Chapter 205: The Heart of the People

The Wang [Fu] minister, who has repeatedly served as the "one kick in the door" task, is undoubtedly a sharp knife in the siege war, and the weapons of the current Wang [Fu] minister's personal army have also been greatly improved, and each personal soldier is wearing expensive steel armor. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

This kind of steel armor is obtained by using the fallen steel obtained when casting cannons and smelting wrought iron, and then using hydraulic forging equipment to create it, and a set of steel armor costs 1,000 taels of silver! The defense ability of the steel armor is very good, and it has achieved the effect of the iron armor of the Iron Man Army, but the weight is only half of the iron armor, and the full set weighs only twenty catties.

The so-called lint armor is a layer of leather sandwiched between the cotton armor, which can reduce the impact force of the blunt weapon and the firearm, and can prevent the steel plate from penetrating the body when the steel armor is pierced by the firearm. The lint armor is lined with silk, which can reduce the lethal effect of firearms.

If it is summer, the steel armor is a special rattan armor with a silk lining, and the protective effect is the same as that of the lint armor, but it will not be hot in summer.

The weapons used by the soldiers were still their own weapons, some using knives, some with one-handed knives, some with two-handed knives, and some with spears, hammers, axes, or clubs.

In addition to the cold weapons, each soldier also had four grenades and a thunderbolt with good bullets on their bodies.

The Thunderbolt is also a new type of Thunderbolt Bolt, and now the Ming Army does not collect at night, and the Thunderbolt Bolt used by the special combat team, special agents and elite soldiers is gradually eliminating the original use of the original front-loading flintlock Thunderbolt Bolt, and replacing it with a rear-loaded, with rifled barrels, using paper bullet shells, and taking a firing needle to ignite the new Thunderbolt Bolt.

The bullets of the new Thunderbolt are made of cardboard shells with a lei mercury primer on the back. When firing, pull the trigger, and the hammer will drive the firing needle to pierce the back of the paper shell, hit the primer, ignite the gunpowder, and shoot out the projectile.

Because the barrel is short, it is also much easier to engrave rifling. With the rifled Thunderbolt, the effective range was increased to forty paces, and the accuracy of the bullet was greatly improved.

Because of its excellent performance, even Wang [Fu] Chen himself liked it very much, and he asked Wang Xinyu for two in one go.

Wang Xinyu was not stingy, and generously gave him two expensive firing pin type rear loading Thunderbolt short guns.

"It's about to be put on the city! Get ready to rush! The king [auxiliary] minister standing on the ladder cart roared.

The heavy large ladder truck needs hundreds of auxiliary soldiers to operate, some are responsible for pushing the cart, some are responsible for extinguishing the fire, and after the ladder cart is pushed to the bottom of the city, the platform can be raised and pushed to the head of the city.

At the top of the city, the rockets of the Qing army flew like locusts, and from time to time they hit large ladder trucks, igniting small flames. But most of the rockets went out on their own after they got into the wet felt. Some of the rockets were still burning when they were stuck and did not go out, so some auxiliaries took buckets from the racks of ladder trucks and splashed buckets of water on them.

Several rockets were fired onto the platform of the ladder cart, and they were all knocked down by the king's own soldiers with shields, or simply by himself with spears and dropped to the ground.

The Qing soldiers found that long-range attacks on the large ladder carts were ineffective, so they aimed their bows and arrows and bird guns at the cart's auxiliaries.

Arrows were like flying locusts, bullets rained down, and from time to time some of the auxiliaries of the cart were shot and arrows, and they fell down screaming. Immediately after that, new auxiliaries were added, and they continued to push the cart, or lifted buckets to water the wet felt of the ladder cart.

As the ladder truck approached, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city threw down an overwhelming lime bottle.

"Crackling" lime bottles continued to burst around the ladder truck, hot lime water spewed out, and the cart pushers and water auxiliaries screamed and fell.

After more than a hundred auxiliary soldiers were killed and wounded, the large ladder cart finally approached the city walls.

Finding that the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were preparing oil cans and torches, Wang [Fu] Chen suddenly burst out: "Brothers, be careful! The Tartars are going to throw fire oil cans! ”

This was the only large ladder cart in the siege, and if it was destroyed, Wang [Fu] Chen and his twenty personal soldiers would become the lone army at the head of the city, and it would be difficult to get reinforcements from the follow-up troops. Now that they have two new weapons, the grenade and the new Thunderbolt shortgun, they need to ensure the safety of the large ladder truck.

"Cast!" Wang [Fu] Chen roared and threw a grenade first.

The five personal soldiers on the platform of the large ladder truck also threw grenades with white smoke one after another, the grenades fell on the city, the fire burst out, the explosions were repeated, the explosive grenades blew up the fire oil tanks, and the city suddenly burst into flames, and the fire oil flowing out of the fire oil tanks that was blown up ignited the Qing soldiers and the people, and burned them into fire people.

"Ahh The Qing soldiers and the people who were on fire let out heart-rending screams and rolled in the flames.

"Shoot!" Wang [Fu] Chen roared, pulled out two thunderbolt short guns, aimed at the city head thirty paces away, and pulled the trigger again and again, the muzzle of the gun spewed out fire one after another, and the Qing soldiers at the city head were shot one after another and fell.

The pro-soldiers also pulled out their thunderbolts one after another and fired fiercely at the city.

As long as it is hit by a bullet, it basically loses its combat effectiveness, and the high-speed rotating bullet drills into the body, tears the muscle tissue, and strorings the internal organs, and the Qing soldiers who were shot spewed out dazzling blood and fell down screaming.

The auxiliaries shook the handles, and the mechanical gears slowly moved, automatically taping the large platform above the ladder cart to the city wall. Before the platform was completely attached to the city wall, Wang [Fu] Chen thrust the short gun into his waist, raised his spear, roared angrily, jumped over the gap more than three feet wide, and jumped into the city.

"Kill!" Wang [Fu] Chen roared, the spear in his hand danced, and the two Qing archers who had no time to escape were strung into sugar gourds by the spears at once.

Five personal soldiers jumped into the city, brandished various weapons, and killed the crowd of Qing troops.

The fifteen soldiers in the back climbed the steps to the platform and jumped into the city one by one. These fifteen pro-soldiers had just followed behind the ladder cart, and the grenades and thunderbolts in their hands had not been used. After they jumped on the top of the city, they immediately used grenades to blow up the rear road of the Qing army, and then pulled out short guns and fired them accurately one by one.

"The Harrier is here!" The Qing soldiers at the head of the city cried and turned to run.

Twenty personal soldiers, led by Wang [Fu] Chen, with sophisticated weapons and equipment, rampage through the city, killing the corpses of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city piled up into a hill, and only two of them were slightly injured!

The Qing army was unable to destroy the large ladder trucks, and the follow-up troops continued to climb the city through the ladder trucks, and the iron army with infinite strength and thick armor came up. As the Iron Man Army joined the warband, the Qing troops at the head of the city began to rout in pieces. The front line of the Ming army's attack pointed directly in the direction of the city gate tower, killing all the way, killing the Qing soldiers and fleeing.

Xu Erxian personally brought his own soldiers to suppress the formation, but he was scattered by the Iron Man Army in a blink of an eye, and even Xu Erxian himself was beheaded by an Iron Man Army.

"Xu Erxian is dead!" Someone lifted Xu Erxian's head and shouted.

Xu Erxian, who once repelled Li Dingguo in Zhaoqing, was also a famous general of the Qing court, and died in the hands of a small soldier. As soon as Xu Erxian died, the Qing army immediately collapsed.

At the head of the city, at the gate of the city, in the gap opened by artillery, there were Ming troops everywhere. The city of Chaozhou turned into a leaky ship, and groups of Ming troops poured into the city from various breaches.

"Don't kill me! I will surrender! In the end, Liu Hanzuo did not have the courage to "martyr" for the Qing court, but chose to surrender.

Liu Hanzuo of Zhengerpin surrendered, and the rest of the Qing generals and officials surrendered one after another, and at the same time surrendered a large number of civilian and military generals of the Qing army, such as Tian Jixin and Xu Yongshun, and even Tong Jishan, the general of the Eight Banners of Meng, also surrendered to the Ming army.

Tong Danian, the general of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, refused to surrender, and led the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty to resist stubbornly, and was captured.

"Caught a guy surnamed Tong! He also scolded and resolutely refused to surrender! "There are pro-soldiers who have come to report to Wang Xinyu.

Wang Xinyu snorted coldly: "What do you need to talk nonsense with him if you have the surname Tong?" Catch the surname Tong, as long as you refuse to surrender, you don't have to talk nonsense, kill them all! Also, if someone catches the surname Aixin Jueluo, whether they surrender or not, they will be killed! ”

The surname Tong is Tong Jia's family, the first to take refuge in the old slave, and he belongs to the absolutely unforgivable scum.

"No!" The soldiers saluted and prepared to retreat.

"Wait!" Wang Xinyu shouted to the soldiers, "This surnamed Tong, Ling Chi will be executed!" Before he dies, let him meet Li Shutai! Let him die in peace! ”

"No!" The pro-soldiers were ordered to retreat.

Tong Danian was still scolding and scolding, shouting in his mouth: "If you want to kill, you have to listen to the respect!" I, Tong Danian, will never frown! Ming dog! Barbarians! Hurry up and give Lao Tzu a good time! ”

"Happy?" Li Rui sneered and walked to Tong Danian's side, "I'll let you see what it means to be happy first!" ”

After speaking, Li Rui turned his head and shouted to his soldiers: "Take this dog Tartar down, let him see Master Li Shuitai, and he will know what it means to be happy!" ”

Tong Danian was escorted to the back of the Ming army barracks and taken to the back camp where the baggage convoy was located, Tong Danian suddenly found that there was a large vat on a board car, and there was a human head on the top of the vat, and a little hair had grown on the top of the human head, which was obviously the hairstyle of the money rat tail, but at this time, the braid of the human head was broken up and draped in a mess. This human head has a bloodless face, hollow eyes, and looks very hideous and terrifying.

"It's Lord Lee!" Tong Danian recognized the human head, desperately broke free from the Ming army's personal soldiers, threw himself in front of the vat, hugged the person and cried.

At this moment, the human head suddenly moved, scaring Tong Danian into a cold sweat.

"Woo woo woo" The human head let out a sad whimper, but he couldn't hear what he was going to say, because Li Shutai had already cut off his tongue and his chin was removed, and he couldn't speak at all.

Tong Danian glanced at the vat, and was paralyzed on the ground in fright: Obviously, Li Shutai was actually made into a human by the Ming army! His hands and feet were cut off, his eyes were gouged out, his ears were probably blocked, his tongue was cut out, and he could only sit in the water tank, unable to move, unable to speak, unable to hear, and unable to see anything.

Li Rui followed and walked over, and said to Tong Danian with a smile: "General Tong, you are not a concubine, we will not use such cruel means to deal with you, well, it's just Ling Chi, much happier than people!" ”

"I surrender!" Tong Danian knelt on the ground and begged bitterly. He was not afraid of being cut off by a knife, but he was going to be executed by Ling Chi, and he felt terrible when he thought about it.

"Surrender? It's late! Li Rui sneered, "Someone!" Pull Tong Danian out and put Ling Chi to death! ”

Chaozhou City has been captured, but the people in the city seem to be very afraid of the Ming army, what kind of pot pulp to welcome the phenomenon of the king is not to think about it, the common people in this era do not have much national consciousness, anyway, who comes to pay taxes to whom, whether it is the Han government or the government of a different race, it doesn't matter.

Only when the hair is shaved and easy to wear can it cause a strong backlash from the common people. But now that the Qing court has ruled for more than 20 years, the people here have also shaved their hair and changed clothes for more than 20 years, the older generation is basically dead, and many young people were born after the Qing army entered the customs, and they did not have much affection for the Ming army.

In the city, the doors of every house were closed, and the people hid in their homes and shivered. In the war years, it is not easy for these people who can still survive to survive, before the Ming army and the Qing army fought in Guangdong, the Qing army conquered the city and slaughtered, forcing the people to help the Qing army defend the city, under the coercion of the Qing army, there were even people to fight against the Ming army. As a result, after the Ming army regained the city, the massacre was indispensable, especially a few years ago, the surname of the country left a very bad impression on the people of Chaozhou.

The common people in the city hid from the Ming army, and the roads outside the city were not smooth.

The official roads and paths leading from Chaozhou to Guangzhou were full of local residents who fought against the Ming army, and some local gentry organized their own armed forces to stop the Ming army with the help of familiar terrain.

The night and spies sent out by the Qiongzhou army became blind and deaf near Chaozhou, and as soon as they set out, the local people reported the movements of the Ming army to the Qing army. There were even local people who attacked the lone Ming army, or built a walled earth city on the main transportation arteries, blocking the transportation and supply routes of the Ming army.

"It seems that the local people are very unfriendly to us. If this matter is not dealt with, we will not be able to launch an attack on Guangzhou at all! As long as we move, our logistics and transportation routes will be cut off by the people! Wang Xinyu told Wang Yuyou about it worriedly.

When encountering such a thing, if Zheng Chenggong is here, he has only one way, which is to kill!

But Wang Xinyu can't do this, although he is not a benevolent person like Li Dingguo, but he is not an indiscriminate person like Zheng Chenggong.

Those stockades blocked on the main roads and small roads, as well as those stockades and local armed forces that may attack the Ming army at any time, must be eliminated, and they must be beaten, and to be honest, those local armed forces are completely vulnerable in front of the Ming army.

"Kill those gentry and divide all their land, I don't believe it, and the common people won't support us?" Wang Xinyu said indignantly.

Wang Yuyou hurriedly stopped: "No! Kill the gentry and give their land to the common people, and the common people will not only not be grateful to us, but will hate us even more! (To be continued.) )