"Li Ziju, you and his grandmother really came here to persuade you to surrender. I would like to advise you to stop wasting your breath. If I had believed in your rebel tactics to deceive people, I wouldn't be standing here."
"Come here if you can. I was born as a member of the Qing Dynasty, and I will die as a ghost of the Qing Dynasty." Zhang Yicheng said righteously, thinking of the various rewards that the imperial court would give him when he knew of his loyal words.
"Zhang Yicheng, how 'righteous' do you think you are? You think you are from the Qing Dynasty, but do the Tatars think you are? You don't have the qualifications, they just treat us like dogs. Do you still remember Wang Deling." Li Ziju still persuaded without any intention of giving up.
The Wang Deling that Li Ziju said was the Qianzong of the Green Camp. Zhang Yicheng naturally knew what happened to this man.
At that time, Wang Deling's daughter-in-law was unfortunately attracted by a Manchu Eight Banners leader and snatched her away. He made a fuss and wanted an explanation, but it turned out that the leader of the Eight Banners had nothing to do with him, but his family was ruined and he himself was brutally killed.
Li Ziju's words made Zhang Yicheng silent for a moment.
"Li Gouzhi, you don't have to say anything." Zhang Yicheng seemed to have figured something out and answered immediately.
"Come here, shoot them with arrows."
As Zhang Yicheng finished speaking, arrows rained down immediately. Fortunately, the guards next to Li Ziju were on guard as soon as they heard what he said was wrong. They quickly raised their shields to protect Li Ziju and kept retreating. Even so, two of Li Ziju's guards were killed by arrows.
"Zhang Yicheng, you are a dog of the Qing Tatars, you will regret it. If you want to be loyal to your master, don't drag people on the city wall." Li Ziju looked at the guard who fell to the ground and shouted in pain.
Fortunately, Li Ziju was not too close to the city wall and was out of the range of the bow and arrow. Otherwise, more than two guards would have fallen to the ground, and he would not have been able to withdraw.
"Rumble..."
As Li Ziju finished speaking, there was another burst of thunder.
"call…"
At this time, a gust of wind blew from the earth again.
There was a slight amount of rain and mist in the heat wave, giving off a slight sense of coolness, and the flags on the ground and on the walls danced vigorously.
"Dong..."
"Dong..."
"Dong..."
At this moment, the bandit suppression army's drum beat slowly.
"General, the rebels have begun to attack the city." Mr. Qian, who was wearing leather armor next to Zhang Yicheng, said with his fists clasped. His tone sounded calm, but his expression inevitably showed a little worry.
"I saw it. This general wants to see if this rebel is really as powerful as the rumors say." Zhang Yicheng pressed the handle of the knife with one hand and the female wall on the city wall with the other and said to the bandit suppressing army.
At this time, eight cannons were seen in front of the bandit suppression army.
"Damn it, the rebels actually have cannons like this. Where did they get so many cannons?" Upon seeing this, Zhang Yicheng couldn't help but clenched his hands into fists and hammered the female wall several times in pain.
In fact, it was not that the bandit suppressing army had any intention of hiding the cannons. After all, having cannons could better deter the Qing army in the city. It's just that these cannons are relatively heavy, which is just a good thing.
Moreover, the commander of the bandit suppression army besieging here believed that now that the bandit suppression army had surrounded the entire Yanping Prefecture, the Qing army would naturally surrender if they wanted to, and it didn't matter whether the cannons were exposed or not.
"fire…"
A faint voice came.
"Everyone please stay hidden..."
Zhang Yicheng hid behind the raised female wall, stepped back a few steps and shouted orders.
"Bang..."
"Bang...bang...bang..."
As soon as Zhang Yicheng finished speaking, the sound of shells and explosions fired from cannons sounded instantly.
"Boom..."
A shell hit the city wall not far from Zhang Yicheng and exploded. The huge noise directly made Zhang Yicheng's ears buzz.
"Damn it, what kind of cannon is this rebel, how could it explode?" At this moment, Zhang Yicheng thought in disbelief in his mind.
In fact, how could he have imagined that if the shell hit the city wall instead of the city wall directly, he might have been killed by the bomb at this time.
"It's really not easy to rebel against the bandits. Under this bombardment, I really can't hold on." Zhang Yicheng calmed down and was about to go to the Nuqiankou again to visit the enemy.
"Bang..."
"Boom...boom..."
There was another burst of cannonball explosions, and the sound of iron bullets hitting the city wall.
When Zhang Yicheng stood firm again, he turned to the surrounding soldiers with a buzzing sound in his ears. I saw that all my troops were hiding behind the city wall in a mess, and many people were lying crookedly on the city road and were killed and injured.
"Rebel..." Zhang Yicheng shouted angrily.
Zhang Yicheng had no choice but to be angry at the cannons used to suppress the bandits.
There are no cannons in Yanping Mansion, so it is impossible to counterattack. At this moment, it would be foolish to think that we could send people out to destroy the cannons of the bandit-suppressing army. In front of the bandit-suppressing army, there is no difference between the people sent out and death.
"drop…"
"drop…"
One drop, two drops
Raindrops kept falling on Zhang Yicheng's face.
"Is this?" Zhang Yicheng couldn't believe it.
"Wow..."
The raindrops fell rapidly, like pouring water. The dense rain is so powerful that it can even cause pain when hitting the skin exposed outside clothes.
As the heavy rain fell, the artillery of the bandit suppression army also lost its sound.
"Haha... The auspicious rain from the sky will not destroy our Qing Dynasty." Zhang Yicheng touched the rain on his face with one hand and laughed happily.
"What the general said is true." President Qian and his cronies around Zhang Yicheng also wiped the rain off their faces and echoed loudly.
The heavy rain naturally made it impossible to use the astonishingly powerful cannons of the bandit suppressing army. For the defenders, the morale they just lost can be restored a lot.
"Commander Hao... the rain is so heavy that the cannons and guns cannot be used, and there is chaos in the formation. How about we retreat first and hide from the rain before making plans?" At this time, we have returned to the siege. Li Ziju, who was next to Hao Yikang, commander of the bandit suppression army in Yanping City, wiped the rain off his face and suggested.
At this moment, it can be seen that the green battalion soldiers in the vanguard formation of the bandit suppression army were indeed in chaos. If it were not for the military discipline soldiers maintaining military discipline, it is hard to say that the green battalion soldiers would have been in chaos to avoid the rain.
The rain was pouring down like pillars. If the bandit suppressing army retreats at this time, there is no fear that the Qing army in the city will chase them out, causing the bandit suppressing army to be defeated.
After all, while the heavy rain had an impact on the bandit suppressing army, it would also affect the Qing troops in the city. Now that the rain is so heavy that even the vision is blurred, if the Qing soldiers in the city can chase them out, they can save a lot of effort in suppressing the bandits.
"Li Shoubei, I can give the soldiers time to take shelter from the rain. But will the Qing soldiers in Shaowu give us time?" Under the rain, Hao Yikang looked in the direction of Yanping Mansion and said.
"Or, it will not only be Shaowu but also Qing soldiers from other areas. The longer we delay, the more dangerous we will be."
