Field artillery pieces were dragged and pulled towards Guangzhou.
The Ming army began to set up artillery positions outside Guangzhou City. Field artillery was placed one after another, and a large amount of gunpowder and shells were placed around the position.
Zhu Hongyu stood at the bow of the boat, waved his hand and gave the order.
"Instruct the entire army to prepare for a general attack!"
The Ming army's naval guns fired faster!
Countless cannonballs are falling towards the city of Guangzhou!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The solid cannonballs scattered the masonry of the city wall, and the solid brick cladding fell off bit by bit.
The explosive bombs exploded, biting away and grinding away the rammed earth layer of the city wall bit by bit.
After the field artillery was deployed outside Guangzhou, it also began to roar.
The continuous bombardment lasted for a whole day, and a huge gap was blown out of the wall of the outer city of Guangzhou.
The gap was dozens of feet wide, and a large amount of bricks, stones and earth were piled in the gap, forming a small hill.
The amount of earthwork on the Guangzhou City Wall is placed there. The explosive bombs will explode, but the explosion cannot make the earthwork disappear into thin air.
The artillery bombardment of the Liberation Army only caused the city wall of Guangzhou to change its shape, from a city wall to a mound, and that was all.
The Liberation Army still needed to capture the mounds formed by the collapsed city wall before they could truly invade Guangzhou!
A large number of Liberation Army soldiers began to gather outside the city, preparing to storm the mound.
Zhu Hongyu sent out his own Guards Brigade to see how rifled guns and rifled cannons performed on the battlefield.
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Inside the city, Prince Pingnan’s Mansion!
As soon as Shang Zhijie got off his "aunt's" belly, he received the report.
"His Royal Highness, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
"The Ming thief's shelling has stopped! The shelling has stopped!"
Shang Zhijie put on his clothes, looked puzzled, and asked.
"What's going on?"
"Okay, why did the Ming thief's bombardment stop?"
The boy who came to report said.
"When I came back to Master Shi, Governor Jin and General Zeng said that the Ming thieves were afraid that they would officially begin to attack the city!"
Shang Zhijie nodded vigorously and then spoke.
"Take me to find the Governor!"
Shang Zhijie met Jin Guangzu and Zeng Qizhao in the office of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
At this time, Zeng Qizhao had already finished putting on his cotton armor, and the saber on his waist was polished to a gleam.
Outside the government office, his personal soldiers and servants were all standing in uniform, ready to go into battle at any time.
Zeng Qizhao cupped his fists at Shang Zhijie and said.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will lead people here to fight against the Ming thieves!"
"As long as the general is still breathing, the Ming thieves will definitely not be allowed to enter the city!"
Shang Zhijie said.
"Master General, there are still a number of cotton armor and iron armor in the royal palace's arsenal, and there are also several red cannons on the walls of the inner city. If you can use them, feel free to take them!"
"As long as we can keep the thieves out of the city!"
Shang Zhijie suddenly remembered that the palace's arsenal still had some cotton armor and iron armor from the Eight Banners. He thought that instead of letting these armors gather dust in the arsenal, it would be better to give them to Zeng Qizhao for use.
Let him get these armors to repel the Ming thieves!
Hearing this, Zeng Qizhao looked excited, waved his horse hoof sleeves, knelt down on one knee and spoke.
"General, on behalf of my fellow soldiers, I would like to thank His Royal Highness for your grace!"
"The final general will definitely stand for the imperial court and His Royal Highness, keep the Ming thieves out of the city, and protect the city of Guangzhou!"
After that, Zeng Qizhao left quickly, preparing to lead his troops to the gap in the outer city wall to meet the Ming army.
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Facing the comeback of Ming Dynasty, there are two completely different mentalities inside and outside Guangzhou.
Most of the people living outside Guangzhou were ordinary Han people, and their mentality towards the comeback of the Ming Dynasty was relatively complicated.
On the one hand, it is the fear of military disaster, but more importantly, it is the expectation of returning to the rule of the Han family!
But those in Guangzhou don’t think so!
The situation of Guangzhou City in this era was similar to that of the capital city, and the people living in the city were all bannermen.
When the Manchu Qing Dynasty first entered the country, they did not choose to massacre the people in the capital for the sake of political public opinion.
Therefore, later there were land enclosure orders, house occupation orders, and escape laws.
The house-occupying order drove all the Han people out of the capital, freeing up the capital for the Eight Banners to live in.
The land enclosure order designated all the fields inside and outside the capital as the Eight Banners' flag villages!
The fugitive law turned all Han people inside and outside the capital into slaves and servants of the bannermen!
With the three methods working together, Dorgon completely turned the capital into a city of bannermen. At most, some traitors who had joined the banner were allowed to live in the outer city.
The situation in Guangzhou City is almost the same!
However, Guangzhou does not have as much political influence as Beijing.
Therefore, Shang Kexi didn't bother to imitate Dorgon's encirclement orders, house occupation orders, and escape laws.
Instead, he chose to massacre directly!
If all the Han people in Guangzhou are killed, then doesn’t the city of Guangzhou belong to their bannermen?
Why are you fussing with that thing?
In other words, the current city of Guangzhou is basically filled with bannermen, and at most there are some traitorous families in the outer city who have close relations with Prince Pingnan's Mansion.
As for ordinary Han people, there are none!
As a city of bannermen, how could they not feel fear in the face of the coming Ming Dynasty?
Especially when they think of the tragedy Shang Kexi committed on the banks of the Pearl River more than ten years ago, they are afraid that the same fate will befall them.
Countless people inside and outside Guangzhou are paying attention to the war in Guangzhou!
Because this decisive battle between the Ming and Qing Dynasties was related to their own wealth and lives.
"How's the situation?"
The weather was very hot, and the flowers in the flower hall were already wilting from the sun.
The green leaves are curled, the petals are slightly spread out, and the green leaves of the lotus on the pond in the distance look increasingly green under the sunlight.
The head of the Wang family in Dongguan was sitting in the flower hall and asked an ordinary-looking middle-aged man in gray clothes in front of him.
When asked this question, the old face of the head of the Wang family was full of faint expectation.
The middle-aged man in gray clothes said.
"Go home, Master, the Ming Dynasty King's Division has a very strict seal on the battlefield. Our people can't get in, so we don't know the specific situation of the battlefield."
"But from a distance, the walls of the outer city of Guangzhou have been blown down by Wang Shi's cannon."
"Master Wang should be launching an attack on Guangzhou soon!"
The head of the Wang family took a deep breath, but his face was filled with joy.
"I hope Master Wang can win!"
"I used to think that the Ming Dynasty treated the gentry harshly and collected exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Now it is the turn of the Qing and Tartars to rule the world. Only now do we know what it means to knock the bones and suck out the marrow."
"We, the people of Guangdong, are so innocent!"
"I regret it, I really regret it!"
After saying this, the head of the Wang family waved his hand and gave an order.
"Go ahead and send someone to keep an eye on the battlefield. Once Master Wang has a great victory, he will come back and report the news!"
"Sir, I can prepare a bowl of food and drink to welcome Master Wang!"
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