47 Xiao Xiao (3)

The three battalions of the Ming army, which were quickly transferred to the woods below the mountain, had a significant impact on the battle situation on the west side of the river beach. The exposed flanks of the Shun army's horse army, which had bravely suppressed the eastern Sichuan army, were violently attacked by gunfire, and the offensive was stalled, and the Shun army, which had caught up with the support in the rear, also retreated and was cut off due to fire coverage.

Wang Deren, who was driving thousands of fierce horses galloping, saw this and turned his fingers. But after listening to a few piercing bamboo whistles, Liu Wenbing, Guo Dengxian and others continued to lead the crowd to attack the battle formation of the eastern Sichuan army, and Wang Deren divided a group of soldiers and horses and turned to the mountains and forests.

"The pikeman takes five steps forward—"

"Guns—"

More than 2,000 pikemen were under the unified command of Qin Jinxiao, forming a small formation to form a semi-arc-shaped front and waiting for the enemy with bated breath.

"Bird's Hand—"

"Put-"

The projectiles swept between the branches and grass blades, and the chopping shuttles gathered from all over the slopes of most of the hills, and the sound was like a boiling pan frying beans. Wang Deren, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, scattered the hundreds of cavalry who charged, and used the sparse formation to minimize casualties as much as possible. Thousands of hooves thundered, only allowing the Ming army to shoot two rounds, and it was close to the edge of the forest.

"Pull—"

The Shun army rode into the forest like a mudslide, and at that time, the Ming army military order was made. The countless tripwires that had long been hidden in the trees straightened and tightened with the order. Although Wang Deren's previous order to expand the horse team reduced the risk of being shot to a certain extent, the charging line was therefore stretched extremely long and formed a line, and almost all the horse troops were overwhelmed in an instant, and only a very few in the back row saw that the situation was not good and urgently reined in the horse, which could be escaped.

"Bird's Hand—"

"Put-"

Yang Kexin's face was red, and he shouted loudly, commanding thousands of birds to slam at the fallen soldiers and horses. In the rear, Li Yanlang cooperated with the herald to fire cannons, forcing the hesitant rear row of troops to retreat.

"Pikeman—"

"Kill—"

Qin Jinxiao drew his sword and went into battle in person, and the eager pikemen rushed up like a tide. In the blink of an eye, the horses neighed and the halberds were sonorous, and the soldiers and horses on both sides of the woods under Longmen Mountain also fought together.

At the top of the mountain, Zhou Wenhe overlooked the battle situation from afar, and said to Zhao Dangshi: "On the west side, General Manager Xu has restrained some of the thief cavalry, and the battle situation of the eastern Sichuan soldiers has eased slightly, and they have been held against the rest of the thief soldiers. It is difficult to distinguish between the two sides head-on. The reinforcements of the ferry thieves were cut off, and the big money was suddenly collected, and its momentum was biased to the east, and it would fight fiercely with the king of Jingnan. If the king of Jingnan can penetrate the enemy's formation, he can sweep the west, Zheng and the ferry, and our army will definitely win this battle! ”

Zhao Dangshi exhaled and said resolutely: "Good steel is on the blade, and the courage of King Jingnan should be displayed here." ”

On the east side of the river beach, Liu Zongmin, who had urgently gathered two or three thousand soldiers and horses, moved his own formation to intercept Huang Degong's army in the assault. The 1,000 forwards of his department are all horse soldiers, and nine out of ten are from the former Biansai Ming Army, so the armament and tactics are in the same line. The vanguard in charge of commanding the battle waved his horse at a gallop, and immediately hoisted a small black-edged pennant. Soon, the galloping Shun army gradually slowed down the speed of the horse, and used the fire fold to quickly ignite the lead of the three-eyed gun in his hand when it was bumping. Immediately afterwards, the small black-bordered pennant was removed and the white-edged pennant was re-hung. The flag fluttered with the river breeze, and the horses of the Shun army accelerated abruptly, and everyone raised their mouths to the front, and their bodies leaned back slightly.

Ma Chongxi's grasp of the battlefield situation was very good, but when he saw thirty steps in front of him, the Ming army advancing layer upon layer was impressive, and the three-eyed fuse burned out, and it happened to burst out at the same time.

Finely fragmented lead bullets spilled from the air, sweeping down a Ming army in an instant.

"Fuck it!" Huang Degong, who took the lead on the Prancing Horse, was inevitably injured by the rain of bullets in the three eyes, which covered a wide area. The lead bullet shattered the armor of his left shoulder, penetrating the flesh and forming a half-palm-sized cavity in it. He gritted his teeth and persevered, and the castration did not abate, and even the pain disappeared a lot under the excitement. He knew that the three-eyed gun was extremely slow to load, and at such a close distance, the Shun army would launch one round at most, and surviving this round would be the best chance for the Ming army to counterattack by abandoning the bow and crossbow and firearm and only equipped with a knife, a big stick, and a spear and a wide knife.

Only a moment later, the two armies clashed hand-to-hand. The Shun army and the horse army held a heavy three-eyed gun, hammered to meet the attack, and only stabbed the horse's belly, human throat, horse eyes, and human face. Liu Zongmin and Bai Jiuhe led the rest of the Shun army to arrive, their tactics inherited from Xuanda, Jiliao and other places of the Ming army battalion soldiers, the front row of soldiers are all three-eyed guns, the back row scattered distribution is more powerful than the tiger squat cannon three-barreled exterminators, infantry and cavalry, chain progression.

The sky was full of blood and mist, and the battle formations of the two sides were shattered at the same time.

"Order, the Qihun camp will be rectified immediately, and follow me down the mountain to fight the thieves!" Zhou Wenhe looked at the east side of the river beach where a fierce battle broke out, and he was in a trance, but he didn't want to hear Zhao Dangshi say solemnly.

"The battlefield is dangerous, how can the body of the lord's daughter move lightly!" Zhou Wenhe persuaded.

"A daughter? King Jingnan, Duke Yichuan, and Marquis Chongxin, which of them is not a daughter? Zhao Dangshi was resolute, "No matter how dangerous the battlefield is, what kind of danger have I not experienced in the past ten years?" Although the thieves are in ambush, they are dying and struggling, fighting to the death, and it is not good for our army to wear them down. ”

Since Xu Hui led the three battalions down the mountain, only the Hun camp was left to deploy Longmen Mountain, although it was still suppressing the ferry, but the firepower had weakened a lot after all, and the Shun army ferry boat hesitated at the beginning, and began to adjust its course and sail further upstream, avoiding the range of Ming artillery. Looking at the battlefield on the river beach again, in the face of the soldiers of the Shun army who regarded death as home, the Ming army on the west side and the front can only maintain a slight advantage at present, and the Huang Degong army on the east side is like a rainbow in morale, but the soldiers of the Shun army who landed from various river sections continue to rush to the east side, which is dense and dense, and it is difficult for him to completely break through the Shun army front for a while.

According to Zhao Dangshi's visual survey, nearly 30,000 soldiers of the Shun army have landed on the west bank of the river beach, and the Ming army has only 30,000. At this point, it's time to wrap up.

Qihun Camp is the old descendant of Zhao Ying, but because Guo Ruke has always carried it, the proportion of firearms in other camps is not high. Zhao Dangshi left Peng Guang on the mountain, continued to command the artillery to bombard the ferry, and led Ha Mingyuan, Wang Guangen, Wei Shanhong, Yang Youxian, four melee soldiers of the outpost and two hundred horsemen of the personal maintenance division to quickly descend the mountain and go straight to the ferry.

Walking to the mountainside, he suddenly heard the earth-shaking cheers at the foot of the mountain, and Zhou Wenhe, who was opening the road in front, hurriedly replied: "Lord, just got the news, the thief army gave Wang Deren the head!" ”

"Good!" Zhao Dangshi slapped his armor. He saw it really on the mountain, that Wang Deren galloped under the mountain, almost single-handedly overturned the Ming army's position on the west side, and the end was sharp and incomparable, if this person died, the Shun army would be terrified.

"Wang Deren fell off the horse for our army's stumbling horse, but he was still fierce and abnormal, killing more than ten people of our army, and then hundreds of people of our army were besieged on all sides, and his limbs were tightly tied between the trees with seven or eight thick ropes of oxen, and then Qin Zhongjun raised his knife and fell, and it took three swords to cut off his head." Zhou Wenhe's expression was solemn, "Wang Deren's headless corpse stood on the ground for a long time, only to see blood spurting from the cavity, which was terrifying. ”

"There are many warriors among the thieves, but it's a pity that they follow the wrong person." Zhao Dangshi sighed, thinking of Hao Shaoqi, who had died in battle a long time ago, for no reason, he couldn't help but feel sad, "Since Wang Deren is dead, he can make General Manager Xu lead his troops out of the forest to help the eastern Sichuan soldiers to attack the thieves and horse army!" ”

Zhou Wenhe was ordered to leave, and after a while, Yang Kexin rushed to the front and said with a panicked face: "Lord, Manager Xu vomited blood and fell to the ground!" ”

Zhao Dangshi exclaimed: "But you're injured?" ”

"No, Manager Xu was still commanding, and he suddenly fell."

"Oh, it must be a recurrence of the old disease!" Zhao Dangshi sighed secretly, he knew about Xu Hui's hidden disease, but since Xu Hui was taken care of by Lou Niang, he rarely had a problem, he thought he had been cured, but he didn't expect it to be worse now, "He didn't tell me because he was afraid that I would worry!" ”

"Please instruct the lord!"

"Quickly send Manager Xu back to the mountain to settle down, let Qin Jinxiao temporarily replace Xu Hui, and go out of the forest to fight the thieves!" Zhao Dangshi decisively ordered.

This war cannot be dragged on for a moment.

On the east side of the river beach, Huang Degong's horse stepped on the river waves and rushed through the small formation of dozens of soldiers of the Shun army.

"Where is Li Chuang?" With a long knife, the surrounding river was suddenly bright red.

The white hooves were purple and seemed to understand the master's mind, even though he was covered with bruises, he still did not hesitate, and only galloped towards the most densely populated area of the Shun army, Huang Degong couldn't help but exclaim: "Where is Li Chuang?" ”

At this moment, several Shunjun horses swept out of the oblique thorns, and the first one wrapped the iron armor around the body, and the wrist-thick spear rushed out. Not only him, but the rest of the horse army shouted and drew their spears in unison.

Huang Degong's horse was fast, the battle array was chaotic, and the horses who originally guarded the surrounding Ma Degong couldn't catch up, and they were entangled with the soldiers of the Shun army along the way, and there was no one around at the moment.

"Hmm-" Huang Degong took a deep breath, and immediately leaned back and rolled off the horse.

The white hooves hissed and ran away. The heavy armor and people smashed a deep pit on the river beach, but Huang Degong's body was as light as a swallow, and he quickly stood up, and the long knife rotated in his hand, and the light flashed.

The iron armor will turn around and attack again, Huang Degong can use the long knife, and jump high with dozens of pounds of armor, not only avoiding the spearhead picked by the iron armor, but also climbing on the horse, clamping the horse's belly with his legs, and pulling out the waist knife behind him. I saw a stroke of the blade, and the iron armor cut the throat and died, hanging to the ground.

Breathing effort, the rest of the Shun army and horse army suddenly surrounded, but when they heard Huang Degong, they were shocked. The purple shadow flickered in the corner of his eye, and it was the white hoof that had galloped away before, and Lu Zi broke free from the traction of the soldiers of the Shun army, and suddenly returned.

Everyone was stunned, and Huang Degong broke through. The two horses were staggered, and he threw his stirrups and backhanded to clasp the saddle sheath, roared hard, brushed the ground away from the riding horse, and hung leaning on the side of the white hoof. The leather boots and armor swayed to the ground, making a clear sound, but Huang Degong dragged a few steps with the horse, and then turned on the horse's back with his strength. When I looked at it again, the people and horses were one, and they were already galloping along the river like the wind.

The Shun army was in turmoil, not only because Huang Degong was like entering a no-man's land in the layers of siege, but also because the ironclad general he killed was the fierce general of the Shun army, Ma Chongxi.

On the east side, Ma Chongxu died. On the west side, after Wang Deren, the Shun army and horse army, which were heavily damaged by the Ming army that raided out of the forest, were difficult to support, and Liu Wenbing, Guo Dengxian and other Shun army generals were killed one after another. Qin Jinxiao, who succeeded Xu Hui in commanding the battle, led the army and Tan Hong's eastern Sichuan soldiers to join forces, and they were quickly outflanking the Shun army Lan Yingcheng and Tuo Tianbao who were still fighting in the front.

Under the leadership of Ma Wannian, the soldiers of Shi Yan bravely squeezed the front of the Shun army, and the Shun army was lost in advance and retreat, and even soldiers began to flee in many corners.

"Master Liu, it's not good!" After more than ten years of wandering, no matter how bad the white dove crane's eyesight is, he can also see that it is difficult for his side to reverse the decline, so he naturally came up with the idea of thirty-six plans, "Let's withdraw!" ”

However, Liu Zongmin, who was not far away, bared his teeth and shouted, "Withdraw? In the early years, he withdrew in Henan, Shanxi, and even Huguang and other places, and finally managed to get out of the head and hit Beijing, but before his ass was hot, he withdrew again. First withdraw from Beizhi, then from Shanxi, and now from Shaanxi. His grandmother's, Shaanxi is his hometown, and Lao Tzu will not withdraw even if he is killed! After that, his eyes seemed to be about to erupt into fire, and he grabbed the horse's head and rushed straight to the most ferocious place of the Ming army.