Da Ming started to ascend the throne

Chapter 74 Outsmarting Juyongguan

Hearing the lieutenant scream and then falling to his death, the soldiers were taken aback.But before they react,
The beautiful woman who rode the same horse as the lieutenant general snorted coldly, flew down from the horse, raised her leg and kicked the lieutenant general's body aside.

"Brothers and sisters, do it."

As soon as she gave an order, the team of 50 people immediately took out their weapons from the carriage, rushed up and hacked at the group of soldiers.

The caravan was Hong Niangzi and Yan Yingyuan pretending to be. The two held steel knives and chopped several people in a row. It was unstoppable.

"My God, what's going on here?"

The Juyongguan guards who escorted the caravan saw that the caravan turned into a murderous maniac in seconds, and they were stunned at the time. By the time they realized it, 30 to [-] people had been killed.

The soldiers at Juyongguan hadn't trained for a long time, and their morale had been slackened for a long time, and their combat effectiveness was almost equal to zero. How could they be opponents of the well-trained and elite soldiers of Ming Dynasty.

Under the leadership of Hong Niangzi and Yan Yingyuan, fifty Ming elite soldiers quickly killed most of the defenders who escorted them.

Bullying and bullying ordinary people is okay, but it is not good at all in real wars. The remaining soldiers dare not fight, and run away in all directions.

At the same time, two cavalrymen suddenly sprang out from the forest outside the city gate, at an astonishingly fast speed, like two whirlwinds.

By the time Du Zhizhi realized something was wrong, they had already reached the city.

"Not good, close the city gate quickly, there are enemy troops outside the city."

"Quickly pull up the drawbridge and close the city gates"

"Pu Chi Pu Chi..."

Pull up the drawbridge and close the city gate?
How could it be that simple, Hong Niangzi and Yan Yingyuan led fifty elite soldiers, charged and killed most of the guards at the gate of Juyongguan.

There were still a few carriages on the suspension bridge, and the carriages were full of military rations. No matter how Du Zhizhi yelled, the suspension bridge was difficult to pull up for a while.

The Xuanjia iron cavalry rushed up the suspension bridge in an instant, and the Mo Dao in his hand raised the knife and fell, cutting off the iron cables of the suspension bridge, and then entered Juyongguan.

After the iron cables of the suspension bridge were cut off, Li Yan led the army to the city, and the Ming army quickly entered the city.

More than half of the defenders in the city were killed or injured by the cavalry rush, and they couldn't organize an effective resistance at all.

They were already in a weak position, and their weapons were not good enough. As long as they touched the Mo Dao in the hands of the Ming cavalry, they would be split in two instantly.

The Juyongguan garrison had never seen such a mighty army. The soldiers who were not killed fell to their knees and raised their hands in surrender.

Du Zhizhi saw that the situation was over, he knew that returning to Daming would be a dead end, so he led three hundred cronies to prepare to escape through another city gate.

"Stop, put down your weapons, or kill them all."

But as soon as they ran to the city gate, a group of female soldiers in red suddenly appeared in front of them, about five or sixty people, all of whom were holding flintlock guns in their hands.

Du Zhizhi was taken aback, and when he saw that there were only a few dozen people on the other side, he hurriedly called out:

"Shoot and kill them quickly, and get out of the city immediately."

Every officer in the Ming Dynasty had his own personal guards, and they usually deducted other soldiers' salaries, almost all of which were used to train their own personal guards.

These personal guards will not fight for the country, nor will they listen to the emperor. Their allegiance is to the master who raised them, and Du Zhizhi is no exception.

As soon as he gave an order, the guards under his command raised their firecrackers one after another, but before they could light the fire, the red lady waved her hand fiercely, and the flintlock guns in the detachment of women soldiers began to shoot.

"Hit hard"

"Boom bang..."

The red lady gave an order, and a burst of gunshots rang out.

The female soldiers in the front row finished shooting and immediately reloaded the bullets. The female soldiers in the back row immediately stepped forward and raised their guns to shoot. The two rows of female soldiers fired in turn.

Only then did Du Zhizhi realize that the firecrackers in the hands of the opposite female army did not need to be ignited at all, and they could shoot immediately, and their performance was obviously much better than that of firecrackers.

When his bodyguard successfully ignited the gun, the muzzle of the gun hadn't come to point at the female soldier, and the flintlock gun in the female soldier's hand spewed out flames again.

After dozens of breaths, there were only five or six bodyguards who could stand beside Du Zhizhi, and nearly 50 bodyguards were killed by [-] opponents.

Du Zhizhi's legs trembled, unknown water began to appear under his feet, and there was an unpleasant stench, the old eunuch was so frightened that he lost control of himself.

"grown ups……"

The guards beside him were quite loyal, and they were still protecting Du Zhizhi with their own bodies.

If they hadn't vowed to protect Du Zhizhi to the death, he would have been killed long ago.

The red lady waved her hand to stop the shooting, and looked at Du Zhizhi coldly. She felt that the old man should be someone with status in Juyongguan, and wanted to capture Du Zhizhi alive.

"Ta Tata..."

Suddenly there was a sound of horseshoes, and Li Yan led two hundred black armored cavalry to the north gate.

As soon as he arrived here, he recognized Du Zhizhi.

When Du Zhizhi opened the gate of Juyongguan and surrendered to the rogues, Li Yan was a well-known counselor of the rogues, and they met each other.

"Du Zhizhi, Du Jianjun, Du Gonggong"

Li Yan called out Du Zhizhi's three names in one breath. Of course, there were official names, but also real names and eunuch names.

Du Zhizhi was hiding among the guards with his eyes closed when he suddenly heard someone calling his name.

The old eunuch opened his eyes and looked, as if seeing his own father at that time, he knelt down in front of Li Yanma with a common sound:

"General Li, help me. I am Du Zhizhi. This is all a misunderstanding. I was ordered to guard Juyongguan. We are all Dashun soldiers. You can't kill me."

This guy thought that there was a misunderstanding, how could he have imagined that Li Yan has now become the governor of Daming Shaanxi and was ordered to recover the lost land.

Yan Yingyuan came late, and he didn't know what was going on. Looking back at Li Yan, he didn't understand the relationship here.

Li Yan laughed loudly:

"Du Zhizhi, who is with you? I am the Governor of Shaanxi Province of the Ming Dynasty. What are you, a stray dog?"

"Come here, break his limbs and send him back to the capital to be dealt with by the emperor."

"No, I beg the general to treat you as a villain just once, and you are a fart. Let the villain go, and the villain must be a good person."

Du Zhizhi was greedy for life and afraid of death, so when the army of rogues approached the city, he surrendered to the rogues without a fight, without even discussing with Tang Tong.

When he heard that Li Yan was going to send him to see Chongzhen, the guy cried out in fright.

Du Zhizhi knew Chongzhen's temper the most. He hated those who betrayed him the most. Even Yuan Chonghuan was killed for deceiving him, let alone a eunuch.

If he was given to Emperor Chongzhen, he would definitely end up in death by a thousand swords.

Yan Yingyuan heard that now he understood what was going on. It turned out that the emperor sent him to supervise the army, but the old eunuch surrendered to the bandits first. He snorted coldly:
"Du Zhizhi, are you worthy of being a human? A dog is not as good as you. A dog's loyalty to its owner is beyond your comparability. Get ready to let the world live."

"Who are you? Why are you so cruel."

Du Zhizhi looked at Yan Yingyuan, he had never seen Yan Yingyuan before, a young man dared to intervene in Li Yan's affairs.

(End of this chapter)