Chapter 107: Suddenly

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At the same time, Chen Bangyan and others, who had completely fallen into a desperate situation but were still making the last resistance in the city, also heard a strange sound from the northeast outside the city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 The penetrating whistling sound was like rolling muffled thunder rising from the ground, sweeping towards Qingyuan County. In such an unstoppable wave of monstrous sounds, the earth also began to tremble, and it became more and more intense.

Immediately afterward, there was a tsunami-like shout: "Wan Sheng!" - Wan Sheng!! β€”β€”Wan Sheng!! ——……”

The Qing army had also shouted this slogan before, but now this slogan does not seem to come from the Qing army, and there is no pre-victory ecstasy of the Qing army, but only aggressive rigor and majesty, which makes all those who listen can not help but change color.

Chen Bangyan, who was already determined to repay the country with death, suddenly felt such a warm voice, and immediately realized something in his heart, but he was still not sure, and asked Wang Dongri, Cao Tianqi and others in a trembling voice: "Everyone, is this this?" ……”

Before Wang Dongri and the others could speak, the slogans that continued to come completely dispelled the doubts in Chen Bangyan's heart: "Daming Wansheng!" - Daming Wansheng!! ——……”

Chen Bangyan shook his body suddenly, and almost fell to the ground in excitement, but soon used the long sword in his hand to pestle the ground, stood up straight and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahaha....Okay!" Good! God help me! ”

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Just now, when the sudden whistling sound just sounded, Zhang Daoying and Shi Fu, who were directing the army to enter the city outside the north gate and the east gate respectively, saw a scene that stunned them almost at the same time: the northeast direction. An army was rushing from behind the hills in billowing smoke and dust. Looking at the formation, there is no doubt that it is a regular army, and it is still an elite with superior combat power. The red flags looming in the smoke and dust reveal their identities.

See this scene. Zhang Daoying, Shi Fu and other generals suddenly felt a bone-chilling chill coming from their backs. Although they didn't know why the Ming reinforcements came so coincidentally, and how they dodged their own sentinels and appeared so silently, one thing they knew was that these people were here to kill them.

"Enemy attack! Hurry up and face the battle! Zhang Daoying, Shi Fu and the others roared and ordered.

At this time, more than half of the Qing troops outside the north gate and the east gate had rushed into the city, and more than 2,000 people remained outside the city, and they were all lined up. Prepare to follow the robes in front of you into the city. Originally, this part of the Qing army outside the city had already determined that their side would win, and their hearts were full of reverence for a series of "leisure activities" after entering the city. Thinking about how much silver he could grab and how much he could get cheap, he couldn't help but glow red with excitement when he thought of his happiness. But at this juncture, they heard a roar from the northeast. I was shocked. Looking in the direction where the voice came from, a heart seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, and strands of cold sweat began to gush out of his body.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the Qing army heard the commander's order passed down by the officials at all levels and lined up to meet the enemy. Although the Qing soldiers were frightened in their hearts, they were afraid of the strict military discipline and were not chaotic for a while, so they hurriedly turned around and lined up.

"The order goes down. The soldiers and horses who had already entered the city hurriedly withdrew outside the city to meet the enemy! And quickly notify the marshal and let him send troops to support! Zhang Daoying shouted anxiously. When the officers and soldiers under his command were arrayed in a panic, the Ming army from the northeast was getting closer and closer, and a fierce murderous aura was like an arrow from the string rushing forward, and he already had a premonition that the more than 2,000 people outside the north gate were afraid that it would be useless.

In the smoke and dust that swept in, the figures and banners of the Ming army's reinforcements became clearer and clearer. The Qing troops outside the east gate and the north gate were horrified to see that thousands of cavalry were rushing in front, looking absolutely strong and energetic, and on a large banner at the front of their array, a tiger with wings looked particularly hideous.

"Quick! Fast! In the Qing army outside the east gate and the north gate, officials at all levels kept urging and shouting, and every time the Ming army pushed further, the panic in their hearts increased by one point.

When it was only about 200 steps away from the city wall, the swept Ming army split into two groups. All the cavalry and part of the infantry rushed towards the Qing army in the north of the city, and thousands of infantry lined up in a neat square formation and launched an all-out charge towards the original Zheng Zhilong army in the east of the city.

For a while, the iron hooves rolled, the earthquake trembled, and the surrounding air was wantonly filled with the earth-shattering shouts of the Ming army and the exclamations of the Qing army.

"Archers prepare! Shoot the arrows! Outside the north gate, facing the surging Ming cavalry, Zhang Daoying and Qing officers at all levels were still maintaining their command, but they were almost so anxious that their voices began to change. The hundreds of archers who had finally gathered did not have time to line up seriously, and after roughly forming a formation, they began to draw their bows and release arrows.

With the sound of bowstrings and the scream of arrows breaking through the air, the black rain of arrows rushed towards the galloping Ming army. After a rain of arrows, part of the Ming cavalry was shot during the gallop.

However, because those Qing archers originally belonged to the miscellaneous Ming army in Guangdong, their archery skills on weekdays were lacking, not to mention that they were hastily arrayed in panic? Therefore, the arrows they shot were quite lacking in accuracy and strength, and there was also a big gap compared to the Northern Green Battalion, let alone compared to the Eight Banners. In addition, the cavalry of the Ming army were fully armored, and even their faces were tightly protected, so the losses suffered were not large, and many Ming cavalry even charged with arrows stuck in their bodies, which did not seem to be affected much.

Time flew by, and as soon as the Qing archers finished shooting the second round of arrows, the Ming cavalry rushed to the front.

Suddenly, accompanied by a series of rumbling noises and continuous screams, more than 3,000 Ming cavalry, including the Flying Tiger Battalion of Huguang Town and the cavalry of the 2,000 Ma Jinzhong Division, rushed into the Qing army formation like a sharp blade.

At this time, the Qing army that had rushed into the city had not completely withdrawn, and the number of troops participating in the defense outside the city was still only more than 3,000. Three thousand panicked infantry against more than three thousand surging cavalry must have had a tragic result. The cavalry of the Ming army passed through the thin and fragile Qing army formation like chopping waves, and the Qing soldiers were constantly knocked into the air, and the blood and rain splashed and screamed again and again in the entire army array. In particular, the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion in Huguang Town, which was at the tip of the knife, almost everyone held a Zhanger cavalry spear in their hands, and the head of the spear was all pointed downward, forming a formidable steel jungle. The hastily formed rows of pikemen in the Qing army did not do much at all. The cavalry spears in the hands of some of the cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion even pierced two or three Qing soldiers in a row before they broke off and became large meat skewers.

Such a fierce momentum almost made all the Qing soldiers shudder, they were originally the original miscellaneous Ming army that had just shaved their heads for half a year, and when they were in the Ming camp, they only knew how to poison the people, and after taking refuge in the new master, they only relied on the psychological advantages brought by the money rat tail and the blue scalp to fight a few so-called "victories", and once they faced a real well-trained division, it would not take long for them to be exposed, not to mention in this kind of sudden attack? Seeing the tragic situation of the death of his companion in front of him, and feeling the fierce murderous aura on his face, the psychological defense line of those Qing soldiers who were at the back of the phalanx and had not yet been attacked completely collapsed, and they no longer ignored the scolding of the official to stop it, and ran away to both sides with a shout. In this way, the Ming cavalry suffered less obstacles, and it did not take long to rush through the formation of the Qing army.

After the Ming cavalry rushed past, there was no sign of turning around and fighting, but heading towards the west of the city without looking back. But before the scattered Qing soldiers in the north of the city had time to rejoice, they saw thousands of Ming soldiers charging in a neat formation, and the dense blades flashed with a glow full of death. I saw that the fiery red banner above the Ming army column was embroidered with a halberd and a gong that crossed each other, as long as anyone who was familiar with the camp system of Huguang Town would know that this was the Tiger Battalion, one of the four infantry battalions in Huguang Town.

When more than 3,000 Ming cavalry scattered the Qing army in the north of the city and went directly to the east of the city, the officers and soldiers of the trapped camp who were responsible for attacking the east of the city had also fought with the Qing army of the Shi Fu Department who originally belonged to Zheng Zhilong's old department, and the intensity of the battle was even more fierce than that in the north of the city.

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"Dashuai, it's not good!" A personal soldier beside Zhang Daoying galloped to not far from Li Chengdong's handsome banner and shouted in horror, "A large number of Ming troops have been killed, and the east and north of the city have already been fighting, General Zhang implores you to send troops over to support immediately!" ”

"You're yelling! How many Ming troops were there? Li Chengdong yelled angrily.

"I can't see it clearly, I'm afraid there are four or five thousand in the north and south of the city."

"Lao Tzu knows, you go back and tell Zhang Daoying, give Lao Tzu a hold first! If he can't stand it, Lao Tzu will screw his head off! ”

At this time, more than 3,000 Qing soldiers in the west of the city also rushed into the city, and Li Chengdong still had less than 5,000 people around him. Among them, 3,000 are elite veterans of his lineage, including 2,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, and more than 1,000 are the Guangdong Ming Army, which was incorporated at the beginning of the year, all infantry, no cavalry. Now, Li Chengdong also attaches great importance to the thousands of veterans under his command, and no longer easily lets them go to war. Just now, he only let his adopted son Li Yuanyin lead hundreds of elite cavalry to attack the city together with those newly recruited surrendered troops.

"His mother's, it's good to come! It's been a long time since we've had a good fight, so let's it! Knowing that the Ming army was coming, Li Chengdong did not panic like Zhang Daoying and others, but scolded while gathering the team, adjusting the formation, and preparing to support the north of the city.

At this time, with the increasingly fierce sound of horses' hooves and the tremor of the nearby land, more than 3,000 Ming cavalry from the north of the city appeared in Li Chengdong's sight. (To be continued.) )