Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

Geng Jimao and the others finally saw clearly what those shiny, golden things were, but they still couldn't believe their eyes.

Why is this cannon so large? Judging from the material, it's either made of gold or brass. Where did the Ming Dynasty get such a large cannon?

No, when did the Ming court undergo such a big change?

How can this be?

Geng Jimao and the other man looked at each other and were both shocked.

The two had been held hostage in Shengjing since their father surrendered to the Jianlu, and were only released after their father's death.

In their impression, the Ming Dynasty court was corrupt and foolish, so how could there be so much silver?

"Master, please give the order quickly. I haven't heard the voice of truth for several days." Zhu Cilang said excitedly as he looked at the spectacular artillery position.

"You keep talking about the truth every day. Be careful that your father will beat you when you go back!" Zhang Shikang said helplessly.

Zhu Cilang grinned foolishly.

"It's time to let the Tartars see what it means to have divine soldiers descend from the sky. Your Highness, please give the order." Sun Weifan immediately bowed to Zhu Cilang and asked for orders.

"There's no need to be so anxious, Old Huang, go up and persuade him again, just like we said last night." Zhang Shikang said with a nod to Huang Degong.

Sun Weifan didn't say anything, but Wu Sangui frowned, and the soldiers in the resentment army also seemed a little anxious.

These old soldiers from western Liaoning hated the defenders of Yizhou City to the core. King Samsun was a general under Mao Wenlong of Liaodong. After surrendering to Huang Taiji, he massacred the Han people in western Liaoning in order to gain his trust.

Now that the offensive and defensive positions have changed, the veterans from western Liaoning are planning to take this opportunity to avenge their fathers.

But the commander said nothing, so everyone could only suppress their emotions.

"Geng family boy, Shang family boy, listen up.

The commander-in-chief said that God is merciful and that the sins of you two and your fathers should not be shared by the people of Yizhou City.

If you surrender, the leader of the rebels will die, and the rest of you will be spared even if you are punished. The people will also be grateful to you.

Let's do some good deeds."

Huang Degong's words made the resentful army collectively breathe a sigh of relief. No matter what, their hatred could be avenged. After all, the Marshal was thinking of them.

Zhang Shikang also waited quietly for the reply from the people on the city wall.

This was actually his compromise. The area outside the Great Wall was sparsely populated and needed more labor. Once the siege began, the first people to die would definitely be the civilians in the city.

But no matter what, Geng Jimao and other main generals must not be let off. Those who have made contributions will be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes will be punished. Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others and their descendants should be executed for their crimes.

Besides, how could he let down the veterans from western Liaoning?

The opportunity has been given to you, whether you can grasp it depends entirely on yourself.

However, Zhang Shikang was greatly disappointed when Geng Jimao heard this on the city wall. Hearing that he would die no matter what, he no longer cared about the lives of his subordinates and the people in the city.

When Shang Zhixin was about to say something, Geng Jimao had already drawn his bow and shot at Huang Degong, and immediately ordered his subordinates on the city wall to shoot before they could consider the pros and cons.

He had no way to retreat, and the hateful Ming army outside the city actually tried to cut off his supply of funds, which showed that they really did not take him seriously.

In the past two days, he and Shang Zhixin had already done ideological work on all their subordinates, making them understand that as rebels, the court would never let them go.

But even so, Geng Jimao was still not very confident, especially those golden heavy artillery, which looked really scary.

There was no expression on Zhang Shikang's face, he just nodded at Zhu Cilang.

Zhu Cilang immediately shouted excitedly to Qi Dazhu, the commander of the artillery battalion:

"Marquis Ningjin, I order you to fire immediately!"

As soon as the military order was issued, white smoke immediately rose from the artillery position, and in an instant a thunderous roar rang through the ears.

With such an excellent attack distance, all the shells almost hit their targets, and most of the shells landed in the direction of the weakest city gate.

The huge impact force reduced the city gate, which was half a foot thick and covered with iron sheets, to ashes in just one round of artillery fire.

Large pieces of wall bricks fell off, and the damaged city gate exposed the stone slabs in the city gate aisle, with stones flying and dust flying.

The entire city wall was shaking, which was so frightening that Shang Zhixin's face turned pale.

"The enemy's firearms are so powerful? We can only sit and wait for death. If so, how can we defend the city?"

Shang Zhixin seemed to be asking himself, and also seemed to be asking Geng Jimao.

The bows and arrows could not reach them, and even the Portuguese cannons on the city walls could not reach them. There were less than 8,000 defenders in the city, and the enemy was probably hoping that they would leave the city and fight back.

"We were deceived by that guy Dorgon!" Geng Jimao shouted with his eyes wide open.

He had been thinking of saying that when he saw those gleaming cannons just now.

Dorgon was in a terrible state when he first entered the city. Poor people, they thought that the Qing Dynasty had only suffered a temporary setback.

"Surrendering means death too. Damn it, what do you think we should do now?" Shang Zhixin said in panic.

"How the hell should I know? I'm dead, but when I die, the whole city must be buried with me!" Geng Jimao's face was ferocious.

"Come here, bring all those people to the top of the city wall!"

In Yizhou City, a large number of civilians were tied together with hemp ropes and driven to the city walls by soldiers while crying.

Originally, these militiamen were recruited by Geng Jimao to defend the city, which was almost a consensus in all previous city defense battles.

When the enemy attacked the city, these militiamen would be responsible for carrying rolling logs and stones, boiling water, and even throwing stones down to the city wall themselves.

However, Zhang Shikang did not use manpower to attack the city, making their conventional method of defending the city useless.

The artillery's siege method forced them to passively take the beating, which was really maddening.

Given the thickness of the city walls, artillery attacks were extremely inefficient and required a huge amount of ammunition. As a result, in previous wars, artillery attacks were rare and were mostly used in field battles and defense.

But the artillery under the city was extremely powerful. After only one round of bombardment, the city gate was destroyed. Let alone a month, God knows whether it could be held for three days.

There is no way to advance or retreat, and there is no door to the earth.

After Geng Jimao went crazy, the once timid Shang Zhixin also hardened his heart and immediately acted as an executioner, driving the people in the city onto the city wall.

Huang Degong immediately reported the situation to Zhang Shikang.

The old soldiers in western Liaoning all looked at Zhang Shikang. When they learned that the Grand Marshal did not allow them to attack the city just because he wanted to reduce their casualties, these old soldiers knew that the Grand Marshal had a kind heart.

And now that group of damn traitors in the city have done something so outrageous that it is condemned by both humans and gods, what will the Grand Marshal do?

Will you give up attacking the city for the sake of the lives of the people?

They had reason to worry like this. After all, the officials from the capital were all upright and fearful of damaging their reputation.

Zhang Shikang picked up the telescope, looked around, and then sighed.

The veterans in western Liaoning were all worried, praying that this great commander would not show any mercy.

"Kindness is not the way to command an army, kindness is not the way to command an army." Zhang Shikang muttered to himself, and then said to the Liaoxi veterans of the resentful army with a sullen face:

"After the city is captured, I want you to avenge the people of Yizhou and kill all the remnants of King Samsoon. Leave no one alive!"

The veterans in western Liaoning were all very excited:

"I will obey the Marshal's orders and will not hesitate even if it means death!"

"Tell Qi Dazhu to continue attacking the city!"

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