Nanming Yiming

Chapter 82
Although the resistance of the gentry in Cixi County increased the casualties of the Ming army, Huang Binqing was very unhappy.However, his main purpose at this time is to take Cixi County to consolidate his flanks, so that he can seize the time to seize Yin County, the capital of Ningbo.

After the gentry in Cixi County offered 10 shi of grain and [-] taels of silver as a "protection fee", Huang Binqing restrained his subordinates and did not loot Cixi County; The materials were sent back to Zhoushan together with the surrendered Qing army.

The lack of arable land in Zhoushan, coupled with the long-term blockade by the Qing army, and the shortage of supplies on the island made Huang Binqing really strict with the soldiers and civilians in Zhoushan.

It's just that he has been in a state of self-reliance, and the "black hands" of other Ming army forces near Zhoushan took the opportunity to annex it, which is indeed a "cancer" of the Ming army in eastern Zhejiang.

However, it is far from being as terrible as the Qing army's propaganda. Otherwise, the soldiers and civilians on the island would have abolished or abandoned him long ago, and would have allowed him to dominate Zhoushan for so many years?

Huang Binqing did not expect that Zhang Mingzhen's capture of Taizhou would be so smooth, and he regretted that he did not agree to send troops with Zhang Mingzhen.

So when it was learned that half of the Qing army in Dingguan had been transferred away, they began to prepare to "make up for the dead", and sent troops to attack the city and plunder the land without hesitation.

As an "island owner", Huang Binqing is still very eager for territory on land.Island countries generally have such a "mainland complex". You can imagine the greed of later generations of "Little Days" for territory.

Now that he has fulfilled his wish, he has captured Dinghai and Cixi counties in the north of Ningbo Prefecture, especially when he pulled out the Dingguan pass that the Qing army had been using to block Zhoushan, he felt even more at ease.

However, there is news that Zhang Mingzhen has sent troops north to attack Fenghua, and he must take Yin County before Zhang Mingzhen to expand his territory.

After Huang Binqing left 2000 troops to guard Cixi County, he hurriedly led more than 1 main forces to Yin County, the prefecture of Ningbo.

In the Ningbo Mansion, Huang Wantian, the prefect of Ningbo at this time, had long been in a mess. After hearing that Zhang Mingzhen had captured Taizhou, he quickly withdrew the troops in the counties around Ningbo.

Fortunately, Dingguan Qianzong Hu Rirang led his troops to break through and retreat to Yin County, which gradually stabilized the situation in Yin County.

Huang Wantian saw that Hu Rili was a battle-tested warrior, and he risked his life to break out of the siege to report the letter, so he ordered Hu Rili to take over the defense of Yin County.

This Hu Rili is also unambiguous, although the food in Ningbo Mansion is still sufficient, but in order to make a long-term plan, Hu Rili still ordered all the refugees in Ningbo Mansion to be driven out of the city.

This can not only drive away the spies of the Ming army, but also reduce the consumption of food in the city.

Then in the treasury, city gates and other important military places, restricted areas were set up, and the common people were not allowed to approach. For a while, there was a lot of turmoil in Ningbo mansion!
In the Zhuangyuan Building in Ningbo, the famous businessman Wang Sihai and Chen Erjia, the clerk of the magistrate's yamen, were leisurely listening to ditties and enjoying a table of delicious food in the private room.

Chen Erjia was just a lowly official, so no one would invite him to such a high-end restaurant.

But at this moment, he has another identity, the brother-in-law of Cao Shanbao, the guard of Wangjing Gate in the west city of Ningbo Prefecture.

Rock sugar soft-shelled turtle, yellow croaker in pickled vegetable soup, pot-roasted river eel, sea prawns in salt water, Ningbo shredded eel, yellow croaker wrapped in bean curd skin, Zhuangyuan drunken chicken, Zhuangyuan cake and other signature delicacies have long made him drool.

At this time, Chen Erjia didn't care about his image, and began to feast on it alone.

Naturally, Wang Sihai is not an ordinary businessman, he is a big businessman, and he has a close friendship with the "Zhoushan Island Owner", otherwise how could he conduct maritime trade safely?
At this moment, he was here to contact Cao Shanbao's brother-in-law on behalf of Huang Binqing, and agreed on a time to open the city gate together.

Seeing that Chen Erjia was almost finished eating, Wang Sihai waved his hand to signal the singer to step back.

He smiled and said to Chen Erjia: "Chen Shuli, do the dishes in the Zhuangyuan Building still suit your appetite?"

At this time, Chen Erjia also realized that his eating was a bit ugly, and he said embarrassedly: "The magistrate's yamen has a lot of official documents these two days, but I am so busy that I didn't take care of eating, which made Master Wang laugh."

Wang Sihai said: "Don't worry, this bowl of yellow croaker soup is the signature dish of Zhuangyuan Building, and you can't get it in other places. Please Chen Shuli to taste it."

After drinking and eating, Chen Erjia said: "This Hu Rili is just a defeated general who has settled the pass. Thanks to the support of Huang Zhifu, he shows off his power in front of my brother-in-law all day long. My brother-in-law has long disliked him."

After looking around, he said in a low voice: "Please tell Uncle Sulu that my brother-in-law will hold a fire at the top of the city as a signal to open the Wangjing Gate to welcome Wang Shi into the city, and hope that the army will be ready. "

Seeing that his goal had been achieved, Wang Sihai naturally wouldn't stay for long, he said hello to Chen Erjia and left.

Soon after, a messenger with excellent water skills dived out of Ningbo Mansion through the water channel next to the Wangjing Gate.

Yin County, the prefecture of Ningbo, is located at the confluence of Yongjiang, Yaojiang and Fenghua Rivers.Fucheng is two feet five feet high, two feet two feet wide, and one foot five feet wide.The surrounding area is 210 feet, and the extension is [-] miles.

There are six city gates in Ningbo Prefecture, Lingqiao Gate and Dongdu Gate in the east, Changchun Gate in the south, Wangjing Gate in the west, Yongfeng Gate in the north and Heyi Gate in the northeast.

Facing such a fortified city, Huang Binqing had to look at the city and sigh. Although he had led 1 Ming troops to the city of Ningbo, he was not in a hurry to attack the city, but was waiting for an opportunity.

The water level of the Yongjiang River soared during the spring tide tonight, and the improved No. 300 Fuchuan, the largest ship in the Zhoushan Navy, with a displacement of 1 tons, can go down the Yongjiang River directly to the outside of Ningbo.

永历二年（1648年）3月17日凌晨，宁波的东渡门外，10艘改良版1号福船在甬江上一字排开，每艘福船装有多达20门千斤佛郎机火炮。

With an order to "fire the guns", thousands of guns were fired in an instant, and the warships of the Ming army on the river continued to fire at the east city of Ningbo.

The Qing army on the city also immediately fought back against the Ming army warship, and the flames shot up into the sky for a while, and the fight between the two sides was not easy.

However, the Qing army had only 8 red cannons, which were far less powerful than the Ming army, and the hit rate at night was even pitifully low, but there were bursts of spray on the river.

Although the Ming army's Frang machine artillery was numerous, its power was limited. Although the firepower on Ningbo City was completely suppressed by the Ming army, it could not blast the city wall of Ningbo for a while.

However, to Huang Binqing, this was just a strategy to attack the east and attack the west. He was very satisfied when he saw the flames of the east gate of Ningbo skyrocketing. The attention of the Qing army must have been attracted to the east city.

At this time, in the west city of Ningbo, Dynasty Xianzheng, the commander-in-chief of the Zhoushan army of the Ming army, led 5000 soldiers and horses to ambush outside the Wangjing Gate.

It was almost the appointed hour, and Wang Chaoxian was anxiously looking at the Wangjing Gate.Finally, someone in the city waved a torch, and the city gate was quietly opened.

Wang Chaoxian said softly: "Brothers, the Qing army is fighting fiercely in the east city at this time, everyone will follow me into the Wangjing Gate and take Ningbo Mansion in one fell swoop."

I saw that Wang Chao took the lead and rushed into the Wangjing Gate. Wangjing Gate also had an urn. Just as the Ming army was about to pass through the urn and rush into Ningbo, the gate of Ningbo was suddenly closed.

Wang Chaoxian immediately realized that he had been fooled, and shouted: "There is an ambush in the city, everyone retreat quickly."

At this time, countless torches were erected on the Wengcheng and the towers, and a large number of thunder, rocks and logs smashed towards the gate of Wengcheng.

Chao Chao first scolded Cao Shanbao, the guard of the Wangjing Gate on the city: "You despicable villain, dare to design and frame us, and when Su Lubo invades Ningbo, you will surely be torn to pieces!"

Cao Shanbao said with a smile: "Since ancient times, soldiers have never been tired of deceit, and Cao did not dare to claim credit. This is the ingenious plan of Deputy General Hu to "invite the king into the urn". You Ming soldiers really fell into the trap."

"Arrow"

All of a sudden, countless bows and arrows and firecrackers fell, causing heavy casualties to the Ming army in the Wengcheng.

The dynasty first blocked the arrows of the Qing army, and at the same time called on the Ming army to retreat outside the city.

I saw the gate of Wangjingmen opened again, and Hu Rili led 1000 cavalry to fight out.

When he saw the cavalry of the Qing army, Wang Chao first realized that he was doomed this time.

I saw Hu Rili took the lead, rushed over and beheaded Wang Chaoxian.

At this time, the thousands of Ming troops who had entered the Wengcheng were all beheaded by the Qing army except for a few who escaped from the Wengcheng.

The Ming army outside the city was also shot and killed by the Qing army on the city. As the dynasty died first, the Ming army was leaderless and fell into chaos.

When Hu Rili led the cavalry of the Qing army to fight out of the city, the Ming army collapsed directly, fled blindly, and gave up resistance completely.

Only one Ming army shouted: "It's not good, we are in ambush, Mr. Wang has already died in battle, and the Qing army has come out, everyone should run for their lives."

Although several experienced generals of the Ming army wanted to prevent the army from fleeing, they shouted: "Everyone, don't run, form an formation against the enemy, we can't run away from the cavalry."

However, they were immediately dispersed by the rout, and the cavalry of the Qing army ruthlessly massacred the retreating infantry of the Ming army.

In this way, what was originally a good sneak attack turned into a one-sided massacre.

Fortunately, it was dark night, and there was a dense water network outside Ningbo City. Many Ming soldiers jumped into the river to barely save their lives.

Seeing the defeat of the Ming army, Hu Rili directly led the Qing cavalry to kill Huang Binqing's Ming army camp.

Just as the Ningbo Qing army and Huang Binqing's land and water armies were fighting fiercely in the east and west cities, Zhang Mingzhen also personally led the Ming army to the south of Ningbo city.

After Zhang Mingzhen regained Taizhou, in addition to recruiting a large number of Qing soldiers, he also recruited many civilians to join the Ming army.

Zhang Mingzhen himself has a great influence in eastern Zhejiang, and now he is leading a big victory, and it is even more popular.

Not counting the rebel armies in Siming Mountain and Tiantai Mountain, the Ming army under the command of Zhang Mingzhen has directly expanded from the initial 12000 to 25000, which has more than doubled.

However, it was also delayed by 2 days because of the integration and recruitment of troops. After all, Taizhou had just been recovered, and Zhang Mingzhen would not dare to attack Ningbo rashly if he did not arrange Taizhou's defense.

Even the capture of Fenghua was the result of a tentative attack.

It's just that Zhang Mingzhen didn't expect Huang Binqing, who had always preserved his strength, to take such a decisive move this time. Not only did he win Dingguan, but he also regained Dinghai and Cixi counties in one fell swoop.

It was rare for Huang Binqing to work so hard. Naturally, Zhang Mingzhen couldn't miss this good opportunity to capture Ningbo from the north-south attack.

So he led an army of [-] to the south of Ningbo city overnight.

Hearing the rumble of cannons in the east of Ningbo City at this time, Zhang Mingzhen immediately guessed that Huang Binqing's navy must be attacking the east city of Ningbo down the river.

Zhang Mingzhen immediately led the Ming army across the Fenghua River.

There were originally 4000 troops in Ningbo City. The Qing army deployed 3000 troops to the west of the city to ambush the Ming army. city.

At this time, in addition to the city gate, some soldiers were left to guard the south of the city, and there were hardly a few Qing soldiers patrolling the city.

A small group of Ming soldiers easily reached the city of Ningbo under the cover of night, avoided the few sentinels, and threw their flying claws onto the city wall.

The Ming army who climbed up the city wall quickly eliminated several patrolling Qing soldiers, and then rushed to the city gate. After a burst of fighting, the Changchun Gate in the south of Ningbo City was opened.

Seeing the gate of Changchun Gate opened wide, Zhang Mingzhen led the Ming army into the city in one fell swoop.

However, there were still 3000 Qing troops in Ningbo at this time, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle for the city gate.

The Qing army in the east of the city was engaged in an artillery battle with the Ming army on the river, and they didn't even notice that the Ming army in the south of the city had entered Ningbo.

When the general Zhang Jie led 3000 Ming troops to the east gate, the Qing army was completely caught off guard.

After dozens of people were beheaded by the Ming army, they all fled the city gate and fled to the city. At this time, the sound of artillery outside the Yongjiang River did not stop.

In order not to be accidentally injured by artillery fire, Zhang Jie also quickly withdrew from the city after occupying the east gate, leaving only 500 people to guard the east gate.

Then he led people to occupy the north gate.

Then Zhang Jie ran over the fleeing Qing army all the way and fought in the city. In the end, only 300 Qing soldiers retreated into the Yamen of the prefect of Ningbo.

On the other side, Zhang Mingzhen personally led the army to capture Ximen.

Cao Shanbao had been quite content to deal with the Zhoushan Ming army just now, but out of nowhere, another Ming army rushed into Ningbo.

He didn't expect that the curse of the dynasty just before his death would be fulfilled so quickly.

But at this time, he still had 2000 troops in his hand, so naturally he wanted to drive the Ming army out of the city.

The two sides launched an exciting fight in the west city. Since it was difficult to deploy troops on the city wall, the Ming army quickly surrounded the Qing army in the west city from all directions.

The shield soldiers of the Qing army on the city wall stood firmly in front, while the archers and musketeers behind fired at the Ming army.

The Ming army also used the same tactics, using shield soldiers to stand in front.

However, after the firecrackers shot each other, the shield soldiers were broken by each other, and soon the soldiers on both sides engaged in hand-to-hand combat.

The battle was quite fierce. Here, a Ming army had just stabbed a Qing soldier to death, and was shot dead by the Qing army behind him. The two sides were almost exchanging their lives one-on-one.

Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins. At this time, both sides are struggling to support. If whoever can't stand it first, it will inevitably be lost.

The Ming army already had a large number of people, and the Ming army came all the way from the north of the city, and the Qing army began to gradually lose its support.

Cao Shanbao is very anxious now, if Hu Rili's thousand cavalry from outside the city don't rush back, he will really be unable to stand up.

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