There are more than 100,000 people in the county town on the left side of the north camp and the big camp outside the city, as well as the south camp, but at this moment, those captured and surrendered box troops and south camp thieves dare not attack again, fortunately they have a strong camp before, and there is a long trench defense, if it is not for these things, the government army only needs to send a small number of infantry and cavalry battalions to cooperate, and it is very easy to defeat these 100,000 people.

In the evening, the soldiers on both sides were extremely tired, Xu Zixian gave the order to go down, there was no slack, a large number of soldiers held torches, archers and thieves continued to shoot at each other, bed crossbows were fired as much as possible, so that the enemy police were afraid, and could not suppress the arrows with all their strength, and the soldiers of the sturgeon and shield men continued to pile up dirt and mountains.

The thieves also know that the earth and mountains are important, dozens of steps away from the camp gate, once they are piled up, the government army will have a condescending tendency to them, and they will be pressed and unable to raise their heads at that time, and they will not be able to defend at all.

In the middle of the night, the enemy camp suddenly opened, there were hundreds of armored thieves with long guns, big axes, long knives suddenly out, all of them were dressed in iron armor, the head was a thief soldier heavy general, there was a big man with both hands in his hands, the government army soldiers were difficult to be one of the enemies.

Xu Zixian stood on top of the dirt mountain, and when he saw this, he was eager to try, and he wanted to meet the big man himself, and the big man was estimated to be Liu Maoqi, who was the first fierce general under Li Kaiming.

But how could the generals of the government army ask the king of Zhongshan to meet the enemy in person? At that moment, Liu Yi took the first step and jumped off the dirt mountain, and it was the sailors and soldiers who were responsible for the mound, Liu Yi presided over the overall situation on the mountain, and when he saw this, he took the lead, and the rest of the generals had no choice but to give Liu Yi.

Liu Yi holds two knives, while Liu Maoqi is two long guns, which are short with long blows, wide open and closed, strong and fast, ordinary people can't react at all and are stabbed by him. And Liu Yi is good at short-range raids, the moves are dense, the two of them are in battle as soon as they are in battle, Liu Maoqi keeps exhaling and opening the sound, stabbing the long stab, picking, waving, picking, and constantly attacking Liu Yi, and Liu Yi's double knives are as fast as lightning, and they do not stop blocking, but also fight back from time to time.

One of the two is a thief general who has been famous for a long time, and the other is from a family of Jiangmen, and has been fighting in the rivers and lakes for many years, full of fighting experience, and killing, killing intent, less than a moment when the battle was due, Liu Yi was stabbed in the leg, fortunately, there was a shin guard, the injury was not hit, Liu Maoqi was also slashed in the arm with a horizontal knife, it looked bloody, and the injury was not serious.

When the generals fought, a large number of government soldiers had already formed a formation, the chief was in front, the shield hand was on both sides, and in the shouting, the skilled and tacit government soldiers defeated hundreds of attacking thieves, and Liu Maoqi was also engulfed into the camp by the defeated and fleeing soldiers.

At dawn, a large number of government archers climbed to the bottom of the piled up earth mountain, the offensive and defensive momentum reversed, the earth mountain was higher than the north camp, and the government army archers began to shoot arrows condescendingly, and many thieves could not raise their heads.

The two sides have been fighting fiercely for two days and nights, and many soldiers are on the verge of losing their strength, that is, Xu Zixian and many heavy generals are bloodshot with bloodshot eyes, and many soldiers are losing their strength while shooting arrows, and they even can't afford to fall, they are already extremely tired and faint.

By noon, the thieves were even more powerless, and the arrows of the counterattack were weak and weak, after all, most of them were newly recruited miners, even if the miners were born good soldiers, and they had undergone hard training, and knew that the consequences of defeat were serious, so they gritted their teeth and fought hard, but after all, they had not experienced the strict training of the government army, and their combat skills and equipment were not as good as the government army, and it was difficult to support them under such an intense attack.

"I'll eventually pierce my nose for the King of Zhongshan?" Li Kaiming's eyes were bloodshot, looking at the archers of the government army who kept clinging to the earth mountain like an ant colony, and then dived downward, his face showed a tired look that could not be concealed.

On the second day of the government army's attack, Li Kaiming thought that the king of Zhongshan would suspend the attack and order the soldiers to rest, because it was obvious that many government soldiers had died because of exhaustion.

According to the estimates of Li Kaiming and others, after several days of hard fighting, the government army has lost nearly 3,000 people, and at least 4,500 people have died in battle. An army of 10,000 people, even the forbidden army will not be able to bear the casualties of 30% of the attrition, the generals will be resented, the soldiers will be war-weary, afraid of war, and even hate the generals, and even put cold arrows behind the generals' backs.

This is a matter of how many times this is written, and throughout the ages, there are very few armies that have been able to endure such bitter battles without sleep, and have experienced serious casualties without losing their morale.

What made Li Kaiming extremely depressed and unwilling was that the army in front of him was the legendary strong army, with three percent of the casualties, but the army still had the will to fight and kept attacking.

In front of the camp, a large number of government commanders waved their hands, like a forest-like long guard, and in front of the guards, a large number of shield bearers held high their long shields, fighting hard for two days, the iron armor was damaged, bathed in blood, and stained with mud, and the hands and shields that gathered more than 2,000 people were as solid as iron and solid as rocks, and it was no longer something that Li Kaiming and his subordinates could resist.

Attacking Tushan in a battle, it was Li Kaiming's old subordinates for many years, and Liu Maoqi personally led, at the time of the battle, Li Kaiming saw with his own eyes, the opposite long hand is a fight, two people stab, the shield hand in front of the two wings, defending the horizontal formation of the long hand, not so that the guerrilla breaks the formation and harasses, the hand continues to move forward, there is almost no gap between each hand, the opposite thief soldiers are very rich in fighting experience, and they are also good at using long and short weapons to fight with the enemy, but in front of the Zhongshan army, their array, fighting, fighting skills and experience, These things are like children's toys.

Fighting alone, many government soldiers have only joined the army for more than a year, not to mention that compared with generals like Liu Maoqi, they fight one-on-one with ordinary thieves, and most of the government army officers and soldiers are not their opponents. Most of the thieves are from Hedong Daibei and Qinfeng Road, and there are also Yanzhao Zhongyuan men from Henan Road and Hebei Road, who are tall and powerful, fighting for many years, constantly tempering their combat skills, one-on-one letting go of the fighting, and the soldiers of the government army dominated by the Fujian people will never be their opponents.

But the formation is a formation, almost no flaws, many of the armed forces cooperate with each other, the long and long keep turning, racking, stabbing, after each round of assassination is to bring out a puff of blood rain, many thieves who have been stabbed through the body of the long body died immediately, the immortal is more painful, was stabbed to the vital point, most of them are chest and abdomen, the severe pain makes people can't even shout, bow to the ground, blood sells out, tumbling like a prawn fried in hot oil, it will be painful for a long time, before dying in a hopeless situation.

Under such a sharp attack, there were no thieves who dared to resist head-on before the government army was in array.

Li Kaiming was dumbfounded, even if he was facing the most miserable defeat on the one hand, he was also shocked by this extremely aggressive sharp formation. The tactical tactics of thieves, including heavy archers and heavy long-range, all originated from the Great Wei Forbidden Army, which had more than 100 people, more than 20 to 30 people with more than 20 men and shield hands, and most of the remaining 70 people were archers and half were crossbowmen.

The front is lined up with a long line, one goes forward, keeps assassinating, one person is damaged on one side and one person is made up, even if the whole body is bloody, the array is punched out one after another, but this long array is always advancing forward, and there are many archers who see that the breakthrough camp gate is imminent, simply throw away the longbow, many of them don't even have iron helmets, wearing hats on their heads, wearing leather armor that looks like two armors, with chain mail inside, the body is quite flexible and light, most of them are holding horizontal knives, climbing up from both sides of the North Camp Gate, and the thieves who meet resistance are wielding knives to fight, If there is no resistance, they keep going up, and then they burrow through the barrage of the camp gate, or climb over the pointed logs, and many archers are killed in the process, or are stabbed to death by the stakes while climbing, but many more continue to climb.

Li Kaiming was surrounded by Liu Maoqi, who was injured in many places, his face was yellow, and his eyes were full of shock.

Hearing Li Kaiming's words, I also felt big

The weakness in the palm of his words, Liu Maoqi reluctantly straightened his body, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Li, we are indeed not the opponent of King Zhongshan...... His army is too strong, too strong, too strong. They are so hard to consume with us, we have more than 100,000 people in the south camp of the central formation, they don't care at all, we have more than 1,000 old brothers in the north camp, and the rest are brave men among the miners, who have been trained for two months, and have also fought, and they are considered elite, and the geographical convenience, weapons, and armor are also the best used, but they are useless...... They just beat like this, and they beat us hard, day and night, and they tired us and beat us through......"

Li Kaiming listened to Liu Maoqi quietly, the camp gate had already begun to collapse, the old brothers in the rogues, those team officers couldn't hold down the formation, a large number of miner recruits began to turn around and flee, they couldn't hold it down at all, at most one or two more moments, the entire North Camp would collapse.

Liu Zongdi, Li Kailiang and others had already run over, and everyone said loudly: "Big boss, you have to tell the brothers to leave, and if you continue to fight, the essence of the old camp will be folded here." ”

Li Kaiming smiled slightly bitterly, in fact, after this battle, there will be no more than 500 brothers in the old battalion who can escape, and this is the result of sending some of them away in advance.

This battle was lost extremely miserably, not only was his ambition to entrench in the southeast completely extinguished, but even the old brothers who had been in the Central Plains for many years, who never gave up on him, who had strong force and tenacious spirit, and who were indomitable, also lost most of them.

After this battle, Li Kaiming and the others were broken in the backbone.

Liu Maoqi didn't finish his words, he coughed twice, and then said: "We can't fight with the Zhongshan Mansion Army, Brother Li, we have to think about the road we will take in the future." ”

"Let's hide this and think slowly."

"Hmm." Liu Maoqi has a heavy heart, a man like him is cruel and murderous, but his nature is not evil, he rewards and punishes clearly in the camp, acts fairly, even if it is a fight, and even coerces the people when he is a rogue, killing innocents, the original intention is to kill a peaceful world for the poor brothers.

This time he was defeated by the government army, he felt not only the strength of the Nan'an government army, but also the extremely firm belief and determination of the government army officers and soldiers not afraid of death and injury.

Liu Maoqi's heart was inevitably shaken.

Li Kaiming didn't want to think about these things at this time, but comforted his deputy, and then looked back at the camp gate, and ordered the Chinese army composed of miners to go to war in pain, and one of his old brothers put on a hat, changed into a blue robe, and pretended to be Li Kaiming himself.

There are a lot of sloping fields on the mountains near the county seat, and there are villages across the valley, and there are many iron pits and blast furnaces, if in peacetime, even if it is night, there is the fire of the blast furnace everywhere, the bright light of the village, but at this time, the sky is dark, and there is a piece of black everywhere, and those former iron fields and villages have been deserted, like monsters with open mouths.

Li Kaiming and others were walking in the mountains, they were extremely fast, once the government army broke the camp, it was likely to follow the road to catch up, no one dared to slack off, once they fell into a heavy siege, it would be a big trouble.

Soon after Li Kaiming and others escaped, the fake stand-in was discovered, and the morale of the thieves was completely lost, and the entire camp collapsed directly.

A large number of miners fled in the camp like flies, and the government army began to control the camp, squeezing the miners and a small number of thieves into the middle of the camp, and at midnight, about four or five thousand people were finally trapped, and the first one began to throw away his weapons and surrender, and then hundreds of men threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground, some began to cry, and then many men with blank faces and expressions like dead men covered their faces and began to cry.