Chapter 639: Victory in the Death Battle
For two consecutive days, the Red Banner and the Mongol army under Yue Tuo's command stormed the north gate, so this remote water gate, located on the eastern edge of the northern wall of the Victory Fort, was only a few hundred people, although it was guarded.
Yue Tuo led the most elite 4,000 men under his command to come here, and when he saw this, he immediately ordered his Red Banner Protector Bayala to lead Rausa, and oversaw the army to storm this water gate.
The officers and soldiers stationed on the city wall were shocked when they saw this, and immediately sounded the gong to warn them, and reported to Liu Yingxuan and other generals who were commanding the defense of the city on the Zhenshuo Tower, the main gate of the north gate of Fort Victory.
But at this time, the sound of gunfire, cannons, and shouts of killing around the main gate of Beiguan City of Desheng Fort was earth-shattering, and no one heard the sound of the gong that suddenly sounded on the side wall two miles away.
In this way, the general secretary of the victorious fort Qianwenzhi, who was stationed on this section of the side wall, sent people to report to Liu Yingxuan, and immediately commanded his men in the city to shoot arrows under the city.
It is a pity that the muskets of the border troops under Wen Zhi are still old-fashioned arquebuses, and there are no artillery.
Although the Chongzhen front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun has been mass-produced a lot, it is even more difficult for the officers and soldiers stationed along the border forts like Datong Town to get such a new type of musket.
Although the status of Fort Victory is important, and the general Li Quan, who graduated from the Wutang, is also considered to have some way in Beijing, but even so, several batches of Chongzhen muskets allocated by the Martial Arts Institute to Datong Town were finally assigned to Fort Victory, and only more than 100 rods.
At this time, they were all concentrated on the main gate of the north pass of Fort Victory, and they were shooting one after another to kill the enemy soldiers who dared to approach the city.
Just as Wen Zhi was panicking and commanding to shoot arrows, the commander of the red flag guard, Lausa, with an arrow helmet on his head, three layers of cotton armor on his body, a shield in his left hand, and a huge iron bone in his right hand, like a giant, strode along the bank of the Yinma River and rushed towards the water gate under the city.
The arrows at the head of the city whizzed and whizzed, and Raussa, who was like a giant, had just entered the range of the bow and arrows at the head of the city, and had already been hit by several arrows.
But he didn't care, as if he didn't see it, he just covered his face with a shield, and didn't care about anything else, just strode forward.
Approaching the city wall, Rausa jumped into the shallow channel of the Yuma River, ran a few steps, bent down and hid in the arched water gate at the bottom of the city wall, and then smashed the huge iron bone in his hand on the rusted iron bar of the water gate.
There were several muffled sounds of "bang", "bang" and "bang", and the heavily corroded iron fences broke in response.
The flag-inlaid guards who followed closely behind Rausa jumped into the river of the Yinma River with iron bones in their hands at this moment, and rushed towards the arched water gate under the city wall in the face of the rain of arrows on the city wall.
A moment later, the sound of hammering came from under the water gate, one after another, louder and more urgent.
Wen Zhi at the head of the city knew that danger was coming at this time, and he didn't care about the officers and soldiers who commanded the city head to continue to shoot and shoot arrows to prevent more pigtailed soldiers from approaching the city wall, so he shouted "Follow me" and turned his head and ran under the city wall.
He knew that the enemy troops outside the city were storming the main gate, and he had already started the idea of the water gate, and Jianlu did not carry siege equipment, so it was not much point for everyone to stay at the head of the city at this time.
Sure enough, as soon as he led half of his men and about 200 people to the end of the water gate on the inner side of the city wall, he saw that the rocks that had blocked the water gate had collapsed violently, revealing a large hole that could be drilled by several people together.
The seemingly thick and sturdy iron fence that had been erected in the water gate of the Yinma River for an unknown number of years had been broken one by one by the Red Banner Guards led by Raussa.
The rocks that had been piled up in the water gate collapsed towards the outside of the iron fence, and although several of the red-flag-inlaid guards were hit by the collapsed rocks, more red-flag-inlaid guards drilled in through the exposed holes.
Wen Zhi, who came urgently, shouted: "Shoot arrows!" Shoot them! ”
Immediately after that, a rain of arrows shot at the entrance of the Water Gate Cave, knocking over the two Red Flag Guards who had entered first.
However, the first two had just been shot down, and more soon came out from behind them, including the leader of the red-flaged escort battalion, Raussa.
Lausa was still holding a shield in his left hand and a bone in his right hand, and after getting out of the water gate, he immediately kicked away the corpse of the self-army in front of him, and rushed towards Wen Zhi and the others with one foot deep and one foot shallow.
At this moment, a loud shout came not far away: "Wen Zhi! You guys squat down for Lao Tzu! ”
Wen Zhi heard the sound and quickly squatted on the ground, and then a rain of arrows galloped over their heads, "clanging" and shooting right into the oncoming crowd of Jianyu.
However, this rain of arrows only made the rushing Jianyu pause slightly, only a few people were shot in the face of the door and fell to the ground, and more people with arrows on their bodies, still waving bones in their hands, rushed into the ranks of the Ming army rushing to guard.
The general who rushed to reinforce was none other than Zu Kefa, who followed Zu Dashou from Liaodong to Datong Town.
At the moment when Wen Zhi stood up and swung his sword to meet the enemy, Zu Kefa and the men he brought also crossed Wen Zhi's team and fought with Lausa's troops.
Zu Kefa was dressed in plate armor, holding the long-handled Qi knife of stainless steel with both hands, and rushed into the vanguard of the red flag guard camp, waving left and right, cutting down several people one after another.
Wen Zhi watched the blood boiling in the back, and the morale of the officials and soldiers was suddenly boosted.
Zu Kefa was not originally surnamed Zu, no one knows what his surname is.
He was originally just a family member of the ancestral family when he was in Liaodong, because he was brave in battle and not afraid of death, he stood out on the battlefield in Liaodong, and was accepted as a righteous son by Zu Dashou, and since then he has changed his surname to Zu.
Zu Kefa was certainly brave, but after encountering each of the carefully selected and experienced Red Banner Protectors, he immediately struggled.
After cutting down four Red Banner Guards one after another, Zukefa inevitably wore color on his body despite the new iron plate armor to protect himself.
When the plate armor encounters swords, guns, bows and arrows, the protective effect is very strong, but after encountering the red flag swinging tooth horn holding the iron bone duo, the biggest weakness of the plate armor is exposed.
Zu Kefa originally thought that this new type of iron armor would allow him to come and go, so he rushed into the enemy army with confidence, and did not care at all about the sword swung by the enemy.
However, after slashing several people with his sword, he found that the plate armor on his body did not have too strong defensive ability against the iron bones in the hands of the enemy.
Of course, the iron bones could not be broken or pierced by two blows, but they left one dent after another in the plate armor on Zu Kefa's chest and back.
When Zu Kefa took another blow from the iron bones of the soldiers in front of him, and at the same time hacked the other party to death, he also spit out a mouthful of blood.
At this moment, Zu Kefa saw a tall and powerful Jianlu beside him lose his shield and slam it at him with an iron bone in both hands.
Zu Kefa immediately endured the surging of qi and blood, endured the stinging pain in his chest, and responded with a knife in both hands, and forcibly took the smashed bones.
As a result, he heard the sound of "dang", and the long knife in Zu Kefa's hand was knocked away, but the huge iron bone did not slow down, and smashed directly on the plate armor that was already uneven in front of him, making a muffled sound of "bang".
Caught off guard, Zu Kefa screamed and was knocked out of the air, falling to the ground a few steps away, spitting blood from his mouth, and the plate armor on his chest was already deeply dented.
And Raussa, the commander of the Red Banner Protector who had struck Zukoffa away, did not stop at all, nor did he dodge the arrows and spears that came from him.
just continued to wave the iron bone in his hand vigorously, smashing the Ming soldiers who dared to stand in front to the ground one by one.
Seeing that Zu Kefa, who was in the Yongguan Three Armies in Datong Town, was stoned to death on the spot by this person, the Ming officers and soldiers in the Water Gate were all frightened, and they didn't know who turned around and fled first, in short, Wen Zhi had not recovered from the scene where Zu Kefa was shot away, but found that the officers and soldiers around him had begun to turn around and run away.
Wen Zhi himself was also surrounded by officials and soldiers from front to back, left and right, and fled from this place half-pushed and half-on-the-spot.
By noon of the same day, the large-scale organized battle scene on the north pass of the Victory Fort quickly ended with the addition of a large number of red flag guards who suddenly rushed from behind.
Liu Yingxuan, who was directing the soldiers at the head of the city in front of the Zhenshuo Tower to dump the rolling wood and stones under the city, died under the siege of the Red Flag Guard Barracks.
Li Quan, the general of Fort Victory, led the musket team under his command to retreat to the general's mansion in Fort Desheng, and finally ran out of ammunition and was hacked to death by Ma Zhan's subordinates who led the army to pour into the mansion.
There were more than 5,000 defenders in the Victory Fort, except for more than 1,000 people who fled with Qian Zong Wenzhi and the garrison Ren Guochen and fled east to Yanghewei, most of the rest were killed in battle, and only a few hundred people were captured and surrendered.
The Red Banner Army, which stormed the main gate of Beiguan City of Fort Victory, also suffered heavy casualties, with a total of more than 2,000 casualties, including Yama Ezhen Yechen and Meler Ezhen Dahai, both of whom were wounded by an arrow in the face and a bullet in the leg.
As for the Monan Mongol Sunit and Abaga Divisions that followed the red flag to attack the Victory Fort, with the death of the leaders of the two tribes, the tribes were absorbed and completely disappeared into the smoke of history.
Chu Huer, the leader of the Wuzhumuqin tribe who escaped the fate of being co-opted, also suffered a great loss of strength because more than half of the thousands of people in his department were killed and injured.
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