Chapter 126: Recovery
When Li Chengdong led 500 cavalry to arrive near his Admiral's Yamen, he saw that groups of his own troops were fleeing in confusion in front of him. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info right now, the Ming army's pursuers are coming towards this side all the time.
With this news, Li Chengdong immediately felt a cramping pain in his chest, his throat was sweet, and he was almost about to vomit blood and fall off the horse.
Finished! The tide is over! After a moment of blank mind, Li Chengdong, who was unwilling in his heart, finally had to admit this reality. As soon as the Ming army, especially the soldiers and horses under Pang Yue, entered the city, it meant that the situation had reached the point of no return, and the remaining soldiers and horses in the city could not compete with it at all. The Great North Gate must not be able to go, and when you return to the Great East Gate, you can only fall into the siege of the Ming army on both sides, and there is only one way to die, and the only way to survive is to choose to break through immediately. Although Li Chengdong knew that even if he could successfully break through, he would inevitably be held accountable for losing his land, but at the moment he couldn't manage so much. Being held accountable by the Qing court for losing his land, the big deal is that it is a decisive decision, and there may be a chance to make meritorious contributions, and once it falls into the hands of Pang Yue, Li Chengdong really can't imagine how miserable his fate will be.
"Where is Lord Governor now?" After struggling to make up his mind, Li Chengdong hurriedly asked one of the generals who deserted about Tong Yangjia's whereabouts. For Li Chengdong, this is also a sloppy matter, if he breaks through and Tong Yangjia dies in Guangzhou, then the possibility of being sentenced to a summary decision will be a little greater.
"At the time... At that time, Lord Governor retreated to the Governor's Mansion with the few hundred soldiers left, as for where he is now. Humble duty... I don't know what to do. The Qing army trembled.
"Go to the Doge's Palace...... No! Take a few men to the Governor's Palace, and let the Governor come here and join me!" Li Chengdong instructed a confidant soldier beside him.
"Yes!" After receiving the order, the soldiers turned and left with a few men, but before they had gone a few steps, a cavalry came from the street leading to the governor's palace.
Li Chengdong's heart tightened. was about to give the order to meet the enemy, but after a closer look, he found that it was his own people, and among them was still under the banner of Tong Yangjia.
"Li Junmen!" After seeing Li Chengdong, Tong Yangjia seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and hurriedly said, "After Minggou entered the city, he didn't stop for a while, and chased him until he reached the Governor's Mansion. The Governor organized all the soldiers to resist the enemy, but they were unable to catch it. Now that Minggou has occupied the Governor's Palace, he is chasing this side! ”
This news is not too bad news for Li Chengdong, who has already decided to break through. He sighed heavily and said, "The matter has come to this, and there is no way to get it back!" Since Lord Governor is safe and sound, let's get ready to break through! ”
"Breakout?" Although Tong Yangjia also began to have this idea. But after listening to Li Chengdong say it himself, he was still a little hesitant.
"Is there a way for Lord Governor to retreat from the enemy?" Seeing this juncture, Tong Yangjia was still a little hesitant, and Li Chengdong couldn't help but ask with some annoyance. The voice was also a little louder.
At this time, Tong Yangjia didn't have time to care about Li Chengdong's faux pas. Although he kept saying that he wanted to live and die with Guangzhou. But when it came to life and death, the desire to survive still prevailed, and his standard battalion armor cavalry was dispersed to the major city gates, and he couldn't concentrate at all for a while, and if he wanted to break through, he could only rely on the only remaining troops in Li Chengdong's hands.
"That's it, according to Li Junmen's opinion, let's break through!" Tong Yangjia also sighed.
Immediately afterwards, Li Yuanyin arrived with follow-up footmen. But after running all the way, the line was already very long. Especially those who are brave in the country. Almost all of them were far behind, and I don't know if it was because they really couldn't catch up or because they were afraid of the momentum of the Ming army.
"Go straight to Guidemen!" Li Chengdong couldn't care so much, so he immediately gave the order. But just as he was leaving, he suddenly remembered another thing, his henchman was still in the Admiral's Yamen, and he knew many of his secrets, once he fell into the hands of the Ming army, the consequences would be worrying. But he didn't expect the Ming army to attack the city so quickly, and there was no corresponding arrangement in advance.
The situation was urgent, Li Chengdong suddenly showed a hint of murderous intent on his face, and handed over the confidant soldier just now to his side and said in a deep voice: "You take someone back to the Admiral's Yamen......
Before Li Chengdong could finish speaking, there were bursts of vigorous and powerful footsteps from the east, and there was also a dense and rapid sound of horses' hooves from the back, in addition to the excited shouts that sounded from time to time: "Capture Li Chengdong alive!" ……”
"Father, go away!" Li Yuanyin yelled anxiously.
At this point, Li Chengdong didn't care about other things, and hurriedly led the rest of the men and horses with Tong Yangjia to rush in the direction of Guidemen.
At this time, Li Chengdong still had 500 cavalry and less than 400 infantry around him. And Tong Yangjia brought fewer troops from the Governor's Palace, after the confrontation with the Ming army at the gate of the Governor's Mansion just now, there were less than 300 cavalry left, and the foot soldiers had been completely lost.
"Capture Li Chengdong alive!"
Li Chengdong and his entourage didn't go far before the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion turned around the street corner to the north and rushed over, killing the Qing army foot soldiers who fell at the end of the line. These Qing soldiers were not Li Chengdong's descendants in the first place, and they had already been frightened, and at this time, seeing Li Chengdong running wildly with his descendants without looking back, and not even looking back, he felt even more disheartened and lost the last will to resist.
"Surrender!" "Surrender!" …… More than half of the surviving Qing soldiers dropped their weapons on the spot and knelt down to surrender, and a small half took the opportunity to run into a nearby alley and fled in embarrassment.
Seeing that the Qing infantry surrendered on their knees, the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion no longer killed them, but they did not pay too much attention to them, but continued to chase after them, heading towards Li Chengdong, Tong Yangjia and the last hundreds of cavalry around them.
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Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia ran wildly all the way, not daring to stop at all, and it didn't take long for them to come to the Guide Gate at the junction of the old city and the new south city. According to the plan that has been set, they will enter the New South City from here. Then exit Guangzhou City from the Taiping Gate in the west of the new South City. There were almost no Ming troops in this direction, and it was easiest to break through.
Seeing that the admiral and the governor arrived at the same time, the Qing army Baizong who led the team to guard the Guide Gate had not yet clarified what was going on. But he also carried out the order to the letter, opened the city gate and let Li Chengdong and others enter Xinnan City. Who knows, as soon as Li Chengdong and his entourage left on the front foot, a murderous Ming cavalry chased after them. The Guide Gate is not directly connected to the city gate outside the city, and the Qing soldiers guarding it are only white, so how can they resist it? They were killed in an instant.
When the cavalry of the Ming army continued to chase Li Chengdong and Tong Yangjia, the Qing army of Guide Gate, who came to their senses, always knew which tendon was wrong. He shouted loudly: "Oh no, the Ming army has come over, Lord Duxian and Li Junmen have run away!" ”
Say good things don't go out. The news of Tong Yangjia and Li Chengdong's escape soon spread throughout the major city gates in the south, especially when it reached the head of Dadongmen, the Qing troops who were still resisting suddenly became a mess. Even Li Hangui, who was in charge of the command, was a little panicked. Now that the Admiral and the Governor have fled. That means that the Ming army has swept through most of the old city and is rushing towards the south, if you want to resist again, the only possibility is to fall into the Ming army's two-sided encirclement, and there will be no recovery. As soon as he thought of this, whether it was an official or an ordinary soldier in the Qing army of the Great East Gate, incomparable fear and confusion rose in his heart. It didn't take long for someone to start sneaking away.
Taking advantage of the panic of the Qing army, Zhang Yunli ordered the removal of cannon fodder, so that the Tiger Battalion, which was still recuperating, and some of the righteous officers and soldiers attacked the city.
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Li Chengdong and his entourage, who fled in embarrassment, hurried slowly. Finally, he had just left the city from the Taiping Gate, but at this time, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion behind him was getting closer and closer. Although before that. Li Chengdong sacrificed his rear team several times to delay the Ming cavalry, but he still could not completely stop its approaching pace.
"Father go first! The child is broken! Seeing that the situation was urgent, Li Yuanyin roared and led more than 100 cavalry under his direct command to turn their horses and launch a counter-charge towards the Ming cavalry, trying to buy time for Li Chengdong to escape.
But it didn't take long for the result to be the same as the previous times, and the broken descendants led by Li Yuanyin were no exception, and only one photo was drowned by the array of the Flying Tiger Battalion.
Seeing that Yizi was surrounded by the Ming army, the muscles on Li Chengdong's face trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, gritted his teeth, and continued to gallop wildly.
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With the passage of time, the figures of the Tiger Camp and the soldiers of the Righteous Army began to appear at the head of the Dadongmen, and the military flags of the trapped camps were also moved to the vicinity of the Dadongmen, and the only remaining Qing army in the city with a size of more than 1,000 began to collapse on all fronts.
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The Huguang Governor's Mansion and the Admiral's Yamen were occupied by the Huashan Battalion in Huguang Town, and most of the rebels of Chen Zizhuang's army also entered the city, searched and killed the remnants of the Qing army, captured prisoners, and occupied the Yamen such as the Judge Division and the Salt Transportation Division.
The whole city was almost full of the shouts of the Ming army and the righteous army, and the exclamations and begs for mercy of the Qing army's stragglers, and the sound of swords and soldiers colliding became weaker and weaker.
By the time night completely fell, the red flag of the Ming army was fluttered at all the major gates in the city, and the cheers of the mountains and seas echoed over the city of Guangzhou for a long time.
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When the whole city changed banners, Pang Yue took the Yamen of the Governor of Liangguang, which originally belonged to Li Chengdong, as the temporary headquarters of Huguang Town, and changed it back to its original name: Guangdong Commander Yamen.
Not long after Pang Yue and the others settled here, the officers and soldiers of the Huben camp and the trapped camp escorted a group of captured officers of the Qing army above the thousandth general. Among them, the highest-ranking officer was Du Yonghe, a capable general under Li Chengdong and a deputy general, while the other two Li generals, Li Hangui and Zhang Yue, were killed in the battle.
According to the trapped camp officers who escorted Du Yonghe to come, Du Yonghe and the only dozen or so soldiers left around him were forced to a corner under the city wall, but they still swore to the death and refused to surrender.
Pang Yue, who learned of this situation, did not speak, but walked straight to Du Yonghe, looking at the bloodied Qing general who was pressed to the ground but was still struggling in vain.
"Ming dog! If you have a kind, give your grandfather a good time! Du Yonghe raised his head laboriously and scolded.
"Fuck it!" Wei Yuan saw that Du Yonghe was still so arrogant, and suddenly became angry, and rushed over with an arrow to grab the pigtail behind his head, and was about to hit his head to the ground.
"Slow!" (To be continued.) )