At noon the next day, the standard battalion of the governor of Zhejiang, who had robbed and marched correctly, was the first to arrive at the periphery of Yiwu County, and after a little preparation, they began to attack this rebellious county town in order to seize the first merit of encircling and suppressing the Jinhua Ming army.

In ancient times, the battle of city defense was generally divided into three stages: first, the besieging side cleared the strongholds and defensive facilities outside the city, and the attacking and defending sides would tug around these strongholds and defensive facilities, the attacking side was to remove the obstacles during the siege, and the defenders were to consume the opponent's vital forces to the greatest extent; Then there are the brutal battles of the city, which are attacked in many ways, but mainly around the walls and gates; And in the end, there was what the defenders called the last resistance on the edge of despair.

The Qing army was menacing, and there was no time to build any defenses outside the county seat of Yiwu, and the most important thing was that this county town was surprisingly only a city gate and no city walls. Without this city wall that can give great protection and security to the soldiers and civilians in the city, Yiwu County is basically an undefended general existence, and this is the reason why Li Zhifang chose to abandon this place in the first place.

After resting for a while, the Qing army launched a large-scale attack from the direction of the north gate, leaving only a small part of the army to guard the baggage and the loot previously obtained, and at the same time to be the rear of the army.

Because there is no city wall, the county seat of Yiwu has always been "surrounded by people's houses", and the Qing army effortlessly invaded the streets of the county. However, since entering the confines of the market, the dark arrows that come from the rooftops, alleys, and small buildings along the street, or even those who don't even know where they come from, have not stopped.

It's just that in the eyes of the Qing army, the Ming army defending the city didn't even have the idea of going out of the city to fight, and obviously had concentrated its forces on the southern front battlefield to deal with the threat of the Inspector Battalion and Ma Jinbao.

The Fubiao battalion is completely armored. Most of these hidden arrows of the Ming army soldiers and volunteers can only play a role in interference. However, due to the strong strength of the Qing army, while continuing to march to the county government, it also divided part of the troops to clean up, which can be regarded as an appetizer before the massacre.

In the continuous division of troops, the main force of the Fubiao battalion soon arrived at Yiwu County. Until a few months ago, it was the center of Manchu rule in Yiwu. At this moment, this is the most critical place for the Ming army to defend Yiwu.

Yiwu county government is not much different from other places in terms of shape, sitting in the north and facing south while following the feudal ritual layout of the front and back bedroom, the high wall of the county government is not only the lobby of the trial and the inner house in the back, but also the warehouse, the curtain hall, the study and the prison, the arrest hall, the kitchen and other ancillary facilities are also readily available, so the area is much larger than the county government that looks very thin in Chen Wen's early years of watching TV dramas.

In order to prevent the defenders from escaping, the Qing army surrounded the county yatuan, and the officer in charge of the command led the main force to bypass Zhaobi, Jingshan, and Shenming Erting, and tried to break through the county government from the gate.

The Qing army was strong. After discovering that the gate of the county government was closed and the Ming army did not take the initiative to shoot arrows from behind the high wall, they moved a ladder to try to climb over the wall and enter the county office. However, the Ming army concentrated the troops and some volunteers who originally guarded the military camp outside the west gate in the county office, and the ladder was obvious by the wall, as long as the Qing army showed up, it was bound to be sniped by the Ming archers.

When the wall failed, the Qing army simply transferred a small artillery and prepared to blast open the gate of the county government. The gate of the county government is very heavy. But in front of the artillery, it was like paper and was blasted out of a large hole by the shell, just because the gun was really not big. Therefore, the latch was not successfully shattered, and the Qing army continued to shoot after reloading.

After the second cannon, the gate had been completely opened, and the Qing troops of the brigade poured in from the main gate, but when they entered the gate of the county office, they found that it was not just the compound behind the gate. Even the hall of the county government was empty, and in addition to the silver and copper coins that were thrown everywhere on the ground, there were more messy piles of cloth, wood, firewood, paper, and other fire-starting things that had been splashed with oil.

The intentions of the Ming army were obvious, but they did not bring the Qing troops who were eager to pick up the silver coins to react, and they did not know from what corner a large number of rockets were fired. ignited these fire-burning things, and some even shot directly at the Qing army.

The flames of the prefectural government protruded and quickly ignited the first half of the prefectural office, and then began to spread to all parts of the interior. The Qing army that attacked the county government fled in a panic in the direction of the main gate when it came, but there were too many debris piled up, and almost every moment the Qing army was ignited by the flames, and the armor and military uniforms on their bodies turned into humanoid flames. The Qing army, whose clothes were set on fire, caused even more chaos in the process of breaking free of their clothes, so that more Qing troops were burned in flames on the way to flee early. At this time, the rockets of the Ming army were always firing.

Compared with the Qing army, the Ming army knew the internal layout of the county government well, and the cold arrows they shot in the dark not only ignited the fire, but also continuously killed and injured the Qing army that rushed into the county government. It's just that the fire in the county government is difficult to extinguish together, and the Ming army had to rush out of those side gates in an organized way before the fire spreads, and sneak into the streets and alleys of the county seat.

The county government was in flames, and only a few dozen of the more than 100 Qing troops who invaded it were able to escape alive, and the rest were all killed in the chaos.

The guerrilla who led the team watched all this inexplicably, it stands to reason that the defenders will use the county government as the last defense point, and will defend this place at all costs, but who knows that the Ming army will do this. Whether it was a desperate act or another conspiracy, the guerrilla did not know for a while, but it was only after the Qing army who were killed and scattered at the side gate escaped that he understood the problem.

The Qing army estimated the defense method of the Ming army according to common sense, but the Ming army did not care at all about this county office, which was generally the most important. Seeing that the Ming army was ready to devote all its strength to the street battle, the Qing army had to divide its troops to suppress the Ming army and volunteers who were lurking in various parts of the county with hidden arrows after consulting the commander-in-chief.

Whenever it was shot by the Ming army's hidden arrows, the Qing army quickly gathered troops and rushed into those alleys and houses, but compared to the Qing army, like the county government, most of the Ming soldiers and volunteers defending the city were local people, and their understanding of the county was incomparable even to the people in the countryside of Yiwu County, not to mention the Fubiao battalion that was stationed in Hangzhou all the year round.

Taking advantage of a better understanding of the terrain, the Ming army repeatedly introduced the Qing army into the alleys, and then relied on the advantage of the mandarin duck array in the narrow terrain to continuously eat up a small group of Qing troops, and fought with the Fubiao battalion for control of Yiwu County.

However, because the county seat of Yiwu is not very large, and the strength of the two sides is very different, although the casualties paid by the Ming army are less, but the long-term consumption is completely unbearable. At this rate, the maximum number of large-scale attacks that can last until nightfall is the limit, and if reinforcements have not arrived, the vast majority of these defenders and volunteers may not see the sun tomorrow.

The Ming army was still resisting to the death in various parts of the county, and the Fubiao battalion of the Qing army was doing its best to suppress these resistances, in preparation for cooperating with the Dubiao battalion and the green battalion of the four prefectures of Jinquyan to gather and annihilate the Ming army.

Two hours later, the impatient Qing army began to set fire to houses in areas where resistance had emerged, in an attempt to force the resisters into spacious areas and eliminate them.

A moment later, a cavalry of only more than 100 people appeared behind the flank of the Qing army outside the north gate, and under the leadership of the Ming army commander who was wearing mountain armor and a snow-white horse in his crotch, he launched a charge against the palace troops of the Fubiao battalion. (To be continued.) )