Yu Chenglong, after he came out of the country four years ago, was appointed by the Qing court to Luocheng as the county commander. When he first arrived in Luocheng www.biquge.info because of years of war, there were only six families in the county town and a few thatched houses!

Even the county government is a few dilapidated thatched huts, and it is better to be a farmer in Huguang than a county magistrate in this kind of place.

Luocheng is located in the west of Liuzhou, the Ming and Qing armies fought here many times, after Li Dingguo retreated from Guangxi, many local people either ran with Li Dingguo, or hid in the mountains as bandits, or defected to the Tusi cottage, the county is not as dilapidated as a small village.

Yu Chenglong is also a good official, the previous county commanders couldn't run away, but he insisted on living in a dilapidated temple, sleeping on the broken door board, and sitting in a broken thatched hut to work. Yu Chenglong began to work hard to rectify Luocheng, on the one hand, he borrowed troops from the side of Lian Guoan to help him train Minzhuang and white labor, and entered the mountains to suppress bandits, on the other hand, he wandered around and persuaded the people who hid in the mountains to come back.

After three years of hard work by Jackie Chan, Luocheng County has regained its vitality, and the people have come back to live and work in peace and contentment.

However, two months ago, the Ming army invaded Guangxi again, followed by the rebellion of Tusi in various places. It was also when Jackie Chan planned to recruit Minzhuang to defend Luocheng, but Ma Xiong and the Lianjia sisters and brothers sacrificed Guilin and surrendered to the Ming army.

Yu Chenglong did not dare to escape, he was afraid that the crime of losing his land would come to him, so he disguised himself as an old farmer and lived in seclusion in the local area. As long as he didn't escape, the Qing court couldn't find anyone else, and there was no news of Yu Jackie Chan's surrender, the Qing court wouldn't do anything to his family.

Who knew that Ma Xiong recruited the people, and several soldiers and ghosts sent Yu Chengchan to arrest him as an ordinary old peasant.

In fact, Yu Jackie Chan's appearance is not much different from that of ordinary old farmers, years of hard work have made him dark-skinned, because he is a clean official, and he is not enough to take care of the above, and he can't eat every day, so he can only plant a vegetable field by himself and grow some vegetables and grains for a living.

Even if he is a corrupt official, there is nothing to be greedy in the ghost place of Luocheng, and the first few county orders have run away, and only a clean official like Yu Chenglong can do it.

It can be regarded as very lucky, Ma Xiong didn't pay attention to such a little person who blended in with the people and was no different from the old farmer, so Yu Chengchan was sent to the Lingqu construction site and really became a coolie.

Yu Chenglong, who had been tired all day on the construction site, lay in the tent, and secretly said in his heart: The general trend of the world is about to be determined, and it is easy for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, but the pseudo-Ming rebellion and the Haikou have fought back, and the smoke has risen everywhere, and the people will suffer again! Why did the thieves repair the spiritual canal? They are not for the freedom of the people, but for their warships to pass! The hateful thief, for his own selfishness, actually used so many people to serve in labor! It's really harmful!

However, Yu Chengchan still couldn't escape, and the people in charge of supervising the work were all the Qing troops of the original Guangxi Green Battalion, and in order to show their loyalty in front of the new master, they naturally looked closely at the people who worked. The people Zhuang brought by Liu Guoxuan, the Qing army of the green camp didn't dare to care about them, but the people recruited locally in Guangxi didn't pay attention to it, so how could they show their loyalty?

The Ming army in Guangxi did not encounter much resistance when it entered Yongzhou, but when the Ming army in Guangdong entered Hunan and attacked Chenzhou, it encountered the most stubborn resistance here!

Under the city of Chenzhou, the sound of artillery rumbled, shouting and killing all day long, countless Yue soldiers wearing Qing army uniforms, carrying simple ladders shouted, holding wooden cards, brandishing big knives, rushing towards the city wall.

The moat under the city has been filled in several sections, and the obstacles such as wooden stakes and deer barricades outside the moat have long been destroyed, but in order to fill the moat, the Ming army fell nearly a thousand people under the city. When the auxiliaries pushed the shield cart and carried sandbags to fill the moat, the birds at the head of the city roared, and the dense bullets rained down like a torrential rain, and from time to time the auxiliaries were shot, and the blood mist sprayed on their bodies, and even the people with sandbags fell into the moat.

The earthen cannons at the head of the city erupted in flames, and the shield cart that was shot was immediately torn apart and shattered, and sharp pieces of wood pierced into the auxiliaries like shrapnel, and screamed again and again.

The head of the city that was bombarded by the artillery fire of the Ming army was already a mess, leaving craters on the city wall, the female wall and the battlements were collapsed in pieces, the arrow tower had already become a ruin, and the city gate was smashed open by cannonballs. On the city wall, the corpses wearing gray uniforms were piled up, but the Hunan warriors at the head of the city braved the fierce artillery fire and fired fiercely at the Ming army besieging the city again and again.

Wang Xinyu saw this kind of soldier wearing gray uniforms for the first time here, these soldiers are completely different from the green camp Qing army he saw before, the green camp Qing army wears black or blue uniforms, and the soldiers here wear gray uniforms, and the words written on their bodies are not a soldier character, but the word Xiangyong, and the head is not wearing a red tasseled hat, but a gray towel.

"Hunan Army!" This kind of dress, the first impression of Wang Xinyu is the Xiang army in his memory, which he has seen in the photo!

Under the city wall of Chenzhou, the Ming soldiers wearing red tasseled hats and blue and black uniforms shouted loudly, launching fierce attacks on the city wall again and again like a raging wave.

But the small city of Chenzhou is like a reef in the huge waves, so that the waves that hit it are turned into pieces again and again!

A simple ladder was set up at the head of the city, and the Guangdong army and the Fujian soldiers shouted and climbed to the head of the city.

On the city wall, rolling logs, wolf tooth swatters, yaksha beats, lime bottles, feather arrows and projectiles fell like a torrential rain, and the Ming soldiers who were climbing screamed one after another and fell down from the ladder. Ladders were smashed by wolf fangs, and soldiers who were about to climb the top of the city fell into the moat.

The Ming army was also red-eyed, not only the long-range shooters of the Fujian army stepped forward, using bows and arrows and bird guns to shoot fiercely at the head of the city, and the Xiangyong who attacked with their heads fell on the head of the city, and even the main force of the Qiongzhou army itself also pressed up, flintlock gunners, turtledove gunners, rifled gunners, and sharpshooters pressed forward, and shot deadly projectiles and feather arrows at the Xiangyong of the city, and the Xiangyong of the city head was killed and wounded, and the blood flowed like a river.

But Xiang Yong's tenacity is far beyond the imagination of the Ming army!

Xiang Yong braved the dense artillery fire and projectiles of the Ming army and resisted desperately. A group of Xiangyong fell at the head of the city, and another group of Xiangyong came up until they were hit by bullets, shot by feather arrows, and broken into pieces by cannonballs! With their stubborn resistance, the Xiangyong repelled the attacks of the Ming army again and again.

"They're not even soldiers! It's just a level with Minzhuang, it's Xiangyong! How can there be such a strong fighting force? Wang Yuyou can't explain this phenomenon.

Xiang Yong is almost all firearms equipment, their weapons are mainly bird guns, as well as earth cannons, large pole guns, as well as imitation tiger squat cannons and Buddha Lang machines, although their firearms are of poor quality, basically the local people make their own firearms, but the density is too high, causing great damage to the Ming army besieging the city.

At one time, someone climbed the top of the city, and it can be seen that Xiang Yong's hand-to-hand combat ability is poor, and each Ming soldier who climbed up to the head of the city can cut down several people. But those Xiangyong are not afraid of death at all, once a Ming army climbs up, they will surround it and use the advantage of numbers to drive down the Ming army that climbed to the top of the city!

Wang Xinyu, who climbed the watchtower, also saw from the telescope with his own eyes that Xiang Yong, who had been shot several times and had fallen in a pool of blood, suddenly jumped up from a pool of blood when the Ming soldiers climbed up to the city, hugged the Ming soldiers, and rolled down the city from the female wall of the battlements that were collapsed by artillery fire, and died with the Ming army!

In fact, to be honest, even if they occupy the advantage of the city wall, Xiang Yong's losses are more than those of the Ming army, these Xiang Yong have no tactics at all, and their weapons are far inferior to the Ming army, but Xiang Yong's morale has not decreased. On the other hand, on the side of the Ming army, the Guangdong army suffered heavy casualties, and even the Fujian army, which surrendered earlier, suffered great casualties, but it still could not capture the city, which was a very big blow to the morale of the Ming army.

To fight such a battle, it is to bleed on both sides of the game to see who can drain the other party's blood!

Although most of the dead and wounded are cannon fodder, but the cannon fodder cannot be consumed here in vain, the Wuchang area is the main battlefield of the real decisive battle, if the loss in Chenzhou is too large, it is very unfavorable to the future war.

So Wang Xinyu sent an order: "Mingjin retreats!" ”

Hearing the sound of gold, the soldiers of the Cantonese army and the Fujian army who were fighting hard were relieved and retreated one after another, leaving more than 2,000 corpses under the city wall.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Wang Xinyu gathered all the generals to discuss how to capture Chenzhou at the lowest cost.

"Everyone, you have also seen that the Xiangyong in Chenzhou is very tenacious, and we have lost too much if we play like this! If it was only bombarded with artillery, as soon as we opened fire, Qinggou would have hid. When we started the siege, they came out again. These dogs knew how to defend very well, and when we knocked down the battlements of the women's wall, they piled them up with sandbags and built bunkers at the head of the city. Their weapons are not as long range as ours, and they wait for our men to come within range before firing, causing us great losses. However, the weakness of these clear dogs is that they are not good at hand-to-hand combat! Wang Xinyu talked about today's battle situation.

"Dashuai, give Xiao Wang another chance, and he will definitely win Chenzhou!" Shang Zhixin couldn't wait to show his loyalty. Although his people suffered great losses, as long as they captured the city and made meritorious contributions, his soldiers could still be replenished, in addition to the people of Guangzhou, they could also replenish a group of people to Shang Zhixin from the captured Guangxi Green Battalion soldiers and the Han Eight Banners.

Shang Zhixiao also stood up and wanted to show his loyalty: "Dashuai, give the last general another chance!" Chenzhou must be attacked! ”

The generals of the Fujian army, such as Zeng Yangxing, Geng Zhongge, Liu Bingzheng and Ma Jiuyu, also stood up one after another, expressing their willingness to let their people go up and take Chenzhou.

Wang Xinyu said: "In fact, Xiangyong is not as good as us in close combat, and his weapons are not as good as ours, just by virtue of the city wall. The clan has decided to blast the walls with a cannon and let you go up again! This will also reduce the losses of our army! ”

"Thank you, Dashuai!" The generals thanked each other.

Wang Xinyu said again: "Today is a temporary rest, and this domain will let the auxiliary soldiers build mortar artillery positions. Attack the city early tomorrow morning, first blast a section of the city wall with mortars, and your men will attack it! The elite of the clan are following behind, supporting you with rifled guns and grenades! Remember, you must not let the Tartar plug the gap! ”

In the real history, the Taiping army attacked several cities in Hunan, all of which had already blown up the gaps and entered the city, and were driven out by the Hunan army.

After blowing up the gap, only by attacking the city in one go, quickly expanding the results of the battle, and controlling the situation, can the city be truly captured.

Although the Xiangyong of Chenzhou resisted stubbornly, Chenzhou City was not a fortified city like Wuchang after all, and it could not stop the bombardment of flowering shells fired by mortar cannons. In order to solve the defenders of Chenzhou as soon as possible, Wang Xinyu was ruthless and decided to take out valuable new explosives and cannonballs, blast through the city wall with fierce firepower, and attack the city, striving to end the battle within one day.

In Wang Xinyu's eyes, the Battle of Chenzhou was just a small battle, and there was no need to waste time and consume troops with the Qing army here.

As soon as the order was passed down, the auxiliaries began to get busy and began to build emplacements for the sixty-four-pounder mortar. Another group of auxiliaries on the road sped up to deliver the sixty-four-pounder mortars that had not yet arrived.

"Chenzhou Xiangyong's information is here!" Chen Yonghua walked in, "It was all formed by a group of squires near Chenzhou, Hengzhou and Changsha with their own money!" These villagers are not only from Chenzhou, but also from other parts of Hunan. ”

Because Chenzhou was the throat gateway from Guangdong to Hunan, the gentry who spontaneously organized to resist the Ming army gathered the Xiangyong they formed according to Kong Sizhen's dispatch, and most of the Xiangyong were sent to Chenzhou to resist the attack of the Ming army. At the same time, they also strengthened the walls of Chenzhou.

"Kong Sizhen has arrived in Changsha?" Wang Xinyu asked.

Chen Yonghua replied: "Yes! This female Tartar didn't dare to go back to Guilin, so she ran to Changsha! She went to Changsha and happened to hear about the formation of Xiangyong by the Hunan gentry, so she ordered the Tartar general Bai Yongfu to lead the Hunan Xiangyong to settle in Chenzhou. ”

"No wonder Chenzhou Xiangyong is so brave! It turned out to be a village warrior who concentrated several prefectures! It's just that those gentry don't know what they think, why do they want to help the Tartars fight the Han? It's unreasonable! Li Rui said angrily.

Before this expedition, the Ming army rested in Guangzhou for more than a month, and Li Rui, Luo Xiang and other generals from Wang Xinyu's personal soldiers also completed their weddings. After getting married, they got Wang Xinyu's approval, and they were originally allowed to stay in Guangzhou for three more months, but they didn't expect that soon after the Ming army set out, Luo Xiang and Li Rui said goodbye to their newlyweds and caught up with the troops.

To Li Rui's question, Wang Xinyu answered: "Originally, the Hunan people were not Tartars, but back then, He Tengjiao was really disappointing!" Under the good situation, instead of enterprising, there is infighting! This just gave the Tartars an excuse to say that they were following the destiny of heaven. Those gentry were afraid of being killed, and they were also disappointed in the Ming Dynasty. So this time, my Ming Wangshi attacked Hunan, and these gentry were desperate to help the Tartars! ”

Wang Yuyou said: "He Tengjiao is a loyal minister!" ”

"Shi Kefa, He Tengjiao are all loyal ministers, but the situation is bad in their hands!" Wang Xinyu said angrily. (To be continued.) )