Chapter 753: Abandon the city and break through
The city of Hangzhou is broken and in chaos.
In fact, if only the Qingbo Gate was broken, the soldiers and civilians in the city would not have completely fallen into chaos, and even most of the people might not know about it in time. However, the movement on the side of Wangjiangmen was too great, and the endless Song army came up to the city, fought hard and killed the city, and at the same time, the city gate that had been closed for many days was opened again, and the impact on the people was too great.
In a short period of time, hundreds of people rushed out of their homes in a panic, with not much softness, pulling their wives, children, and old people to run to other city gates. They didn't dare to stay here any longer, because as early as when the Song army came to the city, there was already a saying that once Hangzhou was really broken, the people in the city would suffer, at least they would have to be condemned for a major crime of rebellion, and it would be light to be sent to the frontier with a board......
In fact, Jiang Shihu deliberately let people spread it around, in order to attract the people of the whole city to hate the same enemy, and work together, so that they can really defend the city. In fact, in the previous month, the people of Hangzhou did make a lot of efforts in defending the city - although they still didn't understand what the crime of rebellion was, they also knew that they had made a big mistake, and the officials and soldiers would definitely be held accountable after they were killed.
This is not too outrageous, in fact, as one of the few fortified cities in the south of the Yangtze River, two years ago, it was quickly captured by those mud-legged people, because there were many internal responses in the city who hated the government, and they took Hangzhou City together with the outside while the officials and troops were not on guard. And now, the official army has come back, even the people who have not helped the Wu army are still frightened, and at this time, they naturally want to flee the city first.
More than 100,000 or 200,000 people dragged their families and families and ran into the streets in panic, rushing to the city gates that had not been affected by the war, but this was a great trouble for the Wu army. The streets and alleys were full of people running and shouting, and most of the roads were blocked, which naturally made it difficult for the Wu army to move everywhere to rescue them. Especially the defenders who had just retreated from Wangjiangmen, they had to squeeze through the crowd all the way, and Pang Wanchun refused to let the soldiers below hurt the people with knives and guns, so the speed of rushing forward was naturally much slower.
The only thing to be thankful for is that the Song army in the rear is not in a hurry to chase down, they are still busy consolidating the control of the city gate and cleaning up the remaining Wu soldiers nearby. And when Sun Tu stood on the top of the city and saw this chaotic scene in the city, he also decisively ordered not to mess around, but he couldn't really hurt these innocent people.
Because of this, Pang Wanchun led people to move forward with great difficulty, and finally came to Fang Fei's mansion with the gate closed around the first watch. He didn't say a word, he personally went over and shouted loudly, and after rushing into the courtyard in time, he snatched the sword from Fang Fei's hand that was wiping his neck.
"Fang Xiang, you go with me, let's go pick up the other officials, and then go out of the city!" Without much persuasion, Pang Wanchun pulled Fang Fei, who was a little dazed, and walked out. The latter was still a little dazed at this time: "How can this Hangzhou be broken if it is broken...... What do we do next? ”
Although Fang Fei is steady and wise, and he is even better at handling government affairs, he has limited knowledge of military affairs, and he has never experienced such a dangerous scene, so he can't accept the facts until this time, and he can't react.
Pang Wanchun replied with some self-reproach: "It was the incompetence of the last general, and he fell for Sun Tu's plan, which led to the destruction of Qingbo and Wangjiang." This Hangzhou can't be defended, we take advantage of the enemy's unstable army, leave here first, go back to Wuzhou and then make plans! As he spoke, he kept moving, and almost half-dragged Fang Fei out of the door, and asked people to lead the horse, and helped him up, and then continued to lead people to Jiang Shihu's mansion not far away.
As a result, there was already no half of a figure in sight, and Jiang Shihu actually left one step earlier. This made Pang Wanchun a little surprised, but there was no time for him to think about it at this time, so he immediately took him to another place. Although Fang La is not there in Hangzhou City now, many courtiers of Wu are still there, and he has decided to bring as many as he can.
Just rushed all the way, until the third watch, there was a fire dragon on the side of Wangjiangmen quickly drove into the city, after seeing it from a distance, Pang Wanchun knew that the enemy had been chased over, and he couldn't delay any longer, so he took this mixed soldiers and officials and servants, a team of more than 20,000 people hurriedly went towards the nearest Wulin Gate, in his calculation, he was enough time to take everyone to leave Hangzhou safely.
As for whether he will be pursued by the Song army after leaving the city, and how to deal with it later, he can only take one step at a time.
When they rushed to the Wulin Gate with many people, the largest gate in Hangzhou had been completely opened, but they didn't know whether it was the people or the soldiers guarding here who opened it. But this was a good thing for them at this time, and without any hesitation, they all hastened forward, and quickly passed through the gate hole, leaving the city for which they had lived for more than two years and for which they had fought for a long time.
At this time, Fang Fei had calmed down a lot, and smiled bitterly: "Once Hangzhou is lost, I am afraid that it will be difficult to compete with the Song Dynasty with Wuzhou alone." There are also other cities, after knowing the results here, I am afraid that they will also submit to the Song court......"
"It's too early to say this, as long as we can return to Wuzhou safely, there is a natural danger in Wulongling, and we still have the strength to fight." Pang Wanchun's eyes were scorching, and he still had the bearing of a famous general.
But as soon as he said this, a crisp sound came from the darkness ahead, and then countless torches suddenly lit up, and a team of thousands of people shouted, rolling out from the side and front, blocking their way at once. A general in front of the head, armed with two guns, majestic, is Dong Ping. And on the neck of his horse, there was also a head of vultures dripping blood, although there was some distance away, Pang Wanchun still recognized at a glance that this was the head of Ning Heng, who was sent by him to rescue Qingbo Gate.
This made Pang Wanchun in a trance at first, and then even more angry: "You ......"
"Dong Ping has been ordered to wait for you here for a long time!" After Dong Ping shouted in a low voice, he had already urged the horse to raise his gun and kill him directly.
It turned out that when the camp attacked Wangjiangmen and won this key victory, Dong Ping also led the army to Qingbomen, and while converging with Zhang Heng and others, he also collided with the Wu army led by Ning Heng who came to rescue the retreating enemy, and then there was a vicious battle.
Although the soldiers and horses led by Ning Heng are the elite of the Wu army, there is a huge gap between them and the Qingzhou army with a hundred battles after all, especially him, who is far from Dong Ping's opponent. As soon as the main general died, the Wu army, which was already flustered because of the loss of the city gate, completely collapsed and scattered away.
Originally, Dong Ping and the others planned to continue to kill in the city, but soon, Sun Tu sent someone to deliver the message, asking them to rush to the Wulin Gate area to set up an ambush to prevent the main leader of the anti-thieves from escaping. This is not because Sun Tu has the ability to have any unpredictable prophets, but because long before the real expedition, he had a detailed understanding of the situation in Hangzhou through careful ears, and knew that most of these Wu officials were in the Wulin Gate area, and once they wanted to escape, most of them would choose to leave from this gate.
As a result, it really made him wait. The previous groups of fleeing civilians were easily let go, until this large number of people, horses, and vehicles appeared, and he did not hesitate to give the order to intercept the raid.
After seeing the enemy's fierce killing, the soldiers and horses under his command were already afraid, and even some officials' slaves had begun to scatter and flee for their lives, Pang Wanchun knew that the time of life and death had come. At this time, once the army's morale collapsed, although it was difficult to say, these officials who were brought out by it so easily, especially Fang Fei, would fall into the hands of the Song army even if he did not die. So, he shouted loudly, and he didn't avoid killing Dong Ping at all, and halfway through, the knife in his hand had already roared up, and it slashed over like lightning.
The two had fought before, Dong Ping knew each other's abilities, and he didn't dare to be careless at this time, so he immediately intersected his two guns, and looked at the upper one, so he took it a moment to block the opponent's amazing knife.
And when the knife was framed, the movements of Pang Wanchun's hands changed, and when he twisted his wrist, he had exerted his strength again, and after a period of tooth-sore friction, he actually twisted Dong Ping's two guns and emptied the middle door. He is completely a tactic of reducing ten guilds with one force, and there are no clever tricks, but pure strength is better than Dong Ping.
Dong Ping was also shocked, and hurriedly put away the gun to defend his chest, and at the same time took the reins with him to avoid rushing to the other party. And this time, it was in Pang Wanchun's arms, because he had already changed his moves, and the left hand holding the handle of the knife behind him suddenly pressed and shook, and he swept straight up, stabbing at the horse under Dong Ping's crotch, and with a bang, he neighed the horse miserably, and fled to the side, and also caught his master by surprise, and almost fell off the horse.
This was too unexpected, Dong Ping panicked, and hurriedly controlled the horse again away from this terrible opponent. And Pang Wanchun took the opportunity to rush forward, and the knife came out like a splash of wind, and he killed several Song soldiers who had followed closely to kill him, and then shouted: "Rush out with me!" "He actually relied on his own strength to kill a passage in the Song army's array.
After all, he still followed thousands of elite cronies behind him, and at this time, they were even more emboldened, protecting Fang Fei and other officials, and rushed forward, as for those scattered soldiers and slaves, they couldn't take care of it.