Many parties are surrounded, and there are less than 4,000 people who can stay in this area, and they belong to two factions, and they will still have this hatred for each other, and Zheng Hongkui's people and horses are also in the ranks of the attack.

After all, Zheng Hongkui is the largest leader in this place, so there are more people and horses, there are two thousand, four hundred people, Shi Fu's men and horses must have been more than Zheng Hongkui's people and horses before, but after several battles, and after some people immediately rebelled, and fled back to Zheng Hongkui's side, so Shi Fu's men and horses were only about 17,800 people.

But there are always a lot of people and horses in various places in the city, and there should be 350,000 people, and the composition is complicated.

Quanzhou Mansion seems to be small, but as a commercial port in the Ming Dynasty and a commercial port city that has been open to the outside world for a long time, there are no seventy or eighty streets and alleys, so there are still a lot of places for them to maneuver, and many places can't hold it if they want to, so many people from other forces have escaped, of course, not everyone can escape.

Only a small number of people escaped, hid in private houses, escaped into the people, most of them were either killed or captured, and then the Jinhua rebels slowly closed towards the area where Zheng Hongkui and Shi Fu were concentrated.

Shi Fu and Zheng Hongkui fled separately at first, each leading their men and horses to escape in two directions, but Wei Wuji and Ruan Jin cooperated quite well, and all those who ran on the street, no matter who they were, were immediately shot and killed, seeing that they couldn't escape, many people surrendered, and those who didn't surrender could only flee back.

So Zheng Hongkui and Shi Fu could only return to the place where they had the original dispute.

Although Zheng Hongkui was dissatisfied with Shi Fu, his character was hesitant, but he was persuaded by Shi Fu, and the two sides counted the men and horses again, but found that not only did they not have much loss, but there were more soldiers and horses, because many people were forced from other places.

This gathering, a little counting, there are actually as many as 8,000 people, many of whom are not their men, but the squires who fought with them before, the powerful family members.

This is because Wei Wuji suddenly thought that if he wanted to distinguish it, it would be very troublesome, at this time the Quanzhou Mansion was very chaotic, tens of thousands of people were running on the streets, who knew that it was the enemy, that was his own people, that was an innocent friendly army, or the men and horses of other forces, so he had to shoot them together, and those who surrendered immediately took people to the rear city wall and below, and handed them over to Ruan Jin's men and horses to take care of.

After the fact, they are distinguishing between friend and foe, or whether innocent people are involved.

In such a chaotic situation, there must be some ruffians and hooligans who take the opportunity to make trouble, and these people must also be distinguished, when the Quanzhou Mansion is controlled by the Jinhua Righteous Army, according to Zhang Qiang's consistent style, it is impossible for the ruffians and gangsters to exist, and under his influence, these officials under him will not show mercy to these ruffians and hooligans.

The best fate for the ruffians is to be thrown into the prisoner camp to suffer, and again, thrown directly into the hard labor camp to work to death, and the worst thing is to kill when they see it.

The heralds kept sending back news.

The eastern part of the city was completely cleared, all the street entrances were held, and the remaining troops continued to advance.

A large part of the western part of the city has been cleared, and all the street entrances have been defended, but some landlords and gentry are in rebellion, and some troops are responsible for surrounding their mansions and shops, which are being cleared, and the remaining large troops continue to advance towards the center of the city.

Heavy fighting is still going on in the northern part of the city, but the enemy is retreating to the south of the city, where a third of the area has been taken control and some officials are heavily guarded near their residences.

The enemy was concentrated in the vicinity of the prefectural government and the center of the city from the southern district of the city.

Hearing the herald's report, Wei Wuji deployed his men and sent two teams of infantry and a team of musketeers to reinforce the northern part of the city, while a team of musketeers and two teams of archers were sent to reinforce the troops advancing from the north of the city to the central area.

Fighting the war and keeping the reserve is something that Zhang Qiang has repeatedly emphasized.

In order to allow his subordinates to become talented as soon as possible, Zhang Qiang conducted as many as ten officer trainings for his henchmen in the past two years, and they can be said to be equivalent to the level of students in various military officer schools established by warlord leaders in various places during the Republic of China.

It's not that they're incompetent, it's not that they don't study well, but Zhang Qiang needs to consider the various gaps and estrangements between them and later generations, after all, there is a time gap of three hundred years between the Ming Dynasty and the later generations, how can they accept the combat methods and ideas of the tropical weapons of the later generations, and most of the content of his training for them is to first start with cold weapons and platoon guns to shoot this seventeenth-century Western combat method, and slightly tell them some eighteenth-century war ideas, so they have created their level compared to later generations. It's still very backward.

There is no way to do this, it is simply unrealistic to let a person in the era of cold weapons accept the combat idea of tropical weapons, and it can only be instilled in them little by little, and then let them become proficient.

How to be proficient is to teach them a little knowledge of facing forward, and then train them, and after the training is completed, let them mainly use cold weapon combat, supplemented by tropical weapon combat, and gradually learn to transition.

Wei Wuji can be regarded as a person who has experienced a lot of wars, has fought a lot of battles, and can be said to be experienced in cold weapon combat, and since following Zhang Qiang, many times the combat is mainly tropical weapons, so he has also heard and witnessed some learning, plus training, it can be said that he is the best person in this group of henchmen.

Wei Wuji led the Chinese army slowly towards the center of the city.

In the south of the city, Shi Fu and Zheng Hongkui's counterattacks were wave after wave, and many times even the musket team could not resist, because Shi Fu knew that if they wanted to live, they could not spare the lives of their subordinates, and many of them were not driven away, using crowd tactics to consume the bullets and time of the musket team, so many times they had to use archers and crossbow arrows to make up for the lack of musket firing time.

Use infantry and pikemen at the same time to block enemy attacks.

The other is that the place is small and there are many dead ends, and the enemy can also use these dead spots to shoot them with bows and arrows, so the fierce battle in the south of the city is in full swing, and Wei Wuji's goal has not been achieved at all.

However, this also reduced the pressure on the Jinhua Righteous Army that pressed over from the north of the city.

Why did the enemy strike from the south of the city?

Because there is a wharf in the south of the city, there are Zheng Hongkui's ships on the wharf, and the pirates on the wharf outside are also trying to rescue Zheng Hongkui's troops in the city.

Of course, Wei Wuji didn't take these people into account, he put most of the brigade of men and horses in the south of the city, and also set up artillery.

The rest of the men and horses pressed towards the city, and the cold weapons were the majority.

This is also because when fighting in the streets, cold weapons can play a great role.

There was always a blind spot in musket shooting, and Wei Wuji wanted them to flee to this area, and then they could be flanked from both sides from the west and east of the city.

He had expected them to flee in this direction.

In the era of cold weapons, the city was broken and the enemy entered the city, so the defenders in the city had only one way, and that was to escape.

By the time Wei Wuji's Chinese army entered from the west of the city and advanced all the way to the central area of the city, Shi Fu and Zheng Hongkui's men and horses had already been surrounded in a small area in the south of the city and the central part of the city, and their soldiers and horses were less than 2,000 men left.

Most of the remaining 6,000 men were killed, and a small part of the squires who were forced to fight back took the opportunity to surrender.

At this moment, Wei Wuji heard the sound of the herald's horse's hooves running, and he was quite hurried.

Turning around and seeing the herald coming, covered in sweat and anxious, he frowned, "Why are you so flustered?" ”

The herald said breathlessly: "Report to the Admiral, Zheng Hongkui and that Qing army spy, they ...... They coerced the people there, shouting that if they did not let them go, they would kill all three thousand people, and let the people be buried with them. ”

"Damn it," Wei Wuji threw down the whip in his hand, his grim face covered with frost.

(End of chapter)