Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 381 Gatekeeper
Strong winds on the river are common occurrences, and there are often a few days in a month when they cannot go sailing. Yang Chao himself did not encounter strong winds from Taiping Mansion to Yangzhou. Said it was bad luck.

This is a normal natural condition, and it is basically inevitable to encounter it on a large-scale water march.

But war waits for no one. When you feel that the time, place and people are ready to fight, the enemy will leave.

When it is time to fight, no matter what happens, you must fight with confidence. This is a strong soldier.

Back then when Huo Qubing attacked the Xiongnu king’s court, he didn’t say that we would stop fighting when the wind was too strong. When Yue Fei was in the Northern Expedition, he didn’t say that we would stop fighting because of the shortage of food and grass. When Qi Jiguang attacked the Japanese pirates, he didn’t say that it was raining heavily. Turks, Li Shuo attacked Caizhou and did not complain about Xueda.

Huo Qubing had no supplies, and his army went thousands of miles alone. Yue Fei had no food and grass, and his infantry attacked the Jurchen cavalry and Jiancheng. Qi Jiguang flew wherever there was news of Japanese pirates.

What is in front of Yang Chao now is that the backup has not arrived, there is a strong city ahead, and the opponent is only a cavalry, so it is really ridiculous to be timid and pretend to be destiny.

So if you want to fight, you must fight. At least you have tens of thousands of well-trained veterans who have gone through battles.

So set off overnight.

At this time, the water flow in the canal is favorable, and the Yangtze River has spring water, so it flows back into the canal, and the boats do not need to raise their sails.

The speed is also very fast.

Starting from the location between Yangzhou and Guazhou, it was only more than 20 miles away. After an hour, I saw Yangzhou City standing silently in the dark.

Yangzhou City was not quiet, and watched the fireworks billowing continuously. Although the people could not hear the howling, one could imagine what the Qing army was doing.

Killing and arson, murder is indispensable to arson, because when soldiers are allowed to plunder, they have released the devil in their hearts. Their hearts are full of destructive desires. Even if they are being suppressed, some people may not be able to resist setting fire.

At this time, there were only sporadic flames in Yangzhou City, which already showed that the military discipline of the Qing army was much stronger than that of the Ming army. You must know that Zuo Liangyu robbed Wuchang, and finally burned Wuchang city to nothing.

Except for the flames in the city, the city walls were completely dark, and the situation of the Qing army could not be seen at all.

I sent someone to investigate, and came back to say that there was no Qing army patrolling nearby.

This is good news for Yang Chao, because the Qing army is likely to be really defenseless.

Since entering the south of the Yangtze River, there has been basically no resistance. On the contrary, there are countless people like Liu Liangzuo who brought troops to surrender. People like Zhang Tianlu, Zhang Tianfu, Li Qifeng, Gao Qifeng, Hu Shangyou, and Han Shangliang are all at the level of general soldiers. However, he is willing to take the soldiers with him, cut his hair, kneel and lick the new master, and go to be a slave.

So Duoduo has the capital to be careless, and he has the qualifications to look down on the soldiers and horses in the south of the Yangtze River.

"Xie Fei obeys the order!"

Thinking of this, Yang Chao ordered immediately.

Xie Fei immediately went out, he is now the general, and he is the general of Yang Chao's personal army. Needless to say, martial arts and so on, he is still one of the best masters in Yang Chao's army. As for the credit, he rescued the prince from Beijing. This kind of credit left no one talking.

So Yang Chao transferred him to the personal army, and went directly from Banner to Bazong. No one had any complaints, but he felt that he should be a Qianzong.

"You bring a hundred elites and enter the city quietly, and the camera opens a city gate!"

Xie Fei didn't ask anything, just answered yes.

It is not difficult to enter the city. Yang Chao can enter the city as he left the city. Probably no one has made up his mind about the warehouse outside the city. The secret passage there should not have been discovered yet. As for the exit inside, Yang Chao had already taken care of it before leaving. , it is impossible to be found.

Xie Fei soon set off with a hundred personal soldiers who were the best in martial arts and had been in battle many times.

As expected, the secret passage was intact, and the soldiers who escaped with Yang Chao quickly found the entrance of the warehouse, and led people into it one by one.

Soon they were in the cellar, and then climbed up.

It took a lot of effort to get to the exit, because the entrance couldn't be opened.

The entrance passage can only allow one person to pass through, and several people were changed in a row, and the upper entrance was opened only after exhaustion.

It turned out that there were many things pressing on the entrance plank, which had been burned out long ago.

That's right, before Yang Chao left, he asked the soldiers behind him to set fire to the house and burn it down. The beams of the wooden building collapsed, and many tiles covered the entrance.

After clearing the entrance and exit, the first soldier climbed out, his eyes were full of scorched rubble, but the yard of the big family's house was not completely burned, and only a small half of the backyard was missing, but it was a mess at this time, obviously being patronized .

And from time to time there were sounds from outside, the sounds of women and children crying at night, and the sounds of crazily shouting and killing. It seemed that the next door to this big family was experiencing a tragic massacre.

Obviously, this is the most affluent area near the pier.

A hundred people climbed up to the entrance of the cave cautiously.

Then they fumbled out of the merchant's house. They were lucky. The yard seemed to have been robbed just now, so they didn't encounter a single soldier.

When they reached the door, Xie Fei listened carefully, lying on the door, and found that the voices from the next door also disappeared, and there were no other sounds nearby, so he finally waved his hand and led people out.

After going out, go straight to Xu Ning Gate at the southeast corner of the city wall. Outside this city gate is the bend of the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal makes a bend here and goes west, and it will go south after reaching Yijiang Gate.

Xie Fei led his men against the foot of the wall and hurried to Xu Ning Gate. After approaching the gate, he found a group of defenders at the gate.

They had never imagined that the Tartars would not be defensive at all. The Tartars were careless. A place like the city gate would definitely be guarded by troops.

But there are not many soldiers, but there are more than 100 people.

Xie Fei tightened up his team, and everyone moved forward in a dense formation, intending to catch the opponent by surprise.

"Stop! Whose subordinates are you?"

A person with a Liaodong accent asked.

The other party obviously didn't think that Xie Fei and the others came in from outside the city, but thought they were their own.

Xie Fei had an idea: "We are under Uncle Xingping."

The other party obviously didn't know who Uncle Xingping was, and said angrily, "How dare you! You've crossed the line, don't you know that this is the territory with the Baihan flag?"

Xie Fei's footsteps slowed down. At this time, the two sides were still five feet away, and there were only a few torches at the entrance of the city gate, so it was impossible to see clearly.

Xie Fei immediately said: "The villain went astray at night. I also ask the grandpas of the Eight Banners to forgive me, and we will leave now."

The Tazi officer obviously didn't admit it: "Going astray? Humph, I think you've found the right path! You know, there's oil and water in the east, so you just feel it and come here, right?"

Xie Fei apologized and said: "Master Qi, you guys have really gone astray, why don't you just leave now?"

Although he wanted to leave, his footsteps were still slowly moving towards the city gate.

"Hmph! All the armies have set up territory. Why don't you go to the river when you take a side road? You can't offend the Manba Banners and the Meng Baqi. See how the Han Baqi are easy to bully, don't you? Let me tell you this Han dog. Lao Tzu is a banner man, not a Han Chinese, and you can’t afford to mess with him.”

Xie Fei said repeatedly: "Yes, the villain will take this person away!"

The general of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was annoyed: "You still want to leave after scolding? If you let me go, I will not be laughed to death!"

Xie Fei pretended to cry: "But the little one really went wrong. I didn't get anything here. Master Baqi will spare the little one."

At this time, Xie Fei had already walked a foot away, and spread his hands to indicate that his hands were empty.

The general of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty snorted coldly: "It would be better not to grab it. Come here and guard the city gate for me!"

Xie Fei was taken aback, he didn't expect such a good thing to happen.

But pretending not to want to: "Don't you, sir, you guys will go back now, and I won't come again."

The general of the Eight Banners grabbed Xie Fei: "It's not such a good thing, since you're here, don't leave, stay here for me, dare to leave before dawn, if I kill you tomorrow, I know you are Uncle Xingping The people under him can find you."

Xie Fei bowed: "Yes."

Seeing that Xie Fei was intimidated by the Eight Banners general, he immediately waved his hands: "Brothers, let's go! Let's go to have some fun, and if we are late, we will be snatched up by that grandson named Tian."

The Han Eight Banners generals cheered one by one.

They belonged to the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, and they went to the city to divide up the territory and plunder. Although they are not as good as the houses of the big salt merchants by the Little Qinhuai River, the area near the canal and the city gate is also the home of some wealthy merchants. Being able to rob the salt merchants is reserved for the masters of the Manchu Banners. It is enough to rob these rich merchants on the edge of the city.

Xie Fei watched the generals of the Eight Banners leave, sighing inwardly that this was too lucky.

What he didn't know was that the general of the Eight Banners was just a small leader, and he was already depressed to death when he was assigned the job of guarding the city gate by lottery. Come to think of it, they were all bullied by the Man Ba ​​Banners in the past. Not only did they have to fight like the Man Ba ​​Banners when they charged, but they also sometimes did handymen for the Man Ba ​​Banners when they were marching.

But after entering the customs, too many Ming soldiers were surrendered, and they handed over the chores and other jobs to the Ming army, and they also developed the habit of oppressing the Ming army to surrender. They also knew that all of these surrendered soldiers were ninjas. , no matter how bullied, nothing will happen.

It was not until the Eight Banners of Han Dynasty disappeared into the darkness that Xie Fei asked people to step up the city wall quietly.

Then a hundred of them groped, and gently removed the bolt on the city gate, and carefully put it aside.

Then they are nervously preparing to deal with any changes that may happen at any time, until the news comes from the city, they will open the city gate as quickly as possible.

(End of this chapter)