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Chapter 179 I, Zhang Cheng, have no regrets!
To the east of Jiazhuang, the artillery of the Qing army was rumbling. Although Lu Xiangsheng's only remaining Hongyi cannon fought back hard, it was of no avail. Array.

At the same time, the Qing army continued to press up, wave after wave, Sergeant Xuanda fought on the defense line from morning to noon, and even had lunch in their respective positions, eating with the dust.

At this moment, the sky was getting dark, but the Qing army showed no signs of retreating. The Xuanda sergeants were all exhausted. Although they tried their best to take turns to rest, but the number of troops was too small, it was impossible to do so.

As soon as Lu Xiangsheng came down from the wall of the village, he saw Zhang Cheng and Zhang Guodong leading their horses and galloping back. He asked with a concerned expression, "Have the slaves retreated?"

Zhang Cheng got off his horse, clasped his fists and replied, "Report to the governor, about 600 Tartars rushed in, and they all retreated."

Lu Xiangsheng came slowly, stood beside Zhang Cheng, and asked with a smile: "Zhongchen, Jiazhuang is in danger of being attacked by slaves at any time, are you afraid?"

Zhang Cheng took a closer look, and found that Lu Xiangsheng had already put on his armor in his sackcloth filial piety, and he had also tied his governor's seal behind his elbow to prevent mistakes.

Knowing that the situation is critical, Lu Xiangsheng is already ready to fight, he said loudly, "Zhang Cheng has no regrets for being able to follow the governor to kill slaves!"

Hearing the roar of the Qing army outside Jiazhuang, and the bursts of gunfire, Zhang Cheng didn't feel the slightest fear in his heart, but felt his whole body was boiling with excitement.

Lu Xiangsheng took his fine iron broadsword from his personal soldier, and said to Zhang Cheng with a big smile: "The slaves have been attacking for a long time, it seems that today you and I are going to kill slaves side by side. Haha..."

Zhang Cheng said: "It's Zhang Cheng's luck to be able to kill slaves with the governor!"

Lu Xiangsheng laughed again, staring at Zhang Cheng and said: "Loyalty, the happiest thing about Lu is that he found you as a general during this trip to the guard."

Zhang Cheng also looked deeply at Lu Xiangsheng, and said loudly: "The luckiest thing for Zhang Cheng to come to Daming is that he also met the governor. Today, if he can kill the slaves side by side with the governor, he will die in battle. I, Zhang Cheng, have no regrets!"

Lu Xiangsheng had turned on his horse and said passionately: "Okay, what a no-regrets! Today we will compare each other, whoever kills more slaves."

Although his tone was very calm, his face was full of determination.

Before Zhang Cheng could speak, a soldier under the command of Hu Dawei, the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, rushed over covered in blood, and reported anxiously to Lu Xiangsheng: "Minister, the camp of Shanxi Town was breached by the Tartars, Commander Hu has been wounded, and the soldiers are leading the army to attack." There is a bloody battle with the Tartars in the camp, and reinforcements are urgently needed."

Zhang Cheng was surprised when he heard this: "Is Hujunmen injured?"

At the same time, Lin Zhiyi, the chief of Zhang Yan's Central Army sentry, also rushed over, and said urgently to Lu Xiangsheng: "Minister, the Tartars are climbing the wall, General Zhang is leading the soldiers to fight hard, and he is powerless, please hurry up!" support."

Lu Xiangsheng said abruptly to Zhang Cheng: "Zhongchen, go quickly to support General Zhang Yan, and this governor will personally lead the army to support Hushuai."

Worried about his uncle's safety, Zhang Cheng got on his horse and was about to leave, but was stopped by Lu Xiangsheng. Lu Xiangsheng looked at Zhang Cheng expectantly and said, "Loyalty, remember to take care of your body. Keep your body useful. In the future Serve the country!"

Zhang Cheng looked at Lu Xiangsheng on the horse, feeling in his heart that this seemed to be a farewell, and he said loudly: "The governor should also take care of his body!"

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Hu Dawei and his nephew Qian Zong Hu Zichen led the knights back to the camp, and Ben had no time to rest. The northern wall of his camp had already been bombarded by Qing artillery in many places.

Moreover, the trenches in front had been filled or paved with wooden boards. The Qing army pushed the shield carts and rushed to the front of his camp for more than 20 steps.

But in such close hand to hand combat, the soldiers under his command also suffered heavy casualties, there were no fresh troops in the camp, and after entering the camp gate, there was a report, and two more gaps were broken into by the Tartars.

Knowing that Zeng Xinjun was fighting a bloody battle with the Tartars at the eastern gap, he led Hu Zichen to the western gap for reinforcements, but too many Qing troops rushed in.

During the melee, a Qing soldier was stabbed by his tiger spear and fell to the ground, but when Hu Dawei was unprepared, half of the spear head in his hand pierced into Hu Dawei's left leg.

Fortunately, Hu Zichen was desperately protecting Hu Dawei, and the fallen Hu Dawei was not injured again by other Qing soldiers. However, there were more and more Qing soldiers, so Hu Zichen had no choice but to protect Hu Dawei and fight while retreating.

In his anxiety, he sent Chu Hu Dawei's own soldiers to ask Lu Xiangsheng for help.

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Zhang Cheng rode his horse back to the south gate of Jia Zhuang, and saw a group of people surrounded there, he felt a little bit of a bad premonition in his heart.

Quickly striding forward, he saw Zhang Yan sitting on the ground leaning against a broken wall, his armor had been removed, and a military medical officer was wrapping a white cloth around his chest, and a blood stain was faintly leaking from the white cloth.

Before Zhang Cheng could speak, Zhang Yan smiled bitterly, and said first, "Cheng'er, don't worry, uncle's injury is fine."

Zhang Cheng knelt down and took a closer look. Zhang Yan looked fine, and the injury should not be too serious, so he asked about what happened.

It turned out that when Zhang Cheng led the army to attack from the west gate, the Qing army's offensive became more urgent, and the Haogou outside Jiazhuang was almost filled.

Withstood the two waves of the Qing army's charge, but Zhang Yan's troops also suffered a sharp increase in casualties, so he had to order all the soldiers under his command to withdraw into the village and rely on the village wall for defense.

However, the various divisions of the Qing army took turns, and the offensive remained undiminished. They rushed forward with long ladders, ants climbed up the wall, and Zhang Yan led the army to repel two waves of attacks by the Qing army.

Just as Zhang Cheng drove back the Qing army to the west, the Qing army rushed up again at Zhang Yan's defense area at the south gate.

There are only more than 600 infantrymen left under his command, and there are more than 800 people from Lin Zhiyi's central military post. All [-] of them boarded the village wall for defense.

The Qing army who had climbed the wall had already been repulsed, but Zhang Yan was commanding his subordinates to clean up the corpses of the Qing army on the wall.

Suddenly, a wounded Qing soldier jumped up. In the confusion, he grabbed two broken arrows and pierced Zhang Yan's ribs.

All the sergeants rushed forward and killed the Qing soldiers, helped Zhang Yan pull out the arrowhead, and bandaged the wound.

Zhang Cheng helped his uncle up, and asked with great concern: "How does uncle feel, can you still ride a horse?"

Zhang Yan's face was still a little pale. He held Zhang Cheng's hand and said in a trembling voice, "Cheng'er, uncle is fine."

Then he squeezed Zhang Cheng's hand tightly, and continued softly: "Cheng'er, listen to your uncle, if you really can't hold on, you must stand out, and if you live to stand out, your aunt and Xiu'er will hand in hand." I took care of you."

Zhang Cheng was startled when he heard this, and felt that his uncle was explaining the funeral, he said in a deep voice, "Uncle is relieved, my aunt treats Cheng'er like a parent and child, and Xiu'er is more like my own sister, Cheng'er will not treat you slowly .”

(End of this chapter)