532 tragic, siege

[It's September, a new January, please brothers continue to support Lao Yun, thank you!] 】

Qin Zhen covered the wound on his back and walked step by step towards Yu Hai, who was lying on the ground.

At this time, Yu Hai was leaning on the side of the road, with an arrow feather stuck in his chest.

It's just that now Yu Hai has simply dealt with his arrow wound, and the shaft of the arrow has been cut off by him, leaving only a small section outside.

At the same time, he tore off a piece of his own battle robe and pressed the wound to stop the bleeding.

"Brother Yu, are you okay?" Qin Zhen's face was also a little pale, looking at Yu Hai, who was dying, and asked.

"It's okay, you can't die yet, are you okay?" Yu Hai said in a weak voice.

At this time, Quartz also brought people over, first came to Yu Hai, and asked, "Are you from the scout team?" ”

Yu Hai nodded slightly.

"You did a good job, medic, you must revive him, and I will take him to the general to receive the reward."

The medical soldiers who followed closely behind immediately dismounted and came to Yu Hai to check his injuries.

"Who are you?" Quartz looked at Qin Zhen again and asked in a loud voice.

Just now, Qin Zhenli fought against several cavalry of the Tartars, and he was all killed by him, just with this courage and bravery, he was very impressed by Quartz.

"Qin Zhen, a grass man, a native of Baoding, Hebei, was plundered by the Tartars a few years ago and sent to the border as a slave, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Tartars to send troops, I found an opportunity to escape from the control of the Tartars.

happened to meet Brother Yu Hai, so he came with him to intercept and kill the old thief Ilgen Jue Luo Doro. ”

Qin Zhen didn't dare to be presumptuous in the face of quartz, and honestly explained his origins.

After listening to Qin Zhen's words, Quartz also exclaimed: "Good boy, bloody, this is my bloody man." ”

As he spoke, Quartz looked at Yu Hai and asked Yu Hai with his gaze about the authenticity of Qin Zhen's words.

Quartz has followed Li Zixiao for so many years, even if he has a simple character, he has to learn to be smarter, of course he knows that he can't listen to Qin Zhen's one-sided words.

Yu Hai felt Quartz's gaze and nodded slightly, confirming Qin Zhen's words.

"Qin Zhen is not, you follow me, I will take you to see our general later, although you are not a soldier of our White Dragon Army, but you are also my Ming people.

You have made a great contribution to the killing of this Tartar general this time, and you deserve to be rewarded, but it is I who robbed you of the credit in the end.

However, I will make it clear to the general that you two have the greatest credit for the interception and killing of the dog Tartar general this time. ”

Quartz was as expressionless as ever, and Weng Sheng said.

"The general is serious, if the general hadn't pursued all the way this time, Brother Yu and I would not have been able to intercept and kill these Tartars.

Moreover, the last arrow to kill Ilgen Jueluo was also the general, and the general even saved the life of the grass people, but the grass people were too late to be grateful, and they did not dare to take credit. ”

Qin Zhen said humbly.

"Okay, manly husband, young mother-in-law and mother-in-law, say that you have the greatest credit, and you have the greatest credit, what is the blame.

Let's go, follow me to see if the dog Tartar General was killed by an arrow from Ben General. ”

Quartz didn't bother to have such a conversation with Qin Zhen again, so he dismounted directly and walked towards Ilgen Jueluo who was lying there.

Qin Zhen looked at Quartz so upright and rough temperament, he also shook his head slightly, and followed Quartz, he also wanted to determine if Ilgen Jue Luo Doro was really dead.

Quartz, Qin Zhen and the others walked over, and they saw that they were wearing a well-dressed armor, but their chest was torn open, and a bloody hole shot out, their eyes were wide open, and they had already lost their breath.

Of course, Quartz didn't know Ilgen Jue Luo Doro, he turned his head to look at Qin Zhen and asked, "Is that Doro dog Tartar at this time?" ”

Qin Zhen's eyes stared directly at Ilgen Jue Luo Doro's corpse, with an excited look on his face, he nodded violently at Quartz, and said, "Yes, General, even if this old thief turns to ashes, I know him." ”

"That's good, come on, go and cut off his head, rip off his armor, and prepare to return."

After quartz got Qin Zhen's confirmation, he greeted the guards next to him.

"General, can you let me go down and cut off this old thief's head, I want to avenge my Uncle Yuan." Qin Zhen suddenly spoke.

Quartz glanced at him, nodded and said, "Okay, you can go." ”

Qin Zhen walked over, cut off Ilgen Jue Luo Duoluo's head with a knife, raised it high, and shouted to the sky: "Uncle Yuan, I have avenged you, and your spirit in the sky can rest in peace."

Don't worry, I will take care of Siyue, and I will marry the eldest girl and take care of your family. ”

As he spoke, Qin Zhen's eyes flashed with tears, and his mind flashed through all the help he had received from Uncle Yuan's family over the years, if it weren't for Uncle Yuan, he would have died a long time ago.

Subsequently, Qin Zhen was bandaged by the White Dragon Army's accompanying medical guards, who cut off all the heads of the Tartars, took the wounded Yu Hai, and returned.

At this time, Li Zixiao stood at the foot of this nameless slope, looking at the three major wooden piles built by his soldiers, on which were placed the Japanese soldiers who died in this battle, and were preparing to be cremated.

"General." On the side, Zhao Zilong held a torch and said to Li Zixiao.

"Hmm."

Li Zixiao nodded, took the torch, stepped forward, and lit three wooden piles, on which the corpses of more than 1,800 Japanese soldiers and soldiers were placed.

That's right, in this battle, Yoshino and Fujino had more than 3,500 Japanese soldiers, and more than 1,800 people were killed in the battle, not counting the wounded.

According to statistics, in addition to the 1,832 people killed in the battle, there were 105 seriously wounded and 438 lightly wounded.

In other words, after this battle, the battle losses of the Japanese soldiers were as high as more than 2,300 people, and the proportion of battle losses was as high as two-thirds.

When Li Zixiao saw these numbers, he was also shocked, knowing that his reward for Yoshino and Fujino was worthwhile.

At the same time, the 500 artillery of the White Dragon Army accompanying it also lost more than half.

And in the end, the corpses of the Tartars found by the White Dragon soldiers on the battlefield were only more than 1,300 people, of which there were only more than 400 real Tartars, and the rest were Ahha.

Of course, there were seven or eight hundred captured Tartars, but the vast majority were Ahha, and there were not a few real Tartars.

It can be seen that in this battle, the proportion of battle losses of the Tartars is far less than that of the Japanese soldiers, and in the end, if it were not for Li Zixiao to lead the troops to arrive, perhaps soon the Japanese soldiers would be completely annihilated by the Tartars.

More than half of the nearly 4,000 Tartars in Ilgenjuelodoro's hands remained on this nameless slope, and the remaining half fled in a hurry.

As for how many Tartars will be killed or captured in the escape, Li Zixiao will not know until all the guards and soldiers who chased them out return.

Although Li Zixiao paid a lot of price in this battle, it can be said that after this battle, the Japanese soldiers in the hands of Yoshino and Fujino were completely disabled.

But the result of this battle, Li Zixiao is quite satisfied.

Annihilating most of the cavalry of Ilgenjue Lodoro meant that he could boldly sweep through the Tartar city before the next batch of Tartar reinforcements arrived.

At the same time, his plan for the relocation of his people was carried out without the Tartars to interfere with them.

"Order the whole army, go out three miles and set up camp, let the soldiers rest well, wait for the quartz to come back, and start the march tomorrow."

Li Zixiao gave the order.

"Yes, General!"

When it was slightly dark, the soldiers of the White Dragon Army Escort Battalion who were chasing the Tartar deserters also came back one after another, and they brought back a lot of Tartar heads and some prisoners.

When Quartz finally returned to the camp with the head of Ilgen Kyorodoro, all the guards of the White Dragon Army who went out to pursue the Tartar deserters returned.

They brought back more than 300 Tartar heads, and more than 400 captives, most of whom were real Tartars, who were extremely stubborn in their will to resist.

Even if they were defeated, they would not surrender easily, but fought to the death, on the contrary, the White Dragon Army guard battalion did not intend to leave these people alive.

As for the captives left behind by the guard camp, all of them were Aha who could speak Chinese, and as the Tartar soldiers were killed one by one, these Aha also obediently chose to surrender.

"General, this is the head of that dog Tartar general, I brought it."

Quartz was in front of Li Zixiao, turned over and dismounted, leading a blood-stained burden in his hand, which was swollen inside, and he guessed that it was a human head.

"Open!" Li Zixiao has to confirm it in person to rest assured.

As the burden opened, Quartz picked up the 'pig's tail' and lifted the head of Ilgen Jue Luo Doro in front of Li Zixiao.

"Zhao Teng, do you confirm that this person is the Tartar general of Phoenix City?" Li Zixiao asked Zhao Teng, the clerk next to him.

"Returning to the general, according to the information we have recovered before, it should be right, this is the person." Zhao Teng glanced down and responded.

"Okay, Quartz, you have merit in killing this thief, each person will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver, and the second-class merit will be recorded once." Li Zixiao said with a smile.

"General, this time we can kill this dog Tartar general, there are two people who have contributed a lot, and they are the first heroes."

Quartz was not greedy for merit, but seriously explained to Li Zixiao the interception of the two of them by Jiang Hai and Qin Zhen.

"Let the medical battalion do its best to treat Yu Hai, who is Qin Zhen?"

"Qin Zhen, a grass citizen, has seen the general of Zhenguo." Qin Zhen also came out excitedly at this time, and knelt down to Li Zixiao and bowed.

Li Zixiao's name has been in the north of the Ming Dynasty over the years, but it is a household name, especially in Henan, Hebei, and the southeast of Shandong.

And this area is precisely the area where the White Dragon Army's forces can radiate temporarily.

Coupled with Li Zixiao's benevolent government in Jiangbei, his name was gaining momentum among the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Even Qin Zhen was outside the gate, and he often heard the name Li Zixiao from the mouth of the Tartar, but the Tartar gritted his teeth when he said this name.

"You are very good, you are not willing to be a lackey of the Tartars, you are a little bloody, you are a man, are you willing to join our White Dragon Army?"

Li Zixiao looked at Qin Zhen with a smile, and from Quartz's simple introduction, Li Zixiao appreciated this brave and wise young man who was unwilling to be a slave.

"It is my Qin Zhen's honor to be able to join the general's team, how dare I shirk it. Humble Qin Zhen, knock on the general. ”

Qin Zhen also changed his mouth quite quickly, and shouted loudly.

Qin Zhen originally wanted to join the White Dragon Army, but at this time, Li Zixiao personally recruited him, which can be said to have given him enough face, of course he readily agreed.

"Zilong, you two are the same age, let him follow you." Li Zixiao said to Zhao Zilong next to him.

"Yes, General." Zhao Zilong responded.

Since Li Zixiao has come out, he has no intention of returning to Zhenjiang Fort easily, since Zhao Zilong's Japanese barracks have been disabled.

This was also within the results he had expected, and according to his plan, at this time, after annihilating the troops of Ilgen Jue Luo Doro, he led his men and horses to attack the city.

The next day, after Li Zixiao ordered the execution of some of the Tartars, he ordered the whole army to march to Xuancheng, and arrived in Xuancheng a day later.

Li Zixiao first sent people to persuade him to surrender, but failed.

Then, Li Zixiao did not immediately order an attack, but spent a day asking the soldiers to cut down trees and send the baggage battalion soldiers to make cloud ladders to attack the city.

Immediately, Li Zixiao ordered the bombardment of Xuancheng, and the artillery battalion shelled it for half an hour.

It's a pity that the walls of the city didn't collapse, but the caliber of the artillery they brought was too small for the speed of the march.

However, the artillery bombardment of the White Dragon Army for such a long time still frightened the Tartars in the Swirl City.

Moreover, in the entire Xuancheng, there were only less than 400 Tartars, including the nearly 100 Tartars who fled to Xuancheng yesterday, all of whom were defeated under the command of Ilgen Jue Luodoro.

In addition, there were 1,500 traitor troops in the city, as well as 5 or 600 Tartars forcibly recruited from various families in the city.

Even, the Tartars were in the city at this time, forcibly recruiting young men, distributing weapons, and forcing them to go to the city to defend the city.

"Zilong, Fujino, you lead people to attack the city, Yoshino, you take people to see if you can blow up the city gates."

"Yes."

The three of them took the order, and under the cover of the artillery of the White Dragon Army, they led the infantry to attack the city, mainly the remaining more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers.

However, under the suppression of the artillery of the White Dragon Army and the firepower of the nearly thousand White Dragon Army musketeers under the city, Zhao Zilong and Fujino went smoothly and led people to kill the east wall of Xuancheng.

"Kill!"

Zhao Zilong took Qin Zhen and rushed to the front, except for some Tartar elites, those Aha and young people, no one could stop them for a moment.

But all those who rushed up to stop them all turned into a cold corpse, and soon the traitor soldiers and young men around them all regarded them as flood beasts, and no one dared to take the initiative to stop them.

The other half, the Japanese soldiers led by Fujino, were even more ferocious, killing all the way, and these Japanese soldiers were also excitedly 'howling', and every time they killed a Tartar, they had to cut off their heads.

Even these Tartars don't care if any of these enemies are real Tartars, or whether they are aha or young people in the city, they only know that the head of an enemy can be exchanged for silver.

Of course, among these enemies killed by the Japanese soldiers, there were only a handful of real Tartars, and most of them were Aha and Qingzhuang.

Li Zixiao didn't need mercy at this time, even if these people were once the people of the Ming Dynasty.

But from the moment they took their weapons, fought for the Tartars, and resisted the White Dragon Army's entry into the city, they were already enemies.

(End of chapter)