Chapter 165: Battle of Naju III

"Report." A person knelt in front of Zheng Chenggong and said, "News from the north, the Qing army has strode south and has reached Quanzhou. ”

"So fast." The generals of the Xia army glanced at each other and said secretly in their hearts. Then he focused on Zheng Chenggong.

Quanzhou is not far from Luozhou, if you count according to the distance of the cavalry, I am afraid that you will be able to reach the city of Luozhou tonight, or even faster.

If you can't capture Luozhou City before this, I'm afraid it won't be easy.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong is their backbone.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong was wearing a golden armor, and wherever he stood was shining with golden light, he held the helmet, slowly put it on his head, and said, "That's right." ”

"Let's go."

Zheng Chenggong walked in the front, then turned on his horse and led the team out of the camp.

Although camping has a bit of a dramatic meaning. But it's not that Xia Jun's camp is not perfect. The army has its own charter. So the camp of the Xia army stretched for miles. Heavy overlap. On the periphery were the North Korean army. In the middle is the Xia army, which has hundreds of thousands of people, enveloping the entire city of Luozhou.

There is a feeling of black clouds pressing down on the city.

Hundreds of horsemen surrounded Zheng Chenggong and came to the city of Luozhou. Zheng Chenggong looked at Luozhou City from a distance, but saw that the banners on the city were waving, and countless soldiers were neat and orderly.

Zheng Chenggong asked, "Is the general at the head of the city?" ”

But I saw a person above the city, surrounded by countless soldiers, who came out and said, "Down is the Luozhou guard general Cui En, what do the traitors say?" ”

Zheng Chenggong said to Liang Huafeng: "Is this the position?" ”

Liang Huafeng said: "Exactly. ”

Zheng Chenggong said: "You can prepare." ”

Zheng Chenggong knew that it was useless to persuade him to surrender, and now he came here to do this useless work just to wipe out all the generals who invited the army.

"Yes." Liang Huafeng said.

Immediately a greeting, someone was already prepared.

However, it still takes a little time from ignition to explosion.

I only listened to dozens of soldiers with loud voices on the battlefield, and then shouted to persuade them to surrender, saying things like Manchu and unreasonable, good birds and trees.

But I didn't know that Zheng Chenggong had some calculations in his heart, and Cui En at the head of the city also had calculations in his heart.

This Cui En is a North Korean, originally a member of the North Korean army, and he had also seen a battle with the Qing army at the beginning, so he could fight and dared to fight. But because he has no prominent family affairs, he has always been a member of the army who has been sacrificed and suppressed.

I have seen the smell of wine and meat in Zhumen, and there are frozen bones on the road. It's not that the wine and meat stink, it's someone else's, and he and his brothers only have a handful of bones that haven't frozen to death.

In such a situation, why should Choi Eun sell for North Korea

Life.

However, after Azig established the Eight Banners of Korea, Choien's order changed, and he became one of the bannermen of the Eight Banners of Korea, giving them land near Seoul.

Cui En now, the family has good land and a wife. But he understands better how all this came about, it was all given by Azig, and how he didn't fight for the Qing army.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong wanted Cui En's life, and Cui En also left Zheng Chenggong's small life. It's also a great achievement.

At this moment, above the city, several cannons were slowly aimed at Zheng Chenggong.

Just wait for Cui En's order.

It's just that Zheng Chenggong is not a fool, and naturally knows that his little life is much more important than this city. Although Zheng Chenggong's position was within the range of the cannon, it was not easy to shoot with the ability of the Qing army's gunners.

However, it's not easy, Cui En will give it a try, and if he hits, it will be a great credit.

With a "boom", several artillery pieces fired out almost at the same time, hitting Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong's heart tightened, his breathing was slightly chaotic, and then he calmed down again, and suddenly stood motionless. I watched as a few shells came from a distance that seemed to be slow, but in fact they were very fast.

Zheng Chenggong's decision is the most rational way.

Because even if you run, it may not be safer than standing still.

However, he was also secretly annoyed in his heart, and secretly said in his heart: "It's too big." Even though Zheng Chenggong stood motionless, the personal soldiers around Zheng Chenggong did not dare to slack off, and stood in front of Zheng Chenggong one by one, forming a human wall, wanting to block Zheng Chenggong.

Several shells fell beside Zheng Chenggong, and all four of them hit the open space, but only one smashed into the crowd, killing two people and three horses.

"Lord Wang, it's not easy to stay here, retreat quickly." Several generals surrounded Zheng Chenggong.

Zheng Chenggong said: "I will not retreat. I'm going to see how this Trine died. ”

Zheng Chenggong's move, although it is a little bit arrogant. But it's not completely disregarding the overall situation, he just estimated the time, and at this moment, the city wall of Luozhou should also be blasted.

Zheng Chenggong's estimate of time is not bad at all.

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard a deafening explosion, and then the earth shook, as if it were an earthquake, and countless smoke and dust rose into the sky. Forcibly built a smoke barrier in front of Zheng Chenggong, and for a while they couldn't see anything.

Stones, big and small, were thrown at them.

For a while, they couldn't breathe, and it seemed that as long as they breathed, the first thing they inhaled into their lungs was dust.

"Ahem, ahem." Countless coughing sounds, one after another.

The horses under his command were also panicked, if these people were riding not the best war horses, I am afraid that there would be no opinion at this time.

"It seems that I have prepared a little too much gunpowder." Liang Huafeng controlled the horses while secretly saying in his heart.

Although the collapse method has become one of the siege tactics of the Xia army, in actual operation, there is no standard specification, how deep the soil layer, how thick the city wall, and how much gunpowder should be filled.

It's all based on experience.

Liang Huafeng's previous things were messed up, so this time, he would never make a mistake, so he would rather add a little more than make a mistake because of the insufficient power of gunpowder.

Now it seems that it is too much. There is a bit of excess power.

However, this is fine, at least one thing is certain, Cui En, who is dead, can no longer die.

"Kill." Countless short people, holding long knives in their hands, rushed forward without any momentum, as if they were a group of wild boars, and rushed forward with a roar.

These people were none other than samurai recruited from Japan.

They rushed in without waiting for the dust to settle.

Zheng Chenggong is still very satisfied with the performance of these Japanese samurai.

The use of Japanese as thugs by pirates of all stripes in China has been a long-standing affair. Even in the original rebellion, it was the Chinese maritime merchants who really occupied the majority of the Japanese rebellion, and Japan was more of a place to write off accounts, plus the role of a thug.

This makes Zheng Chenggong still very satisfied. However, these Japanese are also easy to let go and difficult to contain, and they are very brutal, and once they fight, they are likely to kill indiscriminately.

Originally, Zheng Chenggong felt that after the Japanese entered the army, people from all walks of life should rush in quickly, firstly, to meet the Japanese and not let them fight alone. Second, they are also worried that the Japanese have killed too much.

At this moment, Zheng Chenggong deliberately let the Japanese go, after all, Zheng Chenggong didn't seem to have any reaction to the bombardment just now, but he was very angry in his heart.

It's just that he knows what the big picture is.

To fight in Korea, it is better to have the support of the North Koreans. Too much killing, it's not a good thing.

It seems that this explosion has completely wiped out the command system in Luozhou City, and the Qing army is in a situation where it is fighting on its own, Zheng Chenggong did not want to damage the Xia army, so he sent out all kinds of Korean rebels.

After all, now that the overall situation is decided, it is not worth it to damage Sergeant Xia, and if a Sergeant Xia dies, he will be given a pension later, but the dead Koreans do not need it.

Moreover, these Koreans are natives, so they should be able to counterbalance the Japanese and not let them kill too much.

It's just that Zheng Chenggong never thought that in the eyes of many Korean scholars, these Korean Eight Banners, who defected to the Qing court and embezzled their property, were even more hateful than the Japanese Invaders.

They were even more ruthless than the Japanese in the city of Naju.

The Japanese kill people, but they want money. But they are clearly revenge, tragic revenge. When Zheng Chenggong entered the city, Luozhou City had become a dead city.