Under the dark night, Linqingzhou City was buzzing with people. Outside Guangji Gate in the west, the vanguard of the four towns in Jiangbei were rushing towards the city gate like a tide.
Tens of thousands of people crowded into the narrow position in front of Guangji Gate. The men and horses from each battalion quickly filled the shallow trench. After crossing the moat, there was no room for any place in the three or four-mile long city position, and it was densely packed with people. Ming army. There were still 30,000 to 40,000 people waiting in the distance. People were pushing each other, and hundreds of people had been trampled to death.
The ones running at the front were the sword and shield soldiers under Huang Degong. Thanks to Huang Zongbing's wise and adaptable tactics, the brothers in Huang Zongbing's camp were the first to discover the fire burning in the east of the city. According to the information provided by informants in the city, Huang The commander-in-chief immediately concluded that Linqing City would soon be captured, so he immediately ordered all his soldiers to mobilize and enter Linqing Prefecture City ahead of the other two commander-in-chiefs.
Liu Zeqing and Huang Degong received roughly the same information. A medicinal herb dealer who claimed to be an official from the East told him that on July 27, at midnight, the city would set fire to the Weiwu Gate in the east gate and the Guangji Gate in the west gate. Will open the original internal response.
Several military leaders knew very well that no matter how wealthy Linqing Prefecture City was, no matter how many silver women there were in the city, there would definitely not be enough for the king's army to accept the 40,000 to 50,000 men. Everyone knows the principle of first come, first served, not to mention that now that Liu Zongzhou has died for his country, several general soldiers have no worries anymore.
The Northern Expedition of Wang Shi also showed the generals of the Southern Ming Dynasty that as long as they had soldiers and power, the court could do nothing to them, especially Liu Zhaosun, who had arrogantly proclaimed himself emperor. This gave these warriors the courage to rebel against the separatist regime. In the past few years, the emperors of the Zhu family have changed one after another like a revolving lantern. The so-called imperial power is actually just that if you think about it carefully.
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"Come on, let me rush into the city before Liu Zeqing's people. Those who run behind will be served by military law!"
Huang Degong's servant leader was riding on a horse, waving his scabbard and slapping the Ming soldiers who were still lingering behind.
"Damn it, what about you? Do you want to get a wife? Do you want to build a house? Why don't you hurry up and catch up, go in, and kill!"
The leader of the servants brandished his sword and screamed. The two sword and shield soldiers around him who were carrying long shields fortunately lost their shields and rushed towards the trench with a group of auxiliary soldiers. The shallow trench in front of the city wall had been revealed during the day's battle. The army filled it up, and the surrounding fortifications and iron caltrops were also cleared by the auxiliary troops. When the Ming army was cleaning up the fortifications outside the city, the defenders at the top of the city did not respond at all, and did not even fire their artillery.
Some soldiers held torches in their hands, and the flames illuminated the ground, surrounded by running figures.
Under the firelight, Huang Degong, who was fat, rode a black war horse. The black horse came to the front of the formation panting, snoring incessantly, trying to get away from this fat man.
Huang Degong saw that his servant leader was still struggling to drive the soldiers to attack the city, and nodded to him with satisfaction.
"Okay, with the money and food from Linqing City, I can recruit more than 20,000 brothers, surpassing Liu Zeqing's grandson, and become the most popular in the future."
Huang Degong laughed twice. He obviously did not take Zuo Liangyu and Wu Sangui into consideration. It may be that those two younger brothers were short of soldiers and food, and they were not in the eyes of Fatty Huang at all.
The head servant wiped the sweat from his forehead and echoed loudly:
"Yes, if you follow the master and enjoy the hot food and drink, the brothers will also have a career to pursue, and you don't have to suffer from the arrogance of those civil servants!"
Soon after they left Nanjing, Huang Degong's army started robbing people along the road, from Nanzhili to Linqing. Huang Degong's general officers even claimed to celebrate the New Year every day, be grooms every night, and live a very special life. Happy carnival life.
Huang Degong squinted his eyes and looked at the countless jumping torches in front of him. Hundreds of torches were like twinkling stars, dotting the dark night sky. Huang Degong stared at the red dots in the front that had begun to rise slowly, and his greasy face showed The expression of a baby longing for breast milk.
The leader of the servants came closer and said with a flattering smile on his face: "Master, these are our sword and shield soldiers. Our soldiers are the fastest and have already begun to climb the city. Liu Zeqing's soldiers have just woken up."
He pointed behind him. Liu Zeqing's camp was in a commotion. Countless torches were swinging at the entrance of the camp. Liu Zeqing's elite cavalry were rushing towards here holding the torches.
"Hahaha, they're late!"
The head servant raised his whip and was about to ride his horse forward to supervise the battle. The tip of the raised whip was caught by Master Huang with his hand.
"master?"
Huang Degong pulled off his riding whip and ordered his servant:
"Don't worry, it's very easy to make a roar in the dark. It won't be good if you are trampled to death by your own people. Let the soldiers go in first. There should be some Qi troops in the city. When the city gate is wide open, we can enter the city steadily. These Qiu Ba robbed things in the middle of the night and even chopped off his own relatives. If you get in here in a daze, you will suffer a big loss if you are stabbed by Qi Jun."
The head servant touched his head and showed an expression of sincere admiration.
"My lord is wise, I am thoughtful, and I am the god of war..."
Huang Degong was too lazy to listen to the flattery of the head servant and yawned:
"I'm sleepy. Just watch here. I'll go back to accompany Liniang. When the city gate opens, call me again. After the city is broken, I'll give you some more girls."
The leader of the servants raised his thumb and praised sincerely: "The master is calm in the face of battle, and can still control several women at night. He is indeed a man who does great things. I admire him, I admire him!"
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The night watchman Guo Ba took the lead, followed closely by Huang Degong's sword and shield soldiers, and led the first group of more than a hundred brothers to cross the moat.
There were a few fewer brothers around him. He didn't know whether they were trampled to death or fell behind. Guo Ba always couldn't care about this. People would always die in a war.
A group of people were running forward in disorder. Suddenly, Huang Degong's men and horses blocked the road ahead.
It was a shortcut that led directly to the city. Hundreds of sword and shield soldiers held up their bright swords and blocked the intersection with murderous intent, shouting at Mr. Guo and others to retreat.
"This road is reserved by the Yellow Battalion, and other battalions are not allowed to pass! The merchants in the city revolted, and General Huang rushed into the city to rescue them!"
"Huang Degong is the commander-in-chief, and Commander-in-Chief Zuo is also the commander-in-chief. Get out of the way!"
The man on the other side pulled out a knife. Seeing that the enemy was outnumbered, General Guo cursed twice and had no choice but to lead his brothers around.
General Guo looked up and looked around, and found that there were swaying torches everywhere. Within a few hundred steps around him, there were four flags of generals, with "Zuo", "Huang" and "Liu" written on them respectively, and even Wu Sangui's large banner.
"Wu Sangui's remnant soldiers are also coming to take advantage of the situation? A bunch of lunatics!"
Boss Guo cursed, and it was only then that he finally understood that it turned out that Dongfang Zhu had not only talked about the fire attack within his own family, but also the bastard drug dealer and all the military leaders had told him about his internal plan to respond to the fire attack.
"Grandma, several dog merchants take it all, and they don't just do business with us!"
"Grandma's are all liars..."
"Grandma's..."
Mr. Guo Ba suddenly stopped. His toes seemed to have hit something hard. He stopped, held a torch and bent down to look at the ground. He saw a clay pot, half buried in the ground, with a lead wire left on the outside.
The majestic wind blew by, and the surrounding ground exuded the pungent smell of stone saltpeter.
"Who buried the urine jar under the ground and made me almost fall down? Linqing people are so fucking unrighteous!"
Mr. Guo cursed and wondered which wealthy family had discarded the urine jar. The crowd behind him was already coming.
"Stop! Stop everyone!"
The excited soldiers couldn't hear the general's call.
Until more people fell down, countless torches illuminated the densely packed clay pots on the ground.
"What the hell is this?"
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"Damn it, don't push me, I stepped on thunder."
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