The soldiers in front are equivalent to running on the street with the double blow of artillery and palm mines, and there is no chance to hide on both sides, and there is no way to retreat if they want to retreat, and they don't know when a few dark shadows appeared behind the city gate, and when they saw the fire outside the city, they immediately began to move, wanting to close the city gate.

The cavalry outside the city looked at their own generals and rushed in, although the ground earthquake shook the mountain and didn't know what happened, but they all rushed inside, even if it was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire, even if it was a battle death, it was better than fleeing back, if they fled back, they were afraid that they would be beheaded directly by the marshal, and they would also affect their families.

The fire oil at the head of the city was only sealed for a short time, after all, Cheng Xiaolian didn't have so much fire oil in his hands, and the black shadow who wanted to close the city gate was immediately rushed away by those cavalry, and most of them were trampled into meat paste by the horses' hooves. The cavalry that soon rushed into the city relied on a deadly style of play to break through the artillery line, and at this time, these cavalry under General Chu basically all rushed into the city, but no one paid attention to the defenders at the head of the city had closed the city gate.

Generally speaking, in this case, the victory has been laid, the defenders in the city should be scattered and fled, and no one will close the city gate at all, but the defenders in the city do not think so, in the process of just fighting, the enemy army has left almost two thousand corpses, except for a few brothers and a dozen artillery pieces at the city gate, there are almost no losses, the war has just begun, Your Majesty is right, you can close the door and fight the dog.

In later generations, Cheng Xiaolian once watched a program about history, in which a professor said that there were two reasons for Li Zicheng's defeat, first, it took 18 days to walk from Beijing to Shanhaiguan, and second, why didn't he defend Beijing and fight with the Manchu army after the defeat of Shanhaiguan.

Cheng Xiaolian, who was still young at the time, thought so, and often felt sorry for Li Zicheng's confused decision. But after reading more books, I realized that these are objective reasons on the surface, which seem to be very reasonable, but in fact, they are just a copy of why not eat minced meat. The march to Shanhaiguan has been gone for so many days, because Wu Sangui still had the hope of surrendering at the beginning, of course, he was unwilling to be forced too hard, as for the stubborn defense of Beijing, hundreds of thousands of old soldiers were defeated in Shanhaiguan, the most powerful Liu Zongmin was injured, and the people in the army were panicked, where can they still hold it?

However, this story Cheng Xiaolian is not without gains, it does make sense to use street battles to deal with the cavalry of the Manchu Dynasty, there are no horses in the city, so if you fight him at the beginning, it will be difficult for some strongmen, the cavalry will rush over, and the army will disperse, and the people's hearts will be scattered, but if you fight in the streets, even if you are good at riding, can you still play drifting in the alley?

As soon as the city gate was closed, the soldiers who were ambushed on the various walls stood up one after another, Cheng Xiaolian This can be regarded as a dangerous move, and the defenders on the city head are only a thousand people, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty attacks the city with all its strength at this time, Ruzhou will not be able to keep it. Cheng Xiaolian can only firmly believe that the army of the Ming Dynasty will react quickly, after all, if he can eat these thousands of cavalry, it will be a big turning point for the war.

As Cheng Xiaolian expected, when the anxious Wang Jiyong rushed to the battlefield, Yu Fenqi had not yet arrived.

Hearing that Wang Jiyong had arrived at the battlefield, Cheng Xiaolian immediately sent a message: "Tuhai's reinforcements may arrive immediately, General Wang will deal with the enemy army outside, and there is no need to worry about the situation in the city." ”

As soon as Wang Jiyong heard the message, a cavalryman ran over from behind: "General, a Manchu army has appeared behind us. ”

"Then what are you hesitating about, immediately turn the horse's head and kill the enemy with me!"

The battle in the city has also reached a fever pitch, and those cavalry have long been unable to find where their commanders are, and at this time, General Chu has also been torn apart, and the remnants of broken limbs are scattered in the city, of course, they can't be found at all.

Those cavalry can only chase and kill those deserters in the city on their own, even if the general is killed in battle and defeats Ruzhou City, they can still make their merits compensate.

Soon some cavalry realized that something was wrong, of course the main road in the city was very wide, but not every small alley was so wide, some alleys could not even turn the horse's head away, and it was too late to want to exit, and suddenly a soldier with a weapon appeared on the surrounding wall, jumping off the wall and chopping them into two sections.

This scene took place in all corners of the city, and finally the Jinyi guards stood up to close the pass, and the thousands of cavalry in the city were eaten in this way.

Cheng Xiaolian couldn't help but sigh that although the professor did not study history very thoroughly, he still had a certain foundation in the study of cavalry, and when he arrived in the alley, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry was mostly wasted.

However, this tossing effort in the city is not small, seeing that the sky is dawning, and the battle outside the city is nearing the end, since the night attack plan failed, Tuhai has no intention of tossing blindly, and ordered the army to be gathered two hours ago.

Returning to the camp and getting the statistical results, I can only smile bitterly, counting the cavalry that rushed into the city and lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses this night, Ruzhou City looks unharmed, and the morale of the army has dropped a lot, especially with the soldiers and horses who fled back with Yu Fen, they are listless, and they never want to experience the nightmare of being hit by the cavalry at night.

The soldiers and horses on both sides began to rest and recuperate, and after a fierce battle for a day and a night, the soldiers were already exhausted.

Zheng Ze also woke up leisurely at this time, saw Cheng Xiaolian in front of him, reacted to what happened, quickly got up and knelt on the ground and cried bitterly: "The criminal minister did not betray the Ming Dynasty, but they threatened the criminal minister with the daughter of the criminal minister." ”

Cheng Xiaolian hurriedly asked someone to help him up: "I don't blame you for this incident, I got the news after that person entered your house, and when you left the house, I let people rescue your daughter." Kill that Zeng Youdao. Your daughter is frightened, go back and be appeased, if I hadn't told you earlier, you really thought you could open the city gate? ”

Zheng Ze slowly breathed a sigh of relief: "The criminal minister, the criminal minister was startled, I wanted to remind the soldiers in the city, but unfortunately I was knocked unconscious." ”

"It's lucky, I'll have a longer memory in the future, some of these relatives and friends are obsessed, don't see it, if you do something foolish, I can't save you."

"The minister has written it down."

Zheng Ze went out, and Yang Youcai coughed: "Your Majesty, this matter is obviously Zheng Ze's lack of loyalty。。。。。。 ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "You can't let your family watch your own daughter die in front of you, besides, he has tried his best to serve the country in front of the city gate, we all have children, in this case, this is the best choice that can be made, don't be too harsh, although the troubled times use heavy codes, but it will be chilling to deal with him." This matter is not allowed to be mentioned again, this time Jinyiwei did a good job, and he should be rewarded. ”

(End of chapter)