Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 161
After the city gate tower was demolished by artillery fire and the city gate was also blasted open by artillery fire, soon, groups of hundreds of Ming troops began to pour in from the city gate.

At the same time, tens of thousands of Ming troops who had not been engaged in the battle were ordered to use ladders to climb to the city wall, and then enter the city, in order to cooperate with the Ming army entering from the gate of the city.

Teams of high-spirited Ming troops stepped on the fallen city gate and came to the urn city at the east gate of Kaifeng City.

Originally, if there were still powerful figures in the city who came forward to organize the army, it was very likely that this place would become a meat grinder for the Ming army to attack the city.

But those young and strong have lost their fighting spirit long ago, and they ran without even a shadow.

So the Ming army who entered the Wengcheng easily blasted open the city gate with dozens or even hundreds of catties of gunpowder, and then drove straight in, pouring into the streets and alleys of Kaifeng City like a tide.

At the same time, Lin Yi also struggled to get out of Gao Yuanjue's entanglement, fighting and retreating all the way to the government office.

In fact, when Zhang Yong's Ming army broke through the city gate and entered the city, Lin Yi's people found themselves in a very difficult situation.

Kaifeng City is surrounded on all sides. There is no way for him to go out of the city, and the Ming army is gradually entering the city. If he still holds on to the city wall, he will be surrounded by the Ming army and besieged soon. die.

Ji Dong didn't want to do that, he wanted to continue to resist for a while, so he gave up a large part of the young and strong, and retreated from the main road in the city to the government office with only a thousand people.

Because of his familiarity with the terrain, although Lin Yi set off later than the Ming army who entered the city, he finally arrived at Fuyawai one step ahead.

"There's a fake official over there, take out the crossbow and shoot him to death." Zhang Yong led thousands of people, and he was about to enter the government office, but he didn't expect that Lin Yi and his gang would come out halfway.

But Zhang Yong soon found out that he was lucky because he saw Lin Yi in official uniform.

Li Zicheng's Dashun was founded hastily. In many rules and regulations, it either copied the Ming court or dealt with it casually.

For example, Lin Yi's official uniform is basically exactly the same as the Ming court's except for the details, so Zhang Yong can recognize it at a glance.

"It's really a narrow road to Yuanjia." In fact, Lin Yi had long been prepared to be besieged, but he didn't expect it to be so soon. He thought he still had a little time to deploy defenses in the government office.

"Protect Lord Zhifu." Seeing that the Ming army was about to shoot at Lin Yi with their strong bows and crossbows, several young men hurriedly stood in front of him with shields in their hands to block them.

Although the penetrating power of the arrow is very poor, generally speaking, it takes amazing strength to shoot through the wooden board, but now the Ming army has too many people, far more than the shield in front of Ji Dong.

Although Ji Dong was well guarded, the young and strong people in front of him were in great trouble. Countless arrows shot at the shield, directly cracking and breaking the shield, and more arrows followed. He shot those young men with shields alive into hedgehogs.

"Back, back in."

Ji Dong didn't expect that the shooting from the front of the bow and crossbow was so powerful that dozens of people around him were shot to death in the blink of an eye.

When defending on the city wall before, he used female walls, sheep and horse walls, shields, watchtowers, etc. to defend against projectile arrows, which made him misjudge the power of arrows, thinking that they were just harmless gadgets that harass people.

Ji Dong's decision was very decisive. This decision cost him hundreds of lives, but on the way to enter the government office, some unlucky ones who did not enter in time were shot down.

"Quickly block the door, they are definitely going to knock on the door." As soon as he entered the mansion, Lin Yi ordered people to find any heavy objects they could find and put them behind the door, hoping to use these things to prevent Zhang Yong from breaking through. The gate of the government office.

Sure enough, Zhang Yong sent someone to knock on the door, and the things Ji Dong placed behind the door did have an effect.

Although the door was loosened a lot by the hard impact from outside, the door never opened a gap.

"Listen to the intruders inside, I know that tomorrow's soldiers have breached the city, and you have nowhere to retreat. Come out and surrender quickly, and I can save your life, otherwise once this door is opened, no one will be left behind."

Standing on the avenue outside the government office, Zhang Yong ordered people to shout and threaten inside.

Lin Yi, who was directing the defense of the young and strong in the front hall of the government office, immediately sat down on the ground when he heard this, and started talking to himself.

"Why, why is this happening."

"My Dashun swept Henan, Shaanxi, Shaanxi, Beizhili, and Hubei in just one year, and killed the dog emperor. My Dashun is the destiny!"

"Why does God want to renew the life of the dog court, causing millions of soldiers and civilians to be killed and injured in Dashun, I am not reconciled, this day is too unjust!"

Lin Yi sat on the ground with disheveled clothes and a disheveled face. He no longer had the heroic and heroic appearance of berating Fang Qiu in the past.

He suddenly remembered his grand wish of wanting to manage Kaifeng mansion well, recruit refugees, reclaim wasteland, and let Kaifeng mansion reproduce the glory of the Song Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

It's a pity that just after he dreamed back to Da Song, he was dragged back to the real world by the people around him.

"Master Prefect, what should we do if we are set on fire outside?" a handsome young man asked him.

Looking at this handsome young man, Lin Yi remembered that he had taken him into the magistrate's yamen back then, because he valued his youth, passion, ideals and ambitions.

But now, huh, nothing is useless, unless the Jade Emperor sends them a hundred thousand heavenly soldiers and generals.

"Let's burn it." Lin Yi figured it out, he didn't want to struggle any more, anyway, he would just die in the end, so it's better to end all this as soon as possible.

"How can this work?" The young man said eagerly, he really wanted Ji Dong to come up with an idea to save them from this dangerous situation.

"That's all right. You go and get all the firewood and grease from the yamen, and then set the whole yamen on fire, and you can go." Lin Yi thought it would be better to burn it all, anyway, it would be cheaper to keep it. Ming court.

"I understand." Looking at Ji Yi in front of him like an old monk in meditation, the young man knew that he already had the idea of ​​death in his heart.

Soon, the young man took people to collect all the things that could be ignited. After stacking these things in the front hall of the government office, and then lit a big fire, he sat down with Ji Dong and waited for death has come.

The raging fire burned the front hall of the yamen, burned the account room, demolished the house, burned the corridors and gardens, and the fire was getting bigger and bigger. From the outside of the yamen, it seemed that a fire god had descended into the world inside.

(End of this chapter)