Forget it, they are going to Songjiang Mansion City, let them be, Hou Chengzu thought secretly in his heart. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The Duke of Yue Guo is an old man who is noble and righteous, and the general admires him very much, but the Acropolis of Jinshan is narrow, and I am afraid that it will not allow the army of the Duke of Yue to be stationed, but I will prepare sheep wine to wash the dust for the Ma Jian Army and the generals of your army."

"It's not in a hurry to catch the wind, let's ask General Hou to arrange a place for our army to live first." Ma Liang said with a smile.

"Residence, aren't your troops going to Songjiang?" Hou Chengzu wondered.

"The sea is bumpy, I can't rest for a few days before I go to Songjiang, I wonder if General Hou can allow our army to enter the Acropolis to rest?"

"This, I'm afraid it's not appropriate," Hou Chengzu hesitated, "The Acropolis is narrow, and there are no extra houses to house your army." ”

"Otherwise," Hou Chengzu suddenly had an idea, "There is a Hujiagang Fort City thirty miles away, and the garrison general Hong Enbing has already surrendered to the Manchu Dynasty, but the Hu Thief has a large number of troops, and Jin Shanwei has no way to take him, so please ask your army to capture Hujiagang Fort City and garrison it for a while." ”

Hou Chengzu has always had no choice but to take Hong Enbing, who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, because Hong Enbing controlled Hujiagang Fort City, and there were more than 1,000 troops in the fort, of which there were more than 200 personal soldiers belonging to Hong Enbing, and the combat power was strong. Although the strength of the Jinshan Acropolis is far above Hujiabao, the troops directly controlled by Hou Chengzu are more than 1,000, and the other troops belong to the commanders of thousands of households.

Of course, Hou Chengzu himself insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, but the other generals in the city had ambiguous attitudes. Now that the Chongming army is here, why not use their hands to get rid of Hong Enbing, who has surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and deter other generals in the city, so that he can take advantage of Chongming's momentum to completely control Jinshanwei.

Listening to Hou Chengzu's suggestion, Ma Liang laughed, he had no excuse to stay in Jinshanwei, but he didn't expect to be dozy and send a pillow.

"Hujiagang Castle dares to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, and my Chongming Army will never be able to bear such a rebellious minister and thief! Let's send troops to Hujiagang and kill these rebels! Ma Liang said angrily, after saying goodbye to Hou Chengzu with his fists, he turned around and returned to the fleet in a small boat.

"This is the real Ming righteous man!" Looking at the Chongming fleet that turned around and headed east, Hou Chengzu sighed in his heart. When he heard about the rebellion, he really sent troops to attack, and compared with it, he was really ashamed of his careful thoughts that he was afraid of being occupied by the dove.

Ma Liang returned to the big ship, briefly talked about the situation with Ma Yingkui, and the two of them summed it up, and decisively ordered the fleet to turn around and go east.

More than half an hour later, the fleet arrived at the sea near Hujiagang, and saw a river flowing into the sea in the distance.

"That should be the Caojing River, along the Caojing River, two miles away is Hujiagang Castle." Ma Yingkui pressed the coastal map of Songjiang with both hands and looked at it carefully.

The fleet turned and headed towards the river, for they were all flat-bottomed sand boats and most of them were boats used for inland waterways, and they were not afraid of running aground near the shore. When the boat approached, he saw that the river was about twenty zhang wide, wide and deep enough to carry large boats.

So the fleet sailed into the river and headed inland, most of the boats in the flotilla were oars and sails, which could be driven by the wind in the middle of the sea and in the wide rivers, and in the narrow inland rivers they rowed reliably, but at much slower speeds.

Standing at the bow of the boat, looking at the lush scenery on both sides of the river, watching the rice waves churning and the cotton fields everywhere. Matsue Prefecture is fertile and has very little barren land other than coastal beaches. As far as the Caojing River is concerned, both sides of the river are farmland, and many people work in the fields.

Since the Wako Rebellion, Matsue Prefecture has been unheard of for more than 80 years. Even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty captured Nanjing and Hangzhou some time ago, they only sent some officials to Songjiang to take over the power, and there was no army coming, no war, and the people in the countryside naturally did not feel too many changes in the situation, and in the eyes of many people, they were still vaguely Ming.

The fleet did not go long along the river, a bustling market town appeared in front, pedestrians also densed, and a castle appeared on the east side of the river, which was the arrival of Hujiagang Fort City.

Ma Yingkui gave an order, and the ships all leaned towards the river bank, and all the soldiers got off the warship and formed a team on the north bank of the Caojing River.

Seeing so many soldiers suddenly appear on the shore, the people on both sides of the river were shocked and ran home one after another. This army is obviously not the familiar Jinshanwei soldiers, and when they see an unfamiliar army, the people naturally dare not approach easily.

"Run, the Ming army is going to attack the fort."

"Come on, kill that traitor Hong Enbing!"

The arrival of the Ming army, the people here are welcome, the Manchu Qing issued a shaving order is simply frightening, the people look at the ugly appearance of the soldiers under General Hong Shen in the fort city after shaving their heads, thinking that they will become like that in the future, all of them shudder. It's best that this Ming army can break through the fort and kill Hong Enbing, so that the big guy doesn't have to shave his head anymore!

Of course, the arrival of the Ming army also attracted the attention of Hujiagang Fort City, and some people had already rushed forward to report the news. Just under the nose of the Chongming army, I saw that the drawbridge of the fort city was quickly pulled up, and panicked soldiers appeared on the city wall.

Leaving sailors to guard the warship, Ma Yingkui commanded four battalions of soldiers to quickly surround it, and five thousand soldiers lined up at the west gate of the fort.

Hujiagang Castle is a small square city, about one mile in length and width, the city wall is about three zhang high, there is a moat outside the city, the river is about four zhang wide, there are two city gates in the east and west, and the city gate is equipped with a suspension bridge. It is a well-defended town.

"If only a small army had been sent in advance to sneak attack and try to capture the city gates!" Watching the drawbridge pull up high, the overseer Ma Liang sighed.

"It's okay, let's take this castle with dignity!" With an army of 5,000 in his hands, Ma Yingkui has a lot of confidence. Although most of these 5,000 people were newly recruited, the backbone of the army was a veteran of the Daishan Army, and in terms of military discipline and combat effectiveness, they were far superior to Ma Yingkui's subordinates before he defected to Ren Siqi.

And the defenders on the city wall saw the arrival of the Ming army, they were all panicked, and at first glance they were a rabble without combat effectiveness, if such a defender could not be defeated, it was better to buy a piece of tofu to be killed!

Ma Yingkui is a veteran and naturally knows how to attack the city. First, a small number of soldiers were sent to hold shields to try to walk towards the moat, and a few soft arrows were sparsely shot on the city wall, and Ma Yingkui immediately had a bottom on the combat effectiveness of the defenders.

Although the moat is only four feet, it is not easy to cross, but this is not difficult for Ma Yingkui. The order was passed down, and more than 20 small river boats sailed into the moat along the junction of the Caojing River and the moat, and the soldiers on board opened their shields to resist the attack of arrows at the head of the city, and connected the two river boats in a group and fixed them together with ropes, and a pontoon bridge formed by more than a dozen boats appeared in an instant. (To be continued.) )

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