The courage of desperate soldiers is unstoppable, and those who are willing to die for a cause cannot be deterred!

  When a person is willing to risk his life to fight for something, he will burst out with unprecedented energy; when a group of people sacrifice their lives for the same goal, they are invincible.

  Now, more than 12,000 Northern Yuan warriors have abandoned their lives to maintain their pride. They began a suicidal charge with the common goal of capturing Gaozhou City and burning down the Ming army's grain supplies.

  The Ming army on the city wall was still preparing firearms, contrary to what Ha Er Guo said that the Ming army's ammunition was insufficient. Zhu Di had prepared a large amount of reserve ammunition for his men to make achievements, and now they were waiting for them to rush down to the city and repeat the scene just now.

  Xu Sheng led Zhang Feng to the top of the city gate tower in Gaozhou City, overlooking the cavalry charging to their deaths not far away. They didn't want to be ambushed by that group of people in the tunnels, with horses under their crotches and guns in hand, carrying longbows on their backs and curved knives at their waists. This was what true mounted archery looked like for the Northern Yuan cavalry.

  "Look, this is the Northern Yuan cavalry you will face in the future, and also the greatest enemy of my Great Ming Dynasty. Their ancestors relied on a horse and a bow to conquer a vast territory, and the Central Plains were trampled under Genghis Khan's iron hooves back then. We Han people struggled for a hundred years before we finally recovered our mountains and rivers under the leadership of the current emperor, driving them out of the area south of the Great Wall."

  Xu Sheng sighed and said: "Now, what we need to do is to pave the way for future generations, minimize the difficulties they will face when defending the country, and kill as many Mongols as possible, which would be the greatest help to our Great Ming Dynasty..."

  Looking at the cavalry formation that had already charged forward, but was still being shot and killed by artillery, the one who led them was even more proudly waving his saber. The entire Northern Yuan cavalry formation let out strange cries and shouts, and from the sound of it, Zhang Feng felt that they were excited.

  "Is this the Northern Yuan people?" Zhang Feng muttered to himself, his eyes fixed on the scene before him, everything was beyond his expectation. In his mind, the Northern Yuan people were despicable, detestable, the enemies who killed his parents, the culprits who destroyed his family. But now, the bravery and fearlessness shown by Ha Chi Gu and others under the city wall shocked Zhang Feng's heart.

  "That's right! This is the Northern Yuan people!" The same six words with a different tone, Zhang Feng's astonishment and Xu Sheng's affirmation represented their different experiences.

  "Their nature is like wolves, their shape is like tigers, their hearts are cruel, their bravery is fierce. This is what General Mu has seen in many years of fighting against the Yuan people. Such Yuan people are terrifying, Zhang Feng, you must remember, when you see them, kill!"

  The word "kill" coming out of Xu Sheng's mouth made Zhang Feng feel a chill run down his spine, with icy eyes and a cold expression, the Xu Sheng in front of him was no longer the one who had joked with him earlier, but rather the Xu Lieutenant who had followed Commander Xu Da to battle for many years, killing countless enemies.

  The cavalry under the city wall died one by one and were replaced one by one, just to rush to the city gate and pick up that half-burned battering ram.

  But they were in vain, when setting up defenses in the afternoon, Tang Yun had ordered to seal off three city gates, tonight no one is allowed to leave the city gate, anyone who leaves without permission will be punished according to military law.

  The repeated impacts made the city gate shake violently, but it never shattered. A lot of soil and debris were squeezed out from the gap of the door that had been smashed open, and the soldiers who were attacking saw it, but they still continued to hold up the wooden pillar to impact the city gate again and again.

  Knowing it can't be done but doing it anyway is foolish, but are these attacking soldiers foolish? Obviously not, they just have a clear mission, to break through the gates of Gaozhou City, this is their mission, for the mission there's nothing that can't be done, succeeding makes it doable, failing is what makes it undoable...

  Tang Yun looked at the gradually dying Northern Yuan cavalry with a cold expression, raised his hand to signal the cessation of artillery fire. After such a long use, his reserves could no longer withstand such consumption, and there were less than three thousand enemies left, which was just right for the new soldiers under him to see some blood.

  "Order Qiu Fu, Zhou Chengyuan and Chen Ke to take the troops to surround and kill the remaining cavalry. We still have many battles to fight, we can't always bring new recruits to the battlefield, it's time to train them."

  "General... if we cease fire, will these cavalrymen run away?"

  "Hmph, fools! After witnessing the might of our firearms, they still dare to charge forward, proving that these Yuan people are driven by a death wish. They now only think of advancing with their lives on the line, where is the thought of retreating?" Tang Yun shook his head, his own guards were still lacking in capable men, not even an old soldier who had fought against the Northern Yuan would ask such a naive question.

  The fierce artillery gradually stopped, and the archers on the city wall were just suppressing the Yuan army below. Ha Er Guo suddenly felt that the attack from the city was not coming and was stunned for a moment, then looked at his own subordinates, 13,000 people were left with only 3,000, and 10,000 people died under the slaughter of the Ming army.

  However, in fact, not many were directly killed by the Ming army's firearms. The rest were shot and killed by the rolling logs and stones on the city wall, as well as the archers. It was so easy to hit someone with an arrow from the top of the city wall that they didn't even need to aim. The 10,000 Northern Yuan cavalrymen who rushed to the Ghost Gate Pass in a scramble couldn't be stopped at all.

  In fact, any other Han Chinese commander would not have done such a foolish thing, but Hala Bashi was a Mongol and a rather dim-witted one at that, only thinking of breaking through the city of Gaozhou without considering that his troops were cavalry with no siege equipment.

  With a single mind to complete the mission of Ping Zhang, he led his subordinates to their deaths like a fool. Even so, Ha Chigu thought it was an opportunity for him to take advantage of the Ming army's exhausted firepower and excitedly directed his soldiers to continue ramming the gate.

  Finally... the gate opened, but it wasn't the Northern Yuan people who broke in, rather it was Tang Yun's order to have his men dig and open it themselves. The Northern Yuan soldiers were holding siege ladders and were stunned for a moment, just as they were about to charge into the city, a long spear pierced through his chest and out of his back.

  That gun-wielding Ming soldier was excited, he killed a Northern Yuan person, beheaded him and got a first-class merit, but before he could even show off to his comrades, his head was chopped off by a prairie curved knife...

  Three thousand new soldiers started fighting with the Northern Yuan cavalry in the narrow city gate. The new soldiers were excited because they could finally kill the enemy and make a name for themselves, while the Northern Yuan people were also excited because they could finally enter the city.

  This small city gate was like a meat grinder, with both sides constantly rushing in until the Northern Yuan people were killed or Tang Yun ordered a replacement, otherwise this slaughter would not stop.

  "General Zhang! My brothers are fighting down there, and I'm just standing here watching. Isn't that the same as abandoning them? Please let me go down and fight alongside them against the Northern Yuan bandits!" Zhang Feng asked with a deep voice, clutching his fist. He couldn't join in on the ambush earlier, but he had to participate in this melee.

  "I've been waiting for you to say that, go ahead and kill a few more of those Yuan bandits, just don't get your head chopped off, I'm still expecting you to be my subordinate." Xu Sheng laughed loudly as he waved his hand, an eagle that doesn't spread its wings will always be a fledgling, since Zhang Feng's bravery is not inferior to his, then he needs the baptism of blood even more to make him grow up faster...

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