The defenders of Shengzhou and the Tian family filled the four city gates with earth and rocks and defended the city. They could not attack from the city gates, and a car crash could not collapse the solid city wall covered with blue bricks for a while. Under the command of Ao Canghai, the Huaidong Army used
In addition to the siege equipment brought from Shangyu, local materials were used to build a large number of chariots that were more than ten feet higher than the top of the Shengzhou city. Strong bows and heavy crossbows were placed on the chariots, which were combined with stone crossbows to consume the Shengzhou defenders.
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The resistance will of the Shengzhou defenders is not weak, but not everyone can become Dong Yuan, and Ao Canghai has rich experience in sieges when he was in the Eastern Fujian Army.
Ao Canghai chose the South City Gate as the focus of his attack, filled up the city, and piled up earth platforms on both sides of the South City Gate building to build a siege cloud bridge, attracting almost a thousand defenders to the South City to defend...
In the traditional city defense system, the brick and wood structure city tower is the most important command, station, defense, lookout, and shooting position on the city wall. Generally speaking, as long as the city tower is not lost, even if a narrow city wall section is temporarily lost, it can be easily counterattacked and captured.
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But in the face of more than thirty large counterweighted sling crossbows, the multi-story brick and wood structure tower on the south gate of Shengzhou became a fatal weakness.
Ao Canghai used chariots with strong bows and heavy crossbows to compress the defenders of Shengzhou South City into the gates of the city towers, and then ordered the removal of the tall curtains covering the stone crossbows in front, revealing the ferocious murderous intent. He was equipped with more than 600 baggage.
More than 30 stone-throwing crossbows of the battalion, including the calibration, fired a total of more than 120 stone projectiles ranging from 20 kilograms to 50 kilograms, and the Shengzhou South City Gate Tower collapsed.
Nearly half of the thousands of city defenders hiding in the tower were buried in the ruins of the tower. The defenders who hurriedly escaped were brutally shot by the crossbows in the chao cart. Ao Canghai lost no time in ordering the generals to build a cloud bridge.
Yunti attacked the city and took advantage of the chaos to cover up and kill the defenders. However, before the reinforcements from Shengzhou arrived, they ordered a retreat and were not in a hurry to seize the city by force.
Lin Fu looked at it and sighed: Ao Canghai's murderous intention is still too strong.
Shengzhou is a small county, with only five or six hundred households in the city. The Huaidong Army came to recover the lost territory on behalf of the imperial court, and it did not disturb the ordinary people of Shengzhou much. There were few refugees from the countryside who fled into the city to take refuge, and it was very peaceful.
Watch the Huaidong Army attack Shengzhou City.
In addition to the defenders and the clan soldiers recruited by the Tian family, there are only more than a thousand men in Shengzhou city who can be recruited to defend the city. In other words, the Shengzhou guards and the Tian family can only organize a maximum of four thousand people in the city.
The defenders came - Ao Canghai obviously wanted to use this battlefield that was conducive to the Huaidong Army's siege operations to turn Nancheng into a slaughterhouse to strangle the Shengzhou defenders, indirectly achieve the purpose of killing people and massacre the city, and then suppress the local forces in eastern Zhejiang.
On the other hand, it also shows that Ao Canghai has not let go of his hatred for the She family and his family.
Eight hundred defenders were annihilated in a short battle, and the ensuing repeated battles around the south city section were particularly brutal for the defenders. Ao Canghai even used a nest car to build two square meters in front of the south city gate.
Each platform is equipped with twelve heavy-duty crossbows and a large number of crossbows to kill the defenders who have almost no obstruction.
With the city gate sealed, as long as the Shengzhou defenders appointed by the She family and the Tian family refused to surrender, the defenders could only be forced into a stalemate. By April 12, only the defenders on the south wall were annihilated.
The number of soldiers was more than 2,000. For the Huaidong Army, it was more like an actual siege exercise, and only the inexperienced recruits suffered slightly more casualties.
Compared with the Tian family's dominant family in Shengzhou City, the situation in Mingzhou City is much more complicated. After all, the local forces in Mingzhou Prefecture that are really determined to go all the way with the She family are in the minority, and more people are in the She family.
After taking control of eastern Zhejiang, we had to bow our heads before the situation and give up resistance.
The Huaidong Army fought back on behalf of the imperial court. Many local forces began to doubt the strength of the Huaidong Army and did not dare to express their stance easily. They were worried that they would be self-defeating and rush to the front. When the She family counterattacked, they would become the target of purges.
It lasted until early April. The main force of the She family in eastern Zhejiang was still unable to cross the Cao'e River to counterattack. More and more troops of the Huaidong Army landed ashore. In the later water battles along the Cao'e River, the Huaidong Army won more and lost less.
, the battle in Dongyang County once again exposed the myth that the elites of Fujian Province were invincible.
The local forces that were a little more courageous and believed that they had left no bad records during the She family's short reign in Mingzhou Prefecture began to provide food and help for the Huaidong Army to eliminate the remnants of the She family in Mingzhou Prefecture.
Some local forces with stains had no choice but to consider their options after seeing no hope of the She family's counterattack.
The city of Mingzhou Prefecture, which was still resisting behind closed doors for the time being, was also turbulent. Even the defenders at the head of the city, in addition to the Fujian disciples loyal to the She family, the local surrendered troops and local surrendered troops, also began to secretly fight with
The Huaidong Army besieging the city outside secretly communicated.
On the morning of the 12th, Mao Tengyuan, the captain of Mingzhou Prefecture's city guard, led his troops to kill the Dongcheng guard and opened the east city gate. Chen Kuili led the Hailing Prefecture army to join Mao Teng's troops and invaded Mingzhou Prefecture from Dongcheng. The battle lasted until ten
At noon on the third day, with the cooperation of local surrender forces, the remaining members of the She family who were stubbornly resisting in Mingzhou Fucheng were wiped out and Mingzhou Fucheng was recovered.
Ao Canghai also sent troops on the 13th to forcibly capture Shengzhou City, where the morale of the defenders was almost collapsed.
By this time, except for Xiangshan, Changguo, Daishan and other areas, the Huaidong Army had occupied almost the entire territory of Mingzhou Prefecture.
On the 21st, Liu Zhi and Meng Xinshi, accompanied by Chen Mingzhe, crossed the Qiantang River from Jiaxing and entered Mingzhou. Lin Fu also returned from Shengzhou on this day and entered Mingzhou City for the first time.
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Mingzhou originally belonged to Kuaiji. It was established in the middle of the previous dynasty and has a history of nearly 300 years. Fucheng is Tongye with Yinxian County, and together with Kuaiji and Jiahang, it is the essence of Zhejiang County. It is a land of plenty and a gathering of humanities.
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The Siming Society, located in the Siming Mountains in the southwest of Fucheng, is slightly less famous than the Xixi Society in Jiangning, but it should not be underestimated. Above the temple, Zhejiang officials have their own sect, which is called the Zhejiang School, which is considered to be a big one in the temple.
After the fall of eastern Zhejiang, the Zhejiang faction's forces suffered a heavy setback. After the imperial court withdrew the two Zhejiang counties, established the Northern Zhejiang system and envoys, and placed them under the jurisdiction of Jiangdong County, the Zhejiang faction's forces were completely reduced to vassals of the Wu Party.
Lin Fu looked at the majestic city of Mingzhou and was filled with emotion.
From the middle of the Yue Dynasty, Mingzhou was a famous coastal city. The She family raised their flag to rebel, and the power of the East China Sea bandits increased greatly. Zhejiang County also attached great importance to the defense of Mingzhou. The city became stronger and stronger as it was built, and the county administration was not as good as Hangzhou. This is
With a circumference of eight miles and a height of more than three feet, the majestic city covered with bricks and stones is far beyond the reach of a small city like Shengzhou with a circumference of less than a mile.
However, this majestic city has changed hands twice in recent years, but both times were too easy and did not play its due role.
In the first episode, Tian Chang raised the city and surrendered, and the She family captured this majestic city without spending a single soldier.
On this trip, the She family's troops in eastern Zhejiang were too scattered. When Mingzhou City was besieged, there were less than 2,000 defenders in the city. The Mingzhou defenders recruited brave people to go to the city to participate in the defense, but the defenders were defeated.
The army was mixed with good and bad, and fatal divisions appeared. Not only did the Huaidong Army easily capture the east gate, but they even joined the army after entering the city and became the main force in attacking the remaining soldiers of the She family guarding Mingzhou.
If the She family had been vigilant enough about Huaidong before the war and had not been deceived by Huaidong's plan to attack the east and attack the west, the remaining troops in Mingzhou City would have exceeded 5,000 people, and the situation in this battle would have been difficult to say.
Now Chen Kuili led the Hailing Prefecture Army to take over the defense of Mingzhou City. Under the strict security protection of the inner and outer three floors, Lin Fu rode through the city and entered the Mingzhou Prefecture Office, and met with Liu Zhi, Meng Xinshi and others who came from Jiangning.
When meeting people, they must also meet with representatives of the local surrender forces in Mingzhou Prefecture.
Liu Zhi and Meng Xinshi were both acquaintances. When Lin Fu led his troops to the north for the first time, Liu Zhi served as the deputy envoy to the army. After that, Lin Fu dealt with him many times. At this time, he was the head of the ministers in Prince Ning's palace. Meng Xinshi
He was originally the magistrate of Jiyang County. During the bloody battle in Jiyang, he was considered to have fought side by side with Lin Fu. As an official of the Wu clan, he was later promoted to the general magistrate of Pingjiang Prefecture through meritorious service. At this time, he was changed to the position of doctor of the Jiangning official department.
From the fact that Jiang Ning selected Liu Zhi and Meng Xinshi as special envoys to come to Mingzhou, we can know Jiang Ning's change in attitude towards Huaidong's plan to spread its influence in the east and attack the west in the name of King Qin.
Yanjing was besieged, She Feixiong was advancing rapidly on the western front, the situation in northern Zhejiang was critical, and Jiangning's southern front was in critical condition. What qualifications did Jiangning have to pursue Lin Fu's crime of deceiving the emperor?
Of course, since Lin Fu led his troops to attack eastern Zhejiang on March 23, he either sent messengers or informed various places through Tangchao Yiqi, but Jiangning remained silent for almost a month.
Based on Jiang Ning's attitude at the time, even if he was unable to pursue Huaidong's crime of deceiving the emperor, he had no intention of agreeing with Huaidong's behavior. In the eyes of the scholar Qingliu, Huaidong was naturally rebellious and reviled each other; even within the territory of Huaidong
Controversy abounds.
Liu Zhi and Meng Xinshi came here on behalf of Jiang Ning, which showed that Jiang Ning bowed his head in the face of the situation and officially recognized Huaidong's approach.
Liu Zhi, Meng Xinshi, Chen Mingzhe and others, along with Fu Qinghe and other Huaidong officials and representatives of local forces in Mingzhou Prefecture, lined up on the stone paving field in front of the government office to greet them. Lin Fu got off his horse and stood up.
He handed the reins and whip to his attendants, bowed his hands to Liu Zhi, Meng Xinshi and others, and said, "It's my fault, my fault." He pretended to blame Fu Qinghe, "How could Mr. Fu neglect Master Liu and Master Meng like this, let you two
Sir, have you been waiting outside for a long time?"
"Master Lin worked hard to turn the tide in the southeast, and became the mainstay of the imperial court. He shed blood, sweat, and devoted his whole life. I waited in the Yamen for a while, which is too insignificant. If Master Fu hadn't insisted on refusing, I felt that I could only show my respect by going out of the city to welcome you."
Liu Zhi narrowed his eyes and smiled, walked up and enthusiastically took the reins and whip from the attendant, and led Lin Fu's horse away.
Meng Xinshi had some integrity and could not act like Liu Zhi, so he bowed his head and it was regarded as a courtesy.
Follow Liu Zhi and walk to the government office together.
Meng Xinshi followed behind, secretly taking care of Lin Fu.
He had not seen Lin Fu again since their departure in Jiyang. In Jiyang, Lin Fu gave him the feeling of a sharp knife unsheathed, with a sharp aura. At this time, Lin Fu should be gentle and restrained.
Very, but the more gentle and restrained he is, the more Meng Xinshi can understand how sharp his gentleness and restraint are!
The situation has developed to this point, and Jiang Ning no longer has the ability to refuse Lin Fu's offer to recommend Liang Wenzhao as the magistrate of Mingzhou. Meng Xinshi came here to strive for favorable conditions for Jiang Ning in the arrangement of other officials in Mingzhou.
The more gentle and restrained Lin Fu's attitude became, the less sure Meng Xinshi felt.