As expected by Zhou Shixiang before the war, the Qing army changed to siege the city after the siege failed... In order to completely encircle the Taiping Army, Shang Kexi returned to Guangzhou and then recruited thousands of Qing troops from Guangzhou and various prefectures to Xinhui, and unified them to the command of the Crown Prince Shang Zhixin and the commander of the Duke Ban Zhifu. He forced tens of thousands of civilians to build an encirclement against Xinhui City in just a few days.

The Taiping Army, which had no ability to fight a large-scale field with the Qing army, could only watch the Qing army opposite to build siege fortifications every day, and watch the arrow towers, fences, and military camps appeared around Xinhui like mushrooms after a rain. During this process, the Taiping Army tried to stop the Qing army, but after two consecutive night attacks failed and dozens of people were lost in vain, Zhou Shixiang, who was recovering from the wounded, ordered all divisions not to go out of the city to fight on their own. Without his order, if a soldier and a soldier were out of the city, the chief officer of the department would ask!

Before returning to Guangzhou, Shang Kexi personally made arrangements for the siege, and surrounded the east gate with his headquarters of Han army inlaid blue flag. The Han army in the Jingnan Fan Xiazhenghuang Banner and part of the Green Camp surrounded the south gate. The general Hu Guoli led the governor and part of the Green Camp surrounded the north gate. The remaining Green Camp soldiers surrounded the west gate under the leadership of General Lin Shanzhi.

The Qing army's encirclement had three lines of defense, each with complete facilities. More than 10,000 Qing troops distributed the defense line, cutting off all connections between Xinhui and outside the city, resulting in the Taiping Army in the city being ignorant of the external situation.

As the encirclement became longer, although there was no food outage in the city, the wood used to make fire became tense. The Taiping Army began to demolish the houses in the city in order to remove the wood from the building for making fire.

On the Qing army, there were continuous sources of food and grass resources dispatched from Guangzhou, and more than 20,000 young and strong men were driven by it. There was also a Guangdong navy on the river. In addition to being unable to conquer the Xinhui city, the Qing army had the upper hand in many aspects and had the advantage. This was also the biggest capital for Shang Kexi to decide to siege the city. As long as the Taiping Army had no reinforcements to rescue it, the winner would be the Qing army.

Shortly after the Qing army surrounded the siege, dozens of artillery transferred from Guangzhou finally arrived. After the concentrated artillery bombardment of the city walls failed, the Qing army no longer bombarded the city walls, but only fired guns into the city every few times. The corresponding Taiping Army in the city also continued to bombard the outside of the city. However, the shelling effect of both sides was limited. After several attacks, they knew that this kind of shelling had no meaning. Both sides stopped this useless work at the same time.

In order to prevent it, Shang Kexi personally sent an urgent order to Zhaoqing General Xu Erxian, ordering him to strictly monitor Gaozhou and to mobilize troops to garrison Luoding, in order not to further the Ming army in Gaozhou.

As long as the Li Dingguo tribe in Gaozhou remains unmoved, Guangzhou will not be worried about siegeing Xinhui. Although there are several other Ming troops in Guangdong, they are far behind the Li Dingguo tribe in Gaozhou, and these Ming troops are also far behind the Li Dingguo tribe in Gaozhou. These Ming troops are also in many coastal areas. They can't take advantage of the navy, so they are not afraid of fighting the Qing army on land. If these Ming troops really come to rescue the Taiping Army in Xinhui, the Guangzhou direction will be happy to see it. Tens of thousands of Qing troops used for siege under Xinhui City cannot capture the city, but it is effortless to annihilate these Nanming miscellaneous brands.

The development of the situation also made Guangzhou feel at ease. For more than a month of besieging the city, except for the Ming army in Leizhou who tried to capture prefectures and counties and marched eastward, the Ming army in other places showed no signs of activity. The Ming army in Gaozhou, which worried the most, was even less disturbing. All signs prove that the Taiping Army trapped in Xinhui was just an isolated army, and it was even a problem whether it was accepted by the small court of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

Without any worries, the Qing army finally shot into the city on June 19th, the 49th day of the besieged city, but what they got was eight big words written by Zhou Shi's blind date - "The Han family will never surrender to the enemy!"

On June 23, the 53rd day of the siege of the city, the Qing army launched a tentative attack on Xinhui City. The attack was commanded by Wang Guohui, deputy chief of the Han army flag. The main force used for the siege was still the Green Camp, and only a small number of flag soldiers cooperated.

The Qing army launched an attack at dawn, and the direction of the attack was not the previous east gate, but the south gate. But the Taiping Army at the south gate was obviously prepared for this. The defenders on the city were on the dangerous side and resisted stubbornly. In the dangerous moment, Chen Mo, a small flag of the Guards, brought people to hang down the city with a rope to counterattack the Qing army, destroying more than 100 ladders and six shields used by the Qing army to siege the city, forcing the Qing army to give up the attack.

Seeing that the attack was ineffective and damaged countless soldiers and supplies, Wang Guohui asked Shang Zhixin and Ban Zhifu to order the Qing army to use cloth bags to pile up soil into walls, carry wood into fences, and use the Han army flag bird guns as cover. He shot and killed the Taiping Army with the Han army flag bird guns, secretly organized civilians to dig tunnels, and tried to dig into the city.

The Taiping Army in the city sensed the intention of the Qing army through the large tank that monitored the underground movements in the city, and immediately organized people to dig a deep trench parallel to the city wall in the city. The deep trench was more than one meter wide, but more than two meter deep. It was replaced by a unit of measurement in later generations, that is, it was more than three meters wide and seven meters deep.

After the deep trenches were dug, Zhou Shixiang ordered that once the tunnel dug by the Qing army entered the city, it would be flooded with water. If the flood did not work, it would be bombarded with newly-made thunder. The gunmen on both sides shot and killed them. The two methods did not work. The soldiers were organized to go down the ditch and fight with each other. No matter how much sacrifice they made, they would never let the Qing army's soldiers emerge from the ditch!

Because the Taiping Army was properly prepared, the Qing army sneaking into the tunnel was injured by a large area of ​​sudden thunder that had suddenly been thrown into. After the remaining Qing army rushed out, they found that they were in a deep ditch with no climbing place in front, back, left and right, and could only be trapped in the ditch without moving. However, there were Taiping Army holding guns on both sides of the deep ditch shooting at them. After some hard work, the Qing army had no choice but to leave hundreds of corpses and retreat in a hurry.

After robbing the city from the tunnel, in order to vent his aggrievance, Shang Zhixin ordered the two east and west to bombard the city again. Zhou Shixiang ordered the gunners on the front of the city to fire a gun and counterattack and at the same time, he also rewarded the high rewards. "If anyone who can leave the city to seize the Qing army's cannon, he will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver."

There must be brave men under heavy rewards. This time, Chen Mo, the small banner of the Guards, took the lead in organizing a team of 80 dead soldiers. He took advantage of the night to sneak into the underground of the Qing army's camp from the tunnel excavated by the Qing army. After an hour of excavation, the tunnel was finally opened. Then, under the leadership of Chen Mo, 80 Taiping Army warriors, led by Chen Mo, used two thunderstorms, and kept killing the Qing army and setting fires.

Late in the night, the Qing army did not know how many people came to the Taiping Army, but were knocked out by the thunder and thunder. In addition, fires were caught everywhere, so Chen Mo and others did not care to stop the infiltrating Taiping Army, which made Chen Mo and others successfully pounce on the east and west of the Qing army, igniting the Qing army's artillery to reserve gunpowder, and blowing up more than 30 large and small artillery pieces on the spot.
Chapter completed!