Chapter 63: The Battle for Tong'an (5)

At present, there are only more than 2,100 people in the entire Tong'an City, including Qingzhuang, and such a small number of people still have to guard the four city gates, and only a small number of soldiers can be deployed at each city gate.

The Qing army still had more than 19,000 soldiers and horses left.

Looking at the soldiers who were tired and lying asleep at the head of the city, Ye Yiyun was very worried.

Zheng Cai of Xiamen was short-sighted and refused to come to the rescue despite the covenant of the alliance. There is no news from the general so far.

The Tong'an guards fought for days, and the soldiers were already very tired.

In addition, the grenade bombs, the sharp weapons to defend the city, are exhausted, and there is not much left of boiling oil and horizontal stones.

I'm afraid Tong'an won't be able to hold it!

Looking at Tong'an Jiaoyu Chen Ding, who was still organizing the people to heal the disabled soldiers late at night, Ye Yiyun walked over and said softly: "Brother Chen, please evacuate the people in Tong'an Beicheng District after dawn, and my colleagues asked someone to place the landmines, firewood and other flammable materials left by the general in the people's houses. ”

Chen Ding was stunned when he heard it: "Brother Jingpu, do you think Tong'an can't hold it?" ”

Ye Yiyun looked at the deep night outside the city and said, "Hmm! Brother Chen, I'm afraid that Tong'an will be more auspicious this time, your wife and children are all in Tong'an Cheng, when the city is broken, I will ask General Zhang to escort you out of the city. ”

Chen Ding hurriedly asked, "What about you, Brother Jingpu?" ”

"As Tong'an Zhi County, I should live and die with Tong'an!"

Chen Ding said angrily: "You Jingpu is not a greedy person, isn't it that I am a person who is afraid of death?" ”

Seeing that Chen Ding was angry, Ye Yiyun hurriedly explained: "Brother Chen, don't get me wrong, I didn't doubt Brother Chen's loyalty and martyrdom. It's just that your family Yonghua is talented and smart, and it's not worth sacrificing here. Escape and raise him well, and he will be the general's right-hand man in the future! ”

Hearing Ye Yiyun say about his son, Chen Ding was silent for a while.

His son Chen Yonghua has been **** since he was a child, and Chen Ding is very heartbroken if he wants him to be martyred at a young age.

But Chen Ding still shook his head and said: "The gentleman takes the lead with integrity, and flees in the face of the crisis, although life is like death." Fathers and fathers, as they know under the spring, let them also be ashamed. However, he was not afraid of cruelty and went to death with emotion. Even if the body dies, although death is like life. My son must be proud to have such a father, and as for my son's life and death, life and death are fateful, and wealth is in heaven. His death was also fateful. ”

Ye Yiyun hurriedly said: "Brother Chen, you ......"

Chen Ding interrupted Ye Yiyun's words and said, "You don't have to persuade anymore, I won't steal my life." ”

After speaking, Chen Ding turned around and asked someone to plant the mines in the houses, and at the same time prepared firewood and other flammable materials.

On the eighth day, Chen Tai, the general of Jingnan of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Jin, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and Ma Degong, the general of Fujian, personally stood in front of the formation, slaughtered cattle and sheep to reward the three armies, and then ordered the siege of the city.

Chen Tai almost shouted with a roar, "Up, all to Lao Tzu, I must capture Tong'an City for me today!" ”

The Qing army braved the rain of arrows and rushed to Tong'an City, densely packed like ants attached to the city wall.

In the afternoon, there was a loud bang, and the city gate of Tong'an finally couldn't withstand the collision and shattered with a bang.

Finally opened the city gate, and Tong'an was now like an unclothed beauty in front of the Qing army.

Seeing more and more Qing troops entering the city, Chen Tai couldn't help but shout.

"Haha...... At this time, the city was broken, and I was given an order to go down, and the first official to enter the city was promoted to one level, rewarded with five hundred taels of silver, and broke through Tong'an, and the army was suo for three days! ”

"The commander has an order, the first person who has one level of official left, a reward of thirty taels of silver, and after breaking through Tong'an, Dasuo will be three days!"

The so-called Dasuo naturally allowed the soldiers to rob and rape at will after entering the city.

The heralds' voices became more powerful than one another, and in an instant, they reverberated throughout the battlefield.

All of a sudden, the Qing army was boiling.

People die for money, birds die for food, and those soldiers kill the city one by one.

"Brothers, kill. When they entered the city, they had a lot of money and a lot of women. Kill! ”

"Yes, there are not many defenders in Tong'an City, they have been breached, and all of them are ours!"

There will be brave men in heavy rewards!

The soldiers who were stimulated by wealth are desperate!

The Zheng family army at the city gate couldn't resist it, and retreated step by step. More and more Qing soldiers are pouring into the city through this gap, and hundreds of Qing soldiers have poured into the city gate for a while.

The Qing army stepped on the corpses of countless Zheng Jiajun, and more and more Qing troops entered the city.

Zhang Jin led the remnants of the Zheng family army to fight and retreat, and the two sides launched a fierce street battle.

Not far from the city gate, the official who was organizing the young man to transport hard stones heard the sound of fighting and slowly approached, and immediately said in horror: "It's not good, the rebels are coming." “

Several of the officials stared at each other with a look of horror on their faces, and a few of them took advantage of the darkness to escape.

Ye Yiyun looked at the Qing soldiers who were getting closer and closer, he was not afraid, turned around and asked Chen Ding, "Are things ready?" ”

"Ready, Brother Keiura. You really ......."

"You don't need to persuade anymore, this official has betrayed the trust of the general, and the people of the party who can't protect him can't repay the general's trust. It's really shameless to live in the world anymore. Although Yu did not die in the king's affairs, he had to die in the Ming Land, which is also the luck of my generation! ”

After speaking, Ye Yiyun bowed three times in the direction of the country's surname, looked at the few people who were still around, his face was stunned, and said, "Set fire!" ”

The officials threw a fire into the firewood and set fire to the houses near the north gate.

Ye Yiyun asked his soldiers to stock more flammable materials in Beicheng early in the morning.

A little fire, and the fire spread in an instant, causing the entire Beicheng to burn and starve.

In the flames, Ye Yiyun looked at Chen Ding and said, "As a county in Tong'an, this official has the responsibility of guarding the land. Chen Ding, you are a lesson, you don't have to accompany me to death! Leave a useful body, it is important to help the general, you leave quickly! ”

Chen Ding ignored the fire and only walked into the flames, "Adults are not lonely on the road alone." I'll accompany you on the road! ”

Most of the northern city is a residential building, thatched, the most easy to burn, with the ignition of the letter fire, the mine exploded suddenly, and the explosion sounded again and again in Tong'an City.

The steel balls were fired, the shrapnel was torn, the fire was merciless, and the Qing troops who attacked the city suffered heavy casualties in an instant.

The fire burned until midnight before it was extinguished by the Qing army, and the whole Tong'an Cheng was filled with a disgusting smell of meat, and Ye Yiyun attracted the Qing soldiers deep into the city at his own expense, killing and wounding nearly 6,000 Qing soldiers.

The Qing army did not expect that victory was in sight, and it was so hard to be dealt a blow. Looking at the Zheng Jiajun who swore to die, many Qing soldiers were afraid from the bottom of their hearts.

Chen Tai, the general of Jingnan, saw that his soldiers had suffered heavy casualties, and he gritted his teeth and shouted, "Kill, not a single one in the whole city will be left, all of them will be killed!" ”

The Qing army besieged the inner city again and again, and killed all the remaining people in the outer city.

The city was full of fires, all kinds of screams were endless, and the beastly nature of the Qing army was completely released at this moment. Tong'an became a city of hell for a while, and the Qing army killed unarmed people unscrupulously, and women were raped on the spot.

Chen Tai turned a blind eye to the bestial scene along the way, walked into the city with a calm face, and walked towards the county yamen.

In front of the yamen in Tong'an City, Zhang Jin also led the remaining soldiers of the Zheng family army to resist desperately.

"Ahem, cough, cough......" Zhang Jin endured the pain of the wound, but couldn't help coughing.

Every time he coughed, Zhang Jin could bring blood.

Zhang Jin couldn't help panting, the knife in his hand was about to be unable to hold it, the tiger's mouth in his palm had already cracked, and blood flowed.

If it weren't for a breath of support, I'm afraid Zhang Jin would have collapsed to the ground a long time ago.

"Damn, what about the reinforcements! Zheng Cai and Zheng Lian's two bastards, Xiamen and Tong'an are adjacent to each other, and they will arrive in half a day. It's been ten days now, and I don't even come to the rescue despite the covenant of the alliance.

His fists were clenched tightly, his fingers were pinched into the flesh, and blood was pouring out. But he didn't notice it at all.

Looking at more and more Qing troops, Zhang Jin looked unwilling.