If there is a regret medicine in this world, Li Shutai must want to have one, and travel to a few hours ago to slap himself hard at that time.

It's a pity that there is no such thing as regret medicine, Li Shutai smiled bitterly and looked at the Ming army that surrounded this place outside the city, and knew that he must have folded here today.

A few hours ago, he still wanted to retreat into the city to hold on, and wait for Chen Tai, who was still in the north of the city, to lead the army to help, but who knew that Chen Tai actually directly ignored his order, and when the Ming army entered the city in a big way, he directly chose to abandon him and the Eight Banners soldiers and their families in the city, and led the soldiers and horses in the north of the city to collect the scattered routs all the way, break through from the Genshan Gate, and then there was no movement.

As soon as Chen Tai broke through, the entire city of Hangzhou fell under the control of the Ming army except for the full city here, and the Ming troops of Qiantang Gate and Wulin Gate also entered the city one after another to pacify the chaos in the north of the city.

He didn't resent Chen Tai, if he put himself in Chen Tai's position, he wouldn't risk being wiped out by the Ming army in Hangzhou to save himself, he only hated himself for believing too much in the Han generals, and actually let the Han garrison take advantage of the opportunity to open the door for the Ming army to enter the city, but at the same time, he couldn't figure out where the Manchurian soldiers of Niu Lu who stayed behind in Qingbo Gate went, and the Ming army entered the city without any movement, and it was impossible for the Manchurian soldiers of Niu Lu to follow the Ming Dynasty.

Just when Li Shutai was thinking nonsense, outside the city, Su Yan looked at the invading city standing on the shore of the West Lake, and said to Zhang Huangyan beside him: "Xuanzhu, do you know the origin of this city?" ”

"Inspector, the lowly position is naturally understood." Zhang Huangyan arched his hand and said: "This full city is the Qing court in order to stabilize the local rule, suppress the heart of our Han resistance, and set up a banner station here, after the flag people are stationed in Hangzhou, they do evil in the local area, bullying men and women, and now my king has returned, and the evil deeds should be punished, so as to show the prestige of tomorrow." ”

"Not bad." Su Yan smiled and nodded, he looked at Zhang Mingzhen again, and asked, "I don't know what Dingxihou has to say?" ”

Zhang Mingzhen didn't expect Su Yan to ask himself, he thought for a few seconds, and said: "Back to the superintendent, the last general thinks that after the Manchus entered Jiangnan, they slaughtered a lot of our Han people, and they should return blood for blood, tooth for tooth, and execute all the barbarians in this city, so as to avenge the unjust death of the Han people in the land of Jiangnan." ”

Su Yan listened to this, and glanced at him with some surprise, but he didn't expect that this marquis who was born as a military general actually thought the same as himself, he nodded, and said: "Dingxi Hou's opinion is deeply to my heart, the barbarians are not afraid of virtue and morality, only if they hurt them, they will regret the sins they committed in the past, and after attacking the city, they will execute all the Tartars inside." ”

"The Inspector is wise!"

Zhang Mingzhen happily said that he thought that Su Yan, who was a civil official, would refute his murderous remarks, but he didn't expect that he would actually adopt his own opinion, but Zhang Mingzhen thought about it again, and he was not surprised when he thought of Shang Kexi, who was escorted to Fuzhou for execution in the past.

Zhang Huangyan listened to the conversation between the two of them, his face remained unchanged, although he was a civilian official, he had also seen countless scenes of Qing soldiers slaughtering people, and his heart was full of hatred for the Qing army, Su Yan behaved like this, he naturally would not object.

While Su Yan and a few people were talking, dozens of artillery pieces were finally sent into the city from outside the city, and they were erected in a row outside the city, although the city was surrounded by a city wall, but there was no artillery loaded on it, so the people inside could only use bows and arrows and bird guns to resist the attack of the Ming army.

"Overseer, the artillery has been erected!"

After the artillery was lined up, an artillery officer trotted up to Su Yan and saluted him, shouting that Su Yan knew this officer, and if memory serves, he was a member of the army with the 12-pounder infantry gun.

"Reload your ammunition and shell freely."

Su Yan said.

"Whoa!"

The officer answered, and then ran back to the artillery position, and raised the colored flags symbolizing the loading, and as he moved, the artillerymen poured gunpowder and projectiles into the barrels one after another, and then compacted them with pounding pipes, and when each gun was loaded, the officer raised the colored flags of the shelling, and shouted at the same time:

"Fire!"

Rumble –

After the words fell, the eight 12-pounder infantry guns and ten Hongyi cannons launched an artillery bombardment on the city wall, and after a volley, the front of the artillery position was shrouded in gunsmoke.

After this round of shelling, there were several more craters on the city wall, and cracks of more than a meter spread outward around the craters, and several battlements on the wall were also shattered.

"Shoot your own guns!"

After this order was issued, according to the first round of exploratory artillery bombardment, the artillerymen who had obtained a more accurate shot adjusted the angle and launched a new shelling, so in the next quarter of an hour, a continuous cannon sound sounded outside the city, and from time to time there were shells flying over the city wall and smashing into the buildings inside the city, causing a burst of chickens and dogs jumping, and the family members of the banner family cried for their fathers and mothers.

Although Li Shutai was annoyed by the "coward" behavior of the Ming army who only dared to shell and did not dare to attack, he could not do anything about it, in order to prevent unnecessary casualties, he withdrew the soldiers on the city wall, leaving only a few clever people to watch the wind, and after a quarter of an hour of shelling, the city wall had collapsed more, and the most serious one even collapsed, forming a slope that could allow the Ming army to attack the city.

So, Su Yan ordered to blow the horn of attack, the Ming army infantry have crossed the artillery position, towards the slope to charge, the city of the Manchu after hearing the horn of attack, also under the order of Li Shutai behind the gap to meet the enemy, bow and arrows, as long as the Ming army appears on the top of the slope will shoot clusters of arrows.

Li Shutai also held a clear bow, standing behind the crowd, he looked at the banner soldiers around him, and said with a stern expression: "Manchurian warriors, we will probably die here today, but the Manchurian warriors are not afraid of death, even if we die, we will let more Han dogs follow us to hell, and now is the time for us to serve His Majesty the Qing Emperor!" ”

"Die for the Qing Emperor!"

"Die for the Qing Emperor!"

The soldiers of the Eight Banners shouted in unison.

After a few breaths, the Ming army finally rushed up the slope, and the next second after the Ming army at the front was exposed to the shooting sight of the Qing archers, Li Shutai roared angrily, and the thumb on the bowstring was released, and the iron arrows that were almost comparable to javelins shot out of the bowstring, and the flagmen around him also shot iron arrows.

Only a few terrifying whistling sounds were heard, and the Ming army running at the forefront fell down in pieces like ears of rice after autumn, and the iron arrow shattered the shields in front of the Ming soldiers with irresistible power, and penetrated through the armor on their bodies, penetrated deep into the flesh and bones, pierced through the back, and even could even penetrate the body of the person in front of them, and shoot into the body of the robe behind him.

After a round of close-range shooting of the Qing army's iron arrows, the Ming army was suddenly killed and wounded, if according to previous experience, the Ming army at this time should have been disheartened, frightened to the point of urine, and fled in a hurry, but the Ming army in front of him seemed not to see the comrades in front of them being shot, and still stepped on the corpses of the comrades in front of them and rushed down.

The soldiers in the front row jumped in the air, raised their long knives and slashed heavily at the shield of the Qing soldiers in the forefront, or concentrated the strength of their entire bodies on the shield, and slammed into the enemy in front of him, knocking him to the ground, and before he could get up from the ground, he was hacked to death by the Qing soldiers around him, even then he used his life to force a gap for his comrades behind him.

Under the fierce charge of this Ming army, Li Shutai and the soldiers of the Eight Banners under his command only felt a deep shock and fear!

If all the Ming armies were like this, then what else could they possibly gain a foothold in this beautiful land?

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