As a result, not only did they fail to blow down the city wall of Kaifeng, but they also accidentally damaged the invading army outside the city. After waiting for the wall to be blown open, they took advantage of the opportunity to attack Kaifeng through the gap.
Li Zicheng killed himself and injured several generals of the Chu army!
The Ming army in the city took advantage of the situation and counterattacked, and the Chuang army's second attack on Kaifeng failed!
It was so sudden!
I guess Li Zicheng, an old farmer, never thought that there would be so many ways to blow up a city with gunpowder!
But for the Liberation Army, there is no technical difficulty at all in attacking the city from the ground!
There is no shortage of miners in the Taiping Army, and there are plenty of miners in the Liberation Army!
It can even be said that the backbone of the entire Liberation Army is basically miners.
For them, siege in caves is not difficult at all!
Zhu Hongyu decided on a strategy to attack the city and ordered its immediate execution when he turned around.
On the one hand, he ordered people to survey the terrain and prepare to dig tunnels. On the other hand, he ordered people to prepare the gunpowder needed to blow up the city and the sealed containers needed to hold the gunpowder.
To put it bluntly, it’s a big coffin!
On the other side, Zhu Hongyu ordered people to set fire to all the buildings outside the San Fernando Bastion.
The reason is simple: these buildings are too much in the way.
After the gunpowder blasts the city, the Liberation Army must immediately deploy troops to seize the gap. The existence of these buildings will greatly hinder the Liberation Army's charge.
Instead of having a headache after the war, it's better to solve it now.
Before setting fire to these buildings, the Liberation Army also removed a lot of wood from them for use in building camps and making fires for heating.
Although the military discipline of the Liberation Army stipulates that no one can take away a single drop from the people, and even requires the soldiers to freeze to death without demolishing their houses, and starve to death without looting.
However, the people here refer to the people on one's own side!
Sorry, Spaniards are not even considered human beings here!
If the Spaniards dared to massacre China, Zhu Hongyu had already expelled them in his heart.
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The Liberation Army set up camp outside the city of San Fernando, and apart from preparing for the siege of the city in caves, there was no other movement.
Dova stood at the top of the city of San Fernando, holding a telescope in his hand, looking at the Liberation Army camp outside the city, and couldn't help but frown.
"Damn it, why don't they attack?"
"Why are the rebels camping outside the city? I killed all the Chinese in San Fernando, aren't they angry?"
"With this delay, aren't they afraid that reinforcements from Manila will arrive and join us in attacking from both inside and outside to surround and annihilate them?"
Dowa couldn't help but frown, his heart filled with doubts.
His plan was to provoke the Liberation Army by slaughtering Hua, so that the Liberation Army would attack the San Fernando bastion head-on.
In this process, he can bring a lot of damage to the Liberation Army!
However, the Liberation Army remained silent.
After the Liberation Army set up camp outside the city, they took no other action except burning the buildings outside San Fernando.
The actions of the Liberation Army almost directly declared the failure of Dowa's plan.
Just as Dowa was looking at the Liberation Army camp outside the city, expecting the Liberation Army to launch an attack.
Zhu Hongyu, however, calmly ordered the Liberation Army to resume drills.
Except for some people who are preparing to attack the city in caves, everyone else must practice and be ready to fight at any time.
In the next few days, shouts of death and uniform chants continued every day.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
"Kill Hongmao, restore the Ming Dynasty, equalize the land, and enjoy peace!"
"Drive out the Tartars, restore China, rebuild the Ming Dynasty, and revive China!"
"..."
The sound of the Liberation Army's drills reached the bastion, causing tremendous psychological pressure on the Spaniards and natives in the bastion.
However, Zhu Hongyu never launched an attack!
There was never even a temptation!
The Liberation Army set up camp and drilled in an orderly manner without any rush.
On the contrary, Dova, who was on the defensive side, was a little helpless.
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Three full days later, the tunnel for the Liberation Army's siege of the city was dug and had reached the bottom of the bastion.
All the gunpowder needed to blow up the city has been prepared, all sugar gunpowder.
After the sugar gunpowder was boiled, it was put into a coffin, sealed, and transported into the tunnel.
Siege can be launched at any time!
On this day, the personal guards sent back to the mountains by Zhu Hongyu returned.
They were ordered to take all the Spanish prisoners of war in the hands of the Liberation Army, except for the important figure Yada, out of the mountains and bring them to San Fernando.
The reason why Yada is not killed is because Yada is valuable and his existence can provide a source of intelligence for the Liberation Army.
Therefore, he can save his life!
But others are not so lucky!
On this day, the Liberation Army ended its training.
All members are armored, ready for battle, and ready to go into battle at any time.
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At noon, the sun is just right!
Even though it's already November, the sun in Luzon is still very poisonous.
The blazing sunlight shines on the earth, drying the ground. Looking from a distance, the high temperature distorts the air and creates heat waves.
Four to five hundred Spanish prisoners of war were tied up hand and foot with ropes and led outside the camp of the Liberation Army, where they knelt on the ground in a dense crowd.
Under the scorching heat of the fierce sun, each of these Spanish prisoners of war looked listless.
Many people seemed to have realized something and kept wailing for mercy and cursing their backgrounds.
The soldiers of the Liberation Army stood behind these Spanish prisoners of war, holding the steel swords on their waists, holding their chests and heads high, their eyes extremely sharp.
Zhu Hongyu, surrounded by the generals of the Liberation Army, strode out of the camp and walked to the front of the formation.
In order to avoid being shelled by the Spanish, the main formation of the Liberation Army was nearly two kilometers away from the Spanish bastion.
Almost outside the range of all the artillery in the bastion!
Of course, the range here refers to the effective range!
Otherwise, if the Liberation Army wanted to set up camp, they would have to go at least four or five kilometers away from the fortress.
In the era of front-loaded smoothbore guns, the accuracy of artillery was indeed not very good, but the range of those long-barreled urban defense heavy artillery was still considerable.
Theoretically speaking, it is easy for a cannonball to hit seven or eight miles!
However, theory is theory and reality is reality.
In theory, it is true that artillery shells can hit such a distance, but as long as the artillery target is more than a few hundred meters, whether it can hit the target basically does not depend on the quality of the gunner.
Well, it generally depends on fate!
Therefore, it is relatively safe for the Liberation Army to camp two kilometers away from the bastion.
There is basically no possibility of being hit by artillery!
Zhu Hongyu strode to the front of the formation, looked around, his eyes swept over the faces of the Liberation Army soldiers one by one, and then spoke, speaking loudly and with a deep tone.
"Soldiers, this general has some very unfortunate news to tell you!"
"Just four days ago, the red-haired ghosts of San Fernando suddenly took action and brutally killed almost all Chinese people near San Fernando."
"Carried out the tragic San Fernando massacre!"
"Nearly two thousand unarmed Chinese people were killed, including the elderly, children, pregnant women, patients, newlyweds, and newborn babies..."
"Can anyone tell me what they did wrong?"
"Why are these innocent people being massacred by red-haired ghosts?!"
"What did we do wrong?!"
"The Jiannu slaves massacred us, the Mongols massacred us, the Manchu traitors and lackeys massacred us, and now even the red-haired ghosts from Southeast Asia are massacring us!"
"What did we do wrong?! Who can tell me!"
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