In mid-August, Chen Ming's army arrived outside the city of Yichang, and the mighty fleet was like a long dragon, and hundreds of large and small ships covered the Yangtze River. The 15th Brigade of the Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info the Han Army attacked Yichang first. Zhao Yongji had already been informed by Chen Ming, and he was excited to take the order. The troops of the 15th Brigade of several thousand people disembarked and assembled one after another, and then drove to the outside of Yichang City, and the entire third battalion of artillery was sent by Chen Ming to attack Zhao Yongji.

Gao Qiao stood beside Chen Ming, with jealousy in his eyes, Yichang seemed to him to be a ripe peach, and he could come down with his hand, Zhao Yongji's exploits were not only easy to come, but also taken away from his Gao Qiao's mouth, Gao Qiao was now angry for a while; Shi Meng was also standing beside Chen Ming, but he couldn't see a trace of jealousy of Zhao Yongji in his eyes. All this person's orders to Chen Ming were: obey orders. And there is such a person to raise the Guards Brigade, and Chen Ming hands over the Guards Brigade to him, so he really feels at ease.

How did it feel to have thousands of ironclad soldiers lined up outside the city? The Qing soldiers at the head of Yichang City all felt that their lower abdomen tightened for a while. When the 48 cannons were dragged two miles away by the officers and soldiers of the third artillery battalion, the Qing soldiers at the head of Yichang really peed their pants.

But at this time, no one bothered to scold the timid soldier.

Fan Shishou and Zhu Jue looked at the Zhao-character general flag erected next to the Blood Tiger Banner - Captain Li Feng Zhao. This can be regarded as the largest surrender of Chen Wei by the Manchu Qing since the start of the war, and he also voted for two general soldiers in one go. It is said that when the news reached the city of Beijing, the angry emperor smashed Yunyang on the map.

The two general soldiers, all of them are Yunyang Town!

"Traitor, traitor......" Zhu Qi trembled angrily. Chen Wei actually asked Zhao Yongji to fight Yichang, which made Zhu Qi even more angry than he personally came to fight Yichang.

"Shameless ...... the grace of the country, aiding and abusive, shameless, scolding! Give me a loud scold......" Fan Shishou trembled, pointing to Zhao Yongji, who was wearing iron armor outside the city and standing under the banner of the general, and roared.

Yichang City immediately resounded with a scolding of Zhao Yongji.

Zhao Yongji didn't care about being hated, before he made the decision to sell the city, he had already thought of being infamous all over the world. But so what? In the future, the Chen family will sit in the Dragon Court, and he will be the founding father of the same country as Zhao Yongji. No matter what, it's better than paying death in Xiangyang City!

Even if the Chen family loses in the future, he will have enough time to arrange for an heir to go incognito to other places to enjoy the family wealth. Now, the harder the Qing soldiers scold, the more they are the people of the Han Army.

Zhao Yongji sneered disdainfully at the corner of his mouth. "The donkey is poor. Ignore them. "Pressing the invitation of his officers and soldiers to 'fight', Zhao Yongji only ordered the artillery battalion to speed up. He was silent for now, and would answer them with cannonballs later.

On a double-decker boat on the Yangtze River, Ma Wenjie was holding a telescope and looking at the battlefield, compared to Zhao Yongji on the battlefield, Ma Wenjie seemed to be more nervous. Chen Ming asked him and Zhao Yongji to accompany the army, and specially sent the 15th Brigade to attack Yichang, what was the reason? Ma Wenjie is very clear. This is by no means a vote, when Xiangyang was dedicated, the two of them have already made a real vote.

Ma Wenjie's family has long been picked up from his hometown in Shaanxi by the secret camp, but only the immediate family members can be picked up, some side branches and in-laws, after the news of Ma Wenjie's surrender to the Han army was confirmed by the Manchu Qing, although they scattered and fled, there were still sixty or seventy people arrested, and the Manchus beheaded them all. The ancestral graves of the Ma family were also dug up, and the bones were destroyed by the Eight Banners of Xi'an. Ma Wenjie and the Manchu Qing Dynasty have a deep blood feud, and there is no possibility of eating back grass. The same goes for Zhao Yongji. The two of them have already made up their minds to follow the Fu Han army, so they are naturally not afraid of a little infamy. Ma Wenjie is only worried about whether Zhao Yongji can win!

The situation in Yichang City has been continuously sent to the Fuhan Army every day these days, and the decision-making level of the army, the officers above the regimental level, all think that Yichang is completely vulnerable. If Zhao Yongji could not win with one blow, his situation in the Fu Han army would be difficult.

According to the military regulations of the Fuhan Army, a high-ranking officer at the brigade commander level must be assigned the rank of general, but Zhao Yongji is a plus captain because he does not have enough military merits. The rules set by His Royal Highness are that those who surrender in the future, no matter how big their official positions are, as long as they have no combat merits, they will also be captains. That is, no matter how much capital you bring when you surrender, the plus captain will be over. The rank of general below, if you want to, you will fight with your life. During the Jingzhou military discussion, His Royal Highness once said to Zhao Yongji in front of everyone that as long as he could win Yichang, he would be given a deputy rank.

Looking at Yichang City with Ma Wenjie's eyes, he also felt that Yichang was vulnerable. Are you not afraid of 10,000, just in case? This battle capital Zhao Yongji had a huge impact.

"Fire!"

The signal from the artillery position that they had completed preparations was sent to Zhao Yongji and they immediately asked them to open fire. Do you really think that he likes to listen to the insults at the head of the city? It's one thing to know that it's good, but it's another thing to feel it inside.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The artillery battalion did not test the artillery at all, and knowing that all the decent cannons in Yichang City had been moved to Nanjin Pass, and the rest were all tattered or decorative, they were relieved to boldly bombard the city.

What the? You say it's off? That's the adjustment. Delays? No delay. The cannon at the head of Yichang City has a range of no more than a mile, and the artillery is afraid of a bird. It is not that the cannons on both sides are equal, and each shot must achieve the maximum effectiveness and not be wasted.

After a full quarter of an hour of shelling, the dark green city head became a black rag in the east and west, and the city tower became crumbling under the bombardment of the shells.

Zhao Yongji waved his hand, and the 15th Brigade Engineer Corps rushed to the Great South Gate of Yichang City with explosives bags and long ladders.

The entire city gate blasting process was extremely easy and smooth, because after the smoke cleared, Zhao Yongji couldn't see the figure at the head of Yichang City. It seems that the Qing army at the head of the city has fled.

Without waiting for the engineer troops to blast out, he sent a battalion with a long board and a long ladder to approach the Great South Gate.

By the time the engineer unit had completely blown up the south gate of Yichang, part of the battalion had already crossed the moat and carried a long ladder to the head of the city.

The artillery units had stopped firing, but the mortar units began to extend their fire into the city. This extension is very small, that is, near the city gate, and the secret camp has also said in the city notice that the people near the city gate should not stay at home, but avoid relatives and friends. When the Fu Han army takes Yichang, there will be compensation for all losses.

The entire city gate hole was blocked by the Qing soldiers with dirt bags and sandbags, and the engineering troops began to clean up the soil and sand inside, and the battalion that had passed the movement successfully occupied the south gate, and the military camp officer asked the herald to report to Zhao Yongji, and the Qing soldiers fled.

Standing on the Great South Gate and looking at the entire Yichang City, you can clearly see that the Qing soldiers who fled in a hurry are rushing towards the Beiwangmen [due north]. ——Yichang is located on the north bank of the Yangtze River, after the Yangtze River water out of the Nanjin Pass, it splits down diagonally to the southwest, until the Zhijiang River turns to the east. Therefore, the Fu Han army fought Yichang from south to north. Nanjin Pass is also in the north of Yichang, and if the Qing army is really strong, they can also garrison Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain in the south, between Yichang and Zhijiang.

The latter is a natural danger since ancient times, Huya Mountain and the south bank of the Yangtze River Jingmen 12 Bei north and south opposite, the shore cliff is a thousand fathoms, the grandeur is abrupt, the shape is like a tiger's tooth, forming a river pass. This is Jingmen Mountain, which is nicknamed "the throat of Sichuan and Hubei", and is known as "the first pass of the whole Chu Xisai" in history.

At the foot of Huya Mountain is Huya Beach. There are many boulder reefs in Huya Beach, the Yangtze River passes through here, the water flow is turbulent, and the channel is steep. If you want a ship to pass safely, you must have the help of a fiber road, so many ships are shipwrecked here. Therefore, when the boats go up and down from this, they are afraid of the beach, and often avoid the beach, cross the river diagonally to the Jingmen Mountain Xianren Bridge and go south from the river.

When the Qing army retreated to Yichang, it completely destroyed the relocation here. But Fan Shishou and Zhu Qi were frightened by Gao Qiao, and they didn't dare to stay here, and after Gao Qiao occupied the Zhijiang River, he began to repair the Huya Mountain Relocation Road. And when the sailors were sent to clean up the waterway, it was a gunpowder bag wrapped in oiled paper and tarpaulin, and a bamboo pole opened the fire rope through the joint, and a lot of reefs in Huya Beach were blown away. Although the conditions are limited and it is not possible to do all the work, it also makes the waterway a lot smoother.

Gao Qiao stayed in Zhijiang for two or three months, and it was not in vain.

The Qing army gave up Huya Jingmen, and Chen Ming killed Yichang City without firing a single shot this time.

"Tell you battalion officer, pursue, chase me at once-"

Zhao Yongji's face was suddenly stained red by the blood gushing up, this was excited, just like the first battle, his body was trembling. After the herald beat his horse, Zhao Yongji took several deep breaths before suppressing the excitement in his heart. "Let all the troops go up, except for the guard battalion that stays behind, all the other troops go up. Occupy the city of Yichang ......"

A quarter of an hour's shells knocked away the last shred of courage of the Qing army defending the city, and when they found that the governor and the envoy who had let them stand on the city wall and scold Zhao Yongji had all disappeared, the Qing soldiers no longer had the slightest fighting spirit.

They fled in a swarm to the north to look at the gate, and no one noticed that the gate of the government was closed. Although Fan Shishou, who fled in a hurry, found that Zhu Jue had been separated from him, he would never have imagined that Zhu Jue was in the palace where the gate was closed and it was reported that he was going to self-immolate.

Zhu Jue, who was pressed on a chair by two people from the secret camp of the Fu Han Army, looked at Zhou Wenjue in front of him in disbelief, looking at Zhou Wenjue with a shaved head and a twisted braid.

"You, you ......"

"I didn't expect that I, Zhu Jue, had no eyes and mistaken for you, a second minister, to be loyal and good......" Zhu Jue came to the mansion to throw himself into the net, not for anything else, but to protect the blood of Zhou Wenjue, who was rumored to be a martyr of self-immolation behind closed doors. During his escape, he specially came to Zhou Wenjue to have a child, and he was also ready to play a song in Beijing to show Zhou Wenjue's loyalty. Unexpectedly, Zhu Jue really didn't expect it......

"Kill......"

"Rush, fast charge. The Tartars are all at the North Gate......"

The shouts of the Fu Han army who came into the city had already reached Zhu Jue's ears, and Zhu Jue was completely dead. He threw himself into the net, and there was no chance of being rescued again. (To be continued.) )