Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 37 Looking for an Opportunity to Turn the Tide
In the battle of tens of thousands of people, the rebels all over the mountains and plains rushed to Chizhou City, which made Wang Yan's blood boil.

Zuo Menggeng once again sent more than [-] troops to attack the city, but in Wang Yan's view, the rebels wanted to break through Chizhou, and it was obvious that they could not succeed only with such refueling tactics.

The cannons are still bombarding, and many city walls have been smashed into gaps, but everything is still within the tolerance of the Chizhou defenders.

With the addition of the new force, the rebels once again attached themselves to the city, making the battle on the city even more fierce. Huang Degong had to mobilize troops from the other two walls where the fighting was not so intense, and re-stabilized the city defense.

Chizhou City is like a solid boulder on the coast, no matter how the rebels attack, it will always remain motionless and as solid as gold.

Nearly an hour into the battle, the Zuo army had already left nearly ten thousand corpses, and the frontal attack caused heavy losses to the Zuo army. Zuo Menggeng on the hill had to change his strategy.

At this time, Wang Yan could only see the flags waving on the hill, the drums beating loudly, and the [-] rebels on the south and east sides of Chizhou stepped up their attack.

The rebel warships cruising on the Yangtze River also shelled the northern city wall of Chizhou at this time, and a search ship shuttled on the river, and it was unknown how many soldiers and horses were hidden.

The frontal assault failed, and the rebels relied on their strength to siege from all sides. The strength of each side should not be underestimated, which greatly increased the pressure on the city.

The development of the war made it impossible for Huang Degong to mobilize troops from other city gates. The defenders of the west city, who had calmly responded to the rebel attack, could not help but slowly fell into a bitter fight.

When the battle lasted for two hours, the left army had nearly 2 casualties, and more than [-] defenders were killed, and both sides fell into a state of anxiety.

Wang Yan looked at the entire battlefield, he knew that by this time, the soldiers on both sides were already very exhausted, and the rest was up to whoever had the stronger will.

Compared with the Ming army defending the city, Wang Yan believed that the rebel army, which had suffered huge casualties, would collapse first and be defeated. The Zhongyi Battalion also took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill them at that time, making it impossible for them to retreat calmly.

When Wang Yan thought that the situation of the battle would not change in any way, a loud noise suddenly came.

"Boom~"

The voice was earth-shattering, as if the sky was collapsing and the earth was falling.

When Wang Yan heard this, his heart was shocked, he couldn't help looking around in horror, only to see a section of city wall to the west was suddenly covered by dust, but it was the red cannons of the rebels, which blasted down a section of the city wall that was nearly six feet wide.

The collapsed city wall instantly crushed a large number of rebels and the Ming army defending the city. The screams and wailing resounded throughout the world. The originally solid city defense suddenly leaked a fatal flaw.

Seeing this, Huang Degong on the tower turned pale.

"Kill!"

"The city is broken! Kill me!"

The entire battlefield was stunned by the loud noise, but when everyone reacted, they immediately ushered in huge cheers from the siege rebels. The brigade of rebels followed the general, rushing towards the gap with bloodshot eyes.

The morale of the rebel army, which was slowly sluggish due to the passing of time and huge casualties, recovered instantly, and they all cheered and shouted to attack the Ming army.

Seeing this, there was only a sound of "噗!", Huang Degong pulled out the sword at his waist, and shouted anxiously: "The guard camp, follow me to the city, block the gap, and beat the traitors out. "

The sudden gap caused the morale of the defenders on the city to be blown away. Huang Degong knew that if the rebels were allowed to enter the city, the defenders would surely collapse, so he made a decisive decision and personally went into battle. Gap away.

"Ding Ding Dang Dang!" There was a sound of weapons clashing, and Huang Degong led his personal guards, and collided with the oncoming rebels.

Flesh and blood splattered, and the two armies fought together in a gap that was six feet wide. In such a narrow area, both sides squeezed thousands of troops, and almost every knife and every shot could take away a life.

Wang Yan watched the city wall being blown down and the rebels rushing towards the gap, and he felt anxious immediately, as did Wang Wei and others beside him, "It's over, the city is about to be broken, general, let's get out!"

Wang Yan also knew that if the gap could not be blocked, Chizhou would be broken, but he knew that even if he rushed out with the Zhongyi Battalion at this time, it would not be able to affect the battle situation. Together, they gritted their teeth and said, "Wait a minute, now is not the best time to attack."

When Wang Wei and the others heard about it, they could only watch the battlefield anxiously, hoping that the Ming army could stop the rebels in the gap.

On the hill, Zuo Menggeng was overjoyed when he saw the city wall collapse. The depression of being unable to break through the siege from all sides was swept away at this moment. He took out the binoculars and looked at the gap. Blocked by an elite Ming army.

"Order the whole army to rush over to the commander, and break the city in one fell swoop!" After days of attacking, I finally got the present opportunity. If the army retreats, the gap will be repaired by the defenders. [-] elite soldiers, all on top. "After the city is broken, we will fight for ten days!"

The drums commanded the rebel army, like a flood, bursting out of the embankment, rushing towards the gap.

Under the protection of his personal guards, Huang Degong fought a bloody battle with the rebels. Not long after he stabilized his formation, a new rebel army rushed his subordinates to pieces.

The troops of the Zuo army at the west gate reached nearly [-] at once. As [-] elite rebels rushed into the battlefield, the Ming army, which had been fighting fiercely for nearly two hours, was immediately killed and retreated steadily.

"Master Hou! It's too dangerous here, hurry up and retreat!" Huang Degong is old and strong, wielding a knife and fighting chaotically, but after all, he is old and unable to compete with the fierce soldiers, and he is forced to be in danger from time to time. So, fearful, he hurriedly supported him and backed away.

"This battle is a matter of life and death. If I lose, I will have no face to see you again! Retirement is death, and there is a chance of life in the battle!" Huang Degong broke free from the soldiers, stuck the sword on the ground, and shouted loudly: Stand here, don't go anywhere! Just behind you, if the sergeant retreats past this line, I will kill him first, and then fight to the death with the left thief."

"Fight to the death!"

"Fight to the death!"

The soldiers looked at their Lord Marquis, who was fighting on the front line to supervise the battle, and the general did not hesitate to die. How dare the soldier not die, he immediately roared and killed the rebels.

The precarious defense barely survived the desperate battle of many defenders, but as the new force of the rebel army continued to rush to the gap, only God knows how long it can last.

Standing behind the army, Huang Degong looked at the defenders who kept falling and the rebels who were advancing little by little. He couldn't help feeling anxious, but he didn't have any power in his hands. Geng Xiao'er is defeated, I am not reconciled!"

"Kill! Go!"

Just when Huang Degong was in a hurry, Wang Yan waited for him to find an opportunity.

At this time, the rebels were pressing across the board, and there were only four or five hundred infantry and more than 1000 cavalry left in the Chinese army. It was the best time to go straight to Huanglong.

Neither Zuo Menggeng nor Huang Degong expected that there would be an elite army of more than [-] soldiers hidden behind a hill a few miles away from Chizhou.

There are no mountains outside the city of Chizhou, and there are not many soldiers and horses to hide. It is precisely because of this that Zuo Menggeng is negligent in guarding against it.

If there were ten thousand people in his army, he would naturally not be afraid of a sneak attack by a small group of soldiers, but now that he has all the main force on Chizhou, and there are only more than 1000 people around him, it is completely different.

Huang Degong heard the clatter of horseshoes outside the city, and saw a cavalry of more than 1000 people suddenly rushing out from behind a small hill in the south of Chizhou, followed by the same [-]-man infantry, followed closely by Zuo Menggeng. The handsome flag ran.

Looking at the soldiers running in the strong wind and the battalion flag fluttering with the wind, Huang Degong felt ecstasy in his heart. "Loyalty Battalion! General Wude! This heavenly soldier will help me defeat the left thief!"

Wang Yan galloped with a thousand cavalry on horseback, quickly passed the artillery formation of the left army, overturned hundreds of artillery troops, and rushed towards the hill half a mile away without stopping.

Zuo Menggeng was immersed in the joy of the imminent victory at one moment, but at the next moment he saw an army rushing towards him, and the expression on his face immediately became distorted.

Seeing the cavalry passing over the artillery formation like a whirlwind, Zuo Menggeng couldn't help being furious when he saw the "General Dewu" written on the banner.
Facing the killing cavalry, Zuo Menggeng thought for a while, the left army that was besieging the city had already gained an absolute advantage, the army fought in a group, and mobilized troops to help back, not only lost the advantage, but also might cause chaos for the left army, at the moment He had no choice but to hope that the cavalry and infantry around him could block the rushing enemy troops and force Wang Kuanglan.

Facing the incoming Loyalty Battalion, the five hundred infantry around Zuo Menggeng quickly formed an formation to encircle the commander and many generals of the left army, but such an formation, in Zuo Menggeng's eyes, seemed so weak no matter how you looked at it. Can't give him much sense of security.

As Wang Yan's cavalry approached, the cavalry of the left army on the small slope brandished their swords and rushed down from a high place to meet Wang Yan.

The cavalry of the left army took advantage of the favorable location and rushed down at a high speed, but Wang Yan was not prepared to confront the cavalry of the left army.

They first threw a rain of arrows, overturning dozens of people on the other side, and at the moment when the two armies were about to collide, Wang Yan ordered loudly: "Spread out, go around!"

Zuo Menggeng watched the duel between the two cavalry teams nervously, but he didn't expect that Wang Yan's cavalry suddenly divided into two teams, one team followed Wang Yan, and the other team followed Li Taizhen, directly avoiding the sharp edge of the left cavalry.

At this time, it was too late for the cavalry of the left army to turn around, so they had to pass between the two groups of cavalry, but what they didn't expect was that when they rushed over, a row of bird guns hit them head-on, and they were turned over by dozens of cavalry immediately. .

It turned out that Wang Wei, who was closely following Wang Yan's cavalry, had already rushed over with a thousand infantry brothers. Facing the left cavalry rushing from between the two cavalry teams of the Zhongyi Camp, the infantry brothers immediately fired at each other. Call to go.

　The New Year's good calamity is approaching.

　　The author is about to go home to cross the catastrophe, but I feel that I am not prepared enough, and I am afraid that I will fail to cross the catastrophe. Please help me, comment more, recommend more, and make me feel happy.

　　


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