Chapter 428: The Long Knife Swings
By the time Liu Guozhen finally woke up from his dizziness, the thief army on the mountain had already rushed down, and the vanguard had already begun to attack the improvised fortifications that Wang Shixuan had set up temporarily. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Fortunately, at noon that day, Wang Shixuan commanded his subordinates to place a large number of deer and horses here and erect a fence wall, otherwise, thousands of thieves on the mountain road rushed down with all their might, and the Ming army in Shanxi Town in panic could not resist at all.
However, even with this fortification, now the group of Shanxi Zhenming troops under the gourd order has also reached the end of the crossbow, although there are a large number of soldiers armed with spears behind the rejection of horses and fences, constantly using spears more than a zhang long through the fence and the rejection of horses in front of the fence, stabbing at the thieves who are trying to move away from the rejection of horses.
However, at this time, the actions of the Ming army obviously lacked effective command, and a considerable number of soldiers were scurrying around like headless flies in a panic, holding bows and arrows, and shooting indiscriminately in the direction where the thieves were gathered.
Seeing this, Liu Guozhen knew that he could no longer do nothing, so he immediately pulled out the stainless steel Qi knife that originally belonged to Wang Shixuan, and shouted: "I am Liu Guozhen!" Listen to me! If you don't want to die, follow me to kill the thief! ā
Liuguozhen's loud shouting played a role, and the Shanxi town soldiers who were scurrying around, especially the part of the soldiers who had followed Liuguozhen's garrison gold lock before, quickly rushed to hear the sound and gathered around Liuguozhen.
At this time, the horses outside the fence were finally removed by the swarming thieves, and then the fence that had been temporarily erected on the ground at noon was also pushed down by the surging crowd.
Like a flash flood, the thieves overturned the barrier and broke in.
Seeing this, Liu Guozhen shouted "follow me", took the lead, rushed to the place of the break first, held the handle with both hands, waved the long knife, and the blocker was invincible.
The hundreds of Ming soldiers who had gathered around Liuguo Town, seeing that the main general was so brave, were also aroused by blood, and rushed over.
The place where the fence was overturned quickly became the most fierce place of the fighting, and wave after wave of thieves rushed in, and were hacked, shot, and stabbed to death by the Ming soldiers led by Liu Guozhen.
There are officials and soldiers, but more of them are thieves.
The Shanxi Zhenming soldiers who were scattered in other parts of the camp saw that this place was in great danger, and they also rushed here.
However, just as the momentum of the thieves' assault was being curtailed, another section of the fence suddenly collapsed to the ground.
The appearance of the second break made the general trend of the thief army's advance suddenly irreversible.
With the collapse of that section of the fence, the last straw that broke the camel's back appeared.
Originally, more than a dozen of his own soldiers who were surrounded by Wang Shixuan, who was blurred with flesh and blood, suddenly burst out into a cry at this juncture: "General Wang is dead!" General Wang is dead! ā
It turned out that although Wang Shixuan was seriously injured by the cannon explosion, he never breathed until this moment.
This is really the choice of the king of success, and the choice of the king of defeat.
Liu Guozhen obviously felt that the cries and shouts of those pro-soldiers of Wang Shixuan before his death came, and the figures of the Ming soldiers around him were obviously stagnant, and many people involuntarily looked back.
The same is true for Liu Guozhen.
However, it was good that these people didn't look back, but when they looked back, they found that the dozen or so Wang Shixuan's personal soldiers were crying and shouting, while putting Wang Shixuan's body on the body of a family member, protecting him and leaving.
Liu Guozhen immediately shouted: "Put down General Wang!" You have taken him now! He's going to die! ā
However, those of Wang Shixuan's pro-soldiers before his death just looked back at Liu Guozhen with resentment, turning a deaf ear to his words at all, and instead left quickly.
At this moment, the Ming soldiers who were following Liu Guozhen's side, the military was in a big mess, and the positions at the back turned around and left, following the soldiers who were carrying Wang Shixuan's body, and ran east quickly.
Liu Guozhen was extremely angry, but he had no power to return to heaven, so he could only vent the anger in his heart on the more and more thieves around him.
The long knife is waved, and the blood is raining!
One after another, the thief army that rushed over fell under the Qi knife of Liu Guozhen!
At this moment, Liuguo Town, who is tall like a giant and keeps slashing with a knife, is like a reef in the waves, no matter what kind of huge waves are rolled in, they will crash in front of this reef.
However, more and more thieves no longer rushed in front of him, but bypassed him and rushed straight into the Ming military camp.
The Ming soldiers who originally followed Liu Guozhen's side had either died in battle or had fled, leaving only a dozen old subordinates in the Golden Lock Pass, who were still by his side to block the cold arrows and spears that came to him.
However, as time continued, the Ming soldiers around Liu Guozhen fell one after another, and the last moment inevitably came.
More and more thieves rushed into the camp of the Ming army, and more and more thieves surrounded Liuguo Town.
Liu Guozhen had just brandished his long knife and fired a cold arrow from the thief army, but he was pierced in the ribs by a spear stabbed in an oblique stab.
He had just swung his long knife to cut the spear when another spear stabbed him in the back.
That wasn't the end of it, as he was about to turn around and cut off the spear behind him, a third spear stabbed him in the chest from the front.
Then there were spears stabbing from all directions, and Liu Guozhen's body, which was no longer able to turn, stubbornly carried the stabbing of one spear after another......
Finally, the Qi knife in Liu Guozhen's hand fell to the ground, and he looked at the smiling faces of the thieves around him who were excited because they killed him, and muttered to himself: "I drank Wang Zongzhen's send-off wine, and if I didn't succeed, I became a benevolent ......."
With the death of Liuguo Town, the resistance of the Ming army in Shanxi Town, under the Huanglu Ridge, quickly collapsed, and as many as four or five thousand thieves swept in, and the Ming soldiers who had lost their organization were either killed or fled.
The fleeing Ming army broke the Ming artillery position that had been arranged on the opposite side of the dry riverbed, and the remaining eighteen guns of various types did not play any more role, and were followed by the retreating gunners on that small open field.
Under the pursuit of the thief army, thousands of fleeing Ming soldiers were crowded on the narrow mountain road, competing for the road, pushing and trampling each other, either in the hands of the pursuing thief army, or died under the trampling of the own army, or were squeezed down the valley and fell to death on the sharp rocks.
When Wang Guoliang led the reinforcements to carry the grain and grass baggage, on the mountain road only four or five miles away from Huangluling, when he met the Ming army running in the front, he was so angry that he beat his chest and shook his feet, and looked up to the sky and roared.
When he had just received the good news from Yi Bangcai, Wang Guoliang was very happy, looking at the more than 2,000 thieves and prisoners escorted back by Yi Bangcai, he was so happy that he danced with his hands, while letting people place and take care of these prisoners in the camp outside the Golden Lock Pass, and on the other hand, he asked people to prepare grain, grass, baggage, artillery and ammunition, ready to be transported to the bottom of the Huanglu Ridge.
The power of the Ming army's artillery mentioned by Yi Bangcai made Wang Guoliang very pleased, and therefore delayed some time to rush to reinforcements as soon as possible.
However, who could have predicted that there would be a sudden change in the situation under the Huanglu Mountains, and Wang Shixuan, who had just sent the news of the great victory, would suddenly die because of the cannon explosion, and all his previous efforts would be in vain?
Wang Guoliang personally led the main force of Jinsuoguan to reinforce, and met the Ming army on the mountain road not far from Huangluling, and the Ming gunners who ran in the front saw their own commander, and immediately knelt on the ground and cried and begged to turn back and fight again, and atone for their crimes.
From the cries of these defeated soldiers, Wang Guoliang generally understood the situation before and after, and learned that the two fierce generals under his command had died under the Huanglu Ridge, and his heart was even more gloomy.
The soldiers of Wang Shixuan's office, who were being chased and killed by a large number of thieves, learned that the commander of the army had come to reinforce, and everyone was ecstatic, and immediately cheered on the mountain road.