Mr. Jie Shigong's expression changed.
The thing I was most worried about finally happened.
"General, I will bring someone to seal the hole right now," the deputy general said.
Mr. Jie Shigong nodded.
The deputy general took a team of soldiers and horses to block the collapse of the city wall.
"Go and see when the soldiers and horses from Fubiao Camp will arrive." Mr. Jie Shigong knew that if the city wall collapsed, the bandits outside the city would not miss this opportunity.
They were fighting hand to hand and there were not enough soldiers and horses. He was worried that Tianmen Pass would fall from this opening.
The soldiers on the side turned around and ran towards the city wall.
At this moment, the gunfire outside the city has almost stopped.
However, instead of relaxing, Mr. Jie Shigong became even more nervous because he knew that the bandit soldiers would not let go of such an opportunity to break the city.
"Report, general, the thieves are attacking." A soldier guarding the city quickly came to Duke Jie to report.
After hearing this, Mr. Jie Shigong strode towards the crenellations on the city wall.
Several soldiers and servants were guarding him and walked with him.
When they came to the entrance of the crenellations, Mr. Jie Shigong walked down to the outside of the city.
About several thousand thieves were rushing toward the city wall north of Tianmen Pass.
Seeing this scene, Mr. Jie Shigong clenched his fists and could only hope that his lieutenant could block the gap in the city wall that was destroyed by the cannons of the bandits and repel the invading bandits.
"Quick, shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow towards the city."
On the north wall, the deputy general stood on a high place, directing the archers to shoot at the rushing thieves with bows and arrows.
On both sides of the gap in the city wall, the archers of the defenders shot arrows at the thieves who wanted to rush into Tianmen Pass through the gap.
The tiger-character flag soldiers attacking the city were not unprepared at all. In addition to the sword and shield soldiers charging at the front, there were also many soldiers holding door panels in front to resist the shots from the defenders on the city. of arrows.
The sword and shield soldiers charging at the front wore half-breastplates to protect their vitals. Unless the arrows hit vital points such as the face and throat, ordinary arrows would not pose much of a threat to them.
The one who rushed to the front among the sword and shield soldiers was a soldier squad leader.
He and the two sword and shield soldiers were the first to rush to the gap in the city wall. They climbed up the city wall on the ladder, which was already half short. They looked at the officers and soldiers standing in front of them and slashed them with one knife. At the same time, he used his other arm to strike. He used his round shield to block the sword that was attacking him.
Poof!
The blade slid open to block the neck of an officer and soldier in front of him, and blood sprayed all over him.
kill!
He shouted angrily, turned over and jumped onto the city wall, slashing at anyone he saw.
The attention of many Tianmenguan garrison guarding the gap was attracted by him, and several spears were stabbed at him, but he gave his companions behind him a chance to jump onto the city wall.
More and more swordsmen and shieldmen climbed up on the ladders to a gap opened by the cannon.
Standing in the gap, the pressure on the Tianmen Pass defenders is increasing.
"Drive down, drive down, drive all the thieves down." The deputy general saw the two groups of people fighting together at the gap in the city wall, and urgently shouted orders to the Tianmen Pass guards guarding the surrounding areas.
Hundreds of Tianmenguan guards attacked the soldiers with tiger-shaped flags, swords and shields at the gap.
boom! boom! boom!
The fire gunmen following the sword and shield soldiers finally caught up. As soon as they got close, they fired their fire guns at the archers on the city wall. Then they quickly mounted their bayonets and began to assist the sword and shield soldiers in killing the surrounding Tianmen Pass guards.
As the gunmen entered, the original advantage of the Tianmen Pass guards' weapons was no longer there, and their numbers gradually began to fall into a disadvantage.
"General, I will protect you and leave. There is no way to stop you here." There was a soldier guarding the deputy general, with a nervous look on his face.
There were fewer and fewer Tianmen Pass guards at the gap. If someone hadn't pressed down behind them and killed a few deserters who wanted to escape, they would have fled in large numbers.
Even so, more and more tiger-shaped flag soldiers at the gap climbed onto the city wall. Even if there were people pressing down behind the Tianmen Pass guards, they were gradually unable to suppress them.
"Let's go." The deputy general gave up the gap decisively and led his own soldiers to retreat towards the city gate.
Without the people holding the battle, the Tianmen Pass defenders at the gap in the city wall were quickly defeated and fled. Some even dropped their weapons and knelt on the ground and chose to surrender.
The tiger-character flag soldiers who captured the gap in the city wall paid no attention to the surrendering officers and soldiers, but continued to pursue the fleeing deserters.
"General, don't walk along the city wall. Tianmen Pass can't be defended." There were soldiers on the side who stopped the deputy general who wanted to return to the top of the city.
The deputy general hesitated after hearing this. Seeing the thieves chasing after him, he had no choice but to give up his plan to find Duke Jie on the top of the city and chose to escape from Tianmen Pass with the remaining soldiers.
The city wall of Tianmen Pass could no longer be an obstacle to the Tiger-Character Banner soldiers, and the city wall to the north of Tianmen Pass quickly fell into the hands of the Tiger-Character Banner soldiers.
The officers and soldiers on the north wall fled and those who were caught were caught, and the blocked city gate was opened again.
The cavalry of the Tiger Flag Brigade, which had been waiting outside for a long time, entered Tianmen Pass.
The cavalry and soldiers cooperated with each other, and soon the entire Tianmen Pass was captured, and the city wall was replaced with a tiger-shaped flag.
"General, I am incompetent and failed to block the gap in the city wall."
The deputy general who escaped from Tianmen Pass met Mr. Jie Shigong who also escaped from Tianmen Pass on his way to Yangqu.
"I don't blame you, it would have been the same if I had gone there." Mr. Jie Shigong said with a wry smile.
He had already thought of this outcome after the city wall was collapsed by cannon.
"General, what should we do next?" the deputy general asked.
Governor Pan asked them to hold Tianmen Pass for at least half a month. To this end, he did not hesitate to send the Fubiao Battalion next to the governor to support them. However, Tianmen Pass only held in their hands for two days before it was captured by the rebels.
Without Tianmen Pass, the next one is Yangqu, and there is no dangerous pass like Tianmen Pass in the middle to defend.
Several important yamen in Shanxi are located in Yangqu. Not only are the governors there, but also the officials from the yamen who have been appointed as political envoys are also in Yangqu.
"Return to Yangqu first, then defend Yangqu, or retreat to Liaozhou or other places to Fujun." Jie Shigong said to him.
The lieutenant nodded.
Both of them knew in their hearts that there was no other choice but to retreat to Yangqu.
The two groups of soldiers and horses that escaped from Tianmen Pass came together, with a total of only three to four hundred people. Of course, there must be more than this number of soldiers and horses that escaped, but the two people can only control this few soldiers and horses now.
No one knew whether the thieves occupying Tianmen Pass would catch up. The two of them did not dare to waste time on the road. In order to escape faster, all the soldiers' armor was thrown away on the road.
"General, a large number of soldiers and horses were found ahead."
Just as Mr. Xie and others were fleeing, a large group of soldiers under the banner of Shanxi Fubiao Camp discovered Mr. Xie and the remaining soldiers around him.
"Thieves?" A guerrilla general in armor frowned slightly.
