Chapter 125: The Battle of Luzhou

Luzhou was later Hefei.

And the situation in Luzhou City at the moment is very bad.

Between Fengyang and Luzhou, there is no mountain danger, since Fengyang was occupied by the Qing army, the Qing army repeatedly went south to Luzhou. The territory was frightened for a while, or there were thousands of horses, or more than 10,000 horses haunted under the city of Luzhou, and there was a desert outside the city of Luzhou.

Yang had to burn fields, fill wells, and dig ravines to block the Qing army.

But these means were simply impossible to stop the Qing army. For a time, the city of Luzhou actually became a bridgehead to block the Qing army from going south, and the people of Luzhou City fled south one after another, going to Anqing and Shucheng to avoid the Qing army.

However, in just half a year, Luzhou City has almost changed the world.

Last year, the border between the Qing army and the Xia army was still on the Yellow River.

Although Yang Shenzu's internal political ability is not strong, he also strives to appease the people in Luzhou, gather the people's hearts, after several years of operation, although he has not yet restored the old view, but the traces of the righteous army's conquest everywhere have gradually been erased.

Everywhere the displaced people returned, and among the countryside, curling smoke rose again.

If this development continues, there will be more than ten years, that is, a generation. I can't say that here in Luzhou, it can be restored to the situation in the early years of Chongzhen.

But the arrival of the Qing army punctured this bubble.

The chief general of the Qing army who took a detour all the way was none other than Azig.

Azig's attack can be called an invasion like fire, and the place it passed was like a wildfire, burning the people near Luzhou City.

At this moment, he looked at the city wall of Luzhou from a distance, and gently tapped his palm with a horsewhip to see everything. Seeing Luzhou, he also frowned slightly.

Luzhou has always been a place where the north and the south compete for power, when the Yuan attacked the Song Dynasty, several battles in Luzhou, to the rise of the Ming Dynasty, Luzhou is also a strategic place, Zhu Yuanzhang repaired the city all over the world, naturally Luzhou City is indispensable, and then repaired several times, all of which were built on the old system of the Song Dynasty.

Known as seven gates and three passes, the city wall is due west, southwest, are all above the hill, the city wall is condescending to have four zhang high, not less than the Kaifeng city wall, the southeast is flat land, there are also two or three zhang high. Ten miles away, you can see the city in the distance.

Some people call it "the iron Luzhou." ”

Azig has been fighting for many years, and such a city has not been seen before. But he understands one thing better, that is, no matter how powerful the city is, it must be guarded. And Yang Shenzu, the guard of Luzhou, looks like a turtle with a shrunken head, no matter what you do outside, he just doesn't move.

Defend the city as if you didn't see it.

It didn't seem to be promising, but Azig couldn't do anything about him for a while.

Azig was ready to make one last effort. He one

He waved his hand and said, "Let's get started." ”

"Wow." Dozens of generals saluted and said. Then he took a few steps back, got on his horse and ran away. After a few whistles, smoke and dust rose on the ground for miles. The sound of crying came from afar, but it was the people near Luzhou City, the old and weak, women and children were all driven out.

It is the mourning that is unbearable.

The cavalry of the Qing army did not know what it meant to be merciful, and anyone who delayed in the back would be a knife in the past. For a while, I don't know how many corpses were left.

But after a while, these people were all surrounded in the southeast of Luzhou City.

For a while, I don't know how many people were distributed by the Qing army and driven to attack the city. Some of the soldiers of the Qing army were divided into a team of 100 people, and behind these people was to supervise, and they were also waiting for the opportunity, if there was a chance, they naturally did not mind rushing up and seizing the city.

Yang Shenzu saw this scene from the city gate of Luzhou, clenched his fists with both hands, and smashed heavily on the city, only to break the bone joints on his hands, leaving a red color on the city wall.

"General, what should I do?" The general beside Yang Shenzu asked.

Yang Shenzu looked back, but saw that the faces of the soldiers behind him were different, some of them had indifferent faces, some were serious, but they didn't have much worry, these people were the old pawns beside Yang Shenzu. After all, Yang Shenzu has been fighting for so many years, and there are still some teams around him.

It's just that there aren't many of these people. They are accustomed to seeing life and death, and they may not have innocent blood in their hands, and they have long been accustomed to such scenes.

It's not that Yang Shenzu is like this, the old soldier of Cao Ying, who followed Luo Rucai to fight the world, was buried in the Northern Expedition on a large scale, although Yang Shenzu escaped a catastrophe. But the old pawn beside him is only more than 10,000.

In addition to these people, there are some people who are terrified, and some people who are so angry that they cannot control themselves.

These people are the main force of Yang Shenzu, and most of them are local people in Luzhou.

There is no way around it.

Last year, there were only more than 10,000 soldiers around Yang Shenzu, which was enough for Yang Shenzu. After all, Luzhou is not on the front line, so there is no need to garrison so many soldiers. The rest of the troops were all recruited after the defeat of the Northern Expedition, and many of them did not want Zhang Xuan to report, nor were they on the roster of the Great Xia army, so they could only be said to be township soldiers.

When people are faced with a crisis, some people are naturally afraid and some can be angry. But Yang Shenzu had to be calm.

The anger in Yang Shenzu's eyes slowly converged, and he said, "What to do, just do it?" ”

"General, are all the villagers in the city? Please also ask the general to open the net. A soldier suddenly came out of the ranks, knelt on the ground, and said. As he spoke, he kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Yang Shenzu said: "The lives of the people outside the city are human lives, the city

The lives of the people are human lives. I had given orders to withdraw to the city, or to the south, and they would not obey them, but it was too late. ”

As early as the fall of Fengyang, the Qing army haunted the city several times, and Yang Shenzu ordered to clear the wilderness, but the execution of this order was quite poor.

It's not that Yang Shenzu's order is unreasonable, and it's not that the people outside the city are so ignorant that they don't know what to do. It's a matter of cost.

Jianbi Qingye is easy to say, for most people, the belongings of the family may not be worth a penny, but they have also accumulated a little bit of hard work, plus a little thin field, it is the lifeblood of their family.

Yang Shenzu said clearly, the wall is clear. Stuff the family from the outside into the city.

What to eat here? What to drink? Yang Shenzu also did not have money and food to support them. In Yang Shenzu's view, it is to save them from fire and water, but in the eyes of many people, it is not just a matter of ideology or the cost of living that it is difficult to die early or late, and it is difficult to leave the homeland.

In such a situation, they would rather take a chance. Or think, but whoever is the emperor, they can all farm for them, right? Before, the old men said that the Liukou was extremely vicious, but now the Liukou is sitting in the country, and it is not the same?

This is the cunning of these little people.

It's just that they never expected that the Qing army would have such a bottom line, and now that the wheat is just ripe, the Qing army will naturally put the grain on the ground, and easily take the fertile land that the people outside the city have worked hard to keep from Yang Shenzu's hands, and after robbing the grain, they will also want their lives.

Yang Shenzu's eyes swept over all the soldiers in the city, and said: "I am the general of Luzhou, and I am responsible for the people in Luzhou City, not outside the city." "He saw a cannon, pushed away the gunner, lit it himself, and with a loud bang, the cannon roared. A cannonball, knocked down, and smashed into the group

Hundreds of people panicked in an instant, as if they were headless flies.

Naturally, some people rushed back into the Qing army's array, and the Qing army naturally had no intention of showing mercy. It didn't take a moment to kill an unknown number of people and stabilize the formation.

Seeing this, Azig sighed in his heart, there was no hope for being able to capture Luzhou City, although the siege continued, but Azig slowly touched the mane of the horse, listened to the sound of cannons on the battlefield, screams, and fell into deep thought.

"It seems that the defenders of the city are not the benevolent people of women, and it is unlikely that they will take this city in one fell swoop." Azig secretly said in his heart: "I can't stay here for too long, after all, the south is the main battlefield, and it seems that I can only find a way to get around the city." ”

The real battlefield is still in Anqing, not here. Azig didn't want to spend too much time here. I made up my mind for a while.

The battle continued, but it was over in Azig's mind.