Under the city of Liaodong,

The sound of guns and shouts of killing still shook the earth, and the smoke and steaming dust almost obscured the sunlight and became hazy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Between the flying up and down of the various flags and military markers, the soldiers of the Huai Army wearing lead-gray uniforms and the Saiwai clan in variegated uniforms rode on foot, shouting and launching round after round of tearing and killing.

The black-faced white soldier Shi Shi Deputy Chen Erfa crouched in the trench, trying to open his red eyes smoked by the wolf smoke ball, and aimed at the rapidly approaching figures with the trumpet gun in his hand; But it was the smoke and dust kicked up by the huge horses' hooves that came first.

He cursed, hurriedly put down his hand and leaned sideways with his whole shoulder and arm tilted upward, and then he heard the dull tapping sound almost close at hand, and the clods of earth that fell down with a pop, and turned into a muffled or suppressed scream in the trench where the hand or body was trampled one after another.

And the horseman, who flew over his head, did not seem to pay attention to and notice, and the white soldiers, who had crouched into the trench in turn, were suddenly startled, but it was too late, and they could only fly over the trench under the impetus of inertia, exposing their unprotected legs, feet, and horse's belly to the mouth of his horn.

Then, as if it was some kind of conditioned reflex, a fountain of sparks in his hand struck at the ankles and the horse's belly so closely, only to hear the sudden outbreak of shouting and screaming, the bombarded intestines pierced the rotten war horse, dragged out a large area of spilled organs and blood, and fell the muddy ground behind him with the bloody rider with one foot.

Then, before the wounded rider could struggle, the short spear that had been stabbed against the ground from the slightly higher trench in the second tier had pierced his shoulder again, and had nailed him to the ground.

At the same time, Chen Erfa finally saw it again, crossing the gap between the destroyed defense line and the barrage, and the enemy foot soldiers who were leaked over; Wrapped in rags or barefoot covered with dirt, they also ran and trampled in front of Chen Erfa;

Then they were struck by these low-lying white soldiers, with the sharp edge of their hand, or the three-eyed hammer barrel, or the axe-shaped blade cast at the lower end of the trumpet, and screamed and rolled to the ground.

A moment later, Chen Heng's corpse was already covered in front of him, and thick blood continued to seep down the ground, making the trench he was staying in even more and more muddy.

Successive balls of wolf smoke and lit balls of arson, and felt balls were once again thrown and rolled into the trenches where they were staying, and in an instant the pungent and smoky poisonous smoke and the scorching smell of cloth and leather diffused and bloomed from these fronts again.

As a veteran for many years, Chen Erfa waved his hand almost quickly, blocking a burning fire fence, and then extinguished it in the mud of the trench with his hand, covering his mouth and nose with water-soaked cuffs.

But not all of them have his luck or impromptu reactions, and from time to time someone is really too bad to stand up and get up, and then be knocked over by the whistling arrows and throwing spears, or be knocked down and slashed by the enemy horses that come one after another, and be knocked down by the enemy who pounces on them, and scuffle into a ball.

As a result, there were once again some gaps and loopholes in the inner battle line composed of several trenches on the front, and the roaring enemy was leaked through. But most of the people who remained in the trenches were unmoved, and showed no signs of panic or collapse.

As a glorious white soldier, you must not only have a strong enough physique, but also have quite skilled combat skills, including mastering the use of a variety of traditional weapons and the needs of combat in various environments;

Therefore, under normal circumstances, the biggest and most important mission is to act as a shield and human wall for those guns in field battles and street battles, and also to play the role of leading and breaking through when the guns launch a white-knuckle attack; At least until they're all gone, the array of guns is not to be easily accessible to any enemy.

As the first group to engage the enemy in close combat, their casualty rate has always been relatively high among the Huai army.

Therefore, they are often selected from those friendly units that have been annexed, absorbed, and integrated by the Huai army, or from the defense battalions with outstanding performance in the second line, and then enriched by training in the use of basic melee firearms; For example, Chen Erfa, an old man of the Huai Army who was directly recruited from Guangfu and participated in the two Northern Expeditions, belonged to a minority of a certain significance.

Therefore, they enjoy the same treatment as the same firearms unit in the main battle sequence, and they also receive an extra battlefield allowance than ordinary guns, just for Rusi's sake.

Here, they are required to play the role of battlefield filters and sieves, trying to block and intercept the enemy in their own lines, and reducing the pressure and frequency of the rear gunning array, in order to kill and annihilate as much as possible.

Therefore, he did not panic in any way, but echoed to the left and right to count the number of people around him who could support each other, and continued to hold his position in the midst of the successive waves of enemies, while maneuvering and fighting with the enemies who broke through the trench to ensure that they could not occupy this line of defense as they wished.

When the last hasty figure in the field of vision fell to the ground with the retreating enemy tide, and the horn sound of the long-lost change of formation sounded again, Chen Erfa sat on the ground full of brown sludge, and with his still slightly twitching hands, he checked the few new wounds left on his body, and picked out the nail pieces that had been cut off and turned into the flesh.

The auxiliaries came up with their husbands to clean up the corpses and carry the wounded, and they also brought up the battlefield food in tin buckets and rattan baskets, which were sweet syrup water fermented by millet flour, and mixed bean steamed rice balls with minced meat and fried beans toppings. Many people just sit in the blood, scorched and muddy and grab it and eat it.

And the newly replaced new force finally arrived in this gap, along the reconnected trenches and shallow trenches, but Chen Erfa, who was gobbling up, looked at these faces and couldn't help muttering again in his heart; In the past few days, the number of soldiers who have been replenished has become smaller and smaller, and they have gradually been replaced by those from the garrison battalions and even the feudal soldiers.

Where have all the soldiers in the main battle army been transferred?

And in the past two days, others have only heard the excitement, but as a veteran of Guangfu, he can hear the clear levels and clues, and in the past two days, all the scattered small cannons and large guns attached to the battalion are all the scattered small cannons and large guns that are attached to the battalion, but it is rare to hear the movement of the long-barreled field artillery and the thick-barreled heavy artillery with a larger caliber brought by the army;

At most, there is no more action to do at the head of the city by relying on the condescending firing range, firing artillery for a while aimed at the suppression of key targets, or focusing on the enemy's firearms that are pushing down the formation.

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On the castle tower, I watched the dozen or so gun emplacements on the lower floors that were being operated intensively; As this round of enemy offensive retreated, their deterrent attack also came to an end temporarily, and they seized the time to cool down the cannon and then clean and scrub the breech to ensure the efficiency of the next use.

"The enemy still hasn't moved."

Then I nodded to the commander of the formation and the first soldier and horse envoy who came to report

"Then we can't do it lightly here."

"Continue to send the men and horses that have been reorganized in the city to the position under the city walls."

"At least make a gesture that we've exhausted ourselves"

"Let the other party feel that as long as you work harder, you can make a breakthrough."

"And try to contain most of its strength under this city."

As I went down the gatehouse, I found that the fighting and shouting in the direction of the inner city did not end with the repulsion of the enemy outside the city, but intensified.

Then I listened closely, even a little closer to me; This is a bit wrong, could it be that the remnants of the enemy in the city have already broken the pot and decided to take a desperate gamble?

At this time, the three coins that had been following me suddenly moved, and she suddenly grabbed my body and waved her sword in front of me, and when she heard a piercing sound, it seemed that she had hit something. (To be continued.) )