On the artillery position of the Ming army, rows of twelve-pounder siege cannons have been erected, and four sixty-four-pounder mortars have also been laid out in a row, aiming at the head of the city. The gunners www.biquge.info of the Ming army had already been gearing up, just waiting for an order, and smashed the cannonballs into the city. As for whether the Qing soldiers or the women, children, old and weak standing at the head of the city are none of their business, all they have to do is strictly implement the order. Whoever hinders them from carrying out their orders, no matter who they are, cannot be spared.

"Fire!" Artillery officers at all levels roared.

The heavy cannons that were laid out under the city spewed fire, and the cannonballs flew out of the muzzles and flew towards the city walls in a whirlwind.

Rows of cannonballs fell on the city walls, smashing the bricks into potholes; The cannonballs smashed at the foot of the city wall, and a burst of blood mist suddenly rose among the women, children, old and weak people who were standing under the city with their own flesh and blood to block the cannonballs. The cannonballs ploughed deep trenches in the ground, bounced and collided in the crowd, overturning more than a dozen people in a row, and finally the bloody cannonballs slammed into the city wall, leaving a pit.

The women, children, old and weak in the city were suddenly shelled, and they were in chaos. Originally, they thought that the Ming army would definitely not fire at them, but who knew that the shells fell, and hundreds of people were killed on the spot, and the corpses on the ground were scattered, and these women and children, old and weak, cried and fled in all directions.

"Not good!" Someone in the city exclaimed, "This Haikou is not an old thief!" Wang is ruthless, he really dares to kill all our women, children, old and weak! ”

A Mingang shouted: "I heard that Haikou slaughtered the village in Mandarin Duck Village, and tens of thousands of people were all killed by Haikou!" ”

Before the words fell, the Ming army's more ferocious weapons appeared: I saw a few puffs of white smoke rising from the Ming army's artillery position, and four 64-pound mortar shells rose into the air, rose into the air, turned into four small black dots, and smashed down on the head of Xinhui City. These four shells did not fall into the city, but directly on the heads of the people who were crowded at the top of the city.

"The cannonballs are coming! Come on! Seeing the cannonballs falling on their heads, these men who were "loyal to the court" finally felt the threat of death and ran away.

The huge mortar shells fell on the city, and when the flowering shells filled with a large amount of gunpowder were still six feet away from the city, they burst into huge fireballs, and the fragile shell of the bullet made of pig iron burst open at once, turning into countless fragments, and the heavenly maiden scattered flowers to the city like flowers, without any dead ends.

The people at the head of the city were as strong as the grass washed by the wind, but they fell down, the blood flowed like a river, and four flowering shells went down, and I don't know how many people were killed on the spot.

"Fire!" The fastest loaded three-pounder cannon began a second round of bombardment, and the target of these three-pounder guns, of course, was not the strong city walls, but the people and people at the head of the city.

Hundreds of shells poured down at the same time, and the head of the city was immediately drowned by the rumbling cannonballs, the cannonballs smashed into the city, the female wall collapsed, and the cannonballs dragged out a long trajectory of flesh and blood in the crowd.

It can be said that the Qing army's style of play in Xinhui is a rogue style of play, using the common people as meat shields. But when you encounter the more ferocious Qiongzhou army, you don't care what method you use, that is, concentrate firepower to bombard, and the Qing army's rogue fighting style can't hold up at all.

More shells whizzed and tumbled up the city, smashing into the scattered crowd and causing the crowd to fall.

"In this battle, the people were killed and wounded too much, and the killing was too much!" Yao Qisheng sighed.

Wang Xinyu said coldly: "These men from Xinhui deserve to be killed!" In order to survive for themselves, they did not hesitate to push the women, children, old and weak to the front! ”

"This is also, such a man, simply not a man!" Yao Qisheng nodded.

Wang Xinyu turned his head and ordered Jiang Zhiping: "Prepare to let the infantry attack!" The sword and shield men and pikemen are in front, and when they see the women and children of the city, they are old and weak, and if they do not disperse, they will disperse! If you refuse to get out of the way, you will be killed! ”

Jiang Zhiping gave an order, and the 5,000 infantry marched forward in unison amid the rumbling drums, the ranks were neat, and the formation would not be chaotic during the march, and they looked like elite soldiers. However, Jiang Zhiping knew in his heart that these infantry were all new soldiers, who could arrange neatly in formation, and walk a hundred steps without disorder, which was practiced on the training ground, and they had not seen blood, and they were not considered veterans. Only after a few battles and seeing blood can you become a real elite.

The war drums rumbled, the trumpets sounded, the flags were unfurled, the square formation of 5,000 people was tight, the 10,000 feet were advancing in unison, and the rhythm of the 5,000 people was as neat as one person.

The women, children, old and weak who were not killed by the shells under the city had long been frightened, and most of them scattered to both sides to make way for the advancing Ming army. But there are a few people who are not long-sighted, and they have to block the road of the Ming army's advance.

"The people of Xinhui in front, get out of the way! Otherwise, you won't be killed! Several Ming army officers shouted loudly.

The women, children, old and weak who tried to block the road ran away again, and the few hundred people who were left still ran towards the place where the Ming army was advancing in formation.

"Blocker, kill!" Jiang Zhiping pulled out the knife and pointed forward.

The spears in the pikemen's hands had been flattened, and the silver tips of the spears were pointed at the women, children, old and weak. If they still refuse to get out of the way, then don't blame the Ming army for being ruthless with the weapons in their hands.

Most of the remaining hundreds of people were still scared, after all, they didn't want to die in the first place, and when they saw the neat forest of spears piercing towards them, as long as they were scared. However, there are some stupid women who are particularly ignorant, and still fantasize that they can exchange their own death for their husbands, and their fathers-in-law still crash into the spear.

The "poof" spear pierced into the human body with a tooth-aching sound of slicing muscles, and the women were all hung from the spear. The spear was withdrawn, and the lifeless body fell limply.

Jiang Zhiping made people shout loudly: "If someone stops the king and enters the city, he will kill his husband and father-in-law!" Don't fantasize that you can exchange your own death for your husband's life! You can only kill them! ”

The lethality of this sentence is very great, these women were originally so that their families could live, but the Ming army was so unreasonable, so didn't they die in vain? As a result, no one stopped the Ming infantry phalanx, and all the women, children, old and weak all fled.

The blood everywhere stimulated these recruits. Some felt nauseous and vomiting, and some felt dizzy, but they were afraid of the whips and knives of the officers behind them, and if they were slower, they would be whipped; If you are afraid, you will turn your head, and those who dare to turn your head on the battlefield will immediately cut off your head.

After a bloody battle, these recruits can quickly grow into the most ruthless killing machines, and no army can stop them.

The infantry advanced to the bottom of the city, and before they reached the city, fifty stragglers raised their rifled guns and aimed them at a row of guns at the head of the city, and more than a dozen people who were still standing at the head of the city fell.

Then a thousand flintlock musketeers came up from behind, stood under the city, and opened fire on the city.

Under the platoon of guns, all the people who could still stand at the head of the city collapsed, and almost all of them ran wildly.

"Fill in the moat and prepare for the storm!" Jiang Zhiping shouted.

Behind the formation of the soldiers, a wheelbarrow full of sandbags was launched, and the auxiliaries and civilians pushed the wheelbarrows to the moat, poured bags of sandbags into the river, and quickly pushed the wheelbarrows back to load sandbags.

At the head of the city, there were also some Qing soldiers and people who resisted stubbornly, shooting at the city with birds and bows and arrows. However, the fire under the city was even more fierce, and the recalcitrant Qing soldiers were killed by flying bullets as soon as they appeared.

The auxiliaries went back and forth, dumping truckloads of sandbags into the moat. Originally, the moat of Xinhui was not very wide, but it took two hours to fill a large section of the moat.

From just now to now, the shelling has not stopped. A number of twelve-pounder cannons and sixty-four-pounder mortars were aimed at a section of the wall, firing solid shells in succession, and finally opening a gap in the wall. Groups of Ming soldiers carried improvised trench bridges, spread them on the moat, rushed across the moat, and rushed towards the gap opened by the shells.

"The siege begins!" Wang Xinyu gave an order.

More Ming soldiers appeared, carrying improvised ladders and rushing towards the moat that had been filled in by auxiliaries.

In fact, at this time, it is the most brutal siege war. However, there were not many green battalions in Xinhui City, and the main force defending the city was the local people. The brutality of the Ming army and the killing just now had already frightened the people.

What made the people even more frightened happened: on the position of the Ming army, six objects larger than the house rose up, and there were hanging baskets under those objects, and people were sitting in them, holding a kind of fire gun with a very long range and high accuracy, and constantly firing projectiles at the head of the city.

It was a rifled gunner in a hot air balloon, condescendingly suppressing the Qing army and the people at the head of the city.

Wang Xinyu's attack on Xinhui was originally for a quick victory, except for the simple ladder and the simple moat bridge, there was no other factory weapon, and even the nest car and watchtower were very few, and could only be used as an observation post, so the task of suppressing the firepower at the head of the city fell on the hot air balloon.

In Xinhui City, a Qing army commander of the Green Battalion, who had "retreated" from Xiangshan to Xinhui, shouted to his soldiers: "Brothers, the king has begun to attack the city!" Now it's time for us to cooperate with them! Kill the fake Tartar and welcome the king! ”

"Kill the fake Tartars! Welcome to the king! The green battalion soldiers yelled.

All the Green Battalion soldiers who acted as internal guards tied a white towel around their left arm and used it as a symbol. Then these green battalion soldiers were led by President Qian and killed the city. At the same time, Fang Xiaoyu, Fang Meiyu and a group of agents of the Heaven and Earth Society who had infiltrated the city in advance also began to show their skills and launched an attack on the people at the head of the city.

The agents of the Heaven and Earth Society also wore a white towel around their arms to distinguish between friend and foe. Those who stand at the head of the city, whether they are Qing soldiers or ordinary people, as long as they do not have a white towel on their arms, they will be killed.

Those people are strong, since they help the Qing army to defend the city, they are the enemy, there is no kindness in the war, and they can only kill the enemy.

Originally, the morale of the Qing army and the people was low, and there was still an internal response in the city, but after the Ming army began to attack the city, in just one afternoon, the gate of Xinhui City was opened, and groups of Ming troops poured into the city.

Xinhui County ordered suicide, Xinhui Green Camp and Xinhui patrol were killed by Xiangshan Qianzong anyway, and a gang of fast catchers, government servants and white servants in the city couldn't take care of resistance, and took off the skin on their bodies and hid in the homes of ordinary people.

"Xinhui City is broken!" The soldiers reported the news to Wang Xinyu.

Li Dingguo attacked Xinhui for more than half a year, and the Qiongzhou army took it in only one day, which shows not how difficult Xinhui City is. Yes, the Xinhui City operated by Shang Kexi, the city is relatively strong, but this county is not to mention compared with the fortified cities like Xiangyang, Beijing, and Nanjing, and even the cities of Guangzhou, Wuchang, and Nanchang are hundreds of times more difficult to fight than Xinhui! Let's just say that the city of Guilin back then was not much stronger than Xinhui? As a result, Li Dingguo did not destroy Kong Youde.

The reason why Xinhui was able to resist Li Dingguo for more than half a year was not because the city was strong, but because Li Dingguo's benevolence and generosity met the shamelessness of the Qing army, coupled with the life-saving psychology of Xinhui people.

In turn, a more ferocious Qiongzhou army than the Qing army came over, and Xinhui became vulnerable.

After the capture of Xinhui, it was natural to liquidate the diehards in the city, and it was precisely because of their decision that a large number of innocent women, children, old and weak casualties were caused, and these accounts had to be counted on their heads.

Since there is a reckoning, there will inevitably be a mass slaughter. However, Wang Xinyu only issued a massacre order, not a massacre order, there is a difference between the two, the massacre order is just to arrest all the people who want to be killed and concentrate on slaughter, not to connive at soldiers to kill people indiscriminately in the city, that is called slaughter.

The Qiongzhou army searched from house to house in the city, arrested all those who had been people's strongmen, and sent them to prisoner of war camps first.

Although the Qiongzhou Army is a foreign army and is not familiar with the situation in Xinhui, it doesn't matter, with the cooperation of the Xiangshan Green Battalion and the agents of the Tiandihui who had mixed into the city in advance, it is not a trivial matter to dig out all the Xinhui people who have been strong people and stubbornly resisted the Qiongzhou Army.

After three days of large-scale arrests, all the Xinhui people who had been strong people and had not died in battle were searched out, as well as those who guarded the city together, such as the fast catchers, government officials, white servants and other government personnel, and the green battalion soldiers who hid in the homes of the common people, all of them were dug up.

"Xinhui Green Battalion? What are you left for? All slashed! Wang Xinyu's words made the more than 300 captured Xinhui Green Battalion soldiers all lose their heads.

Regardless of whether these Xinhui Green Battalion soldiers were veterans who participated in the resistance to Li Dingguo back then, many of them may be later recruits, but since they did not listen to the dissuasion and took out the old methods of eleven years ago, they should be killed! But killing it like this was still not shocking enough, and Wang Xinyu decided to hold a public trial conference.

Next, the Minzhuang were screened, and those who took the initiative to force their wives and children to go out of the city were all selected and imprisoned together with the Green Battalion Qing soldiers, ready to be executed collectively after the verdict.

The rest of the people are strong, three draws and one kill. (To be continued.) )