"Listen to my order and rush to the north gate!" Captain Ding loudly ordered his soldiers. The state government office is located in the center of the city. To the east is Shuijun Pier out of the city, to the west is Danling and Hongya County of Yazhou, to the south is Jiading, and to the north is Pengshan County controlled by the Perak Army. According to common sense, Zan Wanshou and others should break out of the encirclement toward the east gate or south gate, and they can escape back to Jiading by water or land. In fact, the enemies in the east and south of the encirclement are the fewest and easiest to break through, while the west and north have the most and densest enemies, so it is obviously more difficult to break through. It's just a truth that ordinary people understand. How can Captain Ding of the Special Company not know about it?
Zan Wanshou became a Jinshi at a young age and became an official in charge of the government. He was by no means an ordinary person. He immediately understood the intention of Captain Ding after listening to him. The ships on the East Gate Pier were either cleared or controlled, and Liu Daer must have ambushed heavy troops at the West Gate and South Gate. Although if you want to break through the north gate, you must break through the thickest part of the encirclement, and you must pass through the gate of the state government office - there are artillery there, as well as Liu Da'er and his soldiers. But Zan Wanshou knew that compared to other city gates, the north gate was the least difficult. Although you need to take a long detour after leaving the north gate to return to Jiading, there will definitely be people chasing and blocking you on the way. At that moment, he ordered Hou Xing to follow Captain Ding and rush to the north gate.
Under the cover of shields, the soldiers of the Perak Army kept throwing grenades towards the northern section of the encirclement, that is, the direction of Zhouya. Grenades were also thrown from the opposite side, and a dense rain of arrows was fired. Most of the Meizhou Army's grenades were blocked by shield blocks, but soldiers from the Perak Army kept falling down after being struck by arrows. Although the grenades of the Perak Army fell into the dense crowd, causing heavy casualties and disarray in the surrounding Meizhou Army, it did not achieve the expected effect. On the one hand, this is because the Meizhou army stacked their large shields into a shield wall, which blocked and weakened the explosion damage. On the other hand, Liu Daer personally commanded at the gate of the state government office, and the soldiers killed and wounded one batch and then another batch quickly. His janissaries had killed a small colonel and several soldiers who had retreated.
Captain Ding felt anxious. If the gap was not opened as soon as possible, once the Meizhou Army's artillery fired, everyone in the encirclement would suffer heavy casualties. Moreover, as time went by, there would be more and more enemies, and everyone on our side would suffer. The fate of death without a burial place. Everyone will die eventually. It doesn't matter if he dies, but Lord Zan cannot die. Before leaving, when his boss asked whether he could complete the task of protecting Master Zan, he patted his chest and promised. Thinking of this, he pulled open his clothes, revealing the grenades on his chest, and prepared to charge towards the Meizhou Army's spear array. But there were two people who rushed towards the spear formation faster than him. He took a closer look and saw that the one rushing in front was a suicide squad member named Xiao Hei, and the one rushing behind was the deputy company commander.
When Xiao Hei rushed to the spear array, he had been hit by dozens of arrows. When his body rushed in front of the Meizhou Army soldiers with the help of inertia, he was stabbed by several spears without any suspense. However, he was stabbed by several spears. Before he died, he fired the grenades densely packed on his chest. After a series of violent explosions, all the Meizhou Army soldiers who were more than ten meters away from where Xiao Hei fell fell to the ground. The giant shields and spears were also blown up in random directions. The spear that flew the farthest even hit dozens of people. A Meizhou Army soldier meters away was hit, causing the unlucky man to die on the spot. The suicide squad members of the Perak Army are all volunteers who bear the hatred of their families and their country. They are selected at all levels to carry out the most dangerous tasks. Those who are not determined and willing to die cannot take on the task.
A total of twelve grenades were hung on Xiao Hei's chest and back. These grenades gathered fire and exploded, instantly clearing a breakout channel more than ten meters wide. It also cleared the way for the deputy company commander to charge, allowing him to charge farther. Without the shield wall, spears, or the dense rain of arrows to block them, the deputy company commander rushed straight towards the group of soldiers operating artillery at the gate of the state government office. At this time, the artillery had been installed, and the gunners were loading gunpowder and shells. When they saw a man rushing out of the smoke formed by the explosion, and his body was covered with grenades, they were suddenly frightened into chaos. The smart ones dropped their things and ran away, while the stupid ones stayed in place. There were also gunners who took the gunpowder bag and threw it over.
Compared to Xiao Hei, the deputy company commander's raid was much smoother, but he was still hit by two arrows. He pulled the fire ring with his last breath, then threw himself on the ammunition pile and died. A moment later, there was an earth-shattering explosion. The artillery ammunition caused by the grenade explosion not only blew up a huge crater in the artillery position, but also leveled the state government gate behind it. The artillerymen of the Meizhou Army also operated the artillery and became parts. The huge explosion shock wave knocked down a large area of the Meizhou Army in the northern section of the encirclement, and even Zan Wanshou, who was dozens of meters away, was hit hard. At the moment of the impact, he felt like a heavy hammer was hitting his chest. There was a sweet smell in his throat, and he spit out a mouthful of blood.
Seeing that the protruding passage had been opened, the special company commander led his men to clear the way. Hou Xing and several guards followed closely, surrounded by Zan Wanshou, and hurried toward the north gate. At this time, in the rubble pile formed by the collapsed state government gate, a gray-faced man stood up. He stretched out his hand and wiped it randomly on his face. When he saw Qing Zan Wanshou heading towards the north gate, he shouted as loudly as he could. , "What are you doing in a daze? Why don't you catch up and kill them all?" The Meizhou Army, who was frightened by the huge explosion and stood still, seemed to have woken up from a dream when they heard the shouting, and they all grabbed their weapons and chased towards the north gate.
The disgraced man was Liu Daer. Just now, he was really shocked when he saw the Perak Army charging so desperately, and he hid behind the state government office early. Who would have expected that the explosion was so powerful that it even leveled the gate. Liu Da'er is also a tough man. More than half of his soldiers were killed or injured in the explosion. He only had some minor scratches and was covered in plaster. He looked around and saw nearly a hundred of his men lying scattered near the ruins of the state government's gate. Although some of these people were still wailing and crying, many of them had been killed by the explosion or the shock wave.
Driven by Liu Da'er, the Meizhou troops who were not injured by the explosion rushed toward the north gate. Most of these soldiers stood in the south of the encirclement or far away from the gate of the state government. While Liu Da'er ordered people to summon the cavalry, he also took the remaining soldiers and rushed to the north gate. In his opinion, although he had suffered the loss of firearms, the situation was still under control, and Zan Wanshou could never escape from his grasp. Putting aside whether Zan Wanshou could rush through the city gate guards, even if he could rush out of the city, his cavalry could easily catch up with them. The only thing that worried him was that the grenades used by Zan Wanshou's guards were extremely sophisticated and seemed to be made by the Thunderbolt Army.
There was another huge explosion in the direction of the north gate, and the Meizhou Army who were chasing after them ran back one after another, almost knocking down Liu Da'er who was leading people to chase towards the north gate. Liu Da'er ordered the defeated soldiers to stop, but to no avail. He also ordered his own soldiers to kill one of the defeated soldiers and block him in front with his head, so that the defeated soldiers could stop running away. However, no matter how hard they tried, the defeated soldiers refused to pursue him any more, so Liu Daer had no choice but to capture a primary school commander and question him. The principal was so frightened that he could not speak coherently. It took Liu Daer a dozen sentences to understand the meaning of the words: Zan Wanshou escaped from Meizhou, and his guards were extremely terrifying. They were not human beings but ghosts and gods.
