In Zu Dashou's mansion, Zu Dashou gathered his sons Zu Zerun, Zu Zepu, Zu Zeqing and adopted son Zu Kefa and others in the hall.

"Dear children, my father surrendered to Jiannu, and he had no choice but to surrender to Jiannu. Now the Duke of Chu of the Ming Dynasty led his army to the northern expedition, and the troops were at the city. Jiannu was about to be finished. Is it necessary for us to bury Jiannu for Jiannu? The mine disciple Shang Kexi said that he would not be a slave of the three surnames! Humph! I did not really do things for Jiannu if I surrendered to Jiannu! If I had the chance, I would return to my Ming Dynasty! Now the Duke of Chu is here, this is our best opportunity!" Zu Dashou, who was nearly 80 years old, looked around and said.

Zu Dashou's son Zu Zeqing responded to Wu Sangui when he was against the Qing Dynasty in the original time and space, and raised the banner of anti-Qing, and was finally executed by Kangxi. This family was not very loyal to the Qing Dynasty, and they had the opportunity to fight against the Qing Dynasty. However, the overall situation was decided later, so they had no choice.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Guodong did not include Zu Dashou on the list of three traitors who must be killed, but gave them a chance.

Outside the city, the Huai Army had already begun to attack the city.

"Boom boom boom" The four huge siege cannons made a deafening roar, and the guns spit out a tongue of flames several meters long. The heavy sixty-four-pound cannons hit the city wall with a harsh whistling sound. The shells of the sixty-four-pound long-barrel cannons smashed onto the city wall with powerful potential energy. The solid capital wall shook violently. When the shells hit, the bricks broke one by one, and a crack appeared on the city wall.

Accompanied by a few dull roars, the siege mortar cannons spit out flames, and the white smoke filled the air, the shells flew into the sky, and reached the highest point, then fell down hard at the top of the city, landing accurately on the city wall, causing the floor tiles to shatter, and immediately appeared on the city wall.

The location where the shelling city walls was filled with the moat a few days ago. After three days of construction, several sections of the moat in the capital had been filled by the Huai Army. At this time, as long as the shelling of the city wall where the river section was filled, a gap could be opened, and the army could then attack the city from the gap.

Various field artillery, howitzers and small and medium-sized mortars of the Huai Army also opened fire. The shells kept flying to the top of the city, and the arrow towers that were bombarded were broken and collapsed in a scattered dust.

The shells kept hitting the city wall, and the bricks were shattered one after another. Before the giant siege cannon made a third round of roar, the bricks on the city wall, which were bombarded by field cannons, collapsed a large area of ​​rammed earth, revealing the rammed earth inside. Immediately afterwards, the giant siege cannon made a deafening roar. The shells hit the rammed earth, and the city wall swayed violently, and huge pits appeared on the rammed earth on the wall.

"According to this trend, we can open the city wall in the afternoon!" Li Guodong said.

The artillery bombardment of the Huai Army started at 3 a.m. and lasted until 3 p.m. After a full twelve hours of artillery bombardment, it finally opened a gap in the city wall.

But Li Guodong did not rush to let the soldiers enter the city, but instead caused a strange object to rise up.

"Prince, Prince, look, a big guy flew into the sky on the Minggou position!" A Qing soldier reported to Shang Kexi in horror.

Seeing that object larger than a house flew into space, many Qing soldiers on the top of the city knelt on the ground and bowed: "The great compassionate Guanyin Bodhisattva, the Buddha of the Tathagata who has boundless magic power, the Supreme Jade Emperor of the Golden Palace of Haotian, and the Supreme Wuji Dao and Taishang Laojun, please bless us quickly, Minggou has used the magic trick!"

"Bah!" Shang Kexi sneered, "That's just a large Kongming lantern, what a magic trick! Get up quickly!"

"Prince, look, there is someone on the Minggou's demon ball!" A Qing soldier shouted in horror.

Shang Kexi looked up and took the monocular lens to look at the monster in the air. Sure enough, he found a person sitting on the monster's hanging basket. The man held a small flag in his hand and kept waving towards the ground. There was also a rope pulling under the monster, tied to a wooden stake on the ground, so that the monster would not be blown away by the wind.

"Li Ergou, I've also asked the large Kongming lantern to sit on people! Is it used to peek into our military situation?" Shang Kexi snorted coldly, but he immediately understood and suddenly turned around and shouted, "Hurry up, let the brothers behind the gap retreat! Minggou is about to fire!"

The personal soldiers in charge of the order hurriedly ran to pass the order, but unfortunately it was too late. Before Shang Kexi's order was passed, the Ming army's mortar cannon position had already opened fire. Only a row of dull guns were heard, hundreds of shells rose into the air, flew to the highest point, and smashed the Qing army's position behind the gap in the city wall.

This time, the Huai Army's siege mortar, 64-pound mortar, 24-pound mortar and 12-pound mortar were all replaced with flowering shells. According to the guidance of the night-delayed on the hot air balloon, the shells were accurately smashed on the Qing army's positions behind the gap.

When a gap was broken into a city wall, when Xian Kexi ordered the Qing soldiers to go behind the gap and use bricks and stones to block the gap. At the same time, the elite swordsman was ordered to arrange the two sides of the construction site, and firearms such as musketeers, Francs and other firearms were arranged behind them. Just when the Ming army rushed in, they fired with firearms, and the hand-to-hand combat soldiers rushed out to rush out, and then covered the auxiliary soldiers to block the gap.

At this time, the Qing soldiers behind the gap were arranged neatly and very densely, just as the Ming army's flowering artillery shells fell from the sky and landed in the middle of the Qing army's formation.

The most powerful giant siege mortar cannon weighing more than 500 kilograms of flowering shells fell from the sky. The gunner cut the length of the fuse just right. The shell exploded when it was three meters away from the ground. More than 100 kilograms of explosives inside exploded violently in a sealed environment. This is explosive, not gunpowder! The intensity is more than a hundred times greater than the gunpowder used before!

"Boom boom boom boom boom" four earth-shaking explosions, and the most violent explosion occurred in the four giant mortar shells. The thick shell shells of the shells immediately turned into countless pieces, and the iron beads filled inside also splashed. The power of these four shells is comparable to the shells of the 24-centimeter caliber howitzer shells in later generations! The killing area of ​​a 203 mm howitzer shell is as big as a football field. The lethality of such four shells is imagined!

Explosives were a new weapon developed by Song Yingxing with the support of Li Guodong. Although Li Guodong did not study chemical engineering, he was an engineer in his previous life and understood the principles of various explosives. But he didn't know how to make sulfuric acid.

Sulfuric acid is the mother of modern chemical industry. With sulfuric acid, there is nitric acid. With sulfuric acid and nitric acid, it is easy to produce explosives. With the efforts of Song Yingxing and a group of technicians, the Ministry of Industry of the Ming Dynasty finally developed explosives and smokeless gunpowder. At the same time, the development of the steam engine has also achieved initial success.

The birth of explosives and smokeless gunpowder increased the military technology of the Ming Dynasty by several levels. Later, the Guanning Army who fought in the Middle East and the Qing Army who fought in the West in Europe also received support from the Tang Empire. The Tang Empire provided them with a large number of advanced weapons and made great achievements in the expansion of territory of the Tang Empire. At the same time, explosives and smokeless gunpowder also showed their skills on the American continent, causing Western colonists to cry and howl, and made great contributions to the Han people gaining a foothold in the New World.

The first time Song Yingxing's explosives were put into practical use, they were enjoyed by Shang Kexi's Qing soldiers.

Four flowering artillery shells loaded with a large amount of explosives exploded violently. In a blink of an eye, the gap that the Qing soldiers were building was flattened. Thousands of Qing soldiers screamed and fell into pools of blood. Even Shang Kexi, who was standing on the city wall, was shocked to death.

By the time Shang Kexi woke up again, he had been tied up.

"The outer city has been broken, let's open the inner city to welcome the king's army!" Zu Dashou, with white hair and beard, shouted and led his soldiers to the Zhengyang Gate.

The Huai Army, Zhongzhen Camp, Shandong Guard and Mongolian Cavalry allied into Yongding Gate, shouting and killing towards Zhengyang Gate.

Zu Dashou opened the Zhengyang Gate in the inner city and welcomed the king into the city.

"Beijing, I'm finally back! Our Ming Dynasty finally recovered the capital!" Li Guodong stood on Chengtian Gate (now **), looking at the capital city from a bird's eye view, and said with emotion.

After conquering the capital, the first thing to do was to clean up the three traitors in the city.

It can be said that there are almost no Han people in the city. Apart from the family members of the Han Eight Banners who were left to guard the city, there are the families of the Han officials of the Qing Dynasty. Because of this situation, Li Guodong did not stop the Zhongzhen Camp and the Mongols from looting the city, and all the things that could be robbed were stolen by the chaos army.

The houses of King Sanshun were all confiscated, and of course, all the houses of the officials and gentry who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty were confiscated. A large number of traitors and three ministers were arrested and put into cages, ready to be loaded into a ship to Nanjing to accompany Hong Chengchou. When the Monument to National Heroes was completed, these people would be executed.

Of course, the families of the three traitors were also in trouble. Li Guodong abolished the torture of extermination of the nine clans. He tried to kill as little as possible. However, the adult men in direct lines must be killed, and the traitors must not leave their descendants to commemorate them; boys under ten years old will remarry with their mothers, and naturally they will change their surnames; underage men aged ten to sixteen will be sent to be slaves and will be exhausted in the dark mine until they die, and naturally they will not be able to leave their descendants.

Therefore, it is impossible for any eye-catching things like Shangkexi Memorial Hall or Hong Chengchou patriotism base in the future.

"General Shang, I have given you a chance, why do you still refuse to surrender but have to resist to the end?" Li Guodong asked, looking at Shang Kexi who was taken to him.

Shang Kexi was still tough and spit on the ground with a mouthful of phlegm: "If I surrender to you, I'm afraid there will be more than three families of slaves! I was originally a Ming minister, but I had to surrender to Jiannu! Now I surrender to the Ming Dynasty again; when you usurp the Ming Dynasty in the future, I will be the four ministers! Bah! I would rather die than be the four ministers!"
Chapter completed!