Chapter 608: Xi'an Falls
Li Hu was not wearing armor, and so were the soldiers behind him.
has been fighting with Zuo Ruo for more than ten years, this time is not the most thrilling battle, nor is it the easiest battle, but it must be the most exciting battle.
Li Hu was physically tired and had high morale.
The soldiers and gods, they took off the armor they had been carrying for more than ten days and marched lightly. Along the way, the defenders of several Ming Yuan guards were vulnerable. For each place he captured, he left only a few dozen men to guard it, waiting for the arrival of the army.
"Hurry up, hurry up"
Li Hu's voice was full of expression. Zuo Ruojun is the strongest army of the Ming Dynasty, and he is the vanguard of Zuo Ruojun.
The front battalion came to report: "Lord Qiyu, there are Qing soldiers in front"
Li Hu climbed a small hill and stretched out his hand to block the sun and look north, where hundreds of horsemen watched from high posts on the horizon.
Hundreds of cavalry, which was enough to pose a threat to the tired three thousand foot soldiers, Li Hu thought for a moment and resolutely ordered: "Leave them alone, advance, advance to Xi'an City"
Monk Yuanjue followed him to lead the way for the vanguard army, no, it should be Liang Chengbao now. He is still wearing a monk's robe, but there is already an extra Qi knife on his back, and that appearance is a copy of Lu Zhishen.
"The defenders in Xi'an should have received the news, but the defenders in the city are only 3,000 people, and it is estimated that they dare not go out of the city to meet the enemy" He tried his best to show that he was familiar with the situation in Xi'an City, but Li Hu dismissed him and did not comment on his statement.
Zuo Ruo's order to Li Hu was to kill under the city of Xi'an, that is, God blocked and killed God, and Buddha blocked and killed Buddha.
After watching for a moment, the Qing scout cavalry turned around and left, slowly disappearing from everyone's sight.
Thirty years after Li Hu's 3,000 pioneers were a column of marching troops with no head in sight.
The Ming army was undefended and rushed forward in the form of stragglers. If there is a cavalry raid at this moment, with the strength of Zuo Ruo's army, I am afraid that it will also be in trouble.
Li Hu fought all the way to the gate of Xi'an, and the Qing soldiers really did not dare to go out of the city to meet the enemy.
The people outside Xi'an had no time to escape, and they had a wait-and-see attitude towards this sudden appearance of soldiers and horses.
The vanguard of the Ming army reached the southern gate of Xi'an, and the soldiers surrounded a market town with nearly a thousand houses.
The soldiers ran along the streets, shouting in Shaanxi dialect: "The people in the town have come out, we are the Ming king from the north of Huguang, and we are ordered to rescue the people of the Ming Dynasty." ”
Since the two years of Chongzhen, Shaanxi has been disdainful of the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
A few soldiers arrested a few people who had no time to hide, Liang Chengbao came forward to interrogate, and after a while, they arrested several clan elders and squires in the town.
Several old men wearing silk fabrics were brought to Li Hu.
Li Hu's sleeves were half pulled, the placket was half open, revealing a black lump of chest hair, one foot crossed, and said: "You are some famous people outside Xi'an, and you have had a very difficult time under the suppression of the Qing Dynasty over the years
The old man looked at each other, not daring to speak. is so good at kung fu, the Ming army drove some young people out.
There was no immediate response.
"Why, don't you want to?" Li Hu's color changed, his right hand was held on the hilt of the knife, and he scolded: "Are you willing to be a slave of the Qing Dynasty, and the slave of the Qing Dynasty is the enemy of my Ming Dynasty." ”
The lives of these people are obviously not as difficult as Li Hu said.
Seeing the ferocity that Li Hu said, several people discussed it with their eyes, and the oldest person came out and asked tremblingly, "Is General Zuo from Huguang?" How many centaurs were brought? ”
Li Hu was furious and scolded: "You thief old man, do you want to be a turtle with a shrunken head when there are few people in the king's master?" He pointed to the old man's nose and shouted, "Now let you go back, and in a quarter of an hour, if you don't see any money or food, go to Hades."
Two hours later, when Zuo Ruo's army arrived at the city of Xi'an, Li Hu had gathered more than 10,000 strong men and countless grains and grass.
In half a day, the flags of the Ming army were planted outside the three gates of Xi'an, and the gathered people shouted various slogans to the city.
"The king division of the Ming Dynasty is here, there are more than 100,000 troops, the Han people in the city have surrendered, and the king division only kills the full people"
"The great general Zhai Zhe defeated Dolgon in Huainan, Azig died in Hanzhong, and the Qing captives have gone and surrendered"
The Ming army suddenly appeared in Shaanxi, and the guards in Xi'an guessed that the Ming army might have crossed the deep mountains of Hanzhong to the north, but there were Azig guards in Hanzhong, and the Ming army dared to pass through guò from under their noses, which was indeed suspicious.
Some guards knew the real situation of the battle, but ordinary soldiers did not know, and the city was in chaos in an instant, and the Qing guards had to send troops to suppress it. Most of the Qing troops confronted the Mongols in Yan'an, and the messenger for help had already gone yesterday, and as long as Xi'an could hold out for two days, reinforcements could arrive.
The Ming army did not have artillery, so they snatched some wooden tables and carts from the people's homes to build a shield cart, and demolished the houses to seize wood to build siege vehicles.
Zuo Ruo did not wait for the army to rest and recuperate, and ordered the siege of the city.
Li Hu was dressed in heavy armor and went into battle in person.
The Ming army dispersed and marched towards the gate of Xi'an, the cannon at the head of the city rumbled, and 3,000 Qing soldiers guarded such a large city, and the troops were overstretched.
There are a lot of iron cannons at the head of Xi'an, and the momentum of the bombardment is terrifying.
The Ming army risked their lives to move forward, and some of the shield carts were hit by iron cannons, and they flew up and scattered into a pile of sawdust. The iron balls that were bombarded jumped on the hard yellow earth, and from time to time Ming soldiers were hit and crushed into pulp.
Zuo Ruo supervised the battle in the rear, and no one in the Ming army stopped, constantly approaching the south city gate.
When the Ming army braved the rain of arrows to retreat the ladder to the city wall, and a simple rushing car crashed into the south gate, several fires broke out in Xi'an.
Li Hu climbed to the head of the city, the defenders of the city had no intention of fighting, and fled with their heads in their hands, and the Qing soldiers in the city went out of the city from the north gate and fled in the direction of Yan'anfu.
Li Hu slashed with a thick knife, and fought with a few stubborn Qing soldiers at the head of the city.
Zuo Ruo watched the battle from a distance, and saw that the Ming army was fierce, so he ordered the follow-up soldiers and horses to follow up and support
When Li Hu opened the south gate of Xi'an, when the banner of the Ming Dynasty was planted at the head of Xi'an again, the people who were forced to come to help cheered heartily.
Between the Qing and the Ming, they preferred to choose the latter.
Azig went south to Hanzhong and took away part of the defenders of Shaanxi, Qingyang Mansion and Pingliangfu have always been the most active areas of thieves, the Qing soldiers guarded more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in each place, and the Mongols restrained the main force of the Shaanxi army after going south.
Xi'an is a ripe fruit, which fell safely into the hands of the Ming army.
The Ming army continued to enter the city, and there was no trace of the Qing soldiers in the city.
Li Hu was guarding at the gate of the southern city, and Zuo Ruo urged the horse to enter Xi'an City, revealing his first smiling face after entering Shaanxi.
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