, and led the army to confront the Zheng army in case Zhangzhou was taken by the Ming army. So Wang Xinyu and they can still make trouble around the clouds for a long time.

Wang Xinyu himself didn't know that his breakthrough in Yunxiao City made a small battle that Zheng Junxing had been accustomed to turn into a big battle that broke the bones of the Qing army in Fujian.

Just when the magistrate got down from the city tower and did pre-war mobilization in the city to recruit the people, a Qing soldier hurriedly ran over and reported the situation to the magistrate: "My lord! Outside the city, the pirates began to persuade them to surrender! ”

The magistrate walked up to the city, only to see the Ming army under the city send people to the city to shout: "We will not kill and surrender!" As long as you go out of the city and surrender, we can guarantee your safety! From now on, let you consider that tomorrow morning, if the city is not surrendered after tomorrow's hour, we will begin the siege! ”

The magistrate poked his head out and replied loudly: "The Lu of the food king, the matter of loyalty to the king!" Don't waste your time! This official would rather die in battle than surrender! ”

Seeing that the Qing court was so stubborn, Wang Xinyu ordered to continue to set up the village, and arranged for a part of the auxiliary troops to start building siege equipment.

The Ming army attacking Zhao'an had 5,000 people, including 1,500 armored soldiers, 1,000 wooden armor and naval divisions, 1,500 auxiliary soldiers, and 1,000 Minzhuang who had just been recruited in the past few days. And the rest of the 1,000 soldiers, 500 sailors and 1,500 auxiliary soldiers, all followed Chen Python to fight the villages and towns around Zhao'an and Zhuangzi, and they didn't need so many troops to fight Zhao'an.

To deal with the small Zhao'an City, there is no need to attack at all, Wang Xinyu decided to attack head-on, anyway, the Qing army defending the city has no artillery, and it is impossible to deal with its own siege equipment.

The earth excavated from the trenches was piled up into a platform that was used as a fort and a six-pounder cannon was erected on it. The auxiliary soldiers build siege equipment, and directly build a well as the same height as the city head, on which the tiger squat cannon can be erected to attack the Qing army at the city head; Build a nest cart that is taller than the head of the city, and use it to provide a platform for archers to shoot arrows from a high vantage point; Build a cart to transport gunpowder boxes and blast them directly under the walls.

The city wall of Zhao'an is not high, only two and a half zhang, so that the well and the nest car do not need to be too high, the well only needs two and a half zhang, and the nest car is four zhang.

The magistrate of the Qing army saw the well built by the Ming army from a distance, and thought it was a large cloud ladder, and said with a sneer: "Haikou thinks that the large cloud ladder can attack the city?" When they arrive, we can use rockets to burn the ladder."

In fact, this well is not used as a ladder at all, but to put a light tiger squat cannon on it, itself is very strong, not to mention the tiger squat cannon, even if the six-pounder cannon is placed on it, it can be used, but the six-pounder cannon is too heavy, and it is difficult to carry it up.

The next day, as soon as the hour arrived, Wang Xinyu ordered the siege of the city.

The war drums rumbled, and the Ming army pushed the nest cart and the well and slowly moved forward.

Seeing the siege equipment pushed up by the Ming army, the magistrate ordered that a bonfire be lit at the head of the city, and the archers wrapped rosin cotton yarn and other things on the arrows, soaked them in oil, and only waited for the Ming army siege equipment to approach, and then put the arrows on the bonfire and lit them, and then launched them to destroy the siege equipment.

The Qing army at the head of the city lit a bonfire, prepared rockets, gold juice, wolf tooth swatters and other equipment to defend the city, and the people behind were panting and carrying heavy stones to the city.

At this moment, the small flag on the watchtower waved, and the six-pounder cannon on the Ming army's earthen fort opened fire on the city.

The muzzle of the six-pounder cannon spewed out balls of fireballs, white smoke filled the air, and a row of solid shells fell on the head of the city, bouncing and scurrying around the city, and a large number of Qing soldiers were killed in an instant.

On the nest car, the archers of the Ming army were condescending, shooting sharp arrows one after another, accurately shooting to the head of the city, and a large number of Qing soldiers and people without armor screamed and fell.

The cart was pushed out, and the people and Qing prisoners in the cart pushed the cart and moved step by step to the city wall. At the head of the city, the Qing soldiers braved the dense artillery fire of the Ming army and fired rockets one after another at the risk of death, but the cart covered in soaked cowhide felt was hit by the rocket, but it was unharmed.

The tiger squat cannon on the well opened fire, and the shotgun hit the city, sweeping out patches of blood mist, and a large number of Qing soldiers and people fell screaming.

So far, the casualties of the Ming army have been minimal, in addition to a few auxiliary soldiers who have been killed or wounded, there are also more than a dozen Qing prisoners of war and civilian casualties. But then, the car was blocked by obstacles such as wooden stakes and deer barricades under the city in front, and the car could not advance.

"Come out for Lao Tzu! Go and remove the deer and cut down the stakes! The Ming soldiers wielding waist swords roared, forcing the Qing soldiers and Minzhuang in the captives to leave the chariots and go to the city to clear all the obstacles that blocked the advance of the siege weapons.

In the face of the bright knives, the Qing prisoners and Minzhuang had to take the risk of leaving the sturdy cart, going to the front to cut down the wooden stakes, and moving away from the deer and horses in front.

The arrows fell from the head of the city, the rocks and wolf teeth fell one after another, and the oil canister was also smashed down, which was ignited by the rockets that followed, and suddenly the city burned into a sea of fire, and many Qing prisoners and people who were cleaning up the obstacles were on fire, and let out heart-rending screams.

However, the Ming attack did not end: the six-pounder guns in the distance continued to fire; Bows and arrows in the vicinity, tiger squatting cannons, opened heavy fire on the Qing army. The Ming archers and bird soldiers on foot also stepped forward, approached the city wall, and shot rows of arrows and projectiles at the head of the city.

Under heavy fire, many auxiliaries and people began to be afraid, and some of the defenders at the head of the city were in a commotion. At this moment, the Qing soldiers armed with big knives rushed up and cut off the heads of several auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang in succession.

In the face of the bloody butcher's knives of the Qing soldiers, the Qing army auxiliaries and the people no longer dared to retreat, so they could only resist the attack of the Ming army.

A cannonball fell on the head of the city unexpectedly, hit a cauldron full of gold juice, smashed the cauldron into a fly, and slowly a pot of gold juice turned into a torrential rain, poured on the Qing soldiers and Minzhuang at the head of the city, and there was a miserable scream on the landing, and the Qing soldiers and Minzhuang who were burned with skin and flesh were itching and unbearable, reaching out to scratch the scalded wounds, but grabbed a large piece of skin and flesh down, and some places also exposed the white bones. People who are poured gold juice will have poisoned and inflamed wounds, and with the technology of the year, they are basically hopeless.

When the captured Qing soldiers and Minzhuang were about to advance to the city, a wolf's tooth on the head of the city rolled down, and a large area of blooming blood appeared in the crowd, and the captives and Minzhuang fell a lot.

Some prisoners and Minzhuang were so frightened that they turned around and ran, and as soon as they fled back to under the cart, they were cut down by the Ming soldiers who supervised the battle.

The blood on the knife edge of the war team told these Qing soldiers and people: If you don't clear the obstacles, those who retreat will die!

Soon after, the obstacles were cleared, and the prisoners and civilians who had been used as cannon fodder were re-released, and quickly retreated into the sturdyly protected carts, pushing the carts backwards. At this time, several chariots hiding auxiliaries and soldiers in the back Cai pushed forward and slowly approached the city.

Arrows and flying stones continued to smash on the cart, all of which were blocked by the sturdy roof, and the Ming army inside was unscathed. When the cart was pushed to the bottom of the city, several soldiers suddenly came out from under the cart, and the bottle with the surname of the country smoking in their hands was thrown into the city.

The soldiers of the Ming army who threw the bottle of their surname quickly hid under the car, and all the gold juice poured from the city was empty. At this moment, the Guojia bottle thrown to the head of the city exploded in the dense crowd of the Qing army, the flames flickered, broken porcelain pieces flew sideways, and groups of Qing soldiers and people screamed and fell in pools of blood.

The auxiliaries pushed the carts into the base of the city wall and used the iron rods in their hands to pry the bricks on the city wall.

The walls of Zhao'an were not very strong, and the bricks were quickly dug out, revealing the rammed earth inside. The auxiliaries then used shovels and pickaxes to dig the rammed earth.

The wolf's teeth and huge stones smashed on the car, but only the roof of the car was dented a little, and the Ming army in the car did not suffer any damage. The auxiliaries waved their tools and continued to dig the walls.

"The thief wants to dig a hole! Drop the oil canisters! A Qing soldier shouted.

Several Qing army auxiliaries and Minzhuang had just picked up the canister of fire oil, and before they could drop it, they were shot dead by the archers on the nest car. The other militia and auxiliaries did not dare to probe, but just threw the oil canister indiscriminately, which of course did not hit the target, and the fired oil tank smashed indiscriminately on the ground around the cart.

The soldiers of the Qing army who were in charge of the monopoly immediately swung their swords and slashed indiscriminately, cutting down many auxiliaries and people.

The blood of their companions forced these auxiliaries and civilians to brave the rain of arrows and throw canisters of fire oil at the foot of the city.

A cart was hit by a canister of oil, the pot was torn apart, and the oil flowed on the cart, and then the torches were dropped at the head of the city, and the cart burst into flames.