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

Chapter 115
These Baiba Yala soldiers are all wearing bright armor, chain mail inside and cotton armor inlaid with iron outside. The nail leaves are exposed. paint.There is a huge bronze heart-protecting mirror on the front and back chests, a tall red tassel on the iron helmet, ear protection, neck protection, and eyebrow protection are all available, and a flag with flames on the back dances in the wind.

These Baibayala soldiers all carried heavy weapons in their hands, some with huge round hammers, some with thick iron whips, some with heavy iron swords, and some with thick long tigers. guns, and some carried iron long-handled pick knives or tiger-tooth knives.They all carried huge walking bows and arrows on their backs, and some of them were also full of throwing weapons such as throwing axes and iron bones.

Among these white-faced soldiers, the one rushing to the front is another strong man in white armor. This strong man has a beard full of cheeks, his bronze face is full of traces of wind and frost, his shoulders are broad and his hands are long, and he has a thick back and waist. A fighter with rich combat experience on the battlefield.He was also wearing a red tasseled armor, with a slanted flame flagpole stuck on his back.

At some point a heavy flying ax appeared on his right hand, his eyes were as sharp as a hawk's, as if he had spotted a certain prey that was about to strike.

Behind these white-armored soldiers is Niu Luzhangjing holding a big banner. Several white-armored soldiers and Kabashi soldiers are closely guarding him. Under the leadership of their respective Pashiku and Zhuanda little bosses, they rushed forward with shouts.

After killing those vest soldiers, Huang Yujin, the officer of the second right sentry team, ordered his brother to continue to charge. His left arm was a bit inflexible, but he was severely chopped by a vest soldier during the torn attack just now. Fortunately, the iron armor on his body was strong, this knife did not cause much damage to him, but under the heavy force of the strike, the muscle tissue of his left arm was already somewhat damaged.

The two guards beside him also had scars, and the armor on the right chest of one was still split, and the wound there was bleeding continuously. He didn't know it, but just followed Huang Yujin's shout and charged.The standard-bearer in front of him was intact.

Seeing those white-armored soldiers approaching, Huang Yujin raised her long saber and shouted, "Brothers, kill the Tartars!"

Wuwu's spear sergeants yelled again and followed him.In the assault and killing of the enemy, Shunxiang Fort's usual rigorous training showed its instincts. The second team of the right post paid great attention to the coordination of the formation. Wu's Pike Sergeant.

Every row of sergeants is in the same straight line, and no sergeant or spear team can exceed this line.If there is no enemy in front of the sergeant of a certain army, then the sergeant of this army will assist the pike army next to it to attack the enemy's two wings under the judgment and command of the commander.

Because of this kind of cooperation, the ordinary spear sergeants of the second right sentry team killed and scattered the Qing army vests who were only showing the courage of ordinary men, causing them to disperse fear.

However, in the battle just now, three people were killed and several people were injured in the second team of the right sentry. Among them was a commander, and the command of the team had been transferred to the leader.After the formation was split up, the Chief Jia and the Long Spear Corps fought together. Under the command of the Chief Jia, the chiefs had become ordinary combat soldiers. Take over command.Wang Dou also stipulated that if the corps leader is killed in battle, the more skilled sergeants in the corps will take over the command. In short, the command structure in the army should not be dismantled.

Except for the fallen soldiers, all the wounded soldiers of the Right Whistle Team B were fighting persistently, and their courage was doubled by the fight against the Qing soldiers.The right sentry of the Han Dynasty had only fought bandits, but just now, they found that they could also fight those elite Tartars. It seems that the legendary Tartar soldiers are nothing more than that.

Their confidence and courage in killing the enemy allowed them to overcome fatigue and pain. Under the command of team officer Huang Yujin, their shouts rolled across the earth like spring thunder.

Huang Yujin commanded the soldiers to attack, seeing those white armored soldiers rushing, suddenly his eyes dimmed, and he saw some things flying towards this side, those heavy objects circled suddenly, very fierce.

Huang Yujin yelled loudly, and split open an iron bone that was flying towards his front door. A guard beside him screamed, and was cut on the neck by a flying axe. A rope was wrapped around the flying axe, as if At the moment of throwing over there, the rope was pulled, and the flying ax spun further in. When it cut on the guard's neck, it caused a huge wound to him. With another pull over there, the flying ax was away from him. Then, a stream of blood spurted out from the guard's neck.

The guard Youyou staggered and rushed forward, until after several steps, he collapsed powerlessly to the ground.

On the right side of the team flag, there is an armor leader of the spear team. There is an iron bone stuck in his right face, and all the bones on that side are broken. There is also a flying knife deeply cut into the iron armor on his chest. ax.The armored commander was holding a flag spear, and his team of spearmen was charging forward, which attracted extraordinarily attention. Among the wave of sharp weapons thrown at him, two of them greeted him.

Painful groans sounded one after another, and this wave of weapon throwing caused several casualties to the sergeants of the second team on the right post. Several sergeants from Shunxiang fell to the ground screaming in pain.

In the first wave, seven or eight white-armored soldiers rushed forward, and the metal and iron clashed, and the two sides collided.

That Zhuang Da of the Baiba Yala soldier, after he threw a throwing ax and killed one of Huang Yujin's guards, Huang Yujin and the rest of the guards rushed forward, and the guard's spear pierced his heart, the Zhuang Da The body twisted sensitively, the long spear brushed against the armor leaves beside him, he had already pulled out the two-handed epee on his back, the epee slashed heavily, and the guard's head flew into the sky, A gust of blood sprayed out, his headless body twisted a few times, and fell heavily to the ground.

Huang Yujin's eyes turned red, this guard was like his biological brother, but he died so tragically, he roared, and from behind the strong side, the long knife in his hand slashed heavily at his head.This knife is bound to be impossible to dodge, unexpectedly that Zhuang Da did not hesitate, his head was thrown back, his arms were raised, and the armor on his arms and waist was facing the topaz gold long knife, there was a loud bang, and the sound of bones breaking , although that Zhuangda was wearing a double layer of heavy armor, his entire arm and shoulders were almost chopped off by Huang Yujin.

The strong man roared in pain, swung the epee in his right hand and slashed down fiercely, hitting Huang Yujin's shoulder and neck heavily, the iron armor broke open, revealing the white bones inside, Huang Yujin almost fainted from the pain , he was on the verge of falling, the flag bearer took a step forward and went up to support him.

That Zhuang Da rushed forward again, and was about to make up another sword, when the spearmen in the middle of the row behind had three spears stabbing at him, he chopped off the ends of two spears, but pierced his right rib But he couldn't break the long spear in front of him. The long spear broke through his two layers of heavy armor and penetrated deeply into his body from his right rib.

That Zhuang Da twitched in pain, suddenly he let out a roar, twisted the barrel of the spear with his left hand, took a step closer, and pierced the pike soldier's lower abdomen with the heavy sword in his hand, the pike soldier was in so much pain that a big mouth gushed out from his mouth There were blood clots, and he tightly grasped the blade of the sword not to let go.

Out of the corner of his eye, Na Zhuangda saw a spearman whose head had been chopped off by him, discarded the wooden stick in his hand, drew out the long knife at his waist, and slashed viciously at his head.

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While fighting this strong man, the remaining spearmen, including the armored commander, faced off against the two white armored soldiers who rushed from behind.

The rain of blood sprayed, and that Zhuang Da's head flew into the sky. Seeing that Zhuang Da was beheaded, the two white armored soldiers showed incredible expressions in their eyes, and they roared like thunder.Soon, the two pikemen who had their heads cut off drew their swords to kill the Zhuang Da, and rushed forward with their swords.

Huang Yujin was seriously injured. He struggled to support the team flag, but only commanded the battle, while the flag bearer drew his weapon and guarded him.

The fighting on the battlefield was bloody and cruel. In the blink of an eye, countless people were killed or injured on both sides.Many times the two sides contact each other, and there is no chance after one blow. This requires the cooperation of eyesight and strength, and any skills are useless.

Just now, the armor leader of the long spear team on the right side of the team flag was hit, he roared in pain, he didn't know where the strength came from, he still struggled forward with his gun.There were two white armored soldiers facing him, the one on the right was holding a thick iron whip, and the one on the left was holding an iron long-handled pick knife.

While the armored man shouted, the spearmen of this group met the two in two places. Two spears stabbed the white armored soldier holding the iron whip, one spear pierced his heart from the front, and the other spear pierced him from the front. The side stabbed him at the left rib position. The long-armored man had an iron bone on his face, a throwing ax on his chest, and his face was covered with blood. He was on the verge of falling, but he still insisted on commanding with the flag gun pointed, and his gaze was still looking behind him. The white armored soldiers who continued to rush forward.

The soldiers of Shun Xiangbao practiced sprinting hard every day. Many people practiced stabbing twenty steps away, and they could hit the target. They rushed forward screaming, and their power was extraordinary.The two long spears aimed at the white-armored soldier holding the iron whip were fierce and cleverly coordinated. It was extremely difficult to stop, and any shot would be fatal.

Looking at the stabbing spear, the white-armored soldier's eyes flashed with surprise. He didn't expect the Ming army's spear to be so fierce and vicious. I have been in the army for many years, and it seems that I have rarely encountered it. He whipped hard at the long spear that was stabbing at his heart, knocking the head of the spear out of the way, and even touched the long spear next to him, letting it pass by the armor beside him.

At the same time, he took a step forward, and hit the sergeant who stabbed in the heart with the iron whip in his hand. The sergeant's helmet was broken, and his brains and blood were splashed. He screamed and fell backwards, rolling to the ground in pain. shouted.

However, he forgot about the armored commander standing beside him, and saw that the armored commander had seized this opportunity. With a roar, he exhausted all his strength, and the spear in his hand pierced the white armored soldier's chest like a dragon. in the throat.The white armored soldier struggled to look at the armor chief, his eyes full of disbelief.

There was a happy smile on the face of the chief armor, his face was covered with blood, and there was an iron bone stuck in the right side of his face, but that smile looked a bit ferocious.After he shot out, the strength in his whole body seemed to be lost. He couldn't hold on any longer, and fell to the ground with a bang. He was breathless, but the joyful and proud smile remained on his face.

The white-armored soldiers continued to attack from behind, and the spearmen in the rear rushed forward a few steps to protect the flanks of the spearmen in front.

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Wang Dou closed his eyes, and the fierce fighting ahead was only a dozen or twenty steps away from the circle formation. From a small high platform temporarily set up by the Chinese army, the situation in front of him could be clearly seen.

It can be seen that the battle is extremely tragic, and the cooperation and tactics of our own sergeants are also very effective. After all, the battle depends not on pure martial bravery but on the cooperation between groups. The enemy army can defend against spears stabbing from several directions at the same time.

However, after all, our side is a newly trained sergeant, and the experience and skills in fighting on the battlefield are far from being compared with the most elite white armored soldiers in the Qing army. Perhaps every time you kill a white armored soldier, you have to use two or three of your own spearmen To exchange, although this exchange ratio is worthwhile, after all, white armor soldiers are the essence of all the best records of Qing soldiers, and it takes at least ten years to cultivate them. in less than a year.

But people are not grass and trees, who can be ruthless?Those sergeants were all painstakingly trained by myself, seeing their casualties, how could Wang Dou not feel sad?

Wang Dou reckoned that there were a lot of casualties among the soldiers of Team B of the Right Whistle. His heart was pierced, and he closed his eyes with a sigh.

But soon, he opened his eyes again, with a determined expression in his eyes, and shouted: "The right whistle C team is going to fight."

Han Chao gritted his teeth and nodded heavily.

The drums sounded again, and a wave of dozens of Shunxiang troops rushed out with shouts. With their spears straightened, they rushed across the front of the right sentry team B to fight.The remaining soldiers of the second team on the right sentry took the opportunity to retreat back to the whole team.

Huang Yujin, the team officer of Team B, couldn't help crying when he retreated to complete the team. In this wave of battles, he probably killed four Qing soldiers in vests, wounded three, and also killed three or four Qing soldiers. Armor follows.Those white armored soldiers also killed five people, and it is estimated that three of them were killed.However, he himself also killed 13 people, two of them were his own guards, one was the captain of the armor, and two were the captains of the corps. In addition, there were seven or eight people with varying degrees of injury, even himself was seriously injured.

His team of pikemen has been completely disabled.

Wang Dou recruited Huang Yujin and comforted him with kind words. Wang Dou promised him that after the battle, he would definitely ask for credit for the soldiers of this team.Seeing him crumbling, Wang Dou asked Wang Tianxue to lead the doctors to heal Huang Yujin and others. All the people in the circle also looked at Huang Yujin and others in admiration.

Wang Dou looked at the front position, and there was another fierce sound of killing and killing. Wang Dou estimated that even with the previous firecracker shooting and the hand-to-hand bloody battle just now, the number of casualties of this Niulu's Qing soldiers should be more than 60 people. , more than half of them are the most elite vest soldiers and white armor soldiers in the Niulu, and they should almost be unable to support them.

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Smoke and dust billowed, iron hooves sounded, and after another team of pikemen from Han Dynasty's right sentry sent out to fight, the Qing army's fine cavalry that Wang Dou had been paying attention to had been dispatched.

Previously, they gathered far away at a place more than 200 steps away from the Shun Township's military formation, and they were silent. However, Wang Dou did not dare to take their movements lightly. Now that they were dispatched, Wang Dou relaxed tone.

The shouts sounded, and another Niu Luzhang Jing led hundreds of infantrymen of his own, and rushed towards Sun Sanjie's rear post on the right side of the circle.Wang Dou was even more relieved. The enemy and I were fighting right in front of the circle. The cavalry could not attack, and the enemy infantry attacked on the right. It seemed that the cavalry of the Qing soldiers would only attack the left and rear of their own circle.

Then those Qing cavalry rushed closer and closer, as expected.

Fortunately, the circular formation under Wang Doubu didn't have any concept of left, right and rear. Every plane was frontal, and the troops were evenly distributed. There was no weakness in defense.

He loudly shouted orders to fight, and the remaining three firecrackers in the circle were all ready. At Han Zhong's left post, a team officer in charge of the firecrackers over there shouted loudly: "The firecrackers are ready."

After yesterday's battle, due to the casualties at the left sentry and the transfer of a team of sergeants to defend the rear of the circle, there were only 65 firecrackers deployed here.Among them, there are still 45 people in the first three rows, only the firecrackers arranged at the two corners of the circle are 20 people, and there are ten people on both sides, each standing in two rows.

After listening to the team officer's order, there was a bang, and the two rows of firecrackers directly in front squatted down, and the last row stood up, and checked the condition of the gunpowder in their hands again.Only the firecrackers at the two corners squatted down in the front row, and stood in the back row.

Look at the cavalry of the Qing soldiers over there hastened the charge, and was about to enter the hundred paces, the team officer shouted again: "The rear layer is ready to shoot."

With the sound of the gunfire moving, the gunfire soldiers standing in the third row directly in front, and the second row of fireball soldiers at the two corners raised their guns to aim at the Qing soldiers and iron cavalry who were rushing.Those cavalrymen, one man and two horses, are all the most elite white armor, vest, and infantry soldiers in the Niulu. There are more than 100 people in total. The hooves of hundreds of horses are dense, dust is flying, and the ground seems to be violently shaken under the impact of iron hooves. .

The impact of the cavalry was so powerful, not to mention the heartbeat of the gunfire soldiers in front of them, their faces were flushed, and the faces of the left-post pikemen inside the circle also changed color, and many of them had foreheads. There were bean-sized beads of sweat dripping from my face, whether it was from the sun or because I was nervous.

In the blink of an eye, the fine cavalry of the Qing soldiers rushed within a hundred steps, and the earth shook even more violently, making people's hearts thump.Seeing the black cavalry coming like a tide, many firecrackers held their own firecrackers so tightly that their knuckles turned white.

Sixty steps.

"shooting!"

A puff of smoke rose from the left side of the circle. First, several flames emerged from the round corner on the left, and then flashed across the entire left side of the circle.

The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded, and the 25 firecrackers in the back row fired at the same time, and people called the horses to neigh, and immediately several Qing soldiers were knocked down from their horses.When shooting people, shoot horses first. Due to the height of the circle, starting from the left corner of the circle, some musketeers shot at the cavalry from the side. In addition, the horses had big targets, and the Qing soldiers had one man and two horses. More than ten horses were hit by the firecrackers of Shunxiang Fort.

The horses of the Qing army had never heard such a loud sound of firecrackers. The deafening sound frightened them. In addition, some horses were shot, and the great pain and stimulation made them furious. Rolling on the ground, some Qing soldiers couldn't control the crazy horses, several people were thrown off their horses, and two unlucky ones were even trampled into flesh by the horses rushing up from behind.The cavalry of the Qing soldiers rushed into the formation and immediately fell into chaos.

The team officer didn't care to look at the results in front of him carefully, but just shouted: "The back floor is retreated, and the first and second floors are ready."

The firecrackers who had finished fighting immediately retreated back into the formation. The first two rows of squatting firecrackers stood up in the second row, and the first row continued to squat. They aimed their firecrackers nervously and continued to rush forward. The soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were fine cavalry.

The Qing soldiers tried their best to control the horses, keeping their bodies as low as possible, and they rushed up again in the blink of an eye.The deafening sound of firecrackers sounded again, a total of forty firecrackers spewed scorching bullets and gunpowder smoke at the elite riders.

When they got so close, more than ten Qing soldiers screamed and were knocked off their horses immediately, and more than twenty horses were killed or seriously injured. Running around randomly made the formation of the Qing soldiers even more chaotic.

Seeing this situation, Wang Dou felt relieved. Wang Dou reckoned that more than half of the armored soldiers who rushed to the front of the first wave had been lost, although the infantry and white armored cavalry behind continued to ride. They rushed from both sides of the chaotic horses, but the impact power of these people had been greatly weakened, and they could not pose any threat to their side.

Through the battle just now, Wang Dou can also be sure that he doesn't need to resist horses and chariots in the future, and can effectively resist the attack of the Qing soldiers and iron cavalry with only the firecrackers.

After the gunfire soldiers finished shooting, they rushed back to the formation. At the same time, the spear shield soldiers and pike soldiers in the left sentry circle were also preparing to fight. horses.The two rows of spear and shield soldiers in front also erected their shields urgently, covering the entire formation tightly.

Waves of elite cavalry of the Qing Dynasty passed by more than ten paced horses outside the circle formation. Swinging knives, javelins, flying axes and iron bones came one by one, and some archers who were good at shooting shot arrows.A muffled sound came from the circle. Those Qing soldiers were riding on tall horses with a wide field of vision. From time to time, some Shunxiang soldiers in the circle were hit by javelins or throwing axes.

Moreover, most of their throwing axes and javelins have a rope around the back end. When the rope is pulled at the moment of throwing, the throwing ax or javelin will rotate forward and embed into the opponent's shield when it is thrown. Just pull it back and it can pierce and destroy Shield or armor.

After the first few waves of elite cavalry of the Qing soldiers rushed forward, the shields of the spear and shield soldiers on the left side of the circle were almost wiped out. A large number of throwing knives, flying axes, iron bones, etc.The cavalry bows of the Qing soldiers are weak, and almost everyone in the Shunxiang army is armored. As long as they are not shot in the face, the injuries are generally not serious, but what kills them is their throwing axes and javelins. seriously injured.

Painful groans sounded again and again, and the pikemen or spear shield soldiers lined up here were shot one after another. In the blink of an eye, there were more than ten casualties here. Not enough, and there is no cover, the feeling that you can't fight back just by being beaten is going to make people collapse.

Fortunately, at this time, the right-hand gunfire soldiers who had nothing to do in the circle rushed in one after another. They boldly rushed to the front of the gun shield soldiers from the two corners of the circle, and aimed at those soldiers. The cavalry of the Qing soldiers galloping forward opened fire one after another.

A distance of more than ten steps, a big target, and shooting from the side. After these Qing cavalry rushed out of this circle, there were already more than a dozen of them, and many horses fell on the ground. Under the bombardment of the right sentry firecrackers.

What made those Qing soldiers even more unexpected was that after the waves of cavalry in front of them rushed through the circle and passed the defensive range at the rear of the circle, the rounded corners of the place were fired from the side as well as the firecrackers on the front. When they woke up and galloped desperately to the distance, they left more than ten corpses and many horses that were killed or injured at the back of the circle.

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Old White Bull:
I got stuck on several key plot points yesterday, and only wrote [-] words a day, which is miserable.

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