We must hold this gap, and we must not let the Qing army break through, because once they enter the street fighting, those auxiliaries and civilians will become a complete burden, and they may even disrupt their own formation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, above this gap, the Ming army could not help the Qing army, but the Qing army could not help the Ming army, and the two sides were squeezed into that place and did not give in to each other. Every once in a while, the price of a few soldiers was paid, and they could be replenished immediately, and there was really no way to drive the Qing army down and reoccupy all the commanding heights to shoot condescendingly.

Yin Yue thought that if he could shoot at the Qing army from the city wall on both sides of the gap, he would definitely be able to repel the Qing army, but the artillery, bird guns or archers of the Qing army kept shooting at the pheasant moat of the city wall, and the Ming army's limited artillery and archers on the city wall could only shoot at it there, preventing the Qing army from attacking the city, and there was no way to kill and injure those Qing troops for a while. And if this stalemate continues, with the strength of the Ming army, I am afraid that it will be a big question whether it can survive this night.

Soon, the sky has begun to gradually darken, and the Qing army still has not entered the gap, and even the original Niu Lu of the Han Army with a yellow flag has already been replaced by another Niu Lu from the Han Army's blue flag, and the color has been changed from yellow with red edges to a yard of dark blue. On the side of the Ming army, the first game of the Dongyang battalion also began to show fatigue, and Yin Yue hurriedly ordered the second game to be slowly filled in case the gap was lost.

The breach is crucial, but the head of the city is not far behind, and the Qing army has never stopped shooting at the head of the city while attacking the gap.

The sky has completely darkened, this land is shrouded in darkness again, this should be resting, busy for the next day's life, but the Ming and Qing armies did not stop at all, but raised torches one by one, and continued to fight for the ownership of this city.

Yin Yue, the commander of Jinhua Town, stands on a tall building in the west of the city, where you can clearly observe the movement of the Tongyuan Gate and the gap and the area beyond.

With the defense and strategy of the Jinhua North Line in the past two years, he also faintly had a reputation in the army. In this regard, Yin Yue was still a little complacent, but what he didn't expect was that this time he was appointed as the chief soldier of Jinhua Town, but he ushered in a solid defensive battle, and it was also the absolute adversity of being knocked down by a city wall at the beginning.

Give up Jinhua Mansion, this is impossible, this is the fundamental place of the Ming army in Zhejiang, lose Jinhua, even if the troops are intact, the people have successfully withdrawn, but the loss of facilities and warehouses in the city is enough to completely beat the Ming army back to its original shape, completely lose the ability to compete with the Qing army in Zhejiang. Even the word defeat is more than ninety percent likely.

From a distance, the first game had completely retreated, and the sixteen infantry teams had suffered casualties of varying degrees and urgently needed to be replenished. There was only one battalion in his hand, and the rest were either local garrisons or recruits who had not yet been trained, and some of them needed to be used to guard and monitor the walls in other directions and to patrol the city to prevent chaos from being created, and with these, at least he had to hold out until dawn.

The Qing army galloped and attacked the city overnight, and after dawn the next day, he must rest for half a day before continuing the attack, and with this gap, he was able to organize the people to repair the gaps and build more fortifications inside. Only in this way can we hold on to more time and buy more time for Chen Wen to return to his teacher.

"Report, the defenders of Dongcheng found that the Tartar Tanma seems to be fighting with someone in the distance."

"What about those people?!"

The east of the city, which is the direction of Yiwu, hearing this, Yin Yue hurriedly asked, but the answer he got was that the team of light cavalry was outnumbered and had retreated.

However, after getting this answer, Yin Yue couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief. He knew very well that this could only be sent by Chen Wen, because the Zhejiang Ming army did not have so many war horses for people to run wild at night, which was too wasteful.

"Inform all departments that the commander's reinforcements are on the way, hold out until dawn, and the reinforcements will arrive!"

"Yin Shuai, that's more than a hundred miles away, what if the big handsome can't come at dawn?"

The whisper of the prison officer in his ear made Yin Yue have to sigh, these prison officers are still too tender to be on their own for the time being, but knowing that it is not hopeless if others do not hear it.

"I can't come, just say that the road was blocked by the Tartars, anyway, the Tartars can come so many people, and there is nothing abnormal about a little more."

The key at this moment is to hold Jinhua, otherwise there will be no future. So if there's anything, let's hold on until dawn......

The news of the arrival of reinforcements spread quickly, and for a while, the Ming army in the city cheered loudly, and even the first game and those wounded soldiers who had just retired were all excited. As everyone knows, although the night is short in summer, it is only a short time after nightfall, and there are still several hours before dawn.

However, the cheers in the city faintly spread outside the city, the big horse golden knife sat on the horse, Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan were full of doubts and incomprehension in their eyes, and even faint uneasiness was fleeting.

"Shi Shuai, when the city is swept away, let's open another road, it's not a way to spend it like this."

"What Brother Liu said is very true."

After a long time, the second game that was made up at night had already retired to recuperate, and the third game began to show fatigue after holding on for a long time. On the side of the Qing army, Qin Jiwu and Liu Wugao with yellow flags, Li Sheng and Wang Guofu from the blue flag, Zhong Shangzhi with white flags, and Jin Tingbao with white flags have changed several Niu Lu, but they have never been able to advance an inch, seeing that Ji Chengde's Niu Lu is also a little unable to hold on, Liu Zhiyuan hurriedly recruited Zhang Duan, the Jia Lazhangjing of the Han Army's Zheng Red Flag, and asked him to transfer a Niu Lu to make up for it, and he can't let the Ming army squeeze out the Qing army.

Although they have not confronted the Ming army head-on, they have never eaten pork and have always seen pigs go, and they naturally know much more about the tactics of the Ming army than these Han Eight Banners army that have just been transferred from Beijing, and it is more convenient to adapt.

Niu Lu, who retreated, actually had only a few dozen casualties, but this was close to the bottom line, and it was not good to force it anymore. The Ming army thought about it similarly, but the difference in strength between the two sides was too big, and the Ming army was basically hung up and beaten on the city wall, and the limited few cannons were also destroyed by the Qing army, not to mention the support gap.

The situation is very good, but Shi Tingzhu and Liu Zhiyuan have always had some hidden worries about the cheers. In fact, even if there were no cheers, they would not have been able to continue like this, they would have to find another way, just this morning and evening.

At this moment, the Ming army on the head of the city was no longer enough to pose too much threat, but in view of the hurry, no siege equipment was made, and even the cloud ladder was not carried, so Shi and Liu had to send a large group of Qing troops to go straight to Tongyuanmen.

Moments later, the fourth game was already on the switch. Of the other three rounds, the first game was supplemented with some recruits, and the number was finally restored, but the large number of recruits made the whole first game sluggish, while the second game was mixed up to ensure that the ratio of veterans was not pulled down too much. But at this moment, on the city wall of Tongyuan Gate, a herald ran down and rushed to the restaurant where Yin Yue commanded the battle.

"Yin Shuai, there is a team of soldiers in the Tartars who are looking at the Tongyuan Gate, and it is not far away."

Accompanied by the herald's report, as if to corroborate it, two loud bangs erupted at the gate of Tongyuan Gate, almost instantaneously later, and two more, only to see the iron-clad city gate of Tongyuan Gate crashing to the ground, pressing down a few people who had not had time to escape.

The door was broken, and the two large-caliber Franc cannons that were easy to transport were useless, and the Qing troops of the brigade rushed to the undefended gate with a shout, and they quickly rushed to the gate because the resistance from the city was pitiful.

Stepping on the broken gate, the leader of the group pointed forward with the Kush waist knife, and the Qing army of the brigade rushed in like crazy, and the first few pushed the few horses in the door hole to the ground. On the side of the Ming army, the vast majority of officers and soldiers, as well as those auxiliaries and civilians, do not seem to have reacted from this sudden change.

"Ah, the city is broken, run."

With a scream, the auxiliaries and civilians who were still trembling before turned to flee. The first auxiliary soldier rushed across the line, Zhang Gongyan was still standing there in a daze, letting the auxiliary soldier pass by him, and when he reacted, he turned his head to do his duty and prevent the rout at this moment, but what he saw was that the auxiliary soldier had already separated his head, his head flew high, and blood splashed on him.

"Those who cross the line will be killed!"

The deserter who was killed by the storm was a man with a frosty face and a faint pain between his eyebrows, Zhang Gongyan recognized him at a glance, this guy was Ni Liangxu, the general of the Luo Chengyan Bald Army, who had been accused by his classmates from afar.

In fact, for Chen Wen, Ni Liangxu's mentality has always been very complicated, but when he thinks of the massacre of Jinhua, when he thinks of Sun Yu and Wu Dengke, they trace that Chen Wen easily made this mansion recreate the vitality of the Qing army before it went south, and it will be destroyed again by the hands of the Qing army.

In the next second, Ni Liangxu caught the head with one hand, and held it high to show everyone, his face full of hideousness like a demon crawling out of hell. The murderous aura that soared into the sky seemed to be even more terrifying than those Qing troops in the distance.

"Those who cross the line will be killed!"

Zhang Gongyan, who was the first to react, was okay, he had guarded Guilin with Qu Shiyun, and he had never seen anything killing, seeing that Ni Liangxu had temporarily suppressed those deserters, he pulled out his sword and shouted. But among his classmates, they were far less than him at this moment, and many of them vomited on the spot.

At this moment, there was nothing else to do, and the cadets who were born as officers around them rushed up together, pulling out their swords and loudly intimidating the auxiliaries, and finally deterring them from continuing to scream. It's just that when Zhang Gongyan re-projected his gaze to the Tongyuan Gate in the distance, what he saw was that a group of Ming troops holding high the banner of the second game had rushed up, and in front of them, an officer was pushing a Saimen knife cart towards the Qing army.

Experience, and courage, the former Dongyang County guard Liu Cheng has never lacked these. Experience has been accumulated step by step since he was the captain of the Fourth Mandarin Duck Formation Killer Team on Dalan Mountain, and courage, for him who is always hungry for power and status, has never been or lacked.

The first thing the defenders did when the gates were broken was to try to block them, and the knife carts that stopped not far from the cave in the gate were used to do this. It's a pity that these officers still have too little experience, but if they were experienced enough, it would not be his turn to be the first to rush up and push the cart at this moment.

Cao Conglong's two-sided bets during the rebellion made him lose Chen Wen's favor, and he still became a training officer in the old camp when there was no evidence.

The pay for this job is much lower than before, and the rights are even more pitiful, and there is no real power at all except for using regulations to bully and bully recruits. For that time, Liu Cheng has never regretted it, the right has always been fought for, and he has endured it so far, watching those guys whose qualifications and abilities are far inferior to him climb up one by one, at this moment there is a golden opportunity, how can he just pass by with him, and he must fight hard to live up to this life!

Shouting and pushing the Saimen knife cart and rushing up, even the bravest Qing army did not dare to stop its edge. In one breath, he pushed the Saimen knife car into the hole of the city gate, and pushed it out a few meters with a loud shout, just nailing the few Qing troops who had not had time to get out of the way on the car.

While pushing away the car, Liu Cheng took off the rattan card he was carrying, and with the first blow of pulling out his waist knife, he cut off the spear of a Qing army, and then turned around like a mad tiger and killed the Qing troops who had rushed into the city.

Seeing that the training officer, who was very strict on weekdays, was so brave on the battlefield, the recruits he brought were all excited, and they hurriedly rushed over to melee with the Qing army.

If it were replaced by the Green Battalion soldiers, such a crazy counterattack might have stopped for a moment, but this Qing army was the Han Eight Banner Army, with rich combat experience, and such a level of counterattack had not yet been put in their eyes, especially Shi Tingzhu's order had already been made - "After breaking the city, seal the sword in three days", which stimulated their animal nature.

The battle around the city gate was at its most intense from the beginning, and even the fierce fighting at the gap could not be compared.

The soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies slashed their opponents madly, blood flying along with stumps and broken arms, and those wails had long been drowned out by the shouts. The first group of recruits to rush forward were quickly killed, and only a dozen Ming troops followed Liu Cheng to the intersection on the north side, but the Qing army was not comfortable, and they completely lost the possibility of forming a formation in those Saimen knife carts and horse rejections. In an instant, a group of soldiers of the Ming army came to kill, and soon stopped the Qing army's offensive with a mandarin duck array.

The two sides continued to invest troops, the Qing army did not mention it, and even the auxiliary troops on the side of the Ming army had been filled in, and someone would fall every moment and never get back up. Blood stained the stone road at the intersection of Tongyuanmen, and the cracks had already been soaked, and under the trampling of a pair of big feet, it slowly left to the low-lying dark ditch, flowing endlessly like a source.

I don't know how long it has been, but at the mouth of the alley on the north side, the corpses of the Ming and Qing armies have been piled up like a low wall. Liu Cheng slashed over with a knife, cutting off most of the neck of the officer with the blue flag of the Han army, but as this strength was exhausted, the slippery blood under his feet made his body balance no longer maintain, and he pounced on the Qing army's body at once.

The wounds on his body were innumerable, and he fell on the corpse of this Qing army, and the pain all over his body came to his face, so that he no longer had the slightest strength to get up again.

"The next Tartar to rush over should be slashed in Lao Tzu's neck with a knife, or stabbed in the back with a shot......"

Liu Cheng smiled bitterly, his body was out of strength but he couldn't move anymore, he was unwilling, but there was nothing he could do. But after a long time, the expected death did not come, but a burst of cheers was heard.

The two recruits who survived had to make the last of their efforts to turn him over, and when they saw that he was still alive, they shouted to him in a hoarse voice: "Trainer, the Tartars have retreated, we have won, we have won." ”

The shaking of the soldier touched Liu Cheng's wounds, but at this moment, his flesh had become numb in pain, but the pair of eyes that were always burning with longing seemed to feel a glimmer of light from the sky.

"We did win, but it was the big handsome who made the Tartars retreat, and the big handsome really came back!" (To be continued.) )