Chapter 286: Hangzhou is determined to win

After the 20,000 Weisuo troops rushed into Qiantang, they were entangled with more than 10,000 people from Daniel Zhang and Xu Yong who rushed in front, with the rewards of hereditary commanders and 10,000 taels of silver.

"It's dawn in one hour, how are the preparations at the Genshan Gate?"

Huang Chunyao spoke: "Grandpa, don't worry, get ready to go, as long as the situation in Qiantang changes greatly, it will not be able to completely eliminate this reinforcement force out of the city, and it can also hit their morale, You Shiwei will definitely not be able to sit still in the city;

It's just that Wang Xiaojie's department suffered, and the pressure on their side was too great. ”

Chen Cao is also recuperating, and at this moment he has sent Zhao Xin to Jiaxing to wait for reinforcements from Shanghai, and he wants to completely take Hangzhou City within three days.

An hour passed, the sky had already opened, the hour was not at the beginning of the hour, the battlefield in front of the sudden big change, Chen Cao's eyes and more than 10,000 people surrounded by him turned the army to suddenly break through the north city of Qiantang County held by Wang Xiaojie and entered the city, and the Shence army hurriedly pursued it.

"What's going on up ahead?"

It wasn't until after a stick of incense that a herald covered in blood arrived in front of Chen Caoma: "Grandpa, Qiantang County is broken..."

The pistol in Wang Xiaojie's hand has run out of bullets, and now he is holding a commanding Yanling knife, which is dripping with blood and there are still many gaps.

"Commander, they ran south of the city."

Wang Xiaojie breathed a sigh of relief, and he didn't know why the soldiers outside the city ran desperately to the city, while the defenders inside the city were desperately running to the south of the city.

Yuan Shizhong's war horse was also dead, and at this moment, he was escorted by a group of guards and rushed to Wang Xiaojie's side on foot: "Old Wang..."

Yuan Shizhong was responsible for guarding the city wall, but in the end, the opponent outside the city suddenly used muskets on a large scale, and after a burst of fire, he couldn't raise his head, and the opponent suddenly rushed into the city by the opponent's city wall defense.

"Military seat, many soldiers were coerced by the defenders to run together in the southern city."

Wang Xiaojie looked around at the soldiers around him, and it was visible to the naked eye that there were less than 2,000 people: "How many people are there in our army?" ”

Not long after, a living staff officer limped over: "Military seat, there are so many people in the whole division." ”

Wang Xiaojie sighed, his heart was surging, there were more than 16,000 people in the 12th Division, but now there is not one in ten, and there are not even 2,000 people left.

"Order, the whole army pursues, absolutely can't let them go, kill..."

"Kill..."

You Shigong wanted to kill people, so much so that when he fled to the edge of the West Lake dock in the south of the city, he cut off the heads of several capitals and guards, and even grabbed Xu Yong to correct him on the spot.

Zuo Liangyu stepped forward to persuade him, and You Shiwei scolded his eldest brother after he arrived, and then asked his subordinates to quickly board the boat by the West Lake wharf and return to Hangzhou City, and then asked You Shigong what happened?

It turned out that You Shigong found that the rebels on the city were not many after dawn, so he took out the firearms of the housekeeper and fired fierce muskets with Yuan Shizhong's command on the city, and he couldn't lift his head for a while, so that he finally broke through Yuan Shizhong's defense line.

You Shiwei was overjoyed and concluded that the rebels in the city had become turtles in the urn, so he and Zuo Liangyu led the army into the city together.

However, to You Shiwei's surprise, Xu Yong's troops on the left flank have been fighting from Zi Shi to the present, and when it was dawn, nearly 10,000 guards who rushed into the city suddenly pressed up, and the entire army of Xu Yong's army, which was already exhausted, collapsed, and after killing more than 3,000 people, it could no longer be stopped, and began to run in the direction of Nancheng.

This run also affected the middle of the road You Shigong's department, Mu Qishan's Yunnan soldiers were already in the front, You Shigong arrived in Wang Xiaojie launched a general offensive when he stepped forward to take over, where can the Yunnan soldiers composed of firearms troops be Wang Xiaojie's opponents, after running out of ammunition, they retreated.

With Xu Yong's retreat, Daniel Zhang on the right wing also began to retreat, and this chain reaction caused the Yunnan soldiers who retreated behind You Shigong to start running backwards without knowing it.

This is the butterfly effect, starting from Xu Yong, and finally even You Shigong was coerced away.

The rout could not be suppressed at all.

On the contrary, looking at Wang Xiaojie's department, only a few hundred people under his command still have ammunition, and the rest of the people have already started white-knuckle battles.

If Xu Yong's troops did not retreat, it would only take half an hour, and Wang Xiaojie's troops would inevitably be defeated, or even killed.

However, the world is unpredictable, whether to lose or lose, to this point, can only be trapped in Hangzhou waiting for reinforcements.

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"What did you say?"

Chen Cao grabbed the herald: "Repeat it again." ”

"Back to Grandpa, according to the confession of the captured enemy prisoners, it was indeed Yulin General You Shiwei who rushed into the city."

Chen Cao regretted for a while, if he knew that You Shiwei and Zuo Liangyu personally led troops out of the city to rescue Qiantang, he would definitely have pressed all tens of thousands of people last night, and he would have captured You Shiwei no matter what.

It's a pity that the opportunity is fleeting, and there will never be a next time.

Huang Chunyao hurriedly spoke: "Grandpa, there is still a chance, You Shiwei and tens of thousands of people in Qiantang want to enter Hangzhou through Qiantang West Lake, but they can only be boats, and the ships in West Lake have no warships, most of them are flat-bottomed lake boats, and the transportation capacity is average, we can seize this time difference and immediately mobilize troops to attack Genshan Gate." ”

Chen Cao suddenly realized, nodded and began to order an attack on Genshan Gate, and then he took everyone out of the Beixinguan camp and moved in the direction of Genshan Gate.

After Qi Changguo's army entered the southern city of Hangzhou, the people in the city did not think so, thinking that it was the guards who came to the rescue, and even the patrolling inspection officers avoided these soldiers and horses from a distance.

Qi Xianye received Qi Changguo's military order, and with the only 300 cavalry under his command, he rode straight to the yamen of the governor of Zhejiang, which was located in the center of the city.

When he arrived, there were not many soldiers here at all, and the patrol soldiers guarding the door thought that reinforcements were coming, so they stepped forward to lead Qi Xianye's horse: "I don't know which general it is, please give instructions, and the little one will go to the governor of Tongyu." ”

Qi Xianye quickly drew his knife and cut off the head of the soldier with only one knife, and the knights behind him dismounted one after another, rushed up, and killed all the more than a dozen patrol soldiers guarding the yamen.

"Rush in..."

Zhang Yangming was unlucky, he watched the battle in Wulin Gate in the middle of the night and just returned to the yamen to bathe and change clothes, until he heard the screams of the family members in the backyard to feel that something was wrong, and when he wore a single coat to go out to check the situation, a pair of powerful hands clasped his neck and lifted it to the courtyard.

"Presumptuous, which part of the soldiers are you, the old man is the governor Zhang Yangming, you want to rebel?"

Qi Xianye sneered and arched his hand towards the north: "On the order of the Fu King of 'Fengtian Jingnan', arrest the rebellious Zhang Yangming..."

Zhang Yangming was shocked, under the banner of King Fu, this must be a rebel, but it is unknown which part of them they are.

Without waiting for Zhang Yangming to speak again, he had already been tied up with five flowers, and then put a cloth in his mouth to cover his mouth.

After successfully arresting Zhang Yangming, Qi Xianye did not dare to be sloppy, and immediately led his men and horses to join Qi Changguo, who had just arrived with his footmen, and ran towards the Hangzhou Prefect's Yamen and the Zhejiang Sansi Yamen, which were only one street away from the governor's yamen.

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"Boom..."

With a loud bang, Ma Liang was swept over from the corner of the city tower by the shock wave to the road under the city, fell into a daze, and when he was rescued by his own soldiers, he found that one foot had been broken.

"Let's go..."

There were only ten shells in total, and after one explosion, Ma Liang was injured by mistake, and there was only one shell left, and the veterans of the artillery team fired directly at the gate of Genshan Gate.

There was another sound, and the city gate was blown up, but the defenders in the city had already blocked the Genshan gate, and the city gate could not be entered if it was broken.

"General..."

When You Gongnian heard the sound, he looked over, and a knight rode his horse and shouted urgently: "The general is not good, I don't know where an army came from the city, broke through the governor's yamen, and arrested the governor Zhang Daren and a number of officials such as the third division of Zhejiang and the prefect of Hangzhou, and this group of men and horses came towards the Genshan Gate." ”

You Gongnian was shocked, Zhejiang Sansi and Zhang Yangming, who presided over the entire defense of Hangzhou, were arrested, and now they have become a leaderless state?

"Where is Ma Liang?"

Not long after, the general Ma Liang arrived, although his military rank was higher than You Gongnian, but the combat effectiveness of the Yulin Army was incomparable to their patrol soldiers, and the defense power of Genshan Gate was in the hands of You Gongnian, a guerrilla general.

"General Ma, there is a rebel army dressed as an official army in the city who has kidnapped Master Zhang and a group of officials of the Third Division, you quickly lead the soldiers and horses of your headquarters to rescue you."

Ma Liang was also shocked when he heard this, and then he was also overjoyed, it was much better to save people in the city than to defend at the head of the city, so he immediately took his own soldiers with his fists, and rode towards the center of the city after ordering the three thousand military horses of the headquarters.

"General, the rebels are attacking the city..."

Seeing this, You Gongnian immediately sent someone to inform You Shilu of the Wulin Gate of the situation on his side, and he himself took his soldiers to the Genshan Gate Tower.

Kang Shu came with more than 100 personal soldiers, and as soon as he stepped on the horse road, he was blocked by You Gongnian's personal soldiers on the side of the horse road: "General Kang forgives the sin, my family has a life, and no one else is allowed to go to the city unless he is ordered to do so, except for the Yulin army." ”

It's not that You Gongnian or You Shiwei know that there are traitors in Genshanmen, but they all look down on the guards and town troops in the mainland, which is also the reason why You Gongnian transferred Ma Liang's patrol soldiers, these people are all veteran soldiers, once the defense of the city is unfavorable, they will run away, and the fleeing soldiers will affect the morale of the soldiers defending the city.

At this time, another garrison officer came down and bowed his hand to Kang Shu: "General Kang, forgive me, my lord can ask General Kang to lead the army to guard the city gate, and General Kang does not need to worry about the defense of the city." ”

Kang Rate's personal soldiers scolded each other: "Bastard, my general is a general in Hangzhou, and the defense of Hangzhou City is under the control of my general. ”