VIII. Bloody battles

Several black whirlpools in the distance have merged into an endless black cloud, and everyone on the Thunder Army's side swallowed their saliva and turned pale, their heavy breathing came and went, and many people's hands holding guns began to tremble.

Liu Ce held the spear and tried his best to calm down, according to the way of fighting the thieves, the first to attack must be the unarmed homeless, these untrained homeless people are all hanging by a mouthful of blood, as long as the offensive is frustrated, they will immediately run out of morale and flee in all directions, and the next few waves are the rogue army thieves who have experienced several battles, holding all kinds of weapons, mainly short spears and copper knives, the combat effectiveness is only slightly higher than that of the homeless, and it is relatively easy to defeat, but there are too many of them, and even if they are not dead in their hands, It will also consume huge physical strength, and even be tired to death, and finally it is the elite of the thieves, and some are even wearing iron armor, although there are not many of them, but they are all veterans who survived a hundred battles, and their combat effectiveness is far higher than that of the provincial capital and local soldiers, and even compared with the Thunder Army's direct legion, it may only be a gap in equipment, and their own military camp is only a subordinate unit of the Thunder Army, although they are under the banner of the Thunder Army, but the distribution of equipment supplies and food and other materials is very different from that of the directly subordinate legions, and it may not be as good as the treatment of some provincial and local armies, encountered elite thieves, what happened is still unknown, because of many battles with thieves, it is very rare to have the opportunity to encounter such elite thieves, and only occasionally heard the soldiers of the local army and the directly subordinate legion talk about it.

Liu Ce estimated that at most three hours, even if his department was not eaten after three hours, it would definitely collapse and be torn to pieces by hundreds of thousands of thieves.

The black clouds moved slowly and chaotically, Liu Ce visually measured that there were still five or six miles away from the front of the thieves, and the number was estimated to be more than 300,000 people, and the black pressure was endless, bringing a sense of despair.

Finally, after about half an hour, almost 2 miles away from the two formations, the black clouds slowly stopped, and after a while, three fast horses jumped out of the army of thieves, galloped to the front of the formation with white flags and shouted to the Thunder Army: "Listen to the people inside, surrender quickly, don't do useless resistance, there is no need to die for the dog emperor, my righteous army will follow the way of heaven, as long as you surrender, you will save your life!" ”

In this way, he was persuaded to surrender three or four times, but there was no reaction in the battle, or it was numb, and many people vaguely remembered the instances of the rebels being made into "jerky" to fill the military rations by the rebels because of the lack of food after the surrender of the troops in some places. Although it has become a common practice in one's own army to withhold military salaries, and it is common for them not to be paid for several months, it is still possible to barely eat half a full day, and there is no precedent for cannibalism in the army, so even in this situation, many soldiers would rather die in battle than become hungry rations.

After a while, many ragged people with wooden sticks and bamboo swords and guns lined up in front of the battle, about 20,000 people, under the whipping of the thief overseers behind them, roared and rushed towards their side.

"Here we are." Liu Ce ranked in the third column of the spearmen, and clearly saw the approaching homeless or hungry people's hideous expressions tending to madness, such a scene has been experienced countless times in the past month, and what he has to do is to pierce a hole in the hungry people who rushed in front of him and send him to hell.

Less than 1,000 meters away from the two-mile road, the hungry people rushed to the front of the battle and were out of breath, but they still collided with the first column of spearmen and sword and shield hands behind the earthen wall, and for a while blood splashed, the hungry people were nailed to death by the spearmen in rows outside the earthen wall before they could climb over the earthen wall, and the hungry people behind stepped on the corpses of their companions and climbed up the earthen wall again, and then were stabbed to death and fell down the earthen wall, and hundreds of people lost their breath of life in an instant.

At this time, a hungry man with a bamboo knife climbed over the earthen wall, jumped down and was stabbed to death in the corner by the spearman at the forefront of Liu Ce's position, and the breath in the hungry man's eyes gradually disappeared. But before the spearman could pull out the spearhead, another thief with a short hammer jumped off the earthen wall and smashed it on the spearman's helmet, and the inferior iron helmet suddenly cracked, and the debris was embedded in the spearman's head, and the flesh and blood were blurred and the blood spat out was quickly consumed by the darkness......

Seeing that the snatcher fell the second column, the spearman quickly made up for it, and the spear stabbed at the thief, and the thief rolled on the spot to avoid the fatal shot, and then smashed the soldier's foot with a hammer, and for a moment the pikeman groaned loudly, but before he could groan for long, the thief got up and smashed him in the face, and in an instant the soldier's facial features changed drastically, and he was deeply sunken, and even his eyes were hanging on his face, and when the thief wielded a short hammer and kicked over the soldier's body, he suddenly felt a cold neck, and retreated to the corner of the wall in disbelief and tightly covered his throat with both hands. I saw Liu Ce looking at him coldly with a waist knife in his hand, and then he was also swallowed by the darkness and became a corpse.

After Liu Ce decisively killed the thief, he quickly put away his knife and grabbed the spear, a straight stab, and nailed a hungry man who had just climbed over the wall to the edge of the earthen wall, and then kicked on the wall and pulled out the tip of the spear and flew away, three or four hungry people on the earthen wall were swept down, and another thorn, a hungry person on the left who had just climbed the earthen wall was thrown out, and then pulled out his waist knife again and turned around to slash over a hungry person who tried to sneak attack, after doing all this, Liu Ce squeezed sideways into the gap of the army, all he had to do was to save his strength in order to escape

"It seems that the thieves are different this time." Liu Ce found that this time the thieves had changed the way of fighting in the past, the hungry people and the soldiers were mixed together, and the wanderers who had just killed two pikemen with a hammer could not have this combat effectiveness just after joining the thieves, looking at the more and more hungry people and various thieves holding iron weapons on the earthen wall not far away, Liu Ce had a bad premonition.

The hungry people are the bait, the soldiers are mixed in, and the thief tactics are gradually improving. It was only a matter of time before the earthen wall was breached, when another trumpet sounded, and the second wave of hungry people (rogues) began to attack!

Because the corpses piled up in front of the earthen wall were almost half a person high, the second wave of thieves easily climbed the earthen wall and soon became a melee with the front-line soldiers in front of the earthen wall.

Liu Ce picked up the shield of a dead sword and shield man, blocked the wooden stick attacked by the two hungry people, and then used his strength to pick it up, and then the spear accurately pierced the throat of one of the hungry people, and before the other hungry person pounced, he threw away the spear and flew into the shield, and smashed the hungry man's Tianling Gai, the hungry man's entire neck sank into his shoulder, and he lost his breath. Liu Ce kicked his spear, covered in blood, and there were already dozens of corpses of both the enemy and the enemy around him.

Not far away, Xu Hui waved his waist knife, constantly blocking the approach of six or seven hungry people, his column had all been killed, and he was the only one left, and the iron helmet on his head was missing, his cloak was scattered, and he roared loudly, trying to scare those hungry people away.

At this time, a hungry man took advantage of his inattention and rushed forward to hug Xu Hui, the two fell down at the same time, and the rest of the hungry people hugged him and held him, one of the hungry people stabbed the waist knife in his hand towards Xu Hui's chest with red eyes, just when Xu Hui felt that he was dying, the waist knife could not enter the leather armor at all, and broke a small section. The hungry man was even more annoyed and angry, and actually threw away the broken knife and strangled Xu Hui's neck, Xu Hui's body, hands and feet were pressed by the rest of the hungry people and couldn't move, so he could only keep his eyes open, staring at the hungry man who was already in a state of madness.

Just when Xu Hui thought that he was going to die, a jet-black spear swept over, and the crazy hungry man was smashed alive by Liu Ce's shot, and fell to the ground motionless and gradually suffocated to death.

Without waiting for the surrounding hungry people to react, Liu Ce raised a kick and kicked the jaw of the hungry man who held down Xu Hui's left hand, and then smashed the hungry man on the other side with a shield, and then stabbed the two people who pressed Xu Hui's waist and feet into a string with a single pistol like a dragon, leaving a hungry man with a face full of fear, turned around and ran, Liu Ce kicked the broken knife that the hungry man had thrown away before, and pierced the hungry man's chest from the back.

After killing six people in a row, Liu Ce was also a little weak, and after pulling back the spears on the two hungry people, and after making sure that it was safe for the time being, he sat next to Xu Hui to recover his strength.

Xu Hui had just walked away from the ghost gate, came back to his senses and got up and sat next to Liu Ce, bursting into tears.

"Cry what cry!" Liu Ce glanced at him, found that his crotch was wet, and said angrily: "Why are you so cowardly, what kind of soldier are you!" ”

Xu Hui couldn't help but tremble, he couldn't say a word, he just choked up.

"Listen, you listen to me! Don't cry yet! Listen to Lao Tzu! Liu Ce grabbed the collar of Xu Hui's leather armor underwear and said loudly, "If you want to survive, you can either pick up a knife and kill those rabbit cubs, or quickly find a place to hide and find a chance to escape!" I can't save you every time, because I don't even know if I can survive! Did you hear that? Answer me! Do you hear that? Nod when you hear it! ”

Seeing Xu Hui nodded, Liu Ce let go of him and continued to rest against the wall, and at this moment, dozens of thieves armed with long knives and wearing protective armor climbed over the earthen wall......