Huang Shijian was forced to have no choice but to climb the city with arrows on the city wall, and the other Qing soldiers saw that the main general had risked their lives to attack the city, and their morale suddenly skyrocketed. shouted loudly: "The general is not afraid of death, what are we afraid of." Go up to the city. Suddenly, the Qing soldiers forgot to rush up one by one.

Zhu Dashan saw that another Qing general appeared under the city and led the Qing army to attack, at this time, there were also twenty or thirty people injured in the city's firecrackers, and with the continuous firing of firearms, the soup could not be used. At this time, Zhu Dashan didn't care so much, and called more than a dozen firecrackers next to him. Huang Shijian, who let them attack him, fired a volley, and the two of them made a mistake in their busyness, added more gunpowder and blew up their chests, and injured the people next to them, Zhu Dashan hurriedly asked someone to carry them down for treatment.

When Zhu Dashan turned around to look at the city again, the Qing army generals who were about to climb the city wall just now had disappeared.

Huang Shijian, with his flexible body and superb martial arts, had already grabbed the battlements of the city wall with his hands, and almost jumped on the city wall, when the city suddenly remembered the sound of fried beans, and then felt that his neck hurt as if it was burned, and his hand could not grasp it steadily and fell down the city. Deng Changji, who was in the back, was almost under the city, and when he saw Huang Shijian attacking the city, he saw that he was on the city wall, and Huang Shijian fell over and fell to the city with a sound of fire on the city.

Deng Changji hurriedly ran forward to help Huang Shijian, but he could help him up there, only to see blood gushing from Huang Shijian's neck, Huang Shijian stared at Deng Changji, and wanted to say something in his mouth, but he never said it. As Huang Shijian's head fell to the side, the general, who wanted to save his life and surrendered to the Qing army, finally failed to save his life.

Deng Changji's and Huang Shijian surrendered to the Qing army together, and now looking at Huang Shijian's fate, just now I saw Tian Guoxing who was carried to the rear, thinking that now he is also going to be driven to attack the city, looking at the flag soldiers who are holding knives to drive away their soldiers, I can't help but feel sad in my heart. But now there is no way back, so he has to shout and attack the wall.

Zhu Dashan kept shouting everywhere on the city wall, cheering up the people and soldiers who were defending the city. Looking at the Qing army that went forward and followed, and the constant impact at the city gate, I really didn't know that this small Xichong County could hold for a few days, it was so difficult to fight on the first day, and the Qing army had already attacked the city wall twice, although it was beaten down, but the city was also heavily wounded. So far, there have been more than 300 casualties, which is close to the first floor of the total strength.

Zhu Dashan didn't know that he had killed Huang Shijian just now, and he saw that the Qing army general just now was beaten, and now another general climbed up to the city wall with his soldiers, and behind these Qing troops there was a neatly arranged group of Qing soldiers urging the Qing army to attack the city. Zhu Dashan did not dare to slack off, encouraged the soldiers to defend the city, saw noon, saw that the Qing soldiers did not plan to stop attacking the city, and hurriedly called the Xichong County Order to prepare meals.

Zhu Dashan led a team of people to fight fires everywhere, and the Qing army attacked the city wall and attacked there. At this time, the guards of the other gates sent people over to help, and Zhu Dashan scolded him: "Go back and guard the city gate well." Jia Sidao, who dared to come from the north gate: "Master Hou, you are fighting hot at the south gate, but we are cool at the other city gates, what is this called." ”

Zhu Dashan raised his foot and kicked at Jia Si, and said: "Get out of your mother's egg, you forgot how we captured Yanting, we will all guard the city gate by ourselves, if anyone loses the city gate, Lao Tzu will kill him directly." Get lost. Jia Siyi didn't dare to say anything more, so he could only mumble that he had returned to the north gate, and the people from the east gate and the west gate also returned one after another.

At this time, behind the Qing army, Li Guoying said: "I thought that this group of rebels was just a rabble, but I didn't expect them to fight so stubbornly. Now our army has nearly two thousand casualties, but the city walls have not been attacked. Huo Guangxian, the chief soldier of Shunqing, said: "It can't be regarded as not attacking, but it doesn't stand still." Li Guoying glanced at Huo Guangxian and said, "That's called attacking the city wall?" Useless things, the city wall that is less than two feet old is like this, and it is embarrassing to say that the city wall has been attacked. Send someone to ask Zhao Shichao how he is doing, it's been nearly two hours, tell him to steal the city or go to sleep, and he will never collect troops in Xichong City for a few days,"

Although Huo Guangxian is the general of Shunqing, he is also a general of the Ming Dynasty, and compared with Li Guoying, who is also a general, his status is obviously lower. After all, the people killed by Li Guoying in Sichuan were more than enough to block the Jialing River, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty certainly believed him.

Huo Guang was scolded by Li Guoying first, and he had to salute tremblingly before turning around to ask about Zhao Shichao's situation. After a while, Huo Guangxian came back and said: "Back to the governor, Zhao Shichao took the wrong road, just now on the north gate." Li Guoying was immediately angry when he heard this, and said: "What's the use of asking him Zhao Shichao, he can go the wrong way in broad daylight." At this time, Deng Ximing said: "Your Excellency Governor, General Zhao was originally the general of Huguang Badong, and now it is understandable that he does not know the road when he first enters Shunqing. And in the past few years, there are few locals in Shunqing, and most of the others have moved from other places, so this local guide is also. ”

Deng Ximing didn't say it too obviously, but Li Guoying understood. This is to say that Li Guoying has killed northern Sichuan too hard over the years, and now he can't find a guide who is familiar with the local terrain and roads. Li Guoying didn't say it anymore, and said: "Seeing that it's noon, we want to capture Xichong County as soon as possible, we don't have any grain and grass, so we can't return to Nanchong County, I originally thought that a wave could level Xichong County, and everyone would eat directly in Xichong County." Now I have to deal with the dry food I have with me. ”

Deng Ximing said: "What the Governor said is reasonable, this group of Ming troops is indeed stubborn, and after the capture of Xichong, they must all be beheaded to set an example, otherwise other Diao people will follow suit, wouldn't it be even more troublesome." ”

Li Guoying said flatly: "These Diao people always make trouble, let's talk about it later, now it is necessary to lay down Xichong as soon as possible, I estimate that not only the south first, but also the Baoning side may have been occupied by the chaotic people, if that is the case, it will be dangerous on the Jianmen Pass." ”

Deng Ximing said: "What the governor said is reasonable, but why is this Xichong County so difficult to fight," Li Guoying said: "No matter how difficult it is, I will fight it, I deliberately left the east and west gates to let the people of the chaos escape from the heart, let them take a detour to Yanting or Pengzhou, so that as long as we occupy Xichong, we will go straight to the south, and we can come to Baoning City in three days." After speaking, looking at the siege that had not improved, he couldn't wait to go up directly, and said to the guards beside him: "Go and give an order, if you can't attack Xichong City today, you will be beheaded by more than 100 generals." ”

Deng Changji, who was attacking the city in front, watched his subordinates continue to fall, and now there is a river of blood under the Xichong city wall, plus the gold juice poured on the city, the entire city wall is stinking. Whether it is the Qing army besieging the city or the Fuming battalion defending the city, they are all struggling to support, but fortunately, the soldiers and Minzhuang of the Fuming battalion defending the city can be treated if they are injured, and from time to time there are people who rotate down the city to take advantage of the vacancy to drink the porridge boiled by Li Shi and others in Wanzhi County. But the Qing army attacking the city outside was not very good, and now Li Guoying also ordered that all the generals who could not capture more than 100 households in Xichong be beheaded.

For a while, the Qing army besieging the city scolded her mother in her stomach, she didn't eat much this morning, and she was hungry for a morning, and now she didn't let her retreat to rest and attack the city, not to mention, but also said that if you can't get out of the city, you will kill people, this is your governor's improper arrangement, okay, let everyone carry a few ladders to attack the city, how do you think the city is easy to attack?

These Qing soldiers scolded and scolded, but you couldn't make them resist, so they had to muster up the courage to rush to the city. The defenders in the city were also very tired, and seeing that the Qing army was attacking fiercely at this time, they had to drag their tired bodies and slash at the Qing army.

At this time, the north gate also sounded shouting and killing, Zhu Dashan was startled, and hurriedly grabbed a guard and asked him to go to the north gate to see the situation, so as not to be attacked by the Qing army. The defenders of the city also hesitated when they heard the shouting of killing at the north gate, and Zhu Dashan saw that the soldiers and people in the city hesitated, and they were actually attacked by many Qing troops on the city wall, and hurriedly shouted: "Kill the enemy, defend the city, what are you doing." Supervise the war team, and if there is any hesitation and does not kill the enemy, there will be no forgiveness. ”

Hearing Zhu Dashan's shout, these soldiers and Minzhuang reacted, but there were already many soldiers who went up to the city wall, and they couldn't catch up for a while. The Qing army that attacked the city formed a formation at this time, and let the soldiers and Minzhuang of the Fuming battalion attack, but they could not disperse. Seeing that there were more and more soldiers on the city wall, Zhu Dashan's mouth was bubbling anxiously.

Zhu Dashan saw the fire gun team coming to the city again, and hurriedly called the fire gun to shoot at the Qing army in the city, and Zhu Dashan also led people to rush regardless of the fact that he was accidentally injured by the fire gun. Cheng Dequn, who was commanding on the side, also hurriedly brought someone over to help.

At this time, the rear of the Qing army also saw that the Qing army had attacked the city wall, and the drums of the Chinese army all sounded, and the Qing army, which was still in the back formation, suddenly pressed up. Seeing this, Zhu Dashan desperately slashed and killed the Qing army, and roared in his mouth: "Hurry up and drive these Qing troops down, they are going to launch a general attack, otherwise we won't be able to hold it." ”

Seeing this, Li Shi, the magistrate of the county, who was originally boiling porridge under the city, sent all the fast officials who were boiling porridge in his hands to come up, but to no avail. Zhu Dashan and others couldn't dare to go down all the Qing troops even though they tried their best, looking at more and more Qing troops in the city, as well as the soldiers and people of the Fuming Battalion who kept falling. Zhu Dashan suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart, was he about to lose? Originally, I wanted to hold on for half a month, but in less than a day, I was going to be broken by the Qing army?

Seeing that the city wall was about to be unable to hold, at this time, two teams of Fuming battalion soldiers came from the east and west directions, but it was Liu Yingnan and Nong Kaiguo, the guards of the east and west gates, who saw that the south gate was in danger, and regardless of Zhu Dashan's general order, they each sent 300 people to support. "The soldiers of the Fuming battalion and the people in the city unexpectedly burst out with amazing combat effectiveness, and the soldiers who came to support them slowly beat the Qing army back.

There were people in the city who didn't have weapons, so they directly took the wood that was burned for porridge, and I don't know where Li Shi went to find these woods, which were seven feet long, and were hugged by these people and swept a large piece of it on their chests. Originally, the Qing soldiers and the soldiers defending the city fought, all with weapons, and there are traces to follow, but now the people are holding these woods, and there are not a few people injured, but the wood is still burning this fire, the Qing army not only has to avoid the wood, the fire is burned on the body to shoot, and the face is burned by the fire.

Zhu Dashan saw that it was useful, so he hurriedly called other names to go. Suddenly, the Qing army on the city wall was driven to the edge of the city wall by the people with fire, and Zhu Dashan led people to attack again, and finally drove all the Qing troops who attacked the city wall. The people in the back carried the gold juice and poured it all down the city, and the screams under the city continued for a while. , many Qing soldiers were burned and their flesh was opened. Deng Changji was also injured in the battle just now, but he was drenched from his head with gold juice under the city, and it was okay to have clothes on his body, but the skin and flesh on his head and face fell down. Busy with the help of his own soldiers to retreat, the other Qing soldiers saw the miserable appearance of their own general, and saw that he was carried to the back, and the momentum of the siege was greatly reduced for a while.

Li Guoying saw that the Qing army was attacking Shangcheng, and he wanted to capture Xichong in one go. As soon as he ordered the whole army to press and prepare to attack the city, he saw flames flying on the city wall, and the Qing troops in the city were driven down the city one after another. After a while, the momentum of the siege was greatly reduced, and the army behind had not yet arrived in the city, so he had no choice but to mingjin. The Qing troops who were besieging the city finally heard Mingjin's order to withdraw their troops, and they all immediately turned around and fled. Many of the wounded Qing soldiers didn't have time to carry them away, and they just wanted to leave this Shura-like city wall as soon as possible.

Zhu Dashan was also relieved to see that the Qing army was Mingjin, and let the archers and firecrackers shoot freely to kill and injure the Qing army. Like the other defenders, he fell directly on the city wall, and he had been fighting in the city just now, not paying attention, and feeling all sore as soon as he relaxed. Several wounds on his body were burning and painful.

Zhu Dashan saw Cheng Dequn, who was also lying on the side of the city wall, his body was now in tatters, and his injuries were not clear, the two looked at each other, and then they both smiled. They held on. Zhu Dashan couldn't help but shout loudly: "We are victorious, we are defending, and the Qing army is defeated." ”

The other soldiers and Minzhuang around couldn't help but shout with Zhu Dashan, "We have won." We held on, and the Qing army was defeated. Then everyone burst into laughter, and although their bodies were no longer half of their strength and they were allowed to lie on the blood-soaked walls, they were still laughing vigorously.