"Capture Zhu Yulu alive!"

"Capture Zhu Yulu alive!"

The Eight Banners soldiers roared and climbed up the hillside, just like a hungry wolf seeing a fat sheep, their eyes flashed with excitement, for ordinary Qing army generals, it was enough to catch a big man like Zhu Yulu, the king of Tang, to protect several generations of wealth.

Yangshuo soldiers are also high-spirited, although Tang King Zhu Yulu is not Emperor Longwu himself, but also his own brother, he personally went to the front line to fight side by side with everyone, the officers and soldiers felt that the responsibility on their shoulders suddenly became a little heavier, and lined up behind the breastwork wall to wait for the formation.

Jiao Lian's pressure was even greater, for fear that Tang King Zhu Yulu would have some accident and could not afford to take the blame, while commanding the battle, while checking the surrounding terrain, he suddenly beckoned Tang Miaozi to his side, and ordered him to lead 300 people to guard the side hillside, in case the Qing army sent a small force to launch an interspersed raid on Zhu Yulu.

"His Royal Highness King Tang has no power to restrain chickens, what are you doing here? It's really a mess, it's a mess ......" Tang Miaozi took the order and left, muttering in his mouth, as if he was full of complaints about the trouble brought by Zhu Yulu's visit to the front line, but he also secretly gave a thumbs up in his heart, although the princes and nobles of the Ming Dynasty rarely surrendered to the Manchus, but they were even more famous for fleeing from the wind, and it was really rare to be able to do the Cheng dù of Zhu Yulu, the king of the Tang Dynasty.

"His Royal Highness King Tang, the front is too dangerous, you really can't go!"

On the mountain beam, Jing Liang and several Chu army officers stood in a row with their arms crossed, posing as if they could not fight back and scold and not return the mouth, but they were like a wall in front of Zhu Yulu, while Ma Jixiang and several other officials knelt on the ground, pulling the corners of his robe and begging bitterly.

"Get out of the way!" Zhu Yulu shouted angrily and broke free from Ma Jixiang. Two steps forward, reaching out and pushing Kyora hard.

"The last general was ordered by the general of the Wang army to protect the safety of His Royal Highness the King of Tang. Won't get out of the way. Jingliang's upper body shook slightly, but his feet did not move at all.

"Good! Even if the gimbal gave you an order. But did he ever say that this king should not be allowed to ascend to this 312 height, or that I should not be allowed to step within a few steps of the enemy? Zhu Yulu couldn't push Jingliang and began to reason.

"That's not true, the battle situation of the former enemy is changing rapidly, how can Wang Junmen be comprehensive, whether His Royal Highness the Tang King's location is safe or not must be judged and mastered by the future......" Jing Liang said halfway, but Zhu Yulu interrupted him.

"Jiao Lian and thousands of soldiers are there. What's not safe? ”

"It's okay for the time being, but it's not safe." Kyorashi glanced back at the 312 Heights (Xianzi Mountain).

Zhu Yulu looked at his gaze, on the hillside, the Eight Banners soldiers were climbing up, the forward had reached the chest wall, and the Yangshuo soldiers started a fierce battle, the arrows shot at the Ming army like flying locusts, and in front of the hillside, the Qing army was like a forest of battle flags. The queue was layered, and the weapons and armor shone with dazzling light, like the sparkling sea.

"Kyora, these days. The lonely king and you hit it off at first sight, and it can be regarded as a year-old friendship......" Zhu Yulu was halfway through his speech, but was interrupted by Jingliang.

"His Royal Highness the King of Tang. The last general will not let you go for personal gain......" Jing Liang was halfway through his speech, but was interrupted again by Zhu Yulu.

"Listen to me!" Zhu Yulu took a step back. He said in a slow tone: "Although the Lone King can talk to you now, he will tell the truth. In the past, I wouldn't have looked at you more, whether a person like you is alive or dead, what do you usually think or do, I don't know, and I never want to know, do you understand? ”

"Understand, His Royal Highness is the son of the dragon and the grandson of the dragon, the Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the last general is just a nameless martial artist, in the words of Wang Junmen, His Royal Highness the King of Tang and I are people who live in two worlds." Jingliang stated calmly, but his expression became stern: "The princes and generals have all kinds of appearances, which is the norm for thousands of years, and there are many rudeness in these days, and I will follow the way of respect and humility in the future, and ask the prince to ......."

"That's not what I meant!" Zhu Yulu looked at Jingliang angrily, was silent for a moment amid the rumbling cannon, and then slowly spoke.

"After the Qing army entered the customs, the people of the Ming Dynasty were certainly devastated, and my Zhu family royal family was burned with jade, and the hatred of the country and the family was all in one, if the Ming Dynasty was finally destroyed by the Manchu Dynasty, my Zhu Yulu would be a dead end sooner or later, understand? When the steel knife of the Tartar is cut down, I, the Tang King, will lose my head, when this country is destroyed and the species is wiped out, how can there be any distinction between superior and inferior?! ”

He sighed softly, and then said: "I didn't sleep all night last night, I thought about a lot of things, but I always couldn't figure it out...... The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, and the meat eaters are also responsible, but unfortunately I am a stupid prince, I can't do anything but eat all day long, but I can at least cheer for the soldiers and do my part! Kyora, I've been accomplished nothing for half of my life, and I want to do something today, can you let me go? ”

“……”

Kyora was silent, still standing in front of him.

"You! I've said so much, it's all about playing the piano to the cow, get out of the way! ”

Zhu Yulu was extremely annoyed, stretched out his hand and pushed hard, Jingliang stumbled, took two steps back, and made a gap, Ma Jixiang and the others had not yet reacted, but Zhu Yulu smiled, squeezed through the gap, and ran along the mountain beam to the 312 Heights.

"Jingliang, you young man is good, I'll recruit you as a county horse when I go back!" (The husband of the county lord is commonly known as the county horse, such as the ugly county horse Xuanzan in the Water Margin.) ）

"Kyora! Why did you let His Royal Highness King Tang pass? If something goes wrong, we will all be guilty of poor guards! Ma Jixiang chased forward while angrily accusing Jingliang.

"It's going to be fine, at most it's a little uninsured, and I'll bear this risk." Jing Liang swept his eyes and saw that Tang Miaozi led 300 people to guard the side of the hill, even if Zhu Yulu climbed the 312 Heights, there was still some distance from the forward position of the short army, and Jiao Lian had already arranged it, so the risk was not great.

"Such a big thing, you are a partial general, how can you carry it?!" Ma Jixiang was also anxious, and he didn't choose what to say.

"It's a very simple thing, several of you officials have been detained by me, and I can't dissuade King Tang from coming to the enemy in person." Jing Liangyi waved his hand and called one of his officers: "Protect these adults." Don't let them go any further. ”

After giving an order, he led the team to chase after Zhu Yulu, the king of Tang. The officer led a few soldiers and stopped in front of Ma Jixiang and the others.

This time. The fighting on the hillside has become white-hot.

Seeing that the elite of the Eight Banners was exhausted, Jiao Lian also sent his most trusted personal soldiers to guard behind the breastwork wall of the half-hillside with the original defenders. Although the overall combat effectiveness of the Ming army is low, each general has some private soldiers under him, who receive the most military salaries, receive the best training, and their combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of ordinary officers and soldiers. Sent at critical moments, it can often turn the tide of battle.

Now is the critical moment, although there are still many Qing troops under the mountain, but this wave of attacks are the elite of the Eight Banners, if they can be repulsed, the Qing army's attack behind will be weak and weak, and it will probably be able to survive today...... As for what to do tomorrow, Jiao Lian hasn't thought about it yet, in short, it's nothing more than fighting desperately. We'll talk about that then.

The commander of this personal army was Bai Gui, another fierce general under Jiao Lian, and the original defender was named Zhao Xing, with a total of more than a thousand soldiers under the command of the two, and there were seven or eight layers of layers behind the chest wall. The soldiers in the back squeezed the soldiers in front of them, and there was nowhere to run if they wanted to escape, so they could only fight desperately with the enemy.

The surging waves of the Eight Banners crashed against the breastwork. Immediately a blood-colored wave rose with the rumbling sound of explosions. The tiger squat cannon and General Lei blew up clouds of white gunsmoke, and the Qing army in front of the trench was beaten down again. In the face of such a tight defensive formation, it is difficult to break the formation with only a brute force straggler charge, not to mention that the Yangshuo soldiers still have a geographical advantage.

But the Eight Banners did not retreat down the hillside, but stood together within fifty steps and the Ming army to shoot, they were all skilled archers, the rate of fire far exceeded the firecracker, at the beginning of the minute can shoot five or six arrows, many Ming troops just raised the stone and General Lei, was shot down by the bow and arrow, but injured a lot of their own people.

"Fire suppression"!

Hundreds of Eight Banners stood on the hillside, shooting the archers, musketeers and grenadiers of the Ming army, as well as the soldiers who threw flying stones and trees, and hundreds of arrows whizzed through the air, and the afterimage almost obscured the sky...... There are also Eight Banners soldiers who keep falling, but after two or three minutes of life-for-life stalemate, the Ming army soon fell to the downside, and the strength of the counterattack became weaker and weaker, and finally was completely suppressed by the Eight Banners, the soldiers in the front row squatted on the ground with their heads down, trying to hide behind the breastwork, and the soldiers in the back row began to run away.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the group of Eight Banners soldiers rushed to the chest wall again, slashed down with tiger tooth knives, and then jumped into the Ming army formation together, fiercely assaulting forward, and they were about to break the formation in a blink of an eye.

It's messy!

The Yangshuo soldiers and the Eight Banners were entangled together, and there were no arrows from the Qing army, but the Ming army's formation was chaotic, and the Eight Banners soldiers behind put away their bows and arrows and rushed forward, constantly jumping over the chest wall, and the forward impact was getting stronger and stronger, and finally broke through the Yangshuo soldiers' formation.

Break the formation!

In hand-to-hand combat, the defending side was broken, in fact, the winner and the loser had already been divided, and the back was divided and surrounded, collapsed and fled, and chased and killed from behind...... Although the previous battle was fierce, the one-sided slaughter was even more bloody, and most of the casualties occurred in the process.

Helpless!

Jiao Lian stood on the top of the mountain, his clenched fists almost clenched out of the water, but he didn't dare to send troops to the rescue, once the formation of the formation was unstoppable, the rout would disrupt the formation of the reinforcements, and the men and horses would be filled in vain but could not reverse the defeat, so they could only wait in the second-line position and try to block the offensive of the Qing army.

After defeating the battle in the first few battles, Jiao Lian's personal soldiers did not suffer much loss, and they did not hurt their vitality, but now they watched the pro-soldiers team fall into a heavy siege, and one by one familiar subordinates were cut down one after another, Jiao Lian gritted his teeth and felt extremely distressed. Suddenly, he felt very regretful, just now he should have left Bai Gui's personal army in the second-line position, directly sacrificed Zhao Xing's troops, and blocked the Qing army's sharp spirit in the middle of the mountain...... But the matter has come to this point, and it is useless to regret it, it depends on whether Bai Gui can fight a bloody way by himself and break through with most of the remnants of the pro-soldier team.

"It's time to think about retreating."

Gur Mahun actually sent the Eight Banners and Yangshuo soldiers to shoot at each other at any cost, which greatly surprised Jiao Lian, if he still used such offensive tactics, the second-line position on the top of the mountain would not be able to hold it.

"The Jurchen is less than 10,000, and 10,000 are invincible." For the senior generals of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, every Eight Banners soldier is a baby bump, claiming to be able to fight ten at a time, and feeling a loss by exchanging ten for one, and always let the green battalion soldiers be cannon fodder in front when fighting...... According to this old concept in the past, the Eight Banners soldiers paid hundreds of casualties to capture the 312 Heights, which must be more than worth the loss, and the Yangshuo soldiers were able to achieve such a record, although they were still defeated, and now they should consider retreating.

But defeat is defeat, Jiao Lian was very disappointed in his heart, this gamble to defend to the end was lost in the end, Yangshuo soldiers condensed his hard work and hope, but failed to survive this hurdle and became a real strong army, but suffered heavy losses.

"It's time to send King Tang away." He subconsciously looked back at the mountain beam, but his eyes suddenly widened.

On the mountain beam, Zhu Yulu, the king of Tang, rushed to meet him, followed by a small group of Chu troops, one of whom was still holding a dragon flag.

Along the way, Zhu Yulu was panting, and the armor on his body had been removed at some point, and he was only wearing a dress embroidered with a four-clawed dragon pattern, and the golden helmet on his head was worn crookedly, coupled with his clumsy steps, he looked funny, but the expression on his face was very eager.

What's going on? Let's make a mess! Jiao Lian frowned, and shouted to the subordinate general Liu Qijiao: "Go and stop His Royal Highness the Tang King and send him to the back mountain!" ”

Liu Qijiao was the last general under Jiao Lian, responsible for guarding the second-line position, and was engrossed in watching the battlefield on the hillside, when he heard Jiao Lian's order, he delayed a little. At this time, Zhu Yulu had already rushed to the top of the mountain, took a stone from the auxiliary soldiers transporting ammunition and equipment, shook his body and trotted forward a few steps, put the stone heavily on a soil ridge, took a breath suddenly, and shouted: "Kill the Tartar!" ”

In the face of the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, when the nation was in danger, Zhu Yulu forgot his identity and issued the most simple cry.

"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars......"

He tried his best to lift the not too big stone again, but he had no strength, so he could only cry out one after another, his voice full of shame and anxiety.

Seeing him doing his best, Liu Qijiao suddenly felt that his heart was full of blockages, and he was so uncomfortable that he just wanted to vent, completely forgetting the order Jiao Lian gave him, stood up and drew his knife and shouted: "Kill the Tartar!" ”

His subordinates shouted together, Tang Miaozi chased after him with a team of soldiers, and shouted together, Jingliang's small group of Chu troops also shouted, and soon the Ming army on the top of the mountain was shouting loudly.

Jiao Lian's face turned red, and he suddenly jumped out of the chest wall, raised his knife and rushed towards the Qing army under the hillside: "Kill the Tartars!" ”

Behind him, Liu Qijiao, Tang Miaozi, Jingliang and countless Yangshuo soldiers rushed towards the Qing army under the hillside, letting out an overwhelming cry. (To be continued......)