At this moment, the figure of the Restoration Army appeared on the city wall. They came through the Hanyang Gate. Hanyang Gate and Hanyang City are across the river, so the troops who came were Anyang's subordinates. As soon as these soldiers of the Restoration Army arrived at Chuxiong Tower, they found a group of people who were climbing the city wall from behind Phoenix Mountain. Suddenly, many people clamored and shouted to surrender and not kill.

But the gang didn't listen at all, and desperately climbed up the city wall. The abnormality of these people attracted the attention of the Restoration Army. Suddenly, the soldiers of the Restoration Army rushed over quickly, and only then did they see that one of the people in this group was wearing a very eye-catching dress. was also protected by everyone, and everyone immediately shouted: "Quick, there are big officials here." ”

When the Fuming army under Wusheng's sect heard this, many people shouted: "Quick, it must be Yue Le, don't let them run." Zuo Jiangchuan's subordinates, when they heard that it was Yue Le, immediately ran to the city wall, and shouted as they ran: "Catch Yue Le and avenge your adult." ”

Long Sheng also took his soldiers and quickly ran to the city wall. As soon as he got up to the city wall, he found that someone had been tied up by a rope from the city wall and had fallen. Long Sheng hurriedly shouted to the people at the gate of the city: "Go outside the city quickly, someone has been hung down the city by a rope." Long Sheng himself led his army and ran to the middle of the city wall.

After a few clicks, Long Sheng ran over. It was found that the Qing soldiers here had all been killed. There were also two ropes hanging from the city wall, and Long Sheng stretched out his head to look down. It was the darkest time before dawn, and it was impossible to see what was under the city.

When I turned my head, the Qing soldiers killed in the city were all ordinary soldiers, not even generals. Long Sheng sighed and said, "Bai is happy, I thought I could catch Yue Le." None of these little fish counted. An Yang, who followed behind, also said: "Forget it, where is it so easy to catch a prince of the Qing court?" Now that we have laid down Wuchang City, we have already completed our goal. ”

As soon as the two of them spoke, the soldiers who came from Hanyang Gate said: "General, there are big officials in their group, and they are the ones who fled to the city just now." The man was also dressed differently and luxuriously, and all the Qing soldiers were protecting him. Hearing what these soldiers said, Long Sheng and An Yang rekindled their hopes. Keep looking down the city, as if you want to find something.

But I couldn't see the city, so I had to give up. Then I saw someone coming from under the city with torches, and indeed the people at the gate of the city had already come. But after looking around, I can't find anyone. Only a corpse was found under the rope, but it was also wearing ordinary clothes, and there was no one in the fancy costume that the soldiers said.

When the Restoration Army under the city saw that they could not find it, they asked, "Do you see someone coming down?" Why is there no one? The Restoration Army on the city wall said: "Yes, we saw him go down, and the person behind him was slashed by us and fell himself." "The Restoration Army under the city has carefully searched for it, but still can't find it.

Seeing that it was really early, I was not sure that the person who escaped just now was Yue Le. An Yang in the city said: "Forget it, come back first, now it's pitch black, you can't see anything, where to find someone." Long Sheng said: "Yes, maybe Yue Le is still hiding in Phoenix Mountain, hurry up and block Phoenix Mountain, don't let him hide in the city." ”

The men of the city said yes, and then went to the city gate. Just when the Restoration Army in the city began to clean up the corpses of the Qing army. Suddenly, there was a "plop" sound from under the city, and it seemed that something had fallen into the water. Then someone shouted, "Help, help me, I can't swim." ”

The Restoration Army, which was in the corpse of the Qing Army, ignored it at all. I thought it was the soldier of the Restoration Army who accidentally fell into the moat. But there was also a Restoration Army under the city, and the people in the city didn't pay attention to it at all. He also teased in his mouth: "Who are you, where did you come from, a cat and a dog, you are busy here." As he spoke, he carried the corpses of the Qing army with others and piled them up in one place.

The people who fell into the water under the city seem to have eaten two mouthfuls of water. yelled: "Save me, I am Prince An Yue Le." I don't know water, so help. When the people in the city heard this, they said, "Why don't you say that you are Shunzhi?" Also Yue Le... Yue Le. The soldier of the Restoration Army screamed violently, and then threw the corpse of the Qing army in his hand to the ground, and ran to the city wall to take a look, but he still couldn't see anything.

Listening to the sound of the water being pounced on under the city, he hurriedly snatched the torch from the Fuming army next to him, and then threw four or five in a row. Only then did I see that in the moat, someone was desperately thrashing, trying to climb ashore. But it was still illegal, and instead of climbing up, it made the mud on both sides of the bank even more slippery.

When everyone saw it, this person was wearing a brocade robe and had this money rattail on his head. It was the man I saw in the city just now, the man in a fancy costume, and at that time, he seemed to be really extraordinary, and he should be a character. The others immediately clamored and shouted for people to come and catch Yue Le. The Restoration Army, which had just left the city, was about to enter the city gate at this time, when they heard that there was a commotion here, and they faintly heard that they were going to arrest people.

These people had run an empty road before, but this time they were not busy, and walked back slowly. When I got closer, I realized that there was really a person in the moat. Listening carefully to what the people in the city said, I realized that the person in the moat was Yue Le, who wanted to be caught just now. Immediately, everyone was happy, and stepped forward to look at this Manchu prince with a smile.

Yue Le tossed in the water, although he knew that these people were laughing at him. But he doesn't know water, and the so-called hairless phoenix is not as good as a chicken. What kind of identity and face did they care about, so they had to ask for help again and again.

After waiting for a long time, I saw that Yue Le was indeed tired of tossing. The Restoration Army under the city stretched out the spear in his hand, let Yue Le grab it, and then dragged Yue Le up. After Yue Le came ashore, the Restoration Army under the city suddenly stepped forward, like watching a monkey, looking at Yue Le who was soaking wet. At this time, Long Sheng and An Yang also came over, looking at the down-and-out Yue Le, Long Sheng smiled and said, "This is the prince of the Manchu Dynasty?" There's nothing outstanding about it. ”

An Yang next to him said: "These Tartars have only lived a few good days, and they can raise a noble spirit there." Then he said to the Fuming army outside the city: "Okay, don't make trouble, hurry up and escort Yue Le in, His Highness should enter the city after dawn." ”

The Restoration Army under the city pulled Yue Le to the city. Long Sheng and An Yang were very happy to see that Yue Le had caught it. Immediately let the others clear the Qing soldiers in the city as soon as possible. Then he sent someone to report to Zhu Youdong and asked Zhu Youdong to enter the city as soon as possible.

Then the two hurriedly walked down the city wall and personally escorted Yue Le back to the governor's palace to take care of it. As Yue Le was arrested, the Qing army in the city became even more panicked, and heard the Fuming army shouting: "Yue Le has been captured alive." Suddenly, many Qing soldiers directly gave up resistance and surrendered on their knees.

At this time, Zhu Youdong was not in the rear camp at all. At that time, after Zhou Dazhu arranged the battle, Zhu Youdong returned to the naval warship.

It is said that Zhou Dazhu's arrangement is also very good, and all his troops are calculated, but the strength of the Qing army is not well arranged. The Qing soldiers not only had 10,000 Manchurian Eight Banners, but also tens of thousands of Yangtze River sailors under the city of Wuchang. In addition, Zhou Dazhu did not arrange troops to contain the Qing army on the other side of Wuchang City, but there were still 40,000 Qing troops in the Hongguan camp.

Although Zhu Youdong didn't say these things on the spot, it doesn't mean that he won't arrange them. After Zhu Youdong returned to the warship, he said to Fan Shaozu: "Although you have transferred 5,000 sailors and generals, none of your gunners and boatmen have been transferred. You take the warship to block the way out of the Qing army's sailors, and you must trap them in the water village. ”

Fan Shaozu frowned and said: "Your Highness, I'm afraid this is a little difficult, now the sailors and soldiers have all been transferred." How are the light gunners and boatmen going to block the sailors of the Qing army? Zhu Youdong said: "Can't you block it without a water master?" You drive all the warships to the outside of the Qing army's water village, and then engage in an artillery battle with them from a distance. It is now late at night, and the Qing army sailors will not dare to go into battle. At most, they will be your artillery battle to prevent you from attacking the water village. And your task is to drag them in the water village and not let them come out to fight. ”

When Fan Shaozu heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Your Highness's method is good, since Your Highness is so thoughtful, the last general will definitely complete the task and never let the Qing army sailors come out to participate in the war." ”

After Zhu Youdong arranged the water master, he said to Wang Liucang, Hu Yiqing, Wang Xing, and Li Rubi: "I know that you have been worried, and I have prejudices against you. To tell you the truth, I am indeed very dissatisfied with you, you are all military generals and sharp weapons of the country. The thing you are thinking about should be to protect your family and defend the country, why did you participate in the political struggle? ”

The four of them dared to argue, and they were all busy saying: "Your Highness, the last general and others were all blinded by lard at that time, and listened to the provocation of others. The last general will not dare to wait any longer. Zhu Youdong said: "I understand your desire to change your ways, and I am willing to give you this opportunity." ”

The eyes of the four of them suddenly lit up, and listening to Zhu Youdong's tone, they were going to be used again. The four of them hurriedly said: "Please ask Your Highness to order, even if the last general and others go to the soup and fire, they will not hesitate." Zhu Youdong said: "It's not that serious." Now Zhou Dazhu has made arrangements for the war in Wuchang, but after all, it is the first time for him to arrange such a big battle, and it is inevitable that there will be some omissions. ”

Hu Yiqing said: "Your Highness, if you have anything to say, just say it, we were confused in the officialdom before." But on the battlefield, we are by no means confused. Li Rubi and others also echoed.

Zhu Youdong said: "Okay, the people of the Twelfth Army have been transferred away by Zhou Dazhu, and now we only have 2,000 people left in Peng Changbao's hands." I want you to take these 2,000 people to the Red Pass to attack the Qing army's camp. When the four of them heard this, they were first overjoyed, and they heard that Zhu Youdong finally reused them, and handed over the two thousand personal soldiers around him to the four of them.

But then he was shocked and used 2,000 people to attack the Qing army camp, and he suddenly hesitated. Zhu Youdong ignored this when he saw this, and said to himself: "According to the news, the Qing army's Hongguan camp has 40,000 Qing troops, can you have the confidence to defeat it?" ”

Hearing this, the four of them immediately took a breath of cool air, and even felt that Zhu Youdong wanted to kill the four of them. Zhu Youdong seemed to see that the four of them were wrong. "What? Don't you dare? Or is there something difficult? Wang Liu Cang said: "Your Highness, there are really 40,000 Qing troops in the Hongguan camp?" ”

Zhu Youdong said: "This should be true, if you want to come to Huguang from all over the country to be relocated, it should not be difficult for Zhang Changgeng to form tens of thousands of troops." How? But is there any difficulty? Hu Yiqing interrupted Wang Liucang and said, "There is no difficulty, we just take two thousand people to go, and we will definitely complete the task." ”

Hu Yiqing had already agreed, and the other three had no choice but to agree. Zhu Youdong said: "Actually, you don't need a coke oven, I know your worries." If you think about it, Zhang Changgeng's army in Huguang is not much at all. Since Hanyang was occupied by Gou Xingwang, he must have transferred most of his main force to Hanyang. The Qing soldiers in Hongguan now are just the people who have just been gathered, and they will not have much combat effectiveness in the future. Two thousand men went to attack, more than enough. ”