Chapter 44: Killing Cao Xixuan (Kneel and beg for collection, subscription)
When Li Rumei heard this, she immediately felt that something was wrong, and looked anxiously at the side and asked, "Ziren, General Sun, see if this posture is that the Tartars have already attacked the city, how can this be good." www.biquge.info said, clutching the reins in his hand.
Without waiting for Ziren to reply, Sun Shoujing took the lead in speaking: "Listening to the voice, it should be that there are police in the northern city, but the Tartars on the bank of the river have retreated, and I don't know who is attacking the city." After that, he subconsciously cast an inquiring glance at Ziren.
"Saving soldiers is like fighting fire, since there are still shouts of killing, it seems that the city has not been lost, it is better for us to send troops first." After Ziren finished speaking, he looked towards the other side of the river.
Although the pontoon bridge had been erected at this time, the artillery in the Ziren camp was heavy, except for the small Franc machine of about 100 catties that crossed the river, which inevitably collapsed the pontoon bridge, and the exterminating cannon weighing more than 300 catties was still left on the other side of the river.
After thinking for a moment, Ziren ordered: "Lei Zhen Wei ordered you to lead the captivity cannon to form a formation on the other side of the river, once the battle is unfavorable, listen to my order to send artillery to cover the retreat of the army, and the rest of the people will follow me into the city to rescue." ”
After a series of battles, the morale of the generals under his command was high, and they said in unison: "Obey the general's orders!" ”
Li Rumei and Sun Shoujing felt that Ziren's words were reasonable, and they had reserved a way to retreat, and they were not willing to lag behind and immediately began to dispatch troops. Li Rumei led the Li family iron cavalry in front, Ziren led the headquarters of the men and horses to form a chariot formation with him, Sun Shoujing led the troops to the palace, and divided three hundred foot soldiers to guard the bridge, once the battle situation is unfavorable, cover the soldiers and civilians in the station to retreat across the river first, and then plan later.
Who knew that as soon as the generals finished arranging, they saw the south gate of Puhe House open violently.
I saw a general, with more than a dozen horsemen and horses rushing out of the door, after seeing Ziren and others, he wailed loudly: "Several generals Tartar have attacked the city, and now the city is about to be broken, quickly retreat across the river with me, otherwise our lives will not be saved!" ”
The person who came was Cao Xiyuan's younger brother, Cao Xixuan, who was prepared by Puhe. Seeing that the Mongols besieging the north gate were slowly retreating, less than ten horsemen were left to patrol outside the city. In order to keep the black gauze hat on his head, regardless of the dissuasion of Han Yuanshan and Fan Nan, he led thirty family members out of the city to face the battle.
I thought that the Tartars had suffered a big loss on the bank of the river, but at this time I thought it was a frightened bird. If you hit more and less, you will definitely collapse at the first touch. At that time, he cut a few heads, and at the same time showed his merit, he won a reputation for retreating from the city. Let my brother help me up and down, and if you keep this position, you may be able to go up to the next level.
Mongolian Tartars are skeletal on the banks of the Pu River. But the foundation is not damaged. Seeing that the Ming people came out of the city to fight, he took advantage of the scout cavalry and Cao Xixuan to fight, and sent a hundred horsemen to help. vowed to kill this Ming people, and suffered a bloody defeat on the bank of the river today.
Cao Xixuan couldn't resist, and when he retreated to the city, he was followed and killed by the Mongol Tatars. The enemy rode no more than 100 people, but Cao Xixuan was so frightened that he didn't want to lead his troops to fight back, but led his family to pick up the gold and silver that had been prepared, opened the south gate and abandoned the city.
Seeing that the people on the opposite side were indifferent, someone raised their three-eyed guns at them. Cao Xixuan said anxiously: "I am Cao Xixuan, the imperial commander of Puhe, and my brother is Cao Xiyuan, the commander of Shenyang Guard~"
Who knew that as soon as the three words "Cao Xiyuan" came out, he heard Ziren shout: "Facing the enemy to fight cowardly, those who disturb the morale of the army will be killed!" The voice came out, and the three-eyed gun in his hand was ignited.
Before Cao Xixuan could react, a gun shot into his mouth, which was wide open in surprise, and when it shot out from the back of his head, it took away a large piece of Cao Xixuan's skull. The frightened horses scurried up and down, throwing Cao Xixuan off the horse. Collapsed in a pool of blood.
After killing Cao Xixuan, Ziren blew away the gunsmoke from the gun's mouth, holding a gun in one hand and a gun in the other. looked at Cao Xixuan's remaining family members, and said with a murderous tone: "Those who kneel on the ground will not die, otherwise the grandson surnamed Cao will be your fate." ”
Cao Xi chose to die, Cao Yong was horrified by Ziren's words, and immediately led the rest of the family to dismount and kneel.
Seeing this, Ziren raised his arms and shouted: "Soldiers, the Mongolian Tatars have destroyed humanity. How can I, a dignified seven-foot man, sit back and watch the people in the city be killed by the enemy's poisonous hands! ”
After that, after glancing at Li Rumei, she stabbed the horse's ass with a spur, and the war horse kicked and galloped wildly under the pain, and went straight to the city with a murderous spirit.
The king has always been good at fighting, and shouted: "Kill the Tartars and count me as one!" He immediately led his cavalry to follow closely behind.
After Zhou Daqi and Wang Shouguan reacted, they also shouted loudly and led the infantry to cover up the past.
When Li Rumei heard that the city was broken immediately, she felt a trace of retreat in her heart, but when she saw the battle intent flashing in Ziren's eyes, her heart suddenly became arrogant, and she shouted: "The Li family's iron cavalry obeys orders, follow me into the city to break the enemy!" ”
As soon as the words fell, seeing that Ziren had run away, Li Rumei said anxiously: "Ziren is waiting for me!" ”
At this time, the Puhe Institute was already in chaos, the Tartars entered the city like a fierce god, and the guard Cao Xixuan escaped from the battle, and the soldiers in the city were suddenly in chaos.
The townsmen and people who were mobilized by Fan Nan still had the courage to fight with the city firmly defended. When he saw the Tartars entering the city, he immediately rushed back to his house and closed the door, praying for the Bodhisattva to appear and the Mongolian Tartars not to break into the door.
Only Han Yuanshan and Han Yuanyou's brothers, who were determined to live and die together in the same city, led the family and some of the soldiers who were still able to mobilize to block the Tartars' troops.
The Tartars have been defeated repeatedly in the past few days, and after attacking the city, they are fierce, killing people when they see them, and burning houses when they see them. Seeing that there were still Ming people who dared to resist stubbornly, they immediately opened their bows and arrows, and the arrows were as dense as flying locusts, instantly enveloping the Han family brothers.
Han Yuanshan was shot in the knee by a sharp arrow, and struggled to stand up with the support of his younger brother, seeing that his subordinates behind him were killed and wounded, "Cao Xixuan misled the country!" After a long sigh, he roared angrily: "Soldiers, the family I am waiting for is in the city, and I will fight the Tartars to the end today for the sake of my family." ”
As soon as he said yes, he staggered forward with a gun, and even if he died in battle, he had to pull a few Tartars on his back. Seeing that the horse's hooves of the Tartar were about to rush in front of him, he heard a cry from behind him: "The soldiers ahead quickly dodge!" ”
Immediately afterwards, a member of the golden armor will gallop past him, raising the three-eyed gun in his hand as a hammer to call, "Bell!" With a bang, the door of a Mongolian Tartar was smashed. Several horsemen followed, and fought with the Tartars.
It was Ziren who led his troops to arrive at the horse, and after killing one of the Tartars with a three-eyed gun, he changed his spear and relied on his armor to protect himself, only attacking but not defending. At this time, Li Rumei also led her troops to arrive, and the two spears flew up and down, killing the Tartars for a while.
The Tartars entered the city with no more than a hundred horses, and gradually withdrew from the city without being able to resist. Ziren was about to command the soldiers, clear the corpses blocking the north gate, and reclose the city gate, but heard the sound of horses' hooves outside the city.
It was the brainy man who woke up from the shock of easily breaking the city, and when he saw the opening of the north gate, he sent the third brother Menda and the ninth brother Gongtu to lead two thousand men and horses to attack the city.
(The next chapter will be updated by 10 p.m. tomorrow night.) (To be continued.) )