No one is really afraid of death, veterans just often face all kinds of dangers, are used to seeing life and death, and have more experience.

The veterans are also nervous when a new danger arises, but they force themselves to keep their composure because they fear that it won't work.

Wu veteran has been in the army for four years, and has drilled a few back and forth from the pile of dead people, and his ability to study the battlefield situation even exceeds that of Wang Kebin, a martial artist, seeing the Qing army's fierce cannon fodder preparations, coupled with the frequent mobilization and deployment of the enemy and us, he seems to smell a thick bloody breath, and the real test is coming.

The Tartars were dividing their troops, apparently to outflank the right flank of the Chu army's position, and correspondingly, the Portuguese soldiers on the Chu army's side were also transferred to defend the right flank, and only Wang Yi's musket team was left in the front defense line, which may not be able to block the Qing army's attack.

In the past, if this situation was encountered, either the musketeers would retreat in time, or other infantry would be transferred to reinforce them, in short, the musketeers would not be allowed to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, but at this moment, touching the five or six spears hanging on the back of his waist, Wu Veteran had a strong intuition that the commander would adopt a completely new tactic, and the musket team would fight with bayonets.

Although he didn't say it, he felt bottomless in his heart, when Wu veteran first joined the Gongyi battalion, he had been a pikeman for a few months, and he was not afraid of hand-to-hand combat, but most of the other brothers were new, and it was only recently that he began to make up for the stabbing technique, and he had never stabbed a real person.

Shooting from a distance with a musket and stabbing people with a knife face to face are two completely different concepts, and for the first time, veteran Wu had doubts about the combat effectiveness of the musket team.

"Here you go, it's from the team leader. Stop flying. ”

When the musketeers go to battle, they always bring some common accessories, and the pass bar is one of them. Wu veteran went to Wang Yi to ask for one and handed it to Wang Kebin.

This is another troublesome thing - Wang Yi greeted him before the war, Zhu Huaqi and Wang Kebin are not ordinary people, so let him keep an eye on it. Although veteran Wu felt a headache, he couldn't refuse the commander's order, so he had to integrate the two of them into his own stabbing team to take care of and protect them directly.

Unlike the last shelling. The artillery bombardment lasted longer this time, and the target was also turned into the position of the musketeers, ignoring the camp of the Ji'an camp. Under continuous bombardment. The positions of the musketeers were almost plowed, and the trenches where the soldiers were hiding seemed to have been turned into ruins.

The war drums sounded, and the Qing army lined up in a neat queue, and the soldiers were divided into two lines. A second offensive was launched.

A thousand Qing troops were responsible for attacking the right flank in a roundabout way. The position was relatively abrupt, about a hundred steps away from the camp of Ji'an Camp, the guns on the camp wall were fired again, this was a game of cat and mouse, the artillery of the Qing army stopped, and the gun team returned to participate in the defense.

The distance of a hundred steps was a little farther, and the hit rate of lifting the gun dropped significantly, but fortunately, the ranks of the Qing army were layered on top of each other. Stray bullets flew sideways, which also caused a lot of casualties.

The Qing army did not care about this casualty. Someone was shot and fell to the ground, and the soldiers in the back row immediately filled the position, but the speed of the march of the team did not change at all, and continued to advance towards the position of the musket team, and the shortcomings of the slow rate of fire of the guns were exposed, and for the attacking troops of thousands of people, it was completely bearable to be knocked down about 20 people at a time.

On Shigu Mountain, Geng Zhongming had been observing the movements of the Chu army, and when he saw that the other party neither reinforced nor retreated, he was very puzzled, and repeatedly guessed Wang Kefan's intentions - only relying on musketeers to hold the position, but not sending infantry reinforcements to protect, either overconfidence to the point of stupidity, or deliberately selling a flaw to show weakness to lure the enemy.

Wang Kefan is not a stupid general, Geng Zhongming stared at the dilapidated camp of the Ji'an camp, his eyes were thoughtful, and after thinking for a moment, he said to the left and right: "Order the artillery convoy, continue to bombard the Ming army's rear village, and then tell General Sun, be careful of the enemy's counterattack out of the camp......"

Showing weakness and luring the enemy is to suddenly counterattack, and if the counterattack force of the Ming army exists, it must be hidden in the camp of the Ji'an camp.

In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops, the four generals' cannons all raised their muzzles high, and only aimed at the rear village of the Ji'an battalion to fire, which of course could not guarantee the accuracy of shooting, but if the Chu army gathered a large number of troops there, it would also cause confusion and killing.

Sun Bo'an's troops also adjusted their deployment, and the Qing army attacking the flank of the musket team left a small force to monitor the camp of the Ji'an battalion, while the reserve force pressed forward by 500 paces, and if the Chu army suddenly rushed out of the camp, it could step forward in time to intercept it.

The cannon suddenly sounded, adding a bit of tension to the battlefield, there is no infantry artillery in this era, the general cannon is imitated from the Western naval gun, the trajectory is low and flat, the shells are whistling and flying overhead, not only the Ming army feels nervous, the Qing soldiers are also very uncomfortable.

The Tianyou soldiers were a little better, but the soldiers of the Changsha Green Battalion were so frightened that they kept looking back at the shells flying from the sky, and even subconsciously squatted down to dodge, and the formation immediately became chaotic.

"It's really mud that can't hold up the wall!" Geng Zhongming shook his head, and reluctantly ordered to stop the shelling, ensuring that the integrity of the attacking troops' formation was the first priority, and if they were in chaos, thousands of people would not be able to resist the counter-charge of 100 people.

He once again gave Sun Bo'an an an order to reduce the number of attacking troops, divide troops to monitor the camp of the Ji'an battalion, there were only a few hundred musketeers on the position of the Chu army, and it was enough to send a thousand infantry to rush forward......

On the camp wall of the Ji'an camp, Wang Ding and Gu Zongfu were lying behind the broken chest wall, observing the battlefield situation.

Wang Ding adjusted the focus of the telescope back and forth, looked at Shigu Mountain for a while, looked at the position of the musket team for a while, and muttered in a low voice: "What is Geng Zhongming doing?" The battle is about to be engaged in the front, but he is tossing back and forth in the back. ”

Gu Zongfu said with a smile: "He was probably frightened, thinking that the musket team was a bait, the more we don't move, the more he feels weak, but it's okay, the pressure on the musket team is a little less, wait to see Wang Yi, this kid is majestic." ”

When the beast saw the bait, it had to test it several times, and it would not easily step into the trap, but what Geng Zhongming didn't expect was that the so-called trap did not exist, and the bait that looked fat and delicious was hidden and killed, and the musket team equipped with flintlock pistols was by no means a fat chicken to be slaughtered, but would show its fangs at any time.

"I'm afraid that the musket team won't be able to withstand it, there are too many Tartars." Wang Ding was still a little worried......

In the trenches, veteran Wu kept repeating: "Calm down, calm down, fire again when you hear the order!" ”

From the hoarse voice of veteran Wu, Wang Kebin obviously felt that he was a little nervous, and he also felt empty in his heart, so he clenched the flintlock pistol in his hand a little tighter, staring at the Qing army that was getting closer and closer.

There were about 800 Qing infantry in front, pikemen, shield soldiers, sword and axe soldiers, archers, and more than 200 Tianyou soldiers holding bird guns to cover behind.

"Aim!"

The officers were ordered to aim in accordance with the regulations, but it seemed to be a little redundant, and the soldiers had already picked their own targets, aimed and aimed, just waiting for the order to fire.

Wang Kebin's chosen target was an officer, he held a delicately shaped sword in his hand, and kept shouting and commanding to his subordinates, so close, Wang Kebin could clearly see the other party's dignified face, a very majestic short beard, fierce and stern eyes. Behind him, a team flag was held high, and the flag bearer was a tall and burly northern man, his iron armor shining in the sun.

With a move in his heart, Wang Kebin turned the muzzle of the gun slightly and aimed it at the standard-bearer.

Destroying the enemy's flag, a squad will lose its command, and morale will immediately drop to freezing, which is more effective than killing that officer.

"Fire!" There were too many enemies, and as soon as they were in an effective range of sixty paces, the officer gave the order to shoot.

Wang Kebin pulled the trigger, his shoulder was pushed back by the recoil force, he turned around and ran backwards, wiped the primer pool with his index finger while running, sat down against the ditch wall, probed the whole strip into the still smoking chamber, carefully scraped it with his hand, scraped off the residual medicine in the chamber, and then bit off the paper-wrapped gunpowder, poured one end into the primer pool, and poured the other end into the chamber......

With concentration, there was no deviation in the whole set of movements, and when the officer gave the order to step forward, Wang Kebin had successfully completed the loading and followed his companions to the firing position for the second time.

Looking through the diffuse smoke, the Qing army was setting up equipment through the outer trenches, orderly and in a strict formation, and it seemed that after a round of three-stage shooting, they were not hurt much, and the team flag that Wang Kebin had just aimed at was still fluttering in the smoke of gunpowder.

Didn't hit! Wang Kebin gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"Aim!"

Wang Kebin didn't think about it, so he aimed the flintlock pistol at the team flag again, and looked through the door, only to find that the flag bearer had been replaced.

Hit! There was a burst of ecstasy in his heart, and a big man lay under the banner, motionless, not knowing whether he was dead or alive, and the iron armor on his body would not be wrong in any case.

The standard-bearer can be replaced, this time to beat the officer-Wang Kebin flashed this thought in his heart, but he couldn't find the officer, and it was estimated that he was killed by his companions.

"Fire!"

A whistle sounded, and there was already a shooting order behind his ears, and he didn't have time to think so much, Wang Kebin pulled the trigger towards the place where the Qing army crowd was closest.

"Fire!"

It was another new cycle, and Wang Kebin saw hordes of Qing troops passing through the outer trenches, but their feet were covered with corpses.

"Fire!"

The officers' whistles blew louder, the sound of orders was raised an octave, and the flanks defended by the Portuguese soldiers were fired, with the sound of gunshots, shouts, war drums, and screams...... The various voices were extremely noisy, and the battle became more intense. (To be continued......)