Sheng Tianxi led his close followers and Donghu Jianrui, who was strengthened by Nahe Xiongqi. A total of more than 400 people risked their lives and rushed into the city from the filled-in gate trench, and successfully avoided the attack of stones and rolling logs at the top of the city.
distance, seize a courtyard, rush in and resist stubbornly, wait for the reinforcements from behind to enter the city, and then join forces to capture the North Tower in one fell swoop.
Sheng Tianxi thought that as long as the North Tower was captured, half of Yangxin City would be captured.
What Sheng Tianxi didn't expect was that after they occupied the house, the city's defenders resolutely attacked from the secret door in the northwest corner of the city wall, and immediately defeated most of the rebels and rebels who were preparing to attack the city in Gu Yuan, the northwest corner of Yangxin.
Here, the narrow valley of six to seven thousand people was in chaos. Apart from wishing that their parents would have extra legs to run away, who would think of joining them who had already invaded the city?
The defenders in the city were also very fast. They first used an elite armored force to pin down Shengtianxi's troops inside the Sanheyuan house-style barricade and were unable to get out. The auxiliary soldiers quickly seized the horses, rushed chariots, iron caltrops, iron nail boards, etc.
Obstacles blocked the passage between the North City Gate and the barricade occupied by the Shengtianxi Department, and sealed the Sanheyuan.
Only then did Sheng Tianxi have the intention to observe the inside of the three-heyuan courtyard they occupied. Except for the solid courtyard walls, all the houses inside had been demolished, leaving only an unobstructed empty courtyard. Except for the main entrance and side entrance facing the street,
The gates of the house and the back house have been sealed from the outside, as if they were barricades prepared by the defenders for street fighting, but now they are trapped here.
At this time, Sheng Tianxi could only hear the shouts of killing from outside. He did not know that the siege soldiers and the newly attached Han troops had been routed. He and his subordinates were actively making preparations and waiting outside the city gate.
A large number of newly attached Han troops and Dong Hu Jianrui rushed in, so he led the crowd to fight out, thinking that he could not escape from the victory of seizing the city.
After waiting for a while, no follow-up reinforcements were seen rushing in. They were trapped in the courtyard and could still see the situation at the top of the north city wall. Sheng Tianxi felt that something was wrong. He had not thought that the army would be defeated outside the city.
The scorpion crossbow at the top of the city changed its direction and first used mud bombs to calibrate the distance. Four or five mud bombs of various standard weights were accurately thrown into the empty courtyard occupied by Shengtian Xi's tribe. Then they used stone bombs to hurl at the house.
All the houses in the courtyard have been demolished. Except for the high wall on the north which can provide some protection, there is no obstruction. Four hundred people are crowded into a three-in-one courtyard. It is quite dense. If a stone is thrown, a bone may be broken.
Injuries to the tendons can lead to death on the spot. The brains are white, the periosteum is white, and the blood is red. It is too horrible to look at. Several obstacles have been set up in front of the street gate to resist the horse. After resisting the horse, the crossbowmen and swordsmen formed a formation.
In such a situation, both Sheng Tianxi's retinue and soldiers felt collapsed, and even Donghu Jianrui, who rushed into the city with Sheng Tianxi, also felt desperate.
They didn't know why the reinforcements behind them failed to rush in, and the follow-up soldiers and horses failed to catch up in time. It was certain that they were in a desperate situation. Suppressed by stone bullets at the top of the city, Sheng Tianxi led his men to temporarily hide at the foot of the high wall in the north.
They tried to escape, but even a high wall could not protect four hundred people. No one wanted to be exposed to the threat of stone bullets. They even fought for a hiding place. When dozens of crossbows came from the top of the south wall,
When the enemy appeared, Sheng Tianxi knew that he had lost all the capital to resist, so he abandoned his sword and shouted: "Surrender, surrender, brothers of the Jiangdong Left Army, we also put knives on the necks of the captors and forced them to attack the city.
If brothers do not kill their own brothers, we will surrender..."
Two soldiers rushed up to kill Sheng Tianxi, but were blocked by Sheng Tianxi's followers. Several arrows were fired from crossbows on the wall, killing the two soldiers on the spot.
Lin Fu stood at the top of the city and watched silently, then ordered: "Kill all the captives and agree to surrender!"
"Kill all the captives and surrender!" the ordering soldier shouted loudly.
"Kill all the captive soldiers and promise to surrender!"
Sheng Tianxi took a knife from his retinue without hesitation, and led his troops back to kill the prisoners in the same courtyard. In order to survive, he also wanted to make atonement and take the lead, so Sheng Tianxi behaved better than attacking the city.
He was even more ferocious at times, and most of them were his trusted followers. If the newly attached Han army still had elite combat capabilities, then the trusted followers around the generals could still be considered elite. Just because Lin Fu said "Xu Yijiang"
"If so, the four hundred people who rushed into the city together immediately became massacred in the empty courtyard. Naturally, the crossbowmen on the wall looked for opportunities to shoot the captive soldiers, so that the captive soldiers could not gather together to resist...
Among the hundreds of rebels in the city, the rebels no longer posed a threat, so Lin Fu turned his attention back to the outside of the city. The rebels in the outer walls of the city either collapsed or retreated, and no longer posed a threat to Yang Xin. Lin Fu
The Yangxin garrison, with the cooperation of Min Yong, continued to hold on to the city wall without letting down its vigilance, and mobilized all the elites in the city to the north city to stand by.
Shaowu Ai's soldiers outside the city were very capable of killing, and even focused on Zhao Jinlong's troops who had rebelled and surrendered to Zhejiang. The flag and drum commanders at the top of the city also failed to command Shaowu Ai's soldiers.
Lin Fu could not be too harsh on Shaowu's soldiers. Shaowu's soldiers hated the soldiers who rebelled and surrendered to Zhejiang even more than the soldiers. The body of their beloved captain Lu Jingyan was still lying in the coffin in the city, along with the souls of four to five thousand Shaowu elites.
The wilderness in Shandong has not dispersed, so how can they not hate it in their hearts?
Lin Fu didn't know when Zhou Pu would arrive at Yangxin, and he couldn't watch Shao Wu's soldiers outside the city, watching the rebel Zhejiang soldiers and fighting them, so that the Lu soldiers and the rebel Linqing soldiers could escape calmly and even organize themselves.
If there was a chance to counterattack, he could only send Zhou Tong to lead the Jinzhong troops to fight, and send out the last elite cavalry in his hand to control the rhythm and situation of the Zhulongpo Valley battlefield in the northwest corner.
When he followed Lin Fu south to rescue Yangxin, there were more than 300 cavalrymen in Jinzhong. Today, the number has been reduced to less than 200, and there are only 200 or 300 horses left in the city. In normal times, there are seven or eight thousand people in the crowd.
On a human battlefield, two hundred cavalry is insignificant, but at this moment, Zhou Tong led two hundred cavalry to rush out from the north city gate. To the chaotic and defeated troops, it was undoubtedly an extra reminder.
I hate my parents for giving birth to two legs.
If the captive soldiers gather at any place, the city will directly command Zhou Tong to lead his fine cavalry to trample them, or force the broken soldiers to flee in that direction, and then rush them to defeat with random troops.
In addition, Lin Fu's mobile combat power was the Jiangdong Left Army mobilized from the city. The Jiangdong Left Army in the city had been reduced from more than 1,100 people at the beginning to less than 800. Except for two
One hundred people, led by Ao Canghai, stood guard outside Lin Fu's side, while the others, led by Ning Zechen, were on standby outside the city.
Although the soldiers could not do anything to deal with the chaotic situation in Zhulong's Valley, there were still more than 3,000 elite soldiers waiting in Zhulong's camp, so Lin Fu could not risk all his efforts and throw Ning Zechen's troops into the battlefield of Zhulong's Valley.
When Ye Jiduo led the main force of the Japanese troops to withdraw westward, Nahe Xiongqi led a thousand cavalry to the rear and formed a horizontal formation in front of the Zhulongpo camp. Although Nahe Xiongqi was powerless to do anything to fight the war under Guyuan, he still suppressed the defenders and did not dare to do whatever they wanted.
Rush out of the valley to a more open area to chase down the defeated soldiers, buying time for the defeated soldiers to escape from the narrow area of the valley.
Under the harassment and entanglement of a small group of Japanese soldiers at the outpost, Zhou Pu led two battalions of Jiangdong left army elites to rush outside Yangxindong City at dawn. At this time, the main force of the Japanese soldiers led by Ye Jiduo Dy had already fled far away, and there was no chance of a battle. He pursued
As it was too late, Zhou Pu led his troops from the east city to the north city to pursue and kill the defeated troops.
When Nahe Xiongqi saw the reinforcements from the Jiangdong Left Army arriving and immediately entered the battlefield, he set fire to the camp on Zhulong Slope and led his troops to retreat to the north bank of the Zhulong River.
The ignited camp burned the surrounding night sky for tens of miles red, as bright as daylight. The sudden burning of the camp made the defeated soldiers even more frightened, but it also allowed them to avoid falling or killing each other in the dark, speeding up their escape.
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Nahe Xiongqi learned the lesson this time. He led his troops to retreat to the north bank of the Zhulong River. Not only did he avoid contact with Zhou Pu's troops, but he also distanced himself from the defeated troops. However, he could not move away on the north bank and kept a close eye on Zhou Pu.
The flanks of Pu's troops prevented Zhou Pu from letting go of his formation to pursue the defeated troops, so that many captives were able to escape.
Ten out of ten of the defeated troops were rebels and civilians who had been coerced by the captives to follow the army. Lin Fu did not intend to kill them all. He sent an order to Zhou Pu to lead his troops to attack Zhulongpo, seize the enemy camp on Zhulongpo, and organize the surrender of the civilians on the spot.
After extinguishing the fire in the enemy's camp, Ning Zechen divided his troops to attack, blocking the exits on both sides of the Zhulongpo Valley, prompting Shanggui to surrender to the more than a thousand defeated troops trapped in the Zhulongpo Valley.
Lin Fu knew very well that even at this time, they still had little advantage in terms of elite combat power capable of fighting in the field. Instead of risking the pursuit to expand the results, it was better to control the battlefield situation to preserve the results in front of them and avoid giving the prisoners a blow.
Back carbine.
Even at this time, Lin Fu couldn't help but feel a trace of uncontrollable fatigue in his body. The four-month-long war was coming to an end. He asked the guards to bring him a handful from the tower.
He sat down on the Grand Master's chair, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, and sat quietly at the top of the city, watching the various ministries clean up the battlefield. The sky was already turning white, and the sky was finally going to light up that night.
Yangxin County Lieutenant Cheng Weiyuan was so excited that he was shaking all over. Before dark, he thought that the arduous battle to defend the city would last for several days before the prisoners retreated. He never thought that victory would come so easily, just like in Shao Wujun's battle.
The moment they attacked from the secret door in the northwest corner of the city wall, the victory was completely sealed.
Cheng Weiyuan was so excited that his hands and feet were weak. In addition to surrendering his troops, all the captives and rebels outside the city were evacuated. Their bodies and equipment were thrown everywhere. The Jiangdong Left Army also firmly occupied the Zhulongpo camp. The Jiangdong Left Army was there.
With Lin Dujian, Cheng Weiyuan was not afraid that the soldiers would have the courage to fight back, or at worst, they would be driven back.
The brother of King Lu, General Yuan Jianhai, has been hiding in his house these days and dare not come to the top of the city. At this time, there are cheers after the victory in and outside the city. He also knows that as a descendant of the clan, he will inherit Lu as his successor.
It was time for Wang Jue's general to show his face and show his condolences to the soldiers and civilians who had worked hard to defend the city and suffered heavy casualties. He took his niece Yuan Yan, Yangxin County Wei Cheng Weiyuan, County Magistrate Zhang Jinxian and others to the Beicheng Tower to visit the defenders.
Hardworking Lin Fu.
Yuan Yan was a little excited to see Uncle Huzi again, but when she left the house and walked to the North City, she saw traces of death and loss of life on the long street and inside and outside the city gate. She was so sad that she couldn't help but want to cry. She didn't understand Huzi.
How could her uncle persist on such a city for more than ten days? She didn't want the maid to support her. She couldn't help but want to see her uncle with a beard climbing the terrifyingly steep climbing road to the north tower.
The Beicheng Tower was quiet and there seemed to be no one. In the silence, there was a clear sound of snoring. Yuan Yan poked out her lovely head and looked over. Uncle Beard was sitting in the Taishi chair in front of the Beicheng Tower, covered with a scarlet cloak.
He was soundly asleep, snoring, and the guards around him were motionless as if they were eagles, fearing that they would make any movement and wake up their supervisor from their sweet dream...