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"here we go again!"
Hao Yaoqi shouted, his voice was like thunder. But now the thunderous voice was also covered up by the gunfire of the army. The second round of shelling arrived quickly, and amid the roars, he could barely hold on.
Another section of the crumbling city wall collapsed.
Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and entrusted the remaining soldiers who broke into the camp to Li Laiheng and Bai Wang. He, his two lieutenants Gu Kecheng and Xin Sizhong, and dozens of capable soldiers, once again rushed towards the newly collapsed cave.
There was a gap in the city wall, trying to block the incoming Yuan soldiers.
He was indeed the most rugged and brave general in the camp. When Wang Guangen, Li Laiheng, and Bai Wang were all shocked by the fierce shelling of the army, only Liu Zongmin looked at death as if he were home and rushed into the desperate "cemetery" with his soldiers.
He waved his broken sword and fired his bow from left to right, cutting down a group of officers and soldiers around him in an instant.
Yuan Bing did not seem to expect that the impact of the artillery bombardment would be so great. This wave of troops attacking the gap was also small in number and lacked stamina. They were blocked again by Liu Zongmin. But then the army organized a large number of archers to attack the gap.
Firing volleys everywhere, although the rebel archers on the city wall were condescending and caused more damage to the official archers, these flying arrows severely damaged the most elite soldiers around Liu Zongmin.
Liu Zongmin's helmet was also shot down by stray arrows and gravel, but he didn't care. He objected to Gu Kecheng and said with a smile: "Today is a good day to die, but it is not us who die, but they die!"
Gu Kecheng wiped the blood on his face and replied: "The chief sentry officer is right, when the battle to break into the camp is over, I will get married to Xiao Ju!"
"Haha, then congratulations in advance." Liu Zongmin and the group of soldiers and guards around him are all contemporary elites who have accompanied Li Zicheng in the war for nearly ten years. Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting can't do anything to them, so what can a mere Yuan soldier do?
Liu Zongmin stood with a long sword horizontally, and dozens of guards were like breakwaters, beating back like waves the Yuan soldiers who hit the gap in the city wall. The sword was notched, the armor and clothes were broken, everyone was injured, and the clothes were soaked in blood, but
They didn't realize it, as if they were strolling around in a leisurely manner, worthy of the name of the most elite warriors in the camp.
Yuan Bing finally couldn't hold on any longer. This wave of offensive ebbed due to Liu Zongmin's tenacious counterattack, leaving only more than 20 corpses in the gap in the city wall. But before Liu Zongmin and Gu Kecheng could take a breath, outside the city
Then the sound of cannons was heard again.
Gu Kecheng's face changed with shock, but before he could shout out the words "disperse", the shell hit the gap with an incredible hit rate. Amidst the roar and smoke, the flying gravel was falling on the unarmored man.
Liu Zongmin was wearing a helmet, but Commander Liu was lucky enough. The flying rocks only cut off a piece of his scalp and did not smash half of his head.
Even so, Liu Zongmin's left cheek still looked dripping with blood. The Yuan soldiers who had retreated relied on the power of this shelling to attack again, but Liu Zongmin didn't care. He didn't even wipe the blood on his head.
Instead, he laughed heartily.
"Ke Cheng, watch me kill the enemy!"
Liu Zongmin laughed loudly. He was not afraid. Instead, he was very happy because the enemy rushed up to him. The big knife in his hand was damaged due to excessive use. After slashing twice, he simply fell into an enemy.
Inside the soldier's ribs. Liu Zongmin simply discarded the sword, grabbed the enemy soldier's neck and collar, lifted him up, and smashed him into the crowd of Yuan soldiers like a stone.
"Chief Sentinel, take the sword!" Gu Kecheng shouted and threw his sword to Liu Zongmin. He picked up a short knife dropped by Yuan soldiers from the ground and rushed into the crowd to fight.
Liu Zongmin caught the saber and swung it with his backhand. The only limit to him killing the enemy seemed to be the durability of the weapon. Before the weapon was completely worn out, Liu Zongmin was like a tireless machine, and no one could push him down.
Both sides knew the importance of this gap in the city wall. Wang Guangen also sent his third brother Wang Chang with a group of personal soldiers to reinforce; as for the official army, Yuan soldiers finally changed their lack of stamina and continued to add troops to this gap. Both sides
The constant increase in troops turned the small gap in the city wall into a brutal and brutal mill of flesh and blood.
Boom! Another cannon shot hit the city wall, and the splashed gravel simultaneously killed and injured the rebels and officers and soldiers who had gathered together to fight. However, the officers and soldiers had better armor protection and suffered much lower damage than the rebels. On the rebel side, Liu Zongmin did not
Wearing a helmet, he had been injured once on his head by a flying stone, and now his eyes were scratched by a string of gravel.
The blood blurred his vision, finally allowing a flaw in the giant's airtight movements. Two long knives and a long spear attacked at the same time, and the cold metal blade penetrated Liu Zongmin's armor and penetrated deeply into his lower abdomen.
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"Who dares to hurt me!" Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and yelled. Instead of retreating, he took a step forward. At the cost of piercing the blade deeper into his body, he flew three swords and killed all three Yuan soldiers in front of him. However,
The severe pain and the continuous spurting of blood finally stopped him.
Gu Kecheng, who was leading a team of soldiers to charge and try to push Yuan's soldiers out of the city wall, saw this and his eyes widened in disbelief. How could Liu Zongmin, who was like a god, fall? At all costs, he led several soldiers to the left and right.
, fought desperately to open a path, rushed to Liu Zongmin's side, and wanted to carry him back to the rear.
But Liu Zongmin slapped Gu Kecheng's hand away. He looked at the intestines flowing out of his abdomen and laughed twice. He held the knife in his right hand and pressed the wound directly with his left hand, pushing back the flowing internal organs.
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Liu Zongmin showed his teeth and showed an indifferent face as he smiled and said: "The warrior will die at this moment. As long as I am here, I will never let an enemy soldier rush over."
Gu Kecheng wanted to stop him, but he couldn't make a sound. He was not a new soldier anymore, so how could he not know that Liu Zongmin was so seriously injured that he would definitely not live long?
But the master humiliated his ministers to death. He and Xin Sizhong served as Liu Zongmin's lieutenants, especially Gu Kecheng himself, who was also responsible for commanding Liu Zongmin's personal troops. Such a mistake was made and the commander was fatally injured. How could he have the dignity to come back alive?
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"Let's fight!"
Liu Zongmin laughed twice more. He covered the wound on his abdomen with one hand and charged into the Yuan soldiers with a knife in the other. The dying beast rampaged and exploded with unimaginable power. Gu Kecheng brought
The team of soldiers followed closely behind. They knew that the general was defeated and the responsibility lay entirely on themselves. Who was not rushing to kill with the determination to die?
The wind and snow finally stopped completely, and the last snowflake fell in front of Liu Zongmin's eyes. His eyes had long been covered by blood, and he could only see a blur of red. Liu Zongmin smiled and raised his saber high.
The front was full of fallen corpses of Yuan soldiers, with nearly twenty wounds on their bodies, but none on the back.
As the Yuan soldiers retreated again, Liu Zongmin's steel-like body finally swayed a few times. He could no longer hold on and collapsed completely. The soldiers who broke into the camp cried loudly and surrounded Liu Zongmin. Everyone wanted to
Looking at him again, everyone wanted to say something to Liu Zongmin.
But Liu Zongmin just stretched out his hand to Gu Kecheng, still with a rough and hearty smile, and said: "Guard Yiling, we must not retreat... The rest will be left to the little tiger, he is much stronger than me and Zichengdu
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After saying this, Liu Zongmin's eyes gradually lost their luster. He looked into the air, and through the last snowflake, he saw many unreal scenes: He led tens of thousands of cavalry to cut off Sun Chuanting's rear.
Road, the last commander of the Ming army was put to death; he rode on the imperial street in front of the Forbidden City, and the roadside was full of kneeling nobles; he fought to the death with the Liao soldiers in front of the most powerful pass in the world,
He almost beheaded Wu Sangui, but his success fell short under the sneak attack of a group of white-armored cavalry.
The end of that dream is the river below Xiangyang City.
Liu Zongmin has never seen Xiangyang, but for some reason, he can really feel that his destiny is deeply connected with this city.
"Haha, I'm just an ordinary person. I've made it this far, which is enough to get my money back!"
After the last hearty laugh, the general, who was second only to Li Zicheng in the camp, finally closed his eyes.
The Yuan soldiers outside the city did not know that their offensive had achieved such significant results. On the contrary, because Fang Yiren's cannons injured many Yuan soldiers, Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin, who had a very discordant relationship with him, even more so
He found an excuse and withdrew the troops.
Fang Yiren is the nephew of Fang Kong, the governor of Huguang. He was originally ordered to lead Fang Kong's Fubiao and a group of cannons to Yang Shien's Chu barracks to assist in the battle. But before Fang Yiren arrived, Yang Shien and Luo Anbang had already entered the mountain to search and kill Luo Rucai.
Fang Yiren could not find the Chu soldiers for the time being, so he led his troops to join the Yuan soldiers. His intention was to hold back the Yuan soldiers, so as to prevent Chen Ruimo, the governor of Yuan, from competing with his uncle Fang Kong for credit.
The two Yuan generals, Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin, were happy to stop and go all the way to avoid the hard work of participating in the battle. But soon the news came that Yang Shien and Luo Anbang, two deputy generals of the Chu army, were surrounded in Yangjiao Mountain.
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Fang Yiren was shocked when he heard the news. He knew that if these six thousand Chu soldiers were surrounded and annihilated by the rogue bandits, his uncle Fang Kong would be doomed! Therefore, Fang Yiren's attitude immediately changed 180 degrees, from dragging Yuan soldiers to
The refusal to let them go turned into constantly urging them to advance quickly.
Yuan soldiers couldn't resist Fang Yiren's urging and coercion, and finally accelerated their march. Just in time when the rebel army attacked Yilingzhou City, they arrived at the position between Yilingzhou City and Nanjinkou. Fang Yiren saw Yilingzhou City.
After the smoke and beacon fire broke out at the top of the city, he knew that the situation was not good. He immediately led the Yuan soldiers to join Tan Yi's troops of the Sichuan Guard Army stationed at Nanjinkou, and then launched an attack on Yilingzhou City.
Fang Yiren's Fubiao and artillery troops, Min Yiqi and Yin Xianmin's Yuan troops, and Tan Yi's Sichuan troops totaled nearly 3,000 troops. Compared with the rebel army that invaded Yilingzhou City, their strength was still very superior.
What's more important is Fang Yiren's artillery. Fang Yiren came from the Fang family in Tongcheng. Their family was very particular about studying practical knowledge. Among the gentry and celebrities at that time, he was the cousin of Fang Yiren, a scholar from Huguang who was one of the few who paid attention to the introduction of Western mathematics, physics and chemistry knowledge.
Fang Yizhi, the nephew of Governor Fang Kong, is the author of "Little Knowledge of Physics" and can be regarded as a representative figure in the spread of the west wind to the east in the late Ming Dynasty.
Fang Yiren was also proficient in mathematics. With the help of his correction, Fubiao's artillery achieved an incredible hit rate. Wang Guangen and Liu Zongmin both exclaimed whether the army's artillery had eyes.
This wave of offensive was originally quite smooth. Although Fang Yiren did not know that Liu Zongmin had been killed by the army and the morale of the rebel army was low, he could also see that the rebel army's defense of the gap in the city wall had reached its final limit and the city was about to be breached.
But at this critical moment, Min Yiqi suddenly pulled Yuan Bing down. He just used the reason that the cannon injured Yuan Bing to embarrass the governor of Huguang!