"What's the fire in the city? Was it a coincidence, or was someone deliberately setting it on fire? ”

Because of the difference in distance and situation, Li Zhifang, the governor of Zhejiang, who was commanding the defense of the city on the city wall, actually discovered this dangerous situation earlier than Lu Fatzi and others, and at first Li Zhifang still had a trace of luck, hoping that the people in the city were cooking and unfortunately caused a fire, and quickly sent his own soldiers to Mu Dayin, the deputy general who was responsible for patrolling the streets in the city, to give an order, so that Mu Dayin could quickly put out the fire, so as not to spread the fire and shake the hearts of the defenders. 【】

As soon as the herald soldiers left the city, Li Zhifang's last hope was completely shattered, because he had already seen that there was no fire in more than one place in the city, but dozens of thick smoke had risen, and it was still scattered in the major blocks of the city, not concentrated in one place.

"There's a fire in the city! There's a fire in the city! The other people on the city wall also gradually discovered this situation, and when they saw the fire in the city, the morale of the soldiers of the fat army was of course greatly boosted, and the killing became more and more violent, but the soldiers of the Qing army and the people who participated in the defense of the city were in chaos. Especially those who were half-coaxed and half-deceived to organize the people of Hangzhou to go to the city to participate in the war, seeing the fire in the direction where their house was located, they naturally cared about the property at home and the old and weak women and children at home, and fled down the city wall to go home to fight the fire, although the Qing army supervised the war team to block it with all its might, and did not hesitate to draw a knife to kill, but with the first escape naturally there was a second, under the influence of each other, the morale of the defenders collapsed immediately, and the fat army team took the opportunity to break the deadlock and kill several big mouths, and the fat soldiers under the city cheered endlessly to go to the city to kill the enemy.

"Boom!"

The house leak happened to rain overnight, at this time, there was an earth-shattering loud noise at the main gate of the Wulin Gate, the ground shook the mountain, Li Zhifang, who stood on the top of the city gate and slightly on the side, seemed to be slapped by an invisible giant hand, and the whole person flew backwards, although he was lucky enough to hit a few pro-soldiers and did not fall directly off the city wall, but a pair of ears were already oozing blood, and he was deaf on the spot. and the Qing soldiers near Li Zhifang were also like this, all of them were shocked and flew up, falling off the city wall countless times.

"What's wrong?" Shaking his dizzy head, Li Zhifang found that he couldn't hear the sound of fighting on the battlefield at all, only saw the smoke billowing under the city gate, and saw the fat soldiers in the distance jumping and jumping, very excited, and then rushed to the main gate of the martial arts gate like a tide. Li Zhifang was still a little anxious, and reacted quickly, "It's not good, the city gate has been blown open!" ”

"Quick! Semen knife car! Semen knife car! Li Zhifang roared hoarsely, but when Li Zhifang stumbled to the inside of the city gate and looked down, he was stunned to see that the Saimen knife cart parked in the city gate corridor had been shaken dozens of feet away by the shock wave, and it fell to pieces, completely losing the value of rescuing the gap. The infantry of the Fat Army rushed into the city like a tide, and the Qing soldiers in the city fled to the steps of the city, without the slightest intention of blocking the gap in the city gate.

"Block the gates, block the gates!" Li Zhifang's screams were full of crying, but the shouts of killing, screams and explosions on the battlefield converged like thunder, how many people could hear Li Zhifang's voice? Even Li Zhifang, whose ears were deafened by the sound of the explosion, couldn't hear his own voice, "Why can't I shout?" Up, on! Block the gates! ”

In fact, Li Zhifang's order is useless even if it is conveyed to the ears of every defender soldier, seeing that the gate of Wulin Gate was blown open by the fat army, and seeing the fat army kill into the urn city, the defender soldiers on the city wall have all lost the courage to fight, countless soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered directly to their knees, and more soldiers fled to the city with rolling and crawling, including the Qing army supervision team that blocked them. The morale of the fat army was bursting, howling and rushing faster than the other, and in the blink of an eye, thousands of people rushed up the city wall, completely controlling a considerable part of the position.

"Wu dog! Come on! "The situation is critical, the mobile team led by the general Tula of Hangzhou can only be loyal, Tula, who is seriously ill, carries a big knife, leads thirty or forty personal soldiers, and rushes to the nearest fat army team with red eyes, the steel knife dances like a violent wind, and cuts down two fat army soldiers one after another, provoking Li Mao, the deputy of Han Yuan who led the team to charge, was furious, and personally led a team of elite soldiers to rush over, and Tula was close to each other, and the battle was not three, the right hand of the old man Tula was slashed by Li Mao, and his wrist was broken, When Tula's own soldiers rushed up to the rescue, the soldiers of the Fat Army had already rushed up, roaring and slashing at the heads of a dozen sabers, cutting the blood-ridden mite Qing old dog into meat sauce.

As soon as Tula died, the Qing army on the city wall was even more demoralized, and the collapse was even more complete, and the soldiers of the fat army were like a rainbow, shouting to surrender and not kill from all directions rushed to the city wall, and rushed into the Hangzhou urn city in an endless stream, and the fat man Lu in the distance had also discharged the fourth wave of siege teams to step forward, ready to rush into the city to fight in the streets and kill the enemy. At the same time, on the side of Qiantang Gate, Qiantang Gate has also been blown open by the Fat Army Engineers, and the Fat Army soldiers also entered the Qiantang Gate Urn City and rushed to the city wall.

In fact, the Qing army in Hangzhou is not completely without hope of turning the tables, the first is that the strength of the Qing army in Hangzhou is quite sufficient, there are at least six or seven thousand people to fight, the second is that the two battlefields of Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate and Hangzhou Mite City are relatively close, although the main force of the defenders of the Mite City has gone south and north to other battlefields, there are still thousands of mite men available in the city, as long as they are properly organized, they can still play a considerable role.

But it is a pity that the morale and fighting spirit of the Qing soldiers have already completely collapsed, and the fat army has no intention of fighting again as soon as it enters the urn city. At the same time, there was already a big chaos inside the mite city, only caring about closing the six gates of the mite city for self-protection, and had no intention of going out to rescue, and the other part of the mites who fled from the Nanjing mite city also began to quietly spread the four killing orders of Lu Fatzi, and asked each other to prepare to surrender, just waiting for the fat army to kill into the mite city to indicate their surname, and betray their kind in exchange for life.

In this way, the offensive of the Fat Army can only be described as overwhelming, one after another arrow buttresses were captured by the Fat Army, one after another of the Qing soldiers were annihilated by the Fat Army, and the reinforcements from other city gates were also killed by the Fat Army, scrambling to flee with their heads in their hands, and when the Fat Army sappers used the remaining three bags of explosives to blow up the second gate of the urn city, the first batch of Fat Army soldiers finally entered the city of Hangzhou, and completely shattered the hope of the last line of the Qing army in Hangzhou.

"The city is broken!" In the crying and screaming, the Qing army on the city wall completely collapsed, and there was no resistance to the escape, and Li Zhifang, who was ready to kill himself, was also snatched of the sword by his own soldiers, erected and escaped from the city wall, mixed into the defeated army and fled to the mite city, and most of the other Qing generals were also like this, either surrendered or fled, and there was no longer a team of resistance in formation, and the fat army frantically entered the city.

"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general, another important town." Seeing that the victory was decided, few sycophants in the fat army's army flocked to Lu Fatzi to flatter, "The general is mighty, and Hangzhou Jiancheng was broken in a battle, which is rare in the world!" ”

"Tongxi, Tongxi, this time we were able to successfully conquer Hangzhou, which is everyone's credit and the result of our army's concerted efforts to take the lead." Lu Fatzi was also very happy, and while ordering the team to come forward to respond, he said very happily: "In this battle, we have accumulated an important experience, as long as the enemy does not block the city gate in the future, we will use explosives to blow up the city gate, which is not only convenient, but also economical." ”

"But the dog also gains experience." Yao Qisheng smiled and poured cold water and said: "In the future, as long as you encounter the general's army again, it is estimated that every dog guard will block the city gate as soon as possible, and no longer leave a gap for the general." ”

"So, in the future, it's best for us to avoid tough battles as much as possible and fight as many field battles as possible." Fat Lu sighed, stood up with Xiao Chili in his arms, and ordered: "Send some Miyoshi rockets and portable launchers to the city wall, and send an army to fight along the city wall to Qiantang Gate, and receive Wang Xu's team into the city." Also, as long as the Mangou army goes out of the city to flee for their lives, they are allowed to go, and there is no need to chase and kill. ”

When the Fat Army sent a batch of Miyoshi rockets to the city wall and reinforced the Qiantang Gate, which was still in a state of hard fighting, Wang Xu, who refused to let Han Yuan Ren Dumei, also broke through the inner gate of the urn city of Qiantang Gate with all his might, and entered the city of Hangzhou, but the battle on the city wall continued, and the unknown defender Bayar also showed the unique brutal beast blood of the people of Mizhou at this critical moment, and successively killed hundreds of green battalion soldiers who escaped from the battle to stabilize their positions, and always guarded the city wall above the Qiantang Gate. Whether the fat army went up to the city from the ladder or from the steps, they were beaten down by him, and they couldn't do anything about him.

Bayar didn't manage to be rampant for long, when the rocket team of the Fat Army attacked along the city wall and fired hundreds of rockets in one go, the Qing army in Qiantangmen finally collapsed completely, and Bayar finally couldn't control the army anymore, so he had to lead the team that still listened to him and fled to Mancheng. However, it is very regrettable that his previous desperate resistance has completely angered the old Qiu Ba of the Fat Army, Wang Xu's right-hand man Li Kuangqin led an army to block Bayar's retreat, and the grenade was smashed and bombed like money, and the soldiers around Bayar were blown up and escaped one after another, and Bayar, who was wearing the armor of the capital, was gradually isolated, and when there were only a dozen or so people left around Bayar, Li Kuangcai led the Fat Army soldiers to blast up, and hacked the remaining soldiers around Bayar to death.

"I surrender! I give up! At the critical moment, Bayar, who had just sworn to live and die with Hangzhou City, was timid, threw down his weapon and knelt on his knees, and shouted pitifully in Chinese: "I surrender, my surname is Hadanara, not your will kill the dog, please General Da Zhou spare his life." ”

"Surrender? Why didn't you surrender when you killed so many of our brothers just now?! Li Kuang yelled, stepped forward and slashed at Bayar's neck, Bayar's head fell to the ground, and dirty blood was immediately sprinkled all over the ground.

After a while, the news that the Qiantang Gate and the Wulin Gate were broken together spread to the remaining eight gates of Hangzhou, basically there were only a few hundred defenders of the eight gates of the guards opened the door to flee for their lives, the people of Hangzhou who were trapped in the city were afraid of the fat army slaughtering the city, and they were also scrambling to go out of the city to flee for their lives, the streets and alleys were crowded with fleeing people, and there were many hooligans and ruffians taking advantage of the fire to rob, there was a big chaos in Hangzhou, and the fat army took the opportunity to flock into the city and gradually control the streets in the city. At this moment, Zhejiang Governor Tian Fengji was supervising the battle in Jinhua to fight against Geng Jingzhong's army, and the Hangzhou prefect of Hangzhou was killed by Zhang Ruiwu by hanging, leaving his wife and daughter to enter the Fat Army Army Camp to continue to serve the mite, straining the fighting spirit of the Fat Army soldiers and consuming the physical strength of the Fat Army soldiers.

The smarter one is He Zhongkui, the political envoy of Zhejiang, who saw the fat army entering the city and was directing the people to cook for the defenders, without saying a word, immediately ran back to his yamen, and led the whole family and all the messengers to kneel in front of the door to welcome the fat army to recover Hangzhou, and also led the Zhejiang envoy Zhang Dengxuan to follow the example, and also took the initiative to surrender to the fat army. In the end, the two Qing Annihilators also sent the Yamen Jiading to act as the leading party, guiding the fat army to capture and seize the important yamen granary arsenal in Hangzhou, in exchange for the whole family not to die, the family property not to be copied and the original post to be retained.

Relying on the good name of never slaughtering Han prisoners before, after breaking through the city wall of Hangzhou, the street battle of the fat army to capture the outer city of Hangzhou went very smoothly, and it didn't take much effort to basically capture all the key positions in the outer city, the remnants of the Qing army in the city surrendered nearly half, and the rest either fled outside the city or fled into the Hangzhou mite city on the edge of the West Lake, and the fat army directly came to the city of the mite city, and surrounded the imperial city of the Southern Song Dynasty that was entrenched by mites. At this time, Lu Fatzi's flag array had also moved to the city wall of Wulin Gate, commanding the street battle from a high position.

"General Qiyu, our army has surrounded Hangzhou Mites City!" The messenger sent by Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren played to Lu Fatzi: "General Hu Tongchun and General Han Yuanren ask for instructions, should they attack the city immediately?" ”

"Don't rush just yet." Lu Fatzi shook his head and ordered: "Tell Hutongchun and Han Yuanren to surround it for the time being, wait for our artillery to move to Hangzhou City, and then attack Mite City." ”

The messenger agreed and rushed down to the city, and Lu Fatzi turned to Yao Qisheng again and asked, "Mr. Yao, where is your son-in-law Yao Yi?" He set fire to the city to meet our army's siege and made a great contribution, why hasn't he come to join our army until now? ”

"The students are also wondering about it." In the end, the whereabouts of his own son are unknown, Yao Qisheng, who has always been calm, rarely showed a worried look on his face, and said hesitantly: "It stands to reason that he should have come to ask the general for peace a long time ago, why hasn't he appeared yet?" Is there something wrong? ”

"Erlang, immediately arrange for people to look for it, and you must find Mr. Yao's son-in-law!" Fat Lu turned to Xiao Erlang and shouted. Xiao Erlang agreed, and quickly arranged for someone to go into the city to find Yao Yi's whereabouts, so that Xiao Chili, who was sitting on Lu Fatzi's lap, was not happy, and asked Lu Fatzi dissatisfiedly: "Xianggong, what about my family?" Why don't you care? ”

"Little girl, what are you anxious about?" Fat Lu pinched a handful of Xiao Chili's tender face, and said with a smile: "It has been arranged a long time ago, when our army enters the city, I have already called someone to inform your brother-in-law Hong Sheng, and let him enter the city with my warrant to protect your parents and family." ”

"Really? Xianggong, you are so good! Xiao Pepper turned his anger into joy, shamelessly hugged Lu Fatzi's neck again, took a bite on Lu Fatzi's fat face, and said coquettishly: "Xianggong, you are so good to my family, I can consider bringing more dowry to marry you." ”

"Ghost girl." Fat Lu was angry and funny, and was about to tease this little wealth fan who couldn't leave the silver in three sentences, when Xiao Erlang next to him suddenly shouted, "Young master, let's take a look at the mite city in the south, it seems that we have entered the city!" ”

"How is that possible?" Lu Fatzi hurriedly put down the little pepper and stood up, walked up to a high place and raised the binoculars to take a closer look, but saw that his lackeys had indeed entered Hangzhou Mite City, and the gate of Mite City was full of white-hat soldiers representing his lackey identity, and the military flag of the Fat Army had also been planted on a city gate tower in the middle of Mite City. Fat Lu couldn't help but be happy and surprised, and said in surprise: "How did we kill into Mite City?" Our siege weapons haven't had time to be delivered to the gate of the mite city, how did Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren enter the city? ”

"General, it seems that someone has opened the gates from the city." A fat soldier who was observing here looked at his hand and said respectfully: "The villain just vaguely saw that there was chaos in the city of Mite, and then our army entered the city, it should be someone who started an incident in the city and opened the city gate to welcome our army into the city." ”

"Who is so good? It's worth a reward. Fat Lu was even more happy, and after a little calculation, Fat Lu quickly came to his senses, and hurriedly smiled at Yao Qisheng next to him: "Mr. Yao, if I guess correctly, this must be Ling Gongzi's masterpiece, right?" He risked a dog defeat to sneak into the city, Hangzhou Mangou will definitely not waste a young soldier like him, will definitely keep him in the army to listen to it, after he set fire to the city, and then full of dog defeated soldiers mixed into the mite city, and took the opportunity to open the mite city to welcome our army into the city. ”

"Let's hope so." Yao Qisheng nodded, but the worried look on his face lingered in anything.

Lu Fatzi's crow mouth became a prophecy, after a little half an hour, Yao Qisheng's eldest son Yao Yi carried a human head, leading thirty or forty Qing troops who had been bought by the fat army with heavy money, and came to the Wulin Gate City to ask for a meeting, when he was allowed to go to the city to meet with Lu Fatzi, Yao Yi knelt down on his knees without saying a word, held the head in his hand, and Lang Sheng said: "General Qiyu, the last general Yao Yi did not disgrace his mission, opened the gate of Hangzhou Mite City to welcome our army into the city, and personally beheaded the head of Hangzhou Mite City Guard, please the general reward! ”

"Good, good!" Fat Lu laughed happily, hurriedly picked up Yao Yi in person, and said in a loud voice: "General Yao, hard work, hard work, today our army can capture Hangzhou in one battle, General Yao should be the first to remember!" ”

Yao Yi was humble, and Lu Fatzi said loudly: "General Yao Yi, now this general has named you as the general of Jurong, and you will be assigned to my direct legion, and you will be rewarded with two thousand taels of silver!" Listen to the army! ”

"General Xie reward!" Yao Yi was overjoyed, and quickly knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists to thank him. Lu Fatzi laughed, hurriedly picked him up again, and then turned to Yao Qisheng, and suddenly knelt down on one knee with a fist, Yao Qisheng was shocked, and hurriedly came up to help: "General, what are you doing here?" Are you going to kill a student? ”

Fat Lu shook his head and refused to get up, but said solemnly: "Mr. Yao, Lu Yifeng has a small plea, and I hope Mr. Yao will agree." ”

"General, please." Yao Qisheng hurriedly replied.

"Please ask Mr. Yao to serve as the military division of our army." Lu Fatzi said in a deep voice: "Mr. is talented, Lu Yifeng admires him very much, Mr. Wanwang and Lu Mou work together to expel the Tartars and create a great cause, he is said to be a great success, Lu Mou will definitely thank Mr. with a high-ranking official, and will never break his word!" ”

"The general is serious." Yao Qisheng hurriedly knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said: "Yao Qisheng is just a general who surrendered a while ago, and he came to vote for his poverty, and the general did not hesitate to contain him, and he was also grateful to the general, and he obeyed Yao Qisheng's words and treated him like a confidant, Yao Qisheng was already grateful, how dare he still think about it?" ”

"Mr. Yao, if you don't agree, Lu Yifeng won't get up today." Fat Lu was too lazy to say polite words, so he just played a trick.

"General......." Yao Qisheng pretended to be modest, and soon kowtowed, and said respectfully: "Okay, since the general does not dislike it, Yao Qisheng should serve as a dog and horse, do his best for the general, and die." Lu Fatzi was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed to Yao Qisheng to thank him, Yao Qisheng returned the salute, the two of them had no mustard, Lu Fatzi finally believed in Yao Qisheng's sincerity of surrender, and Yao Qisheng was also desperately ready to give Lu Fatzi his life.

"Xianggong, what kind of official are you going to seal me?" Here, Lu Fatzi and Yao Qisheng had just gotten up, and Xiao Pepper suddenly ran up, hugged Lu Fatzi's fat thighs, raised his touching little face, and pleaded with enthusiasm: "Xianggong, can you make me the general in charge of money and grain?" I swear that I will take care of your money and grain for you, and help you make a fortune. ”

"Thanks, I don't want you to take advantage of the opportunity to embezzle." Fat Lu smiled bitterly and pinched Xiao Chili's tender face, looked at Xiao Chili's ruddy cherry mouth and snow-white teeth, and couldn't help but lean into Xiao Chili's ear and whispered: "In this way, I will appoint you as the musician of the General Mansion of the Eastern Expedition, and I will play music for me in the future." ”

"Musician? I don't know how to make music, huh? Pepper cried.

"It's okay, I'll teach you, it's easy, with your intelligence and talent, you can learn it as soon as you keep it." Fat Lu smiled proudly, and some messy evil things popped up in his mind.

In the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on October 27 of the thirteenth year of Kang Mazi, the Fat Army broke through the city of Hangzhou in a battle and captured the largest, most prosperous and richest town in northern Zhejiang. When the news spread, the Qing army in Zhejiang was all frightened, Geng Jingzhong, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who was confronting the Qing army on the southern front, Zeng Yang, and Liu Guoxuan, the commander of the Taiwanese fleet who was confronting the Qing army in the sea near Ningbo, were all beating their chests together, saying that they didn't expect that Lu Fatzi would really do what he said, and really hit the city of Hangzhou where he agreed to meet in one go, and also won this fat Zhejiang city!

After remorse, Zeng Yang's surname and Liu Guoxuan both jumped up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and shouted in unison: "The whole army set off, go north with all your might, and go to Hangzhou to join General Lu Yifeng!" ”

(To be continued)