Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1018 Bloody Battle at Baoxiang River

There was no fighting that night. Across the river bank, the soldiers from both sides clanked all night long...

Early the next morning, the chieftain leaders eagerly drove their soldiers onto the rafts they had made overnight and crossed the river from both sides of the Big Banqiao.

The soldiers of the Ming army continued to shoot from a high position on the archery tower, and the barbarian soldiers who were hit by the arrows fell into the water like dumplings. But there were too many rafts, and countless barbarians still successfully crossed the river and rushed to the other side. Prepare to seize the bridgehead and assist the large forces to cross the bridge...

But before the excitement lasted long, they realized that they were happy too soon.

Because the Ming army soldiers dug a deep trench around the bridge and built fortifications. If they want to seize the bridge, they have to cross the ditch and break through the Ming army's fortifications...

The chieftain soldiers had no choice but to bite the bullet and start filling the trenches. Naturally, they were violently attacked by the Ming army.

This time Yu Min finally had a place to use, and he was assigned as a fire gunner. At this time, the Ming Army's firecrackers had made great progress and were no longer just a rough copper pipe like before.

Boss Zhu continues to take various effective measures to standardize and unify the primary fire guns created in the Yuan Dynasty, and continuously improves them. Nowadays, the handguns of the Ming army have a long and slender body, consisting of a front chamber, a medicine chamber and a tail.

The front chamber is cylindrical and contains projectiles. The medicine chamber is spherical and has a fire door on the wall for placing fuses for ignition. The tail is hollow and can be equipped with a wooden handle to facilitate the launcher's handling.

Moreover, the Ming army's lead bullets were embedded in wooden horses, and they could be stuffed into the front chamber with a rod to compact the gunpowder in the powder chamber, greatly increasing the range and power of the projectiles.

The cruelty of war was vividly displayed at this moment. Yu Min's eyes were full of ferocious-looking barbarians. He had to brace himself up and use all his strength every time he fired a gun, treating the strangers facing him as murderers of his father. Treated by enemies.

The barbarian soldiers were also completely red-eyed. They did not expect that a mere three thousand Ming troops could cause so much damage to themselves. Under the instigation and insults of the leaders, the irrational barbarians carried sandbags and stones desperately, finally filled up the trench, moved away the deer and firewood, and fought with the Ming army.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming army were brave and fearless. Facing the overwhelming barbarian soldiers, they still formed a formation and fought to the death. They were like rocks on the seaside. No matter how much the waves destroyed the rocks, they remained unmoved.

Yu Min didn't care about firing the musket anymore. Under the order of the officer, he grabbed a long gun and rushed to the front line to fill the position left by the fallen Pao Ze.

But Yu Min still doesn't like handguns, because they shoot too crookedly, and the bullets don't know where to fly with a bang, and they are far less accurate than bows and arrows. It's just that the archers of the Ming army are all veterans for more than three years, and he has to wait for more than a year before he is qualified to touch bows and arrows.

In this way, he fired the gun again and again, and together with his comrades, he withstood the attacks of waves of barbarians.

I just want to kill the other party before the other party kills me. Otherwise, not only will he die, but the entire formation will collapse.

This mental and physical exertion was really terrifying. After winning several life-and-death competitions, he was sweating profusely and was in a trance.

Yu Min didn't bother to check the results. After firing the shot, he quickly wrapped it with a cloth, emptied the gun barrel of the residue, then reloaded and fired.

Fortunately, the enemies were too dense. There were people all over Wuwuyang on the river bank. When bullets were fired, there was a high probability that one would be hit, but one didn't know which one.

In front of the battle, corpses were soon strewn all over the ground, and the trenches were densely packed with dead corpses.

The screams and screams that filled the sky seemed to have suddenly disappeared. He could only hear his own heavy breathing, and could even see his movements of thrusting out the gun. Seeing blood spattering, a barbarian soldier was stabbed through the abdomen by him...

Finally, I saw that I was stabbed hard in the shoulder by the barbarian soldier's three-pronged boring machine, but I felt no pain. I only felt that all my strength disappeared, and my body fell to the ground like a fallen leaf, and then I lost consciousness.

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When Yu Min woke up, she found that it was already dark, but the shouts of killing were still loud on the battlefield. He turned his head with difficulty and found that the wounded were lying around him. Military doctors and paramedics were busy treating their wounds, suturing and bandaging them.

Yu Min struggled to get up, but his left shoulder felt so painful that he couldn't use any strength at all. When he looked down, he saw that his shoulders were wrapped in thick gauze.

"Don't move, or the hole will be opened again!" A wounded man next to him reminded him.

Yu Min turned around and saw that the man seemed to be from the same Qianhu Office as him, but now his face was covered in blood and he couldn't tell who was who.

"Still fighting?" Yu Min remembered that it was not yet noon when she was injured and fell into coma.

"Yes, we fought all day." The wounded man sighed: "In the afternoon, the native chiefs crossed the river in person to supervise the battle. The barbarian soldiers' offensive was even more fierce than in the morning. We suffered heavy casualties."

As he spoke, he spat fiercely and said: "Damn it, I've never been hit by an arrow in all the wars, but my boat capsized in this small river ditch!"

Only then did Yu Min see that the opponent had been hit by an arrow in his knee, but he hadn't pulled it out yet.

He really didn't know how to comfort the other person, so after thinking about it, he took out the half-eaten sauced duck leg from his arms and handed it over.

The wounded man's eyes lit up, he tore off a piece of meat from the top, handed the duck leg back to him, and said with a smile: "Of course, we didn't make it easy for the thieves. If we didn't kill them, we would only have 8,000. It's worth it. !”

"Then they still have 50,000 people..." Yu Min whispered.

The look in Shang Hao's eyes suddenly disappeared, and he chewed the duck meat silently without saying a word.

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At this time, the sky turned completely dark, the sound of gold rang out on the battlefield, and the barbarian soldiers finally retreated like a tide.

The Ming army officers and soldiers all sat on the ground exhausted. What the barbarian soldiers didn't know was that they really couldn't stand it any longer. Maybe as long as one more forceful attack is needed, the Ming army's defense line will completely collapse...

But there were no ifs on the battlefield. On the second day of the battle, the Ming army still held on!

Accompanied by Lu Qianhu, Qi Xiang inspected the position. Wherever he went, he saw that the soldiers were exhausted and exhausted. Looking at the densely packed corpses of fallen soldiers and the seriously injured people crowded together in the emergency room, the two of them felt extremely heavy.

"There have been over a thousand casualties in one day, and there is still another day tomorrow, how can we survive?" Lu Qianhu sighed in a low voice.

"Yes, it's difficult." Qi Xiang nodded. Generally speaking, if a unit suffers more than 20% casualties, it will lose its combat effectiveness. Now that his subordinates have suffered more than 30% casualties, they are still capable of fighting. They can only be said to be truly invincible.

But there are times when the invincible army can no longer hold on, and the remaining two thousand officers and soldiers cannot withstand such a day again.

"We have to burn the boat." Qi Xiang sighed and said solemnly: "I decided to steal the camp tonight!"

(End of this chapter)