Chapter 13: Closing the Door and Fighting the Dog (Part II)

This name, which haunts Wu Wenwen like a nightmare, has been around since the day the city of Guangzhou was broken. At that time, Chen Kai was originally persuaded to surrender alone, but he had already fallen to Chen Kai with Yin Zhirong, and went to the mouth of the Dongjiang River to monitor and intercept the Qing army's naval division according to Chen Kai's order. However, when Xu Long's fleet suddenly appeared, he realized that the general trend of the Ming army had gone, so he fled with Yin Zhirong one after another. But when they fled to Qiongzhou, they got the news that Chen Kai had annihilated the Qing army and naval division in the Pearl River, and at the same time covered the escape of more than 300,000 people in Guangzhou.

Chen Kai did not pin his hopes on them from the beginning, and always kept his hands behind. As a result, they chose to turn their backs on Chen Kai and left, but Chen Kai calculated Shang Kexi firmly, so that the Guangdong Navy Division rebuilt by the Qing court was destroyed in a war, and it has not been able to slow down until now.

Wu Wenwen didn't know that Chen Qice's raid was actually because he had a tacit understanding with Chen Kai, but after the First World War in Guangzhou, every time he thought of the figure who entered the camp alone, and every time he thought of the powerful Zheng group behind that figure, Wu Wenwen shuddered. At this moment, once he heard that it was Lin Cha coming, and remembered that the Ming army's seizure of Hong Kong was also the cooperation of Lin Cha and Chen Kai, the name immediately roared out of his mouth.

This voice, not only the Qing army present was frightened to stand there, but even Wu Wenwen himself was directly frightened stupid.

How to escape next, whether to abandon the ship, or try to break out of the port gate - the former is nothing more than to escape from this Wanzhou temporarily, Chen Kai must have been prepared for this, they are afraid that even the music club may not be able to arrive, and even if they escape to Qiongshan, it is difficult to escape from this island without a boat; And the latter, forget it, the latter is simply impossible, since Lin Cha has already blocked it, he must know that he is here, how can he easily let him get out.

There was only one way to abandon the ship, and Wu Wenwen hurriedly weighed it in his mind, it was nothing more than to flee to Qiongshan to forcibly seize the civilian boat to escape. As for the future, let's talk about it later.

At this moment, Wu Wenwen's mind was already full of these, and his thoughts were not here. Not only him, but almost everyone present was like this, but no one could think further than him.

Such a situation would not last long, but at the moment when Wu Wenwen was about to make a decision, the prisoner who took the lead took the lead in making a decision, and immediately pulled out the waist knife of a Qing army beside him and threw it directly at Wu Wenwen.

In other words, on weekdays, Wu Wenwen is so experienced in a hundred battles, there is no possibility that he can't react. But now all his thoughts are elsewhere, and he can still see the knife flying, even if it is pierced in the chest.

Wu Wenwen fell, and the scene was chaotic. Wu Wenwen's personal soldiers reacted, they wanted to protect the marshal, and they also wanted to arrest the criminals, and the Qing troops present were even more at a loss. At this time, now that the decision had been made, the prisoner who threw the knife immediately shouted loudly.

"Chen Kai is here, Lin Cha is also here, no one can escape, no one wants to escape. In this case, let's not use the Tartar as a dog, anyway, let's use Wu Wenwen's head as a vote! ”

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The battle, or rather the surrender, was much easier than it might seem. The morale of the sailors was low, the rebels sprung up, and as soon as Wu Wenwen fell, there was no one to suppress. Most of the Qing army surrendered directly to Lincha, whether it was the assistant to defend the naval division, or the large and small ships used by the Qing army to transport troops from Fucheng, all of them belonged to the Ming army. A small number of them simply lost their ships and fled north by land.

The assistant guards outside the city rebelled, and the defenders and officials of Wanzhou City hurriedly closed the four gates, and at the same time recruited the people to go to the city to assist in the defense, making a posture of stubborn resistance.

It's not that they can't feel Chen Kai's threat, and it's not that they don't understand that the "Great Song Dynasty Restoration Army" incident must be Chen Kai's trap. It's just that the fear of Chen Kai is one thing, the Qing court's strength is still strong now, this is by no means a two geniuses who can easily turn the tide, and it may be a dead end to defend at this moment, but if it falls, it will harm the family.

The Wanzhou defenders still had fighting spirit, and Lin Cha was a little annoyed, but he didn't let the sailors go to land to attack the city. He knew very well what to do at this moment, and showed off his might on the sea, and when the main force of the Ming army approached the city of Wanzhou, he just loaded a Ming army composed of infantry and cavalry on the ship, and immediately set sail.

Lin Cha's fleet floated away, and Chen Kai arrived near the city, made an exhibition of Liu Bolu's head, and sent a local auxiliary soldier from Wanzhou to carry his letter of persuasion into the city.

The content is nothing more than to remind the other party that Liu Bolu is dead, and all the green battalion soldiers who entered the attack were wiped out. Now, in addition to the defenders of one or two hundred people in each county, the Qing court only has five hundred Qiongzhou town soldiers and one hundred patrol soldiers in Qiongzhou, and a regular army of 600 people. Chen Kaile ordered them to abandon their weapons and surrender immediately, otherwise, on the day the city was broken, stubborn resistance would be a dead end.

The Ming army besieged the city, leaving only the direction of the east gate, and there was a small fleet of ships left by Lin Cha to monitor it. Chen Kai consciously did this with reasonable evidence. However, after a day of discussion, the Qing army defending the city was still stubborn, and did not intend to give up the opportunity to continue to serve our Qing Dynasty.

"Don't worry, now that the nursing home has been lured out and killed, as long as the gate of the strait is also closed, the rest can rest assured and bold, and fight these guard dogs raised by the Qing court in Qiongzhou without distraction."

Chen Kai was not in a hurry, because Lin Cha had already led the sailor north. At this time, with the other cavalry heading north, Chen Kai didn't need to worry about whether this Wanzhou city could be taken immediately.

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The Chinese ancestors developed Qiongzhou from the Leizhou Peninsula to the sea. Therefore, there is the Nandu River on the Leizhou Peninsula and the Nandu River on Hainan Island.

Unlike the Nandu River, which flows from north to south and flows into the South China Sea, the Nandu River originates in the mountainous area of the hinterland of Hainan Island, flows more than 600 miles from south to north, and joins the sea in the Qiongzhou Strait.

The capital city of Qiongzhou Mansion is located in the lower reaches of the Nandu River, not near the sea, because there is a thousand households in Haikou as a shield to the north. However, its location is also extremely close to the coastline, so that the successive dynasties have always crossed the sea at the southern tip of the Leizhou Peninsula to cross the sea, and can easily become the ruling center of Hainan Island. For example, in the first year of Yongli's "soldiers are not bloody", Yu Du Yonghe, and Wu Wenwen destroyed the Ming army on the island after the Qing army, there is no need for any accidents.

Long-term experience has pointed out that Qiongzhou is against the enemy in the north, and unless there is a real overwhelming advantage at sea, the narrow Qiongzhou Strait cannot become an insurmountable moat; On the contrary, the chaos broke out in the south, to be precise, the chaos broke out on the island, but it was often quickly quelled - because the enemy was in the south, the capital city would rest easy, whether it was gathering a large army on the island to suppress it, or requisitioning reinforcements from the Leizhou Peninsula, it was possible to quickly form a quantitative and qualitative advantage.

The current situation is more like the latter, after Liu Bolu set off, Peng Sanyi has been cheering for himself and those civil and military colleagues. But when it comes to being alone, the knowledgeable Peng Daotai always remembers one thing, that is, this time the chaos was not caused by the island's Shengli, but by an army that they had no understanding of.

"Either way, it's always right for the army to go south. The emperor's prestige for more than 200 years and the army of millions have all fallen to the current point in front of the Qing Dynasty. ”

Whenever he thought of something that worried him, he immediately comforted himself with it. This was something that had never been done when he was taking the imperial examination that year, because at that time, he had absolute self-confidence in Baguwen, and the facts proved that he was indeed able to be admitted to the Jinshi.

However, this time can be said to be different from the past, and the war is completely unfamiliar to him, and it is difficult to get a proper explanation from those Confucian classics. Once his past experience and knowledge can no longer support his self-confidence, it is a great good thing that he has not become blind and arrogant because of this, but pessimism is inevitable, and he almost relies on self-brainwashing to relieve tension.

It has been several days since the army set out, and a few days ago, when Liu Bolu arrived in Wanzhou, he sent someone back to report safety, but in recent days it has not been, and it is likely that it is still in a stalemate. Not to mention, if you have already won and are chasing the north, you should send the news back. Of course, there is also a possibility that Liu Bolu has been defeated, but once he thought of this possibility, Peng Sanyi hurriedly comforted himself.

He is a sub-patrol road, and the duties of the sub-patrol are not mainly in military affairs, but in supervision, justice, and inspection. The war continued, and his job was nothing more than overseeing the distribution of food and wages, as well as the guarding of the city. As long as Peng Sanyi returns to the yamen, he will immediately bury his head in the official documents, especially in the recent tense situation, the following government and county officials are often busy with the delivery of food and salary, which is likely to lead to mistakes in the lawsuit.

There are not many cases where there are not many penalties that need to be considered, or even if there are deviations in the punishment and punishment, there is no need to revise them. At least, there is no need to offend colleagues for the loss of a few untouchables.

After reading the file for a long time, Peng Sanyi raised his head and looked at the rest. Probably because he was too busy a few days ago, and there were a lot of official business, Peng Sanyi thought about it, and decided to finish all the official business today, God knows what strange things will happen tomorrow.

Continuing to deal with official business, the later files seem to be much simpler than the previous ones, and the clear ones are not very complicated, so that Peng Sanyi's disposal speed is also much faster. Such relaxation inevitably produces a little comfort in the heart. In this way, I reviewed until the last file, and the good mood was always maintained until a scream from outside, and the good mood came to an abrupt end.

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As the ruling center of the island, the scale of Qiongzhou is far greater than that of prefectures and counties like Wanzhou and Lingshui. Since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty began to build, not only the main city wall is constantly expanding, heightened, the city tower, the moon city is added to the east and south gates, and the sub-city is built outside the west gate, the entire west city wall is included, once again expanding the area of the entire city, but also the three main gates of the city without the north gate are wrapped in it.

It is important to say that this is important. Since Liu Bolu set out on the expedition, the south gate of Jingnan has been closed, even the south gate of the sub-city, Dinghai Gate. Only the east gate Chaoyang Gate and the small north gate and small west gate of the sub-city are still open, after all, there are still tens of thousands of people in this city to maintain their livelihoods, and it is impossible for the enemy army to cut off the woodcuts before they arrive in the city, and starve their families to death.

The name of the small west gate of the sub-city is called Guiyi, the construction is very early, it is the Hongwu period, it has been called the small west gate at the beginning, so called for nearly a hundred years, until the Chenghua period was renamed together with the small north gate and the small south gate, but the locals still call it the small west gate. Without him, habit.

The two city gates facing south are closed, and the pressure in and out of this area naturally increases. The guards of Xiaoximen were locals, but in order to strengthen the defense, the officers who were ordered to stay behind sent a green battalion of 50 people to assist in guarding it.

The green battalion soldiers only watched and did not work, and the local city gate guards were no different on the surface, but they all scolded their mothers behind their backs. In their words, don't care if it's the Song army and the Ming army, here, they are all locals, take off this gray-blue skin, drill into the "seven wells, eight lanes and thirteen streets" in the city, and they can still bite their birds.

Having said that, the order from above is arranged like this, and there is nothing they can do. Seeing the large flow of people and the pressure of the investigation, but they had no choice but to hope that Liu Bolu would quickly calm down the chaos, so that the Great South Gate and the Little South Gate could be reopened, so that they could be much easier.

This kind of thinking is shared by the city gate guards, even the green battalion soldiers who assist in the defense. At this point, they still have a lot of ambitions together, but it is also a blessing.

As soon as you open the city gate and look at the people coming in and out, it seems that the days will pass as uneventfully as a few days ago, at most you will stop a few fools and find fun, that's all. As they expected, the morning passed like this, and they took turns to eat lunch, and those who followed were still eating, and the day was high, and the flow of people was small, and it was a good time to take a break. It's just that there was some surprise today, there was a shout from the top of the city, and a cavalry team wearing gray-blue military uniforms was galloping in the distance.

"I'm finally back, and I'm back to my original leisure, maybe I can get a few pots of light wine this time to guard the city."

The old guards couldn't help laughing, and even the other city gate guards couldn't help but relax. However, the city gate guards mobilized at once, while dispersing the people and leaving the way for the cavalry to enter and exit the city, they also sent people to report to the Qiongzhou town soldiers who were eating idle food.

Soon, the cavalry rushed into the cave of the city gate and met the green battalion soldiers on the street. Then it was time to report the victory or the funeral, the city gate guards, the people and the green battalion soldiers were all eager to try, but one thing that seemed too strange was that the size of this Qing cavalry was a little too large, and it seemed that there were more cavalry than they had on the expedition. Moreover, the cavalrymen wore helmets, but some hair still peeked out of the gaps in the corners that shouldn't be there.

"Braided ......"

"Don't talk too much!"

The old pawn tried his best to lower his voice and shouted, covering the mouth of a recruit by the way, directly suggesting that the others retreat. At this time, the leading officer of the Green Battalion also noticed the strangeness of the number, suggesting that one of his subordinates went back to report the news, and he came forward to greet him. Unexpectedly, before he could finish speaking, the cavalry officer who led the team stabbed him in the throat with a shot, and then shouted.

"Lao Tzu is the master of the Ming Dynasty, sons, seize all the key points according to the plan, quickly!"