Chapter 50 Loyal Minister

Then on the wall of Xifengkou, it was like boiling a pot, and began to spit out flames one after another. The defenders set all kinds of large and small cannons on the city. At this time, they began to be ignited at the same time. Dozens of all kinds of artillery, like a big broom with the same handle, scattered bullets swept over the attack. On top of Jiannu's head.

After fighting all at once, these generals of Wuzhen Chaoha Battalion, who were still ostentatious, hit the nail plate, and their faces were covered with blood. Even if they were swept over, the soldiers and soldiers who were beaten were caught off guard, and they rolled and crawled back in panic.

Shi Tingzhu stared at the pass and wall of Xifengkou in a daze. He couldn't react for a while. It took him for a while to realize what had happened. He didn't expect that the defenders at Xifengkou were not scared by them at all, but waited for them to come to the door and beat them painfully, so he looked at the defenders. He was very strong, so he quickly ordered to withdraw and reorganize the troops.

Abatai and Hauge, who watched the battle from afar, were also shocked. They also did not expect that the defenders at Xifengkou suddenly became so tough, and the artillery fire was so fierce. It can be seen that the defenders here had been on guard for a long time and were ready to fight. Their hearts were thumping and secretly calling bad things!

But they came here with a hard time. Although they accidentally found that the Xifengkou garrison had strengthened their strength, and the resistance was obviously very tenacious, this Xifengkou seemed to be not easy to fight, but now that they came, they always had to find a way to try. Shanhaiguan has become that virtue, if they are If you can't attack Xifengkou, won't it be a joke to go south this time? Then he Abatai and Hagrid can't explain to Huang Taiji when he goes back!

So Abatai immediately reinforced Shi Tingzhu, strengthened the offensive force, and sent people to work hard to add a few Hongyi cannons pulled by the entourage, and began to bombard Guancheng around Xifengkou.

For a while, the sound of gunfire and shouting began to come out in the area of Xifengkou. After three days, the Guancheng in Xifengkou was bombarded by the cannon of Jiannu, but it was still not defeated. The defenders seemed to be like Wang Ba eating the scales, and he was determined to die with Xifengkou.

In the past three days, Abatai and Hauge can be said to have tried their best to attack Xifengkou. Several times, they even almost attacked the wall, but at the most critical moment, Zhou Yuji, the general of Xifengkou, led his own soldiers to kill them, and the Jiannu soldiers who attacked the wall were killed, especially the Han army under the command of Shi Tingzhu. The Han soldiers of the Wuzhenchaoha camp with red flags were killed and injured under the gate, and the morale of the slave army was much lower in three days.

Abatai and Hauge looked at each other in contempt. They thought it would be easy to attack the battle, but they didn't think it would be this virtuous. Looking at the Ming army guarding the mouth of Xifeng, they were all like chicken blood and became unparalleled. They went to resist desperately on the wall of the gate and bombarded them. It was the fire, and the bows and arrows were launched like rain. In short, they put on a posture of martyrdom in the city, so the two of them couldn't help but retreat.

In their opinion, since Xifengkou is not easy to fight, they can't fight here. Now in three days, they have lost nearly 2,000 soldiers. God knows how many more people will die if they attack Xifengkou. They are going to rob the world of the Ming Dynasty this time. No They want to shed blood in this area of Guancheng, so they don't have to be here. They have to fight to the end. Xifengkou is not easy to fight. They can go to the Gubeikou to fight the Yellow Cliff Pass. I heard that there are not many Ming troops stationed, so it's better to fight those two passes, so that they don't have to drag forward or retreat here.

However, they were still a little unwilling. On the morning of the fourth day, they launched a fierce attack on Xifengkou again, but until noon, they could not attack Guancheng. Therefore, Abatai had no choice but order to withdraw his troops, give up attacking Xifengkou, and continue to look for the way west in the mountains in the direction of Miyun. The Gubeikou and Huangyaguan area marched into the army and looked for another way to enter the customs.

However, if Abatai and Hauge knew the situation in Xifengkou, they would definitely regret their decision, because they launched a fierce attack on Xifengkou for four consecutive days. It was not easy for Zhou Yuji. After all, Jiannu has too many troops, and the firepower is not weak, especially Which Hongyi cannons are they? Every time they are released, the defenders who close the wall have suffered heavy casualties, and many of the walls have just been temporarily repaired and are not strong. Some places have begun to collapse by the cannons of Jiannu.

Although Lu Xiangsheng and Yan Chongxi sent him a batch of guns and ammunition, and also gave him 200 military generals to strengthen his strength, in the past few days, his generals, as the main force, have always been on the front line, and the losses are extremely heavy, and the little silver he took out is used as a bounty to reward the generals, two days. He was exposed. In the next two days, he could only give the meritorious soldiers to the soldiers. Fortunately, at this time, the soldiers and generals were also red-eyed. They no longer cared about bounties and no bounty, and they still fought bravely one by one.

Several fierce attacks launched by Jiannu almost broke through their defense line and broke through the city, but often at the last moment, it was Zhou Yuji who personally led the troops to kill him and hit Jiannu with a knife and a shot, but the casualties of the defenders were also getting worse and worse. By the fourth day, it can be said that it was already in danger. The degree.

In the fierce battle on the morning of the fourth day, Zhou Yuji was also seriously injured in the city. He was not only hit by bullets, but also hit several arrows by Jiannu archers. When he led his troops to repel a group of Jiannu who attacked the city wall, he was stabbed in the waist and abdomen with a long gun, although he struggled to repel Jiannu's attack. But Zhou Yuji has also reached the point of running out of oil and can no longer stand up.

Although Zhou Yuji was seriously injured, Zhou Yuji was seriously injured when he saw the fierce attack of the slave army. Zhou Yuji strongly endured the pain and refused to let his men carry him down the wall to receive medical treatment from the medical officer. He was afraid that someone would see him fall, so the army's heart was scattered, so that the battle to guarding the customs was lost, so he gritted his teeth and ordered his men to use his family on the wall. Standing up a shelf, he leaned his back against the shelf and let two strong family members stand on him left and right, holding on to continue to stand on the wall to boost morale. Although his ribs were broken and he was still spitting blood from time to time, he still stood at the moment and shouted to kill the slave.

The caddies under his hands saw the blood at Zhou Yuji's feet and shed a large pool of blood. Each of them cried loudly. They fought with Jiannu in the city one by one. During this period, many sad things happened. In this battle, many of them either died in the battle. Or he climbed down the wall with Jiannu who attacked the wall and died with the enemy. He fought until Jiannu was scared, and finally withdrew his troops and retreated.

Zhou Yuji had been insisting on watching the Jiannu army retreat on the wall before he fainted. Many people knew that Zhou Yuji had already been seriously injured, but he was still insisting on commanding them to fight fiercely against the enemy. Everyone was quite infected. After Zhou Yuji was carried off the wall, many people still stuck on the wall and died. Staring at the retreating Jiannu army.

Zhou Yuji was seriously injured. After being carried down the wall, he was in a coma for a long time before he woke up. At this time, some soldiers came to tell him that the army of Jiannu outside Xifengkou had retreated in a difficult situation and evacuated from Xifengkou. Maybe he was looking for another way to find another way.

After listening to this, Zhou Yuji laughed a few times, and then spit out a few mouthfuls of blood. Then he sighed and struggled to order people to help him up. He knelt on the ground and kowtowed three heads in the direction of the capital, and muttered, "Your Majesty, Zhou Yuji received the favor of the emperor. He can't guard the capital for the emperor, but he is here for the emperor. It blocked the Jiannu army from entering the customs! Weichen is also loyal to the emperor! I hope the emperor can take care of himself! Weichen took a step ahead!"

After saying that, Zhou Yuji fainted again. Later, he woke up again, but he was already in a dying state, because his injury was too serious. Whether he was treated in time, his blood was almost dry, and the immortals were unable to save him again. When he was dying, he attracted his generals in front of him and told him. They make them stick to this barrier. No matter what happens, they can't give up here. If the world really changes in the future, these subordinates will decide where to go in the future. Even if he is under the nine springs, he will not blame them!

Several men cried loudly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Zhou Yuji, assuring that they would never give up this level. They would stick to it until the Jiannu retreated and returned to the customs!

After Zhou Yuji explained the aftermath, he died and died extremely fiercely in the gate of Xifengkou. After his death, all the soldiers and civilians in Xifengkou wore filial piety and saw him off. A Chinese military official even wrote down the battle of Xifengkou in detail and described it in detail. The details of Zhou Yuji's death and the words he kowtowed to the capital before his death, and then sent someone to send this report to the capital overnight.

Later, after Zhu Youjian, the emperor in the capital, read this report and sighed heavily. He immediately issued Zhou Yuji as Taibao and gave him the posthumous title of Zhongwu. After the death of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor of Dazhong admitted his pursuit of Zhou Yuji, and at the same time ordered Zhou Yuji to build a large tomb at the mouth of Xifeng for future generations to worship. Zhou Yuji's family members were also specially taken care of by the Great China Dynasty. Later, the son of Zhou Yuji also became a general of the Great China Dynasty.

After Zhou Yuji's death, his remnants faithfully carried out his order and stationed at Xifengkou. They did not disperse because of Zhou Yuji's death. It was not until the Dazhong army came to take over the defense that the whole army surrendered to the Dazhong army, and none of them were not killed by Dazhong. The army was disbanded, but it was retained by Xiao Tianjian. It was separately organized into a battalion and included in the guard army under Liu Yao's command. It was named Zhou Yuji Camp, and the battalion was ordered to be permanently retained as a commendation of Zhou Yuji's achievements! In the future, all those who are integrated into this camp will be passed on to these new recruits by their predecessors, who will defend Zhou Yuji's battle of Xifengkou alone, so that those who can enter this camp will feel very honored for this.

This is also a unique thing in the Dazhong army. After all, Zhou Yuji represents an army of the Ming Dynasty. Before his death, he was always loyal to the Ming court. After his death, the Dazhong Dynasty named a unit belonging to the Dazhong army after his name. This kind of thing can be said to be unprecedented in the Dazhong army. Since then, Zhou Yuji has always enjoyed glory and became a well-known national hero in Greater China.

Abatai and Hauge learned later that Zhou Yuji, the Ming army general who guarded the mouth of Xifeng. In fact, when they withdrew, they were already seriously injured, and there was only one breath left. After the two of them learned about this, they beat their chests and regretted that their intestines were almost green. At that time, if they persisted a little more. Then they might break through the mouth of Xifeng, but at the last moment, they chose to retreat, so that they caused a later failure. Later, the two persuaded themselves that this might also represent God's will in the dark, so as to comfort themselves.