Wang Xinyu said the reason for the rapid attack: "First of all, the height of the sub-city is not high, and there are still a large number of buildings between the outer city and the sub-city that can be used, and we don't need too complicated siege weapons to attack the city; Second, in addition, the morale of the Tartars has fallen to the bottom, and we give them the conditions to surrender and avoid death, and with a slight attack, they can take it in one fell swoop. Waiting for ladder carts and nest carts to come in would give the Tartars time to publicize and restore their morale. The third and most important reason: we have artillery to suppress the Tartars, which can quickly ascend to the city. As soon as you reach the top of the city, the morale of the Tartars will collapse immediately. ”

Originally, the siege of the city was the most morale-damaging battle, with a line at the head of the city, and the bows, arrows and firearms under the city could only attack the head of the city; The defenders' attacks are three-dimensional, with rolling wood and stones, fire oil, gold juice, firearms, bows and arrows, and various attack methods, which can not only kill the opponent under their feet, but also kill the opponent who rushes over from a distance. As long as the attacking side cannot be attacked for a long time, morale will be damaged.

In addition, it is also very important that the defenders of the city are often under siege and have no way to escape, and in order to survive, they can only desperately hold on. In this case, no matter how garbage the army is, it will become brave and give it a go.

Now Wang Xinyu's attack on the heart, releasing the conditions of surrender and avoiding death, has broken the fighting spirit of the Qing army, coupled with the absolute superiority in firepower, various buildings outside the sub-city can be used as bunkers and can be attacked quickly.

"Fire!" Gong Xiaoda yelled.

Six three-pounder bronze cannons were spewed out one after another, and white smoke billowed from the artillery position. The whistling cannonballs smashed down, the stones at the head of the city burst out, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the screams were repeated.

The three-pounder gun was extremely fast, and the six guns fired sequentially, with almost no stopping fire.

The Ming army's birdmen and archers climbed onto the roof one after another and fired fiercely at Zicheng. The projectile feather arrows flew away like a torrential rain, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were so suppressed that they didn't even dare to raise their heads.

The three-pounder cannon bombarded continuously, and the female wall of the city head was finally crumbled down, revealing the bare city head.

Without the protection of the female wall, the Qing army standing at the head of the city was as obvious as lice on the head of the monk, directly exposed to the long-range fire of the attacker.

"Boom" A cannonball flew up the city, knocked over a large iron pot boiling gold juice, and the hot, foul-smelling gold juice spilled out and splashed on the surrounding Qing soldiers. Only a scream was heard, and the Qing soldiers were burned and rolled on the ground.

Another cannonball flew up the city, knocking over a large canister of kerosene, and the oil flowing from the broken canister flowed all over the city.

The Ming archers hiding on the roof immediately made a decision and fired several rockets.

Only a "whirl" was heard, and the city burned into a sea of fire.

"Kill!" A death squad consisting of two hundred soldiers who had just been captured, carrying improvised ladders, rushed towards the city wall. It was followed by the Wild Wolf Battalion and the Cheetah Battalion Ming Army.

These Ming soldiers of the Wild Wolf Battalion and Cheetah Battalion adapted from the Miao Li Righteous Army were originally enemies of life and death with the native soldiers, and let them be the supervising team, so that those local soldiers who had just joined the Ming army did not dare to have any dissenting intentions, and could only honestly wave their swords at the Qing army, otherwise the supervising team behind them would not hesitate to cut off their heads.

Outside the sub-city, there are streets and buildings to block the defenders' long-range weapons, and the death squads are not vulnerable to the opponent's fire when they rush to the city walls. The Qing army was suppressed so that they did not dare to show their heads, and the death squad rushed to the city without a single casualty.

"Up!" The overseers behind drew their swords and ordered the death squad to climb to the top of the city.

At the head of the city, the Qing army supervised the battle team to cut down more than a dozen heads in a row, so that the Qing soldiers had to stand at the head of the city without the protection of the female wall to resist, constantly smashing stones and wood, shooting arrows, and pouring fire oil and gold juice.

The death squads that landed in the city fell from the ladders one after another, and the ladders fell one after another.

The Ming army on the roof kept shooting, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city fell from the head of the city that lost the female wall like dumplings.

Finally, the first group of native soldiers reached the top of the city. As soon as their feet landed on the head of the city, they brandished their swords and beckoned to their former comrades.

"Kill!" The native soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were extremely fierce, their swords danced, and the heads of the Qing soldiers in front of them landed one after another.

More than a dozen native soldiers entered the flock like tigers, slashing back and forth in the crowd of Qing soldiers, and in an instant, more than 30 Qing soldiers were cut off their heads, or cut in half by the waist.

"Surrender or die! Surrender or die! In the open space outside the city, the Ming troops on the rooftops shouted in unison.

Seeing that a fierce battle had already started at the head of the city, the Ming troops of the wolf battalion and the cheetah battalion did not hesitate to follow the death squad and climb the city wall and plunge into the fierce battle.

Originally, in a siege battle, a small number of attackers ascended to the top of the city, which did not mean victory, because after all, the defenders could force the attackers off the city by virtue of their numerical superiority. But now the morale of the Qing army is extremely low, and there are coupons to surrender and avoid death, most of the Qing soldiers have chosen to surrender instead of fighting to the death.

"The city is broken!" The cries of the Qing soldiers made the already low morale collapse in an instant.

"The city is broken!" The sound of despair spread like a plague, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city began to surrender in pieces.

Zhu Zhiguang led the overseer team to suppress the bullets, and constantly cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers who tried to surrender. However, more and more Qing soldiers surrendered, and even low-level officers such as the commander and chief of the green battalion, the general department of the local army, and the flag commander all competed to surrender.

"Kill!" The Ming army that climbed to the top of the city was like a rainbow.

The Qing army collapsed like an avalanche. At the head of the city, inside the city, there were chaotic Qing soldiers everywhere. Some people took off their robes and hid in people's homes; Some people simply stopped running and knelt on the ground, waiting to surrender to the Ming army.

Wu Zhudan took more than 100 swords and soldiers to the tower of Nanmenzi City.

"Stop fighting, let's surrender!" The Qing soldiers in front had already lost their fighting spirit and surrendered on their knees.

The city gate was wide open, and the Ming army of the city wall poured in from the gate like a tide. Everywhere they passed, whether it was the green camp Qing soldiers, the Qing army and the people, or the Qing army native soldiers, they all looked at the wind and surrendered.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, the commander of the Qing army in the green camp drew his sword and killed himself.

The Qing army native garrison with more than a dozen personal soldiers stubbornly resisted, and stubbornly blocked the attack of a group of Ming army native soldiers.

The elite soldiers of the Ming army appeared, with a row of ironclad soldiers in front, followed by heavy-armored pikemen and heavy-armored long-sword soldiers, crushing them like chariots. In the blink of an eye, the native soldiers of the Qing army were cut down one after another. The native garrison, which refused to surrender, swung its sword at an ironclad soldier, and the Ming army slammed forward with their shields to block the slashing steel knife. A row of spears of the Ming army in the back stabbed out, and the Qing army native soldiers were hit by seven or eight spears, as if they had been immobilized, and stood there motionless.

The spear was drawn, and seven or eight bloody swords erupted from the body of the native soldier's garrison, and the Qing general shook for a few seconds, his eyes widened, and he fell backwards with reluctance to face back on the bluestone street that had been stained red with blood.

Zhu Zhiguang fled back to the prefect's yamen with his master, the servants, and the arrester.

"My lord, the warehouse has been burned, and it can't be left to the pirates! We took advantage of the chaos and escaped in disguise. The headcatcher suggested.

Zhu Zhiguang waved his hand: "That's it!" Everyone is Han Chinese, and this warehouse is still not burning. It is a capital crime for this official to receive the favor of the imperial court, but he cannot defend the land! Even if he escapes by luck, not only will he not be able to survive, but his family will be affected. You wait for your family to be here, so come down! That's a life-saving! ”

"Your Excellency!" Several of the officials and catchers knelt down.

The head catcher said with tears in his eyes: "The adult treats the villain as kind as a mountain, if the adult is martyred, the villain will never live alone!" ”

"You! Confused! Zhu Zhiguang pointed to the head catcher, his fingers trembled, and then his tone changed, "In the past few days, this official has been thinking, maybe what Ming Jiang said makes sense, we are all Han." The Qing court kept saying that it would avenge the first emperor, but it shaved his hair and changed his clothes, ruined the mantle of our Han people, and stirred up smoke everywhere. This is not the court. At that time, the official only wanted to learn the art of literature and martial arts, and the goods were with the emperor's family. This official does things for the imperial court, and also for the benefit of the people. But now, this Ming army is powerful, with dozens of huge ships, elite ironclad soldiers, sophisticated firearms, and maybe one day the Ming Dynasty will restore the country, which is not a fool's dream. For the sake of your family, let's live first. ”

"Your Excellency!" The officials and catchers have long been unable to cry.

Zhu Zhiguang sighed and said, "This official is different from you!" If this official does not do his best to defend the city, it will cause disaster to his family! Now that the city is broken, the official can be regarded as doing his best! Surrender or flee for your lives, go your separate ways! ”

"Adults treat villains like mountains, and villains are willing to follow adults! So that the adults have a companion on the road! "The head catcher has long been crying.

"You can't die, you all have to live! This official is loyal to the imperial court, isn't it to prevent those bandits from harming the people in Gao Jinku, so that everyone can survive? ”

In the city of Qiongzhou, the shouting and killing gradually subsided.

On the tower of Zicheng City, the green flag of the Green Camp Qing Army had already been torn off and fell to the ground and became garbage to be trampled on. On the city tower, the big red Daming flag hunts in the wind.

A large group of Ming troops marched out of the city gate with the joy of victory on their faces. Outside the city, the Ming army lined up in a long line with no end in sight and walked into the city. The Ming army escorting the captives out of the city met the Ming troops entering the city at the gate of the city, and the soldiers immediately gave orders to let the prisoners pull aside and make way for the Ming troops entering the city.

Wang Xinyu personally led the Chinese army into the city.

Qing prisoners were asked to squat on the ground with their heads in their hands. At this time, a prisoner raised his head to look at the Chinese army of the Ming army, and was immediately whipped by the Ming soldier in custody: "Look at it! Be honest! Keep your head down! ”

Wang Xinyu entered the city and found that there was no smoke from the fire in the city, which was very strange, so he asked people to call Wang Jinzhong.

"I don't know what the general commanded?" Wang Jinzhong came to the front and saluted.

"Is the warehouse here occupied?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Wang Jinzhong replied: "The warehouse has been occupied. However, Zhu Zhiguang did not set fire to the warehouse, and he committed suicide in the palace. In fact, he had time to burn down the warehouse, but he didn't do it, which is incredible. ”

"Let's go, let's go to the government office."

Walking into the mansion, I saw Zhu Zhiguang's body being put down, catching heads, catching fast, and officials surrounding Zhu Zhiguang's body in pain. What is even more surprising is that many people wept bitterly outside the palace. Seeing Wang Xinyu walking in with his entourage, many people showed hatred in their eyes.

After inquiring about the situation, Wang Xinyu learned that it was Zhu Zhiguang who ordered not to burn down the warehouse, which allowed the warehouse in Qiongzhou to be preserved.

In the warehouse of Qiongzhou Fucheng, there are a large number of grains, pig iron, silver taels, cloth, silk, as well as a lot of spices, as well as expensive Hainan agarwood and other treasures.

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A little explanation: Zhu Zhiguang is actually a rare good official, during his tenure as the prefect of Qiongzhou, the Jiangxi soldiers who entered the warehouse harmed the local people, Zhu Zhiguang has stopped it many times, and even dared to arrest the bandits and punish them, which convinced the people. During this person's tenure, Qiongzhou was injust. The small officials in the counties have the best to harm the people and forcibly expropriate local precious products, all of which are strictly forbidden by Zhu Zhiguang. This man is deeply loved by the people, and his good governance is talked about by the people and praised by the people. Someone wrote "The Clarification of the Sea and the Sun" to praise this person.

Such a person is actually the same type as Yao Qisheng, but Yao Qisheng is more famous, and Yao Qisheng is not as stupid and loyal as him.

Although he was a good official, he was loyal to the Qing court and committed suicide after defeat, which was his best destination. Although it is a pity, it is necessary to achieve great things, and there can be no kindness of a woman.

And Gao Jinku, who went to the second minister's biography, is purely a big bandit and traitor, and the protagonist can only use torture to destroy it, in order to comfort the Han people who died unjustly in Jiangxi and Guangdong.

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