The fireworks were gorgeous, like flowers, like fire, and dazzling. The city gate soldiers at Wulin Gate all turned their eyes here. However, it was this moment of surprise that dozens of sharp arrows cut through the stagnation and accurately inserted them on the body of one city gate soldiers after another.

"Enemy attack!"

No need to shout, everyone knew that there must be an enemy raid. The Qing army guarding the gate woke up the sleeping companions, and the officers grabbed soldiers everywhere to organize a counterattack. However, the special operations team was faster. They walked quickly through the alleys and quickly approached the Wulin Gate.

"kill!"

The arrow shot from the top of the city, but Li Huanxiang didn't even take it. The rattan card was fixed in front of him to protect the vital points and rushed straight forward.

He was born in a cavalry and was originally a cavalry team in the special operations team, but in this operation, the war horses could not be transported in at all, and the cavalry also had to be an infantry charge.

The Qing army guarding the city was suddenly attacked, and the closest battalion to the sub-dang guards also took time. The hasty counterattack effect was minimal, and the Ming army was soon killed near.

The melee battle broke out, no longer a battle in formation, but just relying on personal martial arts, slashing, stabbing, and moving. The city gatekeepers are no longer opponents of the special operations team.

Just the first time to meet, the Qing army under the city gate was cut and killed. The special operations team simply divided into two parts, killing the city walls and clearing out other defenders. The other part organized defense lines, opened the city gates and lowered the suspension bridge to welcome the army outside into the city.

Luo Yongzhong personally led the team to the stairs. The Qing army at the top of the city quickly organized a counterattack and formed a dense battle formation on the stairs, trying to block the Ming army. However, the Ming army did not rush over, but pulled out one flintlock pistol after another from the bag hanging around its waist, and rushed up and aimed at the Qing army in seconds.

The battle formation was broken, and the special operations team rushed forward, instantly tore the Qing army's formation and rushed towards the top of the city.

Originally, the Qing army had hope of defending this place when they were in formation, but once the battle formation was destroyed, the Ming army flocked to it and the situation immediately reversed.

On the stairs, Luo Yongzhong killed the Qing army officer who was still fighting stubbornly. As Yu Guang reached, a Qing army was picking a bow and arrow on the city not far away and was about to shoot at the Ming army rushing towards the city.

"middle!"

The flying knife came out and inserted it straight into the forehead of the Qing army. The bow and arrow were out of hand, and the Qing army fell directly from the city.

"Quick! The reinforcements of the Tartars are coming soon."

The battle was ruined, but the number of special operations teams was still too small. The key now is to hold on until the Ming army enters the city, which is crucial.

The city gate slowly opened, the suspension bridge fell, and the special operation team also cleared the Qing army on the top of the city. However, the Qing army reinforcements arrived soon - the soldiers who were divided into guards were too close to each other.

The battle broke out again, and the Qing army did not dare to rush here, but the shooting of bows and arrows was still possible. In a blink of an eye, the Ming army who seized the city and the Qing army who went to aid launched a confrontation on the inside of the Wulin Gate. The Ming army was full of hand guns, and the range was really a disadvantage. However, the limited sniper team cooperated with the archers who made temporary guest appearances, and they were vaguely suppressing the guards' soldiers.

Soon, the thunder outside the city became closer and closer, and the soldiers guarding the Taoist in the city seemed to hear this, and stopped attacking one after another, and then fled to the nearby alleys.

From the beginning, Chen Wen's plan was to obey the strategic goal of regaining Hangzhou, Jiahu, and at the same time cooperated with the counterattack of the Ming army in Fujian.

However, Hangzhou and Nanjing were more than 550 miles apart, and they were still in the enemy-occupied area. If the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang wanted to go north in large numbers, they would have to attack Hangzhou before the Battle of Zhenjiang. However, in this way, due to Yue Le, it became a way to attract firepower for the Ming army in Fujian, which was not in line with the interests of the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Zheng Chenggong and Chen Wen wanted to help, but they could not be at the expense of his subordinates. Moreover, four years and two months in advance, although he knew that Zheng Chenggong had passed the fattening of weapons, armor and population trading in Zhejiang Sea Trade and Jinhua, and his strength was far better than that of the same period in history, but he did not know whether Zheng Chenggong would still be as in history as in history, and it was impossible to make greater investments for a possibility.

In this case, it was the best choice to restrain the Eight Banners Army of Hangzhou and Liang Huafeng from Susong to Hangzhou and Songjiang to prevent the Qing army from going north to rescue Nanjing, and both worlds were beautiful. As a result, the victory of Qiaosi Town and the storm at the city of Hangzhou were in a desperate situation.

Originally, Chen Wen had made two preparations, either breaking the city directly, or finding a reason not to attack the city, and using the Xu family's uncle and nephew to attract Xiao Qiyuan's attention, so as to achieve the possibility of a special operation team breaking the city and then annihilation of the Qing army in Hangzhou.

Because of Li Ruixin, Chen Wen leaned towards the latter, and as a result, Xiao Qiyuan sent a pillow. The two sides bargained on the money, which just delayed the time. The case of Prince Lu, the originally prepared excuse, successfully aroused Xiao Qiyuan's suspicion and led it to Li Ruixin and the uncle and nephew of the Xu family.

As for the deaths of Xu Lei and Xu Xin, even if the former did not have revenge from Yu, there was an insider in the house, the intelligence personnel from Hangzhou Station were caught off guard when they rushed in at night. Since they set up a plan to kill the former, the latter naturally could not stay because he participated in part of the conspiracy and could simply figure out where Chen Wen's plan was.

In order to ensure that everything is foolproof, Chen Wen arranged for Li Ruixin to attack Xincheng and Fuyang earlier in order to prevent the leak of news from the Li family and his daughter and destroy the entire plan. Now that the work has been completed, the Li family and his daughter have received the camp, and the only thing left is this whole city in Hangzhou.

"I don't like to use tricks, but I don't know how to do it. It's just that compared to plotting and conspiring, a dignified battle is the right way to reverse the end of the Ming Dynasty."

Chen Wen approached the west of the city, which was where Hangzhou Mancheng was located. When the Qing Dynasty came to build Mancheng, Xiao Qiyuan wanted to occupy the north of the city, and there were fewer people there, but the Eight Banners in Hangzhou had already begun to occupy houses in the densely populated city, so he followed the flow and encircled a large area of ​​land, land and houses in the west of the city.

Mancheng, Hangzhou was built in the fourth year of Yongli. At that time, it was because the bannermen broke into private houses, snatched property, destroyed people's ancestral graves, asked local officials for women, insulted scholars, and robbed merchants, which made the business travelers stand still, seriously affecting Hangzhou's commercial activities and tax revenue. So Mancheng came into being. As in the north, they occupied a large area of ​​land between Qiantang Gate and Yongkin Gate in the west of Hangzhou City, and bombed all the original residents, and those who did not follow were killed directly.

As a result, "the people of this place will support the elderly and the young, carry the visa, or move to the countryside, or transfer to the countryside." However, "the house they are surrounded by is still in the same place for twenty years to pay taxes."

The construction of the city was originally built to garrison the Eight Banners seriously affected the commercial activities and tax revenues in Hangzhou, and harassed the people too much, but after the construction was completed, this phenomenon could not be alleviated.

As the conquerors of alien races, the Eight Banners guarded the city gates, looted whatever they wanted, and even the weddings and weddings were inevitably blackmailed. In addition, there were also the infamous camp debt.

The Eight Banners garrisoned and coerced the people to borrow usury through the "basket line" that acted as intermediaries. The rapidly growing interest often made borrowers unable to repay them. The bannermen took the opportunity to seize their real estate, wives and children, or forced borrowers to join the flag camp as slaves. This kind of usury that caused the family to be destroyed naturally made the people of Hangzhou extremely disgusted. In 1682, the merchants and civilians of Wulinmen organized a market strike to protest the camp debt. The local officials arrested several camps under pressure, but were even besieged by the bannermen.

The fall of Hangzhou originated from the surrender of Lu Wang to the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was called "free from bloodshed". It was a great blessing for the people here to be able to avoid war disasters during the change of ownership of the city, but it was not a hard knife to cut people, but soft knife to sharpen people every day. The Eight Banners Army did bad things here, and the people in the city hated them deeply and almost all of them were dispatched to see the day when the Eight Banners stationed in Hangzhou were completely destroyed.

"No need to persuade me to surrender, let's start. I have been waiting for this scene for five years, and it is already a little too late."

Yes, I remember that on Dalan Mountain in the fourth year of Yongli, when Gu Shouli and Qi Xiufeng, two poor scholars at that time, told him about his past experiences, Chen Wen had the idea of ​​demolishing the whole city.

This idea has been in my mind for nearly five years. Today, it is a great pleasure to have a dream come true. Unfortunately, Gu Shouli and Qi Xiufeng, one of whom served as governors in Nangan, and the other is inspecting the construction and work of the Criminal Office in Jiangxi. They cannot watch the demolition of this building with their own eyes, but after receiving this news, they should be able to let go.

This must be the case!

The army had already surrounded the whole city, and there was no need to persuade the surrender, so it was just a fight. The city walls were made of brick and stone structures, with two horses running in parallel on the top of the city wall, which was very strong. The city was covered with men, women, young and old, and all kinds of weapons. It was obviously a swearing to fight to the death with the Ming army.

"Don't let the people in the city wait too long. Everyone comes without eating breakfast. They have to go back early to make lunch."

Chen Wen said whisperingly, the four mortars of the Jinhua Division's direct artillery team were also loading and aiming. After a while, after loading and aiming, Chen Wen nodded, and the gunman of the four mortars pressed the torch on the fire gate in turn.

The deafening sound of cannons sounded, and the solid cannon shells of the mortars roared and fell, and rushed straight to the city walls.

In a blink of an eye, blood splashed everywhere on the head of the city and stones flew. The morale of the men, women and young men of the Eight Banners who were originally determined to die was immediately shattered by the huge shells of the mortar.

The Ming army's target was the city wall. The men, women, young and old immediately panicked and wanted to escape from this dead land, and even jumped directly from the city wall. However, the shooting did not end. After reloading, the mortar continued to fire and the shells kept hitting the city wall.

First, there were broken bricks and stones, and then there were even bigger cracks. After a few rounds, the mortar cannon needed to stop and cool for a while, the Eight Banners on the top of the city suffered heavy casualties and injured, with broken limbs everywhere, as long as they could run, none of them would remain on the city. And there were two huge gaps on the front wall, especially the gap that completely tore the east gate of the city, which exposed everything in the city.

"King, should you send a large army to kill you?"

"No need to do this. Wait until the temperature of the mortar cannon drops and continues to shoot, and force all the guys in the city out." After that, Chen Wen called out Liu Da lightly, and Xu Lei's confidant Mr. Qian hurriedly fell to the ground.

"When the identification is completed, you are responsible for staring at them and smoothing this thing out of the city by the king. Remember, let them tear the city clean for me with their own hands."

The word "personal hand" was particularly aggravated. Liu Da naturally understood Chen Wen's intention and quickly answered.

In fact, if Liu Da had not been rebelled by Hangzhou Station, Chen Wen would not have known that Xu Lei had murdered his father-in-law's family, nor would have thought of the death of rising from Li Rong and this matter back then, so he decided to get rid of this scum. In the troubled times, it was not abnormal to do something against his will for self-protection, but Xu Lei could betray and even kill anyone with his own hands, and he had never hesitated. It would be a disaster for such a person to keep.

At this moment, after receiving the task, Liu Da quickly breathed a sigh of relief. Having a job is better than not having a job. At least the Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is willing to use it. The useful people are better than the useless, because that is the difference between life and death!

After a long time, the artillery cooled down and the extension fire began. Wherever the shells went, the houses collapsed and the bricks and tiles were all turned into powder, let alone people?

After two rounds of shelling, white flags were raised all over the city. A Manchu Niu Lu Zhang Jing, whose head was smashed by bricks and tiles, walked to Chen Wenma with his knees, and did not care about the wound on his head, and kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy.

"Please spare your life, the Eight Banners of Manchu and Mongolia are willing to be loyal to the king to the death, and only ask the master to give the whole city a way out of men, women, young and old."
Chapter completed!