Chapter 65: The Bloody Battle of Datong XVIII

Although the grain road was robbed by the Ming army, the Qing army did not fall apart because of this, but made Hedu determined to break the cauldron and replace the defense with attack, and threw all the soldiers including the personal guard Goshha into the siege battlefield.

The sound of artillery was endless, boulders were thrown out frequently, and all kinds of siege equipment gathered.

Dagubian personally fell into battle and led his own cattle to climb the city wall, and the Aha battalion, who was previously responsible for filling the river, was sent to dig under the wall.

After days of fierce battles, there were piles of corpses outside the city wall, mosquitoes and flies were overgrown, and no one cleaned the forbidden area of the battlefield here, so they had to let it rot and stink naturally.

"Squeak", a black-skinned mouse scurried up and down between the corpses, its slender tail flew wildly, and one inadvertently crashed into Deng San, who was struggling to dig the soil. Deng San grabbed the rat's tail and lifted it, and the rat waved its limbs into the air and squeaked.

As if God was joking, none of the survivors could live, but Deng San, who was bent on death, was not dead.

The artillery arrows on the battlefield seemed to be avoiding him, and the other Aha who was digging and filling the river was either doused with oil, pierced by javelins, or stoned to death by falling wood and stones from the city, but the top of his head was not moving at all.

Deng San thought that it was Brother You and the dog's spirit in the sky that was protecting him, so he germinated the intention of survival.

It's a little smaller, but it's better than eating dirt. Deng San stuffed the rat head into his mouth and bit it down, chewed and swallowed it indiscriminately, and a strong and irritating smell of urine spread all over his mouth and nose, making him retch.

Holding back the nausea, he ate the rest of the rat's body, and quickly stuffed the soil into his mouth.

After two efforts to solve the whole mouse, after a little slowdown, Deng San started to dig the soil again, and the blood sores on his palms burst into blood, digging and digging, as long as the wall was dug down, he could live.

.......

"Are all the residents' rations properly distributed?" Sun Xuanhuai was writing a booklet on the table, raised his eyes and saw Du Mao coming, and immediately asked.

"Go back to the house, it's all done."

"Hmm." Sun Xuanhuai's office will also fiddle with the abacus on the side from time to time, calculating the balance of materials wholeheartedly, Du Mao did not leave after reporting the matter, and stood in place and waited quietly.

"Click... "The abacus collided with the abacus pole, making a crisp sound, as opposed to the bursts of artillery bombardment coming from outside.

"Hey, why is Changping still here? But have something to say to me? ”

Du Mao bent down and said with a long gesture: "Mao Bucai, come and say goodbye to the mansion." ”

Sun Xuanhuai was quite surprised when he heard it: "Why did you leave?" But someone is making things difficult for you? ”

Du Mao shook his head: "Jianyu's offensive is fierce, Mao can't bear to see thousands of lives in misery, and is willing to follow Ban Chao's example and abandon his pen." ”

Sun Xuanhuai looked at the young man in front of him with wide eyes, stood up and walked to Du Mao's side and asked, "You want to go to the city to defend the wall?" ”

"Exactly, Mao knows that he will die for a lifetime, so he resigns to the mansion."

Sun Xuanhuai stopped talking after hearing this, he was familiar with Du Mao's temperament, once he made up his mind, he couldn't persuade him, and he couldn't help but sigh when he thought of having an extra talented and loyal bone on the city wall.

"Sun originally planned to recommend it to His Majesty when the situation stabilized, but it's a pity..... Go, go, I don't want you to persuade you in this matter. ”

Du Mao leaned over and thanked him, "Cherish." Sun Xuanhuai returned to his seat after speaking, and didn't look at him again.

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The Qing army was attacking like a tide, and launched a strong attack at the expense of casualties, Dagu was the first to climb the wall, and the refugees who temporarily served as defenders could not resist it, and were led by Dagu Bian to rush left and right in the corridor, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

There were Qing troops rushing in all over the wall, and Yang Boxian was overwhelmed, so he had to lead the regiment to retreat, intending to reorganize the defense line in the city, and the soldiers kept scattering in the process of retreating.

A man was stabbed several times, but he still risked death to sound the alarm bell, and hurriedly and continuously "dong. Boom. "Knock" circled over Datong, and the east gate was in an emergency.

In a blink of an eye, the city was lost, the organ pulled the urn and the outer gate of the city was opened, and the Qing soldiers outside the city no longer climbed when they saw this, but entered from the outer gate, and it didn't take long for the two gates to be pulled up, followed by the inner city gate.

"The city is broken!"

"Kill!"

The Qing soldiers drove straight into Datong, with the crowd entering, one side of the city wall began to shake, and in an instant the masonry broke down and collapsed, with a bang, a huge gap appeared in the eastern section of the city wall.

In the face of the horizontal ditch in front of him, Dagubian was fearless, even if he was wearing heavy armor, he still walked like a fly, he wanted to lead his troops to rush into battle to kill people and slaughter the city!

There were only three or four hundred people left in the regimental training camp, facing thousands of Qing soldiers pouring into the city, like a mantis arm blocking the car. Zhao Adi, who was standing in the forefront, held the body of the gun tightly, and closed his eyes when he saw the hateful barbarian who was getting closer and closer to him.

Feeling the rejection horse in front of him being pushed, Zhao Adi roared angrily and stabbed out his spear.

Yang Boxian put a knife against the back of Hu Mazi's head, looked like death, and shouted hoarsely: "The regimental training camp, don't retreat!" Chen Zhuo also shouted, and everyone in the regimental training camp shouted.

"No retreat!" Hu Mazi, who was trying to escape, was dyed by the momentum, and the stars splashed in his mouth, scolding the eighteenth generation ancestor of the Tartars.

At the same time that the regimental training camp was "flooded" by the Qing soldiers, a contingent of nearly 10,000 people appeared from the west. Lao Chen held a torch high in his hand and said to the surrounding villagers: "Our wife and children are behind you, and they will rush forward with the handle!" ”

Usually Mu Ne's iron life holds a wooden stick in his hand, and he doesn't stop walking an inch, and the scars at the corners of his mouth are particularly obvious in the firelight.

"Destroy the Tartars, protect Datong, protect your wife and children, and repay the Son of Heaven!" A weak scholar was squeezed out of the refugee center, shouting incessantly, and everyone saw that it was Mr. Du, who was usually responsible for distributing rations.

Du Mao came in a hurry, and he didn't find anything to take advantage of for a while, so he had to pick up a small brick in the middle of the road and hold it in his hand. His face flushed, and he squeezed to the front, repeating it over and over again.

"Destroy the Tartars, protect Datong, protect your wife and children, and repay the Son of Heaven!"

"Destroy the Tartars, protect Datong, protect your wife and children, and repay the Son of Heaven!"

Someone in the crowd gradually sang along, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand, until the sound was enough to break the sky, Du Mao gritted his teeth and smashed the green bricks to the ground, pointed ahead and said: "Rush!" ”

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Meng Chai received the order of Hedu to attack desperately, and he no longer looked forward and backward, and faced Wang Jinchao with casualties. And Wang Jin Dynasty is the same, behind him is Datong, how to retreat? Only fight to the death.

When there were fierce battles in Datong, more than a dozen cannons rang out on the north side of the lonely shop, and whistles came and went.

He Du sat in the tent and waited for the battle report, and heard the shouts of killing outside the camp but did not panic. If your own grain road was robbed, how could you not think of a sneak attack? There were still 1,000 Eight Banner warriors left in his battalion, which was more than enough to deal with these Ming troops.