Chapter 166: The city of Ganzhou is broken

Just when Zhang Xuan took Guangzhou. The offensive and defensive battle of Ganzhou City has also entered the final stage.

The siege, which lasted for several months, entered a fast pace after Hu Quede came.

This fast pace does not mean that the progress is fast, but that the confrontations between the Xia army and the Ming army are quite frequent.

I can't think about it often.

Except for the first time when the Ming army was defenseless, every time before the collapse, the soldiers on both sides fought desperately in the narrow and dark place of the tunnel, and only after the bloody battle to capture a tunnel could it collapse.

Even this kind of fight is carried out in several tunnels at the same time.

To be honest, this kind of fight has just begun, and Xia Jun is still a little inapplicable, because the tunnel is very narrow. How narrow it is, in the tunnels, many times you can't even play a spear. can only be really hand-to-hand, and many times, in the tunnels, only two people can walk side by side.

It is useless to send more people.

Such a small-scale fight is much more brutal than a large group of people and horses, not to mention that under the light of the tunnel, it is simply endless, and even some tunnels are blocked by corpses.

The first to collapse was the Ming army in the city.

The number of people killed in such a battle is actually not much, compared to the tens of thousands of troops outside the city, there are also more than 10,000 troops in the city. It's just a drop in the bucket. But the mortality rate of those who went down was almost 100 percent, and the Ming army could not bear such a mortality rate at all.

He Tengjiao also used a lot of methods, rewarding and punishing heavily, and even drawing lots to decide.

But it still can't stop the people below from flinching.

It didn't take long for the Ming army to exit the tunnels one by one, and they even decided to block the tunnels, as if there was no need to worry about the collapse method outside the city.

It's just a cover-up.

It's just that in the midst of the collapse again and again, Ganzhou City is much better than the soldiers in the city.

It really deserves to be called the city of iron city, it has collapsed four times in a row, and at most some of the bricks and stones of the city wall have collapsed, and there is no power to lift the giant city like a piece of paper. And every time it collapses, it will definitely collapse a tunnel, but fortunately, there are enough outlets in Fushougou to always find it.

It's just that Zhang Yingyuan didn't have the patience anymore, and he said to Hu Quede: "Although you are Zheng Guogong's person, if it still doesn't work out this time, be careful of your head." ”

Hu Quede shivered, knelt on the ground and said: "It's not that the little ones don't do their best, but this Ganzhou City is really evil, and this should obviously be able to blast away." ”

Zhang Yingyun sneered and said: "I didn't listen to your explanation, I gave you everything that should be given, and whether your life can be saved depends on yourself." Zhang Yingyuan didn't even look at Hu Quede and left.

Hu Quede was sweating profusely.

A trace of regret flashed in his heart, and he said secretly: "I knew that this was the case, I shouldn't have coveted that little bit of money in the first place, and I didn't leave in the Zhengguo Mansion." ”

He just regrets it now. As soon as he gets past this hurdle, he will forget his regrets.

Hu Quede gritted his teeth and dug a tunnel under the Ganzhou city wall along the tunnel, eager to stuff all the gunpowder in the general. After a final inspection, the order was given to bury the earth.

Hu Quede stared at the foot of the city wall, panting in his nose. It's like an animal that has run thousands of miles. His eyes were as red as rabbit eyes. He only felt that time was passing very slowly, and it seemed that the whole world was frozen for it.

I don't know how long it took.

"Boom." A dull voice came, and Hu Quede clearly felt a momentum on the ground to his feet. If he hadn't been prepared, he would have been unable to stand firm in this wave of explosions and would have fallen to the ground.

It's not that Hu Quede's dosing is too much. It is still a centuries-old Ganzhou city, although it is known as an iron city, but it is not really iron. After this explosion, a gap of one or two hundred steps was finally overturned.

"Kill." There is no need for Zhang Yingyuan to order at all.

Sergeant Xia has been waiting for this day for many months. Without saying a word, countless soldiers rushed to the scene.

At the beginning, the Ming army in the city still had some resistance, but after someone rushed into Ganzhou City through the gap, this resistance also disappeared.

After all, Ganzhou City has experienced so many things, and the food in the city and the morale of the army have long been extremely low. In the case that the big things have passed, there is not much perseverance. After the city was broken, Ganzhou City did not experience much fighting at all, and it fell into the hands of the Xia army.

Zhang Yingyuan couldn't wait with this little bit and rushed into Ganzhou City with his men and horses. And ordered: "You must take He Tengjiao." ”

And at this moment, He Tengjiao has already prepared his belonging.

He Tengjiao poured himself a glass of wine with a wine jug, and the wine was as green as blue. Among them, the medicine had already been released, He Tengjiao drank it all, and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is here." ”

It's just that I don't know whether the majesty He Tengjiao is talking about is Chongzhen, Hongguang, or Longwu. Only I know.

In the midst of a fight, Ganzhou City calmed down, Zhang Yingyuan saw He Tengjiao's corpse, sneered and said: "Cheap him, come here, take his head, and report to Nanjing." ”

"Yes." Immediately, a pro-soldier agreed to come down.

The Battle of Ganzhou was the most dreary siege battle Zhang Yingyuan had ever fought, and in his opinion, it was even more difficult than that when he was under Kaifeng. Zhang Yingyuan had long thought that when He Tengjiao fell into his hands, he would use eighteen tricks to concoct him. But they didn't want him to die first.

Zhang Yingyuan only felt that he couldn't get out of his heart, he suddenly thought of something and said, "By the way, give Zheng Guo a letter to the communiqué." The army rested for a day and headed south to Guangdong. ”

Zhang Xuan rose step by step in the Xia Dynasty, seeing that he had the status of the first general, if Zhang Yingyuan these veterans were completely unconvinced, but they were not, no matter what, Zhang Xuan himself still had real talent and learning, just like the battle with the Qing soldiers, Li Rugui came up with a situation of overthrowing the army and killing generals. However, Zhang Xuan was able to fight two battles and forced the Qing army back.

Among them, the discerning people have judgments.

Most of the generals in Cao Ying actually have this problem, they were the young generals who followed Luo Rucai a few years ago, and after a few years, they had to control tens of thousands of troops and take charge of the front. That's too fast.

Zhang Xuan has a modern education and a strong ability to accept, so he can do this, but these veterans dare not say that they are not capable, but they are okay to deal with the Ming army, but they are a little worse than the generals of the Qing army.

This is a common problem of Cao Ying's shallow background.

A general who can stand alone is not so easy to cultivate, even if it is the Qing court, the Manchu and Han generals with this ability are only the kings of the Manchu Dynasty, at most plus Hong Chengchou and other Han ministers, and there are no more than a dozen of them.

"Grandpa, there was news from the south just now." A person said cautiously: "There are people from Guangdong, saying that Zheng Guogong has entered Guangdong in a big way." Want to know what the situation is on this side of Ganzhou City? ”

Zhang Yingyuan said sharply: "What? Then he seemed to be deflated, and secretly said in his heart: "He was driven to the front again." ”

Zhang Yingyuan still has the overall situation in his heart, even if he gets angry again, it will not affect the big thing, and then Zhang Xuan's messenger called over and asked carefully, and was surprised by Zhang Xuan's boldness, although Zhang Xuan did not intend to ask for help, but Zhang Yingyuan could also see that Zhang Xuan's situation was not very good.

He thought for a moment and said, "Send Wang's artillery headquarters to Guangzhou, and then send 5,000 soldiers to escort it, enter Guangdong first, and the army will arrive later." ”

It's not that he doesn't want to support Zhang Xuan, but there are two reasons, the first reason is that there was a battle of Ganzhou, and the soldiers were tired and needed to be repaired, even if it was a day or two. But the second reason is that it is not enough to be humane with outsiders.

In Zhang Xuan's appointment, although there were military affairs of the governors of the seven provinces, in fact, the two sides had always been two separate battlefields, although there was cooperation. But Zhang Yingyuan is more directly subordinate to Nanjing.

In any case, I also have to say hello to Nanjing. Only then did he dare to send troops.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yingyuan also said secretly: "Zhang Xuan is really such a big deal, even I don't show my voice, otherwise why wouldn't it be like this." ”