Chapter 416 Fierce battle outside the city
The sudden sound of the horn exposed the Mongolian army's ambush in advance.
In the dark night, tens of thousands of Mongolian troops could not distinguish. They did not know which troop was exposed first.
Seeing the loyal army retreating, all the troops could only rush out one after another, intending to surround the troops leaving the city.
Li Chunzhu led the soldiers to retreat, and Zhang Rou led the infantry to chase them out of the camp. At this moment, there was a sudden sound of killing on both sides of the city gate, and two groups of Mongolian troops holding torches suddenly rushed out, one from the left and the other from the right.
For a time, Li Chunzhu was blocked by the Mongolian army in front and back, leaving more than two thousand elites with no way out.
"Commander!" Several officers looked at Li Chunzhu at the same time, waiting for his order.
Li Chunzhu immediately shouted, "Li Baoping!"
Li Chunzhu took his family and township party to join Zhao Tai, and when he joined the Zhongyi Army, he had more than 3,000 people under his command.
The backbone of these people are all his relatives and township party members.
Li Baoping was his nephew, but he was about the same age. He immediately clasped his fists and said, "This is my humble duty!"
"You lead the three-hundred-knife players to block my pursuers!" Li Chunzhu shouted loudly.
"Here!" Li Baoping howled, pulled out the sword from his waist, and shouted loudly: "Team A sword player, follow me!"
"Yes!" Hundreds of soldiers wearing infantry armor and holding horizontal swords stopped, turned around, followed Li Baoping, and faced the Mongolian army chasing them across the field, showing off their sharp swords.
"The rest of the brothers, with heavy steps in front and bows and arrows behind, come back for me!" Li Chunzhu pulled out his sword, roared, and led the soldiers to fight back.
Zhang Rou led his subordinates and chased them out of the camp. Their infantry moved forward and the archers followed. They chased the loyal army and fired arrows as they ran.
Li Baoping led three hundred of his subordinates and quickly formed a wall, while the Mongolian army in the field was already close in front of him.
"Here I go!" Zhang Rou saw the loyalist army blocking the attack, and immediately waved her sword and shouted, "The time has come for meritorious service."
A group of Mongolian soldiers rushed forward with swords in hand. Several soldiers of the Zhongyi Army set off thunderbolts and threw them towards the enemy group.
There was a loud "boom", white light burst out, and the Mongolian army rushing in front was instantly overturned.
Zhang Rou was shocked, and the explosion brought back unpleasant memories for him.
Last time, he was almost concussed by the blast, so he didn't dare to move forward, but he waved his knife and shouted, "Don't be afraid! Charge up and get them together, don't let the thieves throw thunder."
The explosion shocked the Mongolian army, but this type of hand-thrown sky-shattering thunder was small in size and naturally had low power, so it did not cause much damage to the Mongolian army.
Many Mongolian troops were knocked down by the bombing, but they quickly stood up.
"Kill!" Zhang Rou roared with a knife.
The Mongolian army calmed down, roared forward, and soon ran into Li Baoping's defense line.
The two armies clashed with swords and fought fiercely. From time to time, some Mongolian soldiers had no machetes, and some Loyalty soldiers were stabbed in the abdomen with knives and fell to the ground screaming.
Li Chunzhu and his subordinates fought and retreated at the same time. As soon as they retreated through the ditch and low wall, they were flanked by the Mongolian troops ambushing outside the city.
For a time, these two thousand men and horses were isolated outside the city. Countless Mongolian troops came to kill them from all directions, and the situation became critical.
At this time, a gunshot sounded in the city, and the north gate opened again. Tang Liang led thousands of soldiers and horses to rush out, rushed towards the Mongolian army who had set up an ambush, and assisted Li Chunzhu to enter the city. The two groups started a fierce battle in front of the city gate.
For a moment, the sound of killing outside Pizhou North City was loud. At the same time, soldiers and horses rushed out from other gates, but they were all sheep attacks. The soldiers leaving the city would not be immediately within the range of the artillery group in the city.
The Mongolian troops who were ambushing outside the city saw men and horses rushing out and came to stop them one after another. The trebuchets of the Zhongyi Army in the city took the opportunity to blindly throw thunderbolts outside the city. There was a continuous "rumbling" explosion. The momentum is terrifying.
Kublai Khan was in the camp, looking at the explosion of white light and listening to the shouts of killing all day long, he couldn't help but laugh, "The Zhao thieves have broken through, and the king's plan has come true! Anyone who sends an order to kill the thieves will be rewarded with ten sticks. Anyone who captures Zhao Tai alive will be promoted to the third level and rewarded with a thousand gold coins!"
Under the heavy reward, the Mongolian army became energetic, picked up their weapons, and rushed towards the loyal army leaving the city.
Facing the powerful Mongolian army, the loyal army did not panic. The soldiers formed formations and fought at the city gate. The defenders on the city were condescending and fired rockets outside the city to kill the approaching Mongolian army.
The artillery group in the city threw the cannon stones out with a flick of the pole, making the battle extremely fierce.
Zhao Tai was just a sheep outside the other three gates, and the soldiers did not leave the city wall too far. The most intense battle took place outside the north gate.
Below the city, thousands of soldiers and horses have been massacred.
Zhang Rou led the troops to chase Li Chunzhu. Li Chunzhu was cut off by the Mongolian troops ambushing both sides of the city gate. He was besieged by the Mongolian troops from all sides. The Mongolian troops blocking the city gate were rescued by Tang Liang, who came out of the city and rushed back. Li Chunzhu attacked from a flank, and the battlefield fell into a melee.
In the dark night, the army's message remains unchanged, and it is difficult for the soldiers and generals on the battlefield to understand the situation on the battlefield.
The Mongolian army felt that their ambush on the Zhongyi Army was successful, and everyone's morale was high. The strange thing was that the Zhongyi Army did not panic, and even after being ambushed, they fought evenly with the Mongolian army.
At this time, at the city gate, Li Chunzhu took the lead in front of the soldiers. Holding a sword in one hand and a round shield in the other, he led his subordinates to rush through the Mongolian troops blocking the gate.
The narrow area in front of the city was crowded with Mongolian soldiers. Li Chunzhu held his shield, jumped up, flew directly towards the Mongolian soldiers, knocked down several Mongolian soldiers, and then swept the surrounding enemy troops with his sword.
The two armies crowded under the city to kill each other. The soldiers were almost huddled together face to face. When the sword was struck, blood and flesh flew everywhere.
At this time, Zhao Tai stood on the top of the city and prepared many crossbow beds. However, the view below was not good, but he did not dare to shoot randomly.
Zhao Tai saw a fierce fighting outside the city, and suddenly saw a large group of soldiers in the distance, carrying torches, coming around the city, and knew that it was the Mongolian army from other gates coming to reinforce.
The other gates are all moving, and the Mongolian troops are slow to react in the dark, but they will still find them.
Zhao Tai watched the fire dragons coming towards Beicheng and immediately ordered, "Set rockets and throw fireballs!"
All of a sudden, the archers at the top of the city lit rockets and launched them towards the bottom of the city.
The artillery group behind the city wall also threw fireballs one after another, hitting the enemy groups outside the city.
The trebuchet with a long range fired the fireball at Zhang Rou who was pursuing him, while the crossbows at the top of the city fired at the Mongolian army between Tang Liang and Li Chunzhu, blocking Li Chunzhu's return.
Of course, in vain, the two armies strangled each other again. The Zhongyi Army's arrows missed and fired fireballs, and many Zhongyi Army soldiers were accidentally injured.
At this time, the two armies were fighting fiercely under the city. Mongolian reinforcements were arriving in a steady stream. However, the Zhongyi Army was close to the city wall. With the support of archers on the city and the artillery group in the city, the Mongolian army was unable to eliminate the Zhongyi Army for a while.
Chapter completed!