The prefect of the Qing court changed his face greatly: the strength of the Qing army was insufficient, and these trebuchets were easily built by him with a lot of manpower and painstaking efforts, but they were blown up in a blink of an eye. The target of the artillery is relatively small and it is not easy to destroy, but the artillery of the defenders of Wenzhou City is not much, and it cannot contain the attack of the Ming army.

The Qing army did not have much artillery left, but the Ming army still did not let go of these few cannons. Once again, the Qiongzhou army released hot air balloons and fired condescendingly with rifled guns and gunpowder bows and arrows.

It is much easier to shoot an arrow from a high place to a low place than it is to shoot an arrow from a low place to a high place, and shooting an arrow from a height of more than 30 zhang in the air to the bottom can easily hit the target of the average sharpshooter. And standing on the ground and shooting arrows in the air, only one in a million archer can shoot the bow and arrow into the air more than 30 zhang and still have lethality.

The most elite in Wenzhou City is nothing more than the Green Battalion soldiers, where can the Qing court prefect find such archers? He could only watch as the Ming army attacked his gunners with bows and rifled guns from a high place.

After the Qing army's trebuchet was blown up, Wang Xinyu did not resort to the extremely dangerous hot air balloon bombing method. This method is extremely unreliable and dangerous, the hot air balloon is lifted into the air by heating the air, and the flowering shells are placed on the edge of the stove, and one accidentally ignites the fuse and kills itself. It is slightly better to use a gunpowder bow and musket, after all, the gunpowder bow and musket bullets are relatively small, and it is less likely to be ignited by the open flame of the stove.

After dealing with the trebuchets and artillery of the Qing army, the next step is much easier. Siege and defense of the city have always been Wang Xinyu's strengths, and it is a joke that the Qing army wants to hold Wenzhou City with this amount of troops.

The Ming army bombarded the head of the city with artillery fire and suppressed the defenders of the city. The auxiliaries stepped forward with shield carts and filled in the moat. Then there were simple ladders, large ladder cars, nest cars and tower cars at the same time to launch a fierce attack on the city. Some of the Qing soldiers who had been captured were "upgraded" to war soldiers, and they were allowed to climb the ladder to storm the city.

The Qing army defending the city fought very tenaciously, and the Qing army, the government service, the white soldier and the people braved the dense feather arrows and bullets of the Ming army, and threw rolling wooden stones from the city again and again, shot bows and arrows, released bird bullets, poured gold juice, threw lime bottles, smashed down fire oil cans, pushed open the simple ladder on the head of the city with wooden poles, and cut down the Ming army that climbed the head of the city.

"Push faster!" The Ming army officer who supervised the auxiliaries shouted.

The Ming army auxiliaries sweated like rain, struggling to push huge tower carts, large nest carts and large ladder trucks and other large siege equipment to slowly approach the city. These large siege engines were very heavy and required dozens of people to push them.

Under the city wall, there are many obstacles such as wooden piles and deer barricades arranged by the Qing army, which can block large siege equipment. In order to clear those obstacles, many Ming army auxiliaries fell under the city walls. However, the casualties were all prisoners, and Wang Xinyu was not distressed at all.

Rockets were fired from the head of the city, and they were fired at large siege machines. The rocket stuck on the wet felt, and the flame was quickly extinguished. Some of the vehicles caught fire, but the cart auxiliaries immediately lifted buckets from wooden shelves and extinguished the flames.

The platforms on the tower carts, nest carts, and ladder carts were also shooting at the Qing army, bows and arrows and bullets hit the city, and the stubborn Qing soldiers fell one after another.

The resistance of the Qing army in the city was very stubborn, three carts responsible for digging the city wall had been burned, and the soldiers who climbed the simple ladder to the city were also killed and wounded, and corpses more than two feet high were piled up under the city. At the head of the city, the defenders of the Qing army also suffered heavy casualties, and a large number of government officials, white soldiers, Minzhuang and green battalion soldiers were strewn at the head of the city.

At the same time that the large ladder carts and tower carts were being framed at the head of the city, the auxiliaries at another attack site had already dug a hole in the city wall, and the auxiliaries behind them brought coffins filled with gunpowder.

"Kill the Tartars!" Heavily armored soldiers jumped out of the ladder carts and tower carts, jumped onto the city, and slashed the defenders at the head of the city with their broadswords.

The Ming army that climbed to the head of the city repelled the counterattack of the Qing army, firmly controlled this section of the city wall, and the Ming army that continued to be reinforced behind climbed the city, and when the number of people was enough, the Ming army began to advance and pushed straight to the direction of the city tower.

At the same time, the blasting of the city walls was underway.

"Boom, boom, boom" three loud bangs in a row, and the walls of the three positions were blown open.

"Kill!" The Ming army, who had been waiting outside for a long time, jumped up, shouted and rushed through the moat that the auxiliaries had filled with blood and life, rushed into the gap that the auxiliaries had blasted with their blood and lives, and poured into the city.

After all, the defenders only have a few green battalion soldiers, and the others are government servants, catchers, white servants and people's strong, those rabble can still fight at the head of the city, once the city head is lost, they will be exposed in their original form, and they will become a group of rabble again, and they have no strength to resist in front of the Ming army.

"The city is broken!" The Ming army let out excited cheers.

"The city is broken!" Everywhere were the desperate cries of the Qing army.

Knowing that the general trend had gone, the prefect of the Qing court returned to the yamen, lit a fire, burned down the warehouse and the yamen, and sat in the yamen and was burned alive.

In the north and east of the city, the gates of the city were wide open, and a large number of Qing soldiers, government officials, people, gentry and their families poured out of the city and fled to the river, trying to escape to the other side by boat. Before the city was broken, there were many gentry from all over Zhejiang in Wenzhou, who knew that they had defected to the Qing court, and once the Ming army broke the city, they would not end well. When Jinhua and other places were breached, these local gentry fled to Wenzhou. But now that the city of Wenzhou has also been breached, they are ready to escape from the city and flee to the mountains.

At the wharf by the Oujiang River, the crowd of people desperately squeezed into the boats and rafts. During the pushing, many people screamed and fell into the river, and were swept away by the turbulent river in a blink of an eye.

Many people got on small boats and rafts, and the people behind were still desperately squeezing up. At this time, the person who got on the boat first ruthlessly pushed the people behind him.

"Get out of the boat!" Someone yelled hoarsely.

The bamboo poles in the hands of the boatmen pushed hard, and the boats and rafts left the dock, and many people who were about to squeeze into the boat fell into the water. The people in the back were still squeezing forward, and as a result, the people in front fell into the water one after another. Finally, the people behind stopped pushing, and the people who remained on the dock cried and shouted at the boats in the center of the river.

There was a sound of horses' hooves behind them, and the majestic Ming cavalry appeared behind the people.

"All surrender on your knees! Those who surrender will not die! Those who resist will be killed! Wang Zihao shouted.

Seeing that they were desperate, these people who were desperate to follow the Qing court had to kneel on the ground one by one and surrender to the Ming army.

On the river, the people on the boats and rafts that had fled to the center of the river were rejoicing that they could escape, but the Ming warships that appeared on the river completely shattered their dreams.

"You have nowhere to go! Those who surrender will not die! The Ming ships surrounded them and shouted to them.

"It's over, it's over!" An old man in his fifties, dressed in a brown silk robe and wearing a melon-skin hat, let out a desperate lament from the mouth of an old man in his fifties.

The Ming warships surrounded them, and although the people on those small boats were extremely reluctant, they still didn't want to be sent to the bottom of the river to feed the fish and shrimp, so they chose to surrender.

Outside the Ruian Gate in the south of the city, hundreds of people dressed in good silk clothes and looking rich and noble knelt at the city gate. These people are all rich people, but they are not only money rat tails, especially the clothes on their bodies are horse coats and centipede suits.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, shaving and braiding was first implemented, and every man was forced to shave his hair and keep braids, but in terms of clothes, at the beginning, there were not so many horse coats and centipede clothes to change, and many men's clothes were still Han-style clothes, especially the poor people, who were reluctant to throw away their previous clothes and have been wearing them. The first thing the Manchu rulers looked at was shaving their hair and braids, and in terms of clothing, they couldn't make so many clothes to replace for a while, so they were a little looser in terms of clothing.

In fact, even in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, there were still some poor people who wore Han-style short brown. There was no way to do it, they didn't have the money to change their clothes, and the coarse cloth clothes were worn on their bodies, and they were worn in tatters, covered with mud, and they didn't look much different from the short hexagrams that the Manchu rulers asked to change.

Originally, the clothes worn by the poor were narrow-sleeved clothes, which were not conspicuous by the wide robes and large sleeves, and the changes of the Manchu rulers were not immediately added to them.

And these guys who changed their clothes so quickly, needless to say, are all a group of rich people, and they are rich people who have taken refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and in order to save their lives, they are even happier with clothes at the first time. At that time, some wealthy people in Jiangnan were forced to shave their hair and keep braids, but many people still did not change into ugly horse coats and centipede suits, some people wore narrow-sleeved Hanfu outside, and some even secretly wore Hanfu with wide robes and large sleeves at home. There are also some Han people, in order to keep the clothes of the Han people, they would rather become monks or Taoist priests than wear the clothes prescribed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"My lord, how long are we going to kneel here?" A gentleman-like man asked tremblingly.

A Ming sergeant sneered: "We broke the city just now, what are you running?" Are we that scary? If you don't run, you don't have to kneel here now! ”

Another Ming sergeant sneered: "Then do you need to talk about it? There must be a ghost in the heart to run! Most of the people in the city didn't run! These rich guys run faster than anyone else! ”

The weather in June was very hot, and it was really unpleasant for these pampered fellows to kneel at the city gate to bask in the sun.

"I want to see you adults! We are all readers! You adults can't do this to us! Suddenly, a gentleman in his fifties shouted.

"Yes!" Another guy about thirty years old also shouted, "You treat Jiangnan Shizi like this, sooner or later you will be punished!" It's humiliating for you to do this! ”

Luo Xiang said: "As long as you honestly register your property, report those who take the initiative to take refuge in the Tartars, and give us honest taxes in the future, we can let you go." ”

There was a commotion in the crowd, and someone shouted: "The law of the Ming Dynasty stipulates that people with merit and fame can not be taxed!" We are all famous, so why should we pay you taxes? ”

"That's right! We are all meritorious people, we don't have to pay taxes! Several people shouted.

Luo Xiang was furious: "The Ming Dynasty is in your hands!" Even if you don't pay taxes, the first emperor is so poor that he can't even pay his military salary! That's why the Tartars have invaded our country! Why didn't you keep your voice out when the Tartars asked you to pay your taxes? Now that we're back, you don't pay taxes? What kind of logic is this? Come on, slap your mouth! ”

A few Ming soldiers had already come up, picked up bamboo boards, and slammed the mouths of the shouting guys until they were beaten to the point where their faces were covered with blood and a few teeth were knocked out.

The palm mouth is not unique to the Qing Dynasty, and there was a punishment of the palm mouth in the Yuan Dynasty, which was specially used to deal with some dishonest scholars. In the Ming Dynasty, there was also a slap punishment, but in the Ming Dynasty, the status of scholars was high, and even the emperor did not dare to beat scholars, let alone magistrates.

The screaming guys were beaten and rolled all over the ground, but they were much more honest after being beaten.

Someone scolded: "You keep calling yourself the king, is this how you treat scholars? ”

Another scholar scolded: "What do we have to say to these vulgar martial artists? ”

Li Rui couldn't help but be furious: "What are you guys? When the Tartars come, will you not dare to fight them? Our Ming King Shi came back, and you dare to yell at us? Phew! Do you think we don't dare to kill? ”

"Hahaha!" Luo Xiang stepped forward with a sneer and grabbed the money pigtail of a scholar, "You are full of poetry and books, you should also know that your body is skinny, and your parents dare not destroy it, and filial piety is the beginning!" Look at what you guys look like now! With this money pigtail, this is the filial piety you have received? Have you read all your books in the dog's belly? ”

After speaking, Luo Xiang pulled hard and tore off the braids of the scholar.

The other gentry didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, after all, they took the initiative to take refuge in the Qing court, and now that the Ming army is holding a knife, what do they dare to say.

"Come on, give them knives and let them cut off their braids themselves! Tell them a word: keep your head and don't keep your braids! Keep braids without head! Luo Xiang turned around and yelled.

"No!" A squire in his forties shouted in horror, "I don't cut my braids, I cut my braids, and the Tartars will come back and kill us." ”

"Keep your head without braids! Keep braids without head! You are afraid that the Tartars will come and kill you, and I will kill you now! Luo Xiang sneered and gestured to the two soldiers.

Two soldiers came up, dragged the gentleman down, pulled him aside, and cut off his head with a single sword.

It was only when they saw the blood that the gentry were really afraid. Trembling, he picked up a knife from the ground and began to cut his own braids. However, the knives that Luo Xiang left behind were all blunt knives, and after cutting for a long time, the scalp was pulled painfully, and the braids had not been cut off. Some people are in a hurry, tearing hard, and even cutting off a piece of their scalp.

Seeing that everyone had cut off their braids, Luo Xiangcai opened his voice and shouted: "Now that the registration starts, we can not blame those who are forced to do things for the Tartars." Those who take the initiative to join the enemy, once we find out, we will severely punish them! I hope you will take the initiative to report it yourself! If the report is meritorious, we can deal with it leniently! (To be continued.) )