Chapter 224 A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops meet each other
Almost as Yang Xin spoke, the man suddenly took out the fire note and then pulled out the fuse hidden on his body...
"Brothers at Shifokou..."
He yelled wildly with a fire note in one hand.
However, before he could finish his words, Yang Xin suddenly appeared in front of him. The guy who had just pulled out the fuse was stunned for a moment, but he still ignited the fuse at a very fast speed. But the next moment, Yang Xin's big feet appeared on his chest, and almost instantly his chest was shrunk, and his whole body flew backwards as if he was hit by a running war horse.
This is Yang Xin's full efforts.
This guy flew out of the city gate like a flowering bullet fired from a mortar. With the smoke from the fuse burning smoke, he instantly flew out of the city gate.
Then it turned into a ball of flame...
"Let's go down!"
Yang Xin, who was still holding the side kick, shouted and hurriedly lay on the ground.
Then the explosion sounded like the sky and the earth cracked violently hit his eardrums. The explosion of air waves rushed past his head with smoke and dust. When he raised his head again, even the two city gates that had originally opened inward were closed by the explosion of air waves. He stood up as quickly as possible and looked back...
OK, Yan Shenggong has fallen down long ago!
In the face of danger, Yan Shenggong always showed a reaction speed comparable to Yang Xin.
Several of the bandits behind were washed down by the air waves.
But there were no casualties.
If it exploded in the city gate, it would definitely cause serious casualties. Even Yang Xin himself would have to suffer a little, but it would be no big deal to kick out the door outside the door. As long as the explosion of black gunpowder of this level is not in a small space, it would be difficult to have too much lethality. Yang Xin stood up as if nothing had happened and patted the dust on his body. Yan Shenggong was trembling and supported himself, but he still couldn't stand up. He just sat on the ground until the soldiers behind came forward to help him up, and the other soldiers pushed the closed city gate forward.
"Yan Shenggong, you won't be really hurt, are you?"
Yang Xin said.
"I won't leave, I won't go anywhere. I want to go back to Qufu, I want to go back to Qufu!"
Yan Shenggong's spirit finally collapsed.
"Ha, you can't help it!"
Yang Xin said.
Immediately afterwards, he signaled the soldiers to set up Yan Shenggong and continued to follow him into the city.
When he walked out of the city gate, he found that there were heavy casualties inside the gate. The green-robed official should have been next to the gate, but he was directly under the explosion force and was blown to half. There were also several dead bodies lying on the ground. An official office on both sides that was originally collected taxes was blown down. A green-robed official stretched out his hands and kept screaming in the ruins.
There was also chaos above my head.
If it was an explosion inside the city gate, then the outside would not be affected at all. However, the explosion in the volley of the volley would be almost all under the power of the people in the city.
Even the tiles on the city tower were blown up a lot.
The people above were wailing.
"Take the rest of Yangzhou!"
He said to Huang San without looking back.
This is the remnant of the incense smelling sect...
Of course, whether it is true or false is another matter.
However, it may not be fake, because he has not captured the actual leader Wang Haoxian so far. He was originally captured in Yangzhou in history, which means that the power of the Scented Sect has long penetrated into this city, and it is not easy for the Wang family to have a secret industry here. With the wealth accumulated by the Wang family and the business network, it is definitely necessary to operate a stronghold in this city. However, this person spoke with a Shanxi accent, and this place is also the base camp of Shanxi merchants.
Although this is Yangzhou.
But Yangzhou salt merchants who left many legends in history actually did not have Yangzhou people.
In the Ming Dynasty, especially in the early and mid-Ming Dynasty, the Shanxi merchants controlled the salt industry in Yangzhou. In the late Ming Dynasty, the merchants in Huizhou began to rise.
In the entire late Ming Dynasty, the city was a city where Shanxi merchants and Hui merchants were open and secretly fighting.
But Shanxi merchants are still strong.
This struggle that lasted for half a century was finally over by the bloodbath of our Qing Dynasty.
Then there is the world of Hui merchants.
If it is instructed by the Shanxi merchants, it may be related to the wild boar skin, because the smugglers who supply grain to the north all use the Shanxi merchants from Yangzhou as the backstage.
All in all, it's very complicated.
But Yang Qianshi never had the habit of investigating cases.
His habit was to arrest all the masterminds whom he thought were possible and he was too lazy to do something that obviously required a waste of energy to investigate the case.
"Admiral, we don't have enough staff. The young man has been here before. There are more than a dozen city gates facing outward. Why don't we call some brothers when we go back?"
Huang San said carefully.
This is not Wuxi City. Wuxi actually has four gates, so of course it is not considered water gate.
There are only ten city gates outside Yangzhou, and the three hundred bandits could not control it no matter what. However, it was too late to convene people at this time. After all, it would take almost two days to get here from Wuxi.
"Need not!"
Yang Xin smiled.
He gestured to the following Jinyiwei with his eyes.
The latter immediately untied a tin tube that had been on his back, then pulled out the fuse inside, spread the two brackets on the tin tube, and inserted them directly into the gap of the paving stone slab, then took out the fire slit to ignite the fuse. The next moment, accompanied by the flames ejected thereafter, a rocket roared out, dragging the flames straight into the sky, and in a blink of an eye it exploded in the sky and turned into a ball of red smoke.
"A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops will meet!"
Yang Xin said with a smile.
The next moment, at the gate of a house in front, a large number of soldiers in red uniforms rushed out with the same spear, then lined up in front of the door, and then ran directly to this side.
And at the same time, countless such soldiers appeared on both sides of the street leading straight ahead.
Well, the reason why he brought three hundred bandit troops to Yangzhou was very simple.
There are already three thousand bandits in this city.
A month and a half ago, his three thousand bandits had already gone south, and they disguised themselves as merchants. They took a month to walk to Yangzhou and then entered the city as merchants. Inside Yijiangmen is Yangzhou New City, which is to encircle the original commercial area with city walls. This place is crowded with countless merchants from almost the entire Ming Dynasty, countless boatmen, hired workers, private salt dealers waiting to open the river, and the source of the population is as complex as that of a modern city.
Isn’t it like the sand that has been scattered into the desert when three thousand people are hidden in these hundreds of thousands?
No one knows it at all.
Including their weapons, they were also transported in. Countless materials in this city were coming in and out every day. Not to mention a few originally legal cold weapons, even cannons could be transported in easily.
The order Yang Xin gave them was very simple, that is, after seeing the red signal flare, he immediately assembled towards the location of the signal flare.
It was originally intended for emergencies.
It’s not that Yang Xin has already planned to attack Yangzhou.
Instead, this city is the most suitable area for hiding an army.
He was transferred in a hurry by five hundred miles a month and a half ago. How could he think of today? It was because he felt that the 1,500 storms were a little too small and were not flexible enough to use, so he transferred these 3,000 people to secretly move south and then hid in this city that is most suitable for hiding waiting for the summoning. But today he came to Yangzhou himself, and the soldiers who heard the news knew that they were going to take action, so they had long been armed and stood on standby in their hidden places under the leadership of their own battalion commanders and team leaders. After the explosion, they knew that they should come out, but they were still waiting for the signal flares under strict discipline.
As soon as the signal flare rose, all the soldiers who were already on standby immediately rushed out.
Not only on this street, but actually, at this time, the entire Yangzhou City was full of bandits rushing out to gather here.
"Master!"
He Kun, the brigade commander of these three thousand bandits, took the nearest battalion to Yang Xin.
The northern bandit army was still a battalion unit, but when multiple battalions needed to operate together, Yang Xinhui appointed a brigade commander, but it was still not a permanent position. After all, he told Tianqi that he would disband the bandit army after digging the river, so there was no need to be too formal.
As for the Grandmaster...
This can actually be called the general in the Ming Dynasty.
But not all the generals, but the generals of the garrison. The generals of the Ming Dynasty were divided into generals, such as Xuanfu, Liaodong, Jizhen and other generals, and also sent generals, that is, they led the army to perform combat tasks. For example, the group of generals in Liaodong. The generals in this place can be called the commander, and it has almost become a common practice, but the generals cannot be called the commander. As for Yang Xin, he is not the general, but his deputy generals are already at the level of generals, and no one can say anything about him.
After all, it's just a honorary title.
It has no meaning in itself, not to mention that Yang Xin is also considered to be of high position and powerful.
After all, his uncle is nine thousand years old.
What is he just a great commander?
"Very good. Take your brothers to block all outward city gates. From now on, only entry and not exit are allowed. Unless I agree, even the prefect of Yangzhou will not do it. Anyone who dares not listen will do it directly. There are a total of ten outward city gates, one outward city gates, one outward city gates, Huang San, you still bring the artillery team with me."
Yang Xin said with satisfaction.
He Kun immediately turned around and faced the battalion commanders coming from behind and quickly assigned their respective tasks.
These people said that long-distance marching was indeed not as good as Huang San, but the degree of discipline was far beyond the latter. As the battalion commanders arrived one by one, they quickly took their own tasks and led their subordinates to the city gates. They gathered together to run neatly, immediately causing a new round of chaos in the re-stabilized Yangzhou city.
As for Yang Xin...
He led Huang San and others to push the cannons straight to Xiaodongmen.
Yangzhou is the old and new city, and there are two gates in the middle that control the east and west.
Chapter completed!