Chapter 685 Serving the country is duty
The Ming army killed the city wall of the East Gate, the East Gate was lost, and the news came one after another, which made Qian Wanli feel confused.
When I looked in the direction of the eastern city, I saw countless torches appearing in the city wall and spreading to the entire city.
There are only hundreds of wolf soldiers left in the urn city, but they are still fighting the trapped beasts, the east gate not far away has been lost, and further away, the Ming army camp is where the earth-shattering shouting and killing sound is coming, which makes Qian Wanli not know what to do.
"General Qian, why don't we withdraw from the city, and when the Ming army that enters the eastern city attacks, it will be too late to retreat." Some of his subordinates panicked.
The hundreds of Ming troops in the urn city could not be annihilated for a long time, and the footsteps of the Ming army running were already heard not far away, which made the entire Nancheng bandit soldiers in a riot.
"Withdraw what? Where are we going to leave the city and retreat to this dark day! After stabilizing his mind for a short time, Qian Wanli scolded his subordinates, "General Bai is attacking the Ming army camp, and he will soon defeat the Ming army camp to support." And once the Ming army besieging the city knew that the camp was attacked, it would inevitably retreat in a panic. We still have more than 2,000 brothers, and there is no problem in guarding the city wall of the urn city at the south gate. ”
It's hard to retreat, to get out of the city, and to come in again. As long as you hold the south gate of the city wall, and wait for Bai Wenxuan to break through the Ming army camp and come back, you can easily eliminate the Ming army that entered the city. And if he withdrew from the city, even if Bai Wenxuan could break through the Ming army camp, but lost Yuezhou, it would still be a failure. And as a general defending the city, he will definitely not be able to escape the military law of Onishi!
Since it was decided to defend the city, Qian Wanli immediately began to arrange, there were only hundreds of remnants of the Ming army in the urn city, and only a few hundred soldiers were left to guard the two horse roads, and then shoot with archers and firecrackers, and it would not take much time to annihilate. And now the top priority is to block the Ming army attacking from the east city along the city wall.
Qian Wanli immediately ordered to send a thousand soldiers to line up towards the east city to block the attacking Ming army, leaving hundreds of soldiers to guard against the west, and then step up to exterminate the Ming army in the urn city.
Long Ao took two thousand soldiers to kill along the city wall, but was blocked by a thousand thieves, although his subordinates were twice as many as the thief army, but the top of the city wall was only more than two zhang wide, and there were not so many people at all, and there were only one or twenty people who could directly contact and fight, and they couldn't give full play to the advantage of numbers.
The wolf soldiers are extremely fierce, and the thief army, which has no way to retreat, is also fearless, and the two sides are in a white heat once they fight, and the soldiers on both sides are cut down by each other and killed and killed all the time.
After the crowd, Long Ao listened to the sound of fighting still coming from the urn city, and knew that there were still subordinates still resisting, looking at the fierce fighting sides, his eyes gradually turned red. Gritted his teeth and picked up the machete, jumped on the top of the battlement, stepped on the battlement and flew towards the thief army, crossed the two warring sides, jumped into the queue of the thief army, the steel knife waved, countless thieves screamed and fell, and the severed arms and stumps fell one after another.
In the city, the fighting in other places gradually stopped, most of the thieves' troops were in the south city, and they were unable to resist the 8,000 Ming troops who entered the city, and Wang Shicai's men easily occupied the city walls and the treasury of the government.
On the street not far from the south gate, a large number of soldiers lined up in a neat line.
"Mr. He, it's almost, isn't it?" Wang Shicai asked He Gang. Although he was the chief soldier, Wang Shicai did not dare to disrespect He Gang, because He Gang was the confidant of the staff of the soldiers who blocked Yinxi.
After recovering Changsha and about to occupy Yueyang and defeat tens of thousands of thieves, Wang Shi knew that the future of Plugging Yinxi would definitely be more than just preparing for the army, and he would soon be promoted to governor and governor, and He Gang would definitely be on the rise, even if he was a prefect and a governor, how could he dare to despise it?
He Gang calculated the time and nodded: "It's almost over, please ask General Wang to give the order to launch a full-scale attack on the Ming army in Nancheng!" ”
The Long family is powerful in Chenzhou, it can be weakened but not weakened too ruthlessly, once it causes an imbalance in strength, it is also not conducive to the rule of the imperial court.
Wang Shicai nodded, waved his hand, and thousands of soldiers attacked the southern city like a tide. From the west city along the city wall, from the city to set up a ladder to climb up, hundreds of soldiers carrying huge logs violently slammed into the inner gate of the urn city, towards the south gate launched a full-scale attack.
Coupled with the wolf soldiers under Long Ao, the total strength of the Ming army exceeded 10,000, and the thief Qian Wanli's men were already less than 2,000 after repeated battles, not to mention that they had to devote a lot of energy to prevent the few wolf soldiers left in the urn city.
Long Ao was tall and strong, and he was extremely brave, brandishing a big knife and striking, and few of the thieves could stop him. Finally breaking through the last of the thieves, Long Ao rushed to the east side of the road.
At this moment, there were less than two hundred wolf soldiers trapped in the urn city, and the wolf soldier general led by him crawled to the head of the city with several arrows covered in blood, kneeling at Long Ao's feet and wailing.
One was attacked *** place, the remaining thief army was no longer able to stop it, some people cried and threw down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, but they were killed by the red-eyed wolf soldiers with knives and guns and cut into meat paste, and the rest looked cornered, and actually chose to jump off the city, screaming again and again for a while, dozens of thieves broke their legs.
The inner gate of the urn city was also broken, and the Ming army had already entered the urn city and was storming the city along the horse road.
At the head of the city, Qian Wanli hid in the city gate tower with the last more than 100 thieves, resisting the tide of attack of the Ming army.
At the head of the city, seeing Long Ao covered in blood, He Gang and Wang Shicai sighed.
"Mr. He, Mr. Wang, two thousand brothers, there are only more than a hundred people left, how will I face my father when I go back!" The steel-like man squatted on the ground and hugged his head and cried, which made people cry when they heard the sadness.
"The thieves are cunning and harm my soldiers, General Long don't be sad, we will definitely avenge you!"
Wang Shicai said indignantly, and then passed down the order to kill all the thieves in the city, not accept any surrender, and avenge the wolf soldiers!
"Recovering Yueyang, the Chenzhou Longjia family has made great contributions, Lord Bingxian will definitely ask the court for credit for the Long family, General Long don't be sad." He Gang also comforted on the side.
Slowly, Long Ao stopped sobbing and stood up with a knife, "War will inevitably cause casualties, and it is incumbent on you to exterminate the thief army." My Long family is loyal to the Ming Dynasty and loyal to the imperial court, even if there are too many casualties, it is also my duty. However, I will kill the thief generals with my own hands and avenge my brothers. ”
Looking at Long Ao, who was carrying a knife to kill the city gate tower, Wang Shicai and He Gang glanced at each other, and turned their heads in unison.
"I don't know what happened to the camp, did Lord Bing Xian defeat the thieves who attacked him?" He Gang muttered.