Ming Dynasty: Starting from Liaodong Jiangmen

Chapter 56: The Divine Pivot, the First Skill in Restoring Luan

In the garrison mansion, Asibao jumped up.

He picked up the tiger-headed sword from the side and heard the gunfire and artillery fire all around. He knew that the Ming army was suddenly attacking the city without the guards reporting it. After a moment of panic on his face, he looked around with big eyes.

The surrounding guards and generals of the Hou Jin Army all woke up leisurely. When they saw this, they did not dare to neglect, and picked up their swords and guns to surround him.

Even in the face of a surprise attack, none of the generals of the Zhengbai Banner Jin Army who had been promoted due to their true military exploits were shocked. They jumped up one by one and gathered around Asibao, waiting for orders.

"Follow me to the city!"

Luanzhou City is not big, only about the size of four or five Guangqumen Wengcheng. Asibao walked out of the garrison with his guards and subordinates, and soon arrived at the top of the city. He began to look up nervously, observing the battle. Affection.

There are already some shadows of the sun on the horizon, and the dawn is slowly coming.

But at this time, Luanzhou City was still shrouded in thick fog and darkness. In the darkness, shells from all directions exploded everywhere. With loud noises, fires shot up into the sky everywhere in Luanzhou City.

Asibao narrowed his eyes slightly. It seemed that this Ming army had received a deadly order to raid Luanzhou at all costs!
Asibao's big hand holding the sword was already soaked with sweat, and he could smell a hint of turning defeat into victory.

As long as this kind of surprise battle lasts until dawn, the opponent's offensive will be contained. The longer it lasts, the higher the possibility that the balance of victory will tip in one's favor!

"Niulu from each battalion rushed to each city gate to form a gendarmerie, urging the Ming army to surrender their soldiers and the old and weak to come to the city to help in the battle. Those who dared to retreat were killed on the spot!" Asibao spat, holding his sword tightly and joined the battle, personally Supervise the battle at the North Gate, where the attack was most intense.

Before he could think about it, the situation in the city became increasingly chaotic.

The artillery and rockets fired by the Ming army from all over the city indiscriminately attacked the houses and the camps of the Hou Jin army in Luanzhou City. Fires gradually burst into the sky in the city, and the camps of Zhengbai Banner were either overturned or set on fire.

After the Zhengbai flag was raised on the city, the Jin army also organized a counterattack, but their experience in attacking and defending the city was not as good as that of the Ming army. They only used their strong bows to continuously shoot at the tide of Ming troops below the city in an attempt to contain the offensive.

Luanzhou's defense equipment was also poorly prepared. No one expected that while the Ming army was gathering in Zunhua, tens of thousands of people would be able to raid Luanzhou. They could only rely on the swords and strong bows in their hands to defend.

The flames were accompanied by screams, cannons and arrows flying across the city. The Houjin soldiers and horses in the city ran in panic. Soldiers with the Zhengbai flag were constantly hit by cannons and cannons at the top of the city, and fell down the city screaming.

Guns and artillery were everywhere inside and outside Luanzhou, and the troops of the Jin Army and the Ming Army were in chaos.

The soldiers of the Liao Army braved the rain of arrows from the city head and marched together, crossed the moat, and set up ladders on the city head. Then they clenched their swords and climbed up the ladder.

As soon as many Liao soldiers entered the city, before they had time to take out their swords, they were hacked to death by the Zhengbai Banner Jurchen warriors who swarmed up and pushed their bodies down the city, but there was still a steady stream of other people.

One fell, and more Liao troops immediately jumped onto the city. More and more Liao troops below the city joined the battle. They rushed forward one after another, shouting slogans of restoration, and fell into a selfless struggle with the Jurchen soldiers on the city. Fight and fight.

Asibao led the most elite guards to supervise the battle at the top of the city. At the end of the battle, he had to lead the guards to join the fight on the top of the city in person. However, the Ming troops who climbed onto the city continued to come, climbing like ants on the top of the city.

At the end of the battle, even Asibao, who was defending the city, didn't know where he had been breached and where he was still in the hands of the Hou Jin Army.

"Gushan Ezhen, something bad happened, the Aha in the city rioted!"

"The gendarmerie is rushing to the city to suppress it!"

Aha was a derogatory name for the Han people by the Jurchens at this time. Later in the Qing Dynasty, it evolved into an honorary name for loyal servants of the Han people.

Asibao turned his head and shouted loudly: "Don't worry about those Aha, send all the military police to the city. If the city cannot be defended, everything will be over!"

I don’t know how long it took, but the flames of war rose up and thick smoke filled the entire Luanzhou City.

There were dead bodies lying on the ground on top of the city tower, and the blood gradually gathered into a bloody stream. The thick smell of blood and gunpowder smoke filled the air, pungent and unpleasant, but no one cared about it.The loud shouts of the Ming army were touching. The Jurchen soldiers under the White Banner were covered in blood. No one took a step back. Everyone was like Shura from hell. The dark armor of the Liao army was dyed ink, and the white Jurchen armor was even more stained with blood. Captivating.

Under the city, soldiers from various battalions of the Ming army undulated like waves, and the shouts that shook the world from their mouths never stopped.

Arrows flew wildly in the air, and the long rain of arrows cut through the dawn like locusts crossing the border. Ming troops continued to be hit by arrows and fell to the ground. However, among the crowd, a Ming army general in armor stood like an iron tower in the north. The gate of the city remains standing.

His figure inspired many Ming troops to come bravely.

"Knock him down!" Asibao also noticed that this man was standing at the top of the city, and it seemed that he had been standing there for too long, so he personally led the guards forward to fight with the Ming army general.

For a moment, the two sides clashed with swords and guns, and limbs flew everywhere.

The elite Jurchen guardsmen from the Zhengbai Banner came and fought with the Ming army who had ascended the city.

Under the almost crazy offensive of the Jurchen guards, the Liao army general and the more than 300 people he brought with him finally fell on the north gate of the city. But before he fell, he stabilized a large flag. It was firmly planted at the top of the city.

The first big flag that was planted at the top of Luanzhou City had the logo of Shenshu Camp engraved on it!
For a time, the Liao army was boiling up and down the north gate wall.

When the Jurchen soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner saw that the Ming army's flag had been planted at the top of the city, their morale was in a state of confusion. They all thought that Luanzhou had been captured. Some people began to retreat in panic, while the Ming army was as if they were beaten to death. They swarmed up the city even more crazily.

Along with the banner of the Shenshu Camp at the north gate, "He", "Zhao", "Song", one after another, the high flags of the Liao army battalions engraved with the general's surname were inserted into the city of Luanzhou. head.

"The city is broken!"

"Luanzhou was captured by the Ming army!"

The Jurchen soldiers in the Zhengbai Banner began to collapse uncontrollably and scattered, and more and more Ming troops rushed to the city.

"Shi Xingzuo!" Li Shunzu jumped up from the ladder to the top of the city. At the first sight, he saw Shi Xingzuo, the logistics general of Shenshu Camp, whose armor had been cut into pieces beside the military flag of Shenshu Camp.

Li Shunzu was half-kneeling beside the military flag, but realized that the man who just stood at the top of the city like an iron tower had now made no sound.

Even Li Shunzu didn't have much impression of this person and didn't say a few words.

This was one of his three former servants. Before going to war, due to his relatively thin body, Li Shunzu promoted him to the position in charge of logistics and military equipment. Unexpectedly, he was the first to board the city and let the military flag stand. The one who fell.

For a moment, a deep feeling of self-blame surged into my heart.

"Don't worry, I will report your first achievement to the court truthfully!" Li Shunzu stretched out his hand to close Shi Xingzuo's angry eyes, then raised his sword and joined the battle again.

There is no time to grieve, no time to pray, and the battle continues.

Li Shunzu turned his grief into strength. At this time, he had completely integrated into the battlefield of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Holding the sword, he led the old troops of Shenshu Camp and rushed into the city following the footsteps of the Liao army.

Soon, cheers sounded throughout Luanzhou City.

All around the city, the banners of the Ming Dynasty were ringing against the first dawn light.

After nearly two hours of bloody battle, at the cost of the lives of countless soldiers, Luanzhou City was recaptured!

(End of this chapter)