Chapter 12 Life and Death Go Together

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Anqing City has been full of holes, and Shang Kexi was killed to make Bolo like a mad tiger, after that, he urged the Qing army to launch a continuous onslaught on Anqing City without stopping.

Anqing City's original small reserves of ammunition, rolling wood and stones and other materials for defending the city were quickly consumed, and then they could only engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

Zongyang Gate and Jixian Gate were lost one after another, and the Qing army entered the city in a big way, and Huang Gongfu, Liu Zhaoji and Hu Dawei led the Ming army to start street battles. Anqing in history has been repeatedly warned, so the defensive system is perfect, in the urgency, the Qing army is difficult to quickly win, can only in the city and the Ming army to start a street and lane competition.

Because of Dolgon's edict, the hair shaving order began to be enforced, and it was precisely because of the cruelty of "keeping hair without head" that the people in the city rose up to resist.

After Wu Sangui's general Xia Guoxiang captured Jixian Gate, he was overjoyed and immediately led his army to break through to the city, but what he didn't expect was that after attacking the city, he encountered a fierce counterattack from the city's head down to the doorway in the city. A large group of people who couldn't see what color of clothing they were wielding hoes and hammers were stunned, which caused the Qing army to suffer a lot of losses. When he finally broke into the city from the horse road, he found that the Qing army that had just entered the city fell into a bitter battle in Beizheng Street and Dekuan Lane.

The streets and alleys are only so wide, and although the Qing army is outnumbered, they can only advance step by step in this not wide street and alley, and each step has to pay a great price. Almost using corpses to ensure a forward attack posture, even a battlefield veteran like Xia Guoxiang couldn't help but be terrified.

Xia Guoxiang constantly sent people to report to Wu Sangui outside the city, asking for support from behind. It was not small for Bolo and Wu Sangui to be surprised. Obviously, the two city gates have been taken, and the army is happily entering the city, why is this city defense still so fierce. The troops entering the city in front were constantly asking the Chinese army for support, but it was as if the battle to defend the city had just begun.

Watching Wu Sangui hurriedly dispatch troops and horses, Bolo's face was suddenly covered with a layer of anger. This is just Anqing, if you attack Nanjing, it will not be difficult to go to the sky? Zheng Zhilong's army has long since disappeared, but this Huang Gongfu is stubbornly guarding Anqing, where did the original Ming style of defeat in a battle go, how did it become so difficult!

When I was filled with anger. However, he heard that Fang Guangchen had deployed small artillery to Wu Sangui to the soldiers and horses in front, and opened the way with artillery bombardment to speed up the progress of the siege. Bolo immediately became furious.

"What a system this is!" Bolo roared angrily: "A small Anqing. Unexpectedly, more than 200,000 troops hesitated, and he Huang Gongfu only had 20,000 remnants and tens of thousands of people in his hands, and the street fighting even had to use artillery to open the way, how to fight in the future! ”

"You green camp can't do it. Let's change to the elite of the Eight Banners! In his hands were more than 2,000 white armor and 10,000 blue flags and bannermen inlaid with blue flags. Send them all up, enter the city through Jixian Gate, and let you soldiers of the Green Battalion see how our Eight Banners fight! ”

Wu Sangui and a group of Han army generals looked at each other, although they were more or less resentful in their hearts, but no one defended anything, and some of them still had the idea of watching the fire and watching the show from the other side, and even if they knelt down and pleaded guilty. Let Bolo send his general under his command, Gushan Ezhen Getuken, who is inlaid with a blue flag.

The addition of the elite soldiers of the two blue flags, especially the elite soldiers of the white armor, made the besieging side like a tiger. I have to say that the white-armored elite soldiers are indeed worthy of their reputation. At least for now, the true elite of the Eight Banners still maintains a considerable level of combat effectiveness. Under the leadership of Getuken, the Qing army soon captured Beizheng Street and Dekuan Lane.

But the casualty figures that came ahead also surprised Getuken. In these two streets and alleys alone, the two blue flags paid more than 200 casualties, this is a real elite of the Eight Banners, Getuken can't help but feel pain in his heart, just after going back with such a result, I'm afraid it will be difficult for Bolo to accept.

The streets and alleys are full of corpses, and there are not a few old and weak women and children in the city, and Getuken can't help but feel numb when he looks at such a scene, but since he has come here, it is impossible to retreat. This also contains Bolo's desire to have a long and short relationship with the newly formed Green Battalion, and Getulken naturally can't give up halfway, otherwise, let Bolo's face go somewhere.

Huang Gongfu's location is the prefect Yamen of Anqing, and the prefect of Anqing Pi Yingju and the governor of Anlu Huang Peixuan are all used here. In the eighth and tenth years of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong led the army to attack Anqing twice, hoping to use this place as a breakthrough point and then attack Jiangnan on a large scale, but both times he returned in vain. This is also a test of the operation and repair of Pi Yingju and Huang Peixuan in Anqing, and it is their credit that has re-strengthened the already dilapidated Anqing City and formed a complete defense system. But this time, in the face of the artillery fire of the Qing army, Anqing City could not escape the doom of falling.

Hu Dawei, who was covered in blood, retreated from the defense line of Beizheng Street, and just walked into the prefect's yamen with the support of his own soldiers, Huang Gongfu and others greeted him from inside.

Hu Dawei's body had seven or eight wounds, large and small, although they were all bandaged, but the blood still seeped out, and when he saw Huang Gongfu's body, he collapsed to the ground. "Zhenxi Gong! The elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army have come up, and the city can no longer be defended, so let's go! ”

Huang Gongfu calmly lifted Hu Dawei, "You have done your best, rest here for a while, this official has already ordered Liu Zhaoji to prepare a boat, and you can leave along the waterway from Zhenhai Gate!" ”

"Then Zhenxi Gong, ...... you?"

Huang Gongfu smiled, and then shook his head, "When the cabinet was there, the official had already decided to live and die with Anqing, and now he has been sticking to it for more than half a month, and the official has finally lived up to the trust, and it's time to fulfill the oath he made to the cabinet and the people!" ”

Hu Dawei cried more than once, "Zhenxi Gong refused to leave, I Hu Dawei should accompany him, I Ming Chongzhen, Yixing two dynasties civil strife is not stopped, the war continues, but there are very few courtiers who are willing to die for Daming, Zhenxi Gong has this grand wish, Dawei is willing to follow life and death!" ”

After speaking, Hu Dawei suddenly pushed away Huang Gongfu's support, raised his saber, turned around and strode out again.

At this time, Liu Zhaoji's henchmen and others had already rushed to urge, asking Huang Gongfu and others to hurry to Zhenhai Gate to meet and go out of the city together. But Huang Gongfu entrusted Huang Peixuan and Pi Yingju to the comers, but he strode into the main hall of the prefect's yamen, sat in it, and refused to come out.

Liu Zhaoji's henchmen had no choice but to ask Huang Peixuan and Pi Ying to go on the road. Huang Peixuan and Pi Yingju looked at each other and smiled, and bowed to Huang Gongfu above the main hall together, and the group of people hurried out after waiting for this.

But after walking a few streets and alleys, Liu Zhaoji's servants couldn't find any trace of Pi Yingju and Huang Peixuan, and they couldn't help but be anxious.

Although Anqing City also has an inner city, it is in disrepair, and the walls of the inner city have long been full of holes, and the Qing army easily broke through here and marched towards the prefect's yamen.

The cross street leading to the prefect's yamen is relatively wide, allowing six horses to walk side by side. But the Qing army in front stopped as soon as they stepped on this long street.

Getuken was anxious, and when he rode to the front, he raised his eyes and looked ahead, but at the other end of the long street, he was blocked by a group of people, and the number of people was only five or six hundred. Among them, there were Ming soldiers and soldiers, as well as all kinds of people, but without exception, they showed their hateful eyes to the Qing army in front of them.

"What are you stunned!" Getuken raised his horsewhip and waved it, "Lord Belle is still waiting for our news, and if you delay for a moment longer, you will have to suffer a lot." It's just the remnants of the Ming people, what is there to hesitate to rush forward for Lao Tzu! ”

In the eyes of the Qing army, Anqing City has held on to this day, and the hundreds of people in front of them are no longer enough to mention, they are like a crumbling island, under the storm of the Qing army, they will sink in the blink of an eye.

Getuken rushed to the front, his eyes had fallen on a Ming army general in armor in the Ming army crowd, that person was tall, very eye-catching in the crowd, but his body was blood-stained robes, and there were relatives next to him to help him, obviously the injury was not light. Seeing the generals of the Ming Army, Getuken's heart was excited for no reason.

From the beginning of entering the city, in just one day, the elite of the Eight Banners under his command lost more than 1,000 people, including more than 400 valuable white-armored elite soldiers, which was something that had never been encountered in the history of Getuken's conquest. Therefore, Getulken desperately wanted to wash away such a huge loss of casualties among his subordinates with his great military exploits.

A long street seems far away, but under the horse, it is just a blink of an eye. The war horse exhaled bursts of white gas, and seemed to feel the anxiety and mania in his director's heart.

With the help of horsepower, Getuken raised the mace in his hand high, and in his opinion, this time he could smash the Ming army general in front of him into pulp.

But unexpectedly, the tall Ming army general made the first move before him. With his right hand raised slightly, his feet slammed on the ground, and his seemingly weak body suddenly lunged at Getuken.

A sturdy body rushed over with all its might, and even the war horse seemed to feel surprised, and involuntarily raised its hooves, but the Ming army general hit the horse's belly fiercely. Only a mournful roar of the war horse was heard in his ears, and the mace that Getuken waved was useless, and the whole person was suddenly overturned by the war horse.

Before he could hit the ground, a strong wind seemed to be blowing in his face, and Getulken was so frightened that he rolled on the spot in a hurry, and even threw his mace, which narrowly escaped the fatal knife, and Rao was so, his cheek was still lightly rubbed by the blade, and a piece of flesh and blood was peeled off.

Gertuken was sweating profusely, ignoring the wound on his face, and took a few steps back to look up.

The general of the Ming army was on the ground with a pestle, blood spurting wildly from his mouth, and a pair of eyes full of hatred stared at Getuken, and in the blink of an eye, he fell backwards with a bang. (To be continued......)