Zhao Guodong outside the Wulin Gate was waiting anxiously, now that the sky was about to dawn, if he didn't open the city gate, he would only lead the troops to attack. At this moment, the gate of the martial arts city on the opposite side slowly opened, and a person came out to watch.

Zhao Guodong's Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi said happily: "My lord, that is our Lin Baihu, what do I say, my family will definitely do it!" ”

Zhao Guodong didn't care about the small flag bragging here, and hurriedly rushed out of the house with the guard company and came to the city gate.

That person saw Zhao Guodong wearing a Guangdong military uniform, knew that this was his own person, and hurriedly stepped forward and said, "But Master Zhao? ”

"Yes, you're Lin Baihu?"

"My lord, it is the lower official, fortunately, the gate of the martial arts city has been opened!"

At this time, the martial arts gate had been opened with the efforts of Wu Zhigui's own soldiers, and Wu Zhigui also came out. He saw a big man in a red and blue military uniform, and knew that this was the general of the Guangdong army, so he hurriedly stepped forward and knelt down, saying that the guilty minister was dead!

Lin Mingqiu hurriedly explained to Zhao Guodong: "Lord Zhao, this is the deputy general Wu Zhigui, the guard general of the Wulin Gate, he has already decided to do it anyway!" ”

Zhao Guodong hurriedly stepped forward to help Wu Zhigui and said: "Lord Wu, please get up, you open the city gate is a great achievement, I will tell His Majesty Emperor Shenwu to ask for a reward for meritorious service, please rest assured!" ”

Wu Zhigui was waiting for this sentence, and he didn't even dare to say it after he put his mind at ease.

Zhao Guodong saw that the city gate had been opened, and said to the commander of the guard company: "You take the guard company into the city first and occupy the position!" After speaking, Zhao Guodong waved his hand to the back, and the team entered the city.

When the guard company entered the northern city, it was already dark, and some people in the city were already up at this time. Although the battle in Nancheng is in full swing, life still needs to go on, after all, the Ming army has not yet entered the city.

As soon as the guy from a shop leaning against the martial arts gate opened the door panel, he saw a group of soldiers wearing strange red and blue clothes passing by the door. The guy was just about to shout, but he was grabbed by the shopkeeper behind him and scolded in a low voice: You don't want to die, don't put the door panel on!

Although the family is silent, but not all of them are like this, when the guard company first arrived at the inner street of Wulin Gate, five or six soldiers came out of an alley to patrol the night, these people are not Wu Zhigui's people, they are the officials of Hangzhou Mansion. These guys were stunned when they saw these strange soldiers, and it took a long time for one of the leading guys to react, these people didn't have braids, it was the Ming army that entered the city!

"Come on ... Someone! The Ming army has entered the city! "How far this guy's shouting came from the quiet northern city, the guard company commander saw that he had no choice but to shoot, and after a few shots, four were killed, and two ran away.

At this time, Zhao Guodong had already followed the first regiment into the city, he heard the gunshots and scolded the waste, called a regiment commander and said: "You take people to build a circular position 500 meters in front of the city gate, and order the follow-up troops to speed up!" ”

The head of a regiment agreed to go down to make arrangements, Zhao Guodong saw that there was a shop on the side of the street that was half-open, Zhao Guodong stepped forward and kicked open the door, and said to the people around him: "I will command here, let a few regiments outside the city enter the city quickly, enter one regiment and enter the battle, don't all gather at the city gate!" ”

As the escaped guys spread the news, it was like boiling hot water in the North City. Beicheng was originally a commercial area with dense populations. However, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty occupied Hangzhou, the system of garrisoning the Eight Banners was implemented, and half of the northern city was occupied to form the Manchu city. When the families of these Manchurian garrisons of the Eight Banners heard that the Ming army was coming to Beicheng, they took out their weapons and went out to prepare to fight the Ming army.

However, at this time, the Guangdong New Army was no longer the same as the Jiangyin Bloody War, and had no experience in street fighting, and after the painful lessons of the Jiangyin Bloody Battle, the New Army formulated a system of street fighting. In fact, the street fighting is very simple, there are three main points, one is the will of the soldiers, which is no problem at all, Zhao Guodong's second division is not Ma Kun's miscellaneous troops, the second division is all veterans, and the Praetorian Guard division is even more elite; The second point is equipment, which of course the Guangdong New Army has the upper hand; The third point is the familiarity of the terrain, which depends on Wu Zhigui and other leading parties, who are all natives of Hangzhou and are naturally very familiar with it.

Therefore, when the first regiment found that it was blocked, it immediately ordered all the people to form a street battle, that is, a company with two to three guns, one platoon as the vanguard, and one after the displacement, met the recalcitrant artillery greeting. Hangzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River, and most of the houses are made of wooden planks, so that the shotguns can be of great use. Regardless of how many people were hiding in the house, a shotgun hit it, directly penetrating the door panel, and turning the inside into a honeycomb.

There are also 4,500 elite Manchurian soldiers in Zhumala as a reserve force in Yangzhou City, and last night's siege sounded very thrilling, but in fact there was no real harm. Zhu Hongsan's navy was too far away from the city wall, and at this time, the shells were solid bullets that would not explode, and they were useless to the city wall except for knocking out a layer of wall tiles.

In this way, Zhu Mala spent a tense but thrilling night, originally he thought that when the Ming army was on these routines, someone from the north city came to report the news, the martial arts gate did not know how to open, and the Ming army attacked the city.

Zhu Mala was shocked, you must know that Beicheng is a full city, and the families of 4,500 people under him are all in Beicheng, and his wife and children are also in Beicheng.

Zhu Mala grabbed the guy who reported the incident and asked, "The martial arts door is open?" What's going on? How many Ming troops came in? ”

"Adult, villain doesn't know, I led the team to patrol, just saw the Ming army entering the city, they all used muskets, there were a lot of people, thousands!"

Zhu Mala knew that the big thing was not good, and now all the defense forces in the city were in the south city, but he didn't expect the north city to be copied by the Ming army.

His hometown could not help but be saved, Zhu Mala hurriedly ordered 3,000 people, ready to go to the north city to rescue, before leaving, Zhu Mala called a personal soldier, let him go to the governor Zhang Cunren to report the news.

As soon as Zhu Mala and his people came to Beicheng, they encountered a group of Ming troops who had just entered the city, these Ming troops belonged to a regiment, three battalions and two companies, and they were cleaning up those Manchurians who were resisting.

As soon as the company commander of the Ming army saw a large number of Qing troops on the street corner, he knew that it was not good, and quickly ordered the soldiers in the front row to stand in line and start firing their guns.

Street fighting seemed brutal, but in the battle in such a narrow place in the city, the firepower superiority of the Ming army was greatly exerted. The Manchu Qing Dynasty, because there was no horse to form an impact, was completely a cold weapon against a hot* weapon, and the only long-range weapon, the bow and arrow, because there was no bonus to the speed of the horse, the range was far inferior to that of the musket. Zhumala's Eight Banners were defeated by dozens of people in a single shot.

Seeing that this was not possible, Zhumala ordered the soldiers to enter the surrounding shops and rely on the houses to resist. However, the Ming army has rich experience in street fighting, and when they saw the Qing army hiding in the shops around the street, they immediately pulled the cannons, and as long as the Qing army opened the way with a shotgun in each store, and then the soldiers were throwing grenades * bombs, the Qing soldiers in the house were basically no longer alive, and the Ming soldiers were entering the house to clear out.

Of course, not all battles are so fast. In some alleys, the Qing army took advantage of the terrain and fought close to the Ming army, but the Qing army suddenly found that this group of Ming troops was not inferior to them in hand-to-hand combat. Of course, with the generous food supply of the Ming army, coupled with systematic training, the physical fitness of ordinary soldiers of the Ming army has surpassed that of the Qing army. In addition, Zhao Guodong's second division is a veteran and has rich combat experience, although the Qing army is also a veteran, but it is too old. Because Duoduo transferred all the elites to Jiangxi, only some veterans were left here in Hangzhou, they were really veterans, with an average age of more than forty-five, although the combat experience was not bad, but the people were old and weak, and their physical strength was really inferior to the Ming army.

In this way, the Qing army began to retreat. Zhu Mala saw that it was not good, and hurriedly asked someone to inform the governor that he had enough to choke on his side, and asked the lord to send reinforcements.

Zhang Cunren heard that Zhu Mala couldn't resist it, and he was also very surprised, according to his estimates, three thousand people in the Eight Banners should be able to defeat the Ming army ten times his own, why can't he do it today? Zhang Cunren couldn't help it, he didn't have many troops in his hands, and the Ming army had already lined up outside the city to prepare to attack the city. Zhang Cunren only had to ask the various city gates to allocate manpower and sent 3,000 men and horses to Zhumala, hoping to drive the Ming army out of the city.

But it backfired, as more and more Ming troops entered Hangzhou City, the Qing army gradually couldn't greet them. The combat effectiveness of the new 3,000 Han Army Banner is not as good as that of the Eight Banners, and it was beaten by the Ming army as soon as they arrived in Beicheng. At this time, Zhu Mala had retreated to the cross street where the south city and the north city intersected, and seeing that he couldn't hold on, Zhu Mala hurriedly sent a message to Zhang Cunren, what should I do!

After receiving the news, Zhang Cunren scolded these former Ming generals Erwuzai, capricious, he was so careful or followed their way, and now there is no way, a large number of Ming troops have entered the city, and Hangzhou can no longer hold it.

Zhang Cunren looked in the direction of Beijing, he had completely failed, he was the banner of the Han army, and he would not die well if he fell into the hands of the Ming army, even if he fled back to Beijing, the regent could not spare himself, it was better to die. Thinking of this, Zhang Cunren pulled out his waist knife and killed himself.

As soon as Zhang Cunren died, the tree fell and scattered, everyone thought of their own methods, and no one seriously resisted.

However, there are still thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners in the city, and they know that they will not die well if they surrender, and they all fight to the end one by one, but they have caused some casualties to Zhao Guodong.

Seeing that the north city was on fire, Zhu Hongsan knew that Zhao Guodong had entered the city, and the naval shelling stopped, after all, it had been fighting all night, and some artillery could no longer stand it.

Zhu Hongsan sat on the boat and watched the city of Hangzhou smoke everywhere and the sound of gunfire everywhere, and the battle continued until the evening, when the gunfire in the city stopped. After a while, Zhao Guodong came out of Shuiguan Qingbo Gate and came to see Zhu Hongsan.

"Your Majesty, the Qing army in the city has been cleared, and one hundred and twenty Tartars have been caught, two thousand five hundred family members, four thousand one hundred Han army banners, one hundred and fifty-four of us have been killed, and six hundred and ten have been wounded! May I ask Your Majesty what about these prisoners of war? ”

"The Manchurians, regardless of the old and weak men and women, are all executed, Han Army Banner! These guys are so guilty that they're all pulled to Luzon to mine! ”

"Yes! Now that the city of Hangzhou is safe, please come in and rest! ”