Chapter 417: Huizhou Chaos (Text)
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Zuo Ruo led the vanguard to march day and night, and when he arrived in Changhua one day, the defeated army of Huizhou had fled there.
Scouts continue to receive information from the dark camp.
Zhang Tianlu led the army to storm Jingde, and the rebel army of Huizhou Prefecture did not dare to respond to the enemy, and escaped from the south gate, and the county seat of Jingde fell without a fight.
If Yan Yingyuan held this qi in Jiangyin City, he could hold on for two months under the siege of 30,000 troops and annihilate Liu Liangzuo's 4,000 soldiers and horses.
Zhang Tianlu knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and if he was to let the rebels reorganize their troops and horses in Huizhou Mansion, it would be difficult to think so smoothly. However, he was also afraid of the soldiers and horses stationed in Fuyang County, and ordered someone to send a letter to Duoduo in the Hangzhou camp, asking Duoduo to send troops to contain the defenders of Fuyang.
Yang Shouzhuang, the vanguard of the Qing general, led 3,000 people to chase after Jin Sheng, and approached Jixi City, and Zhang Tianlu led 20,000 troops to guard Jingde City and other Duoduo's reply.
After Jixi is Huizhou Mansion, Jin Sheng collected the remnants of the army in Jixi, and Yang Shouzhuang did not wait for two days to follow closely under Jixi City.
Every few hours, messengers galloped towards Changhua, and the changes in the battle situation made Zhai Zhe dizzy, and when the news of the fall of Jixi came, he couldn't help but roar in the big tent: "What the hell is Huang Daozhou doing!" ”
Huang Daozhou set up camp at the foot of Cuiling Mountain in Jixi County, watching the situation collapse like a blind man, and Huizhou Mansion was like a reenactment of the Qing soldiers going down to the south of the Yangtze River.
He immediately summoned the generals, Fang Guoan, Zuo Ruo, Bao Guang, Zheng Zunqian, Sun Quanjing and Zhang Huangyan entered the county office, and looked at Zhai Zhe's face to know that the situation was not good.
Zhai Zhe finished a few sentences of the news he had received in the past few days and said: "In short, Huizhou Mansion is very dangerous, and there are only a few thousand defenders in the city. Huang Daozhou prepared to lead a large army to the north, and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were marching north, I don't know if he didn't know, or he couldn't react, and he didn't react to the Qing pioneers dozens of miles away. ”
"Zuo Ruo obeys orders!"
"In!"
"The progress of your troops and horses is fast, and you will immediately march to Huizhou Mansion day and night, and you must occupy Huizhou Mansion before you are captured."
Zuo Ruo arched his hand and replied, "Obey!" He thought about it, and asked again before turning around, "What if Huang Daozhou returns to Huizhou Mansion?" ”
"Zodiac Zhou can't hold it when he returns to Huizhou Mansion!" Zhai Zhe closed his eyes, hesitated for a while, and said, "If he retreats, you will be stationed near Huizhou and wait for my army to come." Ji Hong is already in the Huizhou Mansion and will deliver the news to you. ”
"Yes!"
Zuo Ruo walked away quickly.
Zhai Zhe's eyes wandered over the generals, and then shouted: "Zhang Huangyan!" ”
Zhang Huangyan didn't expect Zhai Zhe to call him, but he reacted very quickly, and immediately went out to give up, "Here!" "I was faintly excited, after practicing martial arts for so many years, I finally had the opportunity to fight.
"Give you a thousand soldiers and horses, you collect the defeated troops everywhere under the banner of General Pinglu, march all the way to the direction of Yuling Pass, and at the same time spread the news that General Pinglu led an army of 100,000 to rescue Huizhou."
"Ahh Zhang Huangyan raised his mouth, "Obey!" ”
100,000 troops! Zhai Zhe also dared to say. But Zhang Huangyan quickly understood Zhai Zhe's intention, which was to pour a bowl of strong wine on the defeated soldiers who had lost their courage to strengthen their courage.
"The rest of the soldiers and horses immediately pulled out the camp and marched in the direction of Yuling Pass!"
The military conference lasted only a few moments.
Zuo Ruo led the army to leave first.
Zhai Zhe was very anxious, Jixi was only half a day's journey from Huizhou Mansion, and it took one day and one night to march from Changhua to Huizhou Mansion, and it took two days for the army to walk. Zodiac Zhou's Northern Expedition is now a lure of wolves.
The Chinese army will go out again in the afternoon, Fang Guoan's army will walk in front, Zhai Zhe will lead a thousand personal guards in the Chinese army, and Zheng Zunqian and Sun Quan will lead 8,000 recruits at the end.
All the way is a ravine, the mountains on both sides of the road are stacked, and the grass and trees are slightly yellow.
The Zhejiang soldiers were not afraid to take the mountain road, and the mountains were left behind.
Zuo Ruo forcibly marched all the way, and his soldiers were tempered by thousands of tempers, and he was also tired and panting in his shouting and scolding. The soldiers and gods come out at the time and arrive at Yuling Pass at the time. After Yuling Pass, it is the road leading to Jixi and Huizhou.
When he arrived at Yuling Pass, Zuo Ruo saw that the banner of the Ming Dynasty was still set up at the pass, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
The army gathered under the Yuling Pass, and Zuo Ruo's soldiers with a loud voice shouted at the pass: "We are the army of General Pinglu who came to the rescue of Huizhou Mansion and open the gate!" ”
The defenders rushed to the point in a panic and set up a bird gun against the army that was constantly pouring on the official road.
"Open the door, open the door! The Qing captured Jixi and went to the direction of Huizhou Mansion. ”
A military general showed his head at the battlement at the juncture, and shouted inwardly: "Don't think that I don't know who you are, I was ordered by the university to guard Yuling Pass, King Lu is rebellious, and General Pingyu is also rebellious." ”
Zuo Ruo heard it clearly, stepped forward with an expressionless face, and replied in person: "It's all the army of the Ming Dynasty, and the Huizhou Mansion is in danger, don't delay it." ”
The military general spoke disdainfully and responded: "Huizhou Mansion has an army of 30,000 scholars, and it will soon be able to expel the Qing prisoners, and the general will not worry about it." ”
Zuo Ruo's face turned cold, and he warned: "I put the three guns, and after the three guns, if I don't open the door again, don't blame me for being polite!" ”
The guards on the walls retracted their heads.
Zuo Ruo waved his hand, and the soldiers around him raised the bird gun and released a gun into the sky, quickly loaded the ammunition, ignited and released another gun.
After the three guns, the gates were closed.
Zuo Ruo turned around and left, and brazenly ordered: "Siege!" ”
The foot soldiers lined up in front of Yuling Pass, and the two rows of armor soldiers in the front row raised their iron shields diagonally upwards to approach the gate, and the bird gunners raised their guns in the back.
The defenders on the city wall saw that the posture was approaching, and they randomly raised their guns and cast them down, and after a chaotic sound of guns, a black smoke came out of the city wall, and someone coughed violently. Only a few lead bolts struck the marching armor, smashing against the iron shield with a crisp sound.
The sound of the wall has just passed, and the bird has raised the triangular flag, and the voice has rhythmically given the order: "Forward, aim, Shi Gong!" ”
The sound of the bird boom was extremely short, but it was ten times louder than the sound of the bird guns released by the defenders at the head of the city. Although the bird's shot was not as accurate as a bow and arrow, eighty percent of the lead hit the battlements of the wall.
The defenders at the head of the city were loading ammunition, and some of them were hiding behind the stone walls, and some fell in pools of blood with the "clanging" of lead against the masonry.
Zuo Ruo's expression was indifferent, as if the head of the city was Qingyu.
The armor soldiers quickened their pace to the city wall, some erected iron shields to protect their heads, and others raised their huge axes to slam the city gates.
In front of Yuling Pass, the five columns of birds and guns were released in sections, and even a single figure could not be seen in the suppression of the defenders at the head of the city.
"Bang-bang-bang!"
The tip of the giant axe slashed into the thick wood wrapped in iron sheets, the front man was exhausted, the later people followed, and the defenders of Yuling Pass shouted indiscriminately at the head of the city, and only indiscriminate shouting remained. Zuo Ruo waited for two quarters of an hour, and the city gate was finally split. The armor ignited a poisonous fireball and put it in, and the defenders inside the door dispersed in a hurry.
Half an hour later, they entered Yuling Pass, and the defenders in the pass had already collapsed. Zuo Ruo did not pursue, left 500 soldiers and horses to garrison, ordered the scouts to investigate in the direction of Jixi and Huizhou Mansion, and led a large army to Huizhou Mansion in a hurry.
It was already dark, and there was a guide who was familiar with the road to guide the way, and the soldiers walked for half an hour to rest for a quarter of an hour, and sent scouts to investigate the mountains and forests ahead of them, so as to prevent the Qing captives from ambushing and attacking.
At midnight, the scout brought with him a pedestrian who claimed to be a messenger from the Hidden Camp. When the man arrived at Zuo Ruo's Chinese army, he exchanged codes with his companions there to confirm that it was correct, and said a bombshell news: "Huizhou Mansion is lost!" ”
Zuo Ruo couldn't believe how a city could be lost so lightly.
The messenger spoke very methodically, and said: "Today, Yang Shouzhuang, the pioneer of the Qing Dynasty, led 3,000 foot soldiers to the outside of Huizhou City, and the squires of Huizhou City saw that the defenders in the city were insufficient, and the rout soldiers were panicked, and the army of the old Huangge was nowhere to be seen, so they collectively surrendered. The Commander has ordered me to report the news. "The great commander he said refers to Ji Hong, and the second commander of the dark camp is Wang Yi, who has gone to the north.
At the time of unitary, it was the time when Zuo Ruo was attacking Yuling Pass.
Zuo Ruo listened very carefully, and immediately asked: "You said that there are only 3,000 people in Huizhou City?" ”
"There were only 3,000 when I left!"
Zuo Ruo didn't say a word, and immediately ordered: "Add the march, you must rush to the city of Huizhou before dawn!" ”
The soldiers began to run forward, no longer caring whether there was an ambush on the road ahead, and the heavily armored soldiers were left behind, and people kept falling behind along the way. Zuo Ruo asked the guide to find a convenient path to march quickly, but there was only one thought, he must not let the Qing army enter Huizhou City.
The messenger passed through Yuling Pass to inform the Chinese army Zhai Zhe, and the Huizhou Mansion was in chaos, Huang Daozhou's army did not know where it was, and Zhang Tianlu's army did not know where it was. If the news is correct, the Huizhou Mansion has almost completely fallen.
Before dawn, Zuo Ruo finally saw the outline of Huizhou Mansion, he didn't know whether the Qing army had entered Huizhou, and ordered the soldiers and horses to ambush in the mountains and forests on the side of the official road not far in front of the north gate of Huizhou, and at the same time ordered scouts to monitor the four gates.
A small group of soldiers and horses caught some people near Huizhou Mansion and inquired, knowing that there was no large group of people entering Huizhou City last night, Zuo Ruo was relieved.
As soon as the sky was bright, a group of people came in a mess on the official road in the north, and the posture did not look like the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, because they did not shave their braids.
Zuo Ruo ordered the army not to act rashly, and waited for the soldiers and horses that were left behind to follow. As long as Zhang Tianlu's army does not appear, he will not be in a hurry to make a move.
There are more and more routs, crowded with official roads, and they are all running in the direction of Huizhou Mansion. Zuo Ruo saw his scouts crowding up the mountain in the chaos, and the rout was ignored.
He ordered his own soldiers to arrest a person and go up the mountain, and after careful inquiry, he learned that Huang Daozhou's barracks were attacked by Zhang Tianlu last night, and the rout escaped from there.
"Where did Zodiac Zhou go!" Zuo Ruo grabbed the chest of the rout, if it was a few days ago, he might have called Huang Ge Lao respectfully.
The rout's head shook like a rattle, "I don't know, the Qing captives are fierce, and they enter the camp in the middle of the night, and we can't see the elder Ge, so we can only flee back to Huizhou Mansion first." ”
Zuo Ruo laughed angrily, "Don't you know that Huizhou Mansion has been lost?" ”
The rout rolled his eyes and collapsed to the ground.