Chapter 14: Closing the Door and Fighting the Dog (II)
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The person leading the team is none other than Li Jianjie.
After Chen Kai arrived in Wanzhou, he asked Lin Cha to carry Li Jianjie's hussar town and 500 infantry to the north, and Lin Cha's fleet anchored in the Qizhou Yangshan Islands northeast of Hainan Island, and sneaked the cavalry to the island in batches. Finally, at the appointed time, Li Jianjie led the cavalry to detour from Ding'an County, south of Fucheng.
The reason for this trouble is that the south gate is closed, and the east gate has a moon city that can confine them to the urn city. Only Zicheng, once entered, with their understanding of the Fucheng formed by temporarily living here since the destruction of the city of Guangzhou, was bound to enter the Fucheng before the closure of the Great West Gate.
Li Jianjie gave an order, and the Ming army, which had been prepared for a long time, rode their horses to kill the Qiongzhou town soldiers who had not yet reacted. With more fights and fewer fights, the cavalry was still rampant, and the Qing army had no power to fight back. At this time, Li Jianjie also led the other cavalry straight to the Great West Gate.
As expected, since the completion of the construction of the sub-city, the defense of the Great West Gate has become increasingly slackened. At this moment, the Ming army burst into trouble, and the guards of the Great West Gate could not react, but when they saw the Ming cavalry rushing forward, they hurriedly fled and quickly disappeared into the streets and alleys, leaving only the Beisheng Street, which was the only way to enter and exit the Great West Gate, and the Ming cavalry was roaring and galloping.
Iron hooves stepped on the stone pavement, splashing sparks. The horseshoe collided with the stone slab with a crisp percussion sound, one after another, and quickly spread from Beisheng Street to Zhentaiqian Street, Fuqian Street, Shangshu Street, Jingnan Street and even the entire Qiongzhou City.
There were only 600 people left in the green camp in the city, not only to guard the Zhentai yamen and barracks, but also to guard at various city gates, and they were scattered so that there was only a plate of loose sand. On the side of the Ming army, the familiarity with the capital city of Qiongzhou is not inferior to theirs, or even better, and it is also a cavalry, rushing everywhere, as if it is devastated.
The screams that Peng Sanyi heard were made by the officials in his office, and the Ming army locked the Zhentai Yamen, Daotai Yamen, the government office, the county government and the barracks at the first time, and divided the troops to seize it, talking about a sudden attack.
The 100 patrol soldiers were stationed in the barracks, and there was a considerable distance from here. Once Peng Sanyi heard the scream, even though he understood everything, he just sighed sincerely, moved a chair, untied his belt by the way, climbed onto the chair, and threw his head over the beam. After a few times, the end of the belt finally came around from the other side of the beam, Peng Sanyi gestured, tied it at the position of the neck, and after another comparison, he wanted to put his head on it.
There was already a faint shout of killing outside, and the Ming army had obviously killed near this yamen. Peng Sanyi hurriedly put his head in, but in the afterglow, he saw the last official document that had not yet been consulted, and released his head, wanting to go down and read the official document before hanging himself, but the shouting seemed to be getting closer and closer, and he had to put his head back again.
After doing this a few times, Peng Sanyi simply sighed, closed his eyes, and didn't look at the official document, so he kicked the chair, the whole person was hanging by the belt, and his legs were still struggling meaninglessly.
A moment later, the Ming army entered the Daotai Yamen, grabbed a small official who had not had time to escape, and escorted him to find Peng Sanyi. What I saw was a dead corpse, dangling under the beam, but the tongue that spit out seemed to be extraordinarily long.
The Ming army launched a surprise attack, and the defenders were soon submerged under the iron hooves of the Ming army, and Peng Sanyi of Hainan Province and the prefect of Qiongzhou and Qiongshan of the Qing court successively martyred the Qing court's rule in this city by means of white silk and self-determination. Perhaps, soon what they will be martyred will be the rule of the Qing court over the entire Hainan Island!
With 500 cavalry, the Ming army quickly broke through the limited strength of the defenders, controlled the key points in various places, but did not even close the city gates, and let the people enter and exit in such a wide open, completely fearless.
Zhang Bang Anmin quickly proceeded. Once those officials and officials heard that it was Li Wuye who followed Chen Fujun back to kill, they also hurriedly received orders to serve themselves, and did not dare to hesitate in the slightest. is so blatant, Li Jianjie doesn't take the Qing army in his eyes at all. It's just that in this world, success or failure has always been judged, and Li Jianjie knows very well that the Qing army in Qiongzhou is now left with guards from all counties, and there is no way to pose an actual threat to it. This arrogance has also turned into self-confidence!
Quickly controlling the situation of the capital city, the Ming army did the most fearless. Five miles north of the city, is the location of the thousand households in Haikou, a thousand households of the city is between the city and the coastline, as the only land barrier to the north of the capital city of Qiongzhou.
Compared with the main city plus the sub-city, the city wall alone has 1,633 zhang of Qiongzhou City, and the circumference of Haikou Qianhu City is only 555 zhang, but it is just a small little like Lingshui County. However, for the sake of military defense, the city defense buildings here are not much inferior. There is a 465-zhang moat outside the city to wrap the city wall from northwest to southeast, and the exposed northeast city wall is near the sea, with an embankment as a barrier.
To the north of Haikou Qianhusuo City is Haimen Port and Baishajin, even if the Qing army requisitioned a large number of ships when it went south, there are still many ships docked in the port. The Ming army came from the south to the north, and speaking of which, they were the most free to advance and retreat, and they had nothing to fear. At this point, whether it is Liu Bolu, the chief military officer, or Peng Sanyi, Hainan Dao, they are incomparable.
The news that Fucheng was attacked by the Ming army came from the small north gate of the sub-city at the fastest speed, and the Qing army guarding here was the largest number of counties, that is, it belonged to various departments, which seemed to be a little miscellaneous. The town soldiers are the least here, a thousand presidents are in charge of the defense of the city, but there are only a few dozen soldiers under his command. Others, there are soldiers of the Ming army, military households of thousands of households in Haikou, and local guards, if it were not for the rules and regulations of the Qing court, Liu Bolu would have integrated all the soldiers and horses except for the military households into Qiongzhou Town.
Mr. Qian was sweating on the south gate, and the north gate of the city was not opened, but there was a convenient way for the Ming army to take advantage of the situation to raid the city of Qianhu in Haikou. But the city was lost, but Liu Bolu was nowhere to be found, as a general, he had to guard the city on the one hand, protect the troops on the other, and take into account the safety of the marshal, he was in a few dilemmas, but he was also stuck here by these difficulties and choices, and he couldn't move.
"What to do, what to do, what to do, what to do......"
The words in my mind are beating back and forth, and they are even almost playing on the screen. Qian is always very difficult, but what is even more difficult is that as time goes by, the room left for him to choose will become smaller and smaller, not only because the Ming army's control over the city is constantly strengthened, but not even that the main force of the Ming army will inevitably attack it after it arrives, but the officers in this city who belong to various departments are enough to make him scratch his head.
"Master Qian, let's go, stay in the green mountains without worrying about running out of firewood."
"Yes, it's better to cross this strait first, and when you get to the Leizhou Mansion on the other side, you will have a large army to rely on. When the time comes, whether to fight back, or to protect the soldiers and ships, Master Qian, you will be a great achievement. ”
"That's right, it's still too late to evacuate now, in case the way is blocked by the thief's sailor, it will be impossible to save some soldiers and horses for the imperial court at that time."
His own subordinates, the officers of the guard, and the officers of the local guards expressed their hopes that he would be able to transfer in with his troops as soon as possible. The three parties have aspirations together, but it seems that the attitude of those Ming army soldiers is still a little ambiguous, and they have never said a word. However, Mr. Qian knew that in addition to his own subordinates, it was now those Ming soldiers who were the most trustworthy.
"I have thought about the withdrawal of troops, and I really want to preserve some strength for the imperial court as much as possible. But there are so many dozens of officers and soldiers under a certain command, just leading a team to withdraw to Leizhou Mansion is just a drop in the bucket, it is better for all the monarchs to withdraw to Leizhou Mansion with a certain one, so good? ”
Mr. Qian's eyes were blazing, and sure enough, except for the officer who was demoted by the Ming army with the rank of general, but actually only a hundred soldiers, the other two groups of people were of course stunned.
Next, it is nothing more than a time to complain, what they were born in and grew up in, lest the soldiers and their families covet the homeland and refuse to leave; What their ancestors have lived here for generations, the ancestral tombs are all outside the city, and after leaving, I am afraid that they will be retaliated by the Ming army; Why did they stay here, and when the Qing army came back, they would give food to the Qing army as an internal response. All in all, these locals don't want to leave at all!
He didn't go, but urged him to leave quickly, his intention was nothing more than to coax him away, and they should quickly hand over this thousand-household city to the Ming army, lest the Ming army storm the city and hurt their neighbors and friends.
When the Qing army first captured Qiongzhou, it was bloodless, and Li Chengdong followed the Qing army in Qiongzhou anyway, and when Du Yonghe surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, the Qing army took this place without much effort. The locals, whether it is the households of Qiongzhou Mansion or the guards of Hainan Wei, pursue the principle that whoever comes in the Ming and Qing dynasties will follow whomever comes, anyway, they are all out of food and pay taxes.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the guards occupied nearly half of the country's cultivated land, and the number of guards exceeded one million. In the Ming Dynasty, the status of military households was underground, and the proportion of escapees was very large, but those who could stay either had food to eat, or they really couldn't escape. When the officers of the guard office evolved into landlords, but they did not get the social status of the landlords and squires of the households, and when the military households evolved into the double serfs of the state and the officers, their loyalty to the state became minimal, so that when the Qing army broke through the barrier, the resistance of the guards was even far less than that of the town soldiers, let alone compared with the Zheng group, the Great Western Army, and the Dashun Army, which were former pirates and rogues.
Mr. Qian knew the disadvantages here, it was nothing more than a joke, and when those people's complaints were over, he immediately expressed his dissatisfaction, and he had to fight up and down when he withdrew his troops to Leizhou Mansion.
Everyone understands it and wants to fund one or two. Therefore, Mr. Qian did not shirk it, and immediately said that as soon as the silver arrived, he would take his troops and horses and the Ming army to retreat to Leizhou Mansion by boat, and asked everyone to preserve their strength and make relevant preparations for logistics and internal response when the Qing army recaptured Qiongzhou Mansion.
"Master Qian is sympathetic, and the humble rank strictly obeys President Qian's orders!"
Time is not waiting, Mr. Qian has already sent someone back to the barracks to prepare, and he will set off as soon as the money here is in place. Both sides were eager, because once the Ming army attacked the city, he did not transfer in order to preserve his strength, but abandoned the city and fled; And for those locals, there is a world of difference between the city being captured by the Ming army and their initiative anyway.
Both sides had their own thoughts, and the money was delivered to the docks. There are not many numbers, it is nothing more than a courtesy, and Mr. Qian is not picky, ordering the soldiers to board the ship, and he will do a comprehensive job according to the words.
However, the soldiers here have not yet finished boarding the ship, and Mr. Qian saw that the leader of the Ming army had wide eyes and a big mouth, but he couldn't make a sound, but he just desperately pointed to the direction northeast of Baishajin, that is, the direction of the entrance to the east of the Qiongzhou Strait, shocked and frightened.
In this situation, Mr. Qian's heart was not good, and when he turned his head to look, he was immediately stunned - it was a fleet composed of hundreds of Ming ships, the sea breeze puffed up the sails, and the ships came at a gallop.
At this time, it was already late, but Mr. Qian still boarded the ship without hesitation and hurriedly pulled out the anchor and set sail. Sure enough, the ship was intercepted by the Ming fleet before it was halfway out, and the leading battleship did not hesitate to crash over, directly hitting the small sea ship to pieces.
Such a scene happened in the eyes of the local guards and guards of Haikou Qianhu, the leading palm print Qianhu swallowed saliva, immediately turned around, and roared to everyone: "Why don't you hurry up and change the banner of the Ming Dynasty, wait for reincarnation!" ”
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Outside Wanzhou City, Chen Kai still did not attack the city, which boosted some of the morale of the Qing army in the city. However, Zhizhou and those civilian officials thought so, but the officers of the defending army were not the ones who knew nothing about military affairs. At this moment, Chen Kai is like this, thinking that the main force of the Ming army has another action, and he has an indifferent attitude towards them, and it is just monitoring here.
Sure enough, a few days later, a team of cavalry rushed back from Fucheng, Chen Kai took the package, took out a letter that had been written for a few days and had been left aside in the dust, and sent a local captive from Wanzhou into the city with the package. As a result, in less than an hour, the gate of Wanzhou Prefecture was opened, and the governors, guards, officials, and Qing troops guarding the city went out of the city one after another, stipulating that they should surrender. Especially Na Zhizhou and the guards, let people tie them up strongly, and if someone didn't hold them when they knelt down, they could enter with a mouthful of fragrant mud.
"Sinners and others who resist the king's master, capital crime, capital crime."
They were making a show, but since Chen Kai had already promised them a way to live, he didn't plan to continue to embarrass them, so he simply let them loosen their ties, and then entered the Wanzhou City by himself.
enjoyed the treatment of a bloodless soldier, but Chen Kai didn't feel any meaning. However, the play still had to be done enough, and sent people to invite those people to the state office, Chen Kai encouraged everyone, and mentioned the way of life that he had promised in his letter.
"When you take this back to Leizhou Mansion, you will say that Peng Sanyi issued a secret order, and once you get the news of Liu Bolu's defeat, you will immediately abandon the city and assemble in the city. As for why you appeared in Leizhou Mansion, it was because by the time you arrived in a hurry, the Ming army's fleet had already taken the city, and you could only find a boat to sneak across the strait by yourself. ”
"What the old man of the Fu army said is extremely true, but if it is the imperial court, no, it is the Tartar who does not believe it......"
Zhizhou trembled and said his question, and a pair of small eyes secretly looked at Chen Kai's expression, but saw Chen Kai smile coldly: "Have you heard the story of three people becoming tigers?" Soon, there will be more Qiongzhou officials and guards fleeing to Leizhou Mansion with the same official documents, and whether you can return to Leizhou Mansion in the first wave is still a matter of two words. ”
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