Chapter 468: The Emperor's Face
The great eunuch of the prison army Fang Zhenghua is bloodthirsty, he likes the battlefield full of broken arms and stumps the most, likes to smell blood, and the Ming army has just broken through the southern city wall, he took four martial artists and eunuchs down the list mountain.
He also deliberately brought a high dive, so as not to make this kid bad behind his back.
Entering Dengzhou to kill the enemy is Fang Zhenghua's favorite, and the feeling of slashing the enemy to death face-to-face and splashing his head and face with blood always makes him feel excited.
Gao Qiqian was originally not a little timid, but when he was dragged into the city by Fang Zhenghua to kill people, he was still calm.
More than a dozen rebels were caught up by Fang Zhenghua, or they were slashed and slashed, and blood mixed with intestines and feces flowed all over the ground, which immediately made Gao Qi's stomach churn and his face pale.
Then Fang Zhenghua stretched out his blood-red tongue to lick the blood on the nine-ring broadsword, Fang Zhenghua's miserable white and sickly face combined with the abnormally red tongue, and he was so frightened that he raised his crotch and was wet.
There is no way, it is not easy for eunuchs to control the urge to urinate, and it is often like this when they can stand the fright.
Fang Zhenghua said compassionately: "Xiao Gao! Our family likes to kill enemies for fun, you don't know the fun, so let's take a knife and follow our family to cut a few fish that have slipped through the net. ”
At this time, Zhenghua pinched Gao Qiqian's life, because if he died, Fang Zhenghua only needed to report to the Son of Heaven, and Gao Qiqian personally entered the city to participate in the slashing and killing of the rebels, and unfortunately died in the melee, everything would be fine, and no one would use their brains to analyze the cause of death for the death of a eunuch.
The emperor will not care about the life or death of a domestic slave, and everyone's focus will fall on Fang Zhenghua, the great eunuch of the prison army who pacified Denglai, and on the Jinyi Wei who made great achievements first.
Gao Qiqian knelt down, and he wailed: "Dad, take my son!" The son will be obedient in the future, and the son will only look forward to the father and father in the future, and the father will ......"
This is enough for a single person to kneel down and call his father directly, and he can be regarded as a hero who can afford to put it down.
Seeing the big man of his age curled up on the ground and called his father, Fang Zhenghua was almost angry, he thought that this person was spineless and looked down on him even more, so he faded his mind to play tricks on this helpless villain.
He said slowly: "Xiao Gao, Dengzhou has been taken, and the monstrous achievements of this prison army have been obtained, as long as it is a person with the same heart as our family, there will be no less generous gifts from the Son of Heaven at that time." Hello do it yourself! ”
"Dad, my son understands! My son will definitely honor you! ”
Gao Qiqian, who was shocked, followed Fang Zhenghua step by step, serving carefully, really like a filial son and grandson, where would he dare to have the mind to deal with Fang Zhenghua?
Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others have been planning for a long time to retreat at sea, and their families have long lived in Shuicheng, and the guards of Shuicheng are all former Dongjiang soldiers.
The gold and silver that should have been packed in the first month were packed, and the cannons to be taken away were all put on the ship on the pretext of changing the guns of the warship.
From the tenth day of the first month of February, the Dongjiang soldiers began to clear the ice that had begun to melt, and during this period, the families of the generals simply went on board to live, so as not to affect the boarding speed of the soldiers during the great retreat.
More than 2,000 Dongjiang soldiers spent three days clearing the ice, so that all the warships in the water city could move, and on the 12th watch of February, more than 13,000 people took advantage of the moonlight to start boarding, and it was not long before nearly 100 warships and merchant ships set sail out of the water city one after another.
A team that has abandoned more than half of the rebels will not only not affect their combat effectiveness, but may also be strengthened.
Because in addition to the sailors and gunners, the remaining six or seven thousand soldiers were all Liao, and most of them were veterans of Dongjiang Town who had fought Jiannu, Kong Youde was quite confident in seizing Zhenjiang Fort next.
The rebels' contingent of nearly a hundred ships sailed slowly, as they were fully or even overloaded, and the ships were rather disorganized.
The more than 20 No. 2 Fuchuan type warships used by Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming were able to reach a speed of five knots, but the speed of a dozen medium-sized horseships loaded with Hongyi cannons and some war horses could only be maintained at about three knots.
The five three-masted gunboats captured from the Tianjin Navy Division were larger than the No. 2 Fu Ship, but their speed could only reach four knots, and these five ships should be the strongest fighting force in the entire fleet.
Kong Youde deliberately appointed five self-appointed chief military officers, Wang Zideng, Li Yingyuan, Chen Guangfu, Su Yougong, and Gao Zhixiang, to lead one each, and each ship was equipped with two or three hundred soldiers in addition to the sailors and gunners.
Obviously, the main ships of the fleet are these five three-masted gunboats, if they can't defeat the Ming fleet that is chasing and intercepting, the other warships have no possibility of winning, and they can only sail and escape.
The rebel fleet did not dare to sail with full sails when it came out of the water city, because they were worried that the ice floe near the sea would hit their ships, after all, the visibility under the moonlight was insufficient, and they finally escaped, and everyone knew that safety first.
Fang Zhenghua and Li Ruolian captured Dengzhou and won a lot, because in addition to the four or five thousand who fled into Shuicheng in order to compete for the four or five thousand killed each other for large horse boats and small boats, there were more than 10,000 rebels in the city.
Among these people, most of the Ming troops who surrendered immediately chose to surrender back when they saw the destruction of Dengzhou City, and the rest were some green skins, gangsters and mobs, whose combat effectiveness was not worth mentioning, and they were killed by Jinyiwei and the soldiers of the Beijing camp for three or four thousand.
These scumbags, who were not good citizens in the first place, joined the rebels for robbery and rape, and when they were killed, everyone had a bulge in their arms, and even many thugs carried packages.
At noon, except for a dozen or so small boats that escaped from the water city because a small number of rebels who knew how to sail sailed, rowed, and steered, the other boats were basically spinning in place, and many landlubber soldiers vomited out their guts.
The bulky and large horse-boats could not move without professional sailors raising their sails, and the rebels who crowded into the boats finally gave up fleeing and chose to surrender on their knees, and the battle was basically over by noon
Next was the capture and return of the Jinyi Guard, during which more than 300 rebels who surrendered were beheaded, because these people actually hid a lot of property.
Bloodshed and violence are well suited to the situation of anarchy, and under the terrifying atmosphere created by the brocade guard's broadsword brandishing human heads, gold and silver treasures are constantly found and confiscated.
Throughout the day, the representatives of the Beijing camp of Jinyiwei and Propaganda counted precious metals worth no less than two million taels of silver, as well as silk, cloth, armor, weapons, and more than 100 artillery pieces of various sizes.
Last spring, four of the six heavy artillery pieces sent by Emperor Chongzhen's envoy to the Denglai front to help in the battle were discovered.
That time the Hongyi cannon was transported from Beijing in order to cooperate with the Ming army to win the battle, who knew that it backfired, the Ming army was defeated by the cavalry assault led by Li Jiucheng in Shahe, and the six cannons were captured by the rebels without firing.
The other captured artillery pieces were nothing, but these four heavy cannons were of great significance, because they were about the emperor's face.