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On the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, I wish the motherland stronger and more prosperous!

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The Daming Palace in Jiading County was originally owned by the Yang family during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. During the Qing Dynasty, the Yang family members declined and were forced to buy it at a low price by the bannerman Jin Zhengxiang. After several expansions, it became the first luxury house in Jiading County.

Xiaodao will capture Jiading County, kill Jin Zhengxiang, seize his property, and change it to the Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, Emperor Zhu Jiezheng of the Ming Dynasty held a meeting with Liu Lichuan and other core members of the Xiaodao Association. They had learned that Li Weiguo personally led an army of 20,000 to Jiading and were arguing about whether to fight or flee.

"Jiading is the last city in my Ming Dynasty. You can't just give it to Li Weiguo!"

Zhu Jie is the most determined person to oppose escape. Although he, the emperor, has no real power, as a descendant of the Zhu family, the great cause of restoring the country is very important. Even if he is a puppet emperor, he can satisfy his vanity and be worthy of his ancestors.

"But what are we going to fight Li Weiguo?" Xu Yao told the truth. He knew that although Xiaodao would still have many troops, after several battles with the Li family, he found that in front of muskets and cannons, weapons like big swords and spears were simply to die. If we said that the muskets that dealt with the Qing army in the past could have chosen to attack on rainy days, but now it is different. The muskets of the Qing army do not work in rainy days, but the muskets of the Li family can still open fire on rainy days, so there is no possibility of taking shortcuts.

"Even if you can't beat it, you have to fight! Li Weiguo killed my elder brother, and I must kill him to take revenge. Even if the last soldier and soldier were in the battle, I would die without regrets!" Zhou Xiuying's elder brother Zhou Lichun was shot by Li Weiguo, so Zhou Xiuying strongly advocated the decisive battle.

Zhou Xiuying's statement made many members of the Xiaodao Club agree. After all, Zhou Lichun is also one of the leaders of the Xiaodao Club, and there are many loyalists under his command, and they all expressed their support for Zhou Xiuying.

Liu Lichuan was in a dilemma and had not come up with a plan for a long time to study. You should know that Li Weiguo's army set out from Zhenyang County and arrived in Jiading in one day, and time was getting more and more urgent.

Jiang Tao's pseudonym Chen Tao has never revealed his identity. At this time, he wanted to support Zhu Jie and Zhou Xiuying to fight to the death, so that Xiaodao would fight to the death with the Li family army. It would be better for both sides to suffer losses, so that Jiang Tao would feel happy to take revenge. However, Jiang Tao was once the help of Jiang Zhu Gang after all, and he knew better than anyone else that even if Xiaodao would be wiped out, he would not be able to defeat Li Weiguo.

Jiang Tao then suggested: "It's better to surrender to the Taiping Army! I heard that the Taiping Army won consecutive battles and defeated the Qing army to fear. Soon, the troops will come to Jinling. Once Jinling is captured, it will become a king and domineering."

Liu Lichuan had already thought about it, and shook his head and said, "I told the leader of the Tiandihui Society and other incense masters of the hall before. They all agreed to rely on the Taiping Army if it really doesn't work. However, the Taiping Army has the conditions. We must give up the Ming Dynasty and change it to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, otherwise they will not accept us."

Zhu Jie immediately objected: "Why should we rely on others? I don't believe that Li Weiguo has three heads and six arms. Although it is difficult for us to defeat the Li family army on the front battlefield, what will our heaven and earth do? There are killers in the martial arts world. As long as a few people are sent to slaughter Li Weiguo, the Li family army will naturally be easy to deal with without a leader. Maybe they can surrender them for our use. We will not be afraid of the Qing court and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time."

This plan is very attractive and many people are moved.

Only Xu Yao shook his head and said, "This matter is probably difficult. Li Weiguo has a thousand personal soldiers who are guarding him day and night. The security is as tight as the dog emperor in the Forbidden City. It can be seen that Li Weiguo has been prepared for us, and it is too difficult to assassinate him."

Jiang Tao suddenly said: "Didn't Li Weiguo have ever been to Su Sanniang, the leader of the Liehuo Hall? We asked Su Sanniang to cooperate with us, and we should have the chance to kill Li Weiguo!"

Before Xu Yao could answer, someone said to him: "That's even more impossible. People in my world pay the most attention to the word "love and friendship". Although Su Sanniang is a woman, she is also a well-known hero. Do you think she will listen to you and harm his brother?"

"This is not OK, that is not OK. You have to come up with a solution. Li Weiguo's army is not far away. If you don't make a decision, we will all die in Jiading City!"

Liu Lichuan couldn't help but get angry, not at all as deep as a leader.

Jiang Tao then said, "Go to join the Taiping Army. Since there are Su Sanniang and other congregations in the Tiandihui, why can't we? At worst, we can give up the name of the Ming Dynasty for the time being. It's not too late to wait until we accumulate strength and start a new foundation to rebuild the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, the Republic of China has been in ruins for more than two hundred years, and it's not too late to wait for a few years."

Liu Lichuan looked at Zhu Jie and Zhou Xiuying and asked, "I decided to go to the Taiping Army. What do you mean?"

Seeing that Liu Lichuan had already decided, Zhu Jie did not insist. Anyway, he was just a puppet, without soldiers or power, and only by relying on Liu Lichuan could he be expected to restore the Ming Dynasty.

Zhou Xiuying thought for a while and said, "Jiading is still a long way from Jinling. There are a large number of Qing troops siege and blockades in the middle. Someone must be responsible for the rear guard. I will lead the troops of our headquarters to stay in Jiading County to buy you time."

Seeing that Zhou Xiuying's attitude was firm, Liu Lichuan didn't say anything more, but said, "Xiuying, if you can't do anything, you'll take it down as soon as possible. I will lead my brother to help you. Don't act revenge for ten years."

Zhou Xiuying looked at Liu Lichuan with complicated eyes, smiled faintly, and said, "I understand, Brother Liu, you go first!"

This is almost a farewell. Everyone knows it in their hearts, but they just don't say it out.

Zhou Xiuying led 5,000 troops to stay in Jiading County, while Liu Lichuan led a large army to evacuate. Because Li Weiguo's army was about to arrive, Liu Lichuan did not have time to carry a large amount of supplies, so he only took some gold, silver and treasures, preparing to offer it to Hong Xiuquan as a gift for his promotion.

Li Weiguo led a large army to the outside of Jiading County, surrounding the three gates in the east, south and north, leaving only the west gate without troops. This is called the three circumferences and one circumvented by one. The purpose is to prevent the defenders from resisting to the death and reduce the pressure of attack and casualties.

However, before Li Weiguo sent someone to send him a letter. Wu Yong did not recommend that Li Weiguo wipe out Xiaodao in Jiading County, so Su Song had no rebels anymore. Although it was very beneficial to Li Weiguo's rule of Su Song, the problem was that now Li Weiguo only controlled Songjiang Prefecture and Taicang Zhili Prefecture. As for Suzhou Prefecture, there was no room for intervention. After all, Suzhou Prefecture had no rebels, so Li Weiguo had no excuse to "military control" Suzhou Prefecture.

Therefore, Wu Yong suggested that Li Weiguo deliberately encircle three, missing one, which was the surface of using military tactics, but in fact, Ximen was the fastest passage to enter Suzhou Prefecture. Li Weiguo wanted to force Xiaodao to escape into Suzhou Prefecture, so that he had the excuse to enter Suzhou Prefecture, and then the army was in charge of Suzhou Prefecture, so that he could truly achieve complete control of Susong and Taidi.

Li Weiguo acted according to the plan and concentrated his troops to attack the South Gate, the North Gate and the East Gate as feints.

Outside the south gate, the Li family army lined up to attack the city.

Li Weiguo applied Napoleon's tactics to the battlefield, first concentrated all artillery fire to bombard the enemy with overwhelming artillery damage and deterrence, first defeated the enemy psychologically, and then attacked the city by infantry.

The art of war is the best at attacking the heart, and the city is the second priority. Li Weiguo used the art of war properly, and it would be appropriate to use it against a knife.

The sound of cannons rumbling and the smoke filled the gun.

With the fierce shelling of the Li family army, fire rolled on the walls of Jiading County, sand and stones flowed. The soldiers of Xiaodaohui did not dare to show their heads, and all hid behind the walls to tremble. Despite this, many soldiers still had their backs blown away by shells, flying flesh and blood, or were hit by debris, and were covered in blood.

Occasionally, there are soldiers who ignited the Qing army cannons on the top of the city to fight back, but the effect is very poor. The longest range is only one or two miles, and it cannot hit the Li family artillery team's position at all. There are no flower bullets, all of which are solid iron bullets. In addition, they cannot move at will to adjust the shooting angle at will. The soldiers of the Li family army can avoid casualties as long as they avoid the cannon firing boundaries.

The cannons from Xiaodao Club were not at the advantage and were quickly fired and removed by the Li family's artillery team.

The Li family army's infantry formation was less threatened by artillery fire, so they advanced forward.

At this time, Xiaodaohui Army fought back with muskets and guns. These firearms were seized from the Qing army. Some firearms can even be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. Although they can still be fired, they were too difficult to use, especially when the soldiers hung a bundle of lit fuses, which caused a fire and injured themselves. The people carried the long guns they used. Although the range was relatively long, they were too bulky. One fire was equivalent to ten times for the Li family soldiers to fire.

As a result, the firepower of the Xiaodao Society was quickly suppressed by the Li family army and had no power to fight back.

The Li family army had the experience of winning the siege several times, and it was much easier to attack Jiading County at this time. They just needed to draw the same trick and concentrate artillery fire to attack the city wall, so that the city wall would loosen and then collapse.

However, this time, the Li family army was well prepared, and the infantry carried a large number of them, and they continued to blow up the city walls with artillery fire.

With a loud bang, the city wall could not withstand the artillery fire and saturation attacks of the Li family army, and finally collapsed a hole worth more than ten meters wide.

The sound of charging drums suddenly sounded in the Li family's army, and the soldiers carried the ladders and screamed and charged towards the gap.

"The city is broken!"

"Can't hold on!"

"Get out quickly!"

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The only hope for the soldiers of the Little Knife Society to defend the city is that the city wall is not broken. Now that the city wall has been broken, their last glimmer of hope is also shattered. It is a group of miscellaneous troops without strict training and lacking a strict command system. At this moment, they suddenly turned into birds and scattered, abandoning the city and fled.

"Stop it!"

Zhou Xiuying was patrolling the city. Seeing the soldiers running around in scattered, she hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but the defeat was as if the Li family army was defeated. Faced with the crazy impact gap of the Li family army, more Xiaodao soldiers were frightened and abandoned the city and fled, causing others around to flock to follow. Zhou Xiuying couldn't stop it even if she wanted to stop it.

Zhou Xiuying sighed. Although she knew she could not hold on for a long time, she always had a little fantasy. Now that she saw the city break, she completely gave up. She wanted to fight to the end, but her subordinates tried to persuade Qingshan to stay without fear of no firewood. So Zhou Xiuying gave up on defending and led her members to evacuate from Ximen.

An hour later, the Li family army captured Jiading County.

At this point, the entire Susong-Tai Prefectures and One Prefectures fell under the control of Li Weiguo.
Chapter completed!