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At this time, Qin Qiong had already beckoned the soldiers behind him to climb out of the tunnel, and then quickly set up sentry posts around the Xiao family's ancestral hall. He ordered Dan to kill any Jianghuai soldiers immediately, even if they were surnames, to prevent the news that the Zhou army had entered the city.

About an hour later, tens of thousands of elite Zhou soldiers had already assembled in the Xiao family ancestral hall. Cheng Yanjin commanded a group of scouts in civilian clothes to look around, but found that this street was very desolate, not to mention that there were no Jianghuai soldiers, and even the surname was rare.

After a little thought, you will know that this situation is normal. After all, the Xiao family was the enemy of the Jianghuai army, and they were defeated and slaughtered. The surname in the city is now only afraid of getting involved with the Xiao family, where do they dare to take the initiative to run around the Xiao family's ancestral hall? Isn't that asking for hardship, making Jiang Huaijun suspect that he is related to the Xiao family?

After the assembly was completed, Yu Ming immediately ordered to act according to the plan drawn up earlier.

The Zhou army was divided into two, one led by Qin Qiong, to seize the east gate of Baling City, so as to open the city gate and let in the main force of the Zhou army outside the city. and the other went straight to the city guard, preparing to capture the king first with a thief, and capture Du Fuwei and Fu Gongzuo.

At this time, Du Fuwei had just finished inspecting the defense of the city wall and returned to the city guard's mansion, and was studying the city defense situation with his Du Yu.

He had already been reported by the scout team sent out, saying that everything was normal in the Zhou army's camp, and although a large number of cavalry and infantry were dispatched, they did not approach the Baling city wall, and were under the close surveillance of the Jianghuai army scouts outside the city. This made his already hanging heart relax again.

But Du Fuwei felt a sadness in his heart, and it was only a little more than a month since the Zhou army launched its southern expedition that it had fought from the Huai River to the Yangtze River. The land of Jianghuai, the land of Jiangdong, and both sides of Poyang Lake, which originally belonged to the territory of the Jianghuai Army, were all lost.

Now that the Zhou army has reached Jingxiang, he can only be trapped in the last city, Baling. I knew that Yuming was so powerful, and I might as well have surrendered at the beginning.

However, he also knew very well in his heart that at this time, it would be the same if he surrendered or not. With Yu Ming's character of retribution, even if he agrees to surrender, I am afraid that his final fate will not be better. Du Fuwei could only grit his teeth and continue to insist, striving to defend until the Zhou army returned north.

Just when Du Fuwei was thinking to himself in his heart, he suddenly heard the shouting of killing outside the city guard's mansion.

He was stunned for a moment, secretly wondering if it was the assistant who launched a mutiny? But how could this guy be so bold? Aren't you afraid that the civil strife in the city will lead to the loss?

Du Fuwei was about to go out to see what was going on, but he saw Feng Huiliang rushing into the house in a panic, with blood stains on his body. He shouted with a worried face: "King Du, something is wrong!" The Zhou army has entered the city! The East Gate has been lost! Now the cavalry of the Zhou army has entered the city and killed on the street in front of the city guard's mansion! ”

"What? Did the Zhou army enter the city? How did they get in? When Du Fuwei heard this, he was so angry that he almost stared out his eyes.

"Isn't Chen Zhengtong guarding the East City Gate? What's he doing? Why didn't the Zhou army report to me when the city was attacked? Du Fuwei said angrily.

"We don't know, it's chaos in the city right now! King Du, let's withdraw quickly! These Zhou troops are menacing, all of them are strong in martial arts, and they are ruthless, and they have a lot of cavalry, we can't stop them at all! Feng Huiliang said with a sad face.

After hearing this, the muscles on Du Fuwei's face trembled, and there was a hint of horror in his eyes, but it was fleeting.

He immediately shouted, "No! We can't withdraw! Even if we withdraw, we don't know which way we're going. Now the world is so big, but there is no place for our Jianghuai army. Moreover, the Zhou army had many cavalry, but our army was mostly infantry, and after leaving the city, it was a land of flat rivers. If the enemy cavalry pursues them, our army will inevitably be defeated, and there will be no way to fight back, so we can only let them slaughter. ”

After saying that, Du Fuwei immediately pulled out his waist knife and said sharply to Feng Huiliang: "Old Feng, quickly take my armor!" A certain family wants to go into battle and fight to the death with Yuming's child! ”

Feng Huiliang secretly complained, the enemy army is strong now, if he doesn't escape, he will die.

But he had followed him from the time he had raised his army, and had become accustomed to obeying his orders.

In desperation, he had no choice but to serve Du Fuwei to put on his armor, walk out of the city guard, and then turn over and get on the war horse.

At this time, there were fires everywhere in Baling City, and the people in the city shouted and neighed, and the soldiers and civilians were panicked.

Most of the Jianghuai troops who stayed behind in Baling City had experienced many battles and were already physically and mentally exhausted. And because since the start of the war, the Jianghuai army has been defeated, from Jiangdu to Baling, ninety percent of the territory has been lost, and the people's hearts have long been unstable.

They didn't expect that the Zhou army would suddenly attack Baling City, which was well-walled, in silence.

Moreover, in the panic, the soldiers of the Jianghuai Army did not know how many of the Zhou army had entered the city, and there were rumors that Du Fuwei had already been killed. This made the Jianghuai army up and down, whether it was a general or a soldier, panicked.

Although many people resisted stubbornly, as soon as they fought with the Zhou army, they felt the strong combat effectiveness of the other party. Especially when he saw that the cavalry of the Zhou army was all wearing iron armor, Fang Zhi encountered the ironclad cavalry with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Zhou army, and he was suddenly frightened, and he was unable to organize effective resistance at all.

Although the auxiliary Gongzuo who was on duty on the city wall personally went into battle, the mood of the Jianghuai army around the city wall stabilized. But with more and more Zhou troops entering the city, no matter how powerful he is, he can't save the defeat of the Jianghuai army.

After entering the early morning, the whole Baling City has fallen into chaos, the soulless surnames are running all over the streets, all the houses are closed doors and windows, and the streets are full of Zhou soldiers with weapons in hand, fighting hard, they are always moving forward in the narrow Baling City, and they will kill people wearing Jianghuai army uniforms when they see them.

The Jianghuai army in Baling City was now like a headless fly all over the city, completely losing its morale and confidence, and was divided and surrounded by the cavalry infantry of the Zhou army that rushed into the city, and then piled up or surrendered or was annihilated and killed.

By the early morning of the next day, the Jianghuai army in Baling City had been basically wiped out, except for a few people who fled through another city gate, and were all captured by Wei Chi Jingde, who was gambling outside the city, most of them were killed or captured in the city.

Only Du Fuwei and Du Yu's father, led his direct personal soldiers, retreated to the county office, and were still desperately resisting.

At this time, Cheng Yanjin had already commanded the Zhou army to completely surround the Baling County Ya. It's just that due to the dense number of houses and narrow streets here, it is not easy to use the lethal longbow and hard crossbow here. And Du Fuwei commanded his own soldiers to block the entrance to the Yamen, making it difficult for the Zhou army to attack.

In desperation, he had no choice but to yell at the county office: "Du Fuwei! You're ruined! Come out and surrender quickly, I can spare you death! ”

"Humph! I'm afraid that what you Cheng Yanjin said doesn't count! And even if I surrender now, I'm afraid I won't be able to get a good death. A certain family will not be fooled by this! Du Fuwei's deep voice came out, which made the Zhou soldiers present listen to it, and they couldn't help but be furious.

Cheng Biting Jin was even more angry and gritted his teeth, he threw his helmet to the ground, and then raised two Xuanhua axes and shouted: "Go!" Brothers, rush with Lao Cheng! I'm going to chop this old man into meat sauce! ”

Just when Cheng Yanjin was about to lead the crowd into the county office, he heard a majestic and familiar voice coming: "Biting Jin, what's wrong?" Haven't taken Duvowe yet? ”

Cheng Yanjin looked back and saw a handsome young military general dressed in white clothes and white armor riding over, not Yu Ming or anyone.

He hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty, the Jianghuai army in the city has been basically cleared. There was only this one who hid in the county office, but Du Fuwei hid inside, swearing not to surrender, I had rushed a few times before, but the entrance was narrow, and there were several people with excellent archery skills among the enemy, so I could not attack it. ”

Yu Ming looked at Cheng Biting Jin, only to see that there were two knife marks on his face, and the wounds were still dripping with blood, obviously before he could be bandaged, and most of the soldiers around him were also wounded.

Seeing this, he couldn't help but say with some heartache: "I see that the entrance of this county government is narrow, and it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack. Don't storm it! ”

After Cheng Yanjin heard this, he was afraid that Yu Ming would blame him for his ineffective attack, so he hurriedly patted his chest and said, "Your Majesty, you don't have to worry!" I Lao Cheng will definitely take it down when he launches an attack this time! ”

After that, he rolled up his sleeves and wanted to rush forward again with two Xuanhua axes.

"Wait! In my opinion, since this Jianghuai King refuses to surrender, then we don't need to be polite to him! Yu Ming saw that his generals were killed and wounded at the gate of this county yamen, and he was also really angry.

After Cheng Yanjin heard this, he asked a little confused: "Your Majesty, ......what do you mean?"

Yu Ming glanced at the wooden houses in the county office, and a cold light flashed in his eyes and said: "I mean to attack with fire, this county office is full of wooden houses, and now it is summer, and the weather is dry." As long as you shoot rockets into these wooden houses and set them on fire, are you still afraid that Du Fuwei will not come out? ”

When Cheng Yanjin heard this, he was immediately overjoyed and said: "This is a good way!" ”

So, he immediately ordered the soldiers to prepare the rockets.

It didn't take long for the soldiers under Cheng Biting Metal to get rockets from the armory, and then under his command, they began to shoot at the county office.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

One by one, rockets with puffs of green smoke burrowed into the government offices of Nabaling County, landed on the doors, windows and roofs of those wooden houses, and then burst into bursts of red flames.

At this time, it was almost dawn, and it was the time when the morning breeze was blowing, and the fire was burning more and more by the wind, and the wind helped the fire. Although Du Fuwei in the county government commanded his own soldiers to fight hard, the fire and thick smoke still shrouded the entire county office, and according to their strength, it was impossible to extinguish it at all.

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