Chapter 168: Recovering Quanzhou
Qing Bing didn't react for a while, he was hit in the neck by Fang Xiaoyu's hand knife, only the sound of bones shattering was heard, this hand knife directly broke Qing Bing's cervical vertebrae, and the broken bones pierced into the trachea and carotid artery, and together with the pressure given by the hand knife, the trachea was destroyed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info this Qing soldier slowly collapsed at the head of the city like a mouthful of emptied cloth bags.
Fang Xiaoyu snatched the knife from the waist of the Qing soldiers and slashed at the Qing soldiers at the head of the city.
The rest of the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society also took action, killing the Qing soldiers closest to them, snatching broadswords, spears and other weapons, and launching an attack on the Qing soldiers.
Seeing Fang Xiaoyu and the others doing it, Liu Quan shouted: "Brothers, fight with the dog Tartar!" ”
was brought to the city by the Qing army, and Minzhuang, who was originally assisting the Qing army in defending the city, suddenly broke out and launched an attack on the Qing army at the head of the city.
Liu Quan picked up a spear from the corpse of a Qing soldier and stabbed it at a Qing soldier. Liu Quan also learned a little martial arts with the lay disciples of Shaolin Temple in Quanzhou when he was a child, and his kung fu was not bad. But Liu Quan's spear went down a little and pierced into the legs of the Qing soldiers.
"Ahh The wounded Qing soldiers screamed in pain.
Two other people rushed forward, one snatched the Qing soldier's knife, and the other grabbed the Qing soldier's neck.
Most of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were archers and bird guns, and the distance was so close that the archers didn't have time to exert their power before they were restrained by the people who rushed to them. The Qing archers had no choice but to throw away their bows and arrows, draw their swords and slash and kill. However, there were many strong people, some of them took the weapons they had stolen, some of them picked up stones from the ground and threw them, and some of them picked up the wood on the ground and smashed them into the soldiers.
In front of Fang Xiaoyu, there were three Qing soldiers in formation, two pikemen and one sword and shield hand cooperating with each other. If they fought alone, the three Qing soldiers were not opponents, but the formation of three people made it difficult for a master like Fang Xiaoyu to get close!
Individual martial arts are still no match for the regular army in formation, although it is only three green battalion soldiers, as long as they cooperate properly, it can also make it difficult for a middle-to-upper-grade master like Fang Xiaoyu to win.
Fang Xiaoyu was beaten back again and again by three Qing soldiers, and when he passed by a cauldron, he had an idea.
"Death to the dogs!" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly kicked over the big iron pot on the roaring bonfire.
The iron pot flew out, and the hot gold juice in the iron pot was poured on one of the Qing soldiers. Hearing only heart-rending screams, the soldier threw away his spear and covered his burned wounds and howled in pain. The other two Qing soldiers saw the flying iron pot and dodged on both sides. One person was injured, two people dodged, and the formation was naturally chaotic.
Fang Xiaoyu raised his knife and cut off the head of a Qing soldier. Then he raised his knife and chased after the Qing soldier who turned and fled, leaving only the burned Qing soldier lying on the city bricks and wailing.
A man had already come up, picked up a spear from the ground, and shot the wounded Qing soldiers lying on the ground.
At the head of the city, fierce battles were raging everywhere. The agents of the Heaven and Earth Society have high martial arts, but the Qing army is in formation, and the people are just a rabble, and for a time the Qing army has the appearance of turning the situation around. But at this time, an agent of the Heaven and Earth Society took out a grenade from his arms, pulled off the pull ring and threw it into the crowd of Qing troops.
The dense formation was attacked by grenades, and the effect can be imagined.
The "boom" grenade exploded in the crowd of Qing soldiers, the flames sprayed, shrapnel burst out, and pieces of Qing soldiers fell screaming.
"Kill the Tartars!" The agents of the Heaven and Earth Society and the people took advantage of the chaos of the Qing army's formation and smashed into the enemy group. Originally, there were many strong people, and this kind of melee was the most beneficial for them. The formation of the Qing army was blown up by grenades, and for a while they could no longer form a formation, they were rushed to them by the people, and the Qing soldiers could only fight on their own, fighting alone against the people in front of them.
After all, the Qing soldiers were trained, and most of the people had no weapons on hand, so after getting close, they were still cut down by the Qing soldiers.
"Kill!" The helmets of the Ming army emerged from the improvised ladder at the head of the city.
The Ming army, which climbed up from the improvised ladder, immediately attacked the Qing army, and as long as they saw the Qing soldiers wearing uniforms and red tassels on their heads, they would be slashed and killed.
With the addition of the regular army, the people at the head of the city turned over and gained the upper hand.
Originally, it was to assist the Qing army to defend the city, which made the city head not form a force to block the siege of the Ming army, and more Ming troops under the city climbed up from the simple ladder and joined the battle group.
As more and more Ming troops ascended to the top of the city, the Qing army, which was originally small in number, began to rout, and pieces of the city were lost and fell into the hands of the Ming army and the people anyway.
"Up!" The king's ministers rode a large ladder cart from another place to the city.
Since Wang [Fu] Chen surrendered to the Ming army, because there has been no opportunity for cavalry to fight, he has become the main force of the battle in the city. It was protected by a large ladder cart, so that the king's [auxiliary] ministers would not be attacked by rolling wood and stones when they ascended to the top of the city. And the thick armor on his body can withstand the fire of the bow and arrow of the city.
When the ladder truck leaned against the city wall, Wang and his four soldiers stood up, kicked open the baffle in front of the ladder car, and jumped up to the city with a shout.
"Kill!" The spear in the hand of Wang [Fu] Chen was waved as a stick, and the three Qing soldiers in front were hit and flew out.
The four pro-soldiers in the back formed a formation to protect the back and two wings of the king's [auxiliary] ministers, and the five men charged at the same time, forming a moving iron wall at the head of the city, advancing in the direction of the city gate tower.
On the ladder car, more Ming troops climbed to the top of the city. Because the top of the city has been beaten up, the ladder cart has not been attacked by fire oil canisters and rockets, and will not be destroyed, so that the ladder cart will continue to send the elite ironclad troops to the city.
If an ironclad soldier wearing thick armor ascends the city from a simple ladder, the iron armor on his body is heavy, not to mention climbing the stairs slowly, and he is easily attacked by rolling wood and stones at the head of the city, and is smashed by stones, wolf fangs, yakshas, etc., no matter how thick the iron armor is, it can't resist it. And if you enter the city from the ladder car, you will not be attacked by those weapons that defend the city.
The staircase design of the ladder cart is like a step, and the heavy infantry in iron armor can easily climb the platform, jump into the city, and join the warband.
After the ironclad soldiers reach the top of the city, they are invincible! Any kind of infantry is vulnerable to ironclad soldiers. Only maces, axes, and hammers can break through iron armor, but heavily armed infantry can't get close to the ironclads and are shot dead by the archers behind them.
A large group of musketeers also climbed up to the top of the city by ladder carts, and they followed behind the ironclad soldiers and archers, the muskets constantly roaring, and the dense bullets harvested the most skilled Qing soldiers.
"Take the city gatehouse!" Wang [Fu] Chen shouted.
The city gate tower has always been the key point in the city attack and defense battle, the number of defenders near the city gate tower is also the largest, and the city gate tower is also the place that is most taken care of by the siege firepower of the besieging party, from the original trebuchet to the current cannon, as well as the siege weapons such as the rush car that are still in use today, are aimed at the city gate tower to attack.
However, after breaking through the city gate tower, there is still an urn city inside, and the entrance to the city gate can only be safe if the soldiers who climb the top of the city control the top of the urn city.
Above the urn city behind the city gate tower, it is naturally the most dense place of the Qing army.
Wang [auxiliary] took more than 20 personal soldiers, followed by more than 100 ironclad soldiers, more than 50 pikemen, more than 100 archers and more than 200 musketeers, and killed in the direction of the city gate tower. Before the people reached the top of the city gate, the archers were the first to strike.
"Put!" More than 100 archers opened their bows and set up arrows, and their feathered arrows rained down on the Qing army.
"Knife player!" Someone in the Qing army shouted.
Dozens of swordsmen armed with shields blocked the feathered arrows that came from the shots. But there were still many arrows that drilled through the gaps in the shields and pierced into the Qing soldiers, making a miserable scream.
The Qing army also counterattacked with bows and arrows, and dozens of feathered arrows flew over.
The Ming ironclad men used iron armor and shields to block most of the feathered arrows, and only a few of the feathered arrows hit the pikemen and archers, but the Ming spearmen and archers also had armor on their bodies, and it was difficult to cause casualties unless they were shot in the limbs.
"Bang bang bang" The musketeers of the Ming army came up, and a burst of gunfire like fried beans erupted.
After all, the power of firearms was still great, and the musket bullets fired by the Qing archers penetrated into the crowd of Qing troops, knocking down more than 30 Qing archers in one fell swoop.
"Kill!" Wang [Fu] Chen shouted, and led people to rush to the crowd of Qing troops. He was the first to rush to the Qing army, and the spear in his hand swept over, and the shields in the hands of several Qing soldiers were picked off.
More than 20 personal soldiers followed Wang [Fu] Chen to rush to the Qing army, and a burst of knives and axes chopped down more than a dozen Qing soldiers.
The ironclad soldiers and pikemen in the back also came up and fought into the crowd of Qing troops.
The Qing soldiers at the head of the city fought and retreated, and the Qing soldiers in front waved their shields to resist a few times, and then squeezed back, trying to hide behind their companions, and use their companions to resist the opponent's swords and guns.
The Ming musketeers and archers followed, constantly pumping out firepower. The muskets spewed fire, and the Qing soldiers continued to spew blood mist and fell to the city.
The Qing army was driven down the steps, and the Ming army followed.
The top of the urn city has been controlled by the Ming army, and I saw that there were Qing soldiers pushing the knife cart up on the street, and the Ming army musketeers standing at the head of the urn city shot bullets one after another, so that the sparks on the knife cart were splashed, and many Qing soldiers behind the knife cart were shot and fell.
"Open the gates and lower the drawbridge!" Wang [Fu] Chen shouted.
The gates were opened, and the drawbridge was lowered.
"Rush!" The heavy cavalry of the Ming army, which had long been guarding outside the city gate, shouted and slaughtered into the city.
Quanzhou prefect Yamen, someone came to report: "Report to the government!" Chaotianmen is lost! ”
Liu Xiangzhen stood up: "Quick, organize people and drive out the Haikou!" ”
"Lord Futai, the people are all reversed!" The Qing officer who came said with a sad face.
At this moment, someone came to report: "Report to Lord Futai, Renfeng Gate has been lost!" ”
Liu Xiangzhen hadn't walked out of the mansion yet, and someone came to report: "Report to the mansion, Yichengmen is lost!" ”
"Ahh Liu Xiangzhen screamed, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
In Quanzhou City, three red lanterns have been hung on the bell and drum towers to represent the danger.
"The city is broken! The city is broken! The remnants of the Qing soldiers in the city let out a cry.
Liu Xiangzhen shouted: "Come with this official and burn down the warehouse!" Quanzhou City is rich in materials, and it can't be left to Haikou! ”
Quanzhou is a rich city, the warehouses in the city have accumulated mountains of wealth, there are all kinds of grain, piles of raw silk tea, there are gold and silver treasures looted from all over Quanzhou, if these wealth fall into the hands of the Ming army, it will greatly enhance the strength of the Ming army.
There were only a few officers left around Liu Xiangzhen and some officials, catchers, and white servants. When he approached the warehouse with dozens of people, he found that there were people stationed in the warehouse!
"Whoosh" a row of crossbow arrows was fired from the roof of the warehouse.
Those officials, catchers, and white servants have no armor on them, and they are simply attacked by crossbow arrows! Crossbow arrows pierced these people's bodies, and blood splattered everywhere, and they screamed miserably.
It was the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society who occupied the warehouse, and Chen Yonghua knew that Quanzhou was rich, so he had already arranged a large number of agents of the Heaven and Earth Society to control the warehouse in Quanzhou. The agents were armed with a five-shot repeater and two double-barreled short guns, and several of the agent leaders had Thunderbolt handcuffs on their bodies.
"Attack! Take down the warehouse! Liu Xiangzhen shouted.
A group of defeated Qing troops gathered around and began to attack the warehouse.
On the roof of the warehouse, crossbow arrows kept coming, and several of the attacking Qing soldiers fell. Rows of gunfire followed, and the agents of the Heaven and Earth Society fired with double-barreled short guns and Thunderbolt short guns, causing the Qing soldiers to fall down the wooden ladders.
"Whoosh" several Qing soldiers shot rockets.
However, the warehouse has always been the best place for fire prevention in every city, the outer wall of the warehouse is made of bricks and stones, there are no windows, and the roof is covered with thick tiles, unless it is to enter the warehouse and set fire, it is difficult to burn the warehouse from the outside, which is also designed to prevent the people from rioting and burning the warehouse, so the Qing army can only burn the warehouse by attacking the inside of the warehouse and setting fire.
The rocket was stuck on the roof, blocked by a thick layer of tiles, and the flames were quickly extinguished.
A row of grenades was dropped on the roof of the warehouse, which caused the Qing army to cry wolf.
More than 50 agents of the Heaven and Earth Society guarding the warehouse repelled the attack of hundreds of Qing troops with the sophisticated weapons in their hands. Just when Liu Xiangzhen was about to gather more Qing troops to attack the warehouse, there was a commotion from behind.
"Minggou is here!" Some people fled crying and screaming.
The Qing army's formation immediately collapsed, and everyone scattered and fled, each fleeing for their lives. Many Qing soldiers took off their uniforms, got into small boxes, and drilled into private houses.
Liu Xiangzhen couldn't run away, and he didn't want to run away. The Qing soldiers, government servants and catchers around him all ran out, and even his master fled into the crowd, leaving Liu Xiangzhen alone on the street.
The Ming cavalry appeared in the streets and rushed in the direction of the warehouse.
"Loyal ministers don't care about the two masters! The emperor's grace is vast, and Weichen can only repay the emperor's grace with one death! Liu Xiangzhen suddenly roared, picked up a spear discarded by the Qing soldiers from the ground, and rushed towards the galloping horses.
"Look for death!" The Ming cavalry who rushed to the front sneered.
The war horse made a thunderous sound of horses' hooves, rushing to Liu Xiangzhen like a whirlwind, and the saber in the hand of the first cavalryman touched Liu Xiangzhen's spear, blocking the spear and breaking the barrel of the spear. Then the war horse crashed into Liu Xiangzhen. The horses behind trampled over from the street, trampling Liu Xiangzhen into a pulp. (To be continued.) )