On the night of the seventh day of the first lunar month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the cannon fire at the head of Zhenjiang Fort that Yang Zhen had mentioned before did not sound for a long time. However, Shi and Song, who were in their camp at the southern end of Weihua Island, could no longer wait.

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Chen Shaozong led a group of soldiers with extremely unkind expressions and came aggressively to convey the order to take Shi Mingxiong and Song Guofu to the camp of Huaishun King Geng Zhongming to "discuss matters."

How could Shi and Song, who already had ulterior motives, dare to go to Geng Zhongming's camp at this juncture?

So they had no choice but to agree wholeheartedly, and at the same time they made excuses to arrange night patrols in their own camps to delay time.

Then, as soon as the cronies he had summoned and claimed to be assigned the task of guarding the camp gathered around him, Song Guofu and Shi Mingxiong suddenly turned against each other, launched a sudden attack, and directly killed Chen Shaozong and his entourage.

Then, they simply stopped doing nothing and no longer waited for Yang Zhen to give orders. They directly gathered the trusted men and horses in the camp, turned the muzzle of their guns, and blasted towards Geng Zhongming's camp.

Under night, in the camp east of Zhenjiang Fort City and at the southern end of Waihua Island, seven heavy cannons roared in turn, and the sound spread far away.

The huge muzzle flash lit up the dark night sky again and again.

The sudden situation in the area of ​​Weihua Island east of Zhenjiang Castle also shocked Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen's previous order to Yu Haichao was to wait until midnight before launching a surprise attack. The purpose was to wait until most of the Qinglu camp in the west of the city fell asleep, so as to catch them off guard and achieve the effect of a surprise attack.

Therefore, when Yang Zhen heard the roar of artillery coming from the direction of Waihua Island in the east of the city, Yang Zhen felt a little unhappy at first.

Because the two groups of people that Yang Zhen had assigned before were scheduled to start mobilizing and gathering when night fell, getting ready to go.

When the roar of artillery suddenly sounded on Waihua Island, not all the troops on the east and west routes in Zhenjiang Fort City had been assembled.

Fortunately, Qiu Zhenhai was unusually serious about this night attack out of the city, so in response to Yang Zhen's order, he called all the troops in the west of the city to prepare in advance.

When Yang Zhen heard the sound of artillery outside the city, he packed up his gear and hurried to the head of Zhenjiang Gate. People from all walks of life in the west of the city who had been ordered to follow the attack on Weihua Island were also rushing in fully armed.

Qiu Zhenhai and his men, Yu Haichao and his men, An Yingchang and his men, Liu Lin and his men, and Pan Xi and his grenadiers, totaling more than 4,000 people.

In addition to Zhang Guogan and his musketeers who went to fight with Yang Zhen, and Sun Dengxuan and his hundreds of sky cannons who went to fight with dozens of sky cannons, they attacked the soldiers from the Qinglu camp on Weihua Island from Zhenjiang Gate that night.

Horses, totaling more than 6,000 people.

These more than 6,000 people were divided into two columns. The first column was led by Qiu Zhenhai, and led by Pan Xi's grenadiers, who were the first to leave the city with torches.

The second column, under the personal command of Yang Zhen, led Zhang Guogan and his musketeers, escorted the skycannon gunners commanded by Sun Dengxuan, and followed closely behind the first column.

Yang Zhen, who had not stepped out of Zhenjiang Castle for several months, was just like the other generals and soldiers under his command who rushed out of the city gate and rushed to Waihua Island through the ice and snow. They screamed with excitement as soon as they left the city gate, wishing they could do it in the snow.

Roll around in the ground.

The emotions that had been suppressed for a long time and the strength that had been suppressed for a long time burst out with huge power at the moment they rushed out of the city gate and towards the river towards Waihua Island.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the situation in the Qinglu camp on Waihua Island.

After fighting for several months on top of Zhenjiang Fort, both Yang Zhen himself and other generals and soldiers under Yang Zhen's command actually had some idea of ​​the strength of the Qing captives outside the city.

Especially the Qing camp on Weihua Island in the east of the city. With the evacuation of the Baya La soldiers from Zhenghuang Banner and the Aliha Chaoha horse soldiers from Zhenghuang Banner, only the troops of Huaishun King Geng Zhongming were left in the camp on the island.

If the heavy artillery of Geng Zhongming's men had not been lost in the previous artillery battle, then the generals and soldiers under Yang Zhen might still be a little wary and afraid.

But now, not only have their heavy artillery suffered heavy losses and there are not many left, but the remaining heavy artillery is still in the hands of Shi and Song. They are currently bombarding the Qing Dynasty in the middle of Waihua Island one after another.

Where is the main camp!

The most important thing is that Shi and Song are already one of our own, and they are our internal collaborators. Can we win such a battle?!

Therefore, the night attack launched from the east of the city to attack the Qing camp on Waihua Island did not require any pre-war mobilization by Yang Zhen.

Following Yang Zhen and Qiu Zhenhai, the troops from all walks of life had higher morale than the last. With just one charge, they rushed into the already chaotic Qinglu camp on Waihua Island.

Yang Zhen originally wanted to see the famous Huaishun King Geng Zhongming with his own eyes, and he didn't mind keeping him alive temporarily and sending him to the capital of the Ming Dynasty in the future to show off his military exploits.

But when Yang Zhen entered the Qinglu camp on Waihua Island surrounded by a large group of musketeers, the first news Qiu Zhenhai reported to him was the death of Geng Zhongming.

Huaishun King Geng Zhongming died, and died miserably.

When Yang Zhen saw his body, only his upper body was left, and it was broken below the waist.

Under the light, among the ruins, one could vaguely see his broken legs and limbs, his clothes and armor mixed with pieces of flesh and filth, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

Geng Zhongming, the king of Huaishun who once dominated the world in the original time and space, was blown up to his waist without even seeing the face of Yang Zhen, the real leader of this battle.

Of course, Geng Zhongming may not want to meet Yang Zhen.

But Yang Zhen wanted to see him alive and escorted him to the capital to be punished.

At the very least, he should be beheaded in public just like what was done to Shang Kexi, as a warning to all traitors, and to show all the traitors what would happen to the leading party who defected to a foreign race.

Unfortunately, King Geng Zhongming of Huaishun was directly hit by a cannon fired by Shi Mingxiong and others from the heavy artillery of Song Dynasty, and was killed on the spot.

Song Guofu, Shi Mingxiong and their men were good at using artillery to defend the city when they were generals in Denglai Town.

Precisely because of this, after they ignorantly followed Geng Zhongming and launched a mutiny, in the armies of Kong and Geng, although they were peripheral generals, they were able to maintain their status.

This time, they acted as internal agents and took the lead in launching an artillery attack. All seven heavy artillery pieces they controlled were aimed at one place and bombarded them.

This place is where Geng Zhongming's tent is located.

Song Guofu and Shi Mingxiong were of course very familiar with the location of Geng Zhongming's tent, and they could identify the exact location even in the dark.

In this way, all seven heavy cannons aimed at Geng Zhongming's tent and bombarded him. Shortly after the whole battle started, Geng Zhongming was killed in his tent.

Correspondingly, many trusted generals who were called by Geng Zhongming to ambush the tent and prepare to attack Shi and Song were also killed under the concentrated bombardment of this wave of heavy artillery.

Geng Zhongming's entire tent was reduced to ruins by heavy artillery fire. There were broken limbs and mutilated corpses everywhere.

Yang Zhen felt a little regretful that he could not see Geng Zhongming alive.

But being able to see Geng Zhongming's body with his own eyes, and having his head beheaded and held in his hands, Yang Zhen was able to fulfill his wish.

King Sanshun still had one Kong Youde left, holding Geng Zhongming's dead head in his hand. Yang Zhen secretly made up his mind to collect all the heads of King Sanshun.

The Qinglu camp on Waihua Island is divided into three camps: north, middle and south.

The camp located at the southern end of the camp used to belong to Geng Zhongming's troops, but now it is the camp where two people from Shi and Song Dynasty guarded and escorted the heavy artillery.

The main camp in the middle used to be the main camp of the Alihachaoha horse armor soldiers of Zhenghuang Banner, led by Zhen Guarjia Turai of Gushan E, Zhenghuang Banner. After Turai evacuated, Geng Zhongming led all his trusted soldiers and horses to settle in it.

As for the camp located in the north of the island, it used to be the location of the stables and fodder fields where thousands of horsemen under Guarjaturai maintained their war horses. Now, it is not so much a camp as a refugee camp surrounded by a large fence.

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After Tu Lai evacuated from Waihua Island, he left all the camps on Waihua Island to Geng Zhongming.

Geng Zhongming then turned the stables and hayyards in the north of the island into a place for the people, women, children, servants, soldiers, and property captured by King Huaishun's soldiers and soldiers from the Ning Kingdom.

Of course, the most important thing is that in this huge camp in the north of Waihua Island, apart from housing a large number of people and supplies, there are not many elite defenders.

Except for Niu Lu, who belonged to the Huaishun Wangbing of the Han Army in Zhenghuang Banner, the other so-called defenders in the camp were all newly made servants of the court.

They were not used for fighting, but for taking care of the large number of people, women, children, and grain and livestock in the camp.

Therefore, rather than saying that they are defenders, it is better to say that they are handymen in the camp.

These people have no will to resist at all.

When they discovered that King Huaishun's camp had been breached and they had been surrounded, they could not muster the courage to resist in the chaos.

Finally, after several sky cannons brought by Sun Dengxuan opened fire, killing and injuring a number of people, they immediately chose to open the door and ask for surrender.

Yang Zhen, who originally hoped for a quick victory, still welcomed enemies who brought their own food and supplies and surrendered to him.

In this way, from the start of the battle on Waihua Island to the time when all the enemies on Waihua Island were either wiped out or chose to surrender, the entire process took less than an hour.

The speed was not only beyond Yang Zhen's own expectations, but also beyond the expectations of Prince Zheng Jierhalang of the Qinglu Camp in the west of Zhenjiang Fort City.

The distance between the Qinglu Camp in the west of Zhenjiang Castle and the Weihua Island camp in the east of the city was of course two or three times farther than the troops Yang Zhen had assembled at Zhenjiang Gate.

However, there are a large number of soldiers and horses with blue flags in the west camp of Qinglu City, including Baya La and Aliha Chaoha. Regardless of whether they take a detour to the south or north of the city, the distance between the two places is only a dozen miles.

If Prince Zheng Jierhalang ordered the Baya La and Alihachaoha horse soldiers with blue flags to go to support Geng Zhongming as soon as he heard the rumbling of artillery in the direction of Waihua Island, then the attack on Waihua Island would be

How it will turn out is actually hard to say.

After all, Yang Zhen currently doesn't have many cavalry under his command.

On the relatively flat and open ice of the Yajiang River, a large number of elite Bajra cavalry and Aliha chaoha horse soldiers faced off against Yang Zhen's infantry musketeers, infantry grenadiers and other infantry archers and sword and shield men.

, for spearmen, they actually still have a huge advantage.

Even if they cannot gain a complete upper hand and form a unilateral crushing advantage, they will at least cause heavy losses to Yang Zhen's troops or pose a huge threat.

Under such circumstances, if Yang Zhen cannot quickly capture Geng Zhongming's main camp on Waihua Island, the war will fall into a stalemate, and whether he can escape unscathed in the end is a question.
Chapter completed!