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Chapter 173 Offense and Defense (Twelve)

The war has become fierce, and the battle of the Shang family's soldiers made the Qing army excited as if they had drunk chicken blood. In several areas, the Taiping Army in the city surpassed the Qing soldiers in Pancheng for the first time. Many of them were not shot to death by arrows, but were killed by the climbing soldiers with swords.

On the battlefield, personal martial arts cannot determine the ending, but it can determine the survival or death of an individual. The soldiers of the Shang family selected all the elite Han army flags under Shang Kexi, and the officers were even older. When it comes to the ability to kill people, the Taiping Army, which has only been established for several months, is far inferior to those of bandits. In terms of courage, I am afraid that except for Ge Zheng, Ge Yi, Bald Jiang He and other officers who are from bandits, can compare, but the rest are far inferior.

Our soldiers were also different from the Green Camp when climbing the city. After climbing the ladder, they did not rush to climb up, but held the ladder tightly, and looked up to observe the situation on the battlements on the city. Once they found something fell on the city, they could quickly avoid it. Then, taking advantage of the pause of the Taiping Army above, they climbed the ladder like flying, and then caused damage to the Taiping Army after approaching.

Several of the soldiers were climbed up by their soldiers. These heavy armored flag soldiers relied on the city wall to resist the attack of the Taiping Army while responding to their companions below to the city. Often, more than two soldiers from the Taiping Army came up, and even five or six Taiping Army in front of them could not drive them down. Fortunately, the number of soldiers from the whole family who climbed the city was still weak. Although several soldiers were occupied by them, they were unable to expand their territory under the subsequent attack of the Taiping Army. One of them was even snatched by Ge Yi, who was killed and red, and they were snatched back.

Ge Yi's little finger was cut off by a knife when the Green Camp attacked the city before. He didn't bother to bandage him and then started a new round of fighting. Like his brother, Ge Yi could never get rid of his rude swear words. While slashing his sword, he kept asking the female relatives of the Qing soldiers opposite him, and the words were born in the eyes. The genital organs were even more constant, and such a style made the soldiers of Zhenlu Camp next to him relieved him, and they were as fierce as Ge Yi.

The so-called "one soldier will be a bearish nest."

The origin of the bandits of the Ge brothers was originally a hurdle that Zhou Shixiang could not avoid in his heart. He always believed that these subordinates from the bandits were of no use. In the future, they would rely on those good families to drive the Qing Dynasty out of the Han people. But now it seems that these two bandit brothers can make him feel at ease, so that he would not have to worry about someone leaving him out suddenly while fighting bloody.

Since ancient times, I have always been a dog-slaughterer!

With the Ge brothers here, this city cannot be lost!

.........

Zhang Erjiang, a hundred households of the Guards, promptly brought people to block several gaps that were broken by their soldiers. More than 100 musketeers occupied this place under the leadership of the officers and kept firing the musketeers towards the Qing soldiers on the ladder below.

The artillery that had been silent fire sounded again, and the red artillery bombarded the Qing army that was constantly rushing up from miles away, preventing the reinforcements from approaching in time.

Shang Kexi, who was watching the battle from a distance, was very afraid of the Red Cannons on the city and was also very annoyed. He suppressed his soldiers at all costs, in order to resolve the battle as soon as possible and control Xinhui again. However, half an hour had passed, and in addition to stacking nearly a thousand corpses. Xinhui City was still firmly controlled by the Taiping Army.

Shang Zhixin took people around the city to check it out and came back to suggest that his father should immediately send troops to attack the other three city gates at the same time. This proposal was agreed by Ban Zhifu, and the situation was obvious. If the Taiping Army in the city was not strong enough, it could get reinforcements from the other three gates in time. The Qing army could only attack the East Gate for a section, as long as the Taiping Army had a new force to supplement it. The city wall would not be able to be taken down for a while. Seeing the casualties under the city, I really wanted to completely capture Xinhui City. I am afraid that the Qing army would have to pay thousands of casualties.

The casualties of thousands of people were absolutely unacceptable to the Qing army in Guangdong, and even more unacceptable to the King of Pingnan Shang Kexi. Shang Zhixin and Ban Zhifu's proposals were very reasonable. Only by attacking the four gates of Xinhui at the same time could the Taiping army in the city lose their attention. There is an old saying that setting defenses everywhere is equivalent to not setting defenses everywhere. With this little force of the Taiping army, it is impossible to hold on, and they will be consumed to death!

When Li Dingguo's tens of thousands of troops came to siege Xinhui last year, the Qing army in the city had twice as many troops as the current Taiping army, with nearly 6,000 troops, and there were reinforcements from Guangzhou outside. In the situation where both inside and outside, Li Dingguo had no choice but to retreat. Without the reinforcements from Guangzhou, it would be hard to say that the final destination of Xinhui was.

The Taiping Army is not Li Dingguo at the moment. He has no reinforcements outside. Before Shang Kexi came out, he ordered various prefectures to send urgent military reports, especially Zhaoqing's military newspapers. It was explained clearly everywhere. There was no sign of large-scale activities of the Ming army in the territory (in person). Xu Erxian said in detail. After the self-determination of the Tang Sanshui, the Gaozhou Ming army in the west was evaporated, and the spies sent to Gaozhou also confirmed the inaction of the Gaozhou Ming army from various channels. Although he did not understand why the Gaozhou Ming army did not respond to Luo Ding's "gaining and losing again", this information made Shang Kexi feel relieved.

To be honest, if there are still people in this world who can make King Pingnan feel scared, then there will probably be no one besides Li Dingguo. Even the emperor of the Forbidden City is only respectful rather than fear. If the Taiping Army is not alone, if Li Dingguo takes advantage of the situation, Shang Kexi will decide not to take a step forward in Guangzhou. He will definitely be a turtle with his head and send an urgent report to Beijing every day, asking the soldiers of Manzhou to rescue him.

The reality is that the Taiping Army is just a new army that suddenly emerged, and it is an isolated army. The tiger in Li Dingguo was still napping in Guangxi. The two pieces of intelligence were superimposed, so the incident of Prince Pingnan’s personal expedition to Xinhui. Otherwise, he would not have moved from Guangzhou. When Li Dingguo came last year, the court issued several imperial edicts but failed to let the King of Pingnan leave Guangzhou City. Instead, it kept asking the court to make the court anxious. It was not until the Manchu and Han army led by General Zhu Mala of Jingnan arrived that he was excited to break the siege of Xinhui.

If I have eaten more salt than you have eaten, the King of Pingnan Shang Kexi naturally couldn't say it. He did not adopt the advice of his son and his confidants and insisted on attacking the East Gate. For this reason, he ordered the rest of the camp to join the battlefield and prepare to pile up the Taiping Army in the city with the advantage of the number of people.

The King of Pingnan had no choice. So many people died in the war, and he was still in a difficult situation. Attacks from all sides could certainly disperse the Taiping Army's troops, but it would be fine if he could break the city if he divided his troops. What if he couldn't break it? Is it possible that the white-faced boy in Guangzhou who can't even take over a Xiaoxiaohui?

I can't beat Li Dingguo, Humph, can't I even beat a bandit?

I don’t believe that this little Taiping Army can block my steps!

Shang Kexi gritted his teeth and dispatched troops again. He had made up his mind to win the Xinhui no matter what!

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The east wall of Xinhui City is full of ladders, and the ladders are full of people. This is really an Ant Attack attack. If the Ant Attack attacks the city, the key is that the troops are disparity. Only the siege's troops can make the defenders breathless. This city can be taken down. The Qing army's follow-up troops are constantly mobilized, but the Taiping Army's cannon in the city prevents the Qing army from rushing to the city as soon as possible, which makes the army of the family who almost broke the city lose their power. The repeated actions and repeated attacks are only the sea of ​​corpses that are piled up higher and higher under the city.

"Boom", "Boom"...

The dozen or so guns were sounded like thunder, which made the city bricks shaking. The Han army flag captive gunners on the side covered their ears, and the muffled thunder also made them feel nervous.

The sound of cannons did not make the reinforcements retreat. The Qing soldiers who were climbing the city were terrified. The wealth and women in the city were tempting them like devils, or they were already red-eyed. Whether it was the Han army flag soldiers or the Green Camp soldiers, there was only one thought at this moment - to take down Xinhui City and kill everyone!

The main force of the Qing army green camp in Guangdong was actually the former Ming army, and a small number were the masters who forced them to be recruited by the Qing army after the Qing army occupied Guangdong. These original Ming army and Han people did not fight desperately with the alien Tartars. However, under the oppression of their swords, they became part of the Qing army, and served as vanguards and cannon fodder in countless battles. They often died the most. The battalions that were fighting green flags were the ones who could save their lives, what else would they not be satisfied with? Can their necks be harder than the swords of the Manzhou soldiers?!

Just as the Eight Banners of Manchus did to the Eight Banners of Han and Eight Banners of Mongolia, Shang Kexi also received the favor and power of the Ming Dynasty surrendered soldiers recruited after they went south. As long as they were willing to work hard, he would give a lot of rewards. Anyway, the rewards were not what he paid for by King Pingnan, but the things of the southerners themselves. As for the massacre of the city, it was common. Shang Kexi himself didn't know how many times he issued the city massacre order and how many southerners who were slaughtered in his eyes were no different from animals. Although these southerners were his compatriots and were once the objects of his defense.

If a general succeeds, thousands of bones are bleak and cannon fodder dies, people will naturally benefit from it. Many of the former Ming army officers became generals in the green camp, and generals at the first level of generals became the core of Guangdong green camp, and became accomplices of foreign races oppressing compatriots. They helped Manzhou, which had a population of more than 100,000, occupy the Han country. These green camp generals were powerful for glory and wealth, while the soldiers at the bottom fought desperately to be able to survive. The rewards from the superiors were the vent after victory - the massacre.

Like the eight banners, the three levels of Man, Meng and Han, the Green Camps are also divided into departments. The Green Camps stationed in Guangzhou are the main force of the Green Camps in Guangdong. They are the first-class people of the Green Camps, while the Green Camps under the jurisdiction of each prefecture are the second-class people in the Green Camps. The most obvious difference is that the quality of the Green Camps in Guangzhou is stronger than that of the Green Camps under the jurisdiction of each prefecture, and the combat effectiveness is much higher. Therefore, when the Green Camps go to war, the First-class people always bully the Second-class people. Now the one who is rushing to the front is the Green Camps in the various counties under the jurisdiction of each prefecture.

During this expedition to Xinhui, the green camps of each county were almost allocated. They were uniformly under the command of Lin Shanzhi, the general general of the green camp in Guangzhou. In the previous siege, the green camps of each county were basically used as cannon fodder by Lin Shanzhi, and suffered heavy losses. When more than 2,000 people retreated, only half of them were left. The green camps of several counties were destroyed and could not be sent up at all. Therefore, during the second siege, Lin Shanzhi did not transfer these disabled camps to attack the city. However, these soldiers of each county were not grateful for their orders to attack the city.

When they rushed past the fire point of the cannon in the city, the garrison soldiers were shocked and scared. Many soldiers who had recovered their lives from the previous siege of the city once again threw their lives on this bloody land. Some soldiers were so scared that they stayed there, but soon they realized that they ignored the companions who were killed by the cannons, rushed towards the city wall with red eyes and screamed.

The power of the Red Barbarian Cannon is indeed not comparable to that of ordinary cannons. Any Qing soldiers hit by the shells broke their bones and had their brains overflowing and bloody, which was a terrible sight. Screams, thunderous sounds, and cries came one after another. The red Barbarian Cannons shot at the Qing army from a high point. The shells were smashed to a high point. They ejected as soon as they landed on the ground. Large solid iron balls weighing dozens of kilograms were shuttled through the Qing army. All of them were rotten. No matter whether your hands or legs were rubbed by the iron balls, they would be smashed directly. The blood could not stop gushing out. The injury was difficult to save even if Hua Tuo was reborn.
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