After recapturing Huilai County, the Ming army took advantage of the situation and moved westward, sweeping through key points such as Shenquan, Beishan and Jiazimen Qianhu Station, as if they were entering uninhabited territory.

All the defenders in these places have been transferred back to Jieshi Acropolis by Su Li. After receiving such news, Chen Kai breathed a sigh of relief. Originally, he made bold words, but in his heart, he did not believe that this battle would be inevitable.

If you can get Su Li's head, you can run away if you can't defeat him, just like when Hui came. But since Su Li sent people to transfer the defenders in these places, the only way is to defend the Jieshi Guard's lair.

"He probably still hopes to hold on until Huang Yingjie arrives."

The army entered the territory of Huizhou Prefecture and headed straight for the Jieshi Acropolis. In the 27th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built Jieshi 1 and 9 Jieshi Acropolis to consolidate the coastal defense of eastern Guangdong. During the Jiajing Japanese Rebellion, the people in Shiqiaochang outside the west gate of the Acropolis were repeatedly burned by Japanese pirates.

Therefore, more earthen cities were built. From this, troops were stationed in the acropolis and the residents of the earthen cities were built.

According to "Huizhou Prefecture Chronicles" written by Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty: "The city is two feet high and one foot and eight feet wide. It is surrounded by 1,150 feet. There are 2,262 battlements. The pond is one foot deep and one foot and two feet wide. The enemy

The fourth building has a gate at the bottom. The perimeter of the Acropolis wall is more than 3,600 meters, which is much larger than Huilai County.

This is just the acropolis. The Shiqiaochang Earthen City was built behind it. "It is connected to the acropolis wall in the east, and the other walls are about two miles long." Calculated in this way, the earthen city alone is not inferior to the area of ​​the acropolis.

.Moreover, the two cities are integrated into one, and their size is more than three times that of Huilai County. It is like a big city.

This is Su Li's old nest. According to the old system of guarding in the Ming Dynasty, one Jieshi Guard had 10,000 soldiers and horses stationed here. For more than two hundred years, the military households of the guard have fled, but regardless of Su Li's

Cheng, or he, has a large number of guardsmen under his command who originally belonged to Zhang Mingzhen, the commander of the Jieshi Guards. However, these guardsmen have been thieves for many years and have long forgotten their important task of protecting the people in their jurisdiction.

Two pure.

The army arrived and learned from the people living outside the city that Su Li had expelled all non-local residents to prevent spies from inside. Chen Kai led the army to arrive. According to the intelligence, Su Li should have more than 2,000 party members left.

, some of them are in Haifeng County, which means there may be less than 2,000 Qing troops here.

But since he has been killed in his lair, it is most appropriate to mobilize the entire city to defend him. Chen Kai has no intention of looking down on Su Li, but he also has no intention of looking down on him. A war of this scale and level is no longer something he can do.

It was all that the local bandit could afford. If the Ming army's strategic focus had not shifted, he would have been swallowed up and digested by Zheng Chenggong, and he would not have been allowed to become so arrogant.

The items that Chen Kai specially asked Chen Bao to transport have been unloaded. This thing is too heavy, and each loading and unloading takes too long. Plus the transportation, let alone a field operation, even if it is from Jinghai

When it arrived in Huilai County, Chen Kai felt that he couldn't wait any longer. However, this Jieshi Guard was originally a coastal Japanese defense station. The guard city was very close to the coastline. The Wanghai Tower in the city could even clearly observe the situation along the coast and land on the seaside.

, the loading, unloading and transportation were completed under the heavy protection of the Ming army, so wasting some time was not an intolerable thing.

On the east gate of the Acropolis, the forehead that was broken during the earlier breakout was far from clean. It was now bandaged and waiting for the wound to heal, but the embarrassment was still visible to everyone.

In the distance, the Ming army was slowly carrying two big things. Suli could clearly see that they were two huge bronze cannons. Looking at the size, the cannons would definitely not weigh less than ten kilograms, or even ten kilograms.

Seven or eight pounds is not impossible.

Su Li couldn't help but swallowed, and felt his breathing heavy. When he escaped from Huilai, he lost almost all of his mobile troops, and the main infantry was wiped out. But even so, he never gave up and transferred back to Shenquan, Beishan and

The garrisons at Jiazimen Qianhu Station and other places also mobilized some garrisons from Jiesheng Station and Haifeng County. Together with the garrison at the old nest and the temporary troops, there was another army of thousands of people.

Defending is the only way. As long as Huang Yingjie's reinforcements arrive, he can achieve a comeback. At worst, he can save this old nest for the future. But when he saw the two giant cannons, Su Li could no longer say no.

After speaking out, I just watched dumbfoundedly as the Ming army was slowly making preparations two or three miles away. Whether it was adjusting the gun position or loading...

The firing accuracy of the front-loaded smoothbore cannon itself has quite a problem, not to mention it is at such a long distance. Suli had a bit of luck, and he was lucky that the Ming army was bluffing. But as the loading was completed, the first

During the test firing, those two giant cannons taught him a solid lesson.

The gun crews of the two giant cannons and several exquisite tools were fiddled with in a stylish manner by the gunner. The numbers reported from time to time were immediately recorded on the whiteboard. After careful estimation, he immediately issued another order.

An order was given, and the gunners followed the order and worked hard to adjust the angle and direction of the artillery until the gunner was satisfied. Next, the gunners tore off the thread, and the gunpowder in the cloth bag even weighed heavy.

Then he went in directly. Next, the heavy shells were carefully put in. After the loading was completed, the final adjustments were made. With the commander's flag swinging in the distance, the torch was pressed on the fuse of the fire door.

, a deafening roar followed.

If there is only this rolling thunder without any substance, then it is just a bluff as Suli was lucky. But at the same time as the roar, black cannonballs roared in, drawing a trail in the sky.

The trajectory of the tail shadow hit the fields outside the city hard, and immediately splashed a piece of plaster. Even Suli in the city seemed to smell the earthy smell.

There seemed to be slight vibrations on the ground. This was just the first shot. A moment later, the second artillery completed loading. As soon as the fuse was lit, the shells shot out and hit the city wall directly.

The angle between it and the ground.

There was a huge vibration, as if the entire city wall was shaking. With such power, Suli would not be stupid enough to regard it as the power of gods and ghosts, but the artillery of the Ming army was not only powerful, but also had extremely high shooting accuracy.

This made him immediately feel uncontrollable fear.

Even a desperado like him no longer dared to look at the depressions in the city wall. In the name of organizing city defense, Suli went down to the city. On the surface, it was calm, but the waves inside seemed to explode him.

.Finding a secluded place, Su Li could no longer hold on and sat down on the ground slumped, but the roar from the distance was still heard in his ears. It was no longer clear whether it was the two shots just now or the next one.

Shelling. But one thing, he could still distinguish clearly, that is, whether to escape or to defend. This question was constantly torn in his heart, almost tearing him in half.

The frequency of the Ming army's artillery fire was very slow, but as the second artillery fired, it was just two cannons. One of the cannons directly destroyed the city gate. The wooden city gate was torn into pieces like paper.

This was all in the imagination of the Qing army, but another cannon that followed directly hit the city wall, blasting the top of the city wall with masonry and earth flying. It seemed that the city wall was not necessarily better than paper.

How much stronger is it?

"Commander, Marshal..."

The trusted general quickly found Su Li. Seeing the ferocious look on his face, the general's fear of running away was so frightened that he became weak. Su Li was shaken to regain his consciousness, and the general said "Run away."

But it was immediately rejected by Su Li.

He was originally a desperado. Over the years, he has been either cunning, cunning, enduring humiliation, or extremely vicious, all for the sake of the local emperor in this land. Now he has retreated to his old lair, and there may be Haifeng County and Shengjiesuo behind him, but

Losing the Jieshi Acropolis was something he absolutely could not accept.

"Zhan, even if it means death, I will die here!"

Pulling out his sword, Su Li stabbed to death the general who had "shaken the morale of the army" with one blow. Soon, with his own soldiers, the servants rushed towards the city wall.

However, before he could reach the city wall, there was another roaring sound, and as far as he could see, a city wall collapsed. The flying bricks, stones, and clods of earth even knocked several of his soldiers off their feet.

.

The smoke and dust obscured my vision, but my ears were full of screams and the muffled sound of rocks falling and hitting the ground or other rocks and rammed earth. When I could look down on things, a fiery red color had already poured in.

When he reached the gap in the city wall, shouts of killing were heard everywhere, and the advancing Ming army quickly approached him.

"Someone is..."

"kill!"

The spear pierced his lower abdomen, and he stopped introducing himself in the summer. The disgraced Suli was not dead for a while, and wanted to kill with a knife, but he was soon stabbed and hacked by more spears and waist knives, forever.
Chapter completed!