Chapter 20: Tang Xidong's counterattack
Mao time.
It was dark.
But if it's summer, the horizon is already shining.
Under the still dark sky, there is the city of Pingyang, which is illuminated by firelight.
Four gates, one heaped with blood and corpses, and the other three were New Army soldiers hiding behind sandbags to guard the city.
The hustle and bustle in the entire city of Binh Duong gradually became quieter, and after the fire was gradually controlled, it indicated that the power of rebellion in Binh Duong City was greatly weakened.
The west gate and the south gate are surrounded by the Fen River, and the pontoon bridge originally erected on the river has been damaged and damaged, and the north gate is the place where Tang Xidong let Zhang Sanshi focus on defense, but obviously the Ming army did not choose the north gate where Tang Xidong's defense was the weakest, but stormed the east gate.
The battle at the East Gate has been going on for an hour.
For a long time, there were seven or eight hundred members of the company left, divided into two sides to defend the steps leading to the city.
And the city walls are already full of corpses, officers and soldiers, companies.
The city wall is already full of Ming soldiers, and Pingyang City will not be able to contain it.
The wound on Tang Xidong's chest had re-oozing blood, a bloody wound had been cut out of his waist, and the lower leg of his left leg was stuck with a bow and arrow that had been shot from the city, and the severed arrow was still inserted in his calf.
There was too much blood loss, and the whole person began to slowly weaken.
The crossbow gun in his hand was clenched, and the bayonet was already stained with blood and flesh foam hanging from it.
But there are still the last team members left in front of them, as well as the officers and soldiers who are pressed by the black.
The darkness was attacking him one after another, and he was able to stand on the city wall with the support of his own soldiers next to him.
The Ming army's onslaught began again.
Biting his tongue hard, the pain made Tang Xidong wake up briefly.
The shouts of killing came again.
Everyone was fighting mechanically, some were screaming and lying down, some were screaming viciously, and there was the splash of blood, the sound of swords colliding.
The Ming saber and shield bearers became the main force, and the firecrackers mixed in the forehead sword and shield hands began to lose their effect.
Fighting his way forward, in the gap of the crowd, Tang Xidong kept stabbing and stabbing, and he couldn't see clearly whether the bayonet hit the shield or inserted it into the body of the officers and soldiers.
The Ming army, which had already seen the hope of victory, this time the attack was particularly protracted.
The company again fell two hundred people.
The entire section of the city wall became congested.
Tang Xidong's eyes were dark, and the whole person was on the ground.
Could it be that the chess is a step behind, and the defeat will be caused by the defeat in Pingyang City?
After a short period of darkness, Tang Xidong regained his consciousness again.
Suddenly there was a dense sound of footsteps behind him, Tang Xidong looked up, and saw that on the steps behind him, a large number of new troops were rushing up, and Zhang Sanshi, who was at the head, was holding a waist knife, with an anxious and angry face.
The reinforcements in the city watched Zhang Sanshi pounce on the officers and soldiers from his side, and his dull brain reacted.
At this moment, faintly, the roaring cannon sound sounded outside the city, but Tang Xidong was slowly unable to hear it clearly.
I could only watch the surviving team members shout, and the faint voice became so distant: Reinforcements are coming.
Reinforcements? Zhang Sanshi them?
Tang Xidong thought so, but there was no answer, and finally the raging darkness began to engulf him.
Nothing to do with him!
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Outside the city, just when Zhang Sanshi began to rush to the city wall to support with a new army that had not experienced a bloody battle.
Li Shangquan finally appeared in the rear of the Ming army with 6,000 new troops and an artillery team that came from Luoliang Mountain.
The new army that shouted and pounced, as well as the artillery fired by the Luoliangshan artillery team.
A round of artillery smashed into the rear of the officers and soldiers, and the roaring explosion tore a large number of Ming army commanders to pieces.
This was followed by the two sides in close combat.
The veteran members of Luoliang Mountain, who broke into the rear of the officers and soldiers, began to ignite the homemade grenades in their hands, and the sound of explosions in an instant came one after another.
The arrows that advanced with the new army blended into the Ming army.
The entire New Army was like a boulder smashing through the water, advancing sharply.
The artillery in the back occurred again, and the Ming army under the city walls began to extend the bombardment.
And the fifteen artillery pieces of the Ming army were also overturned one by one under the bombardment of grenades.
The situation on the entire battlefield was reversed in an instant.
It is difficult for the fire team attacking the city wall and the city below to form an effective fire suppression.
After more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, more than 1,000 Ming troops poured up in the city, and only more than 1,000 Ming troops remained in the city.
Then, the new army, which was getting closer and closer, slowly began to pounce on more than a thousand people, and it was about to be surrounded.
The momentum is like wind and fire, and it comes from the rollup.
After two rounds of shelling, there were only seven or eight hundred people left in the Ming army.
Suddenly, the sound of the call to withdraw the troops was heard on the battlefield.
Then the first to withdraw from the battlefield and run into the distance were the cavalry with handsome flags.
The escape of the cavalry ignited the lead of the retreat of the officers and soldiers, and the Ming army, which was originally offensive, collapsed in an instant.
After the cavalry escorted the commander to escape, the remaining Ming army instantly fell into a sea of new troops.
On the city wall, the Ming army continued to attack, and the generals who commanded the battle did not care, everyone knew that only by snatching the city wall in front of them could there be a glimmer of life.
The Ming army's offensive strengthened again, and the new army, which had not experienced the fighting, was frightened by the opponent's offensive, and the people at the front began to subconsciously retreat.
Zhang Sanshi angrily reprimanded, but to no avail.
At the critical moment, the veteran members of the Luoliangshan Company, who were already injured, tried their last strength to block it.
Victory is in sight, and these men who have come from Luoliang Mountain step by step do not allow the defeated soldiers in front of them to steal their victory.
The fallen companions and the reinforcements outside the city finally inspired the new army behind them, although they had not seen this tragic scene after no fighting, but the blood in their bones and the discipline they practiced hard every day made them choose to meet the attack again.
One by one, the new troops rushed up, awakening the military spirit of a team with blood and life.
The dead fall forever, and the undead come up.
The Ming offensive finally collapsed after witnessing the tenacity of the new army.
When the Ming army under the city was wiped out and the city gate was opened, Li Shangquan entered the city with reinforcements.
This war loses the meaning of continuing.
Surrender was the last choice of the Ming army.
Binh Duong City was saved.
The war is coming to an end.
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The dense forest, which was originally halfway to ambush the Ming army, ignited with starry flames.
Corpses were scattered in the flames, and the air was filled with a sense of carnal sorrow.
After Liu Liangzi led the cavalry to rush through the ambush, the new army returned.
After waiting for a long time, he did not see the arrival of the enemy brigade, so the general ordered his subordinates to scout to check, and the report was naturally the military situation that the enemy brigade had suddenly disappeared.
Just when the general was in doubt, the attack came suddenly.
Liu Liangzi, who had already brought back the artillery team from Luoliang Mountain, directly led people to detour to Linhou and launched an attack.
Homemade grenades and artillery bombarded in unison, and a fire broke out throughout the forest.
Two thousand officers and soldiers were surrounded by fire, piercing screams rang out one after another, and the scorching and wailing figures in the forest were tumbling and wailing, and the smell of scorching fire drifted everywhere with the cold wind.
Two thousand Ming troops were burned and annihilated.
After that, the cavalry dragged the artillery, marched quickly along the cement official road, and finally caught up with Li Shangquan, who led the army back, two miles away from Pingyang City.
The two teams mixed and broke through behind enemy lines, so that the final scene of the battle of Pingyang City was born.
The Ming army fled in rout, and Pingyang City held on.