Outside the city, Kong Youde was anxiously waiting for his army to attack the city, the battle had been going on for three hours, and it was almost dark, but Yangzhou City was still firmly under the control of Shi Kefa.

Kong Youde's morale is extremely corrupt, how can he not attack the city after the city has collapsed, and the Qing soldiers have laid down nearly 5,000 people under the city wall, and the corpses are stacked on top of each other, and the blood is flowing like a river.

At the head of the city, whenever Shi Kefa walked behind those Ming army guards, the guards were immediately as brave as chicken blood, and everyone used their lives.

Xu Dingguo didn't have time to count the remaining troops, he only knew that there were not many brothers on the city tower, and it was the last moment when the oil ran out.

Liu Liangzuo stood behind Kong Youde, frightened by this tragic battle, and said in his heart: Fortunately, he surrendered in time, otherwise he would have died in Yangzhou.

Kong Youde was so angry that he walked back and forth on the mountain, and the nails on his body clanged.

Liu Liangzuo leaned over, with a flattering smile on his face, and said to Kong Youde, "Marshal, I don't think this Shi Kefa will be able to support it for long, at this time, if the infantry battalion of the Chinese army is sent up, Shi Kefa will definitely not be able to hold it."

Kong Youde stared at the head of Yangzhou City, and stared angrily at the very eye-catching banner of the word 'Shi' on the head of the city, that thing is really hateful, it has pressed 30,000 people, and it can't be attacked, is Shi Kefa a person?

"Okay, Zhao Dutong, order the Chinese army infantry camp to seize the city, and cut down the handsome banner of Shi Kefa for me."

"Huh!"

At this time, Shi Kefa also knew that it was almost time.

"Deliver the order of my commander, abandon the city wall, and retreat to the city. Prepare for street fighting"

Xu Dingguo was covered in blood at this time, and he couldn't tell whether it was his or the enemy's. Hearing the order of the overseer, he waved the big knife in his hand. "Retreat into the city, in groups of three, each fighting separately"

There is no more brutal battle than fighting a street fight.

Liu Liangzuo, who was on the hill outside the city, was overjoyed when he saw that the flags on the city tower were retreating one after another.

"Marshal, look, the Ming army can't hold on, Shi Kefa wants to run"

Kong Youde fixed his eyes and quietly raised his eyebrows.

At this time. The spies of the Qing army came to report.

"Report to the king of the south, just got the report, the south gate of Yangzhou suddenly opened, a team of people grabbed the door, and ran south"

"Whose flag?"

"Champion Army, 'King'"

"Okay, Wang Lanping, the old man thought you were a dragon, but he didn't expect that he would only run away. Order, don't go to manage the champion army, take Yangzhou City, and capture Shi Kefa alive to break 100,000 troops"

Someone came to report it again.

"Newspaper. Marshal, the Ming army retreated to the inner city and fled to the north gate."

"All the while. Raze the whole city and capture Shi Kefa alive"

Kong Youde's tense nerves finally breathed a sigh of relief. In one day, it only took him one day to break through the city known as the strongest in Jianghuai. As soon as Yangzhou is broken, it will be decided by the Jianghuai area.

The Qing army stepped on the corpses all over the ground, followed closely behind the Ming army who retreated into the city, like a wolf and a tiger, killing the corpses of the Ming army all over the place.

Kong Youde laughed.

"Liu Liangzuo, don't you want to make another contribution? Go, go and tie up Shi Kefa for me."

Suddenly, a fast horse came running from the foot of the mountain, and the person who came to Kong Youde turned over and dismounted and knelt down.

"Report, Marshal, Prince Yu Duoduo personally led an army of 60,000 people, which set off from Sizhou yesterday and is heading towards Yangzhou, and its vanguard is less than two days away."

When Kong Youde heard this, he laughed, and said in his heart: Prince Yu, you are late, the old man in Yangzhou has already taken it.

"Come, plan to report the good news, report the victory to the Prince of Yu, and say that the former commander of the Southern Expeditionary Formation of the Great Qing Dynasty, King Dingnan, has broken through Yangzhou City on the eighth day of October, and the slave Kong Youde is waiting for Prince Yu in Yangzhou City."

"Huh!"

Liu Liangzuo waited for someone to leave, and hurriedly whispered, "Dashuai, Yangzhou hasn't been captured yet, isn't it too early to report the victory?"

Kong Youde stroked his beard and was triumphant, "What's in the bag!" ”

Kong Youde saw that the shouting and killing in the city was close to the city, this time he couldn't wait any longer, don't let Shi Kefa run away, this is the best trophy for the Qing court.

Kong Youde said, "General Liu, don't you want to serve the Qing court, this is the time for you to make contributions."

Liu Liangzuo was overjoyed in his heart, shouted, pulled out a big knife, turned over and got on the horse, "Thank you for giving the young general this opportunity, brothers, follow me into Yangzhou, grab money, grab food and rob mother-in-law"

**

Xu Dingguo, who retreated to the street battle in the city, surrounded Shi Kefa while fighting and retreating, fortunately, the lanes in the city were criss-crossed, and the east and west turned, but the Qing army did not know the type of the city, and chased the Ming army in front of it, and chased the Ming army in front of it.

With the familiarity of the alleys in the city, the Ming army fought and retreated, and the remaining more than 3,000 Ming troops were scattered on every street in the city, and the whole city was covered by the sound of fighting.

By the time Shi Kefa and Xu Dingguo retreated to the Yangzhou Governor's Mansion, there were less than 100 people around Xu Dingguo.

The Governor's Mansion, covering an area of nearly 60 acres, the courtyard wall is towering, it is a small fortress in the city, Xu Dingguo ordered people to close the gate, and everyone climbed the wall to the enemy.

From time to time, scattered Ming troops ran towards this side, Shi Kefa asked, only to know that the whole city was Qing soldiers, and they killed people when they saw them, and they didn't know how many came in.

Xu Dingguo knew that he had no way out, and he didn't know what trick the Wang Commander was playing.

"Inspector, there is no way back, how can I do it?"

Shi Kefa straightened his official hat, "What's the panic, the old man is still there, why are you afraid, Xu Dingguo, help Bendu do the last thing, you take your people, rush out, as long as it is a house with white spots on the wall, it will be burned down"

"What about you, Inspector?"

"Leave me alone, Bendu won't go anywhere, and I won't be able to go anywhere, if you live, tell Wang Lanping that he has the best game of chess."

In fact, when Wang Lanping refused to leave Yangzhou, Shi Kefa guessed that he had to be Shi Kefa to be the bait.

Xu Dingguo didn't have so much thought, and wanted people to break out with Shi Kefa, but Shi Kefa pulled out the short blade he carried with him and forced him to die. He won't go anywhere, he will die. also to die in Yangzhou.

Xu Dingguo had no choice but to take fifty or sixty subordinates. Break out of the door, kill a bloody road, run around in the city, along the way to see the house with white spots on the wall and light the fire, for a while, the city is on fire, the sound of explosion follows, the autumn is high and cool, the house in the city is mostly wooden. As soon as the autumn wind blew, the fire burned half of the street in a blink of an eye, it turned out that in the city, Wang Lanping had already buried a bunch of gunpowder and flammable materials, almost half of the city was poured with fire oil, the fire together, the wind helped the fire, unstoppable, and spread from the governor's mansion to the west.

There was not a single place in the city that was not burning. There was not a single street that did not tremble in the explosion, and the Qing troops who rushed into the city had accumulated to more than 50,000 people. Everywhere he went, he was surrounded by fire, the masonry was blown around, and the walls collapsed. Countless Qing soldiers were crushed to death, Yangzhou City. It's a hell on earth.

Kong Youde in the mountains couldn't help but be surprised when he saw that there was something abnormal in the city. Where can you still see where the city is, the thick smoke in the sky has long shrouded the whole city of Yangzhou, only the continuous explosion sound echoes in the air, as if to blow up the entire Yangzhou city to the sky.

"Oh no, I've been tricked!" Kong Youde has just come back to his senses, but now he knows that he was fooled, it was too late, more than 50,000 Qing troops were trapped in the city, and it was not easy to retreat.

"Order, get out of the city, get out of the city"

Kong Youde ordered the sergeant to wave the command flag, and the Chinese army arrayed under the mountain moved with it, and there was such a change in the city, and the top priority was to control the city gate, otherwise the people inside would not be able to retreat.

At this moment, from the southwest corner of the west city wall, rushed out of a group of men and horses, iron hooves rolling, to be the champion army's Fengzi battalion, Song Xian and Song Dali took the lead, straight towards the west city gate to kill, they and Kong Youde the same, seize the city gate, the two armies at the city gate short hand, melee into a group, the Qing soldiers in the city are also rushing out, the wind word battalion belly enemy.

The battalions of the champion army entered the city from the rest of the gates, and Wang Lanping personally led the soldiers from Yangzhou to enter from the north gate.

The north gate is the inner and outer double city gates, there is an urn city larger than the governor's mansion inside, Wang Lanping has laid down his pocket on the city wall, just waiting for the battalions to rush the Qing soldiers here.

Just the explosives that burned before, the panicked Qing army had already suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, and the explosion had just subsided, and they were shocked by the pervasive shouts of the Ming army, and they only ran to the west of the city.

The three major battalions of the champion army had all rushed into the city, blocked the city gates, and then killed them in the west city.

Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers flocked to the west city, but were blocked by the Fengzi battalion of the Second Song Dynasty, how could not rush out, at this time, the rest of the battalions of the champion army also bypassed from the south city, and scattered tens of thousands of Qing troops, the Qing soldiers were already frightened and at a loss, the soldiers had no fighting spirit, and the morale was completely lost, and they did not know where the way to live was.

The small urn city was crowded to the brim, but there was still a steady stream of Qing soldiers rushing here, trying to escape from the gate.

The gate of the northern city has long been sealed by earth and stone, where can I get out, the people in the urn city are pressed by people, horses are pressed by people, people are pressed by horses, layers upon layers, there are more than 10,000 people.

This street battle lasted from dark to dawn in the next day, and for one night, the city was as bright as day, not a single house was not burning, every street was full of corpses of Qing soldiers, and even the governor's mansion was flattened, and Shi Kefa was nowhere to be found.

The battle in Xicheng was extremely fierce, the Fengzi battalion lost more than half, and repelled Kong Youde more than a dozen internal and external attacks, where can you still see an inch of land inside and outside Xicheng, all of which are covered with corpses.

Kong Youde was so anxious that he jumped like thunder, and he would turn to the West Gate for a while, and then turn to the South Gate, and he couldn't beat any of them.

The day dawned, and the gloomy weather made Yangzhou City look particularly solemn and desolate.

The sound of killing in the city gradually became scarce, Liu Liangzuo took a hundred and ten remnants of soldiers to drill out of the ruins, looked around, everywhere was burning, thick smoke was filled, he couldn't even separate the southeast and northwest, and the one hundred and ten Han soldiers who had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty at this time didn't care about distinguishing the way, and hit the luck.

"Kill!"

Before Liu Liangzuo's group of remnants ran through a few remnant streets, when a Ming army blocked the way, Liu Liangzuo was so frightened that he hurriedly ran backwards.

"Where to run!" The back road was blocked again.

The Ming army walked out of a horse, it was one of the five heroes of the champion army, Cao Dingjiao, a steel gun had picked nearly 100 Qing soldiers last night, at this time, the people and horses were dyed blood red by the enemy's blood, as if the ghost had just come out of hell.

Cao Dingjiao's spear shook Liu Liangzuo, who couldn't stop shaking, shouted. "Traitor, thou hast betrayed the Lord for glory. Where to run"

Liu Liangzuo's seven souls were scared away by six and a half souls, and he made a 'poof'. led the remnants of the 100 remnants to kneel down in front of the Ming army.

"General, General Cao, Liu is really forced to be helpless, you, you take me to see Inspector Wang, I, I am willing to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, lead the horse and whip for Inspector Wang, and have no two hearts. Please bring ...... by all means."

Cao Dingjiao didn't bother to listen to him, and waved his gun, "no one is left"

The soldiers of the Dingyuan battalion rushed up, slashing and stabbing guns, screaming everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, more than 100 Han Eight Banners were all killed.

At this time, Kong Youde was discouraged, and he didn't close his eyes all night, as if he was in this night's time. He was already more than ten years old, and he stood on the top of the hill outside Xicheng, looking at Yangzhou City.

There was only that wall apart, but he couldn't rush into it. There are more than 50,000 elites, this is all Duoduo's belongings, and they can't all be destroyed here. No.

The city of Yangzhou is burning and exploding. Now that everything has calmed down, the Qing army inside can no longer be seen on the walls of Xicheng running back to counterattack. It's all over, Kong Youde is in tears, this is more than 50,000 people, overnight, ashes.

Remove!

Kong Youde gave the order, and if he didn't withdraw, he wouldn't even be able to keep more than 10,000 people, and there was no point in staying here.

**

In the north city of the urn, hell on earth, crying father and mother, the people inside want to squeeze out, the people outside want to squeeze in, squeeze in the inner city of the urn city entrance, squeeze can't move, the Ming army in the urn city entrance surrounded a semicircle, thousands of crossbow soldiers full of bowstrings, blocked in the urn city mouth of the Qing army soul scattered, kneeling down, no courage to fight again.

Chen Wanliang waved his hand, and hundreds of Ming soldiers rushed up with spears.

"Get in, get in! All in."

The urn city is crowded, where is there still a foothold, but where is the Ming army in front of them talking nonsense, if it doesn't move, it will be a hole.

The frightened Qing soldiers climbed from the ground, drilled under their crotches, stepped on people's shoulders and heads, and desperately tried to squeeze in.

"Closing the Door"

Where can it be closed, the city gate has long been blocked by corpses.

You don't need to close the city gates, just pile up the bricks and stones.

Suddenly, large and small bricks and stones smashed towards the gate of the urn city, and after a while, even the gate stone of the city gate could not be seen.

Wang Lanping stood on the wall of the urn city, looking at the Qing soldiers all over the city, he had no second choice, so many people, whether they were surrendered or imprisoned, it was impossible for the champion army to control them, there were too many, no more than 15,000 people.

The battalion commanders of the champion army will come to him one after another.

"Governor, the city is almost clean"

A bunch of heads were thrown at Wang Lanping's feet, almost all of them were senior generals of the Qing army and the unification of the Qing army, there were more than a dozen, among which Liu Liangzuo's head was still dead.

Wang Lanping flicked the head of the person on the ground with his foot and said, "Have you found Inspector Shi?" ”

Chen Wanliang said, "No, the Governor's Mansion has collapsed, and the old Shi Ge has no one dead or a corpse, but the old general Xu Dingguo has found it, and the person is still alive, but the injury is not light, and he is unconscious, and I have ordered the military doctor to treat him."

Wang Lanping sighed and said, "Keep looking, how is the West Gate?" ”

Fang Guoan said, "Listening to the voice, it seems that there is no longer fighting, but the two Song brothers haven't rushed over yet, so they are probably holding on to the city defense."

"Well, the pressure of this battle of the Fengzi Battalion is too great, Cao Dingjiao, you go, replace the Fengzi Battalion to take a breath, and find out where Kong Youde goes"

Cao Dingjiao was ordered to leave.

Chen Wanliang pointed to the loud Wengcheng and said, "Commander, how to deal with these people?" ”

"Kill!" Wang Lanping said lightly, as if these were more than 10,000 pigs, and he didn't even have the slightest pity.

"What? Kill? Kill all? Chen Wanliang was shocked, so many people were killed?

"If you don't kill it, you can keep it."

Wang Lanping turned his head and left.

Behind him, muskets, bows, and stones fell one after another, and the ghosts cried wolves when the urn city was neutral, and the sound was really miserable.

Half an hour later, the urn city was finally quiet, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood, the blood in the small urn city was like a river, the blood was deep, the corpses were floating around, 15,000 Qing troops were all buried here, and no one escaped.

Wang Lanping came to the Xicheng City Tower.

"Cao Dingjiao, where did Kong Youde go?"

"The old thief ran very fast, when the day dawned, he had already run back to the camp with more than 10,000 people, in addition, just received a military report, the prince of Taqing Yu Duoduo is coming from Sizhou day and night, and his vanguard force of 20,000 cavalry will arrive at noon tomorrow at the latest."

A smile appeared on Wang Lanping's gloomy face, "The whole army is assembled, and in one go, before Duoduo arrives, take Kong Youde's camp."

"Yes!" (To be continued.) )