Liu Guangbi, the governor of the Qing Jiangxi Province, decisively rejected the last chance given by Zhou Shixiang, he drew his long knife, pointed it at the city with the tip of the knife, and made an oath to live and die with Ji'an.
The Taiping army's letter of persuasion was shot into the four cities at the same time, no less than dozens, many Qing troops and young people defending the city saw the content of the letter, the city officials and gentry were afraid of the letter said in the letter to destroy the door and slaughter the city, and many gentry were shaken by this.
Liu Guangbi asked Yang Wenyuan, the general soldier of Ji'an, and Lu Guoxiao, the prefect, to threaten the gentry and the young people who defended the city, if they did not make a force to lead to the destruction of the city, in the future, the halal Manchurian soldiers would arrive, and they would slaughter the city to retaliate, and then the real chickens and dogs would not be left.
The Qing army entered Jiangxi, slaughtered cities in Nanchang, Ganzhou and other places, killed more than 100,000 Han people, so that the Ganjiang River changed color, this matter is only ten years from now, it is really a drain.
The prefect Lu Guoxiao and others repeatedly preached the majesty of the Manchurian soldiers of the Great Qing Dynasty, and intimidated the gentry with the slaughter of Nanchang and Ganzhou, but the gentry were frightened, and they were worried that the Qing army would really slaughter the city in retaliation in the future, so they did not dare to waver, and persuaded the young and strong to work hard to defend it, and never let the Taiping Kou enter the city, otherwise he would come to the disaster in the future.
In order to motivate the young and strong to work hard, the gentry generously donated money and promised heavy rewards, so that everyone in the young and strong people was emboldened.
Liu Guangbi and the gentry said, since the Taiping Kou entered Jiangxi, dozens of prefectures and counties have been lost, and countless officials have been martyred, so only the gentry in the city need to work together to defend Ji'an, and wait for him to arrive in the day when the Haal Manchurian soldiers arrive, and after recovering the lost land, the gentry will be rewarded with official positions in various places.
This move made the gentry stick to the heart of defending the city, and they all said that they were willing to live and die with the Qing soldiers.
If the Qing army is willing to surrender, it has been opened a few days ago, and it is not to this day.
Zhou Shixiang ordered the surrender army to attack the city, the drums sounded, and a group of Taiping troops wearing red military uniforms walked out of the camp gate, and more than 4,000 surrendered troops were also brought to the city in batches, distributing weapons and preparing to attack the city.
One cannon after another was pushed out of the canopy, and with an order, one cannon after another landed on the ramparts.
The artillery of the Taiping army did not have much accuracy, but it was all aimed at the city, either on the tower, on the battlements, or directly on the city walls.
As soon as the huge solid iron ball hit the ground, it lifted up pieces of rubble, and some unlucky Qing soldiers were either killed on the spot by cannons or smashed by rubble, and the passages on the city wall were littered with scattered flesh and blood, and the pools of blood were full of fallen pieces of masonry.
Liu Guangbi gritted his teeth and shrank in the city gate tower, listening to the sound of cannons whistling on the city, he estimated that there were no less than 100 Taiping artillery guns outside the city, otherwise he would not be able to fight such a momentum.
The Qing army in the city either hid behind the battlements against the wall, or lay on the ground, but those young people who had just entered the city were so frightened that they ran around crying wolf because they were inexperienced, and many people became unlucky ghosts.
Since Jiashen, who knows the most about current affairs is Junjie Demotion and demotion also The soldiers were driven to the Ji'an city wall, they were very conscious, they knew that the value of their existence was to attack the city as cannon fodder, but they also knew that as long as they could survive, then he would no longer be cannon fodder, but become a member of the Taiping army.
This point, regardless of the Ming and Qing dynasties, was affirmed, and it was also the only opportunity and benefit for these troops to work hard for this purpose.
I think that at the beginning, almost all of these people were driven by the Qing army as cannon fodder to attack the city, and it is very familiar to do this thing today.
More than 4,000 soldiers rushed to the city wall of Ji'an, some carrying the ladder that had just been built, some pushing the simple shield cart, some holding the big shield on their heads, and some holding the bows and arrows they had just received from the Taiping army and shooting at the head of the city to cover their own landing and hitting the city gate.
Although the Taiping army surrounded Ji'an on all sides, the main attack was only on one side of the southern city.
Fortunately, when the Qing army attacked Ji'an, they drove the people to fill the moat outside the city, so these soldiers could directly approach the city wall, otherwise there was a moat lying there, and I am afraid that most of them would die tragically by the moat without even touching the city wall.
Zhou Shixiang allowed the army to attack the city, and only ordered the artillery to suppress the Qing army in the city.
The first town, the main force of the siege, was ordered to stand by on the spot, and wait for the surrendered army to arrive under the city and then see the opportunity to move.
Hundreds of Mongol cavalry had been hanging behind the surrendering army, acting as a deterrent, and if they found that the surrendering army had turned around or delayed its advance, they would rush forward and slash them.
The surrenderers had no choice but to spread their legs and run forward, hoping not to be hit by the artillery fire and bows and arrows from the city.
At the head of the city, Yang Wenyuan, the general soldier of Ji'an, who was lying behind the battlement, found that the Taiping army had actually driven troops to attack the city, and clenched his fists angrily, as if there would be a burst of anger erupting at any time.
The gunners of the Qing army had been waiting, and they had not received the order to open the cannon for a long time.
There are more than 20 artillery pieces in the city of Ji'an, and the gunners responsible for firing the cannons are the elite of Liu Guangbi's supervision, and the guerrillas under the command of the guerrilla had injured Wang Deren in the defense of Ganzhou, causing the Ming army to stop the offensive, giving them a chance to breathe, and finally waiting for the Manchurian soldiers from the north.
Yang Wenyuan was angry that the Taiping army drove the Qing army to surrender troops to attack the city, but he was not soft on these surrendered troops at all, and the reason why he did not give the order to open the cannon for a long time was because those surrendered troops had not yet entered the range of artillery.
Finally, the troops entered the artillery range, and Yang Wenyuan slapped his hand heavily on the battlements and ordered the artillery to be fired.
Hearing the order, the gunner immediately took the burning torch in his hand and burned it against the fire signal that was exposed to the chamber.
"Boom" More than a dozen guns erupted in rage, and shells whistled out of their chambers and flew towards the troops who rushed in the distance.
The sharp cannon sound was very ear-piercing, the shells fell to the ground, the screams rose and fell to each other, many soldiers were directly hit by the artillery, and their bodies were blown up into many pieces, and their hands and feet flew all over the sky, so it was not terrifying.
The soldiers who were not killed on the spot only hated that they could not die early, and rolled on the ground in pain, screaming miserably.
Where the shells had been blown, the wreckage of ladders and shield carts could be seen everywhere, and the corpses of people were one in the east and one in the west, and there was blood everywhere.
Witnessing the tragic situation in front, many of the surrendered troops trembled in fright, but the Taiping cavalry in the rear did not hesitate to step forward, and the Mongols on the horse cut off dozens of heads with their knives in the Chinese dialect, so that the stunned surrendered troops no longer dared to hesitate, and continued to rush forward in fear.
Although the artillery fire in the city was terrible, the consequences of not rushing were even more terrible.
In the gap between the cannons at the head of the city and busy changing the ammunition, the troops rushed forward and rushed into the land of Lixu.
The cannon in the city fired again, and there was another scream.
After discovering the position of the Qing army's artillery in the city, the Taiping army's artillery quickly adjusted the gun position under the guidance of those white staff officers, and after a round of shelling, the Qing army's artillery was suddenly blown over three pieces, which frightened the Qing gunners as if they had seen a ghost.
The war drums that urged the attack were beating loudly, and the Mongol soldiers who supervised the formation did not care about the lives of those who surrendered, as long as the front was slightly stagnant, they rushed up and slashed like wolves.
Under the pressure of the cavalry of the Taiping army, the surrendered troops had to continue to rush towards the city.
At the head of the city, the artillery and bows and arrows of the Qing army kept firing, and after paying hundreds of casualties, the soldiers approached the city wall, and the ladders were built one by one.
The Qing army in the city frantically shot those former companions, and one by one the soldiers fell from the ladder, and soon the city was ambushed with corpses.
The soldiers were either crying and shouting, or gritting their teeth and not saying a word, and the lower ones were desperately climbing up, and the upper ones were desperately blocking them.
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At the head of the city, the cannons of the Taiping army and the cannons of the Qing army kept flying back and forth, and the shouts of killing made the people hiding at home in the city tremble.
Half an hour after the fierce battle, the Taiping army camp, the red order flag was raised, suddenly, thousands of red armor of the Taiping army rushed to Ji'an City, marching at the front of the line is 300 soldiers embroidered with red star marks on their shoulders, they are holding the new type of fire guns that have just been distributed, called flintlock pistols in the army.
After discovering that the Taiping army began to attack the city, Liu Guangbi, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, hurriedly dispatched the commander's own soldiers to rush to the city, and carried more than a dozen boxes of silver to the city, ordering that regardless of the army and civilians, anyone who killed one enemy could go to the box to take a handful of silver.
People die for money, birds die for food, money can make ghosts grind, looking at the dazzling silver ingots, the morale of the young soldiers defending the city is high and irreparable. oshow7 t1706231537: