When Li Chengdong said that he had broken through a little bit, a sudden flash of inspiration in his mind. He slapped his armor and said happily: "Well, this town has a way to break the city.????????????????

"What method?" Shi Fu asked curiously, for a moment he forgot about the etiquette of superiority and inferiority.

Li Chengdong was in a good mood and did not blame Shi Fu for his rudeness. He helped him up, stroked his short beard and smiled bitterly: "A half month of attack, there were countless shellings, and the corners of Wuzhou southwest walls collapsed the most, obviously not thick. At that time, he didn't expect to concentrate on shelling and directly hit the gap. This town was also confused!"

"What the Grand Marshal means is - where is the breakthrough point?"

"Yes!" Li Chengdong took Shi Fu to a place to look up, looked into the distance, observed the southwest corner of Wuzhou for a while, turned around and ordered: "Send the order to stop siege, collect all the red barbarian cannons, aim at the southwest corner to bombard them one after another, and be sure to blast a gap for the town!"

Wuzhou is an important town in Guangxi. The city walls are made of stones. Only the old city in the southwest corner is made of bricks and stones. The red barbarian cannons cannot knock out the stones, but they do have good destructive power to the bricks and stones.

After a round of bombing, the gun barrel was hot and could not be released. Then, looking at the southwest corner of Wuzhou City, the gravel cracked, and several places collapsed. Even the female wall was flattened. The outer skin of the city wall fell down, revealing the dark red rammed earth inside. Many Ming troops hidden behind the female wall were smashed into blood and blood by the splattered stones.

During this period, the Portuguese artillery also used new artillery to knock out several Qing army artillery to alleviate the city defense crisis. However, Li Chengdong was treacherous and knew that the Ming army had new foreign artillery, which had long range and fast firing, so he did not use the red cannons in a concentrated manner, but scattered in every corner. When setting off the cannon, he concentrated on setting off the southwest corner of the city, making the Portuguese gunners helpless.

Just when Li Chengdong was planning to continue his efforts, a divorce broke out quickly to the tower and knelt on one knee: "The eight hundred miles of urgent documents from the Guangzhou Governor's Office, please read them!" After that, he took off the package from behind, untied the oil seal, and took out the documents.

The news of sending the goods in a hurry of 800 miles must be very important. Li Chengdong glanced at the Zhepao and took the document suspiciously.

"How is it possible? Absurd! It's so ridiculous!"

After reading the documents quickly, he changed his color.

The generals beside you looked at me, and I looked at you, looking at you with a look of confusion.

"What's wrong, Father and Commander?" Li Yuanyin, the adopted son and the leader of the guard, asked boldly because he was Li Chengdong's confidant and beloved son.

"Look at it for yourself!" Li Chengdong angrily threw the document to Li Yuanyin.

Li Yuanyin was also surprised after reading the content of the document. He frowned and said, "It is the urgent request for help from Governor Tong! Should we save us?"

It turned out that while the Qing army was besieging Wuzhou, Guangxi, Chen Bangyan, a famous scholar hidden in the occupied areas of Guangdong, joined forces with Zhang Jiayu, Chen Zizhuang and others to destroy their families to relieve difficulties, donate funds to recruit soldiers, establish a rebel army, and secretly swear to fight against the Qing Dynasty in Guangdong.

In early February of the first year of Yongli, taking advantage of the opportunity when Li Chengdong's troops surrounded Wuzhou, Chen Bangyan took advantage of the opportunity to raid Guangzhou. The rebel army first defeated the navy sent by Tong Yangjia to attack in Dongguan, burned more than a hundred enemy ships, and then surrounded Guangzhou and surrounded Tong Yangjia in the city.

At the same time, Zhang Jiayu sent general Chen Zhenguo, Feng Jialu to join forces with former general Liu Long, Li Qixin's troops recovered Longmen, and Chen Zizhuang attacked everywhere to restrain the Qing soldiers from other places, effectively blocking the Qing army's reinforcements to Guangzhou.

Under the leadership of the three of them, Hu Jing and Liang Bin of Shunde, Liang Xinzhuo of Xinhui, Huang Gongfu of He Shixiong, Wang Xing of Enping, Mo Tinglan of Yangjiang, and He Shizhang of Dong'an gathered all to attack the local Qing garrison.

Since Li Chengdong has been leading the main army to continue to advance westward, the number of Qing troops left in Guangdong's prefectures was extremely limited. Even the provincial capital Guangzhou was short of soldiers and generals, with only a few thousand green camp soldiers. Under the siege of the rebels, Guangzhou was shocked three times a day, and the Qing Governor Tong Yangjia also deeply felt the feeling of being surrounded by enemies.

After Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu and Chen Zizhuang joined forces, 50,000 rebels gathered at the city of Guangzhou, with a shocking momentum. Tong Yangjia ordered the city gate to close and not to go to war, but sent a fast horse to Guangxi to urgently summon Li Chengdong back to help, which led to the fact that the order was just now.

Li Chengdong said undeniably: "Now that the battle against Wuzhou has reached its most critical moment. This town can capture Wuzhou soon and capture the fake Ming emperor alive. It is unwise for Tong Junmen to let the town return to the army to rescue Guangzhou now. Besides, he still has thousands of troops under his command, and it is ridiculous and ridiculous to have a strong city but has no confidence to resist the chaotic soldiers."

"Master-in-chief, it's hard to disobey military orders!" Li Yuanyin said worriedly.

"Hmph! If you want to return, you have to wait until you finish the battle today. The 50,000 army spent half a month in Wuzhou. If you don't take Wuzhou, how can you keep the face of this town?!"

In the end, Li Chengdong compromised a little. Tong Yangjia's military orders could not be listened to, but the master behind him had to give him the face. He had to rely on the owner to beat the dog, let alone everyone was working hard for the same master.

Li Yuanyin knew that it was time to stop, but when his adoptive father had made up his mind, he nodded and stopped persuading him.

After several rounds of shelling, a gap was finally opened in the southwest corner of Wuzhou City, and Li Chengdong was overjoyed.

The horn was whimpering, and the Qing army, who had a little rest, opened siege formations under the city under the command of officers at all levels, and were purged and scattered.

Li Chengdong stood on the central army chariot with a knife, holding the hilt in his right hand. At this moment, looking at the top of Wuzhou City, his face was filled with the determination to avenge his shame!

The drums sounded and the army began.

Dozens of siege formations rushed to the city wall again with cloud ladders, especially at the gap in the southwest corner. More than ten cloud ladders were densely packed in the gap between dozens of steps. The Qing army on the cloud ladders were all old soldiers of Li Chengdong's headquarters. This time he was suppressing his old capital and vowed to break the city in one battle.

The great men in Guanzhong were all wearing iron armor and iron helmets, with thoughtful protection, rich experience in siege, extremely brave, and climbed quickly. They almost crawled to the middle of the city wall.

The tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Wuzhou City knew the cruelty of the Qing army and knew that once the city was broken, no one could survive. So men, women, young and old went out together, pushing the rooster bus, constantly replenishing wooden rocks to the top of the city. The houses and houses leaning against the walls were demolished, and all the bricks, stones and wood were transported to the top of the city. The young and strong men, whether they were pedantic scholars or shrewd merchants, had only one idea at this moment - to expel the Tartars. They gritted their teeth, filled with basins, tiles, and tanks, filled with rolling oil, mixed with human feces, and scattered them, and poured them onto the Qing soldiers under the city.

The boiling oil penetrated through the gaps in the armor. The Qing soldiers were scalded with skin and flesh, and the human feces were poisonous and stained with wounds. The pain was abnormal. The old soldiers of Li's army could block the feather arrows and lead bullets, and they could not block the pervasive boiling oil. Many of them were soaked that they fell from the ladder in pain, and they screamed in wail.

ps: I will introduce to you three important characters here, which are also important characters in the later story. They are Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu, and Chen Zizhuang, collectively known as the Three Zhongshu of Lingnan.

Chen Bangyan: whose courtesy name was Lingbin, and whose wise and strategy were very good. In his early years, he set up a museum to give lectures. He was a master of scholars in Guangdong. The Northern Capital fell. After the Qing army entered the pass, Chen Bangyan finished his lectures and worked hard with his work - "On the Politics of the Zhongxing Politics", and rushed to the Southern Capital alone. Because the content mainly involved the anti-Qing Dynasty, he was not adopted by the important officials of the Southern Capital such as Ma Shiying and Qian Qianyi who were strongly advocated "unifying the enemy with Qing Dynasty". In the first year of Yongli in the Ming Dynasty, the fourth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Yongli Zhu Youlang was surrounded by the Qing army Li Chengdong's troops and Guilin. Chen Bangyan joined forces with Chen Zizhuang, Zhang Jiayu and others to attack Guangzhou, and forced Li Chengdong to return to the rescue. Although Guilin finally rescued the siege, Chen Bangyan was unfortunately defeated and was robbed and tragically killed by Lingchi. His sons were all killed in battle.

Zhang Jiayu: his courtesy name was Xuanzi. He was a military officer in Longwu. In the second year of Longwu, he was ordered to collect funds in Guangdong. Soon, Longwu was killed. The new army lacked food and paid, so he had to disband. In the first year of Yongli, he led the rebel army to make an appointment with Chen Bangyan and Chen Zizhuang to encircle Guangzhou to relieve the danger of Guilin. After Li Chengdong returned to the army, Zhang Jiayu led the rebel army to fight with him in Zuo and Daojiao in Wanjiang, but was defeated and left Xixiang. His grandmother Chen, his mother Li and his sister Shi Baojia committed suicide by jumping into the water; his wife Peng was arrested and died unyieldingly. Later, Li Chengdong concentrated his army to pounce on Zengcheng, the garrison of Zhang Jiayu. The two sides fought for ten days. Zhang Jiayu was seriously injured and was not willing to be a prisoner. So he threw himself into the pond and died heroically. He was only 33 years old at the time.

Chen Zizhuang: In the first year of Yongli, he and Chen Bangyan, Zhang Jiayu and other rebels were supported by each other in the suburbs of Guangzhou, Zengcheng, Qingyuan and Gaoming areas, and sniped the Qing army. They gathered more than 6,000 boat troops to attack Guangzhou on warships, but unfortunately they failed to make mistakes in the city. In this battle, Chen Zizhuang's eldest son Shangyong died heroically. Later, the Qing army divided troops to attack Jiujiang and Gaoming City. Chen Zizhuang retreated to Gaoming and led the entire city to have a military and civilian day.
Chapter completed!