Chapter 22: Purging the City

Since Yuan Shizhong entered the city. The intensity of the battle gradually decreased, and the officers and troops counterattacked by force, and were divided and surrounded in various parts of the city. The soldiers of the rebel army who had been fighting all night stopped, firstly, their physical strength was a little exhausted, and secondly, the officers and soldiers were already turtles in the urn, so there was no need to be so anxious.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan decided to enter the city.

The sunlight shot from behind Zhang Xuan, casting a long shadow. Zhang Xuan looked at his shadow, as if he had suddenly turned into a giant.

Even though Zhang Xuan ordered all departments to prevent fire, when fighting, where could they be estimated.

Zhang Xuan walked along the East and West Streets, and saw a lot of fires along the way, some of the fires had been extinguished, and only some smoke was left unwillingly and slowly rising, but some were still burning, but the surrounding houses were all opened to prevent it from spreading throughout the city.

There were also many corpses that were pulled by the soldiers to the corner of the long street to open the way for Zhang Xuan, Zhang Xuan certainly saw many corpses of officials and rebels, but there were also many corpses dressed in people's clothes.

This battle, fighting in the city, is almost impossible not to affect the people.

I am afraid that in this battle, the casualties of the people of Xuzhou will be higher than the casualties of the two armies, but Zhang Xuan cannot blame the soldiers for this. Otherwise, how can you win a war if you are tied up? In troubled times, sometimes the comparison is a moral downline. Zhang Xuan only sighed slightly.

Not long after, Zhang Xuan went to the state government and gathered the generals.

Yang Shenzu, Wang Jincai, Shen Wandeng, Yuan Shizhong, Cao Zongyu, and Cheng Jikong all arrived.

As soon as Cao Zongyu saw Zhang Xuan, he stepped forward to ask for guilt and said: "The last general will compromise the military prestige, let Ding Qiguang escape, and ask the adults to surrender." ”

"Nothing." Zhang Xuan said: "This time it's my fault, the soldiers can't be recruited if they don't teach, it's the ancient training of the soldiers, the soldiers in Xiao County have not practiced, the soldiers have not practiced, they shouldn't have gone into battle, and they should have lost it." I just hope that General Cao will train well, and in the future, there will be no more such mistakes. ”

"Yes." Cao Zongyu said.

Zhang Xuan turned his head and said, "What is the situation in the city?" ”

Although Zhang Xuan did not enter the city, the general situation in the city could not be hidden from Zhang Xuan. Even on the big surface, it was arranged by Zhang Xuan, among which Yang Shenzu's troops attacked Qiu Lei, the Xiping battalion attacked Liu Zeqing's remaining troops, and the Baoding battalion attacked the officers and troops of other departments. And Yuan Shizhong sat in the state government and looked at each other.

"My lord," Wang Jincai said loudly, but whenever he showed off his merits, Wang Jincai would never be resigned, and said: "The last general has swept through the city, except for Qiu Lei's department and Liu Zeqing's department, there is no longer a formed official army in the city. ”

"Okay." Zhang Xuan said: "Zheng Lian. ”

"Subordinate

At. Zheng Lian said.

"Make a note for General Wang. and gave him a thousand taels of silver, and a horse. Zhang Xuan said.

The main force in Xuzhou City is the Ding brothers, Liu Zeqing, and Qiu Lei, and the rest are just miscellaneous soldiers, and Wang Jincai's credit is no more than Erer. But no matter what, they are all meritorious people, just a little soothing.

"My lord, Qiu Lei is behind the school palace under the city of Xuzhou, there are a lot of bows and crossbows and firearms, and the casualties of the starry night attack are not small, so the last general will besiege but not attack, it is to wait until dawn. As soon as the lord gives the order, I will start attacking. Yang Shenzu said.

Zhang Xuan said: "It's okay, General Yang's horse team should not be used here. Cao Zongyu. ”

"The end will be." Cao Zongyu said.

"Qiu Lei handed it over to you." Zhang Xuan said.

Cao Zongyu said: "Please rest assured, before noon today, I will let you see Qiu Lei's head." ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Then it's up to you." ”

Cao Zongyu saluted, and then went down, he wanted to summon the Nanyang battalion into the city and attack Qiu Lei.

After Zhang Xuan saw Cao Zongyu leave, he turned to Shen Wandeng.

Shen Wandeng gritted his teeth and said: "The last general has been repeatedly attacked, please surrender your lordship." ”

Zhang Xuan frowned, and was a little disappointed with the combat effectiveness of the Xiping Battalion, to be honest. However, I also know very well in my heart that the Xiping camp is not as reliable as the three old battalion heads. However, looking at Shen Wandeng's one-armed, Zhang Xuan had no intention of punishing, and said, "Before noon today, I want to see the rest of Liu Zeqing's troops exterminated." Go ahead. ”

"Yes." Shen Wandeng said. Then he bowed with one arm and withdrew.

When Zhang Xuan saw Shen Wandeng leaving, he was still a little uneasy, so he called He Hutou and whispered in his ear: "Lend the artillery of the Linying camp to the Xiping camp first." ”

He Hutou nodded and agreed, and then went to make arrangements.

Zhang Xuan then let Yuan Shizhong's troops go to the city and take over the east gate and south gate, and Cheng Jikong led two battalions to take over the west gate and the north gate. Yang Shenzu's department is temporarily resting. Qin Meng returned the more than 1,000 cavalry brought out from Jin Shenghuan's department to Jin Shenghuan.

The Linying camp went to the streets separately to take over the security of the city, and martial law was imposed in the city, so that the people stayed at home, and those who went to the streets for no reason were killed, and the house-to-house search officers and soldiers were defeated.

Zhang Su also took over the various warehouses of the government and counted how many families there were in Xuzhou City. For a while, he was busy with his feet in the sky, and in the midst of such busyness, there was also the sound of fighting in the distance, as well as the roar of artillery.

In the northwest corner of Xuzhou City, in a large courtyard.

This place was originally a temple, but the monks in the temple were moved away by Ling Mengchu and placed Liu Zeqing's department here.

Speaking of strength, after Liu Zeqing's repeated defeats, his combat effectiveness has increased a lot, and the rest are cronies. They are all capable of fighting. Therefore, last night, the Xiping battalion attacked several times. Of course, there are also reasons for the lack of combat strength of the Xiping battalion. If there is a field battle, Xiping fights in formation, maybe he can still win, but at night it is a street battle, between the fighting rooms, and the soldiers are close to each other, but the Xiping camp is far from being the opponent of these Liu Zeqing's personal soldiers who have fought almost all their lives.

However, their good days are over.

The Xiping camp was supported by the artillery of the Linying battalion, although for the convenience of the march, Zhang Xuan did not bring much artillery, even if the artillery he brought, it was only some small cannons, but the walls of the temple were not city walls, how strong could they be.

In the sound of "boom" artillery, under the order of Shen Wandeng, almost all the walls of the temple were lifted, and the soldiers of the Xiping battalion, under the leadership of Wu Zilan and Shen Yan, rushed in. And Shen Wandeng supervised the battle in the rear, with artillery to suppress the formation, even though the soldiers of the Xiping battalion were not the opponents of Liu Zeqing's department, they still advanced towards the temple little by little.

Suddenly, a white flag floated out.

An officer and army general walked out and said, "I don't know if it's that good man leading the troops." "This person is none other than Liu Zeqing's general, Zhang Guozhu.

Liu Zeqing died, and the morale of the rest of Liu Zeqing's troops was almost dissipated. Not to mention the repeated defeats, the reason why it can be maintained is not because of Liu Zeqing's prestige, but because of Zhang Guozhu's means, Zhang Guozhu threatened below, he couldn't surrender casually, otherwise he would be easily killed at night. You can only hold out until dawn before you can talk to the rebels about surrender.

Therefore, Liu Zeqing's subordinates insisted on fighting under Zhang Guozhu's insistence.

However, it didn't last long, and after the rebels brought the cannons, Zhang Guozhu knew that he couldn't hold on. So he came out and surrendered.

"My lord, let me kill him." Wu Zilan gritted her teeth and said.

After a night of fierce fighting, both sides suffered losses from each other, especially Wu Zilan's department, Wu Zilan had just arrived, and he wanted to get a good result, so that Zhang Xuan could see his ability, so he rushed to the front, but he was hit by Zhang Guozhu on the head, almost stunned, and almost died here.

"No." The corners of Shen Wandeng's mouth twitched slightly.

He even wanted to kill Zhang Guozhu more than Wu Zilan, after all, Wu Zilan only lost his subordinates, but Shen Wandeng lost his own team. The Xiping people suffered a lot of losses in the battle of Xiayi, and the Xuzhou soldiers who had recently made up for the advance could not fight a tough battle, but could only fight a fight, so the people who rushed to the front in this battle were the children of Xiping.

In this way, you can imagine how distressed Shen Wandeng was.

"This kind of thing can only be decided by adults. Someone came to send him to the adults. Shen Wandeng said.

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