298 Battle of the Central Plains (30)
At that time, Xi'an City, these two days were not peaceful, there were fewer people entering the city, the time for the city gate to open was shorter, there were still so many defenders in the city, but there were many more Qing troops patrolling in the city, the sun had risen, and the weather began to become hot.
......At this time, suddenly the alarm bell in the city sounded, and the defenders above and below the entire city gate were vigilant, and many people did not know what was going on at this time.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! At the top of the shouts from the city, the defenders of the city immediately panicked, and hurriedly drove away the people who came in and out, and wanted to close the city gate, and here, the woodcutters, hawkers, and beggars who had been at the city gate suddenly attacked, all with sharp knives in their hands, rushed towards them, and the guards were caught off guard, and they were immediately killed, and the city gate was opened again.
"Quick, the enemy has infiltrated the city, go and seize the city gate and retake the city gate!" The general guarding the pass found that it was not good, the dust was flying in the distance, according to which it was not far away, if he could not recapture the city gate as soon as possible, then it would really be impossible to protect Xi'an, and he immediately rushed down with a hundred or ten people, to exterminate the spies who were fighting at the city gate.
Tian Jianxiu picked up a spear on the ground, looked at the Qing army general who rushed over, and showed a sneer, when the two were less than ten steps apart, Tian Jianxiu suddenly became difficult, rushed forward with a spear in hand, and waved the knife, but it was still too late, his knife had just been raised, and the spear left behind had pierced the leather armor on his body.
"Ahh......h
"Kill!" Tian Jianxiu shouted violently, and led people to kill him, he chose not to stick to it, but to take the initiative to attack, at the moment those soldiers were killed to lose their armor and abandon their armor, embarrassed, but Tian Jianxiu did not let go, drove them to the city, and kept harvesting human lives, as if he was killing into a mad demon, covered in blood, the spear was not in his hand, so he lost the spear, picked up the big knife on the ground to kill the enemy, and saw one person kill one person, and the hundred or so soldiers behind him under his leadership were also unstoppable.
At this time, Daniel Zhang led three thousand war horses to kill in, and when he saw that the place was in a mess, all corpses, he was also stunned for a moment, but it was only for a moment, and he immediately reacted and ordered: "General Shen, you bring people to support General Tian, and I will lead people to capture the state capital and capture Meng Qiaofang's old thief alive." ”
"Whoever lays down his weapon will not die!" Hundreds of Xi'an defenders were surrounded on the city wall, and Tian Jianxiu saw that the follow-up men and horses had been killed, and he was also in high spirits at the moment, holding a big knife and shouting loudly.
"Put down your weapons!" The Ming army shouted together, and when the defenders of Xi'an saw this, they did not dare to resist anymore, and they put down their weapons and begged for mercy.
"General, when we were clearing the remnants of the enemy in the city, we were stopped by a group of soldiers and horses, and we couldn't hold each other for a while!" Tian Jianxiu had just left the city, and the soldiers immediately stepped forward to report.
"Let's go, follow me to kill the enemy!" Tian Jianxiu immediately led people to continue to rush away.
After walking two streets, Tian Mixiu saw that Daniel Zhang was commanding his soldiers and soldiers to fight fiercely with a team of soldiers and horses, and the two armies were evenly matched, and a stalemate was formed for a while, and Tian Mixiu saw this and stepped forward to Daniel Zhang's side.
"These people are not the defenders of the city, I don't know where the soldiers and horses came from? There are a large number of people......" Daniel Zhang Jiantian Jianxiu arrived, and he also said angrily, but he didn't expect to rush halfway and meet Cheng Yanjin, who came out to block the way.
"This is a private soldier recruited by some local Haoqiang who took refuge in the Tartars, and they colluded with the Manchu Qing when they were King Li Chuang." Tian Jianxiu knew these people, and he was immediately furious.
"Dare to get in my way!" said that Tian Jianxiu killed him, and killed more than a dozen people in a row at the moment, and these powerful soldiers and horses were also frightened.
"Kill them all, and leave not one behind!" Tian Jianxiu shouted violently at the moment, continued to rush and kill, saw a person in the chaotic army, was sitting on a horse and watched the situation on the field, Tian Jianxiu knew, this person was Chen Fu who escaped when he was in Tongguan, when Tian Jianxiu chased him for more than 30 miles, he still let him run, but he didn't expect to see it here again.
"Chen Fu, accept your life!" Tian Jianxiu galloped on the horse, knocked into a road, and went straight to Chen Fu, the two were less than two hundred steps apart, Chen Fu saw Tian Jianxiu killing, and he hurriedly pulled out his knife to resist at the moment, Tian Jianxiu's big knife took advantage of the horse's momentum, and approached Chen Fu, Chen Fu's long knife was knocked away, and Tian Jianxiu's big knife also slashed through Chen Fu's neck, only to see Chen Fu's head flying, blood splashing.
"Ah...... General Chen is dead! At that moment, those soldiers and horses were stunned when they saw this.
Tian Jianxiu rode back, and it was another fight, the men and horses brought by Chen Fu scattered and fled, Tian Jianxiu was not polite, and ordered: "Pursuit, no one is left, they all enter the city, they dare to go against our army, and they don't know the current affairs." ”
Daniel Zhang was originally going to persuade a few words, but after thinking about it, he still did not speak, which is also a little deterrent to those people in the city, so that they can see the situation clearly, and now Shaanxi is no longer surnamed Qing, but surnamed Ming, the Ming Dynasty of Ming.
Two hours, the war is over, Liu Wenxiu with 30,000 soldiers and horses into the city, soon ended, more than 5,000 soldiers and horses in the city killed more than 1,400 people, the rest of the people all surrendered, and the two thousand private soldiers of the Haoqiang, one of them must be a little difficult, but few people survived, basically were hunted and killed by the Ming army, Xi'an City changed its owner for a while.
"Send someone to send a message to the general immediately, saying that Xi'an has arrived!" After the coach Liu Wenxiu occupied the city, he immediately sent someone to send good news to Cao Bianjiao and waited for his instructions.
"A few generals, just interrogated the people of the Governor's Mansion, they said that Meng Qiaofang, that old thief, ran away last night, and only brought a few dozen personal soldiers, it seems that he knew that he couldn't hold it, so he fled in advance, what should I do now?" Daniel Zhang also came to the mansion and reported to Liu Wenxiu.
"If you want to run, it's not that easy, now the situation in the east is chaotic, the old thief will definitely not go east, but just in case, send two teams of 100 to pursue, and at the same time, Li Guo and Mrs. Gao of Yansui, let them also pay attention." Liu Wenxiu naturally won't let Meng Qiaofang go, this is a big fish, how can he let it escape.
Then Liu Wenxiu and Zhan Zhaoheng, the capital who came with the army, and Chen Tailai, who experienced the general's mansion, were also busy with all things in the city, the two civil officials were responsible for reassuring the people, Liu Wenxiu assigned people to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield, or according to the old practice before, to appease the people, this is not the first time they have done it, several people are also familiar with the road, and soon Xi'an City will settle down, for who is the master of Shaanxi, many people actually don't care, they care about what kind of decisions their officials will implement, and the policy of the Ming Dynasty is obviously more popular than the Qing court's, Therefore, the people were willing to continue to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty.
Liu Wenxiu also assigned Daniel Zhang and Tian Jianxiu to divide various places to defeat the recalcitrant Qing troops in various places and eliminate the stubborn enemies in Shaanxi.
Meng Qiaofang also failed to run away, but also because he was too greedy, he fled with a few boxes of gold, silver and jewelry, when he really gave up his money, when he passed through the golden lock, he was found with the seal on his body, and learned that he was the big traitor that the court was chasing at the moment, and he was escorted to Xi'an, waiting for the disposal of the court.