Section 89 Fierce battle of earthen embankment

The state of the battle turned out to be the same as estimated by the General Staff. He Ming thought. However, the Ming army was only defeated for a while, and the opponent's flag was not chaotic, and there was no sign of wavering, judging from the movement of drums and military flags, the enemy was stepping up the deployment of troops. At this time, the enemy will definitely mobilize the elite main force to attack with all his might.

"The enemy is moving new troops." New information was coming from the observation post that "the enemy was moving things out of the city"

He Rubin dispatched troops and actively prepared for the second attack. In order to resist the advantage of the thieves in firearms, a large number of chicken carts from the firearms battalion and the baggage battalion were gathered, and many bags and straw bales filled with sand were piled up on them, all of which were drenched with water. Some cars were also equipped with a large number of heavy door panels dismantled from the county town, and even several thick iron-clad gates in the county government were removed. In accordance with the orders of the Chinese army, Liu Jingxuan personally took the servants everywhere to dismantle the wooden planks and collect the trolleys and pockets, so as not to "delay the military plane". The carpenters and blacksmiths in the army hurriedly carried out modifications.

No matter how thick the door panel is, even if it is wrapped with iron sheets, it can't resist the cannonballs, and He Rubin still understands this basic truth, he is the enemy's bird gun alone.

Judging from the several engagements that began yesterday, in addition to the gunnery of the thief, the shotgun is also very "sharp", and the power of taking people's lives from 300 steps away alone can make the soldiers lose fear. No matter how many thief cannons there are, there are only twenty or thirty guns, and compared to one bird gun per person, the threat is not too great.

Dirt bags and door panels were used to cover the soldiers and keep out the lead during the charge, and when they reached the bottom of the trench, they could be used to cross the trench. With the help of the clairvoyant mirror, He Rubin could see clearly: the thief's earthen embankment was wide, but not high, at best two zhang high, and there were no fortifications on it except for a low wall made of low sandbags. As for the towers made of wooden poles, they were too thin to be equipped with cannons, and at most a few bird shooters were too much of a threat.

He Ming watched the movements of the Ming army and ordered the distribution of high-calorie dry food and water to the soldiers—the afternoon battle was likely to be fierce and long-lasting.

"Hurry up and eat and get ready for war"

The second attack was launched in the afternoon, and it was the elite of the Ming army in this crusade that launched the attack, and in the center was the 1,500 standard battalion soldiers of Fubiao, commanded by the guerrilla Wang Daoji, who was known as a fierce general. On his left flank were 1,000 standard-setting soldiers of the standard-making guerrilla Li Guang, and on the right flank were 1,200 standard-setting soldiers of the guerrilla Wang Xi.

As soon as the cannon sounded, only the wheels were rolling, and hundreds of chicken carts were piled high with dirt bags or wooden planks in front of the road, followed by long columns of officers and infantry.

The officers and generals had already seen the superiority of the Fubo army's artillery fire, and this time they no longer used a dense formation to rush upwards together, but let the horses disperse into a relatively sparse team, and the distance between the columns was widened, so as not to make a flesh alley with a single shot of the thief.

Wave after wave of men and horses surged forward to the sound of the snare drums, smoke and dust billowed out, and the generals rode their horses and shouted loudly in the ranks, driving the troops forward, and the big flags fluttered behind them, surrounded by different numbers of soldiers and family members, one by one swords out of the sheath and arrows wound, ready to protect their main generals to fight with the enemy or with deserters.

The artillery on the earthen embankment opened fire again. The smoke and fire from the firing of the cannon shook all the Ming generals and officials, and they already knew that with the smoke and fire, something useful would happen to the soldiers who were running forward in the open field. Everyone was watching the battlefield with bated breath.

The black shadows of the cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound, and they fell in the queue one after another, and nothing could stop the black beating iron balls. Once in the ranks, there will be a burst of screams and wails. The smoke cleared, leaving only a mess of corpses and severed limbs on the ground. When the cannonball was about to hit the ground, it was so slow that it seemed to reach out and catch it. A reckless man always used his iron spear to swing it like an arrow, trying to knock the cannonball to the ground. The cannonball broke the tip of the spear, and a tremendous force was transmitted through the barrel of the spear, tearing half of his arm alive. Some people turned around and wanted to escape, but they instantly slashed and killed the officers who supervised the formation behind.

"Rush forward, rush forward" The generals are giving orders, they themselves are not safe, except for the cannonballs that will die if they encounter regardless of the size of the official position, from time to time someone will suddenly fall from their horses, some people will hover on horses, pretending to wave their swords and shout, but they will never go forward again.

As the team got closer and closer to the earthen embankment, the artillery fire became more and more intensive. As the Ming army rushed to a distance of five hundred meters, the artillery began to fire grenades and grenades, which either exploded in the air or fell to the ground, and the fragments and iron shells knocked down the rows of soldiers.

"Rush quickly" The officers brandished their knives and "rushed down the earthen embankment"

The soldiers let out a roaring cry and rushed forward like dying beasts. The black-pressed formation rushed towards the earthen embankment. The gunners of the Fubo Army were stripped naked and fired shells as quickly as they could. The sound of artillery came and went, and the entire earthen embankment was completely covered with white smoke, except for the watchtowers protruding above it, floating above the smoke like attics on the clouds. Beneath the clouds was a stormy wave rolling over the approaching crowd. The snipers on the watchtower had lost their initial leisurely energy of slowly reloading, looking for targets themselves, aiming carefully, shaking their heads or nodding their heads, and then drawing a mark on the wooden board beside them. Everyone is quick to pull the bolt to aim and fire, and then hurry to find a second target.

"Target 300 meters, shotgun" Zhang Bolin finally shouted the command to load the shotgun. The combat has finally reached the level of melee combat. More than a dozen cannons were quickly loaded with shotguns and fired.

"Put"

The 27 shotguns retreated with each jump of the muzzle, forming a dense barrage. Many of the soldiers were killed before they could get close to the trenches.

"Infantry shooting" He Ming saw that the officers and soldiers had approached the trench regardless of the artillery fire. Some soldiers had already thrown dirt bags, chicken carts, and the corpses of fallen soldiers into it to fill in a road. Although they were soon killed by a large number of shotguns, the follow-up centaurs were pouring in.

"Ruler 150 meters, put"

The smoke from the artillery was too thick, no one could see the target clearly, the infantry set the ruler, and did not aim directly in rows and rows of salvos, the crisp gunfire continued to sound, many people were shot and fell down without getting close to the trench, and some people retreated, but He Rubin had already sent 2,000 men and horses to rush over, and the rolling crowd once again filled the battlefield. The front team pounces forward against the back team.

"Chong Ya kill the trench to reward five taels of silver, climb the wall of the wall to reward ten taels," several officers led their own soldiers to gallop along the already chaotic ranks of officers and troops, shouting to encourage morale.

"Give Lao Tzu a first-class reward of silver for the thief, two taels of silver for the director of the thief, a reward of fifty taels of silver, cowering, and those who retreat in a cowardly battle, behead"

Wang Daoji took the lead and rushed to the front, half of the family members and personal soldiers around him had been killed and wounded, and the flag officer had also changed two people, but he was still the first to bring the team to the edge of the trench. Some archers were already stretching their bows and arrows at the edge of the trenches, firing a dense barrage of arrows. The first wave of casualties occurred on the earthen embankment. The Three-Eyed Gun also fires the Three-Eyed Gun.

Tian Liang stood on the right side of the company, his ears almost deafened by the sound of gunfire. He saw the company commander, who had jumped to the low wall regardless of life or death, brandishing the command knife in his hand and shouting, the sound almost duffling the firing of the entire platoon of guns. At this time, five or six feathered arrows came out of the smoke, and one of them hit the company commander, who snorted and fell off the earthen embankment, and was cut off by the officers and soldiers in an instant.

The soldiers were stunned and for a moment actually forgot to shoot. Tian Liang's commanding knife almost fell to the ground in surprise - the company commander, who had always been among the best in military training and assessment, had died like this for those who dared to fight and rush

"Quick, Second Lieutenant Tian, it's your turn" The company secretary saw that Tian Liang was still in a daze, and hurriedly pushed him to the company's flag.

Tian Liang almost forgot the password he shouted for a while. found that a company commander in the camp had been killed, and quickly ran past the You Laohu, who was supervising the battle, and kicked him hard:

"What to shoot"

Tian Liang reacted at this time. His command knife slashed downward.

"Salvo Release"

A gust of sea breeze blew and dispersed the thick smoke of gunpowder. A red fiery snake flew along the earthen embankment, and when it reached the edge of the trench, the soldiers who were filling the trench with arrows fell into the trench under the fire of the left and right flanks, but a second group of men came again.

Fu Sansi paid attention to the SKS rifle, and while paying attention to the situation of the entire battalion, he picked up the gun from time to time and fired a few bullets. He specialized in fighting projectile soldiers such as officers and archers along the trenches. His marksmanship is very accurate, and he shoots without outside influence, basically one shot at a time.

Seeing that several sections of the trench had been filled with corpses and sandbags, more and more Ming troops poured under the wall, and although they avoided the fire from the front, the rifle fire fired from the other side of the slope still knocked them down in batches.

However, as a large number of archers and firearms men rushed to the side of the trench to cover fire, casualties on the earthen embankment also increased. Fu Sansi felt that the time had come, picked up a grenade from his hand, pulled the ring and threw the bomb in one go.

"Bomb," he commanded aloud as the grenade threw out his hand.

The command to "drop the bomb and drop the bomb" was passed on the earthen embankment. The soldiers who were shooting arrows and filling the ditch saw only a lot of small iron bumps left on the earthen embankment.

Grenades exploded one after another, and although the grenades filled with black powder had a mediocre lethal effect, the power and momentum of many grenades thrown together were still amazing. Then the second and third rows of grenades continued to drop, and at this distance the shotguns were no longer functional, and could only be fired in depth. The grenade became the most haode weapon. Crowded around the trenches, the officers and soldiers under the earthen embankment had little place to hide under the rain of grenades, and they fell one after another.

The former group had not yet fallen, the latter group had already been driven by the generals, and the soldiers fell one after another in the open space between the sveg forts, and each volley of fire on the earthen embankment was like a sickle that quickly reaped the lives of a group of people. Smoke shrouded the earthen embankment, and those in the distance could only see the light of rifles and artillery fire.

Casualties on the earthen embankment mounted, many infantry were hit by arrows and three-eyed guns, and the meditators continued to pull away the fallen casualties. The infantry line on the earthen embankment began to weaken, and the firepower thinned out.

Taking advantage of the fact that the firepower began to thin out, the first batch of officers and men had already pulled out and cut off the standard bamboo sticks that were slanted on the dirt slope. They had already climbed up with ladders or simply with both hands and feet, and they were immediately solved by the bayonets of the infantry, but more and more people climbed up, and some of the three-eyed gunners also climbed up, and after firing, they used this heavy iron tool as iron rods, and many officers and soldiers who rushed to the village threw burning fire pots on the earthen embankment while climbing, although this ceramic fire pot could not explode, but the flames and smoke after landing also caused a certain confusion among the defenders. The infantry began to be forced back step by step, and the formation was in disarray. One of them jumped onto the earthen embankment, and his long knife slashed through an infantryman's rifle, stabbing him down. Then he cut down another infantryman who pounced. The two militiamen who pounced on him with spears actually retreated one after another under the momentum of his slashing and slashing. Seeing that more and more officers and soldiers came up behind him, he became more and more courageous, rushed a few steps, forced the already broken militia to retreat, and stretched out his hand to plant a military flag on the earthen embankment. The morale of the Ming army above and below the city was greatly boosted, and at the same time there was a fierce howl, and they rushed here at the end of their lives, seeing that they were about to open a breakthrough in the earthen embankment. Lin Shenhe, who was still holding a shot of the civilian version of the semi-automatic M14, shouted, and the M14 with a bayonet in his hand rushed over, seeing that the two sides were about to fight in close combat, I saw him flash to the side and shouted: "Release!"

A typewriter mounted on a wheelbarrow behind him immediately let out a loud roar, and the dense and scorching lead bullet swept away all the officers and soldiers who climbed the earthen embankment, and one person's head was instantly shattered, and one was torn to pieces by the lead bullet. Those who were lucky enough not to be hit also escaped from the earthen embankment.

Everywhere there were breakthroughs, but the militia and the reserves of the battalions continued to close the breaches, and the officers and men who broke through the embankment of the defensive territory were beaten down, and the battle entered a white-hot point: on the one hand, there were crowds engaged in white-knuckle battles, and on the other hand, artillery fire and platoon guns were still spewing fire and smoke incessantly.

The place where Tian Liang was located was a breakthrough, and it was the place where Wang Daoji's family and his own soldiers hit and pounced with all their might. The company under his temporary command had already suffered a third of its casualties. The officers and men took the opportunity to climb the earthen embankment and engage in a white-handed exchange. His command knife did not know where to fall in the fierce battle, and after the revolver had finished firing, an officer and soldier rushed towards him before he had time to reload, and in a hurry, he threw the revolver into the opponent's face, picked up a three-eyed firebolt and picked it up, and hit the enemy's brain with a blow.

He didn't have time to find another weapon, the officers and soldiers had already rushed to him, and his military regulations had been forgotten at the moment of life and death, but with a survival **, he brandished this heavy iron guy left and right and smashed the bow left and right, and he was invincible. At this time, a feather arrow pierced his thigh, and Tian Liang screamed and fell into the pile of corpses on the earthen embankment. An officer and soldier saw that he had a scabbard hanging from his waist, and knew that he was an officer, and jumped over and brandished his waist knife to cut off his head, but was immediately stabbed to death with a bayonet by the infantry who rushed from behind to save his acting company commander. The two sides fought back and forth where Tian Liang fell.

The staff officers on the command platform began to lose their breath as they watched as more and more of the enemy climbed the earthen embankment and began to fight hand-to-hand battles -- some of which were fought right next to the artillery.

"Put it in the reserves." Zhu Quanxing personally came to ask for battle

"Wait a little longer, and hold on." He Ming picked up the binoculars and carefully observed every breach on the earthen embankment. Yes, the officers and men had climbed the earthen embankments in many places, but there were Fubo troops and militia engaged in every gap, and he was convinced that the well-trained soldiers would be able to repel the few officers and men.

You Tiger gave full play to the role of what he was called "a tendon" in the battle, he rushed into the breaches with a happy roar, slashing indiscriminately with the long knife of the border army in an orderly manner, and almost cut off his own head while slashing and killing a large number of officers and soldiers, but his madness drove the morale of a large number of militia and infantry, and they rushed up to follow him and slashed and rushed, closing one breakthrough after another. Officers and men proved to be far less resolute in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat than the well-trained infantry of the Fubo Army. There were often cases in which three or five infantrymen repelled a group of officers and men with bayonets.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, although Wang Daoji organized a fierce attack again and again, regardless of casualties, the soldiers were hit by shells next to the trench, and many were killed and wounded. The defenses on the earthen embankments have also gradually become resilient. The militia filled the void of the casualties of the infantry, poking down with spears officers and men who barely climbed the earthen embankment, and the typewriter played a crucial role in the battle to close the breach. This terrible burst monster completely destroyed any determination to occupy the breach in the earthen embankment, and the raindown of lead bullets swept away the officers and soldiers who poured in. The artillery fire cut off the follow-up men and horses from time to time, and the officers and men who climbed the earthen embankment could not get timely reinforcements and could not open the breakthrough and were driven down one by one.

Wang Daoji was still shouting to climb the village, when the bullet from Minny's rifle hit him. He shook and fell off his horse. The soldiers finally couldn't hold out any longer, and let out a howl and fled.