Chapter 377: The Aftermath of King Pingnan
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Outside the palace of Pingnan, Zhou Shixiang personally supervised the battle, vowing to take the last Qing stronghold in the city of Guangzhou.
The Taiping army entered the city suddenly, and before the three Niu Lu Han troops of the Pingnan Domain who stayed in the city could figure out what was happening, the Taiping army's shouts of killing came from outside the barracks.
The Taiping army had just annihilated the Manchurian brigade of Hahamu, and then entered the city of Guangzhou, and the morale from top to bottom was far comparable to that of the Han army, and they could be described as arrogant. In order to grab time, the Taiping army that rushed to the front even slashed at the people and Han army families who were blocking the way, and rushed to the Han army camp with a bloody road.
The Han army was caught off guard, and the camp was soon broken by the Taiping army, and Qin Guocheng, the deputy capital commander who stayed in the camp, gathered hundreds of people in a panic and fought and retreated, and was finally forced into the Pingnan palace not far away by the Taiping army.
There are about 300 guards and soldiers in the Pingnan Palace, and their duty is to protect the safety of the palace.
When the chaos broke out in the city, Shang Kexi, who was discussing with the governor Li Shutai, immediately issued an order to order the Han army under the vassal to go out of the camp to suppress the chaos, but it was already a step too late, and when the Han army in the large camp was driven out of the camp by the Taiping army and forced into the palace, Shang Kexi knew that something was wrong, and he had lost control of the city of Guangzhou.
Li Shutai was also speechless in shock, and couldn't understand how the Taiping army ran from the encirclement and suppression of the three-way army to Guangzhou, and how it entered the city.
Thinking that his wife was still in the governor's yamen. Li Shutai begged Shang Kexi to send someone back to save him, and Shang Kexi agreed to him and transferred dozens of his own soldiers to him. However, the Pingnan Palaces had been surrounded by the Taiping Army, and Li Shutai had no way out.
"It's gratifying to break the palace and capture it alive!"
"It's gratifying to break the palace and capture it alive!"
There were shouts of the Taiping army everywhere outside, Li Shutai was shocked, and his master Gui Yongzhi was relatively speechless, and both of them were trembling: The sky is falling. The sky fell!
Shang Kexi's face was also ugly, but he still put on his armor under the service of his subordinates, and walked out without saying a word according to the long knife in his crotch to command the enemy. He can fail. But he had to fight to the end, and he would never just watch the Taiping army break through his palace
Zhou Shixiang knew that Guan Tianshui had conquered the governor's yamen, and although he did not capture Li Shutai, he did capture his wife Eenzhe, the Gege of the Aixin Jueluo family.
The arrest of Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming made Zhou Shixiang unexpected. The herald Guan Tianshui must keep these two people in prison. In addition, Guan Tianshui immediately organized people to clean up the streets, and immediately martial law was imposed in Guangzhou City, and no one was allowed to walk outside. This move was to avoid unnecessary casualties among the people, the capture of Guangzhou City was a foregone conclusion, and Zhou Shixiang did not want to let the innocent people shed blood.
When they first entered the city, in order to create panic in the city, it was conducive to the Taiping army to quickly seize the whole city, and the casualties of the people were inevitable, but now it is necessary to calm the people's hearts. Start cleaning up the aftermath. The Taiping army was the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, not the army of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. More than half of the people in the city were Han Chinese, and it was impossible for Zhou Shixiang to let the Taiping army make a second massacre in Guangzhou like the Qing army.
There were not many guards in Jingnan Palace, and Geng Jimao was pouring out, so Jiang Fan took 2 guards and 600 soldiers to fight, and Zhou Shixiang was completely relieved. If you can't take down the Jingnan Palace, whether it's Jiang Fan or the 600 soldiers, you can all wipe your neck! He Zhou Shixiang doesn't want such a waste!
Shao Jiugong and Tie Yi have seized and closed all the city gates, and the current city of Guangzhou is an iron cage, which not only locks up the Taiping army, but also surrounds the Qing army to death, and they are already turtles in the urn.
Now there are only Pingnan Wangfu and Mancheng left.
After taking the Pingnan Palace, the situation in Guangzhou was completely decided, and the old and weak Manchurian women and children in the city were not worried.
The blind man Li looked at the Manchurian old Bangzi above under the city and jumped to his feet, but the marshal did not send troops to him, and only let him lead people to guard outside, which made the blind Li anxious, carrying a sledgehammer and shouting under the city, to fight with the Manchurian old Bangzi above, there is a lot of Changshan Li blind here, who dares to fight. However, the arrows of those Manchurian old bangzi shot really accurately, and the blind man Li stepped forward several times to shout two words, but was forced to retreat by the opponent's arrows. The old Manchurian man who shot arrows at the head of the city was not much better, and after shooting a few arrows, he was so tired and out of breath that the old bones seemed to be scattered.
Suna also came to Mancheng with a few Manchurian soldiers after slashing and slashing in the city to create chaos, but he did not show up immediately, but hid far away and watched the blind Li scolding his mother under the city.
Looking at the Manchurian old men on the city wall, Suna felt that his face was very hot, and several Manchurian soldiers under him also felt guilty. But they are still thinking about how to take the city and how to keep their wives and children
Pingnan Wangfu is the original Shaowu Palace, and the Shaowu Palace was rebuilt from the original Guangdong Governor's Yamen, so the courtyard wall was built extremely high. The hundreds of Han troops who retreated into the Pingnan palace and the guards in the palace resisted desperately, and the Taiping army failed to break through the gate for a while.
The Han army under Shang Kexi's domain was worthy of firearms, and they erected a lot of ladders behind the courtyard wall of the palace, and climbed up the courtyard wall along the ladder to release guns against the Taiping army, and the Taiping army could not approach the palace for a while.
The pro-military camp collected a lot of fire oil from the surrounding houses and wanted to burn down the Pingnan Palace, but the guns in the palace were so dense that they could not throw the oil and torches into the palace.
Seeing this, Zhou Shixiang sent hundreds of green battalions to move the bronze cannons on the head of Guangzhou City, and there was an artillery bombardment on the Pingnan Palace. Iron bullets roared and smashed into the house, kicking up patches of gravel and dust.
If it weren't for the fact that the Hongyi cannon on the head of the city was too heavy and the transportation was too delayed, Zhou Shixiang hated to be able to move those big guys over.
The fatal iron bullets that kept falling from the sky made the Qing soldiers in the palace sweat coldly, no one knew where the iron bullets would fall from, and the Han army could still rely on experience to dodge the cannons, but those inexperienced people in the palace could only stand stupidly. When the shells fell, they couldn't run if they wanted to.
An iron ball fell from mid-air impartially and smashed on a soldier, instantly smashing a big hole in the soldier's body. The rolling iron ball jumped from the ground with human flesh and blood, and flew to the wall on the other side, smashing a large hole.
Although the artillery bombardment suppressed the Qing army in the Pingnan Palace, the gate could not be captured, and the Taiping army forced those green battalions to climb the courtyard wall of the palace, but they rushed twice without success.
More than 100 Manchurian soldiers in double armor acted as death squads with red eyes, and the guns transferred from the right battalion of the infantry army couldn't stop putting guns on the courtyard wall. In the smoke of gunpowder, the Manchurian soldiers finally climbed the courtyard wall, and the palace suddenly shouted and killed.
Zhu Qinglai, deputy battalion officer of the pro-military battalion, personally led people to demolish a large mansion around him. The big wood on the roof was sharpened, and dozens of Taiping soldiers shouted with shields against their shields and slammed the big wood towards the gate of the palace.
One, two, three
With the violent impact, bricks and stones began to fall above the gate of the palace, and the people inside also sensed that the gate was about to be knocked open. I'm desperately trying to push it with wood. But not far away, there were more and more Taiping troops who fell from the courtyard wall. I'm rushing towards the gate. The guards behind the gate and the Han army couldn't resist the red-eyed Manchu soldiers, and they could still fight bravely at the beginning, but after hearing the Manchurian words shouted from the other party's mouth, these Han soldiers were so frightened that they were scared, and before they could figure out how the Manchurian uncle helped the Taiping Kou attack the Pingnan Palace, they had been cut down to the ground by the Manchurian masters.
With the cooperation of the Manchurian soldiers who attacked the palace, the gate of the Pingnan palace was finally slammed open. The moment the gate was slammed open, the cheers of the Taiping army rang out. Hundreds of Taiping soldiers roared and rushed into the Pingnan Palace. Everything in the palace attracted their attention like a woman of gold and silver
When the clan brother Shang Keyuan ran to Shang Kexi covered in blood, Shang Kexi knew that it was over. Everything is over, the Pingnan Palace's is over, he can't wait for his son to come back, and he can't wait for any miracle to happen.
Although there are still many Han troops and soldiers in the front hall fighting with the Taiping army that rushed in, Shang Kexi knows that the defeat is decided, and the desperate resistance of his subordinates cannot prevent the defeat.
Shang Kexi seemed to have been drained of all the strength of his body, he sat weakly on the long strip by the long pavilion, the armor on his body was not very heavy, he used to wear it on his body and gallop on horseback, and he came on the horse a few times, but now it weighed as much as a thousand catties, pressing his back down a little bit.
"Lord Wang, Lord Wang!"
Qin Guocheng led dozens of guards to rush over, and seeing the lonely appearance of King Pingnan, Qin Guocheng couldn't help but shout: "Lord Wang, but if the last general still has a breath, Taiping Kou should not want to hurt the prince's cold hair!" ”
"Let's go, fight with Taiping Kou!"
Shang Keyuan waved his knife with a hideous gaze and was about to fight with the Taiping army, but Shang Kexi grabbed him, shook his head, sighed lightly and said to him: "Do you know how the king of Dingnan died back then?"
"How did King Dingnan die?"
Shang Keyuan and Qin Guocheng were stunned, and they both felt a chill rising from behind.
"Back then, I and Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming together called Shandong three mine disciples, we made the Ming Dynasty rebellion together, but also voted together Emperor Taizong, together with the title of the king of Sanshun, and then followed Prince Rui into the customs, a piece of south to fight Nanming Geng Zhongming is a good death, he was scared to hang himself because of the escape, Kong Youde was surrounded by Li Dingguo in the palace and lit a torch to burn himself, alas, the three mine disciples, the Qing Dynasty's Sanshun King is now left with me, and it is my turn. You don't have to worry about me, go ahead, although this king doesn't know how Taiping Kou came to Guangzhou, but I think there must be something wrong with the three-way army, I hope it's not the letter of the road, after the death of this king, you want to descend Taiping Kou's surrender, don't care so much, just survive, don't want to descend this king on the Huangquan Road is also waiting for you If you can escape, if the letter is still alive, then tell him, go to Zhaoqing to find Xu Erxian, after the death of this king, the title of King Pingnan has to be attacked by him. Zhixiao I have sent him to the capital, you let Zhixin seal the testament for the king, please see that the king has made a lot of contributions to the Qing Dynasty over the years, let Zhixiao stay in the capital to be the capital, don't let him go south. ”
Shang Kexi's voice was very calm, and people couldn't hear the despair in his tone at all. He calmly explained the aftermath.
"Lord Wang, you can't!"
Shang Keyuan hugged Shang Zhixin's leg and cried, and Qin Guocheng and the guards also shed tears. (To be continued.) )