Chapter 66: What to Wait For
And in the past two days, Gao Qiqian has also been paying attention to the battle situation on the side of Dongzhimen, it is said that Yang Guozhu led the troops to fight to the death, so that the rebels on the side of Dongzhimen could not be attacked, and Yang Guozhu killed many rebel generals.
So this shows that Yang Guozhu is a general with a bit of real material, and he is also resisting the attack of the rebels, but the situation on the Dongzhimen side is far better than that on the Chaoyangmen side.
Gao Qiqian also saw that the Yu Jiajun regarded the area of Chaoyangmen as the main attack, and the Dongzhimen side was not the direction of the Yujiajun's main attack, so the threat from the Dongzhimen side was not big, but the Chaoyangmen side seemed to have the possibility of collapse at any time.
So Gao Qiqian gritted his teeth and ordered Yang Guozhu to lead some of his soldiers and horses to Chaoyang to guard it, and Dongzhimen ordered Yang Guozhu to arrange people to guard it, and there was no loss! In addition, in order to make up for the lack of Dongzhimen after the transfer of Yang Guozhu, he transferred a group of defeated troops from Chaoyangmen that night, which can be regarded as supplementing the troops there.
Yang Guozhu didn't want to take the order, he himself could be said to be disgusted with Gao Qiqian, and now Gao Qiqian asked him to go to Chaoyangmen to sit on the radish, and Yang Guozhu was even more reluctant.
In the past two days, Yang Guozhu also paid attention to the movements of the Yu family's army, although the Yujia army fought on two fronts, and at the same time attacked Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, but he could obviously feel that the offensive of the Yujia army in Dongzhimen was very weak, although the artillery fire was also very fierce, but it did not attack Dongzhimen with sufficient strength, and in the past two days, although he also suffered a lot of shells, but his men were not killed or injured.
In addition, Yu's army attacked the city several times, all of which were like feints, and did not contribute, as long as he ordered a cannon to return fire on the city, Yu's army immediately retreated.
But he heard that the battle on the side of Chaoyangmen was very fierce, and the Yu family army fought very hard, almost all the battlements on the city wall were flattened, and the officers and soldiers guarding Chaoyangmen suffered great casualties, and even a guerrilla was killed on the spot, which shows that the situation here is very bad.
Now Gao Qiqian ordered him to lead his troops to take over the officers and soldiers here to guard Chaoyangmen, and it was clear that he wanted him to sit on this turnip, and to guard here, if it was not good, it would be more auspicious and less auspicious, Yang Guozhu was also very aware of the power of Yu Jiajun, if he didn't run fast last time, it would have been planted in the hands of the family army, now thinking about the sharp artillery fire of Yu Jiajun, Yang Guozhu still had palpitations, so Yang Guozhu heard that Gao Qiqian wanted him to go to Chaoyangmen to sit in the town, and immediately wanted to refuse.
But Gao Qiqian invited out the Shang Fang sword again, Yang Guozhu had no choice but to adjust the deployment that night, took 2,000 soldiers, and moved to Chaoyangmen, but Gao Qiqian asked him to arrange the defense of Dongzhimen well, and there could be no mistakes, so Yang Guozhu ordered his subordinate Gao Minghu to replace him and continue to sit in Dongzhimen.
This time, Yang Guozhu can be regarded as killing Gao Qiqian, no one at this time would have thought that Gao Qiqian would dig a big pit and bury himself when he adjusted his deployment this time.
Gao Qiqian definitely didn't expect that transferring Yang Guozhu and leaving Gao Minghu in Dongzhimen would be tantamount to sending him to the guillotine.
Qiu Qinghui, the commander of the Fourth Brigade, was very depressed in the past two days, and the order given to him by Yu Xiaotian made the second monk Zhangzhang puzzled.
He was ordered to make an illusion so that the pigs could see that the Yu family army on the side of Dongzhimen was feintting, but it also had to make the defenders here feel a lot of pressure.
Qiu Qinghui carried out such an order, he really didn't know what to do, he didn't fight, he didn't fight, and he could only stare at the brothers on the Chaoyangmen side, and he was shrinking everywhere, making them very unhappy, and I didn't know why Yu Xiaotian gave them such an order.
All in all, the Fourth Brigade and the Seventh Brigade had been very unhappy for the past two days, and they were all very aggrieved, but on the third day, something unexpected happened to them.
When the attack on the Chaoyangmen side started again on the third day, Qiu Qinghui also led the army lazily and began another feint, the artillerymen were half-dead and lazily fired at the city, and they also had to pick some places that were not focused on firing.
As for the infantry, they were lazy and lazy in formation, staring and yawning, with a posture of going back to sleep after a while, everyone's attention was not on the side of Dongzhimen, but they pricked up their ears, and listened carefully to the war situation on the side of Chaoyangmen, only to listen to the artillery over there early in the morning like rolling thunder and non-stop bombardment, and the shouting and killing of the infantry did not stop for a moment, so that the generals of the Fourth and Seventh Brigade here were envious to death one by one, thinking that this time the credit was estimated to be hopeless, It must be taken by the 1st and 2nd Brigades, and they can only stare dryly.
After more than an hour, Qiu Qinghui lazily gave the order to attack, and the prepared infantry began to line up outside the city gate, and finally checked the weapons in their hands, and placed the carts and shields in front of the array.
At this time, a fast horse suddenly rushed towards Dongzhimen from the direction of the big camp, and it could be seen from the back flag of the comer that this cavalry was a full-time herald in the personal guard of the Yu family, so no one dared to stop him, so he rushed directly towards the headquarters where Qiu Qinghui was.
Qiu Qinghui didn't know what instructions Yu Xiaotian had sent such a herald at this time, so he hurriedly ordered the attack to be suspended, waiting for this herald to come over and see if there were any new changes.
The herald rushed to a distance of dozens of steps near Qiu Qinghui, jumped off the back of the galloping war horse with a swish, and then galloped in front of Qiu Qinghui without stopping, holding an order in his hand, and after saluting, he directly handed the order to Qiu Qinghui.
Qiu Qinghui opened the paper suspiciously, looked down, and then looked at the expression on his face, this is really exciting, a boss with an open mouth, his eyes blinked for a long time, and then quickly rubbed his eyes, and carefully looked at the paper in his hand, when he confirmed that he was not mistaken, the corners of his mouth grinned next to his ears, haha laughed wildly.
The guards next to him all looked sideways, feeling that the brigade commander was a little abnormal today, and he looked lazy and uninterested just now, but after reading this order, he actually seemed to be immediately beaten with chicken blood, and this grin is estimated to be the back of his head.
"Command! All the infantry are ready to attack, listen to my command at any time, and be ready to go at any time! Once you enter the city, everyone should remember clearly, but anyone with a white cloth wrapped around their arms is our friendly army, and they must not be killed! If you encounter any resistance, kill them immediately!
After entering the city, immediately control the Dongzhi Gate, the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 7th Brigade are responsible for immediately taking over the area around the City Gate and guarding the City Gate, and the 3rd and 4th Infantry Battalions are attacking towards Chaoyang Gate, cooperating with the 1st and 2nd Brigades to capture Chaoyang Gate!
All of the Fourth Brigade, follow me and immediately attack the Imperial Palace, and surround the Imperial Palace as fast as possible! No innocent people are allowed to be killed along the way, and no trespass is allowed to enter any house! When you encounter a resistant, defeat them on the spot, and you must not fight!
In addition, after entering the palace city, everyone is not allowed to attack the palace, and if anyone violates the order, Lao Tzu will personally chop him up! After Qiu Qinghui put away this order, he immediately began to shout loudly, and began to issue a series of orders, and there was a special herald next to him who was responsible for writing down his orders and preparing to convey them.
But after listening to his order, everyone around was a little dizzy, thinking that Qiu Qinghui was crazy? Why did you suddenly start talking nonsense?
Where are the allies in this city? And what's going on in the city? It seems that he said that it is easy to enter the city as if it were eating cold food, but if the gate of this city is not opened, is it easy to attack the city?
"What are you doing? Don't ask so much, just follow Lao Tzu's orders and convey it, so that everyone knows it clearly, and I don't have time to explain it to you at this time! Fast! Hurry up and give the order! Qiu Qinghui also felt the strange gazes of his subordinates, so he hurriedly waved his hand and shouted impatiently.
Since the commander-in-chief here has already given the order, the herald doesn't have the courage to ask why, in short, the things done above are sometimes elusive, so that the soldiers and generals below are a little confused.
But Qiu Qinghui is definitely not crazy, there must be a reason for such an order, as for why, it depends on the next thing to change.
Orders began to be conveyed swiftly, first to the battalion, then from the battalion to the company, then to each platoon, and finally to each squad leader, and even to each soldier.
Everyone was a little confused, and didn't know what this order meant, into the city? How to get in? Friendly? Where did the allies come from? Everyone was confused, but there was no way to ask anyone.
Since the order was like this, then they carried it out, and everyone hurriedly checked the equipment again, tightened all the equipment, and according to the order, restarted the grouping, entered the starting point of the attack in batches outside the city, and prepared for the attack.
Except for Qiu Qinghui and a small number of senior officers and staff officers of the brigade headquarters, everyone else was confused and didn't know what they were waiting for.
The army waited for nearly half an hour at the starting point, and seeing that the sun began to reach overhead, some people couldn't help but complain in their hearts, what is going on! Although the first two days were not happy, but after all, it was still a few beats, but today I stayed here with all my brains, staring and waiting, I don't know what I'm waiting for, when will this be? What are you waiting for?