Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 156
Tu Guobao retreated to the Qionglong Mountain in the western suburbs and set up camp. Fubiao's battalions quickly came back to meet up, but there was no news of Li Sutai's Eight Banners cavalry.

One of his hearts was raised higher and higher, and it was all in his throat.

"Have you found out which team entered Suzhou City?"

"Pseudo-Ming Jiangnan Admiral Zhu Wu, inspecting horses, saw him leading a large army into the city. More than [-] Ming troops entered the city. There are still many troops stationed in Wujiang, Tongli, Zhenyi and other peripheral areas. It is said that there are fake Ming troops everywhere. There are countless soldiers and horses, and there are no less than a hundred thousand people."

"Fart, the false admiral was beaten up by my father, Li Yuchun, in Jiaxing. Tens of thousands were captured and beheaded before and after, and there were tens of thousands who surrendered for security. He still doesn't know which lake, which mountain or which island he is hiding in. Now, can he turn beans into soldiers or not? Pay back a hundred thousand soldiers?"

Tu Guobao was furious.

Yang Guohai persuaded his uncle, "Uncle, I contacted a few salt sellers who came and went. They said that there are indeed many soldiers in Suzhou City now, more than [-], and the banner of Jiangnan Admiral has already been displayed."

Tu Guobao gritted his teeth and remained silent.

"Is it new soldiers from eastern Zhejiang? They came from the sea, and then gathered rebels from all over Songjiang and Kunshan?"

Tu Guobao's hair is dizzy, now there is no time to guess how Zhu Wu came here, and how he conjured up so many soldiers, but what should they do now, Taihu Lake is behind, Suzhou is in front, and now they have nowhere to go up.There has been no news of Li Sutai's Eight Banners soldiers, and they are already very unsafe here.

"If Zhu Wu really had an army of tens of thousands and took Suzhou by surprise, how could he let us go? I'm afraid he will attack the mountains soon!"

All the generals showed fear on their faces, the combined standard battalion only had more than a thousand men and horses, and they were already exhausted from fighting last night. Now that such a large army suddenly came out, they were completely defenseless.

There is neither a city to defend, nor food and supplies.

This Qionglong mountain is not a danger that one man should guard against and ten thousand men should not open.

But at this time, it was too late to withdraw. From Suzhou to the surrounding area, there are now people from this false admiral Zhu Wu.

"Everyone, be prepared to stand firm, and then send someone to find Li Sutai, and ask Jiang Ning for help!"

"I hope I can insist on the arrival of reinforcements!"

It's a pity that Tu Guobao's prayer didn't work. Soon, Ming army cavalry appeared at the foot of the mountain, and more and more soldiers and horses arrived.

Fortunately, it was completely dark at this time, which gave Tu Guobao and the others some more time. The Ming army at the foot of the mountain lit a bonfire and raised torches, divided the area and sealed off the mountain.

Seeing more and more torches, Tu Guobao and the others looked ashamed, so they had to order more than a thousand soldiers to also light torches, felling trees overnight, digging ditches and erecting fortifications, hoping to build a village by taking advantage of the terrain.

When it was dawn, the village only erected a few fence walls, and the felled branches were sharpened and inserted into the ground, barely erecting a line of defense. The time was too short and the sky was too dark, so there was no time to dig trenches or erect arrow towers. The walls of the village are too simple to withstand the impact, but something is better than nothing.

Tu Guobao stayed up all night, looking down the mountain, he was also cutting a wooden pile with a machete. He secretly hoped that the Ming army would not move so fast. The walls should be strengthened, a second wall built, some arrow towers erected, and some simple javelins made.

But the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was completely different from the one in his engraving. Before the sky was completely bright, the horns had already sounded at the foot of the mountain, and the Ming army actually began to besiege from all sides.

"Are you rushing to reincarnate, damn it?"

Tu Guobao cursed, angry and anxious.

At the foot of the mountain, Zhu Yihai, who had just eaten a few steamed buns, personally commanded the attack on the mountain.

"Looking up and attacking the mountain, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack."

"It's okay, let everyone practice and practice the tough battle."

Zhu Yihai looked at the simple and unremarkable stockade on the mountain, his face was very relaxed. At this time, there were three townsmen of Yulin, Yongwei, and Shenji. The mountain thought that the Ming army had come.

But in fact, Zhu Yihai sent Yuan Zongdi to take Jin Wuqi to sweep up the Qing army that slipped through the net outside Suzhou City, and took Wu Zhikui to gather the defeated soldiers of Huang and Wu.

Brothers Zhang Mingzhen and Zhang Mingyang took Shizhong and other troops to sweep out the outlying towns, and blocked the reinforcements from the Qing army at any time.

Ruan Jin, Zhu Chenggong, and Liu Kongzhao led the navy to transport the supplies, and transported the money and food in Suzhou to the islands in Taihu Lake or Yangcheng Lake by boat.

Shen Wenzhong, Ma Jixiang and others were in charge of leading troops to eliminate the traitors who surrendered inside and outside the city of Suzhou, cleared up traitors and ransacked their homes, and even opened warehouses to provide relief to the poor.

In short, there is a lively scene inside and outside the city of Suzhou. Zhu Yihai brought the three towns here to encircle the bidders. It was just to beat the children on a rainy day. The guy doesn't let them go down the mountain to make trouble. Of course, if they can successfully capture the mountain, it would be best to destroy this Fubiao.

Although they were not prepared to fight hard, they still had a surplus of soldiers. Even though most of the soldiers were recruits and lacked equipment and armor, there were only a thousand or so soldiers on the other side.

As soon as the battle started, the morale of the Ming army was very high, especially the deputy supervisors at all levels in the army. They joined the army with a heart of loyalty to serve the country, and many of them had revenge against the Tartars and puppet soldiers for killing their fathers and destroying their families, so when the battle started, they rushed faster than everyone else.

One by one shouted passionate battle cries, and even some talented gentlemen charged forward while reciting frontier poems.

That violent and fearless look greatly inspired the courage of the soldiers.

The Frangji gunners from Shenji Town brought the students of the Ming Army to push the cannons down the mountain, and skillfully built several forward artillery positions. Although the cannons are small, they are still cannons.

Just a little bit of fire and a loud bang can add fearless buffs to the Ming army, not to mention greatly fear and weaken the opponent's will.

"I never thought that this battle could be fought like this."

Yang Wencong was standing next to Zhu Yihai, still munching pancakes and green onions in his busy schedule, "We've come all the way, and we've been beaten like tartars everywhere."

Zhu Yihai smiled, "Having the initiative on the battlefield is very important. The best defense is actually offense."

Artillery, Gunners, Archers, Shield Soldiers.

The expected difficult scene of attacking the mountain did not appear. Amidst the rumbling guns, the rain of arrows rained down all over the sky, and the Ming army surrounded them on several sides, and countless soldiers and horses besieged them like ants.

Relying on the superior firepower suppression, they easily reached the simple wooden fence without any casualties.

Tu Guobao panicked.

Holding a shield in one hand and a big knife in the other, he ran and shouted, "I'll give my life to my mother's blood, let the hypocritical rebels rush in in one go, and we're all over."

Inspired by Tu Guobao, or intimidated by him, Yang Guohai, Zou Xixiang and other standard battalion generals also worked hard. They knew that they had a lot of blood and debts in their hands. If they were really defeated and captured, they would definitely end up miserable.

More than a thousand soldiers in Fubiao were all desperate, scrambling to plug the gap.

But Tu Guobao retreated quietly in the melee, followed by Yang Guohai and Zou Xixiang, two henchmen.

"I can't keep it." Yang Guohai said with a gray face.

"My lord, you have to withdraw quickly."

Tu Guobao knew very well that it was impossible to lead troops to break through the encirclement now, and what the two said undoubtedly meant that he should abandon the desperate soldiers on the battlefield and escape alone.

"There is a section of cliff at the back of the mountain. Without the siege of the Ming army, we can climb down with ropes."

Tu Guobao looked at the Ming army who were still surrounding him, and nodded cruelly to the two of them.

There was a fierce battle on the mountain.

The simple fence was cut one place after another, but the crazy soldiers quickly filled it up again.

Dead bodies littered the field in no time before the fence, but Fubiao only had more than a thousand people after all, while the Ming army had three towns with nearly 2 horses, covered by artillery gunners. Zhu Yihai also paid attention to the rhythm, letting the three towns attack in turn, not Eager to fight hard.

Seeing from the morning until the sun is approaching the sky.

I don't know who suddenly yelled, "Master Futai is gone!"

"Deputy General Zou is also missing."

"Yang Guerzilla is gone too."

The voice became more and more flustered, and finally filled with anger and unwillingness.

Emotions run across the battlefield, and they know they've been abandoned.

After half a day of bloody battles by the Ming army, there were more than a thousand bidders, and at this time there were less than [-] left, and the corpses were piled up in front of the fence to form a wall.

The remaining [-] people were all exhausted and most of them were injured.

Seeing that the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was still on the offensive, everyone was in despair.

Inspired by Tu Guobao before, and with fear of the Ming army, they fought back crazily, but now they found out that Tu Guobao abandoned everyone and ran away, and they became even more desperate.

Many people even completely collapsed.

Originally, it was all hanging by a breath.

But now, with the escape of Tu Guobao and others, this anger has been completely vented.

Many people simply stopped resisting.

Someone yelled to surrender.

There was chaos on the mountain.

Some surrendered, some were still resisting, and some fell to the ground in despair.

It was like the straw that broke the camel's back.

Fubiao crashed.

Several large openings were smashed into the simple wall in an instant, but this time, no one was desperate to plug it.

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"Your Highness, Tu Guobao and the deputy general of the Chinese army and the Zuoying guerrilla fled in the chaos. They escaped by climbing ropes from the cliff of the back mountain. I have already sent troops to chase them."

After hearing this, Zhu Yihai couldn't help admiring the ability of this national treasure to escape. Could this earth running away be a descendant of Tu Xingsun?Still understand the method of earth escape?
"If you find out, you will be executed immediately," Zhu Yihai said.

The battle on the mountain was over. After Fubiao collapsed, the simple camp was quickly broken by the Ming army. Nearly 800 Fubiao were killed, and more than [-] were killed in battle, and about [-] were captured and surrendered in the end.

In this battle, Zhu Yihai used more than 1 horsemen from the three towns of the imperial guards to take turns to attack the fortifications. It took half a day, and more than 300 people died in the battle, and he won the battle.

The only regret is that Tu Guobao and others ran away.

"How to deal with these surrendered soldiers?" Yang Wencong asked.

Zhu Yihai was also a little embarrassed for a while.

(End of this chapter)