Chapter 776, the name of the warrior
Just when the two sides were at loggerheads, an English army that had infiltrated outside the north gate, with the help of the Tamils and Sinhalese in the city, broke through the north gate, which was no longer guarded by many people. The army poured into the gates like a flood of broken banks, and then divided into several groups to attack the west coast, east and south gates. The Ming army in the south and the mercenaries in the east were already inseparable from the enemy, but now they were attacked by the enemy from behind, and the momentum of the counterattack was greatly dissipated, and the enemy army in front took the opportunity to counterattack. The Ming army and the mercenaries could no longer resist, and were swept away by the waves of enemy troops.
Guan Shan saw that the general trend had gone, so he had to order all the armies to break through the siege by separate routes.
There were battles everywhere in the city, and the Ming army and mercenaries, who had broken out of the encirclement, were making the last resistance; The Ming army and mercenaries who broke out of the siege fell from the city wall and escaped from the city. The people of the city fled in panic, and many of them fled with the Ming army and mercenaries. The whole city was burning, and the whole city was crying.
Guan Shan fled the city with the remnants of the defeated army and came to a nearby hill. Looking back, I saw that the sky over the city was blazing red, and troops and civilians were fleeing one after another. Guan Shan ordered the army to assemble on the spot to cover the evacuation of the people.
An old man hurriedly came to Zhang Shun with the support of a soldier, and said urgently: "My lord, my lord! There are so many people trapped in the city, please save them! ”
Guan Shan asked, "Where are they trapped?" ”
The old man said: "They are trapped near the East City Gate, surrounded by enemies, and they can't get out!" Your Excellency, you must save them! ”
Zhang Hong said: "Now the city is full of enemies, not only can we not save people when we go back, but we also have to lose our lives!" ”
Guan Shan said: "We have no choice as soldiers!" Zhang Hong, you take the mercenaries to escort everyone to continue to evacuate to the east, and follow the line of your subordinates along the road to guide the escapees to retreat along the right path. Zhang Hong asked urgently, "My lord, do you really want to go back?" ”
"Nonsense!" Then he shouted at the soldiers under his command: "Brothers, follow me into the city!" The soldiers promised one after another. Guan Shan led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to gallop towards the east city gate. Zhang Hong looked at Guan Shan's backs and couldn't help muttering, "Fuck! These soldiers are simply crazy! Immediately, according to Guan Shan's instructions just now, he gave a series of orders to the dart masters around him.
At the same time, in the chaos of the city, Guan Ping returned to the backyard of the governance office alone. I only heard the laughter of men and women coming from the back hall in front of me, and the voices were familiar.
Guan Ping frowned, and quietly touched it. Came out of the window, gently pushed the window open a crack, and looked inside. I saw that the Sinhalese envoy was drinking and laughing with a Sinhalese beauty, and the Sinhalese envoy said in Sanskrit: "It is said how powerful the Ming warrior is!" I think it's stupider than a pig! With a small ploy, I made him fall into the trap, and in the end the whole city was taken by us and the English! The four women laughed, and one of them said with some nostalgia: "The adult's plan is good, but it's a pity that such a majestic man!" The Sinhalese envoy smiled evilly, "Let me satisfy you tonight!" I'm no worse than the Ming people! The four female waves laughed, and their eyes were thrown around.
Guan Ping was on Xiou Island, he could understand Sanskrit, and the conversation between the five dog men and women entered his ears, like a steel needle piercing his heart. Immediately couldn't bear it anymore, smashed through the window and jumped in.
The five dog men and women who were eyebrow-raising suddenly heard a loud noise from the window, and they couldn't help but be startled. Turning his head to look at the window, he saw that Guan Ping, who looked terrible, was already standing in front of the window. The five people were shocked and turned around and fled for their lives.
Guan Ping strode forward, grabbed the most bewitching woman, and roared: "What a slut, you deceived me so badly!" As he spoke, the woman's beautiful head rolled to the ground. Immediately, Zhang Heng caught up with the four people who were fleeing at the gate of the imperial court, and slashed indiscriminately, the sound of knives chopping flesh and bones continued to sound, and the other three women and the Sinhalese messenger who was still smug just now all fell in a pool of blood.
On the other side, Guan Shan led more than 1,000 soldiers to the east gate and roared into the city. The Sinhalese army and the Tamil army guarding the east gate did not expect that the enemy who had escaped would dare to come back, and they were caught off guard and rushed to pieces.
Guan Shan attacked the city in one fell swoop, and immediately ordered two hundred men and horses to guard the city gate, and he led the brigade to the place that the old man said. Just near the East City Gate, it was originally a silk market.
When they arrived, there was confusion, and the women fled in terror, and were constantly caught by the rampant laughter of the enemy; Men, old people, and children rushed for their lives, but they were constantly cut down in pools of blood by the enemies who caught up.
Guan Shan and the others only felt anger surging up, and immediately rushed forward. The enemy army who was wantonly ravaging the people did not expect that the Ming army that had escaped from the city would have the courage to kill it back, and was caught off guard. In an instant, I saw that the Ming army was like a tiger entering the flock, killing frantically with swords and guns, and the corpses of the English, Tamils, and Sinhalese were flying in all directions! A Tamil man crawled to the ground and fled for his life, paying no attention to the bricks under his feet, stumbling and falling into a! I only heard the sound of hurried footsteps approaching behind me, and hurriedly turned around, and was shocked to see a fierce Ming soldier running in front of me!
The Tamil soldier was frightened, raised his hands and begged for mercy loudly, the Ming soldier had already killed the red eyes, ignored it, and cut off his head with a knife in his hand!
After a scuffle, the enemy army was defeated, and Guan Shan immediately led his soldiers and horses to escort the rescued people towards the east city gate. At the same time, rumbling footsteps and chaotic shouts were heard from all directions, clouds of banners and forest-like swords and guns appeared in the streets, and the enemy army was pouring in from all directions, and time was running out.
Guan Shan led the soldiers and horses to escort the people and fled to the east city gate. I saw Guan Ping standing at the gate of the city with a horizontal knife. Guan Shan was stunned and said happily: "Brother! Guan Ping smiled, then frowned and shouted: "Brother, quickly take someone to escort the people away!" Guan Shan was stunned, "Brother, what do you want to do?" Guan Ping looked at the tide of soldiers pouring out of the streets and alleys in front of him, and said lightly: "I'll stay and break the back!" Guan Shan was shocked, "No, let's go!" Guan Ping glared at Zhang Shun, "Fart!" After no one breaks down, the soldiers may be able to break out of the encirclement, but none of these ordinary people can escape! Seeing that Guan Shan was going to say more, he shouted: "There's no time to talk nonsense, get out!" ”
Guan Shan had no choice but to lead the soldiers and horses to escort the people away.
Guan Ping stood alone at the gate of the city with a horizontal sword, fearless in the face of the enemy's thousands of troops, and muttered: "Fucking barbarian! Let you see what the real Ming warrior is like! ”
The English, Tamils, and Sinhalese saw that there was only one person blocking the gates of the city, and when there were dozens of people howling and rushing out of the brigade towards Guanping.
Dozens of people howled and rushed to the city gate, ready to kill Guan Ping in one fell swoop. Guan Ping suddenly let out a tiger roar, which shocked the earth, and then rushed into the middle of the enemy, wildly waving a horizontal knife! I saw the wind whistling, the sword light flickering, and the bloody stumps flying all over the sky; Screams rang out, and the English, Tamils and Sinhalese fell in pools of blood. Guan Ping is like a tiger entering the flock, and he is brave! In the blink of an eye, more than two dozen enemies all fell at his feet!
The English, Tamils and Sinhalese were shocked. England General Hood roared sharply: "Let's go together!" Kill him! The hearts of the English, Tamils and Sinhalese could not help but rise to madness and howl and rush forward. Guan Ping's body was instantly submerged in the crowd, and only the screams were heard continuously; The English, Tamils and Sinhalese kept rushing forward, but they were slow to break through the gate. There are more and more corpses on the ground, and I don't know how long it has been, it seems to be very long and it seems to be very short, the corpses are actually piled up into a hill, Guan Ping, who is covered in blood, stands on the corpse mountain, still fighting, and the horizontal knife in his hand keeps cutting down and rolling down the corpse mountain, and the lonely figure is like an invincible death under the reflection of the raging fire in the city!
The enemy was finally scared and stopped attacking, and they all looked at Guan Ping, who was standing on top of the corpse mountain and crumbling with infinite fear! The originally noisy battlefield was quiet at this moment.
An officer stammered with a pale face and asked Hood: "General, general, what, what to do?" ”
Hood suppressed the fear in his heart and shouted, "Shoot the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! Shoot him! The officer immediately shouted: "Archers release arrows!" Hundreds of crossbowmen immediately stepped forward and sent a rain of arrows at Guan Ping, who was standing on the corpse mountain. The rain of arrows fell, and Guan Ping's body was full of arrows, and he staggered and looked like he was about to fall. Guan Ping pulled out a spear from the mountain of corpses under his feet, stuck the spear behind him, and supported his body with the barrel of the spear.
The English, Tamils and Sinhalese thought he was going to fall, but they were horrified to see that he staggered and did not fall.
Hood yelled at the archers, "Keep firing the arrows!" The archers continued to send two waves of arrows. Hood waved his hand forward and shouted, "Forward!" The three armies slowly walked towards Guan Ping with apprehension, and when they came to the corpse pile, an English officer boldly walked up the corpse mountain and came three feet in front of Guan Ping. Not daring to get any closer, he held his breath, handed over the cross sword in his hand and poked Guan Ping. Guan Ping's body finally collapsed with a bang. Seeing this, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Hood wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and muttered, "What a heretic! ”
An officer rushed to Hood in a hurry and said urgently: "General, it's not good, warehouses are on fire everywhere!" Hood was taken aback and asked, "How can this be?" Isn't the warehouse already occupied? The officer said: "Everyone, everyone is partying, and I don't know why the warehouse is on fire." It turned out that the English army, Tamils and Sinhalese had long coveted the richness of the city, so after the invasion of the city, many officers and soldiers rushed into various warehouses to loot money and materials. Just as they were overjoyed about their looting, the warehouse suddenly caught fire, and in the chaos, many people died in the fire before they could escape.
Hood ordered one of his generals to lead a large army out of the city in pursuit, while he himself led another part of his men to the warehouse district. Sure enough, when I saw the raging fire, the entire warehouse area turned into a sea of fire, and the blazing flames roared into the sky, like a rising wave, which was shocking. Hood looked shocked and scolded angrily, "What? The warehouse area was burned! He thought that his soldiers had accidentally set the warehouse area on fire.
"Not really!" Horatio's voice came from behind.
Hood turned around and saw Horatio coming, followed by many horses and carrying dozens of corpses.
Horatio ordered his men to put the body down, pointed to the body and said to Hood, "These were found in the warehouse area. They were killed, and many of them were attacked from behind! This fire was not an accident, it should have been caused by the enemy's troops left in the city! They don't let us get these loot! ”
Hood was furious and shouted, "Then kill all the Han people in the city!" Immediately after the order was issued, the English army, Tamils and Sinhalese immediately began to slaughter the Han Chinese who could not escape from the city, the fire reflected the blood and the screams filled the ears. ……
Guan Shan retreated all the way east with the remnants of the defeated army to protect the fleeing people. In the early morning of the next day, the scouts of the guard rushed up to report: "My lord, Lord Deng Mingqi is here." Guan Shan stopped, turned his head to look, and saw dozens of horsemen catching up from behind. A moment later, Deng Mingqi and dozens of others rushed to Guan Shan's face. Restraining the horse, Deng Mingqi hugged his fists and said, "My lord! Guan Shan said: "Why did you only keep up at this time?" ”
Deng Mingqi said: "We can't leave so much wealth and materials to the enemy, I led people to take advantage of the chaos to burn down the warehouse area." Guan Shan showed a look of surprise, glanced at the Huaxu spies behind Deng Mingqi, and saw that everyone was injured and mottled with blood, it was conceivable that they must have experienced a cruel bloody battle. Guan Shan couldn't help but be in awe, and said, "I originally looked down on you Huaxu people, I was wrong. ”
Deng Mingqi said: "I have bad news to tell adults. Then he waved his hand at his men, and one of his men immediately came forward. Guan Shan saw his brother Guan Ping lying on the saddle, he couldn't help but be surprised and delighted, and quickly jumped off the horse, ran to Guan Ping's side, and shouted, "Brother! Then he reached out and hugged Guan Ping. I only felt the cold and stiffness at the tentacles, and I couldn't help but be shocked, and when I looked down, I saw that my brother's eyes were round and unblinking, his body was covered with wounds, and the blood had formed a layer of dark red blood armor.
Guan Shan's face suddenly turned pale, and he cried: "Brother, brother! ......" Guan Ping can still respond.
Deng Mingqi walked over and said, "General Guan Shan alone blocked the enemy's thousands of troops, killed countless enemies, and finally died!" The reason why the Lord and everyone here were able to retreat safely was because of his merits! Although he made mistakes, he finally deserved the title of Ming Warrior! After missing the warehouse area, we were about to evacuate over the wall, and when we saw that the enemy was collecting the corpse at the gate of the East City, we rushed over and snatched the body of General Guan Ping! ”
Guan Shan clenched his fists, clenched his teeth, nodded, and said, "Thank you." Deng Mingqi said: "You don't have to thank you, there is only so much we can do." Guan Shan said with infinite hatred: "The English, the Tamils, the Sinhalese, I want to kill them all to avenge my brother!" ”
Deng Mingqi said: "You hate them, I can understand it, but as the governor of Xiou, you can't be rash!" ”
Guan Shan said angrily: "I know how to do it, I don't need you to point fingers!" He turned his head and shouted at the officer next to him, "Gather the men and horses immediately." The officer answered and ran down. Deng Mingqi asked urgently, "What do you want to do?" Guan Shan stood up, looked at the West with infinite anger, and said word by word: "I want to avenge my brother!" ”
Deng Mingqi said angrily: "No! Your duty is to protect the people here, not to fight the enemy! The enemy is outnumbered, and the city of Xiou has been occupied, you are just wasting the lives of the soldiers in vain! Guan Shan glared at Deng Mingqi and shouted, "Shut up!" I'm the commander of the land of Xiou Island! ”
At this time, the officer rushed back, hugged his fists and said, "My lord, the soldiers and horses have been assembled!" ”
Guan Shan picked up his brother's body, handed it to Zhang Hong, and said, "Help me take care of my brother." Zhang Hong hugged Guan Ping's body and nodded.
Guan Shan turned on his horse and shouted at the more than 2,000 soldiers who had already gathered: "General Guan Ping died in a bloody battle to cover us, what should we do?" The soldiers only felt their blood boiling, and shouted together: "Revenge!" Avenge! Guan Shan waved his big knife and shouted, "Kill me back!" ”
Deng Mingqi ran over and grabbed Guan Shan's horse reins, and said sharply: "You can't mess around!" ”
Guan Shan was already blinded by anger, where was he willing to listen, and immediately kicked Deng Mingqi away, leading more than 2,000 soldiers back to Xiou City. Deng Mingqi was annoyed, but helpless.
Zhang Hong walked over with Guan Ping's body in his arms and asked, "My lord, what should I do now?" Deng Mingqi said angrily: "What else can I do!" We protect the common people and continue to retreat eastward! Zhang Hong nodded.
Guan Shan led his soldiers and horses all the way towards Xiou City, and encountered five or six thousand enemy troops who came to pursue him on the way. The two sides suddenly met and a big battle broke out. Although the enemy army has many soldiers, but the Ming army is because it is a mourning soldier, all of them forgot to die and moved forward, and there was a bloody battle on the field, and the corpses were killed all over the field. The enemy army was finally defeated and retreated. Guan Shan led the soldiers and horses to continue the march, and at this moment, there was a violent roar from the direction of Xiou City, although it was still far away, but the earth seemed to shake. Guan Shan felt strange in his heart, but such thoughts were soon drowned out by infinite hatred and the urge to take revenge.
Guan Shan led his soldiers and horses to the city of Xiou, and the enemy army surrounded him from all directions. Guan Shan also led his soldiers and horses to attack the west like crazy, and he suddenly impulsed the enemy's position. However, after all, the enemy army was dozens of times larger than them, and soon the situation became very bad. The enemy army attacked in all directions, it was inexhaustible, the corpses on the ground were piled up like a mountain, and the Ming army had suffered heavy losses, and the enemy's onslaught continued, in all directions, as if a wave was constantly surging!
Guan Shan finally came to his senses, and when he saw that many soldiers had been stained with blood, he couldn't help but blame himself in his heart, and immediately led the remaining soldiers and horses to break through. However, at this time, it was already difficult to break through, the enemy in front of him seemed to be endless, and the soldiers and horses broke through with all their might, with heavy casualties, but they couldn't break through at all.
Guan Shan looked at the boundless and endless enemies around him, and couldn't help despairing, and then his desperate heart surged into his heart, thinking that since he couldn't break out, he would fight with the enemy, and kill one by one!
"Look, my lord!" The officer next to him, covered in blood, suddenly pointed to the perimeter of the encirclement and shouted. Guan Shan looked in the direction of his finger, only to see hundreds of his own soldiers and horses suddenly appear in the rear of the enemy, smashing into the enemy's bushes. This group of Ming troops came too suddenly, the English, Tamils and Sinhalese were completely defenseless, and they were extremely fierce, like a group of tigers, only to see hundreds of people slaughtered into the enemy army, indomitable, invincible for a while!
The direction of the impact of the hundreds of Ming troops leaned into the enemy's Chinese generals' flags, and the soldiers and horses were in chaos, and the enemy's commanders were also in chaos. There was chaos over there, and the other enemy troops couldn't help but be suspicious, and the intensity of their attacks suddenly decreased.
Guan Shan seized the opportunity, rushed into the enemy group first, and the Ming soldiers followed, all like tigers descending the mountain, desperately rushing to kill! The enemy has been shaken, and seeing that the Ming army is so fierce, I can't help but be shocked, although I also tried to block, but I couldn't help the Ming army's fierce rush and kill, and the heavy tide of troops was killed by the Ming army to open a bloody road out to the east! The hundreds of Ming troops who suddenly appeared saw that Guanshan had broken through, so they didn't love fighting, and immediately broke away from the battle and retreated!
The enemy generals were frightened, and when they saw that the Ming army had retreated, they could not afford to pursue them, so they watched them retreat eastward.
Before sunset, Guan Shan saw that the enemy was not chasing, so he ordered the soldiers and horses to rest on the spot. The soldiers and horses rested on the spot, Guan Shan glanced at the soldiers in front of him, and saw that there were only five or six hundred of the more than two thousand people left. Guan Shan couldn't help but blame himself deeply.
A scout rode his horse in front of Guan Shan, reined in his war horse, jumped down, and said with his fists clenched: "My lord, Wang Zhuo led them here." ”
Guan Shan looked up and saw hundreds of soldiers and horses rushing towards this side, it was the army that suddenly appeared to rescue him earlier. A moment later, hundreds of people came to Guan Shan, and the officer in the lead clasped his fists and bowed: "Wang Zhuo has seen an adult!" "This person has a strong physique, dark skin, a short beard, and a resolute expression, and he is the chief general under the two Guanping and Guanshan brothers, Wang Zhuo, who serves as the commander of the Southern Acropolis.
Guan Shan showed the color of his behavior and said, "I'm still worried about you, but I didn't expect you to break through!" What about Zhao Jun? "Wang Zhuo is the commander of the Southern Acropolis, and Zhao Jun is the commander of the Northern Acropolis, and the two of them are guarding the West Ou City in the south and the north.
After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.