Chapter 220: Cynical Tang Bin

The terrain along the canal is high in the north and low in the south, when the Yuan Dynasty built the canal, it was a lock in the Nanwang area, and the Changgou Town in the north of Jining built the Fulin Gate, which is located on the side of the Shushan Lake Rolling Water Dam. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 ļ½‰ļ½Žļ½†ļ½

The topography of Shushan Lake is higher than Jining City, higher than Jining City Wall, so the Shushan Lake Dam and the Plunder Gate are the key to protect Jining City, once the Changgou Dam bursts, a basin of lake water will flood Jining City, causing tens of thousands of lives to be destroyed.

It is very important to get the Lin Gate, although Tang Bin and the Qing army are in Jining City, once the Zhulin Gate is opened, the first to flood is Jining, and the water level and water volume of Shushan Lake are not as good as Hongze Lake, even if the Shushan Lake dam bursts, the water potential that rushes down is not so fierce, and it is not a big threat to the Qiongzhou Army and Water Division. But Wang Yuyou didn't dare to guarantee that Tang Bin would not go crazy, and once Jining City couldn't hold it, he would order the Shushan Lake Dam to be blown up and the people to be buried together.

On the side of the Huolin Gate, in a Qing army barracks, more than 100 Qing soldiers were stationed here, and these Qing soldiers were originally Caoyun troops under the jurisdiction of the governor of the canal, and now they are incorporated into the war army. But after all, it is an army from irregular soldiers, and these Qing troops are lax in military discipline, drinking and gambling do everything.

At night, a Ming army did not collect the night team and approached the Shushan Lake Dam.

The Qing soldier at the gate of the barracks was dozing off, and before he could wake up, a sharp steel knife grazed his neck.

More than 20 Ming soldiers broke into the Qing army barracks at night, and the Qing soldiers in their sleep were always cut off by a knife. Some of the rest of the Qing army were killed in a daze, and more people were woken up to see the Ming army that appeared in front of them, and these Qing soldiers knelt on the ground and surrendered very cooperatively.

The Shushan Lake Dam was controlled by the Qiongzhou Army, and the surrounding area of Jining City was safe.

As soon as it was light, the Ming army began to attack the city.

Hundreds of cannons were erected, plus the artillery of the sailors, thousands of cannons were aimed at the head of the city for a burst of indiscriminate bombardment, all kinds of solid cannonballs and flowering cannonballs fell on the head of the city, the female wall at the battlement of the city wall was shattered, and cracks appeared on the city wall. The exploding flowering shells exploded into balls of fire, and the Qing troops at the head of the city were unable to stand on their feet and were killed in large areas. The Qing troops who did not die did not dare to stand at the head of the city to be artillery, and fled down the city one after another, hiding behind the city wall to avoid the shelling.

The artillery of the Qiongzhou army suppressed the Qing army guarding the city so that it could not raise its head at all, and then the Ming army sent auxiliaries to push the shield cart to approach the city wall. Two thousand line infantry armed with rifled guns pressed forward and suppressed the Qing army at the head of the city under the city walls; Two hundred stragglers and fifty snipers climbed to the heights and fired at the Qing defenders with new rifled guns.

The shield cart approached the moat, and there were scattered bows and arrows and bird guns at the head of the city, but they were immediately counterattacked by the fire from the city, and the Qing soldiers who ventured to shoot arrows and arrows almost did not even have a chance to shrink back, and were killed at the head of the city.

Shield trucks dropped sandbags to fill the moat. Under the heavy fire of the Ming army, the auxiliaries quickly filled in a section of the moat. Immediately afterwards, a large section of the moat was filled.

While filling in the moat, the Ming army also launched a fierce offensive in three other directions.

"Kill the Tartars!" With the earth-shattering shouts, the Ming army all over the mountains rushed towards the moat with simple moat bridges and simple ladders. The improvised moat bridge was placed on the moat, the Ming army rushed across the moat, the ladder was set up at the head of the city, and a group of soldiers who had only been promoted from the auxiliary not long ago held shields and steel knives and climbed the ladder to the head of the city.

From time to time, people on the city wall threw canisters of oil, threw rolling wood and stones, threw lime bottles, shot rockets, and poured gold juice, causing certain casualties to the attacking Ming army. However, the firepower of the Ming army was too fierce, and in order to cooperate with the soldiers to climb the city, Wang Yu dispatched two thousand musketeers to cover. As long as the Qing soldiers and people who shoot arrows with their heads, throw rolling wood and stones, and attack the city with various defense weapons, as long as they dare to show their heads, most of them will not survive for a second.

Two Qing soldiers and civilians lifted the big iron pot and were about to pour gold juice from outside the battlement, but they heard a row of gunshots, and the two Qing soldiers were beaten to pieces in the head, and the hot iron pot fell over at the head of the city.

The soldiers of the Ming army climbed to the top of the city, these soldiers of the Ming army who were only upgraded from the auxiliary soldiers not long ago, they used to be the Qing soldiers of the green battalion, in order to show their loyalty, they attacked the city harder than the veterans of the Qiongzhou army.

At the head of the city, the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the Ming army who climbed to the head of the city launched a fierce battle with the Qing soldiers who surrounded it.

On the part of the moat that had been filled, the Qiongzhou Army demolition team crossed the river with wooden tables with wheels, and then they erected wooden tables under the city walls, which were made of thick wood and were unusually strong, and covered with copper skin. The Ming army's demolition team hid under the table and dug the city wall.

The Jining city wall is a brick rammed earth structure, which was excavated by the Ming army with an iron drill a few times, and the bricks on the outside were dug out. The demolition team dug several holes under the city wall, and the explosives made of new explosives were stuffed into the holes, connected to the lei pipe and fuse, and then the Ming army demolition team withdrew to a safe area.

"Boom" With a loud bang, a large section of the city wall was blasted open by the demolition team.

After a while, there was another loud "boom", and the second group of blasting groups successfully blasted, and the city wall collapsed.

"Kill!" Hordes of Ming troops poured into the city from the breached gap.

The city was broken, and the rabble in the city surrendered.

In the prefect's yamen, Tang Bin wanted to draw his sword and kill himself, but he couldn't do anything. So Tang Bin changed his mind, took off the official mansion on his body, changed into ordinary people's clothes, and prepared to blend in with the people to avoid the Ming army's search and arrest, and then find an opportunity to escape from the city. But it was too late, and a group of Qing soldiers who had just finished anyway surrounded the prefect's yamen with the Qiongzhou army.

Tang Bin was naturally recognized, and he was recognized by a Qing army general in the original city.

"The prince spares his life! The villain is willing to surrender! Tang Bin, who was tied up by five flowers, knelt in front of Wang Yu, kowtowed desperately and begged for mercy, knocking his forehead bleeding.

"Spare your life?" Wang Yu sneered, "Now the Tartar court is already stormy, precarious, and can be destroyed at any time!" Everywhere my Ming Wangshi passed, all the cities and cities opened their doors to surrender, but you, a Tartar dog officer, why did our soldiers refuse to open the door when they came to the city, and they still wanted to resist to the end? ā€

"The villain's wife and children are all in the capital, if they surrender in Kaicheng, I am afraid that they will be harmed by the imperial court." Tang Bin argued.

Wang Yuyou looked at Tang Bin coldly, and suddenly turned his head to Wang Yu and said, "Handsome, this person must not be forgiven!" This dog thief was loyal to the Tartar court, and even revised the science, took the words out of context, selected the content that was beneficial to the Tartars, and turned Confucianism into a cynic who worked hard for the Tartars! This man must die! ā€

Originally, Wang Yu didn't know much about historical knowledge, but after listening to Wang Yuyou's words, he was furious: "Someone! Pull this dog thief out! Didn't this thief sing praises to the Tartars by saying and writing books? Then cut off his tongue, cut off his hands, and hang him on the tower of the city gate. ā€