The Guilin City Wall was a strong city built in the Southern Song Dynasty. The circumference of the city wall was twelve miles long, and it consumed more than 12 million blue bricks, more than 300,000 long stones, more than 14 million kilograms of lime, and more than 100,000 kilograms of glutinous rice. In the outer city, moats, sheep and horse walls, beacon towers, horse faces, hard buildings, regiment buildings, and hidden soldiers caves were built. The city wall was three to five feet high, and the city gate was even five to six feet high. There were also facilities such as urns in the city gate, which was quite as powerful as a man as a pass and tens of thousands of men could not open.

On February 16, the second year of Shaowu, the sound of artillery fire from the imperial court's suppression of the rebellion and attacking Guilin was heard.

Sixty howitzers and two hundred mortars bombarded violently at the top of the city. The flowering artillery shells fell on the top of Guilin like hail. There were loud bangs at the top of the city, fragments of iron beads flew everywhere, and blood mist on the top of the city filled the city and screamed in terrible tears. The defenders on the top of the city were blown up in a pool of blood in groups.

However, the Guilin city wall is a solid stone city wall. It is impossible to destroy the Guilin city wall just by relying on the flowering shells fired by these light artillery guns.

Unlike later generations, the rear-mounted high-explosion shells have high chamber pressure. The high-speed rotating shells hit the city wall and can penetrate into the city wall. The high-explosion explosives in the shells explode, and only a few shells can destroy a section of the city wall. However, in this era, the most effective weapon against the city wall is still solid shells.

In this era, even the new gunpowder made by Zhao Peng was far less powerful than the high-explosive explosives in later generations, while the flowering shells made by ordinary black gunpowder were even less powerful.

Therefore, the role of the flowering artillery shells is to suppress the defenders, kill and injure the defenders as much as possible, and reduce casualties of the siege troops.

The shelling lasted for an hour, and the siege army launched the siege. More than 20,000 people from Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng launched a general attack from four directions respectively from Dongzhen Gate, Lize Gate, Guangzhi Gate and Zunyi Gate. The north gate on Zhao Peng's side was the main attack direction, and nearly 10,000 people were impulsive together, and the scene was extremely spectacular.

The swords and guns were like forests and the flags were like seas. The Ming army seemed to cover the entire field and pressed towards the city walls with calm steps. In the middle of the new army formation, there were eight tall nest cars, eight slow trench bridge cars, six huge ladder cars, one hundred shield cars and six trench cars. The soldiers carried simple ladders and simple trench bridges and followed behind the shield cars.

Simple trench bridges hit the moat, sandbags kept falling from the shield cart, filling the moat. The musketeers and archers on the nest cart that were higher than the city walls suppressed the city head towards the top.

The three attacking troops of Zhao Peng, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng passed the moat without any effort. There were only scattered feather arrows and projectiles shot down at the top of the city, but they could not stop the tide-like quelling army.

The ladder truck had already been mounted on the top of Guilin City. Zhao Peng, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng's soldiers had already climbed onto the top of the city. Even the car that was originally intended to be used for blasting had not crossed the moat, and an almost one-sided battle had already begun on the top of the city.

Zuo Xianmei, who had already finished wearing a dress, was ready to move and wanted to rush forward with her sword, but was pulled by Zhao Peng: "So many people have gone up, what are you going up, you little girl? Be obediently here to accompany your husband!"

Zuo Xianmei stumbled her lips a few times and murmured: "I know Zhao Lang is for my own good, but seeing them killing so happily, I really itchy."

"Girl, let's just watch the show." Zhao Peng held Zuo Xianmei tightly in his arms.

The two kings who were stubbornly resisting the fierce attack of the rebel army. Not long after, a white flag suddenly erected on the city tower, and the resistance on the city wall completely stopped. Then, the city gate was opened from the inside.

Under tremendous pressure, the young and strong people in the city fled one after another. The only five hundred guards of the Jingjiang Palace were scattered on all the city walls, and they could not control the situation at all. Seeing that Dongxiang County was about to be captured by the Ming army, the Jingjiang Palace finally raised a white flag and opened the door to surrender.

King Zhu Heng of Jingjiang walked out with a white flag. As soon as he walked out, he was pinned by a group of new soldiers and tied up and sent to Zhao Peng.

"King of Jingjiang, why didn't you start the city gate early?" Zhao Peng asked as soon as he saw Zhu Heng's death.

In fact, Zhu Hengyi, the King of Jingjiang, did not participate in the rebellion of King Gui Zhu Youlang and King Lu Zhu Changqing, but the King of Jingjiang was in Guilin. Since King Gui and King Lu came to Guilin, they have occupied the magpie's nest and occupied the King of Jingjiang. King Gui was originally a vassal in Hengzhou, because Zhang Xianzhong captured Hengzhou, Zhu Youlang fled to Guilin; while King Lu was originally a vassal in Weihui, Liu Fangliang captured Huaiqing, and King Lu was so scared that he gave up and fled to Nanjing to find King Fu.

Later, Zhu Cixuan launched the siege and seized the throne. Zhu Changqing escaped from Nanjing and ran to Guilin.

Zhu Heng was so scared that he trembled all over and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Mr. Marquis, please spare me. It's not that I don't want to surrender early, but King Gui and King Lu controlled my palace. I was trapped in the palace and felt like I was imprisoned. How could I open the city to surrender?"

"Where did the rebels Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing go? Why did the Jinyiwei search the whole city but couldn't find them?" Zhao Peng asked.

Zhu Heng knelt down and kowtowed: "Mr. Marquis, those two thieves have already run away. The king's army attacked the city, so they ran away! If the two thieves had not escaped, Xiao Wang would not have the chance to open the door to surrender. Please spare your life!"

Zhao Peng pointed to the cage and said to Zhu Hengqiu: "Zhu Hengqiu, Ru is the prince, and I have no right to punish you. I will return the prince to the Qing Dynasty to enter the cage and send it to Nanjing for disposal by the clan's mansion!"

Zhu Hengyi cooperated and honestly got into the cage himself, and then the Jinyiwei locked the cage.

Long before the imperial court suppressed the rebellion and attacked the city, Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing knew that Guilin could not be defended. They fled from Guilin with less than 10,000 defeated generals and fled to Nanning.

Soon, the spies of the Jinyiwei scattered all over Guangxi sent back the information: "The rebels Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing fled to Nanning in a panic, and there were about 9,000 rebels accompanying him."

It is certainly impossible for these two rebellious vassal kings to escape, Zhao Peng decided to pursue the two kings. However, at present, the biggest problem Zhao Peng faces is that there are too few cavalry on hand. Most of the cavalry of more than 2,000 Jinyiwei's squadrons have returned to Nanjing. Only Wang Quan and his 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200 200

"Mr. Marquis, are there too few troops to chase the enemy with only 1,200 cavalry? "Ma Jinzhong asked.

Zhao Peng replied: "The enemy was defeated and his morale was low. Our army had 1,200 cavalry enough to defeat the enemy; the cavalry mainly pursued the two thief kings Zhu Youlang and Zhu Changqing; I still had 2,000 light infantry in my hand and could participate in the pursuit!"

The so-called light infantry is the two Qi family army's Thousand-Man Formation. In order to facilitate the transformation from the Three-Capital Formation into the Mandarin Duck Formation at any time, the Qi family army's Thousand-Man Formation retains the sword and card players, so they can wear thinner armor to fight.

The light-armed infantry in Zhao Peng's hand can marching at a speed of 140 miles per day and night, and the pursuit speed is no worse than that of the cavalry. Therefore, if he leads 1,200 cavalry to pursue first, and two thousand light-armed infantry to follow, he will definitely be able to keep up with the pace of the cavalry.

"But our army pursued the remaining enemies with only 1,200 cavalrymen. If the enemy set up an ambush halfway, then our army would be in danger." Wang Yuncheng questioned.

"Please rest assured, two generals. Along the way, our Jinyiwei spies are spreading military information at any time. In addition, if our troops do not stop at night, they will explore the way forward. So, if the two generals are still worried, then I will lead the army to pursue the rebels!" Zhao Peng said.

When he heard that Zhao Peng was going to lead his army to pursue the enemy, Ma Jinzhong and Wang Yuncheng quickly knelt down and saluted: "The last general is willing to follow the Marquis!"
Chapter completed!