The Qiongzhou army that attacked head-on, with Wang [auxiliary] ministers as the vanguard, Zeng Yangxing served as the vanguard staff officer, Jiang Yuanxun, Bai Xianzhong, Geng Zhongge, and others followed closely behind the vanguard army, and the Chinese army was in charge of the military division Wang Yuyou temporarily assumed the post of marshal, and the generals under his command were Liu Guoxuan, Ma Jiuyu, Cai Jiuyi, Gong Xiaoda, Li Rui, Luo Xiang and other generals. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

A total of 80,000 soldiers, 120,000 auxiliary soldiers, and 200,000 troops, known as 200,000, marched towards Huizhou.

Wang Xinyu just doesn't like to engage in the kind of thing that claims to be millions, 800,000, and 500,000, and he claims as many as his soldiers, auxiliaries, and people are strong. As a result, the Qing army didn't know that Wang Xinyu claimed to be 100,000 a few times before, and the Qing army thought that there were 30,000 to 40,000 soldiers at most, and only more than 10,000 soldiers were amazing. As a result, after the Qing army collided, it was discovered that the Ming army was real and did not boast.

Now Wang Xinyu's troops have expanded to more than 200,000, including 80,000 soldiers. In fact, most of the current troops are made up of prisoners of war, and even if they are not new prisoners, they are also former prisoners of war.

However, the previous prisoners of war were also veterans of the Qiongzhou Army, and after several years of hard labor or a few years as auxiliaries, and then after rigorous training, they have been fully integrated into the core strength of the Qiongzhou Army. And those armies of Jiang Yuanxun, Bai Xianzhong, and Geng Zhongge, as well as the Qing soldiers captured in the battles of Zhejiang and Fujian, many of them have just been incorporated into the army, and their combat effectiveness is obviously inferior to that of the Qiongzhou army, and to be honest, they can only be slightly better than the auxiliary soldiers.

In terms of weaponry, the elite main force of the Qiongzhou Army is a semi-firearmed force with artillery, cavalry, and infantry, and the proportion of firearms has exceeded half. There are a total of 40,000 elite main force direct troops, and the firearms army has reached more than 25,000 people, and all kinds of large and small artillery are equipped to the level of 100 people.

The firearms infantry were all equipped with flintlock pistols, or better bird guns instead of flintlock pistols.

In addition to flintlock musketeers who fought in formation, special sharpshooter teams were formed, armed with rifled guns. These sharpshooters were not snipers who did not collect snipers at night at the beginning, but skirmishers who were included in the ranks of the infantry. The skirmishers who used rifled guns had a long range and were specially designed to restrain the Qing army's sharpshooters, as well as the musketeers in formation.

That kind of heavy arquebus, that is, the bipod big bird gun that the Ming army said before, and the Qing army's carrying gun later, is still widely used in the army. Although this gun is slow to reload and slow to fire, it is powerful and has a long range, and it can fire solid bullets to penetrate several people at long distances, and it can fire shotguns at close range, which is still a very good weapon.

The real big killer is still an unusually powerful artillery unit and two types of fire vans.

In addition to the 40,000 soldiers of the main force, the rest of the 40,000 soldiers were composed of prisoners, mainly using cold weapons, only equipped with a small number of old-fashioned artillery, a small number of birds, and long-range weapons were still mainly bows and arrows.

When the 200,000 Ming troops arrived at the city of Huizhou, Shang Zhixin's army stationed in Huizhou did not make any resistance, and when they heard from a distance that the army was about to arrive, they abandoned the city of Huizhou, which they felt was very unreliable, and fled back to Guangzhou.

Zhu Ben, the prefect of Huizhou in the Qing court, was thrown down, he couldn't run, otherwise the crime of losing his land would be a felony for the Zhulian family! Thinking that he was going to be beheaded, all his family members were sent to Ningguta as slaves, and the female dependents of the family were going to be ravaged by the armored people, Zhu Ben felt that he was about to faint.

"Hey, don't go! You have abandoned the city and fled, what should you do with the lower officials? Zhu Ben cried and knelt on the ground, begging the Qing generals Wang Guodong and Li Tianzhi, who were urging the soldiers to escape.

Seeing Zhu Ben kneeling in front of him crying so much that he wiped all his tears and snot on his trouser legs, Wang Guodong kicked Zhu Ben away in disgust: "Get out!" Lao Tzu was ordered by the little prince to return to Guangzhou to hold on! If you stop Lao Tzu, you are hindering military affairs! According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, I could have beheaded you immediately! ”

Li Tianzhi, who was standing on the side, said in a strange manner: "This Zhu Ben is not a good thing in the first place, the 1,000 stone of grain we levied, there are 400 stones of moldy and rice bran mixed with it!" Even our military rations dare to be greedy for ink, what does this kind of person care about? Leave him to the pirates. ”

Wang Guodong was furious when he heard this: "Then it's better to kill this dog official with a knife!" ”

"No!" Li Tianzhi dissuaded, "At the moment of the great enemy, if the magistrate is beheaded, the court will blame him, you and my brother can't eat and walk around, it's better to leave him here, Huizhou can't hold it anyway!" If he runs, he will die, and if he does not run, he will die! ”

Zhu Ben knelt on the ground and cried bitterly, he knew that this catastrophe would definitely not be avoided, as soon as Wang Guodong and Li Tianzhi ran, most of the officials in the city also ran away, and the people's hearts were all scattered. At this time, Zhu Ben thought of Wu Liuqi, how good it would be if he was still alive, at least the officers and soldiers of the naval division in Huizhou would not run.

Wu Liuqi had already died in Fujian, and the officers and soldiers of the naval division in Huizhou were leaderless, and when they saw Wang Guodong and Li Tianzhi running away, they all ran away. If these officers and soldiers of the naval division are willing to stay, and there is a city wall to defend, they can still resist it.

The Qing army in Huizhou City ran out, and even the local green battalion ran away. Team training? Don't think about it, when Li Chengdong captured Huizhou a few years ago, many people died. Later, Li Chengdong returned to the Ming Dynasty anyway, and Huizhou suffered another war. Later, there were people who rebelled and wanted to cooperate with the old thieves, but they were suppressed by officers and soldiers.

There are not even a few gentry left, where did they come from.

The remaining few gentry who had defected to the Qing Dynasty were frightened by the Qiongzhou army, which was even more brutal than the Qing army, and had long been secretly ready to surrender, where could they be expected to resist.

Wang Guodong and their hind feet had just left, and the front feet of Wang [Fu] ministers arrived at the city of Huizhou.

Looking at the empty Huizhou City, Zhu Ben chose the best way: he found a rope and hung himself on the girders of the prefect's yamen, so that he could not only keep the safety of the whole family, but the court could appease them, and he would not let himself fall into the hands of the Ming army.

Huizhou, which was almost an empty city, opened the city gate at once, and the Ming army entered the city. The green flag of the Qing army at the head of the city fell, and it was replaced with the red flag of the Ming army.

Just when the frontal Ming army conquered Huizhou, Wang Xinyu's Qiongzhou army that landed from Xiangshan went straight to Xinhui.

Constrained by the backward communications of the year, Wang Xinyu did not know that the frontal attacking army had taken Huizhou, and the progress of the frontal army could only rely on speculation. However, to encircle Guangzhou, let Shang Zhixin honestly dedicate Guangzhou City, and capture Xinhui is the key point among the key points. If Xinhui cannot be occupied, once Kong Sizhen's reinforcements enter Guangzhou, with Kong Sizhen plus Shang Kexi, plus Guangzhou General Hahamu, Shang Zhixin will not be able to control the situation.

Although the Ming army that landed from Xiangshan was mainly composed of marines and Qiongzhou recruits, its equipment was also good, with more than 13,000 soldiers, including 3,000 firearms infantry with flintlock guns, 2,000 artillery, and 8,000 infantry with cold weapons. Despite being cold-armed infantry, each of them was armed with two grenades.

Xinhui can only be captured as soon as possible, and then Wang Xinyu will personally take command, hold Xinhui, and block Kong Sizhen's way, so that the army coming from the east can easily take Guangzhou.

More than 13,000 Ming soldiers and more than 20,000 auxiliaries, a total of 33,000 men and horses, arrived at the city of Xinhui. Sure enough, as imagined, although there were not many Qing army guards in Xinhui City, only 500 green battalion soldiers and 3,000 people left, the people of Xinhui stubbornly resisted the Ming army.

The Ming army came to the city, just set up the cannon, but countless women, children, old and weak suddenly appeared in the Xinhui city, poured out from the city gate, one by one standing under the city, to use their own flesh and blood to help the Xinhui city wall resist the Ming army's cannons. Then, the gates slowly closed again.

"Xinhui people, they are still so festive, but it's a pity that their festive is wrong!" Wang Xinyu could only sigh.

"My lord, do you want to open fire?" Jiang Zhiping asked. As long as Wang Xinyu gave the order to open an artillery bombardment of the city, he would not hesitate to smash the cannonballs. With the attitude of Xinhui, it is not too much to attack the city and slaughter the city.

Wang Xinyu originally planned to go to Xinhui City, and he had to open artillery bombardment after setting up his position, regardless of whether there were women, children, old and weak to help the Qing army defend the city, as long as a few rounds of shells passed, it was estimated that all of them would be scattered, and there were undercover agents arranged by Yao Qisheng in advance, and it was easy to take Xinhui City.

Who knew that this Xinhui was actually "united in the army and the people" to the point of outrageousness, and almost all the women, children, old and weak in the whole city were blocked outside the city to protect the city wall. When the city wall is blown down, it is estimated that it will be similar to slaughtering the city.

Jiang Zhiping asked, "Didn't Mr. Yao already arrange the internal response in the city?" In our siege, we must have started to do it, right? ”

Yao Qisheng was sweating profusely: "The lower officials don't know that the people of Xinhui are so stupid!" They all went to the city, and the few internal responses arranged by the lower officials probably won't play a big role, so many people in the city, one person and one mouthful of saliva, and the few internal responses of the lower officials were all submerged! ”

"I thought Mr. Yao was clever, but it turned out that he didn't have a trick!" Jiang Zhiping said with some sneer.

"Zhiping! Don't be rude to Mr. Yao! Wang Xinyu drank Jiang Zhiping.

"Dashuai, the lower officials still have a way to kill fewer people: before they run away, they shouted at their women, children, old and weak, and said that we are going to open fire, and if you want to live, run to us!" Yao Qisheng arched his hand, and when he spoke, he seemed to suddenly think of something, and added, "We can still tell them about the evil behavior of the Tartars who cannibalized people in the past few years!" ”

Wang Xinyu nodded: "Well, let's shout first!" ”

On the Ming army's position, hundreds of soldiers with loud voices were selected to shout: "Aunts and sisters-in-law, sisters, and fathers and villagers, we are about to open fire!" If you want to survive, run to us! We won't hurt you! Otherwise, we're going to bombard the city soon! ”

The crowd under the city was a little commotion, these women, children, old and weak knew that these Ming soldiers in front of them were not the old thieves of the past, they really dared to kill! slaughtered the whole city in Ningbo, and it is said that in Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou, people were also killed; went to Chaozhou and slaughtered tens of thousands of people in Mandarin Duck Village. Such an army attacking the city is not an old thief, and does not dare to kill them. But even so, they still stood under the city.

But then, the Ming army continued to shout, shouting out the deeds of the so-called four filial piety martyrs in Guangdong:

"On the first day of the year, Xinhui County was besieged, the food in the city was exhausted, and the guards slaughtered the people for food. If there is Mo's family, the wife of Lin Yingyu, the aunt will cook, don't ask Yu Bing to say: 'Gu Lao, the meat is not edible, the concubine is fortunate to be creamy, and it can be used for the king to chew also.'" 'If the soldiers obey it, they will be released, and Mo will die. If there is a Li family, the soldier wants to eat his husband, and he cries and worships: 'My husband has no children in fifty, please eat me.' 'Kill him, return his head to his husband, and bury him.' There is a woman of the Liang family, her father is a scholar of Humility, and the girl is eleven years old, please die on behalf of her father, and the soldiers can't bear to kill. The female predicate said: 'Jun Yi daughter's body is small, not enough to fill up? 'He will take the sword and kill himself, and the soldier will kill him.' Zhusheng Wu Shi let his wife Huang and his husband die, and the soldiers cried and killed him. It is for the four filial piety martyrs of the new meeting. ”

In fact, the so-called Xinhui Four Filial Piety Martyrs are just advocated by the Qing court, those women and children who have been eaten, the old and weak, are they willing to be eaten as military rations?

This shouting still had an obvious effect, the women, children, old and weak who were used as meat shields in the city began to stir, and some people turned around and wanted to flee into the city, but the city gate was closed and they couldn't get in, so they had to turn around and run in the direction of the Ming army; Others did not go to the side of the Ming army, but scattered and fled to other places.

But half of them did not flee and still surrounded the wall. Although it has been sparse a lot, if the Ming army is bombarded with a round of shells, and when the city wall collapses, it will still have thousands of dead and wounded.

Jiang Zhiping scolded angrily: "The foolish people here really can't imagine what benefits the Tartars have given them, and they can be so loyal to the Tartars!" ”

Zheng Jian pointed to the head of the city and said: "Xinhui has no Tartars all over the city, and there are no Eight Banners True Tartars, but why are you so loyal to the Tartars?" It's unimaginable. ”

Wang Xinyu said: "It's not that the Tartars gave them benefits, but that they were frightened by the Tartars' butcher's knives!" They felt that there would be no casualties if they resisted us. If we break through the city, and we can't hold it in the future, the Tartars will slaughter the city when they come back, and that's what they're worried about. ”

Zheng Jian snorted: "Now they are still at the mercy of us as the king of Jin?" I thought we were really a benevolent army, so we directly took women and children to block the city, where did the bones of the men in the city go? Do they think we really dare not attack the city? ”

"So what do we do? Is it a siege? Jiang Zhiping asked.

Wang Xinyu turned his head to look at Yao Qisheng, wanting to listen to his opinion. After all, this Yao Qisheng loves the people like a son, whether he should use thunder to forcibly attack the city at this time, he still needs to ask Yao Qisheng to see if he has any good plans. It's best if there is a good strategy, after all, they are all Han Chinese, so let's kill as little as possible.

Yao Qisheng sighed, and said helplessly: "Attack the city, as long as you attack the city, the internal response of the lower officials will naturally respond!" If you want to achieve great things, you must not have the kindness of a woman! ”

"Good!" Wang Xinyu nodded, "There will be no kindness for women in this domain!" Besiege! (To be continued.) )