Chapter 622: The Decisive Battle in Southern Henan (10)

King Gao is notoriously afraid of death, and the generals know this, and now King Gao wants to go to the city in person, and clearly play the king's flag, which means that the war has reached a critical moment, and it is necessary to go all out.

The defenders of Xiangcheng were only 30,000 people, and if Li Dingguo took another 10,000, there would be only 17,000 people left in the city.

At this time, Gao Yihuan had to go to the city to boost morale and let the Wei soldiers know that he was in the city in order to block the siege of Duoduo and attract Duoduo's troops.

Gao Yihuan put on a helmet and covered his body with double armor, Li Laiheng took a shield, led the soldiers of the personal guard battalion, escorted Gao Yihuan to the top of the city, and erected the royal flag at the same time.

The Wei army at the head of the city saw Gao Yihuan, and really lifted his spirits, and let out a burst of cheers, and the soldiers were excited to shoot in succession, and killed two more Tartars, and the pikemen stabbed hard, stabbing the sharp spearhead into the abdomen of the Qing army, pushing the Qing army to retreat in pain, and then picking him off the city wall.

Outside the city, in the Qing army's array, Duoduo saw the momentum of the Wei army at the head of the city suddenly from the clairvoyant mirror, and the Qing army continued to fall down the city, and then saw the head of the city erect a gold-edged big sword, and immediately put down the clairvoyant mirror, gritted his teeth and squeezed out three words, "Gao Man!" ”

At this time, in the south of Xiangcheng, the battle on the left flank had reached the most critical stage.

The Wei army had limited strength and could only fight a counterattack locally, and now it was only aiming at the left flank.

On the battlefield, due to the entanglement of the blue flag, the Xuanhu Horse Army had to give up the harvest of the Qing army attacking the fort, Xu Heihu beheaded Li Guohan in the formation, and then hedged with Shang Kexi, and then detoured again to reorganize the attack formation.

The cavalry of the Wei army quickly loaded the three-eyed gun, and Shang Kexi on the opposite side gathered the scattered Qing army under his royal banner, and the two Qing army horse armies gathered their troops together, and quickly raised the speed of the horse, and pounced on the Xuanhu horse army again.

Seeing this, Xu Heihu clamped his legs, raised his big axe, and led the reorganized Xuanhu Horse Army to charge again.

At the pontoon bridge, Shang Zhiwei led the horse army to rush to the dragoon camp, the cavalry was attacked by artillery, the war horse fell, the horse army rushed once, and smashed the Wei army front out of a depression, but failed to break the formation, the Qing army horse army immediately pulled out the reins of the horse, broke away from the line, and prepared to find an opportunity to attack again.

Shang Kexi's 7,000 horse army attacked, entangled the Xuanhu horse army and the dragoon battalion, ensuring the safety of the Qing army attacking the left fort, the Qing army infantry continued to storm the fortress, many archers climbed the city wall, began to throw arrows, suppressed the second fort wall.

At this time, the Wei army and the Qing army had reached a stalemate on the left flank, but as the 20,000 Qing troops on the left side of Xiangcheng quickly detoured to the south of Xiangcheng, preparing reinforcements, the battle situation would turn to the side of the Qing army at any time.

At this moment, the south gate of Xiangcheng opened again, and a team of soldiers and horses poured out of the city gate and pounced directly on the Qing army outside the left fort.

Shang Kexi, who had just been hedged against the Xuan Hu Ma Army for a while, suddenly heard the sound of killing coming from behind, which made him tremble and frightened, and he looked back suddenly, and his eyes almost flew out of his sockets.

At the south gate of Xiangcheng, a large number of soldiers and horses rushed out, rushing towards the Qing army attacking the fortress like a tide.

The Qing army attacking the fortress, after being attacked by the cavalry once, was already unstable, and when they saw nearly 10,000 enemy soldiers coming, the Qing army attacking the fort immediately felt the danger, exclaimed, and panicked and began to spread.

"Hold on! Resist this king! At this time, the Qing army reinforcements were still on the side of Xiangcheng, and the Wei army must have arrived first, Shang Kexi jumped like thunder, gave up the tiger horse army, and directly pulled out the horse to intercept the Wei army that rushed out of the city.

More than 3,000 horse troops with blue flags, after coming out of the formation, they rushed to the western army out of the city in a detour.

At this time, Xu Heihu, who killed the Qing army again, was already soaked in blood, he pulled out the horse and held the reins of the horse, and saw the Qing army rushing towards the western army, and immediately pulled the reins, let the war horse turn around, raised the big axe, and shouted angrily: "Kill me!" ”

After Yu Bi, he urged the war horse again, and there were more than 2,000 tiger horse troops left behind him, and he immediately grasped his strength and chased after Shang Kexi.

The main formation of the Qing army, Duoduo's vision was blocked by Xiangcheng, and he couldn't notice the changes in the south of Xiangcheng for the first time, his attention was already attracted by the royal flag in the north of Xiangcheng, knowing that Gao Yihuan was on the city, and urgently ordered the red-clothed artillery to bombard, wanting to kill Gao Yihuan, and sent the infantry army to storm the northern city.

The right flank of the southern city of Xiangcheng, attacking Nikan in the right fort, sensed that there was a problem with the Qing army on the left flank.

He saw that the soldiers and horses of Xiangcheng were constantly coming out of the south city to attack Shang Kexi, who was attacking the left flank, and the men and horses on the south bank of Rushui were also attacking the Qing army on the left flank, and immediately discussed the danger of the left flank.

"Quick! The whole army pressed up, passed through the gap between the right fort and Xiangcheng, and reinforced King Zhishun! Nikan roared angrily and gave a decisive order.

At the foot of the right flank mountain, more than 15,000 Qing troops who had not yet entered the battlefield immediately moved to the left, wanting to rescue the Qing army on the left flank.

As soon as the Nikan army on the right flank moved, Wu Shizhao, who crossed the pontoon bridge, already knew Nikan's intentions, and immediately shouted urgently, "Quick!" Fast! Lined up on the official road! ”

The more than 5,000 Kesheng infantry troops who had just crossed the bridge, under the command of the army, ran northward and directly placed three horizontal formations on the official road connecting the south gate of Xiangcheng, preparing to block the Qing infantry from the right flank.

At this moment, the hopes of the Wei army were all pinned on the 10,000 Western troops who rushed out.

If they could not take the first step and defeat the left flank of the Qing army, then the Wei army on the left flank battlefield might be flanked by the reinforcements sent by the Nikan army and Duoduo, and finally suffer heavy losses.

The south gate of Xiangcheng was wide open, the drawbridge was lowered, and Li Dingguo led hundreds of cavalry of the Western Army, roaring out, and behind the cavalry, there were nearly 10,000 soldiers of the Western Army who were running wildly.

Shang Ke was pleased to see that the leader was wearing silver armor, holding a hard bow, a fiery red cloak fluttering in the wind, and the cavalry behind him was holding a yellowish tooth flag with two big words "Anxi" on it.

This made Shang Kexi a little confused for a while, and looked at this team suspiciously, it didn't seem to be Wei Jun.

At this time, Li Dingguo took the lead, galloped wildly, drew the hard bow in his hand into a full circle, and fired several arrows in succession, but the arrows were not missing, and three Qing soldiers were killed one after another.

At this time, the distance was shortened, Li Dingguo hung the bow and arrow on the saddle, picked up the big gun and stabbed to death a Qing general who was holding a spear and stabbed at him, and then picked it hard, directly threw the corpse away, and smashed it into a piece of Qing army, and the action was extremely smooth.

Li Dingguo led hundreds of cavalry to break into the Qing army formation under the fort from the side, the big guns stabbed, the knives flew up and down, and the Qing troops who attacked the fort suffered a surprise attack again, and immediately lost their armor and urinated.

Shang Kexi saw this scene, so angry that his eyes almost burst out, and he hurriedly urged the war horse to stop it, but it was too late. After being attacked by the cavalry, after seeing the cavalry, nearly 10,000 infantry troops swept over, and the Qing archers who attacked the fort began to flee first.

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