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Chapter 46

The cloud ladder ignited a raging fire, and the Jin soldiers who were igniting fire under the city let out a heart-wrenching scream. In the fire, the cloud ladders broke one after another.

Losing the siege ladder, Jirgalang and Hauge had no choice but to announce the temporary call of gold and withdrawal.

Seeing the first round of attacks repelling the Jin army, Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian were not happy with the joy of victory, but instead looked sad, as if they had just experienced a crushing defeat.

"General Zhang, how many Jiannu have we killed just now?" Liu Ce, who did not dare to command the city, did not know the result of the battle. He could only ask Zhang Shixian who had just come down from the city. He asked how many Jin soldiers he killed were not to be prepared to repay the merits, but to worry that if he angered the Jin army, the Jin army would definitely not let him go after capturing Da'ankou.

"If you go back to Zongxian, you will kill about 300 Jiannu and kill about 200."

"How many casualties are we?"

"Our side has more than 300 soldiers, more than 500 civilians and men have been killed, more than 300 soldiers have been injured, and more than 600 civilians have been injured. Most of the injured are seriously injured and cannot be treated at all." Zhang Shixian replied.

According to the city's defenders, there were more than 1,700 casualties, while the Jin army siege had only more than 500 casualties. If this comparison of casualties was placed in another era, it would be a big laugh. Originally, the casualties ratio of the attacking city should be three, and the defense was one, which was normal, and at most two to one. Now it is reversed, which also shows how powerful the Jin army's combat effectiveness was at this time! Especially the archers, posing a great threat to the defenders on the city.

However, for such a battle loss, the defenders in Da'ankou were already very good. After all, except for a few well-equipped servants, most of the defenders were either guards without even armor or temporary recruitment of civilians, while the Jin army lost real elites.

But Liu Ce, who was greedy for life and fear of death, was not happy at all. He was worried that he would anger the Jin army and attack again tomorrow. If Da'an could not hold on, he would definitely be killed by the Jin army.

"General Zhang, do you think we can defend it tomorrow?" Liu Ce asked with great concern.

"I'm afraid it's difficult." Zhang Shixian's face looked ugly.

Liu Ce lamented and turned to say, "Zhang Junmen, since it is impossible to defend it, it is better for you and I to leave Da'ankou while it is dark tonight. Let's leave the mud legs here to withstand it. You and I are not worthy of sending my life here."

Zhang Shixian was a little worried that he would leave the pass and run away from his life, and the court would not be able to bear the crime, so hesitated.

Liu Ce said: "Zhang Junmen is worried that the court will be punished? There is no need to worry about this. As long as we escape to Zunhua City, we will be able to achieve success by relying on Zunhua City to defend Zunhua City! At that time, with the head of Jiannu to ask for merit and atone for merit, the court can still punish us? If we die in Da'ankou, how can we still have the chance to atone for merit? Now in Zunhua City, Wang Futai has been sent to the capital by Your descending crimes, and no one is stationed in the city. We went to defend Zunhua, which is a great merit!"

Zhang Shixian was so tempted by Liu Ce's statement that he was able to escape in the battle, so he agreed: "Okay, then after it's dark, I will personally lead the servants to escort Zongxian to Zunhua City!"

That night, when it was dark, Zhang Shixian took more than 100 of his servants and sneaked out of the city and escorted Liu Ce to Zunhua City where they felt safe, but left the Sanqian Guards and Sanqian Minzhuang in Da'ankou here to stop the Jin army and buy him enough time.

But that night, the Jin army camp outside the city was brightly lit, and the sound of creating siege weapons did not stop all night. In the afternoon, the Aha and the others cut down wood and built siege weapons overnight.

The next morning, the Jin army, which had built the siege weapons, launched another siege against Da'ankou.

"Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian, two dog girls, were raised by Liu Ce and Zhang Shixian! They actually left us and ran away!" In the entire Da'ankou City, almost all the soldiers and civilians of the Ming army guards were cursing.

"He is a good girl! Those two greedy and afraid of death! They threw us here and ran away to their own lives!"

"The General Xian and the military gate have all run away. What should we do if we leave us behind? Why not surrender?" Gong Xiaoda, who had lost his fighting spirit, bewitched the defenders simply opened the city gate and surrendered to the Jin army.

Gong Xiaoda is a small flag officer with a pretty good armor on his body. However, in yesterday's battle to defend the city, this person kept hiding behind, and even a Jin soldier was not killed. Today, he came out to deceive everyone into opening the city and surrendering.

"Surrender? I will never surrender? Brothers, have you ever thought about it? If we surrender and Jiannu enters the pass, our wives, children, our sisters, and our parents will be killed by the Tartars! Instead of surrendering, we might as well fight to the end! If we can kill one more Jiannu, we can at least save one more relative! What's more, we may not die in our resistance, and the one who dies will be Jiannu!" He Xing opened his voice and shouted.

"Hmph! You are going to die! I won't play with you all these hardships!" Gong Xiaoda snorted coldly, turned around and ran away from the city.

"Escape at the last moment, you should be killed!" He Xing had already had enough of Gong Xiaoda's anger over this period of time. Now that Gong Xiaoda wants to escape at the last moment, He Xing just took advantage of the situation and put a charge on him first to see if the brothers would be willing to kill this guy together.

"Yes! Escape at the battle and bewitching people's hearts, making us all surrender! Kill him!" Someone in the crowd stood up.

Gong Xiaoda's words "When he heard about escaping at the end of the battle, he was already scared to death. He wanted to run away, but he only heard a whistling sound of sharp objects breaking through the air behind his head. A feather arrow shot from behind and pierced his calves without armor. He immediately felt his calves numb, the strength on his legs disappeared, and he staggered on the top of the city.

He Xing walked forward with a big axe in his hand and slashed it hard on Gong Xiaoda's back neck. This axe was for his own revenge and for the Ming Dynasty to eliminate a scum, so He Xing used all his strength to use up this axe.

The axe slashed Gong Xiaoda's back neck, and his cervical vertebrae was cut off. The whole round head immediately rolled to the ground, and dirty blood was sprayed out of his chest cavity. The headless corpse sucked a few times and stopped moving.

"Brothers, take up the weapons and fight with Jiannu for the sake of their relatives!" He Xing roared.

The Jin army had already begun to attack the city. Although there was no commander in Da'ankou City, these guards and civilians knew what their relatives would end up if they were captured by the Jin army, so they fought to the death.

The Jin army gathered more than 10,000 archers under the city. In addition to the Jurchens, Mongolian archers also came on the field. A round of arrows flew into the sky, covering the sky and the sun. The whole sky became dim. Rows of feather arrows fell on the top of the city. Many guards and civilians were caught in arrows and fell on the top of the city screaming. Seeing this, He Xing was worried: How long can the mobs who had not commanded have been able to last?

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