Chapter 250: Jizhou General Soldiers
Xifengkou is located in Jizhou and the border of Kuancheng, is the pass of the eastern section of Yanshan Mountain Range, called Lu Longsai in ancient times, Ming Jingtai built the city for three years, called Xifengkou Pass.
Xifengkou Pass left and right high cliffs confront, the terrain is dangerous, from this out of the pass to the east to the Daling River, north to the Liao River, to the west through Zunhua and Jizhou, the important town of Jibei can go directly to the capital.
Since ancient times, this road is a traffic artery leading to the northeast of the Hebei Plain, and Xifengkou Pass is the throat of this important road, and its strategic position can be imagined.
At this time, Xifengkouguan, which has stood for thousands of years, is undergoing the most severe postgraduate examination in its history.
Azig and Zilharang, commanding 50,000 strong troops, have been fiercely attacking the Xifeng Pass for six consecutive days.
Two giant red-coated cannons spewed huge iron balls out of the range of the cannons at Xifengkou Pass, and the iron balls hit the city wall, peeling off more blue brick skin.
After six consecutive days of bombardment, several openings had been opened by red-coated artillery on both sides of the entire pass, and each gap was filled with soldiers from both sides of the attack and defense.
Under the crazy roar of Azig, a group of Jianyu soldiers kept rushing towards the gap with scimitars in their hands, and Li Jie, the chief soldier of Jizhou Town, personally commanded for six consecutive days, without letting a single Tartar soldier in.
The two sides are fighting for every inch of land, and these gaps are like huge mouths of blood, devouring the Manchurians, the Mongols, and the Han people.
This was the last conquest of civilization by barbarism.
"Lord Commander, the gap in the west is almost untenable!" A soldier with a bloody face came running from the battlefield and knelt down with a sword.
"Useless stuff! The face of the Ming border army has made you lose everything! Li Jie, the chief soldier of Jizhou, clenched his fists and slapped them on the side of the case angrily.
He was dressed in dark black armor, the iron helmet was placed on the table next to him, the blood stains that had dried up were faintly visible on his face, and his left arm was wrapped in white yarn, and the blood stains penetrated from the white yarn, and he was holding a fierce general!
The soldiers bowed their heads and were silent when they heard this, the entire Jizhou defense line was so long, and the total number of Ming defenders was less than 40,000, and they had to disperse and defend various passes in order to prevent Jianjiao.
There are only 13,000 defenders at Xifengkou Pass, which can be captured...... Not to mention that there are tens of thousands, and those two giant cannons are ......, if it goes on like this, there will be no tomorrow, and there will be one or two gaps, and this Xifeng Pass will not be able to hold it.
"Why haven't the defenders of Aoyama Pass come yet? Didn't this officer already issue a military order yesterday for them to come and support? Li Jie asked the herald.
"My lord, they have already joined the battle formation when they arrived more than an hour ago, and they have been fighting with Jianyu in the gap in the east all morning!" Chief soldier Li Jie was the first civil official.
"Fetch my sword!" Li Jie pondered for a moment, picked up the iron helmet on the table, and put it on his head again.
"Lord Commander, your arm is already injured and you can't ......"
"Shut up, what's this injury? If the pass is lost, everyone will die! Cheer up and meet the enemy with me! Li Jie interrupted the chatter of the grain officer, took the knife handed by his own soldier and went out.
Shao Lean, the five hundred soldiers belonging to Li Jie, the general soldier of Jizhou, gathered at the gap in the west of the pass, all of them were dressed in red armor and wore simple knives at their waists.
Most of these pro-soldiers have blood stains on their bodies, in fact, for several days, they have been shouldering the responsibility of firefighters, where they can't hold on, where there is danger, Li Jie will take them to rush wherever they are.
"Meet the enemy with me!" Li Jie was dressed in a drape, and walked to the front of the pro-soldier guards with a war knife and shouted loudly.
The chief soldier has never liked to say much, and the soldiers know this very well, but fortunately, Li Jie has never treated them badly, and most importantly, there is no mischief among them.
The deeds of Yan Yingyuan and Chen Mingyu, the former garrison general, have been spread to the border pass, and the people are trapped in the lonely city with 6,000 defenders, resisting the tens of thousands of troops who have been captured for three days, and finally all of them are killed and martyred.
I heard that the court was shaken, and the soldier who didn't want to be a general was not a good soldier, and there was a flat river behind him, and everyone knew what it meant.
The battle for the gap on the western side of the pass was already at a fever pitch, with scimitar-wielding Tartars and the spearmen of the border army fighting together.
More than 20 paces behind the Tartar soldiers, several rows of crossbowmen scattered arrows at the border troops in the gap, and from time to time the border soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.
The soldiers of the border army on the city wall on both sides of the gap bent their bows and arrows, and they did not show weakness to shoot back at the building below, and the corpses at the gap were piled higher and higher, and the soldiers in the rear wanted to join the battle formation, and even had to climb the high ground of green bricks and corpses with both hands and feet.
Boom - there was a loud bang, a section of the city wall on the edge of the gap was hit by a cannonball, and the city wall without support broke open in an instant, and the Ming archers on the city wall did not have time to react, and they let out a desperate wail and fell with the wall.
The wall collapsed backwards, hitting several border troops who had no time to dodge, and the gap was widened, and the already overstretched and struggling border troops showed desperate expressions.
"Hahahaha-ha-the city is going to be broken! Kill this king! Kill! Azig and Zilharang rode on their horses and stood at the rear of the battle formation, and Azig couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw the battle in front of him.
He is not good at attacking cities and likes field battles the most, and the entire attack at Xifengkou is commanded by Zilharang, but this does not prevent Azig from talking nonsense, such a bloody scene, if Azig can restrain himself from speaking, then it is not Azig.
He was waiting, waiting for the city to break, he led the fifteen thousand iron horsemen behind him to rush into the city, kill the dog officials who defended the city, and take the iron horses to the puppet Ming capital, he will be the first prince to enter the customs, he is the Baturu of the Qing Dynasty!
Azig's fierce eyes widened, and the muscles in his hands holding the scimitar were bruised, and even trembled a little, this was a trembling of excitement, he longed to slaughter, he longed to see the screams of the Han people under his knife.
Under Azig's gaze, suddenly, there was a high-pitched shout of killing from the gap, and a team of border troops in red armor instantly blocked the newly torn gap.
The red-armored soldiers were very brave, especially before the red-armored soldiers, a bright general in black armor, where he passed, there was no general, and he only repelled the Tartar soldiers who had just rushed up.
"Ahhh It's been three times, and three times in the past few days have almost broken the city, and each time it was this black-armored general who took his red-armored soldiers to repel his warriors of the Great Qing Dynasty.
Rao is Zilharang is calm, but also angry in his heart, Azig is okay, that is the regent's own brother, but what about him? Not even the direct line of the first emperor!
Now that the city has been under siege for six days, it is estimated that it will be reprimanded by Daishan and others again, Zilharang was silent for a moment, intending to acquiesce to Azig's actions.
But just as he was about to give the order, a sentry rode a fast horse and galloped in front of the two of them.
"Report! His Royal Highnesses the two princes, an unknown army was found in the rear! ”