Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 267

Jingzhou.

With a loud bang, a gap appeared in the city wall of Jingzhou. Zheng Siwei, the deputy general, led a thousand armored green battalions and rushed towards the gap in the smoke.

"No retreat!"

"Fight to the death!"

Zheng Siwei shouted that he had no way out.

Li Guo and other siege soldiers outside used to be his comrades-in-arms in the Shun army, but now because he killed his boss Meng Changgeng and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he has become a traitor they want to kill. Once the city falls into their hands, That is definitely worse than death.

Fortunately, the high walls of Jingzhou City finally lasted for so many days.

At the end of Ming Dynasty, Huguang was an important battlefield where Li Zicheng's Chuangjun and Zhang Xianzhong's West Camp fought with the official army. Jingzhou City was also devastated and dilapidated in the war. After Zheng Siwei surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he was also afraid of death, so he stepped up day and night. Time to repair and strengthen the city.

Based on the original city walls of the Ming Dynasty and Dashun, he fully upgraded Jingzhou's city defenses.

In the eighth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led an army to storm Jingzhou, but failed to conquer it in the end. In the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng personally led an army to conquer Jingzhou. Hui Wang Zhu Changrun fled, and Li Zicheng stayed behind with Ren Guangrong.

After that, until Zheng Siwei killed Meng Changgeng in the first month of the 17th year of Chongzhen, Jingzhou was occupied by Dashun for nearly two years, and it has not suffered from war since then. After two years of continuous repairs, Jingzhou's city defenses have become stronger.

Originally, after Zheng Siwei surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty granted him the title of only the deputy commander-in-chief of Jingzhou, and the commander-in-chief was a [-]-strong soldier.It's just that Ma Jinzhong quickly turned against the Qing Dynasty and turned to the Ming Dynasty, and was stationed in Yuezhou. Lieutenant General Zheng Siwei actually controlled Jingzhou all the time.

Before Ren Guangrong withdrew with Li Zicheng, he took away many Shunjun troops in Jingzhou city, but there were not many troops in the city.

However, Li Guo's strength is not too strong. Although the soldiers and horses of the Nine Towns claim to have 20 soldiers, they actually brought a large number of family members. This soldier and horse traveled from Guanzhong to Hanzhong and Sichuan to follow Li Zicheng's footsteps, but it turned out to be a step too late.

In desperation, he accepted the consolation of Daming Lu Jianguo, but his morale was low, the morale of the army was unstable, and he did not have a stable base, so he took his family with him.

Fortunately, after being appeased by the Ming Dynasty and reorganized into the Zhongzhen Camp, at least they have a stable Hunan as their backing, so they won't be caught in a three-sided attack.

During this period of time, it was not so much the Zhongzheng Battalion's onslaught on Jingzhou, but rather a reorganization process for the rest of the Shun Army. The various ministries that were scattered before gradually gathered together again.

Now except Yuan Zongdi, He Yaoqi, Tian Jianxiu and others gathered near Wuchang, the rest have gathered here in Jingzhou.

While besieging the city, they also cut off the mature rice outside Jingzhou City.

It is also a rare and stable day, and I can finally take a rest.

Don't look at Zheng Siwei's crying and begging letter before, saying how powerful the Chuangjun was, how fiercely attacked, and tried every means to attack the city. In fact, during that time, Li Chixin was only besieging and not attacking. His focus was on sweeping the outer counties of Jingzhou. Seize supplies, money and food to supplement the ministries.

After harvesting the rice, he followed the latest order of the prison country and began to divide the defense zone with his generals. After setting up Badong and other places as new bases, he arranged for the generals to send their families, women, children and children in batches, as well as collect The materials that come are sent to those places.

It is true that there have been soldiers around the city of Jingzhou, but in fact there are only 3 to [-] people.

These people are not idle, mainly digging trenches and repairing ladders.

Do civil work.

Zheng Siwei is also considered experienced. He sent troops to bury urns in the inner city wall to listen, scout to find the secret tunnel dug by the Zhongzheng Camp, dig in reverse after finding it, and get through the fire attack, water attack, smoke attack, etc.

The two sides came and went, occasionally mixed with ants attached to the ladder to attack the city, and they fought for a month.

Now, the weather has turned cooler and there is not so much rain.

Even family members and supplies have mostly been sent back to the defense areas of their new bases in Padang. Li Guo and the others have almost finished reorganizing their soldiers and gradually boosted their morale.

Even the tunnels dug for so many days were not in vain. Zheng Siwei was unable to defend against the one on the left and the other on the right. Finally, the tunnels were blasted with gunpowder, and the tall and strong city walls of Jingzhou were also blown down.

"Fuyuan! The city is broken!"

Li Chixin, Marquis of Xingguo, very proudly said to Du Yinxi, the governor of Huguang who came to preside over the siege of the Zhongzhen Camp.

Du Yinxi nodded in satisfaction. Zheng Siwei was exhausted these days and couldn't keep up with the speed of digging tunnels at the Zhongzhen Camp outside the city.

"According to plan."

The right governor of the Zhongzhen Camp, Gao Yigong, must be upright. Li Zicheng's brother-in-law drew his sword and jumped on his horse, "Follow me!"

A battalion of people followed, and in the distance, thousands of people who had prepared earlier also moved after hearing the order, rushing towards the collapsed gap.

Zheng Siwei looked desperately at the rushing army, and could only hold the handle of the knife tightly and shout, "Everyone who closes the gap will be rewarded with five taels of silver, and a thief will be rewarded with another five taels of silver!"

Gao Yigong approached with thousands of troops, and shot upwards with bows and arrows from afar.

"Hold it!" Zheng Siwei yelled.

Gao Yigong's soldiers advanced very slowly, and Zheng Siwei, who was slow, couldn't help but want them to come up quickly.

But at this moment, another loud noise came from the other side.

Rumbling gunpowder smoke was everywhere, and another section of the city wall was dug by the Zhongzheng Camp to the bottom of the city wall, and then exploded with gunpowder and collapsed.

The Chinese army was sitting under the flag, Li Chixin said to Du Yinxi, "The firearms mark of Fuyuan is really powerful, I will borrow a few ghosts to be my instructors later, and I will also get a firearms mark."

"His Highness Jian Guo transferred them to Ben Fu from Shenji Town in the Imperial Camp. These people are really good at firearms, and they are also good at explosives."

While speaking, there was another roar, and another section of the city wall collapsed, revealing a big gap.

Tian Hu, Zhang Neng and other generals each led their headquarters to press down on the gap.

Zheng Siwei was extremely desperate when he heard the bangs that sounded from time to time.

The family armored soldiers, whose morale had been boosted up with great difficulty, also began to waver.

The guerrillas of Jia Dingying couldn't help but leaned next to Zheng Siwei and whispered, "General, I can't hold it anymore, let's break out."

Zheng Siwei looked at the intruders who were still slowly moving forward in the distance, feeling unwilling but powerless.The moats and antlers outside the city of Jingzhou have been swept away by the intruders in the past month, and now the road under the city is smooth.

The two sides carried out a tunnel offensive and defensive battle, and there was a back and forth in the past few months. Who would have thought that the intruders were actually stronger, but they just held back.

If they had used the current tunnel blasting technique, Jingzhou would have been gone long ago.

"Go, where are you going? There are so many intruders outside, there is nowhere to escape!"

"I can't get out."

Zheng Siwei knew very well how much they wanted to kill Li Guogao now. This Jingzhou City was his last reliance. Once the city was broken, he would have no power to resist.

"Why don't you drop it?"

(End of this chapter)