Tu Guobao retreated to camp at Qionglong Mountain in the western suburbs, and the Fubiao battalions quickly came back to join together, but there was still no news about Li Litai's Eight Banners cavalry.
His heart grew higher and higher, reaching his throat.
"Did you find out which troop entered Suzhou City?"
"The pseudo-Ming Jiangnan Admiral Zhu Wu, Tan Ma saw that he led a large army into the city. More than 20,000 Ming troops entered the city, and many troops were stationed in Wujiang, Tongli, Zhenyi and other outskirts. It is said that the pseudo-Ming troops were everywhere.
There are countless soldiers and horses, probably no less than a hundred thousand."
"Fart, the fake admiral was beaten to a pulp by Yan Wo Gong Li Yuchun in Jiaxing. He was captured and beheaded by tens of thousands before and after, and tens of thousands were surrendered to be rescued. We still don't know which lake, which mountain or which island he is hiding in.
Now, can he spread the beans and make an army? Can he return a hundred thousand soldiers and horses?"
Tu Guobao was furious.
Yang Guohai persuaded his uncle, "Uncle, I contacted several salt dealers who are dealing with me. They said that there are indeed many soldiers entering Suzhou City, more than 20,000, and the banner of Jiangnan Admiral has been raised long ago."
Tu Guobao gritted his teeth and remained silent.
"Are they new soldiers from eastern Zhejiang? They came from the sea and gathered rebels from all over Songjiang and Kunshan?"
Tu Guobao's head was dizzy with anger. There was no time to guess where Zhu Wu came from or how he had summoned so many soldiers. Instead, what should they do now? With Taihu Lake behind them and Suzhou in front, they had no way to advance or retreat.
There is still no news about Li Shutai's Eight Banners soldiers. They are already very unsafe here.
"If Zhu Wu really has tens of thousands of troops and seizes Suzhou in a surprise attack, then how can he let us go? I'm afraid he will soon besiege the mountains and attack us!"
All the generals had a look of fear on their faces. The total number of troops in the Biao camp was only over a thousand men. They were already exhausted from fighting last night. Now that such a large army suddenly came out, they were completely unprepared.
There is no walled city to defend, and no food, grass or baggage.
This Qionglong Mountain is not a dangerous place that can be blocked by one man.
But now it was too late to retreat. From Suzhou to the surrounding areas, there were now people belonging to the pseudo-admiral Zhu Wu.
"Everyone, be prepared to hold on and send people to find Li Shutai. Also, ask Jiang Ning for help!"
"I hope we can keep the reinforcements coming!"
Unfortunately, Tu Guobao's prayers did not work, and soon Ming army cavalry appeared at the foot of the mountain, followed by more and more soldiers and horses.
Fortunately, it was completely dark at this time, which gave Tu Guobao and the others some more time. The Ming army at the foot of the mountain lit a bonfire and raised torches, divided the area and blocked the mountain.
Tu Guobao and others looked at the increasing number of torches, and their faces were all dejected. They had no choice but to order more than a thousand soldiers to light torches, and spent the night cutting down trees, digging trenches, and erecting forts to build a stronghold, hoping to use the terrain to build a stronghold.
By the time dawn came, the village had only erected a few fences and walls, and cut down tree branches and stuck them into the ground, barely erecting a line of defense. The time was too short and it was too dark, so there was no time to dig trenches or erect arrow towers.
The village wall is also too crude and difficult to withstand impact, but it is better than nothing.
Tu Guobao stayed up all night, looking down the mountain and whittling wooden stakes with a machete. He secretly hoped that the Ming army would not move so fast. It would be nice if they could delay the attack for a few more days, so that they could take over the stronghold.
The wall should be strengthened, a second wall should be built, some arrow towers should be erected, and some simple javelins should be made.
However, the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was completely different from the Ming army in his seal. Before dawn, the trumpets had already been blown at the foot of the mountain, and the Ming army actually began to besiege them from all sides.
"Are you rushing to reincarnate? Damn it."
Tu Guobao cursed, angry and anxious.
At the bottom of the mountain, Zhu Yihai, who had just eaten a few steamed buns, personally directed the attack on the mountain.
"It's easy to defend but difficult to attack when attacking a mountain."
"It's okay, let's just let everyone practice some tough battles."
Zhu Yihai looked at the simple and unseemly village on the mountain with a relaxed expression. At this time, there were Yulin, Yongwei, and Shenji soldiers here, with a total of less than 20,000 troops. He deliberately set up more flags to bluff, so that
The people on the mountain thought that all the Ming troops had arrived.
But in fact, Zhu Yihai had already sent Yuan Zongdi and Jinwu Cavalry to sweep away the Qing troops who had slipped through Suzhou City, and took Wu Zhikui with him to collect the defeated troops of Huang and Wu.
Brothers Zhang Mingyang and Zhang Mingyang led Shizhong and other troops to sweep out the outlying towns and block incoming Qing troops at any time.
Ruan Jin, Zhu Chenggong, Liu Kongzhao and others led the navy to transport supplies, and transported the money and grain from Suzhou city to the islands in Taihu Lake or Yangcheng Lake by ship.
Shen Wenzhong, Ma Jixiang and others were responsible for leading troops to eliminate the traitor surrender faction outside the city of Suzhou, exterminating traitors and ransacking homes, and even opened warehouses and provided relief to the poor people.
In short, there is a lively scene inside and outside the city of Suzhou. Zhu Yihai brought three towns here to surround Fubiao. It was just to beat the children on a rainy day. Anyway, it was idle. They were practicing the tactics of attacking fortresses, and they could still watch these.
They were not allowed to go down the mountain to cause trouble. Of course, it would be best if they could successfully capture the top of the mountain and destroy this bandit.
Although he was not prepared to fight hard, he still had plenty of troops on hand. Even though most of the soldiers and horses were new soldiers and lacked equipment and armor, the opponent only had more than a thousand soldiers.
As soon as the battle began, the morale of the Ming army was very high, especially the deputies overseeing the army at all levels in the army. Most of them were Jiangnan scholars, Juren, and even many old boys in their thirties and forties. However, because most of these people had voluntarily abandoned their
They surrendered their pens to the army, full of loyalty and loyalty to the country. Many of them had a grudge against the Tatars and puppet soldiers for killing their fathers and breaking up their families. Therefore, when the battle began, they rushed faster than everyone else.
One by one shouted passionate battle slogans, and even some scholars even recited frontier poems while charging.
That violent and fearless look greatly inspired the soldiers' courage.
The Frank machine gunners from Shenji Town brought the Ming army students to the foot of the mountain with their cannons, and skillfully constructed several forward artillery positions. Although the cannons were small, they were still cannons no matter how small they were.
A small line of fire and a loud roar can add a fearless BUFF to the Ming army, not to mention it can also greatly frighten and weaken the opponent's will.
"I never thought that this battle could be fought like this."
Yang Wencong stood next to Zhu Yihai, still chewing pancakes and rolled green onions in his busy schedule, "We have been beating up Tatars everywhere along the way."
Zhu Yihai smiled and said, "It is important to have the initiative on the battlefield. The best defense is actually offense."
Artillery, musketry, archers, shield soldiers.
The expected difficult scene of attacking the mountain did not appear. Amidst the roaring of cannons and rain of arrows from the sky, the Ming army surrounded them on several sides, and countless soldiers and horses attacked like ants.
With superior fire suppression, they reached the simple wooden fence easily, with basically no casualties.
Tu Guobao panicked.
Holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, he ran around shouting, "Fuck me, let the puppet rebels rush in at once, and we'll be finished."
Encouraged by Tu Guobao, or in other words, under his intimidation, Yang Guohai, Zou Xixiang and other Biaoying generals also tried their best. They knew that they had a lot of blood on their hands, and if they were defeated and captured, the end would definitely be disastrous.
The more than a thousand soldiers in Fubiao were all red-eyed and desperately trying to block the gap.
But Tu Guobao quietly retreated in the melee, followed by his two confidants Yang Guohai and Zou Xixiang.
"It can't be defended." Yang Guohai said with a gloomy face.
"Sir, we must evacuate immediately."
Tu Guobao knew very well that it was impossible to lead his troops to break out of the encirclement now. What the two people said was undoubtedly that he wanted him to abandon the desperate soldiers on the battlefield and escape alone.
"There is a section of cliff in the back mountain. There is no Ming army siege. We can use ropes to climb down."
Tu Guobao looked at the Ming army that was still surrounding them, and nodded to the two of them cruelly.
There was a fierce battle on the mountain.
The simple fence was cut open one after another, but the frantic bidding soldiers quickly filled it up again.
Corpses soon lay everywhere in front of the fence, but after all, there were only more than a thousand people in Fubiao, while the Ming army had nearly 20,000 troops in three towns, and artillery gunners to cover it. Zhu Yihai also paid attention to the rhythm and let the three towns attack in turn.
Eager to hit hard.
It seemed that the fight lasted from morning until the sun was setting in the sky.
I don’t know who suddenly shouted, “Master Futai is missing!”
"Vice General Zou is also missing."
"Yang Youyi is also missing."
The voice became more and more panicked, finally filled with anger and unwillingness.
Emotions spread across the battlefield, and they knew they had been abandoned.
After half a day of bloody battles, the Ming army attacked and killed more than a thousand soldiers. At this time, there were less than 800 left. The corpses were piled up into a wall in front of the fence.
The remaining eight hundred people were all exhausted and most of them were injured.
Seeing that the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was still attacking, everyone was in despair.
Previously inspired by Tu Guobao and fearful of the Ming army, they fought back frantically, but now that they found out that Tu Guobao and the others abandoned everyone and ran away, they became even more desperate.
Many people even completely collapsed.
Originally, I was hanging on solely by my breath.
But now, with Tu Guobao and others escaping, this anger has completely vented.
Many people simply stopped resisting.
Some people just shouted surrender.
The mountain was in chaos.
Some people surrendered, some were still resisting, and some fell to the ground in despair.
It's like the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
Fubiao suddenly collapsed.
Several large holes were opened in the simple village wall in an instant, but this time, no one tried desperately to block it.
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"Your Highness, Tu Guobao and the deputy general of our army escaped during the fierce guerrilla fighting in Zuoying. They escaped by climbing ropes from the cliff of the back mountain. I have sent troops to chase them."
After hearing this, Zhu Yihai couldn't help but admire the Tu national treasure's ability to escape. Could this Tu Baopao be a descendant of Tu Xingsun? Does he know how to escape from Tu?
"If found, execute him on the spot," Zhu Yihai said.
The battle on the mountain has ended. After the collapse of Fubiao, the Ming army quickly broke through the simple camp. Nearly 1,500 Fubiao died in the battle, and more than 800 were killed. In the end, about 600 were captured and surrendered.
In this battle, Zhu Yihai used more than 10,000 troops from the three towns of the Imperial Guard to attack the fortress in turns. It took half a day, and more than 300 people were killed in the end, winning the battle.
My only regret is that I lost Tu Guobao and a few others.
"How to deal with these surrendered troops?" Yang Wencong asked.
