The recommendation votes continue to decrease... I hope you will vote for me so that the book can continue to be written! The Shangluo chapter is coming to an end, and today I will post two big chapters, nearly 10,000 words, to reward readers.
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The situation in the city was in chaos, with gunpowder smoke and fire dragons rising everywhere, and officers and soldiers like headless flies rushing in and out of the city. They were already in a state of panic, and they were like soldiers. They killed everyone they saw. They not only killed the rebel soldiers and civilians in the city.
The common people, even when they bumped into one of their own, would slash at them with their swords without asking.
Li Laiheng was riding on a horse, which was a good thing left behind after the hasty escape from the camp. He had a cold face, biting his lips tightly together, looking at the corpses of the officers and soldiers outside the trench, as if talking to himself
He murmured in a low voice: "Your lord... I have avenged you... No, not yet, this is not enough... I have not killed Azig, who will kill you in five years, with my own hands.
How can you say it's revenge?"
Behind Li Laiheng, accompanied by the sound of horns, Bai Wang, Hao Yaoqi, Gu Kecheng, Xin Sizhong... successively led the soldiers who broke into the camp and laid the door panels on the trench.
Li Laiheng pulled up his horse and galloped across the small bridge made of door panels. He stood on the bridge with a solemn face, looked around at the soldiers, and shouted sternly: "Brothers! The officers and soldiers think they have six times more people than us.
, can destroy us. Do you think the army can destroy us?"
Hao Yaoqi was the first to answer. His voice was loud, like thunder on the ground, shocking everyone: "No!"
After Hao Waiqi, many people responded, two hundred people, no, more, at least three hundred or four hundred people shouted at the same time.
Everyone is shouting: "No!"
Li Laiheng's face was stern. He raised his left hand high to signal the whole army to suppress their emotions and said slowly: "Last night, the chief sentry entrusted me with a dream. The chief sentry said he was not afraid of death, but was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to defend Yiling.
Cheng... tell me, can you be worthy of the Chief Inspector and his entrustment!"
"able!"
This time, Hao Yaoqi did not need to take the lead in answering. Everyone, including the always calm Bai Wang, shouted out instinctively. Tension and excitement permeated the entire army. The dullness and haze since Liu Zongmin's sacrifice,
They were all wiped out in an instant.
Li Laiheng finally took out the tiger-headed waist sword from its sheath. He held the sword tightly in his hand and formally issued the order to attack: "The general post is dead, how can we survive alone! Either win or die, there is no other way!"
"Hao Yaoqi! Lead the cavalry to kill the enemy general and avenge the commander-in-chief!"
"Yes! I'll fight with his mother. If I don't chop off the heads of the officers and soldiers, I don't deserve to see the chief sentry after death!" After Hao Yaoqi answered in a thunderous voice, he immediately led Li Laiheng to use the horses from the camp.
A small group of armed cavalry galloped across the ditch, rushed through the smoke-filled and burning streets, and headed straight for the official flag.
"Gu Kecheng! Lead troops to control the city gates and gaps in the city wall. Don't let the officers and soldiers escape!"
"Yes!" Gu Kecheng was Liu Zongmin's deputy general in name, but in fact he was almost equal to Liu Zongmin's adopted son. And as the captain of Liu Zongmin's personal army, he couldn't help but feel guilty for Liu Zongmin's sacrifice. He was filled with a strong sense of guilt.
Gu Kecheng's body and mind, although he did not cry as much as the younger Xin Sizhong, his eyes were always red and full of murderous intent.
"Bai Wang, Xin Sizhong! You lead your troops to search and kill the officers and soldiers in separate ways. You must not let them unite to resist!"
Bai Wang looked solemn. He knew that this task meant that he needed to deal with the main force of the army in the city. If he and Xin Sizhong could not take advantage of the opportunity of the army to disperse and plunder, and annihilate the main force, once the army gradually recovered from the chaos,
After recovery, the army of up to 3,000 people was definitely not something that a mere 500 invaders could deal with.
Xin Sizhong didn't think so much. He was still immersed in the grief after Liu Zongmin's death, and his whole person was extremely excited.
Xin Sizhong was so excited that he could hardly speak, but Bai Wang answered "yes" for him.
"The rest of you, follow me! Let's take down the army's cannon!"
Li Laiheng knew that the biggest threat to the camp was the army's artillery. The situation was now chaotic, with countless officers and soldiers scattered in the city. He estimated that the army's artillery would not be able to bomb the city for a while. Moreover, the artillery was inconvenient to maneuver, so now was undoubtedly the best way to seize the artillery.
Great time!
"Either win or die, we will never kneel down to survive!"
In the late winter of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, in the remote Yiling City in the mountains of western Hubei, a new vitality was emerging.
People will remember that this was the first roar of the tiger that shook hundreds of beasts.
Four to five hundred warriors of the invading army, with their swords and guns unsheathed, leaped into battle. They were divided into four teams, one after another stepping on the door panels of the trench, and galloped past. Surrounded by fireworks, this group of soldiers who were born to die had nothing to lose.
Fearful because they all firmly believe that victory will be in their own hands.
Hao Yaoqi led his cavalry troops to gallop along the central axis of the city. He had not experienced such pleasure for a long time since his defeat at the hands of Ming general Zuo Guangxian at Taohe River.
"Go to the underworld and kowtow to the chief sentry officer!"
This group of cavalry only has thirty or forty people, but many of them are Liu Zongmin's personal guards. They are all elite soldiers who have followed Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin to fight thousands of miles. After they mount their horses, they are so fast that even if they are fighting against
Comparing the frontier troops of Qin and China, they are no less elite than the Yiding Tuqi and top-notch servants.
The jujube stick in Hao Yaoqi's hand spun like a wheel, invincible to anyone who stood in his way. He tightened his horse's belly, leaped over a row of officers and soldiers, swept the stick hard, and immediately knocked three or four officers and soldiers on their heads.
Crush. The intruder cavalry following him rushed through together, like the scorching sun melting winter snow, and scattered the nearly 100 officers and soldiers who had barely gathered together.
Yin Xianmin knew that the situation was seriously bad. He wanted to quickly join Min Yiqi and withdraw his troops from the city. But the troops led by Bai Wang and Xin Sizhong were using the fire to separate the official and army formations. They occupied the remaining areas of the city.
The main thoroughfare was engulfed in flames, desperately blocking the rendezvous of the officers and soldiers.
"Let's go, let's protect me out of the city! There will be many rewards!"
Yin Xianmin pressed his body tightly against the horse's back to avoid the stray arrows of the invading army. He had given up trying to join Min Yiqi's troops and instead planned to escape from the city by himself. But at this moment, he saw a
The burly cavalry commander rushed over wielding a jujube stick.
Before he could react, the servants around him were scattered by the rebel cavalry. The last thing Yin Xianmin saw was a huge wooden stick. He could even clearly see the iron nail at the top of the stick and Hao Yaoqi's trembling hand.
cheek.
"Fuck you!"
In just one breath, Hao Yaoqi waved his wooden stick and flew past Yin Xianmin. He saw that this man was wearing full body armor and lined with brocade robes, so he knew he must be a general. He divided the cavalry team into two columns.
, one column rushed away the servants, and the other column followed him and rushed straight to Yin Xianmin.
However, Yin Xianmin's resistance was not as fierce as Hao Yaoqi thought. He spent almost no effort and killed Yuan Bing's deputy general in just one encounter.
The killing of Yin Xianmin caused a huge chain reaction. The morale of the officers and soldiers experienced an increase starting from the destruction of the city, to the peak after entering the city and looting, and then experienced the panic of falling into an ambush. Finally, after Yin Xianmin was killed, it was completely
It collapsed and no longer had the courage to fight.
Only Fang Yiren remained calm. He thought that the artillery was still outside the city, the army had not been defeated, and the number of troops in the city was not very large. As long as half of the people could rush out of the city, he was still confident of defeating the city.
Breaking into the army.
"General Tan! Are you okay?"
In the chaos of war, Fang Yiren saw Tan Yi dragging one leg and limping out under the protection of several servants. After Tan Yi found Fang Yiren, he also took a breath and cried: "Official
The army is halfway finished, Mr. Fang, let’s run away quickly!”
"General Tan, go quickly and gather your troops. As long as we can get out of the city, there is still room for improvement."
Fang Yiren's eyelids were twitching wildly. He didn't believe that the situation had reached a point where it was beyond control. After joining Tan Yi, he gathered a group of Fubiao officers and soldiers and guardsmen, totaling more than a hundred people. The soldiers who broke into the army
The main force was fiercely attacking Yuan soldiers. After Yin Xianmin was killed, Min Yiqi and dozens of his trusted servants were surrounded under the city root.
General Min, thank you very much for shielding us from the thunder!
While Min Yiqi contained most of the troops in the city, Fang Yiren and Tan Yi led the more than 100 remnant soldiers to rush to the city gate. Although Li Laiheng had sent Gu Kecheng to seize the city gate, due to the army's
With limited troops, it was still difficult for the dozens of people led by Gu Kecheng to withstand Fang Yiren's desperate attack.
Nearly two thousand officers and soldiers entered the city, and about six to seven hundred remained outside the city. When the officers and soldiers outside the city saw a sudden burst of flames in the city, they thought it was the work of Yuan soldiers setting fire to the ground. But then
The deafening sound of killing finally made them realize that it was by no means a one-sided massacre of civilians by officers and soldiers, but a flesh-and-blood fight involving the collision of swords and guns, and hand-to-hand combat.
What happened in the city!
Everyone was stunned. Some wanted to go into the city to support, some wanted to stay in the camp, and some simply wanted to escape to Yidu. Fortunately, Fang Yiren left the artillery outside the city at this time.
, they had all been personally trained by Fang Yiren. They were relatively reliable and did not escape immediately, but launched another round of shelling on the city gate.
This wave of bombardment greatly exceeded Li Laiheng's expectations and caused great damage to Gu Kecheng's troops who were blocking the city. Although the troops led by Fang Yiren and Tan Yi were also killed a lot by the flying rocks.
But the two of them wanted to run away, and no matter how great the difficulties were, they could not stop their determination.
Li Laiheng knew that the situation was not good. There were still six to seven hundred officers and soldiers outside the city, and they also had cannons. Even if the intruders in the city could annihilate all the collapsed Yuan soldiers, he estimated that at least one or two hundred men would have to be sacrificed.
Casualties. After such a big battle, there were only less than 300 intruders left, and it was still difficult to stop the counterattack of the remaining officers and soldiers outside the city!
It was his task to take down the cannons of the government troops, but because the number and combat effectiveness of the government troops in the city exceeded his expectations, the small group of cavalry led by Li Laiheng was unable to break out of the city until Fang Yiren and Tan Yi escaped from the city gate.
After leaving the city, Li Laiheng reunited with the remaining troops of Gu Kecheng's army. The two of them combined had a total of one hundred troops, and they did not care about the situation of more than 600 officers and soldiers outside the city. Even if they attacked Fang Yiren, they
Behind him, we pursued him out of the city.
Li Laiheng's equestrian skills are not very good. When he was in Laoying Village, he received the help of Luo Yanqing, the "Sword Horse Dan", and learned some riding skills. However, in such a short period of time, he was naturally not able to reach the point where a man and a horse can be integrated and comfortable.
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Fortunately, Gu Kecheng was a brave general. In order to avenge Liu Zongmin, he rushed to the front alone. Facing the dark muzzle of the cannon and hundreds of officers and soldiers, he was not afraid at all, but jumped on his horse and picked up his spear.
, the first one rushed into the artillery position.
Although there were six or seven hundred officers and soldiers outside the city, they were still shocked by the drastic changes in the situation and did not react. Moreover, these people were left outside the city and were not able to enter the city to participate in the robbery. Originally, it was because most of them were
After Gu Kecheng, an auxiliary soldier with weak combat effectiveness, rushed into the artillery position on horseback, hundreds of officers and soldiers did not put up any effective resistance, but dispersed in a rush!
"Don't run, don't run! There are only a few dozen bandits. Let's all turn around. We will definitely win!"
Fang Yiren picked up a single sword from the ground, and all the frivolous temperament of a scholar was gone. His hair was disheveled, and he was slashing the fleeing officers and soldiers like crazy. Tan Yi also knew that if this continued, the situation would be
It was very bad. He endured the pain of being shot in the thigh by the intruders, raised a big flag and gathered some officers and soldiers to fight back.
There were about two hundred officers and soldiers who were reluctantly gathered together by Fang Yiren and Tan Yi. Tan Yi waved the big flag and dragged one leg at the front, finally boosting the morale of some officers and soldiers. Fang Yiren saw this and also carried a single sword in his hand.
The officers and soldiers followed Tan Yi into the artillery position again, and drove out the intruder cavalry who followed Gu Kecheng and came in.
Li Laiheng held the horse's head and turned a corner not far in front of the cannon position. The dark muzzle of the cannon pointed directly at him made Li Laiheng secretly frightened. After seeing Gu Kecheng pick a gun and kill several people in a row, he finally decided
Outnumbered, he led a dozen cavalrymen to withdraw from the artillery position from the side, feeling that the situation was very bad.
Although the morale of the officers and soldiers has gradually collapsed, they still have six to seven hundred people outside the city! This is my biggest oversight!
If these six to seven hundred men, plus the artillery, can stabilize the position and slowly contain the remaining officers and soldiers who escaped from the city, they can still control at least nearly a thousand troops. In this way, although Li Laiheng wiped out two-thirds of the three thousand officers and soldiers
, still can't reverse the strength comparison between the two sides, and can't change the outcome of the Chuang army's defeat!
The sun has reached the center of the sky. The two sides fought fiercely for nearly three hours, leaving hundreds of corpses inside and outside Yilingzhou City. Li Laiheng looked into the distance, and he almost felt that he had an illusion.
:On the western horizon, on the other side where the sun shines, Li Laiheng vaguely saw a row of cavalry!