Chapter 33: Planting Flowers and Willows (8)

In the next few days, Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui led the Ming army under their command to launch several offences against Quanzhou City. After that panic, the Qing army defending the city has calmed down a lot, which also makes the casualties of the Ming army begin to rise gradually. But even so, Zheng Chenggong still forced Zhao Guozuo to show his hole cards, and sacrificed some cavalry in exchange for a little respite.

Nowadays, most of Fujian is under the front of the Ming army from all walks of life, and the city defense of Quanzhou is still in danger. However, every time the Ming army was expected to climb the city wall and gain a foothold, the flanks would be desperately attacked by Xie Yinglong's troops, without exception.

The Ming army attacked the city, the defenders resisted desperately, the Ming army was expected to break through the city, Xie Yinglong's troops attacked the flank of the Ming army, and the Ming army had no choice but to retreat. This drama has been played out several times, and neither side seems to be bored with it. On the third day of the first month of September, after a short rest for two days, Zheng Hongkui changed the haste of the previous times, and simply unloaded all the artillery on the ship with Zheng Chenggong, and rebuilt a large number of siege equipment, which was clearly a posture of taking Quanzhou City in one go.

Outside the city of Quanzhou, the Ming army's artillery poured out the anger of the soldiers in the city in the past few days. The rumbling cannon sound reached the stone village, Xie Yinglong had earlier obtained the news of the Ming army's unloading of artillery through Quanzhou's exploration horses, and immediately ordered all the soldiers and horses, trying his best to save the lonely city of Quanzhou under the full blow of the Ming army.

In the siege troops under the city of Quanzhou and the stone village between the defense is still Xie Yinglong's old opponent Xiao Gongchen, except for the first day because of the disparity in troops, Xiao Gongchen almost did not support, with Zheng Hongkui to Xiao Gongchen sent additional troops and horses, Xie Yinglong's attack was not so easy to succeed. However, the troops were divided again, and the siege troops were invisibly a lot less, coupled with Xie Yinglong's repeated attacks, which inevitably affected the psychological state of the siege troops, and the pressure on Quanzhou city defense was reduced, and his goal was achieved.

After several encounters, Xie Yinglong and Xiao Gongchen already have a certain understanding of each other's tactical habits. In this rescue, Xie Yinglong knew very well that this would be the strongest blow of the Ming army, and he had also formulated a combat plan to deal with it in advance, and was ready to fight to the death.

"Quick, hurry up!"

The army of the stone village walked out of the village, and among the rich grass and trees in the distance, a pair of eyes stared through the gaps in the grass for a moment, and then crawled away from there with a twist and a twist. A moment later, the owner of those eyes had already passed through the forest, and soon reached the back of a hill.

"Tell the marshal, the Tartars of the Stone Village have been dispatched in less than half a pillar of incense."

"Good."

Half a pillar of incense is about 15 minutes, Xie Yinglong's department in less than 15 minutes out of the stone village, calculate the distance, everything is ready, this Qing army is just a little more than halfway between Quanzhou City and the stone village.

………………

After another half of the incense, the Qing army in the stone village had already walked most of the way under the urging of Xie Yinglong. At this moment, the speed has been slowed down, so as not to be attacked by the Ming army. The scout horse had just rushed back, and Xiao Gongchen's troops looked even more than before, which seemed very abnormal.

Xie Yinglong couldn't help frowning when he got this reply, there were only so many soldiers in the Ming army, and aside from these casualties, it was already overstretched. During this period, Xiao Gongchen's troops increased again, and the number of siege troops would decrease again. Isn't it, did the Ming army pin all its hopes on those artillery?

There were many suspicions, but Xie Yinglong had not yet figured out the reason, the direction he came from, a fast horse rushed over like crazy, almost brushing the marching queue of soldiers, and rushed in front of him.

"Dashuai, the big thing is not good, the stone village is besieged by thieves!"

Hearing this, Xie Yinglong's heart chuckled, and then he pulled the cavalryman's neck, and subconsciously asked, "Which thief, how many people are here?" ”

Riding on a horse, it is equivalent to being dragged out by Xie Yinglong, which is very awkward. However, the cavalry knew that the military situation was urgent, but they did not hesitate: "If you go back to the marshal, the thief will fight under the banner of loyalty and filial piety to recruit the general Zhu, and it seems that there are no less than a thousand people." ”

Zhu Chenggong!

After getting this answer, Xie Yinglong's previous doubts were solved, and his eyes suddenly opened up. In an instant, the thought of being in the middle of the plan rushed straight to the Heavenly Spirit Gai, and the order was also issued.

"Go back to the Shishi Village, quickly!"

This time the Ming army attacked Quanzhou, which was a coalition of Zheng Chenggong and Zheng Hongkui. At this time, Zheng Hongkui's troops made a posture of storming Quanzhou, but they sent a large number of troops to stop the Qing army reinforcements, which was contrary to common sense. It stands to reason that if the Ming army wants to take Quanzhou, it is possible to have strong reinforcements on the basis of the original, but now Zheng Chenggong's banner has appeared in the stone village, then all this clearly shows that all the arrangements under Quanzhou City are all scams, and the goal of the Ming army is not Quanzhou City at all, but his stone village!

The stone village is a cottage, the terrain is dangerous, and the area is not small, it is said that it can accommodate tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Xie Yinglong didn't have so many soldiers, not even less than 2,000, but the stockade contained the family members and belongings of him and his subordinates, and once it was lost, the consequences would be unimaginable. But the problem is that he has done his best to send troops this time, and the remaining defenders in the stockade are only 100 people, and they can't hold it for long.

The news of the enemy in the nest spread quickly, and the Qing army didn't care about the safety of Quanzhou City, so they hurriedly changed the rear team to the front team and marched towards the stone village.

When I went, I still needed to be urged by Xie Yinglong, but when I came back, I didn't have to. The Qing troops of the brigade withdrew their troops one by one, and soon when they crossed a mountain road, they saw from a distance that a Ming army under the banner of the right vanguard town was lined up there.

"Kill the past is a slippery stone village, rush!"

The nest was dug up, and Xie Yinglong didn't care about anything else, so he ordered the army to swarm up. In fact, even if he didn't give such an order, under such a terrain, it would be difficult to readjust the formation, and the only way to force the soldiers to rush through was to use the soldiers' sense of crisis.

The Qing army rushed to kill, but the Ming army was still lined up with spears, like hedgehogs. However, without waiting for the Qing army to rush to the front, on the slopes on both sides, the horn cannon sounded, Guo Tai, the head town of the left guard town, and Yu Kuan, the head of the right guard town, put up the flag, and the Ming army of the brigade came out, and there was a Ming army with the banner that the cavalry had seen outside the stone village before, and the Ming army directly blocked the retreat of the Qing army, and surrounded them on all sides in this mountain road.

"Loyal and filial uncle recruits the general's surname."

At this point, Xie Yinglong suddenly realized that not only the arrangements under Quanzhou City were scams, but also those outside the stone village. The target of the Ming army is none other than him, the general, and the partial division he leads!

"Kill the Tartars!"

On the hillsides on both sides, the arrows and stones thrown by the Ming army fell like raindrops on the heads of the Qing troops who were in a mess and could not move here. The spears of the Ming army with two mouths lined up and were strictly guarded.

Xie Yinglong knew that he was already dead, so he had to drive his soldiers to forcibly attack the battle formation of the Ming army, but the formation was chaotic, and then the two wings were attacked by the enemy, and the Qing army failed to have any effect several times. Seeing this, he simply dismounted and held his troops, and personally led the team to attack the Ming army's battle formation.

The commander personally led the team to rush and kill, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and they rushed towards the spear forest with arrows and stones from the Ming army. However, a moment later, Xie Yinglong and his personal soldiers and family members had fallen in front of the battle, and the fine armor on his body could not block the stabbing of even a spear for him, and after being stabbed in several blood holes, he had to fall to the ground unwillingly.

"Won, finally ......"

The commander of the Qing army was killed in battle, the morale of the army was disrupted, and the morale fell to the bottom. The art of war is to fight to the death, but at this point, the Qing army has lost the desire to continue fighting, and under the persuasion of the Ming army, one by one they have dropped their weapons and surrendered.

"The national surname, Du Hui's side has also succeeded."

Ke Chenshu reported the results of the stone village, and Zheng Chenggong couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. The slippery stone village is just a false move, he sent the general assistant Du Hui with some men and horses to attack, and now the main force has succeeded, Du Hui has also won the slippery stone village that lacks soldiers to defend the palace, and it is a complete victory.

"Tell Du Hui to copy everything you can take away. Let's go back and continue to attack Quanzhou City! ”