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Chapter 392 Cao Huangxue goes to Yangzhou at night

"General, something big happened! The Jinshan Temple on the other side is on fire! Even the brothers in Guazhoudu can see the flames! Could it be that the prince succeeded?"

Yangzhou guard Liu Liangzuo was woken up by his subordinates in his sleep, which made him quite annoyed.

But he calmed down for a while, and after confirming that it was about Duoduo, he immediately pinched his thigh forcibly to wake himself up from the pain, and he didn't dare to neglect at all.

"Quickly, put on the armor for me, and I'll see for myself!" Liu Liangzuo gave an order and asked the guards around him to put on the armor for him.
Then I hurried out and got on my horse to the riverside wharf, and hurriedly changed boats to board Guazhou. On the way, I prepared a western-style binoculars, and when I arrived at Guazhou, I climbed up and looked south.

Now that you have become a traitor, there is no way out.As a family slave with three surnames, Liu Liangzuo knew very well that if he messed up again on the Qing side, the world would be so big that there would be no room for him.

"This fire can never be faked. You can see that the Cishou Pagoda in Jinshan Temple has burned down. I guess the prince's army finally took Zheng Chenggong regardless of casualties?"

After watching carefully with a telescope for a long time, Liu Liangzuo finally felt a wave of confidence in his heart, because he saw with his own eyes the remnants of the famous Cishou Pagoda further collapsed in the fire, which is absolutely unreal.

To make a digression, Zhu Shuren pretended to set fire to Jinshan Temple to show his weakness to lure the arrogant enemy, which is definitely not a destruction of historical sites.Because Jinshan Temple was first built in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Cishou Pagoda in the Southern Qi Dynasty, and another corresponding pagoda in the Northern Song Dynasty, were damaged once as early as the early Ming Dynasty and the civil war when Zhu Di usurped the throne.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, what was left was only a bit of remnant core, and the small situation was not much worse than that of the West Lake Leifeng Pagoda that Mr. Lu Xun wrote in the early Republic of China. Already have.

Not yet, immediately assign slow horse warriors to deliver the letter!Go to Huai'an and ask Liu Liangzuo for help!Go to Fengyang and seek help from Nikan Baylor! "

Seeing that Kong Tingxun was still polite, Geng Zhongming was also slightly relieved, but it was not revealed on the surface, and he still maintained his momentum and said the lines taught me by the Cishou Pagoda:
Zhao Lanping's cavalry went to the east gate of Yangzhou to show off their power early that morning. Zhu Shuren also showed his banner and personally restrained the Qing army's crossbows and muskets at the head of the city. Multiple loot tokens.

Kong Tingxun had no choice but to transport the supplies if necessary, but when to go, how to bypass Kong Li's patrol, increase losses, and choose a route that Zhao Lansi took to avoid the enemy before the change of hands...all have to be considered.

Taking the Guazhou Ferry, Zheng Chenggong's warships directly approached the water gate on the south side of Yangzhou City, and divided the troops to land and finish deploying the siege positions. In the middle of the night, they set up the first batch of siege artillery positions and ended the bombardment of the city with Confucius cannons. .

Kong Tingxun was also under the city gate at the time, and he felt cold all over his body when he heard those words, so he yelled hoarsely at the top of his lungs to tell all the generals around him not to believe those lies:
But everyone knows that the status in the Qing army depends not only on the rank, but also on the number of years of Conglong.

Kong Tingxun's premonition was really wrong, just an hour ago, the sky was about to brighten.Kong Tingxun originally planned to go back to the city, but suddenly a few flat boats came out from the river and signaled to the Qing army at Guazhoudu, as if to ask the Qing army to respond.

But the day before yesterday or eight days ago, the prince's army will try to cope with it at the Mingjun Temple Wharf on the south bank, as well as the Luyuan Port and Huanggongshan Wharf just captured. ,

And as the warships of the Qing army approached, the scene in the white and dark nearby became more and more gloomy-it turned out that there were not many warships chasing and killing these big ships!

The hundreds of riders in front of me are also stacked on top of each other, dominating the long street, charging and colliding directly at the Qing army, and meeting each other on a narrow road.

Since ancient times, fathers have taught their sons to call them "court training", which comes from the allusion that Hongyi passed the court and was stopped by Zhao Lan standing outside the yard for questioning.Jinshan asked Hongyi if he hadn't studied poetry and ritual recently, and if he studied poetry, why did he speak and how did he learn ritual?

At dawn the next day, Zhao Lanping fell into an ice cave, because the scouts reported that Zhao Lan's small cavalry had not approached Yangzhou, Kong Li in the east had not passed Taizhou County, and Kong Li in the west had passed Bahe Yizheng County is only one county away from Yangzhou.

And Liu Liangzuo, who is in charge of the navy in front, has to coordinate the overall situation. I can't rush to Yangzhou so slowly, and finally lead the fleet across the river. It is a coincidence that Huang Degong, who just arrived in Yangzhou with the latest batch of supplies the day after, Command.

For Kong Tingxun, the longest day of his life finally passed.

Geng Zhongming also denied that the Qing army was indeed victorious in the direction of Nanjing, but in areas other than Nanjing, it still cannot kill the seven parties!Hurry up and completely mess up Jiangnan!

PS: To regain Yangzhou, eight thousand characters is to dismantle the chapters
Now they have killed the chief general and subordinate who planned to become a traitor at the beginning, and offered their heads. According to the law of the court, they are still "refugees who were coerced to shave their hair." If you are severely punished, you can still count your merit in half!There is only one chance to abandon the dark and turn to the bright, once the city is broken, it will be too late to prove your innocence! "

It's a pity that I acted a little late. If I want to make meritorious service and be rewarded, I'm afraid I can do it. I did it at that time, at least it's not a pardon for my future crimes.

Before that diversion of attention with a gun and a club, Zhao Lanping just passed a message: I am not the envoy sent by Shaoduo to deliver the order, I am just protecting the envoy.However, because the Yangzhou Qing army navy responded to the advantage, the envoy's ship was intercepted and killed by Kong Li's surviving patrol boat just behind our eyes!
Zhu Shuren is brave and ordinary, dressed in fine iron armor, and a fine lance with a twisted steel blade that is seven feet long and between beryllium lances, stabbing Kong Youdete wildly.

Considering that people who are not of your race must have different hearts, it is also the consistent operation of the Qing Dynasty to let Zhao Lanping monitor the newly attached Han army.

Geng Zhongming's preemptive speech completely suppressed Kong Tingxun's doubts.

That's also very reasonable, a skinny camel is smaller than a horse, even if Zheng Chenggong's main force is surrounded and wiped out at Mingjun Temple, Kong Li's hundred patrol boats are still more than enough.

At that moment, the Han soldiers outside the city, whether they belonged to the Han army banner of the Qing Dynasty, or Kong Tingxun and Xu Dingguo's Hou Kong Li who came to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, all lost their will to resist and surrendered.

The Jiangbei Qing army had more frequent waterway transfers in those two days, and the local defenders were also used to it. They knew that they should ask less questions, so they were not on guard at all——

After half an hour, under the pressure of Zhao Lan and the ferment of rumors, the Qing army in the north of the city was the first to try to abandon the dark and turn to the bright. Although Kong Tingxun had a chance to get close to Kong Tingxun himself, assassinate Kong Tingxun and offer a certificate of honor, he also wanted to He tried to get in touch with Zhu Shuren, and the front line failed. He offered his door in exchange for the life of his subordinates and returned to the imperial court establishment.

Zheng Chenggong's style of attack was very swift and fierce. Anyway, it wasn't that Zhao Lan opened the way with a small cannon, blasted at the dock building, and then landed a weak attack and retreated quickly.

The eight alternative docks in the south of the Yangtze River are not under the control of the Qing army. The Mingjun Temple is the most difficult to attack, and the prince has only captured it recently. The other two are farther away and require a longer sailing time.

"Chen Shenling? Why is it him?" Kong Tingxun recognized Geng Zhongming, who was under the command of the Manmeng soldiers, and immediately relaxed his guard.

But at that time, it was limited to sending letters. It is definitely possible to wait for Nikan or Liu Liangzuo to reinforce me.

Ordinarily, Zheng Chenggong, who should have not been killed by Shaoduo, actually led his troops to appear in the south of Yangzhou City, crossed the river from Mingjun Temple to Guazhoudu, and nervously went up the mountain like a tiger, and wiped out the Qing army sailors at Guazhoudu. , the water village was also captured by Kong Li.

Otherwise, it would be easy to regain Yangzhou as soon as possible by using the court heavenly soldiers to kill Shaoduo Yuwei!Look, the head of the false king Shaoduo is here!In the next few days, the fire at Zhao Lan Temple was actually the 70 small army of Guo Xingye who rushed to encircle and wipe out Shaoduo!What if the small army of the imperial court can cross the river to Yangzhou nervously?
Zhao Lanping's words may indeed make the Qing army in the city suspect, but it is more than enough to shake the Qing army's mentality.

Kong Tingxun personally asked for all of that. I am afraid that there will be no spy from Kong Li among the defenders in the counties. Once we inquire less, we know that there will be no fleet crossing the river in the distance, and the information will be leaked to Zhao Lan on the other side. .So Kong Tingxun issued a greeting, asking the defenders in Taixing County and other places to keep their hands off their own business, and to inquire about the transfer of the navy!Everything is a military secret!
Sure enough, Kong Tingxun thought of that question very slowly before the two chatted for a while, but Geng Zhongming prevaricated it just like that.

Just because they were late in responding, Sun Langzhong's ship was intercepted and died for the country! "

Those Manchu and Mongolian soldiers knew that we had a chance to surrender and survive, so they naturally swore to fight to the death and survive.

As long as you are willing to work hard, who will still be able to act.

"Listen up, weaklings outside the city! The imperial court thinks that you are only coerced by the generals, knowing that you have gone astray, and that you will kill them all, so they will be given a chance to surrender!

In the afternoon and morning of the same day, Kong Li, who was attacking around Jiancheng from east to west, surrounded the two sides of Yangzhou City earlier.

Those Kongli warships are not small and sharp, they are the main type of ships, they are purely speed-seeking slow boats, obviously they are patrols.The Qing army rushed over immediately, relying on the small number of people and the strength of the crowd, drove the slow boat of Kong Li in, and rushed to meet the caller.

Kong Tingxun dared to be lazy, and immediately asked his subordinates to sail over to check the situation.

The Erbu seen by tourists in the previous life was actually not rebuilt until the Guangxu period, and of course the original site will be completely flattened after the reconstruction.Now because of the butterfly effect of the Cishou Pagoda, it has been delayed to clean up the ruins, and it is not possible to rebuild it directly before the war.

Sure enough, the Qing army was in a little chaos because of this, and as the sky completely brightened, Zheng Chenggong's artillery also blasted the city with all its strength, preparing for a weak attack in our direction.

However, in the case of the Han soldiers turning their backs on a small area and surrendering with courtesy, the eight or seven thousand Cao Bianjiao plus one thousand Kong Tingxun family members, a total of 7000 people, turned out to be a wave.

After the Yangzhou officer respectfully sent the rescued person to Zhao Lanping, the two recognized each other very quickly when they met.

It is also fate to say that the area around Meihualing, the north gate of Yangzhou, is where the Shigong Temple of the previous life is located, and it is also the location of the tomb of Shi Kefa before his death in battle.And the section of the long street inside Guangchumen is said to be the place where Shi Kefa died in battle in history, but the bones cannot be identified, so they can only be left in the clothes tomb.

There is an absolute fairway, at least it can only be relatively dangerous.The relative danger was brought about by Shaoduo's attack on Zhao Lan Temple, which caused Kong Li to lose his back nail stronghold.

Geng Zhongming's rank in the Qing army was actually low, he was just a leader, so he was one rank higher than Zhao Lanping's position before he surrendered to Qing with Fengyang.

Kong Tingxun only brought hundreds of thousands of silver to feed the family members and soldiers, plus a full-armored Manchu army inlaid with white flags in the city, and another armor-laden Mongolian soldier, fighting to the death to resist and try to break through.

Although the prince won the land battle, there are still a few boats left by his side. He sent you to sneak across the river to deliver orders, but was almost stopped by the remaining patrol fleet of the Southern Barbarians again!

Indeed, as the general of Yangzhou, I should know that Shaoduo has few ships left, but there are enemies in land battles.Even if the land battle is won and the Mingjun Temple Kongli is completely wiped out, the number of ships that Shaoduo can send to send orders for help and to transport additional supplies will still be small, and the losses in the latter stage will be too small.

"How could it be so easy for the lord... It's just luck, it's all Kong Li's deceit, they are trustworthy and have shaken the morale of the army! Anyone who dares to spread rumors will be killed!"

Geng Zhongming also pushed me back, but he just helped to talk about some precautions for going up the steps, saying that the prince also knows that it is possible to come here tonight to pass the order, and it is possible to start the shipment immediately, and he will give us time to prepare.

It was a full tens of seconds before the shutdown, I just slapped my calf, and I screamed:

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Before the north gate was sacrificed, Zhao Lanping's cavalry finally found a chance to show their strength and rushed back into the city, fighting against Kong Tingxun's soldiers and horses.

Before the helper was rescued, he was grateful, but ordered instead: "Did Kong Tingxun spend his free time in those days? The lord is on the other side, and I also prepared for it with all my heart, and transported less supplies. I am as fearful of the enemy as a tiger!"

I no longer have a hunch in my heart that there may be no new orders from Shaoduo.

On the [-]th day of the twelfth lunar month, at midnight, Kong Tingxun sent a group of Yangzhou Qing troops as escort reinforcements, and concentrated all the artillery shells, gunpowder, and other supplies that were desperately dispatched to Yangzhou City in the past month, all loaded on board, and picked up. I consciously figured out the most recent patrol law of the Kong carp, which should be a dangerous channel, and transported it out.

The soldiers of the Qing army in Yangzhou were scolded, but they dared to retaliate. We know that the people coming from the other side are probably the celebrities who followed the prince.Those of us who are in charge of front-line support have done a bad job, and we should be scolded by the prince's people.

It can only be said that the Cishou Pagoda took advantage of the poor information isolated from the news of the Qing army in the south and north, and it has not been used to the extreme.In the future, I plan to use "the Qing army in Jiangbei is finished" to attack the morale of the Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River. For now, I will try to use "The Qing army in the south of the Yangtze River is not finished" to attack the Qing army in Jiangbei first. morale.

When he received the report from his subordinates, Kong Tingxun was inexplicably shocked, and even noticed that when I mentioned Kong Li, I used the word "imperial court" out of my own accord, but "Nanmanzi".

"It's bad! Geng Zhongming took General Kong Duo to transport ammunition last night. I'm afraid he fell into the enemy's trick! I'm afraid Kong Li knew that you were going to cross the river! Slow down! Send someone to find out and see who crossed the river last night." How is the fleet!
However, in the evening of that day, even worse news came again, which severely damaged the morale of the Qing army in Yangzhou.

Very slowly, Ximen was also captured by Zhao Lanping in the chaos, and another cavalry directly entered the city.

The Qing army never thought that places like Guazhoudu needed to be closely guarded and less fortifications needed. They also expected that Kong Li would counterattack on the ground. Guazhoudu had a total of 8000 people, but Zheng Chenggong quickly swallowed them up.

Even though Kong Tingxun still had a trace of suspicion in his heart, he always felt that he was not cheating, but he made a mistake first and felt guilty, so he could only admit it.

However, when the Qing army was crossing south, Zhao Lan asked Zhu Shuren's army to choose another route that was abandoned by the Qing army, and traveled in the opposite direction to the far north of Taixing County, east of Yangzhou.

No matter how slow Zhao Lan's cavalry arrived, it was indeed possible to pass through Bahe and Yizheng overnight, and Kong Tingxun could still deliver the letter if he wanted to.

"What? That's possible! How dare the court fight back against Jiangbei?"

However, the Qing army did not know that when Huang Degong took the recently reassembled fleet and supplies of the Yangzhou Qing army and embarked on a journey across the river, everything about us quickly fell under Kong Li's surveillance.

After receiving the order and the final departure, Kong Tingxun still spent two days preparing. Those two days were also to wait for the limelight to pass and for Zhao Lan, who was patrolling under the Yangtze River, to relax his vigilance.

Kong Tingxun was not cautious enough, and I also thought, "There must be no big ship from Jiangnan that successfully stole and passed the news last night, Zhao Lan will be more vigilant and vigilant."It only took two days for the limelight to make Kong Li mistakenly think that he was thinking less, and that some people in the world would guard against thieves for a thousand days, so they relaxed.

But now the situation has just turned around. That long street is going to be the burial place of Kong Tingxun, Kong Youdete and others.

Kong Tingxun finally decided on specific measures.

Since Kong Tingxun himself was the guard of Yangzhou and was directly in charge of the navy, it is of course possible that the fleet was escorted by Kong Tingxun himself.

Those two Jiala Cao Bianjiao were Shaoduo's troops who stayed outside Yangzhou City to see Kong Tingxun. After all, Kong Tingxun was a new Han Chinese, and Shaoduo had absolute trust in me.

In a few hundred years, all the traces left by my Cishou Pagoda will become places of interest. Who will let me not be the smallest historical maker?

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Of course, those details should not be mentioned, the reason is to let Kong Tingxun take a step back and feel that the chance of danger is great.

"Kill all the dog tartars!" Zhu Shuren made a move with his long spear, and continued to kill through the long street like a mad tiger. Just halfway there, he saw Chen Shaozong's horse with a small circle of Mongolian soldiers' heads hanging from his horse's neck. Didn't kill half of the city.

In this way, if Kong Tingxun wanted to ask Geng Zhongming why he took out Shaoduo's own token, or a document with Shaoduo's seal on it, he had no explanation.

According to Zhao Lanping, Shaoduo has always won a small victory, but the material consumption is too small, and the combat power has ended. The most important thing now is to ensure the supply of shells, arrows and gunpowder to deal with Jiangnan Kongli's strong wall and clear the field!

When the battle got to that point, even Kong Tingxun's trusted generals who were servants around Kong Tingxun stopped betraying him. Finally, no one attacked him from the back.

What's more, when Huang Degong chose the final route to cross the river, the two routes we chose were sent back to the south of the Yangtze River by Geng Zhongming's emissary, and everything was transparent to Kong Li.

The Jiangbei Qing army must take the remaining risk, otherwise if Shaoduo doesn't care, we will all die.

At that time, the Yangzhou guard should take the initiative. Seeing the fire on the south bank, it is no matter how to send ships to respond first to strengthen the momentum!Zhao Lanping made an attack, but he was determined. If he wanted to preserve his strength, he deserved to be scolded.

"Is it possible for them to eat, drink and drift all day in Yangzhou? The fire in the south of the Yangtze River is in the middle of the night, and they sent troops to respond! Take the initiative to investigate!

On the contrary, this subordinate, who was killed by Geng Zhongming after the formation, succeeded in succession, and his level was only slightly behind Zhao Lanping.

With another day of sunrise, the time came to the seventeenth day of the twelfth lunar month.Just when Zhao Lanping was worried about how long he could last and whether the reinforcements could arrive sooner.Before Kong Li put on a weak attack posture, he actually played another vicious trick.

Because of Kong Li's blockade, news on both sides of the Yangtze River has been cut off for half a month, and the prince will seize the opportunity to remove Zhao Lanjiang's throat.

It's not that Geng Zhongming's acting skills are bad, it's just that his life and prosperity are related to him. After coming here, he has rehearsed many times.

All my words are like a general who was slow to atone for his crimes because of the failure of escorting the messenger, which caused the envoy to be killed.

"Dog Tartar!" Zhu Shuren's cavalry marched from Meihua Ridge into Guangchu Gate in the north of the city, and fought all the way along the long street, when they met Kong Youdete, who was the first to break through.

The old traitors under the command of the Manmeng soldiers, all of them were surrendered after the Wuqiao mutiny in the seventh year of Chongzhen.
Huang Degong is the eldest son of Liu Liangzuo, and he is only in his seventies now, relying entirely on his father's shadow to lead him.It must be said that the name Liu Liangzuo gave his son was also very shameless——

Geng Zhongming just followed the rehearsal of the lines precisely, and said, "require the Yangzhou garrison to immediately prepare all the stocks of Confucius cannons and ammunition, and cross the south of the Yangtze River for assistance."

Both Zhu Shuren and Chen Shaozong bypassed Jiancheng and marched overnight, and the cavalry could travel a hundred miles in one night.Chu County and Bahe County were bypassed by Chen Shaozong, and Taizhou County was also watched by Zhu Shuren along the way.

One fish and eight meals can be regarded as being completely understood by Cishou Pagoda.

It’s just that those pagodas were not more than ten feet high. Even if there are only bricks and stones left, they are still low and conspicuous, and they are very eye-catching when viewed through a telescope across the Yangtze River.

Zhu Shuren had all gone ashore, and there were only a thousand defenders in Taixing County, and it was serious, but was successfully attacked by Zhao Lanping!Before gaining a firm foothold in Taixing County and gathering the former army, Zhao Lanping immediately headed west to Yangzhou with cavalry!
And on the same night, Chen Shaozong's Huainan Kongli, who had been carefully deploying defenses west of Chuzhou and Bahe since then, also changed his previous defensive posture, and suddenly became active, and quickly interspersed eastward!
When a new traitor sees an old traitor, he is naturally a head lower.As a result, when Kong Tingxun first voted in the past, he had a bad relationship with these high-ranking generals in the hands of Liu Liangzuo, the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers.Even if it is a participation in the collar, I will give people gifts, drinks and men, in order to slowly integrate into the cool family of traitors.

"You are willing to surrender! You were forced to surrender by Kong Tingxun! You serve the country and have a family!"

Kong Youdete tried his best to parry, wielding a small knife to slash and chop violently, opening and closing small openings, but he was still swung away by Zhu Shuren, and he fell off the horse with a stab in the heart.

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At that point, the only thing Kong Tingxun can count on is to send cavalry to attack the city, and I should not be safe for the time being.As long as it takes a few days, Liu Liangzuo and Nikan come to rescue, and there is no chance to break Kong Li's encirclement of cavalry.

Zhao Lanping is originally from Shandong, and I have always advertised myself as a direct descendant of Jinshan and a moral model. I named my son Huang Degong, which made it clear that my son was compared to Hongyi, and comparing myself to the rebirth of Jinshan is simply too immoral. .

It’s just that the night observation vision is good, and the bombardment has no results. It’s just that a few cannons are often fired to strengthen the army and scare the defenders outside Yangzhou City.

Gossiping aside, Kong Tingxun has been sloppy observing the enemy's situation for a long time, and at the same time ordered his soldiers and naval warships to prepare for bad times, and sent his subordinates to return to Huai'an on slow boats, and informed Liu Liangzuo, who was still on his way, to arrive at a fleet of ships. Accelerate back and come to Yangzhou to listen.

(End of this chapter)