On the banks of the great river rushing down from the deep gorge, the flying stones scattered and bombarded the camp of the Jingnan army, arousing the noise and shouts one after another, as well as the screams that were covered up in a fleeting moment.

However, most of the officers and soldiers continued to maintain their formations and arrays behind the fence and the rejection of horses under the sound of cymbals and drums, and slowly advanced the Qingqi men and horses under the steep mountain wall in the distance, and released a dense round of white feathers in the sky with their bows.

In the dense and small sound of the rain beating, Wang Jian, who had been upgraded to the chief of fire, also had few fluctuations in his mood, holding up diagonally in a horizontal row full of white feathers trembling; walked methodically and quickly in the front row of the array, and shouted to the left and right over and over again:

"Steady. Steady.. ”

"Steady. Left and right aligned.。。 ”

"Don't inhale heavily, look at your feet,"

"Don't be too stiff and strong. The left and right sides are tightened. ”

"Don't panic and don't pause. Walk. Walk. Walk.. ”

From time to time, some people are shot by missed arrows and fall to the ground with a muffled grunt or a cry of pain, as long as they can still move, they will try to curl up and let their companions step over one after another, and then be dragged aside by the next array of auxiliary guards for containment and treatment.

"Don't be in a hurry,"

Wang Jian's encouraging words were suddenly interrupted by a force that slammed into his chest and abdomen, and turned into a grinning voice in severe pain. If it had been a few years ago, he might have grunted and screamed and involuntarily stopped.

But now, after a long period of eating and drinking, the physique and endurance that have been cultivated; and the muscles and exercises that make people fall asleep with exhaustion without having time to think; He had been carved into the bones of his instinctive reaction by something called discipline and tenacity.

At this moment, he didn't look at the moist feeling of the arrows nailed to his body and the lining of his armor slowly fading, but forced himself to continue to whisper to the left and right:

"Keep an eye on the front and trust the shield and armor in your hand."

So they held aloft their hands and horizontal rows, full of arrows trembling in the wind, and pushed through what seemed to be extraordinarily long rounds of projectiles until they were within twenty or thirty paces where the feathers on the helmets of the officers and soldiers were clearly visible.

These seemingly immovable Taiping army formations suddenly erupted into fierce whistles, and they were like a rewinding wave competing to drop the wide and long horizontal rows, raise their swords and spears, and turn into countless sprinting fronts that accelerated at trot.

In an instant, it overturned, overturned, dissected, and filled in the outer obstacles and trenches laid by the official and military camps, and broke through to the fence that was sufficient for close combat. However, the spearmen in the front row suddenly stopped, and crouched down in pieces with their weapons in hand.

Then a row of repeaters followed, trotting and struggling to press the magazines in their hands; The whistling wind spat out short tailless arrows, and the officers and soldiers who were scrambling to lean out and prepare for the battle were blown to the ground in a hurry.

And at the moment when they quickly shot the second arrow magazine, the spear shafts crouching in the front row scrambled to rise with great speed, and stabbed through the gap in the fence, stabbing and stabbing the officers and soldiers who had become uneven and leaning behind to the ground.

Then, with the skillful and fully clothed sword players, they stepped on their shoulders and backs between the fences, leaped over this simple obstacle and slaughtered the dead and wounded officers and soldiers, tearing and fighting with them.

At this time, the short-armored crossbowmen who had dropped their crossbowmen also drew their swords and axes and filled them into the array of spearmen, and the wooden fences were slashed and torn open gaps large enough for people to break through.

At the same time, at the inward extension of the official camp, the archer array exposed because of the preemptive attack also began to be attacked by the advancing Taiping Army archery team, and the concentrated shooting of the latter preemptively dispersed quickly in the midst of the screams.

At this time, Wang Jian, the fire chief who stopped behind the fence, had the heart to sit down against the mud, lift up his armor like the other wounded, and check the part of his arrow; Then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Although the middle arrow is under the left chest, the double-layered protection of the one-piece iron scale armor and the half-body leather armor equipped as the leader of the platoon allows the arrows after the long-range deflection to penetrate deeply. It's more troublesome, but it's the barb on the arrow, and once you want to take it out, you will tear a big hole in the flesh.

Therefore, in the sound of the shouting and killing of the heavens, he still had the spare time to take off the outer armor of the body, draw a knife to cut off the exposed arrow shaft, and then tear open a piece of Jinchuang plaster made of Lingnan white medicine and fish glue that he carried with him, and pressed it firmly on the arrow wound after poking the hole; I immediately felt a lot more comfortable.

Only then did he stand up with his hand in his hand, and only held the card with a light half-body leather armor to catch the card, joining more Taiping soldiers who were rushing in later. and more than a dozen soldiers who were also lagging behind, relying on the marks on each other's armor, formed a new war group.

At the same time, the drums and trumpets in the rear of the officers and soldiers also changed.

"Attack like a surge, sudden? Sure enough, it's the Taiping thief tactics that are said to be more like the official army. It's been a long time. ”

Watching and commanding on the high platform, the gray-haired Jingnan Jiedu made Song Hao sigh as well.

"However, if this generation of skills stops here, then it will be nothing more than that. Blow the trumpet and wave the flag, so that the loyal and military right capital stepped forward to stabilize the position. Although there has never been any decent opponent in the Xiajiang area, but with the defensive position of attacking the enemy, he was impulsive after only a moment of fighting, which is too weak and humiliating. ”

However, under Song Hao's verbal ridicule, those military generals who were born in Xiajiang Prefecture were silent and did not even dare to be angry. Because they have also learned the ruthless methods of this Song Festival Marshal other than using soldiers.

As the white birds of the Jingnan Army waved, an elite group of men and horses who had already been ready to go and draped in their bodies also spread over the gap between the camps and the chariots and horses like a flowing mercury dump.

Directly under the squeeze and persecution of their neat wielding knives and guns, those routed officers and soldiers who were rushing back in defeat and retreat were like waves being slapped on the cliff wall in the river, and they were intercepted one after another and involuntarily turned back, fighting with the enemy troops who were approaching step by step.

At this time, another Jingnan army, which had been gaining momentum for a long time, bypassed the battle formation along the river in the midst of the command, and collided with the Taiping army that was fighting and spreading in the camp from the side.

However, what made Song Hao slightly disappointed was; These Taiping thieves, who should have been at the end of the crossbow, did not collapse and scatter because of this; Even the chaos and vacillation that should have been there did not last long; On the contrary, after being squeezed and shrinking a large section of the front, he still had the spare strength to withstand the two-front counterattack of the officers and troops.

"Where are the shooting battalions and the flying owls, kill the thieves with me."

He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and ordered again.

"Ordered."

"Jie Shuai, our people are good."

Someone near the left shouted eagerly, and then was stopped by others and went down.

After a while, the archers of the officers and soldiers who had retreated to the rear to reorganize once again bent their bows upwards at their own camp, and then ran in a curve and shot countless arrows, covering and drowning the enemies who were fighting and entangled in each other.

Although they were quickly overwhelmed and overwhelmed by the Taiping archers on the opposite side, they retreated again with heavy casualties and wailing and screaming. In the middle of the fiercest battle, they created a large patch of blood mottled in the middle of the fiercest battle.

However, Song Hao was obviously not satisfied with this, and with the flag shaking again beside him, and the sound of the cannon that was filled with sulfur and the bamboo knots that were filled with sulfur and exploded; The battlefield is mutated and reborn.

The shouting of killing, as if the mountain was shaking, suddenly sounded from a small and inconspicuous rift valley on the side of the mountain wall that was shaded by trees, and with the swaggering Xu Lin banner and the swaying armor, like a sharp dagger piercing through the waist, it suddenly burst into the rear of the Taiping thieves on the battlefield.

This is Song Hao's killer plan in the final word; Because this relatively long and narrow battlefield that neither the enemy nor the enemy can fully unfold, this is the place where he gave up the original advantages of city defense and deliberately chose to face the battle; Among them, there are such ambushes in natural shade, and there are also troubled times far from the river landing raids.

Now, it comes in handy. I saw that those Taiping thieves were continuing to press the back formation, as if they had been cut off by the waist; Let this new force that suddenly kill the horse and step together, like chopping waves and like a rampage, it is constantly dispersed and broken away.

"The so-called peace thief, how can it be nothing more than that."

"Marshal, please also mobilize the whole army to sweep the cave with thunder."

And beside Song Hao, there was a cry of asking for battle.

However, he couldn't help but hesitate, because of the tenacity and fierce battle of these Taiping thieves, he deeply experienced it during the battle of Jingzhou. The thief army, which was ambushed and attacked on the back road this time, was a hidden rout and chaotic formation, which made him feel that he had not done his best.

However, before he could think about it, he heard a horn warning from the other direction. But it was the warships of the Taiping thieves on the river, who had already arrived at the shore at some point.

I saw that these strangely shaped big river boats, while sending out cannon stones and arrows to attack the camp of the Jingnan army, also put down many swaying boats, and they looked like they were going to force their way across the rocky beach and land at any cost.

"Pass me the order."

He shouted without any hesitation:

"After dispatching the loyal soldiers, they all belong to the tooth soldiers, and at the same time withdraw the loyal military left capital and the unity soldiers who are deployed on the shore, and kill all the thieves in front of me with me."

Suddenly, the camp of the officers and troops stationed on the riverbank field seemed to have been completely awakened, and they crossed and trampled on the camp tents and objects from all directions, and rushed towards the enemy in the camp.

At this moment, on the earthen ramparts built by the Taiping Army, Fuzhou Sima Su, who had escaped by chance, was also staring at the official and military lineup that was getting closer and closer in front of him, and clasped his fingers into his palm between panic and fear; For he had heard what had happened to most of the people after the city had fallen.

"Could it be that I can't afford to avenge the death of the city in Fuzhou?"

Then, suddenly, he heard a faint thunder, and couldn't help but look up at the river. Then I saw the warships lined up on the edge of the river, which had been shrouded in a faint gray smoke.

and the regrouped officers and soldiers on the shore broke up in a certain noise and whistling; And these thunders on the river seem to be just a beginning and a harbinger.

Then, there were more roars and rising smoke and dust, and the regiments bloomed in the array of those officers and soldiers attacking and killing one by one; Before Qu Congxing could react, there was an earth-shattering roar and a loud roar that exploded not far from him, almost knocking him to the ground.

Suddenly, there were some unsteady succumbens, and they only had time to see behind the Taiping Army's base car formation, and suddenly spit out large clouds of smoke and dark red fire one after another, covering the chariots, horses, and figures during the period.

Then, the front of the officers and soldiers who were rushing to kill like a broken bamboo were like being smashed and smashed into it head-on out of thin air, and in an instant, the people on their backs became fragmented and splintered, revealing many bloody gaps.

(End of chapter)