Chapter 62: The Bloody Battle (Part II)

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After receiving the order, a total of more than 2,000 reinforcements from the three departments were quickly assembled and lined up in front of the command platform of the Chinese army.

Among them, the Taishan Battalion C Team is led by the C Team Qianzong Xiong Minghan. At noon, they received three or four hundred pairs of armor captured from the Han army with red flags and Qing soldiers, and most of the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers in the whole team had already been armored. Although some of them are non-iron leaf cotton armor, the overall equipment level has been greatly improved compared to the past. The weapons used were mainly spears, swords and shields, and more than a hundred soldiers were equipped with bird guns.

The 500 infantry of Zhu Dadian's standard battalion and the 500 infantry of Ma Jinzhong's department were each commanded by a guerrilla commander of his department, and Zhu Dadian and Ma Jinzhong had already given them a death order to obey Pang Yue's command in everything on the mountain. The 1,000 officers and men were all very well equipped, and apart from the lack of firearms, they had already surpassed the two battalions of Gangfeng and Po in Huguang Town. In particular, the 500 foot soldiers of Zhu Dadian's standard battalion were all dressed in iron armor, and their equipment level was close to that of the iron armor soldiers in the camp.

In addition, Pang Yue decided to bring nearly 200 of his own personal soldiers with him. Most of these pro-soldiers are veterans, and they are all equipped with iron armor, which can also add a lot of help.

Without further ado, when the team was assembled, Pang Yue quickly ran to the western hill with more than 2,000 reinforcements.

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On the back slope of the hill on the west side, the Qing soldiers at the front had already rushed to the earthen wall. began to engage with the officers and men of the Agni Battalion. However, the Qing army also paid a lot of price in order to get to this point. The remnants of the nearly 1,000 Huangzhou Green Battalion at the forefront of the charge had suffered most of the casualties and were completely dispersed after many rounds of attacks by the Ming army, and there were almost no organized Green Battalion soldiers attacking on the hillside. The main force of the attack has become more than 1,000 soldiers of the Han army with white flags and more than 3,000 foot soldiers of Kong Youde's department, and the banners of the Qing army with white and red borders and red are all over the hillside, persevering towards the top of the hill.

The Qing soldiers who attacked the side of the earthen wall set up a human wall one after another, and turned into the earthen wall, which was more than two meters high, and seemed to be insignificant in front of the surging sea of people, and it seemed that it could be swept by it at any time.

Despite the critical situation, the officers and men of the Agni Battalion are still putting up stubborn resistance. At this time. Under Wang Juntao's order, the firecrackers had also given up the bird guns in their hands, picked up swords, shields or spears and began to start a white-knuckle battle with the Qing army.

The first two rows of Ming soldiers standing behind the earthen wall were mainly pikemen, and the sharp spears in their hands were all pointed directly at the top of the earthen wall, and they launched round after round of stabs against the Qing soldiers who climbed the earthen wall in the voice of the officer's command. Every time the cold light flies away, the wall will be splashed with blood, and one after another Qing soldiers will be pierced into blood gourds before they can enjoy the joy of victory after climbing the wall. or fell to the north of the earthen wall and smashed their companions to the ground, or directly lay on the top of the wall and became an obstacle for their companions to climb over the earthen wall. The sword and shield soldiers stood in the gap or behind the pikemen's queue, and cleared the fish that slipped through the net with their short weapons.

In this white-knuckle battle, although the Qing army was numerous, it had many disadvantages. The earthen wall erected in front of the Qing army was more than two meters high, and the Ming army stood behind the wall and could directly attack the Qing soldiers who climbed the wall. However, the Qing soldiers on the north side of the wall could not directly attack the Ming army, and if they wanted to turn over, they had to keep filling it with human lives. Moreover, the width of the top of the wall is more than one meter, which makes it difficult for the Qing army to climb, at least it is impossible to climb the top of the wall and overturn. Many brave Qing soldiers made similar attempts, but the consequences were mostly tragic. After climbing over the earthen wall, he did not immediately fall to the ground, but sat on top of the wide wall, and was immediately stabbed through by the spear that stabbed diagonally upward.

"Kill!" "Kill!" …… In the face of the superior enemy army, the officers and soldiers of the Agni Battalion did not flinch in the slightest, and burst out with a neat and powerful shout, waving the weapons in their hands to send the Qing soldiers to hell one by one. Although the officers and men of this part of the Agni Battalion are only auxiliary troops in the battalion, they are also soldiers, whether they are musketeers or spearmen, sword and shield soldiers, and the level of training and equipment they receive is the same as that of the same troops in the rest of the battalions. Therefore, their combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the auxiliary troops of the Taishan and Huashan battalions, which also became a major obstacle to the Qing army's attack.

Zu Zepei and Cao Dexian, the commander-in-chief of the right wing of Kong Youde's department, who were in charge of commanding the attack, saw that the attack was temporarily blocked, and they couldn't help but feel a little anxious. In addition, if your own side is in a state of attacking from the back, once it takes too long, the morale of the army will most likely decline sharply, which will be even more unfavorable to the development of the entire battle situation. Therefore, the two hurriedly mobilized the archers of their respective armies to release arrows into the earthen wall, trying to kill and injure the Ming army to clear a passage for their own foot soldiers. However, the Qing archers who released arrows on the hillside were limited by the angle, and most of the arrows sent out flew over the heads of the Ming army, which also had no effect, and the attacking Qing soldiers were still impacting the Ming army's defense line at the cost of human lives.

In desperation, Zu Zepei and Cao Dexian increased the reward, and the person who took the lead in attacking the earthen wall to open the breakthrough was rewarded with fifty taels of silver, and reiterated the previous promise of the coach Duoduo: as long as this Ming army is defeated, there will be no resistance on the way to Changsha, and once Changsha is taken, the whole army can plunder for three days at will!

Under the encouragement of these two policies, the morale of the Qing soldiers increased greatly, and they screamed and launched an attack on the earthen wall, and the people in front continued to die under the swords and guns of the Ming army, and the follow-up people still continued to fill in one after another. Although the promise of "Changsha Raid" seemed a little ethereal, it still aroused the infinite bestiality of the Qing soldiers. Even though most of them were originally Han Chinese, after spending so much time with the barbarians, they were also tainted with that unique way of life, taking pleasure in robbery, taking pride in destruction, and basing their pleasure on the bitter wails of others was their greatest joy. And once it is stimulated and induced by the outside, the kind of animality in the heart will erupt, and then burst out with infinite energy.

"Yikes! - "With a beastly roar. The original Han army, which had been demoted to a division of the Paishku, was inlaid with white flags, and the king of the king, and Sai Shangbin also rushed to the earthen wall with thirty or forty subordinates.

Since that defeat in Dingjia Village, Cezannebin, who fled back in embarrassment, was not only beaten half to death. The position has also been raised several levels. Although he was resentful in his heart, he didn't dare to spill his anger on his master no matter what, he just hated the Ming army that attacked him, and he ruined the results of his more than ten years of struggle in one battle. Here today, he vows to use the blood of the Ming army to wash away his previous shame and regain everything he has lost by his own efforts.

"Rush over and kill the Bright Dog!" Cézanne's eyes were red, and he took the lead in climbing the earthen wall. Seeing that Shangguan was working so hard, the subordinates behind him were naturally not far behind, and they all climbed towards the earthen wall.

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When Pang Yue climbed to the top of the hill from the southern slope of the hill with reinforcements, Margio was still yelling and directing the artillery groups to open fire, and all kinds of expletives were thrown at the Qing army below the mountain with the cannonballs.

At this time, the Green Battalion north of the frontal line of defense had been completely suppressed by artillery fire from the mountains, not to mention a large-scale attack. Even the number of harassments was greatly reduced, and only a part of the Hongyi artillery group hid in the dead corner area of the artillery on the hill and fired at the Ming army's defensive line, but due to the lack of cooperation of the infantry after the shelling, it had no impact on the entire battle situation, and could not shake the Ming army's defense line in the slightest.

The top of the hill is very wide, and there is a small forest in the middle. Therefore, Pang Yue, who had just climbed to the top of the mountain, did not know the specific battle situation on the north slope, but he felt that the shouting and killing sound coming from there seemed to be more intense, and the tide was higher than the tide, rushing straight to the eardrums. Obviously, the fighting between the officers and soldiers of the Agni Fire Battalion and the Qing army has gradually become white-hot.

"General. How did you get up? After Margio saw Pang Yue, he didn't show an expression of surprise or anything like that. Instead, he said solemnly: "Although I have no right to decide your itinerary, I can tell you that as a commander, your position is not here!" ”

After seeing Margio's appearance clearly, Pang Yue, who was originally nervous, was almost about to laugh on the spot. I saw that the face of this war maniac had been blackened by the smoke of gunpowder, his hair was unkempt and dirty, and his blue eyes had also turned red, and if it were not for the iron armor and red cloak on his body, he would be almost indistinguishable from a beggar.

"It is my duty, Mr. Margio, as if it were your duty to command the artillery." The situation was urgent, and Pang Yue didn't care about having anything to do with this foreign devil, so he smiled and said this and then took the reinforcements around the grove and went straight to the north.

"Of course it's my job!" Margio turned his head to look at Pang Yue's back, said with some pride, and then began to yell: "Reload your ammunition and shoot at the heads of those bitches!" ”

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Before Pang Yue could bypass the grove and take in the situation in the north, an exclamation came from there, accompanied by a shout that was clearly from the mouth of the Qing soldiers: "Ming Dog can't stand it!" "Rush over!" …..

Is it so fast that it can't hold on? Pang Yue's heart tightened and quickened his pace. Soon, he walked around the grove and saw what was going on behind the earthen wall. From time to time, the officers and men of the Flame Battalion who were on fire fled to the back in embarrassment through the passage on the second earthen wall, rolling on the spot or extinguishing the flames on their bodies with the help of their companions. The officers and men of the Agni Battalion guarding behind the first earthen wall have fallen into confusion, weak points on the defensive line can be seen everywhere, more and more Qing soldiers are climbing the wall and jumping into the wall, and the officers and men of the Agni Battalion inside the wall are becoming more and more powerless to resist them. Pang Yue even saw that at the easternmost point, a Niulu Zhangjing Banner had also entered between the first and second earthen walls.

Actually attacked with fire? Pang Yue frowned, and hurriedly commanded the two thousand reinforcements around him to line up and prepare to meet the enemy.

Unlike the officers and soldiers of the Agni Battalion, who were in a state of chaos, the Qing soldiers were greatly encouraged and became more and more courageous, and more and more people climbed over the earthen wall and cut down the Ming soldiers who were panicked and had no time to react. The entire Ming army front was constantly retreating. In the blink of an eye, the soldiers in the last row had retreated to the edge of the second earthen wall.

Halfway up the mountain, Zu Zepei and Cao Dexian couldn't help but laugh when they saw that the progress was going smoothly ahead. They didn't expect that such a simple method would make such great progress, which is really God's help!

Zu Zepei said to Cezannebin beside him with a red face: "Cézannebin, you have paid attention to this well, and you have made a great contribution!" When I go back, I will definitely pay tribute to Prince Mingyu. Credits for you! Our white flag Han army will be expanded soon, and Prince Yu will definitely not treat you badly in terms of title! ”

Cézannebin was almost struck down on the spot by this sudden sense of happiness. As soon as his stubby legs were weak, he knelt on the ground, and kowtowed a few times: "Thank you Zujunmen, thank you Zujunmen!" ”

The Qing army used fire to attack, which was really Cézanne's idea. At that time, after he climbed the earthen wall, he was quickly beaten back by the Ming army, but his luck was surprisingly good, and he dodged the spear that stabbed him. Meantime. Through this fateful move, he also saw the reality behind the Ming army's earthen walls: between the first and second earthen walls, the distance was not very wide, and the Ming army was relatively densely arranged. Seeing this, Cézanne Bin had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly remembered the scene where Mr. Storyteller had told him about Kong Ming's use of fire attack in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and now was not the best time to use fire attack, so he hurriedly went to Zu Zepei to propose this clever plan.

After hearing this, Zu Zepei immediately adopted this method. He had the auxiliaries cut down many branches and weeds nearby, bundled them into bundles, sprinkled them with gunpowder, lit them, and threw them behind the earthen wall. Unexpectedly, this method was really effective, and after a number of soldiers caught fire, the Ming army's defense line was really shaken.

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The officers and men of the Agni Battalion retreated one after another under the onslaught of superior Qing troops. The number of officers and men left on the north side of the second earthen wall was dwindling, and it was not long before only two thin rows remained. The rest either died under the swords and guns of the Qing army, or retreated behind the second earthen wall through the passage in the wall.

Wang Juntao was so anxious that the green tendons on his forehead burst out, and he constantly organized forces to counterattack, but he had no choice but to fight the Qing army like chicken blood, and he couldn't fight back. Instead, he pushed himself to the wall.

Is this hill going to be lost?! Wang Juntao's eyes widened angrily, and he was very unwilling.

"Your Excellency!" That's when it happened. A personal soldier came to Wang Juntao's side and shouted, "The marshal has come up with reinforcements!" He told us to hold on a little longer, and when they came, we would immediately exit the second earthen wall. ”

The handsome man is here in person? Wang Juntao turned his head and saw the large number of reinforcements advancing towards this side under the banner of the word "Pang", and his heart couldn't help but feel relieved, and then there was a burst of surprise.

"Gentlemen! It is a great honor to be able to fight with you today! Pang Yue shouted at the soldiers around him and the other reinforcements who went up the mountain: "As long as I am waiting here, how the Tartars come up will have to roll down!" ”

Hearing Pang Yue's words, the officers and soldiers who were advancing rapidly suddenly burst out into a neat and powerful shout. Especially the nearly two hundred personal soldiers around Pang Yue, the shouts were particularly loud.

At the front of the entire array was Pang Yue's pro-soldier team, and the 500 infantry soldiers of the Dubiao Battalion and Ma Jinzhong were located on the left and right flanks of the pro-soldier team, and the more than 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Taishan Battalion C were at the end.

The entire reinforcement phalanx stopped when it was more than ten steps away from the second earthen wall, and the officers and soldiers of the first row of the Supervisory Battalion and Ma Jinzhong's troops put down their spears and pointed straight ahead. The officers and men of the pro-soldier team in the center all put down the steel masks on their helmets and held heavy short weapons such as broadswords, heavy swords or heavy axes, and silently looked ahead.

At this time, Wang Juntao, who had received Pang Yue's order, retreated with the officers and soldiers who were still resisting in front of the second earthen wall, retreated to the south of the earthen wall through the passage on the wall, and then withdrew along both sides of the earthen wall to the rear of the entire reinforcement phalanx to regroup. However, many slower soldiers were cut to the ground one by one by the Qing soldiers who caught up.

The Ming army was finally defeated! On the hillside, the Qing soldiers who climbed to the top of the mountain and conquered two earthen walls in a row cheered loudly, and on the slopes of the mountain, the Qing soldiers all over the mountains also raised their weapons and flags to join the cheering procession, and the earth-shaking wave soared into the sky and spread far away.

Feeling such a wave of carnival, Zu Zepei and Cao De smiled first, Kong Youde and Shang Ke smiled, and on the command platform of the Qing army a few miles away, Duoduo and the generals around him laughed happily and laughed very happily.

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Just as the Qing army attacking the hill on the west side cheered, the attack of the Manchurian soldiers under the white flag in the northwest pass of the Ming army's camp was met with great resistance.

This was already the second group of Qing troops to attack the trapped camp, and the first to attack the Blue Flag Manchurian soldiers had withdrawn due to exhaustion, and the White Flag Manchurian soldiers who had rested for a period of time launched an attack. However, the Qing soldiers of the Zhengbai Banner also soon discovered that the phalanx composed of these ironclad soldiers who only showed a pair of eyes outside was so strong and indestructible, and the onslaught launched by their own side could easily defeat the rest of the Ming army, but in front of this Ming army, it could only return in vain like a flood hitting a strong dam.

A corner on the west side of the pass. The white flag of the White Flag is feeling the greatest pressure since the army. As a battle-hardened veteran, he has participated in countless battles. But I have never felt that there has been a battle as hard as today, the hands holding the sword and shield have begun to sore, and layers of sweat have begun to appear on the forehead, but the Ming army formation on the opposite side is unmoved under the attack of its own side. In the round of attack just now, more than a dozen soldiers fell in his team, and those were warriors who had been tested on the battlefield like him, and had made great contributions to the Qing Dynasty, but this time they died under the spears of the Ming army before they could swing a knife. And he himself relied on the experience accumulated over the years to get out of the game.

Looking at the Ming army's spear forest less than ten steps away. Looking at the corpses of warriors lying under the tip of the bloody spear, Feiyanga felt very unwilling and puzzled, when did the weak Ming Dog become so strong? Where did the gang on the other side come from? When Fei Yanga stared at the front with a pair of blood-red eyes, the Ming army ironclad soldier opposite him, a few steps away, was also looking at him quietly, and the eyes that came out of the gap in the steel mask were so disdainful.

Enraged by this look, Feiyanga gritted his teeth and gritted his teeth and clenched the broadsword in his hand. At this moment, he heard the drumbeat of his own army change and become rapid again. This was followed by an earth-shattering shout from all around, and another round of attacks began! After the same roar erupted, he and the warriors around him rushed towards the Ming army formation again.

When Fei Yanga rushed to the Ming ironclad soldier who was opposite him just now, a drum beat also sounded in the Ming army's ranks, and the Ming soldier who had just shown disdain for him turned right with the same drum beat as his companions. Feiyanga, who had been prepared for a long time, was not deceived by this undefended state. Almost at the same time as the Ming army turned right, he also swung his knife to the right in the electric light, and blocked a spear that was forced to the right rib with a sonorous sound, and then jumped to the right without stopping for the slightest, and the shield in his left hand was received in front of him at the same time. Dodged a bolt of lightning that stabbed straight through the second row. And several Manchurian soldiers who were side by side with him before fell into the dust without exception.

It's still this set! The thought had just crossed Feiyanga's mind, and before he could catch his breath. Another spear stabbed from the right side. With his strong body, he squeezed backwards to avoid the blade, and then his body flashed and dodged another cold light.

In this way, although Feiyanga escaped one attack after another with the extraordinary skills he had cultivated on the battlefield, he felt a deep tiredness and sadness in his heart, the spears of the Ming army continued to stab almost never stop, as a warrior with excellent knife skills, he never could swing a knife, and could only watch his companions around him be stabbed to the ground one by one, and his actions were only left to dodge and block, which was really a great shame.

It can't go on like this! Feiyanga shouted to himself in his heart, constantly dodging and parrying while also thinking about the next move of the Ming army, looking for their flaws.

Finally, here's your chance! Through repeated calculations and careful observation, Feiyanga finally found a flaw in the Ming army, quickly stepped forward and cut the spear stabbed on the right side, and raised the shield in his left hand to swing a lightning bolt that pierced over, almost at the same moment, the big knife in his right hand slashed back, and the sharp blade quickly slashed through the neck of the Ming army ironclad soldier on the opposite side. The junction between the helmet and the iron armor is naturally weak, and at the same time as the sword flashed, a bloody arrow rushed straight into the sky, and the spear in the hands of the Ming army's ironclad soldiers fell to the ground weakly, and the whole person slowly fell.

As soon as the broadsword was struck, Feiyanga had already calculated the next move accurately, and after he succeeded, he did not stop for the slightest, and his body jerked back to the right, and if nothing else, it only took two steps to dodge the next spear that pierced him. However, the accident still happened, as soon as Feiyanga's figure moved, he felt a resistance coming from the right, and a white flag soldier who was about as strong as him shouted and rushed up, perhaps unintentionally, but the unintentional touch completely blocked his way.

It's over this time...... Feyana only had time to flash these words in his mind before he watched in despair as the spear stabbed into his right rib, and a cold feeling penetrated through his bone marrow in an instant. Immediately after, two more cold rays of light came from the front, easily tearing through his cotton armor.

Several blood arrows scattered and splashed in all directions, and Fei Yang'a, who had participated in many battles such as Chongzhen's eleventh year of breaking into the Kou and the fourteenth year of the Battle of Songjin, and had made great achievements, fell into the dust with his eyes wide open with his eyes wide open.

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On the hills, the cheers of the Qing army had disappeared. Because, after they crossed the second earthen wall, they found that there was still a Ming army waiting for them. And when it was officially handed over, they still felt a lot of pressure.

Although they had already captured the second earthen wall, they were desperately blocked by the opposing Ming army, and they could not move at all in the narrow area of more than 20 steps south of the earthen wall, and the follow-up forces were never able to fully deploy and play their role. Especially the two hundred or so Ming soldiers in iron armor in the middle are even more vicious, and anyone who attacks them will be dead in nine out of ten.

"Phew!" With a muffled sound, Zhou Tianzheng, the deputy of Pang Yue's personal army, used a special thick-backed mountain opener to split a Han army flag soldier who rushed to him in half from his right shoulder. In an instant, the blood was smoky, and the blood that spurted out of the corpse cavity dyed Zhou Tianzheng's silver-white armor red, making him look extremely mad. Zhou Tianzheng didn't care at all, just shook off the blood beads on the mask and began to look for the next target, where his blade was pointing, the Qing soldiers were all frightened, and even involuntarily retreated.

Seeing this scene, Pang Yue, who was commanding the battle behind the battle line, sighed softly.

Zhou Tian was Pang Yue, who led the army from Digang to Hangzhou, and passed through Jingshui County to recruit into the team. Zhou Tianzheng's father, Zhou Yuanqing, was a well-known local squire, and was friends with Yin Minxing, the former commander of Jingshui County, and gave warm hospitality and generous support to Pang Yue, who led his army to pass through Jingshui County. Pang Yue has always kept this hospitality in mind, but later he moved to Fujian and then to Jiangxi, and the road was far away, so he never had contact with Zhou Yuanqing again, but he seriously cultivated Zhou Tianzheng who joined the army according to his previous instructions.

Later, before the Qing army invaded Fujian, Pang Yue led the army to pick up Emperor Longwu and the ministers from Yanping Mansion, and accidentally met Yin Minxing, who had defected to Emperor Longwu and made the imperial history, and learned from his mouth: Zhou Yuanqing organized the brave people of the township to fight back when the Qing army attacked Jing County, and later the army was defeated and killed, and the whole family was all spared from all dying under the butcher's knife of the Qing army.

Pang Yue, who heard the news, couldn't calm down for a long time, and Zhou Tianzheng, who learned the news of his family's death, became silent after crying all night, but as soon as he arrived on the training ground, he would burst out with staggering power. He had never had the opportunity to go to war before, and perhaps today's battle was his best chance to vent.

On the entire battlefield, flags were waved and the sound of killing was shaken. The reinforcements led by Pang Yue stubbornly blocked the advance of the Qing army, making them understand that even if they climbed the mountain, they were still a long way from victory.