please make me king

Chapter 1420 Retreat

"Small people who dare to destroy my great cause, I will cut them off!" Following Hauge's order, the light of the sword flickered on the Old Baoan City.

One after another, the heads were smashed down from the city like rolling logs or rocks.

One after another, headless corpses fell on the city wall like half wooden stakes.

Blood gushed out from the severed neck, dripping down the city wall, and half of the city wall was painted blood red.

Failed, the people in the city tried to open the city gate last night failed, and hundreds of strong men were slaughtered.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness King Shun, you must avenge them!" The old castle owner of Shun Township Fort had already burst into tears and almost fainted, while Zhang Shun regretted it even more.

He clearly knew that Hou Jinbing was a ferocious soldier, and he was an elite soldier in a hundred battles, so why did he believe the old man's nonsense?
Always want to play tricks, the consequences of tricks are bloody lessons.

"Fire, attack the city, don't die this time, I only want the old city!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but ordered coldly.

"The last general takes orders!" Zhang Sanbai looked at Zhang Shun and opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Zhang Sanbai and his [-] troops have arrived this morning, together with Li Zicheng and Zhang Fatty's cavalry battalions, Zhang Shun is confident that he will wipe out the eight thousand golden soldiers here.

There are five battalions under Zhang Sanbai's command. In addition to the standard battalion of the headquarters, there are four battalions of Guan Fumin, Li Wanqing, Dang Shousu and Zhang Rukui.

Among the five battalions, except for the [-] Guanfumin who were still the old establishment of the Ming army, the other four battalions were each equipped with a standard artillery banner consisting of five field guns and five golden guns.

In addition, Zhang Shun managed to transport ten cannons from the camp outside Xibali Fort, and the rebels had already accumulated fifty "Red Barbarian Cannons" outside the Old Baoan City.

Following Zhang Shun's order, the rebel army of [-] to [-] soldiers immediately surrounded the old city of Bao'an, and then lined up all the fifty cannons in the north of the city, and began to bombard them violently.

"How is it possible?" That Prince Su Hauge had never seen the power of the rebel cannons, and when he saw so many "red barbarian cannons" outside the city, he was terrified.

My family knew about my own family affairs, he had just killed the internal response of the rebel army in the old city, I am afraid Zhang Shun hated him to the bone, and now it is too late to regret it.

"Prince Su, come on, hurry up and go down to the city. The 'thief' cannons are sharp, and you are not afraid of [-], just in case, if something happens to you, how can we live!" Standing on the city wall, he hurriedly said.

"Well, good!" Just as Hauge was in a daze, a shell suddenly flew over, smashing a parapet near him with a "bang", and the splashed bricks just hit his helmet , issued a crisp impact sound.

Hauge was taken aback, and hurried down the city wall, took off his helmet and saw a dent on it.

If it wasn't a brick that hit him just now, but a cannonball, the consequences would be disastrous.

About half an hour later, there was only a loud noise, and then the people and soldiers in the city were frightened and shouted: "The city has collapsed, the city has collapsed!"

Nazhizhou was scared out of his wits early on, and hurriedly said to Haoge: "As the saying goes: If you keep the green hills, you will not worry about no firewood. Now the 'Shun thief' is fierce and unstoppable. Please, Prince Su, make a plan early."

"Plan?" Hauge couldn't help but fell silent when he heard the words.

The so-called plan naturally refers to retreat.

Not to mention that the old city is now under siege and cannot escape.

Even if he breaks out, where can he retreat?
Backed by mountains and facing the river, Baoan Old City is located on the south bank of Sanggan River, where the Yang River and Sanggan River meet.

Except for the deep well castle in the west, the other three sides are surrounded by rivers.

Even if Houjin had many cavalry, he could not fly across. In addition, the rebel army had two battalions of cavalry from Li Zicheng and Zhang Fatzi, which made it even more difficult to fly.

Thinking of this, Hauge couldn't help but deeply regretted his previous recklessness.

"For the current plan, it seems that the only way to survive is to ask my father for help!" Hauge pondered for a moment before finally making a decision.

Not long after, a few people and horses were seen leaving the city from the east of Baoan old city, and then fled from the east.

I never thought that I was not far away from the city, but suddenly I heard a whistle, and dozens of Russian riders blocked the way of Hou Jinshu's riders.

After a fight, several heads were thrown under the old city.

"Hey, for the current plan, it seems that there is only one way to die." Hauge smiled wryly when he saw this, shook his head, and ordered.

"The order is passed on, saying that the 'Shun thief' who has always killed prisoners will not be forgiven. If they can't fight to the death, they will all die!"

Not to mention what Prince Su's plan was, let's say that Zhang Sanbai wanted to call for a fight when he saw that the north wall of the old city was blown down.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shun shook his head and said: "You don't know the reality of Houjin, and his subordinates are all elite soldiers, I can't match it."

"Today, we will first destroy the city with artillery, and ride around it with fine horses. Only when the liver and gallbladder are torn apart, can we do all the work!"

After finishing his speech, Zhang Shun ordered the artillery to continue bombarding the walls of the old city, with the momentum of swearing not to stop until it was razed to the ground.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The artillery outside the city seemed to be endless, hammering the walls of Baoan old city continuously, causing the bricks and tiles to fly and mud and sand to fall.

"Boom!" With another earth-shattering sound, another large piece collapsed in the northwest corner of the old city.

"Okay, we can attack the city!" Zhang Shun nodded before giving the order.

The first team to go into battle was Li Wanqing's troops. He has [-] brave soldiers under his command, which can be regarded as a relatively strong force.

However, when he led his troops to attack the city from two collapsed places, he encountered a fierce attack from the Houjin soldiers.

Li Wanqing's troops fought for about an hour, but were still unable to occupy the city wall, so they had no choice but to lose.

The second battle was Dang Shousu. His men were not very good, and he was driven off by Hou Jinbing after only a few rounds of fighting.

After that, Jin Bing saw the advantage, and took advantage of the defeat of the Dangshou Su Department, followed and attacked the city.

The meaningless army gunners understood early on that under the cover of a burst of artillery fire, the Houjin soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

On the contrary, it became the biggest loss suffered by Hauge's troops since the rebels attacked the city.

In the third formation, Zhang Sanbai went into battle in person and fought until late at night, but the rebels still couldn't make a breakthrough, so they had to retreat to the camp and wait for another fight tomorrow.

Zhang Shun never expected that with such an advantage, the rebel army would still be unable to defeat the Houjin soldiers in hand-to-hand combat.

He pondered for a moment, ready to order the transfer of Li Jiyu's heavy armored infantry under Hong Chengchou's command.

Just as he took the pen and paper and was about to write the military order, unexpectedly the door opened with a "squeak".

Zhang Shun looked up and saw that it was Song Xiance who came.

Before he could ask a question, Song Xiance said anxiously: "Your Highness, Xu Ziyuan just sent the news that the Houjin soldiers in Xibalibao began to retreat in an orderly manner."

"Everyone doesn't know what's true, so please ask King Shun to go back in time to preside over the overall situation!"

(End of this chapter)