The light rain that had lasted for almost a night had made the ground a little muddy, but the mud on the ground did not affect the neat and powerful formation of the stone pillar white pole soldiers under Qin Gongming's command in the slightest.

Three thousand people lined up in three rectangular formations.

Each formation was a thousand people, divided into four columns.

The team on the far left is two hundred and fifty people, all of whom are selected strong men, all holding shields in their left hands and guns in their right hands.

The other three teams were all stone pillar white guns.

In addition to the fierce character of the stone pillar soldiers and the strict and cruel military discipline, a very important point is that their white pole guns have a unique shape.

In addition to the toughness of the barrel of the ash rod and the long and sharp spikes, there is also a structure, that is, the head of the stone pillar pole gun, there is also a sharp and tough barb.

The whole shape is very similar to the cold weapon hook and sickle gun of the Song Dynasty.

However, unlike the Hook Scythe, the barb of the White Stick Gun is more curved and is completely in the shape of a barb, rather than the shape of the Scythe of the Hook Scythe.

Compared with the hook and sickle gun of the Song Dynasty, the white pole gun had a movable iron ring at the tail in addition to the barb on the head of this gun.

It can be said that the white-pole gun in the hands of the white-pole soldiers under Qin Liangyu is a powerful long-handled cold weapon that integrates a variety of functions.

Not only can it be used to form a large array in the plain area to stab, and it can also be hooked when fighting alone, but it is also especially suitable for mountain warfare, climbing mountains or climbing walled cities.

Especially when climbing mountains or obstacles, the length of a white pole gun is not enough, and a white pole gun can also be connected together through the barb of the gun head and the iron ring of the gun tail.

It is precisely because of this powerful function of the white pole gun that Qin Liangyu led the stone pillar white pole soldiers to fight for the imperial court in the south and the north, and has rarely been defeated.

Of course, the only two defeats were not the fault of the stone pillar white pole soldiers.

Moreover, the choice of the stone pillar white pole soldiers is also a fight to the death and does not retreat, and basically all of them are killed.

In the Battle of Salhu, the Ming army was defeated, and Nuer Hachi led a large army to counterattack, when Qin Liangyu's brother Qin Bangping and Qin Minping led the white pole soldiers to stubbornly resist the Jianlu army in the Battle of the Hunhe River.

Under the situation of the overall collapse of the front-line officers and troops, thousands of white-pole soldiers led by the two brothers Qin Bangping and Qin Minping, in order to cover the retreat of other officers and troops, faced the heavy cavalry of Jianyu, fought to the death, and finally fell into a heavy encirclement.

This time it was surrounded, although thousands of white pole soldiers were almost wiped out, but it caused one-to-one casualties to the Jianyu cavalry, and directly stopped the footsteps of the Jianyu army on the east bank of the Hunhe River.

And Qin Liangyu's brother Qin Bangping died heroically in the Hunhe River Blockade Battle, and except for a small number of Qin Minping's white pole soldiers who broke through the siege, the rest of the thousands of people all followed Qin Bangping to fight to the death.

The second defeat was not the fault of the white pole soldiers, but the fault of Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou.

This time, it was the imperial army that collapsed on the way to retreat, and in the case of other officials and troops fleeing in a panic, Qin Minping led the white pole soldiers to always guard the commander Wang Sanshan, and finally fell into the encirclement of tens of thousands of Yi soldiers.

In this battle, 60,000 officers and soldiers fled, and in the end, there was not one in ten, only the white pole soldiers led by Qin Minping fought to the end, and played a normal level, killing more than 10,000 Yi soldiers in Shuixi with 3,000 stone pillars and soil soldiers, so that the Yi soldiers under the command of Hao An stopped at the Yachi River and did not dare to peep at Guiyang again.

Judging from the history of the white pole soldiers participating in the war, this army is a sharp blade for attacking fortifications, and the code is the mainstay.

Nicknamed "White Pole Soldier" or "White Pole Army", although it is said to be a private soldier of Tusi, for the Ming Dynasty, this Tusi army is a more reliable and loyal army than the southern Beijing battalion.

Compared with the neat and well-disciplined stone pillar white pole soldiers, the Baojing Tusi Peng Chaozhu under the command of the Baojing Tusi looked more like a rabble.

This is also the reason why Peng Chaozhu, the right-brand Baojing Xuanfu Division, was willing to obey the temperate command of a female general like Qin Liangyu before.

It's not because Qin Liangyu is older than him, nor because Qin Liangyu is higher than him, but because the stone pillars and earth soldiers under Qin Liangyu's command are forbidden and uniform, encroaching like fire, immobile like a mountain, up and down like a person.

Such a stone pillar white pole soldier, not only can the soldiers who look like wolves and tigers not be able to defeat them, but when it comes to a critical time, I am afraid they will have to rely on this white pole soldier to save their lives.

At this moment, the footsteps of the white pole soldiers "click" and "click" sounded in his ears again, and Peng Chaozhu watched with some awe as this indifferent and uniform team walked to him, and involuntarily took a few steps back to make way for them to move forward.

Peng Chaozhu swallowed hard, gestured towards Lama, and walked briskly towards Wu Zhiwang, who was walking in the distance.

"My lord, let's protect the Jing soldiers too!"

"Yes, when the Baojing soldiers occupy the open space at the bridgehead on the opposite bank, the Baojing soldiers will cover the artillery team of Wang Jianguo's troops to cross the river and participate in the battle!"

Although Wu Zhiwang's reply to Peng Chaozhu made him a little disappointed, in his opinion, he took the initiative to ask for war again, which seemed to be regarded as saving a little dignity for the Baojing soldiers.

Soon the first long formation of the stone pillar earth soldiers walked on the Lengshui River Bridge, and then Qin Gongming led the second long formation and stepped on the bridge.

By the time Qin Liangyu personally led the third long formation onto the bridgehead, the first stone pillar white pole long formation had already approached the opposite bank of the Lengshui River in the fog.

Most of the stone pillar white-pole soldiers are wearing rattan armor or leather armor, and only the strong men in the leftmost column with a shield and a gun are all wearing iron armor.

Because these strong men with huge shields are always the first row or outermost part of the white pole soldiers' spear phalanx, and they belong to the part of the people who must go before every battle and die first in every battle.

Not only is food, clothing, and shelter the best, but if there is a capture after each battle, the spoils of war are of course the best.

Most of these people are chosen from among sinners, but there are also brave and ruthless people who are greedy for a good reward and recommend themselves to fill the position.

Now Qin Kezhong, the earth garrison who led the first phalanx of the stone pillar white pole soldiers across the river, was born as such a sinner and a dead soldier.

Different from the short and sturdy people of the general southerners, especially the indigenous minorities of this era, Qin Kezhong, who is in his thirties, was born with the appearance of a northland man, tall, burly, with broad shoulders and broad back, and thick limbs, like a brown bear in the northern forest.

It's just that the scars on his face destroy the original dignified face, making him look more like a fierce god who will choose someone to devour at any time.

Qin Kezhong's great-grandfather's generation, was the Tusi of Longyang Cave within the jurisdiction of Shizhu Xuanfu, and launched a rebellion during the Wanli period because of the attempt to secede and stand on its own.

Only some infants and young children of the Qin clan of Longyang Cave were not killed, but raised as slaves as sinners.

Qin Kezhong is such a background, because he was brave and abnormal when he was a teenager, so he was selected into the team of dead soldiers, and because he must be the first in every battle, he is not afraid of death, and after Qin Liangyu took power, he was promoted all the way.

In the Battle of the Hunhe River, it was he who led his troops to protect Qin Minping and broke out of the siege and saved Qin Minping's life.

In the Battle of Shuixi from the end of the third year of the Apocalypse to the beginning of the fourth year, it was he who protected Qin Minping's two sons, Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming, who fought their way out of the encirclement, which was regarded as leaving Qin Liangyu's mother's old Qin family behind.

After several wars, Qin Kezhong, who was born as a sinner and a dead soldier, finally got rid of his status as a slave and became a stone pillar toast protector, and the Longyang Cave soil garrison appointed by the imperial court military department restored the family's foundation again.

Because he was raised by the Ma family since he was a child, and Ma Qiancheng was finally accused of various things such as slaughtering the Tusi people in Longyang Cave, and was finally imprisoned by the imperial court and died in prison.

After Qin Liangyu replaced her husband Ma Qiancheng to take charge of the Shizhu Xuanfu Division, she was very kind to Qin Kezhong, so Qin Kezhong had nothing to say, so he could only repay him with death.

Protecting Qin Minping to break through in the mixed battle, and protecting Qin Yiming and Qin Gongming in the Battle of Shuixi are all manifestations of this mentality.

At this time, as a garrison officer in the stone pillar soil soldiers, Qin Kezhong still wore the dress of a dead soldier, with an iron helmet on his head, iron armor, a giant shield in one hand, and a hook gun in the other.

The early morning fog hit his face head-on, wet, Qin Kezhong, who was the first of the first column on the left side of the first phalanx of the stone pillar and earth soldiers, saw the riverbank ten steps away through the fog, and immediately shouted in a low voice: "The first team will follow me first!" The other three teams followed! ”

After saying this, Qin Kezhong's giant shield rushed forward, protected his body, and then took a big stride and rushed over first.

A distance of more than a dozen steps, in front of a giant like Qin Kezhong, who is nearly two meters tall, is just a few ups and downs.

Qin Kezhong rushed to the bridgehead first, crossed in a big stride, jumped over the trench dug by the Shaxi Yi soldiers at the bridgehead, flew on the fence behind the trench with a huge shield, threw a section of the fence erected high to the ground, and then flipped over and stood up again.

The loud thrashing sound of the fence falling to the ground caused the Shaxi Yi soldiers who were stationed under the watchtower not far away, and soon the sound of shouting and ordering came from the Yi soldier camp:

"The officers and troops of the Han people have crossed the river!"

"Hurry up and go back to report, the Han officers and soldiers have crossed the river!"

There was also a voice shouting: "Rush over, rush over, block them, block them at the bridge!" ”

Someone upstairs also shouted: "Shoot arrows!" Archery! Shoot them! ”

Immediately after a clanging sound, it hit the giant shield more than one meter high raised in front of Qin Kezhong, and the archers on the watchtower began to throw a rain of arrows.

The high watchtowers greatly increased the range of the Yi soldiers' bows and arrows.

Originally, the range of the Yi people's bow and arrow was not good, and it was rainy before, and the fog was wet at night, and the Yi bow that could usually shoot an effective distance of sixty or seventy steps, at this time, because of the projectile from the watchtower, the range actually reached nearly two hundred steps.

If it weren't for the rain and dampness, which affected the tension of the bowstring, the archers of the first watchtower in front of them would have been able to cover the bridgehead on the west bank of the Lengshui River.