Chapter 40 Fame
There were twenty or thirty war horses tied up in the city circle, and the ammonia produced by the decomposition of horse manure was very smelly. Although the Tartars lived a hard life, they would not camp in the city circle if they had houses in the city.

Therefore, there were no Tartars with knives blocking the way from the city gate to the main gate.

The Tatars on the city wall could not see the Ming army in the dark, so they shot arrows randomly based on the sound. Instead, they became sitting ducks for the Ming army because they were holding torches.

After dismounting at the main gate, Li Hao, holding a full-length axe, shouted, "In this battle, we must advance and not retreat. If we cannot kill all the Tartars in Tashan Fort, I will not sleep tonight."

At the meal around three o'clock, he once again recovered from his injuries with an appetite that shocked this group of fierce generals and soldiers, and also made his armor even tighter.

I just had some food behind the hill, so my health has been restored to full. Now is the time to show my supernatural power.

There was no need to worry about alerting the Tartars at this time, so all the soldiers responded in a solemn voice. The nephew and nephew Cao, along with four servants, blocked the left side, while Huang Long, Zu Kuan and others were deployed on the right side, blocking the main gate tightly.

General Li and Xiaobu, holding a huge axe, ran out of the door and walked up to the city wall through the stairs on the side.

There were no Tartars near the main gate. It was probably because the few Tartars on duty did not know how many Ming troops were coming, or they knew that the one coming was the killing god Li Hao, so they withdrew to the residential area in advance and prepared to form a formation and shoot with bows.

General Li planned to kill the Tartars guarding the city wall first. If he moved quickly, he could also break into the houses of the Tartars resting in the city before they could get dressed.

Obviously, the Tatars on the city wall had no intention of going down to engage in close combat with the Ming army. Even though they could not see the situation below the city clearly, these Tatars still chose to extinguish their torches and shoot arrows at the foot of the city based on the sounds they made.

This posed a great difficulty to Li Hao, as he had to use sound and dim light to locate the Tartars one by one.

"The Ming general has already entered the city."

Soon, General Li found the first wave of Tartars near the city gate tower, probably three or four of them. While he was chopping the first Tartar to death, the remaining few quickly fled while alerting the bannermen on the city wall.

He could only chase after him and chop him.

Ugh!
There are good and bad reputations.

If he was still an unknown person, these Tartars might have rushed up to fight him. But now, in just a few days, he has become famous and even ordinary Tartars know to avoid him.

If this continues, how can we complete the one million kills required to pass the level?

Li Hao decided to add a few specialization points to the skill [Running] tonight.

If the running skill is raised to level 100 or above, one can run at a speed almost as fast as a warhorse without armor or weight. If it is raised to level 200 or so, even if Li Hao is fully armed and carries several heavy weapons on his back to deal with various battle situations, he can still keep pace with the warhorse.

By then, it would be much more efficient to chase and kill the Tartars.

Soon, Li Hao cleared the city wall near the gate tower. Because of the city circle, he could not stop the people and only killed four Tartars in the pursuit. The remaining dozen or so ran away, fearing that they would run slower than the bannermen around them.

Most of these flag bearers had the same idea: as long as they ran faster than others, they would not be the ones to be hacked to death.

The two archery teams outside the city therefore lost their targets.

"General, we are ready to enter the doorway."

Gou Quanzhong, Wu Sangui and others under the city shouted and moved towards the main gate.

After being chased and killed by Li Hao twice near the city walls and gate towers, a dozen Tartars guarding the city finally found the right opportunity and ran down the city.

As I said, as long as you are not the slowest runner, there is hope of survival.

"General, the Tartars have formed a battle array and are shooting arrows. Your subordinates should stay by the doorway to avoid the rain of arrows for the time being."

After hearing the sound of the Tartars running down, Cao Wenzhao shouted several times and reported the positions of their two teams to Li Hao.

This gave General Li a lot of help. He jumped over several steps, killed the last Tartar, and then carried half of the Tartar's body and rushed straight towards the Tartars who had been arranged in three layers of military formation near the residential areas in the city.

"That man! Your General Mao and I both know each other. There's no need to start a fight. I'll order people to stop shooting arrows. Let's talk."

After the arrival of Great Khan Nurhaci, he felt that there were too many bannermen stationed in Tashanbao, so he drove Daishan's men to the front line, leaving only a Niulu of the Bordered Blue Banner to guard.

The real name of this Niulu was Suhetai. His Niulu was usually stationed at the mouth of Wuchong River under Xiuyan, not far from Pidao where Dongjiang Town was located. As a frontline general in the confrontation between the Later Jin and Dongjiang Town, he also knew what kind of fierce general Turushi of the Bordered Yellow Banner was. Turushi could not withstand four swords in front of this man. Dozens of Zhajia Bayala said they would chop him, so the ordinary bannermen under his command were not enough to fill the teeth of this Ming general in front of the battle.

"Then show some sincerity and order your men to put the beryllium arrows back into the quiver."

Li Hao did not stop, hoping to use words to persuade this stupid Tartar to order the flag bearers to retract their Qing bows.

"Stop first and I'll order someone to collect the arrows."

Suhetai did not dare to issue orders rashly. Once this Ming general got close to him, everything would be over.

Li Hao, carrying half of his body shield, walked a few more steps before stopping. During this process, the Tatars who had already formed a battle line did not shoot arrows. With the faint light from several torches, Li Hao could clearly see that the arrows of this group of flagmen were pointing downwards.

"That's right. I have had contacts with your General Zu and Marshal Mao. Our Liu Aita, whom you Han people call Liu Xingzuo, has sent many people from my territory to Dongjiang and Liaoxi. The superiors can fight, but we, the subordinates, should cooperate as needed."

The voice of this Tartar just traveled around in General Li's ears. He didn't listen at all, but instead watched how to launch an attack quickly.

At this time, he was about seventeen or eighteen steps away from the Tartar army formation, and there were only a few torches on the Tartar side in the field.

"How can we cooperate? Like Mao Wenlong and Zu Dashou selling food to you? You pay me some silver, and I will order people to make way and let you go. To this old slave, you can tell him that Tashanbao was not defended."

Feeling that the Tartars could not see his exact location clearly, Li Hao moved forward step by step while talking nonsense.

"Marshal Mao and General Zu won't sell us food. The men who sell us food come from Mobei and use ox carts to transport food over a long distance, so food is very expensive, seven or eight taels of silver for a bushel. I can't afford the food from Mobei, so I can only steal food from the bannermen and bondservants."

Suhetai was not idle either. The newly lit torches were brought over by the flag bearers. After he gave a signal, more than a dozen torches were thrown in front of the army formation.

Thus illuminating the world.

"Draw the bow and shoot!"

When a large number of torches appeared, Li Hao knew that the Tartars on the opposite side were also stalling for time, so he stopped hiding and ran away with an axe in one hand and a meat shield in the other.

When the Tartars threw torches, General Li had already approached them at a distance of about eight steps. When the first round of arrows came, he ran to only four steps away from the Tartar army formation.

Fortunately, the meat shield caught seven or eight of the most accurate beryllium arrows. The huge force even stopped Li Hao's momentum. General Li reacted quickly and stopped holding the meat shield. He pushed the meat shield with his left hand, jumped up with the axe in both hands, and finally chopped down the first row of Tatars before the second round of arrows was fired.

"Oh my god!"

Suhetai could even feel the wind from the giant axe. Before he saw the axe with his own eyes, he would never believe that this Ming general could kill hundreds of elite flag soldiers and fifty or sixty Bayara armored soldiers alone.

He felt that it might be the Bayara from the Bordered Yellow Banner who had escaped this afternoon who were bragging about this man's strength in order to reduce their punishment.

At least Suhetai believed that this Ming general was an elite soldier of the Two Yellow Flags who was killed together with his servants.

Now seeing this brave man leaping up and the terrifying huge axe, this Niulu Ezhen from the Bordered Blue Banner thought it was time to prepare his horse and escape.

One must do things according to one's strength. This Ming general is not something that a small Niulu master like him can deal with.

“Shoot arrows at everyone who is far away from him and kill them.”

After Suhetai gave the last order, he and a dozen of his personal guards climbed onto the war horses that had just been prepared, bypassed the battlefield area, and galloped towards the south gate.

The eight Bayaras of the Bordered Yellow Banner who escaped in the afternoon had also made preparations long ago. After seeing their master Ezhen, who was stationed here, start to run away, they also seized the horses of the Bordered Blue Banner flagmen and charged towards the main gate of the South Gate.

Originally Li Hao had a very difficult time dealing with the situation, as the Tartars on the periphery were shooting arrows indiscriminately. He had to use two meat shields to protect himself. Unexpectedly, the escape of Niulu'ezhen's master caused even more commotion. The remaining flagmen stopped shooting arrows and ran to find horses to escape.

It is not known how many Ming troops are coming, but the one fierce general who breaks into the army is scary enough.

Li Hao laughed and also chopped towards the main gate.

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