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Chapter three hundred and nineteen

When the Taiping Army won the Lutouhe twice, the situation in Guangxi was completely broken.

After learning that Li Dingguo led his troops to protect Yongli and Zhu Youlang to flee Kunming, the governor of Guangxi, Chen Weixin, appointed by the Qing court, immediately joined forces with the admiral Guo'an, Wuzhou general Ma Xiong, and the right-wing general Quan Jie and others to attack the Ming army in Guangxi, successively attacking the prefectures of Pingle, Xunzhou, Qingyuan, Nanning and other prefectures where the Ming army was stationed. On March 24, more than 16,000 troops of the four generals were gathered to besiege Liuzhou City, which was heavily guarded by the Ming army.

The garrison of Liuzhou City was Xu Tianyou, the general of Li Dingguo's subordinate. After the great victory in Guilin, Xu Tianyou led 4,000 troops from his headquarters to guard Wuzhou City. He was later defeated by the front Guoan and had no choice but to lead more than a thousand remaining troops to retreat to Liuzhou.

Zhu Xisan, a member of the Ming Dynasty who was formerly guarding Guilin, abandoned Guilin, led hundreds of remnants to Liuzhou to meet Xu Tianyou. The two reorganized the Ministry of War in Liuzhou City, recruited volunteers, and made the troops guarding the city reach more than 5,000. Later, Bolongtao, General Liao Feng and other troops came to surrender. Before the Qing army besieged the city, Liuzhou City was already the largest center with the Ming army in Guangxi. The total number of troops in each unit was more than 15,000, which was roughly the same as the troops in the Qing army besieged.

However, compared with the Qing army with strong morale, the Ming army in Liuzhou City was a newly defeated army. Except for the more than a thousand troops under Xu Tianyou, the rest of the troops had almost no combat power. Therefore, although the number of people was not lower than that of the Qing army, the morale of the army was extremely low. The generals had no confidence in whether they could defend Liuzhou. Most of them advocated giving up Liuzhou and retreating to Yunnan. At the critical moment, the generals stood up and cursed the generals who advocated giving up Liuzhou. This made the generals reluctantly agree to stick to it.

After the Qing army besieged the city, the soldiers and civilians in Liuzhou were in panic all day long.

On the 25th, the Qing Dynasty's Guangxi admiral Guoan ordered the Wuzhou General Ma Xiong's troops and the right-wing general all the troops of the Jie team to take the lead in siege.

Before siege, the front Guoan ordered that the city be slaughtered for three days after the city was broken, and no chickens and dogs could be left behind.

"Get into Liuzhou City, no one can stay!"

The Qing army, inspired by the city massacre order, rushed towards the city gate with slogans.

Guoan, the admiral line of Guangxi, was wearing bright armor and stared at the front without saying a word. Behind him was more than 2,000 admiral teams of the 3rd battalion, which were on standby, and was covered in darkness and silent. Only the sound of the wind blowing through the flags and the sound of fighting in Liuzhou City in the distance.

After Kong Youde's death, the remaining Han army flag soldiers under the Dingnan vassal were taken over by the Line Guoan, because Kong Youde's troops were all firearms. Therefore, the three battalions of the Line Guoan were also the same firearm soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was the leader of the Qing army in Guangxi. It was precisely with the more than 2,000 Han army flag soldiers under the Dingnan vassal that the Line Guoan made a comeback after the main force of the Li Dingguo army withdrew from Guangxi.

After attacking the city, Quanjie troops were stubbornly resisted by the Liuzhou defenders and their offensive was blocked. Quanjie troops collected many Ming army surrendered troops. These surrendered troops were still Ming army a few days ago. At this time, they refused to work hard to attack the city for the Qing army and hid behind and refused to work hard.

Seeing this, Quan Jie didn't talk nonsense and asked the personal soldiers to capture dozens of surrendered soldiers who had been staying behind and refused to rush forward on the spot. When the other surrendered soldiers saw it, they were so scared that they would never dare to delay and rushed under the city wall desperately.

The Qing army also attacked the East Gate and North Gate of Liuzhou at the same time. Ma Xiong's troops mainly attacked the East Gate, and Quanjie troops mainly attacked the North Gate.

The Ming army was responsible for guarding the east gate, the Daxi soldiers under Xu Tianyou, and the strongest combat power. The guarding the north gate was the royal family member Zhu Xisan and the general Liao Feng's troops.

Zhu Xisan once abandoned Guilin, but there was nothing he could do. At that time, he had only more than a thousand soldiers, but there were tens of thousands of Qing troops who came to attack Guilin. The strength was too great, so he had to abandon Guilin and retreat to Liuzhou. Like Liao Feng, he advocated persistence. Unfortunately, he and Liao Feng had less than 2,000 soldiers together, and most of them were training for the village warriors along the way. The combat effectiveness was far less than the more than a thousand original Western soldiers under Xu Tianyou's command. Therefore, shortly after the Qing army's entire attack, the northern city was in danger.

Seeing that the Ming army on the top of the city seemed to be unable to hold on, the whole family was overjoyed and sent his personal troops to attack the city gate, trying to seize the first merit of breaking the city. Soon, the Ming army in the north city could not resist the Qing army's attack and the city gate was lost. However, the Ming army in the city was still stubbornly blocking the Qing army from entering the city.

"Quick, hurry, don't let Beimen succeed first!"

When Ma Xiong saw that the whole festival broke the North City, he was immediately anxious. Although the Ming army on the east city resisted the hero, the fool knew that if the North City was lost, the Ming army in the city would definitely not be able to hold on. At this time, he would have a more force and the fall of Liuzhou City was a foregone conclusion.

"Everyone, if the people of the whole festival take the lead, the women and wealth in the city will not have our share!"

The city was broken, and Ma Xiong did not want to kill and injured too many direct troops, so he encouraged the surrendered generals of the Ming army to work hard for him.

"Liuzhou City is an important town of the Ming army. There are more money, grain and wealth in it than Guilin. Why are you still standing there? Why don't you take your people up quickly!"

Under Ma Xiong's bewitching and instigation, a group of surrendered generals of the Ming army gritted their teeth and took the initiative to squeak and lead their subordinates to climb up the city again without fear of death.

Ma Xiong ordered his troops to shoot arrows at the top of the city, which greatly reduced the casualties of the Ming army surrendered soldiers who were climbing, and improved the efficiency a lot. Soon, Ma Xiong's troops also attacked the city, and dozens of Ming army surrendered soldiers waved their long swords in their hands and chopped their teeth and cracked their mouths at the old comrades.

"General, the north gate is lost, we can't hold on!"

"Hurry, get down the city wall, get down the city wall!"

Xu Tianyou didn't expect that the North Gate would not be able to defend even for a day. He knew that the situation was going to go, so Liuzhou City could not be defended.

"Retreat, while the South Gate is still in our hands, hurry up and break through from the South City!"

In fact, the idea of ​​breaking through had already appeared in Xu Tianyou's mind many times before, but every time he pressed this idea, because he was the general of Liuzhou. If he abandoned Liuzhou and fled like a stray dog, he would not be able to explain to the King of Jin. At that time, the Japanese army agreed that the generals would abandon Liuzhou, and Xu Tianyou was also very moved. If Liao Feng and Zhu Xisan had not insisted on not abandoning Liuzhou, he would have taken his people to Yunnan long ago.

The North Gate was lost, and Xu Tianyou didn't care about what he told the King of Jin. If he didn't leave, he wouldn't be able to leave even if he wanted to. Seeing that Zhu Xisan and Liao Feng's soldiers were still fighting desperately with the Qing soldiers rushing in at the North Gate, Xu Tianyou sighed and ordered his subordinates to quickly follow him down the city wall and go out from the south city to break out west.

As soon as Xu Tianyou's soldiers ran away, the other Ming and young soldiers on the East City could not stop the Qing army. Soon, the East City Wall was quickly occupied by the Qing army.

Looking at the Ming army running around on the top of the city, Ma Xiong burst into laughter. Liuzhou City is his!

After clearing the last Ming army on the city wall that was still resisting, Ma Xiong and his men rushed down the city wall. While chasing the Ming army who were fleeing, they sent people to move away the stones and wood blocked behind the city gate.

After the Dongcheng Gate was opened, the Qing army's trembling cheers sounded over the Dongcheng City, and the sound reached the other three gates, which scared the Ming army and the people in the city to lose their lust.

Quan Jie regretted and helplessly, with a helpless face, he urged his subordinates to enter the city quickly. So many people died, and Ma Xiong was still robbed of this skill in the end. He felt very happy and could only fire the fire on the Ming army who were still fighting to block the Qing soldiers from entering the city.

"Kill me, kill them all, no one will keep them!"

With the arrival of the Qing army of Maxiong's troops and Quanjie troops, it became a fact that Liuzhou City was lost.

Xu Tianyou hurriedly fled to the south of the city under the escort of his personal soldiers. Along the way, his subordinates who fled from other directions met him from time to time. When they fled to the southern city, there were more than a thousand remaining soldiers following Xu Tianyou.

Yining Bolongtao did not escape like Xu Tianyou, but instead led his more than 700 soldiers to fight against the Qing army that rushed in to try to cover the people to escape. But the situation was hopeless. Half an hour later, Yining Bolongtao sacrificed his life for his country, and none of the 700 Ming troops in his troops fled, and they all died in battle with Longtao. It was really the last soldier and one soldier.

The desperate resistance of Long Tao's troops bought time for the people in the city to escape. About 2,000 people escaped outside the city when the Qing army rushed to the south city, but the rest could no longer escape and could only wait for their upcoming tragic fate.

"Massacre the city, the Admiral ordered the city to be massacred!"

The Qing soldiers rushing into Liuzhou City were filled with beast flames.

The Han flag soldiers who had always been the most excited about the massacre of the city would have strangely discovered that the surrendered soldiers of the Yuan Ming army, who had just surrendered for a while and had not yet been cut off from their heads, seemed to be no less excited about the massacre of the city than themselves.

"Admiral, you cannot massacre the city. Once this is slaughtered, how can there be any other cities occupied by the Ming army in Guangxi who are willing to surrender? For the sake of the Admiral and the Qing Dynasty, the subordinates beg the Admiral to take back his life!"

Outside the city, Wang Guangzhao, the prefect of Pingle, who had just surrendered not long ago, and Cai Yuanlong, the prefect of Xunzhou, held Xin Guoan's legs and kept begging, hoping that Xin Guoan could take back the order to massacre the city.

Cai Yuanlong cried and begged: "Once the city is massacred, the women, children and the people in the city will have no physiology. How innocent they are to suffer from this knife and neck! The subordinate begs the admiral to take back his life and spare their lives!"

"If Liuzhou is slaughtered, the people of Guangxi will regard our Qing soldiers as a disaster and will definitely hold the whole city to the death with our Qing soldiers in the future. This will be detrimental to our army!" Wang Guangzhaodao.

"The order of this official has been issued, how can he take it back?"

Immediately, Xing Guoan said lightly, staring at Liuzhou City ahead, ignoring the requests of the two demoted officials.

The generals under the Ministry of National Security were impatient when they heard this, and they wanted to come forward and drag these two bastards aside to save them from the good things that would have misled them to the city.
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