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Chapter 356 Leave some seeds for the Eight Banners!

Zhili chief envoy Yang Jingsu plucked up the courage to cross the canal after the start of the war. Seeing that the Zhili officers and soldiers who attacked the East Gate and the Eight Banners force were stubbornly resisted by the bandits, and suffered a lot of losses, he couldn't help but feel distressed, so he wanted to discuss with Shikai whether to go first Withdraw the siege officers and soldiers to rest.

Unexpectedly, before he saw Shi Kai's virtuous brother, the murderous military order not to retreat was issued.

Facing the persuading Lao Yang, Jia Liu said directly: "My lord, you don't need to persuade me. I brought the Eight Banners children under the city. It is reasonable for every casualty, I, the leader of the army, feel very distressed. However, it is my bounden duty for the Eight Banners soldiers to bring peace to the country. , the responsibility is unshirkable, if the soldiers of the Eight Banners don’t use their lives, how can we point the Han people in the Green Banners to use their lives!”

With a firm attitude, if you don't break Linqing today, you will never stop fighting.

Seeing this, Yang Jingsu couldn't say anything more. After all, the Prime Minister of Shandong Military Affairs was Shi Kai's younger brother, not him, the former governor of Zhili.

Until this time, the Zhili soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers who attacked the east gate of the old city suffered heavy losses.

The Zhili soldiers suffered more than [-] casualties, and the Eight Banners soldiers also suffered about [-] casualties.

The reason for the excessive casualties of the Qing army was that the East Gate was guarded by the bandit commander Wang Jinglong himself, and there were 400 leader guards led by the bandit commander Wang Liang as reinforcements.

Mr. Wan Chaoxingzui, the chief soldier of Zhili, wanted to retreat, but before he ordered to withdraw his troops, the Prime Minister's strict order from the Minister of Military Affairs was issued to the front of the battle.

This strict order put Wan Chaoxing in a dilemma, so he quietly sent someone to ask his immediate superior Yang Jingsu what he meant, but was told that if the Eight Banners did not retreat, he would not be allowed to retreat, and if the Eight Banners retreated, he could also retreat.

Helpless, he had no choice but to continue to supervise the soldiers to climb the city, while anxiously watching the Eight Banners soldiers in the south.

Above the east gate, Wang Jinglong continued to boost morale. Under his courageous command, the Qing army under the city suffered heavy casualties.

"The Qing soldiers really focused on the east gate. Fortunately, I mobilized the best soldiers here, otherwise the old city will be destroyed!"

Wang Jinglong, who was already sweating profusely, asked Wang Liang, the commander-in-chief, to send someone to tell the leader to attack the Qing army with cavalry when the siege army was exhausted.

Wang Liang thought so, and dispatched people to report.

After receiving the report, Wang Lun immediately asked his righteous daughter Wu Sanniang to gather the cavalry soldiers to wait behind the city gate, and rushed out of the city to kill the Qing army by surprise.

Qing army artillery by the canal.

In the name of Prime Minister and Minister of Military Affairs, Jia Liu asked the capital censor Asiha to lead the Mongolian cavalry to supervise the formation. If any officers and soldiers retreat without permission, regardless of whether they are Manchu or Han, they will be killed.

"Also tell Sir Ah that if the bandits and cavalry leave the city, Lord Ah will command the Mongolian cavalry to defeat them."

"Whoo!"

After the soldiers went to pass the order, Jia Liu looked at the top of his head. The sun was still very poisonous. After taking the wet towel handed by the soldiers and wiping the sweat from his forehead, he looked at Lin Sanmao who was standing by the side: "You The errand was done very well, and I went to Yang Zhi to get ten taels of gold."

"Thank you for the reward, my lord!"

Lin Sanmao was very grateful. Although he didn't know why Lord Jia let him secretly disclose the deployment of the Qing army's siege to the religious bandits in Linqing City, how could a villain like him be able to guess at will.

After Lin Sanmao withdrew, Fan Wei opened his mouth to say something, but was stopped by the Lord Guijia who raised his hand, as if he didn't want to listen to his reminder.

Here, Lin Sanmao found Yang Ye, who was in charge of the prime minister's accounts, with excitement.

"Sanmao, since you surrendered yourself, you are an official and earn money. How is it compared to the bandits who followed the Ever Victorious Army?"

Yang Zhi smiled and ordered someone to fetch two ingots of five taels of gold ingots, which were the only honors given to the young master by the Shandong General Army not long ago.

"Of course one is in the sky and the other is on the ground. Mr. Jia is generous to others."

Lin Sanmao reached out to take the gold ingot while saying his words of gratitude to Mr. Jia, but just as the ingot was in his hand, two people suddenly came behind him, and they held him up without any explanation.

Two ingots of gold ingots also fell out of his hands.

Lin Sanmao panicked: "Master Yang, what are you doing?"

"No, nothing."

Yang Zhi shook his head, picked up the two gold ingots from the ground, put them back into the box as if nothing had happened, and waved his hands.

Two soldiers immediately dragged Lin Sanmao out of the tent, frightened Lin Sanmao kept struggling and shouting like killing a pig.

Soon, there was a scream.

Poor Lin Sanmao, who had only been a seventh-rank official in the Qing Dynasty for a few days, died like this.

Under Dongcheng.

The messenger brought the Prime Minister's military order: "My lord, you are not allowed to retreat without the military order!"

"it is good!"

Yingjitu, who was sweating profusely and was also covered in blood, was not dissatisfied with the military order. Instead, he became more courageous and urged the Eight Banners to climb up the city desperately.

The military order to kill those who retreated without permission forced the group of Eight Banners disciples from various ministries of the Beijing camp to grit their teeth and fight to the death with the bandits in the city.

On the other side of the city gate hole, after smashing a few shield chariots, two Qing army shield chariots finally got in, and then slammed into the city gate with all their strength, hitting the blocked stones behind the gate. slide.

The battle for the old city has reached a critical moment.

On the south side, there are more than a dozen ladders covered with armored Eight Banners soldiers. The highest climbers are less than one person away from the crenel.

Wang Jinglong, the commander-in-chief of the thief, discovered the emergency and hurriedly rang the big bell hanging in the center of the gate tower.

Hearing the sound of the bell, dozens of elite religious bandits with their heads wrapped in white cloth and red cloth around their waists shouted in unison and pulled the iron chains on their hands vigorously together, so a cauldron that was boiled and splashed was hoisted to the top of the crenel. The pot was filled with golden juice mixed with excrement and hot oil.

"Burning the dog to death!"

Accompanied by the shout of a disciple of Wang Lun's boxing stick, the cauldron turned over immediately, and hot golden juice poured down from the crenel, making the Eight Banners soldiers who were climbing were crying and howling.

The face of the first Eight Banners soldier whose head was poured on his head was scalded so that his skin was gone, and his flesh was gone, blood red in the blackness, extremely ferocious.

"what!"

With desperation, the painful soldier fell to the sky and his neck was broken on the spot.

It can be regarded as saving the incomparable pain before death.

All the soldiers of the Eight Banners below were scalded to the point of screaming. Many soldiers of the Eight Banners were scalded by the golden juice and kept beating them.

Those who were unlucky had the golden juice slide into their bodies along their necks, and hurriedly took off their armor, but the more anxious their hands and feet became, the more messy their hands and feet became.

Pots of golden juice were poured down, stones were thrown down one by one, everything that could kill the Qing army was prepared, and finally whole logs were thrown down.

The wood is all demolished houses in the city, and the longest and heaviest beams are obtained, and they are thrown down along the city wall.

The battle situation deteriorated rapidly, and many Qing soldiers in Pancheng had no choice but to jump off the ladder desperately to avoid being poured with gold juice, or being knocked down by wood and stones.

The Zhili soldiers couldn't hold it anymore, and before the Eight Banners soldiers retreated, they shouted and ran backwards.

Seeing this, the Eight Banners soldiers didn't care about strict orders, even if Yingjitu was extremely brave, he was powerless to fight again at this time.

Seeing this, Yang Jingsu stomped his feet anxiously, took Jia Liu's hand and persuaded him, "Brother Shikai, withdraw your troops! You don't care about the life and death of the green camp, but you must leave some seeds for the Manchurians!"

(End of this chapter)