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

Chapter 818
The old battalion soldiers in the rear also felt that their legs were weak and their bodies were trembling. No one was not afraid of death, especially this kind of meaningless death.

Mr. Tianbe trembled in his heart, the scene in front of him was too terrifying, he couldn't help secretly regretting that he came down to monitor the battle, but at this time he could only bite the bullet, not to mention that he had to punish the person he hated.

The first low wall of No. A[-] was almost on the half slope, and everyone approached it cautiously, and stopped at about seventy paces.Lao Hu made quick arrangements, and the soldiers dispersed to the slopes on both sides of the road, while using the terrain to cover themselves.They are already very familiar with this set of battalions for attacking trenches, so that they can try their best to spread out the troops, otherwise they will rush forward along the road in a swarm, and they will definitely die and return in a big defeat.

The low wall was quiet, allowing the patrolling battalion and others to move, and soon the soldiers of the patrolling battalion dispersed to both sides of the road, and then lay down on the slope as much as possible.The inner sword and shield hands and cold weapon hands lie in the first row, the bird gunners lie in the second row, which is divided into two layers, and the archers lie in the third row.

Lao Hu gathered Batiao and others on the slope with his relatives, calling for arrangements from time to time. Not far away were Mr. Tian Bu and some old battalion soldiers.

Those hungry people crowded the road in groups. The dense crowd of people meandered along the mountain road and approached the ditch. Everyone's face was tense, and many of them were trembling all over. Everything before them was a nightmare.

In the end, the rest of the old battalion dispersed and supervised behind the slope, staring at the hungry people and soldiers of the mountain patrol battalion.

Finally, Lao Hu finished making arrangements, and he ordered the blunderbuss soldiers to light the matchlocks, then took a deep breath, and ordered the hungry people behind to come up, only to hear a horrific cry.

There are five teams of hungry people on the road, one team for every hundred people. The three teams in the front are carrying earth bags, and the two teams in the back are carrying short wooden ladders.The war has been going on until now, even if the camp is broken to separate the hungry people who have fought from those who have not, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world, and everyone has heard about the tragedy of the war.What's more, the cruel scene in front of you can't be faked. This kind of scene of dead bodies and blood flowing all over the slope has never appeared in everyone's deepest nightmare.

Seeing that it was his turn, and he was very likely to be one of the corpses on the slope, how could it not make people tremble?

Crying, they were driven forward by the infantry of the mountain patrol battalion and the old battalion soldiers, step by step, like lambs about to be sent to the tiger's mouth.But no matter the old camp or the soldiers of the patrolling camp, they showed no mercy at this time. The hungry people who walked a little slower, or even cried louder, were cut down to the ground without mercy.Hearing their howls and screams before they died, the rest of the hungry people trembled with fright, subconsciously quickened their pace, and even forgot to cry.

Old Hu's face was expressionless, and he said loudly: "Don't talk too much, throwing the soil bag into the trench can save your life, and those who dare to retreat, kill!"

With a wave of his hand, he urged the hungry people to speed up their pace. Those hungry people had no way to retreat, and after listening to Lao Hu's words, they all twisted their expressions like their predecessors.

They came among the swords, shields, etc., listened to the orders of the officers, and suddenly uttered a cry, and the first group of people rushed up.

Lao Hu watched the movement on the other side of the low wall, and shouted: "One more team."

Then rushed to a group of hungry people carrying earthen bags.

With the sound of the bowstring being tensed, a burst of arrows came from behind the low wall, and the hungry people in front were shot over, while the rest howled and continued to charge.

Old Hu shouted: "Up, up, up!"

He ordered his own archers to shoot and suppress, and at the same time, the last team of hungry people rushed forward with their soil bags.

Arrows kept coming from the other side of the low wall, and arrows rained from this side as well.

Arrows roared in the air, and from time to time some hungry people were shot and rolled down, but some people rushed to the front, successfully threw the soil bag into the trench, and returned safely.They can directly withdraw from the battlefield and return to the camp to rest. Without accident, they can be selected as infantry after three times.

Encouraged by this, the last two teams of hungry people carrying short wooden ladders also stepped forward, and the sword and shield hands and cold weapon hands lying on the slope also got up. They used the hungry people as human shields and raised their shields to protect them. With a vital point in his body, he tiptoed to follow.

They are the main combat force, and some of them still hold long ropes and iron hooks in their hands, and they can fight on the wall without relying on short ladders.

Suddenly there was a series of explosions on the low wall, and a large cloud of white smoke rose up, and the mountain patrol battalion charging ahead fell down a large area.

This time the firepower was so strong that not to mention the short ladder planks carried by those hungry people overturned more than a dozen, even the hungry people throwing earthbags were also knocked over several times.There were also sword and shield players following behind. Some people's shields were shattered, blood sprayed up from their bodies, and they staggered and fell to the ground.

They howled terribly, being shot was no better than being shot by an arrow, the pain was indescribable.They fell to the ground, and their final fate was to become one of the dead and wounded on the slope. They were not new soldiers, and no one would save them.

Old Hu shouted: "Bird gunners, shoot them down!"

The bird gunners who were lying on the ground in two layers immediately stood up from the back layer. They fired a volley, there was a thunderous bang, and there was a scream on the low wall. Lao Hu probably hit a dozen people. How many soldiers are there in each camp?

"Fight again!"

The gunners lying prone on the back floor also stood up, and another fifty matchlock guns spewed out billowing smoke, and there were more screams on the low wall.Lao Hu noticed that a soldier had been shot in the chest on the low wall. He clutched the place where he was shot in pain, shook his body a few times, and rolled down from the low wall.

"Cover as close as possible!"

Lao Hu roared and shouted orders, and the archers and gunners of the patrolling battalion all got up from the slope and began to approach the low wall.

There were two more volleys of gunfire over there, and more soldiers and hungry people from the mountain patrol camp fell to the ground, becoming one of the stacked corpses.However, they were immediately counterattacked by the archers of the mountain patrol battalion. From time to time, some people fell down with arrows, and some gunmen of the mountain patrol battalion loaded with ammunition also shot one after another, which also posed a threat to the defenders of the low wall.

Arrows whistled sharply in the air, mostly flying from downhill to the low wall. The defenders' archers were not as numerous and powerful as those of the mountain patrol battalion, and the rockets allotted to them had already been used up, let alone suppressing their archers.

Although the rockets are profitable, they are consumed too quickly, dozens of them are sent out in a blink of an eye, and no amount of inventory will last long.Due to the fierce fighting, it is found that not only the large rockets of the defense lines have been used up, but also the rockets of the soldiers and rocketmen of the battalions have long been used up.

The bird gun has a natural shortcoming in the rate of fire, not to mention that there are many bird gun players here.

——Although their bird guns are the same as those of the battalions behind the low wall, most of them have quality problems, the thickness of the tube wall is different, and the size of the muzzle is different, and they can only be loaded with lead bags from cupping cans.But after all, it is a firearm, and there is a certain threat. In particular, some of the bird guns under Lao Hu's command are still supported by Kaifeng and other places, which is quite good.

Under their shooting, the casualties of the defenders on the low wall became heavier.

Bullets and arrows roared, and there were constant casualties on both sides. In the smoke, the soldiers of the patrol battalion of the brigade approached the low wall, and the dense short ladder boards were about to be built.Lao Hu watched nervously, and he didn't know what it was like, but he knew that things were not that simple.

Sure enough, as soon as our side approached, they heard a series of continuous explosions, large puffs of thick white smoke exploded from the low wall, and the sharp flames formed a line.Dozens of three-eyed blunderbusses fired at the low wall in unison, or a three-barreled volley, and the charging soldiers of the mountain patrol battalion fell down in a dense mass, and dense blood mist rose from them.

Although the power and range of the three-eyed blunderbuss are not as good as those of the high-quality bird blunderbusses, it is quite terrifying at close range.Each tube is filled with three or four leads, and the primers are connected together by lead wires. One three-eyed blunderbuss can explode nine lead bullets.Dozens of three-eyed blunderbusses were fired at the same time, and their power was comparable to that of a few tiger crouching cannons.

This is also the moment when the battalion gunners are the fiercest. At this time, their damage to the enemy is no worse than those of the new army gunners who use sophisticated bird guns.

All the people in front of them were emptied in an instant, and the rest of the patrol soldiers howled hoarsely, and many people were even aroused by the close-range bang of the three-eyed blunderbuss.

In the panic, there was another loud shouting sound from behind the low wall, followed by a large blackness, and heavy things were thrown outside.

These things are round and rolling, even falling on the slope, and the panicked people screamed again, of course they know what it is, the defenders use ten thousand enemies, powerful and easy to use, it has been famous in the camp for a long time, Disgusting change.

Sure enough, these dark things exploded very quickly, and with a loud bang, bursts of dense smoke exploded, and all kinds of broken iron fragments flew around, making everyone around them cry and howl.

Some people were even blown to a bloody mess, their stomachs ripped open, and they rolled on the ground, howling terribly.

Lao Hu saw a pawn desperately clutching his lower abdomen, where a pile of colorful intestines hung down. He yelled and scurried up the slope like a headless chicken, and finally tripped over a corpse and rolled down a Unmoved in the pile of corpses.

Not only the ordinary Ten Thousand Enemy, but also some Ten Thousand Enemy exploded, and strands of white powder filled the air. Some soldiers were shrouded in white mist, and immediately covered their eyes and howled loudly.

Some Ten Thousand Enemies exploded, and bursts of strange thick smoke spread. Those who accidentally inhaled it immediately felt a splitting headache, dizzy body, and even had difficulty breathing.

This made them terrified and flustered. Compared with ordinary ten thousand enemies, this kind of gray bullets and poisonous bullets were more powerful.

"Death to those who retreat!"

Suddenly some old battalion soldiers charged up, swung their knives at the fleeing soldiers of the mountain patrol battalion and chopped them down. Lao Hu watched those soldiers screaming and fell to the ground like slaughtering pigs, and the rest were chased like sheep. Forcing forward.His eyes were about to burst, and he subconsciously glanced at Mr. Tianbe, but he saw him sneering and looking at him triumphantly.

He gritted his teeth, hated secretly, and suddenly roared: "Come forward!"

Order your own archers and musketeers to step up to cover. At this point in the battle, it is no longer a matter of retreating.

The archers of the Patrol Battalion shot arrows desperately, and waves of arrows roared sharply, pouring towards the range of the low wall, and the gunmen also stepped up to reload their ammunition, and kept bombarding towards the wall.

Arrows and bullets whistled in the air, and the shouts were endless. Finally, some short ladders were erected in front of the low wall, and boards were built one after another.

There are also some mountain patrol camps with swords and shields throwing iron hooks, just grabbing the ropes and climbing up from the low wall.

……

An iron hook was swung up and hooked on the earth wall like that. As soon as a thief with a waist knife in his mouth probed his head, the long knife in the hand of the Jingbian army commander who supervised the battle stabbed him in the head.

"Pfft!"

The sharp blade made of fine steel pierced through his forehead and exited from the back of his head, and the sharp weapon pierced his entire head in an instant.He pumped it harder again, with a sound like a fountain, blood droplets accompanied by yellow-white brain matter spewed out immediately, and splashed on his face and body.

The long knife in Jingbian's armored commander drew a beautiful arc in the air, and slashed heavily on the neck of a bandit whose head protruded from the short ladder. Slowly fell down the short ladder.

Then he swept his eyes away, shouted angrily, and chopped a battalion soldier who was about to escape to the ground.

"Death to those who retreat!"

he shouted sharply.

Some officers stood on the cliff behind the first ladder, watching the battalion soldier's head fly into the sky, a few of them looked embarrassed, they looked down, and peeked at Han Kaihui next to them.

The defenders of No. [-] Jia were no longer the same group as before, but Han Kaihui was the one who supervised the battle. After all, there were only so many Jingbian troops, and it was impossible to transfer them around.

At this moment, Han Kaihui's side besides the headquarters praising paintings, consoling, and appeasing, is the newly exchanged ex-battalion general Sun Qianzong, and Gao Jie's guerrilla surnamed Li and others.

Li Guerzilla looked at the battle situation below, his face was ugly, his subordinates fought well at a distance, but when they fought at close range, they showed their original shape, and they were far inferior to those new soldiers who had not been practicing for a long time, why not embarrass people?He looked at Han Kaihui with embarrassment.

Han Kaihui didn't care about the expressions of the battalion officers. He looked down with a cold expression. He recognized the thieves below. They broke through his two low wall defenses one after another two days ago. He was caught off guard and made friends with him. Mr. Yang Qian, the new army of Zuoying, was killed on the spot. The battalion soldier Gao Guerrilla ran fast and escaped with his life by chance.

At that time, he was at Yuanding, and after learning about the situation, he ordered the reserve team of the Jingbian Army to attack before regaining the line of defense. At the end of the count, the defenders of No. A and No. [-] suffered heavy casualties, so he took care of this group of thieves.

Today, when he found this group of thieves again, he saw that they were coming to fight again, so he rushed to the side to supervise them, and sure enough, they were now exerting their strength.

Seeing that some new troops below have blocked the gap just now, but more and more rogues climbed up and started hand-to-hand combat with the defending new army battalion soldiers.Those battalion soldiers were all suppressed by the supervising team, and their fighting will was not high, while the new soldiers were excited and fighting bravely.

Their musketeers desperately reloaded the gunpowder, and then fired. The spearmen also stabbed desperately, or used their rams to overturn the short ladder on which the thieves came up.There are also people who think that the spear is inconvenient to use at close range, so they lose the spear and draw out the waist knife to fight.

There was a lot of shouting from the low wall, and the blood was soaring, and from time to time there were the hoarse and miserable howls of the soldiers on both sides before they died.

However, the more thieves climbed up, the new army was brave, but after all, there were few people. Excluding the dead and injured, there were less than a hundred spearmen at this time, and their spear formation had no advantage in the melee.Those battalions hadn't been suppressed by the supervising team, and they would have been defeated long ago.

There is an element of fear of death in it, but Han Kaihui also got information that the brutal fighting these days has caused great resentment among the battalions, and rumors have spread among the battalions that Duchen Sun intends to secretly weaken the strength of the battalions , in order to achieve the purpose of letting the new army replace them quietly.

Reflecting on the battle, they are quite passive in close combat.

Seeing that the defensive line below was crumbling, it was all supported by the Jingbian Army Supervising Team. Everyone around Han Kaihui looked anxious, and Zanhua from the headquarters also hurriedly said: "Mr. The second low wall line of defense?"

"Boss Han..."

The battalion officers also looked anxiously at Han Kaihui.

Han Kaihui's expression was cold and stern. He looked down for a while, and finally shook his head. Although the second low wall defense line is dangerous, it is very narrow, and there are not many troops that can be arranged. Usually, there are only a few dozen gunmen to defend.If you retreat here, you are afraid of retreating again and again, and you can only retreat to the third low wall defense line in the end.

He shouted: "Stick to the line of defense, and those who dare to retreat will be killed! Order, the reserve team of the Jingbian Army will attack and flank their waists from the pinch!"

There are two teams of the Jingbian Army on the [-]th, one is the supervisor and the other is the reserve. For the purpose of cultivating the combat power of the new army, the reserve team will only attack in critical situations. Now is the time.

Then he pointed at a ghostly figure on the slope, seeing that he hid in the crowd and protected himself very well, but it was Lao Hu who was looming in the gunpowder smoke.

He sternly said: "Let the sharpshooter shoot this beast!"

　Old White Bull:
　　After reading the comments from book friends, many people are worried about the unfinished ending, or the ending in a hurry. In fact, when Xiaobing first wrote it, he had considered what kind of ending it would be. Several years have passed, and it is almost the same ending as he originally thought.And I have thought about it carefully, the ending is very appropriate, it has achieved the original intention in my heart, and the earliest expectation, many book lovers should also like it.

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