"Brothers, rush with me. They want to reload. We rush into the door and guard the city gate. The general has an order: Those with meritorious deeds will be rewarded. Charge." The people in front ran away to death. The one among the Yuan soldiers The general was horrified by the tragic situation in front of him, and then he reacted, swung his saber and took the lead in rushing towards the east gate.
The remaining Yuan soldiers were still waiting and watching, and there were still hundreds of diehard loyalists who rushed out closely behind the generals. In this way, the Yuan soldiers and generals behind them were not blind followers. Soon the Yuan army gathered thousands of people to attack Da Kui. They came to kill.
The burst of artillery fire just now frightened half of the Yuan soldiers. Thousands of people were hiding in the lanes of ruined houses. They would not come forward to fight for life or death. After years of war, the Yuan army was short of manpower. Most of these people were forced by the Yuan army. Most of the people from various ethnic groups who came here were Han. The Yuan Dynasty used Mongolians and Semu people in important positions. Han people rarely served as officials or generals. Naturally, Li Siqi was an exception.
Yuanting divided people into four classes: first-class Mongolians, second-class Semu people, third-class Han people, and fourth-class Southerners. This shows the status of Han people and people of all ethnic groups in the south in the eyes of Yuan Ting.
Although there were only less than 5,000 yuan of soldiers who rushed forward, for the Ming army soldiers around Dakui, it was still a huge crowd.
Dakui stood alone at the city gate with an iron gun in hand. The Ming army soldiers behind him were digging desperately. It turned out that the Yuan soldiers not only bolted the city gate, but also stocked the door with thousands of sandbags, blocking the city gate. Deadly.
If the city gate cannot be opened within half an hour, the fate of the people outside the city will inevitably experience a catastrophe. The Yuan soldiers have been dispatched from the remaining three gates. The three teams total 55,000 people. The Ming army outside the city is less than 40,000. Moreover, They were leaderless again, and Dakui was extremely anxious when he thought about this.
"General, hurry up to the city, we will resist here," the captain who was following Dakui said urgently.
Da Kui looked at the thousands of soldiers who were coming like wolves and tigers, and said in a deep voice: "Take the people and quickly open the city gate. I am here." Da Kui blocked his ears. Although he didn't know what his subordinates were talking about at this moment, he Dakui knew that if he wanted to stop these Yuan soldiers, no one could stop him. In this case, Dakui was determined to fight to the death.
When the captain heard this, with tears in his eyes, he turned around and shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up." After hearing this, the Ming army soldiers carrying sandbags accelerated their movements, because they also knew in their hearts that if they could not open the city as soon as possible, door, what will be waiting for them.
Da Kui stepped forward a few steps, swung his iron gun, and shouted in a loud voice: "Xiaohu, don't distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, shoot all the cannonballs,"
Yang Xiaohu stood at the top of the city. When he heard his adoptive father's cry, his eyes filled with tears. He quickly turned around and ran to the other side of the city wall. He grabbed the wall and looked outside the city. What he saw was a scene of fighting. Thirty thousand people outside the city. The army was strangled with the Yuan soldiers who were besieged from three sides.
"Are you okay?" Yang Xiaohu's voice was already full of tears.
The artillery crews stepped up their reloading and were installing fuses at the moment. A corps commander responded while busy: "General Yang, this is good."
Yang Xiaohu stretched out his hand to wipe the tears from his face, took out his sword and shouted: "I'll go down to the city to fight. Just wait here and fire."
As he spoke, he ran towards the city defense ladder without waiting for anyone to stop him.
(The artillery shells in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties are roughly divided into two types. One is a solid bullet, which is iron gada, which is used to attack enemy formations and buildings. The second is a grenade. The iron shell is hollow and contains explosives. It is twisted by sealing powder. detonate,)
Yang Xiaohu had just left the city, and the corps commander who led the troops suddenly froze on the spot. The soldiers asked why, and the corps commander pointed to the wooden boxes containing the shells and said: "It's too late, the loading is too slow, we don't need cannons, we just need to put the shells in" Once the fuse is lit, just throw it down into the city."
A soldier asked hurriedly: "Doesn't that mean that even the general was injured?"
The corporal commander not only cursed: "You have a fucking human head and a pig's head, you can't throw it far,"
Everyone nodded in agreement, and the corps commander raised his voice again: "There are about four to five hundred cannonballs here. Let's throw them away. If you throw away all the cannonballs, come down to the city with me. I wish you a helping hand, general."
All the soldiers shouted in unison: "Recapture Lanzhou and become famous in one battle."
"Kill," the Yuan soldiers rushed to the city gate like a wave of anger, and all of a sudden they came out with swords and guns and went straight to Dakui to kill him.
Dakui swung his iron spear, used his strength to block, then twisted his waist, and fired back with the spear in both hands. The tip of the spear brought out a cloud of blood mist, and the five Yuan soldiers at the front were struck in the throat and fell to the ground.
Before the Yuan soldiers behind him could rush forward, Dakui had already advanced with his spear and once again stabbed a Yuan soldier captain through the chest.
The city gate was only five feet wide. As Da Kui risked his life to fight, the Yuan soldiers who rushed forward were either killed or injured within a single move. Unexpectedly, no one could break through Da Kui's blockage. The Yuan soldiers had only 5,000 men and horses, and they surrounded Da Kui. There were only a few dozen people in front and on the left and right, and the darkness behind them was full of people, but they were like tigers with no way to eat.
Dakui Yifu was at the gate and was merciless in his attacks. Just as the city gate was surrounded by Yuan soldiers, dozens of black balls were thrown from the city. These balls landed wherever there were more people.
"Run quickly, it's a cannonball," a scream came from the crowd of Yuan soldiers, but the scream was immediately drowned out by the earth-shattering explosion.
"Boom, boom, boom..." The ground seemed to be shaking, and those shells exploded in the dense crowd. There were screams everywhere, and broken limbs could be seen everywhere.
Just as Yang Xiaohu ran down the city defense ladder, a huge roar shook Yang Xiaohu and he sat down on the ground. When he looked up, he saw that the crowd of Yuan soldiers was already filled with smoke. In this round of shells, nearly a thousand Yuan soldiers were killed or injured.
In front of the originally crowded city gate, a large area suddenly became vacant. The ground was a mess of blood and flesh. Before Yuan Bing could recover, another cannonball was thrown down on the city.
"Boom, boom, boom..." This round of explosions also affected the hundreds of yuan soldiers who were fighting with Dakui. The dozens of yuan soldiers surrounding the battle group fell to the ground like straw.
This cannonball relies on the iron sheet after the explosion to injure people. If it lands in a rocky place, the damage will be even greater. Coincidentally, the road to the city gate here is based on small bluestones with yellow sand on top. Paving the road, the power of the artillery shells became even more fierce. After two rounds of artillery shells, nearly half of the Yuan soldiers were killed or injured.
The Ming troops on the city were looking down at the city one by one. With the two rounds of shells just now, all the Yuan soldiers close to the city gate had been completely wiped out, but those far away could not be reached. In this case, let's wait a little longer.
Dakui was fighting at a fierce point, and he struck with the iron spear in his hand like the wind. However, after killing more than a hundred people with less than a hundred moves, there was no one in front of him. There was a loud noise just now, and Dakui felt his feet shaking repeatedly. , even though my ears were blocked, I could still hear the roar of the cannon.
After killing the last two Yuan soldiers in front of him, he looked around and saw that the rest of the Yuan soldiers were crowded hundreds of steps away and refused to come any closer.
Da Kui was overjoyed. Fortunately, he walked past the piled corpses of Yuan soldiers in front of him and walked forward to reach an empty field. At this time, a burst of gunpowder smoke mixed with the smell of blood hit his nostrils. Da Kui not only bent over and vomited.
Everywhere he looked, there were piles of dead bodies, and even if there were any living ones, they were all wailing all over the ground.
Looking at the Yuan soldiers in the distance, they all looked up at the city with frightened faces. Dakui also turned to look at the city and saw nearly a hundred Ming army soldiers standing holding a cannonball each. On the battlements, there were several soldiers holding torches waiting behind him.
Dakui smiled at them, and then faced the Yuan soldiers in the distance. Seeing the Yuan soldiers being defeated, Dakui smiled and waved to them. When several of the Yuan soldiers saw this, their heads shook like rattles. , refusing to come back to fight to the death.
Dakui suddenly felt bored and turned around with his iron gun in hand. He happened to see the Ming army soldiers removing all the sandbags and opening the door bolt.
"Creak~~," the city gate slowly opened with a loud sound, and the sky outside the city was filled with darkness.
Dakui quickly rushed into the city gate and came to the city gate. Looking at the Yuan and Ming armies, they were fighting inextricably. Dakui couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He turned around and ordered: "Send my order, don't stop fighting and enter the city as quickly as possible," the soldiers around him shouted loudly. Taking the order, he turned around and ran away.
Not long after, there was a sound of gold ringing in the city. The soldiers and horses of both sides who were fighting were not only stunned for a while. When the Ming army saw clearly that their own people had occupied the city and opened the city gate, they not only cheered in unison, but also the Ming army fought and fled. Retreat to Lanzhou City.
When the three generals of the Yuan soldiers saw this, they not only gave an order: "Come into the city," a large number of Yuan soldiers obeyed the military order and chased the Ming army desperately. The Ming army had just retreated to the city gate and fought with the Yuan soldiers again. After being strangled together, Sun Qian was covered in blood. He rode up to Dakui with a machete and asked in a loud voice: "General, what should we do next?"
Dakui turned around and pointed out: "There are still thousands of soldiers near the city, but they don't dare to come over. In that case, you can go over and kill them so that you can no longer pursue them."
Sun Qian heard this and shouted loudly: "Follow the general's order." Then he looked around and shouted: "Hussar camp, follow me."
When the Hussars battalion who were fighting outside the city gate heard Sun Qian's cry, they withdrew their regiments and rushed into the city gate on horseback. There were Ming infantry outside the city gate to resist the Yuan soldiers.
It was impossible for the 30,000 Ming troops to enter the city instantly through the city gate. As a result, the Yuan soldiers on the periphery were getting closer and closer, and the battle circle was getting smaller and smaller.
In less than half an hour, the Ming army was already crowded in front of the city gate. The Yuan soldiers on the periphery took this opportunity to step up the siege. For a while, there was a river of blood outside the city gate.
Dakui rushed to the city, ran towards the city defense ladder, and met Yang Xiaohu head-on.
"Hurry up to the city and tell the artillerymen to fire on the Yuan soldiers outside the city," Dakui ordered repeatedly, and Yang Xiaohu turned around and left.
Just as the Yuan soldiers outside the city were struggling with the Ming army in front of the city gate, hundreds of black balls were dropped from the city.
‘Boom, boom, boom… boom, boom, boom…’ The dense explosions were truly shaking the earth.
The Yuan army formation was filled with flames and smoke, and among the crowd that was making a chaotic killing noise, people fell on their backs. When the horses that were not injured heard such a loud noise, they ran around like crazy. In this way, the Yuan army The soldiers suffered heavy casualties and were immediately in disarray.