Chapter 365: Breaking the City

As soon as the city gate of Baoding was broken, Bantian immediately had the idea of retreating, and he could order his subordinates to drive all the surrendered Qing soldiers to the city gate. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info and he hurried out of the north gate with dozens of personal soldiers, looking elsewhere for a way to escape.

After the city gate was broken, Ye Shaolong could never see Sakata for a day again, and he immediately felt bad. In order to prevent Sakata from slipping away in the chaos one day, Ye Shaolong immediately ordered the whole army to attack.

Without saying a word, the tower turned over and got on his horse, and shouted with a wave of the iron rod: "Kill!" ”

The first horse rushed straight to the city gate, followed by one hundred and fifty cavalry, equally imposing. What kind of generals there are, what kind of soldiers, the cavalry battalion is obviously under the leadership of the iron tower, as brave and invincible as itself, and they all look like madmen when they start fighting.

As soon as the cavalry was dispatched, Li Cheng did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the infantry to press on, and in an instant, the 3,000 people of Yejiabao's army were like a flood of beasts, rushing to the broken city gate.

The Qing soldiers who were driven to defend the city in the city had no intention of fighting, and in the face of the surging Yejiabao army, they all knew that they were invincible.

Moreover, no matter what the two sides say, they are their own people, and they all think that Ye Jiabao will not kill them all. So, when the Japanese behind them retreated with Sakata, they didn't even bother to resist, and directly abandoned their weapons and surrendered.

The iron tower was red-eyed, and his body was full of murderous aura, and as soon as he rushed into the city, the iron rod in his hand was swung sharply. A Qing soldier just blocked his way, and he didn't have time to dodge, so he was directly smashed by one of his sticks and flew more than ten meters away, and he lost his breath on the spot.

"Those who descend do not die...... Immediately after that, the tower shouted loudly, directly overshadowing everyone's voices.

"Those who descend do not die!" The cavalry following closely behind the tower also shouted in unison, and the momentum was breathtaking.

The sound of horses' hooves did not stop, and the cavalry did not stop at all, and rushed directly into the city, rushing towards Baoding Mansion on the main street.

The infantry behind the palace, under the leadership of Li Chengke, quickly controlled the Qing soldiers who had surrendered. Ye Shaolong and the little emperor walked into Baoding City at this time, escorted by nearly 100 personal guards.

At this point, the North City Gate has been broken, and Ye Shaolong has not had time to see those surrendered soldiers, only to hear the sudden wolf smoke in the city, and the sound of crying everywhere, the people began to flee from their homes one after another, and finally gathered on the street, slowly pouring towards the North City Gate.

Ye Shaolong suddenly frowned, seeing that those people obviously did not want to come to the north gate, but were coerced to rush to the north gate. Obviously, this is a ghost in the shadows.

"Brother Li!" Ye Shaolong felt bad in his heart, and even if he drank Li Chengke, he could come.

"The subordinates are here!" Li Chengke was leading the troops to disarm all the Qing soldiers, and suddenly heard Ye Shaolong's shout, dare to be lazy, and immediately stepped forward to obey the order.

"Immediately drive out all the troops who have descended and control the people who are pouring towards the gate, and do not let anyone escape from the city." At this moment, Ye Shaolong had already guessed that this was probably Sakata's plan for a day, wanting to use the people to storm the north city gate, and then he mixed in it in anticipation of escaping from Baoding City by fishing in troubled waters.

This time the army came to attack Baoding City, Ye Shaolong's primary purpose was to kill Sakata for one day, and it would be found that his intentions would naturally not let him succeed.

In the face of the people, the soldiers of Yejiabao really couldn't get this hand, but fortunately, there were 3,000 Qing surrenderers. Ye Shaolong believed that these people couldn't fight, but they were very good at dealing with ordinary people.

Most of the people in Baoding City have just migrated from the capital, and they are indeed afraid of the Japanese but they are not afraid of the soldiers of Yejiabao.

Therefore, under the coercion of the Japanese invaders, they dared to confront the soldiers of Yejiabao, but when they saw that it was the original Qing soldiers who pressed up, they began to panic.

Suddenly stopped, and they didn't dare to move half a step forward, no matter how much the Japanese robbers behind them forced them, they just didn't dare to go any further.

The people couldn't stop, and the Qing soldiers who were threatened by the Yejiabao soldiers were not so polite in the face of the people, and they had already been disarmed, and they rushed directly to the people who were still gathered on the street with their bare hands.

As soon as the two sides came into contact on the main street, there were instant wails everywhere, and the people, who had been holding a wait-and-see attitude, instantly crowded and retreated. What's more, they scattered and fled, so that the would-be robbers who were hiding in the shadows to drive away the people could no longer control the scene.

Sakata, who was hiding in the shadows and secretly observing, saw that he couldn't do anything, so he had to say "unlucky" with a blue face. When even if you turn away and think about another way out of the city.

The iron tower rushed to the palace with the cavalry, and did not encounter any Japanese officials at all, and in a fit of anger, he took the cavalry to directly ignite the mansion. Then they divided their troops into three ways and went to the other three gates.

The 2,000 Japanese soldiers in the city, under the instruction of Sakata Yitian, had already broken into pieces and mixed among the people to find an opportunity to escape.

As a result, all the gates were long gone, and the cavalry battalion of the tower easily opened the other three gates. The other three Yejiabao troops were also able to enter the city.

At this point, Baoding City has completely fallen under the control of Yejiabao's army. Ye Shaolong had to report that the other three-way army had entered the city, and immediately ordered to close the city gate again and guard it strictly, and no one was allowed to leave the city.

Ye Shaolong's order was conveyed to the whole army as quickly as possible, and soon, the four city gates were closed, and all the Yejiabao soldiers strictly guarded the four city gates, and no one was allowed to approach.

The people were also driven back to their respective homes by the Qing soldiers in the shortest possible time, and some unlucky ones did not have time to flee home, and were caught by those Qing soldiers, and the innocent were beaten up.

Baoding City soon returned to its former tranquility, but the two thousand Japanese robbers and Bantian disappeared for a day.

After Ye Shaolong and Li Chengke discussed, they reorganized the 3,000 surrendered Qing soldiers into the infantry battalion. Organized into a large battalion of 6,000 people, Li Chengke was in charge, and began to search for the traces of the Japanese from house to house from Beicheng.

The appearance of the Japanese is no different from that of the Han Chinese, and it is not easy for the Japanese to be recognized by the Japanese in their regular clothes. However, Li Chengke quickly thought of a way to deal with it, and when searching house to house, everyone had to be questioned, and as long as they couldn't speak Chinese, or the accent was wrong, they would all be arrested first.

Facts have proved that Li Chengke's method is very effective, and in Beicheng District alone, he has caught hundreds of widows hiding in the homes of ordinary people.

As time passed, Sakata soon realized that it was not good, and if he continued like this, he would definitely be planted in Ye Shaolong's hands. In the end, the whole army was annihilated, and Sakata thought about it again and again, and he decided to gather all his men to make a last stand.

After his subordinates' investigation, Sakata learned that the guards at the South Gate were the weakest, and that two miles outside the South Gate was a large area of mountains and forests, which was the most conducive to hiding.