In the city of Guangzhou, in the second Pingnan Palace, Shang Zhixin and a group of his cronies were secretly discussing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThere are two luxurious Pingnan palaces in the city of Guangzhou, one is still gratifying, and the other is originally Geng Jimao's, and the two kings are the same land in Guangdong. Later, the Manchu court was worried that the two vassal kings would be together, and in case of rebellion, it would be difficult for the Qing court to resist, so Geng Jimao was transferred, so the second Pingnan palace became Shang Zhixin's.

Now Shang Zhixin is in Geng Jimao's original palace, discussing with his cronies.

In the city of Guangzhou, in addition to the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners still in the hands of the Guangzhou General Ha Ha Mu, the Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion have completely fallen under Shang Zhixin's control.

The old and blind Shang Kexi was no longer able to control the situation, Xu Erxian was eliminated by him by borrowing a knife to kill people, and loyal to Shang Kexi's generals, such as Tian Jixin, Xu Yongshun and others have been defeated and surrendered in Chaozhou. In Guangzhou, only Jin Guang, You Yunlong and others are still loyal to Shang Kexi, and Shang Zhixiao is even more pitiful, and there is not even a useful general under his command. Shang Kexi's filial piety is combined, and his strength is not as good as Shang Zhixin.

Shang Zhixin asked, "Do you have any news about Kong Sizhen, a stinky biao?" Her army has been dispatched for more than a month, and she should be almost in Guangzhou. ”

Zhang Shixuan replied: "The lowly sent spies to Xinhui to see, Xinhui will be cultivated by the Ming army, and Kong Sizhen should not be able to take Xinhui." ”

Shang Zhixin, who was at both ends of the first rat, said hesitantly: "Let's wait a little longer, in case Kong Sizhen really arrives in Guangzhou, I am afraid that we will just fall into the hands of Kong Sizhen at this time." ”

Shang Zhixin is indeed a guy at both ends of the first rat, in real history, when the three feudatories were in turmoil, Shang Zhixin saw that Wu Sangui was powerful, so he raised troops against the Qing Dynasty; The Qing army came over, and Shang Zhixin saw that the situation was not good, and surrendered back. This kind of person is like the wind blowing on both sides, and he will take refuge in whichever side is beneficial. As a result, he was finally killed by Kangxi.

After a while, a spy sent back to Xinhui outside came to report: "Xinhui has already started, Kong Sizhen's army attacked Xinhui and suffered heavy losses under the city!" The Guangxi army has already lost thousands of people, and the losses of the Ming army seem to be small. ”

"It seems that Kong Sizhen doesn't want to come over! It's time for us to get ready! The Ming army coming from the eastern front has already passed through Huizhou, and in six days at most, they will be able to reach Guangzhou! By then, it will be too late for us to say anything! "Hearing the news that Kong Sizhen failed in the siege of the city and suffered heavy losses under Xinhui City, Shang Zhixin finally made up his mind.

"Jin Guang and Yuyun Dragon, must die! These two are big troubles! As long as they die, the city of Guangzhou will be completely controlled by us! Confidant Zhang Shixuan said.

Li Tianzhi said: "It's too early to kill the two of them, the Ming army has not yet arrived in the city, if these two people die, don't talk about the old prince, Hahamu will also arouse suspicion!" We waited for the Ming army to come to the city, so we killed these two people, opened the city gate, and put the Ming army into the city. ”

"No!" Wang Guodong said, "It's too late for the Ming army to come to the city!" The old prince will definitely personally supervise the battle! Hahamu will also bring the Eight Banners of Manmeng to supervise the battle! At that time, we will open the city gates, and I am afraid that we will not have a chance! According to the humble opinion, it is better to send people to contact the Ming army now, let them send a surprise army, disguise themselves as us, we bring them into the city, and we can break through Guangzhou in one fell swoop! ”

Li Tianzhi asked, "We sent someone to contact them and offered to let them send strange soldiers into Guangzhou City, can they believe our words?" Won't they think that we are trying to trick them into the city of Canton and catch turtles in the urn? ”

Shang Zhixin smiled and said, "Anyway, I'm going to marry them, so I'll send the thirteenth sister of this clan over!" With my sister in their hands, will they still believe us when they see our sincerity? ”

"Send little Gege away?" Everyone was taken aback.

Zhang Shixuan asked: "Little prince, the old prince loves Xiao Gege the most, if she hasn't been in the city for a few days, won't the old prince be suspicious?" ”

Shang Zhixin laughed so much that the horizontal flesh on his face trembled: "My sister likes to go to the nunnery the most!" Take her away when she goes to the nunnery and send her to Huizhou! As for the old immortal father, I'll talk about it! I will tell my father that my sister will stay in my house for a few days. ”

After that, Shang Zhixin sent Zhang Shixuan to Huizhou in person.

Before Zhang Shixuan arrived in Huizhou, he met the Ming army on the way, so he was stopped.

"I was sent by the little prince to discuss things with you, let me see your handsome." Zhang Shixuan said to the Ming soldiers who stopped him, and handed over his waist card.

After a while, Li Rui came.

"Our marshal is not here, he is in command in Xinhui, is there anything that your little prince sent you?" Li Rui asked.

Zhang Shixuan replied: "Our little prince wants to sacrifice Guangzhou City, but there is still a group of Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners under General Hahamu in the city, and we are afraid that it will be difficult for us to deal with it." If you wait for the king's soldiers to come to the city, the old prince and Hahamu will inevitably take command. Therefore, the little prince hopes that you will send a strange soldier disguised as our green battalion soldiers, and our little prince will naturally put you in. In this way, when your main army is in the city, you can cooperate with the inside and the outside, and take Guangzhou City in one fell swoop! ”

Li Rui said: "This matter is very important, and I can't make decisions without permission. In this way, I will take you to meet our military division, and now we are all under the full command of our military division. ”

After Zhang Shixuan met Wang Yuyou, he told what he had just said to Li Rui.

Wang Yuyou looked at Zhang Shixuan's eyes intently, making sure that he was not lying, so he sneered and asked, "This plan is very good, but it is too risky!" If you deceive us, we'll lose thousands of elite soldiers for nothing! Say, "Why should we believe you?" ”

Zhang Shixuan arched his hand and said: "The little prince is also worried that you won't believe it, so the little prince decided to send his favorite sister to you to show the sincerity of the little prince!" ”

Wang Yuyou thought in his heart: Shang Zhixin is a ruthless person who can do anything, and it cannot be ruled out that he will use his sister as bait to deceive us and let us lose thousands of elite soldiers in vain. But through the inside line, we also know that Shang Kexi likes this daughter the most, if Shang Zhixin really learns from Sun Quan and uses beauty tricks, as long as we push Shang Kexi's daughter to the city and poke this matter out, Shang Kexi will not chop Shang Zhixin!

Anyway, Shang Kexi doesn't like Shang Zhixin's son, this old guy prefers Shang Zhixiao, but Shang Zhixin is the son of the world, and Shang Kexi doesn't like what to do with him. If Shang Zhixin dared to use such a beauty trick to deceive us, Shang Kexi would not let him go. What's more, even if we lose a few thousand people, the Qing army will not be able to hold Guangzhou, it is better to believe him once, presumably Shang Zhixin will not dare to take risks in this matter.

So Wang Yuyou agreed: "Okay, as long as you send the thirteen county lords, we will act according to this plan!" ”

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In Xinhui, the Ming army and the Qing army were engaged in a fierce artillery battle.

After the Qing army's Hongyi cannon was sent outside Xinhui City, Kong Sizhen ordered to push out the Hongyi cannon, preparing to use this heavy artillery to blast open the Xinhui city wall and bombard the Ming army's fortress.

"Quick, push the cannon up!" Several Qing officers supervised the auxiliaries who pushed the artillery.

Just as the Qing army auxiliaries were panting and pushing the heavy Hongyi cannon, ready to enter the firing position, they heard the roar of artillery firing from the city, and then saw a puff of white smoke rising.

"Minggou fired so far away?" Hearing the sound of artillery, Sun Yanji, the general of the Qing army who was in charge of commanding the artillery, paused for a moment. But soon he felt that it was nothing, how could the opponent's artillery hit his own at such a distance.

This is also one of the advantages of the few attacking sides in the siege warfare of that year: the city wall target is huge, and the Hongyi cannon can bombard the city wall from a long distance. The artillery itself has a small target, and it is not so easy for the artillery of the defending side to destroy the artillery of the attacking side, unless there is an overwhelming artillery superiority, and it is possible to destroy the opponent's artillery by concentrating dozens of cannons to hit the opponent's one, after all, the smoothbore artillery hit rate is too poor.

When Sun Yanji was still thinking nonsense, he heard a piercing whistling sound, and a cannonball fell on the ground next to the Qing artillery team like lightning, and the cannonball plunged into the dirt, splashing countless dirt.

"It's dangerous! It's a little bit worse! The Qing army auxiliaries who pushed the cannon were glad that the shell almost hit them just now.

There was another cannon fire at the head of the city, white smoke rose and a cannonball flew with a piercing whistling sound. This cannonball actually accurately penetrated the crowd of Qing soldiers. Before Sun Yanji could see what was going on, he saw that the flesh and blood of the Qing army were flying in the crowd, at least five Qing soldiers' entire bodies were turned into fragments scattered in the air, and several Qing soldiers with broken hands and legs let out heart-rending screams and fell in pools of blood.

At the head of the city, Liu Guisheng, an artillery officer of the Ming Army, shouted: "Fight on time!" Didn't hit the Tartar's cannons! Cannonballs are expensive! One shot costs dozens of taels of silver! If you can't hit again, you will be deducted from the military salary and pay for the shells! ”

Next to the two new small-caliber guns, the Ming gunners were busy cleaning the chambers and loading the shells. The caliber of these two guns was very small, not as large as that of the three-pounder gun, but the inner wall of the barrel was not round, but hexagonal. Because it was a hexagonal rifled gun, it was difficult to process shells and was very expensive.

The Ming gunners used a very thin wet mop to stick into the barrel, cleaned the chamber, and then put the dry mop into the barrel, wiped the moisture inside, and then loaded the fixed charge package, and then stuffed the shell through the muzzle of the gun, and pushed it to the end with a wooden stick. An awl is then pierced through the fire door, piercing the medicine bag and attaching the fuse.

The hexagonal rifled gun is slower to reload, much slower than the three-pounder smoothbore gun. Even the best gunner can fire three shells in two minutes. In comparison, the three-pounder smoothbore gun was much faster to reload, and a good gunner could fire three shells in one minute. However, the three-pounder smoothbore gun could not be compared with the hexagonal rifled gun in terms of accuracy and range.

About half a minute later, the two three-pounder hexagonal guns of the Ming army began a second round of firing.

The gunners turned the muzzle of the gun, aimed at the Qing Hongyi cannon that was slowly advancing, and after aiming at the target, a gunner behind lit the fuse with a torch.

"Bang bang" With the expansion sound of two fire gases, two shells whistled out.

One of the shells hit a Hongyi cannon weighing more than 3,000 pounds as accurately as lightning, and the small three-pound shell actually knocked the heavy cannon into a bounce, left the gun mount, and rolled in mid-air, and the heavy cannon body fell to the ground, rolled, and injured many Qing gunners. The wooden turret of this Hongyi cannon has long been shattered, turning into countless splashes of wood, killing and injuring the surrounding Qing soldiers like shrapnel.

"A small cannonball, so powerful!" Yao Qisheng gasped when he saw it. He knew that this kind of shell weighed only a little more than two catties, and it could actually fly more than 3,000 catties of heavy artillery!

Although the second shell did not hit the Qing Hongyi cannon, it hit a cart that followed behind, which was loaded with powder kegs. As a result, you don't have to think about it, the high-speed rotating cannonball hits the powder keg, and the extremely fast cannonball hits the powder keg with a huge impact force, and the gunpowder is ignited in one fell swoop.

Only a loud bang was heard, and the cart turned into a huge fireball, and the powder kegs on the cart reacted in a chain reaction, and one after another exploded violently.

"Well played! Just hit it like that! Kill these gourd tartars! Liu Guisheng shouted excitedly.

The two hexagonal rifled guns fired continuously, and one after another, the high-speed rotating shells left the muzzle and smashed accurately at the target. The accuracy of these rifled guns was quite high, and the guns also had rulers and doors on them, which facilitated the gunner's aiming at the target. High-precision shells constantly destroyed the Hongyi artillery of the Qing army.

Kong Sizhen doesn't have many Hongyi cannons on hand, there are only twelve in total, where can they withstand the accurate firing of rifled guns? However, in just ten minutes, all the Hongyi cannons of the Qing army in Guangxi were turned into scrap copper and rotten iron.

"Haikou's cannon is really powerful!" Sun Yanling could only sigh helplessly.

The Hongyi cannons that were easily transported were destroyed, and the Qing army could only return to the original siege route.

Just as Kong Sizhen and a group of Guangxi generals were studying how to attack the city next, the Shuncheng County King Leerjin and the Manchu Eight Banners behind the Qing army in Guangxi led nearly 30,000 Qing troops to arrive. It was not only the 30,000 Qing troops who arrived, but also Leerjin came along the way, all the way to catch the people and the people into the team, and all the way over, more than 30,000 people have been arrested.

"Lord Wang!" Kong Sizhen stepped forward and said a blessing.

"Gege!" Leer Jin arched his hand.

Later, when Le Erjin was inspecting the battlefield, he saw an unfinished Yuliang Road leading to the city wall.

"Why don't you finish Fish Beam Road?" Le Erjin asked.

Kong Sizhen's face was embarrassed: "Back to the prince, there are many thieves and cannons, and our army can't build Yuliang Dao at all!" Hundreds of shield carts, all of them were wiped out in one day! Before they could reach the moat, thousands of people were killed and wounded. ”

"Hahaha!" Leer Jin looked up to the sky and laughed, "What about thousands of dead and wounded? These Han dog barbarians, it's not as many as you want! If the people are gone, just catch them! The shield car was damaged, and if you catch a few more people, won't you be able to build a large number of them soon? Fill it with human lives, what other city can't be breached? (To be continued.) )