Chapter 52: Uncle Beard

(The second update, ask for a red ticket)

A total of more than 400 people from Donghu Jianrui, who was strengthened by Sheng Tianxi and his cronies Hu Jianrui, risked their lives to rush into the city from the filled gate moat, and successfully avoided the attack distance of the stone and rolling wood at the head of the city, seized a courtyard and rushed into the corner, resisted stubbornly, and waited for the reinforcements behind to enter the city, and then combined forces to capture the north city tower in one fell swoop.

Sheng Tianxi thought to himself, as long as the North City Tower was captured, Yangxin City would be half captured.

What Sheng Tianxi didn't expect was that after they occupied this mansion, the defenders of the city resolutely attacked from the secret gate in the northwest corner of the city wall, and immediately crushed most of the captives and rebels who were preparing to attack the city in the northwest corner of Yangxin. Right here, the narrow valley of six or seven thousand people is in chaos, except for the longing for my father and mother to run away on two more legs, who would think of picking up them who have already attacked the city?

The swiftness of the defenders in the city was also extremely fast, first with an elite armor to press the Shengtianxi Department in the courtyard house-style barricade, the auxiliary soldiers quickly used horses, rushing cars, thistles, iron nails and other obstacles to block the passage between the north gate and the barricade occupied by the Shengtianxi Department, and sealed the trihedral courtyard.

At this time, Sheng Tianxi had the heart to observe the interior of the courtyard they had occupied, except for the solid courtyard wall, the houses inside had been demolished, leaving only an unobstructed empty courtyard, except for the main gate facing the street, the side door and the back house door had been sealed from the outside, as if the defenders were preparing to use the barricades for street fighting, but now they were trapped here.

At this time, Sheng Tianxi could only hear the shouting and killing sound outside, and did not know that the siege soldiers and the newly attached Han army had been defeated, he and Hu Cong were still actively preparing, waiting for a large number of new attached Han troops and Donghu Jianrui outside the city gate to rush in, so he led the crowd to kill out, thinking that this first merit of seizing the city could not escape.

After waiting for a while, he didn't see any follow-up reinforcements rushing in, they were trapped in the courtyard, and they could still see the situation at the head of the north city wall, Sheng Tianxi felt that something was wrong, he didn't expect that the army outside the city would have collapsed long ago.

The scorpion crossbow at the head of the city turned around, first calibrated the distance with mud bombs, and threw four or five mud bombs of various standard weights into the empty mansion occupied by the Shengtianxi Department without error, and then switched to stone bullets to throw them. The houses in the courtyard of the house were demolished, except for the high wall on the north side to provide a little protection, there was no shelter, and there was no shelter, 400 people were crowded in a triple courtyard, quite dense, as long as the stone was thrown, the light would break the bones and tendons, and the heavy would be killed on the spot. The white brain oars, periosteum, and red blood were miserable, and there were already several obstacles in front of the gate on the street, and after the rejection of the horse, the crossbowmen, sword and shield hands stood in formation. In such a situation, whether it was Sheng Tianxi's personal soldiers who felt collapsed, or Donghu Jianrui, who rushed into the city with Sheng Tianxi, also felt desperate.

They didn't know why the reinforcements behind them couldn't rush in, and the follow-up soldiers and horses couldn't keep up in time, and it was certain that they were in a desperate situation. In the suppression of the stone bullets at the head of the city, Sheng Tianxi led his troops to hide at the foot of the high wall in the north to take temporary shelter, but a high wall could not cover 400 people, no one wanted to be exposed to the threat of stone bullets, in order to grab a hiding place, and even fought hard, when dozens of strong crossbows appeared from the south wall, Sheng Tianxi knew that he had lost all the capital to resist, and shouted with his sword: "Surrender, surrender, brothers of the Jiangdong Left Army, we also give the thieves a knife to the neck to force the siege, our own brothers do not kill our own brothers, we have surrendered...... ”

Two captives rushed up to kill Sheng Tianxi, but they were blocked by Sheng Tianxi's subordinates, and several arrows were sent out from the crossbow at the head of the wall, killing the two captives on the spot.

Lin Jian stood at the head of the city and watched silently, and ordered: "Kill all the captives, and promise to surrender!" ”

"Kill all the captives, and promise to surrender!" The herald shouted the order.

"Kill all the captives, and promise to surrender!"

Without hesitation, Sheng Tianxi took a knife from Hu Cong's hand, and led the crowd to turn around and kill the captives in the same courtyard. In order to survive, he also wants to wear merit to atone for his sins, take the lead, Sheng Tianxi behaved more ferocious than when he attacked the city, most of his side were cronies and subordinates, if there was still elite combat power in the new Han army, the cronies and servants around the generals could still be called elite, just because Lin Tie said "Xu Yi surrendered", the four hundred people who rushed into the city together were suddenly killed in the empty courtyard, and the crossbowmen on the wall were naturally looking for an opportunity to shoot the captives, so that the captives could not gather together to resist stubbornly......

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The hundreds of captives and rebels in the city are no longer a threat, so Lin Tie will refocus his attention on the outside of the city, and the captives and rebels in the outer city of the city will either collapse or retreat, and they will no longer pose a threat to Yangxin.

The Shao Wu mourning soldiers outside the city could afford to kill, and even stared at Zhao Jinlong's defective Zhejiang soldiers, and the command of the Shao Wu mourning soldiers on the side of the city was also a little out of order.

Lin Jian couldn't be too harsh on Shao Wu's mourning soldiers, Shao Wu's monstrous hatred for the defective Zhejiang soldiers was even stronger than that of the captive soldiers, the body of their beloved lieutenant Lu Jingyan was still in the coffin in the city, and the souls of four or five thousand Shao Wu's elite were still in the wilderness of Shandong, so how could they not hate in their hearts?

Lin Jian didn't know when Zhou Pu would be able to arrive in Yangxin, and he couldn't watch Shao Wu's soldiers outside the city staring at the rebel Zhejiang soldiers, so that the captives and the defected Linqing soldiers had the opportunity to calmly flee and even organize a counterattack, so he could only send Zhou Tong to lead the Jinzhong soldiers to fight and send out the last elite cavalry in his hand to control the rhythm and situation of the battlefield in the Zhulongpo Valley in the northwest corner.

When Lin Lian galloped south to aid Yangxin, there were more than 300 cavalry in Jinzhong, and today, the reduction is less than 200, and there are only 2 or 300 war horses left in the city. In normal times, on a battlefield crowded with seven or eight thousand people, two hundred cavalry is insignificant, but at this moment, Zhou Tong led two hundred cavalry to rush out from the north city gate.

If the captives gathered anywhere, the head of the city directly commanded Zhou Tong to lead the elite cavalry to trample over, or force the defeated soldiers to flee in that direction, and rush them with chaotic troops.

In addition, the mobile combat power in Lin Lian's hands was the Jiangdong Left Army drawn from the city, and the Jiangdong Left Army in the city was reduced from more than 1,100 people at the beginning to less than 800 people. Except for the two hundred people who were led by Ao Canghai to guard Lin Lian's side, the others were led by Ning Zechen and stood by under the city.

Although the captives could not do anything about the chaotic situation in Zhulong's Fuguyuan, there were still more than 3,000 elite captive cavalry in Zhulong's camp, and Lin Jian could not put Ning Zechen's troops into the battlefield of Zhulongpo Guyuan.

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When Ye Ji Duodi led the main force of the captives to retreat westward, Nahe Xiongqi led a thousand cavalry to the rear of the palace and laid a horizontal formation in front of the Zhulongpo camp. Although Nahe Xiongqi was powerless against the battle under the valley, he also suppressed the defenders and did not dare to rush out of the valley to pursue the defeated soldiers in a more open area at will, so as to gain time for the defeated troops who escaped from the narrow land of the valley to flee for their lives.

Under the harassment and entanglement of the outpost of a small group of captives, Zhou Pu led two battalions of the elite of the Jiangdong Left Army at dawn to rush to the outside of Yangxin East City. At this time, the main force of the captives led by Ye Ji Duodi had fled far away, there was no chance of battle, and it was too late to pursue, so Zhou Pu led his troops to pursue and kill the rout from the east city to the north city.

When Nahe Xiongqi saw the reinforcements of the Jiangdong Left Army coming and immediately put them into the battlefield, he set fire to the camp on the Zhulong Slope and led his troops to retreat to the north bank of the Zhulong River.

The lit camp burned the night sky for more than ten miles around it red, as bright as bright as bright day. The sudden burning of the camp made the rout even more frightened, but it also allowed them to avoid falling or killing each other in the dark, and accelerated their escape.

Nahe Xiongqi learned wisely this time, he led his troops to retreat to the north bank of the Zhulong River, not only to avoid contact with the Zhou Pu Army, but also to distance himself from the rout, but he was on the north bank and did not leave, staring at the flank of the Zhou Pu Ministry, so that Zhou Pu did not dare to let go of the formation to pursue the rout, so that many captives were able to escape.

Eight or nine out of ten of the routs were rebels and the people who coerced the army to the captives, and Lin Jian did not have the intention of killing them all, so he ordered Zhou Pu to lead his troops to attack Zhulongpo, enter and occupy the enemy camp in Zhulongpo, and organize the surrendered people on the spot to extinguish the fire of the enemy camp, how many materials can be grabbed, and then Ning Zechen divided his troops to attack, blocked the exits of the two wings of the Zhulongpo Valley, and prompted more than 1,000 defeated soldiers trapped in the Zhulongpo Valley to surrender.

Lin Jian knew very well in his heart that even at this time, they still did not have any advantage in the elite combat power that could fight in the field, and instead of risking the pursuit to expand the results, it was better to control the battlefield situation and protect the results in front of them, and avoid giving the captives a return shot.

At this time, Lin Jian couldn't help but feel a trace of irrepressible fatigue on his body, the four-month war was also considered to be the end, he asked the guards to bring a Taishi chair for him from the city tower, wrapped in a crimson big squirrel and sat down, just sat quietly at the head of the city, watching the various departments clean up the battlefield, the sky was already white, and the sky was finally going to light up this night.

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Cheng Weiyuan, the lieutenant of Yangxin County, trembled with excitement, before dark, he thought that the arduous battle to defend the city would last for several days before the captives retreated, and he never thought that victory would come so easily, as if the moment Shao Wujun attacked from the secret gate in the northwest corner of the city wall, the victory was completely locked.

Cheng Weiyuan was so excited that his hands and feet were weak, in addition to surrendering the troops, the captives and rebels outside the city were all withdrawn, the corpses and instruments were thrown to the ground, and the Jiangdong Left Army also firmly occupied the Zhulongpo camp, with the Jiangdong Left Army and the Lin Dujian, Cheng Weiyuan was not afraid that the captives would have the courage to kill a horse pistol, and it would be a big deal to beat his mother back.

Brother Lu Wang, Zhenguo General Yuan Jianhai has been hiding in the house for the past few days and did not dare to come to the city, at this time the city and outside the city are cheers after the victory, he also knows that as a child of the clan, as the general of the Zhenguo who wants to inherit the prince of Lu, he should come out to show his face and comfort the soldiers and civilians who have worked hard to defend the city and suffered heavy casualties. He took his niece Yuan Yan, together with Cheng Weiyuan, the governor of Yangxin County, Zhang Jinxian, and others to Beicheng Tower to visit Lin Bin, who was guarding the battle.

Yuan Yan was a little excited to see Uncle Hu Zi again, but when she came out of the house and walked to the north city, she saw that there were traces of death and death on the long street, inside and outside the city gate, and she was so sad that she couldn't help but want to cry, she didn't understand how Uncle Hu Zi could hold on to such a city for more than ten days, she didn't want the maid to support her, and couldn't help but want to see Uncle Hu Zi a moment earlier, climbing up to the north city tower from the steep and frightening climbing road.

The Beicheng Tower was quiet as if there was no one, and there was a clear snoring sound in this silence, Yuan Yan poked out her lovely head and looked over, Uncle Hu Zi was sitting in the Taishi chair in front of the Beicheng Tower, covered with a crimson coat, sleeping soundly, snoring, and the surrounding guards were motionless like sculptures, for fear of making a little movement and waking up their sweet dreams......