"His Royal Highness the Prince, please go down the city wall immediately!"

Xie Qian saw Zhu Houzhao and hurriedly stepped forward, "There are old ministers here, you just have to go back to the palace with confidence, Xizhimen will definitely not go on a business trip!" ”

Zhu Houzhao was upset when he saw Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, and said with a straight face: "Why does this palace believe you? If you keep making trouble for the palace, the palace will stick to the front line, come to kill one Tartar, come to kill two and kill a pair, if you stop it, I will treat you as a meticulous work to disturb the morale of the army, and directly throw the city head! ”

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As he spoke, the siege of the Tatars in front of him was still continuing, and Xie Qian was stunned when he saw the overwhelming offensive lineup of the Tartars outside the battlements from the lookout...... The previous Tatar sieges had never seen such a big battle!

Xie Qian hurriedly turned his head sideways and asked, "How many troops are stationed in Xizhimen?" ”

Li Dongyang was dumbfounded, originally he knew exactly the number of soldiers and horses stationed at each city gate, but because the Tatars attacked the city again and again last night, the soldiers and horses were transferred too frequently, and the soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the Beijing camp and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies were all disrupted, and even a decision-maker like Li Dongyang did not know the number of soldiers and horses stationed at Xizhimen and the surrounding city gates.

Xie Qian's expression was nervous: "It's not good, Di Yi attacked the city last night, most of them wanted to disturb the audio-visual, today's attack on Xizhimen is its real purpose, I think we should immediately transfer troops from the city gates to comprehensively strengthen the defense of Xizhimen!" ”

Li Dongyang stopped: "Yu Qiao, don't be reckless, wait for the investigation to be clear first!" ”

Xie Qian pointed to the Tartar army formation that was pressed by the black pressure outside the city, and said: "The situation is so obvious, how can you hesitate any longer, immediately transfer troops, and the speed must be fast!" ”

Li Dongyang looked in the direction Xie Qian pointed, and couldn't help but be startled, and was about to say something to ease the atmosphere, when the shouts of the Tartars charging under the city had already sounded.

"Ulala!"

With this earth-shattering shout, the Tartar Lu bus had already approached the city, and at the same time, hundreds of flying ladders were also attached to the city wall, and a steady stream of Tartars began to climb to the city.

At this moment, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian no longer bothered to persuade the prince to go down to the city, and they were now more worried about the safety of Xizhimen.

Xie Qian grabbed the Xizhimen guards who accompanied him, and asked loudly: "Are the equipment and weapons for guarding the city at the head of the city enough?" ”

The guard didn't know how to answer, and hesitantly said, "Weapons...... It's pretty much sufficient, but the equipment to defend the city is ...... It's almost consumed, and before the Tartars killed the city, there were many losses in crashes, tung oil, sassers, rolling stones, and resisting the penny! ”

Xie Qian said angrily: "Why don't you declare it immediately if there is a loss?" Anyway, quickly dispatch troops and horses, if it comes to an emergency, even if the old man personally carries weapons to fight, he will never allow Xizhimen to lose an inch of land! ”

"Boom-"

While speaking, the sound of artillery rang out under the city, and the Tatars fired at the city with the Franc machine gun captured from the Ming border army!

The cannonballs, with a sharp whistling sound, swept over the city walls, and the rows of houses near the inner side of the city walls turned into piles of rubble after a violent explosion in an instant, and the earthquake trembled and reverberate.

"Boom-"

A few shells happened to hit the city tower, and the corner of the city tower made of blue bricks collapsed, and smoke and dust rose into the sky, scaring Li Dongyang and Xie Qian, who were in the city tower.

The Tatars used the Franc cannon as the vanguard, and a large number of Tartars continued to climb to the head of the city through siege ladders and simple flying ladders, while the cavalry rode and shot at a distance to cover, while a few rushing chariots slowly came to the city gate under the push of hundreds of Tartar soldiers and slammed into the gate of Xizhi Gate.

The sand and rocks flew up and down the city, like two torrents, but the point of contact was not at the head of the city, but under the city wall.

The Tatars used as cannon fodder were always the tribal soldiers and horses, not the main force of the Dayan Department, and the arrows shot vigorously at the head of the city, and barrels of tung oil were splashed, and soon the Lu bus and many flying ladders were on fire, but the Ming soldiers who poked out their heads to splash tung oil were shot by flying arrows in a blink of an eye, fell to the head of the city, and were in the sea of fire.

The Tartars rushed out from the top of the rest of the intact Lu buses, and the Ming army shouted, raised their spears and lined up in a military formation to meet them, and the two sides soon fought together.

In the rest of the place, the Ming army was in groups of three or five, holding a penny, in fact, it was a big fork, and the flying ladder was overturned together with the Tartars attached to it, but because the Tartars were too many flying ladders attached to the city wall, there were still many Tartars rushing to the head of the city, and then the Ming army met them, and the soldiers were short-handed.

From the very beginning of the engagement, the Tatars had the upper hand.

Due to the danger of being hit by Tartar artillery fire on the high part of the city tower, at this time, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian accompanied Zhu Houzhao down to the second floor, and the hundreds of royal forest troops below who belonged to the avant-garde of the government army were all armed with spears and firearms, ready to fight against the Tartars who came into the building.

Zhu Houzhao saw from the lookout that the killing below was dark, and he couldn't help but feel hot, and he wanted to lead the troops to kill in person, but was stopped by Li Dongyang and Xie Qian. At this moment, the two pavilion elders also changed into armor, not that they were ready to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, but to guard against stray arrows.

"Mr. Li and Mr. Xie, you are bringing disaster to the country and the people...... Quickly let go of the palace, the prince will personally lead the troops to kill the enemy, and if anyone doesn't listen, I will dismantle him! Zhu Houzhao shouted.

But no matter how he sprinkled, the eunuchs and palace guards around him didn't dare to buy it, Zhu Houzhao's accident involved their lives, in their opinion, it was unlikely that the city would be breached, and it was important to maintain the prince's safety.

Zhu Houzhao was roaring, and suddenly a stray arrow entered the city tower through the lookout**, and one of the guards fell to the ground with an arrow.

Zhu Houzhao said excitedly: "The Tartar offensive is like a tide, you don't let the palace go out, once the Xizhi Gate is lost and the gate of the capital is opened, can you take this responsibility?" ”

Xie Qian asked the soldiers to block the front with their shields, and he cautiously came to the lookout facing the outside of the city, and carefully observed, only to see the Tartars swarming in, the defense on the city wall was already very critical, and from time to time it could be seen that deserters slipped away to the inside of the city wall.

Li Dongyang asked the military officials who accompanied him: "Xizhimen is besieged by Diyi's main force, when will the reinforcements arrive?" ”

No one could answer this question at all, Li Dongyang was about to continue to ask someone, when suddenly the city tower trembled violently, and the original Tartar Franc machine gun hit the city tower again, this time the third floor directly opened a big hole, and many soldiers were injured and fell to the ground.

Zhu Houzhao took advantage of the chaos, finally broke free from the guards, and shouted angrily: "If you don't work hard at this time, you won't have a chance to fight!" Come on, rush out with the main palace! ”

Zhu Houzhao grabbed a spear and rushed out, Xie Qian and Li Dongyang didn't understand what was going on for a while, and were about to pull out their feet to chase, when the sound of artillery came, they instinctively found a place to hide, but Zhu Houzhao didn't seem to know how to write the word "death", so he went down the city tower in a hurry, went out of the gate and went to the front to kill.

How dare hundreds of Imperial Forest troops let the prince take risks? I can only follow and kill out.

"Crazy, crazy! The dignified prince is so reckless, could it be that my Ming Dynasty is going to rule the country for such an erection of the country? Li Dongyang was angry from his heart, and no matter where he was, he directly scolded Zhu Houzhao as a vertical son.

Xie Qian hurriedly persuaded: "Binzhi, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and chase the prince back...... What else are you looking at? Chase! ”

The arrows were everywhere in the city, and even worse, the cannonballs were flying indiscriminately, and the soldiers were barely behind the bunkers such as shields and sandbags, trembling, but they saw Zhu Houzhao kill with a spear.

"Kill!"

When Zhu Houzhao spoke in the city tower, the surrounding people could basically hear it, but when he arrived at the head of the city, no one could hear what he said.

"Prince be careful!"

Someone immediately came to protect Zhu Houzhao, but Zhu Houzhao didn't know how to be afraid at all, and went straight to a Tatar who was facing away from him and fighting with the Ming soldiers.

Perhaps it was the unexpected place where the bear child came out, but the Tartar never thought that a guy who was not afraid of death would rush out behind him, and the spear would be stabbed directly into the soldier's back.

"Huh?"

When the Tatar soldier was hit by the spear and turned around, he looked at Zhu Houzhao with puzzlement in his eyes, which hairy boy came out of the hole, and he didn't even wear armor, so he killed himself like this?

When he fell to the ground, this Tartar soldier could be said to be dead, but immediately a soldier cut off his head, because this was the most real military feat of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao killed someone for the first time, and the whole person was in a trance, he shouted fiercely before, but when he really shot people, he knew what was surging and what was disgusting.

"Your Royal Highness the Crown Prince be careful!"

Zhang Yuan, who had always been timid and scared, rushed out after him, blocking in front of Zhu Houzhao, he didn't know where he got the courage, but when he saw that there were Tatar soldiers rushing forward, he was not ready to retreat.

Zhu Houzhao was still in a state of confusion, and was pulled to the back by Zhang Yuan, and at this time the Imperial Forest Army rushed up to block the Tartar soldiers who were squeezing over.

"I ...... Did I kill someone? Did I kill someone? ”

Zhu Houzhao was a little at a loss, but grabbed Zhang Yuan's arm and asked.

Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly: "His Royal Highness the Prince...... You killed the Tartars, and you set an example for the Ming soldiers! ”

"I really killed someone!" Zhu Hou took care of his hand, he didn't even want a spear anymore, and his previous courage was gone, so he just blindly shouted at this time.

Xie Qian and Li Dongyang came out of the city tower with stray arrows and stray bullets, and when they saw that the prince was in a state of distraction, they thought that the prince was injured, and they came forward to ask each other to find out that the bear child had just killed a Tartar soldier with his own hands, and he didn't come back to his senses for a while.

Li Dongyang said: "The prince kills the enemy? How is this possible? ”

Zhang Yuan hurriedly said: "Elder Ge, you can't just talk nonsense, the prince really slaughtered a tartar with his own hands!" ”

Li Dongyang still didn't believe that the prince could kill people on the battlefield, it sounded ridiculous, and he was about to let the prince go back to the city tower to hide, but he saw reinforcements coming up from the Xizhi Gate.

Xie Qian reminded: "It is estimated that Old Man Zhang led the troops to help!" ”

Li Dongyang glanced back, and couldn't see whether Zhang Mao was among the reinforcements at all.

After the reinforcements went up to the city, they quickly joined the ranks of the battle.

Li Dongyang looked at the head of the city again, at this time the Tatars had two or three thousand soldiers and horses to kill, and not only in this section of the city wall of Xizhimen, from Xizhimen to the north and southwest directions of about three or four miles, there were a large number of Tatars through the simple ladder to kill the city wall, because these places did not have the horse road and steps to go down to the city, and they were constantly killing Xizhimen.

"It's over!"

Li Dongyang's heart was plummeting, and he felt an incomparably huge pressure coming, and he was almost out of breath.

Now the situation is very critical, even Li Dongyang himself can no longer go down to the city, because the city has long been occupied by Ming officers and soldiers and Tartars, at this time there are still a large number of Ming soldiers rushing to the city, and there is no way down the city.

Xie Qian grabbed a reinforcement general and asked, "Is Old Man Zhang here?" ”

"Who?"

The general didn't know Xie Qian, the surrounding environment was noisy, and he couldn't hear what Xie Qian was talking about, suddenly a stray arrow came over, the general hurriedly dodged, Xie Qian felt that death was flying by his side, and the arrow was finally nailed to the brick wall of the city tower behind him.

Zhu Houzhao finally came to his senses, picked up a knife from the ground, and said angrily: "Kill the Tartar, who dares to offend my Huaxia land, let him have no return!" Kill! ”

But seeing that the prince was going to kill the Tatars again, Xie Qian could only come forward to stop him, and kept complaining: "You kid, why are you always so reckless, can't you learn more steadily from your teacher Shen Xi?" ”

Li Dongyang had no intention of stopping the crown prince, he wanted to go down to the city earlier at this time, not because he was greedy for life and afraid of death, but because he wanted to inform the court of the emergency situation in Xizhimen and make arrangements as soon as possible.

But at this time there was no way out, more and more Tatar soldiers and horses killed the head of the city, but the Ming army was unable to reinforce in time due to the limited capacity of the horse road and steps in the upper city, and Xizhimen would be lost at any time.

The Ming army saw that there were more and more Tartars around them, and their morale plummeted, even if reinforcements arrived, but because of the narrow area of their own battles, only in a corner of the city, the Tatars gradually expanded their advantage.

"Is the sky going to die, and I can't do it?"

Li Dongyang sighed sadly, and was about to look up to the sky to ask the sky, but he heard the sound of the horn "woo", which was obviously different from the horn material usually used by the Tatars, which was derived from the horn of the Ming army.

In the position where Xie Qian and Li Dongyang were prescribed, they couldn't see the situation outside the city at all, Xie Qian was embarrassed in front of Li Dongyang, and the two looked at each other, and they didn't know the origin of the horn sound.

Xie Qian said: "Could it be that the rest of the city gates have already sent troops to fight with Beikou in the future?" ”