Liu Kui’s head was sweating. Before he died, the Mongolian soldier leader made two screams. It should have spread far in the night. If Mongolian soldiers came to check the post, it would be troublesome. They were three wounded. Bing is not the opponent of the ferocious Mongolian soldiers at all.
Li Xing was greeted by soldiers outside the city and led his army to the city, but the city gate was still tightly closed.
"Use a knife." Liu Kui went out, "You and I cut the chain with a knife first, you, first go to open the city gate, and then come back to help us."
"How can such a thick chain be cut?" The soldier had no strength anymore. When he assassinated the leader of the Mongolian soldier just now, he was trembling with fright.
"There is no way, we must cut it off, otherwise, when the Mongolian soldiers come, we will die without a place to bury." Li Xing interrupted him, "Don't be fussy, hurry up, the Mongolians are coming. "
The soldier had no choice but to take turns with Li Xing to chop on the chain of the suspension bridge with the machete in his hand.
"Ding Ling, Dang Cang!" In the quiet midnight, the clanging sound of iron collisions spread far away, and Li Xing under the city could hear it clearly.
"Hurry up, work harder." Liu Kui was crying anxiously. He was already sweating. Who made such a thick iron chain? He didn't know if his wound was bursting, he didn't have time to touch the bandage, or even to think about his wound.
"Crack... Oh!"
A clear sound came from Liu Kui's knife, and the scimitar suddenly had nowhere to receive force. Liu Kui staggered and almost fell to the ground.
Liu Kui was overjoyed: "It's broken." He didn't expect any new damage to his body if he fell.
But there is another iron chain, and their knife edge is either curled or notched.
"Change the knife, hurry!" Liu Kui urged the soldier.
The voice of "Ding Ling, Dang Cang" broke the tranquility of the night again.
People's endurance is limited, and their strength disappears little by little.
Fortunately, the soldier who went to open the gate of the city had returned. He took the machete on the ground and joined the two who had cut the chain.
Screams came from the inner city, mixed with the sound of "Da Da" of horses' hoofs on the ground.
Liu Kui was shocked: "No, the Mongols are here, hurry up."
If the Mongolian soldiers rush to the city, these three soldiers will not need the Mongols to do anything, and the horseshoe trampling of the Mongols can make them 3,000 miles away.
All three of them knew that they had only one way out now, and that was to quickly cut off the suspension bridge and let the soldiers from the first brigade outside the city enter the city. To the north of Qiantun, they saw with their own eyes that more than 500 Jiannu and Mongolian soldiers fell under the flintlocks of the soldiers of the First Brigade. There were only a hundred Mongolian soldiers in Ningyuan City, not the First Brigade at all. Opponent.
The three of them couldn't take care of the wounds on their bodies, and the sound of Mongolian horses' hoofs became clearer.
"Crack... Oh!"
Finally came the long-awaited voice.
This "click... oh" made them look forward to it more than "a long drought and sweet rain" or "flower candle night in the bridal chamber".
The second iron chain broke, and the suspension bridge fell extremely fast. With a "boom", the suspension bridge dropped heavily on the ground, and the hearts of the three people fell back to their chests from their throats.
All three of them were soaked, and at the moment the chain broke, they collapsed on the ground, unable to stand up anymore.
The soldiers of the First Army dismounted long ago, waiting to enter the city. With the flintlock on the horse, he could neither aim nor load ammunition.
"Hurry up, seize both sides of the city gate." Li Xing saw that the suspension bridge had fallen, and shouted at the soldiers.
Soldiers from the first brigade flooded the suspension bridge and poured into the city gate.
I have seen traces of the Mongols.
After the soldiers of the Ming Army crossed the city gate, they quickly seized the city head from both sides, giving way to the passage in the middle.
"Fan-shaped formation." Li Xing only had time to say this sentence, and the Mongols had faintly appeared in the sight of the soldiers.
More than a hundred soldiers from a company on the left and right were aiming their guns, and the rest of the soldiers were continuously joining behind them.
"Shooting." In the darkness, Li Xing couldn't accurately judge whether the Mongols were in range, so he had to give the shooting order first.
"boom!"
"boom!"
"boom!"
…
"Buden, Buden."
The Mongolian soldiers rushing to the front fell from their horses one after another, and the momentum of the Mongols' advance was curbed. But their bows and arrows were also shot. Several soldiers in the front row screamed and fell to the ground, flintlocks being thrown aside.
The soldiers who continued to join the back row opened fire. Although they couldn't see the exact location of the Mongols, due to the large number of people, the flintlock bullets formed a dense firepower net in front of them.
More Mongols fell from their horses, and more flintlockers joined the ranks of shooting.
There were fewer and fewer bows and arrows falling in front of the flintlocker, and more and more unowned horses wailed desperately amidst the sound of the flintlock bullets exploding and the firelight.
Hu Wuerzha got two bullets in the chest. He swayed and planted from the horse, and shouted anxiously with the soldiers beside him: "Oh, it's really a fall..."
Before he could finish his words, he planted his horse, gurgling blood on his chest.
"Don't stop, keep shooting and suppress the Mongols' bows and arrows." Li Xing had already arrived at the gate of the city, standing behind the gunman. Now the situation of the Mongols' casualties is unknown, he dare not care.
The flintlockers fired another round, and no bows and arrows came in front.
Could it be that the Mongols were killed and wounded? Li Xing knew that there was only one Mongolian Niu Lu who was dissatisfied with more than a hundred Mongolian soldiers in the city. Just now, arrows from the Mongols hit the gunmen, indicating that they have entered the range of the flintlock. With so many bullets shot past, the Mongols are all dead. It is not impossible.
"Stop shooting." Li Xing wanted to judge the situation of the Mongols.
The north city gate returned to darkness, even darker than before.
There was no fire, and the frightened Mongolian war horses stopped running wildly. They might be tired, and they were slowly wandering between the first brigade and the Mongolian soldiers. Several war horses were erecting their ears, listening to the Mongolian soldiers behind them groaning on the ground. , Maybe there is its owner among the groaning soldiers.
"Light a torch and surround the Mongols." Li Xing gave the order again. There was no ignition just now. First, there was no time at all. Second, he didn't want to be a target for Mongolian archers. Now, Li Xing was ready to clean the battlefield.
The soldiers held a torch in one hand and a saber in the other, slowly advancing from both sides, rounding around the Mongolian soldiers.
There are indeed Mongolian soldiers alive, but instead of sitting on horseback, they are rolling on the ground, screaming or groaning incomprehensibly.
"Cut off their heads."
The soldiers were divided into groups to harvest the first rank of Mongolian soldiers. Li Xing went to visit Liu Kui and the three who were still lying at the head of the city: "Liu Kui, you have worked hard, and we will not forget your contributions. The army's promise is still valid."
"Thank you for the brigade." Liu Kui struggled, trying to kowtow to thank you, but his body kept calling.
"Liu Kui, don't be polite, take a good rest first."
The harvesting of the Mongols' heads was quickly over, and the soldiers came to report to Li Xing: "Brigade, there are a total of 78 Mongols' heads."
"Oh? So few? There are less than a hundred people." Li Xing replied casually, "Mongols are really getting worse and worse."
Liu Kui was shocked when he heard this: "Brigade seat, each of the Mongolians has more than one hundred people, how can there be only 78 heads?" He usually lives in Ningyuan, and he has become one with Jiannus and Mongols and treats Mongols. The situation is very familiar.
"Did the Mongols escape? Or did they not come at all?" Li Xing said to himself, "No matter what the situation is, we must dig out the Mongols in the city."
"Brigade seat, Ningyuan City is such a big city, 20 to 30 Mongolians, how to find?" The soldier reminded Li Xing.
"Be sure to find it out, otherwise, they may hide in the dark and they will give us an arrow at any time." Li Xing looked in the direction where the Mongols came, and he suddenly understood: "Liu Kui, you know that the Mongols' military camp is in Where?"
"Back to the brigade, the little one knows."
"Liu Kui, the Mongols have not been completely wiped out, and the war is not over yet. Excuse me, please take my soldiers to the Mongols’ military camp to search for it."
"Yes, brigade." Liu Kui's physical strength was severely overdrawn, and he has not recovered yet, but the first brigade has a large number of horses, and now more than 30 Mongolian war horses have been seized. He is supported by the soldiers of the first brigade. , Slowly climbed onto the horseback.
Li Xing climbed out of two companies, that is, more than 200 soldiers, and followed Liu Kui to clear the Mongolian barracks.
After Liu Kui left, Liu Kui divided the remaining soldiers into fifteen companies, led by their respective company commanders, to seize the remaining three gates, and searched for Jian slaves and Mongol remnants in the city.
At dawn, another 32 Mongolian soldiers were beheaded. At the same time, the 14 Jiannus and their family members who remained in the city were beheaded. Even the family members of Jiannujia La Echen Bakshi in the city were also beheaded by the soldiers. They all beheaded.
After dawn, the work of paying and establishing slaves in the city and the Mongols was basically over.
In the name of the Ming court, the first brigade posted notices everywhere in the city to appease the Han people in the city. All four gates were taken over by the first brigade. All the people were temporarily forbidden to enter and exit, but martial law was not enforced on the streets.
In Ningyuan City, all those who served for building slaves and farmed were Han people. There were more than 3,000 households with a population of about 20,000. The First Brigade re-registered them and managed them in different districts.
Li Xing was not interested in these political affairs. He handed them over to the military staff officer Yue Jingsheng to take care of them, and Liu Kui and others would assist them. 〃201
Li Xing hired craftsmen to re-weld the iron chains of the North City Gate to prevent slave-building reinforcements from attacking Ning Yuan.
Yue Tuo, the owner of the red flag in Guangning, didn't know that Ningyuan City had changed hands.
When Wu Lie sent someone to report to him, he only said that there was a cattle record in Ningyuan that was missing. According to his judgment, this cattle record may have been annihilated by the Ming army. His basis was that there was a Mongolian cattle record in Qiantun. Annihilated by the Ming army, only four soldiers fled back to Ningyuan.
After Yue Tuo received Wu Lie's report, his brows never stretched. Reminiscent of Sun Chengzong's re-run of Ji Liao, he repeatedly sent out the Ming army to attack the small group of soldiers from the Great Golden Kingdom. He also estimated that the missing Niu Lu was more fortunate.
This is an entire Niu Lu. If Sun Chengzong eats it completely, how many people will Sun Chengzong have to leave the village? Is the Ming army ready to fight back
Yue Tuo couldn't understand Sun Chengzong's thoughts, so he would not take the initiative to attack Shanhaiguan. Instead, he accepted Huang Taiji's suggestion and waited for Sun Chengzong to die or be transferred from Shanhaiguan.
But Sun Chengzong ate his entire Niu Lu, and Yue Tuo couldn't swallow this breath no matter what, even if he endured it, other banner owners would laugh at him, and his men would despise him.
He instructed Jinzhou defender Sukhbaru to immediately reinforce Ning Yuan.
On the afternoon when Li Xing attacked Ningyuan, Sukhbaru’s reinforcements rushed to Ningyuan.