Chapter Thirty-Six: Under the City of Weiyuan

Under the same sky, there are two roads of people near Funing Prefecture, one land and one sea, rolling south. To the east of Yangzhou, Luo Yulong's troops crossed the river, and countless soldiers fought with the Huai'an army on the east bank under the leadership of the generals.

In the north, Li Zicheng broke through the Ningwu Pass, and Zhou Yuji died in battle.

Emperor Chongzhen ascended the altar to worship the generals, personally poured three glasses of wine for Li Jiantai, and gave Shang Fang a sword to fight against the thieves. It's just that after Li Jiantai left the city, he fled to Baoding.

He Tengjiao and Zuo Liangyu seemed to have compromised with each other in the tug-of-war left and right. Zuo Liangyu withdrew his troops from Wuhu, leaving the general Chang Guoan to guard Wuhu, and the army attacked Changsha in several ways. Zhang Xianzhong abandoned Changsha and stopped in one of the Yiling areas, wanting to enter Shu, but because he was in the dry period of the Yangtze River, he joined forces with Bai Wang to fight against the union of Zuo Liangyu and He Tengjiao.

Even the corner of Yunnan also set off the Shadinghai Rebellion, and the contradiction between the Mu family and the Sha family intensified. The toast was divided into two factions to attack and kill each other.

Outside the gates, the relationship between the Dolgon brothers and Daishan Hauge and others was also eased, Dolgon won the title of regent, and the power outside the customs was unified, and Dolgon looked at the customs and wanted to get a piece of the Central Plains.

The whole world is chaotic to the extreme, like boiling smoke.

However, Zhang Xuan didn't think about this matter at this time.

At this moment, he was a few miles below Dinghai City.

From Ningbo to Dinghai, less than 50 miles, if you can go downstream, it is only a few hours away. However, Zhang Xuan did not occupy control of the river, even if the official army had a large fleet, because of the nail of Weiyuan City, he did not dare to come in for a while.

But the river was full of Zheng's eyeliner.

Fifty miles in one night.

This requirement can only be done by Zhang Xuan's old subordinates.

And at this moment, the Dongming Qixing is shining, and from a distance, large bonfires are spread all over the world, and even there are many swimming lights on the river, which is nothing else, it is the fleet of officials and soldiers.

Fifty miles down, many soldiers' physical strength was already insufficient, but fortunately, Zhang Xuan had already rested on the road several times before. All are not overworked.

Grasping the physical strength of his subordinates is a very important quality of a general, just like an old driver knows the oil in his tank.

"Tiger head, there is a big event for you to go to today." Zhang Xuan said: "It is very important. ”

"Command, General." He Hutou took a deep breath and said.

He didn't feel afraid, but had a feeling of excitement, as if an electric current was connected from the head to the soles of his feet, it seemed that He Hu's skull was flowing with He Yilong's blood, and he was used to killing and being killed since he was a child, and this kind of bloody and exciting life was what he expected.

"Went and burned the flotilla of the officers and soldiers.

Zhang Xuan pointed to a place by the river and said, "Do you remember what I prepared in Dinghai before?" ”

He Hutou said: "Remember." The subordinates will definitely do it. ”

The official army took control of the river, so Zhang Xuan had a lot of preparations before the battle, such as preparing a number of fireboats, which were distributed in the river between Ningbo City and Dinghai.

Because these fireboats are relatively small, and there are many rivers in Ningbo, it seems that the places are hidden, and this work is in charge of Ruan Jin and He Hutou together.

If he could, Zhang Xuan wanted Ruan Jin to be in charge of the task of burning the battlefield of the official army, but the plan could not catch up with the changes, and Ruan Jin, the most suitable candidate, became the defender of Weiyuan City. And Zhang Xuan couldn't spare manpower for a while, he only had two battalions of 6,000 people under his command, and the Linying Battalion and the Xiping Battalion had to undertake the main combat tasks.

He Hutou has three hundred firearms, and the training time is not short, so it is time to release it to see the quality.

Zhang Xuan said: "Deng He, Shen Wandeng, dare not go with me." ”

"Why don't you dare?" Shen Wandeng said with an empty sleeve tied under his belt, carrying a knife in one hand.

"Ask the general to give the order." Deng He said loudly.

"Okay." Zhang Xuan slowly drew his sword, pressed down and said, "Kill." ”

Zhang Xuan gave an order, and the two battalions and twelve posts were divided into twelve small phalanxes, which were divided into two roads, one was to rush directly to the Yaojiang River, and the other was to rush into Dinghai County.

Countless sounds of fighting broke out in an instant, and the sound of violent explosions alarmed everyone, whether it was the official army or the rebel army.

Although there are many checkpoints on the periphery of the officers and soldiers, almost all of the checkpoints in the distance have been knocked out, and the checkpoints in the vicinity, in the face of the impact of the army, can only have time to scream, and it can be regarded as using their own lives to report to the army in the camp.

But what's the use of that?

After two days of siege, Weiyuan City is already dilapidated, and it can be taken tomorrow with just a light push. But as the main force attacking the city, Zhang Mingzhen and Wang Zhiren were also very tired. And the Zheng army has always been in charge of the Chinese army, and there is almost no action.

"Boom." With a loud bang, the raging fire ignited in Dinghai City, the fire didn't know where it came from, it was blown by the dawn of the sea breeze, and it was the Xiping camp that attacked the city, Shen Wandeng saw this, and immediately withdrew.

But the officers and the people of the city were in trouble.

Most of the castle is made of wood, and once the fire gets out of control, it sprays the flames of Zhurong everywhere. The fire burned almost half the size of the county.

This change was also unexpected by Zhang Xuan.

The entire sky was lit up by flames, and the sound of countless babies crying reached Zhang Xuan's ears, and Zhang Xuan's first thought was to put out the fire.

But he couldn't put out the fire.

The fire in the city that I don't know where it started brought great disasters to the people of Dinghai County, but it also trapped an official army in Dinghai City.

The withdrawal of the Xiping battalion from the battlefield also cost more than 100 people in the flames, and the officers and troops were far from having the organizational ability of the Xiping battalion and could not withdraw at all.

However, for hundreds of years, there have been frequent fires among the people, and there are also people in the city who are in charge of firefighting. If it weren't for the fact that a large number of officers and troops had been stationed in large numbers to occupy many civilian houses, and had done a lot of disgusting things to maintain normal civil order, I am afraid that this fire might not have been able to get out of control to such an extent.

But, no matter what, for Zhang Xuan, this is an opportunity, a chance to win.

"I'm sorry." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.

Between benevolence and victory, Zhang Xuan's choice is victory, because only the victor will have all kinds of good qualities, and the dead have nothing.

"The Xiping camp went around the city and attacked the officers and troops on the north bank of the Yao River with the Linying camp." Zhang Xuan ordered.

It's not dawn yet, and now Lingqi can't convey the message at all, and the only way is this.

Immediately, someone bent their bows and shot arrows into the sky, and these rockets were specially treated and exploded in the air, bursting with red light.

The Xiping camp went around the city, and the two sides attacked Zhang Mingzhen's troops on both sides, Zhang Mingzhen was quickly defeated, and Zhang Xuan drove the defeated soldiers to rush towards the Zheng military camp. At this time, the rumbling cannon remembered that it was not another cannon, but the cannons in Weiyuan City.

In the entire Weiyuan City, there are only a few thousand catties of Buddha Lang cannons, which are used to block the river, and can hit the Yao River from Weiyuan City.

However, with the fierce fighting for two days, especially yesterday afternoon, the official army has occupied a small half of Weiyuan City.

And Weiyuan City is not big, but the circumference is only 600 zhang. However, the only thing that made him uncomfortable was that when Weiyuan City was established, it was a purely military facility, so there was still a place to hold in the city, that is, the highest part of Weiyuan City, which could bombard the artillery on the river.

And at this moment, Ruan Jin is here.

The ships of the officers and soldiers were all parked where the batteries could not be reached. The artillery could not be bombarded in the camp of the officers and soldiers.

Ruan Jin ordered this, but it was just an echo of Zhang Xuan, and it also meant to deter the officials and soldiers.

However, Ruan Jin didn't expect that after the cannon fired, small boats flowed down the Yao River, the boats were not big, and the draft was very light, as if they were arrows off the string. Rushed to the officer flotilla. When the wind blew it, it seemed that smoke came out of the ship, and then turned into an open flame.

The open flame is rendered into a large fire, like a torch.

At this time, who doesn't know what this thing is, it's a big fool.

"Fireship." I don't know who in the fleet shouted, and the voice was full of panic.

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