Chapter Seventy-Five: Catching Turtles

Gu Kecheng held the Yanling knife in his hand, standing on top of the tower in the southern city, looking at the scene in the city with a solemn face.

The air was filled with the unpleasant smell of blood, and there were noisy human voices in his ears, but none of this could affect Gu Kecheng's mood.

According to the original plan, the group sneaked out of the camp.

There were not many guards and servants guarding Fang City, and they easily eliminated them all.

took the blade that had been hidden in the city a long time ago, and took advantage of the cover of night.

There were not many soldiers on duty, and they also focused on the Ming army outside the city, and they were easily dealt with by them.

The fierce fighting between the eastern and northern cities attracted almost all the energy of the Ming army, and they gave a predetermined signal, and immediately opened the city gates.

More than 800 elite horsemen, who had already been ready to go on the outskirts of Chunhua South City, lit torches and rushed straight towards Chunhua City along the foothills.

Everything went as smoothly as it did when the gates were opened in Sanshui City.

It's just that when the elite horsemen outside the city flocked into the city and marched all the way down the streets, they were not as unimpeded as they were in Sanshui, causing chaos in the city.

Gu Kecheng suddenly saw that on the streets of Chunhua Nancheng, three fires suddenly lit up.

And the light of the fire was cut across the road to enter the city.

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As a county seat, Chunhua County has a limited population and is not large.

The road left between the markets is only seven or eight meters wide, and the main street is more than ten meters wide.

The elite soldiers who entered the city from the southern city rode their horses and galloped, their eyes flashing with red light.

After breaking the city, as elite horsemen, they are eligible to choose the spoils of war in the city first.

Dai Cheng held the saber in his hand and couldn't help licking his lips, Sanshui City broke his luck very well, and he and a few people from the same team crashed into the mansion of a rich family first.

Not only did he get a lot of gold and silver, but the rich man also had several wives and concubines, and many maids and servants, all of whom were divided up by them.

Thinking of the two beautiful women placed in the camp, Dai Cheng's lower abdomen couldn't help but give birth to an evil fire.

He was originally a servant, and those young ladies of the Zhu family, wives and concubines all lived in the deep boudoir compound.

He used to look at it from a distance at most, and he didn't even dare to think about it.

But now, those ladies and ladies were kneeling at his feet and trembling, and he was even a little tired of looking at them.

But it doesn't matter, if you're tired of watching, go grab another one.

Although Chunhua City is a little smaller, there are many rich families.

Dai Zheng was thinking about what would happen after the city was broken, and he laughed wildly.

The surrounding elite cavalry also looked extremely relaxed, just waiting to kill the Ming army defending the city, and then directly burn Chunhua to the ground.

Nowadays, there is no military discipline.

At the beginning, Chen Qiyu's soldiers surrounded Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

Gao Yingxiang and others pretended to surrender, but Chen Qiyu thought that the rebels really surrendered in a desperate situation, and they could be accomplished without much effort, so they decided to appease.

As a result, after Gao Yingxiang and others led their soldiers and horses out of the encirclement, they got supplies and immediately rebelled.

The "History of the Ming Dynasty" records very clearly:

"Qi Yu is a light thief, Xu Zhi, the generals will not be killed, and the states and counties they pass through will be teleported."

"The thief crosses the stack, that is, the big noise, and slaughters all the seven states and counties."

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the army in the early and middle periods was by no means a benevolent and righteous army.

The well-disciplined, innocent rebels only appeared in the early and later stages of the uprising.

In the middle period, most of it was chaotic and mixed.

At that time, many people had forgotten what they were revolting for in the first place, and many of them did not grow enough in their vision.

And now is the middle of the uprising, when the situation is at its most chaotic.

Dai Cheng drove the war horse and followed the front team around the corner, and just as he was still thinking about what to do next, a dazzling fire in front of him made him involuntarily squint his eyes.

Through the gap, staring at the firelight in the distance, Dai Cheng saw that on their way, several strange-shaped carts blocked their way.

Under the firelight, there were one after another fiery red flags - it was the Ming army!

"Kill it!"

Without too many words, the cruel command of the management team sounded in the cavalry.

When they first entered Sanshui City, the Ming army also relied on the streets to stop them, but those people fell under their swords and guns

The walls are gone, so what's the use of fortifying the streets?

"Woo————"

The muffled sound of the horn sounded slowly, and the elite cavalry of the rushing army on the street, which had been advancing rapidly, began to deliberately slow down.

The leading conductor had already seen the frame of the car blocking the street.

He still couldn't do the stupid thing of driving the war horse straight to the barricade, so he naturally had to dismount and fight.

Dai Cheng untied a round shield from the saddle, pulled out the saber at his waist, and stared at the Ming army not far away, the corners of his mouth showed a cruel smile.

If you cut off the heads of a few more Ming soldiers and become a management team, you will be able to have more power, how can this not make people desire!

It's just that in the next moment, Dai Cheng's smile froze on his face.

Because, everyone saw that puffs of gunpowder smoke were rising from the front.

In the next moment, a loud roar rushed down the narrow street.

Dai Cheng watched not far in front of him, the pipe team that had been roaring and ordering before was broken in two by the cannon, and then saw another person who was almost beaten into a sieve.

More smoke slowly rose and more and more torches lit.

Not only in front of the street, but on the walls on both sides of the street, a large number of Ming troops were shooting at them with bird guns.

Dai Cheng wanted to open his mouth to shout, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he felt that his entire mouth and nose were filled with the smell of rust.

He lowered his head for some reason, but saw that the blood between his waist and abdomen was gushing out.

At the last moment, he heard a thunderous explosion.

……

Gu Kecheng trembled all over, and his face turned pale.

He didn't know where it was going on.

At this time, the cannons in Chunhua City rang out in unison, and the fire was blazing.

All the elite horsemen who entered the city were blocked.

After a huge cannon fire, from the darkness of the east and west city walls, a large number of Ming troops suddenly came out, and they were coming towards the city tower of the south city.

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History of the Ming Dynasty, Biography No. 197

"Siege the city, do not kill those who surrender, keep one day to kill three out of ten, two days to kill seven out of ten, three days to slaughter."

"Whoever kills a person, binds the corpse as a fire, and it is called a light. The city was about to fall, the infantry was surrounded by 10,000 people, and the horsemen patrolled, but no one was spared. ”

"Although loyalty is cruel, it is not caught."