Buried alive in the Qing Dynasty

The old man stared at his old eyes, looked at a group of clan members with piercing eyes, lowered his tone, raised his voice, and said loudly: "I will pass on the order of the general, and each family will prepare red cloth and red flags... Tomorrow morning, the capital of Guiyu will ask for red flags." Piao Piao, Yu Jia Ding Zhuang wants a red cloth head wrap!"

Hearing Mr. Yu's words, Zhu's father and son and Zhuge military commander all laughed. Mr. Yu is finally going to be the "Nine Ministers"!

Because Su Lisu of Jieshiwei rebelled with his big belly, the fluttering red flag and the red cloth Baotou (Su Li's army called the old Soviet soldiers or red-headed soldiers) were the symbols of anti-Qing and Ming-ming in this area of ​​Guangdong!

"Dele!" Guo Youde received the old man's order and was about to deliver it, but Zhu Hesheng stopped him.

"Wait!" Zhu Hesheng said to the old man and the heavenly king Zhu with a smile, "Abba, Lord Qi, just wrapping a piece of red cloth is not enough! You have to cut off that pigtail braid!"

Zhu Jushan understood his son's meaning as soon as he heard it, and he didn't run away after cutting his braid... Do you still want to pretend to be a family member?

Heavenly King Zhu said loudly: "Okay! Cut off the braids, and fight with the Qing dog!"

Old Man Yu also gritted his teeth: "Cut it, cut it clean... After cutting the braids, drink blood wine. Let's drink blood together to form an alliance, fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty, and share the blessings in the future!"

Zhu Hesheng also opened his throat and shouted: "Kill the demons! Restore Ming Dynasty! Wealth and wealth! Peace together..."

This is "clearing demons", "peaceful", and "same wealth"... Zhu Hesheng's anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty career seems to be on the right track!

Chapter 011 I know the empty city strategy best!

Three days later, outside the north gate of the capital of Guiyu, Deng Guangming's tall figure was riding on a horse, and his white cloth-covered iron armor was rattling by the salty sea breeze blowing from the South China Sea. .

Five or six hundred soldiers, also in cloth-faced iron armor, lined up behind Deng Guangming, just stretching their necks and looking at the north gate of Guiyu Capital not far ahead.

In addition, more than 100 yamen soldiers from Chaozhou Prefecture and Jieyang County, under the command of Xue Zhang, the prefect, and Feng Mingshan, the magistrate of Jieyang County, escorted hundreds of civilian husbands who were forcibly recruited from various places in Jieyang County, pushing shield carts, carrying Walking up the long ladder, I was also looking at the north gate of Guiyu Capital.

Including Deng Guangming, Xue Zhang, Fengmingshan, and the three commanders under Deng Guangming's command, including Yu Guolian, Tang Jiabei, and Zhou Guangzu, the whole army was stunned.

The reason why these people are dumbfounded is because the scene on the north gate and the tower of the north gate of the Guiyu capital city now looks like an "empty city plan"!

The north gate of Guiyu Capital City is wide open, and the suspension bridge outside the north gate has been lowered. There are a few old men trembling with brooms on the suspension bridge outside the gate, but there is no armored and armed warrior on the tower of the North Gate of Guiyu Capital. There is only a fake Zhuge Liang with a feather fan scarf and two little bald heads dressed as boys—all the old men in Guiyu have their hair shaved and braided, and most of the heroes of Da Nanshan under Zhu Jushan’s command also shaved their hair and braided for the convenience of walking. Now they all cut their braids and became bald.

There was a guzheng in front of that fake Zhuge Liang, and he seemed to be playing it, but Deng Guangming and Xue Zhang were too far away to hear what it was playing.

"Xue Taishou, do you think this posture looks like the empty city plan in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"?"

Deng Guangming looked at it for a while, but still couldn't believe what he saw, so he felt ashamed to ask Xue Zhang, the most knowledgeable man on the battlefield today.

Xue Zhang was a Jinshi in the 15th year of Shunzhi, and he can memorize the four great books ("Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Journey to the West", "Jin Ping Mei" and "Dream of Red Mansions") fluently. The four great books, but after being admitted to Jinshi, Xue Zhang didn't bother to read the four books and five classics, so he mainly read "Jin Ping Mei" and so on on weekdays. "Journey to the West".He has a good memory, and he can memorize it fluently after turning it over dozens of times.

"Deputy Dutong, this is just playing an empty city plan!" Xue Zhang laughed, "We have been busy dispatching troops and making equipment for the past three days, and we are almost out of touch. That heavenly king Zhu and Yu Zhongxian are fine, they are not at all. He didn’t think about defending the city properly, and even played tricks with us. Does he think we haven’t seen "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? If I had known this, I would have gone in three days ago!"

"The third prince Zhu and grandson Zhu San are too stupid!" Deng Guangming laughed, "I didn't know that my Qing Dynasty read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" as a military book. "Those things on "!"

Xue Zhang smiled and said, "Deputy Dutong, did we send troops in and capture that fake Zhuge Liang, the third prince Zhu, and the third grandson of Zhu alive?"

Deng Guangming shook his head and said, "I've been waiting for three days, and I don't care about this moment. I'd better send people to persuade them to surrender, and find out the truth by the way."

Xue Zhang waved behind him: "Ban Lu!"

"I am humble!"

Lu Renyi trotted all the way to Xue Zhang's side, and made a thousand salutes.

"You go to persuade them to surrender," Xue Zhang said, "I told the people in the city that as long as you hand over the third prince Zhu and the third grandson, you will be able to spare them. By the way, check the situation outside the north gate of Guiyu Capital, and then report to us. Both the official and the deputy know."

"Whoo!"

Lu Renyi responded, and then trotted all the way to the north gate of Guiyu Capital City, and even boarded the suspension bridge.Some of those old men with brooms had met Lu Bantou before and knew the reputation of "Renyi Lu", and one of them had the courage to go up to salute: "Lu Bantou, you are polite, Mr. Lu Bantou." , you are going to..."

Lu Renyi still had the iconic benevolence and righteousness on his face, and said with a smile: "I can't bear to see Guiyu in ruins? So I asked the prefect to persuade him to surrender, as long as the old man is willing to tie up the third prince Zhu and the third grandson of Zhu. Give the deputy capital commander and the prefect master, the deputy governor and the prefect master will not enter the Guiyu capital, and immediately lead the troops to leave!"

And such a good thing?

The old men who were sent by Mr. Yu to pretend to sweep the floor were a little excited when they heard this!

Sacrificing the Heavenly King Zhu and Zhu Huo Pao Zhu can save the lives of a whole city, what a wonderful thing!

But why did Yu Zhongxian and Yu Jiuchen follow Heavenly King Zhu and Huo Pao Zhu all the way to the dark?

This is not in line with the nature of the old man!Is Mr. Yu still up for sale?

Zhuge Sanhe, who was playing the guzheng on the north gate tower of the capital city of Guiyu, also heard what Lu Bantou said, so he stopped playing the piano, and pointed at Lu Bantou on the suspension bridge with a brand new goose feather fan. Renyi yelled loudly: "Fake benevolence and righteousness, you will die of persuading surrender! With my military adviser here, let alone Deng Guangming and Xue Zhang, even if Shang Kexi came to fight in person, it would still not be able to break the empty city plan handed down by my Zhuge family!" "

Lu Renyi couldn't help but cry when he heard this, "Taoist Sanhe, you have already mentioned the name of the empty city strategy, what else can't be broken? Do you think that like Sima Yi, no one else has read "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"? "

Taoist Zhuge's mouth was of course very hard, so he immediately snorted: "Fake benevolence and righteousness, you go back and tell Deng Guangming and Xue Zhang that the military division has already prepared an empty city plan, and they can enter the city if they dare!"

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"Hahaha, that Zhuge Sanhe slipped his tongue! How dare he boast that he is the descendant of Zhuge Liang? Are you really afraid of making people laugh out loud?"

In front of the Qing army, after listening to Lu Renyi's report, Governor Xue Zhang and Xue Taishou leaned forward and backward with laughter. After laughing, he looked back at Deng Guangming, only to find that the deputy commander Deng's expression was a bit serious.So he quickly put away his smiling face and asked Deng Guangming: "Vice Commander, how should we fight this battle? Should the officials send Yamen soldiers to escort the civilian husbands to push the shield carts to the top, and then fill in the trenches?"

Deng Guangming waved his hand, "Everyone has made clear the empty city plan, do we still need to push shield carts and fill in the trenches?"

"The commander-in-chief intends to directly send banner soldiers to rush in and capture that Zhuge Yaodao alive?"

Deng Guangming shook his head again, "You can't take such a risk... When I was familiar with "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", I carefully studied this empty city plan, and I also thought of a solution for Sima Yi."

Xue Zhang nodded again and again, with a look of admiration on his face, "I don't know what clever plan the Deputy Commander has?"

Deng Guangming said solemnly: "If you want to destroy the empty city plan, there are two ways: first, Sima Yi can order people to set up several red-clothed cannons outside the gate of the west city, bombard the gate of the west city, and kill Zhuge Liang!

The second is that Sima Yi can mobilize dozens of shotgun soldiers, approach the gate of the west city with shotguns, shoot all shotguns, and shoot Zhuge Kongming! "

"Ah..." Xue Zhang tried hard not to let himself laugh out loud, and he had to raise his thumb to say nice words, "Tall, tall, really tall, if Sima Yi has the strategy of the vice capital, why can't he swallow it in his lifetime?" Shu destroy Wu?"

Deng Guangming laughed loudly and said, "Prefect Xue, are you hurting me? I have read "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but Sima Yi has never read this book!"

Xue Zhang nodded, quite agreeing, "It's true, when Sima Yi was alive, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" hadn't been written yet!" He paused, "I don't know what method the deputy governor is going to use to break the empty city plan?"

Deng Guangming said: "We don't have red cannons at hand, so naturally we have to use shotguns to defeat the enemy!" He then ordered, "Yu Zuoling, order you to lead [-] shotgun soldiers to shoot at the head of the capital of Guiyu, aiming at the feather fan towel. The thief hit me hard!"

"Hey!" Yu Guolian, the leader of Duke Xushun's mansion, responded loudly.

Deng Guangming ordered the general of Zuoling Tang Jiabei again, and ordered: "Tang Zuoling, you take 160 infantry armor and go with Yu Zuoling, first use bows and arrows to shoot and kill the thieves on the city wall together with Yu Zuoling's shotgun soldiers. Ten After the arrow, your soldiers will form an formation and rush into the city gate... Be sure to capture and kill the Third Prince Zhu and the Third Grandson of Zhu!"

"Whoo!"

Chapter 012 God Zhuge bless you!

In the north gate tower of Guiyu Capital City, Zhu Hesheng, who was observing the enemy through a window, saw the Qing soldiers outside the city forming a "nine-in-ten-chain" phalanx of 80 people, and his strong heart picked up again. .

Because he found that the Qing army outside the city was not only equipped with a large number of muskets, but also used them quite methodically.Instead of swarming up and disrupting the guns, about [-] shotgun soldiers were arranged in ten rows and marched forward neatly.

On the left and right of these eighty shotgun soldiers, there are also eighty standard-armored infantry soldiers with full armor, each carrying a bow and arrow, and carrying a large knife with a long handle, walking neatly advance.

With this neatly arranged formation, and with this unhurried and unhurried pace, it can probably catch up with the contemporary European-style infantry phalanx, right?The Eight Banners Shangyong who was beaten and fled by Hong Jiaozhu and Yang God in later generations can't compare with them.

This is just the "Green Banner Han Army" at the bottom of the Eight Banners system of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties—according to Zhu Hesheng's memories of the Xushun Duke's Mansion from the original Zhu Qipao's mind, these soldiers are flying green flags and wearing ugly blue The guy with the gray cloth face armor and the "lightning rod" helmet on his head is an existence between the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Battalion soldiers, and belongs to the fan army in the Banner Army.And the flag army of Xushun Duke's Mansion is still the bottom of the Han Fan Banner Army system of the three kings, two princes and one princess (Kong Sizhen).

But this kind of existence at the bottom of the banner army... looks quite powerful!

I don't know if the "secret empty city plan" passed down by Zhuge Liang can break them?

Just as Zhu Hesheng thought of this, there was a sudden "boom, boom, boom" of gongs outside.Before the sound of the gong stopped, the military master Zhuge with the feather fan and scarf suddenly stood up, turned around and pushed the door into the tower, not even the zither that came from nowhere, and led two The boy borrowed by Lao Yu's family ran away.

Zhu Hesheng didn't understand what happened, so he grabbed the sleeves of Military Master Zhuge's wide robe, and only heard a chuck, and then tore it off halfway, revealing his arm covered in chain mail!

Military Master Zhuge saw that his clothes had been torn off, and said distressedly: "Pao Zhu, be gentle... I only have a Taoist robe (not a Taoist robe, but a Confucian robe)!"

Zhu Hesheng didn't bother to talk to him about the Daoist robe, but hurriedly asked: "Military Master, why did you run away... Your empty city plan is not going to work?"

That's right, how could "Zhuge Liang" run away while using an empty city trick?This is going to be seen by Sima Yi, can the empty city plan still work?

"Ah!" Military Master Zhuge glared, "Didn't you hear the sound of the gong? The Qinggou bird gunners made nine advances and ten consecutive formations, and the ringing of gold stopped. The next step is to shoot the bird gun! Although the military master is clever, but still Even if you haven’t cultivated the indestructible body of Vajra, you’re afraid of shotguns!”

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of "cracking" gunshots outside!

Both Army Master Zhuge and Zhu Hesheng shrank their necks in fright, but there were only eight shotguns fired just now, and the distance was relatively far, so the shots were not accurate, and none of them hit Army Master Zhuge and Zhuge Sheng who had already retreated into the gate tower. For Zhu and Sheng, all the bullets hit the city wall and crenels.Because the city wall of Guiyu Capital had just been covered with bricks a few years ago, it was very hard, and a lot of sparks were splashed when the bullet hit it.

Zhu Hesheng turned his attention to the large formation of the banner army outside, and found that the Qing army shotgunners were all lowering their heads to reload their ammunition.And a row of shotgun soldiers behind them passed them and became the first row, and then they raised their shotguns together!

At the same time, the archers next to the group of shotgunners also began to draw their bows and arrows-this is about to throw a rain of arrows!

Compared with those "nine advances and ten serials" who can only fire eight shotguns at a time, these archers who shoot feather arrows in volley are much more powerful!

After all, most of the more than one hundred people brought by Zhu's father and son and the two to three hundred strong men of Mr. Yu's house did not have armor and body protection, and could only rely on a rattan card to survive under the arrowheads.

However, both Zhu Hesheng and Zhuge Military Adviser had a life-saving chain mail, and they were all wearing it now.

"Avoid the arrow!"

Seeing the Qing soldiers starting to shoot arrows, Zhu Hesheng rushed to the window on the inner side of the city gate, poked his head out and let out a loud roar.

Of course there are ambushes inside the city gate!

According to Zhuge Junshi, the "Old Army" was also laid down inside the gate of the West City that year-what is an "Old Army"?He is the veteran who fought with the former master Liu Bei and fought for the rest of his life!Although he is older, he is proficient in martial arts and is especially good at using firearms!

Zhuge Liang not only ambush the veterans, but also planted mines!

As long as Sima Yi dared to rush in, he would be bombed by landmines and shot randomly... basically he would be dead!

And this time Zhuge Sanhe also arranged according to the secret recipe handed down by his ancestors. There is no "old army", but there are a lot of muskets and landmines, all prepared for Deng Guangming.

Deng Guangming spent three days busy dispatching troops and generals outside the capital of Guiyu to build equipment (ladders and shield carts).And Zhuge Junshi and Zhu Hesheng were not idle either, they were busy arranging the ambush in the "Secret Empty City Plan" in the city.

First of all, a small area of ​​houses inside the city gate was cleared, and a semicircular area was cleared.

Then build fortifications on the edge of the semicircle-that is, use straw bags to fill the soil to build a low wall, and then use door panels to frame the low wall to form an arrow-proof fortification.

In the end, of course, the landmine was "buried"!

The so-called mines are those copper-skinned chamber pots filled with sweet gunpowder.The largest of these is now placed in a wooden box half buried in the ground, filled with hay, and sprinkled with gunpowder.

In order to prevent the rockets launched by the Qing army from igniting the sweet powder chamber pot, Zhu Hesheng also asked people to make a wooden lid covered with copper skin to prevent fire from arrows.

There is also a thick hemp rope tied to the lid, and the other end of the rope is held by Zhu Tianwang Zhu Jushan.

Just wait for the Qing army to rush in, Zhu Tianwang will pull off the cover, and Zhu Hesheng will join the two generals under Zhu Tianwang, Su Yong, who is known as "Brave Su", and Zhao Zhongyi, who is known as "Loyalty Zhao". They will launch rockets together, and want to use rockets to light mines!

In addition, Zhuge's army division also ambushed soldiers on the city wall. There were not many people, a total of three to forty people, but they were all musketeers, half of them were under Zhu Tianwang's men, and half of them were people who were old at home.

These musketeers are not equipped with light shotguns, but heavy muskets called turtledove blunderbusses!

The projectiles fired by this heavy musket weighed one, two, and eight dollars!Because of its heavy weight and greater recoil when fired, it is usually fired on a bracket that looks a bit like a turtledove's foot, so it is called a turtledove foot gun.

The turtledove blunderbuss was spread to Guangdong and Fujian by Portuguese and Spanish merchants decades ago.By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Foshan in Guangdong and Anping in Fujian (Zheng Zhilong's hometown) could mass-produce this kind of firecracker.However, the Ming court was not a buyer of this kind of turtledove guns, so the turtledove guns produced in Foshan and Anping were not only sold to Zheng Zhilong's army, but also bought by powerful pirates in Guangdong and Fujian.

Also, these muskets are solidly built and will last a long time with proper maintenance.

Therefore, the thirty or forty firecrackers arranged on the city wall by the Zhuge military division are still very powerful!

Therefore, the secret empty city plan handed down by Zhuge Liang is quite powerful, but whether it can defeat the Qing soldiers outside the city depends on luck!

Seeing that the ambush soldiers in the city had already retreated to avoid the arrows, Zhu Hesheng was relieved a little.Then I started chanting "God Zhuge bless me" while preparing to shoot a rocket... But how should I shoot this arrow?

Zhu Hesheng took a Kaiyuan bow that had been placed on the inner wall of the gate tower, and pulled out a feathered arrow wrapped in cloth strips soaked in grease. He glanced at the brazier that had been lit long ago, and began to work hard to inherit Come to the memory to find the content related to archery!

He clearly remembered that Zhu Qipao was good at shooting arrows, and he hit every target!

But now he really can't remember how to shoot this arrow?

Hurry up!

Just as he was trying to think about how to shoot arrows, the Qing soldiers outside the city were also shooting a series of guns and arrow salvos.

That's really arrows raining down!Zhu Hesheng leaned against the city gate tower and was in a safe area where arrows and guns could not hit, but the others were not so lucky.Especially those Da Nanshan martyrs and young men from the Yu family who were hiding under the door panels... From time to time, someone let out a scream, it seemed that they had chosen a door panel made of too thin material!

Fortunately, the rain of arrows from the Qing soldiers did not last forever. After ten rounds of shooting, it stopped abruptly, leaving only the endless roar of serial guns and screams and wailing one after another on the battlefield.

Zhu Hesheng hurriedly looked at the box containing the mines...Fortunately, although there are many "white hairs" planted around, those "white hairs" are not rockets, and it seems that they did not shoot through the thick and strong hemp rope .

At this moment, a rush of drums suddenly sounded, and then there was a shout of killing!

"Kill! Capture Third Prince Zhu alive! Capture Third Grandson Zhu alive..."

The infantry of the Qing soldiers has launched a charge!

Zhu and Sheng are in a hurry!

He hasn't figured out how to shoot an arrow yet?

Why can't I remember it?

The infantry of the Qing soldiers did not give him time to think slowly, shouted slogans, formed two rectangular infantry formations, passed through the wide-open city gate hole like a tide, and rushed into the city.

"Living alone in the eight wastelands of Danan Town, this mountain was created by the Heavenly King..."

Zhu Hesheng heard his father recite poetry again. This is not because of his poetic nature, but to remind Zhu Hesheng and others to set off rockets!

Because old man Zhu is about to pull off the copper cover that blocks it!