Chapter Seventy-Seven: Capture the Cliff State
Hong Xiguan had just finished firing the bullets of the two guns, and was opening the belly of the gun and replacing the gun with a new sub-gun. Although the rate of fire of this flintlock revolver is very fast, it is still more troublesome to change the gun, you have to open the belly of the gun, first pour out the gunpowder and lead bullet, and then stuff the new guns into one by one.
A Qing soldier brandished a nine-ring knife and slashed at Hong Xiguan, who was loading the gun.
Most of the people who use the Nine-Ring Knife are powerful and brave people. The speed of this Qing soldier was very fast, Hong Xiguan didn't have time to load the gun, dodged the knife, threw the gun to the ground, pulled out the ring knife at his waist, parried the knife cut by the Qing soldier, and then was about to cut it down with a backhand, but saw a blood flower burst on the forehead of the Qing soldier.
Hong Xiguan turned his head and saw that it was Cai Dezhong's iron bead that killed the Qing soldier.
"It's still my iron beads that work! You can hit it in a row! Cai Dezhong smiled proudly.
Hong Xiguan picked up the gun, loaded the gun, picked up the finished gun from the ground, took it back into the bag, and then stuck the gun in his waist, brandished the knife, and killed the Qing soldiers.
The special combat team members and agents who climbed to the top of the city fired crossbow arrows in unison, and the Qing soldiers who rushed over fell one after another.
The two special combat soldiers rushed to the entrance of the steps, only to see a large group of Qing soldiers squeezing up below.
"Country surname bottle!" A special operator shouted.
Another special operator took out the foreign name bottle from his bosom, lit it with a torch, and threw it down the steps.
"Boom" Guojia bottle exploded in the crowd of Qing soldiers, a fireball rose from the steps, gunpowder gas produced a strong kinetic energy, and the broken Guojia bottle spewed out broken porcelain bottles and iron beads, and at once the Qing soldiers who were crowded together on the steps knocked down a large piece.
The first special combat member also threw a national surname bottle and blew up the Qing soldiers on the steps.
"Someone! Help! One of the special operators shouted.
Three special combat team members who had just finished shooting crossbow arrows arrived and threw bottles with their surnames at the bottom of the steps.
Explosions rang out one after another, fires flickered, and the Qing soldiers below suffered heavy casualties.
After the special combat team members finished throwing the bottles with their national surnames, they fired fiercely at the Qing soldiers at the bottom of the steps with darts, throwing knives, and bows and arrows, causing the Qing soldiers who tried to go up the city to roll down the steps one after another.
Some Qing soldiers counterattacked and shot arrows, but they were dodged by these agile special combat members, or they shot down the arrows with the weapons in their hands.
"Kill!" Outside the city, there was an earth-shattering shout of killing, countless torches moved in the direction of the Yazhou city wall, and a large number of Ming troops carrying simple ladders shouted and rushed towards Yazhou City.
Rushing in front was Emperor Hu Dedi and dozens of special combat soldiers who failed to blend into the city, they surpassed the other Ming troops, and soon rushed over the filled moat, the grappling hook in their hands was thrown on the city, and a vigorous figure flew up the three-zhang high city wall, and soon climbed up, turned over and jumped into the female wall.
The special operators climbed to the top of the city and immediately joined the battle.
Emperor Hu De threw out the two national surname bottles he was carrying, then pulled out the willow leaf double knife, shouted loudly, and slaughtered into the crowd of Qing soldiers. The special combat team members in the back showed off all kinds of weapons one after another and rushed towards the Qing soldiers who were gathering over.
"Kill the dog Tartar!" Cai Dezhong shouted loudly, the heavy sword in his hand slashed back and forth, and everywhere he went, the brains of the Qing soldiers burst and their armor was shattered.
Cai Dezhong has a deep hatred with the Qing army. Cai Dezhong is a native of Jiangxi, before he got married, his parents were killed, his fiancée was kidnapped by the Qing soldiers, and was ravaged to death by a group of beast-like Qing soldiers. His younger brother joined the army and died heroically in the Battle of Nanjing. All of Cai Dezhong's relatives were killed by the Qing soldiers, and only a piece of jade pendant left by his fiancée was left by his side. The family died tragically, and naturally Cai Dezhong hated the Qing soldiers very much.
Each of these special combat personnel who were born as heroes had a deep hatred with the Qing army, and when they went to the battlefield, everyone was desperately slashing and killing, killing the Qing soldiers at the head of the city with rivers of blood and mountains of corpses.
Originally, these heroes of the rivers and lakes could not defeat the Qing soldiers who formed a formation, but they underwent strict training, and the Qing soldiers did not have time to form a formation at the head of the city, and at this time, those usually fierce Qing soldiers were killed by the special combat soldiers one by one like pigs and dogs.
"Kill!" The Ming army under the city has already passed the city wall, and rows of ladders have been erected at the head of the city.
The first group to climb the city was all sword soldiers, using one-handed Miao swords.
The knives used by Zheng Jiajun are all well-crafted and sophisticated weapons, and each knife is made by many craftsmen in turn, and it is very sharp and can easily break through the chain mail of Qing soldiers.
Iron-clad swordsmen climbed up to the top of the city and immediately joined the melee.
A steel knife slashed at the lantern hanging at the head of the city, and the lantern fell on the bricks, and the entire lantern burst into flames. A Qing soldier on the opposite side brandished a spear and stabbed at him like a fierce god.
A Ming soldier held the stabbing spear with a one-handed Miao knife, and then slid the blade along the barrel of the gun, and shaved off the five fingers of the Qing soldier with a brush.
"Ahh As the saying goes, ten fingers are connected to the heart, and the Qing soldiers whose fingers were cut off threw away their spears, squatted on the ground to cover their bleeding hands, and let out heart-rending screams from their mouths.
The Ming army stepped forward and cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers with a single sword.
But soon another Qing soldier pounced and slashed at him. The Ming soldier couldn't dodge and was slashed in the shoulder. Although the thick iron armor blocked the blade, the force of the knife was so great that the Ming soldier could only hear the sound of his shoulder blades shattering.
"Yikes!" The Ming army endured the severe pain, threw the knife in his hand, and shot through the throat of the Qing soldier.
The other three Qing soldiers lined up and saw that the Ming soldier was about to die under the sword and gun, and the two Ming soldiers behind came out, hacked one Qing soldier to death, and knocked the remaining two Qing soldiers back.
The special combat team members and special agents also fought hard in the crowd, although Wang Xinyu had explained to them that as long as they controlled the city and their own soldiers came up, they could evacuate the city without fighting. But how could these special combat personnel who had a deep hatred for the Qing army be willing to let go of a great opportunity to kill the enemy! In the fierce battle, the special combat team members continued to slash, hammer, stab, and sweep with wooden sticks, and the Qing soldiers fell one after another, piling up a hill of corpses in front of the special combat team. However, in the fierce battle, two special combat personnel were also killed, one was seriously injured, and almost every special combat member was slightly injured.
Although the number of Qing soldiers gathered at the head of the city was large, they were not the opponents of these elite Ming troops. More and more Ming troops climbed up from the improvised ladders, controlled this section of the city, and drove back the Qing soldiers who had killed on both sides.
The archers in the back also climbed up and threw a volley of light arrows.
The "whoosh" light arrow flew over the heads of his own soldiers, and landed in a beam in the crowd of Qing soldiers on the opposite side.
The raid at night made many Qing soldiers have no time to put on thick armor, and they hurriedly came to meet the battle, and because many Qing soldiers were temporarily recruited by Zhizhou, they did not have any armor at all, and they were shot by a rain of arrows, and they immediately fell a large piece.
"There is no need to seize the city gate, the Tartars have blocked the city gate, and we can't open it if we take it!" Hong Xiguan said to Li Rui, who climbed up to the top of the city with his soldiers.
Hong Xiguan has observed in the past few days, the Qing soldiers blocked the city gate to death, not only piled up a large number of sacks, but also piled up a batch of bluestone strips, to move those things, I don't know how much effort it will take.
But all of them entered the city by ladders, and more than 2,000 people went up to the city as fast as possible, and they went down from the top of the city wall, and they could only go down to a place with steps. At the head of the city, the troops could not be used, and they would not lose much if they rushed hard against the Qing army in a straight line, not to mention that the city gate was blocked, and their own cavalry could not enter. Therefore, Li Rui decided to blow up a section of the city wall.
The Ming army on the city wall rushed to both sides of the city and drove the Qing army back. After that, the Ming army did not charge against the dense swords and guns of the Qing soldiers, but moved to the city to resist the horses and formed a formation to prevent the Qing soldiers from counterattacking.
In the middle section of the city wall, there is no Ming army on it.
The auxiliaries pushed wheelbarrows through a section of the filled moat to the bottom of the city walls.
"Hurry up and dig up!" One of the generals shouted.
The auxiliaries wielded shovels and pickaxes and dug hard into the city walls. First, the bricks were pried open with an iron drill, a few bricks were removed, and then the rammed earth inside was excavated. After digging a few holes, the auxiliaries stuffed the Guojia bottle into the holes, lit the fuse, and then retreated to a safe position.
"Boom" There was a dull explosion, and a hole was blown in the city wall.
"Push the wheelbarrow up!" One of the generals shouted.
Several auxiliaries pushed the wheelbarrow to the entrance of the hole, removed a large box from the car, pushed it into the hole, and then connected the fuse, and the man immediately pulled the fuse and ran away, ran to a safe distance, and lit the fuse.
The fuse burns and is rapidly shortened.
There was an earth-shattering bang, and a large section of the city wall was blown down.
"Rush!" More than 100 cavalrymen, wielding sabers, rode through the bombed-out walls and rushed into the city.
Hordes of pikemen, birdmen, Spanish halberders, and Portuguese musketeers rushed into the city.
"The city is broken!" The shouts of the Qing soldiers in the city rang out.
The cavalry rushed quickly through the street, and the galloping horses knocked away many Qing soldiers, and the swords were lightly slashed, and the heads flew into the sky. The horse's hooves trampled over the corpses of the Qing soldiers, trampling them into a pulp.
"The city is broken!" The cry was heard inside Zhizhou's mansion.
The governor of Yazhou in the Qing court had already woken up from his sleep, and the sound from the city wall made him tremble. Finally, after the explosion sounded, there was the sound of breaking the city, and the Qing court knew that the end of his life had come.
"Go burn down the warehouse! Not a grain of grain, a tael of silver, can be left to Haikou! Zhizhou shouted angrily.
The city was already in chaos, and none of the Qing soldiers could obey the command. Most of the Qing soldiers fell to their knees and surrendered to the Ming army that stormed into the city. Some Qing soldiers took off their clothes and hid in the homes of ordinary people to flee for their lives. Of course, there were also a small number of Qing soldiers who took advantage of the fire to rob, rushed into the homes of ordinary people, killed people and grabbed things, dragged young women away, and tried to take advantage of the chaos to rob, but those Qing soldiers who took advantage of the fire to rob were quickly suppressed by the Ming army that attacked the city.
Zhizhou took a few officials to arrest quickly, lit torches, and prepared to burn down the warehouse.
As soon as he reached the door of the warehouse, a row of crossbow arrows was shot from the wall, and several officials fell down one after another.
"There's an ambush!" One of the deadbolts cried, turned and ran.
Zhizhou shouted anxiously: "Don't run!" ”
But no one listened to him, and the rest of the servants and catchers all turned around and fled for their lives, leaving Zhizhou alone at the door of the warehouse.
The agent who had been ambushed in the warehouse in advance came out and put the knife on Zhizhou's neck: "Lord Zhizhou, please come with us honestly!" ”
"Phew! You pirates, traitors! This officer will not surrender! The Qing court Zhizhou was still hard-mouthed and scolding. He knew that he couldn't surrender, and once he surrendered, then his family would be killed by the court!
By daybreak, Yazhou City had fallen into the hands of the Ming army.
The city of Yazhou was conquered, and the warehouses fell intact into the hands of the Ming army. When I opened the warehouse, there were mountains of grain, more than 20,000 taels of silver, more than 500 catties of brass and more than 10,000 catties of pig iron, as well as tea, raw silk, cotton cloth, salt, edible oil and other materials, all of which became the trophies of the Ming army.
There are more than 1,000 Qing soldiers in the green battalion, more than 600 Qing soldiers and sailors who fled into the city, and more than 3,000 people, a total of about 5,000 Qing troops, except for nearly 2,000 casualties, the rest of the more than 3,000 people, all of whom became prisoners. Even those Qing soldiers who took off their clothes and hid in the homes of ordinary people were searched out.
"We've captured more than 3,000 captives!" Li Rui was very happy.
"Master Li! Oh no! Cai Dezhong is going to kill the prisoner! A soldier hurried in.
"Quick, let's go over and have a look!" Li Rui immediately rushed to the accident site with people.
After rushing to the east gate of the city, I saw a group of Qing army captives who were tied up by five flowers kneeling on the ground and crying for mercy, Cai Dezhong stared at blood-red eyes, held a Miao knife in his hand, and shouted to avenge his family. Several Ming soldiers on the side grabbed Cai Dezhong and prevented him from killing the prisoners.
"Mr. Cai! Stop it! Don't kill the captives! Li Rui shouted.
The knife in Cai Dezhong's hand pointed at the Qing soldiers, and roared hoarsely: "These dog Tartars are all Tartars from Jiangxi!" It's a fake tartar from Jiangxi! They are soldiers who have entered the warehouse! My family died at the hands of Gao Jinku, a dog thief! I'm going to kill them, to avenge my parents, for my wife, for my brother!" ”
"What's going on?" Li Rui asked.
Several soldiers told Li Rui what happened to Cai Dezhong, and Li Rui knew that Cai Dezhong's family was killed by the Qing soldiers from Jiangxi, so he hated these Qing soldiers from Jiangxi very much.
"Mr. Cai, you are also from Jiangxi, and these people are also your fellow countrymen." Li Rui said.
"Fellow? Phew! They are dogs who do not recognize their ancestors! Cai Dezhong spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm and roared.
Several special combat team members also grabbed Cai Dezhong: "My lord, the killing of prisoners is unknown!" ”
Cai Dezhong couldn't struggle, dropped the knife, knelt on the ground, took out the jade pendant hidden on his body, and looked up to the sky and cried: "Daddy! Lady, brother! I, Cai Dezhong, am incompetent! I can't avenge you! ”
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