Chapter 458: Luoyang Ancient City
"Boom ......"
The heavy city gate finally collapsed, and at this moment, the black and oppressive arrow rain flew into the corridor, and even flew to the other end of the city gate with a whistling sound, and several Zheng family soldiers who couldn't dodge were shot into hedgehogs in an instant, and they fell to the ground without having time to make any sound.
After a moment of silence, a crisp shot rang out.
The whistling bullets passed through the corridor, and more rebel sergeants fell, the cotton armor on their bodies could not resist the bullets at all, the bullets penetrated their bodies, and the sound of bones shattering could be heard.
A large number of the rebel sergeants facing Yongdao fell.
Li Yan's eyes became red, if he wanted to hold the road, the frontal defense was the most important, but the officers and soldiers didn't know what firearms were used, and the cotton armor couldn't resist them, and all the sergeants who were shot fell in pain, and they couldn't persist in fighting at all.
Li Yan limped and was about to walk to the front of the road, but he was still held back by the soldiers around him.
The rebel sergeant had already shown a look of fear.
It was at this time that the rumbling of horses' hooves sounded, and the earth began to tremble.
The cavalry of the Zheng family army is extremely brave, even the Houjin Tartars are afraid, and the righteous army sergeants have heard many times that the best way to meet the cavalry of the Zheng family army is to surrender, so that they can save their lives, otherwise it is a dead end.
Some of the rebel sergeants' bodies began to tremble, no matter what Li Yan's orders were on the side, no one wanted to approach Yongdao, and no one was willing to go to the front of Yongdao.
The first to rush into the Yongdao and come to the city wall were the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion of the Zheng Family's Army, they were armed with Mauser guns, and when they saw the rogues holding bows and arrows, they did not hesitate to shoot, and in the dense and crisp gunshots, many of the rogues fell down screaming, and more rogues turned and fled.
After the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion passed through the corridor, they quickly dispersed.
Then came the cavalry. The formation of the cavalry was completely different.
Some of the rogues who turned and fled. Hearing the sound of the horse's hooves behind them, they wisely knelt on the ground and chose to surrender, they couldn't outrun the horses. With his back to the cavalry, there is only one way to die, and as for resistance, there is no need to think about it.
Li Yan, under the escort of his own soldiers, began to evacuate towards the city. But he didn't have a chance.
Li Yan, who was wearing a white coat, was undoubtedly standing out from the crowd, and the soldiers of the Zheng family army were quickly able to judge the identity of this young man, and several cavalry chased after him and surrounded Li Yan and his own soldiers, and several personal soldiers tried to fight and were quickly killed.
Li Yan's face was no longer bloodless, and he may regret it at this moment.
Several soldiers from the Shenji Battalion stepped forward and prepared to tie up Li Yan.
It was at this time. A fiery red figure on horseback appeared.
"Stop, whoever dares to touch Li Gongzi, the old lady will kill whoever he wants......"
The red lady in a hurry forgot who surrounded Li Yan, and at this time she only had Li Yan as a lover in her heart.
Li Yan looked at the red lady who rushed over, opened his mouth, and finally just sighed.
Several cavalry quickly surrounded the Red Lady, if it weren't for Lord Zheng's order, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion would have opened fire a long time ago, even if it was an iron man. will also be beaten with holes all over the body.
A shocking scene appeared, the red lady didn't care about her own safety at all, and didn't care about the officers and soldiers around her who were preparing to attack, and rushed directly towards Li Yan. After arriving in front of Li Yan, he flew off the horse and hugged Li Yan in front of everyone.
"Your Excellency has an order, don't hurt Li Yan and the Red Lady, and tie them up."
Zheng Jinhong's order made everyone wake up like a dream. No one would have thought that on the battlefield of brutal fighting, there would be such a scene, it is unbelievable, the red lady for Li Yan, regardless of her own safety, rushed up without hesitation, and also used her body to protect Li Yan.
When the soldiers around Zheng Jinhong rushed up and were about to tie up the two, Li Yan spoke.
"You can kill but not humiliate, you either kill me, such an insult, I swear to the death and will not obey ......"
Zheng Jinhong looked at Li Yan and spoke with a sarcastic smile on his face.
"What kind of scholar are you, if it weren't for the young master's order, you were not allowed to hurt your life and the red lady's life, you would still be able to stand here and talk, forget it, you are a scholar, you have no power to tie the chicken, and it doesn't mean much to tie you up."
Zheng Jinhong turned to look at the red lady.
"Red lady, I admire your performance just now, sacrifice your life to protect your lover, there are not many such strange women in the world, you follow Li Yan's side, but I don't want to see any changes in you, if you find such a situation, don't blame my brothers for not being emotional."
Before noon, the battle ended.
The attack started from Yinshi, and ended at noon, the soldiers of the Zheng family army took Luoyang Mansion City cleanly, captured Li Yan and the Red Lady, and garrisoned Luoyang Mansion City 10,000 Liukou, more than 3,000 people were killed, and the remaining 6,000 people all surrendered, plus the Liukou who surrendered in the military camp, the total number reached more than 13,000 people, and the Zheng family army lost more than 400 people, most of whom were shot by bows and arrows in the siege battle.
Zheng Jinhong, Liu Zeqing, Hong Xinyu, Ma Xianglin, Su Congjun, Wang Xiaoer, Zheng Kaitao and others stood by Zheng Xunrui's side, they completely understood the meaning of the blitzkrieg, 20,000 Liukou garrisoned Luoyang Mansion City, half a day to take, Zheng Jiajun killed only more than 400 soldiers, such a battle results, no one will believe it, I am afraid that the soldiers of Zheng Jiajun are immortals, invulnerable.
This is the power of the Hongyi cannon and the Mauser gun.
The cleanup of Luoyang City is underway, the battle lasted too short, and the city basically did not encounter any damage, but the desolate scene can still be perceived, Luoyang Mansion City, which was occupied by the Liukou, did not have the prosperity of the past, most of the gentry and wealthy households, before the Liukou attacked, all fled to Kaifeng Fucheng, the fief in Luoyang Fuwang Zhu Changxun, Nanyang Mansion Tang King Zhu Yujian, Weihui Mansion Lu Wang Zhu Changshu, Zhangde Mansion Zhao King Zhu Changyu and others, also before the Liukou attack, all went to Xi'an Mansion in Shaanxi, They didn't even want to go to Kaifeng Fucheng.
The departure of the gentry and wealthy families caused the city of Luoyang to be particularly deserted.
The biggest damage is still on the city wall, Zheng Jinhong has issued an order, escort the captives to carry out a thorough cleaning of the city wall, this time the cleaning includes the military camp outside the city, the climate has become hot, the corpse must be disposed of as soon as possible, otherwise it may lead to the spread of the plague.
Zheng Xunrui has already arrived in the palace.
All the officials of the government were taken into custody, and the pro-military camp occupied the entire government office, and Li Yan and the red lady were imprisoned in the prison of the government office.
Zheng Xunrui looked at everyone's relieved expressions, and also spoke with a serious face.
"I know you are very happy, I think this victory came too easily, just now Wang Xiaoer cleaned up some documents from the palace, read these documents, I really understand a lot of things, and I also feel fortunate for the brothers, Li Zicheng personally gave Li Yan an order, abandon all the vigilance around Luoyang Mansion City, so that Zheng Jiajun can calmly attack Luoyang Mansion City, if the Liukou guard is in place, our attack is not so smooth."
"This big victory, it can be said that Li Zicheng gave it to us, but also because of the sharpness of the firearms, but you must not think that after having a powerful firearm, we will have peace of mind, if we meet a strong army, we still have to fight face-to-face with the opponent when we have no ammunition."
"I have stressed many times before, can not because of a big victory or a complete victory, just complacent, thinking that all opponents are vulnerable, if there is such an understanding, then we are not far from the next defeat, attacking Luoyang City, we have indeed achieved a major victory, but we still have more important battles, Li Zicheng and his 80,000 rogues will soon arrive here, defeat or even completely defeat them, we can be regarded as a real victory."
"You all have to remember that the purpose of our operation is to ensure the smooth flow of transportation, and the grain and commodities from Huaibei must be transported to Xi'an, Shaanxi, no matter who pays attention to this passage, we will not be polite, I am not just talking about the Liukou, even if the imperial court wants to intervene, it will not work."
Zheng Xunrui said very simply, everyone looked at Zheng Xunrui, and did not feel anything abnormal, over the years, including Liu Zeqing's understanding, has changed, no one thinks that Zheng Jiajun is the army of the imperial court, the commander of Zheng Jiajun will always be Zheng Xunrui, without Zheng Xunrui's order, even if the emperor decrees, the soldiers of Zheng Jiajun will not obey their orders.
As for what the situation means behind it, no one thinks so much.
An hour later, Zheng Jinhong entered the wing, and there were a large number of letters on the table, and Zheng Xunrui was watching carefully.
"Young master, the treasury has all been sealed, and it is initially estimated that there are more than one million stones of grain in the treasury, and the subordinates believe that this must be Li Zicheng's storage of all the grain here, and the gold, silver and jewelry are in the process of being cleaned up."
"There is nothing strange about this, the imperial court ordered the collection of arrears of agricultural taxes over the years, the officials must have done their best, the taxes collected almost fell into the hands of Li Zicheng, and the gentry and wealthy households here, the money can be taken away, the grain can not be taken away, naturally belongs to Li Zicheng, in fact, the more grain in the treasury, the more worried I am, which shows that the people have suffered from extraordinary exploitation, well, clean up the money and grain as soon as possible, all grades, most of the grain is to be transported to Shaanxi, In this way, the ships of the province will have to transport money and grain again. ”
"Young master, there are too many prisoners, I don't know what to do with them."
"According to the old rules, screening will be carried out first, then selection, and the rest will be handed over to the local government for processing."
"But there are no officials in the yamen of Fuzhou and county."
"Don't worry, Lord Xiong Wencan will soon come to Luoyang Fucheng, and when the time comes, just hand over all the remaining captives to him, and hand over the affairs of the Yamen of Fuzhou County to the past, we will not carry this burden." (To be continued.) )