Chapter 15 Bloodstained Dragon Flag (Part 2)
Lu Xiangsheng stood on the well railing, holding the big knife in his hand tightly, looking at Shenglong City in front of him, his eyes shining brightly. He only had one belief now, that is, he must take Shenglong City, today, now!
The emperor trusted him so much that he led the army to recover Annan. However, now, he had lost so many people and had never even touched the city wall! Now that the emperor is coming, he must not let the emperor down. He cannot tolerate himself being so incompetent, so today, he must conquer Shenglong City!
At this time, the army's vanguard was less than a hundred steps away from the city wall. If you move forward further, you may be accidentally injured by your own artillery shells. He took a deep breath and raised his hand and said, "Transfer the order and stop the artillery attack."
The personal guards beside him immediately raised the flag representing the artillery and waved it down quickly. All the artillery immediately stopped shooting. The entire battlefield immediately fell into a strange silence. Lu Xiangsheng then shouted: "Cloud ladder, up, well railing, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, kill...ah."
The flag was waving, and all the Ming soldiers immediately shouted: "Kill!"
Countless Ming soldiers under the siege car held shields and rushed towards the city wall with their shields. On the well railing, everyone also raised their shields and began to bend down to accumulate strength, preparing to jump onto the city wall in one fell swoop.
The Annan army on the city walls rose up, raised their muskets, pulled out their bows and arrows, and shot them.
"Don't's Don't's Don't's Don't's wall finally installed on the city wall. Lu Xiangsheng pushed away the guardrail with a shield in front of him, kicked the guardrail of the well railing with one leg, and jumped onto the city wall with a "whisper" leaping onto the city wall. A sword light passed by, countless heads flew up, and a few footholds of several meters radius appeared on the city wall. The guards behind him immediately jumped up, and a bloody battle began.
There is no saying that the guns are not allowed to be fired at this moment. Although the Ming soldiers and Annan soldiers were bayonets on their guns, they would hit the enemy a few times when they had the chance. The Ming soldiers were all revolver rifles and could hit five times in a row, so at the beginning, they had the advantage.
However, the speed of the Ming army climbing the city walls could not keep up with the speed of running from the city walls on both sides. As the Annan army continued to rush over the city walls on both sides, the Ming army on the city walls gradually felt more difficult, especially Lu Xiangsheng, who had become the target of the Annan army. He saw that he was a senior general, so those who were holding flintlock guns would shoot him whenever there was a gap. I don’t know how many people were secretly aiming at him, and his arms and legs slowly turned blood.
He was not the worst. What was even worse was that the guards holding the Sun and Moon Dragon Banner. On the battlefield, the commander flag was even more important than the main general. Therefore, more Annan troops were aiming at the guards holding the Dragon Banner. They had no armor and were beaten to death and fell down slowly, causing the dragon flag to fall several times. However, every time there were always desperate guards bravely stepped forward to help the dragon flag up.
At this moment, the dragon flag is still standing on the top of the city, splashing with the blood of the Ming soldiers.
The two sides fought fiercely for nearly an hour, and blood gradually flowed into a river on the city wall. Under the city wall, there were still Ming troops rushing up, and there were also Annan Army generals on both sides of the city wall to drive the meat grinder with big swords and spears to step onto the east city wall.
After all, the Ming army had weapons advantages. In addition, their commander Lu Xiangsheng led the way and his morale was extremely strong. Most of the Annan army was forced to rush up and had no morale at all. Therefore, the situation on the city wall slowly turned to the Ming army, and more and more Ming troops rushed up the city wall, and the Annan army gradually became in a state of dissatisfaction.
Suddenly, an Annan Army general threw away his weapons and knelt on the ground and pointed at the supervision team on the south side of the city wall and shouted hysterically: "Don't kill us, they all forced us up, and they wanted to kill them."
Lu Xiangsheng happened to be nearby. He heard this and looked up at the direction the general pointed. There was indeed a group of people holding machetes on the city wall in the distance, constantly driving the Annan army soldiers there. He yelled: "Crash with me."
After roaring, he swung his sword directly toward the city wall on the south. The city wall was almost crowded. It seemed that this distance would never be possible to rush through. However, the Annan soldiers along the way made way a road intentionally or unintentionally. Lu Xiangsheng ran past it all the way and soon rushed to the junction of the South City Wall and the East City Wall.
It can be said that it was all Annan Army. Lu Xiangsheng rushed over with more than a dozen personal guards. It seemed that he was alone and was trapped in a heavy siege. However, none of the Annan Army soldiers here came forward to prevent them. Instead, they walked around one after another. Lu Xiangsheng rushed to the middle of the team, slashed for a while, and quickly chopped them all over the ground.
I don’t know which Annan soldier threw away the weapons in his hands first, and then the nearby Annan soldier threw away the weapons and knelt on the ground, stopping fighting!
This phenomenon slowly spread from south to north. Lu Xiangsheng finally understood and ran away quickly to the north.
The Annan soldiers along the way knelt down almost like an avalanche. He rushed to the junction of the north wall and the east wall without any obstacles. At this time, thousands of Ming soldiers had gathered behind him. He didn't care about breathing and chased the supervisors who were trying to escape and slashed.
After all the supervisors were cut over, no one resisted on the entire city wall. All the Annan soldiers threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground, waiting for the descent, and Shenglong City was captured like this!
Lu Xiangsheng breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly felt weak all over. He paused the sword to the ground and ordered: "Transfer the order, let General Cao Wenzhao come to clean the battlefield and take over Shenglong City."
After saying that, he actually fell back slowly, and the guards beside him were so scared that they shouted, "Mr. Lu, Lord...."
Everyone rushed forward, caught him with all their might, and hurriedly poked his breath and pulse. Fortunately, he just fainted after losing too much blood.
In this battle, the Ming army suffered heavy casualties, with no less than 20,000 soldiers killed in battle alone, and countless soldiers injured. The Annan army was even worse, with no less than 30,000 casualties and countless injured.
When Lu Xiangsheng woke up, it was already the next morning. At this time, his hands and feet were tied into rice dumplings. It was a bit difficult to move a little. He turned his head and looked hard. A personal guard was sitting at the round table beside the bed and was dozing off. It was He Yuan. He shouted with difficulty: "Xiao Sanyuan, pour me a glass of water."
The guard wiped his eyes in a daze, and then shouted in surprise: "Sir, you are awake!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two more guards rushed in outside the door and shouted in surprise: "Sir, you are awake!"
Lu Xiangsheng looked at their eyes red and swollen, and couldn't help but scolded: "Why are you crying like this? I'm not dead again. Pour me a glass of water quickly, I'm so thirsty."
He Yuan heard this and quickly picked up the teapot on the table and poured him a glass of water. The other two stepped forward and gently helped him sit up. When He Yuan said that the water cup was delivered to his mouth, there were tears in his eyes.
He took a few sips of water and couldn't help but wonder, "What's wrong?"
He Yuan suddenly burst into tears and cried: "Sir, they are all dead, Xiaopang, Big Head, Shitou... He is all dead!"
Chapter completed!