Just when the war on both sides of the river came to an end.
Under the Hanzhong City, a fierce battle was going on.
Densely packed arrows, stone throws, and rolling logs clashed with the city wall as the boundary line.
Groups of soldiers of the Heavenly King's Army, carrying ladders and wearing red turbans on their heads, rushed forward, shouting.
In addition to the red turbans on their heads, these soldiers were dressed in different clothes and had a variety of weapons.
There are spears, shields, and waist knives seized from the Qing army, as well as farm tools such as hoes and dung forks, as well as various strange weapons made by their own creativity.
Of course, there are also many men who are bare-handed and don't even have a stick.
Ants attack the city.
The casualties were huge.
It is also like the Heavenly King's Army, which is not afraid of losing cannon fodder soldiers and can use this method of siege unscrupulously.
In fact.
Now those who are mobilized to climb the city wall are veritable cannon fodder.
The Tianwang Army is divided into three levels: outer camp, inner camp, and old camp.
The outer camp is the newly captured people.
The inner camp is composed of selected young men.
As for the old camp, the young men from the outer camp can join the old camp after surviving several battles and becoming veterans.
Of course, there are hierarchical differences in the treatment of the three battalions.
If you want to get better treatment, get rewards.
Then you have to fight to the death.
Within the Heavenly King’s Army.
The logic of survival is so simple.
This is also the situation of countless peasant rebels in history most of the time.
The system construction is very rough, but it can burst out with strong combat effectiveness in the early stage.
With one heart and one mind, they move forward and crush everything in front of them.
There was a fierce battle two miles below the Hanzhong city wall.
The banner of Tianwang with the word "天王" written on it.
A row of old camps of the Heavenly King's Army stood quietly.
Compared with the attacking foreign camp soldiers.
The guys in their hands are much neater.
Depending on the weapon used.
There are musket camps, spear camps, bow camps, and rattan camps.
They all formed a square formation, waiting for the opportunity to launch a general attack.
Liu Zhixie laid out his old camp.
This means that the siege of Hanzhong has reached its final moments!
"The tunnel is almost dug under the city wall. If nothing unexpected happens, the army will be able to break through Hanzhong City today and then attack Xi'an! By then, the land in Guanzhong will all belong to the King of Heaven!"
The one who was speaking was Zhang Hanchao, the military advisor of the Heavenly King Liu Zhixie, who was named King Wen.
Now this Heavenly King's army except the Heavenly King.
There are also King Qi Lin of Earth, King Zhang Hanchao of Wen, and King Yao Zhifu of Wu.
What a four-king system.
Follow the advice of this dog-headed strategist.
The Heavenly King's Army will take Guanzhong as its base.
But to enter Guanzhong from Shu.
Attacking Hanzhong City is inevitable.
Under the Hanzhong City, the Heavenly King's army had been stationed for more than a month.
If the city is not breached, the Heavenly King's army will not have enough food.
For the Heavenly King's Army, there is no logistical supply problem.
They are mobile and coercive operations.
Wherever you go, you eat.
If they encountered a strong city like Hanzhong before, most of them would not attack it, but would go around it like running water.
Just like being in Chengdu, Sichuan.
Although he has millions of people under his command, Liu Zhixie also knows it very well.
Relying on a group of ordinary people who have never been in battle to break through the regular army guarding Chengdu, which also gathered a large number of Sichuan Army troops, is a fantasy.
So they didn't go to Chengdu to try their luck. They just coerced the people around them and continued northward.
Now if Hanzhong can be successfully captured.
On this day, the king's army also had experience in attacking fortified cities.
It will be more confident to attack Xi'an in the future.
Seeing General Hanzhong go down, the goal he had set before could be regarded as a crucial step.
The expression on Liu Zhixie's face was not pretty.
Even a little gloomy.
Because just now, the envoy he sent to Guangzhou to ask for an audience with Ming King Zhu Daohua returned.
Told him a piece of news that made him extremely angry.
His envoy did not see Zhu Daohua at all.
Zhu Daohua also did not agree to his request to become a minister.
Instead, he made a strong request.
The White Lotus Sect must all leave Sichuan within two months, otherwise the Ming army will drive them away by force!
This is because he did not treat King Liu Tian as a person at all - after all, Zhu Daohua was influenced by later generations and felt that this power, which could even be equalized by Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty, was indeed not worthy of his attention.
This can be regarded as a small mistake made by Zhu Daohua.
But for Liu Zhixie, he felt extremely humiliated.
So much so that even the good news that Hanzhong was about to be captured couldn't make him happy.
"King of Heaven, if Zhu Daohua wants Sichuan, just give it to him. Anyway, we don't plan to stay in Sichuan for a long time." Qi Lin comforted from the side.
In fact, it comforts me to say that I don't care about Sichuan. After all, when the Qin Dynasty unified the world, it also took Bashu first to increase its strength.
Just relying on Guanzhong's words sounds a little unsafe.
But what can be done now? The Ming army has just defeated the army led by Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. It is at a time when the momentum is at its peak. Will the Heavenly King's army return to Sichuan to fight with the Ming army?
not to mention.
The water network in the south is dense, so it is not suitable for mobile warfare.
Liu Zhixie snorted coldly and said, "This Zhu Daohua doesn't take this king seriously, it's extremely abominable!"
But Zhang Haichao smiled and said: "The King of Heaven does not need to be angry. I thought that after Zhu Daohua became emperor, he suddenly conquered half of the world in the south. I thought he was a rare hero in the world. I didn't expect that he would humiliate the wise and do not understand the principle of cooperation to fight against the Qing Dynasty." , it seems that it is just a false name!"
"And he wants Sichuan to be given to him. After all, this Shu land is not as good as Guanzhong. If the king gets Guanzhong, he can advance, attack, retreat and defend, and he will be in an invincible position."
Liu Zhixie's face looked a little better after hearing this.
Right now.
The city wall in front suddenly erupted with a loud bang, which shocked the soldiers on both sides who were fighting fiercely and froze in place.
After the loud noise.
I saw the brick-and-stone structure of the city wall swaying forward and falling forward. The bricks were scattered forward, forming a slope leading to the gap in the city wall.
"It exploded!"
Liu Zhixie was overjoyed.
Using gunpowder to blow up city walls was inspired by the Ming army's bombing of Ganzhou City.
In order to successfully dig the tunnel under the foundation of the city wall, the Heavenly King's Army launched a series of high-intensity attacks.
In order to ensure that the city wall could be destroyed in one go, the Heavenly King's army filled coffins with gunpowder, dug a hole in the city wall, and sealed the hole with rammed earth and stones to ensure that the force of the gunpowder explosion could act on the city wall. Go up and knock down the city wall.
Liu Zhixie originally planned to try a few more times, but he did not expect that using gunpowder to blast the city wall would be so effective, and he succeeded in one attempt.
"Come to the old camp! After conquering Hanzhong, we can go straight to Xi'an!"
Liu Zhixie showed a satisfied smile on his face.
"The calamity is born, the king of heaven saves the world!"
Yao Zhifu, the most powerful general of the Tianwang Army, suddenly waved his machete and rushed forward.
"Kill!!"
A series of shouts suddenly broke out.
Countless warriors of the Heavenly King's Army with their heads wrapped in red cloth jumped out of the trenches outside Hanzhong City.
Brandishing the spear, sword, and shield in his hand.
Shouting, he rushed towards the Hanzhong City wall that had just been breached by the "hole blasting method".
Although there are still thousands of Qing army green battalions and some Eight Banners soldiers defending the city.
But with just a few people.
It is absolutely impossible to stop the Taiping Army like a tide.
........
The fighting in the northwest failed to affect the tranquility on the river.
The great river flows eastward and flows into the sea, crossing the land of China like a giant dragon, witnessing all the joys, sorrows and joys here.
Most of the fields on both sides of the strait were deserted, but in the south, I saw farmers replanting seedlings. It was already June.
The hottest season of the year is coming.
According to the original farming season, it is now time for the wind to blow the rice and flowers to both sides of the bank.
However, due to the war, rice has not been planted in many fields on both sides of the Yangtze River. It is foreseeable that this winter will be an even more difficult winter for the people.
Just on this jade belt-like river channel.
A strange-looking ship sailed upstream.
This big ship was painted white, with no masts, no sails, and a few large smokestacks.
However, the speed was quite fast. When going upstream, he continuously passed many sailboats with the same sails going upstream.
The sun and moon flag hanging high on the highest point of the ship was completely fluttered.
"How can this ship travel so fast without sails?"
Breathing smoke like the ship was an old man who looked a little fat.
He held a large tobacco bag in his hand and took a puff. After a long time, the smoke blew out of his nose and was quickly blown away by the wind.
"Not only that, this is an iron-clad ship!" Liu Yong said, stamping the deck hard, making a sound of gold and iron.
"Where did this Ming Dynasty... come from so many strange and obscene skills?" Big Smoke Bag said with a sigh.
"Who knows? They say that you, Ji Xiaolan, are knowledgeable and talented. Don't you know what this iron ship is about?"
Liu Yong stood on the deck with his hands behind his back, turned to look at Ji Xiaolan and asked.
Ji Xiaolan smiled bitterly.
"How can I know how this iron can float on the water, and what drives the iron ship forward? This is really beyond my imagination."
Liu Yong sighed: "The Ming Dynasty had sharp weapons, and now there are such artifacts as sailless iron-clad ships. It seems...it is impossible for the Qing Dynasty to cross the river anyway..."
As the person in charge of the negotiations going south, Liu Yong naturally could not come alone, but brought officials of all sizes.
Contact started from the Jiangning front line, and then the Ming Dynasty arranged for an armored ship to pick up Liu Yong and his party in Jiangbei and go south.
Naturally, this armored ship shocked Liu Yong and his party quite a bit.
This is also a temporary moment of strength, which tells the story of the Qing Dynasty.
There are such warships crossing the Yangtze River and the sea.
It is absolutely impossible for the Qing Dynasty to be able to compete with the Ming Dynasty on the rivers and seas.
The Qing Dynasty could not leap over the Yangtze River. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to hold the Qing Dynasty within seven inches, it could do so at any time.
"Will there be a Northern and Southern Dynasties?"
Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan asked after being silent for a long time.
Liu Yong did not answer.
Instead, he shook his head slightly.
After the endless coma, Shi Yu suddenly stood up from the bed. If you want to read the latest chapters, please download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads. The website has not updated the latest chapter content, but the Xingxing Reading APP has updated the latest chapter content.
He took a big breath of fresh air, his chest trembling.
Confused, confused, and all kinds of emotions came to my mind.
Where is this?
Afterwards, Shi Yu subconsciously observed his surroundings, and then became even more confused.
A single dormitory?
Even if he was successfully rescued, he should be in the ward now.
And my body...how could I not have any injuries at all?
With doubts, Shi Yu's eyes quickly swept across the room, and finally his eyes rested on a mirror beside the bed.
The mirror showed his current appearance. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, and he looked very handsome.
But the problem is, this is not him! Download the Star Reading app and read the latest chapters for free without ads.
My previous self was a handsome young man in his twenties who had been working for a while.
And now, no matter how you look, this appearance is that of a high school student...
This change made Shi Yu stunned for a long time.
Don't tell him that the operation was successful...
The body and appearance have changed. This is not a matter of surgery or not, but magic.
He turned into a completely different person!
Could it be...that he traveled through time?
In addition to the mirror placed by the bedside, which was obviously not feng shui-friendly, Shi Yu also found three books next to it.
Shi Yu picked it up and took a look. The title of the book instantly silenced him.
"Essential Animal Breeding Manual for Beginner Breeders"
"Postpartum Care of Pet Pets"
"Evaluation Guide for Interracial Beast-Eared Girls"
Shi Yu:? ? ?
The names of the first two books are pretty normal, but what happened to the last one?
"cough."
Shi Yu looked solemnly and stretched out his hand, but his arm soon stiffened.
Just when he was about to open the third book and see what it was about, his brain suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a large number of memories came flooding back.
Icefield City.
Pet animal breeding base.
Intern pet breeder. The website will be closed soon. Download the Star Reading app to provide you with Qianlong: Qing Dynasty by Mr. Mu Mu Mu Ah? Where is my Qing Dynasty?
Beastmaster?
