scourge the qing dynasty

Chapter 319
"Why did the city catch fire? Is it a coincidence, or did someone set the fire on purpose?"

Because of the difference in distance and situation, Li Zhifang, the governor of Zhejiang, who was directing the defense of the city on the city wall, actually discovered this dangerous situation earlier than Fatty Lu and others. At first, Li Zhifang still had a little bit of luck, hoping that the people in the city accidentally caused the fire while cooking. He also quickly dispatched his own soldiers to order Mou Dayin, the deputy general in charge of patrolling the streets in the city, to put out the fire as soon as possible, so as not to spread the fire and shake the morale of the defenders.

As soon as the soldiers were ordered to go down to the city, Li Zhifang's last ray of hope was completely shattered, because he had already seen that not only one place was on fire in the city, but dozens of thick smoke had already risen, and they were still scattered in every street in the city. Seeing such a situation, no matter how confused Li Zhifang was, she understood that the spies of the Fat Army had sneaked into the city of Hangzhou ahead of time, and they were setting fire to make trouble everywhere at the moment, to help the Fat Army attack the city.

"The city is on fire! The city is on fire!" The other people on the city wall also gradually discovered this situation. Seeing the fire in the city, the morale of the soldiers of the Fatty Army was of course boosted, and the charge became more and more violent. The soldiers of the Qing army and the participants The people guarding the city are in chaos.Especially those Hangzhou people who were half-coaxed and half-deceived to go to the city to participate in the war, saw the fire in the direction of their home, and naturally cared about their belongings and the old, weak, women and children at home, and fled down the city wall to go home to fight the fire. They stopped them, and even drew their knives to kill them, but if the first escaped, there would be the second one. Under the influence of each other, the morale of the defenders immediately collapsed. The soldiers of the Fat Man Army cheered endlessly and went to the city to kill the enemy.

"Boom!"

The house leak happened to be raining all night, but at this time, there was an earth-shattering loud noise from the main gate of Wulin Gate. The ground shook and the mountains shook. Li Zhifang, who was standing at the top of the city gate, seemed to be slapped hard by an invisible giant hand. In the same way, the whole person flew backwards. Although he was lucky enough to bump into a few soldiers and did not fall directly off the city wall, his ears were already seeping blood and he was deaf on the spot.And the soldiers of the Qing army near Li Zhifang were also like this, all of them were so shaken that they flew up and fell off the city wall countless times.

"What's the matter?" Shaking her dizzy head, Li Zhifang found that she could not hear the sound of fighting on the battlefield at all, only saw the smoke billowing under the city gate, and saw the fat soldiers in the distance jumping up and down. Jumping, very excited, and then rushed towards the main gate of Wulin Gate like a tide.Li Zhifang was quite quick-witted, and quickly reacted, "No, the city gate was blown open!"

"Quick! The gate knife cart! The gate knife cart!" Li Zhifang yelled hoarsely, but when Li Zhifang stumbled to the inner side of the city gate and looked down, he was stunned to see that it was parked in the corridor of the city gate. The Saimen knife cart had been shaken tens of feet away by the shock wave, and fell to pieces, completely losing the value of rescuing the gap.The infantry of the Fat Man Army rushed into the Wengcheng like the tide, while the soldiers of the Qing army in the Wengcheng were fleeing to the steps of the city, not even the slightest plan to block the gap in the city gate with all their strength.

"Block the city gate, block the city gate!" Li Zhifang's screams were full of tears, but the sounds of killing, screams and explosions on the battlefield gathered like thunder, how much could Li Zhifang's voice be like? people hear?Even Li Zhifang, whose ears were deafened by the explosion, couldn't hear her own voice, "Why can't I shout out? Go, go! Block the city gate!"

In fact, Li Zhifang's order is useless even if it reaches the ears of every defender. Seeing the gate of Wulin Gate being blasted by the Fatty Army, and seeing the Fatty Army enter the Urn City, all the defenders on the city wall are gone. Losing the courage to fight on, countless soldiers threw down their weapons and surrendered directly on their knees, and more soldiers fled into the city, including the Qing army supervisor team who blocked them.Fatty's army was full of morale, howling as they charged harder and faster than each other. In a blink of an eye, thousands of people rushed up the city wall and completely controlled a rather long section of the position.

"Wu Dog! Take your life!" In such a critical situation, the mobile team led by Tu La, the Qing Hangzhou General, could only be loyal. Tu La, who was seriously ill, carried a big knife and led thirty or forty soldiers. With red eyes, he rushed towards the fat army team closest to him. The steel knife danced like a gust of wind, and cut down two fat army soldiers one after another. The elite soldiers rushed over and confronted Tula in close quarters, but the battle was inconsistent. The right hand of the old man Tula was slashed by Li Mao, and his wrist was broken. When Tula's personal soldiers rushed to rescue them, the fat soldiers had He rushed forward, roaring and slashing at the head with a dozen sabers, chopping this bloody old dog into meat paste.

Once Tula died, the Qing army on the city wall no longer had the will to fight, and collapsed even more completely. The soldiers of the fat army were full of morale, shouting to surrender and not to kill, rushing up the city wall from all directions, and rushing into the Wengcheng of Hangzhou in an endless stream. , and Fatty Lu in the distance has also lined up the fourth wave of siege teams, ready to rush into the city to fight and kill the enemy.At the same time, on the other side of the Qiantang Gate, the Fatty Army engineer soldiers also blasted the Qiantang Gate, and the soldiers of the Fatty Army also rushed into the Qiantang Gate Urn City and rushed up the city wall. Although Bayar, the Deputy Commander of the Qing Dynasty, resisted with all his strength, he couldn't hold back. Fatty's army's tide-like offensive retreated steadily, and Qiantang Gate and Wulin Gate were in a critical state at the same time.

In fact, the Qing army in Hangzhou is not completely without hope of a comeback. The first is that the Qing army in Hangzhou is still quite sufficient, at least six to seven thousand people can fight. The second is the two battlefields of Wulin Gate and Qiantang Gate and Hangzhou Mite City. They are all relatively close to each other. Although the main force of the mite city defenders has gone south and north to other battlefields, there are still thousands of mite men and women available in the city. As long as they are organized properly, they can still play a considerable role.

But it is a pity that the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Qing army had already completely collapsed. The fat army had no intention of fighting again as soon as they entered the Wengcheng. The road of reinforcements sent by the sect.At the same time, the inside of Mite City was already in chaos. They only cared about closing the six gates of Mite City to protect themselves, and had no intention of going out to rescue them. Another part of the Mite people who escaped from Nanjing Mite City also began to quietly spread Lu Fatty's four-kill order, making appointments with relatives. Ready to surrender, just wait for the fat man's army to enter the mite city to reveal his surname, and sell his own kind in exchange for his life.

In this way, the Fatty Army's offensive can only be described as overwhelming. Arrow stacks one after another were captured by the Fatty Army, one team after another of Qing soldiers was wiped out by the Fatty Army, and they were driven from other city gates. The reinforcements who came were also defeated by the Fatty Army, scrambling to flee for their lives, and when the Fatty Army engineers used the remaining three packs of explosives to blow open the second gate of the Urn City, the first batch of Fatty Army soldiers finally It broke into the city of Hangzhou, and completely shattered the last hope of the Qing army in Hangzhou to defend the city.

"The city is broken!" Amidst the cries and screams, the Qing army on the city wall completely collapsed. Those who surrendered and fled had no resistance at all. After crossing the city wall, they mixed into the defeated army and fled to Mite City. Most of the other Qing army generals did the same.

"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general, and another important town." Seeing that the victory has been decided, there are very few sycophants in the fat man's army flocking to Fatty Lu to flatter him. Rare in the world!"

"Congratulations, congratulations, this time the successful capture of Hangzhou is due to everyone, and it is also the result of our army's concerted efforts and courageous leadership." Fatty Lu was also very happy, and while ordering the team to come forward, he said happily: " In this battle, we have accumulated another important experience. In the future, as long as the enemy does not block the city gate, we will use explosives to blow up the city gate, which is not only convenient, but also economical."

"However, Mangou will also accumulate experience." Yao Qisheng said with a smile: "In the future, as long as we encounter the army of the general again, it is estimated that every guarding general of Mangou will block the city gate immediately, and we will not leave it to the general. Take a break."

"So, in the future, we'd better avoid tough battles as much as possible and try our best to fight in the field." Fatty Lu sighed, stood up with Xiaojiali in his arms, and ordered: "Send some Sanhao rockets and light launchers to the city wall, Send out an army along the city wall to attack Qiantang Gate to meet Wang Xu's team and enter the city. Also, as long as the Mangou army flees out of the city, let them go without chasing and killing them."

When the Fatty Army sent a batch of Sanhao rockets to the city wall and sent reinforcements to Qiantangmen, which was still fighting hard, Wang Xu, who refused to let Han Yuan be the only beauty, had already broken through the inner gate of Qiantangmen's urn with all his strength, and entered the city of Hangzhou. But the battle on the city wall was still going on. At this critical moment, Bayar, the not-so-reputable guard, showed the ferocious beast blood unique to the people of Mizhou, beheading hundreds of green camp soldiers who had fled before the battle. He set his foot on the ground, and kept guarding the city wall above the Qiantang Gate. No matter whether the fat man went up the city from the ladder or the steps, he beat him down, and there was nothing he could do about it.

Bayar couldn't be rampant for a long time. When the fat army's rocket team attacked along the city wall and blasted out hundreds of rockets in one breath, the Qing army at Qiantang Gate finally collapsed completely, and Bayar finally Unable to control the army anymore, he had no choice but to lead the team that still obeyed his own words and fled to Mancheng.However, it is very regrettable that his previous desperate resistance has completely angered the old Qiu Ba of the Fat Man Army. Wang Xu's right-hand man Li Kuang personally led an army to stop Bayar from retreating. The soldiers around him fled while crying and howling, and Bayar, who was wearing uniform armor, was gradually isolated. When there were only a dozen or so people left around Bayar, Li Kuang led the fat army soldiers and rushed forward, scrambling with knives. Hacked to death the remaining soldiers around Bayar.

"I surrender! I surrender!" At the critical moment, Bayar, who had vowed to live and die with the city of Hangzhou just now, became timid. He threw down his weapon and knelt down on his knees, shouting pitifully in Chinese: "I surrender, my surname Hadanala, it's not your man who will kill Man Gou, General Da Zhou please spare his life."

"Surrender? When you killed so many of our brothers just now, why didn't you surrender?!" Li Kuang shouted, stepped forward and slashed Bayar's neck with a knife, Bayar's head fell to the ground, and dirty blood immediately spilled all over the ground.

After a while, the news that Qiantang Gate and Wulin Gate were broken together spread to the other eight gates in Hangzhou. Basically, the guards of the eight gates with only a few hundred defenders opened the gates and fled for their lives. It was also rushing out of the city to flee for their lives. The streets and alleys were crowded with refugees, and many hooligans took advantage of the fire to loot. The city of Hangzhou was in chaos. The fat army took the opportunity to swarm into the city and gradually controlled the streets in the city.At this moment, Tian Fengji, governor of Zhejiang Province, is supervising the battle against Geng Jingzhong's army in Jinhua. physical strength.

The smarter one is He Zhongkui, the chief minister of Zhejiang Province. When he saw the fat man's army entering the city, Mr. He, who was directing the civilian husbands to cook for the defenders, ran back to his yamen immediately, and led the whole family and all the servants in the city. Kneeling in front of the gate to welcome the Fatty Army back to Hangzhou, it also inspired Zhang Dengxuan, the inspector of Zhejiang Province, to follow suit, and also voluntarily surrendered to the Fatty Army.In the end, the two Qing traitors also sent the yamen servant Ding as a leading party to guide the fat army to capture and seize the important yamen granary and arsenal in Hangzhou.

Relying on the good reputation of never slaughtering Han captives before, after breaking through the city wall of Hangzhou, the street battle of the Fatty Army to capture the outer city of Hangzhou went very smoothly. It took little effort to capture all the key positions in the outer city. Nearly half of the Qing army surrendered, and the rest either fled outside the city or fled into the Mite City in Hangzhou by the West Lake.At this time, Fatty Lu's flag array had also moved to the city wall of Wulin Gate, commanding the street fighting from a commanding height.

"General, our army has surrounded the city of Hangzhou!" The courier jointly sent by Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren said to Fatty Lu: "General Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren ask for instructions, should we attack the city immediately?"

"Don't be in a hurry." Fatty Lu shook his head, and ordered: "Tell Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren to surround them temporarily and wait for our artillery to move to Hangzhou City before attacking Mite City."

The messenger agreed, and flew down to the city. Fatty Lu turned to Yao Qisheng and asked, "Mr. Yao, where is your son Yao Yi? He set fire to the city to meet our army's attack and made great achievements. Why haven't you heard about it until now?" Come join our army?"

"Students are also wondering about this." The whereabouts of his biological son is unknown. Yao Qisheng, who has always been calm, rarely showed some worry on his face, and said hesitantly: "It stands to reason that he should have come to pay the general a long time ago. How come now? Hasn't appeared yet? Is there any accident?"

"Erlang, arrange someone to look for it immediately, and we must find Mr. Yao's son!" Fatty Lu turned to Xiao Erlang and shouted.Xiao Erlang agreed, and hurriedly arranged for someone to go into the city to find Yao Yi's whereabouts. As a result, Xiaojiao, who was sitting on Fatty Lu's lap, was not happy, and asked Fatty Lu dissatisfied: "Sir, what about my family? Why don't you care?"

"Little girl, what are you in a hurry for?" Fatty Lu pinched Little Pepper's tender face and said with a smile, "It has been arranged a long time ago. When our army entered the city, I already asked someone to notify your brother-in-law Hong Sheng to let him He entered the city with my warrant to protect your parents and family."

"Really? You are so kind, Mr. Pepper!" Little Pepper turned his anger into joy, and put his arms around Fatty Lu's neck shamelessly, nibbled on Fatty Lu's fat face, and said softly, "Sirman, you are so kind to my family." You are such a nice person, I can consider bringing more dowry to marry you."

"Ghost girl." Fatty Lu was annoyed and funny, and was about to tease this little money fan who never left money in three words, when Xiao Erlang next to him suddenly called out, "Master, look at the mite city in the south, it seems that we killed Into the city!"

"How is it possible?" Fatty Lu froze, quickly put down the pepper and stood up, went up to a high place and raised his binoculars to take a closer look, only to see that his lackeys had indeed entered Hangzhou Mite City, and there were everywhere inside the Mite City gate. It was the white-capped soldier who represented his identity as a running dog, and the flag of the fat man's army had also been planted on the tower of a city gate in the middle of Mite City.Fatty Lu couldn't help being both happy and surprised, and asked in surprise, "How did we get into Mite City? How did Hu Tongchun and Han Yuanren enter the city before our siege weapons had time to reach the gate of Mite City?"

"General, it seems that someone opened the city gate from the city." A fat man who was observing here said respectfully, "The villain just vaguely saw that the city was in chaos, and then our army entered the city." Now, someone should have caused trouble in the city and opened the city gate to welcome our army into the city."

"Who is so good? It deserves a big reward." Fatty Lu was even more delighted. After a little calculation, Fatty Lu quickly came to his senses and hurriedly smiled to Yao Qisheng next to him: "Mr. Is it Master Ling’s masterpiece? He risked being full of defeated soldiers and sneaked into the city. Hangzhou Mangou would definitely not waste a young and strong soldier like him, and would definitely keep him in the army. After he set fire to the city , and risked being filled with defeated soldiers and sneaked into Mite City, and took the opportunity to open Mite City to welcome our army into the city."

"I hope so." Yao Qisheng nodded, but the worried look on his face could not be lingered away.

Fatty Lu's crow's mouth became a prophecy, and half an hour later, Yao Qisheng's eldest son, Yao Yi, held a human head and led thirty or forty surrendered soldiers from the Qing army who had been paid by the fat man's army with a lot of money before. I went to Wulinmen City to seek an audience, and when I was allowed to go up to the city to meet Fatty Lu, Yao Yi knelt down on both knees without saying a word, took the heads in her hands, and said in a loud voice: "I will report to the general, the last general Yao Yi will not humiliate you!" The mission is to open the city gate of Hangzhou Mite City to welcome our army into the city, and personally behead the deputy Du Tongshi Tiaosheng, the defender of Hangzhou Mite City, and present it with the head, please accept it as a reward from the General!"

"Okay, okay!" Fatty Lu laughed happily, and quickly helped Yao Yi himself, and said repeatedly: "General Yao, you have worked hard, you have worked hard, today our army was able to capture Hangzhou in a single battle, and General Yao will be the first!"

Yao Yi continued to be modest, and Fatty Lu said loudly again: "General Yao Yi, now I have awarded you the title of Jurong Commander-in-Chief, and assigned it to my direct army. I will also reward you with 2000 taels of silver! Follow the army!"

"Thank you for the reward, General!" Yao Yi was overjoyed, and quickly knelt down on one knee and cupped her fists to express her gratitude.Fatty Lu laughed loudly, and hurriedly helped him up again, then turned to Yao Qisheng, and suddenly he knelt down on one knee with his hands clasped together. Yao Qisheng was shocked, and hurried up to help him: "General, what are you doing? Are you going to kill the students?" ?”

Fatty Lu shook his head and refused to get up, but said seriously: "Mr. Yao, Lu Yifeng has a small request, and I hope Mr. Yao will definitely agree."

"Please tell me, General." Yao Qisheng quickly replied.

"Mr. Yao is invited to serve as our army's military adviser." Fatty Lu said in a deep voice: "Mr. is a great talent, and Lu Yifeng admires him very much. Mr. Wan Wang and Mr. Lu will work together to expel the Tartars and create a great cause together. Lu will definitely thank you sir as a high official, and he will never break his promise!"

"The general speaks too seriously." Yao Qisheng hurriedly knelt down on his knees, kowtowed and said, "Yao Qisheng was just a general who had surrendered a while ago, and he came to vote because he was poor. Yao Qisheng is already very grateful, how dare he have any unreasonable thoughts?"

"Mr. Yao, if you don't agree, Lu Yifeng won't get up today." Fatty Lu didn't bother to say polite words, so he just played tricks.

"General..." Yao Qisheng pretended to be modest, and soon kowtowed his head, and said respectfully: "Well, since the general doesn't dislike it, Yao Qisheng will do his best to serve the general and die Already." Fatty Lu was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed to Yao Qisheng to thank him, and Yao Qisheng kowtowed back, and the two had no quarrel anymore, Fatty Lu finally believed in the sincerity of Yao Qisheng's surrender, and Yao Qisheng was also determined to give his life to Fatty Lu.

"Sir, what kind of official do you plan to make me?" Just as Fatty Lu and Yao Qisheng got up here, Little Pepper suddenly ran up, hugged Fatty Lu's fat thigh, raised his charming little face, and pleaded enthusiastically : "Sir, can you make me the general in charge of money and food? I swear that I will take care of the money and food for you, and help you make a fortune."

"Thanks, I don't want you, a little money fan, to take the opportunity to embezzle." Fatty Lu pinched Little Pepper's tender face with a wry smile, and then looked at Little Pepper's ruddy cherry mouth and white teeth, and couldn't help but move closer to Little Pepper. Pepper whispered in his ear: "Well, I will appoint you as the musician of Zhengdong General's Mansion, and you will play music for me in the future."

"Musician? I don't know the rhythm?" Little Pepper cried.

"It doesn't matter, I will teach you, it's very easy, with your intelligence and talent, you can learn it as soon as you keep it." Fatty Lu smiled complacently, and some messy evil things couldn't help but pop up in his mind.

In the first year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, on October 13, 27th year of Kang Mazi, the fat man army broke through the city of Hangzhou in the first battle, and captured the largest, most prosperous and richest town in northern Zhejiang.As the news spread, the Qing army in Zhejiang was all terrified. Geng Jingzhong, the commander of the Northern Expedition Army Zeng Yangxing, who was confronting the Qing army on the southern line, and Liu Guoxuan, the captain of the Taiwan fleet, who was confronting the Qing army in the sea near Ningbo, were all beating their chests and stamping their feet. I didn't expect that Fatty Lu would really do what he said, and he really hit the city of Hangzhou where he agreed to join forces in one breath, and even took down this fat and famous city in Zhejiang!

After repenting, Zeng Yang and Liu Guoxuan both jumped up like chicken blood, and shouted in unison: "The whole army is set out, go north with all your strength, and join General Lu Yifeng in Hangzhou!"

(End of this chapter)