Chapter 153 New Mantis Catching Cicada
Yu Jiajun is really powerful, so powerful that he will feel timid when he thinks of it. When he meets Yu Jiajun, he has never taken advantage of it. It can be said that in front of Yu Jiajun, he has been defeated repeatedly, and then defeated again and again. Now when he hears the name of Yu Jiajun, his legs and his stomach turns his stomach.
As soon as the south gate was broken, he knew that Dengzhou City was over. The next step was to lead the core soldiers and retreat to Dongjiang Town, where he could secede one side.
However, the speed of Dengzhou City was broken so fast that he didn't have time to organize personnel to evacuate by sea. The entrance and exit of Shuimen had frozen, and he had to send people to break the ice first. In addition, there were a large number of goods and food that also needed to be shipped away. Otherwise, so many people could not survive when he arrived in Dongjiang Town.
What's more, there is a part of the Dongjiang army led by Huanglong in Dongjiang Town. This Dongjiang army has not had a good relationship with him and will definitely launch a fierce attack on him under the leadership of Huanglong.
So he needed time to prepare and withdraw into the water city to board the boat and escape. Before that, he had to tow the army in Dengzhou City.
So Kong Youde issued a death order and ordered all the rebel forces to engage in a street battle with the officers and soldiers in Dengzhou City. He did not ask to knock out the officers and soldiers out, but at least they had to delay the officers and soldiers.
Street battles are cruel. The narrow streets and dense houses are nightmares of both sides. Even if Yu Jiajun has advanced firearms, they can't exert their strength in street battles in the city. The two sides are often face to face, and they can't give full play to their advantages of firearms. They can only fight with knives and one shot. House by house and alley competition with the rebels.
For Yu Xiaotian, this was not the result he wanted. He suffered too much damage, so after attacking the city, Yu Xiaotian ordered his Yu's army to temporarily rest, on the grounds that they had invaded the city and were quite tired and unable to continue to fight street battles with the rebels.
But several other officers and soldiers are willing to do this, because in their opinion, the rebels have been in trouble in Denle for more than a year and have made a lot of money. The city must be full of the goods accumulated by the rebels. Now the fast-handed threckers are slow, and whoever enters the city quickly will take advantage of it.
After they saw that the Yu family army broke through the city, they foolishly stopped attacking the city this time, so they all excitedly followed the chicken blood. They took the initiative to fight, led troops into the city, and launched a fierce street battle with the rebels in the city.
Even Zhu Dadian couldn't figure out why Yu Xiaotian let go of such a good opportunity to take advantage of it and left it to other officers and soldiers.
Yu Xiaotian pretended to be very generous and told Zhu Dadian in private that in the last battle of Laizhou, he robbed the rebel camp and had offended people very much. This time, since he conquered Dengzhou City, he could not take all the advantages. Zhu Dadian laughed and felt that Yu Xiaotian was still quite At least I know that I can't offend too many colleagues, and I also know that it's appropriate.
So several other officers and soldiers shouted and rushed into the city. After rushing in, they found that the rebels in Dengzhou City were not as simple as they thought. The rebels were now fighting with trapped beasts. Many rebels were determined to fight to the end. Although some rebels surrendered, many rebels are now popular. I want to fight with them to the end in the city.
So in the two days after the destruction of the city, Dengzhou City has simply become a human meat grinder. There are shouts and a large number of screams everywhere day and night. Life is being harvested at any time. Death is hovering over Dengzhou City, laughing wildly and collecting it. The soul of the new subordinates.
General Xiaotian, who was the perpetrator of the broken city, was drinking tea in the gate building of the south gate. From time to time, he turned his head to listen to the shouts of killing in the city, and his face would show contempt:
"What a*, the rebels are not as stupid as you think! They have long made up their mind to escape from Dengzhou City by waterway. How can they leave valuable things in the city and move them to the water city for a long time? These * are so excited. Since they are willing to do this hard job, let them do it. It's better for them to break through the water city by the way and force the rebels out of the water city. Zicai is happy!" Yu Xiaotian banged, threw a handful of fried soybeans into his mouth and chewed them, which looked very comfortable.
The generals of the Yu family who followed him also had a bad smile, drinking tea, eating fried soybeans, and laughing loudly at the so-called friendly troops.
At this time, Meng Fei asked Xiaotian, "Marshal, since you have arrived here, you have also said that you want to annihilate all the rebels in this Dengzhou City, but why hasn't there been any movement in the navy? If the navy blocked the water gate of Dengzhou Water City at this time, I guess the rebels will have no energy to continue to work! Why is this?"
Lin Yiyang, who had been sitting aside and eating fried soybeans, rolled his eyes and glanced at Meng Fei, showing an idiot's look. He sneered and said, "General Meng, you don't want to help those friendly troops and let them get a piece of the pie!"
Meng Fei was anxious when he heard this and immediately said to Lin Yiyang angrily, "Alas!? Mr. Lin, what are you talking about? Why did Meng Fei want to help those things?
Lin Yiyang has been with these rough people for too long now. It can be said that he has been quiet for a long time, and he has also fallen into the bad habits of many soldiers and ruffians, and his speech has become much vulgar.
"Isn't that settled? You don't even think about it. If the navy comes and blocks the Water Gate in Dengzhou now, the rebels will definitely be heart-hearted and have to surrender. Then they will definitely give all their goods. How can they make it cheaper? So isn't it equivalent to marrying others? I can't figure it out, cut!" Lin Yiyang said to Meng Fei with contempt.
Meng Fei was almost dizzy by Lin Yiyang, but if you think about it, it is indeed such a truth. If a large number of warships come to block the water gate of Dengzhou at this time, then the rebels have no way to enter the earth at this time, then it is estimated that it will be an absolute thing to collapse on the spot.
If the rebels surrender at this moment, then they really can't get this cheapness in their army. At best, they can only hold them a little. Do they really have to share their worries for the country when they run here? Are you full?
In fact, they know how much money they spent before and after this battle. Although the court also paid them and provided them with food, these supplies were completely a drop in the bucket for their consumption, especially the consumption of their weapons and ammunition. The court could only allocate some iron for them. Except for the materials, saltpeter sulfur and some inferior gunpowder, the rest are produced by their Sea Wolf Group.
In addition, although the court also has regulations on the pension for the casualties, it is said that each of the fallen soldiers will be compensated with 30 taels of silver, but it is basically impossible to get this silver. Even if you get it, you can only get a small part of it, and a lot will be intercepted in the middle.
So when you come here to fight this battle, Yu Jiajun can be said to have no net losses. They are not fools. Why do they sell this life for the court?
If you force the rebels to surrender now, the large amount of wealth of the rebels in the past year will be returned to the court, which is useless to take advantage of the court and the government. In fact, it is equivalent to taking advantage of those officials in vain. They work hard to make a fortune as officials. Why!
So to understand this, Lin Yiyang despised him and made him have nothing to say. Meng Fei was blocked by Lin Yiyang and his face was blue, but he couldn't find anything to refute Lin Yiyang.
Yu Xiaotian saw that his love would be blocked by Lin Yiyang so hard, so he laughed and said, "Come on, Mr. Lin, don't block Meng Fei anymore!" He is a general, and it is not wrong to consider how to defeat his opponent as soon as possible! It's just that you think about things from different starting points!
Meng Fei, don't be angry, you are right about this! But the reason why I don't allow the navy to block the water gate now is also because of what Mr. Lin said.
At present, the rebels can't stay in Dengzhou. They can only take soldiers and goods by way to escape to the Dongjiang army, and they now have a large amount of goods, even in Dengzhou Water City, but have been transferred to Long Island by boat in advance. The remaining large amount of goods will definitely break through this time. When going to sea, it will be shipped and taken away.
We have no reason to take advantage of these goods, so although I said that we would block them in Dengzhou City and annihilate them here, after thinking about it later, I thought that it was not worth the loss!
What's more, Kong Youde still has more than 10,000 people under his command. These people are all great workers! It's not appropriate to kill them all. There is dry weather!
So I have ordered that the navy not participate in the operation for the time being and let the rebels withdraw. When they withdraw to Long Island, it will not be too late for the navy to take action. At that time, the rebels will be blocked on the island and become turtles in the urn.
Isn't it more pleasant for other officers and soldiers to have no warships and only watch us get rich?
When the generals heard this, they understood why Yu Xiaotian had not let the navy come. It turned out that Yu Xiaotian thought more than them and actually wanted to swallow all the rebels, including their personnel and property. This move was really cruel. I guess it was enough for other officers and soldiers to die.
Kong Youde led his troops to have a two-day fierce battle with the officers and soldiers in the city. Finally, he sent people to chisel the ice floating outside the water gate, opened the waterway to the water city to go to sea, and transferred most of the goods to the water city and loaded them on the ship. Then he ordered the whole army to withdraw to the water city and start boarding the ship.
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