Chapter 22 Sealing the Knife
Thanks to the big boss "Daxia Dragon Que 91" for his reward!
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After giving the order to set fire, Eunuch Wei threw this matter behind his mind, because the flag soldiers who were still resisting stubbornly attracted his attention again.
After discovering that the Ming army was coming, they suddenly abandoned them and turned to plunder everywhere. After pursuing the fortress people, Han Zhengtai, the leader guarding the fortress, actually summoned more than a hundred flag soldiers to try to rush out.
After being blocked, Han Zhengtai did not panic, but instead summoned the flag residents in the fort and sent them to weapons to block the Ming army with favorable terrain.
And firmly controlled the wooden bridge entering the inner castle, and gunmen were deployed in the houses on both sides, which seemed to be waiting for help.
Eunuch Wei admired this very much.
He has always admired those with courage, so after waiting for the infantry brigade to hand over the task force to the Imperial Guard composed of 80 Jurchen soldiers and 150 Han people just formed less than two days ago.
These Jurchen soldiers and Han people were carefully selected. If the Jurchen soldiers were brothers in the same place, the father and son were father and sons in the same place, the Han people chose those whose families were family members in the Kuandian area and took the initiative to surrender to the Jurchens rather than being captured.
Eunuch Wei hopes that every time he captures a fort, he can select and form an imperial guard from the former Jianzhou defenders in the fort to serve as an assisting force for the Ming Dynasty Imperial Army.
In the future, the Imperial Alliance teams will be established in Japan, the Eastern Federation, even in Southeast Asia, Europe and other places. After the troops have formed a certain scale, they will be upgraded to the Imperial Guard and Imperial Alliance Army, thinking that public security and warfare will be considered.
The two captains of the Changdian Emperor Guard were the Jurchens Fei Gulun, who was previously the vest of the subordinate Madali, and the other was Niu Zhu, a Han citizen who was originally a soldier who died in the Changdian Jurchens.
"If you can't take it, you will all die."
After saying this to the two captains of the Imperial Guard, my father-in-law stopped his horse and watched the battle from afar. The reason for watching the battle from afar was not that my father-in-law was afraid of death, but mainly because my father-in-law didn't like the smell of blood.
After a brief moment of dazed, Fei Gulun and Niu Zhu looked at each other, then gritted their teeth and led their respective subordinates to rush towards the wooden bridge guarded by the Goryeo soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner.
The equipment of the Imperial Guard was very simple. Only half of them received armor and only had about ten wooden shields in their hands. The weapons were mainly swords and spears, and only thirty bows were found, without guns.
After experiencing panic, the Zhenghuang Banners on the opposite side had already stabilized under the command of the leader Han Zhengtai, forming a line of defense, and had a large number of bows and arrows and a small number of muskets. Therefore, in the first round of charge, the Imperial Guard was forced to retreat after paying twenty or thirty lives.
Fei Gulun and Niu Zhu were also taken away by the crowd, but not long after retreating, guns rang out from behind, and then the team was in a stir, and the retreating crowd was all fixed there.
"go back!"
Taro Higashimura led a team of army warriors to approach the front step by step. After passing the Imperial Guard soldiers who were knocked down by the guns, Higashimura suddenly waved his knife and cut off the head of a Jurchen soldier with a braid. Then he carried the braid and threw the head into the panicked crowd in front of him.
The soldiers of the Imperial Guard were obviously shocked by the actions of the Imperial Warriors, and they looked at them in horror.
"preparation!"
The command knife of Dongcun was raised, and hundreds of muskets were immediately raised. There were hundreds of Ming troops in various armor and armor behind them, slowly moving forward.
"Go back! Go back!"
Fei Gulun shouted and cursed, knowing that if they didn't return, the Ming army would really shoot them all. Niu Zhu exhaled, thinking that his life was originally picked up, and now he would definitely be dead. It would be better to fight with the Zhenghuang Banners and Knot soldiers in the fort. If he wins, maybe the Grand Grand Master Wei from the capital can really save his wife and daughter.
"If you want to see your wife and children alive, go back with me!"
Niu Zhu raised the wooden shield in his hand and slashed the stupid companions beside him with the back of the knife. During a commotion, the remaining imperial guards had to rush towards the wooden bridge again. They shouted loudly to suppress the fear in their hearts.
"Father-in-law, these people are afraid they are useless, so let me take someone with me."
Hu Quan shook his head, thinking that these Jurchen soldiers and Han people in Changdian Fort had been scared to death. At present, they were just a mob of helping people and it was impossible to break through the defense line of Jianzhou soldiers in the fort. In order to resolve the battle as soon as possible, he proposed that he lead the army warriors to attack. The remaining Goryeo stick soldiers in the fort were commendable for courage, but they would never be able to stop the brave attack of the Imperial Army soldiers.
Eunuch Wei refused, but only looked at the imperial guards with interest. He was very excited about the performance of the imperial guards.
The Huangqi soldiers in the fort fought desperately, and guns and arrows kept shooting towards the bridge. The Imperial Guard suffered heavy casualties, and from time to time, some injured people fell into the river, and some injured soldiers fell on the bridge blocked the road.
"Push them down!"
Niu Zhu pushed a Jurchen soldier in front of him into the river without saying a word, then held a wooden shield and shouted "Ahhh".
The Kimura army received an order to attack. Under the shooting of powerful muskets, the Goryeo soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner who were fighting stubbornly were seriously injured. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Goryeo defense line, Niu Zhu successfully broke in with more than a dozen members of the Imperial Guards.
"Bald!"
The Japanese imperial army from Kimura's troops roared in unison, and they rushed in with muskets equipped with sharp knives. The soldiers in the fort could not resist. The Ming army, which poured in like a tide, made them panic again as if they were sneak attacked before, and soon retreated one after another. The collapse was formed again. No matter how the assistant leader Han Zhengtai suppressed the enemy, the soldiers couldn't help but flee in a hurry.
Because the casualties just now were too serious, dozens of imperial guards who rushed in actually slashed at people, whether they were soldiers, civilians, men or women.
Some Zhenghuang Banner soldiers who had no way to escape had to resist desperately. Some Korean women witnessed the murder of their husbands and sons and rushed towards the Ming army that rushed in like crazy. They punched and kicked, and even bite them with their teeth.
Han Zhengtai was struggling with dozens of flag soldiers to support him. He wanted to gather more flag soldiers, but every time he gathered some, he was scattered by the Ming army's gun team. The women and children who fled everywhere rushed them out from time to time.
There were too many Ming troops, and you could tell at a glance that it was several times more than that of them. Moreover, wherever they passed, they were either scared and looked deserted, or the defeated soldiers who ran fast, and these people rushed them into pieces.
Finally, Han Zhengtai gave up his resistance and chose to run to the reed marsh like Jialaezhen Jin Deqing. The flag soldiers were able to persist until now, because of the courage of Lord Zuo Ling, and now the backbone has also escaped. They also lost the intention to resist and kneeled down to surrender.
Han Zhengtai ran out of the fort desperately, with corpses behind him, and the miserable sound of help came from his ears. He couldn't bear to listen to those sounds of help, he just wanted to go out alive.
But when he successfully ran out of the fort from the pursuit of the Ming army, the scene in front of him made him kneel to the ground in despair with a "splash".
In the sight, the reeds that could not be seen were burning with raging fires, and the thick smoke kept blowing into the depths of the swaying under the wind.
In the small dine castle in the distance, several knights with triangular flags on their backs were constantly repeating the orders of Eunuch Wei.
"Seal the knife! Seal the knife!"
Chapter completed!