Chapter 1263 Breaking the City

Lan Yu commanded 500 elite soldiers to drive the Yuan army out of the city gate, and then immediately divided his troops. 300 soldiers lined up outside the gate to protect the passage.

The other 200 elite soldiers followed the steps and horse paths to the city gate tower.

When Zhao Yong led a large group of cavalry to arrive, the South Gate of Qingzhou was already firmly in the hands of the Ming army.

The Ming cavalry rushed into the city continuously, and the Yuan soldiers gathered from all directions. Under the command of Pingzhang Guolai, they quickly formed a battle formation and prepared to retake the city gate.

Lan Yu's fighting style is about speed, surprise, and lightning speed! How could they have the opportunity to prepare?

He rode his black horse again and appeared in front of his army. He held the 40-jin Fang Tian Hua Ji in one hand, pointed at the Yuan army on the opposite side, and shouted angrily: "Kill!"

The Ming army soldiers also shouted in unison:

"Kill!"

They rushed to follow their general and charged at the Yuan army!

One horse leads the way, and ten thousand cavalrymen follow!

Seeing this, Guo Lai quickly ordered the 3,000 cavalrymen who had been organized to go forward first to resist the charge of the Ming army. Fortunately, this was in the city, not on the vast grassland, and no matter how many troops there were, they could not be deployed at once. Three thousand troops were enough...

The cavalry of both sides charged the enemy on this imperial road paved for the emperor of the Jin Dynasty in the past, and the shouts of killing resounded throughout the entire Qingzhou city!

The tactics of the two armies were exactly the same, both of them attacked the enemy with horseback archery first. After retreating to the grasslands for so many years, the Mongolians' archery skills have recovered to a certain extent, but there is still a significant gap compared with the elite Ming army under Lan Yu.

In this battle, the two armies were a hundred feet apart, and on the streets where they could not maneuver, they could only rush straight towards the enemy, so there was only ten breaths before the hand-to-hand combat.

In such a short time, the Yuan cavalry could shoot two arrows, while the Ming army could shoot three arrows...

The cavalry of the two armies let go of the reins with both hands, drew their bows and put arrows on them, and the arrows of the front row of cavalry rose slightly. The angle of the upward rise became greater as they went back. After the commander shot the signal arrow, they all released their bowstrings. Two equal-sized rains of arrows poured down on the enemy's heads!

The sky was full of sharp long arrows falling from the sky in an instant, and the sound of arrows hitting flesh was heard, and the cavalry on both sides fell off their horses. Many soldiers fell off their horses and were trampled to death by their comrades who could not avoid them...

But if you look closely, you can find that the number of Ming soldiers who fell off their horses is far less than that of the Yuan army. This is not because they are particularly good at dodging. In such a crowded environment, soldiers on both sides have no way to avoid it and can only resist.

The real reason is that the Ming army is better equipped. They all wear water-grinded chain mail helmets and chain mail. In order to keep warm, there is also a layer of cotton armor. Unless it is a special armor-piercing arrow, ordinary bows and arrows can't penetrate it at all.

This is also the reason why Ma Cheng was chopped hard before, but only suffered some flesh injuries.

So you can see that the Ming army has several arrows stuck in their bodies, but they can still charge vigorously. Only those who are unfortunately shot in the face or the horses are shot in the vital parts will fall off the horse.

The Mongols don't even have iron pots now, so how can they wear iron armor for the soldiers? Only a few people wear leather armor, and most soldiers have no protection. As long as they are shot by arrows, they will basically be injured and fall off the horse...

To make matters worse, the Mongols haven't had time to draw their bows and arrows, and the second round of shooting by the Ming army has arrived.

This time, the distance between the two sides was closer, and the damage caused by the rain of arrows was greater, and their shooting preparations were directly interrupted...

As a result, the second round of shooting by the Mongols was sparse, causing little damage to the Ming army.

At this time, the third round of shooting by the Ming army began!

At this moment, the two sides were already close, and they could even see the acne on each other's faces.

Unlike the previous aiming and hitting the target by chance, this was the distance for precise shooting. The archers in the front row of the Ming army aimed at the faces of the Yuan army, and even at the eyes, throat and other vital parts, and accurately shot the last arrow.

Almost all the arrows were shot, and each arrow killed a Yuan army!

After three rounds of shooting, only half of the 3,000 Yuan army was left, and the formation became sparse.

At this time, the Ming army hung the bows and arrows back on the saddle, and drew out the long spears and iron spears, and smashed into the Yuan army's formation fiercely!

The Yuan army was completely unable to resist the offensive of the Ming army and was defeated in an instant. The soldiers in the front were chopped off their horses, and the soldiers behind them turned their horses around and withdrew from the battlefield, their movements were extremely skillful.

They had been escaping from the hands of the Ming army for so many years, and at least this skill was unmatched.

No matter how wide the ‘Royal Road’ was, it was still a street, and there was no space for them to retreat from the two sides of their own rear formation. As a result, the second line of defense that Guo Lai had organized with great difficulty was rushed into chaos by his own people who retreated.

The Ming army followed behind and took advantage of the situation to completely break down Guo Lai’s defense line.

He knew that the situation was over, so he quickly turned his horse around and fled to the north gate in a hurry under the protection of his personal soldiers...

This was just a battle on a street. At about the same time, there were several other fierce battles of varying sizes in Gyeongju City, and the results were all without exception, and the Ming army won.

But the results were not very great, for no other reason than that the Mongols loved to escape too much. Although they still had their main force, they turned around and ran away immediately when they saw that the situation was not favorable, not giving the Ming army any chance to annihilate them.

Unfortunately, they forgot that they were now in the city. The tall and solid city walls became an insurmountable obstacle for them.

Moreover, at this time, not only were they running, but the princes and nobles, Mongolian soldiers, men, women, and children in the city were all rushing towards the nearest city gate.

However, due to long-term laziness, all the city gates except the South Gate were not open. They had to quickly ask the soldiers to open the city gates.

The Ming army behind them had already chased them, and people, regardless of their status, rushed to the city gates desperately. As a result, when the city gates slowly rose, the city gates were already crowded, and not many people could get out for a long time...

At this time, the Ming soldiers went up to the city wall from the horse path, galloped on the top of the city, swept away the defenders on the city, and successively captured the other three city gate towers.

Although the Ming army could not put down the thousand-pound gate, they could throw stones from above. The watermelon-sized stones fell in the dense crowd, and one stone could knock down a group of people and horses.

The fallen people and horses became stumbling blocks, tripping the people and horses behind them, and the speed of people going out of the city gates was even slower...

In the end, there were 70,000 or 80,000 Mongols in the city, men, women, young and old, but less than half of them ran away. Nearly 10,000 people died under the iron hoofs of the Ming army and in the trampling of each other.

Among them, the latter killed far more people than the former.

Another 30,000 people could not escape, so they could only raise their hands and surrender, becoming prisoners of the Ming army.

Guo Lai was lucky to escape from Qingzhou City. But he waited for a long time, but did not see his son Bu Lanxi.

What made him even more frustrated was that a soldier who escaped told him that they saw that their Taiji was also captured...

If this is true, the king will definitely not let him go, so he should just cut his throat.