Lord of Ming Dynasty

"Decree that Zhou Porridge will take eight hundred soldiers to suppress the rebellion and take back the west gate. He must guard the west gate. At the same time, he ordered the supervisors of the county government and the officials of the defense project to speed up the progress, close all the roads leading to the west gate, and set up more obstacles. When necessary, we can tear down the houses on the whole street, and keep Jinhua at all costs."

Zhang Qiang shouted to the servant who asked for instructions.

"Yes, my lord."

The servant immediately ran away and took a few attendants to deliver the order. These attendants were all riding horses. There were about seventy or eighty such people in the city. There was no need for cavalry to fight in the city, and they could only be used as messengers.

Zhang Qiang glanced at it, feeling still uneasy, he beckoned, and a servant who followed him attached himself, Zhang Qiang said: "What's your name?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Wei Wuji, the villain, was previously the Xiaoqi of the Jinhua Guard, and the messenger of Lord Baihu."

"Well, I will promote you to the head of a hundred households, and take five of my guards and the warrant of my vice-commander of the rebel army to patrol the east gate and west gate, and collect people along the way. How many people you can gather depends on your ability. Now, once there is a change in the east gate, you will guard Hu Kui and the others to retreat to the county government office, and call the people to cut off the road from the east gate to the county government office and the government office, and leave a passage from here to Zhu's mansion. If other places Don’t be in a hurry, go to the north gate to guard, take over the soldiers there, you must stand up to me, if you can’t do anything, you can retreat to Zhu’s mansion, defend Zhu’s mansion, and at the same time repair the fortifications of Zhu’s mansion.”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Zhang Qiang nodded with a gloomy face, and said coldly, "Go!"

Chapter 20 Another Defeat to the Enemy

Zhu's backyard.

"Miss, miss,"

"Well, Xiancui, why are you here?"

"Will Daddy let me out?"

Zhu Panpan lay on his back in the crack of the gate and looked at the maid dressed in pink outside.

"No, miss, the master is busy in the city right now and has no time to take care of you. Tweety is here to bring you some food. These are the snacks some aunts ordered for you from the kitchen. It's a bit cold, but at present the whole city and the whole house are The people here are very busy, I went out to have a look, the refugees outside, the common people are almost starved to death, no one has a bite to eat, I think you have been locked here for several hours, no water has entered, ask A few aunts will bring you something to eat, eat quickly!"

"Tweety, thank you,"

"It's all that ambitious guy who came out of nowhere. He called himself His Majesty and charmed my father. My father has been shrewd all his life. He didn't know what he did this time. He actually called such a guy his master. The Zhu family is unfortunate. , has always been loyal to the imperial court, but at this time he betrayed and shamed the ancestors, alas——————”

"Miss, Miss, Tweety doesn't know about important family and country affairs, but since Miss thinks that someone is unknown and hates someone, Tweety also hates it, but she can't stop eating or drinking, no, if something happens to Miss, Tweety How can I feel at ease, why don't you eat something, Miss?"

Zhu Panpan wiped away his tears, "Tui'er, I'm not hungry, let me out quickly, I thought of a place to escape, as long as we escape, we can go around to the north gate, from Beishan to Fuzhou, let's go to the emperor Go ahead and expose this villain's demagogy to my father, and let the imperial court issue an order to arrest him."

"But Miss, Tweet dare not let you go out. There are guards here. Although Huzi let me in, I dare not make things difficult for Huzi. If the master finds out, it was Tweet who let Miss go out. Not only Tweet will suffer Huzi will be punished by the master. Miss, you know Huzi is a good person. In this case, the master will definitely kill Huzi. Besides, I heard that the enemy has surrounded Jinhua, and it is difficult for us to escape. Said, if it falls into the hands of the enemy, the lady's chastity will not be guaranteed, and I'm afraid it will embarrass the master."

"Tui'er, who do you listen to?" Zhu Panpan asked coldly.

"Tui'er is Miss' maid, so of course she listens to Miss." Xian Cui replied softly.

"But Miss, I..."

Zhu Panpan comforted in a low voice: "Tui'er, go and call Huzi here. If it doesn't work, we will take Huzi with you. You know Huzi's skills. We are safer with him. The passage I know is mine. Father had already thought about it before, that he could go directly to Beishan outside the city without detours."

"This—" Tweety was in a dilemma.

"Tweety,"

"Okay ma'am."

"Miss, you eat first."

After finishing speaking, Tweety stuffed a plate of her own dim sum from under the chapel door.

NPC Zhu Dadian doesn't care about them. NPC Zhu Dadian is dressed in Mingguang armor, holding a long knife, and leading his servants to kill from left to right. Facing the servants of the country gentry and the descendants of the Ming army pouring in from the west gate, they fought bloody battles.

In other places, the soldiers of the rebels were either fleeing or resisting with all their might. Seen from a height, there were more and more enemies and fewer and fewer rebels, and the pressure was not normal.

In the other direction, the southwestern city wall collapsed again, and all the defenders on it were blown up to the sky, but the rebel soldiers who survived were buried in the ruins.

The Qing army swarmed up, cleaned up these wounded rebel soldiers neatly, and then rushed to Zhang Qiang's parapet.

With a distance of forty steps, both parties could clearly see each other's face.

The archers in the Qing army and the archers behind the chest shot arrows and javelins at each other. As the number increased, the infantrymen began to charge towards the chest with their shields. This time they were more orderly, and some rushed to the chest. Towards the collapsed city wall, some rushed to the chest, and some rushed to both sides.

The gap opened by the Qing army this time is much larger than the original one, about 100 meters wide, and the 50-meter area can be passed directly. , attack the rebel soldiers on the city wall, and at the same time jump down to surround the rebel soldiers behind the parapet.

Some Qing troops rushed to both sides along the gap to seize the main gate and support the battle of the west gate.

The rebel soldiers on the first city wall fought and retreated, and formed a group with the Qing army in the passage.

Some of the terrified rebel soldiers ran to the simple gate of the second city wall, patting the gate and crying.

The rebels and civilians on the second city wall put down many ladders to meet those rebel soldiers.

It is very dangerous to do so, and it may cause the Qing army to climb up the second city wall along the ladder, but Zhang Qiang did not want to chill the rebel soldiers who had gone through the bloody battle on the first city wall, so he took the risk and ordered to respond, and the second city wall stood and spread out. The gunners who came, the gunners killed and wounded the Qing soldiers who were close to the city wall one by one, and tried their best to support the rebel soldiers who had fled back.

"preparation,"

Zhang Qiang held up the Ming army's waist knife and looked around. These Ming army veterans who used matchlocks bought by the Portuguese had panicked expressions on their faces, but they were better than those ordinary civilians. They didn't shoot in advance. , causing other soldiers to collapse and take the initiative to shoot.

"Let go" Zhang Qiang swung his waist knife heavily.

"bang bang bang"

In the dark night, the musketeers behind the parapet fired one after another, and sparks flickered one after another.

A neat row of guns gave heavy blows to the Qing soldiers at the gap. Dozens of Qing soldiers fell down clutching the bloody hole the size of a baby's fist on their chests without understanding the situation. The modern copper warhead is soft, but it also caused the Qing army at close range to be killed or injured, and suffered heavy losses. More importantly, the morale of the Qing army was low and it fell into a panic.

The Qing army in front, who were chasing and killing the volunteer soldiers who took the initiative to attack, was stunned for a moment, and then became confused, thinking about turning around and going back.

Behind Zhang Qiang, the gunners behind the second parapet continued to fire, and their bullets passed over the heads of their comrades on the first parapet, knocking down some Qing soldiers who rushed in front of the first parapet and fell to the ground. Thirty The distance is no more than [-] steps. This is the range of the firecrackers of the Ming army. Although the lethality is limited at a distance of [-] steps, it is still very lethal to those villagers who only wear cloth armor or cloth clothes. Yes, even the Jurchen Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners soldiers wearing three layers of armor have a considerable deterrent effect, making them move slowly and be careful of the bullets of the firecrackers.

The first round of shooting made the enemy panic, the soldiers who resisted in front fled back, and the surviving rebel soldiers on the wall got a chance to breathe and escape.

In the second round, the musketeers beside Zhang Qiang reloaded their bullets again and fired another round. The Qing army retreated with a clatter and crowded in the gap. Or fall off the wall, roll down the gap, and get hurt countless times.

Repeatedly, almost all the rebel soldiers fled back, most of them escaped to the second city wall, a few ran to the left and right, some ran to the chest, were intercepted, and joined the guards on the left and right sides of the first parapet.

After fighting for a quarter of an hour, the Qing army retreated, only the Jurchen Eight Banners on the city wall fought along the city wall towards the main gate wall and the east and west gates.

But at this moment, the first city wall already has thousands of warehouses and hundreds of holes, and it was bombed by the cannons of the Qing army outside the city and collapsed in many places.

Half an hour later, the enemy attacked again, and the first parapet was crumbling. The Musketeers had to hold up their muskets to fight with the enemy, but finally with the support of the second parapet, they repelled the enemy's attack again.

Chapter 21 A Wicked Plan

"Incompetent, shameless, coward" Boluo slashed and killed several siege generals who were kneeling in front of him, kicked the disfigured Li Chengdong, and shouted angrily, "Attack again".

"Master Baylor, we have suffered heavy losses, can we rest for two days before attacking the city?" A Mongolian Khan came out and asked.

Bo Luo said angrily: "I have never encountered such insults in the Qing Dynasty, and lost so many troops at once. Today I must destroy this city and kill all the resisting Han people."