Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 246
After a vigorous artillery battle, the Tartars in Hangzhou were finally afraid.

The governor took the governor to run away in the middle of the night, and took away all the Manchurian adults in the city, not one left.Tian Xiong scolded his mother angrily, and wanted to leave, but he didn't dare.

Only one person can carry it all.

Fortunately, the Ming army did not bombard them indiscriminately after the fierce artillery returned fire.

Next, the usual siege preparations resumed, and continued to build siege equipment such as ladders, rush cars, and shield cars. Over there, they continued to dig trenches and build walls, and were ready to start filling the moat.

Although Zhang Cunren's breakout in the middle of the night was a little sudden, if Zhu Yihai hadn't ordered them to let go and let them run, it would have been difficult for them to break through.

It's just that Zhu Yihai didn't want to fight hard with these guys who wanted to escape, and the battle between trapped beasts was still very fierce. Some people abandoned the city and fled, which would actually help to break down the fighting spirit of the defenders in the city.

Besides, highlighting Hangzhou City doesn't mean they can really leave safely.

After running away from the governor, the city of Hangzhou was more and more afraid to go out to fight. Tian Xiong patrolled the city defense with a knife every day, and he didn't dare to relax day and night, but he didn't dare to go out of the city at all. died.

This is to be a tortoise when you are determined, and wait for reinforcements.

There were too few defenders in the city, so Tian Xiong ordered each household in the city to send out a man to help defend the city.

After several days of continuous closure of the city, there was a food shortage in Hangzhou.

Originally, an important town like Hangzhou was mainly based on industry and commerce. Like Susong, Jiangning and other important towns in the south of the Yangtze River, the local area is actually not self-sufficient in food. Most of the surrounding fields are either vegetables or cash crops such as mulberry. Dacheng, on the contrary, relies entirely on the supply of food from outside.

As early as a long time ago, because the city of Hangzhou required taxes and donations for the grain in the city, many grain merchants stockpiled grain in Tangqi Town outside the city of Hangzhou, which could save a lot of taxes and fees.

Therefore, Hangzhou, like Susong and other big cities, usually only has a few days of food in the city. If there is no food in the city for several consecutive days, the price of food in the city will rise immediately.

Every time there is a flood and drought in the south of the Yangtze River, the price of food in Susong, Ninghang, and other big cities in the south of the Yangtze River will rise sharply, which is the reason.

There is food in Hangzhou, but it is outside the city.

Hangzhou also has money, but the problem is that now the city is closed, and even if you have money, you can't buy food.

There are a lot of people in Hangzhou.

The governor, governor and inspector of the provincial capital, even the chief envoy and the inspector, all ran away, and even the Taoist officials such as observing the division and inspecting the salt law, and a magistrate became the highest civil affairs officer.

Tian Xiong asked Zhu Guofan for military rations.

"Junmen, there is no grain in the city of Hangzhou, and the grain is in Tangqi Town. For many years, the grain merchants have stored the grain in the warehouse there to save a small amount of money. Who would have expected that now... ·”

Zhu Guofan spread his hands.

"If you want food now, you have to ask the army to lead troops to Tangqi to get it yourself."

Tian Xiong stared at Zhu Guofan, and felt a dull pain in the part of his neck that was bitten by Emperor Hongguang before. It was painful and itchy, which made him very uncomfortable.

"If I can leave Hangzhou, what do you need to say?"

"If you can't go to Tangqi to get food, then the lower officials will not be able to get food."

Tian Xiong glared at him, "My soldiers guarding the city and fighting, still hungry? You immediately send people to the city to collect food, and all the food collected will be distributed by the government."

"Junmen, those who have food in the city are also rich gentry, don't offend them easily."

"When is it? Don't offend big gentry easily? Go check it out, and anyone who has food will be levied. If you refuse to pay, tell me, and I will send troops to fetch it." Tian Xiong was murderous. If there is no food, they can't Wait until Zhang Cunren returns with reinforcements.

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Huzhou.

Zhang Quan, the commander-in-chief of Yongwei Town, received the order of supervising the country in Tianmu Mountain, and immediately summoned the officers of the standard association battalions of Yongwei Town, as well as the Huzhou battalion soldiers of Zhejiang Town and the officers of the regiment training armed forces.

"Jian Guo is besieging Hangzhou City, and has already fought with the Tartars."

Although it is in the mountains, Zhang Quan's conditions are not bad. Although the county seat of Huzhou is now in the hands of the Tartars, the countryside of Huzhou is controlled by Yongwei Town and Tuanlian. Not only Huzhou, Yongwei Town has now penetrated into the Guangde, Ningguo and other places in the east.

Zhang Quan, the commander-in-chief of the imperial battalion, not only directly leads the elite of the imperial battalion in a town, but also has several Zhejiang town battalions below him to listen to orders, and there are many regiments in various counties and townships. The son occupies the county seat and several big towns, but usually dare not go out of the city at all.

Yongwei Town occupied the township, suppressed bandits and quelled chaos, organized soldiers to practice martial arts in the village, trained regiments to practice, set up checkpoints everywhere, and collected lijin. Army green battalion, life is sad.

"Zhejiang governor Zhang Cunren and governor Xiao Qiyuan of the Tartars were afraid of the power of the state. They ran away in the middle of the night, leaving Tian Xiong there to support them. Now they are heading north. We can't let these two bastards pass through our defense zone, we must stop them .”

Jin Gongyu, the commander-in-chief of Huzhou, immediately stood up when he heard the sound, "Jian Guoqin proposed a large army to besiege Hangzhou. This is the time for a counterattack. We have a strong army here, how can we sit idly by? I suggest not only stopping these two thieves, but also taking the opportunity to attack them." The prefectures and counties will be recovered in one fell swoop, and cooperate with Jian Guo's offensive."

Bo Xiangfu, deputy commander of the Huzhou battalion, generals Zhu Hongyu, Zhao Liangbi and other strong generals also agreed loudly. They are natives of Huzhou, and they hope to restore their hometown as soon as possible more than anyone else.

Metropolitan Supervisor Shen Wenzhong nodded, "Jianguo asked us Yongwei Town to develop activities in Guangde, Huzhou, and Ningguo. We don't need us to go south to Hangzhou to fight, but we really can't be idle. If we want to fight this time, we will turn him upside down. Brother We have been reorganizing and training during this period of time, and we have been recharging our energy for a long time, and now we just pull it out for a walk to see the results of the training."

Yongwei Town uses Tianmu Mountain as its base, and has been developing here for a few months. Now it has enough soldiers and food. Tens of thousands. After staying in the country for so long, I always wanted to attack the town.

"Multiple groups don't take them at night, find Zhang Cunren and others' escape route to the north, and find a favorable position. Let's mobilize people to ambush. This is a big fish. If we can take it, it will be a great achievement."

Shen Wenzhong, a once down-and-out beggar scholar, has been staying here as the capital supervisor during this period of time, continuing to partner with Zhang Quan.After experiencing the Northern Expedition and staying behind, he is no longer the scholar he was at the beginning, and even Zhang Quan admires him very much.

When suppressing bandits and attacking the Qing army several times, this prisoner always went into battle with his sword.

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After Zhang Cunren and his party broke out of Hangzhou at night, they ran all the way north. They did not walk along the canal. The canal has not been very safe for the past few months. , Relying on Taihu Lake, haunted and haunted, it is very unsafe to walk the canal.

They went directly to Huzhou, intending to go to the west bank of Huzhou and go straight to Jiangning via Changxing Yixing.

This road is a plain, a flat river.

More than 1000 people ran very fast, not daring to stop all the way.

After entering Huzhou, Zhang Cunren was still very anxious. There are rivers and lakes everywhere here, making it difficult for Zhang Cunren to speed up, which made him very anxious.

He didn't know why the situation suddenly deteriorated like this.

How long has Boluo been gone? Why is the situation so bad that he wants to abandon the city?

But the reality is there, Zhu Yihai's tens of thousands of horses are not a mob, looking at the green battalion that will never lose to him, let alone the cannons set up by the other party, bombarding the top of Hangzhou City, although it did not blow down the city wall , but Zhang Cunren was General Guan Ning back then.

On the front line of Guanning, both the Guanning army and the Qing army had many artillery pieces. He was very aware of the power of the red cannons, and no matter how hard the city wall was, they could not withstand the bombardment for too long.

Unless there are enough soldiers and horses, a decisive victory outside the city can be achieved. If you expect to be safe in the fortified city, it is a dream.

Just because he knew this, he ran away very decisively.

Along the way, he has been thinking about it, how did he get to this point?

In the end, I summed up a few points. First, he was careless. Since Zhu Yihai had always focused on defense in Qiantang Jiangnan, and hadn't even launched an offensive, they didn't pay much attention to Lu Jianguo in Shaoxing.

The other one is Yuhang, the breakthrough point this time. There was no warning at all. Previously, they had repeatedly competed for Fuyang, Lin'an and other cities, but they were all small troubles and never threatened Hangzhou.

This time, they suddenly went all the way to the city of Hangzhou without any warning. It can only be said that there was a big problem with the green battalion defenders in Yuhang.Of course, this may also be related to the serious smuggling over there.

In addition, he felt that the soldiers in Hangzhou were too scattered. After Boluo left, the green battalion in Zhejiang had not been fully reorganized, especially after the two capable officials, Yan Wogong and Li Yuchun, left. West's strength.

The bandits and rebels in Jiahu and other places before made them send a few troops to sweep up the encirclement and suppression, which further weakened the guarding force of Hangzhou.

In the end, such a result was formed. I thought that there were hundreds of large and small artillery pieces in Hangzhou City, plus a few thousand city guards, and then there were five or six thousand soldiers and horses outside the city, adding up to tens of thousands of green battalions. It was enough. .What's more, Huzhou and Jiaxing also have soldiers from the Two Associations.

Of course, the most important point is that everyone misjudged Nalu Jianguo. No one would have thought that he had integrated so many troops and even possessed so many artillery. I didn't know anything before, and I have to say it was a serious intelligence dereliction of duty.

This situation seemed to bring him back to the Songjin war.

He comforted himself in his heart, went to Jiangning to borrow troops, and then came back to wipe them out and make atonement.

There was another lake in front of him blocking the way, so Zhang Cunren had to stop and sent people to search for ships nearby.

Looking at the patch of reeds touching the sky, Zhang Cunren was very annoyed. This Jiangnan water town is such a troublesome place. "Rest on the spot, and leave immediately across the river as soon as you find a boat. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time."

The more than a thousand people and horses who had been galloping all day and night were also very tired. After hearing the order, they all began to rest on the spot, drinking water for the horses and eating dry food.

"call out!"

Suddenly an arrow shot out from the reeds and knocked down a Qing soldier.

Immediately afterwards, more feathered arrows were shot out.

Tartar screamed.

"Ambush, there is an ambush!"

There was panic everywhere, and Zhang Cunren, who was resting on the ground with his eyes closed, got up in fright, and saw countless arrow feathers shooting out of the reeds.

"Get closer, gather."

"Fight!"

Zhang Cunren quickly drew his sword in his hand and shouted orders.

For a moment, I didn't know how many ambushes there were. The wind blew across the reeds, as if the grass and trees were all soldiers.

Zhang Cunren commanded the soldiers to gather together, he quickly calmed down, gritted his teeth with a ferocious face, anyone wants to come and beat me?

Is it true that a tiger is a sick cat if it does not show its power?
"Shields are in front, spears are in the back, and the rest are bowstrings, kill!"

Faced with the sudden ambush, Zhang Cunren did not run away in a panic, but showed his true colors as a titan, quickly gathered his troops, and charged towards the ambushing Ming army!
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