Chapter 215: Battle of Chengdu 5
Zeng Ying was so eager to take the credit that he wouldn't wait for Fang Xinyu. He heard he was going to cut down trees, so he took his old buddies, Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai, and attacked Wanli Bridge.
At the beginning, Li Zhanchun's attack went smoothly. He fought Sun Kewang's troops in a very good manner. It was really a case of a match made in heaven.
Zeng Ying took a look and found that it was exactly as he thought. It seemed that as long as Yu Dahai went up and made a push, the Wanli Bridge would be within his reach!
Zeng Ying then commanded Yu Dahai to lead 10,000 troops to support Li Zhanchun. Zeng Ying believed that this was the last straw that broke the camel's back.
Zeng Ying said to Dahai: "Charge! Take Wanli Bridge!"
Yu Dahai rode out with his soldiers, while Sun Kewang stood on the city wall and said with a smile, "Let them have some fun first! Do you really think that just because you defeated me once, you will put me aside? If our men are about to die, then shoot them down!"
"But we still have our own people there!" said a deputy general.
Sun Kewang glared at them with murderous eyes and said, "They are just cannon fodder! They are used as stepping stones for us. If you don't want them to die, I will let you die!"
The deputy general looked at Sun Kewang and immediately stopped talking, and hurried to carry out the mission.
Zeng Ying saw that Li Zhanchun and Yu Dahai were about to defeat the rebel army when the sound of cannons rang out. The booming sound startled Zeng Ying. He knew the rebel army had cannons, but he had no idea they could fire so far. In Zeng Ying's impression, except for the Kenan army, no one else's cannons could reach as far as his own! This was almost the same range as his own cannons! What was going on?
And now, in order to save ammunition, no artillery fire has been made. The ammunition is reserved for attacking Zhonghe Gate.
Now, after the baptism of artillery fire, Zeng Ying's more than ten thousand men had suffered heavy losses. Everywhere was the wailing of the Ming army and the neighing of war horses. And so did the rebel army. One rebel soldier shouted, "We are one of you!" Why? It felt like the words of a Nationalist officer in an old movie, about to be shot. "I have served the Party and the country, I have shed blood for the Party and the country!"
Zeng Ying's troops immediately collapsed and retreated. After counting, there were less than 3,000 people left.
Zeng Ying had no choice but to return to camp to rest and prepare for another battle tomorrow. At this time, Fang Xinyu was already waiting for them in the big tent.
Zeng Ying immediately regretted his decision the moment he saw Fang Xinyu. He should have waited. After all, Fang Xinyu had military achievements to prove himself, and he was a close friend of the prince. There was no harm in asking him more questions! Why compete with him for credit? If they could achieve merit together, maybe he could even give him some. This time, not only would he have lost troops and generals, but Fang Xinyu might even hold a grudge against him. If he went back to the prince and said something bad about him, he would be in big trouble.
Zeng Ying managed a smile and said to Fang Xinyu, "General Fang, I was just too eager to make a contribution! I was a little careless!"
Fang Xinyu smiled and shook his head, saying, "Master Zeng's feelings are understandable. We all want to make contributions! I hope we can discuss anything! Especially the general, I will command from heaven, and you will fight on the ground. How about we split the credit equally?"
"Good! General Fang, you've thought of everything!" Zeng Ying said. The other two nodded in agreement, but Fang Xinyu thought to himself, "I'm afraid after winning two battles, they'll stop listening to me. It's the custom of Ming Dynasty officials to take credit for what's won and pass the buck for what's wrong." But as long as I can get the initial command, it's fine. "Once we enter the city, I'll leave you alone!"
At Yinghui Gate, Qin Yiming and Ma Wanchun were commanding their troops to fight a desperate battle with Li Dingguo!
The ground and the walls were littered with the corpses of the White Spear Army and the enemy troops, while logs and rocks were constantly being thrown down from the walls.
A soldier on the city wall threw a large rock down with great force, hitting a White-Pole Soldier on the head. The White-Pole Soldier immediately bled profusely and fell off the ladder, landing on the body of another White-Pole Soldier.
Li Dingguo watched the last of the White Spear Army being defeated. When the other White Spear Army heard the retreat order, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At first, the White Spear Army's artillery bombarded the city walls like crazy, leaving them unable to raise their heads. Many of the men were killed, their bodies left utterly untouched. When the White Spear Army climbed back up, Li Dingguo personally led his troops to various sections of the wall to provide command or support, pushing the White Spear Army back again and again.
Qin Yiming and Ma Wanchun also desperately sent people to attack the city, fighting from morning till dusk, but Yinghui Gate was still firmly in the hands of the rebel army.
Qin Yiming said to Ma Wanchun, "I didn't expect the Yinghui Clan to be so difficult to defeat! We need to think of a strategy! We can't just fight like that!"
Qin Liangyu snorted coldly and said, "If this is how you fight wars, then just let the people of the Central Plains come! Let them pay with their lives. Use your brains!"
Qin Yiming and Ma Wanchun both nodded in agreement, and then the two of them went down to discuss it. They decided to attack the city at night!
Seeing that it was getting dark, Li Dingguo began to let his subordinates rest in batches and prepare to continue the battle tomorrow!
At 12 o'clock in the night, when people were a little sleepy, a cannon shot in the dark woke Li Dingguo's defenders.
So they began to prepare to defend the city, but aside from a few bricks collapsing in a few places, they saw no enemy attack. So they returned to rest, but just as they were getting sleepy, the accursed White-Pole Soldiers began firing their cannons again, startling them awake again. They began to run around preparing to meet the enemy, only to find they had been tricked once again.
Li Dingguo was furious, and he really wanted to lead his troops out to fight. But he couldn't! His godfather had issued a strict order to defend Yinghui Gate. This was their last hope, and no one wanted to live the life of fleeing. They wanted to control the southwest and form a three-kingdoms alliance with the Ming and Dashun.
For several times in a row, I was just tossing them around. I only made one or two feints! It was just to make them nervous for a while!
Finally, the soldiers realized that the White Spear Army was trying to make things difficult for them and wasted their energy. So they fired more cannons, and Li Dingguo's army stopped moving. Except for a few patrolmen, no one else got up.
At the time of Yin, which is between 3 and 5 a.m., when everyone is most sleepy, the White Spear Army's artillery fire begins again.
Few of Li Dingguo's soldiers could rise again, but this time the White Spear Army truly moved. They attacked the city like ants. The greatest crisis of Li Dingguo's life had arrived.
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