The old sentry looked at the more than 600 people who had withdrawn from him around him, they were all full of frustration and even despair at the moment, a whole thousand people, thousands of people attacked that small position one after another, nearly 400 people fell in front of the formation, and the casualty rate was 40%, but the low defense line still stood in front of them like iron.

The old sentry chief has been through a hundred battles, his body is scarred, he has never flinched and retreated on the battlefield, and he has never thought about moving forward bravely, but today, for the first time, he has the heart to retreat early. The spears stabbed out in unison rose one after another like a raging wave, and seemed to stop forever, and one by one the soldiers fell in front of the position in this stabbing and stabbing again, and what frightened him even more was that the expressionless faces seemed to be not a war, but just a practice, but the targets in front of them were replaced by living people.

He was relieved by the horn behind him, and immediately gave the order to retreat, but at the cost of the death of all the soldiers who rushed through the first line. It's not easy to attack, and it's even harder to get out of the way.

Zhong Zhen did not blame the old sentry for the unfavorable attack, and he saw the whole battle clearly, not that his own side was not brave, but that the enemy was too strong.

He paid the price of five or six hundred casualties, but he hadn't even touched the hair of the Xiushui River Bridge.

"That's all for today! Set up camp, bury pots, make meals, officers above the captain level, and even the big tent meeting of the Chinese army! Zhong Zhen looked at the Xiushui River Bridge in the distance and spit out a mouthful of turbid air unwillingly.

He was originally going to set up camp after crossing the river, and the original defensive position of 500 people was not in his eyes at all, but now, this small bridgehead has become an obstacle in front of him.

You have to come up with another way, otherwise even if you take the Xiushui River Bridge, the 10,000 vanguard army will have to pay the price of thousands of people, then your own army will be abolished, what is the point of taking the bridge?

In the tube building of the Xiushui River Bridge, Wang Lingbo, a doctor with the army, was a little pale, he was the first time to see the life and death struggle between the two armies so closely, and the first time he witnessed that human life was as cheap as a dog, in front of the Ming army's position, the enemy's corpses were piled up high, and the death was strange.

Fortunately, the casualties of the Ming army were few, more than forty were wounded and ten were killed in battle. At this moment, the bodies of the war dead had been moved across the river, the lightly wounded had been disposed of, and at the moment lying in front of him was a seriously wounded man.

This man was unlucky, and when the enemy retreated, he leaned out from behind the defensive line, raised his arms and cheered, not wanting to be under the low wall a wounded and undead Qin officer, but seized the opportunity and gave him a fierce knife, completely cutting off his entire left forearm.

The Qin officer was naturally poked into a sieve by the angry Ming soldiers, but the captain Zhang Yu was furious because of this, in his opinion, this was completely unnecessary battle damage, this soldier lost his left arm, he could no longer hold a spear, and what was waiting for him was only to retire. This incident was immediately regarded as a negative teaching material, and was repeatedly admonished by the whole team.

Don't be discouraged when you lose, and don't get carried away when you win.

The arm was broken, so naturally he was going back and forth, Wang Lingbo could only stop the bleeding for him, stitch up the wound, and apply ointment, this wounded soldier who had been fighting on the defensive line for half a day was crying sadly at the moment. He knew very well that he was leaving the army.

Rows of soldiers stood on the bridge, their bodies were covered with blood, buckets were thrown into the water from the bridge, the river water was lifted, and splashed on the soldiers' bodies with a bang, and immediately, the red blood flowed down from the body, and so on several times, so that no more red blood flowed out, and the gang retreated, and the other group stood up again.

Iron Bull was looking for his arrows on the battlefield, these arrows were specially made armor-piercing arrows, if they were not found, but one would be missing, some soldiers were cleaning up the corpses of the enemy on the battlefield, this time they unceremoniously threw the dead bodies into the Xiushui River, the river was turbulent, and in an instant they took these corpses downstream.

Chang Yonggang hung one end of his meteor hammer into the river, shaking and shaking to clean the blood stains and flesh on it, and beside him, Zhang Yuzheng was cleaning the blood stains on his body with the help of a soldier.

"What about the calm before the storm!" After washing the two hammer heads, he lifted them up and tied them to his waist, looked at Zhang Yu and said, "Captain Zhang, it's getting dark today, you say, will the Qin people attack at night?" ”

"No!" Zhang Yu nodded with certainty, "How big of a piece of land do we have, can we use a sneak attack?" ”

"What if they send some people who are good at water and good at martial arts cultivation to quietly float down from the upper reaches and climb up along these bridge piers? There are 10,000 enemies, and it is not difficult to find a group of people with good martial arts cultivation from among them? If they get around behind us, we're in trouble. Or did they cut down wood overnight and force a part of the river to cross? Chang Yonggang put forward one possibility after another.

Zhang Yu frowned, "The first possibility that Mr. Chang said is really to be vigilant. But I'm not worried about crossing the river and then attacking us from behind. ”

"Why is that?" Chang Yonggang is worried about the second.

"The water is so big, even if they can force themselves across the river with some wooden valves, on the other side, where is there still a cavalry ambush, just waiting for them to pass like this, as soon as they pass, they have not yet stood firm, and the cavalry rushed over, either as a ghost with a knife, or jump into the river to feed the fish." Zhang Yu smiled, "Let's be here, to put it bluntly, it's a pit, if he doesn't divide his troops and honestly fights us here, he will die slower, and if he dares to divide his troops to cross the river, then he will die faster." ”

"But five hundred, it's still a little less." Chang Yonggang said: "Today's battle, but there are more than 40 brothers who can't fight, tomorrow, I'm afraid that the enemy's offensive will be more fierce." ”

"There will be support." Zhang Yu said in a low voice: "We only need to top it for another day or two, now the main force is not in the middle line, and the follow-up troops will come from the tiger prison, it will always take a little time." ”

"I'm relieved to have reinforcements." Chang Yonggang breathed a sigh of relief.

"Mr. Chang, I'm afraid I'm going to trouble you tonight, the first possibility you just said, the more I think about it, the more it makes sense." Zhang Yu said.

"It's on me. You just have to rest assured, you really dare to come here, I am enough alone. "Changyonggang Road.

"That's a good idea. Iron Bull, Iron Bull! Zhang Yu shouted loudly.

The iron bull who had just retrieved all his armor-piercing arrows ran over, "Captain." ”

"You are on duty with Mr. Chang tonight and follow Mr. Chang's arrangement." Zhang Yu commanded.

"Rats?" Tie Niu's eyes lit up suddenly.

"Maybe there are water rats." Zhang Yu smiled: "By the way, don't use armor-piercing arrows, just use ordinary arrows, if you use armor-piercing arrows, you won't be able to get them back if you fall into the river." ”

"That's it, a job like stabbing mice, I don't need armor-piercing arrows, I shoot them in the head." Iron Bull smiled innocently.

When night fell, the bridge on the Xiushui River was quiet, and the camp of the Qin army not far away was also quiet, a piece of light was like stars, but there were only two lonely dead wind lanterns hanging on the tube tower, swaying gently with the wind.

Chang Yonggang sat cross-legged on the bridge deck, under his buttocks, the bridge piers, and the iron bull was lying on the railing, staring at the river with wide eyes. Chang Yonggang is a great master at the ninth level, his eyesight is far beyond ordinary people, even if it is dark night, he can see clearly, Tie Niu is a marksman, and his eyesight is naturally extraordinary, although it is not as good as Chang Yonggang, but with the help of the faint starlight in the sky, he can still distinguish whether it is a person or something else floating on the river.

Time passed quietly, Tie Niu became more and more sleepy, and finally fell asleep in a daze, I don't know how many years have passed, my butt suddenly hurt, but it was Chang Yonggang on the side who bounced over and hit his ass with a small stone.

"It's coming!" Chang Yonggang's eyes were bright.

Tie Niu suddenly fell asleep, lifted the iron bow, buckled an arrow in his hand, and searched the river with wide eyes, while Chang Yonggang, like a snake at this time, slipped down the wall to the bridge pier, squatting in the shadows and watching the river.

Saw one. Iron Bull was in high spirits, and with a crisp knee, the Iron Tire Bow slowly slowed down, aiming at the floating head in the river.

"Die!" He whispered, and as soon as he let go of his hand, the feather arrow flew out with a lightning thud.

In fact, at this moment, on both sides of the Xiushui River, there is not only a fierce battle on the Xiushui River Bridge, but also several important locations, the outbreak of the big war, far more sinister than the Xiushui River Bridge, the Xiushui River Bridge because of the terrain, a small number of troops can be held according to the danger, and the other place, but it is a hard battle against Maimang, the Qin army crosses strongly, the Ming army guards, and the troops invested are tens of thousands.

The front line has become a mess, the Tiger Prison Pass, is also busy, countless military food materials, from the Ming Dynasty to the United States to gather here, and then from the Tiger Prison divided into a number of transport teams, to the front line distribution, the war opened, the silver money will flow like a big water, usually the household Su Shangshu can't wait for a penny to be petaled into two petals, but now he does not blink his eyebrows, a large stroke of the pen, is a large amount of silver flowing out.

At this time, the merchants gathered in the Tiger Prison City, following behind the army, and the business was easy to do, which was already a golden rule for the merchants of the Ming Kingdom. More than half of the supplies of the Ming Dynasty were provided by these merchants, and the Ming court used their manpower and material resources to raise materials, which was more cost-effective than transporting them themselves, which was a two-way thing for both parties.