Chapter 11: The Siege of Boryeong City
The soldiers of the Fuming Battalion here are entering the pass one after another, and Zhu Dashan has already summoned the personnel above the general flag to assign the task: "Wait for Song Gaoju to take people to the city to deceive, if the three Qincha do not cooperate, they will be directly stunned." They can't be allowed to speak. If you open the city gate, you must desperately defend the gate. Song Gao hurriedly agreed. Zhu Dashan saw Song Gaoju and said, "Then you go and prepare first!" I know you're all tired after a night's journey. But it's almost dawn, and it will soon be dawn, and we will have no chance to take Boryeong as soon as the day dawns. So we have to be fast, although our soldiers are tired and tired, but this is also the time when the guard is the most relaxed. Wait a minute, and you have to explain it to the soldiers. ”
The last sentence Zhu Dashan said to all the people present, Song Gaoju knew that the situation was urgent, and he didn't say much, so he went out to prepare as soon as he agreed.
Zhu Dashan saw Song Gaoju leave and said: "After Song Gaoju opened the city gate for us, everyone rushed in turn, and each general banner should quickly occupy the four city gates, and then attack the prefect's yamen and the governor's yamen from the four gates." Lin Zhuang, after you take people into the city, you will go directly to the governor's yamen, and you must make the Baoning Mansion chaotic as quickly as possible and form a flank with the personnel of the four gates. Everyone hurriedly agreed.
Zhu Dashan said to Lin Kejia again: "Please also ask Lin Zongqi to send some people to lead the way for each general flag." Lin Kejia nodded hurriedly in agreement. Zhu Dashan continued: "Master Hu, you go and inform that the people who were previously included in the baggage team will ride on horses and put on tartar armor. After rushing into the city, they set fire everywhere. Cheng Deyi waited, you don't follow the brigade, you organize the people who came with us, and control the grain, grass and treasury in the city as soon as possible after entering the city. I don't know the road, let Lin Zongqi send someone to you. Cheng Deyi hurriedly agreed.
After Zhu Dashan finished speaking, he saw that everyone understood, and said: "Everyone, success or failure is here." We should try to take control of Boryeong City before dawn. I hope you will do your best to win Boryeong together. Everyone said in unison: "Do your best to take Boryeong." ”
Zhu Dashan was about to let everyone go out together, but Lin Kejia said: "The general is slow, the general has missed a place, and there is a fort outside Baoning City." We must take it first, otherwise we will be frustrated as soon as the cannon is fired. After Zhu Dashan hurriedly asked about the situation, he said to Liu Yingnan: "So you have to bother Liu Zongqi to go out." Liu Yingnan said: "The general can rest assured." I will definitely lay down the fort first, so that he will not threaten the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion. ”
Zhu Dashan said: "But I don't have a sergeant to send the general flag again, so I can only give some people to the general flag." I gave ten pairs of Tartar armor to the general banner, and ten horses to the general banner. Liu Yingnan also aimed at Zhu Dashan, and it was not easy to give himself these armors and horses. But with these, he will definitely be able to deceive the fort, so he nodded and agreed. Lin Kejia said: "Let me and General Gao go to the city!" With me, the people of the city believe more. Zhu Dashan agreed without thinking about it.
After the arrangement was made here, Song Gaoju came to report that he was ready, and Zhu Dashan hurriedly told him to go to the city first. Then he led everyone to sneak towards Boryeong City.
Let's say that Song Gaoju took twenty soldiers wearing the armor of the Zhenghuang Banner on horseback, and also brought two real Tartar soldiers. It was Songri and Sheli, who cried the most in front of the yamen that day. He asked more than a dozen people to wear the clothes of the honor guard, and then carried the three stunned Qincha to Baoning City in a hurry, and Song Gaoju did not dare to let them shout in Manchu. Let them call the door in Chinese.
The two of them looked at the knife against their waists and didn't dare to say anything, so they had to shout in broken Chinese: "Open the city gate quickly, open the city gate quickly." When someone in the city heard the voice, he hurriedly stretched out his head and asked, "Who is so desperate and sleepy?" What door to open. Song Gaoju was anxious, and said in a Tatar tone: "Hurry up and open the door, Lord Qincha was attacked by thieves in Hezhou, and now he is unconscious and needs medical treatment urgently. ”
The people in the city were shocked when they heard this, and everyone who sent Qin out of the city about ten days ago saw it, why did he come back again. Hurriedly said: "Ouch, Master Bannerman, I can't be the master at this time." I have sent someone to report it, and soon the generals will come and open the door to the old men. "The guard didn't know who was calling the door below, but he was certainly not Han Chinese who could speak such broken Chinese. First tell the old man not to offend the people in the city.
Song Gao held up to see that the people in the city had no intention of opening the door, and asked everyone else to scold the people in the city, but they couldn't use Chinese, and they couldn't understand it. Sure enough, there was chaos in the city.
Lin Kejia saw that he was going to call people, but he was afraid that he would have many dreams at night and cause trouble. Busy said: "Is it Li Shuisheng and Li Baihu in the city?" I'm Lin Kejia from Nanjin Pass. When the people in the city heard this, they exclaimed, "Lin Kejia, you are crazy." At this time, you dare to leave your post without permission. You wait for military law to be engaged. Lin Kejia said: "I don't want to either, but they are really a Qincha team!" I was slapped twice in order to check the authenticity. Look at their Manchurian dialect, which Han Chinese can say it. After speaking, he hurriedly asked someone to get the three Qincha too close.
Li Shuisheng in the city heard that Lin Kejia was also beaten, and saw that the people in the city brought the Qincha closer, and saw that there were indeed three people lying down, and the cavalry below were just cursing and scolding, and they couldn't understand a word. I already have a little belief in my heart.
At this time, Li Kuilong, the guard of the city gate, walked up to the city tower and climbed the city wall to take a look, and his face turned white in fright. When he sent Qincha out of the city that day, he clearly saw Qincha's clothes. Isn't it the Chin Cha who is lying on the shelf now? He didn't suspect fraud, who would have thought that someone would be able to kill Qin Cha in the hands of the Eight Banners of Manchuria with a hundred people, and come to pretend to be? It's absolutely impossible.
Li Kuilong was about to go down to open the door, when he saw Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan, and Tian Youfeng, the prefect of Baoning, hurrying over, and said, "Is it true?" What about Chincha? Li Kuilong said: "It's still outside the city, look at the costume of Qincha, and the cavalry of the Yellow Banner is still there." ”
Gao Minzhan was also concerned about the chaos, but he felt that he couldn't hear the chatter outside the city gate very clearly, as if it was Manchurian. I also heard Li Kuilong say that there are cavalry with a yellow flag, and the guard of honor is also there. Hurriedly said: "Open the city gate quickly, you go to Lang Zhong." Gao Minzhan said to Li Kuilong first, and then said to a guard beside him.
Li Kuilong hurriedly asked someone to open the city gate. Song Gaoju scolded a few words outside the city, and saw that the defenders in the city just didn't open the door. While he was in a hurry, he saw the gate slowly open. Song Gao motioned for everyone to stop, staring closely at the city gate.
As soon as the city gate was opened, a group of people rushed out and pounced on the three Qincha. He also shouted: "How is Qincha, does it matter?" Of course, it was the governor Gao Minzhan who spoke, but after calling two sentences, no one answered, and when he looked up, he found that these people were not right, would the Manchurian cavalry ride so stiffly? How I don't know. And how the man in the lead has never seen it.
Gao Minzhan's heart tightened, and he turned around and was about to run. He also shouted: "Hurry up......" Gao Minzhan only shouted one word, and was shot out of his chest by a knife from his back, and he died on the spot. Then there was a shout: "Kill, kill all these Qing soldiers." ”
It turned out that when Song Gaoju saw Gao Minzhan coming out, he pounced on Qincha and was about to seize the city gate. saw Gao Minzhan find himself and turned around to run. didn't have time to think about anything else, so he stabbed Gao Minzhan with a knife. When the others saw Song Gao move, they also drew their knives and slashed and slashed. Song Gaoju was afraid that the people in the city would react and close the city gate, and hurriedly led people to rush into the city gate. The other soldiers also rushed towards the city gate, and those who were not good at riding immediately abandoned their horses and attacked the city gate. The man dressed as a guard of honor drew his sword and slashed down the man who had pounced on him. Then he also rushed to the city gate.
Originally, the guards at the city gate watched the governor go out to pick up the Qincha, but suddenly the Manchurian lord outside the city killed the governor and rushed over, these guards did not react, Song Gaoju and others had rushed to the city gate passage to slash, and then the guards reacted. wanted to drive away Song Gaoju and others and close the city gate. For a while, blood splattered at the city gate, and screams were repeated.
But Song Gaoju and others desperately defended it, and more than a dozen people rushed over one after another, and Song Gaoju and others became more and more stable. But there were more and more guards at this time, and there were patrols on the city walls in the distance. Song Gaoju was also injured and was slashed in the shoulder with a knife, almost destroying Song Gaoju's arm.
At this time, shouts of killing also sounded outside the city. But it was Zhu Dashan who led the people outside to attack the city gate, and the guards saw the dense crowd of people outside the city, and they couldn't see how many people there were in the night. There are also cavalry wearing the yellow flag rushing over with torches, the guards present are all frightened, suddenly the momentum is weak, the people of the baggage team ride a horse, in fact, the people of the baggage team will not ride horses, at this time they are all tied to the horse, but the guards do not know, seeing the cavalry wearing the yellow flag armor rushing over, frightened and constantly retreating. Gou Xingwang and Zhou Dazhu, who were following behind, also rushed over with the Fuming camp, and the guards were immediately rushed away, and they couldn't hold it anymore and fled to the city.
As soon as the guards ran away, the soldiers of the Restoration Battalion rushed into the city like a flood, and everyone hurriedly attacked the other three gates as they had agreed. Liu Yingnan had already led people around the city when everyone entered the city. Go and attack the forts outside the city. Lin Zhuang led people to set fire everywhere in the city, and kept shouting: "The Ming army has entered the city, and the governor has been killed." ”
The general banner that attacked the other three city gates each brought fifty people, and now Zhu Dashan left twenty more people to guard the south gate, seeing that Song Gaoju was injured, he asked him to stay and guard the south gate, but Song Gaoju simply bandaged it and took people to help Lin Zhuang. Zhu Dashan couldn't take care of so much now, led the remaining 300 people, and let Lin Kejia's people lead the way and went straight to the standard camp station.
As soon as Zhu Dashan led the people to the gate of the barracks, a general hurriedly gathered more than 50 people and rushed out of the barracks to meet Zhu Dashan. Zhu Dashan shouted fiercely and led people to kill him, and the general did not retreat, and led people to fight together with the Restoration Camp.
Now the city of Baoning is full of fires, the city is full of fighting and roaring, and the soldiers of the Fuming battalion keep shouting: "The Ming generals have entered the city," and even more exaggerated shouting: "The 100,000 Ming kings have entered the city, and the governor Gao Minzhan has been killed." "The situation in the city is unknown, and there is chaos for a while. There are also cowardly people who have slipped into the houses and hid.
The battalion soldiers who fought with Zhu Dashan heard that the Ming army was strong and the governor was killed again, and many people began to be timid. plus Zhu Dashan's strong attack with people who don't want to die. For a while, more than 20 people led by the general were cut down, and the others dispersed in a hurry when they saw that the Ming army was strong, and the general had to retreat to the barracks. Zhu Dashan took the opportunity to attack the barracks, only to see that the barracks were still in chaos, most of the soldiers were called up in their sleep, and there were many people who were disheveled, and some were busy looking for weapons.
Seeing Zhu Dashan and others attacking the barracks, the Qing soldiers immediately fled in all directions. Seeing this, Zhu Dashan hurriedly asked everyone to shout while attacking: "Kneel down and surrender, you can avoid death." When the Qing soldiers heard that they would not die, they all knelt down and surrendered.
Seeing that the situation was not right, the battalion general hurriedly rushed to the outside of the barracks with his own family guards. Zhu Dashan found that someone wanted to run, so he hurriedly led people to block it. The two sides were even more silent, and directly killed each other. After Zhu Dashan cut down two Qing soldiers, he saw that the general was powerful, and three soldiers of the Restoration Battalion had been cut down to the ground by him, and one of them was directly cut off by his head. The general, under the escort of his family, had already rushed to the edge of the barracks, and was about to rush out of the barracks. Zhu Dashan didn't care about the general's strength, and rushed directly towards him. The soldiers of the Restoration Camp around Zhu Dashan were shocked, and they all moved closer to Zhu Dashan.
The general of the Qing army also saw that Zhu Dashan was led by these people, and saw Zhu Dashan cut down two family members, so he actually came at him at this time, and he was not afraid at the moment. raised a knife to kill Zhu Dashan, Zhu Dashan saw that he was fierce, and hurriedly raised his knife to slash. Both of them wanted to win, but they saw two knives slashed together, and suddenly there was a continuous sound, and sparks were everywhere. The two of them couldn't help anyone, and the guards of the two were also killed together at this time.
Zhu Dashan and the general went back and forth, fighting more than a dozen times. After all, the general was good at fighting, and he gained the upper hand in a few clicks, and for a while, although Zhu Dashan tried his best to defend, he was still slashed a few times, and one knife almost grazed Zhu Dashan's scalp, and Zhu Dashan was frightened and retreated. Just as Zhu Dashan was frightened, the general slashed at Zhu Dashan's chest again. Zhu Dashan looked at this knife, he couldn't hide it, and thought that he was going to die now.
Fortunately, Zhu Dashan wore the armor of the cavalry commander of the Yellow Banner, and the armor of the Eight Banners of Manchuria was mostly cotton armor. Na Qing slashed at Zhu Dashan's body, but only cut through the armor. Zhu Dashan himself was fine, but the soldiers of the Restoration Camp next to him were frightened, and when they saw that Zhu Dashan was fine, several people next to him hurriedly rushed over to protect Zhu Dashan behind him.