Chapter 687 684 [Bloody Battle]

Han Shouxin, who was the first to climb the city, was already in dire straits.

It's unclear how much he was injured, but he was bleeding all over. He could no longer swing the knife and couldn't even stand still. Another spear came and Han Shouxin fell backwards.

This shot did not pierce the armor, and Han Shouxin fell down without any strength.

His face was covered in blood, and his smile was a little ferocious, because he saw with his peripheral vision that two more friendly troops had successfully boarded the city.

A spear stabbed Han Shouxin in the throat, and Han Shouxin twisted to dodge. But he was too tired and lost too much blood. He just avoided the vital point, but the tip of the spear still stabbed a wound in his neck.

The Tatar defenders seemed to be venting their anger on him.

Another spear came and was aimed at Han Shouxin's face. He raised his hand to shield himself, and the tip of the spear pierced the palm of his hand and hit his cheekbone hard.

Suddenly, I felt a sharp pain in my calf.

However, the Datong soldiers next to him occupied a larger space. Under the pushing and pushing of the Tatar defenders, someone stepped on Han Shouxin's tibia.

Immediately afterwards, Han Shouxin was stepped on again in the stomach.

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.

Lu Rui fell to pieces and finally climbed into the city. A total of more than thirty people came to his side, but half of them had fallen down at this moment. Facing the siege of the Tatar defenders, they relied on their armor to hold on and tried to delay as much time as possible for the follow-up troops to come up.

This is a standard cold weapon siege!

"Hold, hold, everyone go up the city wall!" Leng Saiyi shouted with all his strength. He wanted to fight in person, but was blocked and couldn't get through.

"Beizi, there are so many barbarians!"

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

"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow quickly!"

On each section of the city wall of several households, there were Datong soldiers, who were pushed up the city by wooden poles. At the same time, it was accompanied by countless wooden ladders, and more and more soldiers climbed up the ladders.

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

Even if the cavalry division captures the city, it will inevitably pay heavy casualties.

To be honest, it's not worth it.

A broken city consumes the lives of many cavalry. These cavalry are not easy to train. The best trained dragoons are only a few in the cavalry division. There are more valiant cavalry who are skilled in bows and horses, and cavalry who can charge like a wall without fear of death.

The reason why Wang Tingchen decided to do this was that the Tatar defenders in the city were the only elite infantry left by the Qing Dynasty.

Regardless of the front line of Saerhu, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties stationed tens of thousands of troops, but they were basically new recruits in the past few years. Regardless of morale, martial arts, or equipment, they were not as good as the veterans taken away by Mandahai.

Killing the elite Tatars here would be equivalent to breaking the backbone of the Qing Dynasty.

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

The Tatar defenders were all transferred to the front. These Datong army's surprise soldiers quickly paddled rafts to approach the city wall. Although the east city wall is close to the river, there is still a section left open, otherwise the corner (earth wall) will be soaked when the water rises.

"There are Nanmanzi here!"

"Woooooooo~~~~"

The remaining defenders on the east wall shouted warnings in panic and blew their trumpets at the same time.

Goryeo urgently brought troops to support him. When he arrived at the east city wall, dozens of corpses of Datong soldiers were lying under the city, and more than ten Datong soldiers were killed on the wall. But hundreds of people have climbed up and formed a defensive formation with their backs against the female wall.

"Come at me!"

Nan Chu led the remnants of Ye He's and Hui Fa's tribes and ran along the narrow area outside the north city wall. When they found the wooden ladder, they immediately climbed up.

Although these Haixi Jurchen soldiers have simple equipment, they are bursting with huge combat effectiveness at this moment.

They have been oppressed by the Manchus for a long time, and their ancestors have blood feuds. Now they finally found the opportunity to fight for revenge and fight for the future. Only by destroying the Manchu Qing could they truly survive.

More and more Datong troops boarded Dongcheng, and Gao Li couldn't hold it back any longer. He shouted to his soldiers: "Quickly move the reinforcements!"

The soldier managed to get to Leng Saiyi's side, and Leng Saiyi was already dizzy.

His eldest brother Chang Adai is the real warrior, but he has been working as a civil servant. Although he has practiced since he was a child and has gone on expeditions with large armies, this is the first time he has independently commanded a battle.

From the beginning to now, Lenseyi has performed very well and has not made any major mistakes.

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

At this moment, Leng Saiyi didn't even know which troops to dispatch to support the north. He roared: "Let the women carrying supplies go up!"

As a result, more than three thousand old, weak, women and children went to the north wall with sticks to reinforce them.

These Tatars are all the core of the Two Red Flags. They know that there is no way out, and even women and children have to fight.

"Beizi, there's an emergency in the southwest!"

Leng Saiyi was already confused and asked his own soldiers: "Where can we send more troops?"

As soon as he finished speaking, someone came over and said, "Beizi, Nanmanzi has gone to the South City Wall!"

The southern city wall is next to the Huifa River, and the earth city wall is also separated from the river bank by a narrow land. At this time, everyone is in a mess. Although the south wall is dangerous, you can still build a ladder to attack the city.

"Follow me to the south!"

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

In fact, there were thousands of Tatars defending 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 was purely a matter of Lensey's dispatch. In some places, too many Tatar defenders were blocked, and the contact area was so large that most of them didn't know what to do. Without military orders, they didn't dare to leave, and they couldn't really fight, so they could only stay on the outside and watch the fun.

If it were a good general, the Datong Army's casualties might have doubled.

At this moment, the Datong army was besieging them on all sides, and they did not engage in the siege of three and one missing.

Leng Saiyi was still slow to provide support. There were more than 600 soldiers, firmly occupying a section of the southern city wall. Leng Saiyi's reinforcements, plus the defenders here, totaled only more than 800 people, and both sides had almost equal strength.

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

A native of Northern Jiangsu Province, he was born in martial arts and was a hereditary general.

This guy's weapons are not lances and sabers, but an iron mace passed down from his ancestors.

In other battlefields, soldiers from both sides had armor, and they could stab and kill with guns and knives for a long time without killing anyone. Luo Yuheng was an exception here. He swung his mace and hit him. No matter how good the armor was, it was useless. What he hit was internal injuries.

On the city wall, Luo Yuheng was like the tip of a cone, leading his cone-like troops to continuously break into the defenders' formation.

On the battlefield here, the battle started the latest, but the battle was the smoothest.

Luo Yuheng smashed several enemies to death one after another, hitting them all on the head. A hit with his mace would at least give him a concussion.

After more than ten minutes of fierce fighting, Luo Yuheng personally smashed to death more than 40 Tatars who were knocked unconscious. The soldiers under his command followed the gap he made and used their inferior strength to divide and surround the Tatars in front of them.

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

Leng Saiyi angrily shouted: "Where is the escape route? Follow me and kill them!"

Leng Saiyi was really not afraid of death, so he rushed towards Luo Yuheng with his sword in hand. The morale of the remaining Tatar defenders was immediately shaken.

"Tatar General?"

When Luo Yuheng saw the reaction of the Tatar soldiers, he knew that Leng Saiyi's status was not low. He had been wielding his mace continuously for more than ten minutes, and his arms had already become weak. At this moment, he suddenly became excited, and for a moment he felt full of strength.

Leng Saiyi's personal soldiers, how could they dare to let their master really rush in front, so they rushed up to engage in the battle.

Luo Yuheng held the handle of the mace with one hand and the center of the mace with the other hand, so as to save energy. The first soldier rushed towards him, he raised his mace to deflect the enemy's weapon, and then sent it forward, with the end of the mace hitting the soldier's face.

He wasn't fainted, but he must have been concussed. He was kicked away by Luo Yuheng.

This guy rushed forward and actually reached Leng Saiyi.

Leng Saiyi raised his sword to chop it open, but Luo Yuheng raised his arm to block it. Not only did his forearms have arm guards, but there were also small bucklers on his elbows, which easily blocked the knife. Then he swung the mace with his right arm and smashed it hard, quickly and accurately, and hit Leng Saiyi on the head with the mace.

It's no use even wearing a helmet, my brain is damaged.

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

Luo Yuheng shouted in the few Manchu words he knew: "The enemy general is dead, the enemy general is dead!"

The morale of the Tatar 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 south city wall, Luo Yuheng did not pursue the Tatars who fled into the city. Instead, he led his soldiers to support the friendly forces on the west wall and sent a force to open the city gate.

This time it was more clean and tidy, Luo Yuheng, a new force, suddenly came out from the side. Moreover, this king was so brave that he killed the Tatars on the west city wall by surprise.

At this moment, the Datong Army who was responsible for opening the door finally occupied the city gate.

A large number of Datong soldiers who had not boarded the city rushed in from the city gate, and then followed the ramp of the city wall to attack the rear of the Tatar defenders.

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

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

Nan Chu, on the other hand, was leading soldiers from the Ye He tribe and the Hui Fa tribe to massacre the old, weak, women and children who were defending the city. He shouted: "They are all dogs and Tatars, no one will be left alive!"

Dorji, Goryeo's brother, originally defended the city wall in the northwest, but when he saw that the situation was not going well, he ran away, causing a chain rout of his troops.

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

When Wang Tingchen rode into the city, the battle situation had been decided, and only a few Tatars were still fighting in the streets. The soldiers of the Yehe tribe and the Huifa tribe, not only massacred the old, weak, women and children, but also continued to massacre the surrendered Tatar soldiers.

Wang Yaochen wanted to go over to stop him, but was stopped by Wang Tingchen: "As long as we don't kill him. Our army has been attacking for a long time, and the food supplies are not enough. There is no need to raise so many prisoners. Moreover, after capturing this city, we need to repair it a little and continue to attack." , simply unable to take care of so many prisoners of war.”

Wang Yaochen wanted to speak but stopped.

Wang Tingchen added: "Let them kill for a while longer, and then stop them. This will give them an excuse to beat them. I said I would not kill the prisoners, but if they kill them, they are guilty!"