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#1005 Xiangyang decisive battle (nine)

"Kill!" Batches of cannon fodder climbed up to the top of the city and launched a fierce hand-to-hand combat with the regiment training. Soon, the bodies of soldiers on both sides of the city were piled up like mountains.

"It's our turn! Let's go!" Cao Bianjiao pulled out his two iron maces and pointed to the top of the city.

"Kill!" Wang Fuchen also drew out his big sword and rushed towards the city wall with the heavy cavalry dismounted.

After a while, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen climbed up to the top of the city. Two powerful generals led more than 500 heavy cavalry dismounted and fought on the horse. The situation where the city was evenly matched was suddenly broken. Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen, two powerful generals in thick armor, and a group of heavy armored cavalry, were like a group of human-shaped tanks on the top of the city, charging back and forth, without a single enemy wherever they passed.

A regiment practiced a knife and slashed a heavy cavalry, but only sparks splashed, leaving only a shallow trace on the plate armor. The heavy cavalry broke the regiment with one knife and two swords.

The two iron maces in Cao Bianjiao's hand were wielding like wheels. The enemy in front of him either had a broken brain or a sunken sternum. A Qing soldier was hit on his shoulder with an iron mace, and his collarbone was immediately shattered and fell to the ground with a scream. Another Qing soldier came from the side and was hit by Cao Bianjiao with an iron mace. The Qing soldier picked up a wooden shield to block it, and the shield was smashed to pieces. Cao Bianjiao then another iron mace, smashing the Qing soldier's head.

More and more heavy armored cavalry climbed to the top of the city, and these heavy armored cavalry dismounted and fought in infantry, and were also the most elite heavy infantry.

"The city is broken! The city is broken!" The Qing soldiers at the top of the city retreated one after another, and the Qing army in the city screamed in horror.

Yuzhou City was captured by the Huai Army, and the Qing magistrate in the city committed suicide, and all the undead Genglian surrendered. Then, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen took cannon fodders to clean up the gentry in the city according to Li Guodong's request.

The handling of the gentry here is not as generous as the handling of the gentry in the south. When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, these northern gentry were the most active traitors who welcomed the Qing army. They could kill such traitors directly, and there was no need to hesitate at all. Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen began a bloodbath in the city, and the gentry hiding in Yuzhou were pulled out and taken outside the city to be executed.

The gentry was executed, and their wives and sons became slaves, and their daughters, concubines and maids were stared at with blood-red eyes, and the tenants who made the first contribution to the title were distributed. The young and beautiful ones were taken away by the Huai Army early and will be assigned to the soldiers who have made contributions in the future.

Of course, there are also many maids who are locals who are put back to their homes and reunite with their parents. However, many of the maids who are put back also want to marry Huai Army soldiers.

Look at how arrogant the Huai Army soldiers were. They wore beautiful red uniforms and black two-cornered hats on weekdays. When fighting, they put on a plate armor. They were invincible. Moreover, these cavalry were treated well, so they would not have to worry about food and clothing.

The land deeds brought into the city and the sales deeds were searched, and all the fires were burned. Then Cao Bianjiao asked the troops who followed the army to sort out the land deeds in the prefecture government office, redistributed the fields, printed new land deeds, and distributed them to the people.

Yuzhou City was captured, and the only way to go south to the Qing army was cut off. The Qing army could not pass through the avenue. If you want to bypass Yuzhou, you could only walk the mountain road.

"Master!Master!" An Eight Banner Scouts Cavalry came back to report to Wakda, "The Yuzhou City in front has been captured by the Southern Barbarians!"

"The whole army stopped advancing!" Wakda sent an order to continue.

Li Guohan, general of the Eight Banners of Han, said: "Prince, we can bypass Yuzhou, otherwise the siege will only delay our army's time."

"If you bypass Yuzhou, you can only walk in mountainous paths, and you are prone to attack by barbarians!" said Wakda.

"According to our scouts and mail cavalry, Mingdogs are all cavalry, and cavalry is not conducive to mountain combat. If they want to ambush our army in the mountainous areas, they must give up fighting horses and dismount and fight in the field. I think Mingdogs will definitely not give up their strengths and make shortcomings," Nikan said.

Wakda frowned slightly, thought for a while and said, "Then go around from the mountainous area on the right, don't go out together. Scout cavalry will be dispatched to open the road first, and find that there is no danger before going around. We use the time when the scout cavalry explores the way, we also build siege weapons and prepare for both."

The Qing army sent more than a hundred scouts and mail cavalry to explore the way from the mountains on the right.

In the half-Jieshan Mountain, a small path passed through the valley, and more than 500 cannon fodder soldiers were ambushed on the hills on both sides. Although these were cannon fodder composed of tenants, these cannon fodder soldiers were actually veterans of refugees, some of whom had followed Li Zicheng to Beijing. The Huai Army gave them the captured tiger squat cannons, light Franchise and bird guns. To be on the safe side, Cao Bianjiao also strengthened the cannon fodder teams with fifty armored cavalry and fifty scattered soldiers.

The vast majority of cannon fodders were left in Yuzhou City to defend the city, but Cao Bianjiao left more than 10,000 cannon fodders to move in the mountains, of which more than 500 were preparing to intercept the Qing army's scouts and cavalry in Banjieshan, and more than 10,000 were built fortifications ten miles away from the back to prevent the Qing army from taking a detour.

Cao Bianjiao's intention was to use Yuzhou City to block the Qing army's reinforcements. In addition to the assistance of a few elite Huai soldiers in the city, the rest of the city guards were cannon fodder soldiers. In this way, this city could be used to block the Qing army. If the Qing army sieges, the 25,000 Huai army cavalry outside the city could play a role in siegeing the Qing army, making it impossible for the Qing army to let go of their hands and feet to attack the city.

In doing so, Cao Bianjiao implemented Li Guodong's strategy of surrounding and attacking and aiding.

After several years of wars, Cao Bianjiao has transformed from a simple general to a general with both civil and military power.

"Be careful, Jiannu is coming, don't fire guns! Wait until Jiannu enters the ambush circle before firing!" A Huai army refused to accept the report at night.

"Don't worry, sir, you have fought in a war! Jiannu will come later, so you will definitely let you see the skills of us fighting!" Zhang Anshun said.

Zhang Anshun was originally an honest local farmer. When the rebel army came, he was forced to become a refugee and fought with the rebel army in many places. Later, the rebel army broke through the capital, and Zhang Anshun also followed the rebel army into the capital, punishing the high-ranking officials who were usually high. Later, the rebel army was defeated, and he was separated from his team and returned to his hometown to farm.

Huai Jun laughed at the age of the silence and said, "As long as you fight well, you will definitely become our regular army!"

After hearing this Ye Busheng's words, Zhang Anshun was happy. Who knew that the Huai Army was well treated? Even an ordinary soldier, each of them had two taels of silver and never deducted them. What does this mean? The poor peasants back then had one tael of silver as a year's living expenses!

And he joined the Huai Army, and he had good food and clothing. He would have no worries about food and drink. If he wins a battle in the future, he might be able to come back from some landlord Lao Cai, who had a fine skin and tender flesh, to be his wife.

When the Huai Army's cannon fodder team invaded Yuzhou City this time, Zhang Anshun did not make the first contribution, so it was not his turn to assign women. He was already thirty-six years old and was still a bachelor. All the brothers in the family had died, and only he was the only seedling. So he wanted to marry a wife and pass on his family line to himself.

Although he had not fought a war for five years, Zhang Anshun's skills in fighting were not lost. He used a good gun, and a bird gun was in his hand. Within fifty steps, he would hit wherever he pointed.

The cannon fodder team has already laid a net of heaven and earth here, and a tripping rope was buried in the narrow mountain road ahead. Once the Qing army scouts and cavalry approached, the tenants lying on the roadside would pull the tripping rope and trip off the Qing soldiers in front. Then the wooden rocks on the mountain fell down to block the mountain road ahead, and then the crossbows and arrows on both sides of the mountain were fired in unison.
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