Chapter 60: Abandoning the City

Luo Li's face looked much better after hearing this, and after staring at Xu Yixian with bull's eyes for a while, he laughed heavily and slapped Xu Yixian's chest, which made Xu Yixian, a thin man, immediately cover his chest and cough loudly, and then retreated and waved his hand at Luo Li and said: "No, it can't stand the general's fist in this body!" ”

"Haha! Mr. Xu is a literati in the end, and I, the old man, know it now, if you scholars make it bad, it will be ten times, a hundred times worse or even a thousand times worse than me! Ha ha! Terrible! You can figure it out! I admire Lao Luo! When the Holy One asked you to follow me, I really looked down on you! Now my Lao Luo has found out that I really can't do without you, Mr. Xu! Ha ha! Do as you say! Someone ...... coming" Luo Li completely turned from worry to joy at this moment, smiled at Xu Yixian, and then began to order.

The fierce battle continued, the Great Chinese Army was still stubbornly resisting in the face of the flood of the attack of the Jiannu Army, and the city of Xiluo City was already full of corpses, but the two sides were still making new deaths, adding corpses to this corpse-like battlefield.

In the city of Silo, a battalion of engineers drove into the city, carrying boxes of things, and began to dig pits all over the city, and they were very busy.

The wounded soldiers in the city were withdrawn from the city in batches, and another group of civilians and large soldiers will begin to assemble behind the city of Silo, while building fortifications, while constantly drawing out the troops from other places and strengthening them to the rear of the city.

Luo Li personally went to the place where the battle was most fierce in Xiluo City to direct the battle, while Xu Yixian and other staff officers were busy deploying manpower, as long as they could put resources into the battlefield, they made use of them, including the people, and also began to transfer some materials in Xiluo City to the outside of the city, like cleaning, and transferred everything that could be used to the customs outside the city.

The Han army's blue flag owner Li Shutai stared at the battle ahead with red eyes behind the attacking team, and his heart was also twitching for a while, Li Shutai's identity is rarely known, but his father is afraid that many people know, Li Shutai's father is the first Ming army general Li Yongfang to surrender to Jiannu in the early years, but Li Yongfang has been hung as early as the eighth year of Tiancong, and Li Shutai, as his eldest son, inherited the mantle of Li Yongfang, and continued to work hard for Jiannu, this time the formation of the Han Army Eight Banners, Li Shutai was awarded the post of Meler Zhangjing, That is, the deputy flag master of the blue flag, was ordered to lead the soldiers and horses under his command, and followed the blue flag to solidify the mountain Ezhen Shang Kexi to go on the expedition, this time he was ordered by Huang Taiji to lead the troops to be dispatched by Dolgon to attack Shanhaiguan.

This time the battle made the Han army under the command of Li Shutai with a blue flag suffered heavy losses, but Li Shutai did not dare to put one, he could only desperately press his subordinates and attack forward, now Liu Zhiyuan's Han army with a yellow flag has been completely disabled, Liu Zhiyuan has also been killed by the defenders' artillery, his Han army with a blue flag and Wu Shoujin's Han army is a red flag has become the main force of the attack, but under repeated attrition, their losses are basically to the extreme, and they are almost unbearable.

Some of his subordinates suggested that he order the withdrawal of his troops, but Li Shutai knew that Dolgon had the temperament of these slave masters, and since they wanted these Han troops under their command to die, then they had to die, so he could only continue to supervise the attack, and filled batches of subordinates whom he regarded as capital into this meat grinder like a bottomless pit, and were instantly hanged on the battlefield.

Just when he was close to complete despair, Li Shutai felt that the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army in front of him began to become sparse, the kind of thunderbolt cannon that exploded intensively just now was no longer so dense, and the attacking team began to move slowly forward, he looked up at the sky, at this time the sun in the sky had slanted to the west, Li Shutai couldn't help but be a little excited, the defenders of the Dazhong Army in Xiluo City seemed to be finally unable to withstand it!

So he drew his sword and shouted, "Kill! The Heavenly Thief can't stand it anymore! If you work harder, you'll be able to capture Ciro City! Kill! Rush forward! ”

Sure enough, when the generals defending the city arrived, the resistance began to become weak, and the generals began to retreat one after another, slowly withdrawing from Xiluo City, leaving only a few generals who were still making the final resistance under the leadership of Luo Li.

After nearly a day, the Jiannu army, which had always been unable to survive under the city of Xiluo, finally began to slowly advance forward, stepping on countless corpses of their robes, and began to force into several gaps, gradually began to control the gaps, and squeezed the defenders to retreat towards the city.

This made the already desperate Jiannu soldiers finally see a glimmer of hope, began to become more excited, and no longer looked like ashes just now, one by one their hearts began to ignite hope, shouting and attacking forward, although they were still being knocked to the ground by the defenders, but they also clearly felt that the defenders' firepower was not so dense and fierce, which made them even more crazy.

More and more Jiannu soldiers began to squeeze into the wall full of corpses, and entered Xiluo City, Luo Li's guards looked very nervous, they were not afraid of death, but afraid that this mad general of theirs would go crazy again at this time, so they grabbed Luo Li and persuaded: "General! Withdraw! It's all set! If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave! ”

Luo Li turned his head to look at Xiluo City, which had become empty, and then nodded and said, "Not bad!" It's time to go! You don't have to pull me! At this time, my old Luo is sober! Won't go crazy! Pass my command, let the brethren give the Tartars another blow, and then they all withdraw! ……”

After hearing the order, the few soldiers who remained in Ciro City to resist immediately pulled out the last remaining thunderbolt on their waists, and immediately reached out to light them on the fire folds or torches, and shouted "Kill slaves...... one by one

Then they threw these smoke-emitting thunderbolts one after another, and then turned around regardless of it, and rushed towards the south gate of Xiluo City, no longer caring about the Jiannu soldiers who attacked the city behind them.

With the sound of a fierce explosion, the Jiannu soldiers who rushed into Xiluo City were immediately blown up in the explosion, and they had to retreat again to avoid these terrible plague-like thunderbolts, that is, such a burst of gunsmoke, covering the remaining large and medium-sized soldiers and generals quickly broke away from the Jiannu army, one by one like rabbits, fled to the south gate of Xiluo City, and escaped from Xiluo City from the south gate in a short time.

When Li Shutai stepped on a gap, he saw that there were only their Jiannu soldiers in Xiluo City, the defenders only dropped a batch of corpses, and those who could run were already empty, and they could no longer see a living defender, countless Jiannu soldiers began to cheer and rushed into Xiluo City from one gap after another, standing in the empty Xiluo City, these Jiannu soldiers each had a feeling of the aftermath of the disaster, most of them didn't dare to imagine that they could still live to attack this Xiluo City, Half an hour ago, this was something they could not have imagined, but now they had really set foot in this small city, which seemed to them almost impossible to conquer, and many thought of the brothers they knew, who had already died outside the city, and they were so glad that they were still alive, and many of them sat on the ground and hugged their heads and wept after entering the city.

Li Shutai himself is also in such a mood, but after all, he is the main general, always have to restrain his mood, immediately let people plant their blue flag on the city, not long after Wu Shoujin also led the red flag of the slave soldiers into the city of Xiluo, after the two people met, they felt that there was nothing to say, the celebration was not to talk about, the casualties under their respective commands were too heavy, after this battle, their two flags were basically crippled, although they conquered the city of Xiluo, but there was nothing to celebrate, so they all smiled bitterly, Begin to arrange people to occupy the walls and enemy towers of various cities, and then defend this place first.

After almost a day of fierce fighting, the enemy tower of the city wall that was not strong in Xiluo City was basically flattened by Jiannu's artillery fire, and even some houses in the city were also destroyed, and in the small Xiluo City, the city was full of ruins and broken walls, and they could not even find a place for them to rest.

After Dolgon saw the flag of the Han army planted on the head of Xiluo City from a distance, he breathed a long sigh of relief in his heart, in fact, even he was shaken just now, and he thought in his heart that this battle was going to be lost again, and Xiluo City would definitely not be able to be captured, and even had the idea of Mingjin to withdraw his troops, but in the end he still persevered, and now he finally defeated Xiluo City.

Although there is still a considerable distance between taking Xiluo City and breaking through the entire Shanhaiguan defense line, it is equivalent to being able to defeat Xiluo City is equivalent to wedge a nail into the defenders' defense line, which is equivalent to knocking out a hole in their solid eggshell, and it will not be so difficult to tear the Shanhaiguan defense line in the next step.

The most important thing is that he can finally let the imperial brother Huang Taiji behind him see, he Dolgon is by no means an incompetent person, such a strong Shanhaiguan defense line was finally torn open by him, so that those clansmen can also see that he Dolgon is not not the opponent of the Heavenly Thief, and he can finally snow the shame of the year.

So he immediately ordered to send someone to the camp of the former guard Huang Taiji to report the victory, informing Huang Taiji that he had conquered the Xiluo City of Shanhaiguan, and he also ignored it and said that he had killed more than 10,000 enemies in this battle, as for how many defenders were killed and wounded, in fact, he knew very well in his heart that the defenders were far less than the losses on his side, but now he needed to boost morale, so it was easier to cover up the losses on his side by falsely reporting the casualties of some defenders, and the province was said that he relied on his life to pile up this victory.

(Pit Tartar!) Hey! Do you want to be rewarded? )