Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 521 Battle for the City Gate

The spear in Li Jinzhong's hand stabbed out like lightning, and the sharp point of the spear pierced into the eye socket of a Qing soldier. The Qing soldier dropped his knife and fell to the ground dead.

"Bombardier! Bomber!"

Seeing the waves of Qing troops swarming in, Li Jinzhong yelled while stabbing the spear in his hand again.

Li Jinzhong was the eldest son of Li Laohan, a soldier who met Lu Yu when Sun Chuanting made an unannounced visit to Xi'an Zuowei, and now he has become a general of the Qin Army.

When Mr. Li and Mr. Li went to Xi’an to enlist in the army, they happened to meet Sun Chuanting who had returned to Xi’an Mansion and visited the recruiting site in person. After the three of them met again, the brothers knew that it was the new governor who encouraged them to join the army. master.

After kneeling and kowtowing to salute, Sun Chuanting learned that the two brothers were not famous, so he personally named them on the spot: Li Jinzhong, the eldest, and Li Baoguo, the second, in the meaning of being loyal and serving the country.

After the two brothers joined the army, with their daring, loyal and obedient style, they made meritorious service in battle after battle. To this day, the eldest brother Li Jinzhong has been promoted to the commander of the spearmen, and the second brother Li Baoguo has also become a general. A team is positive.

On the chaotic and noisy battlefield, no matter how loud a person's voice is, it is difficult to spread far. Everyone's attention is highly concentrated. Amidst the swords and guns, arrows flying back and forth, screams and curses, People kept falling to the ground, and the trumpeter who followed Li Jinzhong had already died in battle, and Li Jinzhong's order was not responded to.

After entering the south gate, the vanguard of the Ming army was stubbornly blocked by the Qing army.

Although the Qing army behind the fifty-step fortification was killed by explosive bullets, and because of the distance, only a hundred Qing troops jumped out from behind the fortification and rushed towards the Ming army, but a large number of Qing troops came from the two sides of the city. The tunnel keeps rushing down.

In the first wave of fifty shieldmen of the Ming army, they stretched out their large shields, held them in a bow shape, and resisted desperately. Under the blows of heavy weapons such as giant axes, flails, maces, iron rods, etc., it only lasted for a short time of dozens of breaths.

By the time Li Jinzhong rushed into the city with the spearmen, most of the fifty shieldmen had been killed or injured, and the rest were already in danger.

Due to the narrowness of the territory occupied by the Ming army after entering the city, only more than 100 spearmen rushed in to fill up the small space. Hands, and grenadiers ready to support at any time.

The tall and strong Li Jinzhong assassinated three Qing soldiers in a row, but the hundreds of spearmen who followed had no time to line up and stab, and fell into a bitter battle with the Qing troops rushing from both sides.

Hearing the miserable cries coming from behind and beside him, Li Jinzhong felt that his men were falling down from the corner of his eyes. Li Jinzhong felt bad and couldn't continue fighting like this.

In just over a hundred breaths, only a few of the fifty sword and shield fighters retreated to Li Jinzhong. The sound of the Qing army's arrows and heavy weapons hitting the shield made people feel uneasy, while the Ming army in the doorway could only Every time five or six people rushed into the city, such refueling tactics would not help the entire battle at all.

Li Jinzhong took advantage of the gap of stabbing a Qing army with a long knife, and retreated quickly, shouting: "Retreat!"

There were only five surviving shieldmen, because they were right next to Li Jinzhong. Hearing this, they immediately held thick and wide iron shields and formed a small shield formation to protect the remaining ten spearmen headed by Li Jinzhong. Bounce back.

A team in the doorway of the back team saw that the situation was wrong, and immediately shouted to stop the soldiers who were about to rush into the city, and ordered the soldiers to dodge to the sides, leaving enough space for Li Jinzhong and others.

The Qing army in the city was still pounced forward, trying to strangle the Ming army on the spot. These shieldmen tried their best to block the knocking and stabbing of various weapons while retreating backwards. Finally, after paying three Only when there were casualties and fell to the ground, did they retreat into the doorway.

"Five people line up! Commander Zhao Ergou!"

Li Jinzhong, who retreated into the doorway, gasped and roared.

The spearmen who retreated before him and the soldiers in the rear lined up quickly and leveled their spears. The two exhausted shieldmen continued to retreat against the cave wall. Li Jinzhong stepped aside and shouted loudly: " Tell the grenadiers to come forward!".

At this time, the spearmen in the front row had already fought fiercely with the rushing Qing army. Dozens of Qing army archers were mixed in the rear, and they kept shooting at the Ming army. cry.

"Li Jinzhong, a dog! Why the hell are you still not rushing forward! If you don't rush forward, I will chop you up!"

Li Jinzhong grabbed a shield player who was retreating, grabbed the shield in his hand and held it up high. After a sound of clanging, several long arrows shot on the shield and fell down. The famous team was imitating the example, grabbing the shield on the other side and holding it up. The bows and arrows thrown by the Qing army were greatly reduced under the cover of the two large shields, and the uneasy hearts of the soldiers behind finally calmed down.

It was Qian Zong Ma Pingbei who left the soldiers and hurried forward while shouting and cursing.

Ma Pingbei, who was over [-] years old, was a frontier army in Shaanxi Town. After learning that Sun Chuanting had recruited and formed the Qin Army, and the food and pay were generous, he joined Sun Chuanting's command with several friends in the same army. After repeated studies and military exploits, he rose step by step from an ordinary soldier to the position of Chief Qian.

Li Jinzhong looks tall and big, but he is not stupid. After seeing Ma Pingbei holding a knife and looking frantic, he hurried forward with his shield and covered his superior with the shield: "Mr. Qian! You came just in time! You are about to call the grenadier forward! There are too many slaves, we have to change our style of play!"

"How can I fight?! Tell me!"

Li Jinzhong's actions made Ma Pingbei's heart warm, and seeing that his body was stained with blood, the outer armor was covered with marks of knives and axes, and several places seemed to have been cut open by long knives, revealing the inside. Cotton armor, so most of the anger in his heart dissipated immediately.

Accompanied by the constant screams in the doorway and the ear-piercing sound of weapons colliding, Li Jinzhong couldn't help shouting: "Mr. Qian! Call the grenadier to throw a wave! Repel Jiannu! Humble lead our team!" Charge forward and then line up to the right to kill on the city wall! Then the archers step forward! Finally, the musketeers!"

While talking, a team of grenadiers crowded over after receiving the order from the front.

At this time, the Qing army had already killed the transparent army's four-layer gun array, and there were two more layers to where Li Jinzhong and Ma Pingbei were. Shouted loudly: "Four people line up!"

A row of four guns can leave a wide enough passage on both sides, which will make it easier for the grenadiers and archers of the rear team to come forward to support.

The remaining [-] people in his team quickly began to line up. Under Ma Pingbei's repeated orders, five or six grenadiers entered the space left by the spearman and lit the thunderbolt. After silently counting for eight breaths They threw all their strength forward, and several thunderbolts with sparks flying from the fuzes flew towards the densely packed Qing army.

The dozens of grenadiers who followed took turns, throwing Zhentianlei into the crowd of Qing soldiers continuously.

The swarming Qing army was about to expel the Ming army from the city gate, when dozens of thunderbolts suddenly fell from the sky and turned a large number of people bombed by the Qing army on their backs. In an instant, a huge gap appeared between the front and rear rows of the Qing army. files.

When the heavy armored soldiers holding heavy weapons in the front row were struggling to chop, they only heard the booming sound behind them, and then the light in the cave suddenly dimmed, and a large cloud of dust and gunpowder smoke poured into the door opening.

Just when the heavily armored soldiers in the front row of the Qing army were disturbed and slowed down, Li Jinzhong roared and threw a shield weighing more than [-] kilograms over the heads of the two rows of Ming soldiers with one hand. shield fell down.

Li Jinzhong, a tall and burly man, quickly stepped forward, raised his spear high and stabbed obliquely downwards from the heads of two rows of soldiers who were close together. The blood-stained sharp point of the spear pierced through the chest of a heavy armored soldier of the Qing army in the front row. , the Qing soldier howled in pain, was stabbed in the throat by a spearman, fell to the ground and died.

"forward!"

Following Li Jinzhong's roar, the spearmen in the front line stabbed forward with all their might, stabbing down several heavy armored soldiers in one assault.

Li Jinzhong walked around to the front row from one side, and while he was shooting his spear, a heavily armored soldier of the Qing army was shot in the throat.

"Enter!"

The remaining heavy armored soldiers of the Qing army saw the bad momentum and turned around and fled. Li Jinzhong roared and rushed out of the city gate with his men.

　Thank you Lin Lingsu for the reward in 2018.

　　
　
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