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Chapter 287 It's time for me to practice my sword
The engineers and the blasters chose three places under the city wall. The three places were very close to each other. The power of the red cannon combined with the effect of three piles of embedded explosives made the three places bloom one after another, and this section of the city wall collapsed.

The city wall of Jiujiang City is made of bricks and stones, and there are horse paths on the city. This fueled the flames, so this section of the city wall flew into the sky amidst the loud noise of the sky falling and the earth cracking.

At this time, outside Jiujiang City, countless torches lit up under the night sky.

Zhu Yousong's [-] troops had been prepared long ago, and after receiving the will, they came like overwhelming waves.The shouts resounded through the sky, and thousands of horses and thousands of troops rushed towards the gap in Jiujiang City with overwhelming momentum.

The Qing army's artillery on the top of the city was still ringing, but Zhu Yousong's artillery battalion was not idle either. Under the cover of firepower, Daming's army was like a tiger on the mountain, braving the artillery fire and charging to the side of the moat.

Although the moat outside Jiujiang City is a bit wide and the water in the pool is a bit deep, compared to Tianzhu Yangtze River and Poyang Lake, this can only be regarded as an insignificant small river ditch, and it is difficult to stop the charge of thousands of people at this time.

Zhu Yousong's men and horses had already made preparations. The soldiers rushing to the front quickly built the bridge, and the soldiers who knew how to swim jumped directly into the river and swam across.

The distance was getting closer and they reached the range of bows and arrows. At this time, the Qing army on the top of the city opened their bows and fired arrows at them. , but the warriors regarded death as home, and followed one after another, and the fallen ones were replenished. At this time, the imperial battalion led by Liu Zhaoji rushed across the moat, and the light firearms battalion, horseback battalion, and iron cavalry battalion all had a place to use.

The sound of guns and cannons was like popping beans. The bows and arrows of the Mabu Battalion and the soldiers of the iron cavalry shot arrows as they charged on flying horses. It is also like opening the gate to release the flood, pouring into the city.

Of course, the two princes of the Qing army and the traitor marshal Zuo Menggeng and others could not just sit still. The earth-shattering explosion just now stunned them. Nikan was relatively close to the explosion and was knocked off his horse on the horse path at the head of the city. When I realized it, I saw the city was broken, and I was terrified as if the end of the world was coming. I never expected that the impregnable Jiujiang City would be broken by the Ming army like this?

But they were still not reconciled, and hurriedly mobilized heavy troops to fight from the front, left and right three directions of the city wall gaps, and they planned to fight back the Ming army that rushed in.

In this way, the Qing army and the Ming army started a life-and-death fight here, and the morale of the Ming army was high after winning battles for days, shouting and roaring, all of them were unstoppable like little tigers.

In contrast, the morale of the Qing army, which had been defeated for several days, was low, and today Zhu Yousong's troops came prepared, but the Qing army was very passive. Regardless of the combat effectiveness of the two sides, this kind of hand-to-hand combat has already determined the outcome.

After the melee, several generals arrived on flying horses. The first one was the titan Zu Keyong, who was invincible when swung with the mountain axe in his hand. Where the ax rose and fell, the Qing army and their horses were either cut open or swept away. The limbs and equipment of the Qing army flew all over the sky.

Liu Zhaoji and Zheng Hongkui, who are famous for their bravery, also entered the city. The two swords flew up and down, and the Qing army was unstoppable. The captain of the horse, the gunman, took the Qing army like a toad, and both the Qing army and the Tartars had seen the power of this trump card division, and they had already had a shadow in their hearts, and they were about to collapse at the touch of a finger.

In this way, the melee at the gap in the city wall did not last for half an hour, and the Qing army could not resist, but none of them surrendered. The army was defeated and fled in all directions.

Zuo Menggeng, Nikan, and Boluo couldn't hold back their yelling, seeing that Jiujiang City could not be defended anymore and the general situation was over, they had to flee for their lives with their own soldiers.

But before Zuo Menggeng reached the gate of the city, he was stopped by a general, who immediately yelled like thunder, "Hey, this road is blocked!"

Zuo Menggeng shivered in fright, he knew him too well, this general was once the number one fierce general under their father and son's tent, Zu Keyong.

"Father, my father and I treat you well, why do you turn against me?" Zuo Menggeng saw that only Zu Keyong came, alone, and there were hundreds of soldiers and horses beside him, so he cursed eight battles .

"Hmph, then you father and son in the imperial court are so weak, why do you rebel? How can rebellious officials and thieves have the face to scold me!" Zu Keyong is the worst at reasoning, but today these two sentences left Zuo Menggeng speechless, and became angry from embarrassment The rest can only be solved by force.

But although Zuo Menggeng had a lot of people, the soldiers had no fighting spirit at this time and they were all running for their lives. Seeing that it was the brave Zu Keyong, they were already a little timid.So they just bite the bullet and kill Zu Keyong, and Zu Keyong hits the big axe, and these people are in a mess, and those who can get up run for their lives, and they can't get up and sleep here forever.

Zuo Keyong raised his horse and came to Zuo Menggeng. Zuo Menggeng knew that a hundred of them were not Zu Keyong's opponents, so he pulled his horse and ran away.

But before running very far, Zuo Keyong chased the horse head and tail. Zuo Keyong yelled and slashed over with a hatchet. Zuo Menggeng's horse's hind legs flew away, and the horse screamed and lay paralyzed. On the ground, Zuo Menggeng leaned back and cut off from behind the horse's buttocks.

The fall made him dizzy, but he still didn't forget to beg Zu Keyong for mercy when he got up.

Zu Keyong didn't answer, he threw another ax and Zuo Menggeng's head was in a different place.Zu Keyong jumped off the horse, took the long braid on Zuo Menggeng's head and hung the head under the horse's neck, then flew on the horse and continued to kill the enemy.

Now the city is full of flames, and the streets and alleys are full of battlefields where the Ming army chased and wiped out the Qing army.

Compared to Zuo Menggeng, Nikan and Boluo were lucky.When the east was turning white, the two princes of the Qing court led hundreds of real tartars and opened the west gate to escape from the city.

Now they had no choice but to escape from the west city, because the north and east of Jiujiang city were blocked by big rivers, and now the navy was gone, and the south city was blown up by Zhu Yousong, with heavy troops gathered, they had only one way to go to the west city.

However, they were dumbfounded when they crossed the moat. A group of people was waiting for them here. Countless torches shone like daylight, and a familiar face in the firelight came into their sight. It was the Kung Fu Emperor Zhu Yousong.

Wearing heavy armor, Zhu Yousong sat down on a thousand-mile lamp and yelled loudly, looking at them with a smile on his sword hanging from his waist, but at this moment, the smile seemed so terrifying to the second king and hundreds of Tartars.

Beside Zhu Yousong was the heroine He Xuanjiao, and Zheng Damu, Li Quan and countless armored guards escorted him.

Nikan and Boluo gritted their teeth, "Kill me!"

Zhu Yousong still looked at them with a sneer on his face. He Xuanjiao, Zheng Damu and Li Quan rushed up with armored warriors to fight with these Tartars for about a quarter of an hour. Afterwards, hundreds of Tartars all fell in a pool of blood, leaving only two naked Tartar princes.

The second king knew that he would definitely not survive today, so he had to do everything himself.

At this time Zhu Yousong shouted: "You all stand down, it's time for me to practice my sword."

(End of this chapter)