Chapter 437: Fuzhou City
Guliga laughed and walked forward, but he didn't notice the pair of cold eyes a dozen paces away from him.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! A series of clangs rang out not far away, and the voice of Gu Lijia, who was still laughing arrogantly, stopped abruptly.
He stared incredulously at the several blood holes in his body, and turned his head with difficulty to look in the direction of the ringing. I saw black shadows emerge from the bushes on one side and rush towards me.
Gu Lijia's body fell limply to the ground, and his pupils suddenly widened. He actually saw Zonomu's sword on the body of a Changxing army? How much he wanted his subordinates to come back and kill this Changxing army to avenge his master, but darkness gradually enveloped his heart, and Gu Lijia turned into a cold corpse with great unwillingness.
Ma Jingbo was chased by the Jurchens and fled into the woods in embarrassment. But he was pleasantly surprised to find that the Jurchens did not send people to chase and kill them, and after settling the wounded, Ma Jingbo moved closer to the large army.
When they approached the main army, Tao Lei had already fled into the woods with the Changxing army. Ma Jingbo followed the sound of the clanging all the way, and the dense bushes and weeds on the road blocked their path.
When they approached most of them, they happened to encounter Gu Lijia leading troops to attack the Changxing army. The middle was separated by Jurchen armor soldiers, and Ma Jingbo could only lead people to lurk forward cautiously.
Gu Lijia and the Jurchens' attention was all focused on Tao Lei, and they didn't notice that Ma Jingbo was approaching.
When Gu Lijia stood up from his hiding place and laughed, Ma Jingbo saw the lightning rod on his head at a glance.
Golden opportunity! Killing the Jurchen generals will definitely reduce the pressure on the large army. Ma Jingbo immediately ordered the twenty-seven spear and shield soldiers who followed him to aim the short fire at Guli Jia.
The short fire gun has a short range, and its accuracy is not reliable at all. But the numbers made up for everything, and the salvo of twenty-seven short guns almost beat the Guri armor into a sieve.
Ma Jingbo took the lead and shouted: "Brothers, resist!" Reinforcements are coming! After shouting, he rushed out with a spear in hand.
More than two dozen people shouted in unison, and the sound spread far and wide. Hearing that reinforcements had arrived, the Jurchen offensive immediately weakened.
Especially the Jurchen armor soldiers who were ambushed by Tao Lei just now, they turned around and ran when they heard the shouting of killing behind them.
Their escape made the Changxing army even more imposing, and they forgot their fatigue and chased after the buttocks of the Jurchen armor soldiers to slash and kill.
More than 20 people led by Ma Jingbo were like tigers descending from the mountain to kill the frightened Jurchen armor soldiers, and the death of Gulijia made the Jurchens not know how many reinforcements the Changxing army came.
Except for a few who took the initiative to stand up and resist, they were defeated by Ma Jingbo and others, and the rest all fled.
The Changxing army chased after them for a distance, and they only stopped when their physical strength was exhausted. After learning that the so-called reinforcements were only Ma Jingbo and other twenty-seven people, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.
If it weren't for the Jurchens fleeing without a fight, this battle would definitely be more than lucky. Almost all of the more than 200 people who survived were wounded, and a few stopped breathing after they stopped the pursuit.
This battle was so miserable that Tao Lei led a team of half a thousand people and more than 500 people to ambush the Jurchens, killing almost half of the manpower, and almost all of the remaining people were wounded.
His half of a thousand-strong team was almost abolished, and he didn't want to go to the battlefield again for two months without repair. But their success was no less brilliant, beheading Nurhachi's son-in-law and Mang Gurtai's brother-in-law, Zonomu.
More than 700 Jurchen armor soldiers were killed, and more than 500 Han army banners were killed. The remaining more than 400 Jurchen armor soldiers were frightened, and it is still unknown whether they will have the courage to fight the Changxing army in the future. This battle completely crippled a Jiala of the Zhenglan Banner, and dealt a heavy blow to the Jurchens who rescued Bijiabao.
It was not until noon the next day that Tao Lei returned to Bijiabao with the wounded soldiers using captured horses to hump the bodies of the dead soldiers and the heads of the Jurchens.
The moment they entered the camp of the Changxing Army, more than 200 Changxing troops, including Tao Lei, all fell to the ground and fell asleep, and some of them slept soundly in the sewage.
When these people were taken to Zhou Liyu's medical camp, all the personnel moved to check the health of the warriors who had fought a bloody battle.
Zhou Liyu walked with his young apprentices in the snoring tent, squatting down from time to time to investigate the soldiers' injuries.
He grabbed a soldier's hand, looked at it for a moment, and shook his head. The soldier had two broken fingers, and because of the intensity of the battle, he simply bandaged it and threw himself into the fight.
Since the weather in March was still relatively cold, the severed finger was already a little black. There is no other way than to cut it off, otherwise the necrosis of the wound will be life-threatening.
Zhou Liyu took the sharp scissors from the apprentice's hand, and Qi Gen cut the soldier's two fingers short one by one. The remaining phalanges were pulled out with iron forceps, and the wound was sutured and bandaged with needles and threads.
The whole process was dripping with blood, but the soldier only shivered after his finger bones were cut short, and he did not wake up at all and continued to sleep.
As if it was someone else's finger that was cut off, after treating the soldier's wound, Zhou Liyu walked to the place where the others were.
After dealing with everyone's injuries, it was already evening, and Zhou Liyu instructed his apprentices to boil ginseng soup and pour it for the soldiers.
Many people have reached the point where they run out of oil and run out of lights, and if they don't replenish their physical strength, they may not be able to wake up.
Zhang Dou also came to visit twice, and instructed everything to use the best medicine, and to make sure that the soldiers who contributed to the Changxing Army were safe.
Over the course of the next day, the reinforcement operation continued. The Jurchens and Han military banners from all walks of life were devastated, and more than 3,000 Jurchens alone were killed, and the Han military banners numbered as many as 10,000 people.
Coupled with the enemies destroyed before and besieged in Bijiabao, Mang Gurtai still has not many troops to use.
He still has to defend Fuzhou, and he can't take care of the Zhuangbao on the periphery, the goal of the Changxing army to send reinforcements has been basically completed, and there is no need for the bait of Bijiabao to exist.
That night, the walls of Bijiabao were successfully blasted by Xiao Youjin, and when the Changxing army entered Bijiabao, the Jurchens had no possibility of escaping except being eliminated.
The Changxing army captured all the Jurchens in the city, and the Han people were also transported away. Bijiabao was also the same as Antai Fort, which fell into the hands of the Changxing army.
In the next few days, the Changxing army swept the empty Zhuang Fort on the outskirts of Fuzhou City. Zhuangbao, which had insufficient troops, was not the opponent of the Changxing army at all, and was broken by the Changxing army one by one.
The Liu Xingzuo brothers, who were stationed at Congjiawa Fort, actually led their troops to flee without a fight, and disappeared into the mountains.
His escape set an example for the Han army, and these people either fled or surrendered, and the defense line that Mang Gurtai had worked so hard to arrange for a year was wiped out in ten days.
Fuzhou City has been completely exposed to the Changxing Army's troops!