Chapter 497: The Battle of Jianning
When Zhou Zhifan and Xiong Wei resisted the Qing soldiers, Emperor Longwu and the empress escaped from a hole in the back wall of the Guandi Temple, ran towards Jianning City, and fled into the city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Jianning City is a government city, but there are only more than 1,000 Ming troops in the city. After seeing the prefect, Emperor Longwu immediately ordered him to organize officers and soldiers to escort him to continue to flee north. However, it was not easy to gather all the troops in a hurry, and when Emperor Longwu was still breathing in the palace, the Qing soldiers had already chased down the city of Jianning.
Because the Qing soldiers in the vanguard pretended to be the Ming army, the defenders of the city did not suspect fraud, opened the city gate, and the Eight Banners swarmed in and slashed and killed.
Emperor Longwu and the empress heard the shouts at the city gate in the palace, and knew that the big thing was not good, so they hurriedly escaped from the palace and fled to the north gate.
Li Fengchun, the prefect of Jianning, escorted Emperor Longwu to the north gate, and as soon as he ordered the guards to open the city gate, he saw an army appear outside the city gate.
"Heaven is dead!" Emperor Longwu looked up to the sky and sighed, pulled out the long sword at his waist and wanted to kill himself.
"Your Majesty, wait!" Li Fengchun grabbed Emperor Longwu's wrist, "Yes, it's our army!" He was so excited that he could barely speak.
"Ahh Emperor Longwu hurriedly looked up, and sure enough, he saw the sun and moon flag of the Ming Dynasty fluttering in front of the team.
"Is it the blessed army?" Emperor Longwu secretly thought that in the north of Jianning Mansion, there was only one army of Shi Fu guarding Xianxia Pass.
After a moment's effort, the front of the team had already entered the city gate, and I saw that the soldiers were lined up neatly and the armor was distinct, and the almost ordinary soldiers were holding firearms in their hands, not like the people who gave blessings, "This official Jianning prefect Li Fengchun, dare to ask but the subordinates of Wu Yi Boshi's general army?" Li Fengchun hurriedly sent someone to ask.
"The last general, Chen Mingyang, is a subordinate general of King Chongming, and he came to send reinforcements on the order of King Chongming." A handsome young officer who was less than twenty years old came out of the crowd and hugged his fist towards Li Fengchun.
"Chongming, Chongming Wang ......" Li Fengchun was shocked, the Chongming army was hundreds of miles away in Nanjing, but suddenly appeared here, what about Shi Fu's army, how to let them pass through the Xianxia Pass?
Emperor Longwu, who was not far away, also heard Chen Mingyang's words clearly, his mood was even more complicated, he didn't ask Ren Siqi to send troops to come, what was he doing when he suddenly sent troops into Fujian? Is it really to help resist the Qing soldiers or send troops to attack themselves and do something rebellious?
"The Qing soldiers have entered the city, please General Chen escort His Majesty away quickly!" The matter was urgent, Li Fengchun didn't think much about it, and hurriedly pointed to Emperor Longwu and asked Chen Mingyang.
"Your Majesty?" Chen Mingyang had already seen Emperor Longwu surrounded by everyone, but he didn't expect to be so lucky to meet the emperor himself. hurriedly stepped forward and bowed: "The last general has seen His Majesty the Emperor." ”
This is the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty! It doesn't seem to be any different from ordinary people? Looking at Emperor Longwu, who was full of embarrassment, Chen Mingyang sighed in his heart.
"Bold, rude!" Seeing that Chen Mingyang not only did not kneel down and kowtow, but looked Long Wu up and down rudely, a casual eunuch reprimanded angrily.
"It doesn't matter." Emperor Longwu waved his hand to signal the eunuch to retreat, and carefully looked at the young general in front of him: "You are a subordinate general of King Chongming, but you are really young and promising." Looking at Chen Mingyang's heroic appearance, he remembered another young man, that is, Zheng Sen Zheng Chenggong.
"I don't know how many soldiers and horses General Chen has, the Qing soldiers are chasing after him very quickly, is the general willing to escort him out of Jianning?"
"Back to Your Majesty, there are a total of 5,000 subordinates, of course there is no problem in escorting Your Majesty, but we don't have to retreat, but we should fight a good battle in Jianning! Your Majesty will rest for the time being, and see how the end will destroy the Qing army in the city! Chen Mingyang's words were very plain, but they were full of strong self-confidence.
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Emperor Longwu to answer, Chen Mingyang immediately ordered a team of personal soldiers to protect Emperor Longwu and began to arrange troops by himself.
Two thousand soldiers went up to the north city wall, replaced the original hundreds of Ming defenders on the city, and then divided into two teams along the city wall to the east and west gates, their task was to occupy all the city gates, and trap the Qing soldiers who entered the city in the city.
Then Chen Mingyang took the remaining 3,000 troops to line up and attack the city along the avenue, and at this moment the city was already shouting and crying. It was only a moment's effort, and the Chongming army in the vanguard had already met the Qing army and started a fight.
"Your Majesty, will they win?" Empress Zeng hugged the crown prince and asked Emperor Longwu nervously.
"I guess so." Emperor Longwu Zhu Yujian hesitated, although the Chongming army he saw looked very powerful, but they were facing the Eight Banners, and Zhu Yujian did not have any confidence in his heart. The crisp gunshots rang out one after another, and gradually became one, it was the Chongming army shooting, Zhu Yujian saw that their army was carrying a lot of firearms.
It was an encounter, and neither of the warring sides expected that the fierce battle would come suddenly, and of course the Chongming army probably knew about it earlier, because they met Emperor Zhu Yujian when they entered the city. So they were more prepared, and the soldiers were all fighting in the phalanx.
As for the Eight Banners, they had just rushed into the city from the south gate, and were slashing and killing the Ming army defending the city and the people Zhengshuang, and they didn't know that an elite Ming army suddenly entered the city from the north gate.
The number of the Eight Banners is only a thousand horsemen, in addition to leaving four or five hundred people to kill the Ming army in the southern city, only about five hundred people followed the escort commander Durd to rush to the city, they first came to the prefect's yamen, who knew that after rushing in and slashing for a while, they did not find Emperor Longwu, and when they caught a servant and forced them to ask, they knew that Emperor Longwu had fled to the north gate.
Durd rushed out of the palace with his cavalry, and was just about to rush to the north gate when he saw a Ming army coming from the street to the north.
The armor is bright, the queue is neat, and there is such an elite army in Jianning City! Durd was surprised, but so what, could he afford a blow from the Eight Banners? Durd has a strong confidence in the combat power of the Eight Banners cavalry under his hand, and in his eyes, Nanming's army is like a chicken and a dog, and it can't withstand slashing at all.
"Rush over and break their array!" Durd's steel knife pointed forward, and the five hundred cavalry began to accelerate slowly behind him, the empty street was flat, which was conducive to the cavalry assault, and the street of Jianning was about twenty zhang wide, galloping without obstruction.
The five hundred and eight banner cavalry lined up in a sharp arrow formation, starting to accelerate slowly from slow to fast, and rushed towards the Ming army array in front.
It only takes one round of feather arrows to shoot a gap, and then you can rush in through the gap, tearing the Ming army apart.