Chapter 386: Carrying the Ding (II) (Text)
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"The pirates are coming!"
There were more than 200 defenders at the head of Watergate, shouting and sounding the alarm bell.
The sound of the bell soon drowned out the bell, and the silent city of Hangzhou was awakened, and the common people cowered and hid in their homes, and the faint-hearted even crawled under the bed.
There are steps on both sides of the Watergate Tower, and Chen Huwei commanded more than 300 pirates to swarm from the bluestone brick steps on the right side to kill them. There was a sound of gunfire on the top of the tower, and the pirates desperately approached the defenders in the smoke of gunpowder, and the white knives went in and the red knives came out.
Ji Hong commanded the dead soldiers of the dark camp to kill from the left steps, and these people were obviously more sophisticated than Chen Huwei's pirates. The fifty or sixty black-clothed men at the front were not tall, but their steps were swift, and they were as agile as yellow sheep in the grassland, and they all held a wooden box in their hands.
The fast footsteps rushed to the bottom of the steps first, there was a bang on the city wall, three or four people fell in a pool of blood, and the black-clothed men behind did not look at it, jumped over the corpses of their companions and rushed up the steps, and when they were more than twenty steps away from the defenders, they knelt on one knee and raised their arms and raised their crossbows.
The moment he released the machine spring, a foot-long iron arrow pierced the air, and with a "whoosh" sound of the wind, it shot into the chest of the Qing soldiers on the city wall. A hand crossbow can hold six short arrows, without the need to reload ammunition like a bird's gun, and the spring is linked, and the short crossbow weaves a large net in the air, killing all the defenders on the steps.
Someone released it quickly, and when the short crossbow in the box was exhausted, he immediately threw the crossbow box aside, pulled out the short knife on his waist and rushed up.
The sneak attackers attacked from the back, but they were all selected warriors, and the defenders were defeated one after another.
"Hold the water gate!" Mr. Qian, who was guarding the door, saw the fire lit up in the Qiantang River.
Before he finished speaking, his shout turned into a scream, and a general behind him stared at him viciously and scolded: "Go to death! The short knife in his hand was stuck in his ribs.
Stick a knife in your friend's ribs!
More than 20 people behind the defenders of the city shouted "Drive away the Qing captives and return my Ming!" The slogan suddenly reversed, and the waist knife mercilessly led to the companions around him.
Under the three-way attack, the defenders collapsed instantly, panicked, and had no way to escape.
From the alarm bell ringing, it took less than two quarters of an hour to clear the defenders at the head of the city, Ji Hong calmly estimated the time, although he wore a knife, but did not move.
"Turtle King Bastard!"
Chen Huwei drew his sword and looked around, seeing that there was no Qing prisoner around, he was still not satisfied, and saw that there were still a few defenders with shaved heads not far away, and rushed over with knives. Those few were the defenders of Ji Hong's rebellion, and when he saw the fierceness of one person from the opposite side, he knew that it was his own people, so he didn't dare to fight back and only dared to dodge, and one was accidentally stabbed in the shoulder with a long knife.
"Stop!"
Ji Hong beckoned, and two black-clothed men with short crossbows rushed forward, and the black whirring crossbow box mouth was aimed at Chen Huwei, who was extremely excited.
"Open the water gate!"
Like headless flies, the pirates were looking for their enemies, and several tall, burly men in black found the hinges and turned the axles to lift the iron gates.
"Qingyu is here!" The excited Chen Huwei finally found the object.
On the opposite street, a large group of defenders were rushing towards this direction with torches, and there were thousands of people in the fight.
Zhang Bingzhen, the governor of Zhejiang in the Qing court, was a talent, and after hearing that there was chaos in the city, he quickly thought of the safety of the city gates and water gates on all sides. As long as the city gate is guarded, it will be difficult for the rebel party in the city to fly, so it will immediately mobilize troops and horses to take over the five gates.
Ji Hong stood at the head of the city and looked out, the warships in the Qiantang River were like swimming fire dragons, stretching for seven or eight miles, and the front was still ten miles away from the water gate.
The distance of ten miles was very close, and the shouts of the city reached the ears, and the flames were clearly visible. Zuo Ruo's waist knife in the bow of the ship was already out of its sheath, "Faster, faster!" ”
The sluice gates were opened, the iron nets were broken, and nothing could stop the ships from entering the city.
At the head of the city wall, Chen Huwei kept hitting the green bricks with the back of his knife, and the crisp sound was like an anxious song.
"Chen Huwei!"
He turned his head and saw a one-armed man in a cloth shirt standing behind him, half a head taller than him. He didn't know Ji Hong, but he knew that this person must not be simple, and he could control the ambush in the city with one arm.
"Hold the intersection on the right, don't rush, don't pursue, if you don't obey the military order, I will kill you immediately!" Ji Hong's voice was not big or small, and it happened to be in this noisy environment for Chen Huwei to hear clearly.
"Hold the left steps, follow my orders, and the crossbowmen support the defenders on the right."
Ji Hong stood at the junction of the left and right steps, holding the handle of the knife with his left hand. The five Qi knives that have been hanging on the wall for seven years do not know if they will drink blood today.
The fierce battle at the Water Gate soon made the fires in other parts of Hangzhou seem insignificant, and the brigade of soldiers and horses dared to go this way.
Zhang Bingzhen saw the water gate open like a black hole from afar, "Attack it!" He rolled up his sleeves and wanted to go into battle himself.
With a cup of tea, the corpses piled up under the steps, blocking the path of the latecomers. Ji Hong had a cold face, and he didn't shout until the Qing soldiers went up to the halfway point of the steps: "Let go!" ”
"Rush in!" Wen Linzhu shouted.
The first warship sailed into the water gate and smashed into the iron net that still had some remains, and there was a cannon fire on the bow, and the iron ball rolled on the shore, and all the ** that was rolled all the way turned into blood and mud. The big sea ship can't enter the water gate, this is a medium-sized water ship built by Gu San Mazi in the early stage, and only four small cannons can be installed.
"Attack with fire! Attack with fire! "Zhang Bingzhen reacted very quickly, but where is the rocket in the emergency?
"The Ming rebels killed the Qing captives, and the Han people surrendered and did not kill!" The soldiers on the boat shouted and generally jumped down in a swarm and fought into the queue of the Qing soldiers on the left.
"Attack with fire!" Zhang Bingzhen stomped his feet, and no one listened to his orders
Another small boat sailed in, and the heavily armored foot soldiers lined up in the bow of the ship.
The ship came to the shore, the sailors set up the planks, and the heavily armored foot soldiers carefully boarded the shore, and after stepping on six grounds, they went into the jungle like a tiger. Yuan Qizhou took the lead, brandishing a thick knife and scolding, "You bastards, you actually became a slave to the Qing captive." ”
"Bang bang bang!"
The warship swayed in the water to the sound of artillery. The lethality of the four small cannons is not great, but the momentum is very bluffing.
"My lord, run away!" The staff behind him had a face like earth.
Zhang Bingzhen's face changed, "Can you still survive if you escape?" Hold it for me! ”
Unfortunately, those Qing soldiers were not afraid of him as a governor, and when the fifth ship sailed into the water gate, Li Zhi'an commanded the bird gunners to line up, and the tiger squat cannon spit out flying gravel and knocked over a group of Qing soldiers, the situation on the battlefield finally became clear. Liu Zeqing's troops were the first to escape, the Hangzhou Waterway Battalion rebelled, and Zhang Bingzhen was coerced by the rebels and fled to the north gate.
Yuan Qizhou and Li Zhian chased all the way.
When Zuo Ruo entered the city, he only saw the defeated Qing soldiers.
"The herald ordered Yuan Qizhou to go to the east gate, Li Zhian to the north gate, Wenlin Zhu to the south gate, and Chen Huwei to the west gate to capture the city gate and fort. Ji Hong led the army to extinguish the fires everywhere, ordered the idle people not to go out, and immediately arrested the unknown people on the street. ”
"Yes!"
"Hangzhou City has returned to the Ming Dynasty!" Zuo Ruo breathed a long sigh of relief, and he was very smooth, "Come on!" ”
"In!"
"Immediately go to Dinghaiwei Station to report to your lordship!"
The soldiers on the sea ships outside the Water Gate changed into the middle boat and continued to enter the city, arranging city defenses everywhere.
If you climb the city wall, this wall is really high! In the distance, I saw rare torches running in the direction of Fuyang.
Under the city of Fuyang, Feng Qin and Fang Guoan stood side by side.
"Do you know why I'm attacking tonight?"
"Every time you are a general, you have a clever plan!" Fang Guoan laughed.
When the reinforcements of the Qing captured arrived, he had always had the idea of playing treachery and slipping, if it wasn't for Ma Shiying who had been persuading him, he would have wanted to escape into the mountains of Yanzhou Mansion yesterday.
"It's not me!" Feng Qin waved his hand and reminded: "Isn't the chief soldier chasing?" This is a great credit to King Lu. ”
"Ahh Fang Guoan suddenly realized, "Pursuit, pursuit!" ”
"Fang Yuanke, immediately pursue the Qing captives, and be sure to cut hundreds of Jianju's levels back."
Feng Qin was fascinated by his eyes, not looking at Fang Guoan's excitement, this was the order that Zhai Zhe gave him. He used to be a personal soldier of adults, and he has always heard more and said less, and those who don't like to talk will spend most of their time thinking. Every decision and every order of the adults is his delicacy, and it is worth savoring.
Fang Guoan got this credit, and he would feel embarrassed when he worshiped King Lu again. Zhedong is just these two troops and horses, and the purpose of the lord's show of favor is to let the people and horses in the army hug together.
Ning Shao's army slowly followed behind Fang Yuanke, lest the Qing Yu counterattack catch him off guard.
The Han soldiers were much faster than the Jurchens when they fled, and Bolo's scolding could not change the fact that the Jurchens were in the aftermath. Everyone was running, but Han was obviously more experienced.
"It's good to run quickly, you can enter Hangzhou City early!" He comforted himself.
Tonight, the Ming army, which had been beaten by the army for several days and was about to be defeated, actually attacked the camp, and it was always thundering and raining, and he was not in a hurry, ready to wait for the dawn to fight again. Half an hour later, the Ala-e-jin, who was stationed on the low hill behind the barracks, rushed down and said, "My lord! Hangzhou is blazing, and there is a faint sound of cannons! ”
Bo Luo was able to penetrate a little, a layer of cold sweat broke out on his back, and he immediately ordered: "Order the rear army to return to Hangzhou immediately." As soon as the Qing soldiers moved, the sneak attack of the Ming army turned into a lifeless onslaught, which made him completely understand that he had fallen into a trap, and now he only hoped that Zhang Bingzhen could hold the city of Hangzhou.
In the middle of the night, the army retreated, and tens of thousands of troops attacked, which soon turned into a rout.
The chasing soldiers and the routs were very chaotic, and Fang Yuanke was very energetic in pursuit.
Bolo should be glad that it was Feng Qin who confronted him, not Zuo Ruo.
The soldiers were used steadily, and because they were worried that the Qing army would jump over the wall in a hurry, they fought back with all their might, and did not dare to pursue them with all their might. In the past few days, he has blocked more than 10,000 Jurchen attacks based on Fuyang City, but when it comes to field battles, neither the Zhedong soldiers nor the Fang Guoan soldiers are opponents of the Jurchens. With the strategic task already completed, he did not want to overshadow the victory of a defeat to the city of Hangzhou.
Fuyang City Head.
Liu stood half a step behind Ma Shiying with the wind, and the fire in the fertile field in front of him was like stars in the sky.
"Ma Gebu, after Hangzhou is recovered, it will be the king of Dailu."
"I'll go to Ningbo tomorrow!" Ma Shiying held the city wall with both hands and clutched the masonry tightly, he was a former courtier, and King Lu would definitely trust him.
In the shadows behind him, Liu Suifeng unscrupulously showed a mocking look, because he knew that Ma Shiying would not turn back.