Chapter 278 Hangzhou beauties are all over the world
"Dong Guo Liang, do you want to attack Hangzhou?"
Chen Cao chuckled, then lowered his head and said: "Hangzhou and Songjiang are very close. If we don't capture Hangzhou, how can I sleep peacefully on this side of the bed?"
Southern Zhili and Zhejiang are the wealth of the country. Losing Zhejiang will be a major blow to the northern court. However, the strong city of Hangzhou cannot be captured easily.
"In order to completely deal with the enemy in the south, I can fully deal with the threat from Nanjing. Hangzhou is the first to bear the brunt. Annihilating Hangzhou's effective forces is also a top priority. Today, I have captured Mr. Huang and captured the city of Hangzhou with a 30% chance of victory."
Now that Huang Sihai is Chen Cao's prisoner again, it is not a small problem to tell Huang Sihai everything: "I heard that there are so many beauties in Hangzhou. The last time I came to Hangzhou, I didn't have a chance because of too many things. This time I conquered Hangzhou. This time I must meet every beautiful woman in Hangzhou."
Xin Zhao's eyelids twitched: "Master, can your body bear it?"
Chen Cao smiled evilly: "Don't worry, I will reward you with two more when the time comes."
During the conversation between the two, Huang Sihai was ignored. Who are these people? They actually talked about the beauties in Hangzhou during the war, which made Huang Sihai feel that he was in the wrong place.
But then Chen Cao asked people to take Huang Sihai away, and also brought Cen Rui in.
Cen Rui was a good man. Seeing that Chen Cao was neither humble nor arrogant, with a righteous look on his face, Chen Cao looked at the Guangxi chieftain in front of him and couldn't help but sigh that the Guangxi people are arrogant.
"A certain family was granted the title of Chieftain of Guangxi by the emperor's grace. I advise Duke Liang not to try to persuade them to surrender."
Chen Cao shook his head: "My subordinates are all firearms troops, and they will not fight with cold weapons in battle. No matter how strong the chieftains like you are, they will not be able to integrate into our army."
"If you don't want to persuade him to surrender, then please ask Duke Liang to kill him."
"You are such a good man..." Chen Cao nodded appreciatively: "You are the chieftain of Guangxi. King Fu raised the army because the current emperor is not in the right position. You can be regarded as rebellious people, but I have you in mind. We have been guarding Guangxi for many years, and most of the chieftain soldiers fought in Liaodong, so we will not kill you and others. However, the timing is special now. Songjiang and Suzhou have been affected by the war, so you and other soldiers, including Huang Sihai, must enter the prisoner of war camp. , those who rebuild the city and perform well can be pardoned."
No one would die just because they wanted to. Cen Rui was heartened when she heard this, but she didn't say much and was escorted away by the soldiers.
"Instructions are sent to all armies to prepare, and to mobilize well-established combat troops from army divisions and regiments to assemble and stand by. After preparations are completed, the entire army will go south to attack Hangzhou."
Everyone was refreshed and all responded "yes".
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As the saying goes, Zhang Yangming was defeated like a mountain. Zhang Yangming, who was defeated by Chen Cao in one fell swoop, had no time to gather the defeated troops and fled with Huang Chongtao for his life. He even had no time to move the materials and equipment stored in Jiashan County and ran towards Jiaxing Prefecture.
But what shocked them was that less than thirty miles behind them were the troops of Yuan Shizhong and Wang Xiaojie who were pursuing them. After the two sides met in Jiashan, the Zhejiang soldiers were defeated and defeated.
Moreover, Zhang Yangming's subordinates are all guard troops. The only ones who can be called elite are the governor's pacesetters of 2,000 people and Huang Chongtao's pitiful 700 servants. The remaining more than 40,000 guard troops are now unorganized and random rearguards. Withdraw, there is no time to close up.
Jiaxing Fucheng could be defended, but I don't know if Zhang Yangming was frightened and actually ordered Huang Chongtao to lead all the guardsmen to garrison Jiaxing Fucheng to resist the enemy, while he ran to Hangzhou with the patrol soldiers at starry night.
Wang Xiaojie and Yuan Shizhong joined forces to pursue them and deployed two divisions of troops. When they arrived at Jiaxing City, tens of thousands of guardsmen were running into the city.
After all, the city gate hole is not that big, and it is impossible for tens of thousands of people to go in at once. When more than 10,000 people were still inside, Wang Xiaojie arrived first. Upon seeing this, he immediately ordered a volley of gunfire and attacked from behind, making the guardsmen Crying for father and mother, the city gate cannot be closed.
Seeing this, Huang Chongtao prepared to cut off his wrists and ordered the city gate defenders to block all the remaining ten thousand people outside the city. It was this order that caused the soldiers who were still at the city gate to suddenly mutiny and rebel, shouting the slogan "Qingjun side" Rushing towards the city gate.
Seeing this, Wang Xiaojie immediately ordered his men to stop the attack, and tens of thousands of people watched the excitement behind him.
People's desire to survive is very strong when they are under extreme conditions. There are wolves in front of them and tigers in the back. So what if they rebel in order to survive?
Furthermore, the composition of the guards recruited by Huang Chongtao was very complicated. Many of them even dragged the old men in their fifties from the remnants to the battlefield in order to make up for the quota of soldiers. This kind of How do soldiers fight?
Therefore, Wang Xiaojie was ecstatic when he chased this group of guardsmen. This was simply a military achievement walking before his eyes.
"Military seat, the guardsmen have moved in."
"Send an order for Yuan Shizhong to lead his troops to surround Jiashan County. No one can escape. The remaining troops will attack..."
When Chen Cao arrived in Jiaxing Fucheng with three divisions of Shence Army, Tianxiong Army, and Shenwu Army, totaling more than 50,000 people, he got news that made him want to laugh.
A regiment under Yuan Shizhong forced the surrender of more than 40,000 soldiers from Huang Chongtao's garrison, and there was only one regiment responsible for guarding these surrendered troops. Even Yuan Shizhong, who stayed behind, led a large force to pursue Wang Xiaojie and kill him in Hangzhou.
When Chen Cao saw Huang Chongtao kneeling in front of his horse, he couldn't help laughing and asked: "Commander Huang, your dignified commander of the Zhejiang Dusi, your troops mutinied and took away your military power. What do you think of your commander?" For what it’s worth?”
Huang Chongtao is not as good as Huang Sihai, who was born as a soldier. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty's guard system began to gradually decay after Tumubao. By the time of the Jiajing Japanese Rebellion, it completely broke out, so much so that 68 Japanese pirates captured Songjiang Fucheng. , more than a thousand Japanese pirates rushed to Nanjing City to show off their power and then left arrogantly.
At that time, there were a total of 150,000 troops defending Nanjing. The Japanese pirates looted various places in southern Zhili along the way. Nanjing's defense of Wei Guogong's Mansion was even ordered to do so. Dozens of commanders and general soldiers of Nanjing's armies were withdrawn.
With these lessons learned, Huang Chongtao, the capital commander in a prosperous land, is even more in a gentle village. Moreover, in the many years since he has been the capital commander, Zhejiang has not seen any major chaos except the Japanese rebellion. I just gave some instructions.
Chen Cao shook his head in disappointment: "Send the order and leave another regiment to help guard. In addition, take Commander Huang and all the commanders with you. Let's go to Hangzhou together."
More than 50,000 people marched for seven days and finally arrived at the North New Pass of the Hangzhou Canal.
At this moment, a battle was going on in the battlefield ahead. The troops of Wang Xiaojie and Yuan Shizhong, who had arrived two days earlier, were shelling Beixinguan Village. Those guarding Beixinguan were 3,000 patrol soldiers under Zhang Yangming and nearly 10,000 Hangzhou guards.
Since Zhang Yangming took a sand boat from Shitang Bay and returned to Hangzhou via the canal after escaping from Jiaxing, Wang Xiaojie, who was pursuing him, could not find enough sand boats, so he could only let one of his troops continue the pursuit by boat, and the remaining troops could only follow the canal. walk.
Moreover, Wang Xiaojie's troops only carried Tiger Crouching Cannons due to pursuit reasons, so there was really nothing they could do against the Beixinguan Water Village, which relied on canal defense.
We can only send commandos with grenades to the water village gate near Beixinguan and throw them in to attack.
Upon the arrival of Chen Cao's army, Wang Xiaojie asked Yuan Shizhong to continue commanding, and then went to see Chen Cao naturally.
"My lord, the guardsmen in the Beixinguan Water Village have a strong sense of resistance and use all kinds of firearms. In order to avoid increasing casualties, the general can only wait for the arrival of my lord's army."
"Where is Zhang Yangming?"
Wang Xiaojie said: "We entered the city of Hangzhou two days ago. There are not many guards in the city at the moment. However, according to the testimony of the captured guardsmen, the only people left in Hangzhou now are Hangzhou General Kang and his troops of 3,000. Du Si personally There are more than 5,000 guardsmen, and there are more than 20,000 Yunnan soldiers from Mu Qishan. In addition, it is said that Zhang Yangming summoned wealthy households in Hangzhou to pay and recruit young and strong defenders in Hangzhou City, with a number of no less than 30,000. In this way, Hangzhou There are also more than 60,000 guards in the city."
Wang Xiaojie didn't know that General Kang Shui was Chen Cao's own, and Chen Cao didn't mention it. Kang Shui rose from a small patrol in Qiantang to General General in Hangzhou. In addition to relying on the power of the eunuch party at that time, There was also Huang Sihai's support, so in the end even Zhang Yangming thought that Kang Sui was Huang Sihai's person, and after so many years, who can still remember what happened to Kang Sui back then.
Therefore, this is also the reason why Chen Cao was able to bring 70,000 people to attack Hangzhou City with all his heart. With Kang Sui acting as an internal response, why did he still worry about Hangzhou not being conquered?
When Chen Cao arrived, there were thirty Shenwu cannons brought for disassembly, as well as two P-1 105 field cannons newly produced by the Huating County Military Factory, with twenty rounds of shells.
"My lord..." Zhao Xin galloped over, and immediately said with great urgency: "My lord, the accurate news is that Brother You Shiwei led his troops from Pinghu County directly to Hainingwei. They have now passed Haining County and are heading towards the city. Come to Hangzhou."
Obviously, You Shiwei came to reinforce Hangzhou.
"Zhang Yangming will definitely not sit still and wait for death. The old guy will probably order all the remaining guards in Zhejiang to be transferred."
Chen Cao said and looked at Huang Chunyao behind him: "Yunsheng, what do you think of this battle?"
Huang Chunyao frowned: "According to the current situation, Hangzhou is an empty city. In the battle of Jiashan, Zhejiang Dusi's 150,000-strong army was completely wiped out. Zhejiang's current military strength is probably stretched. Hangzhou is already What is in our pocket;
If the father-in-law is willing, after taking Hangzhou, he can take the entire Zhejiang province with him, but You Shiwei, who came from Yulin, has become a serious problem for us;
Sir, the student believes that in order to eliminate our worries in one fell swoop, all the Yulin border troops led by You Shiwei must be wiped out. "
Chen Cao raised his eyebrows, looked at Beixinguan in the distance, and then said: "Yunsheng means to use Hangzhou City as bait?
Surrounding the spot for support? "
