Chapter 82 The old minister's heart is two

Chen Xin knew that it was unlikely that he would come back alive this time.

But even so, Chen Xin felt that he should take on this responsibility.

This decisive battle under the city, of course, has the meaning of Longwu, but it also has the support of Chen Xin.

After all, with Longwu's status, if there is no support from important ministers, such a decision is difficult to be implemented by the upper and lower levels. Since the defeat is defeated, someone must take responsibility, Longwu can't be wrong, he won't be wrong, then he is the only one who is frustrated.

He had already encountered, even after the defeat and returned, the scene he encountered by the thousand husbands.

Rather than this, it is better to die here and leave a good name.

So at this time, Chen Xin was determined to die.

Even if he used his own soldiers as the supervising team and supervised the defeated troops to fight against the Xia army, these soldiers who had already collapsed once did not have the courage to fight again. As soon as the two sides fought, it was a one-sided situation, and even if Chen Xin tried his best, he could only delay for some time.

Just when Chen Xin was about to die or flee, he held a long sword in his hand, and in the face of several spears, he couldn't parry at all, so he was stabbed into his body and stood high, his last thought: "Has Your Majesty entered the city?" ”

Longwu has entered Changsha City.

At the south gate of Changsha City, Ma Shiying had been waiting for a long time.

As far as Ma Shiying himself is concerned, he is opposed to such a rash decisive battle with Xia Jun. But at the same time, in the face of such a situation, he can't come up with any solution. Under Longwu's strong command, he could only compromise.

Because of Ma Shiying's opposition.

Longwu let Ma Shiying sit in Changsha City, after all, he went out to supervise the war, and Changsha City also needed an important minister to sit in the town, and now in Changsha City, Ma Shiying can be called a heavy minister.

When Long Wu saw Ma Shiying, his face was extremely ashamed, and he said, "I don't listen to Mr. I -----"

Ma Shiying immediately said: "Your Majesty said this, this battle must be done, although the minister is against it, he also knows that the situation is like this, there is no other way." Today's battle is not a war, and I also ask Your Majesty to regain his spirits, sit in Changsha City, and wait for reinforcements from all directions. There will always be a day when defeat turns into victory. ”

Long Wu said: "The soldiers of the city are dead today, can this Changsha City still be defended?" ”

Longwu didn't think about it before, but now that it was arranged, he suddenly thought of this problem.

Ma Shiying said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, there are old ministers, don't dare to say anything else, there is no problem in guarding Changsha City." ”

The so-called not thinking about victory, thinking about defeat first, after all, Ma Shiying was born as a handsome minister, and he didn't dare to say how much ability he had, but he was not a beginner in military affairs, Longwu let him sit in Changsha City, he was naturally ready to respond, if he won a big victory, these arrangements would not be of much use. It's just that now the big defeat is when his arrangements come in handy.

Before, Longwu was outside the city, and Ma Shiying didn't dare to do this, but when Longwu came back, he dared to do it.

With Ma Shiying's order.

Above the head of the southern city of Changsha, countless artillery pieces opened fire.

Changsha City has been operating for Longwu for several months, and I dare not say anything else, a lot of artillery has been mobilized from all over the country, and Ma Shiying has mobilized all the artillery in Nancheng, and for a while the artillery rained down and hit the Xia army.

The pursuing Xia army was stagnant.

These Xia soldiers are chasing crazy. After all, the Xia army was almost born in the Ming army, and inherited everything from the Ming army, and abandoned it. Even if Zhang Xuan has made some changes to his own people and horses above the military regulations and military law, the first-level merit of the lower-level soldiers has never changed.

Zhang Xuan actually thought about it, but there was rarely an effective way to replace it.

Therefore, the soldiers of the Xia army grabbed people's heads like crazy, and no one noticed that it was already a very dangerous distance from Changsha City, so in this round of shelling, these soldiers were almost eaten alive, and many soldiers died for a while.

However, the artillery of this year. There was no way to do a precise strike, let alone that Xia Jun chased so crazy. It was mixed with the rout of the Ming army.

It can be said that Ma Shiying's round of shooting is simply indiscriminate shooting.

Xia Jun was slapped on the head, and immediately calmed down, and the craziest person to chase was none other than Wang Jincai.

It can be said that the style of the main general affects the style of the army, Wang Jincai is such a person, when it is his turn to attack, he is more active than anyone else, so Wang Jincai's department chases more tightly than anyone else, and is hit the hardest by this round of shelling.

The non-commissioned officers of the various divisions immediately retreated some distance under the command of the officers.

At this time, there were countless people shouting above the city: "Go around the city, enter the city at the head of another city, and do not stay under the city, otherwise you will be killed." ”

Naturally, there are people below who are unwilling. They are just in front of the city gate, just open the city gate, they will be safe, who wants to run for several miles, after all, there is still the pursuit of the Xia army behind, it is likely that they will not be able to run to the next city gate alive.

Someone shouted, "Open the door." ”

"Yes. Open the gates. ”

Countless soldiers were noisy. Someone even wanted to swim across the moat.

Faced with such a situation, Ma Shiying had only one order, that is: "Kill." ”

The rumbling cannon sound sounded again, but it was not aimed at the Xia army, but in the face of these routs.

Almost all of these routs are under the corners of the city wall, and it is even more accurate, in the blink of an eye, the corpses are all over the ground, and the blood is dripping, and it is even said that in this battle, the soldiers who died in the hands of the Ming army were not much less than those who died in the hands of the Xia army.

Under such high pressure, the army could only obey the order, go around the city, enter the city through other gates, and perhaps a few people grabbed ropes from the city walls and hung them, but only a few of them were officers.

Wang Jincai also came to the front at this moment.

Seeing such a situation, his heart moved, looked at the south gate of Changsha, and said secretly: "Although the Ming army seems to be in full battle, but in this battle, they almost fell out of the city, where are there too many soldiers, take advantage of this time, just attack the city." If you can capture Changsha City, then the credit will be great. ”

Thinking of this, Wang Jincai was slightly excited in his heart, and immediately urged all his subordinates to attack the city.

However, there were no siege equipment, not even artillery cover, such a siege was just in a hurry, but the rout under the city was densely packed, and as soon as the Xia army rushed, it became a frightened bird and became extremely chaotic.

The head of the city can't tell who is who?

After all, although the Xia army is different from the Ming army under the banner, it is specific to the armor and clothing. In fact, there is not much difference, even if the Ming army and the Qing army are not much different in terms of armor except for the banner and horn. Therefore, they can only strike indiscriminately.

For a time, Wang Jincai stormed Changsha City, and the casualties of the Ming soldiers were still above Wang Jincai's subordinates.

Wang Jincai's attack seems to have lit the fuse. The ministries also began to attack. First, the southern city of Changsha was under fire.

When Zhang Xuan took his own soldiers to inspect the battle, he saw such a situation. Zhang Xuan used a clairvoyant mirror to look at the situation above the city, saw Ma Shiying's banner, sighed slightly in his heart, and said secretly: "Ma Shiying is really an old minister, and he can't be underestimated." ”

Although there are a large number of people in the city, under the command of Ma Shiying, the response is quite appropriate, and there are many artillery fires on the city. Zhang Xuan didn't prepare too many siege equipment today, and he didn't even bring artillery.

The casualties during the siege were too great.

Zhang Xuan never wanted to fight a lose-lose war.

The generals of all the departments were blinded by military merits, but Zhang Xuan couldn't do this, Zhang Xuan ordered: "Order all departments to collect troops." Today is unknown. The Ming army was defeated and lost, countless soldiers were lost, and they could not recover for a while and a half, today's siege equipment was not in place, and the siege of the city was just a proper loss of the lives of the brothers, two days after tomorrow, after the siege equipment and artillery were in place, it was not too late to attack the city. ”

As soon as Zhang Xuan gave the order, the soldiers of all departments began to retreat slowly.

In today's battle, although he did not chase the defeated soldiers to take Changsha City in one go, he was already very satisfied with Zhang Xuan, after all, the rice had to be eaten one bite at a time, and things had to be done one by one, and the Ming army had no power to fight back in today's battle. The morale in Changsha City is low, and there are probably no 30,000 soldiers who can fight, and the Xia army has an absolute advantage.

"Changsha City is stable, but I don't know what happened to other aspects." Zhang Xuan said secretly in his heart.