Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 376
When Li Chengdong encountered the first attack, he was indeed a little unexpected. He insisted on fighting the Qing army at the gap for a quarter of an hour before repelling the Qing army.

For this reason, Li Chengdong lost more than 1000 people.

He couldn't help but gasped, the Tartars were really fierce in war, they dared to push people up like this, he would be reluctant to do it, if it was him, he would have given up.

"My lord, the Tartars are coming up again!"

One of Li Chengdong's subordinates shouted.

Li Chengdong cursed: "Rush up!"

After speaking, he led his troops to rush up again.

There were repeated screams, and a large number of soldiers who rushed up with Li Chengdong fell down immediately, and Li Chengdong himself had several arrow feathers stuck in his body. When I got up, I saw that under the reflection of the torches on the top of the city, many Tartars were hiding and shooting arrows at the gap.

The arrows of the Tartars were so ruthless and accurate that it was difficult for Li Chengdong to raise his head.

But the captive soldiers took the opportunity to touch up, and one by one, soldiers with swords and shields rushed into the gap with skillful movements.

"kill!"

Li Chengdong yelled, and hundreds of his soldiers rushed up, but after a few rounds, they were all beheaded.

This made Li Chengdong swallow involuntarily. The Tatars were skilled in swordsmanship and cooperated very tacitly. He filled in more than 100 soldiers and was killed in the blink of an eye.

Gritting his teeth, he ordered the next group of soldiers to rush forward. Most of the pair of soldiers were also killed within a few strokes, and the rest retreated back into the city. The captive soldiers had already occupied most of the gap and were calling for follow-up troops to come over for support.

Li Chengdong waved his hand again.

One of his confidantes immediately urged: "My lord, you can't charge any more. If you charge any further, all our old brothers will die."

Li Chengdong yelled at him: "Damn it, there is a ball for it! Follow me."

After finishing speaking, he drew out his knife and rushed forward, this time simply dispatching his most elite personal troops.

Sure enough, the guards were stronger than ordinary men, and they even pushed back the Tartars a few steps, almost driving them out of the gap.

But at this time, the Tartars suddenly rushed up with reinforcements, and Li Chengdong's soldiers suffered heavy losses and retreated one after another.

Seeing that the left and right were retreating, Li Chengdong couldn't help himself. Under the protection of several personal soldiers, he fought and retreated, and finally fled into the city.

The Tartars finally reached the inner side of the city wall, but what they saw was a pile of obstacles, rafters, carriages, even tables, chairs and benches, almost anything that could be found nearby, was blocked here, clinging to the gap to form a semicircular defense lock up.

After Li Chengdong retreated to the defensive circle, he found that thousands of his soldiers had fled, and only less than two thousand remained in place.

"My lord, I'm afraid this city won't be able to defend it. The Tartars must have dispatched elite soldiers!"

The confidant said to Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong couldn't help but nodded.

"My lord, let's withdraw. Everyone has run away. It's not an option to fight like this. I'd better go back and clean up, and plan to take back all the soldiers!"

Li Chengdong nodded again, already a little shaken.

A young man with a handsome face, wearing iron armor and holding a steel knife in his hand, frowned the young general who had followed closely beside Li Chengdong just now.

"Father, we can't give up halfway. We all fought off the tartars once, and this time the tartars are probably at their end, so we haven't fought for a long time. If you hold on, it's time for Li Benshen to replace us."

The confidant shouted: "Hmph, to put it lightly, when Li Benshen comes to exchange, all our brothers will die."

Li Benshen made up his mind at this time: "Then withdraw. It's not his master, I don't want to fight, everyone has run away, and I have to go back to rectify the troops."

The young general said anxiously: "Father, don't forget Uncle Yang's military law!"

The confidant snorted: "Uncle Yang, Uncle Yang is a ball. When our brothers killed people, he was still wearing crotch pants. It's not luck to bring the prince back from Beijing. He is now a hammer! Others are afraid He, we can still be afraid of him. Does he still dare to kill us?"

At this time, the Tartar soldiers seemed to be attacking again, and a dense rain of arrows shot over. The soldiers hiding behind the defensive circle were caught off guard and were shot to death one after another.

Li Chengdong finally made up his mind: "Hmph. Let's go, don't worry about it. As long as we have soldiers in our hands, even if the emperor comes, he won't dare to do anything to us. It's Yang Chao who is just trying to scare those bear soldiers. It's not scary."

After speaking, he hurriedly retreated with his soldiers.

The young general stomped his feet and could only follow.

Not far behind were five hundred elite men who were waiting in full battle. He was serving as a reserve team in case Li Chengdong couldn't stop the Tartars and would rush up eventually.

In the end, instead of waiting for Tartar, he waited for Li Chengdong instead.

"Mr. Li! How dare you run away in front of the battle!"

Many men couldn't help shouting loudly, and the soldiers under them formed a dense array, blocking in front of Li Chengdong.

Li Chengdong snorted coldly: "Hmph, you know that there is a ball, and the hair is not even grown, and you are screaming in front of your father and me. Get out of the way!"

Many men refused to let go: "Master Yang has an order. Anyone who escapes before the battle will be killed without mercy!"

Li Chengdong resented: "Your master still doesn't believe it."

As he said that, he kicked away a soldier in front of him, rushed in with his men, and immediately passed through the thin single-layer wall array of many men, and fled into the dark streets and alleys.

Many men frowned, but he never dared to do anything.

"Go and tell your lord that Li Chengdong fled, please show me!"

Many men pulled over a soldier and ordered.

Then he looked at the tartar who was climbing over the obstacle, and with a loud shout, he led people to rush up.

Yang Chao frowned when he received the news of Li Chengdong's escape.

"Zhao Kang, you take 200 people to find Li Chengdong, bring him to me, dare to resist, kill without mercy!"

At this time, Zhao Kang had already returned to the Urn City to rest, and his soldiers were outside the cave at the root of the city wall, while Zhao Kang stepped directly into the city to obey Yang Chao's orders. After receiving Yang Chao's order, he immediately went down to the city to arrest Li Chengdong. .

Yang Chao was more concerned about the battle situation under the city. At this time, the tartars seemed to be determined to rush in through some gap, and they were determined to rush into the city with all their might.

But luckily, after Li Chengdong escaped, many men stepped up in time, and a burst of charge drove the Tartars back to the gap, and then Li Liang arrived with a batch of tiger squatting guns, and with one shot, the Tartars were completely beaten out .

At least they had to defend until dawn. There were too few soldiers available in the city. If the Tartars were sent into the city to fight at night, I am afraid there would be no chance of winning.

"Order Li Benshen to continue guarding the gap and not let a Tartar enter the city!"

Yang Chao continued to give orders.

"What do you want me to do? Don't go!"

Li Chengdong found a land temple to live in, and several soldiers found a sheep, just killed it and was about to roast it, when Yang Chao's soldiers arrived and told him to go see Yang Chao.

Li Chengdong knew that meeting Yang Chao would not do any good, so he immediately refused.

Zhao Kang snorted, "Mr. Li, don't make it difficult for me to be an official."

Li Chengdong sat on the ground with a golden sword, his face was ashen. He suffered a heavy loss. Although his subordinates had already searched for it, at least half of the soldiers had fled. It is hard to say how much he could recover.

"Don't make it difficult for me!"

"Then the officer will not be polite."

After Zhao Kang finished speaking, he was about to draw his sword, and the two hundred armored soldiers behind him immediately raised their spears.

At this time, the young general immediately stood up and persuaded: "Father, why don't you go there. Our army retreats, and we have no choice but to admit our mistake to Uncle Yang, and speak softly, there will be loopholes in this matter!"

At this time, Li Chengdong had less than 1000 people in the temple, and the others were sent out to find food and people. He weighed it up, and even if he fought against Yang Chao's armored soldiers, he would not be worth the loss.

Nodding slightly: "Then I'll listen to you. But it's fine to admit your mistake, I'm not wrong."

As he spoke, he glared at Zhao Kang, and strode out of the small temple, followed by others, but the young general stopped them, and went out to chase Li Chengdong by himself.

Soon they went up the city wall and saw Yang Chao.

Li Chengdong stood proudly in front of Yang Chao, squinting at Yang Chao, looking confident.

"Li Chengdong! Are you convicted?"

Yang Chao gave a cold drink.

"We don't know what the crime is."

Yang Chao said: "Is there such a thing as running away?"

Li Chengdong said: "We are leaving, but we are not running away. We are going back to collect soldiers and horses. We still have to fight back."

Yang Chao said in a deep voice: "Li Chengdong, Gao Jie treated you well. Now that the Tartars are only in the city, you didn't want to avenge Gao Jie, but you ran away. Gao Jie's body is still cold, and you still deny it!"

The young general came out at this time, clasped his fists and said: "Uncle Yang Haihan, my adoptive father has no intention of running away, but the soldiers broke up, so we first search for the broken soldiers, and we are fighting to the death with the Tartars!"

Yang Chao didn't listen: "I have something to say first, those who run away in battle will be killed without mercy. It is useless to talk more, but I am in command of the army, and I will not feel guilty if I only punish the leader and the rest!"

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand: "Drag Li Chengdong down and chop him up!"

After speaking, several soldiers pulled Li Chengdong away.

It was only at this time that Li Chengdong realized that things had become serious.

"Yang Chao, you dare to kill me! You dare to kill me! I can't spare you!"

The cursing has been dragged to the door.

At this time, Li Chengdong was holding onto the door frame of the urn city tightly: "Uncle Yang, we were wrong, give us a chance to redeem our sins. I will bring someone up, and I will definitely not run away this time."

Yang Chao ignored it, but asked the young general in front of him, "Who are you?"

The young general looked devastated, he didn't expect his adoptive father to be dragged down and killed. He never thought that Yang Chao would kill the general before the battle. If he had known this earlier, he would definitely not have persuaded his adoptive father to come.

Seeing that the young general did not speak, Yang Chao hummed.

"Ask you something? I didn't hear it!"

Zhao Kang immediately kicked the teenager.

Only then did the young general come to his senses: "Li Yuanyin, the villain, is Li Chengdong's adopted son."

Yang Chao nodded: "Alright. Now go back and collect the troops of Li Chengdong's headquarters. You will be in charge for the time being and continue to guard the gap. If you are fleeing, don't blame my military law!"

Li Yuanyin didn't dare to object, and went away with a sad face. Yang Chao asked Zhao Kang to lead his troops to go back with him.

At the gap below the city, Li Benshen and many men, together with the gunners brought by Li Liang, repelled the Tartars three times, and the Tartars retreated temporarily.

The fighting subsided temporarily.

At this time, Shi Kefa sent someone to deliver the meal.

After the battle started, Shi Kefa led Liu Zhaoji's army to slaughter pigs and sheep to prepare for labor.

Yang Chao was eating when suddenly Mrs. Xing, the widow of Gao Jie, sent someone to invite Yang Chao over.

Without hesitation, Yang Chao explained something, and then took people down to the city to find Mrs. Xing.

The biggest reason why Yang Chao was able to command Gao Jie's remaining troops, the only combat-capable unit, was that he accepted Gao Yuanjue as his adopted son. In fact, it was under the banner of Mrs. Xing and Gao Yuanjue, so Mrs. Xing still had to give her face.

As for what Mrs. Xing wanted to do with Yang Chao, Yang Chao guessed that it was probably related to his plan to kill Li Chengdong. Li Chengdong was Gao Jie's general and a brother who went through life and death. It was only natural for Mrs. Xing to intercede for him.

But Yang Chao didn't intend to agree, so he decided to just appease Mrs. Xing in the past.

(End of this chapter)