On the last day of April, the early morning wind in the Liaodong Peninsula was no longer cold. The sky was already approaching Yinshi and dawn was not far away.

Yang Zhen stood in front of the house and saw all the generals near Shiqiaozi outside the south gate of Xiongyue. He suddenly felt that he needed to say something in public in order to boost morale and cheer up the spirits of the soldiers.

At that moment, he took a few steps forward and faced the soldiers lined up on the road. He rubbed his bony face with his hands to make himself more awake. Then he pointed to the small town of Xiongyue in the distance and told everyone.

said:

"Brothers! Today is our last battle near Rabbit Island! In Xiongyue City ahead, there is wine, meat, gold, silver, and Tatar women all over the city! If Xiongyue City is destroyed, it will all belong to us!

"The team led by me, Yang Zhen, has always maintained strict military laws and strict discipline. We are never allowed to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and we are never allowed to rape or plunder. But today is different from the past. In addition to following orders in all actions, I have no other requirements!

"Remember! Whatever these Manchu Tatars did to us Han people and our relatives in Western Liaoning and the Pass, you can do it, everyone can do it!

"Remember! This is what God has agreed to, and God has promised it! This is called reincarnation, retribution is not good! This is called blood for blood, blood debt must be repaid with blood!"

Yang Zhen's voice was not loud, but every word he said was like a thunderous shock, and it instantly aroused the somewhat nervous and dull morale.

"Brothers! Do you all—do you understand?!"

Yang Zhen looked at the dark and silent majority in front of him. After a brief pause, he suddenly shouted and asked questions.

After a moment of silence, the crowd finally responded: "I understand!"

"I understand!"

"I understand!"

"Do you understand?!"

As Yang Zhen asked loudly again, the responses that originally sounded one after another finally merged into a torrent of voices, like a river suddenly bursting its banks, shouting out in unison:

"Got it!"

In just a moment, the shouts rang out and disappeared again, and Shiqiaozi returned to silence again, but Yang Zhen knew that the group of soldiers in front of him were no longer the sleepy soldiers just now.

Including the 120 temporarily armed boatmen and oarsmen from the naval camp under Miao Naicheng, they were no longer a ragtag group of zombies. Instead, painful memories were evoked in an instant, and they were suddenly

Filled with the passion for revenge.

The shouts at the stone bridge outside the south gate alarmed the Tatars at the Suide Gate in Xiongyue City in the distance. In the quiet night, the sound of gongs used to convey warning signals during night patrols could only be heard from the Suide Gate.

Soon, Yang Zhen was at Shiqiaozi and looking north, he could see the lights on Suide Gate starting to brighten.

"Sir! The Tatars upstairs at the south gate may have discovered what's going on here!"

Hu Dabao, who was right in front of Yang Zhen, also heard the sound of the gong on Suide Gate and saw the new changes on Suide Gate. He was secretly worried and quickly reported to Yang Zhen, hoping that he would stop making trouble in a big way.

, lest they lose the opportunity to attack the city.

But what Hu Dabao didn't know was that Yang Zhen was about to do this. The purpose of speaking in public was not only to boost morale, but also to induce the enemy to continue to concentrate on the south gate.

When he inspected the three positions outside the city last night, he discovered that Zhang Kushan in the city was not stupid at all. He had been on high alert for a long time and was on guard.

Moreover, as a veteran Jia La Zhangjing under Duduo Xiangbai Banner, Zhang Kushan first went to Xu Guanbao to send a messenger for help, but he was unable to wait for the reinforcements from Xu Guanbao.

There was no defense inside.

Yesterday evening, when I led hundreds of people to Shiqiaozi, it was still dark, and the road from the south gate of Xiongyue City to Shiqiaozi was smooth. It was impossible for the Tatars on the south gate tower not to see Shiqiaozi.

The situation of Qiaozi.

Zhangkushan did not send anyone out of the city for a night attack last night, probably because he was not aware of the enemy situation outside the city. However, at this time, Xiongyue City's defense must have been tight on the outside and tight on the inside.

"Don't worry! Now that the Tatars have discovered us, we don't have to hide or tuck in! - Light up the torches! Light up the torches!"

After Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng heard this, they immediately passed on the order. Soon someone lit the torch, and in a moment the south side of Shiqiaozi became brightly lit.

After hearing what Yang Zhen said, Hu Dabao and Gao Chengyou felt anxious when they saw that dozens of torches were quickly lit here.

Gao Chengyou took a step forward and looked at Yang Zhen anxiously, as if he wanted to say something to Yang Zhen.

At this moment, Yang Zhen stopped him, smiled and said loudly to him: "Brother Gao! Don't stand here and watch anymore! You and Hu Dabao, you two, hurry back to your positions and prepare to fire.

Come on! You don’t have to wait for my order. When the time comes, bombard Suide Gate immediately!”

Gao Chengyou was originally going to say the same thing. After hearing Yang Zhen's words, he clasped his fists and immediately turned around. Without saying a word, he pulled Hu Dabao and his followers and ran back.

Yang Zhen looked at Gao Chengyou, Hu Dabao and the others after they crossed the bridge and disappeared into the night in the distance, and then said to Zhang Chen: "Call Li Shouzhong out! Let him go to Li Lu and convey my order! Just say South Gate

After a few rounds of the sound of Folan cannons outside, ask him to send out men over there to light fire and blow up the city!"

"Sir! How many rounds will it take?!"

"He knows, let him decide for himself!"

After hearing this, Zhang Chen stopped asking any more questions and quickly went to Li Shouzhong, who was familiar with Shiqiaozi and Li Lu's camp outside the Xiongyue West Wall, and told him the original words and asked him to set off immediately.

Soon, a dark figure left the brightly lit group of people in Shiqiaozi, quickly crossed the stone arch bridge, and ran toward the dark west of Xiongyue City.

Yang Zhen arranged everything and said nothing more. Instead, he began to check the weapons he carried with him. He took out the short blunderbuss from the leather bag he carried with him and checked them one by one with the torch that Ma Keqing had set for himself.

, insert it into your waist.

Then he took out the long musket from his back, carefully inspected the spear and the faucet, opened the faucet, took out the ignition powder and poured it in, and then closed it again.

The soldiers on the left and right wings of the musketeers who were originally standing solemnly and assembled on the post road also followed suit and began the final inspection preparations before the war.

Although the boatmen and rowers under Miao Naicheng were large in number, they did not have flintlock muskets to equip them. At this time, everyone took off their bows and arrows, and had spears or swords and shields in hand, and they were ready to set off at any time.

They were a little timid at first, but after hearing what Yang Zhen said before, they became nervous and excited. As long as they entered the city, they could do whatever they wanted without being bound by various rules and regulations, and they were still in the city full of Tatars.

, this is an experience I have never had before.

A group of men who had been timid for who knows how long, and who had been holding back for who knows how long, finally plucked up the courage and began to gear up. They all looked forward to entering the city soon and getting a taste of Tatar women.

Maybe you can also make a windfall.

Yang Zhen didn't care what these people thought, as long as they could rush forward bravely when a war broke out, that would be fine.

"Zhang Chen! Miao Naicheng! After a while, after Gao Chengyou and others open fire, you follow me! Let's go to Gao Chengyou's place first, cheer for us, and pretend to storm the south gate! When the west side of the city is successfully bombed, you follow me to the west side and enter the city.

!”

"yes!"

"I humbly obey my orders!"

After hearing Yang Zhen's words, Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng immediately clasped their fists and accepted the order.

As soon as Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng finished speaking, they heard a loud "bang" on the north bank of the Xiangshui River, and a burst of fire flashed in the direction of Gao Chengyou, Hu Dabao and their positions.

"Sir! Gao Chengyou and the others launched—"

Before Zhang Chen finished speaking, four huge cannon sounds were heard from outside the south gate of Xiongyue City: "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" and "Boom".

"Go! Go! Kill the Tatars——!"

During the interval between the gunfire over there, Yang Zhen immediately raised his arms and shouted "Let's go", and turned around and walked towards the south gate of Xiongyue City. As he walked, he kept shouting:

"Avenge the shame, pay with blood!"

Ma Keqing somehow got a long card behind him, which was a rectangular shield. He held the long card in his left arm and held a torch in his right hand, following Yang Zhen's left side.

Qiu Zhenhai was wearing armor and still holding Yang Zhen's battle ax, closely guarding Yang Zhen's right side.

Zhang Chen and Miao Naicheng, who followed them, led several columns of their troops and shouted together with the same rhythm:

"Avenge the shame! Blood debt must be paid with blood!"
Chapter completed!