"Guangzhou City must be broken today!" Yang Zhen was dressed in battle armor and had a stern face, while Zheng Ji, who was standing in front of him, was a little trembling. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Father-in-law, do you really want your stepson to lead the army to attack the city?" Zheng Ji's legs and stomach were tendoning, and he was already sweating.

Yang Zhen glared at him viciously and said: "This Guangzhou City, we have been attacking for more than two months, and there are tens of thousands of Ming soldiers who have died in the city, Fujian and Guangdong provinces, and my Ming Dynasty has occupied half of the wall, so there is no reason why Guangzhou City cannot be captured." Today, you must personally lead the army to attack the city, and you don't need to follow the soldiers to the city wall, you just need to stand in front of the formation and supervise the formation, so that the brothers can see you, the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and take the lead. ”

Zheng Ji was still a little worried: "But can this bring down Guangzhou City?" ”

Yang Zhen said proudly: "This time our army has concentrated all the artillery, from three sides to the city of Guangzhou, from all over the city of our Ming righteous army, there are as many as 50,000, for my Ming unprecedented military strength, as long as the morale together, will be able to win a battle!" ”

Zheng Ji also has a little confidence, since the seventh sister Luo Bing secretly left Hong Kong Water Village, Zheng Ji's spirit is very bad, and the military strength and power of the Heaven and Earth Society continue to expand, he is also a little fluttering, and he has accepted several concubines one after another, and he is quite happy. After the siege was frustrated, the Heaven and Earth Society armed forces had some three days of fishing and two days of drying nets. The Qing army can not break through their blockade, and they don't count on anything else.

Yang Zhen still had a bit of sharpness, and led his soldiers and horses to defeat several Qing troops who came to Guangzhou to reinforce the army. However, the most dangerous time, the green battalion soldiers in Nanshaolian Town had broken through to the city of Guangzhou, and Guilin even sent troops out to respond. Yang Zhen was ruthless. Ordered the troops to surround it in full. He also carried a big gun into battle, which forced Guilin to give up the troops out of the city and close the gate to prevent Yang Zhen from entering.

Yang Zhen is also ruthless, after defeating the Qing army under the city, he beheaded them all, and set up a Jingguan under the city, without taking into account the fact that there were few Manchus he killed, all of them were Han.

The generals of the Heaven and Earth Society came up upside down with a broken face. Salute Yang Zhen and Zheng Ji. Although they claim to be recovering the Ming Dynasty, a series of behaviors are more like the set of Manchurian masters and slaves. Yang Zhen is also a little obsessed with the fact that others kneel down to him at every turn, so the heaven and earth will be respectful and humble, and there was originally some righteousness in the rivers and lakes, and everyone would just hug their fists when they met, but now the army is all kneeling as a courtesy.

"Generalissimo, National Teacher, our fire dragon cannon has been prepared, just waiting to burn Guangzhou City into a sea of fire!"

Zheng Ji was also shocked when he heard this, and asked Yang Zhendao: "Father-in-law." Is this fire dragon cannon really so magical, entering the city of Guangzhou. Can it burn? ”

"This is natural, the fire dragon cannon can be set on fire, but our army does not seek to turn Guangzhou into a sea of fire, but only to make the defenders chaotic, so that our army can take advantage of the situation to attack the city." Yang Zhen said, in fact, this fire dragon cannon sounds like a very rudimentary artillery, but in fact, this is something made by people under Yang Zhen who have studied physics in Datang. There is nothing particularly unusual about artillery, Yang Zhen used a smoothbore cannon to make a few rifling wires from the blacksmiths made in Foshan, although it cannot be compared with Tang-made products at all, but it also increases a lot of muzzle velocity and range. The key is the cannonball, and Yang Zhen's people used local methods to make incendiary bombs.

They bought aluminium products from the International Trade Company for a long time, made them into crumbs by hand, crushed them into aluminium powder as much as possible, and finally doped them with various other non-flammable metal powders to make a rough version of thermite. There are also some auxiliary materials such as calcium phosphide and heavy oil in the incendiary bomb. The shell is made of an iron shell, and the rear end is made thick enough to withstand the gunpowder pushing out of the chamber, and when the shell hits the ground, it will cause the flammable material inside to explode and ignite, and at the same time, the scattered flammable material will suddenly burst into a large flame, igniting everything around it.

However, with such a high-end thing, it is obvious that there will be a lot of drawbacks in the local method. First, his explosion rate is quite high, and basically the people next to him have no chance of surviving when they explode, so Yang Zhen ordered these fire dragon cannons to avoid other cannons and people as much as possible; Second, due to the casting problem, it is very likely that the iron-shelled shell did not break after impact and became a dud, and sometimes because the incendiary agent was not well prepared, it would not explode and burn.

In short, this fire dragon cannon is definitely not a reliable weapon, but Yang Zhen only wants to be able to explode a limited part, which is enough for the defenders of Guangzhou to drink a pot.

At the beginning of today's battle, Guilin, who was supervising the battle in the city, obviously felt that the intensity of the artillery bombardment of the thief army had increased several times, and the shelling for more than two months had caused obvious damage to the city walls in some sections, and even some of the city walls had collapsed partially, and Guilin sent death squads to break through the enemy army, and then repaired them with all kinds of messy materials. However, such patching is not very effective, and after being shelled again, there will be vulnerabilities again, and apparently the more they are patched, the more they will be damaged.

"My lord, the garrison at the head of our city has been beaten so that they can't raise their heads, and the city garrison begs you to let them take down from the city walls, and then go back when the enemy army begins to ascend the city."

Guilin scolded: "Fart, now that I'm going to the city, can I be afraid to go up again, let them lie down for me, and no one is allowed to go down to the city." ”

Guilin has a very bad premonition, the number of thieves outside the city is increasing, and there are more and more siege weapons, the current city of Guangzhou can be said to be full of holes, and his soldiers are also extremely tired, I don't know if they can hold it.

Finally, a louder explosion reached Guilin's ears, and Guilin panicked and hurriedly asked, "Where did it blow up, where did it blow up?" ”

A subordinate returned: "The houses in the east of the city hurt a few people, but they set fire to many houses. ”

Immediately afterwards, more and more fires reached Guilin's ears, and Guilin reacted: "These vicious thieves actually want to set fire to the city!" ”

Guilin can only order the people to go to fight the fire, and it is impossible for each of his soldiers to waste it on such a thing as fighting fires, the pressure of the thief army to attack the city is getting stronger and stronger, and he is almost to the point of launching every man in the city to fight in the city. However, the people who went to fight the fire soon cried and retreated, and the fire became difficult to extinguish, and even if it was splashed with water, the flames continued to spread along any material that could be burned, and those who were choked by the smoke soon fainted to death, and the fire roared and devoured more and more people, and even the eastern city wall became a sea of fire. In order to avoid being swept by the flames, a large number of people even poured onto the city wall, causing chaos on the eastern city wall.

At this time, the siege of the Heaven and Earth Society finally arrived, and the soldiers with cloud ladders climbed the city wall with swords, and some poured in from the gap that had been broken through, and the Qing soldiers' will to defend fell to the lowest point, while the Heaven and Earth Society armed forces continued to beat the drum and put their troops into it in waves. The black and oppressive Tiandihui rebels poured into the city of Guangzhou like a large number of ants, but at this time, there was a ridiculous scene, a wave of Tiandihui soldiers rushed into the city and withdrew not long after, it turned out that the high temperature caused by the fire in the city made it difficult for them to approach, and they could not continue to fight at all, so they could only withdraw.

And it didn't take long for Xicheng to be broken through, this wall is the most tragic place in the battle, more than 2,000 Guangzhou defenders, facing the attack of tens of thousands of Tiandihui armed forces, this Tiandihui's offensive is completely different from before, Yang Zhen sent a group of middle and low-level officers, formed a supervising team, and constantly used spear tips and bullets to drive the soldiers of Tiandihui to the city and the city, and the frenzied Tiandihui armed combat effectiveness improved, but the Qing army resisted resolutely enough in the disadvantage, and the west city wall was also broken through by Tiandihui.

Eventually, the southern city wall near the river was also occupied by the Tiandihui soldiers who attacked from the ship. The chaotic army of the Heaven and Earth Society and the spreading fires made Guangzhou City a hell for a while. Yang Zhen was overjoyed to learn that it was broken on three sides, and ordered the Heaven and Earth Society to attack the city with arms, and wash the city in blood to relieve the hatred in his heart.

When Guilin was breached in the east city wall, he already knew that the general trend was gone, and hurriedly took the Guangzhou general Yongwei to prepare to break through from the north gate. However, in the process of their retreat, they were disturbed by the fire, and the people who were hiding from the fire hindered Guilin's action, and then Guilin's headquarters was blocked by a force that broke into the Heaven and Earth Society, and after a fight, although the people of the Heaven and Earth Society were temporarily defeated, there were only sixty or seventy people left around Guilin.

Yongwei was overfrightened while fleeing, causing a heart attack and dying suddenly on his horse. Guilin knew that it was completely finished, and did not want to fall into the hands of the Heaven and Earth Society, so he killed himself with a knife when he was caught up by the enemy again.

After nightfall, Yang Zhen's army swept the city of Guangzhou, and Yang Zhen also "treated the people of Guangzhou" who helped Guilin defend the city. Yang Zhen ordered people to rob the thirteen lines of Guangzhou and got a large amount of money, and almost all the tooth merchants of the thirteen lines in Guangzhou died, but a few people from the Pan family, the Lu family and the Wu family had already evacuated from Guangzhou.

The next morning, when Yang Zhen was excited all night and was about to take a nap, a piece of news completely dispelled his sleepiness and brought fear.

Last night, when the Tiandihui armed attack on the city of Guangzhou, the Tang army took advantage of the night to conquer the Hong Kong water village, their old nest of the Tiandihui was occupied by the Tang people, a large number of baggage was cut off, and the vanguard of the Tang people had already landed on the mainland, at this time it had reached the area of Daling Mountain, only sixty or seventy miles away from Guangzhou City.

Yang Zhen immediately made a decision, and ordered the forces of the Heaven and Earth Society to immediately withdraw from Guangzhou and move north to the mountains. But his order was given, and the followers were gone, and the Tiandihui, which had invaded Guangzhou City to kill people and rob people, could not assemble at all. Yang Zhen was furious, so he could only take Zheng Jihe and the 8,000 troops outside the city and immediately retreat north. (To be continued.) )