Chapter 58: Fierce Battle

With 200 Qing soldiers and 300 villagers, Arjinga rushed straight to the west gate. At this time, he no longer had the mind to defend Yong'an, so when he came, he informed his cronies that he planned to anoint the soles of his feet and take this opportunity to slip away directly from the West Gate. He involuntarily touched the leather bag hanging on the saddle, which was what he had collected for many years, and all of it had been exchanged for gold, which was his lifeline, and being an official was not just to be greedy for more money. With these, stay up for a few more years, drag some relationships back to the capital, and you can enjoy happiness in this life.

"My lord, the road ahead has been blocked by bandits with gravel and debris." An entourage came over to report.

"Report this to me too? I don't want people to clear all these obstacles for me! "Arzia was dreaming when she was interrupted by the report of her attendant, and she couldn't help but be angry.

This road is the only way to the West Gate. Chen Yucheng and his others pulled out a pile of rubble and debris from the ruined walls of burned houses outside the city to block the road, to delay time and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Chen Yucheng knew that this pile of debris would not be able to stop the Qing army for long, so he ordered the archers to hide on the roof behind the debris and harass the soldiers who cleaned up the debris with bows and arrows, with the only purpose of delaying time. He had to admire Yang Xiaoshan's clever calculation now, but fortunately, they had notified the nearby Li Lin and the others before the breakthrough, and time was on his side.

Arjinga hacked to death three retreating soldiers in a row, and shouted in his mouth: "Don't run, speed up!" Whoever runs will be hacked to death! He now realizes that the Taiping Army is dragging his feet.

"Archers, shoot at them!" Arjinga brought in an archery team and asked them to shoot at the Taiping army on the rooftop.

After all, the Qing army had a numerical advantage, and under the cover of the archers, the village warriors finally dug up the barricades of the Taiping army.

"Rush me!" Arzia shouted impatiently.

"Raise your shield!" Chen Yucheng on the other side ordered his subordinates, they held rattan shields, eight or nine people in a row, in five rows, across the end of the road. Chen Yucheng knew that they couldn't retreat, and only by fighting with the Qing Demon Alley in a small place could he better stop them. If you retreat to the open ground behind, the Qing Demon will take advantage of the numerical advantage, and once the formation is launched, the situation will be even more unfavorable at that time.

The Qing army still used Xiangyong to take the lead, and although there were 300 Xiangyong, they could not be used on this road. They were huddled together, there was no formation at all, and they just relied on instinct to kill the Taiping army.

The Taiping army, under the command of Chen Yucheng, raised a shield to resist hard, and stabbed forward with a spear in the back row for a while, and the villagers kept falling after a few rounds, while the Taiping army suffered very little losses, and only a few people were slightly injured.

The morale of the village warriors, who had no combat experience, was originally very low, and after dozens of people died, they panicked, and ran back one by one, these long hairs were killing gods in their eyes. They were so frightened that they ignored the obstruction of the Qing army overseers behind them, and after being hacked to death by the superintendents, more people rushed out of the way and fled in all directions.

"Bastards, it's all rubbish." Al Jing'a scolded angrily, in fact, he himself knew that these townsmen could not be counted on. He originally wanted to use Xiang Yong to go up and consume more of the Taiping Army's strength, but he didn't expect them to be so vulnerable that they didn't even achieve this goal.

Aljinga had no choice but to send his own elite, including his house slaves, cronies, and some relatives. He didn't use it easily in ordinary battles, but now he couldn't take care of it, and seeing that the time was getting longer and longer, he himself estimated that the reinforcements of the bandits would soon arrive.

Sure enough, these elites are much more powerful than the villagers, and as soon as the two sides come into contact, they will damage each other. These people also realized that they were in a bad situation, and rushed forward one by one, in a vain attempt to break through the defense line of the Taiping army.

A member of the Qing army, the leader, kept cursing "bandits" and "long hair" in his mouth, and frantically brandished his double knives, injuring several Taiping army brothers in a row. When Chen Yucheng saw this, he tightened his eyebrows, held back his anger, and rushed over with a gun to kill the leader. Chen Yucheng's marksmanship is outstanding, and a fierce stab forced the assistant leader to fight with two knives. Who knew that Chen Yucheng's use of power was very ingenious, after the spear was framed, he twisted his wrist, and the spear head rotated and drilled through the double knives of the frame, and the spear head pierced the stomach of the leader.

Zuo Ling screamed, realizing that he was not Chen Yucheng's opponent, and turned around and wanted to run. Chen Yucheng raised his spear and shot it at the back of Zuo Ling's neck, and the tip of the spear drilled out of the Adam's apple. This time, Saling didn't even scream, and fell to the ground and died.

Under the leadership of Chen Yucheng, the Taiping army fought very tenaciously, and in the face of the Qing army, which was twice as large as itself, it had a slight advantage on the field. The two sides were stuck together, and they couldn't tell the winner for a while.

"Da 。。。。。。" There was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the sound came from outside the West City Gate, which seemed to be not far from here, and the vibration of the horses' hooves could be felt on the ground.

The Taiping army cheered, the reinforcements were about to arrive, and everyone was full of confidence and fought hard.

"Gun team, prepare!" Arjinga felt great fear, and beads of sweat continued to seep from his forehead, and his whole body began to tremble. He also heard the sound of horses' hooves and knew that reinforcements from the Taiping army were coming.

"No, my lord, let the brothers in front of you withdraw first." An attendant hurriedly came to stop him.

"Fuck off, what do you know? We're running out of time. A fierce light flashed in his eyes, he knew that at such a close distance, it was impossible for the spear-carrying team to shoot steadily, unless there was a "meat shield" in front of him.

At this time, the elite of the Qing army who fought with the Taiping army became the victim of Al Jing'a, and with the gunfire of "Ao Yao", people from the Qing army and the Taiping army continued to fall to the ground, which was Al Jing'a's indiscriminate shooting. Even if it is a close relative, he cares more about his own life than their lives.

At such a close distance, no armor could protect against bullets from raising guns, and some bullets even penetrated the body of the Qing army and hit the body of the Taiping army.

The Qing army in front of them did not expect that their spear-carrying team would shoot their own people in the back. They fell one by one, their eyes were full of unwillingness, and they didn't expect their master to be so ruthless, and regarded them as stepping stones on the way to escape.

Fifty Taiping troops led by Chen Yucheng were also severely damaged in this unexpected shot. After a few rounds of shooting, no more than ten of them could stand. Chen Yucheng was also hit by a bullet in his right shoulder, although he did not hurt his muscles and bones, but the spear in his hand really couldn't move. After fighting for so long, he had long since lost his strength, and he had held on to it completely by will, and this bullet gave him the final blow. At this time, he didn't have the strength to stand, and fell to the ground, unwillingly watching this group of Qing troops pass through the road he defended and go to the west gate.

"What a failure!" He closed his eyes in despair, tears welling up from his eyes, so many brothers had died and still couldn't stop the Qing army.

With the last hundred of his Qing soldiers, Arjinga was preparing to go out from the West Gate. But he suddenly found that the leather bag on his saddle was missing, and that the bag contained the wealth of his life. Arjinga panicked, where did the bag go? He struggled to remember, and finally he remembered, and when he had cut the last longhair, the longhair seemed to pull his leather bag off as it fell to the ground.

Arzia was about to bring people back to look for him, but his men fled for their lives. His betrayal of his relatives just now, no one is willing to die for him at this moment.

Aljinga was reluctant to give up the bag of gold, so she had to turn her horse back to find it. Chen Yucheng, who fell to the ground, had breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, just now everyone else was only trying to escape, thinking that he was dead and no one cared about him. Chen Yucheng pressed the wound on his right shoulder with his left hand, and threw the spear with his right hand with all his strength. The spear, with the sound of the wind, pierced the back of Arjina's heart, bringing him off his horse and nailing him to the wall in front of him. Before he died, he kept his head down in the saddle, looking for his gold, and paid no attention to the spear thrown from his back.

Chen Yucheng leaned against the wall, struggling to support his body, turned his head, and found that more than a dozen Qing demons had returned from the West Gate. "Are they here to avenge Argenta's coming?" Chen Yucheng was secretly shocked in his heart, thinking that his life would not be long now.

Soon he realized that he was wrong, because these Qing soldiers were followed by a group of cavalry of the Taiping Army, and the banner was embroidered with a large character "Lin". It was Lin Fengxiang's team who came, his mission was completed, and he finally waited for reinforcements from the Taiping Army.