East Factory Governor

Chapter 589 Breakthrough
The well-prepared Tazi soldiers launched a fierce general attack, and the heavily armed Bajala soldiers, armed with shields, took the lead and advanced forward.Behind them, the elite Tartars were covered by a large number of armored vehicles.At the same time, the remaining [-] archers of the Tartars rushed up again, slanting arrows and kerosene towards the city wall wildly.

Now there are only about [-] Guanning soldiers left on each city wall. Although they fought hard, but the other guards were too weak, they could only watch one after another Tartar soldiers climb up the city wall.

At this time, there were not many firearms left in the Ming army, and the local guard soldiers were extremely inexperienced in the operation of firearms. Too slow to blow up one's own people.This is especially true for the more dangerous kerosene!

What's more serious is that under the desperate impact of the Tartar soldiers, many people in the guards began to be cowardly. Not only did they show signs of retreating in fear of the battle, some even knelt on the ground and surrendered!
In the Ming Dynasty, there was never a shortage of people who would rather die than surrender, but there was even less of a shortage of people who surrendered and survived.

Everywhere the walls began to crumble.

Fortunately, it was getting darker by now!
The north gate was breached first, followed by the west gate.Zu Dashou had already prepared, and arranged three to four thousand people near the four gates to start street fighting with the Tartars.Although these soldiers can't drag for long, but a second is a second.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the sky was getting darker and darker.

Zu Dashou led his troops to the vicinity of the south gate, looked at the sky, and felt that it was almost the same.

He pulled out his waist knife and shouted loudly, "Brothers, get out of the city!"

The south gate was quickly opened, and the Tartar soldiers outside were taken aback for a moment, but soon rushed in without fear of death!

The elite soldiers of the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army who had been waiting for a long time suddenly roared in unison, and rushed towards the south gate with overwhelming momentum!
At the front of the team, [-] cavalry consisting of [-] Guanning iron cavalry and [-] Datong fine cavalry charged forward in three columns.

No matter how strong the Tartar infantry is, it is absolutely impossible to block four thousand cavalry from the front!The Tazi soldiers who just rushed into the south gate were dumbfounded when they saw the rolling torrent. Either they dodged before they were hit by horses, trampled to death, or their heads were cut off by the cavalry, or they quickly stepped aside to watch the cavalry obediently. Out of town!

The Houjin army attacking the south gate now has a total of about 8000 people, and only 3000 cavalry, which are used to protect Dorgon and prepare to enter the city to attack the infantry of the Ming army.Seeing this scene, Dorgon immediately judged that Zu Dashou wanted to break out of the siege, so he immediately sent a thousand cavalry to stop the harassment, and at the same time ordered more than [-] infantrymen who had not yet been dispatched to intercept the infantry brought out by Zu Dashou.

Since the Ming army had no intention of fighting, Zu Dashou shouted, "All ministries break through on their own!"

Then he took four thousand cavalry and galloped southward.

The thousand Tartar cavalry, who were eager to make meritorious deeds, pursued closely.

After the [-] infantry consisting of the Guanning Army and the Datong Army left the city, seeing Zu Dashou and the cavalry rushing away, they knew that they had been abandoned by the general.

The blow to morale was enormous.

The responses of these soldiers varied.Some yelled at Zu Dashou for being cowardly and cowardly, while others thought it was human nature: If the general doesn't leave now, should he stay and die?As for everyone, hurry up and break through at night.

So these infantry were divided into three types, one was to break out of the encirclement rather than die, they formed a group of dozens or hundreds of people, and killed in one direction.One is to lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead, and then look at the chance of escape. Anyway, no one is going to pursue deserters right now, right?There is another way that is even simpler, just choose to surrender.

Because of the existence of the latter two types of people, it is even more difficult for soldiers who desperately want to break out of the encirclement.In terms of field battles, originally the [-] elite soldiers of the Ming army could fight against the [-] elite Tartars when united.But because of Zu Dashou's "breakout first" (or escape directly), at least half of the people chose to flee or surrender, and this battle was completely impossible to fight.

Three thousand Tartar soldiers quickly intercepted most of the Ming army trying to break through. The two sides fought fiercely for a while, and more and more Tartar soldiers came from the west gate and east gate, and soon surrounded them. Strictly.

Of the [-] infantry, only four or five hundred broke through in the end, and the rest were either killed or surrendered.

In Santunying City, only the local guards are left.After the news of Zu Dashou's escape spread, there was no need for the Tazi soldiers to disarm, they disarmed themselves and waited for the enemy to take over.

On the night of July 26th in the third year of Chongzhen, Santunying fell.

However, when Hou Jin's army entered the Santun camp, they immediately discovered that there were several places in the city that were on fire!It turned out that the cunning and experienced Zu Dashou had ordered people to light the granary a long time ago, and burned the grain in the granary!

Hauge looked at the soaring flames, and his teeth were chattering with anger!
Let's say that in order to pursue Zu Dashou's [-] cavalry, Dorgon sent another [-] cavalry to chase after him in addition to the [-] fine cavalry he sent out before.But Zu Dashou's luck was very good, the moonlight was very poor that night, the visibility was very poor, the [-] cavalry sent by Dorgon went too late, and it was impossible to know where Zu Dashou's cavalry went in the vast darkness.At first, they stopped from time to time to look at the horse's hoof prints to identify the direction he was going, but soon they realized that if they stopped and looked like this, they would have to wait until the year of the monkey to catch up with the enemy, so they might as well not chase them.

And the thousand Tartar cavalry who were chasing Zu Dashou earlier saw that their own cavalry did not catch up, and worried that they would jump over the wall and fight back if they chased the opponent forward.There is only one thousand on one's own side, and four thousand on the other side, and they are all elite cavalry. Thinking about fighting, there is nothing to gain, so they gave up the pursuit.

Zu Dashou continued to run desperately forward with four thousand fine riders, and finally came to the foot of a mountain.

In the dark night, I don't know what this mountain is called. Anyway, as long as the pursuers don't come up, they will touch it slowly.

Several teams of soldiers were sent to investigate the terrain, while the rest dismounted and repaired on the spot.

After a while, several soldiers came to report that they found a valley in front of them, which was deserted.

Zu Dashou immediately ordered all the horses to enter the valley to rest.

Not long after entering the valley, the sky began to rain heavily. The soldiers took shelter from the rain, but Zu Dashou was beaming with joy.

The next heavy rain will wash away the horseshoe marks, so Jianu may not be able to find himself.

This means that he can temporarily hide in the valley and wait for two days, no, three days. It is estimated that within three days Qin Shuhuai will be able to conquer Qian'an!

When the time comes, he will take these four thousand elite riders out of the valley to seek refuge with Qin Shuhuai.

He thought very clearly.If he wanted to cross the mountains to Qian'an, he would have to abandon his horse, and then he could only go to see Qin Shuhuai empty-handed and in rags. Could Qin Shuhuai not be furious?Even if he doesn't cure himself of the crime of losing the city for Governor Yuan's face, he will definitely give himself a cold look.But if he brought four thousand fine riders to meet him, the situation would be quite different!

He took off his helmet, walked to an open space with heavy steps, and let the rain wash over his body.

I muttered in my heart: I tried my best!The revenge of the brothers must be avenged on my ancestor's birthday!
(End of this chapter)