"Your Highness, please go down the city wall immediately!"

When Xie Qian saw Zhu Houzhao, he hurriedly came forward to report, "There is an old minister here. Just don't worry about returning to the palace. Xizhimen will never go on a business trip!"

When Zhu Houzhao saw Xie Qian and Li Dongyang, he felt upset and said, "Why should I believe you? You keep causing trouble for me. I must stick to the front line, one Tartar kills one, two kills one pair. If you stop, I will treat you as a meticulous task that disrupts the morale of the army and throw it directly over the city!"

Facing a prince who is treacherous, there is no good idea for even a cabinet minister like Li Dongyang and Xie Qian.

While he was talking, the siege of the Tatars in front was still continuing. Xie Qian glanced at the overwhelming attacking lineup of the Tatars outside the battlements from the lookout, and was shocked... The Tatars had never had such a big battle before!

Xie Qian quickly turned his head and asked, "How many troops stationed in Xizhimen?"

Li Dongyang was stunned. He was originally aware of the number of troops stationed by each city gate, but because the Tatars attacked the city one after another last night and the troops were mobilized too frequently, all the troops under the Beijing camp and the Governor's Office of the Five Army were disrupted. Even decision makers like Li Dongyang did not know the number of troops stationed by Xizhimen and surrounding city gates.

Xie Qian looked nervous: "The big thing is not good. Di Yi attacked the city last night, mostly because he wanted to disturb the audio-visual. The real purpose of attacking Xizhimen today is. I think it should immediately dispatch troops from each city gate to comprehensively strengthen the defense of Xizhimen!"

Li Dongyang stopped shouting: "Yu Qiao, don't be reckless. Everything will be investigated first!"

Xie Qian pointed to the black Tartar army outside the city and said, "The situation is so obvious, how can you hesitate anymore? I will immediately dispatch troops and speed up!"

Li Dongyang looked at the direction Xie Qian pointed out, and was shocked. Just as he was about to say something to ease the atmosphere, the shouts of the Tartars as they charged were already heard under the city wall.

"Wu Lala!"

With this earth-shaking shout, the Tartars's Lu Bus had already approached the city wall, and hundreds of stairs were also attached to the city wall, and the continuous Tartars began to climb to the city wall.

Now Li Dongyang and Xie Qian no longer care about persuading the prince to the city wall. They are now more worried about the safety of Xizhimen.

Xie Qian captured the Xizhimen guard who was accompanying him and shouted loudly: "Are the equipment and weapons to guard the city at the top of the city sufficient?"

The guard general had no idea how to answer and hesitated: "The weapons... are roughly sufficient, but the guardian equipment... are almost exhausted. The Tartars killed the city head before, crashed into the car, tung oil, wood, rolling stones, and pole-bearing, etc., and suffered many losses!"

Xie Qian said angrily: "Why don't you declare it immediately if there is any loss? Well, dispatch troops. If it is an emergency, even if I personally bring up the weapons to fight, I will never allow Xizhimen to lose anything in the world!"

"boom"

While speaking, the sound of artillery sounded under the city wall. The Tatars used the Flang cannon seized from the Ming border army to shoot at the city wall!

The shells swept across the city wall with a sharp whistling sound. The rows of houses near the inside of the city wall instantly turned into piles of rubble after a violent explosion. The earth shook and rumbled.

"Boom boom"

A few shells happened to hit the city tower. A corner of the city tower made of blue bricks collapsed, and smoke and dust soared into the sky, scaring Li Dongyang and Xie Qian who were inside the city tower.

The Tatars used the Farang cannon as the pioneer. A large number of Tartars continued to climb to the city through siege ladders and simple flying ladders. The cavalry rode and shot in the distance to cover the city, while several rushing cars slowly came to the city gate, pushing hundreds of Taurus soldiers and hit the Xizhimen gate violently.

The sand and stones flew up and down the city, like two torrents, but the contact point was not at the city, but under the city wall.

The Tatars were always tribal soldiers and horses who acted as cannon fodder, rather than the main force of the Dayan tribe. Flying arrows shot up and down the city, and buckets of tung oil were poured down. Soon, the Lu Gongche and many flying ladders ignited a fire, but the Ming soldiers who poked their heads to pour tung oil were shot by flying arrows in a blink of an eye, fell to the city, and were in the sea of ​​fire.

The Tartars rushed out from the top of the other intact Lv buses. The Ming army shouted, raised their spears and arranged them into an army formation to meet them. The two sides quickly fought together.

In the rest, the Ming army was in groups of three or five, holding a pole in hand, which was actually a big fork, overturning the flying ladders with the Tartars that were climbing onto it. However, because there were too many flying ladders on the city wall, many Tartars rushed to the top of the city, and then the Ming army met up and fought with each other in close combat.

The Tatars gained the upper hand from the beginning of the battle.

Because there was a danger of being attacked by Tartar artillery fire on the high ground, Li Dongyang and Xie Qian accompanied Zhu Houzhao to the second floor. The hundreds of imperial guards under the palace army were all holding spears and muskets, preparing to fight against the Tartars who came into the building.

Zhu Houzhao saw the battle below from the lookout, and couldn't help but feel aroused from the gaze. He wanted to lead the troops to charge himself, but was stopped by Li Dongyang and Xie Qian. At this moment, the two cabinet masters also changed into armor, not that they were going to fight to kill the enemy himself, but were guarding against the razor arrows.

"Master Li, Mr. Xie, you are harming the country and the people... Let go of my palace, I will lead the troops to kill the enemy in person. If anyone does not obey, I will demote him!" Zhu Houzhao shouted.

But no matter how much he made a fuss, the eunuchs and palace guards around him dared not buy it. Zhu Houzhao's accident involved their lives. In their opinion, the possibility of being broken on the city wall is not high, so it is more important to protect the safety of the prince.

Zhu Houzhao was roaring, and suddenly a stray arrow passed through the watchtower and a guard fell to the ground.

Zhu Houzhao said excitedly: "The Tartars offensive is like a tide. If you don't let this palace go out, once the Xizhimen is lost and the gate of the capital is opened, can you take on this responsibility?"

Xie Qian asked the soldiers to block the front with their shields. He carefully arrived at the lookout outside the city. He observed carefully and saw Tartars swarming in. The defense on the city wall was very critical. From time to time, deserters could be seen slipping away into the inside of the city wall.

Li Dongyang Chao asked the Ministry of War officials who accompanied him: "Xizhimen was besieged by the main force of Diyi. When will the reinforcements arrive?"

No one could answer this question at all. Li Dongyang was about to continue asking someone to ask, but suddenly the city tower trembled violently. It turned out that the Tartars's Folang machine cannon shot into the city tower again. This time, a big hole was directly opened on the third floor, and many soldiers fell to the ground due to injuries.

Zhu Houzhao took advantage of the chaos and finally broke free from the guards and shouted angrily: "If you don't fight hard at this time, you will have no chance to fight! Come on, rush out with me!"

Zhu Houzhao grabbed a spear and rushed out. Xie Qian and Li Dongyang didn't understand what was going on for a moment. They were about to pull out their feet to chase after him, and the sound of artillery came. They instinctively looked for a place to hide. Zhu Houzhao seemed to know how to write the word "death". Feng Fenghuohuo went down the city tower and went out of the gate to kill him.

How dare hundreds of imperial guards let the prince take risks? They could only kill him.

"Crazy! The prince is so reckless. Could it be that my Ming Dynasty is going to govern the country for such a priest?" Li Dongyang became angry from his heart. No matter where he was, he directly called Zhu Houzhao the priest.

Xie Qian quickly persuaded: "Binzhi, don't talk nonsense, hurry up and chase the prince back... What else do you think? Chase him!"

There were even more artillery shells flying around the city. The soldiers were barely shaking behind shields and sandbags and other bunkers, but saw Zhu Houzhao killing him with a spear.

"kill!"

When Zhu Houzhao spoke in the city tower, people around him could basically hear it, but when he arrived at the city tower, no one could hear anything he said clearly.

"Prince, be careful!"

Someone came to protect Zhu Houzhao immediately, but Zhu Houzhao didn't know how to be afraid at all, so she went straight to a Tatar who was fighting with Ming soldiers with his back.

Perhaps the place where the naughty child came out was unexpected. The Tartars never thought that there would be a guy who was not afraid of death behind him and stabbed the soldier directly into the back of the soldier.

"Um?"

When the Tatar soldiers were caught in a spear, they turned around and looked at Zhu Houzhao with confusion. This was the young boy who came out of a hole, and he didn't even wear armor and just killed himself like that?

When he fell to the ground, the Tartar soldier could be said to have died with his eyes open, but immediately a soldier cut off his head because this was the most practical military merit of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao killed someone for the first time and was a little dazed. He called him fiercely before, but when he really shot someone, he knew what blood was surging and what was wanting to disgust.

"Be careful with your Highness the Crown Prince!"

Zhang Yuan, who had always been timid and afraid of things, rushed out and stood in front of Zhu Houzhao. He didn't know where the courage came from, but seeing that there were Tatar soldiers rushing towards him, he was not ready to retreat.

Zhu Houzhao was still in a state of confusion and was pulled back by Zhang Yuan. At this time, the Imperial Guard rushed up to block the squeezing Tartar soldiers.

"I...I killed someone? I killed someone?"

Zhu Houzhao was a little at a loss and just grabbed Zhang Yuan's arm and asked.

Zhang Yuan smiled bitterly: "Your Highness the Crown Prince... You killed the Tartars, and you set an example for the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!"

"I really killed someone!" Zhu Houzhao looked at his hands, not even wanting a spear, and she lost her courage before. Now she was just shouting.

Xie Qian and Li Dongyang came out of the city tower with a scrambled arrow and a stray bullet. Seeing that the prince was distracted, he thought the prince was injured. He stepped forward and asked him to find out that the naughty child had just killed a Tartar soldier with his own hands, but he didn't come back to his senses.

Li Dongyang said: "The prince killed the enemy? How is this possible?"

Zhang Yuan said anxiously: "Gei Master, you can't just talk nonsense. The prince really killed a Tartar with his own hands!"

Li Dongyang still didn't believe that the prince could kill people on the battlefield. It sounded absurd. He was about to let the prince go back to the city tower to hide, but saw reinforcements coming up from Xizhimen.

Xie Qian reminded: "It is probably Mr. Zhang who led his troops to help!"

Li Dongyang looked back and couldn't see clearly whether Zhang Mao was among the reinforcements.

After reinforcements came to the city, Xun joined the ranks of battle.

Li Dongyang looked at the city wall again. At this time, two or three thousand Tatars had already been killed. Not only in the Xizhimen section of the city wall, but about three or four miles from Xizhimen to the north and southwest, a large number of Tatars were killing the city wall through simple flight ladders, because there were no horse paths and steps down the city wall in these places, and they were constantly coming to Xizhimen.

"It's over!"

Li Dongyang's heart was falling, feeling an extremely huge pressure coming, almost breathless.

The situation is now very critical, and even Li Dongyang himself can no longer go down to the city wall, because the city wall has long been occupied by Ming soldiers and Tartars. At this time, a large number of Ming soldiers were rushing towards the city wall, and there was no way to go down to the city wall.

Xie Qian grabbed a reinforcement general and shouted: "Can Mr. Zhang be there?"

"who?"

The general did not know Xie Qian. The surrounding environment was noisy, and he couldn't hear what Xie Qian was saying. Suddenly, a ripples came over. The general hurriedly dodged. Xie Qian felt that the god of death was flying by his side, and the arrow was finally nailed to the brick wall of the city tower behind him.

Zhu Houzhao finally recovered, picked up a knife from the ground, and said angrily: "Who dares to offend my land of China to make him come and go! Kill!"

But seeing that the prince was about to kill the Tatars again, Xie Qian had to stop him and kept complaining: "Why are you always so reckless, so you can't learn more steadily from your teacher Chen Xi?"

Li Dongyang did not intend to stop the prince. He wanted to go to the city earlier at this time. It was not that he was afraid of death, but that he was to notify the court of emergency situation at Xizhimen and make arrangements as soon as possible.

But at this time there was no way out, and more and more Tatar soldiers rushed to the city. However, due to the limited capacity of horse roads and steps in the city, the Ming army could not provide timely reinforcements, and Xizhimen would be lost at any time.

Seeing that more and more Tartars were around, their morale plummeted. Even if reinforcements arrived, the Tatars gradually expanded their advantages because of their narrow combat area and only in a corner of the city.

"Is it possible that God will destroy my Ming Dynasty?"

Li Dongyang sighed sadly and was about to look up to the sky to ask the sky, but he heard the sound of a trumpet. The sound of this trumpet is obviously different from the trumpet materials used by the Tatars. This is the trumpet that originated from the Ming army.

In the location where Xie Qian and Li Dongyang were located, they could not see the situation outside the city. Xie Qian was embarrassed to face Li Dongyang. The two looked at each other, and they didn't know the origin of the horn sound.
Chapter completed!