Chapter 420: Cutting Wings (Text)
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There is no need for Yang Shouzhuang to open the door, the north gate has been opened.
Ji Hong hid on the second floor of a teahouse not far from the North City Gate, holding a teacup firmly in his only left hand, the teacup was placed to his mouth, but his eyes were aimed at the noisy street outside the window. More than 200 young and strong men armed with long and short weapons agitated, and thousands of people rushed to the direction of the north city gate. Chickens and dogs jumped in the streets, young people continued to join the queue, and the pent-up passion of the rebels after the defeat of the Zodiac Zhou burst out again.
In front of the city gate, a column of soldiers with swords grabbed the road. A few crossbow arrows flew out of the chaotic crowd and hit the arm of President Qian, and then a few strong men pressed up with knives to threaten them. These Qing captives are all shaved Han people, heard that Zhang Tianlu was defeated, one by one they lost their confidence, seeing the excitement in Huizhou City, Yang Shouzhuang did not give an order, they knew the time to get out of the way, and the young man commanded the people to open the city gate.
Three thousand soldiers couldn't hold a big city like Huizhou Mansion, and there were constantly people in the original rebel army anyway, and there were fires at all four gates, and Yang Shouzhuang leaned against the city wall.
The North City Gate Drawbridge was lowered, and the city gate was wide open.
Zhai Zhe ordered Bao Guang to lead 1,000 personal guards into the city to maintain order, prohibit the indignant people from wantonly bullying and scolding the Qing soldiers, and asked Yang Shouzhuang to lead his troops and horses out of the city to speak.
The cavalry Pegasus entered the city to put up a list of people, contacted the government officials of the Huizhou government, and organized the people to extinguish the fire.
Yang Shouzhuang gathered his soldiers and went out of the city in turn under the supervision of the righteous army in the city, Bao Guang led a thousand personal guards to follow closely behind, and Zhai Zhe led Zheng Zunqian and Sun Quanjing with a total of 8,000 recruits, holding guns and cannons.
Zhai Zhe urged him to step forward, and Fang Jin followed closely behind.
Zhai Zhe was wearing a cyan cloak, a dark and shiny armor, a grim expression, holding the reins of the war horse in his left hand and looking down, and a suppressed aura from top to bottom forced Yang Shouzhuang to naturally take a step back.
"General Yang, cut your braids! Cut off the whip, I vouch in the name of General Pinglu, no one in the Ming Dynasty will embarrass you! ”
Zhai Zhe spoke with a lot of energy, and there was a power in his voice that made people undoubted.
Yang Shouzhuang looked around, and they were surrounded by 10,000 Ming troops.
Bao Guang led his own guards to walk on the edge of the Qing Prisoner queue, many of those people were killed from Mobei to Jiangnan, and some of them had scars on their faces, which was daunting.
Yang Shouzhuang secretly exclaimed, "No wonder General Pinglu was able to confront Qinglu in Jiangnan, it turns out that there are such fierce soldiers!" ”
Bao Guang walked two steps in front of Yang Shouzhuang and scolded rudely: "Cut your braids!" ”
"Cut your braids!"
The soldiers in the back grabbed the rattail of the soldiers in front of them, and with a knife they fell, and wisps of their heads floated to the ground.
After the braids were cut, Zhai Zhe raised his hand and announced: "Okay, from now on, you are still a good man of the Han family, the husband is stable and doing the right thing, why do you need to be a slave to Dongyu." ”
In order to stabilize the feelings of these soldiers, he did not collect the weapons of the soldiers, but only asked Yang Shouzhuang to bring eight thousand generals into the camp with him, and let the three thousand soldiers be divided into two and stationed on both sides of the camp.
The soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang did not enter Huizhou City, Zhai Zhe ordered to summon the gentry in the city in the name of General Pinglu in the barracks outside the city, and at the same time asked Zhang Huangyan, who had collected the remnants of the army at Yuling Pass, to lead his troops to Huizhou outside the city. The cavalry went to the surrounding counties to announce that General Pinglu had recovered Huizhou City, and ordered the counties to release grain and grass to Huizhou City.
In less than two quarters of an hour, thirty bareheaded officials and gentry walked out of the north city gate in a panic, their steps were hurried, Yang Shouzhuang descended, and they were completely helpless.
The soldiers outside the barracks didn't give these gentry a good look, and Zhai Zhe didn't come out to greet them. These people don't care about etiquette now, whether they have been servants or prefects, after shaving their heads, they feel inferior to others.
The soldiers escorted them into the tent, and they were amazed that the general had prepared chairs for them, and each of them sat down.
Zhai Zhe changed into a robe, not as powerful as just now, he said slowly: "Because of the defeat of the old Huangge, Huizhou City suffered this catastrophe, and you have also made contributions to our army to take Huizhou Prefecture, so the merits and demerits are offset, I will no longer pursue your sin of sacrificing the city." ”
A group of people were submissive, if they hadn't shaved their heads and left their handles, they wouldn't have been so well-behaved in front of Zhai Zhe.
Zhai Zhe continued to be pleasant: "You have all been the pillars of the Ming Dynasty, in life, who can be without mistakes, but you can change your mistakes, and you are very good." ”
For the sake of a few village elders, he made a smile and replied: "Thank you, General!" ”
Zhai Zhe got up, flicked his sleeves, and said, "Please go back to peace and share your shares, don't do anything in trouble, and think more about doing your part for the court." ”
This is an eviction order, and the squires have not yet sat down on their buttocks, so they each get up in embarrassment and leave. The reason why Zhai Zhe wanted to toss these people was to trample on the pride of these squires in the generals, so that they would feel inferior in the face of the Pinglu General's Mansion in the future.
In the evening, Zhang Huangyan led 3,000 volunteers to the city of Huizhou, and in the past two days he packed up seven or eight thousand people, and the rebels spread news to each other, and the number was expanding like a snowball.
Zhai Zhe ordered Zhang Huangyan to temporarily supervise the Huizhou Mansion, enter Huizhou to take charge of the city defense, pacify the people, and at the same time collect silver taels, grain and grass from various counties, clean up the scattered remnants of the defeated generals everywhere, and recruit soldiers from nearby villages and towns to camp outside the city of Huizhou. One day after taking Huizhou, he led his troops and horses and returned to Jixi County, dozens of miles away.
It was already dark outside Jixi City, and Zuo Ruo and Fang Guoan came to report on military affairs.
Zhang Tianlu organized troops and horses to break through to the north during the day, but was repelled by Zuo Ruo's army. To the south of Jixi is Huizhou Mansion, and to the east is Yuling Pass, Zhai Zhe released these two directions, Zhang Tianlu did not dare to go, for fear of being attacked from front to back after leaving the city.
In the evening, a messenger sent a message from eastern Zhejiang.
Duoduo ordered Zhang Cunren to lead 30,000 soldiers and horses from Lin'an to Fuyang County, and the defenders, according to the previous order, did not resist, abandoned Fuyang and retreated to Zhuji.
Zhai Zhe transferred 3,000 soldiers from Zuoruo's army to merge into the Chinese army, led 3,000 soldiers overnight, and took the siege ladder and rushing car built by the army outside Jixi City during the day to the north, and surrounded Jingde County at dawn.
Yang Shouzhuang and Li Yuchun joined forces to persuade surrender under the city, but there were only 3,000 defenders in the city, and they resolutely did not open the city gate without receiving Zhang Tianlu's order.
Zhai Zhe first let the Chinese army suppress the formation, and ordered Yang Shouzhuang to lead 3,000 soldiers to attack the city.
When Yang Shouzhuang and the others arrived at the foot of Jixi City, they already knew that they had been deceived before, and Zhang Tianlu was only trapped and had not yet been defeated. Once this is done, there is no turning back, but now that he is on the thief ship, where is there a chance to escape. He peeked at the military superintendent's team following behind with rows of black holes, his heart was crossed, and he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Siege the city!" ”
The morale of the soldiers was low, and the defenders of the city were their companions who had been walking hand in hand a few days ago, but now they couldn't get up desperately, and they were completely forced by the fear behind them, and had to move forward. Whenever the sound of the city's guns sounded, the men immediately turned around and fled.
Zhai Zhe didn't really want to use these people to attack the city, but just asked Yang Shouzhuang to present a letter of submission.
Half an hour later, he ordered 3,000 soldiers to be disorganized, mixed with 8,000 recruits and 4,000 Chinese troops, a total of 15,000 soldiers and horses to go into battle at the same time, and attack the city from the four gates.
Outside the city, guns and cannons were fired, and the people in Jingde City hid in their homes and did not dare to face each other, and the defenders did not even dare to find strong men to carry firearms and feather arrows. Whenever they saw a gathering of young men in the streets, they were frightened and immediately drew their swords and dispersed.
You have to look inside, and you have to guard outside, where can three thousand people be busy?
From the early morning to the afternoon, Bao Guang led his own troops to defend the wall, from the east gate to the wall, the defenders in the city saw that the general trend had gone, saw that Yang Shouzhuang and others had already surrendered, and knew that Zhang Tianlu's army was besieged in Jixi City to break through hopelessly, each put down their weapons and asked for surrender.
Zhai Zhe ordered the guards who had previously refused to surrender to be whipped with thirty whips, and the rest of the people were not to blame for the past, cut off their braids and escorted them to the camp outside Jixi.
So far, in just two days, the army of eastern Zhejiang quickly cut through the chaos, trapped Zhang Tianlu's 15,000 people in Jixi City, and took Huizhou City and Jingde City respectively.
Zheng Zunqian led the army to settle the order in the city.
Zhai Zhe was summoning the leader of the righteous army in Jingde City, Fang Jin walked into the county office quickly, and whispered a few words in his ear.
Zhai Zhe immediately ordered Sun Quanjing to take over to entertain everyone in his place, and he strode straight to Beicheng.
There were few pedestrians on the streets, and no matter whether it was the Qing or the Ming army who occupied Jingde City, most of the people only had the idea of living at home in peace. There is a small house in the northern city, and Zheng Zunqian led the army to surround it, and there is a lot of noise inside.
When the soldiers saw Zhai Zhe coming, they got out of the way, and Zhai Zhe walked in and saw an old man with white hair pointing at Zheng Zunqian and scolding him.
"Why are you stopping me? Even if Zhai Zhe is here, he doesn't dare to do anything to me. ”
Zheng Zunqian's face was flushed, and his chest was panting, if Huang Daozhou's identity was from time to time, he wanted to let the soldiers find a rag to plug his mouth.
Zhai Zhe walked over quickly, bowed his hand and said, "Elder Huang Ge, the last general doesn't know that you are here, and the rescue is too late." ”
Huang Daozhou's face was pale, he snorted coldly, didn't say a word, and prepared to go out again.
Zhai Zhe blocked the road and asked, "Where is Huang Ge Lao going?" ”
Huang Daozhou looked at the sky and said, "I have my own place, do you still want to put me under house arrest?" "He has no face to stay here, and being rescued by Zhai Zhe from Qingyu is more uncomfortable than letting him die. Being escorted to Nanjing can still achieve his reputation, the army was defeated and lost Huizhou Mansion, the 100,000 army collapsed in three days, he really had no shame to go back to Fuzhou to see the Tang King,
Zhai Zhe has a good temper, no matter what Huang Daozhou said, he just didn't get angry, and invited him: "Now it's not peaceful outside, the Qing soldiers and horses are besieged in Jixi, the elder of the pavilion walks alone, I am afraid that the road is not safe, I have recaptured Huizhou from the hands of the Qing, please go and preside over the overall situation!" ”
Huang Daozhou hesitated for a moment and asked, "Are you the king of Tang or the king of Fenglu?" ”
"Under the order of King Lu to rescue Huizhou, whether it is King Tang or King Lu, they are all descendants of Taizu!"
Huang Daozhou's face changed, and he scolded: "Rebellion! Then he strode away, and behind him there were more than two hundred Wenchen generals who were captured by the Qing Dynasty and looked at Zhai Zhe embarrassedly, and followed his footsteps.
Zhai Zhe didn't dare to collide with him, so he hurriedly got out of the way, stretched out his hand to stay, and said, "Elder Ge, please think twice." ”
Zodiac Zhou didn't seem to hear it, and fled away.