Two days later, Xu Hongru's army arrived at the city of Qufu.

As three strong young men, Gao Shixin and his two little brothers were naturally forcibly incorporated into the Minzhuang to assist the local defenders in the city.

Standing on the city wall and looking into the distance, I saw a large area of ​​darkness under the city, with nearly 100,000 people and horses, and there were actually cavalry! However, the so-called cavalry were all Xu Hongru recruited scattered horse thieves and organized them into cavalry.

The dark army of Xu Hongru pressed up to Qufu City, and saw a yellow umbrella cover in the middle, with two large flags on it. One flag reads the four words "Zhongxing Fu Emperor" and the other flag reads the four words "Mahayana Xingsheng" on it.

"The traitors are actually called pseudo-emperors!" The white-haired magistrate of Qufu Kong County looked at the city and said.

At this time, a loud guy came out of the thief army and rode his horse to the ground outside the city. He opened his voice and shouted at the top of the city: "My Mahayana Heavenly Army is coming to Qufu, and ask the people above to tell Yan Shenggong that if you know the matter, open the city gate to welcome my Holy Sect Heavenly Army! Yan Shenggong is still Yan Shenggong! If you don't know the matter, when my Holy Sect Heavenly Army captures Qufu, you will definitely kill the whole city without leaving any other animals!"

Yansheng Gong Kong Yinzhi was so righteous that he asked someone to reply: "I am the thief who is the saint who is the talented man in my Confucius family. My Confucius family has received the kindness of the court in the age of time, how can I surrender to the thief!"

It sounds very brave and very righteous, but in fact, Kong Yinzhi had already been so scared that his face was pale, his legs were weak, and his feces and urine were flowing. He had thought of surrendering to the Holy Cult Heavenly Army, but he also knew that Xu Hongru was destined to be unable to become a climate. The so-called Holy Cult Heavenly Army was just a mob.

The court was dispatching troops and generals, and a large army gathered. It is said that the elites from Liaodong and Datong were all transferred to Shandong. Although Xu Hongru's mob was large, they were just native chickens and tiled dogs against the elites of the court. It was obvious that Xu Hongru was doomed to fail and surrendered to him? Wouldn't he just seize the handle for the court and destroyed the Northern Sect of Yanshenggong? It was very simple to find someone to replace Yanshenggong, but the Southern Sect of Quzhou was ready to move.

It is said that the emperor of the dynasty was very dissatisfied with scholars. Under the auspices of the nine thousand years old, the factory guards were expanded, and a large number of civil servants were arrested and imprisoned. If the Duke of Yan Sheng was opened to surrender to the thieves at this time, the court would just make a big fuss and copy the Yan Sheng Gong Mansion with the flow, and scholars all over the world would be in trouble.

It’s okay if scholars in the world are unlucky, but all the property accumulated by their family over hundreds of years is gone, and they still have to lose their heads.

If Xu Hongru could be like Li Zicheng, Kong Yinzhi would have surrendered long ago! When Li Zicheng entered the capital, Kong Yinzhi immediately offered the dragon throne of Emperor Yongchang in Yanshenggong Mansion and knelt down to accept the seal of Dashun. Not long after, when the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, Kong Yinzhi couldn't wait to express his loyalty and wrote the "First Commentary Text", which said that Emperor Shunzhi "the holy emperor's mountains and rivers shine with the sun and the moon, and the country's destiny is together with the universe and the world." The most disgusting sentence is "I have inherited the special kindness of the past, and now I am celebrating the prosperous rule of the new dynasty."

This is nothing. After Dorgon issued the hair shaving order, Kong Yinzhi quickly implemented it and ordered all men of the Kong family to shave their heads immediately!

He did not dare to surrender to Xu Hongru because he knew that Xu Hongru could not succeed, and that Qufu's city was strong. He knew that with the military, civilians and people in the city, the demon thieves would definitely not be able to take Qufu.

Xu Hongru was furious and ordered the siege.

The army of demon thieves set up camp outside the city, and tens of thousands of people were deceived to build siege weapons and prepare to siege the city.

In just two hours, the simple cloud ladder and simple trench bridge used to attack the city were built. With Xu Hongru's order, a large number of pale and thin civilians carried the simple trench bridge and simple cloud ladder and rushed towards Qufu City with shouts.

Except for a few elite servants of Yan Shenggong, the rest of the defenders were all mobs. Since they were mobs, there were very few archers, because the archers back then were actually elite soldiers. Training an archer was not easy. Training an excellent archer took more than three years. The farming nation in the Central Plains was not like the Jurchens who grew up in the mountains and forests. If the Jurchen fishing and hunting nation had not practiced good archers, they would have become food in the belly of tiger bears.

Most of the defenders of the city were recruited temporarily from the people. How many people know how to shoot arrows? Archery itself is also an expensive weapon, and it is much more difficult to make than a musket.

So when the White Lotus Sect members rushed to the city wall, they were almost not counterattacked by the defenders on the city. It was not until the believers entered within fifty steps that the tiger squat cannons, three-eyed guns, bowl-mouth guns and other firearms on the city were roaring. The bullets rushed to the other side of the moat, and the believers who rushed to the other side of the moat were knocked down in a pool of blood.

The training of firearms is much simpler, even Minzhuang who has no combat experience can use it.

When the White Lotus Sect placing the simple trench bridge on the moat and shouting and rushing across the moat, the lime bottle at the top of the city smashed down, falling into the crowd and exploded. Boiling lime filled, lime powder fell into the river, and thick smoke immediately rose from the river. Many people were sprayed with quicklime and fell into the moat with screams. The believers who rushed through the moat were sprayed with lime and immediately fell to the ground with screams and rolled on the ground.

The White Lotus Cultivator who was rushing in front was frightened by the tragic death of his companions. Before he could reach the city, he was killed and injured. The believers were so scared that they turned around and ran away. But not long after they ran back, the supervisory team behind them took their swords and cut the believers running back one by one into a pool of blood.

"Did you see it? These are the bewitched people, all of whom were killed in vain. They didn't have to die, but if it weren't for Xu Hongru, they wouldn't have died here." Gao Shixin pointed to the corpses in the city and the wounded who were rolling and wailing among the pile of corpses, and said to Ling'er, who was dressed as a man beside him.

"Wars always kill people." Ling'er Yan said insincerely. When she said this, her kind-hearted eyes were a little red.

Gao Shixin gently put his arms around Ling'er's shoulder: "It's all innocent people, how can I bear it?"

Seeing the believers who were constantly sprayed with lime under the city and fell into the moat and struggled on the river surface. After a while, they completely disappeared from the river surface. Ling'er said: "At that time, I fell into the water and struggled desperately. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't expect you to rescue me. I was really grateful at that time."

"I didn't expect that a master like you could not swim," said Gao Shixin.

The escaped believers were pushed back by the sword-holding team, forcing them to cross the moat to attack.

More believers rushed up. The tiger squat cannons, three-eyed guns and various muskets at the top of the city could no longer stop them, and the lime bottle could not stop them. As the believers rushed to the city, a tinder tank was smashed on the top of the city, and torches were thrown down, and a raging fire suddenly ignited under the city.

The cultists who were on fire struggled and wailed in the fire and rolled all over the ground. Some smart and knowledgeable people quickly jumped into the water and used the water to extinguish the fire on their bodies. However, those who jumped into the water and then climbed up, because they were burned first, then jumped into the cold and sarcastic water, one hot and one cold, and the burned skin encountered water, the greatest possibility was that they were severely infected and died in the end.

A large group of wounded men whose eyes entered the lime fell to the ground and howled. Those people were completely useless. When they entered the lime, they could only wash their eyes with vegetable oil to avoid blindness. However, the lives of these people are not as valuable as a can of oil.

Looking at the Qufu defending the city, Gao Shi said in confidence: The people of the Kong family really don’t know how to fight! The most precious tincture oil tanks in the battle to defend the city are not used at this time. When the siege side of the city, the first thing they come up is cannon fodder. To deal with cannon fodder, lime bottles are enough. They set up ladders, slap with wolf teeth to slap the yaksha and other reusable weapons, and at most cheap weapons such as gold juice. When the opponent’s large siege weapons such as cloud ladders come up, the elite warriors begin to climb the city, which is the time to use tincture oil tanks.
Chapter completed!