Although Li Xuan had personally led the Tang Dynasty to fight many battles, the previous battles were more like battles than weapon fights.

Even after the reform of the Datang New Army, after the Datang New Army gradually entered the right track, the Datang New Army still cannot be called a qualified army due to the limitations of its size and personnel quality.

Today's Datang New Army is fighting, although it has gotten rid of the early mode of a few people fighting and everyone else shouting 666 on the side, but it still has an innate bandit mode that cannot be completely erased.

The specific manifestation is that he is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he is quite brave in fighting a good fight, but once he encounters hard stubble, he shrinks.

With such an army to fight, Li Xuan naturally could not experience any regular and brutal battles, and the previous battles were all about bullying the weak and fearing the hard, relying on the absolute superiority in strength to bully and bully the small troops of the Ming army.

But now, the Ming army outside the city has thousands of people to charge, and the number of these Ming troops is more than twice that of the new army of the Tang Dynasty.

More than 1,000 people were scattered outside the city, almost all over the mountains and fields, and all of them were full of human heads.

Li Xuan was scared!

Even though he now maintains a calm appearance on the surface, he is really scared in his heart.

He was afraid that the new army of the Tang Dynasty would not be able to resist the attack of the Ming army, and finally end up in a situation where the city was broken and people died.

When the time comes, where do you go from here?

The probability of defeat is quite high, and what to do yourself after defeat? Is it to lead the guards to flee? What if you can't escape?

Surrender willingly?

No, in the Tang Dynasty, anyone can surrender, but he Li Xuan cannot, because he is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and no dynasty can tolerate a rebellion, especially a rebellion that completely tears the skin of the emperor and pulls out the banner.

If he surrenders, it is estimated that it is unlikely that he will get the title of 'King of Anle' like Liu Adou, although Liu Adou also surrendered, but he is the emperor of Shu Han, even if it is to buy people's hearts, he is also eligible to get the title of an idle prince and spend his life under surveillance.

He estimated that he would not even be able to get a dignified death of being poisoned like Li Yu.

Once he surrenders and is captured, what will happen to him Li Xuan can imagine how much he can imagine, even if he is the same as those who are greedy for life and afraid of death, he will inevitably die if he presents a self-incrimination book of hundreds of thousands of words, the lightest estimate is to be beheaded and died, and the unlucky one is to be killed by Ling Chi.

In short, you can't escape a dead word, and it's a very aggrieved and faceless way to die!

As a time-traveler with a modern soul, Li Xuan could accept his defeat and even accept death, but he couldn't accept such a humiliating death.

So he grabbed the hilt of the long sword at his waist with his hand, and he grabbed the hilt so hard, not because he wanted to raise his sword to kill the enemy, but because he was ready to commit suicide with this sword!

He had already planned it, if the city was really broken by the Ming army, then he would definitely escape with the guards as soon as possible, return to Huangzhushan or run to other places to play the game of resurrection.

If you can escape, I won't say what the follow-up will be, but that is definitely the best ending.

But if he is really unlucky and fails to escape, then at the last moment, like the overlord, he will bravely lift his long sword and cut it at his neck!

He would never allow himself to fall into the hands of the Ming army alive, and then be cut with 3,000 knives and die in pain, which would damage his dignity as a traverser.

As a traveler favored by God, as an emperor granted by the mandate of heaven, even if he dies, he must die a heroic and dignified death.

And on the battlefield, he killed himself like the overlord of Chu, which is undoubtedly the best choice for an emperor after his defeat, and he can still leave a name in history if he can't do it.

No one knew that the emperor who was full of confidence in their eyes and looked calm and light was already thinking about how to commit suicide at this moment.

The soldiers of the Datang New Army, at this time, are all staring at the Ming army that is gradually approaching in front!

When the Ming army launched a full-army charge, Wang Danxu on the city wall also decisively ordered to shoot!

Suddenly, a burst of white smoke rose from the city wall, and as the white smoke rose, the Ming army that was charging outside the city also fell a lot.

However, this point is nothing to the huge number of Ming troops, and the Ming army continues to charge!

At this time, the archers on the city wall also fired arrows one after another!

Arrows and bullets together form the first and most important link of the Datang New Army's urban defense system.

However, even if the musketeers and archers combined, their number was only more than one hundred and twenty, and the long-range firepower they caused was not enough to intercept the charge of thousands of Ming troops outside the city, especially since most of their bullets and bows fell on the young men of the Ming army in front.

Although the young men of the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, the guards and recruits behind were limited in casualties, and these people were the main force attacking the city.

Seeing that the Ming army was already within fifty meters, Fang Dongquan, Butcher Chen, Huang Xueren and their cities at the head of the city shouted in unison: "Ready!" ”

This preparation did not mean preparing for hand-to-hand combat, but preparing to throw rolling logs and stones and boiling oil at the city to prevent the Ming army from climbing the city walls.

The Ming army is closer, almost in a few tens of seconds, the vanguard of the Ming army has completely reached the foot of the city wall, and at this time, the vanguard of the Ming army is no longer those young and strong.

During the charge of more than 100 meters just now, those young men who had no armor protection could be said to have suffered heavy casualties, especially when they were only about 20 meters away from the city wall, they were fired by a volley of two musket teams of Datang, and that volley almost knocked down all the dozens of young men who rushed to the front.

These young men who suffered huge casualties were completely dispersed, but their collapse was exchanged for a short-term firepower gap for the musketeers of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty.

Next, they have at least twenty seconds to get close and climb the walls!

Therefore, the soldiers of the regular army of the Ming army squeezed away the young men who had completed the task of cannon fodder, and ran to the city wall one by one with long ladders.

Soon, the first long ladder was erected on the city wall, and immediately there were soldiers of the New Tang Army who pushed or slashed with knives, trying to destroy or overthrow the long ladder.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Tang New Army at the head of the city also threw huge logs, stones, boiling oil and even some messy debris downward.

These traditional means of defense are no less effective at close range than muskets and bows!

When a large boulder is thrown down the long ladder, it can often knock down all the Ming soldiers who climbed up the long ladder.

A stab was splashed with boiling hot oil, and if you were lucky, you could even burn seven or eight Ming soldiers, who screamed loudly and rolled all over the ground.

However, even so, the Ming army, which was superior in strength, still broke through the layers of defense of the new army of the Tang Dynasty, and finally climbed to the top of the city!

After seeing the Ming army climb to the top of the city, Li Xuan on the tower of the city gate seemed to have been punched in the head fiercely, and the dizziness came in an instant, so that his body shook for a moment!

After shaking his body involuntarily, Li Xuan took a deep breath, and finally disappeared after maintaining a light appearance, and instead of appearing, a rich melancholy color appeared.

Is it really going to be over?

Just now, the soldiers of their own side have been fighting hard, whether it is the musket team led by Wang Danxu or the archers, spearmen and other soldiers led by Fang Dongquan, they have not made obvious mistakes in defensive operations.

Even the musketeers fired a lot faster than usual, but these were useless in the face of the absolute superiority of the Ming army.

The Ming army almost charged regardless of casualties, and among them rushed to the front, the young men who were used as cannon fodder had at least nearly 100 killed and wounded, and they had completely collapsed, but this still did not stop the Ming army's determination to attack the city.

When Li Xuan made a gaffe, others were in no mood to pay attention to his every move, and the battle had entered the most intense moment at this time.

Whether it is a victory or a defeat depends on the next brief moment.

The moment the soldiers of the Ming army rushed to the head of the city, Butcher Chen had already led his heavy armor sword and shield soldiers with a pig-killing knife in high to rush up.

As the only heavily armored unit in the Datang New Army, the Heavy Armor Sword and Shield Corps has the most powerful hand-to-hand combat ability in the Datang New Army.

With the cooperation of spearmen, musketeers and archers, they are able to tear apart the entire array of enemy forces.

If this is a purely cold-armed army, then the armored heavy infantry is definitely the core battle of an army.

Butcher Chen was wearing double armor, and rushed to the front of a Ming soldier who had just climbed the city, the pig-killing knife in his hand opened and closed, and slashed at the Ming soldier in front of him with an unstoppable momentum.

The Ming soldier was obviously not a weak person, his body was also tall, and after seeing Butcher Chen rushing over, he raised the shield in his hand to block, that is, to block Butcher Chen's knife.

Although Butcher Chen's pig-killing knife is thick and heavy, and the power of the chopping is also very huge, it still fails to do the point of splitting the shield in half with one knife.

But although his Ming soldiers blocked Butcher Chen's pig-killing knife, they couldn't block the spear of a spear.

When he blocked Butcher Chen's pig-killing knife, the spearmen of the Tang Army beside Butcher Chen took the opportunity to stab the fatal blow.

The spearman still looks very young, at most fifteen or sixteen years old, such an age is very common in the Datang New Army, in order to ensure the training effect of the soldiers, the Datang New Army gives priority to selecting young and honest soldiers when selecting soldiers.

And it was such a seemingly honest half-sized man who stabbed out the spear, but it pierced this strong soldier of the Ming army!

The strong soldier of the Ming army fell with unwilling eyes!

However, when he fell, more Ming soldiers climbed the city wall through long ladders!

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