Xinghua, today's Putian. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Li Ying, the prefect of the Qing court, was anxious like an ant on a hot pot, his prefect was appointed in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, and his term of office was about to come, and the next prefect Chen Binghua was coming. But just as he was about to leave this unsafe place, the Ming army called.

Originally, when the Ming army was besieging Fuzhou, Li Ying had been praying, praying that the Ming army would besiege for a few more months, and when the next prefect arrived after the New Year, he would be safe when he left Xinghua.

Who knew that in October, Fuzhou was lost. In November, the Ming army arrived in Xinghua.

Hearing the news of the loss of Fuzhou, Li Ying's heart rose. Before the Ming army surrounded Xinghua, he wanted to run, but he didn't dare to run, this Qing Dynasty law is usually very lenient on officials, how can you be corrupt and bribe on weekdays, bullying men and women It's okay, but someone comes to attack your mansion, you dare to leave the mansion and escape, it is a felony to rob your house!

Compared with the safety of the generals, the Ming army did not have time to surround Xinghua, and Wu Ying, the general soldier of Xinghua, fled with the main force of the green battalion, and left a sentence when he left, which was called in the name of "Preserve strength, and Li Daren (Li Shuotai) rounds, and then unite with the Qing army in Guangdong to exterminate Haikou."

Wu Ying can run, but Li Ying can't run! is the same Ying, the surname is different, and the ending is completely different.

It really doesn't work, and there is one last resort: it is to open the city gate and surrender to the Ming army.

However, no one dares to use this trick for those middle- and low-level officials who have not brought their families to office, because the monk can't run the temple! Your family is still in the hands of the Qing court, you surrendered yourself, and your family doesn't want to live?

The county magistrate and the like can't bring their families to office, which means that once someone comes to attack, the county magistrate and the other officials will be nailed to their own jurisdiction unless they don't want their families to live. The prefect can bring his family to office, so Wu Liuyi, the prefect of Fuzhou, chose to surrender.

But Li Ying didn't know which tendon was drawn, so she didn't bring her family to Xinghua to take office, and her family stayed in her hometown.

"It's over, it's over!" Li Ying sighed and walked anxiously back and forth in the hall.

The city of Fuzhou has been beaten down, what kind of city is Fuzhou! However, the strong city where the feudal officials were stationed was also the royal city where the vassal kings were stationed, they couldn't hold it, how could the small Putian city be held.

The matter has come to this point, the only way to stick to it is to commit suicide if you can't keep it, and exchange your life for the life of your family.

When the Ming army arrived in Xinghua, they did not immediately attack the city, but as usual, set up camp outside the city, built fortifications, and surrounded the city wall first. As for the way to encircle the three missing one, there is no surging, anyway, the law of the Qing court does not allow the magistrate to abandon the city and flee, if you lack an opening, he will not run, it is better to surround and die.

Outside the city, outside the camp of the Ming army, the auxiliary soldiers sweated like rain to dig trenches and build walls. Although it is already November, November in Fujian is not cold at all, and it even feels hot when doing physical work.

"Report! Master of Southern Shaolin Zhitong visited! "The soldiers entered Wang Xinyu's Chinese army tent to report.

"Master Zhitong? Let him in! Wang Xinyu stood up.

Master Zhitong is Cai Jiuyi, who has become the abbot of Southern Shaolin at this time. Cai Jiuyi did not come alone, but brought three hundred lay disciples.

"Master Wang came to Xinghua for me, and my Shaolin lay disciple should serve the country! They are all righteous people who oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and they voluntarily join my Ming King Division! Cai Jiuyi saw Wang Xinyu and clasped her hands together.

Cai Jiuyi is also an old acquaintance, Wang Xinyu attacked Yunxiao Zhao'an before, and he saw Cai Jiuyi. Later, Cai Jiuyi came to Xiamen many times and brought many martial arts masters to Wang Xinyu. These masters have now become the most elite of the Ming Army, and some have become Marine Special Operators of the Nanyang Navy.

After Cai Jiuyi sat down, the two talked about the situation in Fujian.

"The Tartar army gathered in the area of Zhangzhou, and they wanted to fight a decisive battle with our army in Zhangzhou. In addition to the Tartar army of Geng Jimao and Li Shutai in Fujian, there is also a gratifying army in Guangdong. In the area of Zhangzhou, the strength of the Tartar army reached more than 100,000. Cai Jiuyi talked about the situation in Fujian. Although he is the abbot of Shaolin Temple, he is actually one of the members of the Heaven and Earth Society, and it is also his task to inquire about news and pass on information.

In addition to Geng Jimao, there were also Shang Zhixin, Shang Zhixiao, Li Shutai, Liu Jinzhong, Yi Yonggui, Tong Guoqi, Liu Hanzuo, Yang Guotai, and even Ma Xiong, Liu Yanming, Xu Hongzhen, and Xu Shangyuan sent by Kong Sizhen and Sun Yanling in Guangxi.

However, because of the contradiction with Kong Sizhen, Lian Guoan found an excuse not to send troops. In fact, in the Guangxi army, the strongest combat effectiveness is still the Han Eight Banner Army of the Han Dynasty. Originally, Lian Guoan was Kong Youde's confidant general, who was originally a firearms soldier in the Qing army, but it was changed to the Han Eight Banners during the Shunzhi period, and he was a heavy soldier with sophisticated firearms.

The contradiction between Kong Sizhen and Lian Guoan originated from the Qing court's reduction of the feudal domain, and the Qing court had long seen Wu Sangui unpleasantly, and had been cutting Wu Sangui's troops many times. Shunzhi is cutting Wu Sangui, and Ao Bai is also cutting Wu Sangui after taking power. In real history, after Kangxi became pro-government, he not only cut Wu Sangui's troops, but even wanted to cut down the domain, which forced Wu Sangui to rebel.

In order to cut Wu Sangui's troops, Kong Sizhen set an example and asked for a reduction in his troops.

Originally, after Kong Youde's death, the strongest force was Lian Guoan, and he had the best chance to inherit the vassal king. But Kong Sizhen was named a princess, which put an end to the possibility of the feudal domain of the country.

Although Sun Yanling really wanted to be a vassal king, this person's ability was too poor, and he was completely held in the hands of Kong Sizhen.

Kong Sizhen was loyal to Xiaozhuang and Su Malagu, so he played a role in containing the three feudatories in Guangxi.

Now that history has changed, in order to deal with the Qiongzhou army, which was the most harmful to the Qing court, Kong Sizhen ordered to send troops to Fujian to assist the Qing army in Fujian and Guangdong to block the Ming army.

The reason why the Qing army chose the decisive battle site in Zhangzhou was because the terrain of the Zhangquan Plain was conducive to the Qing cavalry. Moreover, Zhangzhou was far from Guangdong, and Shang Kexi, who was the most loyal to the Qing court, sent a large army to help in the war, and Guangxi also sent Qing troops to Fujian, trying to inflict heavy losses on the Ming army in the Zhangzhou area.

"It is best that the Tartars are concentrated in Zhangzhou! The more they come, the better! Wang Xinyu laughed.

Cai Jiuyi nodded: "Although Putian is a government city, the general army of Xinghua has led people away, and now there are only a thousand local green battalions in Putian City, and there are some people and miscellaneous servants. ”

Wang Xinyu said: "This Putian Mansion City is actually vulnerable. Please see how I break the city! ”

In fact, Wang Xinyu didn't say much, attacking and defending the city is what Wang Xinyu is best at. On the contrary, Wang Xinyu is not very good at field warfare, but now that he has a field weapon in his hand, he is no longer afraid of the Qing army's field battle.

On November 8, the siege of Putian began.

The Ming army with a large number of artillery siege was very simple, hundreds of artillery of various calibers aimed at the city wall for a fierce bombardment, all kinds of solid shells bombarded the female wall battlements and arrow towers at the head of the city, and the flowering shells fired by the mortar cannon destroyed the few tiger squat cannons, trebuchets and bed crossbows and other heavy defense weapons at the head of the city.

Next, the gunners pushed the cannon closer and used shotguns to bombard the city, so that the Qing army at the head of the city could not even stand. The thunderous cannon roared, the earth shook, the head of the city was bombarded with holes, and the tiger squat cannons, trebuchets, bed crossbows, iron pots, grinding stones, yaksha beats, wolf teeth slaps and other tools to defend the city were also beaten to pieces.

The cannonballs continued to fall on the city, and the canister filled with fire oil was hit, turning into fragments in an instant, and the fire oil flowed out, and another flowering bullet fell to the ground, and suddenly the city was on fire.

A solid cannonball hit an iron pot that was boiling on a blazing fire, and the iron pot flew up, and the boiling gold juice inside splattered everywhere, emitting a disgusting stench.

The perverted firepower of hundreds of cannons really frightened Li Ying, the prefect of Xinghua.

"Oh my God! There are so many cannons in the pirates! How can this city be defended? Li Ying complained bitterly. At this time, he regretted it to death, why didn't he bring his family to Putian to take office? If your family is around, you can open the door and surrender now, and you and your family can live.

After ten years of cold windows, it was easy to get the Juren, Jinshi, and suffered so much, from a poor scholar to an official, of course, he didn't die to defend the land. Moreover, when the Ming army was building fortifications a few days ago, it also made people shout that if Kaecheng surrendered, he would continue to be the prefect of Xinghua.

But can Li Ying surrender? If you surrender and survive yourself, your family will be completely destroyed.

"That's it, it's also cost-effective to exchange the life of the old man for the life of the whole family! Let's stay the course! Li Ying said helplessly.

"The pirates are going to fill the moat! Defend the city! Just then someone shouted.

The Qing army's green battalion soldiers, Minzhuang, and miscellaneous servants had just gone down the city wall to escape the shelling. Now the Ming army came to fill the moat, and the Qing army climbed to the top of the city tremblingly, preparing to block the Ming army from filling the moat.

The auxiliaries pushed the shield carts forward, although Wang Xinyu scoffed at the city defense force of Putian, but the siege tool of the shield car is indispensable, anyway, to build a vehicle to transport sandbags, adding a shield in front of the vehicle does not need to increase the cost too much, and it can also reduce the casualties of the auxiliaries. No matter how weak the city's defenses are, the arrows shot from above can hurt auxiliaries without any armor. With shield car protection, it would be much better.

The shield cart was about to advance to the city, and there was a wooden stake in front of it blocking the way of the shield cart. Auxiliaries need to leave the shield cart and use their axes to slash and destroy obstacles.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city shot arrows, but those shoddy arrows, coupled with the poor archery skills of the miscellaneous soldiers, did not cause much casualties to the Ming army auxiliaries. On the contrary, the musketeers and archers of the Ming army under the city fired several rounds, and the Qing soldiers who had lost the protection of the female wall and battlements fell from the city like dumplings and fell into the moat.

"The city can't be defended!" Seeing the fierce firepower of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers, people and miscellaneous servants at the head of the city turned around and ran.

"Up! Don't go back! "The commander of the green camp led the superintendent team to slash and kill the defeated people and miscellaneous servants in the back.

However, even if the Green Battalion Inspector slashed the heads and fell to the ground, those people and miscellaneous servants did not dare to climb to the top of the city to eat bullets and arrows. The people and miscellaneous servants who fled into the city hid in the houses, and they couldn't get out.

Seeing such a scene, Li Ying cried bitterly: "That's it! In this case, it is better to die a few fewer people, anyway, the official has done his best, and the court will not do anything to the official's family. ”

After that, Li Ying ordered to send Minzhuang and miscellaneous servants to burn down the material warehouses in the city.

The city was on fire, and the Qing soldiers set the warehouse on fire. After that, the Qing soldiers in the city, under the command of Li Ying, blocked the gate of the city, preparing to intercept the Ming army entering the city. There is no way to gain a foothold at the head of the city, so it is better to fight a decisive battle at the gate of the city.

The Ming army filled in several sections of the moat with little effort, and then set up a simple ladder to climb to the top of the city. In the direction of the city gate, the Ming army auxiliaries pushed the simple rushing cart, and hit the city gate that had been bombarded by cannons, and knocked the city gate open in a few clicks.

There were sandbags blocking the gate inside the city gate, which were quickly opened by the Ming army.

The Ming army that climbed to the top of the city rushed to kill in all directions, and there was hardly a Qing soldier who could still stand on the top of the city. The Ming army slaughtered to the top of the urn city and repelled the green battalion Qing soldiers who stuck to it.

"Kill!" The Ming army, guarding outside the city gate, rushed into the city.

The head of the city has been controlled, and the Ming army rushed into the city gate without any resistance from the Qing army.

The Ming army entered the city, and the Qing soldiers in the city pushed knife carts and other tools to block the road, and launched the final decisive battle with the Ming army in the city gate. Li Ying, the prefect of the Qing court, personally led a group of green battalion soldiers and a group of people to resist stubbornly.

However, the stubborn resistance of the rabble did not have any effect at all, and most of the Qing soldiers had already scattered and fled, with only more than 200 rabble, no different from those who were sent to death.

Seeing that he couldn't resist, Li Ying faced the north: "Your Majesty! Wechen has done its best! ”

After speaking, Li Ying drew his sword and killed himself.

"Xinghua is so easy to take? That's too easy, right? This is the city! It's much easier to play than many counties! "The Ming army that had just captured Putian City still felt incredible.

In the attack on Xinghua City, the Ming army only paid the price of more than 100 auxiliary soldiers and more than 30 soldiers killed in battle. In the city, more than 1,000 green battalion Qing soldiers, 3,000 people, and miscellaneous servants fled except for more than 300 and more than 500 people were captured. When the Ming army entered the city, the fleeing Qing soldiers and Minzhuang had long since lost their sight of where to hide.

"Are the Tartars in the city hiding? Leave them alone for the time being, let's put out the fire in the warehouse first! Wang Xinyu gave an order.

The Ming army extinguished the fire in the warehouse, but because Li Ying set the warehouse on fire in advance, the warehouse and all the materials in the warehouse were burned, and not even a grain of grain or cloth was rescued. The silver in the storehouse was burned, turned into a liquid that flowed down the street, and solidified into hard pieces that had to be knocked down with a hammer.

In the three years of the Qing government, 100,000 snowflakes of silver were not blown, although there was no 100,000 silver, but there were more than 30,000 taels of silver in the city. The silver was burned and suffered a little loss, but after knocking it down afterwards, the Ming army still got more than 20,000 taels of silver. (To be continued.) )