Hundreds of miles away, Wuchang City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Since the Ming army invaded Hunan, one foot has stepped into the granary of the country, in recent days, the price of grain in the north has soared, it is said that many cities in the north have set off the people frantically rush to buy grain, grain merchants take the opportunity to hoard grain incidents. In some places, at the instigation of people with ulterior motives, ignorant people even stormed grain stores and clashed with the government, killing many officers and soldiers, and arresting many people and putting them in prison.

Even Wuchang, the land of grain production, is not much better, and Wuchang's grain must be supplied to Beijing first, and as a result, there is a grain shortage in Wuchang City.

It is said that the imperial court was furious for this, and Bumu Butai and the little emperor issued an order to behead a group of profiteers, but they still could not curb the phenomenon of profiteers publishing rumors, driving up prices, and hoarding grain. What made Bumu Butai most angry was that the eight imperial merchants of the Jin Dynasty, who had always been valued by the imperial court, were actually involved in this matter!

It's just that the eight imperial merchants have made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, and Bumu Butai can't give them an order to punish them severely, but he just let people bring them verbal warnings.

Inside the yamen of the governor of Huguang.

"Huayi's distinction?" Zhang Changgeng looked at a newspaper and muttered to himself.

Yang Maoxun saw the problem at a glance: "Pseudo-Ming Haikou, this is to cut off the foundation of my Qing Dynasty!" It was easy for the imperial court to let these scholars feel at ease to do things for the imperial court, but the thieves came to this hand! It's really vicious! ”

"Kill! Those who have different intentions should be killed! Zhang Changgeng said angrily.

Yang Maoxun was so anxious that he shouted: "Lord Taiwan! Never! If the literary prison is revived again, I am afraid that the world's scholars will really go to the thief's side! ”

"This doesn't work, that doesn't work, what the hell is going to do?" Zhang Changgeng snorted angrily.

Yang Maoxun arched his hand and said: "Just let those scholars go!" Loyalty to the monarch and patriotism, loyalty to the imperial court, this is what a scholar should do! Let them go, but it shows that I am kind to the Han people in the Qing Dynasty! The thief's set is nothing more than subverting Confucianism and pursuing the heresy of having no king and no father! ”

"I don't know what happened to Hengzhou now? Once the sailor was defeated, he could no longer cut off the transportation of heavy grain by the thieves! Zhang Changgeng sighed.

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Under the city of Hengzhou, the Ming army has begun to officially attack the city.

Obstacles such as deer barricades and wooden stakes under the city have been filled, and a passage has been filled in for the three moats. Outside the city, all kinds of artillery roared, and shells kept smashing on the city. The flowering shells fired by the mortar artillery fell one after another and exploded on the city wall, and the Qing troops at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties.

This time, Wang Xinyu did not only use cannon fodder, but let the cannon fodder be in front, and his elite troops followed closely.

Groups of new Ming troops carried simple ladders and rushed towards the city wall of Hengzhou with shouts. The Qiongzhou musketeers who followed behind also pressed up, and soon came into range, constantly firing bullets at the head of the city.

Hundreds of auxiliaries pushed large ladder carts, slowly pushed out of the battle formation, and leaned towards the city wall.

The city head smashed down the oil cans, lime bottles, and hail under the rolling wood and stones, and from time to time there were simple ladders that fell, and the Ming soldiers who besieged the city fell from the ladders.

The large ladder cart slowly advanced, and the rockets fired from the city head pierced the ladder cart, and the flames were immediately extinguished by the auxiliaries. The ladder cart continued to move forward, and when it was about to reach the bottom of the city, countless canisters of fire and oil flew out of the city, and landed on the path of the ladder cart, and then the torches swirled and fell to the ground, igniting a raging fire.

"Extinguish the fire!" The king's ministers shouted anxiously.

The Ming army auxiliaries who followed behind the large ladder truck carried baskets full of dirt and poured them on the fire, and some soldiers picked up sandbags and pressed them, and some people shoveled soil from the ground to extinguish the fire. A fire also broke out on the ladder cart, and the auxiliaries extinguished the fire with buckets, wet cloths, and wet earth, and just as the flames were extinguished, another line of rockets was fired down at the head of the city.

"Shoot! Shoot the brute! A person who looked like a Xiangyong sentry at the head of the city shouted.

The establishment of Xiangyong is different from that of the Green Battalion, with ten people as a team and eight teams as the sentry, without a general commander, a sentry commander, and then a battalion officer, a training commander and a commander.

The arrows of the castle head rained down, and the auxiliary soldiers who were extinguishing the fire screamed and fell.

The Ming musketeers and archers under the city came up and used the ladder car as a cover, constantly firing bullets and feathered arrows, desperately suppressing the firepower of the city. Even Wang [Fu] Chen and his personal soldiers, who were standing on top of the ladder cart, took out their bows and arrows and shot arrows at the city, knocking down many Xiang Yong who were desperately resisting.

But Xiang Yong at the head of the city was like a ball of water, pressing one of them, and the other came out again, shooting tenaciously at the city.

Seeing this, Wang [Fu] Chen anxiously shouted: "Quickly push the ladder cart up!" ”

Xiangyong's resistance was so stubborn that Wang [Fu] Chen could only fight the ladder car and be burned, but also climb to the top of the city.

The auxiliaries pushed the burning ladder cart towards the city wall. At the foot of the city walls, the flames were blazing, and the scorching flames were so hot that the king's ministers were unbearable. Although there were several buckets of water on the platform of the ladder truck, and the soldiers kept pouring the water down, the water quickly dried up when it met the fire, and the high temperature smoked the king's [auxiliary] ministers and their mouths were dry.

However, at this time, the ladder cart was only more than twenty steps away from the city, as long as he and his soldiers could climb the city before the ladder cart was burned down, it would be a victory. Wang [auxiliary] ministers were full of confidence, and with themselves and ten personal soldiers, they could stand a small area above the city and cover the follow-up troops.

The distance was close, and when he entered the range of the rear-loading rifled Thunderbolt short gun, Wang [Fu] Chen put away his bow and arrow, pulled out the short gun, and aimed it at the head of the city and fired it again and again. His own soldiers also drew their short guns and fired a dense barrage of bullets at the city.

The flames on the ladder car burned more and more, and when they saw that they were about to be supported, Wang [Fu] Chen roared, jumped a zhang away, and jumped onto the city.

When the last soldier jumped onto the city, the already blazing ladder cart finally could not support it, and collapsed into a blazing bonfire at the foot of the city wall.

A ladder cart only sent eleven people, in fact, it was a very failure, only eleven people, the opponent only needs a counterattack, can kill all the people who ascend the city at the head of the city. However, the eleven people who landed in the city were not ordinary people, but the world's number one fierce general, Wang [Fu] Chen, and his elite personal soldiers!

The Xiangyong immediately formed a formation, brandished broadswords and spears, and surrounded them, trying to drive the king and his ministers out of the city.

"Cast!" The king [auxiliary] retained a loud roar.

The grenades that pulled the strings flew out one after another and exploded in the crowd of Xiangyong. There were explosions, fires splashed, shrapnel flew sideways, and the Xiangyong who rushed up screamed and fell down a large area, and the formation immediately became loose and chaotic.

But the tenacity of Xiang Yong is far beyond the imagination of Wang [Fu] ministers, a group of Xiang Yong fell under the swords and guns of Wang [Fu] ministers and his personal soldiers, and another group of Xiang Yong surrounded them, as if they could not be killed! These Xiangyong, even if they lose more than 30 percent, will not collapse!

Fortunately, the Ming army's means of attack were one link after another, the ladder car was burned, and the Guangdong army and the Fujian army carrying the simple ladder immediately followed up, and the auxiliary soldiers extinguished the fire, and the knife and card hand raised the wooden card to block the fire at the head of the city, and the simple cloud ladder was set up.

"Kill the dog!" More and more Cantonese and Min armies climbed to the top of the city.

"Brothers, go up!" Li Tianzhi took the lead in climbing a simple ladder and climbed to the top of the city.

On the city wall, Wang [Fu] Chen and his ten personal soldiers are still in a bitter battle, within a few zhang of the city, Xiang Yong's corpses are piled up, Wang [Fu] Chen's personal soldiers have three killed, the rest are all wounded, even Wang [Fu] Chen himself is covered in blood, arms, calves and back are stabbed, there are two feather arrows stuck in the armor, the robe has been dyed red, I don't know whether it is his own or other people's blood.

"Kill!" Li Tianzhi slashed down a Xiangyong who was about to shoot with a bird's gun.

More and more Cantonese troops climbed the city, and the already scarred Wang [auxiliary] ministers finally couldn't support it, and when he saw the reinforcements landing in the city, he relaxed his tense nerves, sat on the ground, and gasped for breath.

The most elite Qiongzhou army also climbed to the head of the city, the sword and shield men threw grenades in front, and the musketeers followed, the guns roared endlessly, and the city head Xiangyong fell one after another.

On the tower of Hengzhou City, the big flag with the word "Xiang" was torn down, and a bright red flag with the word "Ming" was raised.

"Kill the dog!" The gates were wide open, and hundreds of cavalry poured into the city.

Seeing that Hengzhou City had become a broken ship leaking on all sides, and the Ming army poured into the city from all directions, the prefect Zhang Qixun sighed again and again: "It's over, it's over!" The matter has come to this point, and the only way to save your life is to surrender. ”

Zeng Fanchao, the scholar beside him, glanced at his parents, the official prefect, who was once their respect, with disdain: "We Confucius and Mencius disciples, with a heroic and righteous heart, how can we surrender to thieves in exchange for a living and stealing a living?" ”

Zhang Qixun's face was full of shame, and he lowered his head with a red face: "The official's family is in the city, and the thieves are fierce and cruel, if they don't surrender, I'm afraid the family will not be able to survive." ”

"Dog officer! If thou shalt descend, thou shalt descend! I would like to die for the Tao! Zeng Fan said with a super awe-inspiring and righteous manner, and the former parent official has also become a dog official in his mouth.

All the scholars roared angrily: "Dog officer! Thou art disloyal and unjust, so well-dressed and beastly, worthy of being an official of the court! ”

No matter how insulted these scholars were, Zhang Qixun still couldn't make up his mind to bring his family to serve the court to the death, so he left the government office gloomily and took a cadre of officials to guard the door of the warehouse, waiting for the Ming army to surrender.

Zeng Fanchao yelled at a cadre of scholars in the hall: "The dog officer is disloyal and unfilial, but our scholars can't be disobedient!" Today, my Hunan scholars follow me to stop the thief! is death, and it will also make the puppet Ming Haikou bear the notoriety of Confucianism! ”

"That's right! Take to the streets to stop thieves! All the scholars raised their arms and waved their highs.

Wang Zihao entered the city with an iron horse, and killed all the way along the street, and Xiang Yong fled in despair. A few of them turned to resist were instantly knocked over by the galloping horses, and then countless horses' hooves fell on them, trampling into a puddle of rotten meat.

"I'll wait, I'm willing to surrender!" Xiang Yong, who couldn't resist, knelt down and surrendered.

Just when Wang Zihao, under the leadership of the people of the Heaven and Earth Society in the city, led the cavalry to rush to the warehouse of Hengzhou Mansion, he suddenly saw more than a hundred unarmed scholars wearing Confucian shirts on the street in front of him, shouting and rushing towards the cavalry, as if these scholars were invulnerable.

The leader of the scholar was Zeng Fanchao, he waved his arms high, and shouted in his mouth: "Our scholars, we are upright, and we can resist thousands of thieves!" ”

Seeing such a scene, Wang Zihao was stunned, and the speed of the cavalry slowed down.

"What do these scholars want to do? Could it be that you read too many books and your brain is stupid? The heavy cavalry were dumbfounded, and watched as a group of scholars rolled up their sleeves and rushed towards them.

They are invulnerable heavy iron cavalry, even if they dismount and fight, they are not something that ordinary infantry can deal with, but a group of bare-handed scholars actually want to stop themselves? It's a joke no matter how you look at it. It's just that waving a butcher's knife at an unarmed scholar is a bit too much?

The cavalry looked at each other, and hesitated to wave their swords to greet these guys who didn't know the height of the sky.

"Dismount!" Wang Zihao still relented.

Zeng Fan, who rushed to the front, walked up to a cavalryman quickly, pushed the cavalryman, and shouted: "False Ming traitor!" Today's emperor is wise, and the people live and work in peace and contentment! But the traitors will start a war! So that the people are not able to make a living! Traitor! You are not welcome here! Get out of Hengzhou! ”

The heavy cavalry was wearing expensive steel armor, and even if the opponent was holding a sharp blade, he couldn't cut it, let alone a sour Confucian scholar who was powerless. However, being pushed by a scholar, the cavalryman still got angry, he picked up the scabbard, and hit Zeng Fanchao's body with a scabbard, knocking him over on the bluestone ground.

"Take them all!" Wang Zihao roared.

More than 500 heavy cavalry dealt with more than 100 powerless scholars, which was simply effortless. Two horsemen waited for a scholar, cut off their arms and threw them to the ground.

The infantry behind followed, and Wang Zihao turned around and said, "These poor scholars will be handed over to you!" Let's go to the government warehouse, so that the Tartar dog officials don't set fire to the warehouse! ”

The infantrymen stepped forward and beat the scholars with the hilts of their swords and guns, knocking them to the ground, and then tying up the pigtails of money at the back of their heads, and strung all the scholars together.

"Be honest!" A Ming soldier shouted with a whip in his hand.

"A soldier can be killed, but not humiliated! Ming Reverse Haikou! If you have the ability, kill me! I want to let everyone in the world know that the Qing Dynasty treats scholars well, but the pseudo-Ming wants to harm Hunan scholars! Zeng Fanchao, who was tied up in braids, was still scolding.

The Ming army set the general on fire, and slapped Zeng Fanchao in the face with a whip: "CAO Do you Daqing treat scholars well?!" You have the ability to go to Jiangnan and say this! Look at Jiangnan Shizi if he doesn't eat you alive! The three major cases in Jiangnan, the blood of Jiangnan Shizi has not dried! You sour Confucian, but you say that the Qing Dynasty treats scholars well? It seems that our Ming Dynasty's knife does not have the benefit of the Qing Dynasty? ”

A Ming army officer on the side, who had fair skin and looked like a scholar, snorted: "You are a sour Confucian, and you are also worthy of being called a scholar?" In my eyes, you can't wait for a pseudo-Qing minion! ”

This officer of the Ming Army is none other than the Jiangnan Confucian, Fan Xiang who is currently a military academy officer of the Ming Army!

The general of the Ming army sneered and said: "You sour Confucians are optimistic!" This is Haining Confucian, Daming Gongsheng Fan Xiang! Known as Mr. Mo'an! (To be continued.) )