The worries of these generals are not unreasonable, especially among the troops summoned by the big families to help defend the city, many of them look wretched, cowardly, and have no intention of defending the city.
As the old saying goes: There is strength in numbers. With the continuous efforts of thousands of people filling the river like ants moving, it only took more than an hour for the people of the bandit suppression army to fill in a large road in the large moat section.
In order to fill in the moat, the bandit suppression army spent more than two thousand taels of silver to ask the surrounding people for help. They first counted it in bags, each bag had twenty coins. Then it is calculated in terms of loads, and each load is forty cents.
Such a price made many people in the surrounding area flock to carry sand and soil. Even the onlookers kept coming over and asking to carry sand and soil after hearing such a "good thing".
During the Qing Dynasty, it was not as easy to find a job as it was in later generations. It is even more difficult to find a job where you can make money by selling your labor.
Almost a load of soil can earn half a day or even a day's worth of coppers, and judging from the situation on this battlefield, there is no danger. How can this not make the common people jealous?
Since many of the current generals of the bandit suppression army came from the surrendered Green Camp troops, although these generals were very happy to be able to quickly fill in the moat road, they did not understand why Zhang Rui had to give them these civilians to fill in the soil. People's money.
For these people, as much as they want is available. All you need to do is take a knife and rush to the village, and they will fill in the soil obediently. There is no need to waste money.
Zhang Rui naturally despised Zhang Rui for the "normal" thinking of these generals, and then he "educated" them for a while. Zhang Rui had no choice but to follow the generals around him and talk about the theory of "fairness and equality".
Zhang Rui kept telling them, just to subtly influence their thoughts:
We are all teachers of justice. Our uprising is to overthrow the Tatars and to help the poor people in the world. This is a sacred and noble uprising. All of us are from the common people and are soldiers of the common people. We must not have the thoughts of bandits and bullies...
As long as a person feels that what he is doing is a just thing, he will have more motivation and responsibility to continue doing it.
Zhang Rui's words made the generals here excited. They never thought that what they were doing now was such an honor.
Therefore, these generals apologized to Zhang Rui one after another, saying that they would act in accordance with the military discipline of the bandit suppression army and would never do anything to discredit the bandit suppression army.
Zhang Rui was very pleased to see all the generals admitting their mistakes.
In fact, how many of them can tell that Zhang Rui is taking the next set? What is this small amount of money compared to the whole world?
After seeing the free promotion methods of various large companies in later generations, Zhang Rui understood that if you want to make big money, you must first spend a small amount of money.
Thanks to the rapid siege and capture, Zhang Rui now has no shortage of money. With only a small amount of money, you can tie these people to your side. Isn't this much better than driving them away with a knife, and they will be dissatisfied and unhappy?
Even if some of these generals do not really admit Zhang Rui's statement, as long as the entire system of the bandit suppression army is here, there is no fear that they will dare to mess around. In that case, Zhang Rui will be handed a knife to kill them.
After the moat was filled in, the bandit suppression troops began to cross the moat and formally attack the city.
A large number of arrow-blocking vehicles protected the siege troops as they arrived at the bottom of the city wall. Then the siege vehicles extended the ladders used to climb the wall to the city wall, and the siege and banditry troops swarmed up.
Seeing this on the city wall, the Qing generals kept shouting at the defenders to stand up and defend the city.
However, with the sound of gunshots coming one after another and the wails of wounded soldiers constantly appearing on the city wall, the defenders all made a show but were unwilling to stick their heads out.
War is accompanied by an adrenaline rush. The two-foot-eight-foot-high city wall was climbed by the attackers with all their strength. It only took about ten breaths to climb from the bottom of the city wall to the parapet. This short period of time made it difficult for the defenders at the top of the city to react.
"Kill!"
The bandit-suppressing troops on the siege ladder (ladder truck) rushed to the top of the city and climbed up, shouting continuously.
The bandit suppressing troops attacking the city in front were mainly Green Camp soldiers who had surrendered from Qingyuan City. They might be afraid of unknown enemies, but they completely ignored the defenders of Guangzhou City.
After the first bandit-suppressing army jumped into the city wall, the more than 20 bandit-suppressing troops on the more than 20 ladder trucks kept jumping behind the female wall like dumplings.
At this moment, the bandit suppression troops continued to pour into the wall section of the west gate of Guangzhou City and occupied the city section. After jumping into the city wall, the bandit suppression troops waved their simple knives and chopped down the defenders who dared to resist on the top of the city to the ground.
Li Shiyao, who was not far away, saw this and shouted loudly to the generals to let the defenders on the city wall block them.
However, everything was beyond Li Shiyao's control.
The confidence of the defenders in the Ximen City section demoralized the musketeers of the bandit suppression army from the beginning, and the previous strength of the bandit suppression army also frightened them. Therefore, although there were people resisting on the city wall at this time, it was really difficult for the Qing army defending the city to resist the bandit suppressing army with high morale.
Under the fierce fighting of the bandit suppressing army, the head of the west gate of Guangzhou City was quickly occupied by the bandit suppressing army who stormed the city wall. The occupying bandit suppressing troops quickly opened the west gate.
Li Shiyao, who was originally in the city tower, saw this and once again decided to live and die at the city gate. However, when the generals around Li Shiyao realized that it was impossible to return, they again accused him and took him away.
The opened west gate of Guangzhou City was quickly occupied by the bandit suppressing troops following behind.
The bandit suppressing troops that continued to pour into Guangzhou City also quickly dispersed to other places to clean up the Qing soldiers who dared to resist.
"Brother Da Cai, why is it you? Haven't you been killed by the rebels?" At this time, a Qing soldier in the city saw that the bandit-suppressing army in front of him was one of his men. I couldn't help but ask loudly.
"Who said I'm dead? I'm fine here!" Cai Demin, who heard the voice, looked at Chen Wuqian who was speaking to him and said.
"It's great that you're not dead, so your mother doesn't have to be sad. But why did you become a rebel? Did the rebels force you?" Chen Wuchian said in disbelief.
"What a rebel, I am now a rebel who overthrew the Tatar rule. Now I am a member of the bandit-suppressing army. I volunteered." Cai Demin did not show anything strange, but looked very proud.
"I won't tell you more, kid. Don't block our way. If you can't defeat us, quickly hide aside and surrender. Saving your own life is the most important thing."
"that is good."
