Chapter 473: The South Gate is Lost
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On the wall of the south gate, there are 2,000 troops!
However, the passage on the city wall was narrow, and the officers and soldiers could not give full play to their numerical advantage, but because they were in a hurry to kill the three men, they pushed and squeezed each other on the crowded passage, which exacerbated the chaos.
The sound of cannons, gunfire, and bows and arrows suddenly became much more relaxed.
The pressure of the demon cult soldiers below suddenly subsided, and the tide rushed across the moat. After clearing the ground of the thistles, some of them rushed towards the collapsed gap, while others set up the ladder directly on the wall and climbed up as fast as they could.
Xia Lu's eyes were red, and while directing the soldiers to surround and suppress the three of them, he had to let the soldiers deal with the demon sect soldiers below, and he was in a hurry for a while, and his head was dizzy.
Zhao Wuxian, Chu Yun, and Yu Zhu were still slaughtering with impunity at the head of the city. With their skills, the ordinary infantry at the head of the city was not enough to pose a threat to them, only the crossbowmen and firecrackers could pose a slight threat. However, in the densely populated and chaotic city, these two arms did not dare to let go of their hands and feet to fight because they were afraid of accidentally injuring friendly troops.
The value of the three of them at this moment is not inferior to tens of thousands of troops to a certain extent! From another point of view, tens of thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but these three people are rare, to practice to their level, opportunities, talents, natural treasures, martial arts secrets, and so on are indispensable, and there are millions of people who practice martial arts, and how many such masters can be produced?
The three of them wreaked havoc on the city for about a quarter of an hour, destroyed six of the eight artillery pieces, and killed three or four hundred officers and soldiers, which greatly reduced the firepower of the officers and soldiers in an instant.
There were more than 15,000 Ming soldiers stationed at the south gate, but it was impossible for all of them to rush to the city. They can only be reinforced in batches. Part of the reinforcements collapsed in the gap, and human flesh was used to fill the gap. The other part sent reinforcements to the walls in an attempt to help stabilize the situation.
However, there were more and more Demon Sect soldiers crossing the river, and at this time, three of the five Demon Sect Scattered People, one by one Lao'er, One-Eyed Scattered People, and the yellow-shirted monk had also crossed the city, and the city head became more and more chaotic.
The previously agreed idea of using boiling oil, asphalt, and so on to repel the enemy all failed! Only a few soldiers threw a few jars of fire oil at the city and set them on fire. It's a pity that the number is too small, and the Demon Sect's Clear Water Banner quickly extinguishes them with the water of the moat!
Although there were bird soldiers under the passage of the city wall, shooting frantically at the demon soldiers who climbed the ladder through the shooting hole, but the bird guns were not machine guns after all, and the rate of fire was too slow to stop a large number of demon soldiers from climbing the city wall!
After Cao Wenzhao learned of the situation, he urgently sent 3,000 troops to the south gate.
Originally, there were 110,000 troops in Lanzhou City, and they lost 25,000 in the ambush battle, and 13,000 in the siege battle the day before yesterday. As for the Demon Sect, after discarding the 6,000 lost in the ambush battle and the 8,000 lost in the siege battle, there are currently more than 70,000 left.
But it is also more than 70,000, and the difference in combat power is indeed very different. Almost all of the losses of the Ming army in front of them were the most capable Guanning army, Xuanfu army, Datong army, and Changping army, and most of the remaining 70,000 or so troops were Gansu soldiers! These Gansu soldiers had a considerable gap with these Gyeonggi royal divisions in terms of equipment and training, and the gap with the Demon Sect was even greater.
The makeshift earthen wall at the collapse of the South Gate was knocked down by the Demon Sect Giant Wooden Banner with a giant log, and then a large number of Demon Sect soldiers stepped on the collapsed ruins of the South Gate and rushed inside. Now the ruins are piled up more than nine meters high, and the top is also reinforced, so that soldiers can stand, so the Ming army is blocked at the top, condescendingly fighting the demon sect.
At this time, the tunnel of the Demon Cult's Thick Earth Banner was also dug to the side of the moat. They opened a large hole above the tunnel, and countless Demon Cult soldiers came out of the hole one after another.
If the city is not in chaos, the demon sect soldiers will not be able to come out of the cave so easily - the Ming army at the head of the city only needs to throw a pile of oil jar at the entrance of the cave and then light it, but unfortunately now the city is in chaos, and they can't take care of these at all.
As a result, more and more demon cult soldiers crossed the river, and finally formed a scale!
Xia Lu, who commanded the battle at the south gate, bravely rushed to kill on the city wall, taking the lead, and several personal soldiers begged him to retreat quickly, and was almost slashed by him!
At that moment, a dark shadow flickered to his side, and then flew out with lightning speed and struck him in the neck with a claw. With a pop, Xia Lu's neck suddenly became a blur of flesh and blood, and blood shot out. After a few unwilling struggles, he fell to the ground!
Xia Lu, deputy chief soldier of Gansu, died heroically!
Xia Lu's death hastened the rout of the South Gate.
The Ming army, which was defending the collapsed ruins, saw that it was wrong, and desperately got more than a dozen jars of fire oil to smash on the ruins, and then ignited a fire. The raging fire finally stopped the Demon Cult's onslaught for the time being. However, the Demon Sect Qingshui Banner quickly rushed over to extinguish the fire, and it seemed that it would not last long.
Inside the city wall, about 10,000 Ming soldiers were waiting for them, rushing up the city wall in waves to reinforce them. It's a pity that there are more and more Demon Sects on the city wall now, and they are just going up to death at this time, delaying the offensive of the Demon Sect with their lives.
Seongnam is in danger!
Cao Wenzhao rushed to the vicinity of the south gate with 3,000 elite soldiers in person, and saw that the city wall was full of people from the Demon Sect, so he knew that the south gate could not be guarded!
If you can't defend the south gate, you can only retreat to the inner city!
But the retreat must come gradually, otherwise a disorderly retreat will only accelerate the collapse.
The experienced Cao Wenzhao continued to add troops to the city wall, and at the same time surrounded it with heavy troops in the collapse to prevent the influx of demon sect soldiers after the fire was extinguished.
At the same time, he asked the remaining soldiers to stand by and be prepared to fight them in the event that the Demon Cult broke through the walls and flooded in.
Subsequently, he began to send orders to all the soldiers and horses of the north, west, and east cities to retreat into the inner city, and to move all the Franco's machine guns to the inner city. The Franc cannon weighs 300 catties, but the Franc cannon in Lanzhou City is not fixed, but has gun wheels, so it is relatively simple to move them to the inner city wall.
But it all takes time! These hours need to be exchanged for the lives of these soldiers at the South Gate!
The fire in the ruins was almost over, and a large wave of demon cultists rushed in with a roar.
They were greeted by countless crossbows, bows and arrows, and thunderbolts of the Ming army's standard standard.
Countless demon cult soldiers rolled down from the ruins, and the officers and soldiers waiting below were afraid that he was not dead, so they rushed up and stabbed him again.
Two thousand Ming troops fanned around the ten-meter-long gap, and with the cooperation of archers and crossbowmen, they stubbornly defended.
The Demon Sect rushed several times, but all of them were repulsed, leaving behind seventy or eighty corpses.
At this time, the Demon Cult's Flame Banner rushed up and threw a large number of thunderbolts at the Ming army defending the ruins. With a burst of piercing explosions, the Ming army that was originally fan-shaped around the gap was blown up.