Chapter 299: A Crushing Victory
Just when the soldiers in the urn city were panicked to avoid the fireball, a large number of Ming troops emerged from the city walls around the urn city, and when the soldiers were frightened, the Ming army threw a large number of flammable materials such as dry firewood and thatch from the city. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
"Hurry back, they're going to set fire!" Jiala'e Zhen Absu, who had just entered the city gate, instantly understood the intention of the Ming army and hurriedly ordered a retreat.
At this moment, a large number of canisters of fire oil were thrown from the city walls, followed by dozens of burning torches.
The flames ignited in an instant, spreading at an extremely fast speed, and the entire urn city was filled with flames.
The horses neighed, the soldiers roared, and the soldiers had no idea of attacking the city walls, and all they could think of was to withdraw from the city and escape from the fire.
However, the most timber was thrown at the city gate, and the flames were unusually large, and a wall of fire burned violently, blocking the way for the soldiers to escape from the city.
"Kill the walls!" Seeing that there was no way out of the city, Abu shouted, and with a few cronies, he encouraged the soldiers to kill along the horse road to the city wall, as long as they could attack the city wall, everyone could escape a way out, and by the way, they could also take Jiaozhou.
However, before they could cross the halfway point of the road, another fireball tumbled down the road, splashing sparks along the way and knocking them on their backs.
A large amount of firewood was thrown on the road, and the flames ignited, blocking the way to climb the city.
At this time, the flames have spread throughout the urn city, as the Ming army keeps throwing down from the city to dry firewood, sticks, door panels and other flammable materials, the flames in the entire urn city are burning more and more intensely, countless full soldiers are crying and desperately slapping the flames on their bodies, but where can they be extinguished?
The air in the entire urn city is burning, and all that comes into the mouth is scorching air. The smoke associated with the burning filled the urn city, and the soldiers cried and coughed violently, one by one like headless flies in the urn city, and there was no longer the appearance of the elite division of the past.
The flames flew up, accompanied by thick smoke and dust, and the soldiers of the Ming army standing on the wall of the urn city were also scorched by the heat, and they retreated one after another, away from the inside of the urn city. A thick smell of barbecue in the air hit the end of the nose, and many recruits couldn't help the nausea in their hearts, and bent down to vomit.
On the city wall, Ren Siqi and Huang Fengwu looked at the burning urn city side by side, Huang Fengwu's face was miserable, but Ren Siqi looked calm.
"This fire burned at least more than 500 soldiers, and they no longer have the strength to capture Jiaozhou, so they can only retreat." Ren Siqi said with a grin.
"As long as the Manchu commanders are not too stupid, they naturally know that they can't do anything, and they will naturally retreat." Huang Fengwu said lightly.
Watching hundreds of fresh lives burned alive in front of their eyes, even if it was a ferocious enemy, it made people feel quite uncomfortable.
Ren Siqi didn't have the same thoughts as Huang Fengwu, but let people carefully observe the movements of the remaining soldiers outside the city.
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Li Shutai was the commander of the army, and when the city gate was broken, he did not rush into the city, but continued to command the full army of feints to withdraw from the city wall, and directed the other full soldiers to enter the city.
In Li Shutai's view, once the city gate is broken, there will be no suspense in the battle of Jiaozhou.
However, a fire in the urn city quickly made Li Shutai realize that something was wrong, and he hurriedly rode his horse to the city gate, shouting and ordering the full army in the urn city to withdraw from the city.
In front of him, however, was a burning wall of fire, which blocked the way out of the city, and he could hear the angry cries of his subordinates in the urn city, and through the jumping flames, he could see the miserable condition of his subordinates who were burning all over, but few of the soldiers could escape beyond the flames.
Just when Li Shutai was desperate, a terrible neighing came from the city gate cave, and a burning war horse struggled to cross the heavy flames and rushed to the city gate hole.
Before they could rush outside the city, the horse fell to the ground with a bang and could no longer move.
An equally burning figure fell from his horse and rolled in pain through the gate hole, trying to extinguish the flames from his body.
"Help him put out the fire!" Li Shutai roared angrily, and several of his own soldiers rushed into the cave of the city gate, helping to fight the flames on the burning soldiers.
It took a lot of effort for the flames on Manbing's body to be completely extinguished, revealing a dying face, his face was burned with blisters, black dust, and his appearance was basically unrecognizable.
Li Shutai's personal soldiers carried him out of the city and in front of Li Shutai.
"General ......" The faint voice came from the mouth of the burned soldier, and the familiar voice made Li Shutai stunned, Abusu, the person in front of him turned out to be Jiala's real Abusu!
"Quick, heal!" Li Sotai hurriedly gave the order, but in the face of Absu's burns, his subordinates did not know how to treat him.
"General, don't, don't bother." A weak voice came from Absu's mouth, "Quick, quick, retreat......"
Before he could finish his sentence, Abu tilted his head and fainted.
Looking at the flames in the city angrily, Li Shutai's eyes were full of rage.
A fire actually burned more than 500 of his warriors, together with more than 100 people who died in the siege of the city, as well as more than 200 vanguard cavalry who died outside the city, and an army of 1,500 people, now there are less than 600 people left!
Jiaozhou City can no longer be captured, who knows what other means the Ming army in the city has, and if it continues to stay, there will be a danger of annihilation.
Li Shutai looked at the city that made him suffer the biggest defeat in his life, and he could only reluctantly order the withdrawal of troops.
The troops sent to Shandong this time suffered heavy losses, and I don't know what kind of punishment I will receive when I go back!
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"General, go out of the city and chase and kill!"
"Yes, we can't let them run away like this!"
Looking at the back of the soldiers fleeing in the wilderness, Chen Mingyang, Sha Qianli and others on the city wall shouted one after another.
"Chase, chase you!" Ren Siqi's eyes widened, and he scolded angrily, "Look at our people, how many of them can go out of the city to fight?" ”
In a big battle, although most of the full army was left, the Daishan-Zhoushan coalition army also suffered heavy losses.
More than 300 people were killed and wounded in the siege battle, including more than 70 veterans.
Now there are less than 200 veterans left in Daishan, and Huang Fengwu's Zhoushan army has only 600 people left, and of course there are more than 3,000 recruits in the city. However, these recruits, who have been trained for less than a month, are simply not combative.
Ren Siqi knew that even if the whole army of Jiaozhou went out of the city to pursue, it would not be able to leave the remaining Manchurians.
Seeing that Ren Siqi did not agree, Chen Mingyang and the others looked at Huang Fengwu expectantly, but to their disappointment, Huang Fengwu was also silent.
"Prepare to prepare, withdraw from Jiaozhou, and take a boat back to Daishan!" Sighing, Ren Siqi ordered. (To be continued.) )