Chapter 155: Zeng Guoquan Jinling Massacre (4)

Zhao Liewen looked at the ruins, shocked, and quickly returned to the camp and asked Zeng Guoquan to stop fighting.

The dream was stirred, Zeng Guoquan was extremely reluctant, and said: Although the king is noble, it is useless.

Zeng Guoquan stopped talking, and slept again; In a few moments, the snoring was like thunder.

Liewen pondered and meditated, and quickly planned to stop the killing, settle the women and children, actively deal with the aftermath, and ban food and go out of the city.

Liewen was about to stop, and he was anxious to ask again, but when he saw Zeng Guoquan, he was already sleepy like a dead pig, and Liewen wanted to speak and stopped.

In the middle of the night, the spies reported urgently, and Li Xiucheng fled with the crowd. Zhao Liewen was surprised and delighted, and immediately woke up Zeng Guoquan and said carefully.

Zeng Guoquan was extremely impatient, and said: Jinling City is big, thieves are rebellious and slip through the net, natural things, just change it slightly. I drafted four chapters, took great pains, seemed to be desirable, and quickly passed on my order to immediately stop killing good people and abducting women.

Although the ban was issued, Zhu Hongzhang, Li Chendian and other 40,000 Xiangyong turned a deaf ear, killed and plundered for seven days, and set fire to extinguish the traces before they stopped.

When Peng Yulin heard this, his anger and blood surged, and he was furious, and he was anxious to kill Zeng Guoquan to relieve the people's anger.

Zeng Guofan was afraid of Peng Huwei, and ordered his personal soldier Liu Shoutian to supervise in the center, Yulin angrily cut off Liu's ear, and then asked Zeng Guofan: I don't want officials, I don't want money, I don't want my life, but kill Zeng Guoquan, who can do anything?

Zeng Guofan watched Peng Yulin's actions and sighed: Jinling Fuke, a thousand things; Peng Xueqin is strong in blood and does not pick a day! The day before yesterday, the governor of the lake was informed of the restoration of Jinling, did the official document reply to the consultation?

Ouyang Zhaoxiong said: Between Anqing and Wuhan, 500 miles away, it is estimated that it will arrive tomorrow; Peng Yulin is upright, loves the people like a son, is jealous of evil like hatred, and must be guarded against.

Zeng Guofan said: What's so difficult about this, I have my burden! I immediately sent a letter to Peng Xueqin, my brother did not care, Cai rebelled, I don't know how to be punished, I don't know where my brother offended you, if it is. What Yuan Fu did, I instructed; Please punish me first to relieve his hatred and appease the thief's heart!

Peng Yulin took the book, sighed and rippled, and replied: Pure handsome iron bones and soft intestines, Yulin will never dare to die; Di Shuai went to Jinling here, and begged to persuade Yuan Fu that killing people is only on the battlefield, and there is no need to kill people.

Zeng Guofan persuaded Peng Yulin to list and summarize the situation of Jinling's restoration, and together with the official documents, he said:

The official army captured Jinling, and after the general situation of General Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Zhejiang, he and his ministers galloped on the case on the 16th. According to Zeng Guoquan's consultation on the 19th, the difficulty of attacking the city and washing the old nest, and the pain of fighting to the death with the thieves, are really unprecedented for those who have been fighting for a long time.

Since the Tianbao pseudo-city, the thieves have been on the defensive. The bunker city chokes the pass, and every effort is made to attack, and there is no gap to take advantage of, until May 30, Li Xianghe, Luo Fengyuan, Wang Yuanhe, Huang Runchang, Chen Shouwu, Xiong Shangzhen, Wang Shiyi, etc. led the team to conquer, occupy the dragon's neck Shanyin, condescending, and the momentum is under control.

Since the first day of June, the battalions have taken turns to attack hard, and there have been many casualties. Li Chendian detected that the rice and wheat in the city were still enough to support for several months, and saw that more than 30 holes in the tunnels of our army had been unsuccessful, and more than 50,000 officers and soldiers were about to be exhausted.

Li Chendian was willing to lead Wu Zongguo and others to reopen the tunnel from the extremely dense place of thieves and artemisia, Xiao Fusi, Huang Runchang, Xiong Dengwu, Wang Yuanhe and Yuan were more than ten zhang away from the city to build dozens of forts, and sent various battalions to cut wet reeds and artemisia grass, pile up mountains and piles of sand.

The terrain on the left side is very high, which is conducive to sound attack, and the terrain on the right side is extremely low, which is conducive to submarine attack. The general soldiers Chen Wansheng, Wang Shaoyi, Guo Pengcheng and others are known as strong generals, and within a few days, they were killed in battle, which is particularly compassionate.

On the night of the fifteenth, when the tunnel was charged, Zeng Guoquan and Li Chendian were discussing everything at the entrance of the cave. In addition, hundreds of people from the east corner of Chaoyangmen dressed in official and military uniforms, holding fire eggs to burn the artillery forts and the nearby wet reed grass.

After a long time of hard work by the officers and soldiers, Lai Wu Weishou, Li Chendian, Huang Tingjue, and Zhang Shiri blocked the left road, and the thieves were killed; Peng Yucheng, Xiong Shangzhen, Tao Lizhong and others blocked the right side, and there were many captures, and Xingke protected the entrance of the cave.

On the morning of the 16th, Zeng Guoquan transferred the four-way team, and prepared all the armies to stand firmly on the wall and strictly prevent conflicts, but the Taiping Gate and the dragon's neck area were attacked from dawn to noon, and Li Chendian reported that the tunnel was sealed and the lead was placed.

Liu Lianjie, Zhu Hongzhang, Wu Mingliang, Wu Weishou, Xiong Dengwu, Chen Shouwu, Li Chendian, Zhang Shiri, each led the battalion officers to listen respectfully, and was willing to have a military order and swear to serve the country.

Then the order was immediately set into flames, and with a thunderclap, the city wall was uncovered for more than 20 zhang, and the smoke and dust covered the sky, and the bricks and stones were full of valleys. Wu Mingliang, Wu Weishou, Zhu Hongzhang, Tan Guotai, Liu Lianjie, Zhang Shiri, Shen Hongbin, Luo Chunyu, Li Chendian, etc. all took the lead, rushing straight into the mouth.

And the thieves at the head of the city on the left poured gunpowder on our soldiers, and there were many dead, and the brigade was slightly defeated because of it. After Peng Yucheng, Xiao Fusi, Li Xianghe, Xiao Qingyan, Xiao Kaiyin, etc., several people with big swords, and none of them retreated.

Wu Mingliang, Wu Weishou, Zhu Hongzhang, Liu Lianjie, Tan Guotai, Zhang Shiri and others each led their teams to climb Longguang Mountain, and the thieves of the Taiping Gate on the right lined up and bombarded, and the thieves resisted for a long time, that is, they retreated. Li Xianghe and Wang Shiyi attacked from Taipingmen Yuecheng.

The group of thieves knew that this tunnel gap was no longer like the previous one, and it could be blocked.

During the Wei period, the official army attacked in four ways, Wang Yuanhe, Wang Shiyi, Zhu Hongzhang, Luo Chunyu, Shen Hongbin, Huang Runchang, Xiong Shangzhen and others attacked the middle road and attacked the north of the puppet Heavenly King's Mansion.

Liu Lianjie, Zhang Shiri, Tan Guotai, Cui Wentian and others attacked the right road, from Taicheng to the area of Shence Gate, suitable for Zhu Nangui, Zhu Weitang, Liang Meicai, etc. also led the team to attack from the side ladder of the Shence Gate tunnel, and marched together with each other, and the troops were thick, and they fought straight to the Lion Rock and captured the Yifeng Gate. On the left road, Peng Yucheng led Luo Chaoyun, Zhao Yuhe, Huang Dongnan, Wu Mingliang, Wu Mingshan, Wu Yishan, etc. from the old site of the inner city to Tongji Gate.

On the left side, there are Xiao Fusi, Xiong Dengwu, Xiao Qingyan, Xiao Kaiyin, Xiao Zhixiang, Zhou Hengli, Li Taishan, Xiao Qingshi, Xiao Hengshu, Zhu Jiyu, Zhao Taihe, Liu Changhuai, Xiao Shanglin, etc.

It copied and intercepted and galloped, and each road was at the same speed; It is garrisoned by soldiers, and each gate is arranged in the same way. The success of the tunnel on the 16th, the fierce battle in the city and the two roads in the northeast were also copied.

When the brigade of our army arrived at Longguang Mountain, the thieves who guarded the southwest were still standing and did not move, and they seized Chaoyangmen, and the thieves began to be chaotic. And Luo Fengyuan, Zhang Dingkui, Peng Chunnian, Zhang Guangming, Yang Xiping, He Minggao, Peng Guangyou, Xiong Shaolian, Luo Xingxiang, Ye Bixin and other leading departments from the west of Jubaomen old tunnel gap attacked, Li Jinzhou, Hu Songjiang, Zhu Wenguang, Wu Jiaoqing, Liu Xiangnan, Yi Kongshao, Dai Mingshan, Zhang Zhengrong and others led the team from the Tongji Gate Yuecheng ladder up, while Chen Xiang, Yi Lianghu, Yi Liangbao, Chen Rujun, Liu Dingfa battalions, stormed the two gates of Hanxi, Shuixi Yuecheng.

Li Xiucheng, the puppet loyal king, led his dead party to run wildly, and rushed out of the dry west gate, which was stopped by Chen Xiang's brigade, but still turned back to Qingliang Mountain.

Jiangnan Admiral Huang Yisheng led Xu Yunfa and other battalions of the water division to capture the Zhongguan Jiangji stone fortress, and took advantage of the victory to storm the riverside city, and then seized the two gates of Shuixi and Hanxi with Chen Xiang and Yi Lianghu, and wiped out the thieves.

Since all the gates of the city have been broken, the general trend has been decided. The sun was about to fall, and Chen Xiang and Yi Lianghu saw that the loyal chieftain thieves were hiding in the southwest houses, and the Yijie Department strictly guarded against thieves.

Peng Yucheng guarded Jubaomen and Tongji Gate, Li Chendian and Li Xianghe guarded Taipingmen, Huang Runchang, Wang Yuanhe, Zhu Hongzhang and others saw the stars and closed the team, formed a round formation, stood on Long Guangshan, and rested for a while. This situation of the land and water armies conquering the two cities in the southwest and guarding the key passes to prevent the conflict between thieves and stocks.

When Fang Zhu Hongzhang and others fought with the thieves in the north of the puppet king city, Shen Hongbin, Zhou Hengli, Yuan Dasheng and others led the team to roll up the flag from the left road, go around the east of the puppet city, set up an ambush, and swept the hole in the ditch. Zhu Hongzhang's war horse was wounded, the pirates hid the stone bridge, our army could not fly over the city and the river around the west of the puppet city, after the hard battle of the twilight, the main army collected Longguang Mountain, and the ambush went deep, from the east of the puppet city to the south, could not close the team, and it was already three watches.

The puppet king ordered the thieves to set fire to the Tianwang Mansion and the puppet palaces at the same time, and the gunpowder of the puppet palace rushed into the sky, and the city was full of smoke.

Yuan Dasheng, Zhou Hengli, Shen Hongbin and others saw more than 1,000 thieves protruding from the south gate in front of the puppet hall, holding weapons and foreign cannons, and went to the streets and alleys of the private houses. It is about seven inches wide, that is, the seal used by the chief of Hong. There were no less than hundreds of maids in the pseudo-palace who were hanged in the front garden, and no less than 2,000 people died in the city and river.

At that time, the pseudo-city fire has burned the prairie and cannot be turned around, the streets and alleys are the main roads, the thieves are all burning the plugs, the officers and soldiers are rusty with the twilight path, and they can't fight in the streets, so they collect the team and occupy the city. In this sixteen nights, the inner city of the pseudo-heavenly king was broken and many thieves were killed.