In the wilderness on the outskirts of Luodu, swords and guns shimmered, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Bei General Li Qiong once again fell into a life-and-death crisis,

He had broken or bent three spears and a spear, and the chain armor on his body was crisscrossed with slashes, and the flesh was rolling and oozing blood; His throat was as hoarse as if it was filled with sand, and his eyes were covered with sweat and dust, but he refused to slack off at all, and rubbed or drank saliva with his hands.

Because the two garrison battalions and one friendly battalion of the dissatisfied group were suddenly attacked by a horse team from a nearby city while crossing the field in the northeast corner of the city; When he turned sideways to meet the enemy on the spot, he was forcibly dispersed, and he could only hold himself on the spot and resist for a while.

Therefore, at this moment, the only dozen or so people left around him, including the wounded who could still stand, barely overlapped up and down with their spurs to form a small hedgehog formation, which forced the rangers who rushed to the front and initially gained a foothold.

Three of them were white soldiers in armor with shields on their backs and short spears.

He shouted in a hoarse voice, alternately unleashing rows of guns, knocking down the cavalrymen who were slowing down or stopping to turn around in the vicinity, and finely adjusting the direction of the spurs in time, so that the approaching enemies could not come forward as expected.

I saw that one of them rushed over again, brandishing his saber and striking the spur and spear tip diagonally, while raising the horse's hooves high and trying to kick them away, but instead he was exposed more of his body and vital points, and was stabbed on the horse's neck from the side by Li Qiong's quick hand.

I saw a hot blood fountain **** coming out, wailing and screaming the mount that instinctively ate pain and avoided, which suddenly made the enemy rider lose his balance, and the heavy one was planted in the dust, and he couldn't get up again; However, his casualties gave the other horsemen who were wandering close to him an opportunity, and they came forward with swords and spears.

The spear that came first was blocked by a white soldier who rushed forward with his head in his hand, and suddenly bounced up and jumped upwards and fell into the air, but was knocked to the ground by the body of the horse that followed. Then the spear-wielding enemy rider was also stabbed in the thigh and nailed to the horse's belly by a cold gun because the empty door was exposed, and he almost rolled over on the spot and was crushed under the horse, and his life and death were unknown.

However, more of the horse's hooves almost as soon as they crossed his fallen horse, almost leaning against his face into the spurs.

At this time, the several trumpet guns that were covered in the formation in turn were finally loaded, and there was no need to deliberately aim at them and deduct them in the direction of the enemy's most dense intensity. But the rest of the lead fell on at least three horsemen at close range like a torrential rain.

I saw that their unarmored parts were like bursting with specks of blood, and even the men and horses erupted into a scream in unison, suddenly deviating from the direction and turning uncontrollably in place; At this time, the other two horses slipped through the gap they had opened, and trampled another white soldier standing in front of them to the ground.

In the face of the ensuing spurs, one of the riders almost forced his horse to turn sideways, but the rider fell to the other side, and took the initiative to meet the blades with his overturned horse, and tripped at least three of them in unison by the inertia of his fall.

And this enemy rider stepped on the horse and jumped forward, cutting down another gunner who didn't have time to turn around, and then was hit on the head in the face by the short gun taken out by Li Qiong, and the whole eye socket exploded.

The last enemy rider was frightened because of this, and turned the horse's head and turned back to run, but was thrown by Li Qiong's half-cut spear with all his strength, pierced the horse's hip and slid to the ground with pain and hooves, and got up from the dust but continued to escape without looking back.

And the hard work in this corner is only a drop in the bucket compared to the entire battlefield, and the horses' hooves from far and near are still galloping, knocking down and trampling the lonely figures one by one. And the fragmentary sound of the slamming, in the rush of these galloping horses, seemed a little lonely and lonely.

After all, it is a garrison battalion that has not been lined up by the new army for a long time, and the ratio of new soldiers to veterans in it is still too large. Otherwise, if they were the main battle battalions, or the leaders of the battalions with the names within ten of the garrison camps, how could they fight so ugly after being attacked by the enemy.

It's just that I didn't expect that most of the people and horses of the former army had passed safely and soundly, but it was their rear team that was following the escort supplies and miscellaneous personnel who were attacked by a surprise attack from the city.

One can't help but wonder and question, what is the friendly neighbor who is responsible for monitoring and intercepting the nearby city gate doing, actually letting such a large group of enemy horsemen escape.

He reacted very quickly, and quickly gathered the people who could be seen around him, and he was inevitably hit several times, and he was almost driven by the other party to rush over, and he collapsed again.

The main reason is that there are quite a few newly recruited men and horses in the former army, and these newly recruited troops have three characteristics: lack of training, lack of veterans, and lack of experience.

It's just that it wasn't very obvious when it was accompanied by a large group of people in the battle formation to fight on the frontal battlefield before, but after it was set aside separately, it was easy to highlight all kinds of problems.

First of all, the progress of organizing and coordinating the auxiliary personnel of the brigade was obviously disjointed and lagging behind, and after encountering the enemy's attack, the reaction and command efficiency were also worse by more than one beat.

And Li Qiong was sent here to strengthen these weaker troops, but he didn't expect to encounter the worst situation as soon as he came up.

Although they tried to organize a counterattack in formation on the spot according to the rules and training of their return, they did not fully consider the reaction of the nearby men and miscellaneous servants.

As a result, these instinctively seeking refuge in the nearest crowd rushed into the ranks and disrupted the array, and then the enemy cavalry caught in it took advantage of the momentum and slashed and stomped, and the order was no longer in order; Not only was the strength used for command lost, but even the main officers below the battalion commander level were lost.

The sound of the distant crackling did not cease, which meant that there were people in other parts of the battlefield who continued to resist;

However, the smoke and dust raised by these cavalry not only obstructed and obscured their visibility and vision, but also inhibited and weakened the fire deterrent range of these gunned soldiers, so that they could not see the situation near them or make corresponding contacts.

It was mixed with the occasional sound of a trumpet, which soon came to an abrupt end in the noise of a greater crash. This made Li Qiong feel and confirm that this was obviously an enemy who was familiar with Huaidong and had fought for a long time.

Otherwise, it will be difficult to make such targeted responses and countermeasures in a timely manner.

He only hoped that he could hold out longer, so that when the reinforcements of the previous brigade came back, or when the cavalry of the Huaidong Army stationed at the White Horse Temple could come to investigate.

Then, in the midst of the ups and downs of the battle, he tried to adjust and move his small team, and while continuing to lose five men, he gathered and gathered a number of scattered gunmen and white soldiers, and finally reached the scale of one and a half fires of more than fifty men.

As for the people who were scurrying around like headless flies in the battlefield, and who wanted to come and flee in a panic, they were driven away again by him with stingers and sharp threats.

In this way, Li Qiong, who had been fighting for most of the day, had the opportunity to be rotated to the inside to seize the time to drink a few sips of water and eat a little compressed rations, and also had more confidence and confidence to insist on waiting for help.

At the same time, most of the former army was also in trouble with some kind of melee.

Under the cover of several hollow arrays against each other, around the protected chariots and horses, many shirtless figures were sweating and carrying out civil engineering work, racing against time to dig a waist-deep trench and pile up earth into a shallow low wall.

From time to time, there were groups of enemies fighting in formation, like a ** surge, overlapping back and forth, braving a not very neat volley of firearms, after falling a number of corpses, rushing to the front, crashing into the front line of white soldiers with spears and waiting for battle, and fighting bloodily until they were repulsed or annihilated by reloading and volleying.

Standing behind them was the headquarters of the palace army led by the main general Wei Chen, who was also taking the initiative to launch a counteroffensive and fighting with the enemy formation, trying to find a weaker breakthrough.

This was undoubtedly a rather bad encounter for Wei Chen, who decided to lead his troops north.

Although it is not that there are no corresponding police posts and rangers along the way, all the reports and feedback are foreign aid from Hebei, and they are still assembling near Heyang Bridge, and they are not in a hurry to go south.

However, only after they had gone more than halfway through the formation, the enemy came out from all sides; A few ranger encounters and expulsions, followed by more horse marches, had to stop their journey and turn to the defensive.

And just looking at the variety of flags, the defenders in Luodu City and the foreign reinforcements did not know when they had secretly made contact, and reached some kind of coordination of joint operations, and even planned to sandwich and even annihilate their vanguard in battle.

Fortunately, the former army from Huaidong was good at defending the first place in the field battle, and it was not in vain that it relied on the tenacious and dense firearms battle formation to win the corresponding time and buffer for Wei Chen's own formation to reorganize against the enemy;

However, if the supplies and baggage of the rear team still fail to keep up, there is a limit to the time they can hold on to just the base they carry first.

However, the news of the rear team being attacked and crumbling has also been confirmed with the warning signal released from afar. It is probably impossible to count on the two severely weakened military quartermasters who remained in the camp to support them.

Of course, it is possible to ask for help from the mid-lane army that is attacking Luodu City, but it is also impossible to expect them to arrive in time in a short time.

Now the only one who can be counted on to break the situation is the supernumerary Huaidong Army. However, where are they at this moment, who have been invited to cooperate and respond in advance?