Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Chapter 97: Dropped

“Qianhu, Qinggou is going to run over the wall!”

Not long after the fire, Song Erniu, the general flag soldier of the former battalion, saw a ladder suddenly erected on the fence of the backyard of the Li residence. not out. But Song Erniu looked carefully. Although he didn’t see anyone emerging from the ladder, he judged that it was the Qing army who wanted to run over the wall, so he ordered his men to be on guard, and hurried over to report to Zhou Shixiang.

Hearing Song Erniu’s report, Zhou Shixiang snorted coldly and waved at Song Erniu: “They can’t escape, pass my order, the engineer battalion will monitor the gate, and the other teams will guard the courtyard wall in sections, as long as they see someone emerging inside, they will give it to them. I will kill!”

“Yes, a thousand households!” Song Erniu responded with a bang, and brought a few of his men to each team to give orders.

After Song Erniu left, Zhou Shi met the fire was not big, and there were not many flammables around the Li Mansion, and the courtyard walls in the mansion were all made of bricks. There was no way to make the fire burn in a short time. Eyebrows, the green battalion soldiers inside will naturally not be forced out.

Zhou Shixiang didn’t want to waste time on these remnants of the Green Battalion, so he wanted someone to fetch some water to sprinkle on the fire. After the water was poured, the flame on the fire suddenly weakened, but then a thick white smoke with a yellow color rose from the fire. The wind assisted the smoke, and in an instant, the sky above the Li residence was shrouded in thick smoke.

“If you don’t surrender, you’ll choke these **** to death!”

Ge Yi saw that the smoke was all smoked into the yard, the Green Battalion soldiers inside were shouting, and he could vaguely hear someone coughing loudly, and he was overjoyed. Due to the strict order given by Zhou Shi according to legend, he did not dare to neglect, and led his soldiers to stare at the courtyard wall in front of him with spears. The sun does not descend.

On the other side of the gate, the team of engineers transferred from the engineer battalion also stared at the gate with the thunderbolt as if they were facing a great enemy. Knowing that Zhentianlei can be used to kill and injure Qing soldiers is fine, but bombing the door is not good, because Zhentianlei is made of bamboo, and the amount of gunpowder in it is not enough, and the power of the explosion is not enough to blow up the iron gate of Li Mansion. Lose. Unless there is an explosion like blowing up Luoding’s city wall, but that is obviously not good, because it will consume more gunpowder.

There are not many thunderbolts in the camp, and each one is a treasure in Zhou Shixiang’s eyes. If there is no supply of gunpowder, one will be used less than one, and Xinxing Town is only the first to go south to Xiangjiang. A threshold is not even a nail. If this is used too much, the subsequent battles will not be able to be fought. After all, the current strength of the Taiping Battalion is much worse than that of the Qing army, and even more powerful than the Green Battalion of the same strength. Be weaker.

If you want to win the next battle and successfully bring the Taiping Camp to Xiangjiang, you must rely on Zhentianlei, which is more lethal than bows, arrows and firearms.

Zhou Shixiang rejected the suggestion of blasting the door with a thunderbolt, and only ordered the team of engineers to monitor closely. If the green battalion soldiers inside were found rushing out of the gate, they would throw two or three bombs to blow up their determination to break through. The battle still relies on swords and spears.

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Outside the Taiping Camp, those who set fire to fire, those who want to blow up the door, and those who guard the courtyard wall, the green battalion soldiers inside are not safe. When the fire didn’t start, most of the battalion soldiers wanted to surrender. Now the fire is together, thinking It fell even more. However, the general Zhao Shiyu was persuaded by the gang from Zhaoqing, and ordered to prepare to break through, and led a few officers to lead the battalion to suppress the battalion who wanted to surrender. Waiting for the fiercely shouted soldiers have already been killed.

Zhao Shiyu’s breakout plan was to run over the wall, because he knew that the Ming army guarding outside the gate must be prepared and would not let them escape calmly, but running through the courtyard wall had a great chance of escaping. Zhao Shiyu’s idea was that the Li Mansion, which covers an area of several tens of acres, is too large, and the Ming army cannot guard every inch of the courtyard wall, and their attention is focused on the direction of the gate, so as long as the speed is fast enough, they can grab the Ming army brigade. The people and horses ran out of Xinxing Town from the courtyard wall before they found out. As long as they got out of the town and drilled into the woods, the Ming army would have nothing to do with them.

The preparations for breaking through the siege were ready. In addition to the ladders in Li’s house, a total of more than ten ladders were secretly erected behind the courtyard wall. When Zhao Shiyu was about to give the order to break through the siege, thick white smoke floated above the courtyard wall. In the blink of an eye, the courtyard was shrouded in thick smoke.

The weather is hot, people are anxious, and suddenly thick smoke hits, and the taste of being in it can be imagined. This cigarette does not discriminate, whether officers or battalions, they all coughed loudly and choked out tears one by one.

Song Liu, who has always wanted to surrender, didn’t want to accompany the officials who died in vain, took the opportunity to shout again: “Brothers, don’t hang yourself with the officials to death, they won’t surrender, let’s surrender!”

“The smoke is too big, I can’t stand it, I can’t hold it!”

“Come down, come down, go open the door, come on!”

Some battalion soldiers were so choked by the smoke that they couldn’t stand it, so they turned around and rushed forward to open the door to surrender.

“Second Master, the battalions can’t hold their breath, let’s hurry up to the wall!”

Seeing that the situation was not good, Xiong Yingfu dragged the second steward and ran to the ladder, and the second steward was so anxious that he jumped his feet. Seriously, everyone in this yard can descend, but he absolutely cannot!

Let him have 10,000 mouths and 10,000 minds to Er, but the status of a manager of the Jingnan palace is enough to make his head move and let him rest his thoughts of begging for mercy. Besides, he is still a banner man! Although they belong to the Han army banner, they are also bannermen! After entering the customs during the Qing Dynasty, I did not hear that any bannermen descended, nor did I hear that there were bannermen who could not die if they descended!

With his eyes barely open, Xiang Eryan watched as a battalion soldier shouted to open the door. In a hurry, he grabbed Zhao Shiyu and shouted, “What are you still doing, why don’t you keep your father away!”

“what?”

Zhao Shiyu jolted, subconsciously responded, and then helped Xiang Er to go to the ladder. This would also ignore the battalion soldiers who went to open the door and surrendered. If you don’t hurry up and climb over the wall, it will be too late.

The smoke in the yard is getting bigger and bigger. If you don’t go out quickly, the fire won’t kill you, and the smoke will choke to death. Most of the battalion soldiers went to the front yard to open the door to surrender, and the only remaining officers were a few officers, Zhao Shiyu’s personal soldiers, and the group from Zhaoqing.

“Cough cough…”

Manager Xiang ran to the ladder, he couldn’t take it anymore, he was lying on the corner of the wall and couldn’t help gasping for breath. The others weren’t much better either, they all walked forward with a cat on their waist, there was nothing they could do, they wouldn’t be able to breathe air if they didn’t.

Xiong Yingfu was also choked up, but still dragged Xiang Er, holding the ladder with one hand, and pulling Xiang Er up the ladder with the other: “Second Master, you go up first!”

“it is good!”

Xiang Er gratefully glanced at Xiong Yingfu, struggled to walk to the ladder, one foot just stepped up but shrank back empty, followed one of Zhao Shiyu’s personal soldiers with a finger, and instructed him: “You go first!”

The personal soldier was stunned and looked at Zhao Shiyu. After the latter nodded, he quickly covered his mouth and climbed up the ladder, but as soon as he put his head out, before he could see what was going on outside the courtyard wall, he screamed and fell. down.

But after hearing the sound of “thump”, the personal soldier fell heavily on the ground. Xiong Yingfu, who was beside him, was startled. He narrowed his eyes and was shocked. It turned out that a large hole had been stabbed in the chest of the personal soldier by a spear. There will be blood flowing out.

“My lord, the Ming army is outside the wall, and the brothers didn’t go out!”

The officers who followed Zhao Shiyu were dumbfounded~www.readwn.com~ and didn’t know what to do. Zhao Shiyu was also panicked. The Ming army outside the courtyard wall was ready, so there was no way to break through the encirclement.

How to do? If you don’t break out, you will be choked to death by smoke, roasted to death by fire, broken out, and stabbed to death by a spear?

When everyone was panicking, they heard Jiang Dahai, who had been unwilling to surrender, suddenly say: “Sir, why don’t you surrender, if this continues, the brothers will be choked to death!”

“This…”

Even Jiang Dahai was about to surrender, Zhao Shiyu’s heart fell to the bottom of the valley, and he was also a little tempted to surrender. After all, he didn’t want to be choked to death by smoke.

“Can’t come down, not even in death!”

Seeing that Zhao Shiyu had the idea of surrendering, he shouted to the second steward in a hurry: “Everyone, go up together, there are not many Ming troops outside!”

As soon as he finished speaking, someone shouted from behind him, “Get on your mother’s head!” Then he felt his arms tighten, as if being held down by something.

“What are you doing?”

Xiong Yingfu and those Zhaoqing businessmen were shocked by the arrest of Second Manager Xiang.

Zhao Shiyu was also very surprised, looked at Jiang Dahai in disbelief, and lost his voice: “Dahai, what are you doing?”

Jiang Dahai gritted his teeth and said, “Sir, with this royal mansion in charge, our lives will not be lost!”

“You mean?”

Zhao Shiyu stared at Director Xiang Er for only a few seconds, and suddenly made up his mind. Under Xiang Er’s angry eyes, he called out, “Down, we’re down!”