On May 28, according to the order of Li Zhi, the uncle of Xingguo, Zhong Feng led a 5,000-man army to attack Fucheng, Jinan Prefecture, to attack Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, who was blocking the supply of cotton to Shandong.
Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, with tall buildings and steep buildings.
The city wall of Jinan Prefecture was originally built of rammed earth. In the fourth year of Hongwu, the city wall of Jinan was covered with bricks. The city wall is twelve miles and forty-eight feet in circumference, three feet high and five feet wide. Gate four: Qichuan in the east and Luoyuan in the west.
, it is called Lishan in the south and Huibo in the north. It has eleven towers, 3,350 crenellations, fifty-five flag towers, and four gun towers each.
The governor of Shandong, Wang Gongbi, had 3,000 standard soldiers under his command, plus 800 urban and rural soldiers, a total of 3,800 people were guarding Jinan City. Speaking of which, this kind of defensive power was very impressive.
However, the Trap Regiment is an army in the era of hot weapons. These tall city walls and these thousands of guards are no match for the Trap Regiment.
Zhong Feng brought with him forty 18-pound cannons during this expedition. These 18-pound cannons had a caliber of four inches and three cents. Each cannon weighed 3,200 kilograms. With the gun carriage weighing more than 4,000 kilograms, it would take ten
It takes two packhorses to pull it.
Because of these heavy cannons, the 600-mile journey from Fanjiazhuang to Jinan took sixteen days.
The army of the Seizing Regiment arrived at the gates of Jinan City. Jinan City had already known about the arrival of the Seizing Regiment and had closed the city gates in a defensive posture. The loyalty of the three thousand soldiers to the governor was not a problem. They demolished the houses in the city to raise wood and made a posture to defend the city.
Fight to the death with the Trap Group.
Zhong Feng looked at the Shandong pacesetters standing on the city wall, smiled and said: "The mantis' arms are like a chariot!"
Zhong Feng waved his hand, and forty sixteen-pound cannons moved two miles away from the city wall, all aiming at the middle section of the northern wall of Jinan City.
"Fire! Crush the city wall!"
Forty gunners lit the match on the cannon. The match gradually burned out, igniting the large particles of black gunpowder in the barrel. Only forty deafening blasts were heard, and huge tongues of flame emerged from the muzzle, which was eye-catching.
I had to close my eyes for a moment. The forty cannons produced a huge recoil, causing the nearby ground to tremble.
The horses of the officers of the trapping regiment neighed in fright and even ran out.
Forty heavy artillery shells were fired at the targeted section of the city wall, hitting the blue bricks wrapped in rammed earth. The huge impact made the city wall shake violently, like an earthquake, and frightened the guards on this section of the city wall into panic.
Escape.
Under the huge momentum of the cannonballs, the green bricks were smashed into powder by the cannonballs in an instant. The parapet at the edge of the city wall suddenly collapsed and fell to the foot of the city wall, turning into broken bricks. The rammed earth inside the city wall was also smashed around.
Ten shells knocked down a large area. There was no longer a steep right angle between the city wall and the ground. The collapsed rammed earth fell on the ground, turning the city wall into a slope.
The defenders on the city wall saw for the first time the spectacle of so many heavy artillery bombarding the city wall, and every one of them turned pale with fright.
The shelling came one after another, hitting the city wall again and again, destroying section after section of the city wall. The artillery fired all morning, and finally destroyed the entire section of the city wall that was 200 steps long, and smashed the brick-covered section of the city wall into pieces.
A piece of earth slope. The collapsed rammed earth filled up the moat.
A huge hole was made in the originally tight wall of Jinan City.
The soldiers of the Trapping Regiment climbed up the city wall from this section of the slope with loaded rifles in hand.
At the beginning, there were still a few officers of the Standard Army Battalion who wanted to organize a charge to stop the advance of the Trap Regiment. However, under the rifle volleys fired by the soldiers of the Trap Regiment, the soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion soon discovered that they were not qualified to be Fanjiazhuang soldiers at all.
A dish for a soldier.
The soldiers from Fanjiazhuang stood on the slope and fired three rounds in a row of ten, killing the pacesetters who tried to rush up like a massacre. The pacesetters from the Shandong governor plucked up the courage to rush up again and again, but were trapped again and again.
The soldiers of the regiment were defeated, and finally they jumped off the city wall in panic.
The Huben Division's equipment was so sophisticated that the rows of rifle formations firing volleys were dominant on the narrow terrain. The cannons of the trapping regiment and the steel armor on the soldiers all made it difficult for the Shandong governor's pacesetters to escape.
Impulsive. After throwing away more than a hundred corpses, the pacesetters lost the confidence to fight fiercely. They scattered, threw away their weapons, took off their jackets and fled into the city.
Soldiers from the Trapping Regiment stood on the four city walls and controlled the four city gates.
The north city gate was opened, and Zhong Feng rode into Jinan with great pride on his horse.
When the soldiers entered the city, the people in the city fled back to their homes one by one. They locked the courtyard doors and secretly watched this well-equipped army through the gaps in the courtyard doors.
Zhong Feng looked at Gao Ligong, the "Ambassador of the Overseas Affairs Office of the Shogunate" who was traveling with him, and said with a smile: "Ambassador Gao, Prince Bi is so close to Tianjin, and he has such a vulnerable army under his command, how dare he provoke me?"
Gao Ligong smiled and said: "Captain Zhong, my uncle broke the rules in doing things. How could Wang Gongbi have expected that my uncle would dare to attack Jinan?"
Zhong Feng spat and said: "If we don't kill a few gentry leaders, these gentry think they can be lawless!"
Before they even reached the governor's office, five fast horses rode up in front of them, led by a battalion commander under Zhong Feng.
The battalion commander rushed to Zhong Feng and said loudly: "Captain, we caught twelve members of Wang Gongbi's family who wanted to escape from the south gate!"
Zhong Feng chuckled and said, "Bring it up!"
After a while, an old man with white beard and hair, dressed in civilian clothes, walked up to Zhong Feng with eleven family members wearing cotton and linen clothes. Although Wang Gongbi, the governor of Shandong, was caught after changing his clothes and running away, he still had a temper.
He glared at Zhong Feng and shouted loudly: "How dare you attack Jinan City? This is rebellion!"
Zhong Feng said to a soldier next to him: "Slap him!"
The soldier sang the promise loudly, then went up and slapped Wang Gongbi on the right side of his face, causing Wang Gongbi to stagger and fall to the ground.
Wang Gongbi stared at Zhong Feng fiercely on the ground, gritted his teeth and shouted: "I am the governor! Do you dare to hit me?"
"Hit again!"
The soldier yelled the order, grabbed Wang Gongbi again, slapped Wang Gongbi on the left side of his face, and then knocked Wang Gongbi to the ground. The soldier opened his bow from left to right, slapped Wang Gongbi five times, and hit the old Wang Gongbi.
Shivering Youyou almost fainted. The soldiers had not had enough of beating him, and they grabbed Wang Gongbi and tried to beat him again. However, Wang Gongbi collapsed after being beaten with blood all over his mouth.
The governor of Shandong finally realized that Zhong Feng would kill him at any time, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, two lines of thick tears streaming down his face.
"Stop fighting! Stop hitting me! General, spare your life! Wang Gongbi regrets it. General, spare the lives of my family of twelve!"
Seeing Wang Gongbi kneel down, the eleven people behind him all knelt down and shouted for mercy.
Zhong Feng sneered and said, "You arrested men, women, and children from eleven cotton merchants. You have been imprisoning them for more than half a month. How many have died?"
When Wang Gongbi heard this, his blood-red face suddenly turned white. He knelt on the ground and trembled, not daring to answer.
Zhong Feng's expression suddenly changed and he shouted sternly: "How many died?"
Wang Gongbi knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and replied tremblingly: "Seven people died..."
Zhong Feng said coldly: "These cotton merchants are all friends of my uncle Xing Guo. One life is worth two lives of your Wang family. Since seven of them died, all the men in your family will be involved!"
