The walls of the village in front of me were already densely covered with corpses. I don’t know how many were from the Qing soldiers and how many were from the Xuan army. Blood was flowing everywhere and their intestines were all over the floor.
Zhang Cheng held the shield and the stick, but felt exhausted. At this time, he had retreated to the village wall beside the south gate of Jiazhuang. Behind him was the passage down the wall. There were shouts of killing around him, and there were constant tragedies. howl.
"Young general, the general can't do it anymore!"
A roar woke Zhang Cheng up. He turned around and saw Lin Zhiyi yelling at him on the other side of the south gate.
Zhang Cheng shouted: "Loyal son, guard this place."
After saying that, without waiting for Chen Zhong to answer, he turned around and ran into the turret on the south gate and came to Zhang Yan. Liang Song, whose face was covered in blood, also rushed over after hearing the sound and asked loudly: "What's wrong, General?"
Zhang Yan was sitting on the ground, his eyes were not shining, and half of the iron spearhead was stuck in his chest. He said with a weak breath: "Cheng'er, stick out. If you don't leave, it will be too late.
You are the future of my Zhang family. You cannot be trapped here. A member of the Zhang family sacrificed his life for the country and is worthy of the court and the emperor! "
Seeing Zhang Cheng's face covered with tears, Zhang Yan grabbed his hand and said angrily: "Idiot, now is not the time to shed tears. You must rush out."
After saying that, Zhang Yan endured the pain, struggled to stand up, and said solemnly to Liang Song and Lin Zhiyi: "Tiger, Zhiyi, you must protect Zhang Cheng with all your life and rush out."
Lin Zhiyi supported Zhang Yan and said with tears, "General, what should you do? Let's protect you and go together!"
Zhang Yan grabbed his neck and said miserably: "I can't do it anymore. Stop fucking Moji and rush out while protecting Zhang Cheng."
Lin Zhiyi nodded, turned around and said, "Master, let's go."
Zhang Cheng knew in his heart that if he didn't leave now, he might not be able to leave. He didn't come through time just to die in Julu.
However, looking at Zhang Yan, I really couldn't bear it. The scenes in the past six months, especially since entering the Wei this time, all the things between uncle and nephew flashed through my mind like a movie.
Lin Zhiyi had followed Zhang Yan for many years and was extremely loyal. At that moment, he pushed Zhang Cheng repeatedly and got off the village wall. He shouted loudly: "Tiger, gather the brothers and protect me and rush out."
He turned around and shouted to Chen Zhong and others who had just rushed over: "Xiao Zhongzi, Da Pingzi, you protect me, I will stay to guard the general and block the Tatars."
Liang Song grabbed him and said, "Old Lin, I'll stay, you can protect me and leave."
Lin Zhiyi grinned and said: "Come on, we are the general's personal guards. How can we abandon the general and leave? The general wants you to protect me. Not only do you have to rush out, you have to protect me for the rest of your life."
After speaking, he held a shield and a sword and shouted loudly: "The Chinese army's personal guards will fight to the death and never retreat!"
At this time, Zhang Cheng had been helped onto the war horse. He cupped his fists at Lin Zhiyi and other Zhang Yan's Chinese army guards and shouted: "If Zhang Cheng returns to Xuanzang, your family members will definitely take care of him, please!"
Lin Zhiyi also clasped his fists and said, "Master Lao has to worry about family matters!"
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Jiazhuang was already in a state of melee, with Qing soldiers everywhere. It was unclear how many Qing soldiers had rushed into Jiazhuang.
Lu Xiangsheng rushed over on horseback brandishing a broadsword. Behind him, only his pastoral officer Yang Lukai, servant Liu Jinhai and more than a hundred people followed closely.
Their idea is very simple, that is, to protect Lu Xiangsheng Wanquan, they can die, but the governor cannot die!
At this time, the Jiazhuang camp was filled with smoke and fires were everywhere. Lu Xiangsheng shouted to kill the thieves and charged left and right in the Jiazhuang camp. Suddenly, he saw Hu Dawei being blocked by the Qing soldiers to the north. He rushed up on his horse. Crying:
"General Tiger! Today is the day for us to be loyal to our country. Don't be afraid of death! Charge! Kill!"
Hu Dawei heard his cry, fought hard to clear a bloody path, came to Lu Xiangsheng's horse, and shouted: "Master Governor, there are too many Tatars, we can't hold it anymore, I will protect you and charge out!"
How could Lu Xiangsheng abandon the camp and leave? He waved the sword in his hand vigorously, opened his eyes wide, and shouted angrily: "I am a great Ming Dynasty. There can only be generals who have their heads cut off, and there must be no generals who run away!"
Hu Dawei had no choice but to lead his men to turn around and rush back to the north. This side was also the last time he and Lu Xiangsheng met.
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Jiazhuang could no longer hold on, and all Xuanda troops were killed and dispersed. There were still some Xuanda soldiers in the camps in Xuan Town and Shanxi Town who refused to hold on, but they could not escape the fate of being massacred.
At this time, the south gate of Jiazhuang was also knocked open by a Qing chariot. A large group of Qing soldiers poured in. Liang Song shouted: "You protect brother Xiao Cheng and I will break up the rear."
The situation was critical. How could Zhang Cheng leave alone? He also shouted: "If you want to leave, let's go together. Brothers, kill the Tatars!"
The nearly 800 people gathered on their side rushed towards the influx of Qing soldiers again, fighting into a group in the small area inside the south gate. At this moment, Yang Guozhu led nearly a thousand people under his command to come for reinforcements.
They scattered around directly, using three-eyed muskets and bows and arrows to block the Qing soldiers. For a moment, bullets and arrows flew everywhere. With their participation, Xuan's army finally killed the Qing soldiers back outside the village.
But the situation was not optimistic. The Qing soldiers on the wall of the village kept jumping down. Yang Guozhu rushed to Zhang Cheng and shouted: "Where is General Zhang, he can't hold it anymore, fight out."
Zhang Cheng replied with a sad and angry face: "My uncle died in the battle."
"Come out with me and run to the west gate." Yang Guozhu shouted.
Turning back, he called to his general Guo Yingxian: "Go west, go out of the west gate, and run to the Haoshui River..."
Guo Yingxian had just shot and killed a Qing soldier who was about to jump off the village wall. Hearing this, he shouted to the soldiers around him, got on his horse, and led more than 400 people to the west gate.
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Just in the land of Julu, they were first attacked and intercepted by Lu Xiangsheng, Zhang Cheng and others, and then continued to attack the camp for two days. Dorgon's men had suffered casualties of more than 7,000 men.
However, for Dorgon, another good thing is that the casualties among the armored soldiers and bannermen in the Manchurian banners were not large, less than 2,000, which was still bearable for Dorgon.
The armored bannermen in the Eight Banners of Mongolia suffered a lot of casualties. Of course, the biggest casualties were the armored aha and auxiliary soldiers brought by the various ministries. They usually served their masters, kept their property and fed their horses.
When encountering a tough battle, they act as cannon fodder. The most cunning ones are the Mongolian tribesmen from the outer vassals. They are like loaches, very slippery and suffer minimal losses.
Dorgon has nothing to do with them. Now is the time to win over them. No matter how dissatisfied he is, he can't let it happen. Everything will have to wait until later.
The leaders of the Outer Mongolia and the Eight Mongolian Banners were also secretly angry. Those despicable and ugly Manchus would only hide behind them during the war and let them, the great Mongolian warriors, go and die.
As the descendants of Genghis Khan, of course they don’t want to do it!
They entered the customs to gain benefits, not to fight against Akito.
If you want to fight hard, let those Manchus fight hard!
However, the Eight Banners of Manchuria were very powerful at this time. Although they were dissatisfied, they only slandered them in their hearts, but they did not dare to show it on their faces.
Dorgon was well aware of the thoughts of the Mongols, especially the Mongolians from the outer vassals, who were famous for their superiority in both front and rear.
What is hateful is that in order to deal with the dying elephant of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus themselves tried their best to win over them, and Huang Taiji's daughters even lost all of them.
