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Niu Wanchuan had a sudden idea to kill Duoduo, so he was not well prepared. Su Jin was different, he was going for Duoduo, and he had prepared thirty rockets for this purpose.
Tens of thousands of cavalrymen were fighting under the city of Shangqiu. The battlefield expanded to an area of more than ten miles. The yellow dust raised by the horses' hooves filled the air like smoke. The fierce shouts of killing could be heard for dozens of miles. The ground was littered with corpses and blood. The battered war horses raised their heads and wailed to the sky. The sky was covered with waves of arrows.
Su Jin led three thousand fresh troops and swooped down from the high slope, like a torrent rushing through the sand, constantly breaking through the bloody battlefield and rushing towards Duoduo's flag.
More and more Qing troops were blocking the way ahead. Su Jin kept stabbing with his spear, and the soldiers around him roared like thunder. However, there were too many Qing troops, and they were as numerous as ants, so their advance speed became slower and slower.
"Kill!" Su Jin roared, stabbed a Qing soldier who was coming towards him and knocked him off his horse. He then shouted to Liu Feng behind him, "Liu Feng, move the rockets out of the way, and remember to save some shells for Duoduo."
"Yes, sir!" Liu Feng and twenty or thirty of his men had been protected in the formation and had been itching to get going. After receiving Su Jin's order, they quickly took the rocket slide off the victory hook.
The operation of the rocket launcher was extremely simple, because there was no recoil, even a **-year-old child could operate this weapon with a little guidance. Not to mention the burly men like Liu Feng, who could operate it without any hindrance even on a galloping warhorse.
Liu Feng first blew the fire stick into the wind, lit the fuse, and carried it on his shoulder while shouting: "Everyone, remember to shoot slightly upward..." As soon as he finished speaking, there was a chirp! White smoke filled the air, and the rocket whizzed away, passing over Su Jin and his men in front, and slammed heavily into the dense Qing army formation.
Boom! A ball of fire with a diameter of one or two feet suddenly exploded, and the Qing army was blown to pieces, with shrapnel flying everywhere. The fierce shock wave turned the area within a few feet around the explosion point into a white field. Only broken limbs and arms were flying in the air, and such fierce explosions continued one after another. The Qing army that came to meet Su Jin's troops was horrified and screamed and fled. Su Jin and his men took advantage of the situation and plowed through, breaking through a bloody path.
Duoduo, who was far away, saw that Su Jin was coming for him, and was frightened by the amazing power of the rocket. He hurriedly spurred his horse to escape, but Su Jin chased him in the direction he fled. From time to time, a rocket exploded behind Duoduo's buttocks, scaring him pale.
When the Qin soldiers saw the enemy commander in such a miserable state, they cheered and their morale was boosted. They cheered and killed the enemy with an overwhelming force.
Duoduo fled in a hurry, but luckily he saw the opportunity early, and his mount was a good horse, so he barely avoided being caught up by Su Jin and his men. What's even more funny is that the Qing army obviously regarded Duoduo as a jinx, because wherever he fled, those terrifying rockets would fly there. So when the Qing soldiers saw Duoduo fleeing, they subconsciously avoided him, leaving those rockets for Duoduo to use alone, and even the number of soldiers around him became fewer and fewer.
His Royal Highness Prince Yu was as panic-stricken as a dog that had lost its home. Looking around, he could not see his own people in front of him, but there were pursuers behind him. Thinking of the vastness of the world, he was alone and shed tears... ... .
Tudor whipped his horse desperately, and boom! Another cannonball landed behind him, causing him to tremble again. He wanted to escape into the crowd, but others made way as soon as they saw him coming.
Boom! Another roar blew his helmet away. His bald head was covered with sweat and shiny with oil. A rat tail was hanging from his head, swinging up and down with the running horse.
Su Jin laughed loudly and said, "Duoduo, if you have the guts, don't run away, fight your Grandpa Su!"
As the Qin soldiers chased him, they mocked him loudly: "Prince Yu, you are so busy running away. Your bald head is shiny, your heart is trembling, and you are just a rat. You are a rat, a rat, a rat, fuck your sister!"
"Hahaha... ... ... ."
The Qin army mocked loudly and chased fiercely, but Duoduo ran away so fast that his tail was straightened...
The only thing he could be thankful for was that as one of the most powerful princes in the Qing Dynasty, he had a good horse that ran really fast, so that the more Su Jin and his men chased him, the farther they were from him. Finally, the frightened Duoduo escaped back to the west gate.
The commander was chased so badly that tens of thousands of Qing troops no longer had the courage to fight and fled back.
Countless Qing troops rushed to the city, people and horses were crowded together, it was a mess. The city gate was too narrow, everyone rushed in, but ended up being stuck and could hardly move.
The Qin army cheered and chased the Qing army with all their might, leaving corpses all over the ground and blood flowing like a river. The Qing army behind them, seeing that they could not escape, knelt down and surrendered, begging for mercy.
Upon seeing this situation, Duoduo, who had fled back to the west gate, ordered the defenders on the city wall to load shotgun shells and fire fiercely at the city. Regardless of whether they were Qing troops or Qin troops, he bombarded them all, causing heavy casualties in the city and the scene was extremely tragic.
Duoduo knew very well that if he did not harden his heart and launch an indiscriminate attack, few of the tens of thousands of his men outside the city would be able to retreat under the pursuit of the Qin army, and the entire army would be wiped out in a moment.
Sure enough, seeing that the Qin army suffered heavy casualties under the fierce artillery bombardment, Su Jin had to order his troops to withdraw. Duoduo was already a trapped turtle, and there was no need to sacrifice so many precious lives of the Qin army in vain.
After Su Jin gave the order to withdraw the troops, some Qing troops were able to withdraw back into the city. Although they escaped temporarily, some frightened Qing soldiers were crying loudly, and the wounded were groaning in pain. The city was filled with desolate weather.
Duoduo immediately asked people to count the casualties. When his men reported the number of losses, he almost fainted.
Only 20,000 troops were withdrawn, and one third of them were injured to varying degrees. In other words, not only did they fail to break through in this battle, but they also lost 10,000 troops. Moreover, many of the soldiers who escaped even lost their weapons and fled with empty hands.
How could Duoduo accept such a result? He was so angry that he roared to the sky, drew his sword and killed the subordinate who came to report the casualties, as if it was the subordinate's responsibility to cause such heavy casualties.
Su Jin outside the city was also counting the casualties. The Qin army also suffered more than 1,100 casualties. Six thousand enemies were killed and nine thousand were captured, which was a ten-to-one loss ratio for the Qing army. This was definitely an inspiring victory.
Moreover, after this battle, the morale of the Qing army must have reached a freezing point, and they might not even have the courage to fight outside the city. They could only wait for Meng Ke's army to arrive. It would be no surprise that they would completely wipe out the enemy in Shangqiu.
After receiving the victory report from Su Jin, Meng Ke ordered tens of thousands of infantrymen to march overnight. At three o'clock in the morning of the same day, they arrived at the city of Shangqiu and surrounded Shangqiu. Now, Duoduo could not escape even if he had wings.
After the doctor used silver needles to prick his acupuncture points, Ning Wanwo woke up again. After learning that Shangqiu had been surrounded by Meng Ke's army, he sighed sadly: "Alas! The Qing Dynasty... ... ... is really finished this time."
After the servant Ah San brought him the medicine and gave it to him to drink, he said, "Master, Prince Yu sent someone to inquire about your condition earlier, saying that he would let me go and inform him when you wake up."
"Report? It's no use..." I sighed with a frustrated look on my face after finishing the task.
There was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and Duoduo walked in quickly and asked eagerly: "Master Ning, I was bewitched by a ghost before. I am sorry, Master Ning. I am here to apologize to Master Ning. Is Master Ning feeling better?"
Ning Wanwo leaned against the head of the bed and bowed, saying, "Your Highness, I am sorry for the inconvenience. Your Highness has come in person, and I really don't deserve it."
"Master Ning, there's no need to be so polite. You should know the situation outside. Tell me quickly. Do you have any good plan to deal with it?"
Ning Wanwo smiled bitterly and said, "Your Highness thinks too highly of me. At this point, Shangqiu City has been surrounded like an iron barrel. I'm afraid not even a fly can fly out. What good plan can I come up with?"
"Master Ning, are you still angry with me?" Duoduo's tone suddenly turned cold.
Ning Wanwo replied indifferently: "How dare I be angry with the prince?" At the beginning, Duoduo did not listen to his advice and beat him half to death. He said that he had no resentment in his heart. That was impossible.
Misfortunes sent by heaven can be forgiven, but misfortunes brought upon oneself cannot be forgiven. Now, 20,000 or 30,000 defeated soldiers are trapped and dying in Shangqiu, with no food or fodder inside and no reinforcements outside. Their morale is so low that it is a miracle that they do not collapse immediately. What good strategy can he come up with to end my life
Duoduo thought he was just being arrogant. He had never taken Ning Wanwo and other "running dogs and slaves" seriously. Otherwise, he would not have taken Fan Wencheng's wife home and raped her. After hearing Ning Wanwo say that he had no choice, he immediately snorted and walked away.
At this moment, Shangqiu was in a state of extreme cold and heat. The Qing army inside the city was as frightened as if they were in an ice cellar, while the morale of the Qin army outside the city was almost at a boiling point, and they were digging trenches and sealing all the city gates in full swing.
At the same time, cannons were set up and the city walls were bombarded continuously to further undermine the morale of the Qing army.
The city had been placed under martial law as ordered by Duo An. The streets were deserted, not a single citizen was to be seen, and every door was closed. The only things one could see on the streets were the patrolling Qing troops, each of whom looked panic-stricken and frightened. They were either whispering to one another or sighing sadly, like a group of people waiting for the end of the world.
Some of them had quietly changed into ordinary people's clothes and hid themselves. No one believed that Shangqiu could still be defended. Since it could only hold out for a few days, what would happen? Shangqiu had no food or grass inside, and no reinforcements outside. It was only a matter of time before it was conquered by the Qin army.
After the Qin army outside the city rested for a day, Meng Ke immediately ordered a full-scale attack. Sixty thousand infantrymen launched a fierce attack from all sides without any distinction of priority. The war drums shook the sky and the city was shaken.
Meng Ke was fully prepared, and he only used one-third of his strength to break through the city wall.
No matter how frantically Duoduo hacked and killed the retreating troops on the city wall, the Qing army, who had no intention of fighting anymore, still fled in all directions.
The sky was overcast and the sunlight was dim. Duoduo stood on the top of the city wall, watching the Qin army pouring in and the Qing army rushing around like wolves and pigs. He knew that Shangqiu could no longer be defended.
"Oh my God! Qing! God, you are so unfair to Qing..."
Duoduo howled hysterically and wanted to kill himself with a knife. When the knife was placed on his neck, tears kept falling like a woman. He gritted his teeth several times but could not bring himself to do it. Until he was knocked to the ground by the Qin army.
The Qin soldiers who captured him cheered, fearing that Duoduo's suicide would diminish their achievement. So, regardless of how Duoduo screamed, they stripped him naked, tied him to the door with a long rope and carried him in front of Meng Ke.
Meng Ke saw that what his soldiers were carrying joyfully was actually a hairless pig. Being a steady person, he couldn't help but smile... ... ... ... .
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