Chapter 365: Broken Castle

In the next few days, the Ming army led by Sun Yueling hibernated in Hongluo Mountain, as if it had disappeared out of thin air.

But Sun Yueling did not blindly wait, he sent scouts to investigate outside the mountain, and controlled the movement of the enemy army outside at any time.

On this day, he finally got the scout's report, and a large force of Houjin gathered south, seemingly heading in the direction of Ningyuan.

After hearing this news, Sun Yueling was overjoyed, and Houjin's movements were indeed expected by him, so he issued an order to let all the generals above the garrison come to attend the military meeting.

At this meeting, he made a plan to send troops, the primary goal was Daxing Fort, which was the closest to them.

Once these two fortresses are taken, they can send people to Jinzhou to contact Zhao Shujiao, so that Zhao Shujiao will know the existence of their Ming army, and be ready to go out of the city to kill the enemy at any time.

After the meeting, the whole army entered a state of readiness and prepared for the surprise operation at night.

At night, the Ming army descended from the northern foot of Hongluo Mountain, and took advantage of the night to grope outside Daxing Fort.

In order to prevent the enemies of Daxingbao from escaping and reporting the news, Sun Yueling ordered Zhang Zhiqi and Wu Wenyao's troops to go around to the northeast of Daxingbao, so that Zhang Zhiqi led the Ming army to attack the city from the north, and Wu Wenyao's cavalry was responsible for killing the enemies who escaped from the city.

He himself and Fang Yichen attacked the West Gate, and Yan Nantian and Deng Ju were responsible for attacking the South Gate, so they must trap all these small enemies in the fort, and not let any of them go.

They have already discovered that in the two fortresses of Daxing Fort and Dafu Fort, the number of enemy troops in Daxing Fort is large, at least 700 people, Dafu Fort is located on the bank of the Daughter River, and the geographical location is not as important as Daxing Fort, so the number of people left by Houjin to garrison is not much, less than 300 people, as long as Daxing Fort can be successfully taken, Dafu Fort can be said to be within reach.

If Huang Taiji passed by Tashan and saw the burning of Tashan Fort, he would definitely think that their Ming army had returned to Ningyuan. At this moment, who would have expected that they did not leave, but hid in the mountains, and were killing from behind, and were heading towards Jinzhou City?

The clouds hung low, and the stars and moon dimmed.

From a distance, Daxingbao's defense seemed to be very lax, and there were only a few sparse figures swaying back and forth on the city wall, and even a few torches were not lit. In this way, the remaining troops of Houjin here did not realize the danger at all and completely relaxed their vigilance.

But it's no wonder that Huang Taiji has already led the main force of the Eight Banners south to fight Ningyuan, and Jinzhou is under siege again, who would have thought that there is still a Ming army lurking nearby, preparing to launch a surprise attack on them?

Seeing that the time had come, Sun Yueling waved his hand, and Fang Yichen took his soldiers to touch under the city wall.

Soon, they saw several enemy sentries on the city wall falling silently, and Fang Yichen and them had already succeeded and successfully dealt with the night guards.

At the sound of the order, the follow-up troops immediately followed and rushed towards the city gate.

It wasn't until the moment the city gate was opened that the enemy noticed that someone was attacking, and hurriedly called out and sounded a gong to warn him.

It's a pity that it's too late, and before they can organize into an effective formation, the Ming army has already poured in from the West Gate.

At the same time, the rest of the gates also warned one after another, and the shouts pierced the quiet night sky and resounded in the sky above Daxingbao.

The Houjin Shou who stayed in Daxing Fort was a Jia Lae Zhen of the Zhengbai Banner, and at this moment he saw the Ming army attacking at night and rushing into the city, and his heart was already shocked.

But after all, he was a warrior of Daikin, and he quickly calmed down and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to assemble to meet the battle. But then he was horrified to find that the northern, western, and southern gates had been broken, and the Ming army had poured into the city from three directions, and their current situation could be described as very critical.

"How many people are there in Nanban?" He yelled at one of the soldiers.

The Houjin soldier replied with a panicked expression: "It seems that there are at least a few thousand people, and they have already broken through all the gates, only the north gate has not been broken. ”

The Alaja looked up in all directions, and everywhere there was chaos and noise, with the sounds of fighting, screams, and the neighing of war horses resounding through the night sky.

He couldn't help but sigh and shouted, "Pass my order, all the Dajin warriors get on their horses and break through from the east." ”

"Lord Commander, our horses have been robbed by those Han slaves, I'm afraid we won't be able to escape......" the soldier said with a crying voice.

Jia La'e was really completely angry, these Han slaves didn't see much in the fight, but their ability to escape was first-class, and they couldn't help but be furious: "Everyone come with me, grab horses, and kill Han slaves." ”

After saying that, he rushed towards the stable with his soldiers.

When I came to the stable, I didn't know what my soldiers said, and the situation here was even more chaotic. Those Han slaves were fighting with the Dajin warriors for war horses, and the two sides fought together, and from time to time Han people snatched the war horses and rode their horses to the east.

He finally couldn't bear it anymore, raised the big knife in his hand, and shouted: "Those who dare to snatch war horses with the Dajin Warriors will be killed." ”

As soon as the words fell, he rushed towards those Han soldiers with the Houjin soldiers, and as soon as the blood appeared, he slashed over a Han soldier with a single sword.

His men also rushed over, raising their weapons and slashing down at the Han army.

For a while, the flesh and blood were flying, the Han army was not the opponent of the Houjin soldiers, and they only wanted to grab the horse and flee for their lives.

Jiala Ezhen looked around, there were less than a hundred horsemen left around him, and the rest of the people estimated that it was too late to escape, so the big sword pointed to the east and shouted: "Break through from the east gate." ”

The fierce horse roared lowly, followed by the sound of horses' hooves, and galloped towards the east gate.

At this time, Sun Yueling had already led the Ming army to the middle of Daxing Fort, and the Houjin soldiers who resisted to the death had been killed by the Ming army, only a few Han defenders saw that the situation was not good, and they surrendered to the Ming with weapons.

"My lord, what should you do with these Han troops?" Yan Nantian asked him.

Sun Yueling bit his jaw, waved his palm in front of him, and said, "Don't leave one." “

It's not that he is vicious, but that these puppet troops have surrendered to the enemy for too long, and even if they are subdued, I am afraid that they will not have the orthodoxy and iron backbone of the Ming army, and staying will become a burden to them.

Moreover, their operation this time was extremely secretive, and they could not leak the slightest news, let alone let Houjin know about the existence of their army, so for the sake of the overall situation, these people categorically could not stay.

Yan Nantian received the order and ordered the troops to surround and kill all these puppet soldiers.

For a moment, the screams, screams, and horrors resounded in the air.

"We are all Han people, how can there be a reason for Han people to kill Han people......

", even his own people don't let go of ......"

"your grandma, I would have fought with you if I knew ......"

Sun Yueling listened to the screams and slowly turned his face away, unable to bear to look at it.

This is war, there is no mercy and softness, these people can surrender to the Ming army today, and it is possible to surrender Houjin tomorrow, and only by killing can we avoid future troubles. Sometimes I have to put away my weakness for the sake of a bigger goal.

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Near the east gate, when the Jia Lae Zhen led people to rush out of the black doorway, he found that there were less than fifty horsemen left around him, and the rest had been intercepted and killed by the Ming army in the process of charging all the way.

The situation is developing like this, what can he do, turned his head to look at the Dajin soldiers behind him, and ordered: "Although our Dajin warriors have been defeated once, he will be able to make a comeback one day, everyone will go to Jinzhou with me, and ask Lord Beile to come out, and he will definitely be able to kill again." ”

The Houjin cavalry responded in unison, and the low morale was boosted.

Jiala's forehead really urged the horse's belly and wanted to go wildly. But a strange thing happened, the war horse under his crotch did not run forward with his movements, but snorted in a low voice, and kept digging the ground with its front hooves, as if frightened.

He couldn't help but be furious, and once again slammed the horse's belly, and this time the horse finally moved, but still did not come out wildly, but walked forward slowly, very stiffly.

Not only his crotch warhorse, but also the rest of the horses, under the urging of the golden knight, slowly moved forward, as if there was a trap waiting in front of them.

Kara seemed to realize the extraordinary nature of the matter, and couldn't help but raise his eyes and look ahead.

Just now they came to this dark place from the place of light, so their eyes could not reach far for a while, but now that they have adapted to the darkness, they can see more clearly.

At this glance, I couldn't help but be surprised.

I saw that on the road ahead, there seemed to be a lot of people who had fallen sparsely, either with feather arrows or mutilated limbs, as if they were all Dajin soldiers and Han defenders who had escaped from the city.

What is the situation, does it mean that the army has also laid an ambush outside the east gate?

Just when the cavalry was in doubt, there was a sudden fire in the distance ahead, and countless torches were lit, illuminating the surroundings.

I saw that under the firelight, a cavalry appeared fifty zhang away in front, densely packed, besieging a fan-shaped circle against the city gate, although there were many people, but they did not say a word, silent as a forest, even the war horse that straddled the horse did not have the slightest sound, extremely strange.

When the Houjin cavalry saw it, they were all frightened, and they couldn't imagine that the Ming army had laid down so many cavalry outside the east gate, and the corpses that fell to the ground must have been shot by them.

Seeing this situation, Jia La'e knew that the tragedy was inevitable, and the Dajin warriors had always only chased the Ming army, when had they been bullied by the Ming army like this.

couldn't help roaring, the big sword was raised, pointed at the cavalry lineup of the Ming army, and shouted: "Kill the Nanban, rush!" ”

The Houjin cavalry around him shouted with him: "Kill!" He kicked the horse in the belly and wanted to rush towards the Ming army.

But what answered them was a rain of arrows from the Ming army.

A dense sound of breaking the sky sounded, and countless sharp arrows shot out from the Ming army lineup and shot quickly in the direction of the doorway.

"Whoosh, whoosh", the sound kept ringing, and the golden knights fell down one after another, and in the blink of an eye, more than half of them were killed and injured.

"Surrender or kill!" Someone in the opposite lineup shouted this sentence loudly.

This Jia La'e really knew that the general situation was gone, and they were afraid that none of them would leave alive, but Dajin's strong self-esteem of invincibility made him unable to accept the fact of surrendering to the Ming army, so he let out a rage and rushed towards the Ming army at a faster speed.

However, his bravery did not bring him the slightest turnaround, and soon he was shot like a hedgehog, and fell with men and horses thirty paces in front of the Ming army, and died.