Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 528 Hezhou
Yuan Zongdi's words made Wang Yan vigilant. He stood up, picked up the helmet and put it on, took the whip, and walked outside the tent, saying, "Let's go and have a look!"

The personal soldiers hurriedly summoned several important generals, and they all mounted their horses and came outside the gate of the camp, and hurried back to the city of Wan County.Several people stood on horseback to watch, and saw that the city was full of people, busy, obviously preparing defensive equipment.

Seeing this, Wang Yan's expression darkened. He pulled the reins, clamped his legs around the horse's belly, and led the generals to the north.

Soldiers were still standing on the top of the city. On a hill five miles outside the city, Wu soldiers also built a cottage with banners flying in the village and black cannons erected on the wall of the village, which was enough to contain the entire north side.

The generals looked at it and frowned. If they really attacked hard, the Ming army must have suffered huge casualties.

Wang Yan turned around, and he already had a bottom line in his heart, "It seems that General Wu has a lot of preparations~"

"Sir, what should we do? If we start attacking tomorrow, we can't give them too much time to prepare." Yuan Zongdi said.

Wang Yan sighed for a while, and shook his head after a while, "Wu soldiers are ready, we also need to prepare. Now the army camp has not yet been set up, Gao Yigong has not crossed the river, and the equipment is not yet made, we also need to prepare." time."

Dai Zhifan on the side said: "This Wu Sangui is trapped in Kuizhou, and he still wants to work for the Qing court."

After hearing this, Wang Yan sneered and said, "It's not necessarily true. This person is just thinking about hedging his bets. It's true that he's planning to defend. It's probably true anyway that he wants to. It's just that he will only do it when he has no other choice. Choose. Let's see what he says after three days!"

Although he knew that Wu Sangui might delay on purpose, Wang Yan still hoped that Wu Sangui could be urged anyway. As long as he fights the Qing soldiers, the Ming Dynasty will relieve a lot of pressure.

After talking, everyone rode back to the camp, Wang Yan immediately ordered the army to quickly station in the camp, and began to build climbing ladders and forts.

The next day, the Eastern Route Army began to cross the river. The soldiers boarded the boat from the south bank, took two thick hemp ropes across the river, and fixed them on the rocks on the bank, so that the people behind could continuously pull the ropes. Driving a raft to transport people back and forth.

Hezhou, Sichuan.

After the West Route Army raided this important town in Sichuan and Shu by surprise, Hauge, who was entrenched in Chengdu, finally led 4 horses, drove nearly [-] Bashu people, and made a comeback.

In July, the weather was hot, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners complained a lot, but there was nothing they could do. Wang Yan marched into Sichuan in a big way, and the Qing soldiers had to be driven out of Sichuan if they didn't fight.

After several days of filling the river, more than [-] Bashu people were driven out, and tens of thousands of corpses and soil were used to fill up the moat of Hezhou.

The West Route Army who came from Guangxi saw the cruelty of the Qing soldiers for the first time. Ding Kuichu watched tens of thousands of people being driven away like ants, his face turned pale, and his heart was filled with fear.

The soldiers were silent for a while, the people in Sichuan and Shu died, and they didn't have much emotion in their hearts, but they generally understood why they wanted to fight against the Qing Dynasty, and felt vaguely in their hearts that these people should not be allowed to enter their hometown.

On the top of the towering city wall of Hezhou, the archers of the West Route Army had already lined up. They held a hard bow in one hand and held the arrow tail in the other hand nervously. The cannons on the horses were also installed Without bullets and gunpowder, all that is lacking is an order.

Before the war, it always seemed surprisingly quiet. The officers who had been running and shouting earlier had already taken their positions, watching the front of the Qing army with fear.

A few days after the soldiers approached the city, the Qing army finally began to try its first storm.

After many days of preparations, the Qing army was clearly ready. The black crowd was just beyond the range of the artillery. Thousands of Qing soldiers carried ladders to the city. They were always the first to attack the city. force.After the climbing ladder, there are hundreds of cloud ladders, siege towers, and city crash vehicles.

The endless Qing soldiers stood there, the entire battlefield was eerily quiet, and behind this quietness lay endless murderous intent!The officers in charge of commanding the various armies leaped in front of the formation, making the final mobilization to boost morale.

After the troops carrying the climbing ladder shouted in unison, the army of the Qing army boiled, and the shouts of the sky shook one after another, reaching the sky with the force of destroying heaven and earth.The huge sound echoed in the suburbs of Hezhou for a long time, endlessly.

The West Route Army came all the way, and most of them they met were green battalion soldiers recruited by the Qing army, and some even bandits who harmed the place.

In the north of the city, Chen Bangfu squinted his eyes and looked at the Qing army below the city. He was surprised by the momentum of the Qing army.The surrounding soldiers also had expressions of panic.

The West Route Army was not an elite group in the first place, they couldn't even defeat Sha Dingzhou, and now they were facing so many enemies for the first time, they were unavoidably timid.

Suddenly, the trumpets sounded, and the Ming army on the city wall suddenly felt their hearts sink, and their hands involuntarily clenched their weapons. Except for the comrades around them, only the guy in this hand was their most powerful support.

In the sound of the horn, the shouting of the Qing army reached its peak in an instant, and the entire Qing army's climbing troops rushed in like a sea tide.

The Ming army at the head of Hezhou City knew that the real battle had begun.

Four hundred steps, 350 steps, three hundred steps!

Ding Kuichu was so nervous that he didn't dare to look down the city, and hurriedly hid aside.

"The artillery is ready!" The officers roared again and again.

The soldiers of the Ming army controlled the artillery vehicles. Instead of aiming their cannons at the dense crowd, they pointed at the ladders and siege towers, which were huge threats to the city defense.

Boom, the sound of cannons rang out, and the iron bullets whizzed towards the enemy group. The towering siege tower in the distance was hit by several artillery pieces and rocks, and after shaking a few times, it collapsed.

"Archer ready!"

The West Route Army is a local army, and there are relatively few firearms and equipment. Thousands of archers set their bows and arrows, and their movements are uniform. their goals.

The soldiers of the Qing army were indeed brave. Knowing that there were [-] defenders in the city, thousands of bows and arrows, and nearly a hundred artillery pieces, they still rushed towards the city with loud shouts.

Suddenly, a black rain fell, and the Qing soldiers rushing in front fell down in pieces, like a strong wind blowing through the rice fields, but this did not stop the Qing soldiers from moving forward despite the rain of arrows.

Soon the top of the city was also counterattacked by the archers of the Qing soldiers, causing a large number of casualties, and the soldiers of the Ming army showed a trace of panic.

At this moment, the climbing ladder of the Qing army climbed up the city wall. A soldier of the Ming army looked down and could already see the face of the enemy clearly. His armor was also completely soaked.

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(End of this chapter)