From midnight, the artillery troops of the United States carried out the maximum frequency of artillery bombardment on the western city of Weixian. The Western Expedition Army had five artillery battalions, three of which were heavy artillery battalions, equipped with eighteen-pound bronze siege cannons, which was undoubtedly devastating to the city walls of Weixian. As many as a hundred artillery fired, and the continuous artillery continued for half a night. On the second day, Hai Shixing, who had not slept all night, climbed the northeast wall of Dongcheng and looked at the west city and looked at the sea gate.

The east city spread north and south, and it can be seen clearly from the northeast city wall. The tall city gate tower of Wanghaimen has completely collapsed and disappeared. A gap of more than twenty feet wide extended from the city gate to both sides. The shelling continued to continue. This time, field artillery was hitting the scepter and female wall at the top of the city wall, and bricks and stones were flying everywhere, and people could not stand in the entire north city wall.

The same is true in the West City. If this artillery bombardment is endured by the East City, what should I do? Hai Shixing couldn't help but think, and suddenly there was a loud noise from the west, followed by the cheers and frightening sounds of millions of people, as if the sky and the earth were shattered. Hai Shixing hurriedly looked at it. It was the sound of the sky and the earth cracking from the north wall. It was covered by splashing smoke and dust, and I couldn't see anything clearly. From a distance, I saw people running out of the smoke and dust. There were two heavens and earth inside the city. Outside the city was cheering and screaming and fleeing.

Finally, the sharp north wind blew away the smoke and dust. When Hai Shixing looked again, the north wall of Xicheng collapsed again, and the gap expanded directly to a hundred feet. Hai Shixing knew very well that the fall of Xicheng had become a fact. He hurriedly found Li Huang and said, "Mr. Li, you are in a hurry to follow the power, but don't hesitate anymore. I will give you three hundred soldiers and go to the homes of the gentry in the city to raise funds. No matter how you do, you have to get 50,000 taels of silver. I will send it to the Dongfan people first. The rest will be done tomorrow!"

Seeing this urgent, Li Huang said, "Sir General, if this is the case, you and I will offend all the gentry and wealthy families in the city."

Hai Shixing said, "Mr. Li, why don't you understand? The Dongfan people asked for more than 100,000 taels, but they gave us three days to prepare. I will give you a thousand soldiers. Can you steal so much money from those people? The Dongfan people just wanted to borrow your hands to plunder these gentry. Lord Li should not worry. It is not the Ming Dynasty. Now the court is dominated by Manchus and Liao people. Even if the gentry handed over the post, they could not do anything to you or me. If you defend the Dongcheng of Weixian, you and I will not only have no mistakes, but also have great achievements!"

Li Huang hurriedly went there. Hai Shixing grabbed a servant beside him and said, "Tonight Li Huang sent someone to Dongfan camp to send money, you can go with him. I have prepared 30,000 taels of silver. You can send it together and tell the Dongfan people."

Hai Shixing explained for a long time, and the servant hurriedly went to prepare.

By the time Hai Shixing handled everything, the two armies in Xicheng had already started fighting. Hezhong used the security army composed of the Denglai military households as the vanguard to attack the gap. Although these security troops were at the forefront, the United States did not treat it unfairly. All those who went to the battlefield had a bounty, and a large number of armor in the supplies were supported to the security army, and the light artillery from the camp was dispatched to support it.

The first wave of attacks of the Public Security Army was defeated by the soldiers of Linqing Town. Fan Bang already knew that he would die, so he could only fight to the death. Gao Feng organized the Public Security Army into three waves and attacked in turn, consuming Linqing Town. In half a day, the gap was filled with dead bodies. In the afternoon, the entire Public Security Army recruited death-riding men and attacked them in iron armor. Five hundred people jumped into the gap with grenades, and then rushed up from the slope caused by the collapse. At the gap of less than 300 meters, the two sides fought into a group. Many Qing troops collapsed or surrendered, and only Fan Bang led his personal soldiers to the end.

"It's really an elite soldier from thousands of people. I didn't expect that Fan Bang's army was really good." Gao Feng stood outside the city, and the telescope was full of Fan Bang and his servants fighting desperately. Fan Bang was wearing mountain armor and holding a spear, holding a mad tiger, heading in front of him like a mad tiger. In a moment, he had pierced five or six people. The more than a hundred servants under his command were also fierce and arduous. They fought with the security army and killed the sky and darkly. The corpses at the gap were stacked layer by layer, and there was no place to step on their feet.

"Your Excellency, do you want to capture this beast alive?" Wu Xing asked.

Gao Feng laughed, "This guy was originally a soldier from Liaodong. He was brave enough to defend his country. However, he resisted our heavenly soldiers and died for the Qing Dynasty. He was just a damn pig and dog. He is the hero of his enemies. What if he is brave? If he passes the order, who can get this guy level in the security army, can get three hundred rewards."

The military order was issued, and the public security army kept calling out. Even after more than ten people stepped forward and siege up, Fan Bang was submerged in the sea of ​​people. Without the Linqing army blocking the city wall, Weixian had no support anymore. The entire army entered the city and searched for the large officials and gentry families everywhere. Before the sky was completely dark, more than 300 heads were hung on the east gate of the west city of Weixian, showing the defenders of the east city.

At night, Gao Feng met the envoy from Dongchenghai Shixing in the county government. The first batch of redemption silver had been delivered, which was 80,000 taels. The envoy promised to transport all the remaining silver, money, rice, grain, horses and mules before dark tomorrow, and tore up the agreement between Haishixing and the envoy to bargain with the envoy, and directly follow the initial requirements of the United States.

After the envoy from Dongcheng left, Gao Feng met Hai Shixing's private envoy again. Hai Shixing sent 30,000 taels of silver, hoping that the United States could improve the living conditions of its relatives of its officers and soldiers, and expressed his obedience, hoping that the United States could understand its wishes and not be too embarrassed. Moreover, the envoy said that he could provide 40,000 taels, and only the United States would agree to its several conditions.

The conditions of Hai Shixing are not complicated. He hopes that Hezhong will stay in Weixian and create the illusion of being acquainted with Li Huang, so as to choose himself from the atonement of the silver. Hai Shixing not only promised to pay the cashier, but also promised to provide information to the United States. Gao Feng was very satisfied with this and agreed decisively.

The army did not stay in Weixian. It only took two days to rest and replenish the vacancies of horse and mule and security forces and continued to move forward. The next goal was Qingzhou. There were only one 6 team and a 500-man security army stationed in Weixian to liquidate the officials and gentry near Weixian, not only in Weixian but also in nearby villages and towns. The gentry and officials had a lot of industries outside the city. In order to avoid being destroyed by war, the gentry and merchants in the city redeem the city silver for the industry cashiers in the city. In just one place in Weixian, by scouting homes and atonement silver, they obtained silver and various goods worth 600,000 taels.

The news of Hezhong's massive western expedition was conveyed through various channels. The gentry of Shandong, who had been anxious, seemed to have caught a life-saving straw. On the one hand, they reported to Jinan, asking the court to send a large army to suppress the thieves. On the other hand, they also contacted the army of the western expedition to pay ransom for the industries inside and outside the city. Before the army arrived in Changle, the magistrate of Changle County sent people to send 250,000 taels of redemption silver in exchange for Hezhong's uninflicted crimes in Changle County. After asking for food, cloth, mules and horses, the army bypassed Changle City. Even within the county, they only camped for rest and did not send one soldiers to plunder the gentry. Even if the scouts caught the fleeing gentry, they also sent it to Changle in exchange for ransom.

After occupying Qingzhou, the Western Expedition Army began to divide its troops, and the 6th army continued to attack westward, with the target directed by Jinan. The 6th Navy teams of the four battalions were commanded by Wu Mu and went south to Yanzhou Prefecture. After the army divided the troops, two heavy army groups formed, embracing most of Shandong. The main force of the Qing army could sweep for a day in less than a day until it swept across Lu.

Forbidden City.

The atmosphere in the Ganqing Palace was terrifyingly depressed, and it was even more breathless than the lead clouds covered with the dense sky outside. The Eight Banners and the Six Ministers of the Court have arrived. The court bureau is still under the control of the Regent Dorgon. After all, another auxiliary king, Jirgalang, has gone south to Huguang to take charge of the battlefield against the Ming Dynasty. Now in front of Dorgon is a huge mess. On the Qing map, there are bloody storms caused by anti-Qing forces everywhere.

In 1648, the second year of Yongli of the Ming Dynasty and the fifth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, it was a year of frequent wars. This was especially true for the Qing Dynasty. From the beginning of the year, the provinces of the Qing Dynasty rebelled continuously. First, Milayin and Ding Guozhu of the Shaanxi-Gansu region rebelled. The two were dissatisfied with the Qing court's policy. When Dorgon asked him to go south to pacify Sichuan, the two lured and killed the governor of Gansu to occupy Ganzhou and revolted. They once fought to Lanzhou, with a population of 100,000. Fortunately, the governor of Shaanxi Meng Qiaofang dared to take office. The situation in Shaanxi was not bad. In less than three months, they killed the rebel commander Milayin. However, the rebellion in Gansu did not stop. Ding Guozhu led a large army to retreat to the Hexi Corridor and continued to fight.

At the same time, Jin Shenghuan and Wang Deren of Jiangxi and Li Chengdong of Guangdong rebelled. The Qing army failed to attack Guangxi and had to retreat to Huguang. However, the Ming army attacked, Huguang and Jiangxi were in ruins, and the Khalkha tribes in the north of the desert went south to harass them. Dorgon had to launch another army to advance westward.

Now in front of Dorgon, there is a situation of war fire everywhere. Relatively speaking, the Shaanxi-Gansu Rebellion has already gained the upper hand. He only needs to provide money and grain support, and no longer needs to be mobilized. The rest of the places are different. Jirgalang went south to take away nearly half of the Eight Banners soldiers, Ajige advanced west to Datong to guard against Khalkha, and then transferred nearly 10,000 Eight Banners. Now the United States' army has landed in 6 Shandong, with tens of thousands of people, and the Eight Banners in the capital is only more than 10,000, so he has to recruit the northern green camp for assistance. There are many green camps in the north. Dorgon has reached 70,000 people from Zhili, Henan, and Shanxi. But now in front of the Qing court, who should be commanded by the army this time? And the commander has such a large army, can he defeat the island barbarians and recover Shandong?
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