Chapter 412: Two Cities (Text)

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Yangzhou boundary, outside Taixing County.

Thousands of ordinary people fled in a hurry, and the squires of the villages around the county did not want to flee to the county seat.

Chen Huwei held a blood-stained water-splitting thorn in one hand and a sharp long knife in the other, and the pirates rushed forward from him, driving away those in front of him like hungry tigers.

Chen Huwei shouted: "Catch the rich, don't care about those poor ghosts, we are now officers and soldiers!"

After shouting these words, he thought about it, laughed, suddenly realized, and repeated again, "We are now officers and soldiers!" ”

The gate of Taixing closed slowly, ignoring the people who were crying on the city gate.

A few days ago, the Taixing County Commander heard that a group of water cowards had recently come to Jingjiang Island, but he didn't expect to dare to invade the territory of Taixing County.

"Catch the one in the silk clothes!" Chen Huwei took a step and slapped a pirate on the head, "This person has several holes in his pants, what are you doing with him?" ”

The pirate was dazed, looked at Chen Huwei timidly, and said, "I just heard a few villagers call him young master!" ”

"Young Master?"

The spike in Chen Huwei's left hand swept away the young man's scattered head, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's true, the thin skin and tender meat were almost deceived by him and brought back to the island." ”

The pirate, who had just been scolded, was overjoyed, grabbed the young man's head with one hand, kicked him hard, and scolded: "I'll let you run!" ”

The pirates did not attack Taixing City, Chen Huwei had no interest in attacking the city and plundering land, and the food and wealth of these villages outside the city were enough for him to carry for a while. Two hours later, the pirates drove the strong man along the road to the river, carrying bags of freshly harvested rice.

Chen Huwei walked up to a group of captives who looked like they had some status, and shouted: "As long as you are obedient, Lao Tzu will not kill people casually!" When I arrived on the island, I sent a few letters home, and the food was delivered, so I naturally released them. ”

It's just that his expression makes people doubt the truth of these words.

Chen Huwei arrived on Jingjiang Island for less than a week, and there was not even a single pedestrian in the Jiangbei boundary of Taixing County, and the pirates carried grain and various supplies to the island every day. In the past, this place belonged to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, guarded by sailors, and now it has become a paradise for pirates.

The pirates are at their busiest in the few days after the summer grain harvest.

Chen Huwei started his life, and even climbed 6 on the Changzhou boundary on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and walked around in front of several guard posts such as Xiaohezhai, completely ignoring the fact that Liu Liangzuo's army was hundreds of miles away.

The pirates are so arrogant, thinking about the places they didn't dare to come to before, now they can walk around openly, and they can even catch a few squires and go back to torture for a while, Chen Huwei is refreshed, and he is excited for ten days before he goes down.

If there is more food to rob, it will be sent to Chongming Island, Chen Huwei and Gu San Mazi used to be mixed in Zhejiang, and they are from Zhejiang, Gu San Mazi likes to make friends, and the relationship between the two is quite harmonious.

Of course, the silver is to be kept for itself.

After all the qi calmed down, Jiangyin City, more than ten miles away, finally attracted Chen Huwei's attention.

He took a boat to a place about a mile offshore, the Qing captured the city, and the Jiangyin rebels defended the city, and the two sides seemed to be performing for Chen Huwei.

After watching it for two or three days, Chen Huwei seemed to be addicted, and every morning when he heard the sound of shouting and killing, he would take a boat to the shore, and sometimes he didn't want to move, so he sat on Jingjiang Island and listened.

Hearing the excitement, he couldn't help but stand up and take a turn on the beach, pull out the spikes and wipe them on the rough palm, and said to himself: "Damn, Jiangyin people, enough guys!" ”

But when he saw the continuous barracks on the shore, he quickly gave up the idea of going to help.

The army of Duoduo came to the city of Hangzhou for 30 days.

Liu Liangzuo's troops besieged Jiangyin City on the twenty-fifth day.

Hangzhou City and Jiangyin City, one south and one north, mark that Jiangnan has not yet fallen.

Hangzhou city head.

The slowly approaching siege vehicles looked like monsters with fangs and claws, the archers on the top were full of arrows, and there were many dead and wounded on the wall on the east side of the north gate.

Feng Qin stood in the open space on the inside of the city wall and looked up, through the clairvoyant mirror, he could see every movement of the archers on the towering siege vehicles beyond the head of the city wall.

Chen Zilong stood beside him, breathing heavily, and he saw with his own eyes that soldiers fell from the top of the city and smashed on the ground four hundred steps away. Immediately, two strong men rushed over, put the body on a stretcher, and sent it to the wounded barracks in Nancheng District, leaving a pool of blood on the ground.

"General!"

Chen Zilong knew that he didn't dare to disturb Feng Qin, but he couldn't help it.

Feng Qin was relieved of the clairvoyant mirror, squeezed out a smile, and said, "Lord Chen, rest assured!" He didn't waste any more time on Chen Zilong, and quickly turned his head and ordered: "Order the soldiers of the northern city wall to retreat into the Tibetan Soldier Cave, and Yuan Qizhou is ready to attack!" ”

"Yes!"

Moments later, the defenders on the oncoming ramparts retreated to the towers on both sides, quietly waiting for the siege vehicle to approach.

The flying fire crows and rockets in the battlements on both sides of the tower flew like a dense rainstorm towards the approaching siege vehicles.

Fifty or sixty paces away from the city wall, the cowhide outside a siege car was ignited, and tung oil rockets pierced through the cracks, black smoke surrounded the inside of the car, and the archers on the roof of the car were soon shrouded in black smoke. The fire crow pounced, and the clay pot filled with gunpowder exploded in the car, and the smoke became even thicker. The soldiers who followed the car looked up reluctantly, and they did not give up the siege vehicle until a few archers fell from the roof of the car, like big birds with broken wings, and fell heavily on the hard ground, bleeding from their mouths and noses.

The armor behind the other siege engines shouted angrily: "Hurry up! "The cart wrestlers who only wore cloth shirts sweated like rain.

The scorching heat of the fire roasted the cowhide, and the soldiers hiding inside the skin frantically poured water on the hides and planks.

The last 200 steps were the most dangerous, and as long as they were close to the city walls, at least ninety percent of the rockets could no longer fire at the siege vehicles because they could not shoot from parallel angles.

One had a behemoth with smoke rising from it, and three of the six siege engines were burned.

"Hurry, hurry!"

Thirty paces away from the city wall, a group of bird gunners rushed out of the caves on both sides, ignoring the deadly feather arrows, and shot at the archers on the high platform.

The two sides completely ignored their own casualties and opened their minds to shoot at each other, which was the prelude to the white-knuckle battle at the head of the city.

The grenadier threw the clay pot of gunpowder that lit the fuse, and the moment the pot was released, an arrow was plunged into his chest.

Under the siege engine, the soldiers climbed up the wooden ladder, and the faster they climbed, the closer they got to the city.

"Quick! Fast! ”

The wrestler's arm of the cart is tense.

"Bang!"

The axles hit the walls, and the wrestlers stopped, opening their mouths and spitting hot air.

A few of the birds that were still alive at the head of the city quickly turned around and left, and the top of the city head and siege engines, which were still shooting fiercely just now, turned out to be calm.

In the siege vehicle, the armorers drew their thick knives.

In the cave of the Tibetan soldiers, the armor soldiers carried huge axes in their hands.

"Smack!" With a loud bang, the planks of the siege trucks against the wall fell and hit the wall, and the Jurchen armor soldiers swarmed out.

Four hundred steps away, Chen Zilong was holding the clairvoyant mirror tightly, in fact, at such a close distance, he could not see more clearly without the clairvoyant mirror.

At the entrance of the cave where the soldiers were hidden, two armorers rushed out, they did not raise their blades, but the two of them carried a tiger squat cannon together, and a man who followed closely behind the back door held a torch in his hand.

Twenty steps away from the Qingyu warrior who pounced, the two men in front of him were placing the tiger squat cannon on the bluestone slab at the head of the wall, and the muzzle of the cannon stood diagonally towards the sky like a hungry tiger opening its mouth.

The man in the back shouted, "Get out of the way!" "Reach for the torch and get close to the lead behind the tiger's butt.

Fifteen steps, ten steps!

There was an earth-shattering bang at the head of the city, "Bang! ”。 The muzzle of the tiger squatting cannon spewed fire, smoke, and countless flying iron nails and stones, and the five or six Qingyu armor soldiers who rushed up only felt the bones in their chests sink down, and in the look of disbelief on their faces, they saw their chests become full of holes, and the blades in their hands fell to the ground.

Then, then they saw that the sun in the sky was so bright, so dazzling!

In the cave of the Tibetan soldiers, the armor soldier came out, and the long pole of the three-eyed gun was aimed at the front, followed by a strong man carrying a tiger squat cannon.

In the square, with a mocking smile in the corner of Feng Qin's mouth, Qing Lu tried every possible way to climb to the top of the city, but he didn't know that he was trying to eliminate the elite of Qing Lu at the head of the city. With the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Three-Eyed Gun that burst at close range, what advantage can the armor have in a city where it is impossible to spread its troops? It's just a few pieces of iron armor sent to Hangzhou City.

The tiger squat cannon is like a small monster with an open mouth spraying iron nails and sharp stones, and some of them directly hit the siege vehicles, blasting the wooden planks covered with cowhide full of holes.

There was a siege car at the bow and a few surviving archers, who were still making their last efforts, despite the sore arms. But he was facing a heavily armored foot soldier, and the arrow could not inflict fatal damage unless he was shot in the face.

The commandos in the caves on both sides of the Tibetan soldiers marched towards the city wall step by step.

The Qing prisoners, who had just crawled out of the siege vehicle, felt that their companions who had gone out first kept retreating, sandwiching them in the middle, unable to move.