The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 308 So It Was Master Zhu's Ingenious Plan

"Wow!" Suddenly, there was a wild roar in the distance.

"Come up, come up." The rebels screamed.

At this time, it only took seven or eight minutes from the time when the ladder was lowered to when the first person went to the city.

Ding Yi had been training for a few days, and the Ming army who ascended the city was fast and ruthless. With the help of bows and arrows and musketeers below the city, they rushed up in just a few waves.

This man went to the city first, and first used his shield to block a long spear. As soon as he showed his head, he saw someone rushing towards him.

Whoosh, the hatchet in his hand flew over immediately.

With a puff, the rebel's face suddenly blossomed, and he screamed to the ground.

The Ming army turned over and went down the wall, a cold light flashed on the right side, and the knife had already slashed over.

He didn't have time to draw the knife, so he stretched out his hand to block it.

Puchi, the opponent was so powerful that he cut the iron rod tied to his hand in two with a knife, but it was embedded in the wooden board and almost cut off his hand.

The rebel was stunned for a moment, pulled out hard, and almost fell on his back.

Then another person appeared on the city wall, whoosh, a hatchet flew over.

Puchi, hit the man on the nose.

"Ah!" The rebel screamed and fell to the ground.

More people climbed into the city wall.

Cheers burst from below.

Under the command of Ding Yi, Dongjiang soldiers and horses attacked the wall in a few minutes with lightning speed.

"Fight, hit Lushun's gunslinger hard." Wang Zideng was furious.

Kong Youde took a deep breath. In fact, if he led the Bo people to rush forward to help at this time, he still had a chance to beat Ding Yi's troops again.

After all, there are not many officers and soldiers rushing up the wall now.

"Stop." Kong Youde suddenly shouted.

The generals turned their heads to look at him, bewildered.

"The city can't be defended anymore. Let him sell a favor and let the people on the wall go to other places to fight with other Ming troops. We Dongjiang people don't fight Dongjiang people. We retreat and go to sea."

Everyone froze for a moment, and sighed in unison.

Dongjiang people, don't fight Dongjiang people.

Among Kong Youde's subordinates, there are about seven or eight thousand Dongjiang soldiers. Some of them were damaged in the front, and there are still more than 5000 at present. There are 3 or [-] soldiers in Dongjiang.

The rest of the soldiers and horses include soldiers who were defeated in the early stage of the army, and there are also strong new recruits from the local area.

Kong Youde originally wanted to run away, but seeing Ding Yi's siege was also powerful, he decided to return him a favor.

He immediately got down from the city wall, and while ordering other soldiers and horses to guard the cities, he took the remaining 7000 people and hurried to the seaside.

In the original history, because the official army did not attack the city, he took all the gunpowder and firearms with him.

This time there was no time, he only took away a dozen Portuguese and the entire firearms battalion, including the craftsmen in the battalion.

These Portuguese fought with Sun Yuanhua before, were injured after the defeat and were caught by him, and now they all serve him.

As soon as Kong Youde ran away, the soldiers of Ding Yi and Xu Fuzuo quickly occupied the top of the city and killed them on both sides.

The other officers and soldiers in the west of the city saw that they were more energetic, and after a while, various ministries attacked the city.

The defenders in the city were defeated and collapsed in all directions.

At this time, Gao Qiqian, who was watching the panorama of the battlefield from a distance, laughed. He looked around and said loudly: "Your Majesty is right. In today's world, only Lushun's elite soldiers are the strongest."

Many generals of the general army were around, and all of them looked unhappy when they heard the words.

"This battle should be Ding Yi's first achievement." Governor Zhu Dadian laughed beside him.

Kong Youde's defeat was even more embarrassing than fleeing for his life in history. He ordered people to set fire to stop the pursuers, and Dengzhou City suddenly became a battlefield of flames. However, he took advantage of the fire and the resistance of the rest of the defeated soldiers to escape with only [-] Dongjiang soldiers. When they got to the beach, they boarded a boat and fled overseas.

In the original history, he took away more than 1 soldiers and horses, and they were all elites. After fleeing to the sea, the officers, soldiers and sailors chased him and fought for more than two months.

This time too, as soon as they arrived at sea, Phi Island and the Dengzhou navy chased after them to encircle them, and the two sides fought several battles on the sea.

After Ding Yi entered the city, he first sent people to look for Liu Yuan, the prefect of Dengzhou.

This guy surrendered immediately when the rebels occupied Dengzhou City.

But Ding Yi had to save him, because half of his salt industry depended on Liu Yuan, and he wanted to use him later.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses found him in Liu Yuan's mansion. When Liu Yuan saw Ding Yi, he was both respectful and afraid. Regardless of face, he knelt down and hugged his thigh and cried bitterly.

"Liu Yuan, do you want to die or live?" Ding Yi said sharply.

"General Ding, of course I want to live, I beg the general to save me." Liu Yuan knew that he was bound to die.

Surrender to the rebels, and they will be beheaded later. Now I can only think about it, it is best to escape to Lushun.

"If you want to live, you must listen to me." Ding Yi picked up his clothes and whispered to him.

Liu Yuan soon had a strange expression, but immediately nodded desperately.

After the city was broken, according to the secret agreement between Ding Yi, Gao Qiqian and Zhu Dadian, except for 8000 soldiers from the Dongjiang Department and Wu Xiang's father and son's troops who entered the city to wipe out the remnants of the enemy, the rest of the departments waited outside.

There is also a reason why Ding Yi let the Liaodong cavalry come in. They are all cavalry and generally don't want artillery.

And even though the city was broken, there were still enemy troops in the city, and the cavalry was fast enough to let them rush ahead to kill the enemy, and they were the ones who were killed or injured.

As for the wealth in the city, most of it was taken away by Kong Youde, and Ding Yi didn't value those.

All the general soldiers were swearing and cursing when they heard the order, but they had no choice but to watch Ding Yi, Xu Fuzou, and the troops of Wu's father and son enter the city.

It was not until noon the next day that the entire Dengzhou was cleared.

Gao Qiqian and Zhu Dadian walked into the city gate together with all the general soldiers.

The gate of the city is full of soldiers and horses of Ding Yi, and Ding Yi and Wu's father and son are waiting at the gate.

As soon as the crowd reached the gate of the city, Gao Qiqian praised Ding Yi a few times.

Suddenly, a cavalry horse from Ding Yi ran over: "Report, General, Liu Yuannasi has been captured."

Ding Yi was furious: "The dog officer took my salt profit and gave it to Kong Youde to protect his life. He betrayed the country and surrendered, so he pushed it out and chopped it up."

"promise."

"Keep people under the sword." Gao Qiqian suddenly shouted.

"..." Ding Yi looked at him suspiciously.

"General Ding Shen misunderstood." Gao Qiqian smiled, and told the generals in public that after the rebels did not attack Dengzhou, Zhu Dadian had sent someone to contact Liu Yuan and ordered that if they could not defend, they could pretend to surrender , secretly gathered troops in the city, and when the officers and soldiers attacked the city, they sent people to set fire to it, causing chaos among the bandits.

Zhu Dadian also said at this time: "You think it is so easy for you to attack the city. If Liu Yuan hadn't sent people to set fires everywhere, Dengzhou would have been captured so easily."

Seeing that Xu Fuzuo and Ding Yi were not pleasing to the eye, the general soldiers immediately shouted: "It turns out that this is the clever plan of Master Zhu and Guardian Gao."

I really thought Dongjiang soldiers were so fierce.

Ding Yi had a bad expression, very angry, but helpless.

In the first month of the sixth year of Chongzhen (1633), with the fall of Dengzhou, the Dengzhou Rebellion was finally quelled, about a month earlier than in history.

They were lucky, they all occupied Dengzhou and cleared out the resistance forces in the city, it happened to be New Year's Eve.

The next day was the Spring Festival. At this time, the city was in dilapidated condition, and there were not even a single person in the original city. Gao Qiqian and Zhu Dadian still called the generals to celebrate the New Year and held a celebration banquet.

(End of this chapter)