Chapter 132 Ding Wuchang

The next morning, Xiao Tianjian did not wait for the defenders in the city to react. He immediately ordered artillery bombardment of the city, and sent troops to start attacking the city.

For a moment, the sound of artillery sounded in Wuchang City in all directions. The rumble of cannons made the ground tremble. All kinds of shells roared into the city, or fell on the wall, so that the defenders on the wall ran around crying and fled down the city wall to avoid artillery. Even some troops left themselves as soldiers. He ran under the wall, not to mention those soldiers. At the sound of the cannons of the Xingtian Army, the defenders on the wall escaped more than half of them.

Song Yihe, who was angry, trembling all over and ordered the gunfire to fight back, so some officers and soldiers in the city had to start firing back under the order of the officers.

Speaking of the strength of Wuchang City, it is absolutely no worse than Kaifeng City or Jingzhou City. It relies on the Yangtze River, with sufficient water resources and a wide moat. It is definitely a deep trench and geographically similarity to Jingzhou. If more than 10,000 defenders in the city are firm in their faith, they will gather here with the Xingtian Army. If you want to conquer Wuchang City, it can't be said that it won't work, but at least it will create huge casualties for Xing Tianjun. What Xing Tianjun is afraid of is that the casualties will be too great, which will affect the next step, so the defenders have a great possibility to defend this Wuchang City.

However, what the defenders in the city can't do is to stick to this point, because at this time, the hearts of the officials and the people in the city have long been separated. If the soldiers do not want to fight, they will be more afraid of the war. The officials want to escape from here, or simply surrender. The soldiers and civilians in the city can't become an idea at all. Only a few people want to defend the city. If If it can stop Xing Tianjun from breaking through Wuchang City, that's really damn it.

Not only will Xing Tianjun not fail to attack Wuchang City, but even Zhang Xianzhong came to attack Wuchang City in the 16th year of Chongzhen in history, and the result was the same.

Although the imperial court and government officials have seen Xing Tianjun sitting big, they are always fantasizing that the development of Xing Tianjun can be curbed. Zhang Xianzhong and other thieves who have been in the Huguang area do not have the ability to attack Jianghan important towns like Wuchang. In addition, they all think that there is Yangtze River Tian. Here, it is impossible for the thief to attack Wuchang, so they became an ostrich from top to bottom and stuck their heads in the sand as if they couldn't see. They didn't really pay much attention to the defense of Wuchang. There were not many soldiers in the city, and they were often short of pay. No one expected that Xing Tianjun would move so fast, just a few. In the month, Xiangyang, Chengtianfu, Jingzhou, De'anfu, Yuezhou, Changsha and other important towns were captured, and a large number of warships were captured, so that the Yangtze River, which was originally regarded as a heavenly chasm by the government, lost its barrier so quickly, and watched Xing Tianjun rushed to Wuchang.

The day after the Xing Tianjun attacked the city, the people in the city couldn't stand it. Several officials took the lead in buying through the people who guarded the gate and opened the gate overnight to try to escape from Wuchangfu City in the muddy water at night. In this way, it caused chaos in the hearts of the people in the city. The first surrender was not only the Wuchang garrison, but also the king of Chu. A group of generals in the new army of the King of Chu, on the morning of September 16, suddenly took down and tied up their generals, opened the security door in the east of the city, and welcomed a group of Xingtian soldiers who had already been here into the city.

The whole city defense system in Wuchang collapsed immediately. After hearing the news in the west of the city, Song Yihe looked up to the sky and cried. He drew his sword and led dozens of familymen to gather three or four hundred loyal soldiers. He immediately crossed the city and went straight to the east of the city, trying to fight back the city that had been invaded. The soldiers and horses of the Xingtian army recaptured the security gate.

After the chief of Chu's mansion Shi Xu Xueyan and the deputy general Cui Wenrong received the news, they quickly organized the Chu royal palace soldiers to rush to the east of the city to try to intercept the Xingtian army and retake the security gate. The two armies then launched a war in the city gate.

It was a general named Feng Xitong under Liu Yao who rushed into the city first. He was also born in the early youth camp. After he led the troops into the gate, he first occupied the gate with the cooperation of the rebels, firmly controlled the area of the gate, and personally blocked the road inside the gate with a knife, leading his troops to block it. Cut off their officers and soldiers to fight to the death.

Feng Xitong began to enter the city with few troops, and the officers and soldiers still occupied the advantage of strength. Moreover, these officers and soldiers who came to fight back and the new army of the Chu Wangfu were all determined to resist to the end. When they knew that the gate could not be taken back, Wuchang Mansion City had only one way to break the city, under the leadership of officials such as Xu Xueyan and Song Yihe, The counterattack was very fierce. Many people climbed on the roof and fired arrows at the Xingtian Army, and some people went forward and hit the city gate one after another.

Less than 500 people from Feng Xitong, who entered the city in advance, guarded the area of the city gate and kept fighting back with birds to stop the counterattack of the officers and soldiers. The long gunners stood on the street, and the knife hands stood in front, bearing waves of counterattacks of the officers and soldiers. The firemen climbed to the roof or climb the wall to stop the officers and soldiers. Counterattack from both ends of the city wall.

The battle between the two armies was extremely fierce. After Feng Xitong, a young general, led his troops to repel the officers and soldiers several times in a row, all the guards around him were killed in battle, and he himself was also heavily injured several times. He was bathed in blood all over his body but still led the soldiers to fight to the death, so that the subsequent Xingtian soldiers could safely enter the city and consolidate the gate of the city. With, he began to fight back against the officers and soldiers in the city.

When Feng Xitong saw that a large number of his own soldiers had entered the city and the gate was no longer in danger, he knocked him to the ground. Before his men carried him down and handed him over to the medical officer for treatment, he closed his eyes. Without leaving a word, he swallowed his last breath in the arms of his subordinates. Only his subordinates cried. Even after Liu Yao learned about it, he cried and vowed to avenge Feng Xi.

With a large number of Xingtian troops attacking the city, the officers and soldiers were unable to continue to fight back, and the army was in chaos. When Xu Xueyan and Cui Wenrong led the main force to kill to the east of the city, Wenchangmen, which was guarded by the soldiers of the King of Chu in the south of the city, suddenly had a rebellion. They opened the Wenchang Gate and put Xingtian outside the city. The army entered the city. This time, the Xing Tianjun attacked on both sides and quickly began to kill in the city. At this point, the officers and soldiers in the city completely collapsed.

As a governor, Song Yihe rushed forward with his sword and made the final resistance. Finally, the Xingtian soldiers who were finally rushed over because they were outnumbered were killed on the spot.

Shi Xu Xueyan, the head of the palace, was killed almost at the same time in the city. The deputy general Cui Wenrong led a small number of soldiers with only a little fighting spirit and continued to fight with the Xingtian Army in the city. After noon, he was also killed by the Xingtian Army. So far, no one in the city had led the army to resist, and a large number of Chu's soldiers and officers and soldiers put down their weapons one after another. , declare surrender.

So far, Wuchang City has been completely captured by the Xingtian Army, and the King of Chu in the city was surrendered. Hundreds of Huguang officials and officials and relatives of the emperor were captured by the Xing Tianjun. At the same time, more than 100 gentry families who fled from all over Huguang to Wuchang City were captured by the Xingtian Army. These gentry were almost Without exception, the clan was arranged to join the soldiers of the King of Chu and tried to resist the Xing Tianjun. As a result, after the Xing Tian army entered the city, he rudely gave them a big purge. All those who should be captured and those who should be arrested were taken were taken to a compound.

When the battle of Wuchang came to an end, Huguang was basically controlled by Xing Tianjun. At this time, there was also news from the south of Huguang that Li Xin led his troops to capture Hengzhou almost at the same time, so it was only a matter of time to sweep the whole Huguang in the next step.

In this battle, only a small number of people escaped from Wuchang City in advance, and the rest can be said to be connected by Xing Tianjun, and the whole Huguang official system was completely destroyed.

When he was taking stock of losses and gains after the war, Xiao Tianjian learned the news of Feng Xitong's death. Xiao Tianjian is not unfamiliar with Feng Xitong, a young general. In his impression, Feng Xitong is a slightly dull person. He usually doesn't smile and always has a straight face, as if someone owes him money, so there are many people in the army. I don't like to deal with him very much. I think he is too boring, and he has just been promoted to a general. In the past, he didn't have much military achievements, so Xiao Tianjian rarely paid attention to him, but he didn't expect that Feng Xitong would make such a feat in this attack on Wuchang. Thinking that he usually doesn't care much about him, now he But for his own career, he drained the last drop of blood, and Xiao Tianjian was quite sad about it.

However, compared with the loss of the Xingtian Army, because there are officers and soldiers in the city who defected, the overall loss of the Xingtian Army is very small. The whole attack on Wuchang City caused no more than hundreds of casualties, of which less than 200 were killed in the battle. In the case of so many defenders, the cost of such casualties is really disproportionate. On the contrary, this With the harvest of the war, Xiao Tianjian had a feeling that he wanted to laugh secretly.

This time, they not only captured the whole family of Zhu Huakui, the king of Chu in the city, but also captured hundreds of officials, completely disintegrating the management system of Huguang. The money confiscated even exceeded the amount in the battle of Kaifeng, and directly followed the seizure quantity in Luoyang City. In the palace of the king of Chu alone, more than 1 million taels of silver were obtained. And nearly 10,000 taels of gold, and the rest of the antique pearls and jade are even more countless. If you load the car, it will take at least hundreds of big cars to install it. It can be seen that the king of Chu has stripped many people's fat and people's ointment in the area of Wuchang, but with so much money, he actually insists on learning from the King of Fu and refuses to take it out and use it. Now it's fine, and it's cheap to punish him for nothing. Tianjun.

In addition, Wuchang Fucheng, as the Huguang provincial capital, lives in the homes of a large number of official gentry in the city. These people have also hoarded a large amount of money for generations. Now Xiao Tianjian is the time to spend money and will never be polite to them. Everything that should be copied has been copied, and those official gentry from all over the place who fled to Wuchang for refuge have also carried a large number of fine soft They live in Wuchang City, so these people will not be polite and copy them as usual.

In this way, Xing Tianjun "scratched" out more than 3 million taels of silver and more than 20,000 taels of gold in Wuchang Fucheng alone. This money alone is enough for Xing Tianjun to recruit and train another 100,000 troops!

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