In the afternoon, the sun was dim overhead, and the air was filled with a gray smell of dust and blood.

A corpse fell from the head of Xicheng, like an unconscious stone on the hard ground. The wounded soldier who had not yet died crawled out of the pile of dead people and cried out for help. There were people all around, screaming and running, but no one looked at them.

At the head of the city, the nine-headed insect looked terrified, "Monk Liang, you can't hold it, let's escape"

Liang Chengbao glared angrily: "Where to escape, withdraw from Xi'an City today, I don't know how many people will drop their heads." ”

"If you don't run away, you're going to die here," the hydra didn't apologize at all. This is a natural choice, and they have been doing it for many years, and if they can't beat it, they will run away. This is how the Shaanxi thieves dragged down the Ming Dynasty.

The Qing soldiers under the city surged like insects and ants.

Liang Chengbao looked at it for a moment, then suddenly sighed lightly, and said: "Die, die" He cherished his life very much, otherwise he would not have taken the initiative to leave King Chuang, but this was the best opportunity in his life.

For many years, Shaanxi thieves have been on the run, like locusts sweeping across the Central Plains, and many people are just trying to survive at first. As the thieves grew stronger, some began to swell their ambitions. When the inflated ** is constantly hit, it finally evolves into a decadent Tang Dynasty. He saw with his own eyes that King Chuang had gone from being high-spirited to having no fighting spirit in just half a year.

"Die, die" Monk Liang raised his voice, repeated, stretched out his arms and pulled out the Qi knife, there was wind in the city, and his robe swayed with the wind.

The valiant are occasionally cowardly, and the cherished are occasionally indulgent.

He went up to the battlements again and again, and when he felt that his body could not support it, he stepped back and rested.

The hydra followed him and did not mention the escape.

I don't know how long it has been.

The herald galloped through the empty and open streets, "Report, the Beicheng Tower has been lost"

"The North City is lost?" Liang Chengbao was shocked and shouted: "Nine-headed worm, you guard the west gate, I will go to the north gate"

"There you go"

The fierce fighting did not allow the two to communicate more.

Five hundred soldiers rushed to the north gate.

The north gate has been broken, and the east, west and south gates are also in danger, and most of the city of Xi'an cannot be defended.

The people in the city were quiet, and every house closed its doors, and they seemed to have nothing to do with the fighting outside. When the Qing soldiers came, they cut the whip, and when the Ming army entered the city, they cut the whip again, and it seemed that there was no difference. They once bowed at the feet of Emperor Li Zicheng of Dashun, and what else could not be accepted.

Liang Chengbao did not expect the people to come to help them, if the Qing soldiers were unpopular, then what the rebels did in Xi'an City can only be said to be even more excessive.

When Liang Chengbao arrived in Beicheng, there was no longer a figure of the righteous army at the gate of Beicheng.

The 3,000 Ming troops of the Governor's Palace pressed like a rock in front of the newly built city wall, preventing the Qing soldiers from breaking through the city gate and spreading. The Jurchen archers who climbed to the top of the city were more ferocious than the most vicious pit vipers in Liaodong, and they suppressed the Ming army behind the earthen walls and could not raise their heads.

The Ming army also had three iron cannons aimed at the open city gate, and there was a loud noise.

The Qing soldiers kept jumping from the city, and the crowd was piled up in the open space one hundred and fifty paces from the city wall. The defenders relied on some of the fortifications that had been demolished and built a few days earlier.

The killing of 500 fresh forces can have a certain alleviating effect, but it is like the waves caused by the boulder falling into the water, and there will be a time when it will subside.

Half an hour later, the Qing soldiers were only a dozen steps away from the iron cannons, and as long as these iron cannons were captured, the Qing soldiers outside the city could rush in unscrupulously.

There was a muffled thunder in the north, and the ground shook beneath his feet.

"How many cavalry have been transferred?" Liang Chengbao is desperate. Judging from his experience, there were 10,000 new cavalry outside the city.

"Kill"

The Ming army was in a desperate situation, but no one retreated. If the soldiers and horses brought out by Zuo Ruo are proud troops, the proud troops can only die in battle, and will not flee. The rebels followed the Ming army, they were not so brave, but they could also be so heroic.

"Kill" Liang Chengbao let out a heavy gasp in his throat, and fought hard into the enemy formation, and the Qing soldiers around him continued to decrease. He gave up his life, and there was a pride in his heart at this moment: "I fought to the death, and the Jurchens couldn't stop it"

"The Qing soldiers retreated, the Qing soldiers retreated"

There was a shout behind him, and Liang Chengbao supported his body with the tip of his knife, only to see that there was no Qing soldier beside him.

The defenders did not know why the Qing soldiers retreated, but they did not miss the opportunity to pursue.

Liang Chengbao killed the head of the city under the cover of his own soldiers.

Seven or eight miles away, ten thousand horses galloped, and the dust brought out was far more powerful than the tide of the Qiantang River.

"Mongols, Mongols are coming," Liang Chengbao raised his arms and shouted. The Rebels did not have a good relationship with the Mongols, but he knew that the Mongols entrenched in Yulinwei were allies of the Ming Dynasty.

Amur and Geriletu were divided into left and right flanks to cover and kill, and the Qing troops outside the northern city retreated slowly.

The horn of the Qing soldiers to withdraw from the east and west of Xi'an sounded outside the city, and the Qing soldiers who climbed the head of the city had to turn around and retreat along the ladder. All the units of the rebel army had a sense of the aftermath of the catastrophe and were unable to pursue it anymore.

The northern gate was wide open, and the Mongols did not enter the city, but took cover from the northern city to the western city, and small groups of cavalry showed off their excellent horsemanship in the gaps exposed by the Qing soldiers, and shot the feathered arrows in their hands.

"Xi'an is saved" Liang Chengbao leaned against the city.

After the Qing soldiers were tired of besieging the city for half a day, and after the scouts found out that there were Mongol cavalry in the north, Azig hurriedly sent out the last reserve soldiers and horses he left behind to meet the siege of the city.

The Mongols traveled long distances and were also tired. Amur and Gřiltu did not dare or want to fight a battle, and continued to drive away the Qing troops besieging the city to the south.

An hour later, 10,000 cavalry returned to the northern city and camped on flat land more than ten miles from the city.

Liang Chengbao had been guarding the head of the northern city, and saw thirty or forty cavalry escorting a man dressed as a scribe towards Xi'an City.

A cavalryman galloped over first and shouted under the city: "The defenders open the door, the person who comes is the envoy of the Ming court, and there is a military order from General Zuo in his hand."

The north gates were wide open, and the messenger's real intention was to get the city guards to come out to meet them.

Liang Chengbao didn't know Wang Yi.

General Zhang Shen of the Governor's Mansion led him out of the city to greet him, and a group of people walked into the city gate.

At the gates of the city were mountains of dead bodies.

Wang Yi held Zuo Ruo's military order in his hand. He handed over the military order to General Zhang of the Governor's Mansion, and the military order reached Liang Chengbao after a circle.

"Order Liang Chengbao and the Mongolian cavalry who came to help to defend Xi'an City, and cooperate with the Mongols in the battle, which can be arranged by the royal envoy."

Liang Chengbao guessed the meaning of this order.

Wang Yi also subdued four or five thousand rebels in Yulinwei, and after the Chahar people fell out with the rebels in Yan'an Mansion, they cut off the path for the rebels to take refuge in Yulinwei. General Zuo meant that Wang Yi's authority was only to contact the Mongols.

"The Mongols are coming from a long distance, and the supplies are exhausted, please send some grain and grass to the outside of the city."

After saying this, Wang Yi did not say anything, and followed the Ming army into the governor's palace in the city.

Liang Chengbao went to the four cities to inspect and rearrange the guards. Wang Yi let him arrive very strangely, and he didn't need to be too close to Wang Yi. Now, he has a dark eye on the distribution of factions in the Ming Dynasty, and it is better to hold General Zuo's thigh tightly.

It was not until Zhang Deng's time that he went to the Governor's Mansion to return to the Governor's Palace, where Wang Yi and General Zhang were talking, talking about the war in Yan'an Mansion.

General Zhang Shen had palpitations and said: "You arrived in time, otherwise Xi'an City will not be able to hold it today."

"It's all providence," Wang Yi sighed, "I supervised the Mongols to pursue the Qing captives in Qingjian, and although the Qing soldiers were defeated in Yan'an, their strength still existed." But I didn't expect that there were only two battles in Qingjian, and General Zuo had not yet arrived, and the Qingyu were frightened and fled across the Yellow River to Shanxi. General Zuo then ordered us to go south to rescue Xi'an. ”

"It's really providential," Liang Chengbao also sighed secretly.

From the time of the defeat of King Chuang, he began to believe that the will of heaven could not be disobeyed.

General Zhang saw Liang Chengbao at the door, got up and introduced: "Liang Qian can defend Xi'an City today, and Liang Qian should always be a meritorious." ”

Wang Yi nodded at Liang Chengbao and did not get up to greet him. In his capacity, there is no need to salute a thousand generals.

"Two days at the earliest, three days at the latest, General Zuo will come back, and the two of you will grit your teeth and hold on."

These words fell into Liang Chengbao's ears, like fairy music.

There were 10,000 Mongol cavalry stationed in the north of the city to deter, and the Qing captives did not know the details of the Ming army's reinforcements from the north. For the next two days, Azig did not dare to attack the city without any scruples.

The Qing soldiers rushed from Hanzhong to Xi'an, and they did not carry much grain and grass, so Azig ordered Hong Chengchou, the governor of Henan, to escort grain and grass from Shangluo Avenue to Xi'an, and at the same time sent people to Shanxi to inquire about the news of the Qing soldiers left behind in Shaanxi.

His original intention was to unite the Qing soldiers left behind in Shaanxi to attack the Ming army, but the two sides were far away, and he never figured out where the soldiers and horses left behind in Shaanxi were.

The Ming army in the north was only 20,000 men, and Shaanxi was surrounded by the Qing court on three sides. Azig knew that once Zuo Ruo gained a foothold in Xi'an, it would be difficult to counterattack. But the order of the imperial court and the regent did not come out for a long time, and his order to transfer troops to Henan was like a mud ox into the sea, so how could he not be in a hurry.

On the third day, Zuo Ruo led the army back to Xi'an City.

On the same day, Amur led his army north and returned to the grassland via Yulinwei, accompanied by Wang Yi. Zuo Ruo sent two full carriages of property, and Wang Yi asked Ezhe to lead the Chahar army to give up naturalization and enter the Hetao.

The Ming army went north to fight the Qing soldiers by surprise, and now the Qing court has not had time to react, and the soldiers and horses in each town are fighting separately, otherwise as long as the Shaanxi army is not in a hurry to retreat to Shanxi, Zuo Ruo's situation is much more difficult than now. If Ezhe leads the army south, it can be foreign aid for the Ming army in Shaanxi, and the siege of Shaanxi will be solved.

Liang Chengbao returned to Zuoruo and asked for credit to the commander of the rebel army defending the city. Conquering the rebel armies of Xi'an is a long and strict problem, and now is not the time to make a decision in a hurry, so Zuo Ruo only rewards gold and silver, not official positions.

That night, the Ming army sent soldiers and horses to patrol the city and killed more than 30 small thieves in one night. Order was immediately restored in the city of Xi'an.

Several rebel commanders came forward to complain to Liang Chengbao, but Liang Chengbao turned a deaf ear, he knew that this was General Zuo's intention to make the rebels adapt to him.

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