When Dongcheng was attacked, Qin Ran was having a sweet dream with Hua Xiangrong, the leader of Tianxianglou, in the back house of the county government office. Even in the dream, his calloused hands were not satisfied with Hua Xiangrong's snow-like jade.
The delicate body was pinched and touched, and the beggar Xiangrong moaned in dissatisfaction in her sleep, but she was unable to move his thick, hairy arms away.
Qin Ran vaguely heard some movement in his dream, and the vigilance he had developed over the years suddenly woke him up. He suddenly opened his eyes, like a beast with its hair standing on end when encountering a strong enemy, and listened to the noise outside.
Hua Xiangrong was awakened by Qin Ran's movements. Half of the thin silk filled with silk wadding was dragged to the ground, and her seductive shoulders and jade arms were exposed.
She didn't know what happened yet, so she yawned lazily, looked out the window at the darkness, with only the dim light coming through, and said "it's still early", and her plump and slender thighs were about to get wrapped around her.
Qin Ran's thick waist and abdomen were sleeping beautifully, but Qin Ran suddenly pushed her away and fell off the bed. Her white and plump buttocks hit the brick floor, causing rippling tremors.
It's a pity that Qin Ran has no time to appreciate the stunning beauty in front of him. He grabbed the halberd in front of the case and pushed open the window. The guard who was watching outside the yard was still drowsy and not alert. He knocked on the window with his halberd and shouted.
He ordered: "Heiniu, Li Lu, go out and see what's going on?"
Qin Ran was wearing heavy armor, which was cumbersome to put on. With Hua Xiangrong's help, he finally put it on. He walked out of the yard. At this time, the guards outside had not figured out what was going on. They only knew that there were several places in the city.
The streets and alleys were flooded together, and even the stables where they kept their war horses were being mixed in. At this time, the smoke was billowing and the fire was burning. Two to three hundred frightened war horses rushed out of the sheds and ran around in the streets.
, the momentum is astonishing.
Qin Ran noticed that the noise in the east city was the most noisy, and that the rest of the city was caused by commotion caused by enemy scouts lurking in to confuse the public.
Even in the city, the delivery of military orders was chaotic and slow. Qin Ran saw that the commotion was spreading very quickly, and he could not wait for his commanders to lead their elite troops to join them. The soldiers were so fast that he could not even wait for his subordinates to lead more horses from the stables.
After coming over, he first led the hundreds of guards gathered at the county government's back house and rushed to the east gate.
Qin Ran and his troops were less than a hundred meters out of the county government office when they collided with Kong Xirong, who was leading his troops to rush west along the long street from the east city gate. The two sides fought in a massacre.
Qin Ran was also a brave and outstanding general in the Chuzhou Army. He took the lead and collided with Kong Xirong, who was wearing heavy armor and urging his horse forward with a machete.
The two of them didn't speak a word. When they met, they both shouted loudly, moved their horses, wielded their swords and halberds, and slashed furiously. The swords and halberds met and fired out a string of sparks.
Afterwards, the armored soldiers from both sides rushed up. The horses under their crotches were instantly stabbed to the ground by the spears in the hands of the opposing soldiers. Blood spattered and they hissed in pain.
Kong Xirong's thigh and breastplate were pierced by a sharp spear thrown by a general on the other side. Fortunately, the armored soldiers behind him protected him in time, and several brave men holding iron shields "bang bang bang" blocked him from dozens of spear thrusts.
prick.
From the moment of the battle, it can be seen that many of the guards around Qin Ran are good at martial arts, and their spears stabbed fast and hard. Kong Xirong also received two long sword blows on his shoulder.
However, the cutting power of a long sword is not as strong as that of a spear. The shoulder armor made of fine steel is relatively thick, and even after two cuts, it was not penetrated.
Kong Xirong couldn't move, but he didn't retreat, so he limped forward with the generals on the long street that was narrowed by the street shops on both sides to only about two feet wide, one sword after another, and moved forward in front of him.
The halberds, spears and iron shields slashed and slashed fiercely.
Two to three hundred people are fighting in such a narrow space, and their agility is completely useless. The strength of martial arts masters has also been suppressed. The main thing is to compete with strength. Once the iron shield is cut crooked, or the shield is held
If a person stumbles and falls, he can only watch five or six sharp spears stabbing him. If there are no colleagues on the left and right holding shields to protect him in time, no matter how thick the heavy armor is, it may not be effective.
In terms of strength and personal physical strength, the guards around Qin Ran were stronger, even better trained, and had many martial arts experts. In just a dozen breaths, seven or eight people around Kong Xirong were chopped down.
He fell to the ground with bloody holes in his body.
However, behind Kong Xirong were all the mourning soldiers who were not afraid of death. Seven or eight people were chopped down to the ground, but the people behind him rushed forward even more fiercely, without any hesitation or pause. They just felt that the long street was too narrow. More
There was no way for the people to squeeze into the front line and fight.
The streets and alleys are too narrow, and some people can't wait to climb onto the roofs, step on the broken tile eaves, throw down the short spears in their hands, or directly pounce down with their flesh and blood bodies.
The Chuzhou Army has become a fierce force, but except for the silver halberd guards beside His Royal Highness King Xin, Qin Ran has never seen any troops who can imagine such a life-threatening attack.
Such a desperate attack made Qin Ran and the tiger and wolf soldiers around him feel timid.
"Roar!"
Kong Xirong was hit by an arrow in the neck. Although it only passed through his skin, when he reached out and wiped it with blood, it was smeared on his face and he roared, which showed that he was extremely brave.
Everyone was wearing the military uniforms of the Chu State, and the other side just tied a white scarf around their necks to distinguish them. At first, Qin Ran thought about using the most courageous posture, and retracted the attacking enemy in a low voice, and fought for a while.
After a while, I found that the other party was really speechless. Instead, I couldn't open my mouth to ask who dared to come and stroke the Chuzhou Army's tiger beard.
Although there is no place in the city that can accommodate two thousand elite soldiers and more than two thousand war horses, fortunately, the houses near the county government are being requisitioned as military camps.
Qin Ran saw that the oncoming enemy army was really unable to attack, so he stepped back thirty or forty steps to a compound that was requisitioned by the Chuzhou Army to serve as a barracks. He was forced to lead the remaining troops to retreat into the courtyard, thinking about how to use it as a barracks.
Troops were organized in other places to drive out the attacking enemies who entered the city.
"Have you ever found out where the enemy troops came from?"
Qin Ran yelled at the guards beside him and asked.
"I don't know. There were remnants of soldiers who had escaped from the east city gate. They mistakenly thought they were the attacked grain levy soldiers who had fled back to the city. Without warning, they opened the city gate and let them rush in." The guard replied in confusion.
"Dog|mother! They are all a bunch of idiots who give birth to sons without eyes!" Qin Ran yelled angrily, but the noise outside the courtyard was getting louder and louder, there were more and more accidents and fires, and the door of the courtyard was smashed.
After slamming the door, he climbed to the high roof of the main house and saw a flood of enemy troops coming in from the east city gate. There was no pause at all, but they dispersed and divided into thirty or fifty people.
The small team rushed towards Danyang City from all the alleys.
Seeing this scene, Qin Ran felt a sense of despair in his heart.
The enemy's advance was too fast.
Most of the defenders had not figured out what was going on at this time. Some of the quick responders had just put on their armor and were about to come out for reinforcements. However, when they entered the streets, they ran into the enemy troops head-on and were quickly killed and scattered.
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Except for the courtyard at his feet and the other three city gates that have not been affected yet, there is no way to organize a decent defense elsewhere, let alone a counterattack. Even most of the defenders have not figured out which gate to attack the enemy from.
The city gate raid is coming south, let alone figuring out which force they are fighting with...
How else to fight this battle?
Qin Ran couldn't help but feel flustered.
He only had 2,000 defenders in Danyang, but at this time he saw that the attackers who had rushed in from the East City were almost more than 2,000. And outside the East City Gate, which was blocked by the city wall, he did not know how many enemy troops were waiting.
Rush in and rush in.
Seeing that the enemy troops did not show any intention of leaving any troops to adjust their formation at the east city gate, Qin Ran suspected that the number of enemy troops that suddenly came in was far beyond his imagination.
Where did this enemy army come from?
The soldiers and horses of Anning Palace in Jinling?
It doesn't look like it. How many scouts of the Chuzhou Army were watching Jinling? How could a troop with so many people miss it?
The subordinate of Xinchang Hou Li Pu?
That's not right. Even if the two losers like Xinchang Hou Lipu and Chen Mingsheng dare to quarrel with them, they have squeezed out all the few remaining soldiers in Taowu Ji and have less than three thousand young men left.
ah.
Looking at the earth-shattering shouts outside the east city gate, there are still two to three thousand troops outside the city!
Did the prefectures and counties south of Danyang surrender to Anning Palace and gather local troops from the prefectures and counties to attack Danyang?
There are elite imperial troops stationed in the two states of Yue and Hangzhou, but the journey is still far away. Huxiu, Changsu and other states are relatively close to Danyang, but are the local state camps in these states so capable of fighting?
Qin Ran was timid, worried that if he hesitated even a little, he would be surrounded in the city and never be able to escape.
After waiting for a long time, when he saw the attacking enemy soldiers and horses coming in from the east city gate, he jumped off the roof, took the guards and more than 200 elite men stationed in the courtyard, rushed out from the backyard, and walked out from the branch alley.
He rushed over and attacked dozens of enemies, killing them and retreating. While fighting, he retreated to the north city. At the same time, he also sent people to notify other defenders in the city to go out of the city gate to meet him.
Qin Ran fought his way out of the north gate of Danyang City in blood and retreated five miles outside the north city. The main peak was only a dozen feet high and the south slope of King Shun Mountain stretched from east to west for only more than two miles. At this time, the slightly hot Chu Yang came from the east.
The forest tips rise.
The attacking enemy was still busy taking control of Danyang City and wiping out the remnant soldiers in the city. There were no men chasing them out of Danyang City yet. Qin Ran took a breath and sent people to Dantu City near the river and the southeastern foothills of Baohua Mountain.
He went to Jingshan Temple to report the news, and at the same time gathered the remaining soldiers who had fled hastily from Danyang City at the southern foot of King Shun Mountain.
Except for the soldiers and horses that ran away in other directions, Qin Ran saw that there were only seven to eight hundred remaining soldiers and four to five hundred war horses around him.
Danyang City was lost inexplicably, and more than half of his soldiers were lost.
These were all Chuzhou athletes, brothers who had followed him for many years. He didn't know how to explain to Rao Geng, the commander of the capital, or how to face King Xin.
