Chapter 731: The Strength Fights Back
Cao Huachun's young and strong, Wang Chengen's armed eunuch, and Feng Yuanyang's close guards were placed on the wall with stairs or shooting outside from the second floor of the courtyard. Muskets and crossbows were continuously shot out from the courtyard. Ming army surrendered soldiers who were cannon fodder by Hongniang were shot one after another and fell down screaming.
Dozens of Ming army surrendered soldiers holding a large log were struggling to hit the gate of the governor's yamen. Above the gate, many archers and bird gunmen were exposed. The sound of guns was roaring and arrows were like rain. A large area of Ming army surrendered soldiers who hit the gate fell down. There were still people at the gate throwing ten thousand enemies, blowing the Ming army surrendered soldiers outside to fly blood and screaming in terror.
The Red Lady pulled her bows one after another, and the arrows were shot without any slightest. At least a dozen defenders had died under her arrows.
Just as more than 7,000 rebels were fiercely attacking the governor's yamen, continuous guns suddenly sounded behind the rebels. The back of the rebels flew everywhere, and every second, many people screamed and fell down. Four hundred Ming army self-produced musketeers came over. In the narrow block, there was only one passage. Four hundred self-produced musketeers were like a sharp razor, advancing all the way up. The rebels blocked in front of them were crowded in the narrow streets and were knocked down in pools of blood.
Two door guard knives were pushed forward, and there were small cannons of Folang. Every time the knives pushed further, the small cannons on them spit out a ball of flame. Behind the knives, four hundred self-generated musketeers were divided into four rows, each row of one hundred people, and the reloading speed was much faster than that of bird guns. There was no need to worry about the flintlock guns that detonated the gunpowder on their comrades. They could advance in a dense formation. The sound of the gun did not stop for a moment. One hundred projectiles could be fired in each round. With two small cannons of Folang, these Ming troops were unstoppable.
"Why are you here? How are General Cao doing?" Li Guodong asked a leader who led the team.
The man replied: "Go back to the Grand Marshal, General Cao left five hundred people to guard the gate."
"Five hundred people? Can they keep it?"
"It's okay, General Cao also transferred four Folang machine cannons, and the thieves could not rush over from the city gate."
Li Guodong nodded. There were four cannons and five hundred flintlock gunmen, so there was no problem in blocking the narrow city gate. The only thing he was worried about was the thousands of rebels in the city. If the rebels in the city could not be wiped out, they would not be able to reach the city to defend. At that time, the rebels climbed up to the city with a ladder and attacked down from the city wall. The few people in his hands would not be able to defend at all.
Seeing that the Ming army muskets that were coming from behind were extremely powerful and even her old battalion soldiers could not resist it, Hongniu ordered the reduction of her troops and increased the attack on the governor's yamen.
"Quickly break through the gate! As long as you attack the governor's mansion and take the dog emperor, Li Laoer will be defeated!" Hongniang shouted.
The rebel army increased its attack on the Governor's Mansion. Many rebels set up ladders from the surrounding walls and climbed up the walls, but were discovered by the defenders and attacked the rebel army that climbed up the city.
Both the offensive and defensive sides suffered heavy losses, but the number of rebels was large. As the rebels were about to invade the mansion, a roar of horse hooves sounded behind them.
"Caval!" someone screamed in surprise.
"Kill!" Han Dashan led 300 cavalrymen and rushed over from the block to the north.
Wherever the horse lance heavy cavalry passed, blood and flesh flew across. Wherever the horse lance passed, the rebels and surrendered soldiers flew one after another. The flesh and bone fragments that were crushed by the horse's hooves flew into the air. Although there were not many heavy cavalrymen in the horse's lance, they charged straight in a narrow block, and no matter how thousands of troops could not resist it, the formation of the rebels collapsed. The first one to collapse was the Ming army surrendered soldiers in the city. The Ming army surrendered soldiers who turned and fled and rushed into the rebels formation.
Hong Niangzi and her veteran camp soldiers of the rebel army under her command tried their best to slash the defeated Ming army's surrendered soldiers. After chopping down more than 200 people in a row, they still could not stop the pace of the defeated soldiers. The defeated Ming army's surrendered soldiers wrapped around Hong Niangzi and others and rushed towards the south of the city.
Li Guodong's more than 400 nights of failure and 400 self-produced musketeers blocked the south, and defeated the rebels in the south. As a result, the rebels in the north rushing down and the rebels in the south were crowded together, trampling on each other, and countless casualties were injured.
"Surrender to avoid death!" Li Guodong made people shout.
The desperate soldiers of the rebel army and the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army threw away their weapons and knelt all over the ground.
How did Han Dashan cross the river? He found that there were more than twenty boats left on the river, so he asked someone to row the boat and sent him and 300 cavalry across the river. After these 300 cavalry crossed the river, they immediately formed a formation and launched an attack on the riot army. As a result, the riot army collapsed in an instant under the attack of the north and south.
Seeing that the situation was over, Hong Madam lamented: "King of Chuang, the little girl has done her best! It's a pity that the dog emperor should not be defeated! Mr. Li, I'm going first! Live well!"
After saying that, Hong Madam drew her sword and wanted to commit suicide. Cui'er and Yun'er around her quickly dissuaded: "Sister, never! Keep this life."
"Be humiliated by the officers and soldiers after leaving this life? You can go with us too. We are all miserable people, and we would rather die than fall into the hands of Guan Gouzi!" After Madam Hong said that, she pushed the two girls away and was about to commit suicide, but one of them rushed to the front and took off the sword.
"Brother Hao? I didn't expect you to be alive?" Hongniang saw clearly that it was Hao Yaoqi and was overjoyed.
"Miss Hong, Mr. Li is still waiting for you to go back outside. You must not lose your life in vain." Hao Yaoqi said.
"Hey, we are all defeated. Instead of being captured and humiliated by the officers and soldiers, it is better to commit suicide!"
"Miss Red, go back with me to meet someone."
Except for the more than 30 female soldiers of Hong Niangzi, the rest of the rebel army, including the surrendered soldiers of the Ming army, surrendered, Yuan Yuzong, the surrendered official of the Ming Dynasty, and Jin Bin, were surrendered.
The Ming army around them pointed the crossbows and muskets at Hong Niangzi and her more than 30 female soldiers. Seeing Hao Yaoqi take Hong Niangzi and the two women away, the Ming army then surrounded them and ordered the female soldiers to put down their weapons and surrender.
"Look at you all women, put down your weapons and I will let you out of the city! Han never bullies women!" Han Dashan shouted.
The female soldiers put down their weapons and were taken to the city gate under the custody of the Ming army.
"Is this letting us go?" a female soldier asked in disbelief.
Han Dashan said, "Our uncle is kind and kind. He knows that you are all the daughters of poor families. If the officials force the people to rebel, you can't follow the thief, so you let you go. But the city gate cannot leave. You go to the city and we will put you down with a hanging basket."
The Ming army led more than 30 female soldiers from the rebel army to the city wall, then put them down with hanging baskets, and let them leave on their own.
The crisis in the city was temporarily lifted, and there were more than 20,000 cavalrymen outside the city, but Cao Bianjiao and musketeers blocked the city gate, and they could not rush in for the time being. But in case, Li Guodong asked Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen to quickly lead people to the top of the city to assist in defense.
Besides, the Hongniang was taken to Li Guodong. She looked carefully and was shocked: "Why are you?"
"It's me, why, it's very strange?" Li Guodong smiled.
"Brother Li, I thought you were a hero who helped you when you saw injustice. I didn't expect you to be an official dog!" The Hong Madam snorted coldly, turned her head, but saw Hao Yaoqi standing beside her. Her almond eyes widened and shouted: "Brother Hao, I didn't expect you to surrender to the official dog too!"
"Miss Hong, in fact, Master Bo is not what you imagined. He also wants to kill all the corrupt officials in the world! He is a real hero!" Hao Yaoqi advised.
"Daobi is not planning to do anything. I want to persuade my lady Hong to surrender, but there is no door! Tell you, don't waste your time!"
Li Guodong laughed: "Miss Hong, I know you are as fierce as a fire, so I didn't want to persuade you to surrender. I will let you go back to reunite with Mr. Li, but I want to tell you a few words. When I finish speaking, I will let you go."
"Say something!"
"Although Li Zicheng is a hero, he is not the real co-lord of the world! This person has no ambitions, and after all, he just wants to be a grass-headed king. Besides, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance around the King of Chuang, the two of them are narrow-minded and have been dissatisfied with Mr. Li for a long time. Go back and tell Mr. Li that he should be careful of these two people, and be careful that the King of Chuang would kill him."
"Hmph! Such a poor plan of disagreement, I want to disagree with my husband and the King of Chuang?" Hong Madam snorted coldly.
Chapter completed!