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Chapter 139 Fierce battle in the city (subscription for the fourth update)

One or two hundred words were missing at the end of the last chapter, pure upload error, has been corrected
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Li Dongshao was wearing two layers of heavy armor, holding a steel waist knife and an iron-clad wooden shield in his hand, and a pair of step bows and a barrel of arrows on his back. The weight of his whole body had reached dozens of catties.

Even though Li Dongshao was physically strong, he didn't dare to run too fast. He needed to preserve his physical fitness for the subsequent battle to capture the city gate.

Now the city is completely in chaos, and it is the last night before dawn, which is the best time for them to seize the city gate.

With the efforts of dozens of colleagues in the intelligence department, they fanned the flames and spread rumors everywhere, which not only created a great panic, but also greatly restrained the attention of the officers and soldiers in the city.

Coupled with the fact that people are shouting everywhere that the city has been broken and the bandits have already entered the city, the Ming army on duty at night at the west gate must have panicked. This is the time for them to launch a strong attack.

Along the way, I met a few watchmen, yamen servants and the like, as well as green-skinned hooligans who took advantage of the chaos to loot.

And these people were ignored by Li Dongshao and the others.

Anyway, these people are not stupid. When they saw a group of heavily armored and fully armed soldiers approaching on the street, no matter if they were bandit soldiers or officers and soldiers, they would not dare to approach them easily.

The active avoidance of the people along the way also allowed Li Dongshao to lead the troops to the west gate smoothly.

At this moment, the west city gate was closed, the city wall and the city gate were brightly lit, and a large number of figures could be vaguely seen.

At this time Li Dongshao stopped for a while, looked back at the more than 70 robes behind him, took a deep breath and said: "Follow me to kill, open the city gate to welcome the army into the city!"

"This battle is a life-and-death struggle. We have no way out, and we will open the city gate no matter what."

"If you win this battle, you will be rich and prosperous!"

"Kill with me!"

After all, Li Dongshao took off the bow and arrow behind his back, strode forward for several steps, bent his bow and shot the arrow directly, and shot the first arrow of this battle towards the city gate.

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the personal battalion under his command also bowed their bows and shot arrows or shot with muskets one after another!
The Ming army at the city gate was already panicked. When they saw dozens of people rushing over, they thought these people were reinforcements at first, but they didn't expect these people to shoot arrows when they came up.

And they soon discovered that most of these people were still wearing armor.

Li Dongshao and the others did not come here empty-handed. In addition to people, they also used the cargo on the ship to carry a large amount of equipment. In addition, the people from the previous intelligence department also secretly brought in a batch of equipment.

So now they are fully equipped with armor, bows and arrows, muskets, knives, and spears, and they are really fully armed!
Even musketeers wear full armor!

All this is to be able to seize the city gate in the chaos and welcome the army into the city.

A thousand households at the west city gate looked at the group of armored soldiers rushing forward, but they hadn't figured out the identity of the other party, so they shot and fired arrows.

Immediately hurriedly said: "It's bandit soldiers, hurry up, stop them."

It's a good thing that the bandits didn't shout, but almost everyone knew that the bandits had entered the city.

And many people would not immediately think that these bandit soldiers sneaked in before, they would only think that the bandit army had already made a breakthrough from other city gates, and then entered the city gate.

"The thieves have already entered the city, run away!"

"Run for your life, the thief army has entered the city!"

When Li Dongshao and the others charged, they did not forget to shout slogans such as the bandits entering the city, and continued to shake the morale of the defenders at the west gate.

This made many defenders of the west city gate terrified. They didn't even understand what happened. However, the only thing they can be sure of now is that the bandits have already entered the city, and a group of bandits are still killing them. come over.

Some officers and soldiers, under the leadership of the generals of the Ming army, started shooting arrows at Li Dongshao and the others in a hurry, but most of them were wearing armor, and they were not accurate enough in their haste, so the arrows did not cause much damage to Li Dongshao and the others.

After such a short effort, Li Dongshao had already rushed to the gate of the city. Li Dongshao threw down his bow and arrow, drew out his waist knife and shield again and rushed up directly.

Facing a Ming army, he directly chopped it up.

The Ming army soldier was panicked and couldn't help but retreat a few steps, but in the end he couldn't resist with the iron knife in his hand, and was finally chopped to death by Li Dongshao.

After killing an enemy, Li Dongshao raised his waist knife and shouted: "Kill!"

Behind him, the soldiers of the pro-barracks also rushed up, and they either used swords and shields or spears to fight directly.

Relying on their fine armor, knives, and spears, a group of people broke into the chaotic city gate guards, just like a group of tigers broke into a flock of sheep.

In just a few breaths, many Ming soldiers were killed or injured, and some of the remaining Ming soldiers wanted to resist, but soon found that most of the bandit troops on the opposite side were wearing armor, and the knives in their hands were useless at all.

Some people turned around and ran away, crying.

As for running away, there has always been the first and the second. If the momentum of soldiers fleeing cannot be stopped, more and more people will flee, causing the entire army to collapse.

There are at least several hundred defenders in the west city gate, and there are hundreds of people on duty at night. However, these hundreds of people can't stop Li Dongshao's troops who are as fierce as tigers. , But many people didn't even have time to put on their armor, and took up their weapons and rushed to fight.

confusion!

This is the current situation of the Ming army stationed at the west city gate. Many people don't know what happened, and some even think that the bandit army outside the city launched an attack from outside the city.

In the chaos, Li Dongshao and the others went directly from the city gate to the city wall, and then to the small city of Tibetan soldiers. Dozens of armored soldiers seemed to be in no one's land, and the hundreds of defenders in the west city gate were powerless to resist. .

After dozens of people were killed and injured by the defenders at the west city gate, no one dared to rush forward to resist. Many people turned around and ran towards other places in the city, and many of the remaining people knelt down and shouted. Words like forgiveness.

Li Dongshao looked at the deserters of the Ming army running around like headless flies in front of him, and looked at the surrendered soldiers who were kneeling on the ground and screaming for mercy. Regardless of the blood stains on their faces, he said loudly to the left and right: "Send the signal!"

"Open the city gate and lower the drawbridge!"

"Welcome the army to enter the city!"

"The first team hunts and kills the recalcitrant enemy, the second team goes to the top of the city to defend, and the third team deploys defense at the inner city gate."

Immediately afterwards, an extremely dazzling firework rose from the sky over the west city gate, and at the same time, several lanterns on the top of the city flickered on and off.

More than 200 meters away from the West City Gate, Wang Xiazi, who had been staring at the movement of the West City Gate, immediately got on his horse, and he raised his knife in armor and said, "Let's go, enter the city!"

Blind Wang led a cavalry brigade of two hundred and rode a horse first, and rushed directly to the west city gate, and when they were about to rush to the west city gate, the suspension bridge that was originally put away by the city guards was also put down!
Immediately afterwards, Wang Xiazi led the cavalry directly onto the suspension bridge and rushed in!

After Blind Wang led his troops into the west city gate, he saw Li Dongshao covered in blood, and immediately nodded slightly: "Brother Li, you fought well, you are beautiful, and in terms of bravery, you can be among the top five in our township protection army!"

Li Dongshao grinned, licked off the blood on his lips with his tongue, then spat hard on the ground and said, "It's okay!"

Blind Wang said: "It's been hard fighting in the barracks, and then you can garrison the city gate and rest.
As he spoke, he pointed to a group of officers and soldiers running over in disorder on the main road in front of the city, trying to rescue a group of officers and soldiers at the west gate, and said, "Leave it to me."

After all, blind Wang said loudly to the cavalry behind him: "Rush forward at the first post and kill them!"

Facing this kind of emergency running over, there was no formation, and there were not many chaotic soldiers of the armored soldiers. In addition, the street ahead was wide enough for the cavalry to charge up. Wang Xiazi did not hesitate, and directly let the first cavalry post under his command charge over.

As hundreds of cavalry rushed up, emergency reinforcements came from the front. The hundreds of officers and soldiers who still haven't figured out what happened up to now saw, my mother, the bandit army has really entered the city!
Not only did they enter the city, but even the cavalry rushed in directly, which is a fart, and they can run.

As a result, many people turned around and ran away on the spot, and some smarter ones ran towards both sides of the street, trying to avoid the cavalry rushing up. Only a few soldiers didn't understand the situation and stayed where they were.

Immediately afterwards, he was charged by hundreds of riders and slashed to death with a knife.

In less than tens of seconds, the hundreds of officers and soldiers who came for reinforcements were defeated, dozens of people were killed or injured on the spot, and the rest dispersed in a hurry.

After the cavalry brigade dispersed the reinforcements, they did not continue to go deep into the urban area immediately. Blind Wang was very clear about the mission of these cavalry, which was to respond to Li Dongshao's personal battalion as soon as possible, occupy the west gate, and then cover the first The main force of the infantry battalion entered the city.

In the battle inside the city, the [-]st Infantry Brigade will be the absolute main force.

Blind Wang and the others didn't wait too long. After only five or six minutes, Huang Dingquan personally led the First Infantry Battalion to rush forward and arrived at the west gate.

After watching Huang Dingquan lead the troops into the city, Li Dongshao and Wang Xiazi looked at each other, and they both saw the relaxation in each other's eyes.

Whether it is the personal barracks or the cavalry brigade, they are actually not suitable for fighting in this kind of urban area.

There were simply too few soldiers in the pro-barracks. At the beginning, there were only more than 70 people. After a fight, more than a dozen people were killed or injured, and there were less than 50 people left.

As for the cavalry brigade, it is okay to seize the city gate at the first time, and it is barely enough to charge on the wide street in an emergency, but it will not be so easy afterwards.

But the [-]st Infantry Brigade was different!
There are nearly 2000 people in the First Infantry Brigade, and the First Infantry Brigade is the most elite infantry brigade in the Township Protection Army. Fighting after entering the city is their specialty.

Now that the main force of the First Infantry Brigade has entered the city, they can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

This Xiangyang city is stable!

(End of this chapter)