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Chapter 101 The Battle of Fuzhou (3)

Almost only a quarter of an hour before the attack began, the two cities at Ningyue Gate and Haiyan Gate in Fuzhou were occupied by a large number of Tang soldiers. Under the intimidation of the thunder, all the Fuzhou soldiers were afraid of their hands and feet, always guarding against whether the ignition pots would be thrown over, and how to fight this battle next.

Qian Hongyan, the governor of Zhangwu and the governor of Fuzhou, was still in a state of anxiety and confusion and was woken up by a personal guard: "The prime minister of Qian, the city is out of protection, you can withdraw to Zicheng first."

Qian Hongyan was awakened by this sentence and said angrily: "Take aside, how much can they have? Tell the soldiers below to kill an enemy soldier and reward five jin of money and kill me."

The words of heavy rewards were quickly passed, and the Fuzhou soldiers, who were aroused by the heavy money, rushed forward again, and the formation was forced towards the Tang soldiers.

At this time, Tang Bing's strategy changed again: Chen Desheng yelled at his elder brother Chen Decheng: "Boss, you and Yanhua lead the troops to defend the front line, I will rush towards the north Shuimen."

Chen Decheng immediately agreed loudly, directing his subordinates to quickly form three staggered defense lines on the city surface, and attacked forward like waves. Chen Desheng, Lin Renzhao and Feng Jingyun three masters led a few people to form a team and began to attack the northward Shuimen.

Suddenly, three black sharp arrows representing death and ominousness began to fire. The sharp arrows shot down the Fuzhou guards who were facing each other, slashing the city guards along the way, and advancing quickly.

The Shuimen in the southwest corner of Fuzhou City is very close to Ningyuemen, only 300 meters, almost in a few long breaths, three rushing teams rushed to the Shuimen and set up a line of defense north of the Shuimen Gate.

Now, there is a long section of the city wall that has become the Southern Tang soldiers. The drums under the city are getting louder and all the soldiers rushed up, scrambling ladders outside this section of the city wall, pushing simple siege cars, and people rushed towards the city like dense ants.

Qian Hongyan drew his sword and slashed off the railing in front of him in anger, constantly shouting "kill" and "kill". However, in the chaos of war on the top of the city, few people could hear his shouting.

His personal guard Qian Daren roared in his ear: "Qian is the prime minister, and the enemy has begun to upgrade to the Shuimen Iron Gate."

Qian Hongyan looked away and found many southern Tang soldiers who were climbing the city shouting horns and turning the big stir-fighting plate. The water gate was slowly rising. Knowing that things were no longer possible, he shouted at the sky with great resentment.

Qian Daren grabbed Qian Hongyan and whispered to several guards, protecting Qian Hongyan and slipped down from the west stairs of the city gate tower. Several people stopped the five hundred reinforcements coming under the wall and rushed to the north. The people on the city were attracted by the war and did not notice that their chief general had already slipped away in advance.

The water gate hit the top of the iron frame with an unpleasant creaking sound, making a loud "bang". Ten Jianzhou soldiers raised their heavy levers to block the iron gate, and the waterway entering Fuzhou was opened.

The two-chariot warship, which had been waiting outside the city for a long time, immediately accelerated and rushed towards the water gate. The soldiers loaded up on it raised their shields, formed shield walls on both sides of the ship, and rushed straight into Fuzhou City.

"Our ship has attacked the city." Chen Decheng immediately led his men to shout. The news immediately inspired all the Jianzhou army. Everyone shouted like they had drunk stimulants. The same information reached the ears of the Fuzhou soldiers, but it was like a death knell: the enemy has attacked the city, is there any meaning to defend the city wall?

A Fuzhou army was also startled by the news and ran to the inner city to look east. Through the mountain of Jiuxian Mountain, he could see high masts appearing one by one on the inside of the water gate.

"Money is the minister, money..." Du turned his head and looked at the city gate tower, but found that there was no one on it, and immediately felt that something was wrong.

The Dutou immediately ran to the city gate tower and found that the empty city plan had really been staged. He immediately looked north and looked into the street directly leading to the city gate tower. Qian Hongyan was running towards Antai Bridge at the northern end of the city gate road under the protection of a group of personal guards and reinforcements.

"Damn it." He cursed and turned downstairs, secretly found several brothers he was close to, and led everyone to slip along the city wall to the west. If he didn't leave, he would wait for the soldiers on the enemy ship to attack from Jiuxian Mountain, and he would not be able to leave even if he wanted to.

Chen Decheng was tall and saw someone slipping away from the enemy behind him. He immediately looked up at the city gate tower and found that there was no one except a few flags on it. He immediately shouted excitedly: "Hey, look back, your Shangguan has all run away."

Influenced by Chen Decheng, dozens of Jianzhou soldiers also shouted: "You officials have all run away, why are you fighting for nothing?"

"Brothers, the city is broken, don't resist stubbornly, otherwise there will be a dead end."

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Hearing these stern sounds, the more the soldiers in Fuzhou became more and more distressed, and many people also looked back at the city gate tower.

There was no one at the city gate tower, and this scene immediately made many Fuzhou soldiers feel like the Fujian water of this season, and the tiles were cold.

At the stalemate, a Jianzhou soldier close to the inner wall pointed to the city and shouted loudly: "Our reinforcements." His words attracted the attention of the soldiers on both sides, and he turned his head to look north of the city: a group of Southern Tang soldiers appeared behind Jiuxian Mountain and were running wildly towards this side.

The enemy has formed a favorable situation of attacking the city and under the city, and there are more and more enemy troops on the city. This cold fact has made many Fuzhou soldiers hesitate, and almost no one has tried his best to strike forward.

Chen Decheng shouted in a rough voice: "Brothers in Fuzhou, do you know how many troops we have to attack the city? All Jianzhou Army, Yum Army, Quanzhou Army, and Zhangzhou Army, are 100,000 people. We are ten of us to attack you. It will be a matter of time before Fuzhou City is broken. I hope you will think clearly and what will happen if you continue to resist." Anyway, Chen Decheng can't brag any more than 30,000 in his own military strength.

Many Fuzhou soldiers looked at each other, no one said anything, and there were only heavy breathing sounds on the top of the city.

Chen Decheng slowed down his speech a little and shouted, "Do you know why the Quanzhang army has come? Now, the Qingyuan army has completely surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, and Lord Liu was promoted to the General of the Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. All the former Qingyuan army generals and soldiers have become soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Now, give everyone a chance to choose: either put down the knife in your hand, we have good wine and dishes in the military camp under the city, and we are all good hospitality. After this battle, we are all Tang soldiers and brothers; or you turn around and run and meet with others, we will fight back and fight for life and death."

"You can guarantee that you will not hurt a surrender soldier." A young man asked in a muffled voice in the group.

"I am Chen Decheng, deputy general of the Jianzhou Army. Chen Hui, the governor and attendant of Jianzhou in the Tang Dynasty, is his father. I, Chen Decheng, is also a seven-foot man who can spit out and be a stinger. I can swear to the sky that I will never hurt a brother. In addition, you can send a few representatives to Haiyan Gate to see if the Quanzhou Army is fighting, and see if I have lie to you. You will decide to stay or not." Chen Decheng patted his chest carelessly and said loudly.

Chen Decheng first walked to the inner city and waved his hand to signal the hundreds of reinforcements who arrived below not to attack first. Then he threw the knife in his hand to the ground and signaled his brothers to insert the knife into the scabbard. He then continued to encourage him: "You stay, I welcome you warmly; if you want to leave, I will never stop you, give everyone a hundred counts of time to consider."

Without Chen Decheng's command, a soldier behind him began to count loudly: "One, two, three..."

At the quiet city, only the soldier was counting faster and faster. When he counted to the "Thirty-three", a Fuzhou soldier finally threw the knife in his hand on the ground. Then the sound of the knife falling to the ground became dense, and the jingle sound continued, just like a sudden rush of rain in spring.

Chen Decheng's final effect of persuading surrender was very good. Among the less than 3,000 soldiers guarding the city of Fuzhou, more than 2,000 chose to surrender. Except for more than 400 soldiers who took off their military uniforms and prepared to leave the city, the remaining more than 400 soldiers retreated west along the city wall.

Chen Decheng kept his word and arranged for a deputy general to escort all the surrendered soldiers to put down their weapons and go to the city to line up to guard. He led the elites of the tooth army to open the Ningyue Gate. The anxious Jianzhou army rushed in, and the Jianzhou Jiedushi Chen Hui rode his horse to the front.

During the process of the army entering the city, Chen Hui ordered Chen Decheng to run quickly towards the city gate waterway with 10,000 troops, and then join the waterway to attack northeast along the waterway. Zheng Yanhua led 5,000 soldiers to climb up to the city top to sweep the defenders on the city walls, striving to meet with the Quanzhou army as soon as possible. Chen Hui himself led the most elite tooth army to head straight to Antai Bridge in the north.

Three black torrents swept away like clouds, and they rushed into Fuzhou City separately.
Chapter completed!
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