Chapter Ninety-Eight: Abandoning the City and Fleeing

"Su Zhongtang, let's go! If you don't leave, it's too late! The thieves haven't sealed the north gate yet! Covered in oil sludge and covered in blood, Feiyangu crawled into Sukh Saha Mansion and persuaded each other bitterly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Yes! Master, let's go! If you don't leave, the city will be completely destroyed! Several Goshha were also trying to persuade them.

Suke Saha shook his head with a bitter smile, and sighed helplessly: "Even if the old man can hold on for three months, as long as Xiangyang is lost, the emperor will want the old man's life like Lafayette!" What's more, today, because of the old man's fraudulent plan, he was planned by the thieves, causing the collapse of Xiangyang Jiancheng in an instant, if the old man goes back, can the emperor let the old man go? ”

Fei Yanggu said: "Su Zhongtang, the plan to surrender is a clumsy plan to continue to obey the prince, it is really a cocoon!" If this plan fails, the thief will be calculated, and the responsibility for this crime should be on Xu Shungong. As long as Su Zhongtang argues with reason, it will be fine! ”

"Hahaha!" Suke Saha suddenly laughed, "Although Duke Shun made a bad plan, causing Xiangyang to be defeated quickly, but he has already sacrificed his life for the country, and the sons of Duke Shun may have suffered misfortune!" Their deeds are reported, they are loyal ministers of the court, and the family of Xu Shungong is full of loyal martyrs! The court will certainly not condemn them! But the old man is different, the court will only say that the trick is a clever plan, and it is the old man's improper arrangement that causes a fiasco! If the old man runs away again, won't he add to the crime and end up with a full house of beheadings? ”

"Su Zhongtang!" Feyengu burst into tears.

Several Goshha also shed tears: "Master! The minions are willing to follow the master to the national disaster! ”

"General Fei, take someone with you quickly! The court will not blame you! You take our Eight Banners with you, how many can you get rid of! Leave more seeds for my bannermen! "Sukh Sahadao.

"Su Zhongtang!" Feyangu knelt on the ground and kowtowed a few times before retreating with his goshha.

Sukh Saha turned his head and said to his own Goshha: "You are all the old man's personal guards, you are grandfathers, fathers, you have followed the old man to fight in the north and south for many years, and the old man treats you as his own children!" Now that Xiangyang City can't be defended, you better run for your lives! ”

"Master! You are as kind to the minions as a mountain, and the minions are willing to live and die with the master, and never live! Several Goshkha knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"That's it!" Sukh Saha sighed, "Everyone come with the old man to kill the thief together!" ”

The bloody battle in Xiangyang City continued, and the entire city had been beaten to pieces. The barricades once guarded by the Qing army have been reduced to rubble, and corpses are piled up on top of each other. There are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in red uniforms, officers and soldiers of the green battalion wearing Qing army uniforms, and soldiers of the Eight Banners wearing bright armor, and many corpses are still scuffling together, maintaining the posture of the last moment of life, dignified as life.

I have to say that the resistance of the Qing army in Xiangyang City was still extremely fierce, and many Qing troops even lit powder kegs when the Ming army rushed up, and died with the Ming army. Some Qing soldiers stabbed with knives and guns at the last moment of their lives, or twisted a Ming soldier soldier.

The Minzhuang, who was originally assisting the Qing army to defend the city, had begun to surrender in batches, and the Minzhuang after the surrender were immediately incorporated into the Minzhuang by the Ming army, either to help carry heavy goods, help push carts, or help the Ming army build fortifications in the city, or push the shield cart forward to assist the Ming army to attack together. There were also some people who directly divided their swords and guns and joined the attacking team. Those people are all trained people, and they can still fight.

The common people in the city also began to help the Ming army, they were originally Han Chinese, and the shaving of the Qing court was easy to obey, but only more than 20 years have passed, the memory of the fathers is still there, and the seeds of hatred are buried in the bottom of their hearts and have not been extinguished.

Before, the Qing army was in the city, and the common people did not dare to resist. Now that the Ming army has basically controlled the situation, the common people have begun to help the Ming army. Some ordinary people led the way for the Ming army and made a detour from behind the barricades of the Qing army; Some ordinary people secretly snatched weapons and attacked the Qing soldiers who hid in their homes, hiding behind shooting holes and firing outside; Some ordinary people spontaneously organized themselves and launched an attack from behind the Qing army.

However, the green camp Qing army in Xiangyang City resisted quite stubbornly, not giving up an inch of land, and blocked the attack of the Ming army step by step. The green battalion Qing army in Xiangyang City is all the Ganshan green battalion. The people of Shaanxi are fierce and have produced elite soldiers since ancient times. Whether it is Li Zicheng or Zhao Liangdong, they are both from Shaanxi. Therefore, the resistance of the Xiangyang Green Camp was very tenacious.

However, no matter how tenacious they are, they are inferior to the Ming army in terms of strength, inferior to the Ming army in weapons and equipment, and inferior to the Ming army in morale.

The remnants of the Qing army abandoned the outer city of Xiangyang and retreated into the city.

Xiangyang is also full of cities, after all, Xiangyang is an important city that controls the waterway traffic in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is the first strong city in the world, the location is very important, after the Qing army occupied Xiangyang, the inner city became a full city. On weekdays, the city is full of Eight Banners soldiers and their families. After the Ming army won the Battle of Huguang, the women, children, old and weak in Xiangyang Mancheng had all been transferred, and only the Qing army and the people were left in the city.

It was also when the remnants of the Qing army in the city retreated into Mancheng under the leadership of Suke Saha, and the remaining Qing generals, such as Feiyangu, Sunahai and Woch, with more than 1,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners, opened the north gate without the siege of the Ming army, and then more than 1,000 Eight Banners soldiers and 1,500 Han Eight Banners led their own troops and escaped from Xiangyang City.

Feiyangu was still more cautious, he did not escape from the city directly, but let the Han Eight Banners go out of the city first, looked at the city and saw that there was no ambush outside the city, and then let the Han Eight Banners Army go a little way first, and found that there was no Ming army to pursue, so he took the Manmeng Eight Banners cavalry, rode out of Xiangyang City, and fled north along the official road.

"The Tartars are out of town!" Wang Zihao, who was ambushed ten miles north of Xiangyang City, received a report from the spies.

"Let's not act rashly! Let the Tartars pass, and when the Tartars pass, we'll cover up from behind! Wang Zihao gave the order.

The Ming army, which was ambushed ten miles north of Xiangyang, was 2,000 cavalry, all of whom were dragoons using Mongolian horses, with no thick armor or vest, but each dragoon was armed with a double-barreled flintlock spear, two double-barreled short guns, and a saber.

When the Qing army brigade passed, the two thousand dragoons immediately divided their troops into two routes, one followed behind the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry, and chased them all the way; Another thousand dragoons slaughtered the Han Eight Banner infantry behind.

"There is an ambush! Despicable and shameless Ming dog! Sure enough, there was a lack of one of the three sieges, and the cavalry was ambushed outside the city! Wait until we get out of the city to chase after us! Feyangu scolded.