Zhangzhou Mansion was originally in the eight Fujian provinces, and could not be ranked in the forefront, and the city was average, but since last year, Li Chengdong organized the people to increase the height of the city by five feet, so that the city wall reached more than three zhang, and it became an important town in the border from the regulation of an ordinary city city. \u000bThe city of Zhangzhou is now high and wide, and three carriages can be used in parallel on the head of the city, and the Qing army has built a large number of fortifications, and prepared enough rolling wood, gravel, fire oil and arrows to withstand the strong attack of the Ming army.

At this time, for the Ming army, the city wall of Zhangzhou is second, the most important thing is the moat outside the city wall, the moat is three zhang wide, the water is one zhang deep, and the water of Longxi is poured in, and it flows back to Longxi after turning around.

Now the strategy of the Ming army digging tunnels to bomb the city is blocked by the moat, focusing on attacking, organizing a strong attack, and also being subject to the moat, which is to recruit Qing soldiers and disturb the Qing army's heart.

Guangjing's edict Wang Yan has already received, the court urged him to return to Beijing as soon as possible, he can delay for half a month at most, if he can't break the city, then he can only hand it over to his subordinates to continue the siege, but if he can't pull out Zhangzhou, he will be restless even after returning to Beijing, because Zhangzhou City is not a thousand Qing troops, but more than 20,000 people.

At present, Wang Yan wants to solve Zhangzhou, first of all, to break the defense of the moat, he adopted Wang Shixiu's suggestion, that night, he sent the general He Zhen to lead a thousand soldiers, 5,000 people, directly on the aqueduct in the upper reaches of Longxi to fill a dike, so that the stream directly through the main road, so that the moat lost its water source. \u000bZhangzhou is high in the north and low in the south, and there is no water source in the moat, on the other hand, the moat itself is much higher than the stream, and the river water continues to flow away from the outlet, and the river water in the highest moat in the north will soon be drained.

At the time of draining, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army did not stop, and another important preparation before the siege was to dismantle the artillery on the city.

Coupled with the four Hongyi cannons brought by Wang Yan before, and the thirteen Hongyi cannons of the Ming army, looking down at the overall situation, other large and small artillery pieces were also erected and fired at each other in the same city.

The Ming army built an artillery array under the city, erected wooden planks, and the nearest artillery array was only 300 steps away from the city wall, so of course it would be hit by the Qing army, but the Hongyi artillery of the Ming army could also dismantle the Qing army artillery positions found.

The sound of "booming" cannons rose one after another in the city and under the city, and a swarm of bees and oil canisters equipped in the city were smashed by cannonballs one after another.

An artillery piece on the city hit a Ming army gun position under the city, which immediately attracted the bombardment of three or four Hongyi cannons, and immediately lifted the Qing army's gun position away.

The shelling lasted less than an hour, and the Qing army in the city was completely dumbfounded, not because the artillery of the Qing army was destroyed, but because the Qing army had no means to restrain the Hongyi artillery, Li Chengdong could only let the artillery be carried down first.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army lasted for a day, and the thirteen Hongyi cannons, plus a hundred artillery pieces of various kinds, could not raise their heads against the Qing soldiers.

In the early morning of the next day, when the Qing soldiers were about to meet the shelling, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city saw a stunned scene, and the wide moat suddenly dried up.

In the artillery battle the day before, the attention of the Qing army was on the body of the Ming artillery, and they did not find that the water level was falling, and now after a day and a night, the water was drained, so the Qing soldiers were shocked.

The artillery bombardment that the Qing soldiers were waiting for also arrived on time, but at the same time as the shelling, countless soldiers held wooden planks, protected more than 10,000 people against dirt bags, pushed wheelbarrows, and ran frantically towards the dry moat.

The Qing army was suppressed by artillery, but there were still arrows shooting down on the city, and several members of the Ming army worked together to lift the big planks, and most of the arrows were blocked, and the people took turns to go into battle, pouring the soil in the frame into the moat.

By dusk, a section of the moat in Beicheng, which was more than 20 zhang wide, had been filled with mud. It was the Yeming army that continued to fill the river, and waited until dawn before stopping.

At this time, on April 14 of the third year of Longwu, the Ming army began the first close siege since the siege of Zhangzhou.

As soon as the military order was given, the soldiers of Zhongzhen Town pushed all kinds of equipment, and under the cover of artillery bows and arrows, they rushed to the northern city of Zhangzhou, and the Qing army, which had been suppressed for many days, finally began to counterattack.

The Ming army concentrated on attacking a little, although the artillery fire had cleared a lot of fortifications in the city before, but the Ming army attacked one side, which was also conducive to the defense of the Qing army, and Li Chengdong carried down the artillery to the city again, the iron sand from the artillery, and the rockets fired by the swarm caused great losses to the Ming army.

At the end of the day, the town lost nearly 1,500 men, and it did not achieve much at all, and did not even climb the head of the city a few times.

On the 15th, the Ming army continued to attack, this time by Zhongwu Town, but Li Chengdong relied on strong city defense and complete equipment, but the Ming army died more than 500 people.

At the same time, underground, the Ming army and the Qing soldiers also began to fight, one by one, staggered underground, the Ming army dug in, after the Qing army heard the movement, discerned the direction, and dug out, the two tunnels collided together, the Ming army and the Qing soldiers immediately met in a narrow space.

For a while, the war in Zhangzhou entered a state of anxiety, which made Wang Yan gradually start to be irritable.

Fortunately, Li Chengdong still made a mistake in judgment, he thought that the Ming army was digging tunnels in order to steal the city at night, and would dig all the way to the city, but the Ming army dug three tunnels together, although the movement of the three tunnels was detected, the Qing army also dug from the opposite, they dug through two, and then the third Ming army tunnel, stopped under the city, the Qing soldiers did not hear the movement, thought that the Ming army gave up, so they did not continue to search.

On the 16th, Zheng Chenggong's troops were in charge of the main attack, and they set up a formation outside the city, with towering cars and ladders, rushing cars and crashing cars and pushing them to the front of the army, murderous, but did not attack.

By noon, in the tunnel at the foot of the city wall, the Ming army had filled with a thousand catties of gunpowder, which was wrapped in cotton cloth, poured with tung oil, and then tamped with soil and sealed.

Soon after, an earth-shattering explosion suddenly sounded, even if the Ming soldiers had been prepared, there were many people who were frightened and sat on the ground, the entire city wall and the earth in the north of Zhangzhou seemed to rise and fall at once, after the violent explosion, the Qing soldiers were stunned, the explosion rose from a huge smoke, earth and stones flew sideways, and the sound was terrifying.

Seeing this, Zheng Chenggong immediately pulled out his waist knife and roared loudly: "Soldiers, kill~"

Sergeant Zheng immediately pushed the equipment, ran wildly, the sound of shouting was overwhelming, Wang Yan hurriedly picked up the clairvoyant mirror to watch, the explosion place, after the smoke and dust dissipated, a two-meter-long opening leaked out, which made Wang Yan disappointed.

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