The Gongbei Tower facing north from the main south gate and south of the Governor's Yamen was the south gate tower of old Guangzhou City in the Tang Dynasty. Later, with the continuous expansion of Guangzhou City, it was placed alone in the city and gradually evolved into the city gate tower.

A place where you can overlook the military sentry building of Yangcheng from a high position.

At this moment, Gao Jinku, the deputy general of Southern Gansu, arrived here and climbed up to take a look. He was the deputy general under Hu Yousheng, the commander-in-chief of Southern Gansu. Anyway, during Jin Shenghuan's fierce attack on Nangan and Li Chengdong's two attacks on Nangan, he

They were all veteran generals with outstanding military exploits. Even when Li Chengdong was defeated, although his body was not recovered, the war horse Li Chengdong was riding was captured by him.

With outstanding meritorious service, he is definitely worthy of being admitted to the treasury with these four words. However, as a reinforcement, he did not dare to say even half a sentence in front of Shang Kexi. He would do whatever Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao said.

Not only him, but also Guo Hu, Xian Qiyu and other generals were all like this.

Looking far ahead, at the main south gate in the distance, the passage up to the city wall was blocked by debris, and a large number of civilians were pouring into the city gate. On the periphery of the civilian population, a very small number of Ming troops were deployed.

It was so pitiful that Gao Jinku estimated that a single charge would be enough to penetrate the main south gate. However, the experience accumulated over the years and his intuition of escaping from death many times told him that the Ming army's arrangement would definitely not work.

It's that simple.

"Order, clean up the courtyard facing the street, press it up bit by bit, don't rush in."

Gao Jinku did not underestimate the enemy's advance, but this made Li Jianjie frown. Originally, he was just showing weakness to the enemy and planned to take advantage of Gao Jinku to attack the ambush circle and fight out from the alleys on both sides to defeat them in one battle.

The vanguard of the Qing army. But now, Gao Jinku seemed to have seen through it, but he had no way out, so he simply ordered his ambushed soldiers to resist.

The Qing army slowly moved forward. While the Ming army stood ready in the streets, they used the walls of the alleys and the small buildings in the streets to stand down from a high position, holding firecrackers and shooting with rifles and bows. The Qing army's advance was immediately stopped.

It has to be said that it was a blessing not to step into an ambush. However, due to the sudden attack, the few Qing troops who rushed at the front inevitably suffered casualties.

On the east side of the street under the double gate south of Gongbei Tower, a group of Qing troops covered their bodies with shields and moved forward slowly. The Ming army's shooting was still in progress. Most of the arrows were nailed to the shields, but there was silence.

After a moment, a blunderbuss fired again, and the lead bullet shattered the edge of the shield. The lead bullet and the shield fragments were all over the Qing army's face in that moment, and the shield was thrown to the ground.

, covering his face with both hands, wailing in pain, but before the green battalion soldiers behind him could drag him behind, from another angle, a sharp arrow came through the air, and directly inserted into a Qing soldier who stepped forward to rescue him.

at the throat, intending to continue the pain and wailing.

Most of Li Jianjie's subordinates were Li Chengdong's veterans. They had rich battlefield experience and knew very well how to act to cause the greatest trouble to their opponents. However, the Ming army archer who had just shot and killed a Qing army did not have time to draw back his bow.

He was shot through the head by a sharp arrow and fell straight from the wall of the workshop.

In a moment, a sword and shield soldier stepped forward to fill the gap, and the Qing army continued to advance under the fire of the Ming army. When they approached the square wall, as soon as the shield formation opened, the Qing army carrying ladders rushed over with shouts.

, set up the already low ladder, and the sword and shield soldiers who followed jumped up and climbed over the wall of the square on the ladder.

Almost at this moment, fighting broke out inside the square wall, with shouts of killing one after another. The Qing army broke into the square wall, and the Ming army no longer had the chance to climb the wall to shoot. More and more Qing troops began to attack the square wall.

Concentrated, trying to use their numerical superiority to overwhelm the Ming army guarding this area, and then use this area to continue advancing southward.

But at this moment, the Qing soldiers who were queuing up to climb the ladder soon felt the vibrations from the ground. Then amidst the shouts of a Qing soldier who climbed onto the wall of the square, a Ming soldier cavalry

He rushed out of the corner with a diagonal pull, turned, accelerated, and stabbed straight with his lance. In one go, he directly connected the two Qing soldiers with their lances.

It was just a ride, but in such a narrow street, it was like a car that accelerated suddenly, knocking those Qing soldiers away.

The Qing soldier who fell on the avenue of Shuangmenxia Street and was knocked out by the head-on was as soft as a ball of boneless mud. He couldn't help vomiting blood and looked like he was no longer alive. In addition,

Several Qing soldiers who were knocked away were not much better. Some fell against the wall, and some were limp under the pillars outside the shop. They were all seriously injured and could not stand up again for a while.

Fighting.

In response, the cavalry general didn't even look at it. He threw his rifle there and effortlessly turned his horse's head in the narrow alley and walked away. Only the two people who were strung together were left behind.

The Qing soldiers were not dead for a while, but they were still wailing in pain, as if they were telling other Qing soldiers that these Ming soldiers were not what they had expected earlier.

In fact, Li Jianjie's troops were after all the elites brought out by Li Chengdong back then. Their combat effectiveness was no worse than that of Gao Jinku's South Gansu Green Battalion, and was even better in many places. The decision to abandon the city was nothing more than a sign of the Qing army

The troops were even stronger, including soldiers from the Pingnan and Jingnan vassals, plus the escape of Du Yonghe as the commander-in-chief. Otherwise, even if they could not win, the Qing army would not have been able to massacre in the city so easily.

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The battle is still going on, and the armies of the Ming and Qing Dynasties are still fighting for the lanes on both sides of Shuangmenxia Street. But as time goes by, there is already a way out, but the soldiers are forced to drive back and enter again.

The Ming army on the battlefield began to show a temporary decline in their ability to tolerate casualties. Repeated battles gradually turned into passive resistance. Every time the Qing army removed a courtyard, they no longer had to worry about a counterattack by the Ming army.

Instead, more troops were invested in continuing the attack. In this way, the lanes were lost faster and faster.

The Ming army was already in decline. Li Jianjie, who had rushed out to fight for several rounds, climbed up the wall of a square and looked over. The people at the main south gate had already entered. The next second, the tip of a sentry arrow on the tower

Howling and flying into the sky, Li Jianjie immediately issued the order to retreat, and then the Ming army relied on their familiarity with the terrain and retreated towards the south gate.

The Ming army suddenly retreated, and Gao Jinku secretly thought that something was wrong, but before he had time to react, thick smoke and fire appeared silently in the lanes and alleys where the Ming and Qing armies had repeatedly fought.

First there was a wisp, then another wisp, and then, wisps of thick smoke spread bit by bit against the light of the fire, connecting into a line at an extremely abnormal speed, and continuously moving towards the north and south.
Chapter completed!