The gatekeeper Guangen was really afraid that Duosang would kill himself on impulse.
"You said, if you can't come up with a reasonable reason, I'll kill you bitch now." Duosang put the knife on the neck of the Guang'en Gate guard.
The guard of Guang'en Gate swallowed his saliva and said nervously: "The tiger thieves have too many cannons. If you want to prevent Guang'en Gate from falling, you must find a way to destroy the tiger thieves' cannons. Originally, the general wanted to Leading people out of the city to find a way to destroy the tiger bandit's artillery, but Mo Jiang's men can defend the city. The battle outside the city is not as good as those of Zuoling's men. The key is that there is only one chance to attack the tiger bandit's artillery array outside the city. Once it fails, , the tiger thief will definitely take precautions, and it will be impossible for him to make a sneak attack."
"Are you afraid of death, so you just let me go and die?" Duosang's nose was almost twisted with anger. He turned his wrist, turned the knife in his hand and hit the guard of Guang'en Gate hard in the face with the blade. superior.
Snapped!
A crisp sound came out, and the half of Guangen's face that had been slapped became visibly red and swollen.
"Just this once, if you dare to scheme against me again, I will definitely kill this bitch, bah!" Duosang spat on the guard of Guang'en Gate with a mouthful of thick phlegm, and he took the knife back.
If it weren't for the people outside the city attacking the city at this moment, and Guang'en Gate needed someone to guard it, he would never let go of this Han general who dared to plot against him.
The Guangen goalkeeper covered his injured face with his left hand, looking helpless.
He really wants to guard Guang'en Gate and Gaizhou City.
If the Han soldiers were indeed inferior to the Eight Banners soldiers in the field outside the city, how could he come to discuss with Duosang, the Eight Banners commander.
"What are you still doing sitting here? Go and defend the city and Guang'en Gate. I'll kill you bitch before my head is chopped off." Duosang pointed at the nose of the Guang'en Gate guard and cursed.
Although the guard general of Guang'enmen was a Qianzong, he was the assistant leader of the Eight Banners, and his position was naturally above these Han generals.
Being of Han origin, the guard of Guang'en Gate was inferior to the Manchus. He did not dare to openly disobey the other party's orders, so he had to get up from the ground and began to command the Han soldiers on the wall to defend the city.
Behind the Tiger Flag artillery formation outside the city, a large number of soldiers were arrayed here, waiting for the order to attack the city.
Xing Chaoxi raised the monocular telescope in his hand and observed the situation on Guangenmen City.
"Tell the artillery team to let the heavy artillery blast the city walls and gates, and let the light artillery fire on the top of the city to drive all the Qing soldiers off the city wall." Xing Chaoxi held up a monocular telescope in one hand and said He ordered the messenger below.
Gaizhou City is not a post station like Xiong Yueyi with only a few thin walls. Instead, a brick wall more than one foot high was built around the city. There is also a moat outside the city. It is a standard Ming-built city.
"Shizheng, the sentinel caught the Qing soldiers sent by Haizhou City."
A sentinel from the Tiger Flag was brought over by the people below.
Xing Chaoxi saw the sentinel in front of him.
"Reporting to the commander, we captured several prisoners of Qing soldiers five miles away from Gaizhou City. After interrogation, we learned that they came from the direction of Haizhou City to bring reinforcements to the Qing soldiers in Gaizhou City. News." The detective said.
Xing Chaoxi was not surprised when he heard the news.
As early as when his military camp attacked Xiong Yueyi, Gaizhou City should have already sent the news back to Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and Haizhou was located between Shengjing and Gaizhou, so he knew about Gaizhou City earlier than Shengjing. Case.
"Are they reinforcements from Haizhou or reinforcements from Shengjing?" the division chief of staff on the side asked the sentinel in front of him.
The sentry bowed and said, "They are reinforcements from Haizhou."
"Where have the reinforcements from the Qing army arrived? How many people are there?" the division chief of staff continued to ask.
The sentry replied: "My subordinates don't know. The captured Qing soldiers only brought news of reinforcements."
"Where are the prisoners? Where are they?" asked the division chief of staff.
The sentry reported back: "After my subordinates returned to the camp, they handed over the prisoners to the people here in the main camp."
After hearing this, the chief of staff of the division turned to look at Xing Chaoxi and said: "Shi Zheng, I want to interrogate the captured prisoners again. Since the prisoner came to deliver a message to Gaizhou City, he shouldn't be ignorant. Maybe he is deliberately hiding something. .”
"Actually, there is another possibility." Xing Chaoxi said, "Maybe Haizhou City did not send any reinforcements at all, just to appease the Gaizhou City defenders and make them hold on for a while."
Hearing this, the chief of staff of the division thought for a while and said: "This possibility is not impossible, but we are still conducting a trial. If we can really find something through the trial, it will be a good thing for us."
"That's fine, I'll leave the prisoner matters to you." Xing Chaoxi nodded.
With permission, the division chief of staff returned to the camp with his own guards and a team of more than a dozen soldiers.
Xing Chaoxi looked at the sentry in front of him and said, "Go back and tell your captain that you can expand the patrol's questions to the outside and try to find out if there are large groups of Qing soldiers nearby who want to approach Gaizhou City."
"Yes." The sentinel straightened his chest and agreed.
The battle here in Gaizhou City is still going on and will not stop because of the possibility of reinforcements appearing in Gaizhou City.
The cannons and ammunition from the cannons of the Tiger Character Flag were dumped towards Gaizhou City as if they were free of charge.
Several gates in Gaizhou City were bombarded, among which Guangen Gate suffered the largest number of bombardments and received the most shells.
Whether it was the Qing army on the defensive side in Gaizhou City, or the Tiger Banner Marine Division on the offensive side outside the city, both sides knew that the other gates were just feint attacks, and only Guang'en Gate was the main direction of attack.
Gaizhou City Guard General Ye Bilong came to Guang'en Gate under the escort of a group of white-armored soldiers.
Many houses near Guang'en Gate had holes smashed by cannons, and even the courtyard walls collapsed in several places. Except for the Qing troops guarding the city, there was no trace of anyone else nearby.
When he came to Guang'en Gate, Ye Bilong did not dare to climb the city wall directly. Instead, he hid at the corner on the side of the horse road, and then sent people to the city wall to find the person.
After a while, the guards of Guang'en Gate and Duosang were brought over.
As soon as he saw these two people, Ye Bilong was the first to ask: "How is the situation at Guangenmen? Can you still hold on?"
"Don't worry, Assistant Leader, I will defend Guang'en Gate to the death." Duosang said first.
Ye Bilong looked at the guard of Guang'en Gate.
The guard of Guangenmen hesitated for a moment and then said: "There are too many cannons from the tiger thieves outside the city, and the defenders of Guangenmen have lost a lot of strength. If the tiger thieves had not been attacked by anyone, Guangenmen would not have been able to hold on for long. .”
"Why don't we prepare a lot of cannons for you and send them to Guang'en Gate? Why don't you fire back? Being condescending, you should have an advantage." Yi Bilong frowned.
After hearing this, the guard of Guang'en Gate showed bitterness on his face and said: "At the beginning, we fired back with artillery, but the tiger thieves prepared too many cannons. It didn't take long for most of the cannons on the city wall to be destroyed. And the tiger thieves did not send troops to attack the city, they just kept firing, and now we have lost the ability to even fight back."
(End of chapter)
