Chapter 295: Yazhou City

It is rare to have a calm day on Qiongzhou Island.

As far as the eye can see, a group of vendors are sitting in the open space outside the city, talking and laughing on pancakes and drinking small porridge.

With a shout, the heavy wooden door slowly opened.

As a group of Qing troops rushed out, the vendors hurriedly put away their breakfast and hurriedly entered the city.

A general about forty years old on the city wall couldn't help but shake his head when he looked at the traders and people coming and going down the city.

"Look at these small people in the market, on the third watch, they have already carried supplies to the city and waited to open the door, and our soldiers waited until the rooster crowed before getting me up." The general snorted coldly.

"My lord, look at what you said, this is unprofitable and can't afford to be early, if we are also traders in business, we will get up as soon as we watch." One of the guards shouted quietly.

"Flim Flam." The general feigned anger and kicked the soldier.

Suddenly, there was a sound of horses' hooves, and an officer and soldier were galloping on the official road on a war horse, heading towards the city.

Traders and people along the way gave way one after another, lest they could avoid it.

The officer and soldier entered the city, and after dismounting, he did not have time to rest, so he hurried up to the tower.

"How? Where are the Green Battalion soldiers who changed their guards? The guerrilla general Zhang Deyuan looked at the soldiers who came in a hurry and asked.

The officer and soldier hurriedly drank a large bowl of cold water, and after relieving for a while, he spoke.

"It's ten miles away from Yazhou City."

Zhang Deyuan nodded and motioned for the officers and soldiers to go down and rest.

"My lord is really strange, according to common sense, they should have changed their guard yesterday, and we should have been guarding for two more days." When the young soldier heard this, he muttered something in a low voice.

"Stand on your post well, don't talk nonsense, don't think that General Zhang is sympathetic to the soldiers, and you can get on the nose and eyes when you wait." A general walked over and gave the recruit a vicious look.

The officers and soldiers defending the city were instantly silent.

"My lord, should we gather soldiers to change the guards under the city?" The general looked at the guerrilla general and asked.

"It's okay, let's wait until they enter the city." The guerrilla general Zhang Deyuan shook his head and ordered his soldiers to continue to defend the city.

I don't know how long it took, but on the official road not far away, a group of Qing officers and soldiers suddenly appeared.

"Huh, only now?" Then the general spat and cursed.

"What's wrong?" The guerrilla general Zhang Deyuan couldn't help frowning as he looked at the approaching soldiers who changed guards.

"What's the matter, could it be that someone is deserting? The number of officers and soldiers is wrong. "Put the general forward and take a closer look, the Qing army in front of him is more than 100 people, and it seems to be no different from before.

"Why is this lineup so neat?" Zhang Deyuan frowned.

The oncoming Qing army marched neatly, and the uniforms on their bodies were also very new.

"When did these turtle grandsons have this kind of momentum?" The general looked at the team of Qing troops in front of him and couldn't help but be speechless.

When the Qing soldiers reached about 50 paces below the city, they suddenly stopped.

"Brothers in the city, I will wait for the officers and soldiers of the Yazhou battalion to come and change the guard." One of the team leaders walked out trembling and shouted to the city. …

"Why, Bian Qian is so unavailable." In the city, Zhang Deyuan looked at the team in front of him, and there was no change of general, Bian Youluan.

"There was a group of pirates who attacked Yacun, and Bian Qian personally took dozens of Yazhou brothers to expel the pirates." The general hurriedly said.

"Who is the general behind you, why have I never seen this person in the Yazhou camp?" Zhang Deyuan saw Deng Wei behind the general manager at a glance.

At this time, Deng Wei was also wearing a general military uniform, and when Zhang Deyuan asked him like this, he couldn't help but be stunned, could it be that the generals on the city wall recognized all the officers of the Yazhou battalion.

"Nimum!" Before the Qing army commander could explain, Deng Wei angrily pushed away the Qing army commander in front of him, raised the fire gun on his waist, and headed it towards the city wall.

"Brothers, charge me and take Yazhou City." With a bang, hundreds of Qing officers and soldiers took out their long knives and rushed towards the city gate shouting.

"Close the gates to me." After hearing the sound of the gun, Zhang Deyuan secretly screamed badly, and hurriedly ordered the officers and soldiers in the city to close the door.

But the officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were all frightened.

No one expected that the soldiers who had changed their guards would suddenly attack.

In addition, with a bang, in an instant, the traders and people who came and went to the city gate exploded in an instant, some ran into the city gate, and some ran outside the city.

The more than a dozen Qing officers and soldiers guarding the city gate were stunned and unable to push away the crowd.

Taking advantage of the panic at the city gate, the officers and soldiers of the left and right battalions quickly rushed to the city.

Deng Wei picked up his long knife and swung it at the neck of a soldier defending the city, and a head with a pigtail braid flew out.

"Run, Yazhou is building the opposite." The rest of the guards were all frightened, and one by one they dropped their swords and spears and ran directly into the city.

"Brothers, rush me." Deng Weigao snorted.

More than a dozen of his own soldiers followed, and rushed into the city gate with him.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows quickly." Zhang Deyuan roared, personally picked up a bow, and shot it under the city wall.

"Whoosh," an officer and soldier who rushed towards the city wall were instantly hit by an arrow and fell to the ground.

"Brothers, the officers and soldiers of the Yazhou battalion have rebelled, everyone hurry up and defend the city wall, otherwise the city will be broken and everyone will die." Zhang Deyuan shouted, and with a desperate resistance of the only thirty or so soldiers on the city wall.

Dear, this chapter is not finished, there is still the next page ^0^ But helplessly, the number of officers and soldiers in the left and right battalions is several times that of the Qing army defending the city, and the city gate has been opened.

A large number of officers and soldiers of the left and right battalions rushed into the city with the people in tow.

The officers and men in the rear took out a handful of muskets from the carts that had been escorted over, and even carried down two three-pounder Franc cannons.

Yazhou City is an adobe structure, after the construction of the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, the city wall facilities are generally perfect.

However, the number of green battalion soldiers defending the city is too small, and the soldiers defending the city are only in their early 100s, and they cannot play the role of the city wall at all.

After all, there are only more than 800 green battalions in the entire Yazhou, and half of them have been wiped out by the Ming army.

"My lord, the rebels have already invaded the city, let's break through quickly." Put the total hurried.

At this moment, dozens of officers and soldiers of the left and right battalions had already rushed into the market with Deng Wei.

"Damn, they want to attack the county government." Looking at Deng Wei and the others who were rushing towards the direction of the county government, Zhang Deyuan couldn't help but scold angrily.

"Go and inform the brothers at the other gates, and hurry up for reinforcements." Zhang Deyuan grabbed a soldier and ordered.

"My lord, I don't have time, the rebel reinforcements are coming." Always screamed in horror.

I saw that at the end of the official road, a team of people suddenly came, and their troops were not wearing green camp uniforms at all.

Suddenly, a rain of bullets hit.

"Ahh

The general screamed, covered his face and lay straight on the ground.

"Bang bang bang!"

Lead bullets smashed into the city walls, making a strange crackling sound.

The dense rain of bullets instantly hit the Qing army on the city wall and couldn't raise their heads.

Several Baizi guns under the city wall were erected on the ground by the Ming army, and they were shot upward to the city wall through the triangular iron support.

"Don't fire the cannons, we will take this wall intact."

Seeing several artillerymen set up the Franc cannon and prepare to open fire, a co-ordinator hurriedly stopped him.

At this moment, the large army of the Ming army had arrived, and Zhang Deyuan, who saw that there was no hope of defending the city, had to jump off the city wall with the remaining more than ten Qing soldiers and run towards the market.

Dear, this chapter is over, happy reading! ^0^