"Report! There were thieves at the south gate who landed in the city, and our army suffered heavy casualties. General Hou asked Qin to send rescue troops quickly! ”

"Shao Zongqi, you lead the local Jinyi guards in Jinan, as well as half of Li Yuanwai's family, to go for reinforcements!"

"Report! The thieves attacked the gap in the northwest city wall with stone artillery, and yesterday the repaired ones were broken again, and now the city wall is broken again, General He and Mr. Yun have led the crowd to retreat behind the first earthen enclosure, and fight to the death with the thieves who rushed in! ”

"Got it. Tao Zongqi, you lead thirty Jinyi guards in the capital, as well as Liu Yuanwai's family, to go for reinforcements! ”

"Report! General Ximen Chen was hit by a stone bullet and was martyred on the spot, and Commander Qin had already personally led the reserve team forward, but he was afraid that it would be difficult to resist! ”

"Got it. Lord Luo Zhai, you lead a hundred green forest heroes to reinforce, and the family members outside Hong Yuan also follow, listen to Qin's command of the military order! ”

"Report! Report! Urgent! The stone cannonballs of the thief army at the north gate rained down, and the Mongolian Tatars shot at the city, our army suffered a lot of casualties, and the Minzhuang team collectively abandoned their armor and fled, and the city head has been occupied by the thief army! I'm afraid the gates are about to open! ”

Seeing that the messengers were all unfavorable news, the faces of all the officials became more and more ugly, and some of them trembled with their legs and behaved at a loss. When I heard the news of the collapse of the North Gate, most of the people present were as pale as earth, but Hai Rui was still unfazed.

Ye Zhengfei stepped out of the queue and shouted: "My musket team still has three or four rounds of ammunition per gun, so let's resist for a while." If you want to break through, you don't have to wait for me. He also said to the hundreds of families left outside the yamen by Guo and Li: "These brothers, you should go with you!" "Most of those family members are also refugees who have been temporarily recruited, listen to Ye Zhengfei's words. Some of them stood up. Others cowered.

Zhang Jingzhai, the magistrate of Licheng County, suddenly got up and said, "Princes." It's all at this time, is it still a fluke? Zhang is not talented, one step ahead. ”

Yan Hong said: "Where is Zhang Lingyin?" ”

Zhang Jingzhai gave a deep salute, and then got up and said: "Since the country has only been martyred, there is no county order. Fu chanted again: "It is better to save Su Wuzhi than to follow Li Lingshen." Trembling and groaning, he walked straight to the back hall.

Yan Hong shouted: "I can't help it! To stop it, Shao Jing said: "Qin Cha doesn't have to be like this. Zhang Lingyin lost the city and died. Now that he is dying, he is also seeking benevolence, so I will protect Qin Cha and leave first, and then make reason. ”

Yan Hong also knew that what Shao Jing said was reasonable. If Zhang Jingzhai didn't commit suicide, then he would either stay as a traitor or be hacked to death by the Mongols. Even if you are lucky enough to escape the city, you will not be able to escape the law of the country. But he didn't have this obligation, and now that the city is broken, he has no choice but to break through. Fortunately, yesterday Zhang Qingyan had already said the arrangements for the breakthrough, and he took Zhang's father-in-law, Sun Yuerong and others. Plainclothes mixed with refugees out of town.

Sun Lie and those minions of Flying Tiger Mountain can also walk together. Since Hai Qingtian is wholeheartedly benevolent. I can't stop him. As for the Jingying and Jinyi Guards, who have already dispersed their defenses, they can't take care of it. Although this seems a little unrighteous, it is really impossible to leave with too many people. But since he promised to protect Zhang Jingzhai's family, he couldn't break his promise, and hurriedly ordered: "Quickly invite Zhang Lingyin's family to come and walk with me." ”

Yan Hong was thinking here, and suddenly faintly heard the sound of firearms, and the sound effect was neat, far louder than a few sounds just now. This puzzled Yan Hong. He knew that the Mongols didn't have any firearms, and his side had run out of ammunition, so why was there such a dense movement of firearms?

But I heard Ye Zhengfei say: "No, this voice is weird, why does it sound like a three-eyed gun?" ”

Zhang Qingyan couldn't help but say: "What? Could it be that the border army is coming? "You must know that the three-eyed gun is the standard equipment of the Ming border army, and there is only one one, and there is no other semicolon. If it is really a three-eyed ring, it must be the arrival of the border army. Ye Zhengfei pricked up his ears and listened again: "It won't be wrong." Listening to this sound, there are at least hundreds of them in this round. ”

At this moment, a sergeant stumbled in from outside, rushed to the front of the officers, kowtowed, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, the border army ...... The border army is coming. ”

This sentence was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and everyone present was stunned. Yan Hong still has the demeanor of a general, reacted, and hurriedly asked: "How many people are here?" It's just that under the excitement, his voice trembled a little.

The sergeant said, "No...... I don't know what to do! The North Gate has been recaptured! ”

I'll it! This is called timely rain! Yan Hong's tears were about to come out. He was about to put up a score to pretend to be 13, but he heard Hai Rui shouting first: "Come on, save Zhang Lingyin quickly!" As soon as the words fell, Li Kunpeng had already rushed out like an arrow.

In fact, thanks to Hai Rui's timely words, otherwise Zhang Jingzhai would have become a wronged ghost. When Li Kunpeng arrived in the back hall, he had just kicked over the chair under his feet. Li Zhuangshi is light and skillful, and his swordsmanship is exquisite, and he cut off his clothes with a sword, bringing out Zhang Xianling, who was like a dream. At the same time as turning defeat into victory, the county order was martyred, if such a thing really happened, I also think that it is a super oolong in the history of the officialdom of the Shangguo Dynasty.

At this time, the governor's yamen has become a sea of joy, and even the ordinary people in the streets and alleys are running and shouting "Reinforcements are coming!" The Tartars have been defeated! "Those officials in the provincial capital still have to maintain the general reserve of the scribes of the national dynasty, and the men such as the Flying Tiger Village, as well as the musketeers under Ye Zhengfei, have already shouted and jumped with joy. Sun Yuerong didn't care about it, she threw herself into Yan Hong's arms, and said goodbye crisply, making the surrounding officials stunned, crying and laughing.

After a while, another official came to report: "Lord Qincha, those people who left before are here again, expressing their willingness to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions under the command of Lord Qincha." ”

Sun Lie snorted on the side: "These people were greedy for life and afraid of death before, but when they saw the reinforcements arriving, they still had the face to come back to grab merit." ”

Yan Hong said with a smile: "Father-in-law, this is also human nature, ordinary people, naturally they can't deal with your old green forest hero." Since this is the case, let's work hard for Brother Ye to put them in order and open the north gate to help in the war. ”

Shao Jingdao: "Qin is poor and slow, although the reinforcements have arrived at the north gate at this moment, the rest of the places are still fighting hard, so we still divide our troops to go to each gate to help, so as not to lose anything." ”

Yan Hong said: "Okay, good." Then the reassembled Minzhuang, Shao Daxia, you divide half, together with all the heroes of your loyal alliance. Separately go to various places to help. By the way, inform the defenders of the other gates. Reinforcements have arrived, and our army's victory has been decided! The rest of the half, Brother Ye, you go and straighten it out. Father-in-law, you led your Green Forest cavalry to follow. Yue Rong, Xia Woman, Zhang Woman. Let's send the soldiers to the north gate! Brother Hai, the affairs of the Yamen are left to your old man. Guo and Li are not the two brothers, you are also in command, just in case! ”

Yan Hong raised his head and rode straight to the north gate with a large team of people and horses. Yan Hong walked in the middle of the team by himself, with the banner of Qincha on both sides, Liang Rufei and Xi Tong opened the road in front of the horse, and Xia Zisu and Zhang Qingyan guarded left and right. There are about 200 cavalry in the green forest led by Sun Lie, Sun Yuerong and others, and the musket team led by Ye Zhengfei. There are nearly 10,000 people on the periphery, which is really majestic.

When he arrived at the north gate, Yan Hongden looked down at the city tower, but saw that there were about thousands of Ming cavalry outside the city, which were divided into two groups, one was fighting with the Mongolian cavalry in the west, and the other was slashing and killing the White Lotus Sect army near the north gate tower, which can be described as a military law. The White Lotus Sect army near the North Gate Tower was only a few thousand, and they were killed by the iron cavalry of the border army, and they had no power to fight back, and they were killed in pieces. In the distance, the White Lotus Sect's camp in the north of the city had caught fire, and a group of Ming infantry was faintly killing there.

Yan Hong saw that his side was victorious and undefeated, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the north gate to be opened and rushed out. The defenders of 200 cavalry charged ahead, and nearly 10,000 people spread their wings behind, which was really overwhelming and magnificent. The White Lotus Sect outside the north gate was originally rushed by the cavalry of the border army, where could they block this belly and back attack? Immediately the whole line was defeated. Yan Hong's Jinyi Guards and Green Forest Cavalry scattered and slashed and slaughtered, and even those people who were strong on foot were also brave enough to beat the water dogs. Coupled with the impact of the cavalry of the border army, it didn't take long for most of the White Lotus Sect army outside the north gate to be annihilated, and the rest scattered and fled. Among them, the leader of the rebel bandits, You Gui, was hacked to death by Sun Lie.

Looking at the battlefield outside the north gate, the cavalry generals of the Ming army who were chasing and killing the White Lotus Sect saw Yan Hong's banner, and also hurried over to see Qin Cha. Under the common name, I knew that this person was Cui Degong, the chief soldier of Baoding, and from his mouth, Yan Hong knew the general deployment of the troops to rescue Jinan this time.

It turned out that after Yang Bo went to Jiliao to take charge of the soldier Fu Yinxin, the first thing he did was to send Zhang Chengxun, the chief soldier of Jizhen, and Cui Degong, the chief soldier of Baoding, to lead 5,000 elite cavalry to rush to aid Jinan in the starry night. There are also many family members of Zhang and Cui in this team, and their combat effectiveness is really not weak, and they are even enough to distinguish themselves from the 2,000 Mongolian elite soldiers in Bala and China.

In addition, Yang Dasima used Zhang Youchi's troops, and at the same time as Zhang and Cui's cavalry went south, he sent dozens of envoys to the military guards in various parts of Shandong. The previous time the Mongols besieged Jinan, and most of the local armies that rushed to the aid were invited halfway and broke through. However, Yang Bo calculated the route accurately, so that they first converged in Zichuan and Yucheng, which were a certain distance from Jinan, and then slowly advanced towards Jinan. In this way, the bad luck of being broken by each one is avoided. The reinforcements of Shandong Province on these two roads, each with about six or seven thousand infantry and hundreds of cavalry, can be regarded as all the troops that can be drawn from the Shandong Guard, and they arrived in Jinan almost at the same time as the iron cavalry of the border army, achieving the purpose of strategic coordinated operations.

Jinan was separated by the city wall for half a month's bloody battle, although the city was heavily damaged, the White Lotus Sect army outside the city was actually not much better. Now the total strength of the White Lotus Sect outside the city is less than 50,000, of which there are only more than 10,000 "divine soldiers" and hardcore cultists, and the rest are all coerced and lured people. What supports this team from collapsing is the current situation that seems to be favorable, and more importantly, the core combat power formed by the 2,000 Mongolian soldiers and more than 2,000 green forest armies.

This morning, in order to break through the entire line of Jinan City, the White Lotus Sect army divided its troops to surround the four gates and four corners, focusing on the north gate and yesterday's gap. However, this is equivalent to once again dispersing the troops with Jinan City as the center. The more than 500 bandit cavalry that Shen Lei on the left side last time could rush them to a screech, not to mention that this time it was thousands of border army iron cavalry that were equipped and trained far better than the bandits?

Therefore, the border army rushed with iron cavalry, and the White Lotus Sect army, which had already grabbed the north gate tower, was suddenly in chaos. The Mongols hurriedly mounted their horses and prepared to meet the border army. The remnants of the Ming army at the north gate took the opportunity to counterattack and took back the city gate that had fallen. In addition, in a short time, Yan Hong led a large rabble in the city to arrive, and naturally the enemy army disappeared. (To be continued......)