Countless helmets and armor figures, sweating like rain, trotted on the arid and hardened land, crushed by gravity, and soon turned into flying dust, enveloping the sprinting crowd in the period. All that remained were the blades and the metal flashes at the tips, glittering with gasps and shaking.

Getting closer, Gu Laosi could already see the stiff face of the other party, and the breath exhaled loudly, pulled the trigger again, and shot a ball of blood on the chest of a tall and strong armored soldier, and the rest of the enemy was hula into pieces, and crashed head-on into the sharp bush that the spear soldier suddenly erected, in the dull flutter and breaking click, they almost did not dodge with inertia, watching themselves being pierced on the spear tip in the front row.

The people behind took the opportunity to push away the corpses that hung on the tips of the spears, wielding their swords desperately, blocking the remaining spear tips that had not found their targets, and slumping down or sideways along the gaps in the shafts of the spears, pushing and killing them, and then falling into the gaps one after another, under the head-on bullets.

At this time, Gu Laosi also put down the long horn that was in the air again, quickly took the short-barreled horn gun installed by the auxiliary soldiers behind him, stretched forward the shoulders of the squatting white soldiers, and blasted towards the densest place of the head without looking.

Under the shock of the bell mouth, a puff of iron sand suddenly spread out and hit the heads and shoulders of several enemy soldiers who were huddled together, and suddenly splashed a splash of blood and miserable screams.

Since this kind of troll trolls generally can't kill people directly, even at close range, they can't penetrate the armor, so experienced guns will deliberately raise their hands above their shoulders and hit the head and face of the enemy at close range, so that most of the iron sand will not be blocked by the armor protection of the upper body, so as to achieve the maximum killing effect.

After all, in the battle formation of hand-to-hand combat, if the head and face are injured, it is no different from temporarily losing combat effectiveness, even a moment of deafness and blindness is extremely fatal, this is a little experience and experience that Gu Laosi quickly learned in the team.

Then he took the hands of the auxiliary soldier again, and put on the long gun with the spikes on it again, and pushed forward fiercely to face the right shoulder of an enemy soldier who squeezed in and slashed, and the opponent was almost pushing forward from side to side, almost as if he had sent the sharp blade himself,

Gu Laosi only felt a light in his hand, and the blood gushing under his shoulder blade gushed out for a while, and it passed through the gap between the bones, but the other party's hand holding the knife was weakly hanging to the side, but he still tried hard to touch the sheath short dagger on his waist with his other hand.

At this time, Gu Lao's four sides of the squatting white soldier also moved, he took the opportunity to bend forward and rush, from the bottom plate raised the knife to stab the enemy soldier in the chest and abdomen, only to see the tip of the narrow one-handed horizontal knife, along the gap between the collapsed armor pieces cut deeply, stirred fiercely and then pulled back, the gushing blood did not stain much, it completely cut off the opponent's resistance.

It's really good luck, if you get stuck, you have to give up your weapon, Gu Laosi silently quickly withdrew the spur, and quickly shook the blood downward, so as not to wet the chamber and affect it again, and then made a gesture of waiting to be stabbed again, aimed at the next approaching target, and weighed the lower triangle with his arms and standing steps to make the easiest force, and stretched out again.

In a few breaths, Gu Laosi and the unknown white soldier in front of him had already killed two enemy soldiers who had squeezed into the spear team, and by the way, they blocked an oncoming slash.

This kind of multi-mixed battle is quite a test of the cooperation and courage of the soldiers, especially the spearmen in the front row, when the enemy is constantly infiltrating and killing their teammates on the left and right of their sides, it is undoubtedly a great test to continue to maintain their composure and confidence, stay in place and continue to stab with their spears, and stop and deter those enemies who are advancing and succeeding.

Fortunately, once the enemy was blocked, this situation could not last long, and soon the enemies in front of them, which had become sparse in melee combat, were defeated, leaving only the sound of sporadic shots to knock them out from behind.

But the battle did not stop, when the bows and crossbows of the enemy formation were again thrown densely, and the white soldiers grabbed the cards at their feet, rushed forward, and held them high in front of the queue of hanging spears, only to hear the sound of raindrops of aggressive impact, mixed with the screams of arrows that sporadically slipped through the gaps.

At this time, Gu Laosi was able to take a heavy breath, and took advantage of this rare gap to seize the time to check his weapon, any qualified soldier must personally maintain and maintain the condition of his weapon, otherwise whether it is an accidental failure to sound or the result of an explosion, it will be extremely fatal.

And Gu Laosi and their group have one more weapon to replace than ordinary soldiers.

You know, having two weapons, long and short, this is also the treatment of veterans, compared to ordinary gunners and auxiliaries who can only be called gunners, they are called gunners, equipped with a long gun and a troll, or temporarily hung on the belt to throw a few fire bombs or explosives, as the main force of the attack, the battlefield allowance is also more than others.

Gu Laosi was fortunate enough to get this kind of treatment because he took advantage of the light of entering the Qinzhi group, so he cherished and treated this qiē with some sincerity, just like the words exchanged between his Runzhou fellow villagers.

Earlier, it was each for its master as an opponent in the battle array, life and death have their own destiny, it is really no wonder that no one is right, but since they were captured by other people's formations, thanks to the grace of not killing, and also giving medicine to treat your injuries so that you have your life to survive, then go back and take your life to repay the service, Gu Laosi also thought so.

Upstairs in Xiacaicheng,

"This is to come to the aid of Xuzhou soldiers? ……”

I frowned and looked at the battle lines with a close mirror.

The Chinese army flag in the enemy formation is embroidered with a huge Xu character, which is conspicuous. The other small square flag representing the number of the subordinate is embroidered with the word "Huaiyuan", while the rest of the vertical flags are all a "Tang" or "Zhenfu", representing the surname and title of the leader.

Xia Cai, as the fourth city captured by our department alone, is also the second city captured after a relatively decent battle. It was also the first city to be cut off by me alone, without the intervention of friendly forces.

After all, as a newcomer and traverser with ideals, ambitions, knowledge, and four things, it is not enough to fight and kill the enemy and rob and collect resources, it is just a part-time job to make wedding dresses for others.

It is also necessary to be able to effectively manage the territory and business base areas, and realize the all-round development of farming and climbing science and technology trees, which is a more virtuous cycle and the direction of pursuit.

It's just that I haven't come up with a specific plan yet, and I didn't expect the enemy's backup to come so quickly, and it didn't come from the direction of Yingzhou Prefecture, but from Xuzhou, which is much farther away.

therefore

After the third battalion was dispatched, the alert positions in the hurry were not properly arranged, and they were suddenly attacked, and the capture team had time to warn and symbolically contain them, but they were driven out and forced back by the cavalry team that had the advantage of the other side, and then broke into the position of the third battalion in one go, making the original preset position defense line come to naught.

Fortunately, I have already controlled a city, even if it is a small city, it is also a city protected by walls, and it is best to exert the long-range power of firecrackers and small cannons.

Therefore, the 3rd Battalion, which had fought and retreated, was quickly supported near the city wall and regained its footing, but only a small part of the two auxiliary brigades attached to it were contained, and the more than 1,000 stragglers outside the ridge were scattered and crushed, and became stragglers in the true sense of the word.

However, before I could take a breath and arrange a counterattack strategy, almost at the same time, the west gate in the direction of Yingzhou was also attacked by the cavalry.

The 4th Regiment of the 2nd Battalion and an Auxiliary Army, which were gathering the fleeing stragglers under the gate, were scattered almost at once, and then, taking advantage of the hesitation and confusion of the defenders on the city gate, rushed into the west gate with the deserters in one breath, regardless of the defenders on the gate, and rushed straight into the city and set fire to it.

If it weren't for the fact that I personally took the general's flag and appeared on the city to boost morale and suppress people's hearts, some people at the bottom would have wanted to take people out of the team and rescue the heavy money and food in the rear.

Fortunately, my previous arrangement played a role to some extent, and the second battalion that was resting in the city blocked these cavalry nearby, and after arriving as a mobile pacesetter, the second battalion cooperated with the formation to guard the long street, and only half of them were annihilated, and only a small part of them rushed out from the west gate again.

Then, on the main battlefield to the east, after strengthening the array under the city walls, it quickly turned into a kind of tug-of-war on Cheng Dù.

But on the surface, I was a little scared, I had just won a city, and I was a little arrogant and lax, and I almost capsized in the gutter.

The Qingxu Town Department that came to attack is also worthy of being one of the old and powerful towns with a long history, and it is just a town general surnamed Tang surnamed Huaiyuan Town under the jurisdiction of Xuzhou, which is so difficult.

After playing this strange and complementary sound, it looks very skillful, and it is obviously not the first time. This also gave me a deeper understanding and vigilance of the enemies I might face.

The enemy I am facing may be inferior in terms of tactics and equipment in the face of firearms, but that does not mean that they can be coveted by the experience and military strategies they have accumulated over the years.

As the sky grew darker, and after a few hundred to a thousand exchange ratios, the other side finally stopped their somewhat futile alternate offensive and began to camp on the spot, and then the next morning, I saw the queue that was packing up and retreating alternately.

The last to retreat were the hordes of crossbowmen, who hid in what appeared to be an empty camp, and waited for the rest of the troops to walk for a while, before they suddenly appeared, and the whole group of fish wandered away in a long formation, apparently as a back-up against our possible attack out of the city.

Behind the hill there were also clouds of smoke and dust, and then the figures of several cavalry units were revealed, apparently responsible for receiving these crossbow brigades.

Even if we can't get it by mistake and retreat in frustration, we still pack up the corpses and the wounded and walk calmly, so that we obviously have some advantages, but we can't take much advantage, this kind of suffocation and frustration is not so easy to digest.

But in the end, I also rejected the construction and temptation of using the tail title of the teaching team to find opportunities.

The disparity between the main forces is too great, and the other side is also retreating but not chaotic, leaving the advantage of the brigade's fire gun cover, rash pursuit is easy to be ambushed by the reverse. My current core capital is still relatively expensive.

This also gave us a blow to the head after the soaring advance, it seems that this time the crossing of the Huai operation is a bit reckless and light,

In addition to the need to strengthen the reconnaissance force, there are still many places that need to be introspected and rectified, such as the third battalion's warning range is too far, the pursuit of comprehensiveness is too long, and the connection with the city is not enough, and so on.

After the retreat of the enemy forces, we were again faced with a certain choice,

From here, the road is divided into two forks by Kip Stone Mountain, and enters the territory of Xuzhou to the east, and there is Huaiyuan Town, which belongs to the Qingxu Jiedu envoy, waiting for us, or continue to the northwest along the Yingshui, and go straight to Yingshang, and even the state city - Ruyin (now Buyang City, Anhui).