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Chapter 205: The sword will not be put down for ten days!

outside the city.

"God help the Qing Dynasty!"

Bai Yintu, the nephew of Yezhupi and the first-class general, looked at the fire in Yangzhou City excitedly.

He was responsible for attacking Anjiangmen.

However, there was a canal between Anjiang Gate and Chaoguan Gate. Although there was a floating bridge, it was extremely inconvenient for the Qing army, so they did not attack Chaoguan Gate, but only sent cavalry to patrol the east bank. In fact, it was useless. Yangzhou City was too big and surrounded by water networks. Although it was frozen, it was not thick enough. The cavalry was severely restricted in this environment. In addition, there were Ming troops in places east of Yangzhou, including Guazhou, especially Guazhou, and even cavalry. The Qing army was basically a warning to the east of the canal.

But tonight, a surprise came out of the blue. Something unexpected happened in the city.

Gunshots.

Fire.

There were even explosions.

He didn't even have time to wait for Ajige's order and directly ordered his troops to raid Chaoguan Gate.

Even if we can't take it down, the current situation in the city is worth a try.

Yangzhou!
Countless gold, silver and treasures are waiting for you in the city!
"boom!"

Another explosion was heard.

"Kill, open Yangzhou, and don't put down your sword for ten days!"

He roared excitedly.

Behind him, in the moonlight, countless cavalrymen were galloping forward like a flood, and on the vaguely visible pontoon bridge in the distance, more cavalrymen were still rushing past, and even in the direction of the farther military camp, a large number of moving flames could be seen.

But at the same time, a flash of fire appeared on the wall of Anjiangmen, and the next moment a cannonball whizzed in.

The heavy artillery shells penetrated the Qing army behind him directly. Because they were too dense, more than a dozen cavalrymen fell down with their horses in the impact of the shells. This was a giant siege cannon there, but it was put on the city wall for defense. And then more fire flashed, and then more shells fell. Anjiang Gate was only two miles away from Chaoguan Gate. Although the heavy artillery could not use shotgun shells and was beyond the aiming distance, it was still very effective against the densely charged Qing army.

The shells that fell from time to time continuously blew away broken limbs and arms among the Qing army.

"Kill, I won't put down my sword for ten days!"

Baiyintu continued to howl.

Behind them were countless howlings like hungry wolves.

Then his horse stepped onto the Chaoguan floating bridge, but at this time he also discovered that there was no fire on the city wall...

Before he could understand what was happening, the gate of the city wall opposite suddenly opened.

A group of people walked out.

He didn't slow down at all and rushed forward.

Those people were so scared that they quickly separated and knelt down on both sides without hesitation. One of them was a guy who looked very rich. He lay on the ground with his back straight, with a flattering smile on his face, and was still saying something to him. Bai Yintu, who didn't hear the content at all, stretched out the knife in his hand, and relied on the speed of the galloping warhorse to pass in front of him at high speed in an instant.

The man's smile froze.

He knelt there in astonishment, and the next moment blood spurted from his neck.

Without even looking at him, Baiyintu rushed straight into the city wall.

The Qing army behind him rushed into the city gate without any hesitation amid the chaos of those people. Holding the reins in one hand and the sword in the other, they stretched out their arms and swords to the side, and relied on the speed of their horses to easily cut the throats of these people and passed by them in a spurt of blood.

Baiyintu also entered the main city gate in the blink of an eye. There, a man with a rat-tail was yelling at the defenders to kneel down to greet him. Behind these defenders, there were more people and soldiers who were at a loss. Baiyintu still did not slow down, and rushed into Yangzhou with the Qing army behind him that was pouring in like a torrent...

"The general is me, one of us, the governor of Jiangnan, Huang Shu."

Huang Shu screamed in fright.

The knife that almost cut his neck finally deflected to the side.

"General, these are to welcome the royal division. Hurry to the Little East Gate."

Huang Shu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said as he looked at Wang Yanshang and others who were getting up and running away in fear.

Baiyintu didn't say anything, but looked at the silk and satin on the street in front of him. This area is full of salt merchants' luxury residential areas. From Chaoguan Gate to Xuning Gate, and then to the street eastward from Xiaodong Gate, the whole area is full of salt merchants. The new city is also divided into sections. The area close to the old city wall inside, that is, the left side of this street to the old city wall is all commercial areas, while the poor coolies live in the northeast area. So this area is equivalent to the middle of the CBD and the luxury residential area in Yangzhou City. Of course, those who were forced out by the fire are salt merchants and their families, all of whom are covered with silk and satin.

Jewels...

When hiding from a fire, of course you should take your most valuable things with you.

Many people were holding jewelry boxes in their arms!
Baiyintu turned around and saw his men behind him with red eyes, anxiously crowding forward like a group of man-eating wolves.

"kill!"

he shouted.

Then he stabbed Huang Shu.

When Huang Shu turned his head, he knew something was wrong. He lowered his head as quickly as possible and pulled Hou Fangyu next to him. Before the latter could react, Bai Yintu's knife slashed across. Fortunately, it did not cut his neck, but only cut off a piece of his scalp.

Amidst Hou Fangyu's screams, Bai Yintu rushed forward without paying any attention to the rest...

"General, General, we are here to welcome the royal division."

"General, we are obedient citizens!"

……

Wang the Salt Merchant and others ran and screamed.

However, it was useless. An old salt merchant had just run two steps when his neck was cut by a cavalryman who passed by. He covered his neck in fear, but could not stop the blood from gushing out. Then he knelt on the ground and was knocked over and trampled by another cavalryman. The salt merchants and their families on the street were all screaming and running away like crazy. Some people knelt down and shouted that they knew the Qing generals. There were also those who were willing to donate silver. One salt merchant even shouted that he was the man of the King of Pingxi. But everything was meaningless. In the eyes of the crazy killing Qing army, they were all the same.

King Pingxi’s men?
Does your silver also carry the name of King Pingxi?
No matter who you belong to, let alone the King of Pingxi, you belong to Prince Rui. If we kill you, the money will be ours.

There’s a language barrier!

We didn't hear what you said in the chaos, and you don't have a golden rat tail on your head. Everyone in the enemy's city is an enemy and can be killed. Anyway, no one will investigate afterwards. Ajige had already ordered to open Yangzhou and not to stop fighting for ten days. Everyone fought desperately just for this sentence. If you surrender, we won't rob you?

Why did we come here? We don't want to rob? If you don't surrender, we will slaughter you. If you surrender, we will slaughter you too. There are hundreds of thousands of brothers waiting for a big fight. No one can help us at this time, even Dorgon. He will take the throne, and we will have to rob the silver and women. So Baiyintu was the first to chop Huang Shu to warn this guy not to be ignorant. What do you mean by surrendering and welcoming the royal army? How can this be possible? It was obviously us who took advantage of the civil strife in the city to forcefully attack and open Yangzhou. You, a slave, don't go out and talk nonsense. Don't think we dare not chop you!
"Huang Shu, I won't let you go even if I become a ghost!"

Wang, the salt merchant, whose arm was chopped off and who was knocked away by a warhorse, fell in a pool of blood, looking at Huang Shu who was hiding in the corner with resentful eyes.

Huang Shu stood there with lingering fear, and was still shaking his rat tail desperately. At this time, it was just a small piece on the back of his head, shaking like a clown on the stage. With this, he successfully made the Qing army that entered the city later confirm that they were his own people. The injured Hou Fangyu collapsed on the ground and howled, but he lost a piece of scalp, not a piece of skull, so he didn't bleed much. He was just scared. The torrent of Qing troops in front of them seemed endless, and then trampled on the corpses all over the ground. Some impatient Qing soldiers dismounted from their horses from time to time to loot from the corpses.

But more of them separated and rushed forward to the streets of the city to carry out the real looting.

Huang Shu finally calmed down.

He knew Bai Yintu's intention. He was indeed a bit hasty in this matter. He should have thought that Bai Yintu would not miss the opportunity to make a fortune. After all, accepting the surrender of the people in the city meant that the city could not be massacred or looted. Therefore, the city could not welcome the royal army. The only thing was that the unruly people in the city resisted the royal army and then were captured and punished.

Yes, a little punishment.

Just like how Zhou Lianggong described the Qing army’s entry into Jiangyin in the original history.

"Huang Shu, you will not die well. I will dig up your ancestors' graves."

Wang the salt merchant continued to curse in Huizhou dialect.

"Shut up and wait for death. Why waste your breath?"

Huang Shu also spoke angrily in Huizhou dialect.

"I'm going to dig up your ancestral graves!"

Salt merchant Wang continued to curse.

Huang Shu walked over impatiently, picked up a big rock on the ground and smashed it directly on his head. Blood instantly splattered all over his body. He looked at the twitching Wang Salt Merchant and spat at him.

"Go ahead, are you going to pick it again?"

He said.

He didn't notice that in the darkness behind him, a person who looked like a maid was watching this scene tremblingly.

"Kill, kill all these unruly people who resist the king's army!"

Huang Shu stood in a sea of ​​corpses and blood and shouted to the Qing troops that were still pouring in.

The next moment, countless flames flashed densely on the old city wall in the west, and then whizzing bullets fell on the Qing army, who were caught off guard and kept falling down under the impact of bullets. Huang Shu looked at a figure on the city wall in astonishment. The latter stood on the parapet, holding a gong in his hand and beating it to remind the people who were fleeing like headless flies.

At the same time, on the battlements on both sides of him, flames continued to spew out from the muzzles of the turtledove guns.

Bullets also continued to fall among the Qing army.

Although the distance was actually half a mile, it was impossible to aim effectively here from the city wall, but it was still possible to hit the street roughly.

Of course, there are bound to be accidental injuries.

But at this time, it doesn’t matter whether there is accidental injury or not.

After all, even if he was not killed by bullets, he would still be killed by the Qing army.

The firepower of the old city wall reminded the people who were still fleeing. Indeed, the closer they were to the old city wall, the safer they were. Moreover, the Qing army was already pouring in, and the new city had actually fallen. Some of the Qing troops outside the city who did not have time to squeeze into the city had even rushed to the Xu Ning Gate, which was expected to be opened soon, and more Qing troops were still arriving. With the counterattack power of the Ming army, it was impossible to drive the Qing army out again, but Yangzhou was divided into two cities, the east and the west. Even if the Qing army occupied the new city, the old city in the west was heavily guarded. As long as they could escape to the old city, they could still be temporarily safe.

So soon the fleeing people flocked to the walls of the old city, while the people on the walls continued to shoot at the Qing army, providing them with cover.

Soon even the cannons at Xiaodong Gate opened fire.

Great East Gate.

"what happened?"

Gao Jie looked at Zhang Guowei angrily.

He was also covered in blood at this time. Just now, the Great East Gate was suddenly attacked by a group of spies in the city...

Of course, they were actually a group of Shanxi merchants’ guards.

Of course, Ajige would not have only one internal supporter. Several Shanxi merchant families in the city had clans in Shanxi and had long been subordinates of Wu Sangui. In order to win them over to get food from the south, Dorgon even appointed eight families as imperial merchants. These imperial merchants had clan and in-law relations with the Shanxi merchants in Yangzhou. It was easy for him to go to Yangzhou in advance and lurk under these people if he wanted to get some people who came from the border army but had now surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

It just takes opportunity.

Their surprise attack even opened the city gate, but fortunately Gao Jie reacted quickly and personally led his servants to block the gate again. He originally wanted to chase and kill them, but the Qing army entered the city, and he was so scared that he quickly retreated.

As for the Dadong Gate, it was being blocked in a hurry at this time.

Fortunately, the Qing army was busy with the massacre and did not go directly north, otherwise it would have been really dangerous.

Zhang Guowei sighed.

Shen Tingyang beside him whispered explanations to Gao Jie, including the matter of the prince's southward expedition that Chen Zilong had just sent someone to fill in.

Gao Jie sneered...

"As expected, people say that most loyal people are butchers, and most unfaithful people are scholars. They all say that they read the books of sages, but in the end, this is what they are like?"

He said.

Zhang Guowei and others were speechless.

"Minister, please let me take charge of this side. I will take care of the west side."

Gao Jie said.

Then he turned and left.

Zhang Guowei did not say much. For now, everything seemed fine. After all, the new city was very large, and it would take at least daybreak for the Qing army to control the entire new city. In addition, there were some militias in the new city that supported the resistance. As for the Qing army's attack from the new city to the old city, they could only hold on.

Fortunately, the old city is the original main city wall, so there is no problem with its own defense.

The real question is...

"It seems that what Huang Shu said is true."

He said slowly.

Shen Tingyang, Xu Du, Zheng Zunqian and other militia commanders were all silent.

This is the real big deal!
Gao Jie, who walked to Wenchang Pavilion, was frowning as he looked at the shivering hostages inside.

"Uncle, what should we do? Most of the food and ammunition are in Xincheng, not to mention that there are many cannons in Xincheng. If the Jianlu really want to attack from Xincheng with all their strength, it is estimated that they will not be able to hold out for a few days. After all, these Jiangzhe militias have to listen to the elders' councils in their hometowns. If the Jianlu really take the prince south, it is hard to say what will happen to these elders' councils.

If these militias turn against us, we will be dead.

They don't like us very much.

It would be better to just leave and go find Yang Zhuguo, and then fight back together later."

Li Benshen said in a low voice.

Of course the local gentry hated them. If they really decided to welcome the prince, they would definitely stab them in the back to vent their anger.

"Then we will be sorry for the princess. If anything happens to her, we will not be able to explain to Yang Feng. We have been treated as thieves all our lives, and only the two of them can still treat us as human beings. So let's not let them down anymore. Our children have been sent to Shandong. Yang Feng and the princess will not treat them badly. We are all rotten lives. We are lucky to be alive today. Let's use this rotten life to be a loyal minister!"

Gao Jie said.

Li Benshen didn't say anything else.

Indeed, all their children were sent to Yang Feng.

Go to school!
If I don’t go to school with Yang Feng, would I go to school with those gentry in Jiangnan?

"Drag the Wang family out and kill them all!"

Gao Jie, who was about to leave, suddenly turned around and said to the servant guarding Wenchang Pavilion.

(End of this chapter)