Nanming Yiming

Chapter 94 Breaking the City (Seeking Subscription Support)

While Ming and Qing were fighting fiercely in the south of Hangzhou, Qian An led 1000 people from the Jiaxing Camp to the north of Hangzhou.

In Tianjiazhuang, more than 1000 war horses from Zhang Tianlu were obtained, which greatly improved the mobility of the Jiaxing Camp.

Qian An said: "Give me an order from the general to block the line from Wulin Gate to Genshan Gate, and don't let the Qing army run away from us."

Since the gate of Genshan is the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the cavalry of the Jiaxing Battalion wandered around the gate of Wulin in Hangzhou for several times.

At this time Xiao Qiyuan was personally supervising the battle on Mount Wu in the south of Hangzhou, and he was shocked when he heard that the Ming army appeared outside the Wulin Gate.

During the day, the Ming army stormed the front line of Wansongling and Fengshanmen in the south city. The Qing army suffered heavy casualties, as many as 700 people were killed. Xiao Qiyuan had no choice but to invest another 500 people to enrich the front line in the south of the city.

Originally, there were 6000 regular troops and 3000 young and strong in Hangzhou City.At this time, 2000 people had been invested in Nancheng, and the troops in the north of the city were empty, so Xiao Qiyuan had to send another 500 reinforcements to Wulinmen.

In fact, Xiao Qiyuan has been studying Qian Mo's tactics. He found that this Qian Mo never forcibly attacked the city. He always used various conspiracies and tricks to divert the tiger away from the mountain, avoiding the real and attacking the false, so Xiao Qiyuan has been guarding in the city. Champ's infiltration.

His intuition told himself that he must have other plans to storm Nancheng at this time?
So he always kept mobile troops by his side in case of accidents.It's just that in the blink of an eye, another 1000 people were transferred from the north and the south.

Ever since he was assigned to be stationed in Hangzhou Mancheng, Hou Qianhai was very upset.The Eight Banners of Hangzhou have long been annihilated, and now there are only some red-flag-coated servants and the old, weak, sick and disabled left in the whole city.

But these hundreds of old, weak, sick and disabled still rely on their status as the Eight Banners to point fingers at Hou Qianhai, and even the distribution of supplies is often withheld.

Although the materials in Hangzhou City at this time were still sufficient, after all, the Ming army had already begun to besiege the city, Xiao Qi still strictly controlled the materials distributed to each battalion in order to make long-term plans.Master Eight Banners made a bit of money here, but Hou Qianhai had to make it harder.

Fortunately, Huang Bao often used Huang Sanba's resources in Hangzhou to send supplies to Hou Qianhai, otherwise Hou Qianhai's life would be miserable.

At this time, the soldiers came to report: "Report to Chief Hou, Brother Huang has died and sent us supplies again."

Hearing that Huang Bao had come, Hou Qianhai was in a good mood and said, "Hurry up and invite Brother Huang in."

Hou Qianhai said: "I can't go out to meet Brother Huang in person because my legs and feet are inconvenient. I hope you will forgive me!"

"Nowadays, the supplies in Hangzhou City are so tight, and my brother still helps us directly. How can you feel sorry for this brother?"

Huang Bao said: "Brother Hou, what are you talking about? You and Huang Dong's family are sworn brothers, so naturally you are also our master. Mere supplies are nothing!"

"Looking at Brother Da Hou's appearance, it seems that something went wrong?"

Hou Qianhai said: "Brother Huang is one of our own people, and I'm not afraid of your jokes. Is it enough for you to be angry with the Tartars in this city?"

Huang Bao asked puzzledly: "The Eight Banners in Hangzhou have long been wiped out by the Ming army, and even the head of General Pingnan Jin Li was sent to Hangzhou by the Ming army. Brother Hou is the commander-in-chief, and the Tartars dare to give it to them." Are you angry?"

It's okay if Huang Bao didn't say anything, but when Hou Qianhai said it, he became even more angry, and said: "Couldn't it be Lu Dahai, an old tartar, who dared to withhold the money given to us by showing off his might in front of me because he had once been a Niu Lu Zhang Jing? Supplies."

"Grandma, he doesn't even look at what his subordinates are writing about. A group of old, weak and remnant soldiers dare to show off their power in front of me. I drove me into a hurry, so I killed them and joined the Ming army."

Hearing what Hou Qianhai said, Huang Bao pretended to be surprised and said: "Brother Hou, be careful, this matter is not trivial!"

Hou Qianhai then said: "Brother, I just said something angry, brother, don't take it seriously!"

Huang Bao said: "Brother Hou is right, and it is a way out right now."

"Brother, don't you know that Governor Xiao's Fubiao suffered heavy casualties in Nancheng today, and the defense line was crumbling by the Ming army. Even Li Yan, the 'No. [-] marksman in Zhejiang and Zhejiang' under Governor Xiao, was shot dead by the Ming army. .”

"A large number of Ming army cavalry appeared outside the Wulin gate in the north of the city just now, and Wu Shan's soldiers and horses were urgently transferred to the north of the city. Now that the Ming army has not formally launched an attack on the city, how long can this few troops in Hangzhou city last?"

"Previously Zhang Tianlu, the Jiangnan admiral in Songjiang, led the Han army Zhenghuang Banner with 5000 troops to go south to break the siege of Hangzhou. Unexpectedly, they were completely wiped out by the Ming army in Jiaxing. Now the Ming army has occupied Jiaxing, but Governor Xiao deliberately blocked the news."

Hou Qianhai said: "I've also heard about this, brother, are you sure it's true?"

Huang Bao said: "Businessmen have good eyes and ears, how could this kind of thing be hidden from us?"

"The Hangzhou Bay Navy has surrendered, and now the Ming army has occupied Xiaoshan and blocked the Qiantang River. Zhejiang Admiral Tian Xiong's troops never returned to aid Hangzhou, but were trapped in Ningbo by the Ming army."

Hou Qianhai asked in surprise: "So Hangzhou is an isolated city now, without any reinforcements?"

Huang Bao nodded, and said, "So Brother Hou needs to make plans early. There is no need for us to be buried with Hangzhou City?"

Hou Qianhai asked coldly: "Brother Huang is so well informed, isn't he a spy of the Ming army?"

Seeing that Hou Qianhai had already seen through Huang Bao, he simply stopped pretending and said directly, "Brother Hou has good eyesight, and I am the spy of the intelligence department under the Suhu Governor's Mansion of Daming. Not only me, but Dong Huang's family as well."

"Xiao Qiyuan, the governor of Zhejiang Province, took very strict precautions, so we had no choice but to sneak into Hangzhou City with Brother Hou's team."

Hou Qianhai said: "So I was able to enter Hangzhou City, and it was also your intentional arrangement?"

"Whether it is Jin Li's Hangzhou Eight Banners, Zhang Tianlu's Han Army Zhenghuang Banner, or other reinforcements, without the permission of our Governor Qian, it is impossible to enter Hangzhou City alive."

"Governor Qian used the siege to fight for aid. Now that the Qing army has exhausted all reinforcements, there is no need to keep Hangzhou City."

Huang Bao said it easily, but Hou Qianhai was terrified when he heard it. He didn't expect that the Ming army was plotting against him from the very beginning.I took precautions along the way and thought I was safe, but in the end I fell into the way of the Ming army.The main forces of the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Han Army Banner were completely annihilated, and the green camp and Ming army under his command did not pay attention at all.

He also thought of the anger he had suffered in the whole city these days, so his anger rose from his heart, and the evil turned to his guts, and he said immediately: "Brother Huang, Hou is willing to raise an army anyway, but I don't know if Governor Qian can see it with the few people under my command. Get it?"

Huang Bao said: "Brother Hou, don't worry, the silver that I gave you before is still yours. Governor Qian will use Brother Hou's subordinates as the team to form a Hangzhou battalion in Hangzhou. Much more."

"In addition, your family members have already been taken out of Yanzhou by Dong Huang's family. Brother Hou, don't worry."

On Wansongling's Hangzhou South City, the section of the city wall where two pieces of white cloth were secretly hung has also become a "safe zone", and the artillery fire from the Shenji Camp no longer patronizes.Coupled with his professional bomb avoidance performance during the day, Niu Erwa has become the backbone of the surrounding Qing army at this time.

At this time, a Qing army asked: "Brother Erwa, although the Ming army is not attacking the city right now, we are fine for the time being; but when the Ming army is about to attack the city sooner or later, what shall we do?"

Another Qing army said: "Governor Xiao's warlord team under the city has already killed many people who sneaked into the city. If the Ming army attacked the city, we would have to fight the Ming army to the death. Their firecrackers are powerful, and we fought me close. Don't be afraid of them."

At this time, several other Qing troops also echoed: "Yes, we fought with the Ming army!"

Seeing that the direction of the wind was about to be diverted, Niu Erwa immediately said: "You are not afraid of the Ming army in melee combat? Just look at how many people we have here."

"There were 1500 troops in Nancheng during the day, and half of them died in less than an hour. Although a few hundred people were added later, those people were the direct troops of Governor Xiao. Aren't we the cannon fodder who fought hand-to-hand with the Ming army?"

"How do you know that the Ming army can't do it in hand-to-hand combat? Even the Eight Banners in Hangzhou were completely wiped out by the Ming army. We don't have enough people to stop the Ming army."

Several other Qing soldiers said quickly: "Fighting the Ming army resolutely is definitely a dead end, brother Erwa, can you show us a way to survive?"

Niu Erwa said in a low voice: "If you want to survive, you have to surrender to the Ming army!"

A Qing army said: "This matter is not appropriate. If the Ming army is red-eyed, even if we surrender at that time, we will still not be able to survive."

Niu Erwa said: "When the Ming army kills the city, it will definitely be too late for us to surrender. For the present plan, we have to send people down to the city and make an agreement with the Ming army on the matter of surrender in advance, so that we have a chance of survival."

Everyone said: "This is a way, but there is no rope in this city, how can we sneak down to the city?"

At this time, a Qing soldier pointed to the "Flying Claw" on the city and said: "Look at the Flying Claw, there is still a rope underneath."

"When did the Ming army throw the flying claws directly onto the city wall?"

Of course Niu Erwa knew what was going on, and said: "We leaned against the city wall to hide from the artillery fire for a long time. Even if the Ming army got under the city wall, we wouldn't know it. Never mind when the Ming army under the city threw it up. Who is now?" Dare to go down to the city to contact the Ming army?"

Everyone looked at each other, but no one dared to answer.After all, going down to the city is considered a narrow escape, even if it is not discovered by other Qing troops above the enemy building, it is easy to be shot and killed by the Ming army below the city.

At this time, another spy from the intelligence department volunteered and said: "In order to save my brothers a way out, I will go all out, and I will go down to the city for a walk!"

Niu Erwa said: "Brother, take care. If the matter is resolved, remember to light a bonfire under the city as agreed."

At this time, both Chongming Camp and Jiaxing Camp were in place, completing the siege of Hangzhou.

Following Huang Yu's order, the Ming army began to attack the city.

The Ming army's tiger squatting guns and Flang machine guns were all aimed at the water and land gates of Fengshan Gate, and the cannons suddenly boomed.

A Qing army shouted: "Look, there is a fire boat of the Ming army below. The Ming army is going to set fire to Fengshan Water Gate directly."

The guard at Fengshan Gate shouted: "Quickly report to Governor Xiao, the Ming army will seize Fengshan Gate at night."

At this time, the artillerymen of the Qing army on Mount Wu had already noticed the fire outside Fengshan Gate.

Zuo Shuxun said: "Master Governor, the artillery of the Ming army has moved from Fenghuang Mountain to the outside of Fengshan Gate. We can't aim at this black light."

The attack by the Ming army in the middle of the night was indeed beyond Xiao Qiyuan's expectations. He thought he could survive the day and night, but he didn't expect the Ming army to come up with the idea of ​​Fengshan Gate and Water Gate, so he quickly ordered Zuo Shuxun to bring people to support him. Fengshan Gate.

Because he was worried that the Ming army would attack east and west, Xiao Qiyuan hurriedly ordered other city gates in Hangzhou to take strict precautions to prevent the Ming army from attacking east and west and launching sneak attacks.

The artillery fire at Fengshan Gate attracted all the attention of the Qing army.

Under the cover of the sound of gunfire, the first batch of Ming troops had already secretly boarded the southern city wall of Hangzhou, while the more than 200 Qing troops gave up resistance directly under Niu Erwa's flicker.

In order to ensure the effect of the sneak attack, this group of Ming soldiers not only put on the Qing army's clothing, but also wore fake braids.

By the time the Qing army reacted, the Ming army had already killed the enemy building, and the shouts of killing on the city quickly attracted the attention of other Qing troops.

However, at this time, two enemy buildings have been occupied by the Ming army, and the Ming army behind them is continuously climbing over the city wall.

Soon the Qing army on the city wall was suppressed by the firepower of the Ming army, and the Ming army ran all the way along the city wall to Fengshan Gate.The city wall was very narrow, and the Qing army could not use it at all. With the sound of "bang, bang, bang", the Qing army was directly crushed down the city wall by the Ming army.

The Ming army under Fengshan Gate saw that the Ming army on the city had succeeded, and immediately pushed the battering ram and began to hit Fengshan Gate.

Soon the Fengshan Gate was knocked open by the Ming army, and 500 people from the Chongming Battalion rushed into the Fengshan Gate.

Seeing that the Qing army was about to collapse, the 1000 Qing army led by Zuo Shuxun arrived in time, but the Ming army's firepower was strong, and the Qing army was unable to regain the city gate.

At night, it was actually difficult for the Ming army's firecrackers to aim, but fortunately, the formation of the Qing army's charge was relatively dense.After killing more than 200 Qing troops, the two sides entered hand-to-hand combat.

Fortunately, at this time, it was the Chongming Battalion that was fighting hand-to-hand with the Qing army.At this time, although the Qing army was superior in number, facing the mandarin duck formation of the Chongming Camp, the Qing army was gradually exhausted.

Fortunately, they themselves were killed from Mount Wu, and they had the advantage of being commanding, so they wouldn't collapse immediately.

Seeing that Fengshan Gate could not be regained, Zuo Shuxun quickly ordered the Qing army to fight and retreat, and return to the Wushan position.

It was too risky to attack the mountain late at night, and the Ming army did not continue to pursue it. They just took advantage of the situation and surrounded Wushan, trapped the Qing army on the mountain, and continued to occupy the Houchao Gate near Fengshan.

After Xiao Qiyuan heard that the Ming army had invaded Fengshan Gate, he wanted to lead people back into Hangzhou Mancheng and continue to hold on.

At this time, his subordinates urgently reported: "Hou Qianhai turned his back on the water, and they slaughtered all the families of the Eight Banners in the whole city. Now the Ming army has occupied the whole city."

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