"Fire!"

Ding Zongwang suddenly waved his sword, and the soldiers fired and retreated to the rear row to reload, but he looked to the opposite side from the diffuse smoke to check the results of this round of guns. Not bad, although the musketeers were mixed with the sword and shield soldiers and the spearmen, and the queue was very irregular, but this round of guns still hit more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers, two of which were directly knocked down, and it is estimated that they will not survive, and the other three are seriously injured and withdraw from the battle, and the other Eight Banners soldiers who were shot seem to be fine, and continue to shoot arrows.

Look at his subordinates, there are probably more than 70 people in the whole company, this is the result of a whole day of fighting, the battle loss ratio is acceptable, the Chu army musketeers have fortifications as cover, their own security has been greatly increased, the bird is erected on the bunker, and the stability of the shooting has also been significantly improved, and it is not even left behind in the counter-shooting...... You must know that these musketeers are a group of new recruits, and it is already a proud achievement to be able to tie with the Eight Banners known as the "unparalleled cavalry and archery".

After the second row of musketeers came up, Ding Zongwang immediately ordered to shoot, the eight banner soldiers on the opposite side were black and pressed, as long as they aimed at the crowd and shot, they could basically hit the target, without too much aiming, before they rushed to the fortifications twenty steps, only the musketeers could cause effective damage, and the archers basically could not break the armor. Seeing that the speed of the Qing army's heavy infantry charge was accelerating, Ding Zongwang also deliberately accelerated the speed of shooting, and if he could shoot one more round of guns, he would shoot one more round, without considering the frequency and rhythm of shooting.

The Qing heavy infantry strode forward, and the leading Qing generals looked particularly tall, they were not only tall, but also obviously two laps larger than normal, and they had an extra layer of armor with their strong bodies. After being hit by the lead bullet of the bird's gun, he was as if nothing had happened, and led the entire charging team to rush towards the Chu military fortifications slowly.

Thirty steps.

Twenty steps.

The smoke in front of me has not yet dissipated. Ding Zongwang waved his sword again, and the Chu soldiers pulled the trigger in the general direction. The enemy rushed to within twenty paces, and the armor-piercing ability of the bird gun was more reliable, and after the sound of gunfire like a bean, eight or nine Eight Banner soldiers fell headlong, and the casualties increased significantly.

But there aren't many such opportunities.

The enemy was about to rush to the front of the fortifications, and the musketeers had to give up their combat positions to the pikemen and sword and shield men, and theoretically could not come forward and shoot.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" The officer of the spear battalion next to him was urging Ding Zongwang to leave, so that the spearmen could form a formation.

"Wait a minute. Buddy! Let me play one more round! Ding Zongwang turned his head to look at the side, but ordered the musketeers in the back row to step forward, and the officer of the spear battalion came up angrily and pushed Ding Zongwang, but Ding Zongwang pulled his shoulders and looked to the side.

A dozen paces away on either side, a three-pounder gun was placed on the position, sparks came out from the arquebus at the end of the run, and the nearby artillerymen squatted on the ground and stretched out their hands to cover their ears......

"Bang! Bang! ”

With a thunderous explosion, two shells came out of the chamber almost at the same time. At this moment, a blazing flame erupted from the muzzle of the cannon, and the thick white smoke had not yet fully risen, the next moment. Two long ravines appeared in the formation of the Qing army, just like a bald head driving a logging truck into the forest, and a Qing general with three layers of heavy armor could not dodge. Hit in the arm by a shell, one arm was immediately ripped off by a powerful impact. The severed arm flew into the sky, and the blood was like a fountain. The Qing general let out a hoarse howl, the sound of which was full of pain like a wounded beast, resounding throughout the battlefield.

"Fire!"

Ding Zongwang ordered loudly.

"Shoot the arrows!"

The archers in the back row had been holding back for a long time, and finally caught a perfect fighter.

Two shells were fired, the Qing heavy infantry was in a big chaos, they were busy dodging the shells, they could no longer make a protective action of bowing their heads and chests, the shield in their hands was also crooked to the side, the door, throat, limbs, joints and other empty doors were wide open, raindrops of lead bullets and arrows were overwhelming, and the Qing soldiers fell to the ground like a cut down log, with a rapid scream.

"Withdraw! Remove! Remove! ”

Ding Zongwang shouted loudly, urging the musketeers to retreat to the back row, a few soldiers dropped the arquebus, the tong, lying on the fortifications to reach hard, Ding Zongwang went up to the buttocks and kicked one person, driving them to retreat immediately, and the tongs and the firerope were gone.

In front of the position, the reaction of the Eight Banners was very fast, or they were already mentally prepared to be hit by the two artillery of the Chu army, the front team had just been disrupted, and more heavy infantry in the rear team poured up, and they were the main force rushing into the formation!

"Earth dog!"

Under the brigade flag of the 182nd Brigade, the corners of Zhang Yanshi's mouth twitched, and he scolded in a low voice something that no one could understand.

The opportunity just now was really good, if it was replaced by the original ace troops like the Gongyi Battalion and the Chongyang Battalion, they would definitely take the opportunity to launch a counterattack and defeat the enemy's attack in one fell swoop, but the 182nd Brigade did not have that ability, and he did not dare to order an attack lightly, so he could only retreat in the fortifications and defend passively...... A great opportunity slipped away from under his nose, but Zhang Yanshi could only watch dryly, feeling very uncomfortable, and scolded all his subordinates, but after scolding, he regretted it a little. Compared with the Gongyi Battalion, the 182nd Brigade can of course only be regarded as a soil dog, and when it encounters the elite of the Eight Banners like tigers and wild boars, it is actually good to be able to fight like this.

In the rear of the Qing army, Niman's expression was also extremely nervous.

It's dusk, time is running out, this attack must crush the Chu army, in order to save time, he did not hesitate to send valuable heavy infantry to launch a strong attack, if he still returned with a feather, it would really become a stealing chicken and not eating rice, no, eating a bag of rice! This possibility is not unexistent, the 182nd Brigade is sometimes very clumsy, and sometimes it is very tenacious, and it is always beyond Niman's expectations, just like a martial arts master encountering Wang Baquan, the other party always does not follow the routine, but makes a mess.

From the beginning of catching up with the 182nd Brigade, Niman was constantly adjusting his psychological expectations, at first, he planned to destroy the other side at the cost of about 50 casualties, and later increased to 100 and 200 people...... Now that the number of casualties had exceeded two hundred, and the heaviest battle had not yet begun, Niman raised the upper limit to four hundred. Four hundred is the highest casualty he can endure, although there is a saying that one thousand enemies are killed and eight hundred are lost, but in order to eliminate more than 1,000 Ming infantry, he lost seven or eight hundred Eight Banner cavalry. It's a big joke everywhere you go.

This attack must be successful, otherwise. The casualty ceiling of 400 people cannot be stopped.

The heavy infantry of the Qing army rushed to the ring fortifications of the Chu army like wolves and tigers.

Rush to the front. It was a one-armed general covered in blood, he had just torn off an arm by a shell, and if he were an ordinary person, he would have fainted and fallen to the ground and lost his combat effectiveness, but this Qing general was extremely brave, and he bandaged the broken arm indiscriminately, and took the lead in charging with a knife in one hand. Severed arms, blood, shining blades. Gritting his teeth, gnashing his teeth, his hideous face was drenched with sweat, at this moment, this Qing general was like a god of war, his whole body was full of murderous aura, Ding Zongwang looked at him from afar, he felt a fierce chill in his heart, and the cold hair on his back stood up suddenly.

"Fuck you!" From the hands of the soldiers next to him, Ding Zongwang snatched a bird gun with his hand. After checking the status of the gun with great skill, he suddenly picked up the gun with both hands, and pointed it at the general. As a battle-hardened veteran, Ding Zongwang's first reaction when he felt danger was to destroy it. Instead of panic and fear.

"Bang!"

Gunshots rang out, and the Qing generals fell.

The battlefield is not a stage, and the pretending to be fierce. may not be really strong, that Qing general was seriously injured. He didn't go down honestly to heal his wounds, but he continued to fight bravely. The armor on his body was also torn, and he was knocked down by Ding Zongwang with a shot.

But in addition to Ding Zongwang's gun, the other Chu musketeers have retreated to the back row, and the hit rate and lethality have been greatly reduced, in addition to the heavy armor of the Qing army, because the tiger tooth knife, the big knife and the Japanese knife can be used with one hand, and the other hand is mostly still holding a shield, the casualties are not large, and between a few breaths, they have rushed to the front of the Chu army fortifications.

Meet at close quarters!

Break it all in one go!

Seeing that the Qing army launched an attack on this section of the fortifications, the Chu army deliberately strengthened the thickness of the defensive force, but the impact of the Qing army's heavy infantry group charge was too strong, and the thin fortifications did not have much blocking effect, so they rushed into the formation lightly, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

Eat a trench, grow a wisdom, the pikemen of the Chu army have learned a lesson this time, although they were rushed into the formation by the heavy infantry of the Qing army, they did not step forward to fill the position, but firmly held their formation, the sword and shield soldiers were in front, and the pikemen were constantly stabbing in the back, which was much stronger than the battle table just now...... However, the heavy infantry of the Qing army was well equipped, Su zhì was high, and there were many veterans who had been on the battlefield, and they obviously had the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat, advancing step by step, and the casualties of the Chu soldiers were obviously greater than those of the other party, and it took two or three people to kill a Eight Banners.

Grit your teeth and hard top!

This is the advantage of fighting in formation, the soldiers of the Chu army on the battlefield cannot see the panorama, as long as the companions around them are still insisting on fighting, as long as the officers are still commanding, no matter how heavy the casualties are, there is no obvious feeling...... Anyway, they are all desperate, they are all exchanging lives for lives, although the soldiers of the Chu army continue to sacrifice, the Eight Banners on the opposite side are also falling one after another, as for the specific battle loss ratio, ordinary soldiers are not clear, so no one is afraid.

"These recruits! These new recruit eggs! Deputy Brigade Commander Wei Dingyuan muttered endlessly, distressed and excited. These recruits lacked actual combat experience and were not sensitive to the shape of the battlefield, but at this moment they became the reason to support them to continue fighting, and they did not retreat in the face of an enemy who was obviously stronger than themselves, and the recruits sacrificed more than 100 people in the blink of an eye, and the scene was extremely tragic.

"I saw blood this time, and next time I will be a veteran." The brigade commander Zhang Yanshi was also very distressed, but he remained motionless and watched the soldiers fight bloodily. Fighting this kind of thing is like swimming, you can't learn to stand on the shore and watch it for a year, you have to start plopping up yourself, drink water a few times, sink to the bottom a few times, if you survive to become a veteran of the war, if you die in the battle, it belongs to natural elimination, although this screening method is cruel, but the most effective, the most direct.

In the tragic battle, the casualty number soared, and in the blink of an eye, the Chu soldiers fell again, but Zhang Yanshi was still unmoved, Wei Dingyuan wanted to say something, his mouth moved, and he swallowed the words back.

See blood! Recruits must see blood in order to grow, and towering trees cannot grow in the greenhouse, so that the recruits can experience a complete battle, feel fear, death, excitement, outbursts, see the tragic sacrifice of their comrades in the cruel actual combat, kill the fierce enemy with their own hands, even if they flee because of timidity, and even the collapse of the whole army, all kinds of regret and shame afterwards are an essential growth process...... When the battle of Ganzhou was fought, Wang Kefan personally led a team composed of auxiliaries to block the strong enemy, although the battle suffered heavy casualties, but the surviving auxiliaries soon grew into excellent soldiers, Wei Dingyuan is also one of them, in recent years, because of repeated miraculous achievements, he has been continuously promoted, and he became a deputy brigade commander at the age of less than 30.

On the battlefield ahead, the soldiers of the Chu army decreased rapidly, and the quantitative change finally caused a qualitative change, the advantage of the heavy infantry of the Qing army became greater and greater, and the strength of the troops was completely spread out, forming a situation of several fighting one, and the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers of the Chu army finally could not hold on, turned around and fled backwards.

The heavy infantry of the Qing army also learned to be obedient this time, and did not hesitate to succeed, and continued to attack forward, colliding with the Chu army auxiliaries behind.

The auxiliaries of the Chu army are different from the auxiliaries of other officers and soldiers, they have received regular military training, except for not wearing armor, regardless of the type of troops, they are not much worse than the recruits in those soldiers, and the 182nd Brigade has suffered many casualties in the past few days, and the auxiliaries have temporarily borrowed their swords, guns and armor, and they are all fully armed...... When the heavy infantry of the Qing army saw a new force coming up from the opposite side, they did not dare to hold it up at the moment, so they hurriedly gathered their formations and engaged the battle carefully.

When it comes to individual soldiers, the auxiliary soldiers are not much worse than the recruits, but the overall coordination and command are obviously insufficient, and they do not have the toughness of independent combat units. After killing the first two rows of auxiliaries, it caused confusion among the rear platoons, and under the chain reaction, the entire auxiliary team was quickly defeated.

In front of the brigade flag of the 182nd Brigade, only a spear team of several hundred people remained.

Cold weapons combat is the heaviest morale, these pikemen have just been defeated in the outer battle, although they are reorganized into a team, the morale is severely frustrated, and the combat effectiveness has also dropped significantly, they alone will definitely not be able to stop the heavy infantry of the Qing army.

At the critical moment, the musketeers and archers of the Chu army showed their might, each of their companies and each team maintained their own establishment, the battle flag fluttered, and always maintained the battle with the Qing army's heavy infantry, like Ding Zongwang, Xiong Yuanzhong, such middle and grass-roots officers are excellent officers who have experienced a hundred battles, while looking at the banner of the brigade commander Zhang Yanshi, while commanding their own companies to fight, and fighting and retreating, causing great casualties to the Qing army's heavy infantry. (To be continued......) R1292