I want to be emperor

Chapter 140 Seize the City and Raise the Flag
Originally, four chapters and [-] words were updated today, and I thought it was enough. I wanted to save this chapter for tomorrow’s update, but I wrote it well, good guy, there is an extra hall master (familiar eyes), yes, add more Bar……

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After Huang Dingquan and Xu Zhixian arrived at the West Gate, they briefly met with Wang Xiazi and Li Dongshao, and quickly finalized the next battle plan.

Subsequent battles in the city, including tasks such as capturing other city gates and important places in the city, will be fully handed over to the First Infantry Brigade.

The cavalry brigade no longer continued to enter the city, but garrisoned at the west gate with the personal barracks to ensure that the west gate was not lost.

If the light cavalry of the cavalry brigade entered the city, they would be used as ordinary light armored infantry at most, and they would not be as good as the elite infantry in the [-]st Infantry Battalion when fighting on foot.

Furthermore, the two hundred in the cavalry brigade are proficient in cavalry and archery, and the elite cavalry who fight on horseback are very valuable. Usually, blind Wang even reluctantly leads them to charge and fight, and most of the time they fight with cavalry and archery.

If there were too many casualties in the scuffle after entering the city, both Xiazi Wang and Luo Zhixue in the rear would be heartbroken to death.

As for the more than 50 people left in the pro-barracks, they contributed a lot in this battle, and their losses were not small. Now there are only more than 50 people left in total, and these people have gone through a tragic fight. They need to be relieved. Slow down, you can't use it to your death, no.

After finalizing the battle plan, the sky has begun to brighten at this time!
The pre-dawn darkness is over and the sky is about to begin to light up!
And on the gate tower of the west city gate, a yellow triangular flag with the word "protect" was also erected, and the big "bao" in the middle was very conspicuous.

At the same time, Huang Dingquan also led more than 1000 people from the [-]st Infantry Battalion and the [-]th Infantry Battalion to kill towards the south gate. He wanted to gather superior forces and Suddenly wiped out hundreds of enemy troops in the south gate, then went straight to the east gate, and wiped out hundreds of enemy troops in the east gate as well.

The west city gate, east city gate, and south city gate are all city gates facing the land, and there are supporting military camps and sub-forts stationed in them, with hundreds of troops stationed there.

These troops are also a relatively elite group of guards in the city's defenders, and there are many soldiers among them, otherwise they would not have been arranged to garrison these three strategic locations.

Now that the defenders of the west gate have been defeated, as long as the defenders of the east gate and south gate are defeated one after another, the strength of the defenders in the city can be said to have lost [-]% to [-]%. The Ming army could no longer turn the tide.

Huang Dingquan led two infantry battalions to attack the south gate and east gate, while Xu Zhixian, the chief of staff of the Xiangyang campaign, led the third infantry battalion of the headquarters to enter the city and went straight to the prefect's yamen, trying to conquer the prefect in the first time Yamen, killing or capturing the magistrate Tang Xianyue and other officials in the magistrate's yamen, directly took over the high-level command system of the Ming army in the city.

If Tang Xianyue, the magistrate, was lost and commanded, the generals of the other Ming armies would have no command at all, and it would be impossible to figure out what happened in a short time.

Xu Zhixian led the [-]rd Infantry Battalion of his headquarters all the way into the urban area. Along the way, he encountered many scattered Ming troops. Some of them were rout soldiers who retreated from the West Gate, and some of them received orders to reinforce the West Gate or had other tasks in a panic. Ming army.

However, when they encountered Xu Zhixian's troops, without exception, they either turned around and fled, or surrendered on the spot.

Xu Zhixian didn't pay attention to those soldiers who turned around and fled. He didn't even pay attention to those who surrendered on the spot along the way.

Now that time is running out, and his troops are limited, it is impossible to leave too many people to receive prisoners of war...

The soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Battalion, who stayed behind to accept the prisoners of war, also became more and more flustered. It was okay at the beginning, but they only accepted dozens of surrendered soldiers.

But soon, this number broke through to 100 people...

This is not over yet, after just a moment of effort, the number of prisoners accepted by their team of 30 has exceeded 500!

There are only 30 people guarding more than 500 prisoners of war, and they themselves are very panicked!
In order to avoid turmoil among the prisoners of war, they not only confiscated the weapons and armor of the surrendered soldiers, but also asked the prisoners to tie their hands with belts.

He even connected them in series, tied them in a string and lay them all on the ground!
A young soldier of the Township Protection Army with a very immature face patrolled vigilantly, and at the same time shouted from time to time: "Be honest!"

"You are not allowed to get up, but if you get up, you will be killed on the spot. I have killed too many officers and soldiers with my sword, and I don't care about killing a few more."

"If one person escapes, if the team does not stop him, the whole team will kill him!"

The soldiers of the Rural Protection Army focused their attention on patrolling. It wasn't just that they were nervous. In fact, the prisoners were even more nervous. They were afraid that the bandits would stab them with a spear if they shook their hands.

No, a prisoner of war was very uncomfortable because there was a stone on the ground where he was lying on the ground. He moved his body a little and wanted to change his position to lie on his stomach. He heard a bald bandit next to him shout: "Don't move, don't move!" move!"

As he said this, he trotted over with the gun stabbed in his hand.

The startled prisoner immediately lay down and shouted, "I didn't move, I didn't move!"

The words were extremely flustered, even with a crying voice: "Woo, don't kill me, I really didn't move."

"It's just that there are stones on the ground. I want to move a place, but I don't want to run away."

And the other dozen or so surrendered soldiers who were tied up in series with him also looked nervous, and the few surrendered soldiers who were close lay tightly on the ground, not daring to move, and shouted at the same time: "Quickly lay down for me, Who the hell dares to touch me, I will beat him to death."

After a while of panic, the soldier of the Township Protection Army looked at the group of people nervously, and shouted: "Be honest, I will do it directly next time."

Only 30 people guarded more than 500 people, and there were more and more prisoners of war, which put every soldier in this team under tremendous psychological pressure.

Even though the sky was getting brighter and brighter, it didn't make them relax much.

As for Xu Zhixian in the front, he didn't know that the soldiers of a small team under his command were under tremendous psychological pressure, and now he had led his troops to the magistrate's yamen.

As soon as he approached, a bow and arrow shot out from the magistrate's yamen, Xu Zhixian waved his hand immediately: "The rifles go forward and fire, the armored team is ready."

Following the direct fire from three [-]-jin cannons, the gate of the magistrate's yamen was smashed to pieces, and there was a scream from inside. It was obvious that someone was hiding behind the gate and was killed by the artillery.

Immediately afterwards, dozens of soldiers in armor rushed straight up from the broken gate, and more soldiers followed into it.

As the soldiers of the third infantry battalion rushed in, screams came from inside, but the screams didn't last long, and stopped after only a moment.

Soon a whistle chief came out and said: "Qi report to the battalion commander, the inside has been fully controlled, and all officials below the magistrate have been captured."

Xu Zhixian said: "Okay, quickly assemble the team, leave a team of guards, and the rest follow me to the next place."

Xu Zhixian led the [-]rd Infantry Battalion to rampage in the urban area. First, they captured the magistrate's yamen, and then entered a garrison barracks in the city. After a little resistance, the soldiers simply surrendered and became prisoners.

On the other side, Huang Dingquan led the [-]st Infantry Battalion and the [-]th Infantry Battalion to the south gate. After all, the Ming army here was a little better prepared, and at one time they fought stubbornly under the leadership of more than a hundred soldiers.

But they had few troops and poor equipment. More importantly, the city was in chaos. A guerrilla general of the Ming army who was in charge of guarding the south gate didn't even know where the bandits entered the city from or how many people entered the city.

He led more than a hundred soldiers under his command and hundreds of guards to resist for a while. After dozens of people were killed or injured under his command, he saw that the situation was over. He immediately put down the drawbridge and went out of the city, directly leading a few elites under his command to flee.

After some remnants of the south gate fled, Huang Dingquan did not lead his troops to pursue them. Instead, he put away the suspension bridge again, leaving a sentry to guard and then continued to fight towards the east gate with his troops.

At this time, the South City Gate, like the West City Gate, erected the yellow triangular Baozi flag unique to the Rural Protection Army.

When Huang Dingquan reached the East City Gate, Huang Dingquan and the others did not meet the actual combat power, because the Ming army at the East City Gate had more time to collect information. The army already knew that the thieves entered the city from the west gate. The number of thieves entering the city was unknown, but at least a few thousand.

At the same time, I also know that the prefect's yamen has been breached, and the military camp in the city has also been destroyed.

As for the South City Gate, no need to inquire about the news to know that it must be over.

Under such circumstances, when they saw Huang Dingquan and the others, they didn't even resist, and ran out of the city directly under the leadership of a general.

At the east gate, the yellow triangular flag of the rural protection army was also erected.

After watching the enemy run away, Huang Dingquan was relieved.

It's a good thing that the enemy ran away. If he relied on the city gate to resist, he would still spend time and pay a certain amount of casualties. Even if he could win in the end, he would still suffer some casualties.

However, how far can the enemies who escaped from the south gate and east gate escape?

Huang Dingquan immediately said to the messenger: "Tell Commander Wang about the situation at the south gate and east gate, and let him decide whether to send troops to pursue them."

"Leave a sentry to garrison here, and the other troops will follow me to continue to attack the big and small north gates, and seize the pier. The ships on the pier cannot be allowed to escape."

The area around the North City Gate, because it is close to the river, is where the wharf of Xiangyang City is located. There are a large number of ships moored on the wharf, and these ships are also urgently needed by the rural protection army. It can be used for the transportation of luggage in Hanshui and Baihe, and the dispatch of troops.

In addition, it is also to avoid the dignitaries in the city from taking a large amount of gold and silver to take a boat and run away.

This city of Xiangyang has already been taken by them, and the large amount of gold and silver in the city will become their spoils of war, and in the future will become the military pay and weapons and equipment of the rural protection army.

Therefore, it is absolutely impossible to let a large number of high-ranking officials and nobles run out with a large amount of gold and silver in the chaos.

The operation at the North City Gate was also relatively smooth. There were even fewer officers and soldiers here, and they were not determined to resist. The officers and soldiers surrendered on the spot.

When the first ray of sunlight appeared on the horizon, a yellow triangular Baozi flag was also raised at the North City Gate.

By this time, the four main city gates plus one small north gate of Xiangyang City had been completely captured by the Xiangyang Army. The yellow triangular Baozi flag of the Xiangyang Army was waving in the wind in the morning sun!
Xiangyang City belongs to the Township Protection Army from now on!

At this time, Xu Zhixian also took the remaining troops of the Fourth Infantry Battalion to kill his last target, which was also the last stubborn place in the city: Prince Xiang's Mansion!

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