A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 106
"Crack, crack, crack!" A few loud bangs of firecrackers, and three more white-armored soldiers were knocked to the ground.

With a distance of several steps, even if they were wearing several layers of heavy armor, the projectiles of the firecrackers could easily tear through the cotton armor on their bodies, killing and wounding them one by one.

At the same time, there was a roar of excruciating pain, and the iron bones and hatchets that flew over from the two white armored soldiers before they died also sliced ​​through the iron armor of a pike soldier, and penetrated deeply into his chest.Another throwing ax flew on the forehead of a firecracker, split his iron helmet, and embedded it deeply.

The bravery of these white-armored soldiers is no small matter. Their counterattack and struggle before their death still caused a lot of damage to the Shunxiang Army at the head of the city.

At the same time as the guns rang, a row of armored pikemen rushed up.

"kill!"

The spears in their hands either stabbed a Qing soldier who had been seriously injured by the firecrackers, or several spears pierced into the body of a Qing soldier at the same time, and the spears easily broke through their heavy armor, or pierced their bodies into their vital points such as eyes and throats.

Before dying, those Qing soldiers held the gun shafts that had penetrated deeply into their bodies, and the tremendous pain made them kneel down on the ground in agony.When the spearmen pulled out their spears, the blood of those Qing soldiers gushed out from the wound together with their intestines.

Wu Zhengchun pulled out his spear from the throat of a white-armored soldier, blood spurted out from his throat, and some of it hit Wu Zhengchun's face and lips.He subconsciously licked the blood on his lips, the tragic killing made his blood boil, he no longer had the slightest fear, and there was only one word in his heart: "Kill!"

Perhaps, as Master Defense said, he was born for war!

He was wearing iron armor and holding a long spear in his hand. The blood of the enemy soldiers was all over the armor. After he drew the gun, he squinted at the Qing soldiers in front of him, seeing his gaze like a wolf, the Qing soldiers in front of him The soldiers felt chills in their hearts, and some of them took a step back involuntarily.

The Qing soldiers in the city had already noticed the difference in this black and thin Ming soldier. He had a red belt hanging around his waist. The technique is extremely fierce, and many people have died under their guns.

It was already afternoon, and the sun was not so strong, but the smell of gunpowder smoke and blood in the air was stronger.

"Fireball Soldiers, come on!"

After the gunfire soldiers finished shooting, Han Zhong, the left sentry officer on the outside of the battle, waved his long knife, and immediately another army of firecracker soldiers filled in, and the armored pikemen beside the firecracker soldiers were Staring at each other, they held their guns straight, and as soon as the firecrackers finished fighting, they would immediately rush forward to fight again.

On the top of the city, the Shun Township Army's firearms and pikemen became more and more proficient in cooperating. They pressed forward step by step, while the Qing soldiers in front of them turned ashen-faced and retreated step by step.

At this time, there were not many Qing soldiers in the city, especially the white armored soldiers who were wiped out. However, those white armored soldiers were very fierce. Armored soldiers, we already have three or four sergeant casualties.

Now there are only less than [-] Qing soldiers left in the city, and the two assigned Shiku each lead more than ten vest soldiers.Under the combined attack of the gunfire soldiers and pikemen of Shunxiang Fort, they saw the warriors casualties one by one, but they couldn't do anything about it.

The most aggressive of these Ming soldiers is to shoot with firecrackers first. After killing and wounding many warriors on their own side, the pikemen rushed up, attacking waves wave after wave, which has been tried and tested.

Seeing that the Ming troops on both sides of the city were getting closer and closer, and the black muzzles at both ends were aimed at each other again, the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty shouted in despair: "Warriors of the Qing Dynasty, let us fight!" Die here!"

They shouted loudly, and the deafening sound of firecrackers sounded again, interspersed with the sound of metal and iron clashing, and the two sides screamed loudly before dying.

The two assigned Shiku were knocked to the ground by the firecrackers, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were killed by the firecrackers and long spearmen of Shunxiang Fort. Finally, the remaining Qing soldiers could not bear the fear in their hearts, and they all climbed up the ladder one after another. Jumping down, several people even jumped directly from the top of the city. Without exception, they all broke their legs.

In the process of fleeing, several of them were killed by the firecrackers and pikemen on the city. Those Qing soldiers who fell down the city were injured even if they did not die. I am afraid that most of them will quit their military career by then.

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Looking at the soldiers of our own side who fled or fell from the top of the city in embarrassment, the Qing soldiers below the city were all dumbfounded.They couldn't believe that the warriors of the Qing Dynasty would be in such a mess.All the warriors who were fleeing for their lives looked terrified. They didn't care about the enemies behind them or on the top of the wall. Their only thought was to escape for their lives, so they didn't hesitate to break their legs because of this.

Looking at the few remnants of the soldiers rushing down the city, Niu Luzhangjing looked at the top of the city with blank eyes. He had failed, and it was a disastrous defeat!Even if that Niu Lu Zhang Jing was unwilling to accept it, the facts also told him this.

The more than 57 warriors who attacked the top of the city, and the [-] warriors who went up to the top of the city to support them, except for less than ten who fell down the city and were injured, or ran down the top of the city in terror, the rest seem to have all died. .

I brought 170 soldiers and 200 auxiliary soldiers. In front of Qianhusuo City in this area, more than 120 people were killed or injured on the left wall alone. More than [-] casualties.Among them, there are more than [-] soldiers in heavy armor, and there are [-] white armor soldiers who are the most elite in their own records.

In addition, there are many other officers who were assigned to Bashku, Bashku and other officers in Jiala Niulu died, and the loss was so heavy that Niulu Zhangjing felt sad and wept bitterly. look.

However, he did not have the courage to commit suicide, but hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of troops.

The sound of the horn sounded, and all the Qing troops fled below the city, leaving only corpses and equipment strewn all over the city above and below the city, even the seriously wounded were abandoned.

However, they were not chaotic when they were defeated, and they escaped in an orderly manner, so that the Ming army at the top of the city had no chance to take advantage of it.

Watching the Qing army flee, there was cheering from the top of the city. The news of the victory spread to the fort, and the city was full of joy. Several merchants even set off firecrackers.

Wang Dou laughed loudly. Surrounded by a group of officers, he walked down the tower. Looking at the happy people around him, he issued a series of orders: "Clean the battlefield, count the heads of the equipment, and rescue the wounded!"

He then said to Lin Daofu next to him: "Master Lin, you organize a group of young and strong auxiliary soldiers, go out of the city, chop up and burn the heads and weapons of those Tartars, then dig the trenches and install horse-repelling thorns and other things. !"

He also ordered Lin Daofu to put away all the weapons of the dead and wounded Qing soldiers outside the city, and strip off all the armor on their bodies, so as not to waste it.After cleaning up the corpses of their heads, they were all thrown into the big pit in front of the new castle in the west of the city. The countless big pits over there can at least bury tens of thousands of enemy corpses, and can also prevent the occurrence of plague in hot weather.

Lin Daofu unified the management and organization of the young and strong people in the castle. He clasped his fists and hurried away.

Wang Dou led the generals to inspect the top of the city. Looking at the dilapidated Xuanhu Grass Factory on the city wall, the Jumas that had been toppled and torn apart, the blood and corpses all over the ground, he sighed in his heart: "It's really tragic!"

It is undeniable that the fighting power of the Qing soldiers was very strong at this time, and most of the soldiers in Shunxiang Fort were new recruits who had not been practicing for a long time. The battle during the daytime can be said to be very difficult.Fortunately, Shunxiang Fort survived, and with this valuable battle experience, the Shunxiang Army will no longer be afraid of the Qing soldiers in the future.

Soon, under Wang Dou's order, the battlefield above and below the city began to be cleaned up. All the dead and wounded were carried away for rescue, and the auxiliary soldiers washed the top of the city with buckets of water.The corpses of the dead Qing soldiers, their weapons were put away, their armor was stripped off, their heads were all chopped off, and their naked bodies were all piled up in one place, waiting to be dealt with.The surviving wounded soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were stabbed in the same way, and their heads were chopped off with knives and axes. Afterwards, these heads were nitrated with lime, which is precious military merit.

The gate of the city was opened, and hundreds of young and strong auxiliary soldiers left the city. They collected the first-class armored bodies of the Qing soldiers outside the city, burned the ladders under the city wall, and burned the shield vehicles of the Qing soldiers not far outside the city, and dug the trench again. , Rearrange things such as rejecting horses and tribulus.

Under the aiming cover of Shun Township Army firearms in Chengtou, no Qing soldiers dared to harass them.

And after a while of commotion over there, it also fell silent. It seemed that they had begun to set up camp and cook.

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"Come, come, let's eat and eat."

The brigade, the auxiliary soldiers organized by Lin Daofu, came up with buckets of food.

The food was rich, with a large bucket of rice and steamed buns, a large bucket of vegetable soup and broth, and two large buckets of oily meat, all of which were free to eat and drink for the two sentry sergeants who participated in the battle.Wang Dou worked hard and prepared a lot of rice, grain, pigs and sheep to prepare for this day.

When the auxiliary soldiers brought up the food, they couldn't help swallowing their mouths when they smelled the aroma of the food. The brothers who participated in the battle ate really well.But none of them were jealous, and they all looked at the soldiers at the two outposts with admiration in their eyes. These brothers dared to fight the Tartars with swords and guns, and used their lives to protect the safety of the soldiers and civilians in the fort.Shun Township Castle is full of gratitude to them.

The right-post sergeant and the front-post sergeant of the Shun Township Army who had not participated in the battle just now also came over one after another, and gave a thumbs-up to the sergeant at the left post and rear post: "Brother, good job, next, it's up to us!"

There was a lot of laughter on the top of the city, no one had eaten at noon, until this afternoon, they were all fighting hungry, and when the food came, they felt extra hungry.The sergeants of the left post and the back post sat on the floor of the team at the head of the city. Everyone ate and ate meat, and the tension and sadness just now were swept away.

Everyone laughed loudly, just talking about the battle just now, but when it came to the casualties of brothers in the team during the fierce battle, many people shed tears again.

On the highest floor of the tower, there is also a big table in the middle at this time, with wine and food on the table, Wang Dou, Han Zhong, Han Chao, Wen Fangliang, Sun Sanjie, Zhenfu Chi Dacheng and others are sitting around the table, all with big mouths eating and drinking.

Han Zhong gobbled it up and stuffed pieces of meat straight into his mouth. Wang Dou looked at him with a smile, lifted the jug and poured him a small glass of wine, and said, "Brother Han, eat slowly, be careful of choking."

Han Zhong just answered vaguely, Han Chao frowned and looked at his younger brother, reproaching him: "Second brother, in front of adults, you must pay attention to your official appearance."

Han Zhong still answered vaguely, lowered his head, and stuffed the meat into his mouth piece by piece.

Wang Dou smiled at Sun Sanjie who was also immersed in eating and drinking: "Officer Sun, your gun skills are really outstanding. You have killed two Tartar generals in a row, which greatly boosted the morale of our army. Your credit is not small."

On the right side of the city wall, Sun Sanjie sniped and killed a Qing army in succession to divide the Shiku and Bujia Bashiku, which greatly boosted the morale of the Shunxiang Army at the head of the city.

However, after he killed the infantry-armored Shiku, he left the urn battlement wall and went to command the sentry to command the firecrackers to kill the Qing soldiers on the right side of the city, but he didn't know that he had escaped. One step later, the bows and arrows of several white armored soldiers of the Qing army under the city had aimed at him.

At this time, he heard Wang Dou's words, he stood up quickly and said: "It all depends on the cultivation of the lord, let the junior officer lead the sergeant of the sentry. The lord's promotion, even if the junior officer goes through fire and water, he will never repay him!"

His appearance was rough, but his voice was soft, which sounded rather weird.

Wang Dou smiled and said: "Officer Sun sentry is serious, sit down and eat."

Sun Sanjie thanked again, and then sat down respectfully, eating more politely than before.

Wen Fangliang looked at Han Zhong and Sun Sanjie with some envy. After this battle, the two of them have done a lot of military service, and promotion is inevitable.

He said to Wang Dou with a playful smile: "My lord, if there is a war, it should be about my outpost army fighting with the Han sentry officer's right outpost army?"

Han Zhong raised his head at this time, his mouth was still vague, he called out: "Old Wen, look at your delicate skin and tender flesh, the wives and concubines in your house are afraid that they will let you go to the battlefield?"

Everyone laughed when they heard it, but they couldn't laugh out loud. Wang Dou also heard that after the Qing soldiers entered the bandits at the end of June, all the wives in Wen Fangliang's family went to the temple to pray to the gods, and prayed to the Buddha to bless their adults. Being hit by artillery fire, it is best not to go to the battlefield, and let several officers in the fort hear a secret joke.

Wen Fangliang wasn't angry either, he just snorted: "Women's opinion, what do these women know, we men can only see our true colors when we go to the battlefield."

Wang Dou smiled and said: "I will talk about you, I am afraid that this battle will be fought."

Everyone fell silent. Although the Qing army suffered a small setback outside the city, most of them were still there. Especially since there were quite a few Qing troops who invaded this time, I am afraid that there will be a series of vicious battles in Shunxiang Fort in the future.

At this moment, Lin Daofu came in. He was biting a few steamed buns and commanding the auxiliary soldiers to clean up the battlefield. Wang Dou asked him to sit down and eat.

At this time, the tall general strode in. He was vigorous and full of energy. He saluted Wang Dou with a smile on his face and said, "My lord, the result of this battle has come out. A total of 140 heads of thieves and slaves have been captured." Seventh level, among them, the thieves' eyes are special and strong, and they are divided into seven Shiku, 19 thieves and slaves, 210 five long and short knives and guns, 34 bows and arrows, and [-] banners. Great victory, my lord !"

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Old White Bull:
The results of these war chapters are not bad. Yesterday's chapter had 24 subscriptions in [-] hours.This book begins to enter the first climax, and there will be several invasions of the Qing soldiers, the Battle of Songshan, Wang Dou leading an army to suppress the bandits, and the decisive battle with Li Zicheng, etc. I believe that every battle will be a climax.

Back to "General Evil" book friends, Chapter 104 has already mentioned that the firecrackers attack from both sides of the urn city and the horse face. These two places are small, and there is actually no room for a few firecrackers.

Back to the "Blizzard Raid" book friend, I am not a history teacher, Wang Dou is.

(End of this chapter)