Chapter 356: The Bloody Battle is just the beginning

The two battalions of the fifth battalion of the left are outside, and the performance is quite interesting, Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, has long known the number of Huaiyang army's roads, watching the other party push out the cannon, and hurriedly ordered his artillery to retreat.

But Wei Xiaobei, the king of the troubled times, couldn't react for a while, and there was also a difference in the range of the artillery of the two sides, the artillery of the Huaiyang Army was set up with all hands and feet, and the three artillery pieces were directly aimed at this side, and the few cannons pushed out by Wei Xiaobei also saw the other party's movements.

I really can't advance or retreat, and I also saw that Zuo Jinwang's artillery didn't come out at all, and there were still people in the formation who helped to drag them back, and they scolded for a while.

There was still some luck in the hearts of the people, thinking that the artillery of the officers and soldiers might not be able to hit so far, and there were already ignition cannons, and there were a few loud sounds.

The shells flew over with a whistling sound, and the hastily corrected aiming was not accurate, but the people over there were already frightened and stupid, watching the bombs stir up smoke and dust not far from them, and they jumped a few times on the ground, and they were really distracted, and they couldn't care about anything.

These gunners who operate the cannons of the king of troubled times, they don't care about anything, they pull their legs and run towards the formation, they push out five cannons, and the Huaiyang army fought three rounds before a shell smashed on the cannon of the king of troubled times, this kind of killing is really limited, but the performance of these soldiers in the fifth battalion of the left is also laughable.

It is not realistic for the artillery to move forward, firstly, the place is very cramped, and secondly, the opponent's skirmish line and cavalry are also ready to move, this kind of space, at most one cannon can be fired, and the opponent's soldiers and horses can be in front of him, which is really not worth it.

In the main formation of the Huaiyang Army, the soldiers built a high platform for Chen Liu and a cadre, in such a battlefield. Commanders should also observe the situation on the battlefield from a high place, as much as possible.

On the other side of the bamboo row wall, an officer trotted over and said loudly under the high platform:

"Lord Chen, this place is not very suitable for bombarding infantry, the ground is too soft, and the three-pounder shell just now did not bounce on the ground at all."

Chen Liu nodded and replied in a loud voice:

"Back to the line. We just need to do our best, and let these thieves attack! ”

The artillery officer gave a military salute, turned around and ran back to the front to issue an order, Chen Liu took the clairvoyant mirror in his hand to observe the city defense opposite, but always maintained a smiling expression, and it seemed that he did not take the other party in his eyes.

Wei Xiaobei over there came to Liu Xiyao with his personal guards, and said with a little complaint:

"Brother Liu, there is no brotherhood here. Brother, you know the routine of the official dog, why don't you know that you will be a brother, look at it, you have a disgraced face. ”

Wei Xiaobei is in the army of displaced people, and he has always been particular about dressing. He was the son of a dilapidated family in the mall, and after mixing up with the current situation, he began to lean towards the time he enjoyed back then, which has always been not the right way with Liu Xiyao, who was born as a small trader.

Facing Wei Xiaobei's questioning. Liu Xiyao raised his eyebrows and said in a cold voice:

"Fang Cai Lao He said that I was asked to lead you in the middle, why didn't you listen, now come and talk about this."

He Yilong had his own arrangements in the inner part of the city, and when he went out to fight, He Yilong, because of his high ranking, suggested that Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, had fought with officers and soldiers, and he was somewhat experienced. It's good to let him be in the center of the dispatch, but when the city is peaceful, water and fire are incompatible, how can Wei Xiaobei, the king of the troubled times, want the other party to command his troops.

But Linzhan suffered a small loss, and he immediately came over to complain......

The two men were just about to quarrel when they heard several soldiers watching from the top of the city wall shouting at the top of their voices:

"The officers and soldiers were there to build the wall, and there a group of people were filling in the earth behind the shield!?"

With the height of the bamboo row, it is not easy to see what the people behind are doing, and the angle of the castle is to watch the soldiers continue to dig along the river bank and on both sides. Then they were piled up behind the bamboo wall. As mentioned earlier, there is not much room for this section of Yingshang City to be expanded.

Beyond the clearing were low hills and paddy fields, where officers and soldiers were digging for soil. There are tough bamboo rafts as supports, and the soil is piled at the back, which can also be supported.

Before the Huaiyang army appeared, the old Qian and a group of people chatting and laughing on the city were on the bank of the outer side of the moat, staring at the bamboo row on the opposite side, and the bamboo wall gradually became an earthen wall.

Scarface held a rusted broadknife in his hand, reached out and habitually touched his scar, and exclaimed:

"Good girl, I don't see how many people, this group of dogs is digging and building walls by themselves, it's really fucking rare."

Lao Qian was wearing this leather armor with a big hole, seeing that the big hole was open between the chest and abdomen, and there were purple-black blood clots at the hole, which was obviously pulled from the dead man, he was holding a knife in his hand, and he was standing further back, his face was not very good-looking, and he scolded and said:

"This group of officers and soldiers is the group that made our battalion suffer in Zhengyang Town, and the brothers who came back said that it was very strange and very difficult to bite!"

The little loach had a spear in his hand, he was the most advanced of these people, and there were two or three rows of people in front of him who were at the forefront, and the reason why it was said was two or three rows was because these people had no formation at all, and they were standing there casually, and he heard two acquaintances talking, and he looked back with a smile:

"If the fight is over today, there must be a treat of wine and meat in the city!"

After he said this, the people around him and behind him laughed, and the scarred face swallowed and spit, and said:

"Don't say it, look at this battle, our king will definitely treat ......"

A few words made this group of people excited, they first saw the horror of famine, and then they fought in the ranks of the homeless, and to this day, there is no too vague wish, to have a wine and meat to eat, this is already more than the fear of dying in battle.

They were talking and laughing, and suddenly someone shouted at the top of their lungs

"Brothers, the official dog is coming to the door today, if we don't beat them back, we have no way to go to Henan to join the prince, Lao Liu here first make a wish, all the brothers who are in the first five rows of heads. Fifty taels of silver per person, a good blade, the ladies who come back to the city will give you a few days of joy and peace, all the brothers today, after returning to the city, we will open up and eat with wine and meat!! ”

After saying this, there was really a thunderous roar of joy, although the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left has been active in rich places for a long time. But the homeless soldiers below did not enjoy any blessings, even if fifty taels of silver were troubled times, they could live for a few years in a peaceful place, and a good blade was the capital to save their lives, not to mention women and wine and meat.

On top of the reward, I saw countless people walking towards the front row, originally outside the city just the formation of the fifth camp on the left side, from the outside of the moat it was nearly a hundred steps thick. As soon as he said this, the people who were still in the city poured out, and the people outside leaned forward, and in an instant, the formation skyrocketed to a thickness of one hundred and fifty paces.

As for this length, wherever the formation can be deployed. It was already full of soldiers and horses of the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, and on the outer side of the city gate suspension bridge, Liu Xiyao and Wei Xiaobei were surrounded by their local guards, and Wei Xiaobei's array was also cheering. Because they promised the same reward.

Seeing that Old Qian and Scarface were walking forward, the little loach also wiped his nose and walked forward, Scarface carried the knife while pushing away the person in front of him, while scolding, others looked at the scar on his face, they generally retreated, and looked back at the little loach with a spear to follow, Scarface couldn't help but laugh and scolded:

"How. You haven't grown hair, and you're thinking about your. ”

The little loach said with a smile:

"Take the fifty taels of silver, go back to Henan, and buy a few acres of good land, marry a daughter-in-law, and honor my mother."

Old Qian and Scarface glanced at each other, but this time they didn't laugh and scold, and gave fifty taels of silver in the first few rows. But it doesn't count. That's because you don't have to count when you die. When you come back, I won't lose anything by sending it to you. As for the little loach, the two of them were fellow villagers with him, and the little loach didn't know outside, and the two of them had vaguely heard that his mother had already starved to death.

"Brother Liu...... Brother Liu, will this work? ”

Wei Xiaobei's title has changed a little, and the scene in front of him is only available when Yingchuan and Lu'an are mobilized, at that time, there were many officers and soldiers, and the city walls were high and thick, so they could only rush forward desperately, and promised a big reward several times, and the brothers were all killed and wounded, but after all, they were taken down.

Today, this small bamboo wall, actually wants to come out to make such a big noise to fight, Liu Xiyao, the king of Zuojin, didn't care about talking to Wei Xiaobei, and dragged a personal soldier to shout in a deep voice:

"Go tell Lao He, I'm holding him down here, tell him to hurry up, go and !!"

The guard half-knelt down, and squeezed into the city from the crowd with a few people shouting, and Wei Xiaobei, the king of the troubled times, didn't care so much, and shouted loudly in the back, letting the soldiers around him step forward.

Liu Xiyao, the king of the left gold, sent his direct troops around him without hesitation, and he had no intention of preserving his strength at all, and Wei Xiaobei, the king of the troubled times, was also solemn, and the fifth battalion of the left was this benefit, and everyone was still unanimous in the outside world at a critical time.

The soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution Left were stimulated by the bounty, and the soldiers of the displaced people rushed forward, and the already thick ranks swelled more and more, and the rear teams in the city were also clamoring to leave the city.

The distance between the two sides was not far, and the displaced soldiers kept crowding forward, and they were already very close to the bamboo wall, and the bamboo wall was still pouring soil outward. Half of the bamboo wall has been lost by the soil outside, and the displaced soldiers are all relieved and bold because of the other party's civil engineering work.

The uproar of the displaced soldiers had drowned out most of the sounds, so no one in the array could hear the loud shouts of the officers and soldiers.

The shouting stopped, the pouring of soil did not stop, but there were a few muffled sounds, and the cannonballs were dragged behind the bamboo wall......

The shells whizzed into the crowd, albeit in the soft soil, and despite the fact that the solid shells of the artillery at this point relied mainly on the bounce of the ground.

But the outcasts were so dense that the cannonballs hit them in the air, as if they had smashed into the flesh container, and the flesh flew everywhere, screaming.

It was as if a bag full of water had suddenly been punctured, or more accurately, a dam filled with water and burst into the air.

The crowd of people poured towards the bamboo wall in front of it......

Although the little loach was the youngest in that team, he had experienced a lot of bloody battles, and although he was standing in front, he was charged. But he shrank back as much as he could.

But the people behind rushed to the ground so hard that they couldn't control their bodies when they stumbled, but they still slowed down, and saw more and more people rushing to the front.

Scarface and Lao Qian also shrank back, and the few cannons behind the bamboo wall did not stop firing, but less than a hundred paces away, the soldiers of the displaced people also knew that they could only be safe if they ran to the bamboo wall as soon as possible. If you're halfway through, you're on target.

Every time a shell was fired, dozens of people were killed in the charging procession of the displaced people, but in the midst of the charge of so many people, the casualties at this point were like small waves in the tide, and the people who fell were trampled by the people behind them, and no one paid attention to them at all.

The chest-high bamboo row is filled with soil on both sides, which is the chest height breast wall. The height of the firebolt frame is just right, and this height is pre-measured.

At different distances, the Huaiyang Army of the Jiaozhou Battalion had different weapons to correspond to, and the artillery was followed by a salvo of firearms, which had become a fixed procedure.

Non-commissioned officers armed with axes and guns shouted orders behind the ranks of musketeers. Make sure to fire a salvo.

Although the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing of the Revolution charged with great momentum from the outcasts outside the city, the sound of artillery fire within the bamboo wall could not be concealed.

After passing some distance, the cannon fire stopped, and Scarface's group in the middle of the queue sped up. Originally, I couldn't see anything behind the bamboo wall except for the spear array, but the sound of the cannon stopped, and the soldiers with the firearms put the firearms on the breastwork.

"Fire!!"

The metal projectile shot out of the chamber of the gun at high speed with a death roar, and the bamboo wall was immediately covered by the smoke of gunpowder, and the first round of fire began to fire.

The ground between Yingshang City and the bank of the Yingshui River was quiet for a moment, and the officers of the Huaiyang Army behind the bamboo wall could no longer see the situation on the other side clearly, under the cover of gunsmoke. The vision was very blurry, but after a little quietness on the other side, the shouts of the homeless people rang out again.

"First row, go down, second row, go up!!"

With the array of the Huaiyang Army on the shore, only four rows of firecrackers rotated, but after four rounds of firing. The shouting of killing has become much more sparse.

In such a confined space. The dense firepower poured down, causing great casualties to the outcastic army that rushed over......

Outside the city, the army of displaced people was completely on the run. Although the array in front was already sparse under the damage of artillery and firearms.

But the movement of the large array on the outside of the moat, the rear team pushed the front team, it was completely unstoppable, even if there was a gap, it was quickly pushed by the people behind, and the subordinates of the Zuo Jin King and the King of the Troubled Times also saw that the fire guns on the bamboo wall no longer shot, and in a short period of time, they did not rotate to shoot according to the rhythm just now.

This shot is different from the firearms of the ordinary officers and soldiers, at least it is put into the range and fired, causing a lot of damage, but now the shooting of the fire gun can't keep up, that is, it has become a burning stick, rushing in to kill!!

Fifty taels of silver! Enough wine and meat! And women! Every homeless soldier who rushed to the front seemed to feel that this was right in front of him, and everyone's eyes turned blood-red.

The spear in the hand of the little loach pointed forward, shouting loudly in a hoarse voice, now he rushed to the forefront of the team, just now the fire gun sounded, the people around the person in front of him kept falling, there was a scream of projectile flight around him, the companion in front of him, the old money and the scarface, halfway was to fall to the ground, trampled by someone, and could not get up again.

He didn't have much time to be sad, he followed the army all the way to the east and west, there were too many people to see in this meeting, and there were too many dead people, and he saw that the bamboo wall was in front of him.

The bloody breath in the air was mixed with the smell of gunpowder smoke that had not yet dissipated, which stimulated the little loach to go crazy, and a companion in front of him had already climbed the bamboo wall, but he suddenly tumbled down from it, and a bloody hole was opened in his chest.

This is the life and death experience of the little loach, stepping on the body of the companion and jumping over the bamboo wall.

Sure enough, the spearman in front of him had just withdrawn his spear, and before he could make a second assassination move, this was the opportunity.

The little loach raised his spear and stabbed forward, and suddenly saw the opposite officers and soldiers on both sides, two spears stabbed at him, the spear in his hand was not long enough, and there was a bamboo wall behind him, there was no way to dodge, there was no way to dodge, the little loach at this moment, he was not afraid in his mind, but he remembered his hometown mall, remembered his wife, at that time, it seemed that there was no disaster, and everyone was very ......

Wang Gang, a soldier of the first battalion of the Huaiyang Army, withdrew the spear in his hand, he was in the second row, he had just assassinated a thief who had climbed over the bamboo wall, this thief was also holding a spear, he was not very old, and when he fell to the ground, he opened his mouth as if to say something. Wang Gang didn't have time to pay attention, and the enemy followed in, and he wanted to prepare for the next assassination.