The heavens also seemed to be moved by the brutal battle that took place outside Qingxi City, and when the sky entered the dawn, a drizzle began to fall, leaving the entire battlefield in a state of misshape.

After a night of intermittent fierce fighting, most of the Hongtang army also gained a chance to breathe, and at the same time narrowed the gap between physical strength and will with the Qing army a lot.

Although there were countless fierce battles in the middle of the night, but more often because of the night, the soldiers scattered in a radius of more than ten miles in Hongtang could still spare a little free, eat the dry food and drink water they carried with them, and rest for a few quarters of an hour by the stones and trees beside them.

In August and September, the north has gradually become a little cooler, coupled with the weather during the Xiaoice period, the armies of both sides under the drizzle, after a day and night of continuous fierce battles, several sides are even more tired and cold, miserable.

The brightness of the sky gradually broadened the field of vision, although the line of sight in the drizzle may not be as far as a radius of ten feet, but it also allowed people to find the surrounding enemy traces more quickly, and the battles between the two sides became frequent again.

Feng Laosi followed the temporary company commander Niu Dazhuang, and they had been wandering around the battlefield, resting and fighting intermittently at night, so that Feng Laosi and his party had grown from more than 20 people to more than 50 people.

"Stop!!"

The low command came out of Niu Dazhuang's mouth, and the scouts who were scattered with him found out, and hurriedly sent back signals to Niu Dazhuang and the others in the back.

Faintly, there was a clanging of weapons on the other side of the hill on the left, as well as a scattered and ethereal roar, Niu Dazhuang and they were already familiar with the battle scene they suddenly encountered.

"Company commander, there is a group of more than 1,000 Qing people in front, besieging our companions of more than 200 people!"

The scout, who had sprinted all the way back from the hills, brought back a piece of news that made everyone excited.

"Company commander, what are you waiting for, fuck you!!"

"Yes, yes, yes!!"

The fighters were full of passion, and after a day and a night of fighting, the record of more wins and fewer defeats gradually raised a little confidence that everyone could win the final victory.

"! Sort out the guys' things, everyone follow me!! ”

After shaking the rain on the poncho with him, and clearing the mist that blocked his face, Niu Dazhuang made up his mind and took the lead to rush over first.

The sudden killing of more than 50 Hongtang living forces boosted the morale of the Hongtang soldiers who were encircled, and also frightened the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty who had the numerical advantage and thought that the overall situation had been decided.

However, after seeing that there were only a few dozen Ming troops killed, the somewhat chaotic Qing army once again stopped the confusion of cranky thoughts, and under the command of the leading general, surrounded and annihilated Niu Dazhuang and others who had just been killed.

The number gap between more than 1,000 people and no more than 300 soldiers, and then the Qing warriors did not think that they would have the possibility of defeat, after all, they were the most elite infantry warriors of the Qing Dynasty, although the hard power was not as good as the cavalry, but the Qing knights who had no war horses fought them head-on, and they might not be able to defeat them.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that knowing the disparity in strength between each other, the other party's later reinforcements rushed up without the slightest hesitation like moths to a fire.

When they met the encirclement team before, the number of opponents was actually only more than 100 people, but as the battle went on and the movement became louder, a steady stream of soldiers from both sides heard the news, and their own team increased by more than 100 people, and the other party also joined several teams one after another, and finally grew to the current appearance.

Of course, there were far more soldiers on both sides who really came together than they are waiting now, but the remaining ones have become the embellishment of the small battlefield of the company, turning into a sapient corpse, or a wounded man dying with a wail in his mouth.

However, at this time, the two sides of the fierce battle did not have time to pay attention to whether it was their comrades or the remains of the enemy who were stepping on their feet. The Qing people hoped to settle the battle as soon as possible, so as to prevent more Hongtang soldiers from coming over to join them and other comrades after hearing the movement; The Hongtang soldiers are working together, and the newly joined Niu Dazhuang and his group have fought their way out of a bloody road, and more than 200 colleagues who are surrounded in the backbone have converged.

I don't know how many enemies I have cut down, anyway, Feng Laosi feels that every muscle in his body is twitching, and the energy he accumulated by resting last night is now squandered by him again in this battle.

The long knife in his hand has already rolled up, and it takes more strength to slash at the enemy on the opposite side, and sometimes it will even get stuck in the bones of the other party and can't pull it out. For this little bit of delay, Feng Laosi had several colors on his body, if it weren't for the timely support and cover of his colleagues, I am afraid that Feng Laosi himself would have become one of the countless corpses on the ground.

"Here come the brethren again!"

I don't know who is in the fierce battle, but also has the leisure to pay attention to the surrounding movements, as he waited for a shout, everyone suddenly found that the enemy's offensive against their own side was reduced, and under the excitement, everyone once again burst into courage and fighting spirit, and slaughtered the surrounding enemies.

The Hongtang soldiers were scarred and exhausted, but why wasn't the case with the Qing Dynasty and other soldiers?

The dry food of the Hongtang army is not only easier to carry and use, but also has a more reasonable formula, using lard, flour, salt and other essential nutrients to fry food, so that everyone can meet the energy consumption brought by strenuous exercise in a short period of eating.

On the other hand, although the Qing soldiers also carried dry food with the army, as far as ordinary soldiers were concerned, they may have brought water bladders on their own side, but dry food may not have been carried; Even if there were a few fighters with dry food, most of them were hard-to-chew and indigestible foods such as jerky.

That is to say, in the day and night of the battle, most of the soldiers of the Qing Dynasty still fought on an empty stomach until now, and they had barely eaten, making it extremely difficult for their physical consumption to replenish, and their strength decreased even more.

Compared with the rubber rain gear of the Hongtang sergeants, the physical strength consumed, as well as the impact of climate and hunger, should not be underestimated, so that the combat effectiveness of the army was weakened too much.

(End of chapter)