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Chapter 69 The Invincible Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers

"Yang Shuai, Fuzhou City is ahead!"

In the Ming army camp a few miles outside Fuzhou City, Wang Zongtan, the commander of the Eighth Town, pointed to the city wall in front and said.

"Ah."

Yang Gong on the side nodded, raised his telescope and observed carefully.

Gee, it deserves to be the capital of Fujian. The city walls in Fuzhou are indeed more similar to those in Quanzhou Prefecture. At least on the surface, the city walls are high and thick, which is worthy of the name.

As for the quality, you still have to shoot it with a cannon a few times to see how good it is.

Focusing on the city tower, many of them are well-equipped Fuzhou Eight Banners stationed in twos and threes or patrolling in groups.

It seems that this battle is not easy to fight!

Fortunately, he was prepared. He looked back at Zheng Dingrui, who came out to inspect the enemy's situation: "Commander Zheng, how are the preparations going?"

Zheng Dingrui nodded: "All twenty coffins have been prepared and the excavation personnel are in place."

"very good!"

Yang Gong put away the telescope in his hand and issued the order, "Commander Wang, I order you to lead your troops and horses to start attacking the city immediately, without any mistakes!"

"I have the order!" Wang Zongtan immediately accepted the order.

As Wang Zong continued to talk and issued orders, the originally quiet Ming army camp immediately became noisy and chaotic.

Countless bald red scarf troops wearing Qing army uniforms, with only red belts on their arms, assembled in formation in front of the camp, and brought various siege equipment such as ladders and door panels.

The noisy movements at the Ming army's camp also instantly alerted the Eight Banners of the Qing army who were responsible for defending the city at the top of Fuzhou City.

These Eight Banners troops, who have been stationed in Fujian for many years, spoke fluent Fuzhou dialect and asked in panic on the top of the city: "What's going on? Why did the Ming thieves suddenly start to move? Are they planning to attack the city?"

"Do you still need to ask? The ladder has been brought out. Is it possible that we are not attacking the city just for fun?"

"Brother, what should we do now?"

"Are you stupid? Inform the general immediately!"

"But the General is still resting. If we wake him up, will we be blamed?"

"At this time, no one cares whether to blame or not..."

However, there was no need to wait for the outcome of the fight between the two Eight Banners soldiers. Huang Bingyue himself woke up first.

Since the Ming army arrived outside Fuzhou City and began to set up camp, he had already climbed to the top of the city and then lived in the city tower. On the one hand, it was convenient to command and defend the city, and on the other hand, it also boosted the morale of the army.

Just now, he just took advantage of the afternoon to take a nap. How could he not know that there was such a big movement outside the city.

Arriving at the top of the city, Huang Bingyue took a closer look and saw that there was a crowd outside the city, with at least several thousand thieves.

No, these are not Ming thieves. Looking at their clothes, they are clearly in the style of their own Green Camp, and even the steps in the array are quite different.There is only a red scarf strap on the arm, which is in sharp contrast to the red Ming thieves in the camp.

"Traitor, traitor!" Huang Bingyue gritted his teeth. He was not stupid, and he understood at a glance that most of the Ming thieves who came to attack the city were probably the same Green Camp troops who were killed in the Battle of Quanzhou.

If Huang Bingyue hadn't had the courage, he would have really wanted to rush out with the sword and lead his troops to kill all the rebels who had surrendered to the Ming thieves.

Just as he was thinking, the Seventh Town of the Ming Army quickly arrived at the foot of Fuzhou City. Then, without even filling in the moat, groups of soldiers carried the door panels of the ladders and stepped on the moat bridge and rushed towards the city wall.

Upon seeing this, Huang Bingyue shouted quickly: "Quick, stop, stop for me! Where are the archers and the musketry team? Shoot for me!"

As Huang Bingyue issued orders in a hurry, it was clear that the Ming army had not yet entered the city. Only a few ladders were set up on the city wall, and a large number of arrows fell sparsely from the top of the city.

The hit rate cannot be said to be low, it can only be said to be completely absent. The Ming army just pushed the door panel over their heads and blocked them all.

In fact, because the arrows shot were too weak, they did not even penetrate the door panel. The arrows either bounced off the door panel or fell directly to the ground.

As for the cannonball team, needless to say, the fire sticks were all ringing, and only God knows where the bullets were shot.

"Trash, all trash!" Although Huang Bingyue had known that Fuzhou Eight Banners was no longer useful for one reason or another, he did not expect that it would be like this.

Under the city, Wang Zongtan, who was commanding the army, saw this scene and his confidence immediately doubled. He quickly seized the opportunity and ordered the vanguard battalion to ascend forcefully.

Those soldiers who were originally submissive and unable to fight in the Qing army camp, after receiving the order, all turned into hell ghosts at this moment, holding swords in their mouths, and quickly climbed up the ladder.

These soldiers have changed so much, not entirely because of the high pay and treatment of the Ming army, but because they saw the incompetence of these Eight Banners heavenly soldiers who were once said to be invincible.

As soon as this siege battle began, the fig leaf covering the Eight Banners was torn off by Huang Bingyue, the Fuzhou general, without hesitation.

Are these the invincible Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers?

Then I'm afraid that the eggs will be stuck on the pole!

If you can hack one to death, you will be proud of it for the rest of your life.

The soldiers of the Pioneer Battalion of the Seventh Town of the Ming Army quickly climbed up the ladder as if they had been given blood.

On the city tower, even though Huang Bingyue tried his best, scolded and kicked him, and even bent his bow to set an arrow...but then he missed the shot.

After all, after being a Fuzhou general for so many years, he is almost ready to be a prime minister, and he still has some shitty martial arts skills.

At this time, the already low morale of the Eight Banners in the city fell completely to the bottom.

Soon, the first Ming soldier pressed his hands on the stone bricks of the city wall and climbed up to the top of the city with a little force.

The surrounding Eight Banners soldiers looked at the Ming thief who rushed up, and they were all frightened.

But this Ming army didn't care about them, looking at these Eight Banners soldiers who were once aloof and whose armors were so gorgeous.

The Ming army showed a cruel smile, and then without hesitation, slashed the neck of a thin man with his knife.

The huge force directly caused the blade of the knife to penetrate three-thirds of the flesh. The main artery was cut off, and a large amount of blood spurted out directly, splashing on the Ming army's face. Combined with the ferocious smile on his face, he looked like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.The faces of all the surrounding Eight Banners soldiers suddenly changed, and their eyes were filled with fear.One of them, who was short in stature, was quite brave. With a fierce look on his face, he shouted: "He only has one person, everyone, go ahead and chop him to death."

Everyone came to their senses when he shouted, and immediately drew their knives and chopped at him.

Although this Ming army was more powerful than these people, they were ultimately outnumbered and were quickly hacked to death.

The only thing that made him happy was that one of the five Eight Banners soldiers who besieged them died and two others were injured. The one who died happened to be the brave dwarf.

The Ming army still understands this principle.

The four people who survived looked at the bloody corpse of the thief on the ground, and the courage they had finally mustered up had long since disappeared without a trace.

It's so difficult to kill an exposed thief, but there are hundreds of thousands of exposed thieves outside the city, and they still can't stand guard...

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The sound of two swords falling to the ground was actually the two injured Eight Banners soldiers throwing down their weapons and running away, taking off their armor as they ran.

As wounded soldiers, if they continue to fight, their probability of survival will only be lower than that of their colleagues. If they don't run away now, they will wait until later.

The two people ran away, and the other two people were stunned for a moment, then came to their senses and hurriedly ran with them.

The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners are invincible.

They sound domineering and superior, but in fact, their lives are no different from those of the Han soldiers in the Green Camp.

Even their Eight Banners General Huang Bingyue was even more corrupt.

According to history, in two to three months, these Fuzhou Eight Banners would be too exploitative and could not bear it anymore, so they would launch a mutiny and even alarm the Kangxi Emperor.

Now, it's just two or three months ahead of schedule.

Why are you playing with your life when you can't even eat anymore?
These two Eight Banners deserters who escaped from the battle were even smart. They shouted while running: "Fuzhou City is broken, Ming thieves have rushed in! Everyone, run away!"

These shouts soon alerted Huang Bingyue on the tower. He immediately pulled out his sword and shouted: "Who! Who is going around deceiving the public and shaking the morale of the army!"

However, no one paid attention to him, because the whole city was in chaos.

Although many people knew that someone was spreading rumors, the number of soldiers who had attacked the city in the Ming Dynasty was less than a hundred. How could the city be destroyed?

But what does it matter?
Almost no one of the Eight Banners of Fuzhou at the head of the city wanted to actually defend the city.

With their usual salary and rations, if they could fire two shots into the air, they would be worthy of the emperor.

Still working hard, bah!

For a moment, what was originally just a shout from two people turned into chaos throughout the tower.

The Eight Banners Army, which was still fighting the Ming thieves on the city tower, suddenly withdrew in a swarm. Those who had not yet withdrawn were all entangled by the Ming army who had climbed the city.

In just a short moment, the entire Fuzhou Eight Banners Army in the city tower was defeated.

Huang Bingyue felt desolate in his heart when he looked at the Eight Banners soldiers who were either running away or being hacked to death by Ming thieves on top of the city.

As the general of Fuzhou, he naturally knew better than anyone else that the Eight Banners of Fuzhou had low combat power. It was precisely for this reason that he ordered to shrink his troops and defend Fuzhou City in the hope of being able to defend it.

But he didn't expect that these Eight Banners soldiers were worse than he thought.

It's no wonder, even he, the Fuzhou general, is taking the lead in being extremely greedy, so what good things can the generals below do?

Thinking of this, Huang Bingyue felt regretful.

Of course, he did not regret why he was greedy in the first place, but regretted why he came to Fuzhou to be the Eight Banners General.

If he had known that there were such powerful rebels in Fujian, he would never have come to Fujian at all.

However, it was too late to regret at this time.

Not to mention Wang Zongtan at the bottom of the city, even Yang Gong at the Ming army camp also noticed the strange movement at the top of the city.

"Old Zheng! It seems that His Highness the Supervisor's coffin cannon is of no use." Yang Gong looked regretful, but also a little amused.

The so-called coffin cannon is actually a tactic of loading explosives into the coffin and blasting it in conjunction with cave sieges.

It is more time-consuming and labor-saving than siege in caves, and has a higher success rate. The only drawback is that it has not been through actual combat, and it was Zhu Yijiong who forcibly proposed it.

The adventurous Yang Gong originally wanted to take the opportunity to attack Fuzhou City to test the feasibility of coffin blasting, but he did not expect that the so-called Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers were so bad that they did not give him this opportunity at all.

Shaking his head, Yang Gong immediately issued a command: "Pass the order, the entire army attacks the city!"

Tens of thousands of Ming troops immediately set up camp and rushed towards Fuzhou City in front of them.

"General, leave quickly! The Ming thieves have rushed up. Now gather the army and we can retreat to the inner city..." The person who spoke was Huang Bingyue's deputy general. Seeing that the situation was over, he quickly advised Huang Bingyue to gather the remaining troops and continue to retreat to the inner city.

As for surrender?

How to surrender? Others can surrender, but they cannot surrender, because those who beat them are Ming thieves, and they are the Eight Banners.

After Huang Bingyue heard this, he glanced bitterly at the Ming troops who were constantly swarming up the city. There were even Ming troops in red among them: "Let's go!"

After that, under the protection of the deputy general and his own soldiers, he quickly descended from the city. At the same time, he gathered the remaining soldiers and quickly retreated to the inner city.

In the entire outer city of Fuzhou, no one noticed that Fuzhou General Huang Bingyue ran away with his troops. Even if they did, it didn't matter.

The situation in the outer city is irreversible, it's just a matter of time and capturing prisoners.

　Fuzhou has a moat, a man-made one, a Minjiang River, and various defense facilities. If you make good use of them, they are very powerful. If you don't know how to use them, you can basically ignore them.

　　Quanzhou actually has a moat, but they don’t have soldiers. It’s the same as not having one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)