Most of these Guan Ning troops lined up behind the fire gun team also rushed over from the sea of blood in the corpse mountain of Tashan, and they had seen a lot of scenes of corpses and bones everywhere. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info psychological tolerance is naturally much stronger. Seeing that the Shun army took advantage of the artillery fire to kill and wound a large number of their own firearms, they rushed up with knives and guns in their hands, and they didn't answer at the moment, and they rushed forward with knives and guns!

They knew very well that if they retreated at this time, there would be the broadswords of the Warlords in front of them, the swords and arrows of the thieves in the back, and there might be shells falling on their heads. The best option is to rush forward and get mixed up with the thieves as fast as possible to prevent their cannons from being useful!

The two armies rushed to one place quickly, the flow of people was intertwined, swords and guns were raised, and blood splashed! Terrible screams were heard one after another on the battlefield.

The pikemen, sword and shield soldiers began to grin and clenched the tiger spears, long knives, and axes in their hands, ready to use these to teach these damned thieves and traitors a lesson!

At this time, I don't know who shouted in the ranks of the Guan Ning army: "Kill the thief!" A frenzy suddenly swept up. And the officers and soldiers of Shun also killed and rushed forward, and the two sides collided in one place.

The troops of the two sides collided together, using spears, broadswords, short-handled axes, tiger tooth knives and even tooth fists to solve the problem, and at that moment there were huge casualties, and the officers of both sides even brought their own elite soldiers to kill.

But this kind of impact is obviously going to pay more for the army. They didn't know that the Guanning army, which had experienced the Battle of Tashan, had a firearm that was extremely conducive to close combat, and it was extremely lacking in morality!

"Grenadier, come forward! Bombing! ”

With the shouts of the officers in the Guanning army, the grenadiers had already taken the horsetail grenade out of their backpacks on their chests. One hand first raised the huge grenade, then used the fuse rope in his hand to ignite the ignition of the grenade, and then picked up the grenade with one hand, and threw it towards the densest place of the Dashun army with all his strength according to the technique of using the Lianzi hammer.

"Boom!" With a series of huge explosions, horsetail grenades containing two catties of gunpowder bloomed everywhere in the crowd of the Dashun army, and the entire Shun army formation was suddenly shrouded in white gunsmoke.

Guan Ningjun took the opportunity to pounce fiercely. The flow of people on both sides collided and fought bloodily. Someone falls almost all the time,

One of Niu Chenghu's subordinates, General Guo Yi, didn't know that he had cut down several Guan Ning troops with the big knife in his hand, nor did he know that he had been left with a few wounds on his body by several Ming military weapons. However, in this environment where thousands of people were slashing and stabbing each other, he could only use all his strength and use all his skills, and the only consciousness in his mind was to hold the handle of the knife tightly and hack Guan Ningjun in front of him to death.

was killing hard, but he heard an exclamation in his ears, which was the shouting of the soldiers around him, and he lowered his head and looked at it in surprise, I don't know when. Blood gushed out from the gaps in the breastplate on his chest, appearing on the Jiaolong leather armor underneath the breastplate. When I looked at it again, a huge hole appeared under the right chest. Just a few steps away in front of him, a spearman of the Ming army with a spear in his hand shouted happily: "I have overturned a thief boss!" Blood was dripping from the tip of the spear in his hand, and before he could finish speaking, he was hit by an arrow in his head and fell to the ground.

The entire beach of the Stone River is filled with the sound of weapons or slashing or stabbing happily exerting design performance on the human body, and there is almost no sound of syllables. Continuous moaning. The two sides huddled together, stabbing and slashing at each other without aim or order.

A Guan Ning army had just cut down the soldiers of the Dashun army on the opposite side to the ground, and before he could bend down to cut off his head, he was hit by the mace swept from the oblique thorn and his brain burst, and his eyes bulged out and he died on the spot. And the Dashun soldier who smashed Guan Ning's army to death with a bone duo did not take back his mace, but was stabbed into the right rib by a spear, stabbed his pikeman with a kick, and pulled the spear out of his body. And then to find the next target. But then someone cut off his right arm with a short knife, and he was holding half of his arm in a daze

"Retreat! Collect the troops! ”

"The firecrackers stepped forward and held down their positions to prevent the thieves from rushing up!"

The commanders of the two armies frowned, unexpectedly that the opponent would be so fierce and tenacious. However, in an instant, he was also relieved: if he Li Zicheng (Wu Sangui) did not have a strong army in hand, how could he crisscross the Central Plains (dominate one side in Liaodong and cut down Liao thieves for more than ten years)?

However, the losses of his own army should not be underestimated, so he could only withdraw first and then replace another army with another army!

The musketeers of both sides lined up on the river beach to cover the withdrawal of their troops and horses to prevent the opponent from taking advantage of the situation to cover up and kill.

Looking at the dozens of large and small artillery pieces lined up on the river beach opposite, Wu Sangui stomped hatefully, he knew that Li Zicheng had so many field guns, and he should have bought his 100 eight-pounder guns in the first place!

However, now there is no place to buy regret medicine on the battlefield, so he can only watch his soldiers and horses roll up their flags and retreat to the east bank of the Shihe River and retreat to Xiluo City.

A gust of wind blew on the surface of the sea, quickly swept across the Shihe battlefield, and gusts of wind mixed with the smell of salty and bloody passed over the entire battlefield.

The shield carts, flags, military uniforms, corpses, horsetail grenades that had exploded, emitting a scorched smell and emitting the strong and stinking corpses of scorched human flesh emitted in all directions, these sights and smells were intertwined, all silently illustrating the cruelty of the battle.

"Handsome! If the thieves rush to attack our army with artillery and cover the onslaught attack of the thief brigade, the Nanzhong artillery at the head of our army will not be able to bombard, but I am afraid that the future will not be good! Fang Guangchen saw at a glance the respective advantages of both sides.

Judging from the flesh-and-blood battle between the two armies just now, the Dashun army on the opposite side has a unique secret in the use of artillery tactics, which is much stronger than the Guanning army, which only uses Nanzhong heavy artillery to defend the city. They used those eight-pounder guns and big francs in field battles, and became sharp weapons to kill and injure the enemy.

"Dashuai, Mr. Fang is right! In the opinion of the last general, we must constantly send troops to mix with the thieves, lest they rush into the firing corner of our army's cannon and threaten the city of Cilo! ”

Wu Jingsi is also the one who has followed Wu Sangui to climb in and out of the pile of dead people many times, and he has already cultivated a heart of stone, and he has long stopped taking human life seriously.

However, it is not a coincidence. When Wu Sangui was about to order his subordinates to enter the battlefield again, Liu Zongmin, the former commander-in-chief of the Dashun Army and the commander-in-chief, had already ordered Luo Hu and Zhang Nai, two young generals, to prepare to launch a new round of offensive and use huge momentum to cover the retreat of the main force led by Li Zicheng.

Both armies intend to use firecrackers to inflict a brutal wound on each other to end today's bloody battle.

It's just that the slight difference is that the Dashun side is artillery with firearms, and the Liaodong Wu army is because it is not easy for the cityhead cannon to turn the muzzle, so it can only use cold weapons to match the firearms.

In addition to the horsemen and infantrymen, if the Liaodong military town is classified according to the weapons used, it is divided into killer team and firearms team, and the killer team is except for archers. All kinds of cold weapons are complete. At present, the sword and shield soldiers of the killer team are holding long knives and large shields in their hands, and they are moving forward intensively, and if necessary, they must step forward and block the projectiles with the shields in their hands, so as to buy time for the firecrackers behind them to reload ammunition and concentrate fire.

Coincidentally, both sides followed the traditional tactics of the Nanyue Army and tried their best to comb through the ranks of the opponent's firecrackers with artillery shells first. However, Zhang Nai, who had already seen the weakness of the cannon in Xiluo City, prompted Luo Hu to take the countermeasure, and asked his subordinates to place it on the Shihe River beach as much as possible to avoid the bombardment range of the heavy artillery at the head of the city. And he recklessly rampaged with 100 shells in the southernmost line of Wu's firearms.

After the artillery fire gradually stopped, the Zhenshan battalion began to take the battalion as a unit, set up an offensive formation, and slowly stepped forward to use projectiles and bayonets to teach these unknown thieves on the opposite side a lesson, telling them how to use firearms!

According to the order of "front and back, left and right, center, front and back, center and left, left, and center, and new front, front, left, right, and center", the two battalions rushing to the front were the front and right. According to the firing formation, nearly 1,000 musketeers lined up in two columns, almost trotting all the way towards the formation of Guanning musketeers.

Under the guidance of their respective military flags. Opened a row that has no depth but is extremely wide, in the middle of the platoon, it is the military flag of the Zhenshan battalion in front of the guide, with 100 elite guards, the left and right wings of the military flag are the battalion flags of the front and right battalions, and there are also more than 100 elite soldiers to guard. After that, there were flags one after another, with a sturdy standard-bearer holding high, leading the soldiers of the unit, followed by a stout drummer, with a step drum on his chest, the drumstick in his hand constantly rising and falling, beating the step drum vigorously, adjusting the pace with the passionate drum beat.

As the army marched forward, the rows of queues were inevitably a little crooked because of the terrain, or some of the soldiers were not aligned, which was also unavoidable. All it takes is for the army to stop, and within a quarter of an hour, they can be put in order.

On both flanks of the team, more than a thousand elite cavalry arrays came slowly, holding down the positions for the Pao Ze brothers, and at the same time, ready to rush up at any time to slash and slash on the enemy's front.

In the middle of the Shihe beach, there seems to be a huge and invisible mirror, which illuminates the image of the two armies clearly, and both sides see themselves clearly in each other.

"Damn! Damn scoundrels! ”

"Donkey balls! Damn thieves! ”

The officers on both sides were even more speechless when they saw the almost identical formations, tactics, and even the same firecrackers, and could only turn the thousands of angry sentences in their chests into a swear word.

Wu Jingsi, the general of the Wu army who supervised the advance of the team, slightly observed the shape of the Dashun army that was slowly approaching on the opposite side, and it could be seen from the mental outlook, banner and weapons that this man and horse were definitely not comparable to the Shun army just now. That unit was adapted from the officers and soldiers of the former Ming Dynasty, and the team in front of them should be a real elite of thieves!

"Tell the marshal, saying that the thieves are powerful and there are many artillery, in order to reduce the casualties of the firecrackers, I am ready to launch a surprise attack with the cavalry on both wings to buy time for the firecrackers!"

Wu Jingsi sent away the generals around him to inform Wu Sangui of his thoughts, and pulled out the treasure knife on his waist with one hand, "Brothers, let the thieves see how powerful our Liaodong wolf rides!" Follow me! ”

The banners swayed, the roars were repeated, and the cavalry on both wings of the Wu army rolled up the monstrous waves like two evil dragons and headed straight for the infantry of the Zhenshan camp.

"Bastard thing! Don't see so many cannons from the thieves on the other side? Rush up and die! Wu Sangui was so angry that he stomped his feet on the horse again and again, and was so shocked that the war horse under his crotch couldn't stop hissing, but Wu Sangui was also helpless, so he could only wait for the result of Wu Jingsi rushing forward.

"I hope the thief gunners don't dare to fire at this distance."

Soon, the next action of the Shunjun artillery team gave Wu Sangui, who had made a wish to the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, an expected but unwilling answer.

The more than 20 six-pounder guns and three-pounder guns that were moving closely behind the Zhenshan battalion had already been loaded with shells and began to pour shells on the road that had been swept up by the Wu cavalry impact. A deafening sound of cannon rang out in people's ears.

As the cannon spewed out thick white smoke, the cannons that were as dense as raindrops erupted thinly, and a large puff of smoke and blood mist exploded on the ground not far away, and the blood mist was mixed with broken flesh and bones, and the galloping Wu cavalry suddenly fell into a large piece.

The hundreds of cavalry in the left flank were almost swept away. The majestic rider was torn off the horse's back by the wounded war horse, and his bones were broken, and he did not struggle to get up, and the rumbling hooves behind him sounded, and in an instant it had turned into a pile of flesh and blood.

Rumble!

There was another loud bang, and a large puff of smoke rose up.

The Eight Great Buddha Machines placed on the two wings of the firecracker queue, taking advantage of the moment when the Wu army's horse team was beaten to a standstill, was covered by hundreds of firecrackers, approached the Wu army's cavalry who were in chaos, and roared out at least 100 thick projectiles to the opposite side.

On the other side, the fields full of weeds that had just begun to turn green were splashed with smoke and dust, grass clippings and dirt were flying, and a hundred and ten Wu cavalry, and even some Wu army musketeers a little farther behind, made indescribable painful sounds, rolling and howling back and forth on the ground in a terrible way.

Many of them had huge blood holes on their cotton armor, and some even had their heads and faces beaten into meat sauce on the spot.

On the side of the Shun army, the morale was greatly boosted, and the officers and soldiers of the Zhenshan battalion shouted loudly almost at the same time: "Kill!" ”

Liu Zongmin, who was supervising the battle in the red tile shop, looked at the scene of his own morale like a rainbow, nodded in approval with a smile, but instantly put away his smile again. "Li Qiang, you go back and tell the emperor that Wu Sangui has been entangled by Luo Hu at this time, and he has no time to take care of him. Your Majesty can already set off and go to Yongping! ”

The sun was driven westward by the smoke and blood of the battlefield.

At this time, on the Shihe position, it was already a pot of hot porridge! A hot porridge made of gunpowder and projectiles, bayonets and guns as fire, and human flesh and blood!

Two almost identical armies approached each other with neat and heavy footsteps from the east and west banks of the Stone River against each other's cannons, and along the way, there were many people who were hit by cannonballs, and before they could snort, they fell to the ground and died, and many more people were smashed by the shells bouncing around, and their arms and legs were broken. On the trajectory of the march, blood was dripping.

Finally, the blood-stained footsteps stopped, and from the queue came a voice with the accent of their respective regional characteristics, and the dense firecrackers were lifted by the soldiers on both sides, and the dense firecrackers, as well as the three-edged sleeve thorns that had been put on the guns, and the eight-petaled hats and iron-tipped helmets of the firecrackers sparkled in the sunshine that was gradually sinking westward.

"Fire!"

With the command that everyone could understand, the two teams of firecrackers standing opposite each other fired nearly a thousand firecrackers at the same time, and suddenly two thick clouds of smoke rose above their respective ranks.

In the flames of the gun. In the neatly lined up firearms just now, the ground was littered with corpses and wounded, hot blood seeping into the ground beneath them, and the original yellow weeds and gravel on the river beach were stained with pools of blood-red.

"Raise your gun!"

"Ready!"

"Aim at the target!"

"Fire!"

Another round of firing began, and the musketeers on both sides fell again. The flintlock thundered like popping beans, and the soldiers standing at the front fell in large swaths, rolling to the ground and groaning in pain.

At such a distance, the projectile could completely penetrate the queue and fly to the bottom of the enemy's queue, and dozens of firecrackers standing in the last column also fell in response.

The sound of guns came one after another, in front of the positions of Dashun and Wu Army, with the sound of guns, two narrow and long areas of gunpowder smoke slowly rose into the air.

"Grenadier! Bombing! After two rounds of firecrackers, the general of the Wu army woke up like from a dream, remembering that he still had a melee weapon.

Hundreds of tall and arm-long grenadiers jumped and drew a semicircle of horsetail grenades in the air and threw them fiercely, exploding red, white and gray fireworks in the formation of the Dashun army.

"Kill!"

The war has reached this level, and there is no trickery at all, and it is completely a hard-fought exchange of human lives. On both sides, they raised their spurs and rushed towards the opposite barracks.

Within a dozen or twenty paces of the farthest distance, a few jumps were enough to get close. Soldiers on both sides fought each other with guns, spears, waist knives, and boring rakes, and from time to time the explosion of horsetail grenades rang out in the crowd.

With Stone River as the center, a flesh mill appeared. Liu Zongmin and Wu Sangui, the commanders of the two armies who supervised the battles in Hongwadian and Xiluocheng, were both people who had fought for many years, but they rarely saw such a tragic scene.

Widening the field of vision, in the rear of the red tile shop, Li Zicheng's brigade of the imperial camp pro-army, under the cover of the huge shouting and killing, began to retreat in the direction of Yongping.

Outside the Shanhai Pass behind Xiluo City, an army of more than 100,000 people had already driven between Ningyuan City and Weiyuan Fort.

Farther away in Funing, Li Guodu led 20,000 horses and horses through the Jiujiang River Valley, and the Jiang Nu Temple could be seen more than ten miles away from afar.

Farther away, a torrent of cavalry with white and blue flags burst out from below the horizon. Swarming in the direction of the Great Wall. (To be continued.) )