Chapter 377 The funeral of King Pingnan
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Outside the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, Zhou Shi personally supervised the battle and vowed to take down the last Qing army stronghold in Guangzhou City.
Suddenly, the Taiping Army entered the city, and the three Niulu Han troops who were left behind in the Pingnan Fan City had not figured out what had happened, and the Taiping Army shouted and killed outside the military camp.
The Taiping Army had just wiped out the Manzhou brigade of Hahamu and rushed into Guangzhou City. The morale from top to bottom is far more powerful than that of the Han army. They can be described as arrogant. In order to seize the time, the Taiping Army rushed to the front even chopped and slashed at the people blocking the way and the Han army's family, and cut out a bloody road and rushed towards the Han army camp.
The Han army was caught off guard, and the camp was soon captured by the Taiping Army. Qin Guocheng, the deputy commander who stayed in the camp, gathered hundreds of people in a panic and fought and retreated. He was eventually forced into the Pingnan Prince's Mansion not far away by the Taiping Army.
The guards and soldiers in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion had met with more than 300 people, and their responsibilities were to protect the safety of the Prince's Mansion.
When chaos arose in the city, Shang Kexi, who was discussing affairs with Governor Li Rutai, immediately issued an arrow to order the Han army to go out to fight against the chaos, but it was already one step late. After the Han army in the camp was driven out of the camp by the Taiping Army and forced into the palace, Shang Kexi realized that the big thing was not good and he had lost control of Guangzhou City.
Li Lutai was so shocked that he couldn't speak. He could not understand how the Taiping Army ran to Guangzhou from the encirclement and suppression of the three armies, and how they entered the city.
Thinking that his wife was still in the Governor's Office, Li Rutai begged Shang Kexi to send someone to save him. Shang Kexi agreed to him and transferred dozens of soldiers from his family to him. However, the Pingnan Prince's Mansion was surrounded by the Taiping Army, and Li Rutai had no way out.
"It's so gratifying to break the royal palace and capture it alive!"
"It's so gratifying to break the royal palace and capture it alive!"
There were shouts from Taiping Army everywhere outside. Li Lutai was shocked and was speechless with his master Gui Yongzhi. Both of them were trembling: The sky collapsed. The sky collapsed!
Shang Kexi also had a ugly face, but she still put on her armor under the servant's service, pressed the long sword between her legs and walked out without saying a word to command the enemy. He could fail. But he had to fight until the end, and he would never just watch the Taiping Army break through his royal palace.
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Zhou Shixiang knew that Guan Tianshui had conquered the Governor's Office. Although he did not catch Li Lutai, he captured his wife E Enzhe, the princess of the Aisin Gioro family.
The arrest of Hong Chengchou's son Hong Shiming made Zhou Shixiang unexpectedly happy. He ordered Guan Tianshui to take these two people to prison. He also asked Guan Tianshui to organize people to clear the streets immediately, and immediately put Guangzhou City in martial law immediately, and no one could walk outside. This move was to avoid unnecessary casualties from the people. The capture of Guangzhou City was a foregone conclusion, and Zhou Shixiang did not want to let innocent people bleed.
When they first entered the city, in order to create panic in the city, it would be beneficial for the Taiping Army to quickly capture the entire city. It is inevitable that the people will die and suffer casualties, but now they have to calm the people's hearts and start to deal with the aftermath. The Taiping Army was the army of the Ming Dynasty, not the Qing army. Most of the people in the city were Han people, and Zhou Shixiang could not have the Taiping Army massacre in Guangzhou like the Qing army.
The Jingnan Prince's Mansion did not have much guarding power, and Geng Jimao came out in full swing, so Jiang Fan brought 2 guards and 600 soldiers to fight, so Zhou Shixiang was completely relieved. If he couldn't take over the Jingnan Prince's Mansion, Jiang Fan or 600 soldiers could all wipe his neck! Zhou Shixiang didn't want such a waste!
Shao Jiugong and Tieyi have seized and closed the city gates. The current Guangzhou City is just an iron cage. While locking up the Taiping Army, they also surrounded the Qing army. They are already in a jar.
Now there are only Pingnan Prince's Mansion and the whole city.
After taking down the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, the situation in Guangzhou was completely settled, and the old, weak, women and children in Manzhou were not worth worrying about.
The blind Li looked at the old man in Manzhou above and jumped straight up, but the general did not send him troops, but only asked him to lead people outside. This made the blind Li very anxious. He carried a big hammer and shouted at the city to fight with the old man in Manzhou above, which was as if Li Changshan was here. Who dared to fight? However, the arrows of the old man in Manzhou were shot very accurately. The blind Li came forward several times and wanted to shout, but they were forced back by the other party's arrow branches. The old man in Manzhou who was shooting arrows on the top of the city was not much better. After shooting a few arrows, he was exhausted and panting, and his old bones seemed to be about to disperse.
Suna, who led a few Manzhou soldiers to slash and create chaos in the city, also came to Mancheng, but he did not show up immediately, but hid far away and watched the blind Li curse under the city.
Looking at the old Manzhou people on the city wall, Suna felt her face very hot, and the few Manzhou soldiers under her felt guilty and uneasy. But they were still thinking about how to capture the city and how to protect their wives, children and children.
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The Pingnan Prince's Mansion was the original Shaowu Palace. The Shaowu Palace was rebuilt from the original Guangdong Governor's Office, so the courtyard wall was extremely high. Hundreds of Han soldiers who retreated into the Pingnan Prince's Mansion and the soldiers of the guards in the royal palace fought desperately, but the Taiping Army failed to break through the gate.
The Han army under Shang Kexi's vassal were all worthy of firearms. They set up many ladders behind the palace wall and climbed up the courtyard wall to fire guns at the Taiping Army. For a while, the Taiping Army could not approach the palace.
The personal barracks collected a lot of tincture oil from the surrounding houses and wanted to burn the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, but the guns in the palace were so dense that they could not throw the tincture oil and torches into the palace.
Seeing this, Zhou Shi sent hundreds of surrendered soldiers from the Green Camp to bring the bronze cannons from the top of Guangzhou City, and shot the Pingnan Prince's Mansion. Iron bullets roared into the mansion, stirring up pieces of gravel and dust.
If it weren't for the heavy red artillery on the city wall and the delay in handling it, Zhou Shixiang would have wished that those big guys would be brought over as well.
The deadly iron bombs that kept falling from the air made the Qing soldiers in the palace sweat coldly. No one knew where the iron bombs would fall. The Han army could still rely on their experience to avoid cannons, but the inexperienced people in the palace could only stand foolishly. When the shells fell, they couldn't run away.
An iron ball fell from the air and hit a soldier, and immediately smashed a big hole in the body of the soldier. The rolling iron ball jumped up from the ground with the flesh and blood of the people and flew towards the wall on the other side, making a huge hole.
Although the artillery bombardment suppressed the Qing army in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, the gate was still unable to be captured. The Taiping Army forced the surrendered troops of the Green Camp to climb the courtyard wall of the Prince's Mansion, but failed to succeed in the rushing twice.
More than a hundred Manzhou soldiers wearing double armor acted as suicide squads with red eyes. The gunmen transferred from the right camp of the infantry kept setting guns on the courtyard wall. As the smoke of gunfire filled, Manzhou soldiers finally climbed up the courtyard wall, and there was a sound of killing in the palace.
Zhu Qinglai, deputy battalion officer of the personal barracks, personally led people to tear down a large mansion around him. He sharpened the big wood on the roof, and dozens of Taiping soldiers shouted shields and knocked the big wood into the gate of the royal palace.
One, two, three...
With the violent impact, bricks and stones began to fall above the gate of the royal palace, and the people inside also noticed that the gate was about to be knocked open. They were desperately pushing against the wood. However, more and more Taiping troops fell from the courtyard wall not far away. They were rushing towards the gate. The guards behind the gate and the Han army could not resist the red-eyed Manzhou soldiers. At first, they could fight bravely, but after hearing the Manzhou dialect shouted by the other party, these Han soldiers were so scared that they were scattered. Before they could figure out why the Manzhou uncle helped the Taiping gang attack the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, they were chopped over to the ground by the Manzhou uncles.
With the cooperation of Manzhou soldiers who invaded the royal palace, the gate of Pingnan Prince's Mansion was finally knocked open. The moment the gate was knocked open, the cheers of the Taiping Army sounded. Hundreds of Taiping Army roared and rushed into Pingnan Prince's Mansion excitedly. Everything in the royal palace attracted their attention like a woman of gold and silver.
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When the clan brother Shang Keyuan ran to Shang Kexi with blood, Shang Kexi knew it was over. Everything was over. The Pingnan Prince's Mansion was over. He could not wait for his son to come back or any miracle would happen.
Although there were still many Han army and their own soldiers fighting against the Taiping Army that rushed in, Shang Kexi knew that the defeat was decided and his subordinates' desperate resistance could not stop the failure.
Shang Kexi seemed to have all the strength removed from his body. He sat weakly on the long strip beside the pavilion. The armor on his body was not very heavy. In the past, he could still run horses while wearing it. After a few strokes on the horse, he now weighed as a thousand pounds, making his back collapse little by little.
"Prince, Prince!"
Qin Guocheng led dozens of guards to come over. Seeing the lonely appearance of King Pingnan, Qin Guocheng couldn't help but scream: "Prince, but if the generals have a breath, the Taiping gang will not hurt the prince!"
"Let's go, fight with the Taiping bandit!"
Shang Keyuan waved his sword with a ferocious look and wanted to fight the Taiping Army. However, Shang Kexi grabbed him, shook his head, sighed and said to him: "Do you know how King Dingnan died back then?"
"How did King Dingnan die?"
Shang Keyuan and Qin State were stunned there, and they both felt a chill rising from behind.
"At that time, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, I and I were called the Three Minings in Shandong. We fought against the Ming Dynasty together, and we also surrendered to Emperor Taizong, and were named Sanshun King, and then followed Prince Rui into the pass and went south to fight Nanming together... Geng Zhongming died so much that he was so scared that he hanged himself because of his escape. Kong Youde was surrounded by Li Dingguo and lit a torch in the palace. Alas... The Three Minings in the Qing Dynasty were only one of my left, and it was my turn. You don't have to worry about me, go all the way. Although I don't know how the Taiping gang came to Guangzhou, I think the three armies are willing to
There must be something wrong, I hope that it will not be Zhixin. After my death, you will surrender to Taiping gangs. Don’t worry about so many things. Just survive. I, who do not want to surrender, are waiting for you on the road to the underworld... If you can escape, if Zhixin is still alive, tell him to go to Zhaoqing to find Xu Erxian. After my death, the title of King Pingnan will be attacked. Zhixiao I have sent him to the capital. You let Zhixin submit a letter to me. Please ask the court to keep Zhixiao in the capital as the governor of the Qing Dynasty over the years. Don’t let him go south again.”
Shang Kexi's voice was very calm, and people could not hear the despair in his tone at all. He was calmly explaining his funeral.
"Your Majesty, no!"
Chapter completed!