Chapter 385: Heavy losses

After saving Luo Rucai, Li Dingguo ordered a retreat, and the 100,000 troops under his command were pursued by more than 100,000 Ming troops, like a rout fleeing in the direction of Chengdu City!

"Quick, put away the drawbridge!" After Li Dingguo rushed into the west gate of Chengdu, he climbed the city wall and shouted!

"But the general, there are still nearly 10,000 soldiers outside the city who have not been able to enter the city!" One of the generals looked at the mess of his own men and horses under the city, and was a little embarrassed.

If the drawbridge is put away, the soldiers of the Great Western Kingdom who did not enter the city will be a dead end, and they will be annihilated by the Ming army that is chasing and killing!

"I can't manage so much, I can't let the Ming army rush into the city with me!" Li Dingguo's strong man broke his wrist, how did he not know the result of putting away the drawbridge, but he couldn't let the Ming army follow him into the city.

The Ming army is different from their own people, after putting away the suspension bridge, their own men and horses who cross the suspension bridge will only advance into the city, but if the Ming army is allowed to step on the suspension bridge and then put the suspension bridge away, the Ming soldiers who step on the suspension bridge will instantly cut the iron cable on the suspension bridge, once the suspension bridge fails, the west gate is not like the east gate has already blocked the door hole with a boulder, if it is blown up by the Ming army with gunpowder, the west gate will be directly broken, that is not a joke, the great western kingdom is likely to perish because of this, such a danger, how dare Li Dingguo take it!

"Yes!" The general of the Great Western Kingdom gritted his teeth and immediately ordered loudly: "Put away the drawbridge!" ”

The "squeak" West Gate moat drawbridge was retracted, and except for the soldiers who had already stepped on the drawbridge and were taken back by the way, all the thousands of soldiers outside the city were blocked outside the city.

It's not that Li Dingguo doesn't want to save more soldiers, but a large number of Ming soldiers have already mixed in the thousands of soldiers outside the city, and there may be Ming soldiers following into the city a few moments later!

The drawbridge was put away, and the thousands of soldiers of the Western Army who were still outside the city and could not enter the city were suddenly frightened, scolded angrily, and shouted to the city wall to put down the drawbridge, but the drawbridge had been put away under Li Dingguo's order, how could it still be put down.

"Kill" more than 100,000 Ming troops soon divided and surrounded thousands of soldiers of the Great Western Army.

The battle under the city was fierce, and on the city wall, thousands of archers began to bend their bows and arrows, just waiting for the leader to give an order in the future, and immediately shoot a rain of arrows!

"General!" Some generals of the Great Western Army looked at Li Dingguo, waiting for his order to release arrows.

"No! The people under the city have our soldiers, although we have given up on them, but in the end we are comrades, we can't shoot them together in order to shoot and injure the Ming army, otherwise it will chill the rest of the soldiers! Li Dingguo said it well, originally he abandoned thousands of soldiers outside the city has made the soldiers in the city feel slightly chilled, but in the end there is a reasonable reason, but if he desperately ordered to shoot the abandoned soldiers and the Ming army together, there is no reason, and it is not as simple as chilling.

Li Dingguo is not Zhang Xianzhong, he is more sober and rational, and he is not so bloodthirsty, if Zhang Xianzhong is here, it is likely to be different from Li Dingguo's approach, Zhang Xianzhong will order the release of arrows in order to kill and injure the Ming army!

Under the city, the abandoned thousands of soldiers of the Western Army had no way to retreat, and either fought desperately with the Ming army, or threw away their weapons and surrendered.

There is no doubt that Li Dingguo's order to put away the drawbridge in advance and obviously abandon them made them desperate, and their hearts were also cold to the bottom, and they had no fighting spirit at all!

"Bang!"

"If you don't fight, I surrender!" With the surrender of the first abandoned Onishi Army, more than ninety percent of the Onishi Army soldiers surrendered, and only a few stubborn resistance were mercilessly annihilated!

Thousands of abandoned soldiers of the Great Western Army were all taken prisoner!

Under the city, more than 10,000 Ying Long troops took the lead, and 100,000 Ming troops looked at the city wall of Chengdu West Gate with high morale.

On the city wall, the corners of Li Dingguo's mouth twitched, his heart was dripping blood, he could imagine how big the loss of the Great Western Kingdom was in the first battle tonight, which made him want to kill Luo Ru to relieve his anger.

In this battle, most of the casualties of Wei Guanying's troops who were the first to go out of the city with 50,000 troops, Luo Rucai's 30,000 troops who attacked the Yinglong army artillery camp from Huangshuipo also lost more than ninety percent, Li Dingguo's 120,000 troops who went out of the city were also damaged, and the 50,000 troops who rescued Luo Rucai also lost some, plus the thousands abandoned outside the city, the Great West Kingdom lost more than 110,000 troops tonight!

Just for one Luo Rucai! How does this not make Li Dingguo want to vomit blood!

Originally, Li Dingguo had already thought of some feasible strategies, but now they were all disrupted by Luo Rucai, and there were less than 200,000 troops left in Chengdu, and the original Great Western Kingdom had no advantage in the face of 150,000 Ming troops, but now it has lost 100,000 troops, and it has suddenly become a disadvantage!

Although the losses of the Ming army were not nearly 30,000 dead and wounded, most of the dead and wounded were ordinary Ming troops under the command of Qin Liangyu, the main force of the Yinglong army was almost undamaged, and the 8,000 white pole soldiers only lost more than 1,000.

"Return to the east gate of the army!" Qin Liangyu and Zhou Cao were in a good mood, and returned to the camp outside the East Gate with the army and prisoners, preparing to continue shelling the city wall of the East Gate, or planning to break the city from the East Gate!

According to the current strength comparison between the two sides, the Ming army can completely overwhelm the Great Western Army in Chengdu in one fell swoop.

Originally, in this attack on Chengdu, although there were 20,000 Ying Long Army with strong combat effectiveness and 8,000 white pole soldiers with strong combat effectiveness among the 150,000 Ming Army, but in fact, the strength was not much stronger than the 300,000 Great Western Army, but in the first battle tonight, because of Luo Rucai, the Great Western Army suffered heavy losses, and the morale of the soldiers was also knocked down a lot, and the strength dropped by more than three percent, and it was no longer possible to fight hard with the Ming Army.

The situation of tonight's battle was quickly spread to Zhang Xianzhong's ears.

Zhang Xianzhong was furious!

"Luo Rucai, you pickpocket! 110,000 troops, 110,000 troops, that's all gone! Zhang Xianzhong stared at Luo Rucai like a beast, this guy attacked without permission, if it was really a cannon that destroyed the Ming army, but not only did he not, but he also lost 110,000 troops before and after, which made Zhang Xianzhong not angry and murderous!

"Your Majesty atonements, you know your mistake!" Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and confessed, he was really aggrieved tonight, and there was nothing to say.

Zhang Xianzhong clenched his fists tightly, bloodthirsty intent surged into his heart, and he couldn't help but want to kick Luo Rucai hard to kill him, but fortunately, he was grabbed by his son Li Dingguo's arm and regained his senses.

Even if Luo Rucai's crime is unforgivable, he is loyal to him, and most of the people lost tonight are Luo Rucai's henchmen, although he is the emperor of the Great Western Kingdom, but Luo Rucai also came out of Gao Yingxiang's command like him, if he hadn't saved Luo Rucai's life back then, Luo Rucai would not necessarily be loyal to him.

Moreover, the current situation is becoming more and more unfavorable to the Great Western Kingdom, and it is really not suitable to kill important generals, so after regaining his senses, Zhang Xianzhong decided that it would be better to appease Luo Rucai.

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