Chapter 9: The Battle of Zaoyang

Zaoyang City is not a big city.

Although it is located in a strategic location, it was only a small county town during the Taiping period.

At this time, the Qing army had already broken through the city wall of Zaoyang.

The Qing army came too suddenly.

Azig has been planning for a long time. From Xiangyang to Zaoyang, there are one hundred and thirty-five miles. There are at least two or three of them.

There are almost no loopholes in Li Rugui's defenses. Between these two rivers, there is no harvest at night. Although there are some routine fortifications, they cannot be left unarmed.

And in Azig, overnight, Li Rugui was killed all the night. made Li Rugui blind.

And what Li Rugui didn't know yet, Azig had already come to the city.

Li Rugui was almost caught off guard, and the two sides were already in close combat.

Azig was so well prepared, so as soon as he came up, he sent his own ace troops.

It is a leader composed of raw daughters.

The Qing court has always had a plan to collect savages in the old forests in the northeast, and almost after fighting with the Ming army, after there are losses, they will collect some savages from the northeast forests.

There is something too much to say about the savages. These tribes, who live in the mountains and forests for a living by fishing and hunting, may be ignorant. But not yet to the point of being ignorant of savages.

It's just that they live by hunting in the deep mountains, and the harsh environment hone their physique.

These Shengnuzhen, who couldn't even speak Chinese, wore triple armor, and fought in battle, and three or five ordinary soldiers couldn't resist it.

Although there were only more than a thousand people, under a surprise attack. and took down a gate. Push the fight into melee.

Although Li Rugui has a garrison in Zaoyang. However, the small county of Zaoyang is not large. There are not many troops at all, and there are people scattered in Tongbai Mountain for defense

Li Rugui faced the barbaric and murderous Jurchen troops who were wearing triple iron armor, did not speak Chinese, and Li Rugui could not catch up step by step.

It's just that Li Rugui also has a kind of stubbornness of a Shaanxi man.

What's wrong if you can't beat it? What happened when you were surrounded?

For Li Rugui, he has never given up on this concept.

For him, if he didn't follow Luo Rucai out to mix, he didn't even have this little life now.

Death was not a terrible choice for him, but it was close at hand. Something that has been raglan by countless times.

It's all too familiar.

When it really came, he didn't get angry.

In Zaoyang County, Li Rugui was shirtless, and his upper body was covered with bloody scars.

The blood has not stopped flowing today.

A military doctor was holding a muslin cloth and was bandaging Li Rugui.

The pungent smell of wine seeped into Li Rugui's skin, and there were bursts of pinprick-like pain.

Li Rugui didn't seem to notice it at all. "How many more are the brothers?" he asked. ”

"My lord, it's all here." An officer said.

The county government is just a few courtyards, and all the Xia soldiers and soldiers have retreated here at this moment.

Li Rugui didn't use it, so he knew that there were only one or two thousand people.

Li Rugui snorted, seemingly without any expression.

"Grandpa. Lao Wang is coming? ”

Li Rugui raised his eyebrows and said: "Lao Wang, didn't he love the back, he escaped?" ”

"It's not. It was sent by the Easterners. ”

The word Dongyu was used in official documents several times in Zhang Xuan. It became the official name of the Great Xia military.

There was a hint of coldness in Li Rugui's eyes, and he said, "Let him come." ”

"General, General." This person, known as Lao Wang, rushed over with a rolling belt, and he was very embarrassed in a bloody suit. knelt in front of Li Rugui and said, "I'm sorry for the general." ”

"You surrendered." Li Rugui's voice said coldly.

Lao Wang's voice paused slightly, and he said: "General, those people are not people, they are not people, they are invulnerable, and they can't be killed." You can't kill it. ”

Li Rugui sneered and said: "Where in the world is there a person who can't be killed. You're just scared. Say, what did the Azigites bring? ”

Lao Wang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "As long as the general understands the righteousness and takes refuge in the Qing Dynasty, the eight kings are willing to make the general king." ”

"For the king?" Li Rugui sneered and said, "Dog King? ”

"General---- "Lao Wang wants to say something." But he was interrupted by Li Rugui.

"Finished?" Li Rugui said.

Lao Wang said: "The eight kings still say ---"

Li Rugui pulled out his knife violently, cut it down with a knife, and beheaded the old king.

"You're not done, but I'm done." Li Rugui said coldly: "Clean it up." ”

"Yes." A few guards cleaned up.

Li Rugui called everything by his side and said: "Everyone is an old fighter, and I won't lie to you in this situation, but now it's just a dead word." ”

"I, Li Rugui, am just a pawn in the border army who can't eat, and now I am in a high position, and I am one of the six founding princes. My old Li family has eighteen generations of ancestors. No one has the status they have today. It's worth it now, and it's worth it. ”

"This is the burial place of me, the Duke of Qingyang in Great Xia. But if the brothers want to live, go now, I will not stop you. ”

For a moment, everyone fell silent.

Then I didn't know which person said: "Grandpa, grandpa is not afraid of death, what are we afraid of?" Isn't it just death? ”

"May Grandpa Sui die."

"Yes, I wish Grandpa Sui to die."

The most basic ability of a general, a qualified general, is not the ability to rush into battle, nor the skill of strategizing, nor the tenacity of a hundred battles.

It is to gather a group of people who are willing to live and die with themselves.

This is true even when it comes to a dead end.

Li Rugui may not be a famous general, but he is still a qualified general.

"Okay." Li Rugui said: "I, Li Rugui, have been fighting for half my life, and I have never believed in what it is that cannot be killed. ”

With the head of the old king thrown out.

In just a few moments, the Qing army's attack began.

The thin walls could not withstand the bombardment of the tiger squat cannon. Almost instantly, several large gaps were smashed.

Dozens of heavily armored warriors rushed in.

They were tall and clad in triple armor, mostly with heavy weapons such as long-handled battle axes and hammers.

None of these heavy weapons weigh one or two pounds. Hit a person, even if there are several layers of armor, the heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys are all cracked.

Three layers of armor, iron armor and cotton armor are superimposed on each other, and there is a trace of soft armor in the innermost part. Even his face was covered with armor, and he couldn't see his face clearly, and he could only see clearly through the cracks in the iron plates with his dark eyes to see outside.

It's a pair of hideous eyes.

This kind of defense is not invulnerable, but when an ordinary blade hits it, it will curl the blade, and the ordinary spear head will not penetrate deep when it is poked on it.

That's why Wang said they were invulnerable.

Since the two sides came into close combat, the gap between the two sides has immediately become apparent. Even Li Rugui's subordinates have a heart of death in their hearts.

But this gap in strength still can't withstand such an impact, and it can almost be called an infantry tank. The place you pass through is indestructible.

However, Li Rugui is not unprepared.

At this moment, the situation is out of control, and all that remains is a tragic battle with blood and swords.

There is no need to command at all.

All people follow their instincts as if they were wild beasts. Do whatever it takes to kill your enemies.

And Li Rugui also joined the fight.

However, Li Rugui is more clever than ordinary people, which does not mean that Li Rugui's force value is super strong.

In fact, there are many generals with explosive military strength like Huang Degong. But more generals don't necessarily have much force.

And although Li Rugui is also a general who fights, his force value is just ordinary.

He now turned out two short firearms in his hand, and fired almost against the enemy's chest.

In an instant, the flames burst out, and the buckshot struck the enemy's breastplate.

Even though the lead bullet could not penetrate the triple armor, the huge kinetic energy, as if it was a heavy hammer smashed into the chest, suddenly retreated several steps. Stumbled several steps. For a while, I felt that the blood was flowing backwards.

Li Rugui rushed over, swung his long knife, and slashed down from the crack in the enemy's helmet.

A slash in. Blood spurted out.

Wipe it off. rushed forward again and beheaded two people in a row.

A few attendants behind him handed the refilled fire gun to Li Rugui's hand. And so on and so forth.

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