Chapter 19: A Great Victory

The next morning, after breakfast, the whole army of Ganzhou Town launched another attack on the fourth pass of Jiulong Mountain. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter many failures, the efforts of the artillery team finally saw results. After several rounds of shelling, the wall began to crumble, and the half-foot-thick gate was shattered. In the rumbling cannons, most of the thieves on the pass were so frightened that they hid behind the wall.

Taking advantage of this favorable opportunity, the Gangfeng battalion took the lead in the charge. The sword and shield men rushed to the front with their shields in hand, trying to provide cover for the robes behind them, and the birdmen and archers also risked their lives to push forward as best they could, to suppress the bandits' return fire. Everyone knows that this is the last nail in front of them, as long as it is pulled out, you can attack the Kowloon Village, kill all the thieves, and return triumphantly! When victory is at hand, there is no one who does not feel excited, and this excitement is enough to overpower the fear in the heart. Therefore, almost all the officers and men rushed towards the fourth wall with a roar.

"The officers and soldiers are rushing up!" With a shout of fear, the thieves on the pass came back to their senses one after another, and began to desperately fight back with all kinds of weapons in their hands, arrows, rolling logs, and boulders rushed towards the heads of the officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town like raindrops.

The officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town, who were charging upward, had no time to dodge, and they were overturned for a while, with all kinds of screams, and some of the recruits' legs and feet began to weaken.

"Leave no one else! Watch the front ahead! Hurry up and rush up! "The thieves have exhausted their skills, and victory is just around the corner!" The officers of Ganzhou town shouted loudly at the soldiers as they usually train.

"Rush forward! Destroy the thieves! Some of the experienced veterans also roared, and rushed to the front without hesitation, and although some continued to roll down the hill, the rest continued to charge forward without even blinking an eyelid. People's emotions are always easy to mobilize, especially when individuals are in groups. Seeing the feats of the veterans, the fighting passion of the recruits was also quickly ignited and bloomed to the extreme. Mother, they are all brothers who eat, live and train together, and they all carry a head on their shoulders, so we have to be worse than them? Under such an emotion, the recruits, who were still terrified at first, gradually overcame their fears, eliminated distractions, and worked hard to advance according to the basic skills they had cultivated in ordinary times.

At this time, Pang Yue was directing the battle in the back, and with the promotion of his position, he no longer needed to charge forward in person. Watching the soldiers who were still alive on the training ground a few days ago, gagging with the robes in the barracks, fall one by one, Pang Yue's heart twitched for a while. In the past few months, he has been trying to adjust his mentality, but he has never been able to really reach the point of being hard-hearted. Although he can now kill his enemies without blinking, the death of his soldiers always worries him.

In fact, Pang Yue also hoped that the soldiers would not have to risk their lives to fight, and would go back to honor their parents after spending a few years in the barracks. The harsh reality told him that it was a naΓ―ve and ridiculous idea. If it is not tempered by bloody battles again and again, even if Ganzhou Town trains diligently, it will never be able to grow into a tiger and wolf army, and not only will it not be able to maintain the dignity of the nation, but it may even be difficult to protect itself. The truly invincible army of tigers and wolves can only be created through countless tragic battles! All this is inevitable!

Sons and daughters of Ganzhou Town, march towards your enemies! Turn yourselves into a real group of warriors with their blood! Looking at the increasingly fierce battle in front of him, Pang Yue said silently in his heart.

With the passage of time, the efforts of the officers and men of Ganzhou Town finally paid off, and the soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion, who rushed to the forefront, had already touched the gate of the wall. Although the gate had been smashed into several pieces, the thieves brought large stones to build a simple line of defense, desperately blocking the attack of the Ming army. The two sides began to engage in hand-to-hand combat in this small area, and the sound of knife handles colliding. At the same time, the Ming soldiers and archers who rushed up also began to suppress the thieves on the wall, and the lead bullets and black arrows rain of the goddess scattered flowers went towards the wall with a scream, beating the thieves who were throwing rolling wood or arrows to the flesh and blood, staggering. …,

The first to touch the gate of the wall and the thieves were Wang Zhangtang, the hundred general of the Gangfeng Battalion, and his soldiers, at this time, Wang Zhangtang, who has always been proud of his identity as a descendant of the Qi family's army, finally had the opportunity to show his bravery.

"Death to the thieves!" Wang Zhangtang jumped over the obstacle at the door, and before his feet landed, the steel knife in his hand had already slashed towards the neck of a thief like an autumn wind sweeping away leaves.

The sharp blade easily sliced through the major artery in the neck of the little minion, and a large cloud of blood mist gushed out and flew everywhere. As soon as he stood still, Wang Zhangtang dodged a spear that stabbed at him sideways, and slashed the thief who attacked him with a backhand. Seeing that this officer was so arrogant, a small leader shouted and raised the mace in his hand and slashed over. Wang Zhangtang sneered, he didn't hide, he raised his hand and stabbed it. After a slight crunch, the little boss's hand flew out along with the mace. Then another cold light passed, and before the little leader could scream, his head was separated from his body.

As soon as he eliminated the three thieves, Wang Zhangtang heard a whistling in the back of his head before he could catch his breath, and immediately lowered his head. At this moment, a cold light chopping knife slashed off the red tassel on his military hat! But the luck of this sneak attacker was stopped here, and Wang Zhangtang stabbed him with a knife that cut off most of his neck.

Seeing that Wang Zhangtang was so brave, killing four people in a row in a moment, the thieves were terrified, and no one dared to take the initiative to challenge. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the Gangfeng Battalion behind Wang Zhangtang also jumped over the barrier at the door and rushed towards the thieves, starting a fierce white-knuckle battle with them. At the foot of the mountain, a large number of soldiers of the Ming army poured up like a tide.

Short-handed, white-knuckle confrontation, fighting is courage and skill, at this point, the officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town and the thieves have their own merits. The advantage of the thief is that he licks blood on the knife all the year round, is ruthless and decisive, and the disadvantage is that he only emphasizes individual martial arts, and collective cooperation is almost zero. The advantage of Ganzhou Town is that it has received systematic training, and can use the collective strength to make up for individual shortcomings to the greatest extent, and the disadvantage is that the training time is not very long, and some places are not in place. Coupled with the fact that the thieves knew that they had no way to retreat, they would definitely break out into the last madness, so this battle was destined to be tragic and abnormal. In the rain of blood, people on both sides continued to fall, but almost all of them were red-eyed and waved their weapons towards the enemy regardless of the consequences.

However, as the number of Ming troops rushing forward increased, the thieves began to be a little unbearable, and the blood and courage that broke out in the desperate situation gradually subsided. The officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town knew that victory was just around the corner, so they became more and more brave and stronger the more they fought, and after breaking through the wall, they gradually divided the thieves into several large pieces for the final encirclement and suppression. For a while, the shouting and killing near the fourth pass was particularly deafening.

Hearing the tragic and unusual shouts below, Sui Tianlong hurriedly went to the gate of the village near the gate of the village to inspect the battle situation at the fourth pass under the protection of several guards. When he saw that his brothers were being swallowed up little by little by the sea composed of a large area of red military uniforms, his face was like ashes, and there was only one consciousness left in his mind: It's over, the Jiulong Village that he has worked so hard to run is completely finished!

"Da Ming is mighty!!"

"Ganzhou Town is mighty!!"

"Roar! ——”

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I don't know how long it took, and the tsunami-like cheers of the officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town finally sounded on the fourth pass of the sea of blood that had become a mountain of corpses. The officers and men, covered in blood, almost forgot the fatigue caused by the long battle, and fanatically raised the weapons and flags in their hands, and refused to stop until their throats itched.

The fourth pass, which the thieves were desperately trying to defend, has finally been breached! The last nail blocking the way up the mountain has finally been pulled out! In this battle, almost all the elites among the thieves were killed, and most of the outlaws who dared to fight became the ghosts of the Ming army, and from this time on, there was no force that could stop the progress of Ganzhou Town! …,

After pulling out the nail at this last moment, the officers and soldiers of Ganzhou Town only kicked a little and received the order to continue attacking the cottage. Hardly anyone objected to this. In fact, for them, who are red-eyed and their morale is at the peak, this order is really more comfortable than sending charcoal in the snow.

"Ganzhou Town! Advance! ——”

"Kill! - "A red torrent crossed the corpses of the thieves all over the mountains and fields, and rushed towards the last stronghold of the thieves, Jiulong Village, with an unstoppable momentum.

"It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become a famous overlord!" Seeing that the officers and soldiers were like rainbows, Pang Yue was very pleased, and unconsciously read out these two lines of poetry.

In the open space in the Kowloon Village, hundreds of captured thieves sat cross-legged with their heads down, surrounded by a large number of soldiers from Ganzhou Town armed with knives and guns.

After the fourth pass changed hands, the remaining thieves had become Chen's frightened birds, where could they still stop the soldiers of Ganzhou Town who were like wolves and tigers and killed red-eyed? When the soldiers of Ganzhou Town rushed to the cottage in one go, most of the remaining thieves dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees. As for the few diehards who know that they are guilty of their crimes, what big waves can they set off? After a simple and neat battle, the entire cottage fell into the hands of the soldiers of Ganzhou Town.

"My lord," Cui Shoucheng walked to Pang Yue's side and reported, "At present, Jiulong Village has been completely controlled by our army, and three of the eight main leaders in the village have been killed by our army, and two have been captured, but the other three, including the thief leader Sui Tianlong, are missing. ”

"So Tianlong ran away?" Hearing this news, Pang Yue couldn't help but frown. In view of what he had learned before, he knew very well the destructive nature of Sui Tianlong, an outlaw. To put it bluntly, if Sui Tianlong runs away, then the significance of exterminating Jiulong Village will be greatly reduced, because as long as this organizer runs away, no one knows when there will be a Eight Dragon Village, Ten Dragon Village and the like in the future.

"Send the order down, arrange more people to search nearby! If you live to see people, you have to see corpses when you die! Pang Yue's tone was very solemn.

"Yes! My lord! Cui Shoucheng also knew the importance of this matter, and hurried down to make arrangements.