On the frontal battlefield full of people, Ge Congzhou, who was wearing tiger stripes and bright light armor, waved his horse and grabbed among the enemy for a while. Just when the horse was wrong, he quickly overturned an enemy general with a fierce face under the horse, and then rode the horse and knocked over several officers and soldiers who were facing each other with spears back to back.

As a lieutenant of the Chinese Army's Wonder Soldiers (Reserves) for a long time, he actually did not have as many opportunities to go to the battlefield as others imagined; But once he is put on the battlefield, it also means that the final moment will come.

Usually it's either a long chase and a tail attack in the north, or a four-way search and kill after a landslide. He has to command in the middle or be responsible for the aftermath for most of the time, and it is rare to be able to rush to kill this with all his might.

Now they have formed a righteous family, and the three brothers have achieved their own success in the Taiping army; The eldest brother Huo Cun was able to defend a (Hubei) state, and the third eldest Zhang Guiba served as a messenger and representative of the Taiping Army for a long time, and he also had a bright future among the rebels in various places.

And he also enjoys this kind of galloping back and forth in the battlefield of leading the crowd, creating opportunities anytime and anywhere, seizing opportunities to break the enemy, and then accumulating small victories as local advantages, and then superimposing local advantages to progressively form a positive breakthrough; The feeling of finally leading the crowd to drive into battle.

When there was no one in front of him who could stop him, and after his vision was empty, Ge Cunzhou's whole body immediately trembled; Because according to his years of battlefield intuition and experience, the enemy will definitely not expose such a gap for them to regroup and assemble in vain.

"Play your instruments quickly, and let the brethren run and don't stay where they are. Pay attention to protection. ”

He immediately shouted to the third drum and trumpet that followed beside him.

With the continuous sound of bone whistles and ocarinas blowing by the puffed cheeks, it pierced the ubiquitous noise and noise of the battlefield in an instant; It also awakened and amazed those Taiping soldiers who were fighting in full swing from the state of blood rushing and advancing wildly, through the instinctive conditioning that was carved into their bones through training.

They struggled to shake off their opponents in front of them, and regrouped back to back into battle groups that covered each other, large and small; They passed through the already loose array of officers and soldiers one after another, and closely followed their defeated figures, and fought more closely.

Then I saw an overwhelming array of arrows, galloping from far more than most bows and crossbows, pouring down like a storm, covering the entangled Taiping army and the officers and soldiers one after another.

For a while, the clamor of the battle on the battlefield was silent, and only the blood-stained white feathers and corpses that were densely covered in the ground were left, and there were the wounded who were wailing and moaning on the ground.

After a few more breaths, the familiar whistle sounded again, and they pushed away the corpses piled up in front of them, the baffles and hand cards full of arrows, and most of the soldiers who were able to stand up one after another were the soldiers belonging to the Taiping Army.

It's just that most of them don't seem to be in good shape, and each of them has more or less one or several arrows stuck in their bodies. Even Ge Congzhou, who is a leading general, is no exception.

Although he searched for cover in time, he also had thick iron scale armor on his upper body, blocking most of the flying arrows. However, it is not uncommon for people to be shot through arrows and feet that cannot be protected, and even to be penetrated through the gaps in critical locations such as shoulders, neck, and lower hips, and lose their lives or lose their mobility.

On Ge Congzhou's body, he even shot five flying arrows in front of him, but because the Mingguang armor and the inner silk armor that were covered by the general were tough enough, they blocked these arrows that had exhausted their strength, but only pierced the skin and flesh and did not penetrate deeper; But the young drummer who had just followed him was not so lucky.

He shot through his shoulders and lower abdomen on his back, and could only lay on the ground with a pale face, and in the constant loss of blood oozing a large red from under him, with the last of his strength, he blew the whistle intermittently to gather the people;

In addition, Ge Congzhou lost his mount in this indiscriminate attack, and could only break the shaft of the arrow on his body, tear the big wrap around his shoulders and ribs, and continue to walk forward.

At this time, among the officers and soldiers who were faintly shrouded in smoke and dust, the rapid sound of golden drums sounded again. After a few breaths, amid the trembling footsteps of the shaking ground, the figures of the officers and cavalry galloped out almost simultaneously from the smoke and dust billowing from both sides.

It was like a sharp pincer striking out of the angle, closing the Taiping soldiers who had just cleaned up the remnants of the enemy on the battlefield. And the sharp whistle and flute sound from the rear, mixed with several high-pitched suona sounds, also sounded in the rear of Ge Congzhou.

"Pay attention to leaning down and lowering your body, and do a battle against horses on the spot. Whistle the whistle. ”

At this time, Ge Congzhou also roared reflexively.

Then he noticed that the drummer was already hanging his arm feebly and unresponsive; Immediately, the blood-stained whistle and pan flute hanging on his chest were pulled by another surviving Yu Hou and put them to his mouth and blew them vigorously.

A moment later, the horse's hooves, which were kicked and fluttered in the dust, were already flying and kicking into their makeshift formation, lifting all sharp objects of length and shortness. Some people were immediately killed and injured, trampled on by liver and brain; Others stabbed horses in the belly, slashed at the horse's legs, and overturned the riders.

In the midst of this movement of flesh and blood flying sideways and people turning on their backs, a more dense buzzing and beeping sound, with a roaring sound of breaking through the air, swept over the heads of these low-waisted Taiping soldiers, and blew into these tall and large officers and cavalry with particularly conspicuous targets like a wind that swept the ground.

During this period, there were also Taiping soldiers who couldn't stand up impatiently, and those who wore their chests and pierced their heads fell to the ground again. But more often than not, the officers and cavalry who temporarily stopped after charging into the formation, like leaves scattered and withered in the autumn wind, penetrated, shot down and planted one after another.

There were even crossbow arrows as thick as short spears, and the brains of the horses that were shot immediately burst apart; Like a barbecue skewer, several cavalrymen with overlapping bodies were torn through their chests and abdomen in a straight line, and nailed to the ground diagonally.

At the other end of the battlefield, the cavalry battalion where Wang Qiu, the deputy of the team, was located, also reached a certain critical juncture.

Compared with the west by the river and the main road, and the left flank of the official army formed a counterpoint to the Zhou Division; Across the frontal battlefield where the Chinese army was fighting fiercely, the right-wing officers and troops who were backed by the hill and fortified in a formation; It looks like it's going to be a little more messy.

As members of the cavalry battalion, they are naturally unwilling to be reduced to the horse army for a long time, and can only be used to deal with the aftermath and take over the role of a foil; Therefore, although they could not charge into battle like regular cavalry, they also specially practiced another skill on horseback, that is, the skill of throwing bombs at close range against enemy raiders.

I saw Wang Qiu quickly pull out the wrapped things in the saddle belt, bite the nitrate thread stained with porcelain powder with his mouth, and pull it hard; Immediately, there was a puff of smoke.

Then I saw that between the arms they raised one after another, the cylindrical objects with smoke and sparks were thrown into the dense array of spear tips and blades that the officers and soldiers were struggling to hold each other.

Most of them hit the target, and vanished for a moment amid dull tapping and muffled grunts. Only a small number of them were blocked by the five-color regimental cards held by the officers and soldiers, and then rolled down on their feet and were unconsciously kicked over, or kicked and ran around.

There were also some soldiers of the cavalry battalion, because of the slow action of throwing or the inability to dodge the horses, were hit by the scattered arrows of the officers and soldiers, and fell on the horseback with a muffled sound or fell down with the inertia of the gallop; And the morale of the officers and soldiers was greatly boosted and they shouted.

"Kill the thief."

"Kill the thief..."

Then, in the next moment, the front end of the array of these officers and soldiers was swallowed and drowned by the gray-black eyes and dark red firelight that burst out everywhere;

When the wind on the battlefield once again blew away the pungent smoke, the original position of the official and military arrays was only left with dogs gnawing through the gaps, the corpses scattered and the wounded struggling and wailing in pools of blood.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who hurried to fill in the rear in a chaotic manner found that the galloping thief army and horse team had already dismounted one after another to complete the formation, raising their swords and spears and slaughtering them within a close distance.

And one step faster than them was the front row kneeling down and firing a three-column crossbow human wall. It was like a swarm of buzzing noises, wrapped in countless heavy and sharp short arrows, which sank into the gaps where the officers and soldiers were blown up, and fell those figures who lacked cover and cover to the ground one after another as if they were cutting grass.

Then, the thieves, sabers and guns that came in an instant, also lined up in wedge-shaped battle groups one by one, rushed into the scattered officers and soldiers; The blue-gray tones of their uniforms and armor were like drawing paper that had quickly faded and faded;

Since then, the officers and soldiers have been lined up with a lot of variegated defensive formations, breaking through and disturbing the past one by one, and agreeing to become the thick and colorful tones they wrote with swords and guns; What makes these officers and soldiers even more sad and angry is that they have few means to resist and delay.

These well-trained and skillful bands of thieves are advancing alternately like rolling balls and cannot stop; Once there is a place where the officers and soldiers are gathered, there will be multiple balls and columns emitting green smoke thrown from the warband;

Therefore, these officers and soldiers, who especially mustered up courage, were not re-overturned and overturned in the roar and splashing of dirt; It was under the palpitations of his heart that he shouted and screamed again, and dispersed in a hurry.

A moment later, in the official and military formations that were getting closer and closer to the frontal battlefield, there were also people who were eager to report.

"Bao Jieshuai, the Kefu army under Xiaolong Mountain and the training children of the Junfang Tang Sanzhou regiment have all been defeated; Now Xiangzhou Cui Defense is trying his best to collect the remnants on the bank of the Xiaoqu River. ”

"I can't take care of that anymore. It's important to attack head-on in the middle lane, so let Cui Defense hold on for me for a while. ”

Liu Jurong looked back categorically.

"Flag officer, blow the horn of an all-out attack, beat the big drum of the East Central Army, and all the soldiers and sons will follow me to kill the enemy with the flag... Wherever Daxu goes, there are those who dare to say goodbye, and there is no forgiveness on the spot. ”

At this time, a strange sound resounded among the thieves again, and the officers and soldiers in front of them were in an uproar, and the generals who drank couldn't hold it down for a while, and they all showed a certain panic.

"Demon law."

"It's a demon."

"The demon monks of the thief army have started to do it again."