"Quickly lower the ladder and let us go up!"

The militia defending the fourth line of the breastwork heard the shouts and hurriedly set up the prepared short ladder in the blocking ditch to accept the militia who had withdrawn from the third line of defense.

This time, the Tartars have not given up, chasing very tightly like wolves, even if the militia who dared to fight back and counterattacked, they could not stop the Tartars' pig sudden, and all the people who were bitten and couldn't get away were killed by the Tartars, so the people who withdrew this time were much more embarrassed than the previous two times.

The tired Qingzhou militia kept retreating behind the fourth breastwork through short ladders, and many of them sat on the ground tired and almost collapsed as soon as they reached safety.

A group of women hurriedly stepped forward and brought them salted boiled water and mung bean soup, the former can effectively replenish their passing salt, and the latter can be used to relieve the heat, both of which are good things to restore their strength in this hot weather.

After a brief rest, the militiamen supported each other towards the rear-end resting place, handing over the makeshift foothold not far behind the breastwork to their comrades who had just withdrawn and had not yet had time to rest.

At this moment, not far in front of the fourth breastwork, in a communication trench almost parallel to the breastwork, a burst of light arrows suddenly flew out, and a row of militiamen who were crossing the breastwork were caught off guard, were shot in the back by light arrows, and fell back into the blocking ditch screaming!

"The Tartar has touched it!"

Someone let out an exclamation, and there was a slight confusion on the line of defense that was receiving his companions, and taking advantage of this opportunity, dozens of Tartar armor soldiers howled and rushed out of the communication trench and rushed towards this side!

No one could have imagined that the Tartars could quietly touch such a close distance, the retreating militia and the militia in charge of defense hindered each other, blocking the range of fire of the defenders using wooden cannons to counterattack, and the Tartars seized the opportunity to rush up and kill the militia crowded in the blocking ditch one by one.

This added to the confusion of the militia, which had lost the resolve to resist and was slaughtered by the Tartars like a herd of lambs waiting to be slaughtered.

Finally, the lord of one of the dock forts, who was in charge of defending this section of the breastwork, gave orders to stop receiving the defeated militia, and immediately ordered a large number of 10,000 enemies to be thrown into the blocking ditch after emptying the wall.

Amid the astonishing explosions, hundreds of militiamen who had remained in the ditch and had no time to withdraw were engulfed in flames along with dozens of Tartars.

The remaining Tartars seemed to run out of strength, and quietly retreated into the communication trenches parallel to the breastwork, quietly waiting for reinforcements from behind, and trying to recover their strength.

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At the critical moment, Xu Shiyang, who was dragged by his own soldiers and retreated behind the fourth chest wall, looked at the battlefield with a blue face.

The Jin Army is worthy of being the strongest cold-weapon army in this era, and it is likely that there is no one.

When they made up their minds to bite the Qingzhou army, the militia that was not strong enough could not get rid of it at all.

The bravest militia in the Qingzhou army kept turning back and fighting back, using weapons such as wooden cannons, large poles, and earth-shattering thunderbolts to kill and injure the Tartars, but the Tartars fought to the death, and once they entered the white-knuckle battle, the militia was almost completely unable to resist.

When the bravest militia was consumed, the others almost became lost dogs, and on the last leg of the road before reaching the fourth breastwork, countless militiamen who had lost confidence in resistance were easily chased and killed by the Tartars, so that many sections of the fourth breastwork were hit by the Tartars who were chasing too much, and they were almost broken through continuously!

In the end, Xu Shiyang had to throw himself into the trapping camp and fight back in those crumbling lots, which reluctantly drove the Tartars back.

However, Xu Shiyang knew very well that the Tartars had not retreated far, and a large number of True Jurchen armor soldiers and raw Jurchens were lurking in the communication trenches not far from the fourth line of defense.

As a strong army, the Tartars had a pretty good ability to learn about war in war, and they actually learned to take advantage of the communication trenches parallel to the breastwork for a short rest, and in such a place, the muskets and artillery of the Qingzhou army could not hit them.

The Tartars could throw light arrows directly from the trench to the side of the breastwork, and although they could not pose much of a threat to the militia with hanging shelters, it was easy to shake the confidence of the militia who were not very firm in the first place.

Farther away, the sound of conch trumpets still sounded in the trenches that Xu Shiyang could not see, and it was obvious that the Tartars were taking advantage of this short period of calm to mobilize their troops, transferring more fresh troops to the front to replace the exhausted armor soldiers, preparing to launch a more fierce offensive at the right time.

In order to contain the main force of the Tartars on the central front, Xu Shiyang used the flag language to constantly urge the new army outflanked on both flanks to speed up the attack.

But at this time, the overly complicated trench system he dug also became an obstacle to the offensive of the new army, and a large number of traitor troops were forced by Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang, who were responsible for supporting the two wings, to constantly launch a counterattack against the new army.

The two Tartar soldiers under Bo Jilie also showed their heads in the trench and supported the traitor army with bows and arrows.

At the end of the day, the outflanked New Army had wiped out at least 500 traitors, and about the same number had been killed by the Tartars for fleeing, and the New Army itself had lost only a few dozen men.

However, the new army failed to break through the flanks of the Tartars and even failed to draw the attention of the main forces of the Tartars, which were advancing by leaps and bounds on the central front.

Xu Shiyang is now very worried about the morale of the militia, and it has been proved that if the morale collapses, no matter how many troops there are, it is meaningless, and it is only a matter of being slaughtered.

The complex trenches in the fortified area have now become a terrain with both sides - it can stop the Tartar cavalry from pursuing, but it also allows the Tartar armor to hide in it and take a break to launch a charge on the new line of defense at a closer distance.

Xu Shiyang knew that he couldn't go on like this, the fourth line of defense couldn't be given up as easily as the previous three, he would rather lose thousands of lives on the defense line than let the Tartars easily enter the pursuit stage again!

He was determined to repel several Tartar attacks on the fourth line of defense, so that the large number of militiamen would somewhat restore some confidence in victory!

In fact, Jin Jun's situation at this time was not good, and the pressure they felt was not easier than Xu Shiyang's.

Today's attack seems overwhelming, but in reality it has not yet achieved decisive results.

They invested a large number of the most elite true Jurchens on the central front, and there were very few Jurchens, and as a result, the battle was still a simple competition for human life.

The Jin army assaulted only one step away from the fourth breastwork in one go, and wiped out about 2,000 or 3,000 Qingzhou soldiers, but its own losses were almost more than 1,500 people, and hundreds of others were seriously injured, and they would definitely not be able to return to their hometown in Liaodong.

If it weren't for the last, the Qingzhou soldiers were beaten in a hurry, and there were a little signs of collapse, and today's battle was that the Jin Army was exchanging lives with the second-rate troops of the Qingzhou Army one-to-one!

This kind of exchange ratio, Wan Yan Xian is definitely not willing to accept it!