253.Battle of Jiangsu and Zhejiang (7)
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Late at night, under the bites of mosquitoes in the summer, a group of flag soldiers and most of the green battalion soldiers had fallen asleep, and only a few patrolmen were still patrolling seriously under the pressure of the outside world. biquge.info Of course, there is a difference between this kind of seriousness, such as the west city where the city wall is broken, and the east city where the canal is filled, the patrol soldiers will often hold torches and stick their heads out of the horse to carefully examine the environment under their feet, while on the north and south sides, where nothing has happened, the spirit of patrolling is greatly poor.
The moon in the sky was gradually obscured by the clouds, and when the night became thicker and thicker, there was a faint sound of tapping in the air, but because Zheng Jun wrapped cotton cloth on the hammer, the sound of tapping was not crisp, and even in the night, it could not be transmitted too far, so it did not arouse more vigilance of the Qing army.
Soon the six pontoon bridges quietly extended to the foot of the northern city wall, and after the last two fixed cement piers were carefully sunk to the bottom of the water to serve as fixed anchors, the Zheng soldiers who acted as craftsmen simply stuck to the outside of the city wall. After another moment, Zheng Jun, who was carrying the ladder, followed up on the rickety pontoon.
"Listen to me." The left tiger guard, who won the right to ascend first, jumped and sentry officer Xi He commanded with gestures and mouth shapes. "One, two, three, vertical!" Twelve long ladders, also tied with cotton cloth, gently leaned against the edge of the city wall, and before they could get steady, Xi He stepped on it first, and then his command was passed out. "Up!"
In fact, there were Qing soldiers sleeping on the city wall, many of them were still close to the female wall, and the darkness of the moonlight turned unfavorable to the Zheng army at this time, and the first batch of Zheng officers and soldiers who landed in the city did not stay behind and stepped on these people at once, and the huge pain suddenly woke up these Qing soldiers in their sleep.
Seeing some Qing soldiers jumping up, Xi He, who was also tripped up, immediately ordered: "Kill!" ”
The planned killing immediately began, and I saw a certain Zheng Jun swing the iron shoe in his hand vigorously, and the head of the Qing army in front of him shattered like an eggshell, and the other party withered to the ground with a red and white color without even making a scream.
Because the soldiers who jump the sentry want to act as a scalpel to disrupt the opponent's formation on the battlefield, they still retain the habits of the cold weapon era, and are usually equipped with heavy weapons such as iron or bone duo, even if they are not equipped with these, they also use sharp axes and wide-backed long knives, so it is natural to deal with the Qing army that is caught off guard.
However, as soon as the battle began, except for a small number of Qing troops who were still asleep and did not wake up, most of the Qing troops were awakened one after another, and naturally some people began to shout.
Xi He, who quickly killed the enemy on the city wall, loudly ordered all his subordinates who had entered the city one after another: "Kill and open the city gate." ”
Zheng Jun, who was rushing down the horse road, didn't have time to stop his feet, and a row of black holes appeared in front of him. Under the frightened gaze of the Zheng soldiers, the sparkling fire rope burned to the last section, and then the mouth jumped, and more than a dozen deadly lead stones rushed out with the flames
"What are you doing standing stupidly!" Pushing the somewhat timid soldiers, Xi He, who was the first to pass over the fallen comrades, roared and rushed into the Qing army's bird gun team, at this time the Qing army had no time to reload the gunpowder, so Xi and one person killed them and fled. "Stick it up and don't give them a chance to shoot again." While slashing and slashing, Xi He, who shouted at his subordinates who woke up like a dream, rushed desperately. "A bunch of lackeys, suffer death!"
The organized bird team of the Qing army was scattered, and the armor covered by Zheng Jun made the Qing army helpless in hand-to-hand combat, only some Qing troops who also used heavy weapons could cause a little loss to Zheng Jun, but such Qing troops were too few, and they were powerless to stop Xi and their footsteps.
Just as the more than 300 Qing troops guarding the left side of Wangwu Gate were beaten back step by step by Xi and them, and the city gate was about to change hands, more than 400 reinforcements from the right battalion of the Dongcheng side finally arrived along the city wall. However, it is a pity that when they arrived, Zheng Jun's foot guards who climbed up to the top of the city through the cloud ladder also reluctantly organized two queues, and fired a volley at the location where the footsteps came.
Although the salvo caused limited losses to the Qing army, the momentum of the Qing army was stagnant, and when they remembered that the Zheng army's infantry was also about to be reloaded, another group of Zheng army's infantry men landed on the top of the city, so the Qing army was once again subjected to a salvo!
However, the Qing army was outnumbered after all, and they pounced regardless of casualties, so that the Zheng army had to give up loading and shooting and use a gun array to meet the enemy. The Qing army thought that as long as it was close, it would make the Zheng army helpless, but they did not expect to encounter a more terrible gun array, so among the seven hands and eight feet, the Qing army, which had a huge advantage in numbers, was blocked by one-tenth of their opponents.
"Wan Sheng!" In the middle of the battle, Zheng Jun suddenly broke out into a burst of cheers, and the Qing army looked back in panic, only to see that the East Gate Tower had turned into a huge torch, but it was ignited by Zheng Jun's blazing bomb, and the right battalion of the Governor of the Dilemma did not know whether the East Gate was lost, and the sound of cheers came from the city again. "The gates are open!"
Leaning over, they found that a steady stream of Zheng Juntong's Wengcheng of Wumen poured into Jiaxing City, and the right battalion of the governor was demoralized and fled one after another, at this time they may have only one thought, that is, to return to the east gate to join the brigade
In fact, if the Qing army in Xicheng could have come over for reinforcements earlier, Wangwumen would not have fallen so easily, but what is the Qing army on the front line of Tongyuemen doing at the moment?
It's not that Fu Gan didn't send reinforcements, as a veteran of the war for many years, although Fu Gan was greedy for money and afraid of war, but he also understood the truth that there were eggs under the nest, so as soon as the alarm of the West Gate sounded, he immediately ordered a leader of the Eight Banners, a Mongolian Eight Banners Xiao Cavalry School and a Han Army Banner Leader to lead four hundred reinforcements to the North Gate, but the four hundred troops just followed the city wall to the northwest for reinforcements, and the Zheng Army's modified gunboats approached the Chenghai Gate and the Xiaoximen Water Pass and opened fierce fire, and at the same time, the Zheng Army's heavy artillery successively broke down two sections of the west city wall, Immediately forced Fu Gan to chase back the troops he sent, and only let a man with fifty banner soldiers to urge three hundred people to reinforce Wangwumen, and this time was delayed.
The three hundred and fifty reinforcements who led the order soon ran into four or five defenders of the North Gate covered in blood on the way to reinforcements, and these people knew that the Zheng army was wearing invulnerable armor, and they frightened dozens of Manchurian masters at once, so they couldn't advance, and waited until a sentry of the Zheng army advanced from Wangwu Gate in a battle formation, and after a burst of fire between the two sides that came into contact, the banner soldiers left Minzhuang and scattered. Since the master has escaped, the minions of these minions naturally have no ambition, and immediately kneel down and surrender
A steady stream of the Zuohu Guards poured into Jiaxing City, and the brigade turned to Chunbo Gate to kill, while the small troops pounced on the Daotai Yamen and the Prefect's Yamen. Because the Anketu people supervised the war at the east gate, the Daotai Yamen was almost undefended, but Sun Zhiguo closed the gate of the Yamen and resisted to the death.
"Shoot!" A group of soldiers fired a volley at the gate of the palace, but they couldn't break the thick gate at all, and prepared the wall, but someone in the courtyard was sniping at close with a soft bow, and several Zheng soldiers were shot in the head and fell down, so the angry squad leader ordered. "Go fetch the cannons"
The 1st Regiment of the Zheng Army had four sentry posts, and each outpost was assigned one or two 2-inch guns as accompanying fire during the attack, so he just reported to the team leader and the sentry officer, and the squad leader quickly got what he wanted. Although the two-inch cannon is not very powerful, it is easy to break through the gate of the palace. When the lead bullets fired at close range drilled terrible holes in the gate and wall, the back hall of the government suddenly burst into flames.
"The prefect is on fire!" There was a cry from the palace that made the Zheng soldiers inexplicable, and when the Zheng army broke through the door, they found that the errand soldiers and the people who were still resolutely resisting just now had fallen to their knees. "I'll wait for the beggar to surrender and beg Master Zheng Jun to spare my life."
"That prefect committed suicide by throwing himself into the fire?" After finally hearing the other party's obscure Nanzhili official words, the team leader's face sank. "What is the death of the prefect, isn't there still Tongzhi, Tongju, the Experience Division, the Zhaoma Office, the Prison Division, the professors, the library ambassadors, the warehouse ambassadors, the ambassadors of the Propaganda Division, the tax department ambassadors, the inspectors and other officials are all located, don't say that they are all dead, and immediately lead us to block the various libraries, in addition, there is no fire"
The sky-high fire of the prefect's yamen made the shape of Jiaxing City turn to the side that was favorable to the Zheng army, and the panicked people scattered in a hurry, and they joined relatives and friends, and the green flag soldiers in the city also followed suit, and the soldiers of the Qing army fought less and less, and soon, the Chunbo Gate also fell into the hands of Zheng Jun, and An Ketu, who was trapped in the city tower, was forced to choose to commit suicide by hanging the beam.
At this time, several times in the Chunbo Gate to launch a containment attack of the right tiger guard division like a tide into the city, the battle began to expand to the west, south when the sky gradually brightened, Zheng Jun seized the west gate again, Fu Gan was shot into a sieve when commanding the resistance, and with his death and the right Yi guard division into the city, Zheng Jun's strength in the city has an absolute advantage, so far, Jiaxing changed hands is a foregone conclusion
On the fifth day of the eighth month of the 43rd year of the Yongli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, Jiaxing, an important town in northern Zhejiang, changed hands, 27 generals below the deputy commander of the Qing garrison army were killed in battle, 17 civil officials such as Hangjiahu coastal defense Beidao, Jiaxing prefect, and Jiaxing prefect were martyred, and 4,000 defenders were all captured and annihilated, and 33 large families in the city were also exiled to the extreme south for reasons such as finding out that they had paid the Qing army and served as a puppet official
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