The walls were blackened by smoke and fire, collapsed houses could be seen everywhere, and the charred corpses among the ruins...
The broken wooden pillars and beams were still crackling and burning. Although most of the open fires in the city had been extinguished, the high temperature in many blind spots was still there.
As long as there is a slight breeze, it may rekindle at any time!
At the same time, while the Qing army was huddled in Pingnan Palace, the Ming army launched a surprise attack.
Amidst the roar of explosive charges exploding, a large hole was blown out of the inner city gate.
After the masonry and sandbags blocking the city gate were emptied, a large number of Ming army soldiers entered the inner city of Guangzhou, shouting to kill.
On the city wall, the large Qing flag that was mostly burned by the fire landed, and the Ming Dynasty's twelve-pointed sun and moon flag began to fly high on the city wall of Guangzhou's inner city.
After a large number of Ming soldiers entered the city, they began to advance towards the Pingnan Palace in the center of the city.
There were no obstacles along the way!
It wasn't until they began to attack Prince Pingnan's Mansion that they encountered resistance.
A Han Eight Banners soldier wearing cotton armor collided with the Ming army and fought each other.
The fierce collision between the two sides was like two torrents strangling together!
Blood spurts out and life passes quickly!
The remaining Qing troops fought very bravely. Although their fighting power was not as good as that of the Eight Banners soldiers who fought against the Ming troops in the outer city, their fighting will was exceptionally tenacious.
The Qing army used a life-for-life strategy, and for a while the Ming army was unable to open up the situation.
The Qing army blocked the gate of Pingnan Prince's Mansion.
Collapse! Collapse!
The trembling sound of the bow string sounded continuously, and arrows were thrown out from the high courtyard wall of Prince Pingnan's Mansion.
It fell into the Ming army formation, but the effect was very little!
Although the current Qing army is determined to fight, the bows and arrows they use are only light bows. Moreover, they are projectiles and cannot break armor.
The Ming army threw lit grenades into the courtyard wall!
After the explosion ended, there were bursts of shrill screams.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
There was a dense volley of musketry, and countless lead bullets flew across the field, killing all the Qing troops rushing at the front.
Grenades and muskets opened the way, and heavy armor rushed in.
The Qing army was constantly pressed back!
Boom!
This was the sound of the Ming army using explosives to blow down the courtyard wall of Pingnan Palace.
In the rumbling explosion, bricks and stones flew away, and a large hole was blown out of the courtyard wall.
The soldiers of the Ming army rushed in through the gap, surrounded and blocked the retreat of the Qing army who was blocking the door, and fought fiercely with the Ming army.
The remnants of the Eight Banners of the Han Army who had been stubbornly resisting finally collapsed!
Many people threw away their weapons, took off their heavy armor and stomach, turned around and fled.
Zeng Qizhao took his own soldiers and wanted to break out of the encirclement.
But they ran into the Ming army's musketeers head-on. After a neat volley of shots, Zeng Qizhao and his soldiers were beaten into pieces by the muskets.
This time, he was not as lucky as last time!
Being hit in the face by a musket, only one of them was injured!
Zeng Qizhao's chest, abdomen, and limbs were all hit by lead bullets, causing clouds of blood to burst out.
He was lying on the ground, his breath was weak, and he might die at any time!
With a kacha sound, the sword flashed, and the body of Zeng Qizhao, the commander-in-chief of Dongguan Town, was separated, and his head was lifted up by a Ming army soldier carrying money and a rat tail.
"The commander-in-chief of Dongguan Town, Zeng Qizhao, is dead. Surrender without killing him!"
"..."
It was said that he was trying to persuade him to surrender, but it was just a formality.
Because, under the neat rows of guns of the Ming army, there are no Qing soldiers left standing on the battlefield.
The few Qing soldiers who were still alive were at least seriously injured.
According to the combat regulations of the Ming army, our own soldiers must do their best to treat them no matter how injured they are. Even if the wounded soldier is mortal, he must die on the operating table.
But when facing the enemy's seriously injured soldiers, the Ming army was generally unwilling to waste resources on rescuing them. Under normal circumstances, they would just hit them directly.
Puff! Puff! Puff!
Each and every seriously injured Qing army was continuously hit with wounds, their heads were placed in a pile on the side, and their blood gathered into a stream.
Together with the puddles left after heavy rain, it’s so blinking!
The entire battlefield was littered with broken limbs and corpses in various forms of death.
It’s like Shura hell!
Monk Jin Guangzu was blocked in the main hall of Prince Pingnan's Mansion. Inside and outside the hall, there were all wailing women.
The loud crying sound gave Jin Guangzu a headache.
A scene of impending doom!
Outside, the fighting between the Ming and Qing armies was about to end.
Now, there are probably less than a hundred Qing troops still capable of fighting. Some of them are the remnants of the Eight Banners of the Han Army of Shang Zhijie, and some are the personal soldiers of Jin Guangzu, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Shang Zhijie sat paralyzed on the ground, listening to the shouts of killing one after another outside, his body trembling with fear.
"His Royal Highness, Your Highness the Crown Prince!"
"Hurry up and make up your mind, the thieves are coming!"
"Your Highness, the thieves are so vicious that we can only rely on you..."
"..."
Shang Zhijie did not answer, his face turned slightly pale because of fear, he just muttered and finished.
At this moment, a cannon shot suddenly sounded outside.
Immediately afterwards there was an explosion of exploding bombs!
The Ming army transported several mortar cannons into the inner city of Guangzhou and used them to attack the Qing army who were still resisting in the Pingnan Palace.
A cannonball passed through the window spirit and shot into the main hall.
With a bang, the shells exploded in the dense crowd. In an instant, the broken limbs and arms were restored, and blood spattered.
Jin Guangzu was knocked to the ground by the shock wave and wiped the smelly blood from his face, his face full of fear.
"ah……"
Suddenly, someone let out a scream.
"What a disaster! What a disaster!"
"His Royal Highness was scared to death!"
"..."
Jin Guangzu looked over and saw Shang Zhijie lying on the ground, his eyes bulging, his face pale, and his chest no longer rising. He was obviously frightened to death.
The next moment, the cry that His Royal Highness was dead resounded throughout the hall and spread outside.
When those Qing troops who were still persisting in fighting heard the news, their morale collapsed instantly and they no longer had the will to fight.
Many people simply threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground and begged to surrender.
Or simply close your eyes and wait for death!
Jin Guangzu appeared in front of the Ming army, holding a Yanling sword in his hand.
He was unwilling to surrender, so he put the blade on his neck and faced north!
"Your Majesty, I failed to defend Guangzhou for the Qing Dynasty, so I will die today to apologize for my sin!"
Puff!
Jin Guangzu exerted himself, and the sharp blade cut open his skin, cutting off his blood vessels and trachea...
Blood poured back into the trachea and into the lungs, and Jin Guangzu made a whooshing sound from his throat.
His body kept twitching on the ground, and after a while, he finally breathed his last.
The remaining women in the hall also surrendered one after another.
Shang Zhijie's body was also carried out of the hall. When the Ming army general commanding the battle saw this scene, he just waved and said.
"Take good care of the prisoners of war and pay attention to military discipline!"
"Take these corpses out of the city and hand them over to His Highness Jian Guo, and ask His Highness Jian Guo to make a decision!"
The Ming army's messengers took the order and left to report the good news to Zhu Hongyu that Guangzhou City had been completely captured.