Chapter 168: Hurricane (4)
Divide Paishku rushed out of the courtyard with this group of vassal soldiers, and as far as he could see, in Jinyu Alley, a group of vassal soldiers had already been in a melee with a Ming army that was far superior to them. And in that Ming army, there is a big banner with the words "Guangzhou avant-garde hereditary commander Zhao Yong General Shi", hunting in the wind.
When he was young, he was catching up with the old slave who swept Liaodong, and the originally well-off Fendeku had no opportunity to read and write, so he walked with his clansmen all the way and went south to Mao Dashuai, just to one day be able to counterattack Liaodong and return to his homeland.
It's a pity that this past has long been forgotten by him, all he remembers is that the prince of Jingnan gave him food, and he followed the prince of Jingnan to fight in the north and south, even if he made a rebellion in Dengzhou, even if he lowered the tartars, he was not half uncomfortable. At this moment, although he didn't know what was written on the flag, his rich combat experience still gave him the understanding that the one who could put up the flag must be an officer.
"Kill all these rebellious brutes!"
This group of feudal soldiers immediately slaughtered from the courtyard, and even so, they were still at a serious disadvantage compared to Shi Huiran's troops. More Qing troops are still gathering here, but in more alleys in Xicheng, the guards of the Guangzhou avant-garde and the remnants of Yangchun Bo Fan Chengen are still engaged in fierce street battles with the Qing troops who have entered the city, making the reinforcements seem to be mired in a quagmire and unable to extricate themselves.
In the bloody battles in the streets and alleys, the archers of the Ming army climbed the wall and suddenly launched cold arrows. More and more Ming and Qing troops were involved in street battles, relying on the local people's understanding of the terrain, the Ming army walked through the streets and alleys, and the Qing army in the labyrinthine city, while the main avant-garde led by Shi Huiran bit a vassal soldier and refused to let go, only thinking about swallowing it in one bite and then continuing to play hide and seek with other Qing troops.
They are in the eye of the storm, and when they are involved, they are fighting with all their might. Shi Huiran knew very well that there were only more than 1,000 soldiers in the Guangzhou avant-garde, and aside from the fact that the father, son and brothers were in the army, they could not participate in this battle, and then counting the remnants of Fan Chengen, one plus and one subtraction, there were only about 1,000 people. Compared with the Qing army on this battlefield, they were at a serious disadvantage, but the streets and alleys separated the whole area, and he specially set up an ambush here, but he calculated it early.
"Kill one more Tartar, and there will be less pressure on Governor Chen's mansion."
For Chen Kai's plan, Shi Huiran didn't know if it could be achieved, at this moment he looked resolute, looking at the Jinyu Alley in front of him, with the sudden killing of the Qing army, the guards who were originally unable to compare with the feudal soldiers in terms of martial arts and battlefield experience began to retreat one after another. Even if they were still overwhelmingly superior in numbers in this part, the bravery of the feudal soldiers made it impossible for these guards who had hardly fought any serious wars to parry. Even to put it mildly, without an immediate collapse, it is already a rare tenacity.
"The ancestors said that they will be the courage of an army!"
Drawing his sword in his hand, Shi Huiran shouted, and rushed into the battle with his own soldiers and family members. The morale of the Ming army was suddenly shocked, and in a trance, there was a faint counterattack.
The swords, swords, and flesh and blood in the Golden Jade Alley are more than the battle-hardened soldiers who are extremely brave and ferocious, and the guards are sluggish and stupid, sluggish in the reaction to attack and retreat, and stupidity is more manifested in the choice of different situations. However, even so, the Ming army under the leadership of Shi Huiran still fought to the death, even if there was no possibility of swallowing the feudal soldiers at this moment, they still fought back against these invaders while taking every attack of the Qing army.
However, the gap between the two sides in terms of skills, bravery, and battlefield experience is too huge. As the casualties of the Ming army became larger and larger, and finally at the same time that Shi Huiran fell unwillingly, these Guangzhou avant-garde guards in Jinyu Lane collapsed, and they no longer had the courage to continue fighting.
"What to chase, let those fools chase it, in this flowery world of Guangzhou City, some are gold and silver, and some are women, so you don't need to work hard for that little bit of pitiful military exploits."
After all, it is the old pawn of Dongjiang who has followed the Geng family to this day, and it is very clear that it is now a slaughter of the city, so that they can let go of forcible seizure, plunder, rape, and killing. At this moment, it is just a small scale of weak resistance, and it is impossible to attract other Qing troops to get a piece of the pie, if it really encounters a large-scale Ming army, there will naturally be those green battalion soldiers to deal with, and their task is to kill! Kill! Kill! That's it.
The veterans had already begun to look for their next prey, but the recruits who had just recovered turned their heads and looked at the courtyard they had killed not long ago, as if they were still feeling a little sorry.
"You're a chick." As soon as he patted the back of the recruit's head, he shouted something "There are beautiful girls in the city", and walked a few steps to the left with his own thoughts, pointing to a courtyard next to him, and loudly indicating that he smelled the smell of rouge from a woman, and then led a group of soldiers to crash open the gate of the courtyard.
In the next second, the man's pleading, the woman's scream, and the child's cry sounded again......
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In the dark night, before the light of the sky was brightened, Li Jianjie in the military camp in the east of the city was just a little sleepy, but with the sound of eager footsteps, he suddenly got up.
"What's the matter, tell me quickly!"
Before seeing anyone, Li Jianjie had already heard anxiety and panic from the footsteps, which was the last thing he wanted to hear at the moment, but he had to face the emotions and situations. But when he saw the pro-soldier who hurried back, Li Jianjie's heart, which had already been a little prepared, sank even more suddenly, because he knew this pro-soldier who had been following him for many years too well, and the situation was not to a certain extent, and this guy would never be in a hurry and sweat profusely.
"Master Hou, the northwest city wall has been blasted out of a gap of more than ten zhang by the Tartars, and now the Tartars can't see it clearly, but Uncle Fan's side is no longer repaired."
Fan Chengen joined Li Chengdong's army when they followed Gao Jie to garrison Jiangbei, he was originally a soap soldier, and he didn't understand anything when he first arrived in the army, and everyone called him straw bag. However, this person won Li Chengdong's trust, and when he went to Songjiang a few years ago to greet and escort the families of the lieutenant generals and soldiers of the army, he was also sent to lead the team.
This person is not a real straw bag, he has grown tremendously over the years, otherwise Du Yonghe would not have sent him to guard Xiguan alone. At this moment, since he no longer bothered to repair it, it means that the city wall cannot be repaired at all, and now the difference is that the Qing army has not noticed that the shelling of this night has achieved such great results.
"Time is running out, the cavalry and Lao Tzu will go to see the governor first, and the others will gather their troops and horses to follow!"
Stepping on the war horse, Li Jianjie led the team to gallop to the governor's palace. Where the horse's hooves fell, the crackling sound on the stone road intensified Li Jianjie's anxiety all the time.
The city walls could no longer be defended, and the only way left was street fighting. Li Jianjie never imagined that he would desperately surround this foreign land thousands of miles away from his hometown, but once he remembered that this was the foundation that Li Chengdong had fought hard, and once he remembered Li Yuanyin's earnest entrustment, he couldn't care about anything else, so he could only quickly go to mobilize Du Yong and that guy, gather the strength of the whole army, use his familiarity with the terrain to fight this street battle with the Qing army, and try to make Shang Kexi bleed until he couldn't stand it anymore and had to withdraw.
"There are not many more soldiers and horses than Lao Tzu, there are still opportunities, there are still opportunities."
It's like brainwashing, Li Jianjie repeats it over and over again, but he also knows that he is not Li Yuanyin, without Du Yonghe, he can't command other officers at all, Li Chengdong's old subordinates can't command, and even those guards won't listen to him.
The cavalry was speeding down the street, but they didn't run far, but Li Jianjie saw the streets and alleys in the distance, and there were dotted torches moving south. He was a rider with excellent eyesight, and at this moment he noticed that these people seemed to be maintaining a certain order. But as his cavalry continued to approach, a scream of "Tartars are coming" sounded, and immediately it became a mess again, and those vague orders were trampled into powder in a panic.
"Damn, I'm not a Tartar!"
He scolded angrily in his heart, but he didn't have time to defend himself. In this way, along the way, he met several groups of people who continued to flee south despite the curfew, until he approached the governor's palace, but he was the first to meet Zhang Yue, who had the same idea as him.
"It's going to be dawn soon, so we'll have to organize quickly."
Du Yonghe's indecisiveness last night had already made Zhang Yue, Li Jianjie and others a little unbearable, but there were no more weighty figures here at the moment, so they had to follow Du Yonghe.
Two teams of soldiers and horses made a team, and hurried to the governor's palace. There, located in the center of the city of Guangzhou, south of the city, past the Gongbei Tower, and then go south almost the distance is the south gate.
However, when Li Jianjie and Zhang Yue hurried to the Governor's Palace, what they saw was that the main gate was creaking open in the wind, and messy papers, clothes, drums, and weapons were stretched out from the Governor's Mansion and scattered all over the ground. In their ears, there was a cry that made them such a veteran of a hundred battles stunned.
"The Governor is gone! The Governor ran away! ”