Seeing Liu Xiangzhen's hesitant appearance, the master said again: "There is no city in Quanzhou, there is no need to worry about thieves slaughtering the city!" ”

Liu Xiangzhen gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! That's it! Let the thieves know that my soldiers and civilians defending the city share the same hatred and swear not to surrender! ”

The defenders of Quanzhou began to imitate the battle of Xinhui that year, capturing women, children, the old and weak in the city, preparing to push them to the head of the city as cannon fodder, and recruited a large number of people to assist the Qing army in defending the city. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But Quanzhou is not a Xinhui, and the people of Quanzhou have a very good impression of the Zheng family.

Zheng Zhilong was originally a native of Nan'an, Quanzhou, and after being recruited by the Ming Dynasty to return to the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhilong also did a lot of practical things in Quanzhou, such as rebuilding the Luoyang Bridge in Quanzhou, repairing the Anping Bridge in Jinjiang, opening the port of Quanzhou, and bringing prosperity to the economy in Quanzhou. Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, originally wanted to return to Quanzhou, but who knew that he never came back, was extorted in Beijing, and finally spent all his savings and was brutally killed.

In view of the Qing government's attitude towards Zheng Zhilong, the people of Quanzhou did not like the Qing army.

After Zheng Zhilong descended to the Qing Dynasty, because Zheng Chenggong was in Jinxia, many people in Quanzhou secretly had dealings with Zheng Chenggong. Later, Zheng Chenggong went ashore to guard Tong'an and other places, Tong'an also belonged to Quanzhou, and the Qing army slaughtered the city after capturing Tong'an, which also made the people of Quanzhou hate the Qing army. Moreover, Fujian has Southern Shaolin, Tiandihui and various anti-Qing forces. In real history, the Fujian people's anti-Qing Dynasty did not stop until the Qianlong period.

It can be seen from this how ridiculous Liu Xiangzhen's idea of treating Quanzhou people as Xinhui people is.

Many of the people were forced to defend the city, and if they didn't want to survive, they were unwilling to help the Qing army defend the city. In the past few days of defending the city, most of the people have not contributed to the work.

Liu Quan is such a people, he is a native of Quanzhou, and his wife and children are also in the city. The Qing army once threatened them that if they didn't defend the city, their families wouldn't want to live! In desperation, Liu Quan had no choice but to assist the Qing army in defending the city.

"What? Arrest women and children, the old and weak, to be a shield? Hearing the news, Liu Quan was stunned.

In the streets and alleys, groups of Qing troops broke into people's homes and turned over boxes and cabinets, drove women, children, old and weak out of their homes, and forced them to go to the city to concentrate, preparing to wait for the Ming army to attack the city, and then drive these innocent people to the city.

Seeing a team of unarmed old people, women and children being escorted out of their homes by the Qing army, the eyes of the people were red, and there were their relatives among them!

Liu Quan suddenly saw that among the women who were escorted away by the Qing army were his wife and mother! Along with the eight-year-old daughter, the five-year-old son was kicked out. His mother, wife, and children were in the crowd, driven by the Qing soldiers like chickens and ducks, roaring, and moving towards the city walls.

"Hurry up!" A Qing soldier whipped down, and the clothes on the body of a gray-haired old woman were immediately torn. The second whip was whipped again, leaving a bloody trail on his body.

"Don't hit my mother!" A middle-aged man in the middle of the people roared and rushed out with blood-red eyes, but was pushed back with a knife by the Qing soldiers standing on the street to maintain order. The man wanted to rush out, but was slashed by the Qing soldiers.

The Qing soldiers lifted the bloody heads of the people and yelled at the people with hideous faces: "Look at everything!" If someone obstructs the officers and soldiers from carrying out their defense duties, they will be regarded as collaborators and will be killed without mercy! ”

Liu Quan looked at Qing Bing angrily, turned his head, and looked at his relatives distressedly. was originally forced to be a strong man just so that his family could survive. But now, once the family is escorted to the city by the Qing soldiers, how many chances of survival can they have?

Just as Liu Quan was about to rush to his relatives, a teenager in Minzhuang grabbed him.

Liu Quan turned his head and saw that this was a young man named Fang Xiaoyu.

Fang Xiaoyu lowered his voice: "Big brother, don't be impulsive if you want to save your relatives!" Now to go out is to die for nothing! ”

At the head of the city, the voice of the sentry and clear soldiers sounded: "Minggou is attacking the city again!" ”

"Quick, take all the people you have captured to the city!" A Qing army officer shouted.

Crying rang out from the top of the city, and innocent women, children, and old people were escorted to the city by the Qing army. Looking at the muzzle of the cannon under the city aimed at the black hole at the head of the city, and looking at the neat army under the city, these poor people cried loudly.

On the artillery position of the Ming army, Gong Xiaoda was at a loss and didn't know whether to open fire.

"Fire!" Li Rui rushed over and conveyed Wang Yu's order.

"Don't fire!" Cai Jiuyi rushed to stop it.

Li Rui said: "Master, if you want to achieve great things, you can't have the kindness of a woman!" Have you forgotten the Battle of Xinhui? ”

Cai Jiuyi said: "The poor monk has his own way to do this!" Don't attack the city yet! Wait for the poor monk to go and consult with the marshal before acting! ”

The Ming army suspended the siege, and the Qing army at the head of the city shouted, escorted the women, children, the old and the weak, and forced them to repair the city wall, repair the fortifications at the head of the city, and carry all kinds of city defense equipment to the city wall. Seeing that the Ming army did not dare to open artillery, the Qing army was even more courageous, and even moved all the cannons to the city, blatantly erecting the cannons.

When night fell, most of the women and children in the city were driven down by the Qing soldiers, but in order to prevent the Ming army from attacking the city at night, the Qing army still left a group of women, children, old and weak as hostages at the head of the city, so as to prevent the Ming army from attacking at night.

In the barracks of the people in Quanzhou City, the Qing soldiers guarding outside were already asleep. Fang Xiaoyu and a few people didn't fall asleep, and a few people exchanged heads.

Liu Quan lowered his voice and said softly: "We were forced to help the Tartars resist Master Wang, isn't it so that our relatives can survive?" Now that we don't even have a chance to live, why do we still have to give our lives to the Tartars? ”

A Minzhuang said: "Didn't the Ming army not attack the city today?" ”

Fang Xiaoyu said softly: "If there is no siege today, it does not mean that there will be no siege tomorrow!" The newspaper from the Ming Army, I guess some of you have seen it too, right? That Wang Yu, the king of the South China Sea, is not a soft-hearted person, and the Tartars are not hostages to the people in Ningbo? The result? Isn't he still besieging the city? Although the people suffered heavy casualties, he slaughtered the whole city, which can be regarded as avenging the people. ”

It is no secret that the newspapers issued by the Ming army in Jiangnan were in the areas controlled by the Qing court, and various newspapers entered the areas controlled by the Qing army through different channels. Some of the wealthier gentry, through various means, obtained newspapers and learned about the situation. Although many gentry took refuge in the Qing court, there were still many gentry who were interested in the Ming Dynasty and the Ming army attacked, and those gentry would naturally inform the common people.

Quanzhou is also one of the important strongholds of the anti-Qing Dynasty, the Heaven and Earth Society has a rudder here, and Quanzhou Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou, although it is not as good as the South Shaolin in Putian, but it is also a stronghold of the anti-Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty. In real history, after the Putian South Shaolin was burned, the Quanzhou South Shaolin also suffered bad luck and was burned by the Qing army.

The Qing court did not know that in fact, there had been an undercurrent in Fujian for a long time.

was said by Fang Xiaoyu, and those people began to worry about the safety of their families.

"So what do we do? Do you pray that the Ming army will not attack the city? A Minzhuang asked.

Fang Xiaoyu said: "We are forced to help and abuse, even if our family can survive." But the Tartars have cut off even the idea of letting our family live, and we will continue to help the abuse? ”

"But if we don't help the Tartars defend the city, our family will die under the fire of the Ming army!" Liu Quandao.

At this time, a roe deer rat-eyed guy said: "If you want to blame it, it's all to blame for the dog!" We were doing a good job, but they had to come to attack the city! If they don't come to attack the city, the officers and soldiers of the court will not pull our family out and send them to death! ”

The meaning of this sentence seems to be a little: why should the robbers resist? It's because of resistance that robbers kill people. The person who said this kind of thing was very hateful, and he completely stood on the position of the Qing army. If this is the view, everyone does not have to resist when the foreign enemy comes, and it would be good if the whole country surrendered directly?

Fang Xiaoyu sneered: "Do you like money rat tails like this?" Even if you don't resist, and you're willing to go along with it, the Tartars will be able to treat you as a human being? No! They have encroached on my great rivers and mountains, even if they want to turn each of us into their minions! My dignified man, when I straighten my waist, how can I be this servile servant? ”

Another agent of the Heaven and Earth Society said, "Okay, don't argue, let's think about how we can keep our family alive!" ”

Fang Xiaoyu turned his head slightly, glanced at it from the corner of his eye, and saw that the roe deer guy was dragged behind in silence and broke his neck. He knows the details of that guy very well, he was originally a splash in the city, and he belongs to the kind of guy who feeds the whole family without hunger. Such people do not contribute much to the nation, but they like to incite others. At critical times, they are greedy for life and afraid of death.

"Since the Tartars refuse to let our family live, let's fight with them! As long as the Ming army attacks the city, we will fight with the Tartars! When the Ming army reaches the top of the city, we and our families will be able to live! Some of us will die because of this, but we can change our families to live! An agent of the Heaven and Earth Society said softly.

Early the next morning, the Ming army came to attack the city again.

The Qing army repeated its old trick, escorting the women, children, old and weak in the city to the city, forcing them to build city defenses, and acting as hostages to prevent the Ming army from opening artillery to bombard the city.

At the head of the city, the woman wept bitterly, the old man sighed helplessly, and the child was so frightened that he cried aloud. The whole city was in chaos. The whips in the hands of the Qing soldiers constantly beat women, the elderly, and children, forcing them to carry the equipment of the city defense. At the same time, the gunners of the Qing army, under the cover of hostages, loaded gunpowder and shells, preparing to shell the besieging Ming army.

Looking at the women and children crying at the head of the city, Li Rui's eyes showed a trace of unbearability, but he was ruthless, and he still gritted his teeth and gave the order: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom" a cannon spit out fire, the shells whistled towards the city, and puffs of white smoke rose from the artillery positions of the Ming army.

Cannonballs flew up the city and smashed into the crowd of Qing gunners. The cannonballs bounced back and forth on the solid city bricks, splashing countless broken bricks and stones, like shrapnel, knocking down a large number of Qing gunners and women, children, old and weak on the side, and suddenly the crowd was full of flesh and blood, screaming miserably. While dozens of Qing gunners fell, more women, children, old and weak, fell in pools of blood.

Rows of shells smashed down on the city, many of them flowering shells fired from mortars.

The flowering shells of the 32-pounder mortar exploded in the head of the city, and the power of these shells was equivalent to the power of the shells of the Type 92 infantry artillery in later generations, and with such power was already quite powerful in this era.

The violently expanding gunpowder exploded with tremendous energy under the restraint of the iron shell, blasting the iron shell that bound him and turning it into countless fragments, sweeping through the crowd at the head of the city.

Solid shells continued to smash on the city wall, smashing the city wall into potholes, shattering the battlements of the women's wall, and the sandbags were also beaten to fly, and the defense of the city head repaired by the Qing army with women and children and the old and weak was devastated.

"Bang" a cannonball hit a tiger squat cannon at the head of the city, under the violent impact of the twelve-pound shell, the tiger squat cannon immediately bounced into the air, the barrel was also smashed, only a few dozen pounds of tiger squat cannon rolled in the air, smashed down, smashed over the two Qing soldiers who had no time to run away.

"Siege!" Wang Xinyu roared.

In the large array of the Ming army, one after another shield carts were pushed out, and huge nest carts and ladder carts were also pushed out and pushed towards the city wall.

The remaining Qing artillery opened desperate fire, and the shells hit the shield car. The bulleted shield cart made a sound of wooden planks shattering, and in the blink of an eye, the broken planks pierced into the cart's auxiliaries like shrapnel.

The Ming army concentrated mortar artillery firepower and used flowering shells covering a large area to suppress the Qing artillery.

Black flowering shells kept falling on the city, exploding fireballs. Although the accuracy of the mortar artillery was not high, the coverage area of the flowering shells and the density of the Ming army's artillery fire made up for the weakness of insufficient accuracy. Under the heavy bombardment of the Ming army's artillery, the artillery of the Qing army was destroyed one after another.

Rivers of blood flowed from the city, and countless innocent women, old people, and children fell in pools of blood.

"Minggou is simply crazy! They even killed women, children, the old and the weak! This is simply tyrannical and cruel! Such a brutal thief, still want to win the hearts of the people? Seeing that the Ming army's shells blew up the city, Liu Xiang exclaimed in shock.

Someone at the head of the city shouted: "Minggou is about to attack the city!" ”

Liu Xiang roared: "Let the people go to the city and assist the officers and soldiers to defend the city!" ”

Under the steps behind the city wall, Liu Quan and a group of people listened to the constant screams and cries from the city, only feeling that their hearts were dripping blood, and everyone was worried about the safety of their relatives. If it weren't for the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society who had infiltrated the Minzhuang to stop them, I am afraid that the Minzhuang would have been impatient to rush to the city and fight with the Qing army.

Fang Xiaoyu didn't want the people to make senseless sacrifices, and at this time, he went to the head of the city and fought hard with the Qing army, so he could only die in vain. When the Ming army began to ascend the city, the Qing army would naturally let the people go to the city to defend the city. At that time, only by fighting with the Qing soldiers can they play the greatest role.

Hearing the shouts of the Qing army officers, let the people Zhuang ascend the city, Liu Quan was the first to rush to the city.

On the city wall, Qing archers and bird gunners were shooting arrows at the approaching Ming army. From time to time, Ming soldiers were shot by arrows and fell screaming. But more Ming troops rushed up and set up improvised ladders at the head of the city.

"Defend the city! Rolling Wood and Stone! The Qing army officer shouted at the people.

"Do it!" Fang Xiaoyu roared, and was the first to rush to a Qing soldier in front of him. (To be continued.) )