Ao Bai felt a strong wind blow through his chest, making him howl like a wolf in the wasteland.

He shouted, and then, the group of Jianyu Iron Riders, who were already mad, howled after him.

The "Huaxia Army" that had just left the city was trying to recapture the drawbridge with tools such as shovels and pickaxes, but they were stopped by Wu Sangui's men. The corners of Ao Bai's mouth were lowered, and the wolf in his hand was raised high, only a few dozen feet away, he could burst into this group of vain guys, smash their brains, and tear them to pieces!

Then he vaguely heard someone shouting "jump off the moat", and then these "Huaxia Army" jumped into the moat one after another, and those who did not jump into it were also pushed down by several companions.

When Ao Bai arrived, Fei Shen was the only one still by the drawbridge, and he angrily threw out the iron pick in his hand to Ao Bai, and then flew into the trench.

Unlike Wu Sangui's subordinates, who did not carry long-range weapons, Jianlu had bows in their hands, but at this time, they would not waste their precious time on these railway soldiers who jumped into the moat, and their first priority was to capture the city.

The city is right in front of you!

Ao Bai felt as if his heart was about to jump out of his throat, and as long as he stepped forward ten more zhang, he would be able to enter the city gate!

But just then, he heard the cold and terrible sound of a trumpet.

This kind of horn sound has never been heard by Ao Bai himself, but those Jianyu who have fought with Yu Guozhen have not mentioned this kind of horn sound less.

Every time this sound sounds, it means that Jian Yu is about to face a bloody massacre.

Ao Bai suddenly looked up on his galloping warhorse, and then he saw a scene that made him horrified.

On the city wall, countless black holes and muskets were pointed at him, like countless eyes of revenge from the depths of the Nine Shadows. As he saw it, fire erupted from these black holes, and then, as if he had been hit by a speeding train. The whole person flew.

His horse continued to move forward, his men continued to move forward, but he himself flew upside down!

Ao Bai had armor on his body, but the double steel armor could not block the pointed bullets fired from the rifled gun. His pupils were dilated when he was still in the air, and when he landed on the ground, he twitched except instinctively. There was no other reaction.

He's dead.

Whether it was Dolgon, Azig, Wu Sangui, or Ao Bai himself, they didn't expect that this brave general of the three armies would die silently under the city of Texas and shoot him. But it's just a bunch of militia.

Armed militia.

In his dialogue with Sun Jin, Yu Guozhen proposed that the universal compulsory military service system is one of the three pillars of China in the future, which is not his empty nonsense, but his real idea, and it is also one of the systems that he is constantly establishing in his exploration.

Wu Sangui and the others obviously couldn't tell the difference between the armed militia and the Ming people's strong, although they knew that this kind of soldiers, who were trained on a half-time job every year, also had a certain combat effectiveness, but in actual combat, they could not notice the movements of these militias scattered in various factories, mines, and villages. They knew that Yu Guozhen had mobilized 100,000 Huaxia troops in the south. But I didn't know that Yu Guozhen also mobilized 100,000 militias in the north, and they were all armed militias!

As early as three years ago, Yu Guozhen already had 30,000 armed militia in Shandong, and now that number has swelled to 150,000 – for the 15 million people gathered in Shandong's east today, this is only 1 percent of the population, and they are not completely out of production. Facts have proven that the armed militia has played an extremely positive role in maintaining public order, in emergency rescue in emergencies, and in security in a state of war.

For some strategic purpose. Yu Guozhen did personally lead 20,000 reinforcements to the north. The importance he attaches to the battle of Tianjin Wei is unreservedly displayed. For him. Rescuing Cangzhou is only one of the purposes, the more important purpose is to put more pressure on Wu Sangui and Azig, and attract the main forces of Dolgon and Jianyu. But this does not mean that he will let the important town of Texas go unattended, on the contrary, Texas, as a transportation hub in the future, he has done so much preparation work in the early stage, how can he let it encounter danger!

Therefore, the armed militia of the railway engineering corps, after Yu Guozhen left, was immediately organized and took on the work of city defense. In addition to the railway engineering troops, there are also armed militias of Jinan and Qingzhou Prefectures, so the seemingly empty city of Dezhou, which only leaves a battalion of regular troops, actually has no less than 15,000 guards!

The weapons equipped by the armed militia are of course not as elite as the front-line combat units of the Huaxia Army, but they are also the muskets that have been replaced in the Huaxia Army, and their weapons are still more advanced than those of the Jianyu or Ming Army. In addition, the level of training of the armed militia is not weak, in addition to the three-month off-duty training every year, there is a basic drill every few days in peacetime, and their number of shots is not even inferior to that of the regular army of the Jianlu and Jinling small courts - anyway, Yu Guozhen has enough ammunition in his hands for them to use.

Of course, it is impossible for all of these fifteen thousand armed militia to be held at the head of the city, and they are divided into three shifts to rotate in the city, and Rao is so, and there are also a thousand men on this wall. In Yu Guozhen's conduct, attacks are highly susceptible to attacks in the early morning and evening, so he repeatedly stressed the need for vigilance during these two periods.

Now this one comes into play.

Although the fighting time of the railway engineers was short, it was enough for these militias to react, and they seized the commanding heights one after another, according to the requirements of the training in peacetime. And the city wall is of course the commanding height, so nearly half of them are on the top of the city.

Ao Bai was shot down and dismounted, did not let this group of Jianyu cavalry chaos, on the contrary, realizing that the main general would fall off the horse, this group of Jianyu was immediately furious, they were picked out by Aobai, naturally Aobai's cronies, many people were born and died with Aobai countless times. These elite captives who have fought countless battles know very well that their only way to survive now is to seize the city gates!

After seizing the city gate, they were able to rush up the city wall to clear the guards, although the muskets just now were very dense, but the Jianyu also saw at that moment, the city was only a thousand people. As long as they could dwell on it a little longer, five minutes at most, their large force would arrive.

Moreover, they also want to avenge Aobai!

Commander Hilliang howled, raised the flag of Aobai, and was the first to step on the drawbridge.

Ma Dabao and Fei Shen watched the fierce battle on the top in the water, and when the gunshots rang out at the head of the city, they were all overjoyed. The mutation happened so suddenly that they all forgot about the city's own guards, and only instinctively engaged the attackers. Seeing that occasional stray bullets hit the trench, Ma Dabao immediately beckoned to everyone: "Let's go, let's leave ......."

Before the words fell, the neighing of the war horses overhead was heard to the sky.

Jianyu's Eight Banners Iron Cavalry didn't care that there were still their own people in front of them, they just rushed directly into the past, and the Wu Sangui troops who were coming to greet them were also trampled alive, stepping out of a bloody path in the crowd, and rushed straight into the city!

The ferocity of the Jianlu was also extraordinary, and more than half of the five hundred horsemen were lost on the way, and when they rushed into the city, they lost dozens more, and only two hundred horsemen poured into the city. Then the militia on the city walls began to turn around and shoot, and killed half of them, and the rest were less than a hundred horsemen, and seeing that there was no chance to rush to the city, they immediately made a decision and rushed straight down the street into the city!

Hiran held the flag of Aobai in his hand, his eyes were red, he had been hit by at least four bullets, but in the high-speed movement, he did not hit the vital point, and he did not feel pain. Rushing out of the long street for a long time, he heard the gunfire behind him far away, and then he looked back.

There were only about forty riders with him.

If you want to take Texas City with more than 40 horsemen, it is absolutely impossible. Hilliang said in despair: "I have lost my master and are trapped in the enemy city, and now I don't want to go back alive, and you don't want to survive." In today's battle, we are dead, and we must also let the southern thieves see the courage of our Manchu warriors, and let them dream of me in every nightmare! ”

"Just command!"

"Burn it all, kill it all!" Hiryan said sharply: "Turn this city into a sea of fire and fulfill the wish of Aobai Baturu!" ”

They originally carried the things that ignited the fire, and since they had this idea, they were desperate at the moment, as long as there was a place where they could nod the fire, they went to light the fire one after another.

The city had already reacted at this time, and rushed to the aid of the militia on the city wall, but his forty horsemen said more and more and said less, and the ordinary militia and police who maintained law and order did not dare to stop them, and the soldiers of the brigade could not catch them. They rampaged through the city of Texas and set fire to it in all directions, but it was really a mess of smoke and smoke.

It's like a wild boar has broken into a watermelon patch.

The gunfire outside suddenly intensified for a while, and then stopped. Hillian knew that his companion had not broken into the city after all.

How come there are so many extra soldiers in the city that I thought was empty?

This question made Hillian extremely confused, and he believed that Aobai, who had already died in battle, must not be able to figure it out. When they finally came to the middle of the city by setting fire to several streets one after another, suddenly a strange wind blew in front of them, blowing and making people's hairs stand on end.

Then Hiryan saw rows and rows of Chinese troops.

"Kill, kill!" Hilliang shouted and rushed towards the Huaxia army, but the gunshots rang out, and in front of him and his men, a net of death blocked all their path.

Outside the city, the remnants of Ao Bai began to retreat after tentatively charging back. Ao Bai must be the first soldier in every battle, which gave him the reputation of Baturu, but also caused him to be shot and killed as soon as the battle began. If they could win, the remnants of them would have the courage to continue fighting, but now, they don't see a chance of victory.

Far away in Cangzhou, Yu Guozhen stared at the map in front of him, still with some doubts on his face.

He himself knew that there was still a battalion of regular troops in Texas guarded by fifteen thousand armed militiamen, and with their firepower, they were enough to defeat several times the enemy in a defensive battle, so he did not expect that the enemy would think that Texas was "empty of garrison."

Wu Sangui's means of not advancing or retreating are like bait thrown out, so what is Wu Sangui's real intention?

Not only him, but Song Xiance also felt a mess in his mind. (To be continued)