Immediately afterwards, with another command from Liu Wu, the pikemen in the first row withdrew the spears in their hands together, and their movements were still neat, powerful and fast, just like one person. www.biquge.infoSwift stabbing, quick retraction, and putting an end to all pauses and muddy water are also one of the guidelines for the pikemen of Huguang Town during their usual training.

More than a dozen spears retracted from the elite soldiers of the Green Battalion in a silver arc, bringing out a series of bloody arrows. The stabbed Green Battalion soldiers all vomited blood clots in their mouths, and fell weakly with unwilling eyes, or rolled into the trench or lay directly on the passage.

But the speed of the green battalion charge was also very fast, the first row of soldiers had just fallen to the ground, and the follow-up sharp soldiers rushed up with loud screams, raising the big swords and heavy axes in their hands and other heavy short weapons to slash at the heads of the Ming army.

"Second row, forward-stab!" Almost at the same time as the pikemen of the first row of the Ming army put away their guns and stood upright, Liu Wu shouted again, and the pikemen in the second row, who were ready to go, stabbed the spears in their hands out of the gap in the front queue with all their might.

More than a dozen sharp and swift cold lights shattered the dreams of the follow-up Green Battalion soldiers for revenge, and after a muffled sound of broken bones and flesh, more than a dozen Green Battalion soldiers staggered and fell.

Although the coordination between the two rows of pikemen in the front and rear seemed cumbersome, the soldiers of Huguang Town were very skillful, as if they were flowing smoothly. In the past, on the training ground, instructors simulated enemy troops with rows of sacks filled with sand and hanging from wooden poles, and constantly trained pikemen.

In the case of a straight stab, when the first row of sacks crashes into the first row, the spearmen who are knocked down in the first row will be punished. However, while the pikemen in the first row collect their guns, the second row of sacks will quickly collide, and if another person in the first row is knocked down by the sacks, the person to be punished will become the pikeman behind him, because he has not done his duty to protect his comrades. In the case of diagonal right stabs, when someone in the first platoon of pikemen is knocked down by the first wave of sacks, then the person to his left will be punished, and when someone is knocked down by the second wave of sacks. Those who are behind them will be punished.

As for the punishment, of course, there are all kinds of punishments, such as beating with military sticks, whipping with leather whips, punishing running with heavy loads, and so on. Faced with such an almost perverted training regime. The soldiers of Huguang Town were very uncomfortable and miserable here, but as time went by, they gradually got used to it, and basically formed a conditioned reflex to this set of actions. One stab and one harvest. Although it seems to be fancy, it erupts with extraordinarily powerful lethality.

These green battalion soldiers as a breakthrough force are worthy of being the elite of the army, and the will to fight is even a fight with the ordinary Eight Banners, the people in the front row continue to fall under the spears of the Ming army, and the people in the back row still pounce on them. But the width of the notch is somewhat after all. At most, a dozen people can pass at a time, and the queue of the Ming army's pikemen is slightly arc-shaped in the face of the gap, and more than a dozen spears are pierced together, and there are almost no dead ends. Therefore, no matter how brave these green battalion soldiers are, they can only be pierced one by one.

"Flutter!"

"Ahh - "A fierce face of the commander of the Green Battalion was stabbed at the same time by two spears stabbed in front of him and in front of the right before he could reach the Ming army, and the severe pain from his chest and abdomen and right ribs caused him to let out a desperate and terrible scream. On the eve of the exhaustion of all his strength, he threw the heavy axe in his hand towards the Ming army in front of him.

With this person taking the lead, several other green battalion soldiers also threw the big knives and heavy axes in their hands towards the heads of the Ming army before they died.

The spearmen of the Ming army, who were caught off guard, were suddenly hit by several people. One person was hacked to death on the spot. The rest of the people also temporarily lost their combat effectiveness, but the dead and wounded were quickly moved to the rear, and the vacant places that appeared were filled by the follow-ups, and the overall situation was not affected at all.

While the pikemen of the Ming army behind the gap kept stabbing at the same time, the firecrackers on both sides of the gap also raised their firearms to shoot at the green battalion soldiers on the passage. Under the double blow of frontal spear thrusts and side-fire fire, the Green Battalion soldiers who attacked from the passage were full of flesh and blood and suffered heavy losses. The casualties caused to the Ming army were minimal, and the situation could not be opened for half a day.

Outside the chest. The deafening shouts of killing were higher than the tide, and the area beyond the gap. The black-pressed green battalion soldiers also rushed towards the Ming army through the passages filled in the trenches. In some sections, some of the fierce Green Battalion soldiers even took advantage of the gap in the Ming army's shooting to jump out from behind the shield cart and climb the breastwork.

Amid the officers' orders one after another, the firecrackers of Huguang Town retreated one after another, handing over their battle positions to the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers. On the two-mile-long front, the range of hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat became wider and wider, and the earth-shattering shouts became more and more intense, and the battle gradually entered a white-hot heat.

Looking down from a high place, two waves of different colors collided together, and the junction continued to splash with bursts of blood. Both armies have their own strategic and tactical goals, and neither is willing to give up easily, so it is destined to be a tragic fight.

However, as time went on, the superiority and inferiority of the two armies gradually became apparent. After withstanding the first few waves of fierce attacks by the Green Battalion, the soldiers of Huguang Town gradually stabilized the situation and became more and more courageous. After several rounds of outbreaks, the green battalion soldiers who did not open the situation gradually showed a weak state, and the momentum became more and more weak. Inadvertently, the offensive and defensive battles evolved into stalemate battles.

This is not surprising. Although the morale of the green battalion was very high, and there were many brave men among them, the tactics used were still to open the breakthrough with sharp soldiers, and the rest of the officers and soldiers rushed in from the gap and took advantage of the situation to cover up the old routine. This tactic once defeated countless weak Ming troops to the point of losing their armor and crushing, but when used in the confrontation with the soldiers of Huguang Town, it lost its original power. Huguang Town's peacetime training pays the most attention to group cooperation, does not advocate that kind of reckless individual martial arts, everything is based on "the brave do not advance, the cowardly do not retreat" as the benchmark, although the individual combat effectiveness is not necessarily comparable to those who crawled out of the mountain of corpses and blood of the green battalion sharp soldiers, but the whole group is like a well-run machine, the overall combat effectiveness that erupts is naturally not to be underestimated.

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When the battle on the front was in full swing, the generals on both sides were also paying close attention to the battle situation ahead.

Zhang Yingxiang, Wang Guangen, and later Feng Tengyuan and Jin Li could hardly believe their eyes, and the joy of successfully advancing to the Ming defense line had been completely replaced by consternation. They originally thought that as long as they approached the Ming army and let their firearms lose room to play, the next battle would be smooth, and the Ming army, which was fierce with firearms, would scatter under their own fierce offensive. But unexpectedly, the Ming army on the opposite side was not only quite sharp in the artillery battle array, but also quite good at hand-to-hand combat, resulting in their own rapid offensive never opening the situation.

In the Qing army formation two miles away, on the high platform with a golden dragon thread, Duoduo frowned slightly, his expression was serious, and the king of Sanshun and a group of Manchurian generals around him also looked solemn or shocked, and they had not encountered the Ming army who had fought so tenaciously in the field. Unexpectedly, the Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry fought almost all over the world, but once again encountered such a Ming army that dared to fight and could fight in Huguang.

The position of the headquarters of the Chinese army in Huguang Town, Zhu Dadian was also full of emotion. He is over 60 years old and has stepped into the officialdom for more than 30 years, and he has witnessed the Ming army's repeated defeats since the end of Wanli, and he is not ignorant of the reasons, but the atmosphere in the army has been erosive for a long time, and how easy is it to straighten it out? Especially after the Qing army crossed the Yangtze River and the Hongguang court was destroyed, he had many feelings of discouragement. It wasn't until that time when he saw the military appearance of Pang Yue's army in Ganzhou Town that he rekindled hope in his heart, although the army was not large in number, it exuded a positive and vigorous vitality. After seeing the performance of this army on the battlefield with his own eyes today, Zhu Dadian affirmed his original judgment, but after being gratified, there was a faint sadness, if Daming could have a few more Pang Yue and a few more Huguang Towns, what would be the state of the country?

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The fighting continued into the early afternoon. Although the Green Battalion fought hard and launched one attack after another, they were unable to shake the Ming army's defense line. The long-term inability to open the situation has made their originally high morale also consume little by little, and strong self-confidence has gradually been replaced by doubt. Looking at the tragic death of their comrades, many green battalion soldiers were frightened and wondered: Is the army on the opposite side still the Ming army that is vulnerable and has been beaten by their own side many times? In the panic, the intensity of the offensive gradually weakened, and the slogans were much weaker than at first.

Zhang Yingxiang and Wang Guangen's repeated attacks were blocked by the Ming army and fought back. Later, Feng Tengyuan, the general soldier of Hanyang, replaced the exhausted Wang Guangen to join the attacking team, and even the Han army inlaid with red flags and fixed mountains and real gold gravel also sent some valuable Eight Banner soldiers to support, but there was no progress. The passage and trench in front of the breastwork wall guarded by the Ming army were covered with large blood stains, and the fallen corpses were layered one layer after another.

After noon, Duoduo, who had been silent for a long time, finally ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Hearing the loud cymbals, Zhang Yingxiang, Wang Guangen and others also seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and gave the order to retreat. The green battalion soldiers, who were already physically and mentally exhausted and gradually showing fear on their faces, were even more amnesty, and after a while, they broke away from contact with the Ming army and retreated like a tide. At the end of the day, they are also a living group of people who are also scared after a series of heavy blows.

Hum! Come when you want, go when you want? It's too easy to think about! On the high platform of the Chinese army, Pang Yue looked at the rapidly retreating green battalion soldiers, let out a sneer, and then according to the plan made before, let the herald order through the flag to the trapped camp that had already driven to the front and broken the barracks to pursue the retreating green battalion soldiers.

The rapid drumbeat representing the attack sounded again near the first line of defense, but this drum no longer belonged to the Green Battalion, but to the Ming Army.

With a burst of earth-shattering shouts, the ironclad soldiers trapped in the camp crossed the gap between the front and the barracks, and rushed out of various gaps, chasing the retreating green battalion soldiers like a tide. The dense sharp blades and the layers of excellent iron armor flashed with a chilling cold light... )