Ao Bai's remaining dozen or so white-armored soldiers retreated to the inn's courtyard wall, blocked the gate with huge rocks, and continued to resist desperately.
This group of troops led by Wu Xiao originally followed the main force of the Second Army back east from Shaanxi. However, they were blocked by bandits midway, and the commander-in-chief Deng Changxiong had to lead his troops to detour through Mongolia and enter the Horqin Grassland.
Misfortune never comes singly. The Second Army encountered the plague as soon as it entered the prairie. Five to six thousand people died and more than a thousand more died. Finally, Wu Xiao led the vanguard into Liaodong from Karaqin. In order to avoid the main force of the Qing army, he detoured eastwards and traveled thousands of miles, not wanting to meet Obai and his party here.
There is no way out for both sides, either you die or I die. When the enemies meet, they are extremely jealous, and they are all determined to kill the other party.
Oboi and his men hid in the inn, unable to get out, and used bows and arrows to shoot out. This unknown inn between Kuandian and Shenyang was dilapidated and small. It faced a gate and entered into a small courtyard, plus several side rooms on the left and right, with wooden beams. It had long been demolished by the Qing army, and now only a few bare earth walls remained.
Wu Xiao looked around and quickly observed the terrain around the station. An arrow flew towards him. He blocked it in front of his eyes with his iron-armed hand. There was a clanking sound and the arrow was deflected by him. At this time, his younger brother Li Zicheng had killed all the Jiannu who had not escaped by the prison car. Several auxiliary soldiers were helping the prisoners in the prison car and walked towards them.
Wu Xiao stepped forward on his horse, looked at the five people roughly, his eyes wandered over Alissa, and asked loudly:
"Who are you? Why were you captured by the Tatars!"
Lao Qian held a Yanling knife, struggled two steps forward, raised his head and said to Wu Xiao:
"Are we brothers from the Second Army? The three of us are from the expedition team."
"Expedition team?" Wu Xiao turned back to look at Li Zicheng, who also looked confused. Miyuan Shaoxia thought for a while and then suddenly realized:
"An expedition to farm on Kuyi Island?"
Lao Qian nodded repeatedly, and then Jiang Liuer stood up and corrected: "I'm not going to farm, but to fight the Rakshasa ghosts and drive the Rakshasa ghosts out of Nu'ergan capital. Jian Nu will attack us from behind and all the brothers will die." Empty·····"
Wu Xiao looked at Jiang Liu'er carefully. The boy was in ragged clothes and had a bloody scab on his head. He looked in a daze. He remembered that when the expedition set out from Shenyang, there were more than 800 people, many of whom were members of the Second Guards Army. Of the elite, there are only three of them left alive.
"You mean you three are the only ones left to come back?"
Wu Xiao looked at the three people in front of him in disbelief. Since Sarhu, the Kaiyuan Army's casualties had never been so heavy.
"Ma Zhizhou and Chief Li evacuated safely," Jiang Liu'er suddenly remembered something and looked up at Wu Xiao, "Did you encounter a fierce tiger or an injured tiger during your trip here?"
Wu Xiao shook his head blankly. They had experienced various hardships and dangers while escaping from Shaanxi, but they had never seen a tiger.
Two days ago, Wu Xiao walked east from Shenyang. The further east he went, the fewer Tatars he encountered. It is estimated that Du Du bet all his money on Shenyang. To the east of Shenyang, those cities that were taken over by the Qing army, Even in an undefended state, there were only a few Qing troops guarding it.
A horseman rode forward and loudly reported: "Wu Yingguan, the Tatars are still shooting arrows and will not come out alive or dead!"
Wu Xiao glanced around. Since there were no enemy reinforcements for the time being, he decided to have some fun with this group of Tatars.
"Gather around, set fire to them, burn them to death!"
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Two teams of horsemen quickly passed by both wings of the post station. The cavalrymen threw lit torches into the courtyard from all directions, and some horsemen threw wooden-handled grenades. With bursts of violent explosions, the screams of the Qing army came from the courtyard. More than a dozen light arrows were shot from the yard, but they were all inaccurate and fell diagonally behind Qi Jun.
The horsemen surrounding the post station dismounted one after another, took off their long-barreled fire muskets from their horses, and lined up in three rows. come out.
The thatched roof of the inn was quickly lit by torches, thick smoke filled the courtyard walls, and a low roar soon came from the inn.
Jiannu, who couldn't bear the scorching fire, pushed open the door, danced with his sword and ran out screaming.
"Fire!"
boom! boom!
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Amidst the intensive explosions of firecrackers, the last twenty Qing soldiers fell to the ground.
Several white-armored soldiers who rushed out of the courtyard also tried to shoot at the musketeers with rifle bows, but they were immediately stabbed to death with lances by the cavalry soldiers who came up behind them.
When Ao Bai saw the last white-armored soldier fall, roaring into the sky like a wounded beast, he knew that he was doomed, so he picked up a long knife and roared towards Wu Xiao's mount.
Li Zicheng turned his horse's head and was about to step forward to chop the Tatar official when Wu Xiao shouted: "Let me do it!"
Wu Xiao pressed his calf against the horse's belly. The horse's eyes widened and its nose exhaled hot air. Wu Xiao raised his lance at an angle and rushed towards the enemy at an accelerated speed. The two sides soon reached a distance of ten steps. The lance in Wu Xiao's hand suddenly stabbed out. Oboi did not dodge. He slashed at the horse's hooves with his sword, and the sword and gun collided. Hearing the neighing of the war horse, the sword piercing the flesh, a mist of blood rose before his eyes.
When the blood mist dissipated, Wu Xiao's horse suddenly stalled and fell headlong into the burning station. His two front hooves had been cut off by a sharp blade. Wu Xiao rolled off the horse. When he looked back, Ao Bai was stabbed in the chest by a lance. His strong body was half-kneeling on the ground, still struggling to pull out the gun head that was embedded in his body.
Wu Xiao roared, stepped forward, kicked the strong Jiannu over, raised the knife in his hand, aimed it at Obai's thick neck, and swung it down violently.
Now everyone was cleaning up the battlefield. The injured war horse had died due to excessive blood loss. Wu Xiao asked Li Zicheng to dig a big hole behind the inn, bury the horse, and found some fried noodles and dried meat from the dead Jiannu, and gave them to Jiang Liu. They ate.
Although there are no Qing troops around, we are on the territory of Jiannu after all. The target of more than two hundred people is too big. In any case, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time.
"Jiang Liu'er, where do you want to go? The capital or Shenyang?"
The capital has been reduced to rubble, Shenyang's soldiers are fiercely fighting, and Du Du's tens of thousands of troops are surrounding the city and fortress.
No matter where you go, it's not an easy road.
Jiang Liu'er raised his head and looked in the direction of Shenyang: "I want to go back to Shenyang to help the emperor kill the Tatars and avenge the dead Liao people. Do you want to go or not?"
Wu Xiao was silent for a moment. No one objected to Jiang Liuer's proposal, although everyone knew that their emperor was no longer around.
"Go, why not go? The emperor showed some mercy to Du Du and let him serve as a guard. Unexpectedly, he betrayed Da Qi. Shen Lian is dead and Lin Yu is not here. I want to kill Du Du and clean up the Chinese army guards. Portal!”
Only then did Wu Xiao notice Zhu Youxiao hiding in the corner.
When he was in the capital, Wu Xiao had an acquaintance with Emperor Chongzhen. To be fair, he had no ill intentions towards the carpenter emperor. Emperor Wu Ding sent Zhu Youxiao to Jeju Island for house arrest, and Wu Xiao was also one of the insiders.
Wu Xiao raised his head and looked at Emperor Chongzhen. Zhu Youxiao thought that Liu Zhaosun's executioner was going to kill him and silence him, so he quickly dodged away.
"Emperor Wu Ding is missing. Zhu Youxiao, please come with us and return to Shenyang first to avoid falling into the hands of traitors. Otherwise, if the traitors use your name to do evil, who knows how many innocent people will die in this world. "
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In the southern suburbs of Shenyang, Tiger Fort.
Balls of black gunpowder smoke encircled by rolling fireballs rose from the flat ground of the pier into an altitude of thirty or forty meters.
Accompanied by bursts of violent explosions and roars, the shock wave generated by the explosion of black powder swept across the entire battlefield like a violent wind. The huge fireball exploded by the divine fire crow, like a fire phoenix reborn from nirvana. It opened its bloody mouth and let out a shrill howl. Those coated Aha who were close to the fort were devoured instantly.
A few unlucky coated Aha stepped on the giant mine cannons lying in front of the trench, and instantly turned into blood mist in the dull explosion.
The Qing army soldiers who were a little further away from the mine cannons flew into the air like clouds and mist. In the huge shock wave, their legs and feet were broken and their bodies were torn apart.
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Uzhenhachao gunners, swarming like ants, skillfully manipulated hundreds of artillery pieces and launched a fierce counterattack against the Qi army.
The Hongyi Cannon and the General Cannon made deafening roars, and the hot lead balls pulled out slow parabolas and smashed towards the meat grinder-like bastion group in front of Shenyang City.
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