Chapter 731: Take Texas City lightly
The information that Abatai got for help was not wrong, it was indeed Dong Xi who led the right town of Nanjing to Texas!
Dong Xi couldn't sit still in Dongchang Mansion for a long time, and his own superintendent only brought 3,000 elite cavalry, plus less than 4,000 musketeers, and these troops alone dared to go deep into the hinterland of Zhili, take Zhending Mansion, and after taking it, they did not carry out guerrilla warfare, and harassed them under the cover of the Taihang Mountains on the west side of Zhending Mansion, but instead stubbornly defended Zhending Mansion, which was too risky.
When Zhu Jie's will and Xu Yifan's military order arrived at the same time, Dong Xi directly gathered the army and began to prepare to go north.
The three prefectures of Dongchang, Yanzhou and Caozhou in Shandong gathered more than 10,000 infantry troops in the right town of Nanjing, and Dong Xi only left 4,000 people in Dongchang Mansion, leading the main force of 10,000 infantry, pulling red-coated artillery and rushing directly to Dezhou Mansion!
Two hundred miles away, Nanjing Right Town only took three days to arrive, just arrived in Dezhou, launched a thunderous offensive towards the Dezhou capital, must take Texas in the shortest possible time, enter Jingzhou!
Nanjing Right Town has not yet arrived in Dezhou, and Dezhou has already received the news that Nanjing Right Town is going north.
Duan Pixian, the governor of Dezhou, was shocked when he got the information, how could the defenders of the entire Dezhou with only more than 1,000 people be able to block the attack of tens of thousands of elites in the right town of Nanjing? Even the two prefectures of Yanzhou and Dongchang have already fallen, Duan Pixian jumped to his feet in a hurry, he really wanted to abandon the city and flee directly, but he abandoned the city and fled? Dezhou is the south gate of Beijing, the same as Baoding Mansion, one is the southwest gateway, the other is the southeast portal, the location is important, where can there be a little bit of missing? If you abandon the city and flee, I am afraid that you will be directly chopped into meat sauce by the Manchurians!
Asking for help, the first time, Duan Pixian thought of asking for help, asking for help from Zhending Mansion, now Dezhou is the closest to Zhending Mansion, if the cavalry gallops to help, it will take two days at most, plus the time to ask for help, that is, three or four days, the Manchurian elite cavalry will be able to rush to Dezhou City, maybe it will be in time!
Duan Pixian sent a popular fast horse to Abatai in Zhending Mansion to send a messenger for help, the messenger had just been gone for only half a day, and in the afternoon, Dong Xi's army arrived at the city of Dezhou!
Without saying a word, Dong Xi directly set up a red-coated artillery and launched a fierce offensive towards Texas City!
A cannonball fell on the wall of Dezhou City one after another, constantly destroying the city defense of Dezhou, smashing the city wall out of huge craters, the entire Dezhou City fell into a huge shock, above the city, the green battalion soldiers are like earth, the momentum of the elite of Nanjing Right Town is too majestic, tens of thousands of troops, where is the small state city of Texas can resist? After Liu Zeqing surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the two thousand households were directly reorganized into a green battalion, 1,500 troops, guarding Dezhou, under the direct jurisdiction of the original governor Fang Dayou, as a result, Fang Dayou died tragically in Jining Prefecture, the green battalion of this battalion can now also grandma does not hurt, uncle does not love the ministry, the general Du Gao is just the original commander of the title of a thousand households, mediocre ability, where can withstand such a battle?
The twenty artillery pieces in the right town of Nanjing bombarded together, directly scaring Du Gao and Duan Pixian to sit on the top of the city, too fierce, twenty red-clothed artillery, Texas is full of battles, but only ten generals' artillery, guarding four cities, there are only three artillery pieces in the southern city, in front of twenty red-clothed artillery, it's not bullshit!
The right town of Nanjing directly bombarded with artillery for an hour, firing hundreds of shells towards Dezhou City, directly destroying the morale of the soldiers in Dezhou City!
Immediately, Dong Xi commanded 5,000 elite infantry from the right town of Nanjing to launch a fierce attack on the head of the city of Dezhou, the musketeers provided fire cover on both sides, and the other infantry pushed the ladders, and some even set up temporary wooden ladders to launch an attack on Dezhou.
This battle is related to the safety of the Governor, the life and death of the four thousand elite cavalry brothers is very important, which of the soldiers in the army has not received the favor of the Inspector? Fight!
The bows and arrows in the hands of the green battalion soldiers at the head of the city were not enough to withstand the charge of the soldiers of the right town of Nanjing, and one after another cloud ladders were set up on the top of the city, and then a group of elite soldiers launched an attack along the cloud ladder towards the city head! Attack, attack!
Wei Wei, the general of the infantry forward battalion, held a spear in his hand, took the lead, and rushed towards the city, and behind him was the dead soldier stopped by the forward battalion, which was unstoppable!
"Rolling wood, rolling wood, throwing rolling wood at me, and stones, you must beat the Ming army down for me!"
Du Gao roared desperately, one by one the green battalion soldiers lifted the rolling wood and stones, and threw them down towards the ladder, Wei Wei saw that the situation was not good, put the spear on the ladder, and with both hands, he directly lifted the rolling wood out, as for the stones, they were not so lucky, and they rolled down directly, and the soldiers of the right town of Nanjing, at least a dozen of them were hit by stones and smashed down the ladder!
"Holy shit, musketeers, are you all blind? Kill all those bastards in the city! Kill me! ”
Wei Wei roared angrily, held up the spear and continued to attack upward, the brothers behind him also followed closely, it was only one step away from the city, the green battalion soldiers were still going to the rolling wood again, but the musketeers behind them no longer gave them such a chance, a team of musketeers shot desperately towards the city, as long as the green battalion soldiers raised their heads, they would definitely be drilled into a hole, and the dense firepower suppressed the green battalion soldiers and couldn't raise their heads at all!
"Heha!"
Wei Wei roared angrily, the bright silver spear in his hand was propped up on the cloud ladder, and he rose up, directly over the city, and the bright silver spear in his hand was used as a stick, sweeping four or five nearby green battalion soldiers to the ground, and Wei Wei landed firmly in the city wall!
Du Gao was horrified and roared angrily: "Up, up! Kill him, kill him, stop the attack of the Ming army behind! ”
Dozens of green battalion soldiers hurriedly surrounded and launched a siege towards Wei Wei, however, the spear in Wei Wei's hand danced, and the courage was abnormal, although it was not comparable to Qin Mufeng, but it was also a brave general, and for a while, the green battalion soldiers could not enter at all, but were stabbed to death by Wei Wei several times in a row.
At this time, there are more and more soldiers on the ladder to the head of the city, more than a dozen people jumped into the city, and began to assist Wei Wei to stabilize the situation, the space of more than ten zhang near the ladder has been completely controlled by the right town of Nanjing, even if the green battalion soldiers gather more and more, it is difficult to drive the soldiers of the right town of Nanjing off the city!
"It's over!"
Du Gao and Duan Pixian's hearts flipped fiercely, today is completely finished, and Texas City can't be saved......