Chapter 57: The Battle of the Southwest (8)

The battle of Qinghua City, even the cold Haoyue, had to gather through a dark cloud to cover his vision, and he couldn't bear to watch.

One after another, under the leadership of their own hundred households, they braved the rain of arrows to charge towards the crumbling gate tower of Thanh Hoa City.

Bundles of gunpowder were swept into the blasted walls, and in the middle of the night, explosions erupted.

Finally, Thanh Hoa City, which had been held on for three days, let out a wail like an overwhelmed giant, and collapsed with a bang!

"Da Ming is mighty!"

The hundreds of households guarding outside the city were like wild wolves with a howling moon, with red eyes and their respective armies sprinting.

"Go first!"

There was a young man of the Ming army who walked on the ground in the gap of the broken city wall, and successfully climbed the head of the city of Thanh Hoa along the gravel slope formed by the collapse, holding a dismantled bayonet in one hand and a short blade in the other, slashing left and stabbing right, killing several people in a row, screaming excitedly.

"Good boy, what's your name!"

The next hundred households asked enviously while slashing and killing the approaching Annan soldiers.

"Seventh Mountain Battalion, Xiaoqi Zhou Yunfan."

No wonder he ran so fast, what a lucky kid.

Baihu sighed with emotion, "Damn, the name Lao Tzu has written it down." The first to Qinghua, Zhou Yunfan. ”

"The first to arrive, Zhou Yunfan!"

At the head of the city of Thanh Hoa, more and more Ming troops poured up, but no matter which Ming army stepped on the city, they would shout such a sentence.

When the city wall was lost, the Thanh Hoa Annam army was no longer the opponent of the mountain army, and the 50,000 Annam army did not resist even for an hour, and some of the older and younger people fled in a hurry, one person fled and a hundred people fled, and then the whole army collapsed!

In front of the wolf-like and imposing Ming army, most of the frightened Thanh Hoa defenders chose to surrender, and there were even less than 100 people who swore to resist to the death, perhaps because they had been a vassal state of the Central Plains for hundreds of years, and the Thanh Hoa defenders did not have the courage to fight to the death at all.

"Zhou Yunfan!"

Just when the whole army began to clear the spoils of war, the second hundred households who climbed the city wall shouted Zhou Yunfan's name.

"Here!"

Zhou Yunfan subconsciously puffed up his chest.

"You are the first to ascend, as long as you return to the Luchuan camp, you will be the new battalion commander of my mountain army." Baihu stared at Zhou Yunfan and said in a deep voice, "But now you are not, I have an extremely dangerous task here, that is, to rush to the aid of Xianzi Pass, you can choose to refuse." ”

Zhou Yunfan smiled disdainfully, "Just one battalion commander is not enough for me to spare my life, how many people will I give?" ”

"There are less than two hundred horses in the city, and I can only give you these men."

The hundred households shook their heads, "You have to rush to Xianzi Pass as quickly as possible, if Xianzi Pass has not been lost, and Liu Baihu has not died in battle, save him and tell him that Qinghua has been defeated, let him withdraw with his brothers, Qinghua, he needs him to preside over the overall situation." ”

He is needed to preside over the overall situation.

Whether it is courage, wisdom or responsibility, Liu Zheng has completely conquered all the mountain army soldiers.

"Yes!"

Zhou Yunfan saluted, called and organized nearly two hundred brothers, and the big guys couldn't care about the fatigue of the whole day, so they turned over and galloped north.

Xianzi Pass.

Ruan Jingzhen looked at the rising sun that was gradually emerging in the sky, and then looked at Xianzi Pass, which was close at hand, and suddenly took off the armor on his body and stood at the front of the army shirtless.

"Today, Ben will attack the city with you, and if I die, the lieutenant will take over the command."

Ruan Jingzhen's eyes were red, "The front is Xianzi Pass, and the back is the law enforcement team, attacking the city is death, and retreating is death!" Today, the Xianzi Pass is not broken, and they are all dead! ”

It's been three days, three days of fighting, more than 15,000 troops of 100,000 people have died in the siege, more than 5,000 have been cut down because of fear of retreating, and more than 20,000 people have fled the camp in the middle of the night! Now in Ruan Jingzhen's hands, there are only more than 50,000 people left.

What made Ruan Jingzhen even more desperate was that at least half of the more than 50,000 people were on the verge of collapse, so Ruan Jingzhen put his own personal battalion at the back to act as a law enforcement team, and he himself personally led the team to attack the city!

If you conquer it, you will live, and if you don't conquer it, you will die!

"Siege!"

Ruan Jingzhen took a deep breath and raised the broadsword high above his head, like a desperate lone wolf, and launched the most decisive blow before he died.

Liu Zheng was standing in the city tower, Ruan Jingzhen's every move was in his eyes, he raised his musket to aim, but he couldn't hit two shots in a row, and his violently trembling arms couldn't aim at all.

Liu Zheng threw down the musket, picked up the short knife, and said to the second tiger beside him, who was already heavily injured and still insisted on leaning against the battlement, "Today, you and I both died here. ”

The so-called soldiers are just a hundred deaths.

The second tiger was stabbed in the face, and he couldn't speak anymore, but silently stood in front of Liu Zheng, after the second tiger, there were less than three hundred Ming soldiers who were still alive, and they all gathered around Liu Zheng at this time.

"Baihu, it is our honor to fight side by side with you."

"Hundred. It's an honor to fight alongside you. ”

The voices made Liu Zheng cry, and he smiled reluctantly, "Brothers, fighting side by side with you is also the honor of my Liu Zheng's life, the Ming army is mighty!" ”

The Ming army is mighty!

I'm a big Ming son, and I see death as home!

The tide of soldiers of the Annan army quickly pushed up the tower, and Ruan Jingzhen was the first to climb the tower, this Hu Jili's henchman had just turned over the battlement, and before he could stand firmly, he was stabbed into the chest with three bayonets.

Ruan Jingzhen grinned, gurgling blood, he didn't realize it, the big knife in his hand swept over, and three human heads rose into the sky.

“!”

Erhu suddenly rushed over, he didn't use any weapons, the whole person soared into the air and pounced on Ruan Jingzhen, and with the momentum of the latter, he climbed down the wall nearly three zhang high from the battlement.

"Boom!"

Ruan Jingzhen died, and Erhu also died, so he died in a foreign country and died on the battlefield.

But the offensive of the Annan army continued, and Ruan Jingzhen's death did not make the already numb Annan army afraid, they were like a group of ants, indifferently stepping on the corpses in front, and then climbed up the tower of Xianzi Pass.

The comrades-in-arms in front of Liu Zheng fell one after another, Liu Zheng didn't feel sad anymore, he just mechanically waved the short knife in his hand and cut down the swarming Annan army, his eyes were covered by blood and he couldn't see, and his consciousness began to gradually blur.

"The first to arrive, Zhou Yunfan is here!"

Suddenly, a loud shout sounded, and on the tower of Xianzi Guancheng, which was filled with corpses, nearly two hundred tigers descending from the mountain appeared, and the first ones were Zhou Yunfan and others who galloped in the starry night.

"Qinghua is lost, I have the Ming reinforcements!"

Zhou Yunfan held a knife in both hands, killed all the way to Liu Zheng's side, protected the latter behind him, and shouted, "Reinforcements are coming." ”

"Reinforcements are coming!"

On the tower of the city, the roar of the Ming army became the last straw that crushed the camel, and countless Annan troops who were besieging the city seemed to have been robbed of all their minds, and the sea of corpses and blood beside them crushed their nerves, they wailed, roared, and no longer ignored the loud intimidation of the law enforcement team behind them, threw down the broken knives and guns in their hands, and fled in the direction of their respective hometowns.

"The defeat of the army is like a mountain, and it is not the fault of the war."

Vice Admiral Ruan Jingzhen smiled miserably, "Everyone, let's run for your lives." "Let's just take a knife and kill myself directly under the city gate.

His family is in Hanoi, so he can only die!

The first battle of Xianziguan ended in a tragic victory for the Ming Dynasty, with three thousand erlangs and only sixty-seven people left.