Among the Green Battalion soldiers, there were dozens of strangers they were not familiar with. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But these people, Zhang Shun has introduced them to his green battalion soldiers, they are old friends, and they came to help.

In fact, these dozens of big men were all members of the Heaven and Earth Society, and each of them carried two double-barreled short guns, two grenades, and a cold weapon that he could handle. After all, the Green Battalion has few soldiers, and to seize the city gate, it still needs the cooperation of the people of the Heaven and Earth Society.

Cheng Huan is a sleeper agent of the Heaven and Earth Society, and has been lurking in Changsha City for five years. Now that the Ming army is coming to attack Changsha, and the Biyuan governor and the prefect of Changsha are preparing to surrender, the headache is those gentry and scholars who are loyal to the Qing court, and they need to solve the Xiangyong who defended the city.

Changsha City is four feet and three feet high, which is not as strong as Wuchang, but it is also a fairly strong city. In fact, Ao Bai made a big mistake: if he didn't choose the decisive battle near Wuchang, but chose the area around Changsha in Yuezhou, he would still be able to fight with the Ming army by using the desperate Hunan scholars and Xiangyong. But the frightened Qing army retreated all the way, and did not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field at all.

The Qing army held the idea of defending Wuchang, but as a result, the bravest Hunan warriors were given up in vain and thrown to the Ming army to break through.

Zhang Shun took the green battalion and walked up the steps of the Zodiac Gate.

"Mr. Zhang Qian!" A general practitioner on the tower of the city gate stepped forward and arched his hand to Zhang Shun.

"Hmm!" Zhang Shun nodded casually.

Five hundred green battalion soldiers all went up to the city gate tower, and Cheng Huan, who was hidden in the middle of the green battalion soldiers, took out his pocket watch and glanced at the time with the help of the lighting of torches: It's almost time, it's time to do it!

Cheng Huan nodded to Zhang Shun, Zhang Shun also replied, then turned around, suddenly pulled out a knife, and slashed at Xiang Yonglian's head.

It happened so suddenly, Mr. Lian didn't have time to react, he only felt that his neck was cold, and his head had left his body.

Zhang Shun lifted the head of Xiang Yong Lian and shouted: "Tartar Lian is dead!" Brothers, kill with me! ”

The green battalion soldiers waved their swords and guns one after another, and beckoned to the head of Xiang Yong, who had not yet recovered from the panic on the city gate tower.

Although there are many Xiangyong, they have not undergone much training. They have the courage to fight to the death, and there are many masters of martial arts, but their leader was killed by a sneak attack, and the Hunan warriors do not know how to arrange troops. Although the combat effectiveness of the green battalion soldiers is not very good, they have grasped the initiative, and they have formed a battle formation, advancing in unison, and when they meet the resisting Xiang Yong, they have two or three spears, and two or three big knives greet the past at the same time, and they chop Xiang Yong into meat puree at once.

The green battalion soldiers advanced above the city gate, and all the way through, the white knives went in and the red knives came out, and the resisting Xiangyong fell one after another.

Cheng Huansheng and dozens of his agents of the Heaven and Earth Society pulled out their double-barreled short guns and shot some small Hunan Yong officers with high martial arts skills and were able to resist for a while. When the enemy is dense, he touches out a grenade and beckons him.

The "boom" grenade exploded in the crowd, the flames burst out, and Xiang Yong immediately fell to a large area.

In the governor's mansion in the city, the governor Zhou Zhaonan and the prefect Ren Shaojun were frequently raising their glasses to toast the gentry and scholars in the city who were loyal to help defend the city.

"Your loyalty and patriotism are really admirable! When the imperial court defeats the thief, the official will naturally give you credit! Come on, do it! Zhou Zhaonan raised his wine glass and said loudly.

The gentry and gentlemen drank their glasses one after another.

At this moment, the sound of firearms and explosives suddenly heard from the direction of the south gate of the city.

"What's going on? Thieves are starting to attack the city? A reader put down his glass and was about to stand up. 、

Several gentry and gentlemen on the side also put down their wine glasses and prepared to stand up.

But I heard Ren Shaojun yelling: "Do it!" ”

Ambushed behind the rockery, behind the curtain of the hall, more than 200 green battalion soldiers on the other side of the wall rushed out, armed with knives and guns, and murderously surrounded these gentry and gentlemen.

Zhou Zhaonan arched his hand to these gentry and gentlemen and said, "Everyone, this official is also helpless!" The official's family is in Changsha City, this Changsha City is not a strong city in the world like Xiangyang Wuchang, we can't defend it! If Changsha is lost, the official's family will lose their lives! So the official decided to dedicate Changsha! ”

Only then did the gentry and gentlemen understand that this governor and prefect were actually guys with a human face and a beast's heart! They have long been ready to surrender to the thieves and betray themselves!

Someone scolded: "Zhou Zhaonan! You dog! If you betray the court, you will not die well! ”

Another Xiucai shouted: "Zhou Zhaonan! When the prince of the court arrives in Changsha, you, the dog official, will be cut by a thousand knives! ”

Zhou Zhaonan sneered: "Imperial court king? Can you still fight back to Changsha? Since the landing of the Qiongzhou army, the Qing court has been defeated and retreated, and it has not even won a battle! It's good now, I don't even dare to fight in the field! With such court officers and soldiers, still expect them to recover Changsha? Bah! It's a dream! ”

"The dog official surnamed Zhou! You are a traitor to glory! You don't have to die well! "Someone yelled.

An obscene-looking gentry in his fifties scolded: "The surname is Zhou, you are greedy for life and afraid of death!" You are a disloyal, unfilial, unkind and unrighteous beast! ”

"Take them all!" Ren Shaojun said coldly.

More than 200 soldiers of the Green Battalion stepped forward and held down the gentry and gentlemen. Although these scholars desperately resisted, they could not survive these wolf-like green battalion soldiers. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred gentry and gentlemen were all bound. Some people resisted more fiercely and were beheaded by the green battalion soldiers, such as the obscene looking gentry in his fifties just now, who was killed because he tried to snatch the knife of the green battalion soldiers.

There was also a young Xiucai who tried to escape over the wall, but was pulled down by two green battalion soldiers and cut off his head with a knife.

After subduing all the gentry and scholars, Zhou Zhaonan shouted: "Quick, send a fireworks signal outside the city!" ”

A Green Battalion commander picked up a firework rocket, lit it and aimed it in the air. With a bang, a brilliant firework burst into the night sky.

In fact, there is no need for a signal from the city, and the sound of gunfire and explosions on the tower of the Zodiac Gate is already an order to attack the city. Hearing the sound of gunfire and explosions on the tower of the city gate, Li Tianzhi, Ma Jiuyu and others, who had been ambushed outside the city in advance, jumped up one after another, pulled out their knives and shouted: "Brothers, get on!" ”

In the darkness, countless torches were lit, and thousands of Ming soldiers rushed towards the city wall with shouts carrying improvised ladders.

Xiang Yong, who was stationed in Changsha, actually didn't know how to defend the city, because the green battalion who knew how to defend the city was already ready to surrender, and the Xiang Yong didn't know how to arrange obstacles outside the city. As a result, the Ming army, which was carrying the improvised moat bridge, was not hindered in any way, so they rushed to the edge of the moat and erected the improvised moat bridge on the moat.

The Ming army rushed across the moat, set up a simple ladder, and climbed to the top of the city.

Zodiac Gate, Zhang Shun and Cheng Huanzheng have already eliminated all the Xiangyong on the city gate tower, they opened the city gate and lowered the suspension bridge.

"Kill!" Outside the city, the Ming army poured into the city.

In the east of Changsha City in the dark, torches like the Milky Way landing appeared, and countless auxiliaries pushed three large ladder carts and approached the city wall. The city was already in chaos, and the soldiers wearing the uniforms of the green battalion and the soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Xiangyong army were fighting fiercely, and no one organized to defend the city at all.

The ladder cart pushed closer to the moat, the auxiliaries shook the handle, and the platform on the ladder cart moved slowly, suspended over the moat, and directly set up on the city wall.

"Kill!" Wang [Fu] Chen, Cai Dezhong, Ma Chaoxing and other fierce generals with their own soldiers, jumped off the platform of the ladder truck, jumped onto the city, and started a fierce battle with Xiangyong at the head of the city.

Although the Xiangyong stationed in Changsha fought tenaciously, their minds were wiped out, and the Xiangyong who spontaneously resisted could not even defeat the green battalion soldiers, let alone the Ming army that poured into the city.

The first to enter the city were the Cantonese army and the Fujian army, although they all used cold weapons, but the attack into the city, against those rabble-like Hunan Yong, was a one-sided massacre. The main force of the Ming army behind also followed into the city, as if killing chickens and dogs, cutting down the recalcitrant Xiang Yong one by one in a pool of blood.

The fierce battle lasted until dawn, and the resistance in the city was finally completely extinguished.

Zhou Zhaonan and Ren Shaojun, who sacrificed Changsha, stood in the camp of the Ming army at this time.

"You and all of you, it is a great achievement to dedicate Changsha! Appraisal and reward, Zhou Zhaonan is the governor of Daming Huguang, Shaojun, and the governor of Daming Biyuan! Wang Yuyou shook his head with a smile and said. This Qing court governor took the initiative to surrender, or the first, whether it was in Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong or Guangxi, there was no shortage of commanders and commanders who took the initiative to surrender, but one side of the feudal officials, the governor of the civilian government voluntarily surrendered, this week Zhaonan is the first, must buy a thousand dollars, set an example for other Qing court civil officials.

Zhou Zhaonan and Ren Shaojun hurriedly thanked him: "Xiaguan Xie Dashuai is carrying, and Junshi Xie is carrying!" ”

"Dashuai!" Zhou Zhaonan arched his hand and said, "The gentry in Changsha City are actually stubborn, and the lower officials have already controlled them all. ”

Wang Xinyu nodded and said, "But these scholars, this clan can't kill them all." Well, take them to the Stone Drum Academy. After a while, when the scholars of the world were debating in the Shigu Academy, they also let them take a look at Huayi's discrimination! Let them understand who is orthodox in the end! ”

The really backbone gentry and gentlemen were almost dead twenty years ago, and the rest were soft bones. But now that the Ming army is here, why do they have to resist desperately? Maybe they felt that even if the Ming army won, they wouldn't kill them.

If Wang Xinyu kills all these scholars, and happens to be caught by the Qing court, it will be very unfavorable to the development of the war in the future.

……

"Huayi's distinction?" Bumu Butai in the capital finally learned the news and was furious.

Suke Saha said: "Lafayette, according to the slaves, these scholars should be killed with one sword!" ”

"Never!" "If we kill them all, we'll just fall for the thieves!" (To be continued.) )