Chapter 45 The cannon shook Jingzhou City and grabbed the Jinyi Guard

Hearing the sergeant's report that a large number of warships of the Yaogang people were found on the river, and the Yaogang people's army on land also surrounded them, Yuan Zongdi was even more confused, and asked the generals around him: "King Chuang, let us go to the Yaogang people if we have something, what does this mean?" ”

A clever person replied: "I think this time, it is still the same as Shaanxi, and the emperor has negotiated with the people of Yaogang." We don't guard, they don't fight. I gave up the place to the kiln people. ”

"So what are the kiln people doing now?" No matter how stupid Yuan Zongdi is, he understands.

"The people of Yaogang have taken Hanyang and Hankou, and they will not leave us in Jingzhou. The other day, they didn't touch us, they wanted us to go out on our own. Now if we don't go ourselves, they will definitely attack the city. The man replied.

Yuan Zong stomped his feet first and said, "I want to leave too, but tens of thousands of brothers, can I go?" It's a big deal to fight with the kiln people, I want to see how many heads the kiln people have now. ”

At this time, a subordinate general beside him said: "General Yuan, we all rolled over from the pile of dead people with you, and we are not afraid of death." But I feel a little wronged to die like this. First, the emperor originally asked us to retreat, but now the emperor has sent a letter again, saying that we can ask for help from the kiln gang people. If we die like this, not only is it not worth dying, but we also disobey the emperor's orders, and if we don't do it well, we will ruin the emperor's plan. Besides, General Yuan, you haven't left, don't you just don't want to leave tens of thousands of soldiers behind? Now you can leave alive without fighting, and let the brothers follow you alive. I think we'll listen to the emperor! ”

Someone came over again and said, "General Yuan, their cannons are very terrifying. According to the brothers who came from Shaanxi, their cannonballs could blow a hole in the city wall. It is said that the cannons on their ships were even more terrifying, and they could blow up a pond with a single cannon. Let's listen to the emperor! ”

"That's right! General Yuan, listen to the emperor! ”

Sometimes, people need to find a reason for themselves to step down, and the step that this general gave Yuan Zongdi is very suitable, that is, to listen to the emperor's words. Yuan Zongdi exhaled through his nose and said, "Send someone to contact the people of Yaogang, they will send a boat to send us out, and we will hand over the original Jingzhou to them." ”

This time to recover Jingzhou, Qin Peng and Liu Chenghuang both came over. On the way, they did not catch any battles at all, and like the officers and men, they all felt a little regretful. This time, Qin Peng took the Qinzhou warship and led the navy to block Jingzhou from the river, and Liu Chenghuang led the infantry and cavalry to surround Jingzhou from the road.

They were about to send someone to give Yuan Zongdi an ultimatum, but they didn't expect Yuan Zongdi to send someone out of the city.

The one who came out was a general who had followed Yuan Zongdi for many years. After he came to Liu Chenghuang's big tent to give a salute, he said: "My general Yuan has received an order from the emperor asking us to withdraw from Jingzhou. The emperor also said in the letter that I can ask you to help us transport the men and horses out by boat. In this way, you can get Jingzhou without blood, and we can also go to Yingtianfu. ”

Liu Chenghuang admired this young general very much, and his words were neither humble nor arrogant, and asked, "How many people do you have?" ”

"This," this man knew that he couldn't do it if he didn't say it, otherwise how could people help transport troops, "there are more than 30,000 horses!" Less than forty thousand. ”

"Huh!" Liu Chenghuang asked with a smile: "This young general, have you calculated, that is, we will use all the tugboats we have now to help you transport thousands of people at a time." It takes a few days to travel down the river from Jingzhou to Yingtianfu. If you come back and swim against the current, it will take more time. It takes ten days and half a month to go back and forth. You tens of thousands of horses have been transported, when will it be? ”

"This?" This one really didn't think about it, and asked, "Then what do you say?" ”

"The easiest thing for us to do was to fire a cannon shot and the brethren rushed in. It was solved in one morning. Liu Chenghuang said, "However, if we wanted to do this, we would not wait until today, and it would have been solved long ago." Those tens of thousands of people were raised by mothers with mouthfuls of milk, and parents don't know how much effort it takes to raise a child. I guess it's better to count one less death as one! ”

Liu Chenghuang's words obviously moved the young general. He felt that this was not like what a general said at all, "General, we are not afraid of death, but since the emperor will not let us fight." We can't die for no reason. Tell me, what are we going to do? ”

"In my opinion, you gather the old, weak, sick and disabled and the families of their female dependents, and we will send them to Yingtianfu by boat. The rest of us will walk from the road. After crossing the river from Jingzhou to Hanyang, you can go straight to Anqing. We can supply your food and grass on the way. We can send you across the river in Anqing. Liu Chenghuang said.

The young general thought for a moment and said, "I can see the general's suggestion." But I'm going to go back and talk to General Yuan and see what he thinks! ”

"But we have one condition," said Yoo, "that you can bring horses, but not weapons." ”

"General, I'm afraid this won't work!" This one is gone.

"Will we allow you tens of thousands of horses to walk on our territory with weapons?" Liu Chenghuang asked sharply, "You go back and quickly bring my words to you General Yuan." Tell him that we tens of thousands of people will not stay in Jingzhou for too long. Time is running out. However, no matter what we are going to fight, your family members and wounded soldiers, we can send them away first. Our tugboat can't always wait here, and if you want to leave, you will have to board the boat by the river by tonight. Our ship is not waiting anymore. ”

Of course, Yuan Zongdi couldn't accept the condition of laying down his arms, and when he heard the condition that this general brought back, he said angrily: "Okay! We will fight with them to the end to see if the fish dies or the net breaks. ”

Someone said: "General Yuan, I think our families and wounded soldiers should be sent away." Since they agreed, I don't think we should be burdened to send them away. ”

Yuan Zongdi thought about it and nodded. Someone saw Yuan Zongdi nodding and immediately ran out to arrange the retreat of his family members and the old and weak wounded soldiers. In fact, Yuan Zongdi didn't want to fight, once he moved the idea of leaving, his determination to fight would not be very firm, not to mention that the result of the fight was death.

Another person said: "General Yuan, we tens of thousands of people passed through the places they occupied, with weapons, they will definitely not agree...."

Before he could finish speaking, Yuan Zongdi's eyes widened, and he drank: "Bastard thing, do you want to surrender?" ”

"No, no, General Yuan, I mean, they won't agree to us holding weapons on their side. In fact, when we left Jingzhou, we were holding weapons, and in front of the Yaogang people, it was not very useful. ”

This time, Yuan Zongdi didn't speak, because he knew that it was the truth. But it's a shame to lay down your arms, and it's absolutely not okay.

The families of the officers and soldiers of Dashun who were trapped in Jingzhou City got the news that they could leave, and rushed out of Jingzhou City to the river. Several tugboats from Yaogang were waiting for them with a series of barges. On the barge, they are all surrounded by canvas to a height of more than three feet, and as long as you sit down, the wind on the river will not blow. However, the river was still a little cold on the night in March, perhaps because the heart was even colder, and the people on the boat curled up on the barge one by one. However, when they got on the boat, they were still glad to have the opportunity to leave. They knew that a big war was about to begin.

In the evening, the barge of the kiln gang people went down the river in the night. Qin Peng and Liu Chenghuang didn't wait for Yuan Zongdi to reply, they discussed it through the radio, and felt that they couldn't wait any longer, and at dawn tomorrow, they would shoot a warning shot at Jingzhou, and if they didn't react, they would resolutely attack the city.

Yuan Zongdi knew that the Yaogang people were very powerful, and he had fought with the Yaogang people at Lingshui Wharf, so the Yaogang people in his impression were so powerful. Although he had heard about it, the kiln people were even more powerful now. However, Yuan Zongdi was still lucky, and felt that with the strong walls of Jingzhou, he could resist for a while. Therefore as soon as the people who went out of the city and got on the boat went out. He ordered the gates to be closed and prepared for battle.

The intelligence officers arranged by Li Zhi in Jingzhou City also sent out information about preparations for war in the city. Although Qin Peng and Liu Chenghuang still wanted to surrender their troops without a fight, it was difficult to hide their desire to fight in their hearts. After breakfast in the morning, the two exchanged telegrams again, and agreed to settle the matter in Jingzhou once again today.

Qin Peng commanded the warships to aim their guns at the southern city wall of Jingzhou, and Liu Chenghuang surrounded the city of Jingzhou from the east, west and north. The tracked tractor towed the 130 heavy guns directly to the city of Jingzhou.

After all of them were in place, Qin Peng said to Fan Chengkun: "Commander Fan, you use 203 heavy artillery to knock out one of the forts on the left and right of the city gate, and warn them." "Qin Peng has nothing to fire at the city gate.

After assigning the task, Fan Chengkun said with a smile: "Commander-in-Chief Qin, you still can't make up your mind to kill!" ”

"Yes! This battle shouldn't have been fought in the first place, but Yuan Zongdi, a bastard, doesn't care about life or death, we can't be like him, let's fight for it again! Qin Peng said.

Just as he was saying that the Qinzhou stepped forward with the main cannon, a cannon was fired with a "bang", and the ship followed for a while, and then an explosion occurred on a battery on the opposite city wall, not only the battery was blown to pieces, but also a big gap was blown out of the city wall. Then there was a cannon fire on the Fenzhou, blowing up a battery on the other side of the city gate.

Aiming at a cannon at such a close distance, hitting such a target is like shooting a gun at the head. There was a cheer from the sailors on the Yaogang fleet, who had been so aggrieved these days that they had not had a chance to do anything. Now I finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Liu Chenghuang could also hear the sound of heavy artillery firing. The subordinates were all anxious to open the cannon, Liu Chenghuang glared at them, "Those who fire the cannon without an order, kill!" ”

In fact, Liu Chenghuang wanted to shoot more than them. But he knew that this was no joke, and as a general with a heavy responsibility, he must not rely on his own temperament.

Although the Yaogang warship only fired two cannons, it also let the officers and soldiers of Dashun know that the Yaogang people are not just talking but not practicing. The effect of these two cannons, what the people of Yaogang didn't expect was that Yuan Zongdi was also injured.

Yuan Zongdi and his subordinates also saw that the people of Yaogang would not let them go easily today. Early in the morning, Yuan Zongdi took his generals to the city, and when the Yaogang warship was in place again, a general who had followed him for many years dragged Yuan Zongdi out of the city gate building, and hid in the battlements on a city wall next to the city gate tower to look down. They all heard that the cannons of the Yaogang people could blow up the city gate building with one shot. But where they were hiding, they were too close to the nearby fort. It was also Yuan Zongdi's life that was too bad, this fort was the first to be blown up by the cannon of the kiln gang, and the flying fragments killed several people around Yuan Zongdi, and broke one of Yuan Zongdi's legs. The general who persuaded Yuan Zongdi to dodge came over and saw Yuan Zongdi's appearance, and slapped his mouth angrily. If Yuan Zongdi didn't listen to him and stayed on the city gate, it would be fine at all. It seems that the people of Yaogang are not willing to blow up the city gate building. But this cannon blew up Yuan Zongdi. Enduring the severe pain, Yuan Zongdi ordered: "Hurry! Hurry up and contact us with the kiln gang people to listen to them. Please don't shoot again! Tell the brethren not to fight back, and those who violate it will be punished immediately! ”

Fortunately, the kiln people gave them time to react.

Qin Peng was talking to Fan Chengkun in the cab when a soldier suddenly reported, "Report to Commander-in-Chief Qin, Commander Fan, there is a white flag shaking in Jingzhou City!" ”

Qin Peng and Fan Chengkun looked at each other and smiled, but neither spoke. They all picked up their binoculars and looked at Jingzhou. In fact, at this distance, you can see the Jingzhou City Gate clearly with the naked eye, and it is even clearer with a telescope.

At this time, the south gate of Jingzhou City suddenly opened, and a few fast horses ran out and went straight to the river. Put it in the telescope Qin Peng said: "Hey! You have to toss it to think about it. ”

Fan Chengkun said: "They are all soldiers, and no one can swallow this breath." This Yuan Zongdi is also Li Zicheng's favorite general, and he can be regarded as a man who can fight. Now that he's thinking about it, it's still a bit out of my mind. I thought they had to compete with us! ”

Qin Peng smiled and said: "Mr. Chen and Mr. Ouyang gave me the opportunity to come out and exercise, but I didn't fight a battle, I really feel a little wronged!" ”

"A soldier who surrenders without a fight, and a good man who is good!" Fan Chengkun said.

"Come on! Let's just stop blowing each other here. Qin Peng said.

"I know, Commander-in-Chief Qin, you, you, will go back to the headquarters. Can you think of a way to find something for us to do in the future? Fan Chengkun said, "If there is no war, the brothers will rust." ”

"O you! But the treasure of our kiln. In the future, it will be up to you to do all the great things. Qin Peng said, "You see Li Zicheng and these people, let you fight, is it interesting?" In Zhenjiang, the first ship of our base will be built to 5,000 tons. With this ship, and with your warship, you have to think about going to sea. Shi Tao: They have almost measured the coastline along our coast. Do you think you're still going to have nothing to do? ”

As he spoke, the soldier sent the man sent by the Dashun Army into the cab. This is also the young general who has seen Liu Chenghuang, he felt a little nervous when he got on the boat, and the roaring sound on the boat was a little scary. Besides, he had never seen such a large iron ship, and he felt even more novel.

When he got into driving, he said after he finished saluting: "General, you don't keep your promises, why didn't you fire the cannon before I could reply?" He thought that he saw Liu Chenghuang over there yesterday, and he didn't know the specific situation here.

Hearing him say this, Qin Peng was happy and asked, "What we told you yesterday is good, you can send the family soldiers away, but you don't reply to us." Do we want to wait until the sun comes out of the west? I see that you don't cry when you don't see the coffin. Tell me what you want to do! ”

"We, General Yuan, said it, and we will do what you say. We have agreed a long time ago, but we just want to have a good talk with the officers and soldiers. You also know that tens of thousands of people laid down their arms, and it is not a trivial matter. "This Yuan Zongdi's subordinate wants to give Yuan Zongdi some face, and wants to explain that he was not frightened by the two cannons. He didn't dare to say anything about Yuan Zongdi's injury.

Qin Peng didn't want to embarrass him, and asked, "When are you going to leave?" ”

"If we could, we could go today."

"Alright! You go back and inform General Yuan that you can leave this afternoon, and you must all leave by noon tomorrow. Qin Peng said, "Remember, you must not bring any weapons. There are also facilities to protect the castle. ”

"Good! I went back. The man quickly withdrew.

Qin Peng ordered a telegram to be sent to Liu Chenghuang, informing Liu Chenghuang to make way for them. At the same time the cavalry escorting them was ready. Because they had tens of thousands of people in total, it was very unsafe to let them go at will, so they had to send cavalry to send him away. But it's much better than going into the city and fighting.

After receiving the telegram, Liu Chenghuang said: "Don't hit the south wall and don't look back!" ”

But the generals around Liu Chenghuang were like deflated balls, one by one, dejected. They knew that the most promising battle of the Southern Expedition was gone. After taking Jingzhou, the main task of the West Road was over.

However, Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He were very happy to hear that they had taken over Jingzhou without bloodshed. Ouyang He personally wrote a telegram to reward them. At the same time, Li Mao was informed that the officers and soldiers who occupied Anqing were ready to send the Dashun army across the river. Provide them with food and grass along the way.

Yuan Zongdi insisted and finally left Jingzhou. At this time, Liu Chenghuang knew that Yuan Zongdi was injured. It turned out that those two cannons killed nearly 200 soldiers of the Dashun Army. Liu Chenghuang sent someone to Yuan Zongdi to send Jinchuang medicine and sulfonamide anti-inflammatory drugs from Yaogang. This made Yuan Zongdi very moved. He knew that there was a miracle medicine in Yaogang, and if he ate his leg injury, it would not be fatal. But he also knew that the thing was very valuable, but he didn't expect the kiln man to give him a small bottle of this medicine.

Therefore, the Dashun army was very disciplined along the way, and the food provided by the kiln people was also very timely. The Dashun army rarely falls behind.

It only took more than a month for the Yaogang people to take over the places left behind after the withdrawal of the Dashun army. The North Road, commanded by Li Mao, took over the vast areas around Ruzhou, Nanyang, and Runing; The East Road commanded by Li Mao also took over Chuzhou, Luzhou (Hefei), Hezhou (Ma'anshan City and County), Fengyang, and Anqing.

Originally, it was expected that there would be no major war in this southern expedition, and it would go very smoothly, but Zhang Zhimu, Chen Yufeng, and Ouyang He did not expect that the southern expedition would end so quickly. This is still the kiln gang people who control the speed of the march.

Now Lu Chengxiang and Yang Jing are the busiest, according to the plan, each state capital and county will install two megawatts of generators. Yangchang they have trained many groups of power installation teams, which are located in various places. Fortunately, the two-megawatt generator set in Yaogang is very stable and mature, as long as the civil foundation is done well, some large pieces will be combined in Yaogang, and the ignition can generate electricity. Of course, each power plant now needs technicians sent by the kiln to manage the operation.

However, on the day when the power generation equipment was transported to Fengyang, the central capital, the Qin messenger sent by the imperial court also arrived with a large group of people. The officials of the kiln gang had already received a notice from Yan Xing, telling them to salute when they saw the imperial court's envoys, and not to let them find fault with the number of rituals.

The coaxing Qin Cha led a team of people and horses, and came to Fengyang with martial arts, and when he saw the officials of the kiln gang, he was angry in his heart, and he kept picking on this and that, and he was not inferior. The officials of the kiln gang tried to endure as much as possible. As a result, the patience of the kiln officials made Qincha's temper even greater. He was going to go to the imperial tomb to have a look, and he didn't let the kiln officials accompany him.

According to Zhang Zhimu's instructions, the imperial tomb is now being repaired. There was a company of soldiers, which carried out the guard. The officers and men of this company were also informed that the messengers sent by the imperial court were coming, and that they should be as patient as possible not to provoke them. Although the soldiers in the kiln gang were terrible, they didn't take the officials of the court or the Qincha seriously at all, but they were ordered to take it seriously.

When the Qin Cha came to the Imperial Tomb with a large group of people, the soldiers of the kiln gang who were standing guard in front of the Imperial Tomb raised their hands and saluted them. It should be said that it is to give them face. But I didn't expect this to cause trouble.

From inside the palanquin, he saw the soldiers saluting him instead of kneeling. Furious, he stopped the sedan chair and scolded: "Bold! Do you see that Benchin is almost kneeling, and he wants to rebel? ”

The squad leader of the kiln gang hurriedly ran over to salute him and said, "Lord Qincha is angry, and our kiln soldiers all raise their hands when they see the commander." It's not disrespectful to adults! Thank you for your understanding! ”

"I don't care what bullshit you guys are saluting, get down on my knees!" The more the soldiers explained, the more angry they became.

The squad leader, knowing that he had to try not to make a big deal out of it, gave the order that the soldiers standing guard should kneel down with him. Despite this, he kicked the squad leader who was kneeling on the ground and said, "I don't have time to waste time with a slave like you today." After saying that, the sedan chair was completed, and the team entered the imperial tomb.

The squad leader got up with tears in his eyes and went to call the company commander and told him what had happened. The company commander comforted him and said, "You endured it right!" We'll get them out as soon as possible, and try not to get into trouble because of us! Putting down the phone, the company commander and the instructor hurried to the imperial mausoleum.

When he came to the imperial tomb, he saw that the imperial tomb had indeed been seriously damaged. There are a lot of people doing maintenance work. He shouted, "Bold! Who let you trespass on the imperial tomb? You are the capital offense of exterminating the Nine Clans! ”

Those craftsmen who were invited had never seen the Qincha. But when he heard Qin Cha say this, he was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy.

At this time, the company commander and the instructor ran over with people, and when they saw the Qin Cha, they hurriedly saluted and said, "Your Excellency, stop your anger!" We are repairing the Imperial Tomb according to the instructions of the kiln gang. Nothing to do with these craftsmen. Do you have something to do with the kiln gang? ”

"Bold dog minion, get down on my knees quickly!" When Qin Cha saw that these people raised their hands and saluted again, he became angry again.

The company commander and the instructor glanced at each other, and had to kneel.

Seeing these people kneeling, Qin Cha became more energetic, "You dare to tamper with the imperial tomb, and someone will tie them up!" ”

The Jinyi guards who came with Qin sent a few people came up to tie up the company commander and the instructor. At this time, the company commander quit, they are all men who have seen blood, and people's patience is limited. The company commander, who was kneeling on the ground, rolled over and stood up, and at the same time pulled out the pistol at his waist. The instructor also took out his pistol, and the guards standing guard around and the soldiers who had just arrived also aimed their hands at them.

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Mt. Fuji erupted, Japan was earthquaked. --Progress of "Memories of the Southern Song Dynasty".