Chapter 16 The city is broken, and it will not be surrendered

The Zhao army on the city tower was cleaned up by the Qing army, and Zhou Yong led his men to rush the steps to support the green battalion soldiers who blocked Wang Yan from leaving the city at the city gate.

After controlling the city tower, the Qing soldiers in the city continued to shoot feather arrows, so that the Zhao army, which had already rushed into the doorway, was blocked by the green battalion soldiers under the city, and could not get out of the city.

At this time, at the north gate, Wang Yan led more than 1,000 Zhao troops to rush to block the green battalion soldiers at the door hole, and the Qing army in the city rushed down to Wang Yan's Zhao army, and the situation suddenly fell into a state of anxiety.

If this was peacetime, and Zhao Jun could fight a draw with the same number of Qing soldiers, Wang Yan would definitely feel very excited, but now he was very anxious in his heart.

The Zhao army in the city was in chaos, the generals were all lost, and the Qing army would soon enter the city from other directions, if they could not be killed early, they would inevitably suffer from the enemy on their backs, and finally all die under the north gate.

The two armies were in a scuffle, and Wang Yan was good at the United Front Method, but he also lost room to play, and could only barely suppress the rain of arrows in the city.

Time passed slowly, the situation became more and more unfavorable for Wang Yan, he had lost all his hole cards, and there was no other force to use to turn the tide of the battle.

On the tower of the city, and Tuo silently watched the battle under the city, and couldn't help but mention a little interest in Wang Yan, he thought that Wang Shiheng was just a scholar who had no power to restrain the chicken, and he was a strategist who was good at giving advice, but he didn't expect that his ability to lead soldiers and horses was not bad, and the Manchurians were in awe of the strong, and now that Zhao Yingyuan was dead, he had a heart to surrender to Wang Yan.

Wang Yan and others fought hard under the city, but they couldn't break the Qing soldiers who blocked Ruth, and they were anxious in their hearts, but the Zhao army behind them suddenly made a big uproar, and it turned out that the Qing army who entered the city from other city gates rushed to support.

For a time, the Zhao army was attacked by the enemy, and defeat was already in sight.

In the past, Wang Yan would feel that he died in battle, and it didn't matter, but now Wang Yan won't think so.

He made sure that he was the person chosen by the sages of the Han nationality, and he shouldered a mission that ordinary people could not understand, so he felt that he could not easily die here.

In an instant, the unwillingness in his heart turned into full of grief and indignation, which made his eyes red, and made him frantically slash and kill the Qing army in front of him.

"Wang Shiheng! Let's go down! Looking at Wang Yan, who kept waving his knife and fighting, He Tuo's face showed a look of pity. Don't you Han people have a saying, and those who know the times are handsome? At this point, you have done your best! ”

Wang Yanchong was in front of everyone, slashing left and right, but he was not a general after all, he was not good at fighting, if it weren't for Liu Shun and others desperately protecting, I am afraid that he would have already gone to Huangquan, and he turned a deaf ear to the words of surrender, just swung violently with the war knife in his hand, pouring out his choice.

That Qingzhou Xiucai Qian Yifeng was hit by an arrow, and the blood stained his long shirt red, and when he heard the words of Hetuo, he saw Wang Yan respond indifferently, but he suddenly laughed and said. "How can you understand that the heroes of Middle-earth only know that those who know the times are handsome, but they don't know that they sacrifice their lives for righteousness and kill their lives?"

He Tuo heard this, and suddenly his face turned cold, since the Qing army entered the customs, the Han people have surrendered innumerable, and the entire Beizhili and Shandong have not encountered decent resistance, but a Qingzhou has already lost two or three thousand of his men.

He surrendered with good intentions, but Wang Yan ignored it!

The pawns in the city still dare to laugh at him!

If the Han people, everyone is like this, how can he dare to peep into China in the Qing Dynasty.

For a while, his thoughts were complicated, and he didn't speak, frowning and watching the battle under the city.

With the Qing army entering the city to support, Wang Yan's situation became more and more difficult, he brought more than 1,500 soldiers, most of them were killed and wounded, and the remaining soldiers were divided by the Qing army, and he himself had been stabbed several times, unable to fight again.

But although the Zhao army was in a desperate situation, no one begged to surrender, and China has never lacked traitors, but it has never lacked warriors who dare to fight to the death.

In the city, Han Zhaoxuan saw such a scene, looking at the fallen Zhao soldiers one by one, but there was no joy of victory in his heart, he couldn't help but ask himself, whether wealth and glory are really so important, whether everything now is really everything he wants.

Unconsciously, Han Zhaoxuan felt a trace of guilt in his heart, and actually let him hold on to the wall like a ghost, and shouted down with a hint of crying: "Wang Shiheng, I am a member of the two ranks, a member of the court, I have all descended, you are a person, why lose your life!" ”

"I and Er, the Tao is different, not conspiring with each other!" Wang Yan was protected by everyone in the middle, and when he heard someone shouting in the city, he replied with a resolute face. "The Ming Dynasty has surrendered Shoufu, surrendered Jinshi, and surrendered generals, but there will be no surrendered Wang Yan."

With Wang Yan's answer, the tragic spirit spread rapidly among the crowd.

"My Qingzhou Xiucai Qian Yifeng, don't descend to the Manchu Qing Dynasty!"

"Huo Shijie of Qingzhou, don't descend to the Manchu Dynasty!"

"Liu Shun of Cangzhou, I swear not to surrender!"

"My Shaanxi Wang Wei, Yu Er and other Jiannu will fight to the death!"

"We are willing to go to Huangquan with our son!"

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A shout came out of the mouth of Zhao Jun under the city, converging into a torrent, shaking the surrounding Qing army and making Wang Yan burst into tears.

Zhao Jun did not collapse because he was encircled by the Qing army, but because of Wang Yan's words, he became fearless of death!

Han Zhaoxuan, Li Shiyuan, Li Shutai and other Han soldiers in the city saw this, and their faces were unspeakably ugly.

Hetuo knew that he had no ability to surrender, so he also put away his heart of cherishing his talent and decided to kill the killer, but the Qing army behind him suddenly became chaotic.

"Look! The camp is on fire! ”

"Not good! There were cavalry rushing here. ”

He Tuo heard the exclamation of the Qing soldiers behind him, and hurriedly looked back, but saw that the main camp of the Qing army outside the north gate was caught in a fire, and the shouts and killings all over the sky followed, and I don't know how many people and horses were killing in Qingzhou.

"Brother Zhao Jun, don't panic, Lechang Zhao Shenkuan led three thousand men and horses to help in the war!"

"Lechang Qin Shangxing is here!"

"Shouguang Guo put the cards, Zhai Wu monk, come also!"

For a time, outside the north gate of Qingzhou, nearly 10,000 torches were lit, and thousands of troops suddenly appeared as if they had fallen from the sky, and they stormed the Qing army's northern camp, and suddenly the sky was full of fire, and a team of 100 cavalry shouted and rushed to the Qing soldiers who sniped Wang Yan outside the city gate.

These people are the several righteous soldiers that Zhao Yingyuan followed Wang Yan's policy and contacted at the beginning, they knew that their lips and teeth were cold, and as soon as they got the news that Qingzhou was besieged, they took action.

Among them, the departments of Bei Shouzheng, Ma Ruiheng, and Liu Tongxiang, who are far away from Qingzhou, have already moved to Jinan, while the rebels in Lechang, Shouguang and other places who are very close to Qingzhou have directly gathered their men and horses and rushed to Qingzhou.

In the battle of the Daling River that year, the Ming army failed to relieve the siege several times, and then Hong Chengchou sat in Jinzhou for half a year, and the Ming reinforcements were also unable to relieve the siege, the reason was that the Ming army could not fight with the Qing army in the field.

These rebels originally did not have the strength to fight with the Qing army in the field, let alone attack the Qing army's camp, but Hetuo led the main force of the Qing army to attack Qingzhou, and the more than 8,000 Qing troops left behind had to defend the east, west, and north three camps.

If Zhao Yingyuan saw this picture, he would be even more remorseful, he only needed to hold on for one more day, he would be able to get the support of many rebels, and he would not kill himself.

There were only more than 2,000 Qing troops left in the camp north of the city, and most of them were green battalions, and they were okay to fight a good battle, but now they were suddenly attacked, and they were bound to be killed by surprise.

Seeing that the camp was broken by the rebels, he was full of anger in his heart, and regretted that he underestimated the enemy and did not pay attention to the rebels who were active near Qingzhou.

Even if he captured Qingzhou tonight, the losses of the Qing army would certainly not be light, and in anger, he decided that he must leave these rebels behind, so that the battle of Shandong would be decided.

At that moment, he hurriedly asked the general to suppress the chaos of the Qing soldiers in the city, and asked people to inform the 4,500 Han army Zheng Blue Banner army ambushed outside the south gate that they had reached the Qing army in the city, and asked them to kill back to the north gate, wanting to annihilate the righteous army that came to help in one fell swoop.

At this time, the cavalry of the righteous army had already killed under the city, and the Qing soldiers who blocked Wang Yan from leaving the city were suddenly crushed by the cavalry.

At this time, the rebels poured fire oil on the suspension bridge, and did not care about the Zhao army who was still fighting to the death in the city, so they threw torches to block the path pursued by the Qing soldiers.

Looking at the brothers who were protecting him to the death, and many of them trapped in the city, Wang Yan was very reluctant and guilty, but he knew that now was not the time for a woman's kindness, once the Qing cavalry arrived, he and the rebels who rescued him would fold here.

At that moment, he looked back at Qingzhou City, listened to the sound of swords and screams that were still fighting in the city, and endured the grief and hatred in his heart and said, "Go!" ”

Seeing that the righteous army in the city was not in love with war, his face couldn't help but be cold, and then he saw that Wang Yan and the others were leaving, he couldn't help but be angry, he took the longbow in the hands of the soldiers around him, bent the bow and set the arrow, and shot angrily.

Zhao Jun under the city was turning to leave, and when he was caught off guard, he felt a gust of cold wind blowing, and Wang Yan was shot in the back by a feather arrow, and his whole body immediately fell.

Wang Yan and the others were already one hundred and fifty steps away from the city, and it was difficult for the bow and arrow to exert its power at such a distance, but it was the Manchu and the Tuo who shot him who were good at bows and arrows, and with his angry blow, Wang Yan immediately fainted and died.

Liu Shun on the side saw this, and was immediately shocked, and everyone did not dare to stay under the city of Qingzhou, so they hurriedly set up the unconscious Wang Yan and followed the righteous army to retreat to the Qing army's northern camp.

The rebels who dispersed the Qing army in the camp did not take advantage of the situation to chase and kill, but set fire everywhere in the camp, and when Wang Yan and others came to the camp, the rebels withdrew from the camp and left together.

And this scene all fell into the eyes of the Qing generals such as Hetuo, but the drawbridge was destroyed by fire, they could not go out of the city to pursue, and the Qing troops from other gates had not yet arrived, so everyone could only watch the righteous army disappear into the vast dark night with gloomy faces.

A great battle ended like this, but the impact of the Battle of Qingzhou would not disappear immediately, and a few days later, a report appeared in the hands of Shi Maluan, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard in Nanjing.

Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi bowed to the sea on Thursday: "On the night of September 13 in the year of Jiashen, the Qing army deceived Qingzhou, killed Zhao Yingyuan and Yang Wangxiu, and Wang Yan did not surrender, and wanted to lead the troops to rush to the door, but was blocked by the Qing soldiers, and the battle could not be out, and entrusted him, Wang Yan did not surrender!" Han Zhaoxuan persuaded again, let it not fall! Later, the Shandong Righteous Army arrived, broke the Qing Army's North Battalion, and finally got out! ”