What Xu Miaojin, who was in the city and ordered to guard the palace, did not expect that at this moment, the first turning point came.
"What's going on! You two thousand people can't beat them with less than a thousand people! And you were defeated so quickly!" Ma Buxiang stared at the leader and shouted to a leader in front of him.
Although it was not yet dawn at this time, they had already captured the city. Today Ma Buxiang adopted a very shameless method. He gathered together the people outside Ganzhou who had not had time to retreat back to the city, and asked them to report each other and the guards in the city.
If no one reported the relatives of the soldiers, they would all be put to death. Under the threat of death, countless people reported their neighbors who were related to the soldiers in the city guard station.
Ma Buxiang immediately gathered these people together, drove them to attack the city, and kept calling the names of his relatives as they walked towards the city.
The soldiers at the guard station at the top of the city were stunned. They didn't know how to respond for a while. Although they later attacked their relatives outside with tears under Qu Feng's command, at this time, they had already allowed many of them to rush into the city without any damage. In addition,
In the past few days, the guardsmen had suffered considerable losses. The young men who assisted in defending the city fled again, and the city was quickly captured.
Ma Buxiang immediately began to command the soldiers to attack the city. But at this moment, he felt the shaking of the earth in the south. When he looked back, he saw a Ming army of about a thousand men rushing over.
He immediately determined that they were the Ming army that could not be found yesterday, and immediately ordered the two thousand people who had prepared to fight. In his opinion, even if the two thousand people could not defeat the one thousand people, everyone was cavalry and could always defeat them.
It took a while. But I didn't expect that two thousand people would be defeated now.
"Brother Ma, they are so powerful." The leader said: "They have a very powerful firearm in their hands that can fire projectiles three times in a row. Many brothers were not prepared for this and were shot to death."
"The remaining brothers also knew that this was a critical moment and saw that they were very close, so they gritted their teeth and prepared to fight with them in close combat. However, they did not expect that those people were very powerful in close combat. The brothers could not bear it and collapsed.
Already."
"How could this happen?" Ma Buxiang said. If what this leader said is true, then they really can't be blamed. He has also fought with enemies with firearms. It is not easy for the bandits to withstand three rounds of projectiles without collapsing. In the tragic situation
Even the soldiers under the Great Khan may not be able to persist in hand-to-hand combat.
"There is no time to think about why," Sauraha said immediately: "We should arrange the response now."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw another person running in and said loudly: "Brother Ma, the people in Tiger Village have also been defeated. Arrange people to stop them immediately!"
"The people in Tiger Village were defeated so quickly?" After hearing the news, Ma Buxiang narrowed his eyes, and then said: "Soraha, you stay and lead the five hundred people from our headquarters, and then lead
Huoyun Village..., the brothers from these villages, a total of five thousand people stopped the Ming army!"
"Ma Buxiang, the Ming army only has a thousand men. Is it too much to leave five thousand men to deal with it?" Sauraha asked immediately. But although he said so, what he really meant was: five hundred men from the headquarters should not be left behind.
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When they first came to Hexi, they brought more than 200 people with them, and also recruited some Semu people who were extremely dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty. After all these years, there are still more than 800 people left. They have very strong fighting power and are the strongest among all bandits.
The two of them also relied on their own troops to become the commander-in-chief. But now they have to leave 500 people to deal with this terrifying Ming cavalry?
"They must not be allowed to interfere with our attack on Prince Su's Mansion and the official treasury. They must be dealt with immediately. Even if they cannot be wiped out, they must be defeated. Only our men can bear such a heavy task." Ma Buxiang said this. But what he really meant was
: If some of the troops are not left behind, I am afraid that the other bandits will not seriously fight the Ming army, which may affect the follow-up plan. For this reason, they can only bear some casualties.
Sauraha understood what he really meant, agreed, and went out to take command; Ma Buxiang himself turned around and said to the people in front of him: "Let's all enter the city quickly and attack Prince Su's Mansion!"
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"Your Majesty, the bandits have separated out about five thousand people to fight." At this time, in the Ming army formation that had just defeated two bandits in succession, the soldiers were facing a young man with a rather elegant appearance but strong muscles.
Festival, said the very strong general.
The general was loading ammunition at this time. When he heard what Pu Bing said, he quickly put it down, raised the clairvoyance hanging around his neck, looked at it, and said to himself: "So many people are here?"
"Master Chen, bandits are just a ragtag group of people. No matter how many people there are, it is useless. Especially since we are soldiers of the Imperial Guard, we can still be afraid of a few bandits!" A military general next to him said with a smile.
This soldier was the advance team sent by Yunxi to return to Ganzhou City, led by Chen Lijie. Yunxi also knew that the Hexi Corridor was not peaceful, and was afraid that Chen Lijie would not be safe with only a few dozen men, so he sent a soldier from the advance guard of the government army.
Thousands of households were led by him.
Chen Lijie felt at ease after accepting this Qianhu. In his opinion, they didn't transport anything, not even a carriage. Even if there were a large group of bandits who couldn't see how powerful they were, they should have no interest in beating them.
But when he arrived fifty miles northwest of Ganzhou City, he found that Ganzhou City was under siege. He immediately panicked and wanted to lead troops to rescue, but was stopped by the original Qianhu. They came all the way, and the horses were tired. Now
It would not be a good idea to start attacking the bandits. There are less than a thousand of them, while the enemy has tens of thousands.
"It's better to wait until the horses regain their strength before going into battle." Qianhu advised.
Although Chen Lijie was anxious, he also knew that what Qianhu said was right from a war perspective, so he found a place to hide, let the horses rest, and then attacked the bandits today and got a good start.
"The leading few hundred bandits are not ordinary." Chen Lijie said at this time: "Qianhu, come and take a look, they don't look like ordinary bandits."
Qianhu hurriedly came over and took Qianliyan to take a look. He took a few glances and said: "It is indeed extraordinary. The formation is very neat and can catch up with ordinary guards. But it is definitely not our opponent!"
"Niu Qianhu, our goal is to defend Ganzhou City. If Ganzhou City cannot be defended, then we will defend Prince Su's Mansion!" Chen Lijie said: "The bandits are now entering the city in a steady stream. Although the signal indicates that they have begun to hold on, but
How long can we hold on? By the time we defeat this bandit, Prince Su’s Mansion will probably have been captured! My Majesty, I’ll probably have been captured or committed suicide!”
"What should we do?" Qianhu panicked when he heard this.
"Let's take a detour immediately!" Chen Lijie said: "Xilu, no, the bandits will focus on attacking the south wall. There won't be many people on the other three sides. Let's go around and enter the city to guard Prince Su's Mansion!"
"Let's do it." This Qianhu had never commanded a war independently before. He immediately accepted Chen Lijie's suggestion and shouted loudly for the soldiers.
"I hope that by the time I arrive, Prince Su's Mansion has not yet fallen. Madam, Your Highness, please hold on!" Looking at the Ganzhou City in front of him, Chen Lijie prayed secretly.