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  Chapter 687 684【Blood battle】

  Han Shouxin, who was the first to ascend the city, was in a desperate situation.

   I can't tell how many injuries he suffered, but he was bleeding all over. He couldn't wield his saber anymore, and he couldn't even stand still. Another long spear stabbed him, and Han Shouxin fell backwards.

   This shot did not pierce the armor, and Han Shouxin lost his strength and fell down.

  His face was bloodstained, and his smile was a bit ferocious, because he spotted it from the corner of his eye, and two more friendly troops successfully boarded the city.

  A spear pierced Han Shouxin's throat, Han Shouxin twisted his body to dodge. But he was too tired and lost a lot of blood, just avoiding the vitals, the point of the gun still pierced a wound on his neck.

  The defenders of the Tartars seem to be using him to vent their anger.

   Another spear came, aiming at Han Shouxin's face. He raised his hand to cover it, the tip of the gun pierced his palm, and pierced his cheekbone fiercely.

  Suddenly, there was a sharp pain in the calf.

   But the Datong soldiers next to him occupied more space. Under the push of the Tartar defenders, someone stepped on Han Shouxin's shin.

   Immediately afterwards, Han Shouxin was stepped on again.

  The defenders no longer cared about killing him, they were all dealing with other Datong troops. Han Shouxin didn't even know how he passed out.

  Lv Rui fell all over the place, and finally climbed to the city at this moment. A total of more than 30 people came up to his side, but half of them have fallen down at this moment. Facing the siege of the Tazi defenders, they all relied on their armor to hold on, and tried their best to delay the follow-up troops to come up.

   This is a standard siege with cold weapons!

   "Hold on, hold on, all go up to the city wall!" Leng Saiyi shouted vigorously, he wanted to fight himself, but was blocked and couldn't get through.

   "Bei Zi, there are so many savages!"

  Leng Saiyi squeezed to the female wall, and suddenly his scalp became numb. The Datong Army launched a general attack, and countless soldiers were approaching the city wall.

   "Let the arrow, let the arrow go!"

  Every section of the city wall in several households, there are Datong soldiers, who are pushed towards the city by wooden poles. At the same time, along with countless wooden ladders, more and more soldiers climbed up the ladders.

   Datong soldiers were constantly shot by bows and arrows, soldiers were constantly hit by rolling logs, and wooden ladders were constantly pushed down.

  Even if the cavalry division captures the city, it will inevitably suffer huge casualties.

   To be honest, a bit worthless.

  A broken city consumes the lives of many cavalry, and these cavalry are not easy to train. The best-trained dragoons are only a few in the cavalry division. There are more cavalry who are proficient in bows and horses, and there are also cavalry who can charge the wall as if they are dead.

  The reason why Wang Tingchen made up his mind to do this was that the Tartar defenders in the city belonged to the only elite infantry left in the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

   Regardless of the Sarhu front line, the Manchu Qing garrisoned tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, but they were basically recruits in the past few years. No matter their morale, martial arts or equipment, they were not as good as the veterans taken away by Mandahai.

   Destroying the elite Tartars here is equivalent to breaking the backbone of the Qing Dynasty.

  In the Meihei River, more than a hundred rafts rowed along the river bank.

  The defenders of the Tartars were all transferred to the front. These surprise soldiers of the Datong Army quickly approached the city wall on rafts. Although the east city wall is close to the river, there is still a section vacant, otherwise, if the water rises, it will soak into the corner (earth wall).

   "There are barbarians here!"

   "Woooooooh~~~~"

  The remaining defenders on the east wall panicked and shouted warnings, and at the same time sounded their horns.

  Korea urgently brought troops over to support him. When he arrived at the east wall, dozens of Datong army corpses lay beneath the wall, and more than a dozen Datong soldiers died on the city wall. But hundreds of people have already climbed up and formed a defensive formation with their backs against the parapet.

   "Follow me!"

  Nan Chu led the remnants of Yehe and Huifa to run along the narrow area outside the north city wall, found the wooden ladder and immediately climbed up.

   These Haixi Jurchen soldiers, although their equipment is simple, they exploded with great combat effectiveness at this moment.

  They were oppressed by the Qing Dynasty for a long time, and their ancestors had blood feuds. Now they have finally found a chance to fight for revenge, but also for the future. Only by destroying Manqing can they truly survive.

  As more and more Datong troops landed on Dongcheng, Gao Li couldn't hold back anymore. He shouted to his soldiers: "Go and rescue the soldiers!"

   This soldier managed to get to Leng Saiyi, and Leng Saiyi was already dizzy.

  His elder brother Chang Adai is the real warrior, but he has been working as a civil servant. Although I have practiced since I was a child, and I have gone out with the army, but this is the first time to command a battle independently.

  Since its launch until now, Lensaiyi has performed very well and has not made any major mistakes.

   But in the face of the Datong Army's all-out attack, the battlefield became more complicated, and Len Saiyi's commanding skills gradually became insufficient. Countless military news came, and support was needed everywhere, and he felt that he was losing control of the battlefield.

  At this moment, Len Saiyi didn't even know which troops to send to support the north, he roared angrily: "Let the women carrying supplies go up!"

   As a result, more than 3,000 old and weak women and children took sticks to the north city wall for reinforcements.

  These Tartars are the core of the two red flags. They know that there is no way out, and even women and children have to work hard.

   "Beizi, it's urgent in the southwest!"

  Leng Saiyi was stunned, and asked his own soldiers: "Where is there any other team to send?"

   As soon as the words fell, someone came running and said, "Beizi, the Nanmanzi went to the southern city wall!"

  The south city wall is next to the Huifa River, and the earthen city wall is far from the river bank, and there is also a narrow land. At this time, there is a pot of porridge everywhere. Although the southern city wall is dangerous, it can still be used to attack the city with a ladder.

   "Follow me to the south!"

  Leng Saiyi could only lead his personal guards to support the southern city wall.

  In fact, thousands of Tartars defended the city, and the Datong army plus the servant army only had more than 10,000 people to attack the city. The troops defending the city are completely sufficient!

   It is purely a matter of Leng Saiyi's scheduling. In some places, too many Tartar defenders are blocked, and the contact surface is so large, more than half of them don't know what to do. Without a military order, they dared not leave, and they couldn't really fight, so they could only stand around and watch the excitement.

  If you change to a good defender, the casualties of the Datong Army may be doubled.

  At this moment, the Datong army is besieging from all sides, not doing the same thing as besieging three and missing one.

  Leng Saiyi's support was still slow, and there were more than 600 fellow soldiers, firmly occupying a section of the southern city wall. Lensaiyi's reinforcements, together with the defenders here, totaled only over 800 people, and the strength of both sides was almost equal.

   It was Luo Yuheng, the head of the cavalry division, who led his troops to attack the southern city wall.

  Native from northern Jiangsu, born in martial arts, hereditary general.

  This guy's weapons are not cavalry and saber, but an ancestral iron mace.

  In other battlefields, soldiers on both sides have armor, and they can stab each other with guns and knives without killing them for a long time. Luo Yuheng is an exception here, swinging an iron mace and smashing it, even the best armor is useless, this thing hits internal injuries.

  On the city wall, Luo Yuheng was like the tip of an awl, leading the awl-like troops, constantly rushing into the defensive formation.

  The battlefield here is the latest to start the battle, but the battle is the smoothest.

  Luo Yuheng smashed several enemies to death one after another, all of them on the head, at least concussion.

   After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, Luo Yuheng killed more than forty Tartars who were knocked unconscious. The soldiers under his command followed the gap he made, and unexpectedly used inferior forces to divide and kill the Tartars in front of him.

   "This man is brave, Beizi retreat quickly!" shouted the soldiers.

  Leng Saiyi scolded angrily: "Where is there any way out? Follow me!"

  Leng Saiyi was really not afraid of death, so he rushed towards Luo Yuheng with a knife in hand, and the morale of the rest of the Tartar defenders was greatly shaken.

   "The Tartar general?"

  Seeing the Tazi soldiers' reaction, Luo Yuheng knew that Leng Saiyi's status was not low. He swung the mace continuously for more than ten minutes, and his arms were already a little weak. At this moment, he suddenly became excited, and felt that his whole body was full of strength in an instant.

  Leng Saiyi's personal soldiers, who dared to let the master really rush to the front, speeded up to fight.

  Luo Yuheng held the handle of the mace in one hand, and the center of the iron mace in the other, so as to save energy. The first soldier rushed, he raised his mace to block the enemy's weapon, and then sent it along, the end of the iron mace hit the soldier's face.

   Didn't faint, but must have suffered a concussion, and was kicked away by Luo Yuheng.

   This fellow rushed forward all the way, and even killed in front of Leng Saiyi.

  Lengsai should raise a knife to split, and Luo Yuheng raises his arm to block. Not only did his forearm have arm guards, but there was also a small round shield of the cavalry at the elbow, which easily blocked the knife. Then he brandished the iron mace with his right arm, and slammed it over, quickly and accurately, the iron mace hit Leng Saiyi on the forehead.

  It's useless to wear a helmet, and the brains are all shaken.

   "Beizi is dead!" the Tartar soldiers shouted in horror.

  Luo Yuheng shouted in Manchu with only a few sentences: "The enemy general is dead, the enemy general is dead!"

  The morale of the Tartar soldiers collapsed, and the morale of the Datong army exploded. The evenly matched battle finally quickly evolved into a pursuit battle.

  After completely occupying the southern city wall, Luo Yuheng stopped chasing the Tartars who had fled into the city, but led his soldiers to support the friendly army on the western city wall, and sent a group of troops to open the city gate.

  This time it was more neat and tidy. Luo Yuheng, a new force, suddenly broke out from the side. Moreover, this gentleman was extremely brave, and he caught the Tartars on the west wall by surprise.

   At this moment, the Datong army who was in charge of opening the gate finally occupied the city gate.

  A large number of Datong soldiers who did not ascend the city rushed in through the city gate, and then followed the ramp of the city wall to attack the rear of the Tartar defenders.

  The Eight Banners Army was defeated like a mountain, one after another.

  On the other side of the east wall, Goryeo has died in battle. This brother of Huang Taiji and Dorgon was killed by an unknown soldier.

   Nan Chu, with Yehe and Huifa soldiers, was massacring the old and weak women and children who guarded the city. He shouted: "They are all dog tartars, and no one will be left!"

  Goryeo's brother, Doerji, was originally defending the city wall in the northwest, but when he saw the situation was not going well, he ran away, causing a chain of defeats among his troops.

  Dorge fled into the city and found enemies everywhere, and finally hid in a well.

  When Wang Tingchen entered the city on horseback, the situation of the battle had already come to an end, and only a few Tartars were still fighting stubbornly in the streets. The soldiers of the Yehe tribe and the Huifa tribe continued to massacre the surrendered Tartar soldiers, not counting the massacre of the old and the weak, women and children.

Wang Yaochen wanted to go over to stop him, but was stopped by Wang Tingchen: "It's fine if we don't kill them. Our army ran a long distance, and the army rations are not enough, so there is no need to raise so many prisoners. Moreover, after capturing this city, we will continue to attack after making some repairs. , simply unable to take care of so many prisoners of war.”

  Wang Yaochen hesitated to speak.

  Wang Tingchen said again: "Let them kill for a while, and then stop them, just have an excuse to beat them. If you say not to kill the prisoners, they will be guilty if they do!"

  (end of this chapter)