Li Guodong ordered an attack on the Qing army's Tucheng.

There is no need for any conspiracy, just attack directly based on your strength.

Fifty twelve-pound bronze field cannons were scattered and aimed at the Qing army's Tucheng. There were twenty-four-pound mortar cannons, one hundred and fifty-hundred six-pound bronze field cannons, and one hundred twenty-four-pound mortar cannons aimed at the Tucheng.

"Master, don't we need to persuade the surrender first?" Han Dashan asked.

Li Guodong sneered: "Please surrender? What should I persuade? For those gentry who surrendered to Jiannu, the only way to destroy them!"

For those reactionary landlords who would rather be traitors than give up their vested interests, Li Guodong never thought of persuading them to surrender. For those who are, the only way is to destroy them.

Why did the industrial and commercial gentry in Jiangnan be brutally massacred by the Qing Dynasty, but the land gentry in Huguang and Central Plains not? It is because the industrial and commercial gentry in Jiangnan still represents progress and represents the germination of capitalism. When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and dragged Jiangnan, which entered the germination of capitalism back to the slavery system, they would definitely resist; but those traditional land gentry would rather surrender to the enemy than use the hands of the Qing rulers to eliminate the peasant uprising army. According to the words of Taizu of the Red Dynasty, it was called reactionary.

"Fire the cannon!" With the order of the artillery officer, one cannon was spitting out flames.

The shells of all sizes were smashed hard towards the Qing army's Tucheng. The outside of Tucheng was filled with sandbags. The direct field artillery shells hit the sandbags, causing the sandbags to break, and some shells flew out with the sandbags. Although they did not cause damage to Tucheng, the continuous bombardment could knock out all the sandbags on the periphery one by one.

The mortar shells fell from the sky, crossed the sandbags, and landed on the city walls. The segments of the Tucheng immediately collapsed. The wooden fences inserted into the Tucheng as the female walls were shattered and turned into countless pieces of wood.

While the artillery bombardment was launched, the baggage and engineers pushed the four-wheeled trucks slowly towards the Tucheng direction. These four-wheeled trucks used bearings and transformation devices. When marching, they were pulled by mules and horses, or even with donkeys to run. During wartime, the four-wheeled trucks were adjusted in a direction, with the front wheels back and the rear wheels forward, and then the baffles on both sides were removed and reinforced to the side facing the enemy, which became an armored vehicle with extremely strong defense capabilities.

The car was filled with sandbags, and the old-fashioned army archers lay on the sandbags.

There are also some engineers assemble the well railing truck and the tower guard truck as fast as possible. These equipment are brought out when marching and placed on the four-wheeled truck. When fighting, the engineers will become the well railing and the tower guard truck as soon as they are assembled. There are also some four-wheeled trucks that can become ladder trucks and trench bridge trucks during war.

Using modular vehicles makes siege operations easier, and there is no need to temporarily build siege weapons. Every time you go, you don’t need to make much preparations and can launch siege battles directly.

A large number of scattered soldiers climbed the well railing and the looking tower, and the engineers pushed the cart and slowly approached the city wall.

The Qing army artillery on Tucheng played almost no role under the fierce firepower of the Huai Army. As long as a Qing army's artillery position was discovered, the Huai army would concentrate more than ten or even dozens of cannons for suppressed bombardment. Many artillery suppression were used to make up for the shortcomings of insufficient accuracy of smooth-bore cannons installed before.

As soon as a Qing army cannon opened fire, the overwhelming shells hit the sky like hail, and the Qing army cannons either flew into the sky or rolled down from the city wall.

"Master, Master, the Southern Barbarians have too many cannons, and the brothers can't stop them!" A servant stumbled into the mansion and reported to Juren Liu.

"Stop it! The Southern Barbarians will need someone to come up sooner or later! They must hold it up! Li Ergou and the thief are in the same group! Even if we surrender to them, we will be dead!" Liu Juren shouted at the top of his lungs. He knew very well that the Qing soldiers of the Green Camp could surrender, his subordinates could surrender, and even the Eight Banners Army could surrender, but they were the gentry that could not surrender!

There is still a high possibility that someone will be killed by a knife. Even if he can survive by chance, he will probably be exhausted in the dark mine. Moreover, if he surrenders, the Huai Army will not let their property and land go, and confiscate them and then distribute them to those mud legs.

Juren Liu could only resist to the end, and there was no way out. Otherwise, even if he survived and worked hard in the dark mine for the rest of his life, then his wife became a laundry slave in the washing bureau, his son became a slave in the Nanyang, and his concubine and daughter were all divided by the poor military cavalry, and his family property was divided into mud legs. Such an ending was scared.

Li Guodong often talks about the saying "Diligence and hard work to get rich is glorious, and it is shameful to get rich by using legal loopholes." Liu Juren certainly knew that Li Guodong often said this. He cursed in his heart: My ancestors have worked hard to get rich from generation to generation. Isn't this not hard work to get rich? Li Ergou, if you were asked to take the exam for the fame and fortune, you might not even want to pass the exam!

It is not easy to take the exam for fame and fortune, but this is not a reason to seize other people's land and exempt the court from taxes! Just for this, Li Guodong would not let these gentry go.

Jinglan and Wanglou have advanced to a height of only one hundred steps away from Tucheng, because the Qing army's artillery at the top of the city was suppressed, and no weapon could pose a threat to Jinglan and Wanglou a hundred steps away. The scattered soldiers of the Huai army hiding in Jinglan and Wanglou can shoot at the defenders at the top of the city with a high position and relaxed and pleasant fire.

In the new army alone, there were more than 2,000 scattered soldiers equipped with rifled guns, and in the old army, there were more than 3,000 scattered soldiers equipped with rifled guns. This time, all 5,000 scattered soldiers were put into the battlefield. Anyway, there were a large number of engineers. The Huai Army had the most powerful vehicle team and countless vehicles of this era, ensuring the transportation of baggage and cargo and the development of siege wars.

Gunshots roared, and the well railings and looking up the towers kept spitting out flames, and white smoke filled with air. Almost every gunshot sounded, a Qing soldier fell down. The accuracy of the rifled gun ensured that the scattered soldiers could kill the gun.

The siege tactics were suppressed by cannons, and then the engineers were promoted and the scattered soldiers were suppressed. This kind of siege tactic made the Qing army unable to resist at all.

Under the precise point shooting of the scattered soldiers, the engineer's vehicle advanced to the trench, and then the archers behind the shield van shot round after round of light arrows at the top of the city.

The light arrow flew to the top of the city. Those who practiced bravely had almost no armor protection. The arrows reached the flesh. The Qing soldiers who were caught fell one after another. Screams came one after another on the top of the city, and blood splashed everywhere.

The defenders on the city were already beaten by cannons and rifled rifles, and had no temper against the Ming army that had attacked the city, so they could only watch the Huai Army engineers fill the trench one after another.

The Huai Army had many vehicles. Under the cover of firepower, the engineers quickly filled many trenches.

After filling the trench, ladder trucks pushed upwards towards the city wall.

The ladder car approached the city wall, and the Qing army took a risk to counterattack and shot the ladder car with rockets. However, one rocket was shot on the ladder car, but only a metal collision sound was heard, and the rocket fell to the ground.

"Damn it, it's all iron ladders! Li Ergou is so rich!" Juren Liu cursed.

The Qing soldiers who ventured to shoot rockets in the open air basically had no chance to retract their heads. Some of them were even killed by flintlock gunmen and archers under the city as soon as they showed up.

The ladder cart leaned against the city wall, and a large number of swordsmen in iron armor shouted and rushed towards the city.

The Qing army at the top of the city had suffered heavy losses. The remaining Qing soldiers dropped turbulent oil tanks and lit a raging fire under the city. Although the fire could not destroy the iron ladder truck, the raging fire could cause casualties to the Huai army that siege the city.
Chapter completed!