Chapter 428: The Swollen Heart (Text)

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The soldiers who had never fought in the Qing Dynasty were really unreliable, and the battle in Qianchengtou made Zhai Zhe feel more sober and rethink this battle.

"Am I in a hurry?" Zhai Zhe walked like a fly, anxious.

Bao Guang led a thousand personal guards around him. Yang Shouzhuang led 3,000 soldiers to follow the flank of the guard, and the soldiers and horses under his command could serve as Zhang Tianlu's vanguard team, which was still stronger than the ordinary Ming army.

The woods and weeds obscured the figure, and Zhai Zhe led the army to raid until the bottom of the mountain before being seen by the Qing scouts.

Bolo was overjoyed to see that the tentative attack had attacked the city wall, and was mobilizing follow-up troops and horses to follow, and the scouts rushed to the Chinese army to report: "A group of Ming troops rushed down from the top of the mountain in Beicheng, with more than 4,000 people, and there are still four or five miles away from the east city gate. ”

Standing in Bolo's position, Yu Qian's city wall just blocked his view, and he rode his horse and ran up the small hill on the left with the scout, and saw a pair of Ming troops fighting on the battlefield in Dongcheng.

"General Pingyu? General Pingyu! Bolo gasped, of course he knew who General Pingyu was, but he didn't expect Zhai Zhe to appear here.

Almost instantly, his backbone was a little cold, "Zhedong must want to eat Zhang Cunren's soldiers and horses." He was skeptical when he came, but now he is convinced.

Bolo Pegasus rushed back to the barracks and hurriedly ordered: "Order the white flag armor to attack!" ”

If you can defeat Zhai Zhe here, if you are lucky, you can kill him or capture him, and pass through the information he has, and the soldiers and horses of eastern Zhejiang will be in chaos without a fight.

Two or three miles away, it took a quarter of an hour for the running soldiers, and Bao Guang drew his long knife.

"Bombardment!" The sound of nearly a hundred three-eyed guns in unison drowned out the sound of cannons.

Because of the Qing captives, the gunners had already fled to the city, and it was all up to Meng Kang and Zhu Dadian to go into battle in person, leading their own soldiers to resist desperately. Zhu Dadian's two feet seemed to have roots, standing at the head of the city wall, dead or alive, waiting for the city's Qinglu to be closest to him only twenty steps away.

"The Great General is here!" Meng Kang raised the giant axe and shouted. A scoop-headed Jurchen warrior saw his bravery and knew that he might be a leader, and rushed at him with a thick knife.

Meng Kang hung the axe on his waist, gripped the handle behind the giant shield with both hands, and sprinted towards him with both feet. Both of them walked at great heights, like two reckless rhinoceros colliding at the head of the city, and at the moment of contact, the thick knife of the armor struck the surface of the giant shield, and the piercing sound was accompanied by looming sparks.

Meng Kang died unabated, the first half of the shield was hit backwards, the lower half was hit forward, the edge of the iron shield hit the legs of the armorer, the armor soldier couldn't stop his pace, as if someone had tripped over his feet in a hurry, and the whole person was about to lie on the shield.

Meng Kang shouted: "Go and die!" The large iron shield was lifted diagonally upward, and a giant bear-like body flew out of the battlements of the city wall like dumped garbage.

Meng Kang slammed the big iron shield against the city wall, then took out the axe on his waist, and shouted: "The general is here!" ”

This series of battles was born in lightning, and the soldiers in the city who were watching were all watching. Such a hard-fought battle was the most morale-boosting, and some soldiers who could not hold back climbed the city wall again.

Under the East City Gate.

The Ming army on the city wall could see clearly, the black banner of General Pinglu was flying and waving, and the oncoming Qinglu dissipated towards the ebb tide.

Zhai Zhe pulled out the dark waist knife, this waist knife is very sharp, better than the Qi knife in the army, but its edge seems to be covered by the appearance, since it returned to Zhai Zhe, it seems that he has not drunk blood to his heart's content.

Fang Jin held a long knife in each hand and stood in front of Zhai Zhe's side.

The war was urgent, Zhai Zhe did not let Yang Shouzhuang rush to the front line, but personally led his own guards to assault in front. He wanted to make it clear to the soldiers that the general did not treat them like the Qing prisoners would only drive them away.

Blows, swords and axes rush to rout; Strike again, and the axe hand will kill the bewildered Qing soldiers......

A qiē cycle does not stop.

The guards were like the never-ending tide of the Qiantang River, and the 1,000 Qing soldiers who came to block outside the East City Gate were defeated within a quarter of an hour, and Yang Shouzhuang only needed to urge his soldiers and horses to kill the Qing prisoners who could not form an army. It turned out that fighting under the command of General Pinglu was so enjoyable, Yang Shouzhuang's heart burned with a trace of excitement that had not been seen for a long time, if it wasn't for the lack of hope, why did he shave off his head and kneel at the feet of the Donglu people.

Zhai Zhe drew his sword and roared: "Assault!" ”

The flag bearer is carved in stone, and the muscles on his arms are like vines wrapped around the stone carving, which is a flag that has been said for a long time and finally appeared on the battlefield.

"General Pingyu is mighty!"

The city and the city shouted in unison.

Bao Guang's heavy knife hit the edge of the ladder, like a breeze blowing through the thousand-year-old wood, and the ladder collapsed instantly. The Qing Lu on the city wall, who had not had time to retreat, let out a desperate roar, and his head flew out along Meng Kang's axe blade with an open mouth.

Zhai Zhe's waist knife was in the air, and Fang Jin was by his side, but he didn't get a chance to kill Qing Yu. Although there were some Qinglu who were injured and fell to the ground at his feet, of course, in his capacity, he disdained to do such a thing.

"I just have to stand here!"

Zhai Zhe suddenly felt very happy, it was an indescribable feeling, a feeling of being worshiped by thousands of people.

"General Pingyu is mighty!" Meng Kang cut down the last captive at the head of the city, and the blood flowed out of a hideous picture on the axe.

"Boom!" The iron cannon at the head of the city finally rang out, and the iron ball smashed into the queue of white-flaged armor soldiers who rushed to help.

Zhai Zhe came to his senses, thousands of white-flaged armor soldiers were only six or seven miles away from him, and they were blocked by the defeated soldiers and horses.

"Withdraw!"

The sound of the gong was sandwiched in the sound of artillery, and not long after Yang Shouzhuang was put into eastern Zhejiang, the soldiers under his command were not familiar with the complex horn sound of the Pinglu General's Mansion, so it was agreed that the gong sound would be the order to retreat. Yang Shouzhuang stopped, and when he looked up, he saw the terrifying Jurchens not far away.

Zhai Zhe stood under the city wall, led his guards to stay at the end, and watched Yang Shouzhuang lead the army through in front of him and run towards Beishan.

The cannon fire continued, and the white flag was inlaid with his head down and ran wildly, and from time to time he saw his companions being smashed into the hard earth.

The Qing captives were already 500 paces away, and the defenders at the head of the city raised their birds.

Zhai Zhe was not in a hurry or slow, and ordered: "Withdraw the troops!" ”

General Pinglu must have the bearing of General Pinglu, and the personal guards retreat calmly along the city wall. This was a natural retreat to defeat the Qing captives' besieging soldiers, not to be scared away by the white flag armor soldiers of the Qing captives. Of course, Zhai Zhe didn't care about such a false name, but for the defenders in the city, this was very important.

The distance between the two teams of soldiers and horses that followed each other was kept at about five hundred paces, because Zhai Zhe led the army to walk from the edge of the city wall, and the white-flaged armor soldiers were afraid of the soldiers at the head of the city, and did not dare to approach the city wall, and were slowly led behind.

From the East City Gate to the North City Gate, Zhai Zhe did not enter the city, but led his personal guards back to the defensive position in Beishan.

At the foot of the North Mountain is a cedar forest, and the mountainside is covered with leg-deep thatch that is withering and yellowing until the summit.

The white-flaged armor soldier chased to the foot of the mountain, and when he saw the Ming army disappearing into the jungle, he raised his hand and ordered the pursuit to be stopped. While the armor was watching, a large banner of General Pingyu was erected on the top of the mountain, and the sound of cannons suddenly thundered down from mid-air, and when he looked up, the iron ball was already in front of him. The armor soldiers who had gathered in the pile were smashed like cracked watermelons.

Jia La's forehead turned around in a panic, "Withdraw!" The armorers were on guard behind them and slowly retreated.

Halfway up the mountain, Zhai Zhe took off his helmet, and Bao Guang beside him was exhaling. They raided from the mountainside of Beishan to the city of Qianxian County, killing the soldiers and horses besieging the city like a storm, and their bodies were already overdrawn, otherwise how could they let the white-flaged armor soldiers retreat so calmly.

Yu Qianchengtou, Zhu Dadian's old face was red.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing.

He had the honor of seeing the Pingyu General Zhai Zhe personally on the battlefield today, and all his disdain, doubts, and arrogance were completely gone. If it weren't for Zhai Zhe's rescue today, Yu Qianxian County would have almost fallen in this attack, and the prepared firearms would almost have no chance to be used.

Qing Yu was like a bamboo when he went down to the south of the Yangtze River, and he understood the strength of the Jurchens. In the past two months, he heard that the soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang had not tasted defeat under the command of Zhai Zhe, and he had committed the arrogant mistake in his heart again, thinking that Hangzhou City could hold on for two and a half months under the siege of more than 100,000 troops, and it would not be easy for him to hold it for ten days.

"Bring the poisonous fireball and the earth-shattering thunder to the city!" Zhu Dadian ordered. He turned to see Meng Kang, who had just jumped out of the blood tank, and his eyes were different from an hour ago.

Zhai Zhe took off the armor on his body, saw the soldiers and horses retreating, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Today I finally passed safely!" Do you want to mobilize some Fang Guoan soldiers to enter Yu Qian? He unconsciously grabbed a handful of weeds with his right hand, and the withered yellow grass stalks turned into a mess in his palm.

There were not enough soldiers and horses in eastern Zhejiang, and most of them were new soldiers, and this battle actually exceeded the ability of the Pingyu General's Mansion to bear. When the battle situation in Jiangnan has stabilized, is it worth taking such a big risk?

The soldiers were only allowed to rush and kill at the orders of the officials, but as a general of Pingyu, Zhai Zhe even felt that every decision would save him a year of life. It was the battle of countless sleepless nights, and it was decided in an instant when Mount Tai was at the top. In the past, he thought that it was because it was related to the fate of countless sentient beings, but at this moment he realized that what he did had nothing to do with others, only for himself.

It's like he sacrificed his life to save Lu Xiangsheng, just like he raised troops against the shaving order, it was also for himself.

Zhai Zhe let go of his hand and respectfully placed the waist knife given to him by Lu Xiangsheng on his knee.

It was this cold waist knife that reminded him that he should not pin his hopes on anyone.

Where has the tide of battle changed? Jiangxi or Huguang? He will not fantasize about Jin Shenghuan's defeat, nor will he pin his hopes on He Tengjiao's rise.

"So I have to fight this battle, after defeating Duoduo in Jiangnan, no one can stop me!" Zhai Zhe muttered to himself, he felt his heart expand dramatically, slowly becoming more and more restrained, and finally filled with endless voids.