After reading his newly created "Poetry of Narratives", Hong Xiuquan, who was proud of his life, took out his three-foot Longquan Sword with a clang, pointed in the direction of the Nanjing City Wall, and shouted: "God bless the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom... Kill the demon! Go to heaven!"
With Hong Xiuquan's shout, a huge red flag fluttering in the wind suddenly flew up beside him. The Taiping Army artillerymen who had been ready on the front line immediately lit three or four hundred bronze cannons handed down by Wu Sangui, and there was a loud roar. There was a "rumbling" sound of artillery.
Although these cannons are 180 years old, their materials, craftsmanship and even the shape of the cannons are much better than those of the "Qing cannons" since the Qianlong period, so they are still going strong to this day!
Most of the gunners in the Taiping Army who used these "old cannons" were miners from Hunan Daozhou and Chenzhou areas. They were all good at rubbing gunpowder and playing with gunpowder. Of course, the gunpowder they prepared was not as good as that of foreigners. Industrially produced gunpowder, but compared to the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing Dynasty, the gunpowder used by the Green Camp soldiers is not that good.
Under the huge thrust generated by the explosion of gunpowder, stone cannonballs were ejected from the muzzle of an old cannon that had waited for a full 180 years to demonstrate its power, and rolled across the sky. An arc, and then slammed into the rock-solid Jinling City Wall.
"Boom boom boom."
The stone bullets hit the solid wall of Jinling City, making loud and clear noises. The stone bullets and city bricks died together, turning into scattered gravel. But the Jinling City, which was almost born with the Ming Dynasty, has The city wall is so strong that even a bronze cannon weighing 1,000 or 2,000 kilograms built hundreds of years later will not be able to do anything to it.
Lu Jianying and Xianghou, who were watching the battle on Lion Rock, felt a little relieved when they saw that the Jinling city wall withstood the fierce bombardment of the Taiping Army.
Although they both know that Jinling is difficult to defend, the more they defend it, the more they will live!
Looking at it like this, Jinling City can carry it for at least three months! It seems that they still have three months left for adults to do...
Outside Jinling City, Hong Xiuquan looked at the city wall that remained motionless despite the roar of cannons in the distance, but his face did not change, but his lips trembled slightly and he made an inaudible voice: "One, two, three, four, five..."
When Hong Xiuquan counted to fifty, he suddenly sheathed his sword, freed his hands to cover his ears, and his eyes flashed with anticipation.
Suddenly. "Boom.."
There was a loud noise and the earth shook!
Hong Xiu, who was standing on the sedan with "three rooms and one hall", felt a shaking under his feet. He quickly picked up a telescope and looked at the Jinling City Wall in the distance. He only saw the bombardment of two to three hundred bronze cannons just now. The solid city wall was only slightly damaged, but now a large section is shrouded in dust and smoke rising into the sky!
"Heavenly Father bless! Heavenly Father bless..."
Hong Xiuquan muttered something while holding the telescope in his hand tightly, staring intently at the smoke rising into the sky.
As a gust of river wind blew by, some of the dust and smoke dispersed, revealing a large section of the collapsed city wall!
"It's done! It's done..." Hong Xiuquan's voice trembled a little, his eyes became a little blurred, and he waved his fist vigorously, "The sweet gunpowder formula of the compatriots is really easy to use... The city of Nanjing can be blown up today, two people Years from now, we will definitely be able to blow up the city of Beijing. I am indeed the son of Heavenly Father, the Holy Lord of the world, and I will rule the world! Hahaha!" It turns out that the Taiping Army did not expect to rely on artillery fire to destroy the thick Jinling City Wall. According to Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai According to the plan formulated by others, the 1st, 1st, 1st and 24th Army on the Left, who served as the vanguard, immediately occupied Jinghai Temple near Yifeng Gate after arriving outside Jinling City, and then used Jinghai Temple as a stronghold to dispatch Chenzhou , Daozhou miners dug tunnels for the main "engineers" and at the same time cooked powerful sugar-nitrate gunpowder on site in Jinghai Temple.
When the main force led by Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing arrived, the tunnel had already been dug under the city wall near Yifeng Gate. The shelling just now was just to cover the engineers carrying coffins containing nitrate and gunpowder through the tunnel to the bottom of the Jinling city wall.
"Proudness and arrogance are like thousands of waves, and blood and heat are stronger than the red sun..."
Just when Hong Xiuquan was talking to himself and seemed to be in a semi-crazy state, thousands of Taiping soldiers who were almost shouting out the lyrics of "Men Should Be Strong" were already rushing out of the formation towards the "Sweet Gunpowder" that had just collapsed. They swarmed away from the collapse of the city wall.
And rushing at the front were dozens of death warriors holding torches high and carrying saltpeter grenades!
Under the gaze of Hong Xiuquan's bloodshot eyes, a wave of water poured into the gap in the city wall that was dozens of feet wide.
Taicang Prefecture, Baoshan County, inside the Jade Palace. "Whose food will you eat?"
"Eat Mr. Luo's food!" "Wear whose clothes?" "Wear Mr. Luo's clothes!" "Whose salary?" "Take Mr. Luo's salary!"
The voices of questions and answers echoed one after another in the two open flat areas inside and outside the Taoist temple gate that had just been renovated. A muscular man wearing a white short coat and black trousers in the style of a Shanghai dockworker was standing on these two flat areas. There were rows and rows of people standing on the ground, the total number of them seemed to be four to five thousand.
Officers in black mandarin jackets, accompanied by soldiers holding trays of silver coins, were paying the new recruits who had just entered the camp and had not yet had time to change into formal military uniforms.
Four silver dollars per person!
The most reliable officers from the teaching brigade and secret hall were distributed under the supervision of Luo Yaoguo himself. Every time a person was distributed, someone would ask, "Whose food will they eat? Whose clothes will they wear?", and the answer was... of course. It means "eating Lord Luo's food", "wearing Lord Luo's clothes", and "taking Lord Luo's salary"!
Luo Yaoguo's Shanghai New Army is still different from the Taiping Army. He has no way to establish a new Taiping Army in Shanghai, so he can only pretend to be a comprador warlord, first buy the arms, recruit soldiers, and then in the shortest time Pull up the troops within time.
As long as there are thousands of people, Shanghai is still within Luo Yaoguo's pocket?
As long as Shanghai is captured, this "fake Qing army" will transform into the Taiping Army. Isn't it just a matter of Luo Yaoguo's words?
Therefore, the ideological education methods of this new army are simple and crude, just let the soldiers know who provides them with their military pay and food! They are not Xianfeng's soldiers, nor Hong Xiuquan's soldiers, but Lord Luo's soldiers!
Luo Yaoguo, who was standing just under the gate of the mountain gate, watched these recruits take over the four silver coins given to them by their battalion commander and company commander with both hands one by one, and shouted slogans from the heart. He was wearing blue. While walking in his coat, Xiang Xun, who was wearing a carved golden crown, walked quickly towards Luo Yaoguo. Behind him was a short man who looked like a businessman, it was Chen Chengrong.
I saw Xiang Xun hugging Luo Yaoguo with a happy face: "Sir, Jinling..." Xiang Xun only said the word Jinling and then stopped, and then stood solemnly in front of Luo Yaoguo, while Chen Chengrong, who looked like a businessman, said nothing. , standing behind Xiang Xun with a smile.
"Dalong, just watch, I'll come as soon as I go!"
Luo Yaoguo already understood what happened, so he ordered Wang Dalong beside him, and then took Xiang Xun and Chen Chengrong to the main hall where the plaque "Jade Emperor Palace" was hanging.
This Taoist temple named "Jade Palace" is located in Luodian Town, Baoshan County, Taicang Prefecture, Jiangsu Province. It is the family temple of the Luodian Tang family, a wealthy family in Baoshan. It covers an area of ​​more than 30 acres and was renovated a few years ago. At one time, many palaces and halls were added, making it the largest temple around Shanghai County, enough to accommodate Luo Yaoguo's new army.
Moreover, Luodian Town is the northern gate of Shanghai County and the Shanghai Concession. Its location is very important, so Wu Jianzhang came forward to borrow this Taoist temple from the Luodian Tang family and gave it to Luo Yaoguo, who wanted to find a spacious place to station his troops.
Luo Yaoguo's central army was located in the Jade Emperor Hall, the original main hall of the Taoist temple. The statue of the Jade Emperor had long been removed. The huge hall was divided into several areas, and the "Combat Department" and "Intelligence Department" were erected respectively. , "Supply Department", "Communications Department", "Mobilization Department", and "Command Room" signs.
Dozens of young men dressed as eighth- and ninth-grade Qing military attachés were busy among the central army. As the guards on duty outside the Jade Emperor's Palace shouted "Lord Luo is here!", everyone put down what they were doing and stood in awe. He bowed his hands toward the door and said, "See you, sir."
Luo Yaoguo clasped his fists kindly and said with a smile: "Go ahead and get going!"
Then, Luo Yaoguo pointed to the room in the main hall that was temporarily separated by wooden boards and hung with the sign of "Commander's Room", made a "respecting guest" gesture, and said to Chen Chengrong: "Guard Chen, please come inside."
Chapter completed!