There was chaos in front of the earthen wall, and not only the hungry people, but also many of the marching soldiers were scurrying like ants on a hot pot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

On the grass and on the official road, many hungry people and thieves rolled in pools of blood and howled hoarsely, which was unbearable.

By this time the tide of thieves had rushed twenty or thirty paces in front of the earthen wall, but they were in a state of panic, for they had so far eaten five rows of guns, and the number of people who had been shot was as high as two hundred and seventy or eighty.

Then there were two rows of guns on the polder, but they mainly fired at the rogue infantry who were caught in the crowd and assaulted.

The first time the thieves were fifty paces away from the earthen wall and a hundred paces from the polder, and the second time they were thirty paces away from the earthen wall and eighty steps from the polder, and two rows of guns brought down seventy or eighty men.

The assault force led by Gao Sentinel was only two or three hundred people, and the loss was almost thirty percent, and there were also important officer leaders such as Wu Sentinel and Yang Sentinel.

Not to mention the hungry people in front and the foot soldiers, these strong soldiers who want to try to break through the low walls and trenches and rush through the gaps in each wall are all chaotic.

The hungry people screamed, many of them trembled with fear, and everyone was surprised that the firearms of the officers and soldiers in front were so sharp, and they were fighting so fast, and if they rushed down, they would be dead.

But at this time, the drum of the Chinese army in the rear was still beating rapidly, and there was a dense array of thieves not far away, and retreating was death.

The two raised their hands and shouted, and they rushed to the empty space of the earthen wall at the location of the official road.

The remnant of the hungry people followed suit, and they all threw away their bags of dirt and fled to the empty places in the earthen walls.

For a while, all kinds of shouts rang out in front of the earthen wall trench.

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At the beginning of the frontal assault commanded by Xie Junyou, the thieves who assaulted both flanks walked forward like thieves at the sound of horns.

The right flank of the thieves' attack was the left flank of the Xin'an Army's defense, and the one in charge of the battle here was Zhang Neng, a general under Li Guo, and General Zuo Guoyi of the rear camp soon after.

Compared with Xie Junyou's calmness, Zhang Neng has a fierce and irritable personality, and his war arrangements for the right wing are to drive out 300 hungry people in front, many old people and women, and there are no dirt bags or anything in them, or empty-handed, or some people are holding sticks.

But it was to drive them away and attack the shield array of the Xin'an army.

Then the formation drove away a group of fifty sword and shield men, and not far from them, there were fifty sword and shield men, one hundred archers, and one hundred and fifty firearms men.

Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, and Wang Long brought 4,000 foot soldiers, and the proportion of firearms in them was 400 people, using some more sophisticated firearms, and then more than 100 horsemen used firearms, a total of more than 500 firearms players.

One hundred and fifty men were dispatched to attack the right flank, apparently trying to break the flank of the Xin'an army with one drum.

In the end, Zhang Nengqin led more than 100 elite horsemen to follow, and he would supervise the battle 200 paces away, showing that he attached great importance to this battle.

The hungry thieves, mighty, rushed to the right flank of the earthen wall in front, and in the first wave of attacks, their total number reached eight hundred. Viewed from above, along with the front, the left flank, the bandits were surging and seemed to fill the wilderness in front of the West Gate.

Suining is a small place, the city wall is four miles, each side is only one mile long, even if the polder wall is built outside, the circumference of the city is six miles, and the length of each side is only one and a half miles, about five hundred steps.

It was not easy to attack elsewhere, but the west gate was flat and dry, but fortifications were built, and the low wall and ditch in front of the polder gate were about 200 paces, and only 150 steps remained at each end.

In the era of cold weapons, each person needed a combat range of one or two steps, and even if they rushed side by side, they could only rush more than a hundred people horizontally. In particular, instead of rushing into the city wall, they went around the earthen wall from the side, and the space for them to exert themselves was even narrower.

It's useless to become too crowded, you can't squeeze in, and it's already good to be able to dispatch 800 people to attack the right flank.

In the sound of drums, Zhang Neng roared and drove the horse forward, and then the thief sword and shield hand who was in charge drove the three hundred hungry people forward.

The hungry people trembled forward, and when they had reached one or two hundred paces, there were also captives shouting to them.

In particular, the social soldiers on the polder wall shouted one after another, telling the hungry people to jump into the trench when they came.

The water here reaches the chest and neck, and it is basically impossible to drown.

There was no accident, the thief sword and shield man in the battle opened a big killing ring to them, and a woman in her twenties with a haggard look just because she walked slowly, a thief sword and shield hand couldn't help but say, and raised his knife to slash her to the ground.

"The rebel lord spares his life...... "The woman cried out in sorrow.

Her screams spread far away, and the social soldiers on the wall all listened to them with hatred.

The thief who kills a thousand knives is really mad and a bunch of beasts.

"Sister Shuxian......"

A woman cried and was hurriedly pulled away by her husband, who listened to the screams of the hungry people behind him, and was driven faster and faster by the guards behind him, and if he walked a little slower, the big knives in their hands were unceremoniously cut down.

His ears were filled with the desperate and miserable cries of the hungry.

The man had a stick in his hand, and he looked at the polder wall in front of him, where he couldn't see anything clearly.

There was also no one on the other side of the earthen wall, and the officers and soldiers inside were obviously hidden behind the earthen wall.

He was anxious in his heart, although he couldn't see the situation on the side of the officers and soldiers clearly, but the thieves drove them into battle, and it was obvious that the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were not trivial.

In this city, when the cannon hits, and there are thieves behind him to drive and kill, he and his wife will definitely not live.

And his wife, Miao Niang, is already pregnant.

Thinking of this, he decided to take a gamble, so he whispered to his wife Zhan Miaoniang next to him: "I'll rush to the trench later." ”

His wife Zhan Miaoniang nodded tearfully, she and her husband Li Wanliang were both from Lingbi County, and within a few months of getting married, the county seat was captured.

Then the four city walls were shoveled, and her man was coerced away as a young man, Zhan Miaoniang, a woman's family, could she still stay in the county town that had become ruins and did not even have a city wall?

Follow along.

Like her, many men, women, and children in the city were coerced away for such reasons, and the thieves at that time preached very well, what to wear and eat together, and to have a way to live for the poor people of the world, the facts were completely different.

Every day is hard, not to mention hunger and cold, just like this siege, how can there be a serious army to let women and old people walk in front as meat shields, and the five big and three thick young and strong foot soldiers sneak behind and hide behind?

Sister Shuxian, such a good person, what mistake did she make, but she has to suffer this sin?

Zhen Shuxian is her neighbor, although she is a widow, she supports her family with embroidery and weaving on weekdays, and she has a hard time, but she often helps her neighbors on all sides, and she is a kind-hearted person.

Such a person was driven to be used as a meat shield, just because he walked slowly, he was chopped to the ground with a knife, and Zhan Miaoniang hated it in her heart.

She has seen through it, the so-called rebels are thieves, and they don't even have a home, they are running around, coming and going from south to north like dogs, when will this day be the end?

Moreover, in this siege of the city, there are officers and soldiers in front and rogues in the back, and if you really do what the thieves order, you will definitely not survive.

For the sake of the child in her belly, Zhan Miaoniang decided to fight, and when she was ready, she and her husband rushed into the trench.

It's just that as soon as the two of them whispered their decision, a foot soldier who was in charge of the battle came up angrily: "Mother, what are you two doing sneaky? ”

He came up quickly, and the big knife in his hand was raised.

Li Wanliang roared: "Miao Niang, go quickly." ”

Raising the stick in his hand, he bravely intercepted the thief's foot soldier and fought bravely against it.

Zhan Miaoniang cried: "Brother Wanliang......"

Li Wanliang shouted: "Hurry up! ”

Then came his terrible scream, but soon the club was knocked away, and then the foot soldier slashed at him.

Li Wanliang screamed, but still desperately dragged the thief, just yelled: "Hurry up......"

He hugged the thief's body, and the two rolled into a ball, the thief was very angry, and the waist knife in his hand desperately stabbed Li Wanliang's body, stabbing him so bloody that he was full of blood, and scolded angrily in his mouth: "A cub every day, a bloody scumbag, dare to ...... with Lao Tzu"

Suddenly, Li Wanliang turned over again, and bit him on his throat, and the blood flowers were bubbling up there.

The thief's eyes widened, he howled bitterly, and the knife in his hand stabbed Li Wanliang even more.

There were also thieves in the rear who caught up, and the big knife in his hand slashed at Li Wanliang's body.

Li Wanliang convulsed, still biting the thief's throat and not letting go, and in the end, the thief's eyes were wide open, his throat was full of blood, and his body died convulsively under Li Wanliang.

A thief came over and lifted Li Wanliang's body and cut off his head with a knife.

Li Wanliang's head rolled on the ground, his mouth was covered with blood, but there was a smile on his face, and he had won his wife a chance to escape.

Zhan Miaoniang cried: "Brother Wan Liang......"

The rapid drum sound in the rear was already sounding, Zhan Miaoniang didn't care about it, she cried heartbreakingly, ran desperately, there seemed to be a row of shields on the left side, she just ran forward, and then saw the polder wall and ditch in front of her, so she jumped in.

The water splashed wildly, almost drowning to her neck, Zhan Miaoniang cried, just desperately swimming towards the polder.

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"Prepare for battle!"

"Tiger!"

From the lookout hole of the earthen wall, the black-pressed thieves came to the flank, and Luo Xianjue hurriedly shouted.

Immediately, the left flank of this line of defense, relative to the right flank of the thieves, shouted in unison against the earthen wall, and the soldiers of the two chief killers who were originally lined up in a vertical row shouted in unison, and turned to the left in unison, and the fifty paces from the earthen wall to the trench formed two rows of heavy shields and spear formations.

Everyone is in front of the heavy shield, how tall one person is, extremely heavy, the shield wall is erected, and there is no situation behind it.

Behind the shield hands were spearmen, all of them spears standing vertically, and the cold and sharp in the sun made people feel frightened.

Behind the eighty soldiers were twenty soldiers as reserves, the same with heavy shields and spears.

But they are more flexible, where to go where the emergency is critical, and some of them are still wearing iron-inlaid cotton armor, black with red edges.

Everyone stood solemnly, Luo Xianjue looked at Kong from the earthen wall a little nervously, and beside him were Yang Zuwen, the captain of the second and third teams, Zhang Dong, the captain of the fourth team, and others, as well as five guards, all of whom were wearing iron-inlaid cotton armor.

Luo Xianjue's ears heard the sound of the platoon on the front of the earthen wall, but he only focused on the left flank battlefield he was responsible for, he looked outside the wall, and saw that the black and oppressive thieves had spread over, and in the rapid beat of the Chinese military drums that the thieves turned into, they quickly rushed into the front of the earthen wall within a hundred steps.

It seemed as if a weeping woman was coming, running faster and faster, rushing ahead, running over the wall, and then jumping into the trench.

Luo Xianjue thought that this woman could escape with her life, but he didn't know what happened to the rest of the hungry people.

Then he heard the sound of guns in front of the earthen wall, and on his left flank, there was also a roar of footsteps, and a large crowd of hungry people, men and women, old and young, poured in.

Some of them did the same as the woman, and rushed straight towards the trench, and they listened to the sound of the splashing of the porphyry.

But more than half of them screamed and wailed, driven by the thieves' swords and shields, and turned over the wall, but rushed towards his shields.

Luo Xianjue's eyes were cold, although he was somewhat sympathetic to these hungry people, but he would not bury his military exploits for these people.

Let them jump into the trench or not, but listen to the thieves, this is looking for death.

He Luo Xianjue is responsible for defense, and he will not let his army be shattered for the sake of the hungry people.

He shouted, "The shield is in the way!" ”

There was a loud bang, and the sound of bodies hitting the shield was only six steps from the top of the wall, and soon it was black, and I was afraid that there were two hundred hungry people hugging him back and forth, and constantly hitting his shield wall, and I heard the screams, and the sound of body squeezing and colliding continued.

There were too many of them, and many shields were shaken, but fortunately, the heavy shieldmen were extremely solid, all as steady as Mount Tai, and these hungry people turned in, and their strength was also unloaded.

So though the hungry people flocked to his shield, his shield still stood.

Some of the hungry people who were huddled on the edge of the trench screamed and even fell into the trench.

Luo Xianjue shouted: "Let go of the spear!" ”

There was a neat sound, a "whoosh" sound, and the spearmen behind the heavy shield man all put down the spears in their hands.

They were all cats, all of them walking out, and they were in a stance, and the cold and shining spearheads were aimed at the hungry people in front of the gap in the shield.

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The rogue sword and shield men who were driven by the formation continued to slash the crowd, making them desperately rush to the shield array in fear and screaming, and the remaining fifty rogue sword and shield men and a hundred archers also rushed one after another, but their one hundred and fifty firearms men were a little behind.

These firearms are either holding bird guns or three-eyed guns, and their hands are either burning or holding the fire ropes, and they move slowly.

This arquebus is no better than a flintlock pistol, and it is impossible to run too fast when it is lit, otherwise it may be extinguished at some point.

On the polder wall, Yang He watched, so he asked Han Daxia's second commander-in-chief, except for the front to leave twenty people, and the remaining eighty people went to the two wings to fight the rogue soldiers.

Facts have proved that his shield array is fighting head-on, not afraid of any cold weapons, but afraid of firearms, the second general of 100 soldiers just shot two volleys of guns outside the earthen wall, hearing the rumors have received orders, except for 20 people left, the rest of them went to the shooting holes on both wings, and the left wing was also divided into 40 people.

There are also two hanging towers on this side of the polder wall, the wood on the outer wall is very thick, and there are also cannons hitting the hanging tower earlier, although the sawdust flies sideways, but there is nothing to be done about the hanging tower.

At this time, some grenadiers were hiding inside, and their feet were full of 10,000 enemies who were round and weighing three pounds.

Behind the polder, there are fifteen small stone throwing machines, operated by the social soldiers.

But at this time, instead of rocks, there were ash bottles and fire pots piled up next to them.