Chapter 1262: Gatekeeping

Before Aruba could react, his head and body were separated.

This scene shocked the Mongolian soldiers in the city gate and made them scream. But at this moment, they didn't realize that the enemy was coming, and they thought that Lai Tu was unwilling to hand over his BMW...

Until Lai Tu's men all drew their weapons and chopped down their comrades in the front row in a blink of an eye, the Mongolian soldiers behind realized that it was not the case.

While they shouted to the city gate tower to warn, they hurriedly tried to pull out the force wood supporting the thousand-pound gate.

The purpose of Ma Cheng and others was to seize the city gate, so how could they succeed? They all squeezed their horses' bellies, and the war horses felt pain. They rushed forward and knocked all the Mongolian soldiers in the city gate to the ground.

After being knocked to the ground, some people still reached out to hold the force wood and wanted to knock them down. But they were trampled into mud by the horseshoes of the Ming cavalry behind them...

The Mongolian soldiers on the city gate tower tried their best to turn the capstan, but they couldn't let go of the high-hanging thousand-pound gate.

"Quick, take back the city gate!" Upon hearing the news, the gatekeeper rushed out of the barracks and ordered his men loudly to quickly eliminate the enemy and take back the city gate.

Fortunately, there were not many enemy soldiers of unknown origin, only 20 or 30 people, who dared not rush out of the city gate. They could only guard the city gate and prevent the gate from falling.

As the Mongolian soldiers poured into the city gate like a tide, the gatekeeper breathed a sigh of relief. He was Pingzhang Guolai's confidant. As long as the city gate could be taken back, there would be no problem. Maybe he could even whitewash it and make a contribution.

But before he could breathe a sigh of relief, he heard the deafening shouts and killing outside the city. The thousand-householder hurried to the other side of the city wall and looked out. In the direction of the abandoned military camp in the distance, countless cavalrymen launched a charge towards Gyeongju City, with iron hooves rolling and rolling up snow foam all over the sky, as if a blizzard sweeping the world was about to swallow up Gyeongju City.

"Quick, take back the city gate immediately!" Qianhu shouted at the top of his lungs and rang the alarm himself.

The clanging alarm bells instantly spread throughout the entire Gyeongju City. The Mongolian nobles, who were used to sleeping in during the winter, rubbed their sleepy eyes and asked the servants what happened.

The servants knew nothing and hurried out to check.

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Inside the South Gate of Gyeongju, a fierce hand-to-hand combat took place.

"Kill! Kill..." Ma Cheng, holding the standard scimitar of the Ming cavalry, pierced a Mongolian soldier's chest with all his strength, then kicked him in the stomach, and took the opportunity to draw out the knife, narrowly blocking the slash of a Mongolian knife, with sparks flying in the sound of metal and iron.

His warhorse had been chopped down by the Mongols, and he was also injured in many places, with blood all over his face, but he still led the last dozen brothers under his command to stand shoulder to shoulder, guarding the last standing tree, fighting to the death.

The other standing pole had been knocked down by the Mongols. If this one was lost, all the previous efforts would be wasted.

However, before the last Ming soldier fell, the Mongols would not even think of touching this standing pole.

"Brothers, hold on, reinforcements will be here soon!" Ma Cheng was killing the enemy frantically while shouting to encourage morale.

"Kill!"

"Come on, Tartars!" The Ming army soldiers responded with a hoarse voice, fighting bloody battles with the Yuan army with extraordinary courage, fighting to the end.

But the Yuan army was not a pushover. They knew the terrible consequences of losing the city gate, and they wanted to knock down the standing pole like crazy. If it weren't for the narrow city gate hole that limited their military advantage, the mere twenty or thirty Ming soldiers would have been killed in one breath.

Even so, under the tide-like offensive of the Yuan army, the Ming army quickly lost more than half of its troops. Only these ten or so remnants were left, using themselves as a barrier, struggling to guard the standing pole.

Seeing that the Ming army was about to collapse, Lian Lai Tu had to draw his sword to help resist the attack of his comrades...

Ma Cheng killed another Mongolian soldier with a knife, but when he wanted to use the same trick to kick and draw his sword, he was chopped on the thigh by another Mongolian soldier. He screamed, staggered, and fell to the ground on the spot without pulling out his sword.

The Mongolian soldier swung his sword to chop his neck. Ma Cheng could roll over and escape this fatal blow. But he was surrounded by legs and didn't dare to roll over randomly, otherwise he would knock down his comrades beside him and cause them to die together.

Seeing that he was about to be chopped in the neck, Ma Cheng secretly shouted "My life is over", but suddenly heard a shocking sound of fire guns.

The Mongolian soldier was shot in the middle of his eyebrow and fell backwards. The Mongolian knife in his hand only left a shallow blood mark on Ma Cheng's neck...

Immediately afterwards, there was another burst of dense gunfire, shooting down a group of Mongolian soldiers who surrounded the Ming army.

But the gunfire was already very loud, and it was amplified many times in the city gate. Everyone was dizzy and their ears were buzzing. Ma Cheng was no exception.

The shouts and killings in the city gate were paused for a moment. But then another shout and killing sounded!

It was the elite of the Ming army ambushed outside the city, and finally killed under the command of Lan Yu.

Taking advantage of the moment when the Yuan army was stunned by the gunfire, they rushed into the city gate like a tiger out of the gate, and slashed at the Yuan army crazily.

The five hundred elites were the elite among the elites, and under the personal leadership of Lan Yu, their combat effectiveness could be called the ceiling of this era.

The addition of this new force instantly changed the balance of victory and defeat in the city gate. The Yuan army, which had lost its advantage in manpower, was defeated and had to move away from the standing wood within reach, withdraw from the city gate, and reorganize the offensive.

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Ma Cheng watched his comrades rushing past him, picked up his knife and wanted to stand up, but saw a big hand appear in front of him.

He looked up and saw it was Sapphire.

"Father..."

"Can you stand up?" Lan Yu asked in a deep voice.

Ma Cheng quickly grabbed Lan Yu's hand and stood up on one leg. Then he checked his other thigh and breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, there was only a cut on the skirt and no vital injuries."

"That's good." Lan Yu nodded: "You can retreat and rest, and leave the rest to us."

"..." Ma Cheng wanted to say that he could still fight, but as soon as Lan Yu let go, he couldn't even stand still, so he had to nod and said: "Yes."

Then he supported the wall and withdrew from the battlefield with the seven or eight surviving brothers.

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Originally, according to the plan, Lan Yu and the others would arrive a long time in advance, so that so many people would not die.

However, no matter how thorough the plan is, there will still be flaws, not to mention that Lan Yu always relies on intuition to fight and does not make detailed plans.

What he didn't expect was that the soldiers had been lying in the ice and snow for so long that their bodies were numb from the cold... Fortunately, it was the end of February anyway, and there was no extreme cold like the twelfth lunar month in winter, otherwise they would all have frozen to death. .

Even so, the soldiers rubbed and rubbed desperately, and it took them a long time to regain their ability to move, so they were late for a cup of tea.

Fortunately, Ma Cheng, his twenty-nine brothers, and the Lai Tu finally blocked the Mongolian soldiers' counterattack, and Lan Yu's plan to seize the door did not go bankrupt...