Chapter 274: Breaking Out of the Encirclement
"Listen to my orders and rush to the north gate!" Company Commander Ding ordered his soldiers in a loud voice. The state government is located in the center of the city, and to the east out of the city is the naval wharf, to the west is Danling and Yazhou Hongya County, to the south is the direction of Jiading, and to the north is Pengshan County, which is controlled by the Thunderbolt Army. According to common sense, Zan Wanshou and others should break through to the east gate or to the south gate, and they can escape back to Jiading by water or land. In fact, the enemy in the east and south of the encirclement is the least and the easiest to break through, while the west and north are the most numerous and densely populated, and the difficulty of breaking through is obviously greater. It's just that ordinary people understand the truth, how can the commander of the special company Ding not know?
Zan Wanshou became a jinshi at a young age, and he became an official on the ruling side, and he was definitely not a person, and he immediately understood his intention when he heard the shouts of Company Commander Ding. The ships on the docks at the East Gate were either emptied or controlled, and Liu Daer must have ambushed heavy troops at the West Gate and South Gate. Although to break through from the north gate, it was necessary to break through the thickest part of the encirclement, and also to pass through the gate of the state ya, where there were artillery, and Liu Da'er and his own soldiers. But Zan Wanshou knew that compared with other city gates, the north gate was the least difficult. Although you need to make a long detour to return to Jiading after leaving the north gate, there will definitely be people chasing and intercepting you on the road. At that moment, he ordered Hou Xing to follow Company Commander Ding and rush to the north gate.
Under the cover of shields, the soldiers of the Perak Army continued to throw grenades in the direction of the northern section of the encirclement, that is, the state government, and also threw grenades from the opposite side, and even fired a dense rain of arrows. The Meizhou Army's grenades were mostly blocked by shields, but the Thunderbolt soldiers continued to fall from arrows. Although the grenades of the Thunderbolt army fell in the dense crowd, blowing up the encircled Meizhou army with heavy casualties and scattered formations, it did not achieve the expected effect. On the one hand, this is because the Meizhou army stacked the big shield into a shield wall, blocking and weakening the explosion damage, and on the other hand, Liu Daer personally commanded at the gate of the state ya, and the soldiers were killed and wounded and quickly went up a batch. His own troops had killed a colonel and several retreating soldiers.
Company Commander Ding was anxious in his heart, if the gap was not opened as soon as possible, once the artillery of the Meizhou Army was fired, everyone in the encirclement would surely suffer heavy casualties, and as time passed, there would be more and more enemies, and everyone on the side would end up dead without a place to bury. People will die eventually, and it doesn't matter if you die, but you can't die. Before leaving, when his boss asked if he could complete the task of protecting Lord Zhan, he patted his chest and promised. Thinking of this, he tore off his shirt, revealing the grenades hanging on his chest, and prepared to rush towards the spear array of the Meizhou army. It's just that two of them rushed towards the spear formation faster than him. He fixed his eyes and saw that the one who rushed in front was a daredevil, named Xiao Hei, and the deputy company commander who rushed behind.
When Xiao Hei rushed to the front of the spear array, he had been hit by more than a dozen arrows all over his body, and when his body rushed to the soldiers of the Meizhou Army by inertia, he was stabbed by several spears without any suspense, but he pulled the dense grenade on his chest before he lost his breath. After a series of violent explosions, Xiao Hei fell to the ground and all the Meizhou soldiers who were more than ten meters in diameter fell to the ground, and the giant shield and spear were also blown up, and the spear that flew the farthest even pierced a Meizhou soldier dozens of meters away, making the unlucky ghost swallow his breath on the spot. The Thunderbolt Death Squad members are all volunteers who have a family hatred and a hatred for the country, and are selected to carry out the most dangerous tasks, and those who are not determined and see death as their home cannot take on them.
There were a total of twelve grenades hanging from Xiao Hei's chest and back. These grenades exploded, clearing a breakthrough passage more than ten meters wide in an instant, and also clearing the obstacles for the deputy company commander's charge, allowing him to rush farther. Without a shield wall and spears, and without a dense rain of arrows, the deputy company commander rushed straight to the group of soldiers operating artillery at the gate of the state office. At this time, the guns had been installed, and the gunners were loading gunpowder and shells, but when they saw one of them rushing out of the smoke formed by the explosion, and his body was still covered with grenades, he was immediately frightened and confused. The clever ones threw down their things and fled, the stupid ones froze in place, and some gunners made a mistake and threw the gunpowder bag in their hands.
Compared with Xiao Hei, the raid of the deputy company commander was much smoother, but he was still hit by two arrows. With his last breath, he pulled the firing ring, then threw himself on the ammo pile and swallowed. A moment later, an earth-shattering explosion sounded, and the explosion of artillery ammunition caused by the grenade explosion not only blew the artillery position out of a huge crater, but also razed the gate of the state government behind it. Those Meizhou Army gunners also accompanied their operation and the artillery became a part state. The huge blast wave knocked down a large part of the Meizhou army in the northern section of the encirclement, and even Zan Wanshou, who was dozens of meters away, was hit hard. At the moment of impact, he felt a hammer hit his chest, and his throat was sweet and he spat out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing that the prominent passage had been opened, the special company commander led people to open the way, and Hou Xing and several guards followed closely with Zan Wanshou and hurriedly went to the north gate. At this time, in the pile of rubble formed by the collapsed state yamen, a gray-faced man stood up, he stretched out his hand and wiped a few handfuls on his face, and when he saw Zan Wanshou heading towards the north gate, he hissed and shouted loudly, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you catch up and kill them all." The Meizhou army, who was frightened by the huge explosion, woke up like a dream when they heard the shouting, and they clenched their weapons and chased after the north gate.
The grizzled man was Liu Da'er. Just now, he was really taken aback when he saw the Thunderbolt army charging so desperately, and he hid behind the state yamen early. Who would have thought that the explosion would be so powerful that it would raze the gate as well. To say that this Liu Da'er is also fatal, more than half of his pro-soldiers were killed and injured in this explosion, but he only had some small abrasions, but he was just covered in plaster. He looked around and saw nearly a hundred of his men lying near the ruins of the state yamen, and although some of them were wailing and crying, many of them had already been killed by the explosion or shocked by the shock wave.
Driven by Liu Da'er, the Meizhou army, which had not been injured by the explosion, rushed towards the north gate, and most of these soldiers were standing in the south of the encirclement or far away from the state yamen. Liu Daer ordered people to gather cavalry, and at the same time took the remaining personal soldiers to the north gate. In his opinion, although he has suffered the loss of firearms, the situation is still under control, and Zan Wanshou will definitely not be able to escape the palm of his hand. Not to mention whether Zan Wanshou can rush through the city gate guards, even if he can rush out of the city, his cavalry can easily catch up with them. The only thing that worries him is that the grenades used by Zhan Wanshou's guards are extremely sophisticated, and they seem to be made by the Thunderbolt Army.
There was another huge explosion in the direction of the north gate, and then the pursuing Meizhou army ran back one after another, and Liu Da'er, who was chasing people towards the north gate, almost knocked down. Liu Da'er ordered the rout to stop but to no avail, and ordered his own soldiers to kill a rout soldier and block the front with his head, so that the rout would not escape. It's just that no matter how coercive and tempting he is, those routs refused to pursue anymore, and Liu Daer had to arrest a junior colonel for questioning. The little colonel was already so frightened that he couldn't speak, and after saying more than a dozen sentences, Liu Da'er generally understood the meaning of the words: Zan Wanshou escaped from Meizhou, and his guards were extremely terrifying, not people but ghosts and gods.