After the sky gradually darkened.
In the ruins of Lutouguan’s corpse, Lu, a veteran who has been fighting for many years and also working as a grenadier team, also left a broken horn blunderbuss and retreated to the flag. The faintly messy Enemy Ying spit out a mouthful of blood foam, and sat on the bloody and muddy ground all over, not wanting to get up again.
And beside him, there was still a wheel fast blunders that had been trampled off, as well as other messy things such as bouncing wheels. After being knocked down and killed, there were also enemy soldiers' corpses that were re-stacked as bunkers; as well as various broken weapons and flags inserted obliquely, they looked like a bleak picture in the setting sun.
As a counterattack from the enemy’s backstop after he rushed to the wall, the firearms were all lit up and discarded, and the grenades on his body were thrown to the end of the close hand-to-hand combat; he left a full seven curling gaps on his body, the helmet It was also cracked and the short hair was condensed into blood clots; but it was fortunate that the cotton armor lined with iron pieces was still strong, and it never left deadly damage.
He was also able to rush into the city with blood, but the first soldiers who were already at the end of the crossbow mustered their courage, grabbed all the objects they could obtain as weapons, and repelled the enemies who had already rushed into the city. Fang reinforcements counterattacked; for the follow-up colleagues, he defended the low slope/breakthrough caused by the collapse of the doorway.
So when he convulsed and stretched out his hand to pick up the water bottle on his waist, and pour it on the forgotten throat for a long time, it looked extremely dry and cracked like a knife; but he only touched the hollow half of the leather case. Only then did I remember that it seemed to be this iron water bottle. He had cut the blade on his waist at least twice for himself, and then he was grasped at the broken part and inserted it into the eye socket of an enemy soldier who was hugged and rolled. .
Speaking of which, after such fierce shelling, these enemy soldiers who can still stay behind the barrier and even counterattack are quite commendable in terms of courage and courage; but their combat skills, experience in battle, and equipment , The outfit is obviously another matter, which also caused them to be caught off guard by being knocked down and overturned by a row of close-thrown and radiating firearms.
Therefore, after overcoming the initial counterattack that they had only a bloody support, it was inevitable that various short-term weaknesses and weaknesses caused by poor rear forces or unfavorable coordination caused them to continue to be unable to shake under the numerous deaths and injuries that followed. Rush into the barriers and climb first in peace, deploying a simple battle formation in accordance with the narrow and complex terrain.
However, when the backlog of the follow-up troops under the barrier wall finally cleared out an exit that was barely available for passage in the chaos, and rushed to the barrier with the Taiping Qingqi flag high, even if it was. On the opposite side, there were even more enemy reinforcements assembled for battle, and they had no choice but to retreat and retreat.
In a sense, the remnants of Lu Piaobo and other early ascents seem to have recovered a life from this. Because the opposing officer army at the other end of the hilltop barrier has already deployed several rows of crossbowmen’s arrow formations. The next moment when the offensive is frustrated and rolled back, they will have to cover their forwards with random arrows regardless of the enemy and us. Peace soldiers.
However, these officers and soldiers had no time to shoot in the future, they were rushed to the wall by the Taiping forces, and they were fired randomly at the front line, overturning the disturbance, only shooting some messy arrows, and they had to be messed up. Scattered back away. One of them was inserted on the edge of Lu Piao's thigh, but he couldn't pull it out for a while under the slippery hand.
Then I saw a bumpy kettle that was handed to Lu Piaobo.
"give.."
He couldn't help but glance at it, but he was the half of the township party who had been in the Cantonese army with him, and now the deputy Wang Jian of the Baibing brigade who belonged to the mountain barracks; he couldn't help but smiled gratefully. I couldn’t wait to gurgle and drank it all, and then I realized that it was a thick tea soup with shochu and sugar. I exhaled a lot and said, "Thank you."
At this time, the deafening roar sounded again, but the several short-tube cannons that were lifted up to the top of the city also began to emit; it was like a urging signal and sign, which exploded and splashed one after another behind the barrier. Among the broken piles of earth and rocks, the flags of the officials and soldiers that were still swaying indefinitely have also been dragged down one after another, and they have turned into dust and noises that are farther away.
But as the night fell and finally broke away from the battle, they retreated all the way to the thousands of officers and soldiers at the post house under Lutou Mountain; listening to the faint cheers and flashing fire light from the top of the mountain, it was difficult to conceal their sadness. And the panic and slumped color. Zheng Junxiong, as the guardian general, can hardly conceal his frustration and disappointment.
Because his tens of thousands of defenders and strong men in the pass are now only more than two thousand people who retreat along his way. As for the Weirong army under Yang Sheng's support, it was only more than three thousand men and horses supplemented from the original incomplete organization; after several counterattacks of bluffing and unsuccessful, only fourteen thousand and four were left. More than a hundred people were evacuated.
Only when they were working together, they inevitably had new differences. I saw Yang Sheng, who was covered with dust on his robe, and without hesitation grabbed the reins of Zheng Junxiong's new mount:
"Dare to ask where the defense is going next..."
"Naturally go back to the state city to assemble the army and fight again..."
Zheng Junxiong also replied stiffly with an unhappy expression:
"Does the defense have to abandon Chengdu and walk here?"
Yang Sheng asked a little bit reluctantly:
"It's unreasonable, I'm also doing a big plan for the thieves. As the responsibility of defending the soil, should I sit by and watch the thieves ravage the state?"
Zheng Junxiong also said angrily: After suffering this defeat, he has already determined to go north to the city of Deyang, Hanzhou as the foundation. At least there is enough household registration and wealth to allow him to recruit troops and regain some strength. It is possible that more other things are being considered.
"Don't let go, the thief is imminent, do you want you and me to do the last game here before you can stop?"
Zheng Junxiong's face became more and more ugly and threatened:
"you!...."
Seeing Yang Sheng, who was anxious, he was suddenly surprised after some recollection, but he found that the Hanzhou soldiers who had been acting upon hearing the words had half-surrounded the surroundings; and then they were counter-surrounded by the Weirong soldiers who came later. After a lap, it showed some kind of raging and raging momentum.
So, in the end, he was still gaining and losing, and gave up the plan to persuade and prevent Zheng Junxiong from leaving; but he led the troops to the south non-stop. At least in his thoughts, the news that the Lutou Pass was still lost should be delivered to the next few reinforcements in time, so that all the forces can be gathered and a united defense battle can be launched around Chengdu Mansion.
In a sense, he is also one of the most determined irons in the Sanchuan Army to protect Datang. Because he originally belonged to a military academy of Fengxiang Army who was born in the next generation. Because of the military change initiated by Li Changfu, the prime minister Zheng Tian who was in Fengtian was expelled; and after returning to Huangchao's Daqi new dynasty, he began to liquidate their tribes who were loyal to the imperial court.
Among them, because he was informed by Li Changfu's concubine Zhou's, he led a group of old Nanxia troops to the Sanguan Camp and became a head of the Shence Army. Then he gradually came to the fore in the chaos of the pacification of Sanchuan, and with the courage and military strategy of attacking the wall of Chengdu several times, he became one of the most valued new army generals under Yang Fugong's command.
It’s just that he was always unwilling to recognize Yang Fugong as his adoptive father and rejected him, so he was once suppressed and arranged to sit in the barren and barren land of Qiang. After the emperor brought the chaos out anyway, he was under the Yang family but was suppressed in disguise. And the persecuted generals have become one of the few targets that have been reused and promoted.
Therefore, he sincerely wanted to repay his emperor's father for his support and valued favor, and worked hard to run the army and train soldiers without leaving any remaining wealth; he just wanted to imitate Guo (Ziyi) Fenyang and Li (Suo) in this troubled world. ) The Liang Country is generally, as the good ministers and generals of the Tang Dynasty to protect and restore the Tang Dynasty, they are listed in the paintings of the heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion.
However, just as Yang Sheng led the remnant all the way and travelled southward along Mianshui for most of the night, he still did not see the expected traces of reinforcements; this could not help but make him faintly disturbed and confused. Later, at dawn when he took a short break to rest, he was rewarded by a sentry horse traveling out: a number of insurgents were found in a village in front of him. (End of this chapter)