"A certain Wang Fuchen is here, who dares to fight to the death!"
Just when Liu Jinzhong's men knocked down Shang Zhixin, Wang Fuchen also roared like thunder, taking the lead, and was the first to cross the long bridge on the moat outside Dongguan City in Guangzhou. The "pass" out.
I saw a flintlock pistol in his right hand and an armor-piercing short-handled four-flute hammer in his left hand, chasing the fleeing Shang family soldiers. The hammer swung and knocked over two people. He saw an angry The strong man of the Shang family turned around to fight. He fired a shot, hitting the man between the eyebrows, and then pulled out an ax. With axes from the left and hammers from the right, Shang Jun outside the small left gate of Dongguan screamed and was unable to resist at all.
At this time, some Shang troops had already fought their way out of the secret passage at the base of the city wall, but they were beaten to pieces by Wang Fuchen's own soldiers on horseback, and were unable to form a formation within the sheep and horse wall. There was a spearman of the Shang family who probably didn't know Wang Fuchen, and he raised a spear three feet tall and wanted to stab the living Lu Bu to death. As a result, Wang Fuchen hit him on the head with a flying ax, and he was brain-dead without even letting out a scream. Before the man fell completely, Wang Fuchen flew over and snatched the spear from his hand.
Wang Fuchen, who had grabbed the spear, became even more ferocious. He swung the spear and stabbed to the left, and he was instantly put to death! The battlefield inside the sheep and horse wall was quickly emptied of many people being killed!
At this time, soldiers of the Shang family appeared on the crenellations on the left side of the city wall in Dongguan Wengcheng. They were all archers and shotgun soldiers. They opened their bows to shoot and raised their guns to fight. The Wang family soldiers who rushed along the passage were not afraid of arrows, but amid the sound of gunshots, some people could not help but fall over.
But some of the Wang family’s cavalry carry rifled guns! Although the number is not large, the shot is accurate! I saw these iron cavalrymen with rifled guns dismounting one after another. They did not line up to fire volleys. They just scattered outside the trench, relying on their horses as cover, and kept loading and shooting.
The rifled gun plus "mini bullets" means that the wooden bottom cone lead bullets mentioned by Wang Zhongxiao are very accurate. In addition, those "musketeers" are specially selected sharpshooters, although there are only a dozen or so of them. , but soon killed the Shangjun shotgun soldiers and archers on the city wall with heavy casualties!
At this time, Wang Fuchen had already killed the Shang soldiers in the sheep and horse wall on the left side of Guangzhou Dongguan City Tower. It was impossible for him to rush into the secret passage and the cave where soldiers were hidden on his horse, so he turned back and ran towards the small left gate. The thousand-jin gate on the left gate is slowly being raised, but it has not been fully raised yet, but Wang Fuchen does not dare to stay outside Dongguan City for a long time - there are still people shooting guns and arrows on the city top! So he simply turned over and dismounted, put away the hammer, pulled out his sword, protected his head and face, then dragged his spear, bent down and got under the gate. As soon as he entered, he heard Kong Sizhen's voice: "Brother Wang, we have captured Shang Zhixin!"
Wang Fuchen breathed a sigh of relief, then looked at Kong Sizhen's voice and found that Shang Zhixin was tied up and slumped on the ground, with his eyes closed and his face ashen.
"Where is Mr. Liu?"
Wang Fuchen did not find Liu Jinzhong, and there were only a few people in Wengcheng, only twenty or thirty people led by Kong Sizhen.
"Mr. Liu has led his people to the city!" Kong Sizhen said quickly and urgently, "The Shang family's flag soldiers counterattacked fiercely!"
Wang Fuchen looked back and saw that the thousand-jin gate behind him had been completely raised, and the Wang family's cavalry began to pour in. One of them even led Wang Fuchen's horse in.
So Wang Fuchen mounted his horse again, pointed at the horse path in Wengcheng with the spear in his hand, and shouted: "Follow me to the city!"
Afterwards, Wang Fuchen took the lead and galloped along the horse path in the urn city to the city wall.
After climbing the city wall, Wang Fuchen discovered that Liu Jinzhong and his men were already locked in a hard fight!
Although Shang Zhixin, the actual head of the Shang family, had been captured by the thieves and captured the king first, the Shang family's flag soldiers lying on the city walls and on the city walls were still fighting to the death!
These flag soldiers of the Shang family are equivalent to the Eight Banners soldiers of the Shang family. For more than 20 years, they have followed Shang Kexi to help the tiger and enjoy the prosperity! They were the main force in the massacre of Guangzhou, they were the backbone of the move to the coast, they took the lion's share of the land and housing occupation, and they made huge profits by monopolizing smuggling.
They follow Shang Kexi and it can be said that everyone is doing evil and every household is getting rich!
They are all responsible for all the bad things Shang Kexi has done! They also have a share of the wealth and property that Shang Kexi snatched!
Now if the Shang family is to die, they will only be buried with them!
In fact, these lackeys of the Shang family were not very loyal to the Qing Dynasty at all. They just wanted to keep their privilege of riding on the heads of the Guangdong people and dominating them! That's why in history, they followed Shang Zhixin and joined the cause of the Three Feudatories - unlike the people under the vassals of Pingxi King and Jingnan King, they did not take the initiative to fight against the Qing Dynasty, but were defeated by Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan , Zu Zeqing, and Ma Xiong were violently beaten, and the elite of the feudal vassal was wiped out by the coalition forces of Liu Jinzhong and Liu Guoxuan in Chaozhou. Even Huizhou was captured by Liu Guoxuan, and they had to raise the flag of rebellion.
But this time, they can't save Guangzhou even if they raise a flag of rebellion!
Because Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao's Guangdong Wang family's regime relies on the Cantonese people, it is impossible for them to spare the Shang family. If the Shang family is smarter and escapes earlier, then Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao will not pursue them, but will Consolidate their rule under the banner of "it's gratifying to pursue them". But the Shang family is reluctant to part with their property in Guangdong!
So, they have to pay it back now!
If you come out to fool around, you will always have to pay back!
Now is the time to pay it back!
The city wall of Guangzhou Fucheng is very wide, and horses can be raced on the top. And now is the era of artillery siege, so the top of the city wall is usually clean, and there will not be too many anti-horse guns and wooden fences - once these things are hit by artillery, they will be broken into pieces and fly everywhere. , causing great damage to the defenders.
But without these scattered obstacles, once the enemy's cavalry rushes onto the city wall, there will be big trouble!
Wang Fuchen was riding a long-legged foreign horse brought from Macau. He was also big, and the man was as big as the horse. He was like a moving iron tower. As soon as he climbed up the city wall, he hit Liu Jinzhong who was pressing on him. The Shang family flag soldiers were frightened!
Many of them knew Wang Fuchen, the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi!
The governor of Guangdong and Guangxi rode a war horse and rushed up to the city wall of Guangzhou brandishing a spear. Have these officers and soldiers (I don’t know which army they are from?) have entered the city in large numbers?
Just when these Shang family flag soldiers were a little timid, Wang Fuchen was already like a mad tiger, roaring and driving his war horses, waving his spears, and began to charge. Under his fierce charge, the Shang family soldiers on the city wall suddenly stumbled into a mess, and were rushed out of a gap in the blink of an eye.
More Wang family cavalry also followed, and together with Wang Fuchen launched a cavalry assault on the Guangzhou city wall!
The Shang family army is still trying its best to resist and support, waiting for the arrival of more reinforcements organized by various leaders in the city - the population of the Shang family is hundreds of thousands, although some of them followed Shang Zhijie and Shang Zhiying to Shaozhou Prefecture and Nanxiong Prefecture are defended, but there are still 70,000 to 80,000 people in the city. If fully mobilized, another group of people can always be mobilized.
People in Guangzhou City have also discovered that something big happened in Dongguan. There were shouts and screams everywhere in the city. Melees also broke out throughout the inner city of Guangzhou!
A group of Green Battalion soldiers belonging to Liu Jinzhong started to attack first, killing people and setting fires everywhere in the inner city of Guangzhou, shouting and causing chaos. Many of the governors and admirals of Guangdong who were forcibly recruited by the Shang family also took the opportunity to rebel.
The subordinates of the Shang family in Guangzhou City can still be occupied. Those elderly veterans and servants, young people who are still very immature, and even women who can take up arms to fight, are all assisting officials in various ways. Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, they fought tooth and nail to resist.
The bloody battle started all over the inner city of Guangzhou at the same time!
Just at this time, the sound of golden drum orders suddenly came from the east of Guangzhou Fucheng. Shang Jun on the city wall saw in despair that on the open terrain to the east of Guangzhou Fucheng, groups of people carried long spears and mounted spears. The infantry of the Guangdong Township Army, equipped with flintlock rifles or shotguns, were already galloping towards the already opened Dongguan City Gate of Guangzhou under the banners of "王" and "粤"!
Their number is extremely large, probably no less than 30,000!
Guangzhou City, Pingnan Palace.
Shang Kexi was sitting in his nine-room palace, wearing the robe of a Qing prince, a ruby red official hat on his head, and holding a waist knife awarded by Huang Taiji in his hand. Twisting the rosary beads in his hand, he was still chanting: "Namo Amitabha."
The main hall was full of his wives, concubines and underage children, who were all crying at this time.
Gunfire, artillery fire, and shouts of killing came in waves, getting louder and closer, which meant that the resistance of the Shang family army could not last long.
This is also a matter of course!
There were not many elites under the Shang family to begin with. Shang Zhixiao sent a group of them away, and Shang Zhijie and Shang Zhiying took some away to defend the retreat. How many of them could remain in Guangzhou?
And Wang Zhongxiao, who used equal land to mobilize Guangdong society, could easily recruit tens of thousands of rural soldiers!
Moreover, Wang Fuchen's new army also has a small number of 20,000!
In addition, Liu Jinzhong's Green Camp and thousands of Zhu Guozhi and Li Lan's Green Camp soldiers also rebelled. Even Shang Shuying's Xushun Duke's troops also rebelled under the leadership of Deputy Capital Commander Deng Guangming.
After Shang Zhixin's Hongmen Banquet was messed up, the end of the Shang family was almost here!
Shang Kexi also knew that he had no chance of survival. Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao were beating him in the name of avenging the Cantonese people, so how could they spare him?
But this old guy didn't do any good things before he died, and even forced his wife, concubines, and underage children to be buried with him. Now these people have gathered in the nine rooms of the hall, and there are more than a hundred of them, and they are all crying. Became a tearful person!
His military advisor Jin Guang and his dutiful son Shang Zhixiao, while commanding the palace guards to resist desperately, asked the servants in the palace to bring in firewood, silk cloth, and kerosene!
The antiques, calligraphy and paintings that Shang Kexi had collected in the past were also moved to the Jiujian Hall and piled up in a big pile.
Just wait for the Wang family army to kill, and then light the fire!
I have to say, this old guy is really vicious.
I don’t know what the use of reciting this sutra is.
It is already late at night on March 21st. The battle of Guangzhou Fucheng has been going on for most of the day and is coming to an end.
The inner city of Guangzhou Fucheng was already full of fire.
Some of these fires were set by the rebellious Green Camp soldiers, and some were set by the Guangdong Township Army who invaded the city to force out the Shang Family Army and their family members who were hiding in the houses. These Shang Family Army were guarding their homes!
Wang Fuchen and Wang Zhongxiao were actually willing to persuade them to surrender, and also gave orders to the New Army and Green Camp soldiers below. Anyone who was willing to submit should not be harmed, and would be exiled overseas in the future.
But the Guangdong soldiers are not so easy to talk to!
Most of the able-bodied men from Guangdong who joined the rural soldiers had their families and families destroyed when they moved to the coastal areas. They suffered so much and suffered so much! Can you not take revenge now?
Therefore, the killing of prisoners occurred everywhere in the capital of Guangzhou, which strengthened the determination of Shangfan people to resist with all their lives. However, no matter how much they resist, they cannot change their fate of destruction.
As fire broke out, each of the recalcitrant mansions was breached. The battle lasted until late at night, and even Shang Zhixin's Prince's Mansion (the original Jingnan Prince's Mansion) was breached - the defenders here did not resist too fiercely, because they Most of them came from Beijing with Shang Zhixin. Little did they know how much the Cantonese people hated them. Moreover, Kong Sizhen personally gave a guarantee, so these people surrendered under the leadership of the palace chief Shi Li Tianzhi.
But the Pingnan Palace next to the Prince's Palace is different. How could Shang Kexi be willing to surrender? And most of those who are still protecting him at this time are the old people who massacred Guangzhou with him. They committed the greatest crime, and they also killed their own children and grandchildren. How can they survive at this time? It's nothing more than a few extra backs.
So the final fierce battle started around Prince Pingnan's Mansion!
Pingnan Prince's Mansion is said to be a "mansion", but it is actually a small castle with high and thick walls, trenches dug around the perimeter, and watchtowers built at regular intervals. It is very difficult to attack!
However, no matter how difficult the castle is to conquer, there is still no way to survive when encountering Wang Zhongxiao.
Wang Zhongxiao's method was to use mortars for bombing. He placed a dozen mortars that could fire twenty kilograms of projectiles directly in the Prince's Mansion next to Prince Pingnan's Mansion. He calculated the distance, and then fired twenty kilograms of shells. They blasted into Prince Pingnan's palace, causing the palace to burst into flames.
While bombing with mortar cannons, Wang Zhongxiao also ordered people to bring the red cannons placed on the city wall and use them to shoot directly at the wall of Pingnan Prince's Mansion. In less than half an hour, a few blasts were fired. A gap ten feet wide!
The Guangdong soldiers carrying flintlock rifles with bayonets all had their eyes red with blood. They rushed in like a tide and soon burst outside the Jiujian Hall. At this time, the door of Jiujian Temple was sealed, and sporadic bullets were occasionally fired from inside, as well as heart-wrenching cries and curses. Thousands of Guangdong soldiers surrounded this place in layers. They did not attack by force, but wanted to wait for the cannons to come up. But before the cannons came, fires burst into the sky in the nine rooms, and there were screams and the sound of banging on the door. It also rang immediately!
It turns out that Shang Kexi has ordered people to nail the doors and windows shut, so no one can escape alive!
When Wang Zhongxiao arrived with artillery, the nine-room hall had been burned into a fire, and the people inside were probably burned to charcoal.
Seeing the fire blazing into the sky, Wang Zhongxiao couldn't help but cursed: "This Shang Kexi is really nothing. He will be buried with so many people when he dies."
At this moment, a loud voice suddenly came from behind him, which seemed to be Liu Jinzhong's voice: "Wang Zhijun, did you see it? The nine palaces have been burned down. Shang Kexi must be dead! You must keep your promise and put the Leave Prince Zhu San to me, I have to take him to Nanjing to become the emperor!"
It turns out that Liu Jinzhong’s defection came at a price!
The price was to hand over Prince Zhu San to Liu Jinzhong.
"No! This is impossible!" Someone immediately raised an objection, "The Third Prince Zhu must come with me. I have obeyed the decree of the King of the West and want to take the Third Prince to Xi'an to become the emperor!"
This should be Wang Shirong's voice.
Wang Zhongxiao was stunned when he heard this. He never expected that the third prince Zhu was so popular now that he actually had two jobs as "Ming Xian Emperor" in front of him.
"Wang Zhijun, you can't keep your word. The third prince must follow me!"
"Follow you? Why are you, a commander-in-chief, helping the third prince to become the emperor?"
"There are people behind me. King Jingnan, King Yanping, and Chen Fufu, the commander-in-chief of the sea route assistance and suppression, are all with me. Together, we will support the third prince to go to Nanjing to become the emperor! And I am from the Yongwei camp, so I It is only right to protect the Third Prince!"
The two people even started arguing.
When Wang Zhongxiao didn't know what to say, someone had already seen him.
"Wang Shikai, you have to help King Xi, you are King Xi's double grandson-in-law!"
"Wang Shikai, you must keep your word. The third prince must come with me!"
(End of chapter)
