I want to be emperor

Chapter 163 The Death of Lu Xiangsheng

The reason for Sun Hongcai to go west to rescue Lu Xiangsheng is very simple. Rescuing Lu Xiangsheng at this time is tantamount to sending charcoal in a timely manner.

Once the rescue is successful, Lu Xiangsheng's gratitude and reward will be reaped.

With Lu Xiangsheng behind him to support him, Sun Hongcai's little life will be very chic in the future.

Furthermore, and most importantly, the five hundred cavalrymen under him insisted on going to rescue Lu Xiangsheng, and he couldn't stop them from going.

Even, the five hundred cavalry forced him to go with them!

The five hundred cavalry were not directly under Sun Hongcai's troops, but were sent by Lu Xiangsheng to assist Sun Hongcai in chasing the bandit protection army and assisting Sun Hongcai in attacking Xinye City.

Moreover, this group of cavalry is Lu Xiangsheng's direct line, and Lin Yongyi, the deputy commander of the cavalry, is the old line of the Tianxiong Army that Lu Xiangsheng brought over from Beizhili.

When Lu Xiangsheng was serving in Beizhili before, he formed a Tianxiong army. At that time, he also got some cavalry.

Later, Lu Xiangsheng was transferred to the south. Although it was impossible to take away the entire Tianxiong army, it was not a problem to bring some members of the team to take up the post.

There are more than [-] cavalry in the squad that led southward.

After arriving in Yunyang, Lu Xiangsheng continued to recruit cavalry, and finally expanded the cavalry to [-] cavalry, and they were all professional cavalry. Mounted infantry is different.

To put it bluntly, this cavalry is Lu Xiangsheng's direct lineage, and its commander Lin Yongyi only listens to Lu Xiangsheng, not Sun Hongcai!

When he learned that Lu Xiangsheng was defeated in Sanyuanzhuang and was trapped in Sanyuanzhuang, at the same time Sun Hongcai was hesitating whether to continue westward.

Lin Yongyi, the deputy general who led the cavalry, made it clear to Sun Hongcai very bluntly: since Qian Xian had given them an order, they must return west.

You, Sun Hongcai, have to go if you go, and you have to go if you don’t.

If you don't go, I will kill you first...

Only then did Sun Hong know that Lu Xiangsheng sent Lin Yongyi, the bastard, not only to help, but also to serve as a supervisor.

Under such circumstances, Sun Hongcai didn't care what he thought, he had to continue to lead the way back to the west...

But, yes, we will go, but how to rescue and whether it is really rescue will have to be considered again.

After all, Lin Yongyi may not be very lucky, and it is also possible that he accidentally died on the way back to the west.

He, Sun Hongcai!
Definitely not a person who is threatened by others!
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Just when Sun Hongcai reluctantly led his army back west under the supervision of Lin Yongyi, the flames of war had already reignited in Sanyuanzhuang.

Early in the morning, the artillery unit of the Township Protection Army began to bombard the Ming army in Sanyuanzhuang.

In order to ensure the effect of the bombardment, and also knowing that the Ming army in Sanyuan Village had no large-scale cavalry, let alone long-barreled artillery that could counterattack, the artillery unit led by Zhang Malin went forward directly under the cover of infantry. Close-range shelling was carried out at a distance of more than 300 meters.

At such a short distance, Zhang Marin, an old artillery officer, personally commanded the twelve [-]-jin long cannons under his command with an astonishingly high hit rate. At the same time, because of the short distance, the kinetic energy of the shells was also very sufficient.

The shells fell on the simple fortifications built by the Ming army relying on wooden fences, and they were almost invincible, directly sweeping through many fortifications.

As for the Ming army in Sanyuan Village, they could only watch helplessly as the various obstacles around the wooden fence were destroyed by the concentrated firepower of the rural protection army's artillery.

They once wanted to take the initiative to fight back, forcing the artillery units of the Township Protection Army to retreat, but when they came out, they were intensively bombarded by a large number of light and heavy artillery, and had to flee back again.

At about eight o'clock in the morning, the soldiers of the First Artillery Brigade of the Township Protection Army began to push a large number of emergency modified wheelbarrows forward.

At this time, the Ming army also ignored the risk of being bombarded, and began to counterattack with only a dozen light cannons. Although it also caused some casualties to the advancing rural protection army, it still could not stop the attack of the [-]st Infantry Brigade. advance.

And when the soldiers of the Township Protection Army advanced to a distance of 200 meters, more light artillery came forward to shoot, and then there were musketeers and archers to shoot.

The soldiers of the Ming army hiding behind the simple fortifications were unstoppable. Even Lu Xiangsheng had repeatedly ordered that they were never allowed to retreat without authorization. Seeing that it was not good, he simply and neatly surrendered with his troops on the spot to save his life.

And when a large number of soldiers from the [-]st Infantry Brigade were killed in, the personal barracks followed closely behind.

After three thousand soldiers of the rural protection army entered Sanyuanzhuang, it meant that the battle of Sanyuanzhuang had come to an end.

It is impossible for the thousands of remnants of the Ming army in Sanyuan Village to resist the wolves and tigers of the soldiers of the Township Protection Army!
More than half of these remnants of the Ming army had discarded their helmets and armor, and many of them even did not even have the most basic weapons such as knives or spears. pole.

After the Township Protection Army broke through the southern defense line of Sanyuanzhuang, and killed at least hundreds of Ming troops during the battle, the remaining Ming soldiers in Sanyuanzhuang could no longer raise their morale to resist.

There were soldiers of the Ming army running around indiscriminately, trying to escape from the battlefield. Many of them ran to the north or east, trying to swim across the river to escape from Sanyuanzhuang. There was no rural protection army to attack, but in fact there was a cavalry post and some infantry ambushed here.

These soldiers of the Ming army who crossed the river to escape could not escape, and they would be killed or captured by the rural protection army in these two directions in a short time.

In addition to the soldiers who fled, there were actually more surrenders on the spot. There were sporadic surrenders by soldiers spontaneously, and there were also generals of the Ming army who directly led their troops to surrender.

By around [-]:[-], most of Sanyuanzhuang had been conquered by the township protection army, and the Ming army in the village either fled or surrendered except for casualties.

But even so, there is still a small part of the Ming army who are still resisting during the period!
That is the more than a hundred soldiers led by Lu Xiangsheng himself. They relied on a former landlord's house in Sanyuanzhuang to fight.

After failing to surrender several times, the Township Protection Army decisively pulled out several [-]-jin light artillery!

After several rounds of shelling, a group of armored soldiers of the Township Protection Army rushed in.

A brutal fight has begun!
Even if the Township Protection Army has an absolute advantage in strength and firepower, Lu Xiangsheng himself and his soldiers are not weak. Although they are at an absolute disadvantage when fighting at close range, they still do not surrender.

Even Lu Xiangsheng himself was wearing heavy armor and holding a steel knife to participate in the fight!

And this was also the most intense battle in the entire Sanyuanzhuang Battle.

It even changed the perception of many generals of the Township Protection Army, and even Luo Zhixue, about the low combat effectiveness of the Ming Army.

In the rotten Ming army, there are still a few hard bones!
After cutting down a bandit armored soldier, Lu Xiangsheng panted and raised his head to look around.

There are only a dozen or so soldiers around him, including Lu Xiangsheng, most of them have been wounded.

And his surroundings are full of corpses or seriously injured numbers of his own soldiers, and of course those goddamn security thieves are also indispensable.

The surrounding area is full of dead bodies or howling seriously injured people!
And in the outer area, the armored warriors of the bandit army who had participated in the fight had already retreated one after another, but there were more bandit soldiers of the rural protection army coming, and not only the melee bandit soldiers with cold weapons came, but also dozens of bandits. A bandit soldier with a musket.

These musketeers stepped forward quickly under the cover of a group of armored bandits, and one of the bandits who looked like a leader was waving a knife and shouting something.

Under his command, these thieves stood still tens of meters away from Lu Xiangsheng and others, and then raised their muskets!
Seeing this scene, Lu Xiangsheng laughed, and then said loudly to his soldiers: "You all follow me to kill thieves!"

After all, he took the lead and rushed out...

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng rushed out, dozens of bandit musketeers on the opposite side also fired in unison!

When the gunpowder smoke rose, Lu Xiangsheng and the soldiers around him all fell to the ground, and the few remaining soldiers who were lucky enough not to be killed by the muskets were quickly killed one by one by the heavy armored spearmen of the bandit army. .

Lu Xiangsheng was lying on the ground, and his steel knife that chopped down several thieves in a row also fell to the ground beside him!

He seemed to be struggling to stand up, but he was shot in the chest and couldn't even raise his hand, let alone stand up!

At the same time, he murmured a voice that only he could hear: Your Majesty, minister...

Before he could finish his murmur, he tilted his head and completely lost his voice.

Lu Xiangsheng, died in battle!
After Luo Zhixue learned that Lu Xiangsheng had died in the battle, he pondered for a few seconds and said, "It's still a character, let's find a place to bury it."

Blind Wang at the side said, "Bury him generously?"

Luo Zhixue, however, glanced at Blind Wang: "Don't bother, just find a place to bury it!"

The more brave Lu Xiangsheng behaved and the more he refused to surrender, the less Luo Zhixue would give him a so-called generous burial, and it would be even less likely that he would spread his loyalty to the emperor and fight to the death.

That's just asking for trouble.

What to do, wouldn't it encourage future Ming army generals to also fight to the death.

Even if he wants to give respect to the enemy, preach loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, so as to win the hearts of the people in the world, he will have to wait until Luo Zhixue controls most of the world and even unifies Kyushu before doing such a thing.

To be honest, Luo Zhixue thought that he had given Lu Xiangsheng a lot of face by not keeping Lu Xiangsheng's head, and then taking it everywhere to spread slander.

This is replaced by Hong Chengchou and his ilk, Luo Zhixue will cut off their heads and hang them in Xiangyang city!

In order to promote the illustrious martial arts of the rural protection army, and deter other generals of the Ming army.

By the way, various arrangements will be made to smear.

Because they are enemies, not allies.

Buttocks can't sit crooked!
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With Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle, the battle of Sanyuanzhuang also came to an end. The Township Protection Army began to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time prepared to move eastward to rescue the siege of Xinye City.

But it didn't take long for the scouts to report that Sun Hongcai's unit of the Ming army that had besieged Xinye City had already led the army westward.

That being the case, there is nothing to say. After Luo Zhixue left some troops to clean up the battlefield and guard many prisoners of war, he once again led the main force eastward, heading straight for Xinye City.

But in the end, Luo Zhixue failed to catch Sun Hongcai's troops, because this man suddenly led his army to go north to Dengzhou on the way.

On the way back to the west, Sun Hongcai once again proposed to go north to Dengzhou City after learning that Lu Xiangsheng's entire army had been wiped out.

This time, Lin Yongyi did not continue to insist on going west, but readily agreed to go north to Dengzhou.

It's just that, before they reached Dengzhou, Sun Hongcai found an opportunity to hack Lin Yongyi to death on the way.

Now that Lu Xiangsheng is finished, Sun Hongcai, Lu Xiangsheng's confidant like Lin Yongyi, is not afraid anymore.

More importantly, Sun Hongcai was very greedy for those five hundred cavalrymen!
(End of this chapter)