Suddenly, the raging fire rushed up, from the head of the city all the way along the city wall into a piece, black smoke billowing, the city wall became a churning flame 'wall of fire' in a blink of an eye, in an instant will be completely swallowed up by the Shun army above and below the city, the mournful wail is like a ghost, listening to the scalp numb.

"Push!" Wang Lanping narrowed his eyes, let the flames turn over his eyebrows in front of his forehead, and the tip of the spear pressed against a Dashun army who was screaming miserably and on fire, pushing him off the city.

The spearmen of the Fengzi battalion moved together, and the head of Huaining City was immediately like a rain of fire, and the 'fire men' who twisted their limbs were constantly pushed down from the city head and landed on the corner of the city, splashing a ball of fire.

Under the city was a sea of fire, as if in the eighteenth layer of hell, in that sea of fire hundreds of Shun soldiers surrounded by flames, at this time like a headless fly, teeth and claws, waving their scorched and shriveled arms, a face completely distorted, scurrying around, some people were lucky, hit the city wall headlong, early relief from the unbearable pain, slowly, charred black into charcoal.

Song Dali picked up a pour of fire oil and threw it vigorously into the outer city gate hole, the oil sprinkled the fire and fell, and a ball of fire poured out of the city gate hole, and the more than ten Shun troops who pushed the broken city cone were engulfed in flames in an instant.

The ladder used by the Dashun army to climb the city wall was also engulfed by fire, one by one collapsed under the city wall, and the city had already been attacked, as long as the last strength was made, Huaining City was become the bag of the Dashun army, but this fire has completely blocked them under the city, a large number of Shun troops could not stand the scorching fire and were stimulated by the painful sound of their companions in these fires, batch by batch, threw down their weapons and ran back, that was the defeat of the army, even the wounded soldiers did not care, only hated the father and mother for having two legs.

"Hateful!" Looking at the smoke-billowing Huaining City, Li Laixiang saw that the attack was blocked again, and he couldn't wait to kill Wang Lanping who was defending the city with his own hands, he looked at the groups of Shun troops who retreated like lost dogs and those brothers who were wailing in the fire under the city, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, they were all brothers who had followed him for many years, after a fire, only white bones remained, how miserable it was, but he understood that if this was to let them retreat, it would be impossible to organize another charge, these people had already broken their courage, If you want to break Huaining City, you can only do it in one move, even if it is a fire pit on the knife mountain and down, you have to grit your teeth and go up.

Li Laixiang also heard some things about Huaining's city defense in advance, and this fire oil is only afraid that it is Wang Lanping's last move, and the Dashun army is at the last moment, presumably the city is also doing the last game, and both sides have no way out, and the victory or defeat depends on who can hold on to the end.

Li Laixiang gritted his teeth and pulled out the long sword at his waist, "Where is the guard?" ”

The dozens of his personal soldiers standing behind Li Laixiang drew their sabers one by one, "Here!" ”

"Those who escape from the battle, behead, if they don't die in front of the battle, they will die in military law" Li Laixiang launched a ruthless attack, which was something that no general under his command dared to disobey.

At the sound of an order, Li Laixiang's fifty personal soldiers urged their horses to rush out together, rushed towards the defeated Shun army, and killed more than a dozen of their own people one after another, shouting, "The general has an order, those who escape from the battle, behead, go back!" ”

The defeated Dashun army was frightened by these wolf-like soldiers and was in a dilemma, and stood in place in horror one by one, not daring to move.

"Go back!" The pro-soldiers cut down several people in a row.

The Dashun army looked back at the city wall that was still churning and blazing, and then looked at the sabers stained with their own blood in the hands of their own soldiers, gritted their teeth one by one and shouted, and reluctantly killed them again.

Wang Gangping really tried his best, with a mere 700 remnants of the army to block the 6,000 strong brigade in turn, from early morning to sunset, there were few arrows left, the only remaining twenty pours of fire oil as Li Laixiang expected, has been his killer weapon, if this is not able to repel the Dashun army, then you can only bite the other party's neck with teeth.

Watching the other party go and return, before they had time to cheer and repel the Shun army again, the soldiers of the Fengzi battalion cried, crying for the charred corpses under the city, crying for the skeletons that were still burning, who saw all this is not frightened, and also to fight for the return of going and returning, and crying until one side is completely dead, but who calls this a battlefield, every trace of mercy here is a luxury, and the only language is the knife and gun that have been curled.

The smell of burnt corpses filled the air, and the shadow of death shrouded all the soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion, Qianhu Song Dali was injured in many places, but fortunately, he was not injured in time, he limped to Wang Lanping's side, looked at the Shunjun who had turned back, shook his head, smiled bitterly, and said, "General, I can't hold it"

Wang Lanping looked at the only more than 100 soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion left on the city wall, he wanted to say a few words to boost morale, but he never spoke, from 700 people to the present, plus there are no more than 300 people left in the city gate below, they have really tried their best, if they retreat now, I am afraid that they will not be able to retreat far and will be caught up by the other party's cavalry, maybe their own life is big, with their martial arts, they can fight a bloody way to escape, then the soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion who died here today have no meaning, And none of the remaining 300 people can survive, look at a group of Dashun troops outside the city who are completely enraged like wild beasts, who can guarantee that they will not vent their anger with the people of the whole city when they rush out of the city, so how can they be at ease in the future.

Wang Lanping glanced at Song Dali and said lightly, "Song Qianhu, follow me Wang Lanping to stay in this Huaining City, do you regret it?" ”

Song Dali sighed, the blood on his face dripped down the beard on his chin, and a trace of sadness appeared on his face, saying, "The last general followed Zuo Liangyu in the first half of his life, always thinking about killing the enemy to serve the country, crisscrossing the battlefield, and earning some military merits for himself, but it is a pity that General Zuo is jealous of the virtuous and jealous, and appoints others as relatives, even if an unknown person like me has great military merits, he will never come out in the end, and today he can follow Wang Zhuangyuan to fight in this Huaining City, even if he dies, the last general is fortunate to be able to borrow the name of the general, which is enough to go down in history and not regret it"

Song Dali's words show that this person has great ambitions, and it can also be said that he is not ambitious, but the soldier who does not want to be a general is not a good soldier, and he cannot become a generation of famous generals.

Wang Lanping barely squeezed out a smile, "Well said, seven hundred weak soldiers, six thousand iron cavalry, this is enough to shock the world."

Speaking of this, Wang Lanping looked at the sunset on the West Mountain, the sunset was like blood, spreading on the faces of every soldier of the Fengzi Battalion on the city wall, they were so eager to live, but no one took a step back, all of this was still standing here by themselves, and they couldn't give up.

"Soldiers, success or failure is here in one fell swoop, bloody battle to the end!" Wang Lanping shouted, and the heroic spirit burst out of his mouth again.

"Fight to the end! ......" Song Dali also shouted, and everyone knew that there was no way to retreat, and only by trying their last strength could they live up to the brothers who died in battle, "Fight to the end!" ”

Outside the city, the Dashun army that went and returned had once again rushed to the bottom of the city, and the oil was also burned out at this time, with the only few long ladders left, they rushed to climb to the top of the city, at this time either you die or I die, and no one has room to retreat.

Wang Lanping roared angrily, waved the spear in his hand, and picked down the people who climbed up to the city again and again, but the momentum of the Shun army that regarded death as if they were at home still inspired them to follow one after another.

Fortunately, dozens of long ladders of the Shun army have been burned with fire oil, and nearly 2,000 people only rely on these surviving long ladders to climb, which is really a drop in the bucket, and it is precisely because of this that the few remaining Fengzi battalions can barely support for a while.

When attacking the city, the most taboo is that the army is blocked under the city wall and is in a dilemma, if the arrows of the Fengzi battalion at this time are enough, then almost all the arrows can be missed, but unfortunately, the Fengzi battalion is not to mention that the bow and arrow are gone, and even the rolling wood thunder stone is exhausted.

"Look, General!" Song Dali suddenly pointed to the streets of the inner city and shouted.

Wang Lanping, who was in the midst of a fierce battle, looked back and saw that it was Kong Zhi County with hundreds of ordinary people in the city, holding stones in their hands, running towards the city tower.

For a moment, the stones under the city fell like hailstones, and smashed on the top of the overcrowded Shun army under the city, blood splattered everywhere, and ghosts cried wolves.

Even so, it could not defeat the determination of the Shun army to take Huaining City, more than a dozen Shun soldiers took off their clothes, twisted their clothes into long strips, and wrapped them on the broken city cone that had burned only a thick tree trunk, and everyone put the strips of clothes on their shoulders, lifted the thick trunk, and crashed into the city gate again and again.

The fire just now has been burning in the city gate hole for a long time, although the city gate is wrapped in copper, but it can not withstand the scorching fire, the wood inside can no longer withstand such an impact, and finally after being hit dozens of times by the Shun army, it fell down with a bang.

As soon as the Shun army saw that the city gate was breached, they immediately rushed towards the city gate with a shout like a flock of birds entering the forest.

The Shun army that had just rushed into the city was shot over by the soldiers who had been squatting in the city in an instant, one row loaded with arrows, the other row shot, repeatedly, and the Shun army that entered the city fell in pieces.

"All the troops are attacking!" Li Laixiang saw that the city gate was breached, let out a long breath, and gave an order, and the whole army went out.

Wang Lanping heard the sound of the city gate falling, and knew that the big thing was not good, but he didn't give up until the last moment, he ran to the inside of the city tower, looked at the city, the situation was critical, he shook his spear, "Song Qianhu, the city tower will be handed over to you" said that he was about to rush down the city to support.

At this time, Kong Rusong Zhixian came to Wang Lanping's side with tears in his eyes, knelt down, pulled Wang Lanping's armor, choked up and said, "General, you are a rare general in the Ming Dynasty, you must not harm your life here, please take the revival of the Ming Dynasty as the thought, retreat quickly, and make a comeback in the future, Kuang Ming Dynasty"

Wang Lanping helped up Kong Zhi County, at the moment of the current enemy, Kong Zhi County did not lose his loyalty to the country, but Wang Lanping could not go, he left, Huaining City was broken in a moment, if he slaughtered the city to vent his anger, what face did he have to go to Nanjing, to level the world.

"Kong Zhi County, if I can't even defend Huaining City, and talk about how Kuangfu Daming, you can go, you are a civil official, you have no responsibility for the survival of the city, take my family, flee, don't be an official in the second half of your life, there are great changes in the world"

Wang Lanping knew that once he died, no one could stop the Manchu army from entering the world, and it didn't matter if the Manchu officials were inappropriate, it was better to find a mountain and live incognito for a few years without fighting with the world.

Kong Zhixian saw that Wang Lan had made up his mind, so he knew that he could not persuade him, and said categorically, "If the general doesn't leave, how can I be greedy for a life in a small Zhixian County, Lingtang and Yun Niang's family, I have already sent someone from the east gate to send them out of the city."

The situation is not allowed to be described for a long time, Wang Lanping picked up a bloody knife from the ground and handed it to Kong Zhixian, "Thank you"

Kong Zhixian took the knife and shouted to the more than a dozen pale officials behind him, "I, Kong Rusong, treat you well on weekdays, and I am willing to kill the enemy with this official, follow me and kill!" "It's really a rabbit that bites people when he's in a hurry, even Kong Rusong, who has never touched a knife, dares to fight with people with a knife, killing can really change a person from the bones.

The officials had already been frightened by this terrifying fierce battle scene, and when they heard the shout of Kong Zhixian, they scattered in a blink of an eye, and they didn't know whether to fight or flee for their lives, so they panicked and rushed straight to the city gate along the steps of the city, crowded in the chaos of the army, and the Pu knife in their waists was cut to pieces by the Dashun army one by one before they were pulled out.

Wang Lanping didn't have time to pay attention to them, he didn't even take the steps, he jumped down directly from the city tower, picked a Dashun with a shot, and shouted, "Kill them"

The short arrows of the were also used up, so they had to throw down the swords and draw their waist knives and follow behind Wang Lanping with the big sword soldiers behind them, and cut down the influx of Shun troops to the ground step by step, the narrow city gate was crowded, the Fengzi battalion and the Shun army were completely crowded together, and only the knives and guns in the hands of everyone were still stabbing back and forth between the gaps in their bodies.

The rear of the Shun army was still pushing the people in front of them into the city, and the city gates were completely blocked by the dead and the living.

The stones on the head of the city still kept smashing down under the command of Song Qianhu, and more than 4,000 Shun troops were all concentrated at the gate of the city, unable to retreat or enter, such a tragic battle, even if Li Laixiang was such a veteran of the battle formation, he knew that he could not afford to consume, but the war was already like this, and the only way to fight was bloody.

It was getting dark, and at this moment, a shout of killing suddenly came from the west of the city.

Song Dali on the city tower raised his eyes and looked at it, and his heart was overjoyed, it turned out that there was a group of men and horses rushing to the west of the city, and there was a word 'Ming' on the banner of the army.

"General Wang, reinforcements have arrived!"