A heavily armored soldier at the front, faltering with a sharp axe in his hand, managed to be the first to rush in front of the Medeno musketeer. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info his steel armor had been punched several holes, blood was gushing out along the holes in the steel armor, and the skin at the seam of the helmet was completely bloodless, so he was not alive at this point, but he still managed to support himself and rushed forward two steps, holding his axe high and slashing at the Mederno musketeers who were flinching back in fear. This group of musketeers had already been crowded together because of the impact of the enemy just now, where could they hide? An unlucky bastard was chopped down with an axe and instantly split in half.

To say that these squadrons of Medeno are not without soldiers, but the weapons they are equipped with are very heavy and the marching speed is very heavy, so Russell let these hand-to-hand squadrons walk behind and let the musket squadrons in front, but he did not expect that the invincible three-row shooting method in the past battles could not achieve the effect of suppression in front of these North Annan troops. In fact, it can be regarded as their bad luck, these troops on the south bank have already seen the intensive shooting and great power of the squadron in Shabak, and now look at the shooting density of the Medeno people, it is not a little bit worse, those iron armor with one shot and two holes in front of the Chinese rifle can actually block a lot of shots in front of the Medeno muskets, so they are naturally not so afraid of the Medeno musketeers.

The captain of the Medeno Brigade was at the front, and when he saw this, he could only shout a counter-charge, and then rushed forward with a few musketeers who were close to him. These musketeers had nothing more than to pick up their muskets, turn them around, and use their butts to fight the heavily armored soldiers. Although these Yaning muskets are finely made, they must not be used to fight people, and they are often broken into two with a wave of rushing up. Such weapons suffered a lot from the fighting of the soldiers of North Annan who were armed with knives and guns, and the axe and shield teams were blocked behind and could not come up, so they could only let the Medeno musketeers in front of them be cut to the ground one by one.

The Annan archers in the back were not idle, according to the commander's command, firing arrows at the back of the enemy array, and a ** arrow pierced down from a high place in an arc, shooting the Medeno infantry below miserably, it was not that they didn't want to rush forward, but there were too many people in front, and after the small open space in front of the dock was unfolded, these infantry soldiers had nowhere to move, and there was a steady stream of troops coming from behind, they were squeezed in the middle, and there was no place to dodge in front of them, left and right, I could only watch as the arrows fell on my head.

"How is this going on?" Russell was about to go crazy, "Why are you stuck in traffic?" Heralds! ”

A herald hurriedly rushed up, "General! Russell pointed to the distance and said while trembling with anger, "Go!" Tell the infantry squadron to withdraw one after another, and remove the musketeers in front! ”

Several infantry squadrons at the rear of the team had already been blocked and almost suffocated, and they couldn't rush up in front, so they could only look at the battle situation in front of them from behind, and as soon as they heard the order, they hurriedly retreated a few hundred meters backwards, and came to a clearing to re-expand. The musketeers in front were also given orders to fight and retreat, to lure these Annan soldiers to an open area as much as possible, and to give way to a few squadrons of infantry to deal with them.

Russell could see clearly from the city wall that the musketeers had already fought with the Annan infantry, you have me, I have yours, and they couldn't withdraw at all, and there were more soldiers on the dock behind who were constantly crossing the river, and if they couldn't withdraw immediately, they were afraid that all the musket squadrons in front would be lost. At the moment, he had no choice but to wait and anxiously paced around the city wall twice, and finally made up his mind and shouted at the gunners beside him, "Open fire on the enemy!" ”

"Where? Checkmate. The gunners couldn't help but be stunned, there were six cannons on their city wall that were transported from Wenshan Port by sea, and after about a month of transportation, they were transported to Jiezhen through the prefecture and county, and they were originally intended to be given as gifts to the South Shore Army when they returned from victory. The cannons were twelve-pounderers, and their range could be from the walls to the docks. In the previous battle, the artillery was not fired for fear of accidentally injuring his own people. Now, if the artillery is not fired, the musket team will not be able to withdraw.

"Fight the enemy, of course!" Russell shouted at him almost angrily, "Go where the enemy is most!" Fire! ”

The gunner's legs were weak, and the place where the enemy had the most was the open field in front of the dock, densely packed with people. The trajectory of the smoothbore gun was extremely uncontrollable, and although the range of the twelve-pounder gun was said to cover the dock, it was not uncommon for the shell to fall on the halfway. The gunner was still hesitating, and Russell rushed up and kicked him, "Go and get ready to fire!" ”

An order is an order, and there were four twelve-pounder guns and two six-pounder guns left over from the previous South Bank Army in this direction on the wall, and the gunners heard the order, and although they were skeptical, they reloaded their ammunition with their hands and feet. The launcher installed the flint, prepared to pull the fire rope, and looked at Russell, who waved his hand again and again, "Fire!" Fire! ”

The captain of the Maidno Brigade at the front was wielding a command knife and was fighting with the two Annan soldiers, when he suddenly heard the continuous cannon fire on the city in the distance, and he couldn't help but be stunned. Several musketeers on both sides hurriedly rushed up with the weapons they had picked up in their hands to help him knock over the two enemies, and the captain looked back and saw that several balls were flying in this direction, and he secretly said in his heart that it was not good, and shouted at the crowd, "Retreat!" Fall back! But when it was too late, two iron balls smashed directly into the dock, one hit the low wall, and the broken bricks and stones flew in all directions, causing the nearby Annan soldiers to cry and call their mothers; Another cannonball smashed onto the trestle of the pier, the trestle was cut off at the waist, and the cannonball fell into the water and splashed six or seven meters high, and the waves set off directly overturned two small boats leaning on the trestle and still unloading the infantry, and several unlucky people were smashed squarely, and most of their bodies were smashed up by the kinetic energy of the cannonballs, and fell into the distance and the boundary river, setting off blood-red waves.

The captain secretly said that it was not good, and before he could speak, he heard a bang, and a cannonball fell near him, and he saw that a Medeno soldier was smashed squarely, and several Annan soldiers in front of him were smashed to pieces. The power of the cannonball didn't end there, it landed on the ground on a hardened gravel road, and it was bounced off by the ground, and then it hit two heavy armoured soldiers who were slashing and killing the Medenor soldiers, tearing them in two and then jumping forward at a speed that seemed to be almost like a goose strolling in a leisurely manner, as if a random step on it would stop it. So a reckless heavy soldier brandished the long knife in his hand to block the cannonball. With a thud, the long knife shattered in response to the sound, turning into many fragments and flying out, shooting over people nearby, regardless of friend or foe. And the right hand of the heavy soldier also flew out with the fragment of the long knife, and stood there stupidly stunned. The cannonball didn't stop, and another cannonball fell directly on the place where the fighting between the two sides was most intense, and the captain couldn't see the details there, he could only see that the dust kicked up by the cannonball was six or seven meters high, and there was blood gushing and screaming crowds everywhere.

"Don't get out yet!" He frantically grabbed a man in a Medeno military uniform and walked back, but after taking a few steps and looking back, this person turned out to be dead, so he quickly let go and yelled at the soldiers who were still stunned next to him, "Retreat!" Evacuate! If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave! ”

The soldiers of Annam were also stunned by the sudden shelling, although the South Bank Army had also encountered shelling outside the city of Shabak, but the survivors had not seen the power of the artillery, and now they all stood in place and did not know what to do. Taking advantage of this moment, Medenor's musketeers hurriedly dropped their broken muskets, supported or lifted the wounded soldiers who were not dead, and hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield to the rear.

By the time the Annan soldiers reacted, there were only a few Medeno soldiers left on the battlefield who were still humming without dying, and there were corpses everywhere, the ground was soaked with blood, and people were walking on it wet. Those who walk barefoot on the ground feel sticky, and those who wear straw sandals stick directly to the ground. Immediately they scattered and searched the ground for the silver taels on the corpses.

Only then did they lean down, and they heard a burst of cannons on the wall of Jiezhen, and several shells flew over, and this group of Annan soldiers was directly frightened. A hundred households rushed up from behind, rushed into the crowd and shouted, "Is there a small flag?" ”

A small flag wearing heavy armor hurriedly shouted, "I'm here!" I am ......" As soon as he finished speaking, a cannonball landed beside him, breaking him into three and flying out. "Rush up! If you get entangled with the Medenor, they won't dare to open fire! The hundred households shouted loudly, but no one wanted to listen to him, and they all ran around. Two shells landed on the pier and one fell into the river without much damage.

"How? How many of you have returned? Seeing the captain in front of him withdrawing, the person who answered hurriedly asked him, this captain was covered in blood, his clothes had been soaked with blood, and he couldn't see the original color at all, he limped and was helped by two soldiers in the same military uniform who were tattered and full of blood, and stopped, looking back and back. Behind him were dozens of musketeers, most of whom had no muskets in their hands, some with knives, some with only a strip left in their hands, and many more had nothing left in their hands. Compared with the time he had attacked not long ago, he had a full four-fifths fewer men, and his uniforms were tattered and covered in blood, and he had lost all the hesitation of the previous battle.

As soon as the captain was about to speak, someone shouted, "Annan soldiers are up!" Get ready! The person who answered hurriedly rushed forward, supported or carried the wounded soldier and quickly withdrew from the preset battlefield, and walked towards Jiezhen.

Rushing up behind was a new group of Annan soldiers who crossed the river, they didn't have many weapons in their hands, and a hundred households followed behind as they walked and shouted, "Don't be empty-handed! Pick up weapons! Pick up the weapon from the dead man and rush forward! The Medeno people bluffed, you see they have already been defeated by us! ”

This group of Annan soldiers, like those in front of them, were all defectors of the South Bank Army, and now they were walking next to the corpses of their own people, full of panic in their hearts, but they had no choice, and behind them were the heavily armed overseers. As they walked slowly, they picked up their usable weapons from the ground, Mederno's cannons would occasionally smash cannonballs between them, and their marching ranks were so tight that a single cannonball was a bloody alley.

"Rush! Rush up and the cannon won't hit! "The hundred households in the back actually don't understand the fart, but they just said it right. Before, the artillery bombardment on the city wall fired at the center of the battlefield where friends and enemies were mixed in order to allow their people to withdraw smoothly, but now that the musketeers have withdrawn, and the rest of them are the enemy, the artillery on the city wall will naturally fire in this direction without any scruples, and if they approach the squadrons of those few foot battles, naturally the artillery will not fire indiscriminately.

The Medeno Marine Corps, which was attacking the Annan team, made adjustments, and the infantry squadron was half-kneeling on the ground at the front, lying on its knees, waiting with a semicircular spread out in a semicircle behind them. As soon as the Annan soldiers emerged, they were subjected to intensive fire from the musket squadron, and the first hundred or so people were knocked to the ground, followed by two more volleys, and the Annan soldiers were overturned by more than a hundred people. The role of the musket team came to an end, and the soldiers of the shield team slowly advanced with their shields, while the soldiers of the axe team followed through the gap between the shields with their two-meter-long axe guns, and soon came to the front of the Annan soldiers.

The Annan soldiers were very unaccustomed to this method of warfare, so they rushed forward, the axes and tips of these axes and spears were very sharp, sticking out from the gap in the shield and poking at themselves, no one dared to go forward, they could only retreat. But they had no place to retreat, and behind them were the Warlords and more Annam soldiers who were moving forward, blocking their retreat.

The shield man continued to push forward, stopping as if he had advanced a meter, and erected the heavy shield on the ground, and the axe gunner behind him poked his axe gun into the crowd. The sharp tip of the spear poked into the bodies of those Annan soldiers who had nowhere to retreat, and they fell to the ground weakly one by one.

"Forward!" The shouts of the captain of the infantry brigade rang out, and the shield man lifted the heavy shield, took two steps forward, and put the shield up again. "Poke!" With the order, the axe-gunners stabbed the front again, and put down a group of Annan soldiers.

"Fight!" More than a dozen Annan soldiers roared, brandished short knives and rushed up, but these heavy shields could not be cut through at all, but were slashed to the ground by the swordsmen who swam behind the shields.

"Forward!" As the captain's order sounded again, the shieldmen pushed the shield wall forward a meter again, and the axe-gunners continued to lunge forward.

Russell on the city wall couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, in this way, he only needed to block the Annan soldiers with such a shield array, and then bombard the dock with artillery, it was enough to drive these Annan soldiers into the water. He immediately shouted at the artilleryman, "Target dock, keep firing!" ”

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