Chapter 93: Defending Jingzhou

"Lord Dutong, this is going to be a catastrophe, a catastrophe!"

Jin Guansan stumbled in front of Wang Wu and asked him to stop no matter what, he couldn't really slaughter the whole city, otherwise there would be no room for turning around with the Qing court.

If we stop now, even if the flag soldiers are seriously killed or wounded, at least most of them can be saved.

As long as this matter does not rely in the direction of rebellion, even if the blame is placed on those relocated households in the city, it is okay to say that the people are rebelling.

It is even better to directly say that the incompetence of the rule led to the secret collusion between some of the subordinates and the Western Mountain Thieves to cause a catastrophe than to directly rebel.

"I can't stop it,"

Wang Wu shook his head, looked at a group of garrison flag soldiers who were being besieged by his subordinates in the distance, and smiled bitterly: "I can't be this Lord of the Metropolitan anymore." ”

After speaking, he turned his head to look at Jin Guansan, who was frightened, and instructed him: "You immediately organize people to buy grain for me in nearby prefectures and counties, the more the better, and buy it for me at any price!" Remember, you only have half a month at most. ”

Jin Guansan was stunned when he heard this, he knew what this order meant.

Half a month is the reaction time for the Qing court to send troops to besiege Jingzhou.

No matter how Wang Wu blockades Jingzhou, the news will also spread.

In other words, Wang Wu, who had calmed down, planned to hold on to Jingzhou, and Jingzhou only had half a month to prepare for war and mobilize.

Up to twenty days.

Therefore, during this time, it was necessary to find ways to send a large amount of grain to Jingzhou City to ensure that the food in the city was enough for the defenders and the people to hold out for at least a year.

"General, can Jingzhou be defended?"

Jin Guansan is not optimistic about this, in his opinion, although Jingzhou is an important town and the city walls are strong, it is a lonely city.

Staying in an isolated city is no different than sitting still.

"If you can't keep it, you have to keep it!"

Wang Wu's tone was unquestionable, in fact, he had no other way to go.

At present, we can only hold on to Jingzhou and see if there is a turnaround in the development of the situation.

If he gives up Jingzhou, where will he go?

It is better to go to Xishan than to defend in Jingzhou, because Xishan simply has no place to accommodate so many people, and there is not so much food to feed so many people.

If you go, you're going to die.

What's more, to go to Xishan, you have to pass through several blockade lines of the Qing army.

Before, he was able to come over safely because he was also a Qing army, and there was Lao Zhang, the governor, who was the one who worshiped and surrendered, so Gao Shougui and others did not dare to mess around.

Now, he's a real rebel.

Who would dare to let him go!

Even if Gao Shougui is the cousin of the Empress Dowager Gao, he is willing to let go of the Shun army if he still has incense, and other Qing generals will not give way.

As a result of hard work, I'm afraid that there are few people who can go to Xishan.

If you go down the river to the east, the ships of the water camp will carry up to three or four thousand people at present, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream that this manpower wants to sweep downstream and seize the southern capital, and it will not even be able to break through the blockade of the Qing army's water camp in Anqing and Jiujiang.

It is impossible to talk about leaving Jingzhou to fight guerrilla warfare with the elite, because there is no soil for guerrillas.

Fighting guerrillas in the Qing occupied areas, which completely won the hearts and minds of the people, if they want to survive, they can only destroy or destroy.

There is only one result, that is, Wang Wu has become a thief who really kills people without blinking, in order to support it, he is bound to kill people and set fires, slaughter Lazhuang Ding everywhere, and in order to motivate his subordinates to constantly reward the women they robbed, and do all kinds of atrocities when the Qing army entered the customs.

If the purpose of resisting the Qing Dynasty is to harm the people, then Wang Wu will not only dig his own grave, but also ruin the last bit of thought of recovering the world.

He would never do that.

The old father-in-law, Wu Sangui, can secretly take him in for the sake of his son-in-law, but it is impossible to take in the more than 10,000 people who follow Wang Wu.

Because then it would be better to rebel.

At least the son-in-law still has a Jingzhou city here.

The most important thing is that if Wang Wu gives up Jingzhou, the hundreds of thousands of people in the city will have no way to live.

Today's events, even if the people from the outer city did not pour into the city, the Qing army would definitely be slaughtered after entering the city.

There is no doubt about that.

As long as anyone with a little insight knows.

Therefore, there is only one road in front of Wang Wu - to defend Jingzhou and wait for great changes!

Babur did not die, and the garrison of the Eight Banners could not form an effective resistance.

The city is too big, the walls are too long, and there are too many enemies.

Thanks to the boundary wall, it is only half a person high, and it is really a few zhang high and only one door is opened, so it is really a bit troublesome to attack it.

If you can't get it right, you have to use the "dark spots" left by the coffin when laying the foundation to blast it.

Time-consuming and labor-intensive.

At the moment when the main force of the fourth battalion entered the city, the eight banners stationed in the city were already in chaos.

In the face of the influx of battalion soldiers, the Eight Banners soldiers could not effectively fight back, or even defend on the spot.

Because the enemy comes from all sides.

On one side is the elite soldiers who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and the sea of blood, and on the other side are the children of Yanjing who have traveled thousands of miles to "distribute", and the battle was one-sided at the beginning.

Xu Lin dared to take his own barracks to carry it directly with the flag soldiers, and the reason was that this kid was not afraid of real tartars at all.

The battle in front of the Zhenglan Banner Co-Consulate Office rebuilt from the former residence of Zhang Juzheng, the former chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, was one of the few bloody battles after the battalion invaded the city.

Entu, the co-leader of the Zhenglan Banner, led more than 100 flag soldiers to resist stubbornly with the co-leader as the center.

Zhang Tianfang, the commander of the middle battalion, led his troops to attack several rounds in a row, but they failed to defeat this flag soldier.

The main reason is that in addition to the fact that this group of flag soldiers is hiding in the co-consular office and using the wall as a cover, the main reason is that they have no way to retreat.

Because there are hundreds of family members who have fled from the vicinity in the co-consular office, most of them are relatives of this group of flag soldiers.

In the face of the onslaught of the battalion soldiers, Entu's upper and lower teeth trembled so much that he did not dare to close his mouth, and could only open it wide, lest his tongue be bitten.

It's not fear, it's nervousness.

Entu's banner soldiers were also fighting hard, and many of them were swearing while firing arrows and slapping to death.

The battle was fierce.

No one wants to die.

The Han people don't want to die, and neither do the banner people.

Seeing that the attack was unsuccessful, Zhang Tian lost his patience and ordered someone to set fire.

I didn't want to burn the flag soldiers hiding in Zhang Juzheng's former house, but I wanted to smoke them out.

As long as the Tartars come out, it will only be a moment's work to deal with them with the strength and combat effectiveness of the middle battalion.

The fire soon ignited, and the hot weather was accompanied by scorching flames, and finally the recalcitrant flag soldiers had to give up the co-consulate.

There were cries everywhere in the co-consular office, with the mother looking for her son, the daughter looking for Amma, and the husband looking for his wife

The cries of their relatives made the flag soldiers lose their will to resist, and when they found their relatives, they pulled them out of the gate desperately in the choking smoke.

As a result, what awaits them is a constant onslaught.

After the blow, there were bald battalion soldiers who stepped forward with large knives and slashed violently.

Entu, whose eyes were choked and red, was stabbed in the major artery of his neck with a spear by a battalion soldier, and the moment the spearhead was drawn, blood spurted wildly.

With unwilling and vicious eyes, Entu's body slowly collapsed by the wall.

The fire quickly engulfed it, and the screams resounded through the former Ming Shoufu's former residence.

After the screams disappeared, it was a "fluttering" sound.

The fat co-leader fat is like hot oil, constantly bubbling under the scorching heat.