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Wan Yan Liang, this sassy Tartar, also has a bit of courage. ”

Yang Feng immediately went down to the city of Hangzhou, looked at the towering ancient city in front and said.

Of course, what he admired more was the word in front of the tartar.

Dozens of cannons lined up beside him, the muzzles of the guns continued to spray flames, the distant Wangjiang Gate was almost completely submerged in the flames of the explosion, behind him on the Qiantang River, countless local people who came spontaneously were driving large and small boats back and forth, transporting tens of thousands of Ming soldiers and various materials and ammunition across the river in a steady stream, and the Ming troops who had reached the north bank were lined up neatly, ready to charge forward at any time.

Well, he's attacking Hangzhou.

Although this place was not originally among the targets of this round of attack, the Ming army at this time had to be pushed away by their own victory, after all, they were all on the Qiantang River, but not attacking Hangzhou would disappoint the people in Hangzhou, including his own Hangzhou officers and soldiers. And in a strategic sense, it is also a good choice to seize Hangzhou and obtain a bridgehead on the north bank, so that he can then take Hangzhou as the center and expand to the entire east bank of Taihu Lake.

At this time, a galloping war horse stopped not far away, and the cavalry immediately handed a document to a staff officer, who quickly sent the document to Gao Huai beside Yang Feng.

"Dashuai, the Tartar sailor is out of Chongming."

Gao Huai looked at the document and said.

"Leave them alone, the battlefleet will teach them how to behave."

Yang Feng said indifferently.

Indeed, the Ming army battlefleet would have taught the Qing army sailors how to behave.

In fact, after seeing the six battleships with double guns, Lan Li immediately retreated to the Yangtze River, although the Yangtze River Naval Division had more than 30 warships during this time, he still knew very well that he was not qualified to fight Yang Feng at sea, even if he took the risk to kill it, he might not be able to save Hangzhou, but if he lost these warships, he would not expect to have a decisive battle with Yang Feng at sea.

Hangzhou's gains and losses are not important, the warships built by the imperial court with almost all its financial resources are the most important.

"This bastard, where is the courage of his big battle back then, he fled without a fight, he actually fled without a fight, I want to join him, I want to join him for the crime of fear of the enemy, I must join him!"

In the Hangzhou General's Mansion, Oroshun chattered like an abandoned resentful woman.

Lan Li's retreat without a fight can be said to have cut off his last bit of hope, and now there are only 3,000 eight banners in the entire city of Hangzhou, more than 1,000 green battalions under the governor of Zhejiang, and 3,000 old and weak people from the garrison city, and even some strong banner women have taken up arms and climbed the city wall. Although there are still hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the city, they absolutely dare not use these people, in fact, Oroshun has to be careful to guard against the rebellion of the common people in the city, and only the above-mentioned rabble is impossible to resist the wolf-like Ming army in any case.

His only hope is that Lan Li's water master.

"E Shuai, what's the use of talking about this now? You can give a word now, if you can guard until Prince Jian comes, we will go out and fight with the thieves to the end, if we can't hold this Hangzhou, we can't let those old and weak women and children in the city be affected, then Yang Demon is ruthless, and the more than 10,000 people stationed in the city can't be tu. ”

Hangzhou weaving said very dissatisfied.

What he means is actually very simple, let's run quickly, if you are worried about the court to blame, you can use this excuse, after all, with the ferocity of the Yang demon, as long as you enter Hangzhou, those old and weak women and children in the garrison city will definitely not be good, we are also to protect the people, of course, it is needless to say who these people are.

"Withdraw, withdraw immediately!"

Oroshun suddenly came to his senses.

He is stupid to defend Hangzhou, and he will definitely not be able to hold it, and as soon as the Ming army breaks through the city, the garrison of the city will be over, although those old and weak women and children are useless, but behind them are countless royal relatives and high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and they will wait for them to stab themselves in the future!

"I'll send someone to inform Zhang Futai immediately!"

Hangzhou Weaving hurriedly said.

"Don't!"

Orosun immediately stopped him.

The latter was stunned for a moment, but then understood, and a sinister smile instantly appeared on his face.

Why do you want to notify Zhang Zhidong? He took the Fubiao Green Battalion to guard the Wangjiang Gate, so let him guard there, just to cover the retreat of the garrison city, so not only can he not let him know the retreat, but also tell him to hold on to the army waiting for Prince Jane, and then let him take the Green Battalion there to resist the Ming army, as for what will happen to Zhang Futai in the end......

Uh, we'll pray for him.

In this way, the order to retreat was concealed from Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Zhejiang, and quickly reached the defenders of the Eight Banners, while at the same time, all the old and weak women and children stationed in the city also loaded all the valuable things they could take with them into carriages, and prepared to evacuate the city that they had ruled for half a century. However, their actions were concealed from Zhang Zhidong and those Han officials, but they could not hide from the Han people in the city, they saw the chaos of the banner people stationed in the city and understood that these guys wanted to run, although at this time the gates of Hangzhou were closed, but these local people wanted to sneak out is still very simple, and soon someone ran to Yang Feng's side to report the news.

"Want to run?"

Yang Feng was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, Marshal, the bannermen stationed in the city have already packed their things, and a large number of war horses have been prepared, and those banner troops defending the city seem to be on their horses as soon as they withdraw."

The messenger knelt on the ground and said.

At this time, Yang Feng had not yet begun to formally attack the city, the number of Ming troops crossing the river was not too much, and Hangzhou was also a big city, it was not difficult for him to attack it, and he took a rocket to push it to the gate of the city, basically a rocket exploded, but the trouble was how to conduct street battles next, that must have enough soldiers. So while he waited for more soldiers to cross the river, he continued to bombard the city wall to eliminate the living force of the Qing army, and of course the Eight Banners did not want to be cannon fodder, so he brought the green battalion over to watch the Jiangmen, while they were on guard in other places, and if they really wanted to run, they did get on the horse.

"Which gate will they take?"

Yang Feng looked at the map and said.

"Dashuai, they will definitely take the Qiantang Gate, and if they flee north, they will either take the Wulin Gate or the Qiantang Gate, but they have to pass through a large area of Hancheng to take the Wulin Gate, the Tartars are very afraid of us now, and they can't even open the garrison gate, they won't dare to go here, even if they go here, we can easily block the streets, but the Qiantang Gate is next to the garrison city, and we will go directly to the city gate when we go out of the city."

The messenger said cautiously.

"Is there a way closer?"

"Yes, pass through the west side of the Jade Emperor Mountain, take the Su Causeway to the north of the West Lake, and then go to the north of the Qiantang Gate."

Yang Feng nodded and stretched out his hand, and the guard next to him handed over a money bag, which he casually threw to this person and said, "It's for you." ”

The man quickly knelt there and thanked him.

"Take all the infantry who have landed, follow him, and don't let a single Tartar escape."

At the same time, Yang Feng said to He Jin.

"Dashuai, what should you do here?"

He Jin said that at this time, there were only three battalions of infantry that had completed the crossing of the river, and if they were all taken away, there would be only artillery left.

"On my side, it's enough to have me."

Yang Feng said proudly.

He Jin didn't say anything, their commander was ten thousand enemies, just the Qing army in Hangzhou City was all killed, it was difficult to say whether he could beat the commander, he didn't need to worry about this problem, and then he waved to the back, and the three infantry battalions that had completed the landing and were on standby immediately followed him, and ran along the bank of the Qiantang River towards Yuhuang Mountain under the guidance of that guide.

Of course, the guide is just that, and some of the three battalions are locals.

This distance is not close, in order to avoid the sight on the city wall, they must go around a big circle, take the Su Causeway to cross the lake, and then go straight to the north of Qiantang Gate, the whole route is nearly thirty miles, but this is nothing for the Ming army that is often carried out by Yang Dashuai to arm off-road, in fact, Yang Dashuai's favorite thing to do is to ride on a horse, and then watch those soldiers pant into dogs one by one, so now the infantry mobile combat ability of the Ming army is absolutely unparalleled in the world.

Just when the three battalions of Ming infantry marched towards Qiantang Gate at full speed, the Oroshun in the city was still setting off smoke bombs, of course, not against the Ming army, but at the green battalion led by Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Zhejiang. He took great pains to make a posture of fighting to the end, studied with Zhang Zhidong how to defend the city, and constantly mobilized the army, and even invited the main gentry in the local area to the governor's yamen, asking them to arm the regiment to train to protect the territory and the people. As for the rumors that the banner army is going to abandon the city and flee, it is completely the spies in the city who deliberately spread and disrupt the social order.

What's more, Prince Jane's army is on its way south, and it will arrive in a few days, as long as it is guarded for ten days and eight days, the army will drive over, what am I afraid of?

In short, everyone must believe that the imperial court is capable of protecting you, I am responsible, now everyone can only work together and stick to Hangzhou is the only way out, otherwise once Hangzhou falls into the hands of thieves, what is the consequences, I don't need to say more, listen to the gentry who fled from Shaoxing and other places these days, the bloody and tearful accusations you should know.

In short, try to fool as much as possible, anyway, as long as you can fool these days for a day, it's enough!

At the same time, in the garrison city with four gates closed, all the bannermen were busy with them, taking everything they could take with them, preparing everything that needed to be prepared, and waiting for night to fall and open the door and run away.