Chapter 53 [Keeping Huaiqing]

At this moment, Prince Mingfu Gong saw that the two of them were fine, so he asked: "Since the two of you are fine, then the prince of this world is also relieved!" Men hurriedly prepared their horses to escort them away. "As soon as Wu Junzhen heard that His Royal Highness the Prince was leaving? So he persuaded him: "Your Royal Highness, the prince must not! Right now, the rogues are approaching, if we retreat, I'm afraid we will be chased and killed by the rogue soldiers? Why don't you defend the city gate and fight with them? Maybe there will be reinforcements nearby? ”

The Ming army behind them also felt that there was some reason, and everyone dismounted together to ask Prince Ming Fugong and Ming Huaiqing to stay and fight the enemy, and they made up their minds to reluctantly agree to defend the city.

However, the prefect of Ming Huaiqing left a hand to send his family out of the city in advance, leaving only 10,000 Ming troops defending the city and 300 people from the Fuwang Mansion Honor Guard Division to defend the city.

Then Wu Junzhen proposed to disperse the 10,000 troops and hold it, 5,000 soldiers and horses were responsible for guarding the left city gate, 5,000 men and horses were responsible for guarding the right city gate, and the remaining 300 Fu Wangfu Honor Guards were guarding the back city in case of defeat to escort people to escape, as for the main gate, people were asked to dig many pits to bury (fuse mines), and the long lead was covered with soil and ready to detonate at any time.

This move made General Ming Huaiqing very impressed, where did he see these art of war? Wu Jun shook his mouth and quickly replied, "Oh, this is all learned from Wu Mu's suicide note. As soon as General Ming Huaiqing heard that it was this book, he said, "I can't imagine that there are still people in my Ming Dynasty who study Wu Mu's suicide note!" The generals of this dynasty all studied the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness". ”

Just as Ming Huaiqing would continue to ask, Ma Wei hurriedly stepped forward to persuade Ming Huaiqing to hurry up and patrol the city! Then Ma Wei asked Wu Junzhen not to mention this matter, be careful to expose his identity! The two of them also went to choose a small lighter gun, which can shoot 4 buckshot bullets at a time and has a fast rate of fire, which is comparable to a small general cannon.

After selecting the firecracker, the Ming army began to prepare for war in accordance with the regulations, the Liukou army first attacked from the left gate, and the commander of the battalion by the Shun army: Tian Jianxiu, led the 35,000 Shun army to charge, and quickly pushed the ladder to prepare to enter the city, and the Ming army defending the city was very nervous to shoot some of them without even reloading time.

And Wu Junzhen aimed at the rogue who landed in the city and shot (bang, bang, bang, bang) and shot the head shot to kill the rogue to resist the attack, and Ma Wei and the soldiers on the other side of the right gate had just finished shooting a round of fire to suppress the attack of the rogue Kou, and immediately another wave of rogue soldiers attacked, so that the Ming army gunners had no time to reload, Ma Wei shouted, "Draw your sword and fight!" ”

Immediately and the city of the rogue into a fight, originally not strong to kill the enemy Ma Wei this time to face more than his number of rogues, basically every city defender Ming army has to face the challenge of more than a dozen rogues, for a while Ma Wei began to kill red eyes, although the Shun army was cut two knives on the back of the cloth armor, but still endured the pain and continued to kill the enemy, only to force the right gate attack of the rogue to force down.

At the same time, the rogue of the side gate next to the left gate also launched artillery fire to bombard the city tower, Ming Huaiqing guerrilla: Gan Longwen, with his head down, braved the artillery fire to command the Ming army to adjust the muzzle of the gun to return fire, just as the Ming army ignited and opened the cannon in an orderly manner, Ming Huaiqing guerrilla was killed by the rogue artillery fire!

As a result, the morale of the Ming army defending the city was low, and the Shun army pushed Lu Gongche into the city in one fell swoop to defeat the defenders of Xicheng, and this Shun army drove into the city to prepare to attack the palace.

However, Prince Ming Fugong, who was sitting in the government, was a little nervous, so he asked the prefect of Ming Huaiqing to go to the city gate to check the situation? But the prefect of Ming Huaiqing didn't dare to go out, because he was also afraid that the rogues would enter the palace, but he also wanted to know about defending the city? He beckoned his servants to go to the gate of the city to investigate.

As soon as this subordinate rode out of the mansion and turned a corner, he saw the sound of slashing? So he rode up to see if there were any rogues entering the city? When I came to the corner of the wall, I looked sideways and found that it was indeed the Liukou who was slashing and killing with the Ming army! Seeing this, the subordinates hurriedly pulled the horse and turned around and went back to the palace to report the news.

At this time, General Ming Huaiqing and Wu Junzhen were still continuing to fight against the Liukou under the city, and a soldier in the city came quickly with a command flag and said, "Report, General Qiqi, Xicheng has been broken by the Liukou!" I'm afraid the government will not be guaranteed? Please also ask the general to quickly transfer half of the army to resist. ”

Counselor General Ming Huaiqing, who heard the news, was very surprised, and he hurriedly said to Wu Junzhen, "Tongguan Wei Qianzong, you quickly take 2,000 people to the palace to resist the Liukou." After speaking, he also handed him a signal flare for use when the troops were insufficient to retreat at an emergency, Wu Junzhen accepted the signal flare and quickly led the troops to the mansion.

While running, Wu Junzhen was wondering how to repel the enemy army. After some careful consideration, Wu Junzhen stopped and asked a team of 500 Ming troops to be responsible for guarding the passage behind the government office, while he led the rest of the Ming army to kill the government directly.

When he came to the door of the mansion, Wu Junzhen looked at the bloody corpse on the ground, and the gate of the mansion was still open, so he guessed that the mansion must have been attacked by rogues! However, Wu Junzhen judged that the liukou should still be in the mansion and did not walk away?

Because there is no cross-line after the retreat of large-scale enemy troops on the street at the entrance of the palace? After all, there is a lot of blood on the ground, and if the brigade retreats, it is impossible to have no footprints? According to this judgment, Wu Junzhen ordered all the fire guns to press the fire and raise the guns and slowly walked in.

I saw a seriously injured maid next to the pavilion spitting blood, still slowly reaching out and shouting, "Quick, save the world!" Before he finished speaking, he fell, Wu Junzhen hurriedly led people to search around the palace, and finally found the Ming soldiers who slashed and killed the enemy in the backyard, as well as the prince of Ming Fugong and the prefect of Ming Huaiqing.

Seeing that the two of them were fine, Wu Junzhen shouted, "Aim, release!" In an instant, a row of white gunpowder smoke hit over and shot the rogue who was blocking in front, and then everyone pulled out their knives together with Wu Junzhen and rushed over to slash, Wu Junzhen took the lead in killing the prince of Ming Fugong in front of the prince to protect him, and continued to slash and kill the rogue who came forward After beating a group of rogues, another wave of Shun troops ran over from the gazebo in the distance and shot with guns.

Shoot dozens of Ming troops with guns! Wu Junzhen quickly grabbed the two rogues and used them to block the lead bullets, and then Wu Junzhen threw the corpses on the ground while the rogues were changing ammunition, because the smoke was too big, the rogue knife players in the back team couldn't see the situation in front of them clearly.

And the corpses thrown over knocked down the rogue soldiers, Wu Junzhen took advantage of this opportunity to rush over and cut down a few rogues, and the rest of the Ming army hurriedly covered the retreat of Prince Ming Fugong and the prefect of Ming Huaiqing, and the rest of the Ming army killed and cut off the heads of the rogue to receive the reward.

This group of Shun troops wanted to retreat when they saw that they could not attack the palace, but the Ming army refused to let go at all, and kept chasing the rogues to slash and kill, so that the rogues fled, most of the rogues behind fell to the ground and were trampled to death, and some of the rogues also took off their military caps when they fled, Wu Junzhen saw that the rogues had retreated and ordered to stop the pursuit, and hurriedly went back to see the situation at the city gate?

The heavy cavalry of the Shun army at the main gate rushed into the city gate under the leadership of the generals of the Shun army's commanders and battalions, and as soon as they entered the city, they were immediately pulled by the soldiers of the two hundred Ming soldiers and the fuse and thunder exploded, and the thunder came out of the city, and the rogue people turned over on their backs!

Frightened, the heavy cavalry of the Shun army, who had not yet entered the city, did not dare to continue to move forward, and quickly withdrew and turned to attack the east gate, but a group of Ming troops fluttering in the wind rushed towards the Shun army.

The general who led the team shouted, "The Tongguan guard army is here, why don't you surrender quickly?" Want to be annihilated? The commander of the Shun army, the general of the battalion, was a little frightened and quickly led the soldiers of the Shun army to retreat, and the Tongguan Weiming army quickly lit the arrows and bullets of the Yuanrong chariot and shot them out, blowing up most of the Liukou heavy cavalry and died.

At this moment, the general soldier of the Mingtong Pass Guard: Gao Jie, hurriedly let people attack the Liukou army that was besieging the city, and strive to force them to retreat to ten miles away, and the Tongguan Weiming Army changed into a fast reload (iron whip) and walked towards the Liukou siege army, close to the lethality range of 50 meters, open the gun (bang, bang, bang) one team after another to shoot in turn, and the loading and pressing operation was very fast.

The Ming army defending the city saw that there were reinforcements to help, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they hurriedly cooperated with the reinforcements to kill the enemy together, and only after killing two Ming generals did they repel the Liukou army, which made the generals of the Shun army who retreated to half a mile outside the city very frightened, and he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to ring (cymbals) to collect the troops.

But still expelled by the Tongguan guard cavalry to three miles away, Ming Huaiqing staff general hurriedly sent people to the city gate to meet the Ming Tongguan guard general army into the city reception, and went to find the prefect and His Royal Highness, guarding the west gate Ma Wei also entered the city and the army to meet the generals outside the palace, Ming Fugong Prince Shizi experienced two catastrophes, he felt that it was time to write a report to the imperial court to request the transfer of troops to protect, Ming Huaiqing prefect also heard this on the side of the sycophant support.

In the end, the herald rushed to the capital with the letter and the official road, Wu Junzhen and Ma Wei originally planned to go back with the general soldiers of the Mingtong Guanwei, but they were forcibly kept by the prince of Mingfugong to be well received, so the three were entertained by a banquet and let them live in the Huaiqing Mansion until the imperial court sent reinforcements to arrive.

Wu Junzhen saw that His Royal Highness the Prince was not easy to relent, so he agreed, and the general guard of Mingtong Pass was also out to patrol, so he simply stayed anyway if he had nothing to do.

At the same time, the imperial court reinforcements on the other side also returned north one after another, and entered the territory of Wuqing County, Shuntianfu, Beizhili, and the right attendant of the Ming Army: Zhao Guangxi, worried that the slow pace of the march would delay the reporting of the military situation, so he sent someone to Tongzhou Right Guard to report the first assistant of the Ming cabinet: Zhou Yanru, the battle report of the withdrawal of Jiannu.

At this moment, the first assistant of the Ming cabinet, who was still eating, drinking and having fun in the right acropolis of Tongzhou, gathered a group of beauties around him to wait, and the commander of the right guard of Ming Tongzhou on the side: Lu Wei, kept toasting and asked, "Dare to ask Lord Shoufu, why don't you show up now when you personally ask Your Majesty to oversee the army?" ”

The head of the Ming cabinet, who was self-sustaining and high, said: "The little Dongyu is not a problem! If it weren't for the plague in my Ming Dynasty, Dongyu would still be hunting outside the gate! These small feats are enough to give them, the old man will sit in this Tongzhou right guard to keep how to fight, come to an old man to kill one, come to two to kill a pair, hehehe! After speaking, he continued to drink and kissed the woman next to him.