Chapter 213: Both Ends 2

Frontal earthen wall location. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The shouts were terrifying, and many hungry people threw their dirt bags and fled.

They cried and fled only to the empty spaces in the earthen wall.

The vacant seat on the special official road is four steps wide, and there are more people pouring in.

The No. 2 artillery on this side was already close to the wall, leaving a gap about two steps wide for the hungry people to pass through, Minister Yang was dressed in armor, standing here to command, and the five guards beside him were holding swords and shields, all wearing captured and modified cotton armor, lined with green cloth.

Four heavy soldiers held two heavy shields, and two new guns stood against the wall, plugging the gap at any time according to Minister Yang's orders.

There was also Chen Qiuao's escort team, and some soldiers such as the sentry team and the grenadier team stood behind with weapons to prevent accidents from happening at any time.

Then the hungry people who were screaming in fear came in one after another, men and women, young and old, raising their hands and being led behind the second earthen wall under the watchful eye of the soldiers.

They lay on the ground as instructed, crying one after another, and they all felt the rest of their lives after the catastrophe.

Especially the hungry people who look like a husband and wife hug each other tightly.

The baggage soldiers took the social soldiers and quickly escorted these people to the barracks, where they would screen them and deal with them.

The cries continued, and the hungry people who poured into the earthen wall not only entered through the empty seats on the official road, but there were also many gaps in the remaining four places, which were under the responsibility of the deputy captain of the first general army.

They were on guard, and they were all wearing cotton armor that had been modified after seizure, lined with red cloth, and there were also heavy shields and long guns watching them, blocking the gap at any time.

The hungry people fled into the wall, and the foot soldiers in the battle desperately blocked the chopping, and behind the wall there were guns, and some people who were good at shooting opened their guns from time to time to shoot those foot thieves who were in the line, and the rest did not move according to the order.

Suddenly, Minister Yang's eyes froze, and he shouted: "The shield is blocked!" ”

With a stretch of his hand, he pulled in a weeping woman with her hands raised, and a social soldier hurriedly took her away.

Then the two baggage soldiers carried their shields and moved up, and the two heavy shields stood one by one, and the men were tall and thick, and the guards of the artillery were attached, and the empty seat of the official road was tightly blocked.

The three thief sword and shield men were following the woman closely, and when they saw that the empty shield was erected, they rushed in a hurry, but they pounced on the heavy shield, and the two large shields only shook a few times, and one of the thieves used too much force, but was bounced back, so that he could not die, and crashed into a thief behind him.

The thief was standing beside the ditch of passage, and was struck by this, and his footing was unstable, and he was knocked down the ditch.

The trench was one foot deep, not to mention the "V" shape, and there were sharp wooden thorns buried in it, and as soon as the thief fell into the ditch, he was stabbed by the wooden thorns and strung on it.

He wasn't dead for a while, just screaming and struggling on the thorn.

Minister Yang roared: "Fire gun! ”

The two baggage soldiers stepped forward, and through the gap between the shields, they pulled the trigger on the figure in front of them.

There were two explosions, smoke and blood mist, and the bodies of the two rogues sword and shield hands flew out.

Minister Yang shouted, "The shield is removed." "Crying hungry people poured in from behind.

Dozens of more people entered, and suddenly Minister Yang's eyes froze again, and he shouted: "Artillery preparation!" ”

A large group of thieves rushed outside, slashing the hungry people who were blocking the way, but they were the assault soldiers led by the high sentry leader.

He led two or three hundred men, ate two rows of guns from afar, and suffered heavy losses, but fortunately soon there was no movement on the polder wall, and the low wall opposite opened an opening for the hungry people to enter.

When the high sentry saw the opportunity, he led the rest of his strong men to rush forward, and even behind the sword and shield men, Mimi followed the firearms men, and they strode forward, and they did not care whether the fire rope was extinguished or not.

They rushed all the way, and the hungry people in front of them were empty, and they were less than ten steps away from the gap in the official road.

The high sentry shouted: "Fire gunner, go up and ......"

Immediately, more than a dozen thieves and birds crossed over, and the bird guns in their hands were facing the gap, and at this moment, the high sentry head was shocked to find that the Franc machine gun at the gap, the black pressure of the muzzle had turned to their side.

Minister Yang shouted: "Artillery, release!" ”

With a loud bang, a long thick smoke erupted from the muzzle of the gun, and the igniter led the rope in his hand to the fire door, and in the thunderbolt, fifty lead bullets roared out with the fierce firelight, and instantly hit the large group of rushing thieves.

A large stream of blood mist soared, blood bloomed and sprayed like splashing ink, and even many thieves were beaten into the air.

Less than ten paces away, the gun's shotguns were so fierce that most of the thieves and thieves in Echizen rolled, and some of the people's heads and bodies bloomed with blood at the same time, their bodies and heads were also scattered, and they were scattered by the furious shotguns.

There was a scream, the fragments of the shield flew, the sword and shield men and archers in the rear were flying in a fan, and the smoke and dust rising from the marble were everywhere on the dirt and weeds.

The high sentry head stood incredibly, with a bloody hole in his chest, and his skull and felt hat had been knocked out.

His eyes were wide open, and he finally fell to the ground.

When he fell, his right hand, which was holding the palladium, also fell to the side with his arm to the side, but his right arm was also broken by the shotgun.

The thieves over there cried and cried for their fathers and mothers, rolling and crawling, and the ferocious shotgun hit stunned them in an instant.

Minister Yang shouted: "Ten thousand enemies! ”

There were a few more black, round 10,000 enemies thrown out, and the 10,000 enemies weighing three catties each fell into the thieves and exploded violently, and another stream of blood mist exploded, and the thieves outside cried more and more to cry and shout for their mothers, and the minced meat was filled with smoke.

"Shoot, fight!"

There were fierce volleys, and there were some cannon shots in the gaps, and the strong soldiers who were attacking from the empty positions at the high sentry heads were like the howls of mourners.

"Kill it!" Minister Yang shouted, "All the guns are loaded, thirty people are left in the wall, and the remaining seventy guns, as well as the sentry team and the assault team, are all counterattacking with me!" ”

……

In front of me were all kinds of faces, all with tears in their eyes, crying, and pleading.

There was unbearability in the eyes of the soldiers, but could they let go of the shield array according to this?

After letting go, they may live? Can the people of Suining City live?

It would have been nice if the hungry people had jumped into the trenches, but they had succumbed to the thieves and made the wrong choice.

If you don't see the coffin, you don't shed tears, but when you see the coffin, is it useful to shed tears?

All the soldiers could do was try to have a good time.

"Thorn!"

Luo Xianjue roared and shouted.

Forty spearmen snuggled behind heavy shields, and when they heard that the spears were raised, they stabbed them sharply.

The blood mist snorted, and there was a sound of a body falling to the ground.

Forty spears roared away, piercing through the brains of the hungry people in front of them, and the back of the heads came out, and when they were pulled out, they were a rain of blood and gushing white brains.

These hungry people were stabbed in the head and basically killed on the spot, saving them pain.

"Thorn!" Luo Xianjue shouted.

Another sharp spear stabbed out, bringing out a patch of red and white, and each man's shield was sprinkled with blood and brains.

"Thorn!"

There was another sound of bodies falling to the ground, corpses and blood all over the ground, and the people in front of them were empty.

The hungry people in the rear screamed and cried, and the thieves who drove them away slashed them unceremoniously, forcing them to continue.

"Thorn!" Luo Xianjue shouted again, the bloody spearhead stabbed out again, and the rest of the hungry people cried heartbreakingly, ignoring the slashing of the thieves in the rear, they fled along the shield wall and desperately fled to the side of the trench.

Luo Xianjue sighed in his heart, why didn't he jump into the trench earlier?

Seeing that it was already empty, the hungry people who rushed into battle were almost dead under the combined efforts of both the enemy and us.

The corpses and blood of the hungry people were stacked all over the ground, and then the rest of them were dozens of thieves and shield fighters who were driven away.

A sneer flashed in Luo Xianjue's eyes, and the thieves drove the hungry people to attack his shield array, but the hundreds of hungry people died or fled, and they couldn't break through his solid shield wall.

His face was pale, and he shouted, "Shield Array—Forward!" ”

"Roar—roar—roar—"

The heavy shield bearers in front immediately raised their shields, and they roared rhythmically, unhurriedly, holding their shields in a line, from the earthen wall to the moat, and pressed forward neatly.

The spearmen in the rear placed their spears between the shields, and the spearheads poked out of the shield, and a cold spear shimmered with the metallic light of death.

Dozens of thieves looked at each other, the shield wall in front of them was extremely thick, more than one person was tall, and he couldn't see the situation clearly, only a sharp spear sticking out.

The tip of the spear shaft is still wrapped in iron, and it seems that it is not afraid of slashing with knives and axes, and it is difficult to deal with at first glance.

However, there are also some thieves who do not believe in evil, holding swords and shields, and shouting and rushing at them.

"Drop the shield!"

Luo Xianjue shouted, and the heavy shield in front of him was put down violently.

"Thorn!"

A terrible scream.

The thieves and shieldmen pounced, and although many of them were experienced in dealing with spears, and often slipped their leather shields to block the spears that stabbed them, when they continued to pounce, they had heavy shields in front of them, and both shieldmen and spearmen hid behind thick and strong shields, and they were useless.

As soon as they moved, there was a flaw, and as soon as the spear missed, and when it stabbed again, they were struck one after another.

How vicious is the spear? A thorn is a big hole!

It's no better than the hungry people, give a good time, and the soldiers stab these thieves in the lower abdomen and viscera.

After these thieves were tricked, they just rolled on the ground and suffered from life.

"Ahh A thief with a sword and shield hand rolled on the ground and wailed, he cried, trembling and covering his lower abdomen, and the colorful things over there flowed out, and he couldn't cover it.

There was also a thief hunched over, he was stabbed in the right side of the waist, the part of the kidney, and his head was buried in the ground, just desperately biting the weeds over there.

In an instant, more than a dozen thieves rolled on the ground and cried, and there were no dead or injured on the other side, and the rest of the thieves were as earth-colored as they shivered, and they didn't know what to do.

Luo Xianjue's face turned solemn again, and he shouted: "Keep going!" ”

"Roar—roar—roar—"

The heavy shieldmen lifted their heavy shields again, roaring rhythmically, and the spearmen placed their spears between their shields, and they still pressed forward in a line.

The rest of the thieves were even more frightened and retreated.

The spear in front of him was dripping with blood, the tip of the spear was unstable, and if it walked a little slower, it was stabbed and rolled to the ground.

This shield wall is pressed in a row, with spears, both offensive and defensive, which makes people feel powerless in their hearts.

Suddenly, Luo Xianjue's eyes froze, and he shouted: "Drop the shield, defend!" ”

There was a neat sound of heavy shields falling to the ground, and the heavy shieldmen all walked out of their steps, hiding their bodies behind the heavy shields as much as possible, and the spearmen behind them did the same.

Then I heard the whistling of arrows and the dull sound of arrows piercing the shield with the tuk tuk, but it was the rogue archers in the rear, and the sword and shield men arrived.

According to Zhang Neng's orders, Du Xuantou led three hundred thieves to follow, fifty sword and shield hands, one hundred archers, and one hundred and fifty firearms hands.

Not to mention the firearms hand, the archers on the Guangguang side are afraid that the entire Suining City will not be able to find them, and the weak bows that cannot be reached by the five-force bow are not counted.

After these archers came, under the command of Du Sentinel, some of them bypassed the perspective of the earthen wall and threw them at the back of the shield array.

Some of them stand on the side of the earthen wall, throwing arrows diagonally at the inside.

Some of the people paid attention to the city, there was no movement there, but Du Shoutou always felt a little frightened.

Zhang Neng's horse team rode more than 100 horses, and also dispatched dozens of horses, divided into multiple strands, trotting, and constantly throwing at the wall at a distance of 100 steps.

The vibration of the bowstring was one after another, and the arrows fell like a torrential rain, still in two directions, and one could not be prevented from the other.

There were muffled snorts, screams continued, and Luo Xianjue's troops were constantly hit by arrows, especially the spearmen in the second row and the reservists in the third row.

The thief's sword and shield bearers began to attack the shield array again, and everyone could not leave in disorder, but could only stand upright and suffer arrows.

Their arrows were too dense, although the target of the projectile was not large, and the arrows thrown from the front of the shield array flew over their heads, but the arrows coming from the side, especially the soldiers who were quite far away from the earthen wall, from time to time some people fell from the arrows.

"Ding"

A light arrow shot from the right side landed on Luo Xianjue's iron armor, stirring up a spark and then sliding away powerlessly.

But there was a scream in front of him, and a spearman rolled to the ground, but several arrows fell on him at the same time.

In particular, a light arrow was inserted into his right chest, dripping with blood.

The spearman rolled on the ground in pain, and the stretcher team hurriedly came up, held his shield tightly, and carried him down.

Without a word, a reserve spearman in the rear stepped forward to take over his squad.

and a guard beside him snorted, hatefully ripped off a light arrow pierced in his body, and the arrow carried a trace of blood.

He was dressed in iron-inlaid cotton armor, with three layers of armor plates, weighing thirty catties, excellent anti-arrow ability, and the eight-force strong bow required a distance of thirteen steps to shoot through and pierce into the flesh.

The light arrow was thrown from outside the wall, and although it hit his body, it only saw some blood, and the minor injuries were not counted.

Luo Xianjue was a little anxious, and the soldiers kept falling, although there were few fatal injuries from the projectiles, but they went on like this......

Suddenly, his heart was relieved, and he tightened again, and the thief came up with a firearm.

……

Yang He looked out of the city, and the thief firearm finally came up.

At this time, the two wings outside the polder wall, within dozens of steps from the moat, were full of thieves' swords, shields, and archers.

They attacked in front of their sword and shield men, and threw them behind the archers, mostly horizontally and diagonally vertically, and the shield soldiers continued to suffer casualties under their arrow rain.

The people around him were very anxious, Yang He just kept his face calm and silent, compared to the killing of firearms, the killing of bows and arrows was bearable, and the lesser of two evils!

Fortunately, their firearms finally came up, and they saw the rogue sword and shield men on both wings, and especially the archers, one after another.

Unlike an archer, who can shoot from any angle, a bullet cannot be thrown, and must be directed at the target.

When these thieves come forward with firearms, they must come upright and go sideways, facing the shield array.

Seeing the two winged thieves with firearms rushing in, Yang He shouted: "Firebolt, shoot!" ”

The two wings of the guns fired a volley, and the thieves and firearms were numerous, densely crowded, and poured into fifty paces, and this fierce row, on both sides was a terrible scream, and the sound of flesh falling to the ground.

There were eighty men on both wings, and at least more than sixty of them were defeated.

"Ash Bottle!" Fifteen small stone-throwing machines on each wing were placed in quite large jars at this time, filled with lime, and when they heard the sound of a machine, one by one the ash bottles and jars were thrown out, and they fell dozens of paces away, and landed in the crowd of thieves outside the trench.

Then the ash jar exploded, and the white lime powder inside diffused.

There was a terrible howl, and many thieves cried out in agony, whether they were archers, sword and shield men, or firearms men.

They covered their eyes, just howling, and shouting, "Eyes, my eyes ......"

The ash bottles on the city were thrown several times, the white fog shrouded the ground outside the city, and the grenadiers in the hanging building also kept throwing rounds, weighing three catties of 10,000 enemies, and the thieves outside the city were even more ghosts and wolves.

The soldiers on both wings lined up in rows, knocking over the rows of thieves outside the city to the ground, occasionally throwing ash bottles out and finally replacing them with fire pots.

……

The right flank of the polder wall is considered the left flank of the thief's attack position.

This side is commanded by Wang Long's subordinate Li Rugui, and Luo Rucai's subordinates all have characteristics, that is, cunning, Li Rugui himself is still far away in the large array of about a mile, and only orders the blue sentry in the camp to step forward and drive away 400 hungry people, and 50 people will escort the formation.

Then the blue whistle with a hundred men of swords and shields, a hundred archers, and a hundred of firearms men followed.

He was a man of good faith, and when he arrived with all the firearmsmen, he ordered them to go around the earthen wall, so that the archers, swordsmen and shields in front of him would disperse, and prepare to direct the firearms men to line up on the ground covered with corpses and blood.

He was ready to divide into three rows, pull the trigger against the shield array in front of him, and use his sharp firearms in one fell swoop to destroy the heavy shield spear array that caused his archers, sword and shield hands, and even the four hundred hungry people to flee from the dead.

As soon as the people poured in, there was a burst of guns on the wall in front of him, and his sharp firearms immediately fell more than thirty, making the blue whistle leader tremble.

Then the matter was not over, more than a dozen rather large bottles and cans at the head of the city fell, and after they exploded, the choking lime was permeated, and the soldiers around them were howling fiercely, and the wolves were rushing.

Then the matter was not over, the bottles and cans were thrown continuously, and there were huge 10,000 enemies thrown in, with rows of guns, and finally the fire cans.

On this side of the city, the iron spoons of fifteen small stone throwers have been replaced by ash bottles into fire pots, and the porcelain pots are filled with fierce fire oil.

Suining is a small place, this kind of fire oil is not much, only as a decisive force, at this time the fire pot is put on, the responsible social soldiers use torches to light it, and the porcelain pot becomes a fire pot.

Then there was a loud sound, and a dozen flaming fire pots were thrown out of the city and landed among the thieves, and the blazing fire rose with a scream that was not like a human voice

The blue whistle head was coughing desperately, and the many thieves around him were scurrying around, and suddenly a fire pot fell beside him.

The fire pot fell and exploded, and the thick flames rose high, instantly sweeping through the whole body of the blue whistle.

The blue whistle howled violently, running wildly, and the flames on his body were splashed with I don't know how many people were splashed along the way.

He rolled on the ground, still useless, and stumbled again.

The water splashed violently, but it plunged into the trench under the polder wall ahead.

But though he fell into the water, the flame burned still.

Blue Whistle had a headache, fluttered and howled in the water, and was burned alive all the time.