Nanming Yiming

Chapter 79 Huzhou Crisis
After taking Si'an Town with difficulty, General Pingnan Jinli did not feel the joy of victory at all.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria, which is Zhenghong Banner, lost a full 1000 people in Si'an Town, and also sacrificed most of the elite white armor soldiers.

Counting the 300 Mongolian Eight Banners lost the previous day, if he had only 2700 people left under the Manchurian Eight Banners.

This is the second time Jin Li has seen such a difficult Ming army.

If the battle in Si'an Town hadn't been too tragic, he might never have awakened the dusty memories deep in his memory!
The last time was the "Battle of Hunhe" 27 years ago. At that time, the Ming army's white soldiers and Qi's army also killed the "Manchurian warriors". At that time, Jin Li was just a nobody.

The Eight Banners of Manchuria, known as "Invincible in the World", were also killed face to face by the Ming army. At that time, the red armored soldiers who charged in the first wave were defeated by the "white soldiers" of the Ming army.

Facing the [-] elite cavalry of the Eight Banners, thousands of infantrymen in the Ming military area survived several rounds of charges and killed thousands of Eight Banner warriors. Unbelievable.
Withdrawing his thoughts, now Jin Li is faced with two choices. The first is to go south to Anji Prefecture, where to open the gap, and finally return to Hangzhou.

The second one is to go straight ahead to the Fucheng of Huzhou to regain Huzhou and complete the task assigned to him by Xiao Qiyuan.

If it was a day ago, he would have chosen to go straight to Huzhou without hesitation.

At this time, he actually hesitated, because he didn't know how many such Ming troops were there?
However, Jin Li soon decided to lead his troops straight to the capital of Huzhou. He did not believe that the Ming army would have many such troops. After the "Battle of Hunhe" that year, such a Ming army never appeared again. Now he is the winner. .

In Heping Town, not far from the capital of Huzhou, the Mongolian cavalry led by Agari was driving countless people to Huzhou with leather whips.

Some slow-moving old people died tragically under the Mongolian butcher's knives. In order to vent their anger, they even set fire to the entire town.

These ferocious Mongolians seem to have regained their former self-confidence when facing these unarmed common people.

After Huzhou government received the information sent by Zhang Xiaofan about the attack on Si'an Town, the whole city started martial law.

After Qian Mo learned that the Mongolian cavalry had attacked Si'an Town, he immediately realized that the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners led by Jin Li had returned to the defense.

At this time, his main force was destroying Xiao Qiyuan's 2000 reinforcements in the south, and the entire Huzhou City had only 800 people from half of the Shenji Battalion.

Qian Mo hurriedly sent someone to notify Chongming Camp and Shenji Camp in Wukang County to return to Fanghuzhou.

Qian Mo didn't have any organized cavalry in his hands, so it was definitely too late to send people to support Si'an Town at this time.

If he went to Si'an Town to support Zhang Xiaofan, he might directly encounter the Eight Banners of Manchuria in the wild, so Qian Mo directly gave up the idea of ​​supporting Si'an Town.

So he ordered Wang Zaixing to stay 500 people in Wukang and Deqing counties.Quickly led 1500 people to Huzhou to "join forces" with Jin Li's Eight Banners.

This time I was really careless.

After seeing the 5000 troops of Tian Xiong, the admiral of Zhejiang, go to the east of Zhejiang, Qian Mo felt that Huzhou was safe, but he didn't expect Xiao Qiyuan to have such a hand.

At this time, Qian Mo was even more afraid that Jin Li's cavalry would bypass Si'an Town and head straight for Huzhou City.

So Qian Mo, accompanied by Ma Li, the magistrate of Huzhou, came to the prisoner-of-war camp of the Qing army.

After all, the reinforcements from the south didn't know if they would have time to rush back to Huzhou Prefecture. The 1000 Qing troops in this prisoner-of-war camp are the most direct combat power.

Fortunately, several of Feng Rujin's confidant officers among the former prisoners of war had been sent to mine in Tianmu Mountain, and most of the Qing army had changed their minds after being inspired by the "excerpts".

At this moment, Ma Li, the magistrate of Huzhou, started his performance and shouted: "Brothers, now my master of Ming Dynasty is launching a full-scale counterattack."

"Jin Shenghuan, Duke of Yu in the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Deren, Marquis of Jianwu, raised 30 troops and recovered the entire territory of Jiangxi in one fell swoop. They led the army to make an all-out northern expedition. The Duke of Yu's army had conquered Huizhou and is now approaching Nanjing; and the army of Marquis Wang Deren of Jianwu had already Having conquered Huangzhou, we are now besieging Wuchang."

"Dingxi Hou Zhang Mingzhen led 10 Ming troops to capture the entire territory of Taizhou. At this time, he is attacking Ningbo together with Surubo Huang Binqing. Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong's army has been besieged by our Ming army in the city of Ningbo."

"And Qian Mo, the governor of Suhu Lake in the Ming Dynasty, led the Ming army to recover Huzhou and Jiaxing in one fell swoop. The army under the command of the Governor's Mansion is attacking Hangzhou with all its strength. At this moment, all the prefectures in Zhejiang have no troops to transfer. It is everyone who followed the Daming Wangshi to make contributions. good time."

"Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang Province, has no choice but to call back the Eight Banners of Manchuria who went out for reinforcements."

"The Eight Banners are not good at attacking the city but want to open a gap from our Huzhou. Brothers, can we agree?"

At this time, some surrendered soldiers who had already been secretly bought by Ma Li took the lead in shouting: "Defend Huzhou to the death, and never let the Eight Banners soldiers enter the city to harm the people of Huzhou!"

Driven by Ma Li's half-truth and half-false passionate speeches, coupled with the encouragement of some "surrendering soldiers" who took the lead in cutting their braids, soon these Qing soldiers all cut off their braids and became the Ming army.

Ma Zhifu, who was worried about Huzhou's loss, even organized the gentry and people of Huzhou to vigorously recruit young and strong people in Huzhou City, and soon organized 5000 young and strong people to help defend the city.

Fortunately, Zhang Xiaofan led the Jingnan Battalion to delay Jin Li for another whole day in Si'an Town, buying Huzhou City a lot of time to prepare. At this time, a lot of things such as thunder stones, rolling logs, and kerosene on the Huzhou City Wall have been prepared.

In the early morning of March 3, Jin Li finally led the 17 Eight Banners to the city of Huzhou.

However, at this time, his troops were insufficient, so he had to send Mongolian cavalry in the north and south to attract the attention of the defenders.

Concentrate the main force of 2000 positive red flags to attack Ximen.

Huzhou City also has a moat, but this time Jin Li was well prepared and directly drove a large number of people to transport soil to fill the river.

Driving the people to fill the moat was also a kind of psychological warfare imposed by the Qing army on the Ming army defending the city.

If the guard ordered the shooting of the people, although it could prevent the filling of the river, it would have a bad reputation. Even if the battle was won, the civil officials behind him would have to be impeached for the crime of "indiscriminately killing innocent people" and "slaughtering the people".

Moreover, this era is very particular about fellowship, and guest soldiers do not have this concern, but most of the defenders are still locals, and they will still have a lot of resistance if they want to slaughter their own folks, and it is easy to cause conflicts between officers and soldiers.

If the guards are merciful, they can only watch the moat being filled up little by little.

In this way, the goal of the Qing army will be achieved, and the morale of the Ming army defending the city will be further hit.

However, the morale of this thing mainly depends on public opinion propaganda, coupled with the usual strict discipline.

The daily military regulations of the Shenji Camp, coupled with the touring performances of the "Zhezi Opera" troupe, have already vividly portrayed the ugly face of the Qing army.

At the head of the city of Huzhou at this time, whether it was the soldiers of the original Shenji Battalion, the Qing army who changed their sect later, or even the ordinary young and strong, they all gritted their teeth with hatred for the evil deeds of the Qing army, and vowed to eliminate these invincible people. Eight Banners soldiers.

Qian Mo did not order the soldiers to fire on the people filling the river, but ordered the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion to shoot at the Qing army behind the people who were in charge of overseeing the work.

However, at this time, the Qing army already had an understanding of the range of Lumi guns, and they basically wandered a hundred steps away from the city wall.Of course, at this distance, the bows and arrows of the Qing army are powerless against the Ming army on the city.

Seeing the moat being filled up bit by bit, Jin Li was also in a good mood. It seemed that the Ming army general who defended the city was also an idiot with the benevolence of a woman. After the moat was filled up, he could attack Huzhou City.

At that time, we must let the warriors plunder the city well, and let the Han people know what will happen to them against my Qing Dynasty.

At this time, the people filling the river had been filling for an hour, although Qian Mo estimated that it would take some time for Lu Shanhai and Huang Yu to arrive.

However, they can no longer be allowed to continue to fill in the moat. If the moat is really filled, the Qing army will attack the city.

So the Ming army on the city shouted: "People below the city, quickly jump into the moat to escape. When the moat is really filled, the Qing army will drive you to attack the city. It will be a dead end."

Since the Qing army in charge of supervision did not dare to come within a hundred steps of the city, the people who filled the river had already distanced themselves from the Qing army.Most of the people in the Huzhou area know how to swim. When the Ming army shouted, the people jumped into the moat and swam to the north and south gates.

Some of the overseeing Qing soldiers saw that the people were jumping into the river to escape, and tried to stop them, but were hit by the firecrackers on the top of the city.

So they had no choice but to shoot at the people with their bows and arrows.

Many people were shot and killed by the bows and arrows of the Qing army, and the moat was stained red with blood for a while.

There were still four French cannons above the city of Huzhou. At this time, Qian Mo ordered to open fire, bombarding the Qing army who was shooting and killing the people.

Although the accuracy of the artillery was really limited, the roaring sound of the artillery still caused some confusion to the Qing army who were shooting arrows.

At this time, the remaining filling work can only be done by the Qing army itself.

Under the cover of a chariot, the Qing army began to charge towards the moat.

After experiencing the battle of Si'an Town, the Qing army found through inspection that the thicker part of the middle and lower part of the chariot was not penetrated by the Ming army's firearms, and only the relatively thinner part of the top was penetrated by the Ming army's firearms. .

So the existing car was reinforced overnight.Even if the remodeled chariot is fifty steps away, the Ming army on the city cannot penetrate it.

In this way, the Qing army successfully advanced to the moat and began to fill the soil.

With a loud "boom" from the Flang machine gun, a car of the Qing army was blown up, and several Eight Banners soldiers behind the car also went to the west sky, and then the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion on the city took the opportunity Kill the Qing army who lost the cover of the car.

Usually, about 30 soldiers followed behind each Qing army chariot, so blowing up one or two chariots almost meant that dozens of people were killed in battle for the Qing army.

However, the hit rate of this Frang machine gun is really not high, and it took a long time to fight for a total of 5 Qing army chariots.

At this time, the Qing army had also entered within 50 steps of the city, and the archers of the Qing army kept hiding behind the chariots and projectiles at the Ming army on the city.

The Ming army in the city was constantly shot by the bows and arrows thrown by the Qing army. Although they were directly hit by the bows and arrows, not many were killed on the spot.

However, the constant throwing of the Qing army still largely affected the interference of the Ming army on the city from filling the moat with the Qing army.

Especially those young and strong who helped transport in the city were shot by the bows and arrows thrown up by the Qing army from time to time, causing great panic.

Of course, the Qing army at this time could only use projectiles, and they did not dare to leave the cover of the chariot to find the target and shoot freely, otherwise they would be hit by the gunners of the Shenji Battalion in the city first.

At this time, Qian Mo felt that it was necessary to create sniper guns with a longer range and some mortars capable of parabolic shooting in the future.Otherwise, facing the tortoise-like car tactics of the Qing army, the Ming army would not have many options.

After paying the price of nearly 300 people killed in battle, the Qing army finally basically filled a section of the moat, and then they were going to prepare to attack the city.

At this time, a large number of Qing troops had rushed to the shooting blind spot under the city wall, and began to attack the city with ladders.

After entering about 30 steps, the shield chariot has basically lost its protective effect. The Lumi blunderbuss of Shenjiying can penetrate the shield chariot and directly shoot and kill the Eight Banners soldiers behind.

Therefore, the archers of the Qing army simply stood up and shot at the firecrackers of the Ming army. The casualties on both sides suddenly increased. The army's firepower is even better.After all, they were shooting from the top down on the ramparts.

Although the follow-up Qing army was temporarily suppressed by the firepower of the Ming army, as the Qing army rushed to the city and began to climb the ladder to attack the city, the gunmen of the Ming army also began to mount bayonets and prepare for hand-to-hand combat.

In fact, the heavy infantry of the Eight Banners are also very good at attacking the city. Due to the lack of firepower suppressed by the firecrackers, many soldiers and young men who threw thunder, rocks and logs under the city were shot and killed by the archers of the Qing army, and there were casualties on the towers. More than 100 people were invited.

So the Ming army on the city gave up using thunder stones to roll logs, and attacked the Qing army downwards, but directly entered into hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army.

At this time, the Qing army had begun to climb to the top of the city, but fortunately, there were 600 soldiers from the Shenji Battalion on the tower, and 500 Qing troops who had surrendered, plus 3000 young men holding shields and spears.

Qian Mo only trained these young men to do one thing before, which was to stick to the edge of the city wall so as not to be thrown by the bows and arrows of the Qing army below the city.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion hid behind the young and strong shield soldiers and pointed their firecrackers at the crenel. Once the young and strong men missed, they immediately made up for it.

Therefore, although the archers of the Qing army under the city kept throwing shots at the city, they did not cause any harm to the Ming army.

At this time, the first batch of Eight Banners soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were directly stabbed by the spears of the Ming army.

Although a few inexperienced young men were dragged down the city by the Eight Banners soldiers with their spears, some of the Eight Banners soldiers who were not stabbed at the first time were sent to the west by the firecrackers behind them.

However, this tactic can only work for a while. As long as the follow-up Eight Banners soldiers continue to climb to the top of the city, the rhythm of the young and strong and the gunners behind will be disrupted.

Sure enough, with the continuous climbing of the Eight Banners soldiers, more and more young and strong were killed by them.

But other young men will rush forward and stab the Eight Banners soldiers to death, and the musketeers will also make up their guns in time.

To put it bluntly, this is Qian Mo using his youth to exchange with Eight Banners veterans.

Use the young and strong without much combat experience to exchange the lives of the battle-tested Eight Banners soldiers.

Amidst the assassination of Qingzhuang spears and the sound of firecrackers from Shenji Battalion, the first wave of more than 300 Eight Banners soldiers who climbed to the top of the city were directly shot to death.

Although the casualties were huge, at this time the follow-up Eight Banners soldiers had climbed the city wall one after another and started hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army.

Jin Li under the city has also shown the joy of victory.

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