Chapter 67: Fierce Battle at Loess Hills
The displaced people who ran in front fell like scarecrows, and although some of them were knocked to the ground, they did not die immediately, but they were immediately trampled to death by those who came up from behind, and these dead bodies tripped over many of those who rushed up from behind, and those behind rushed forward, and many fell to the ground. Immediately, there was a chaotic scene of crowding and trampling on people.
Behind the earthen wall on this side of the trench, the fire is lined up. The gunners have put the fire on their hands. The gun was handed to the brothers in the front row, and they took the fire that the brothers in the front row had just fired. The gun, with steel bars, quickly cleaned the barrel of gunpowder residue, took out the cartridge ammunition in the oil bag, and quickly reloaded.
Qi Dayong swung his saber upwards again and shouted:
"Shoot!"
Another row of fires. The gun spewed out a large amount of fire smoke, and the screams were heard again.
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
"Shoot!"
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The continuous gunfire is lined up one after another, and the advantage of fixed cartridge ammunition makes the two teams fire. The gunmen reloaded and fired extremely fast, firing almost at intervals, and the displaced people who ran ahead fell in rows.
After a round of shooting, the front of the earthen wall was covered with thick white smoke, Qi Dayong ordered a ceasefire, and waited for the smoke to clear to see the results.
Those two rows of fire. The spearman just let the fire smoke in his hand. The gun cooled, and after continuous firing, each man had fire on his hands. The guns were hot and had to be cooled. Otherwise because of the fire. The temperature inside the gun is too high, and the gunpowder poured into the gun is in danger of spontaneous combustion immediately.
The homeless people did not expect to have never seen such sharp firearms, loaded so quickly, fired continuously and did not blow up the chamber and injured themselves, and before the homeless people rushed close to the earthen wall, hundreds of people were injured and died in the blink of an eye.
Rows of corpses had fallen in front of them, and some dying and struggling homeless people were rolling on the ground and wailing, looking at the terrible scene in front of them, the homeless people in front of them felt extremely frightened.
The homeless people can't roar anymore, and the homeless people in the front row are already facing the fire. The gun created a strong sense of fear.
However, the rolling forward flow of people did not allow them to stop at all, and as the corpses in the front row fell, more and more displaced people tripped over the corpses, and the people in the back row desperately crowded forward, trampling to death and trampling on countless injuries.
Hoarse wails over the positions replaced their previous slogans.
Getting closer and closer to the trench, some people rushed forward with inertia and fell into the trench in front of them, but the people behind did not have the slightest intention of stopping and continued to crowd forward.
The people in front were afraid of falling into the trench and wanted to turn around and dodge back, but there was no way to retreat, and the people who came up from behind pushed them into the trench by inertia.
Seeing that the person who fell into the trench first was either trampled to death or stabbed to death by the spearmen of Xincun, the people in front were unwilling to fall into the trench, and they used the weapons in their hands to cut at the people who pushed him, and the people who were cut parried back, and the enemies beat each other internally, and there was a mess in front of the battle.
The men who fell into the trench had no choice but to desperately climb the earthen wall, and they were stabbed and thrown into the trench by the spearmen behind the earthen wall.
Some were stabbed in the head, some were stabbed in the eye, and in the trenches, rivers of blood flowed profusely, and it was unbearable to see.
Those homeless people really had no way to dodge, driven by the survival instinct, they went to grab the spears with their bare hands, some of them held the spears, and they were stabbed in the body from the spears from behind, and the severe pain made them let go of their hands, and the spears they held took the opportunity to take it back, and immediately stabbed out again, so that a few times, some of the homeless people were stabbed with several bloody holes.
The spear tips of the new village are made of freshly smelted steel, and they are extremely sharp, and it is summer, and most of these homeless people are unclothed, and their flesh and blood are like eggs hitting stones, and those who try to climb out of the trench and climb over the earthen wall are stabbed in rows in the trench.
Soon, the trench was filled with corpses and piled up in a mountain, and the corpses were slowly piled up on the earthen wall. The smell of blood filled the front of the position.
In the face of death, the displaced people woke up, Zhang Xianzhong asked them to take the lead and be human shields, to put it bluntly, it is to send them to death and continue to move forward, there is no doubt that there is a dead end, retreat, and there is no way back, the refugees are full of fear and hesitation.
At this time, a loud shout sounded on the loess hill.
"Disarm and surrender, give money and food!"
"Disarm and surrender, give money and food!"
"Disarm and surrender, give money and food!"
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Although there are not many people in the new village, everyone is full of energy and shouts in unison, and hundreds of people shout in unison, the sound is loud and resounding in the sky, and its momentum is no less than the slogans of tens of thousands of enemies.
When the first displaced people heard the slogans of the new village, they suddenly felt the idea of surrendering. The purpose of their coming here is to find food and not to starve to death, and now Zhang Xianzhong has asked them to be human shields, of course they don't want to, they have already seen the fire in Xincun. The guns and spears are powerful, and they continue to rush forward, which is simply an egg hitting a stone, and there is one way of thinking.
Now that the displaced people have heard that they have food to eat and have a chance to live, of course, they cannot miss it.
But facing forward is a dead end, and they can't surrender on their knees, if they kneel on the ground, they will soon be trampled to death and killed by the flow of people coming up from behind, so the only way to survive is to get out of the battlefield.
The outcasts who were running in front of them suddenly screamed with all their might, turned and ran back, swinging their swords at those who stood in their way, hoping to make a way out.
There was a large-scale fratricidal chaos in front of the enemy's positions.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the new village quickly retreated behind the second earthen wall. Everyone hid behind the earthen wall and rested for a while.
At this time, the smoke in front of the first trench had dissipated, and I saw Zhang Xianzhong's military discipline team brandishing a big knife and slashing at the homeless people who ran back, and these homeless people were cut down to the ground one after another.
Seeing the homeless people in front of them stepping on the corpses of their companions again, the ground was black and pressing, like ants moving over the mounds, and some people were pushed by their companions behind, standing unsteadily, falling under the mounds, and becoming human feet again, and piles of corpses were piled up in front of the mounds.
Qi Dayong's command was determined, and with the issuance of a "shooting" command, the displaced people who ran in the front row fell down in rows, and after the second round of shooting, Qi Dayong ordered the fire. After the spearmen retreated to the third line of defense, only the spearmen were left to deal with the influx of outcasts, and the trench in front of the second line was soon filled with corpses.
Most of the spearmen in Xincun were like a lot of water, they were temporary conscripted auxiliaries, without formal training, dealing with so many enemies, and in the face of such a bloody scene, they felt that their arms were sore and numb, and their bodies were weak, but everyone still tried their best to assassinate.
At this time, some enemies have rushed over the earthen wall, rushed into the position of Xincun, and the spearmen started hand-to-hand combat, the spearmen have an advantage against long-distance enemies, can deal with the enemy in hand-to-hand combat, coupled with the continuous combat physical energy consumption is too large, the disadvantages of the Xincun spearmen are fully revealed, fortunately, the Xincun soldiers are much stronger than the homeless, although they are charged by the homeless, but the casualties are not large.
Seeing that the position was in danger of being broken through, Zhuge Shanzhen took the initiative to ask for battle and wanted to step forward to kill the enemy.
Qi Dayong agreed, Zhuge Shanzhen led the special agent battalion, like a wolf to join the battle, the soldiers of the special battalion, all strong martial arts, hands up and down, and the enemies who fought against it fell one after another, and it didn't take long to slash and kill the enemies who broke through the formation.
The ambulance team led by Mu Xiao'e quickly carried the wounded in Xincun to the field hospital, where Zhang Langzhong treated their injuries briefly, and some seriously injured people were immediately transferred to the rear hospital of Shisanliqiao, where Wu Youxing and Zhu Jishi were responsible for handling.
The battle situation on the front line continued to be transmitted back to Zhang Xianzhong's military camp tent, and Zhang Xianzhong went from being full of ambition to full of doubts, and then he was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
He did not expect that Xincun's combat effectiveness would be so strong in any case, and after two hours of fierce fighting, Zhang Xianzhong's group of displaced people had already lost four or five thousand people, and the military discipline soldiers who were mixed in with it also lost one or two hundred. However, the casualties of the soldiers in Xincun were few.
Through the first encounter, he appreciated the power of Xincun, whose combat effectiveness was many times stronger than that of the officers and soldiers who had fought before. And under the propaganda offensive of Xincun, the displaced people are showing signs of defection.
What frightened him the most was the fire in the new village. The lethality of the gun is much higher than that of the officers and soldiers, as long as it is fired. In the shooting, there were almost no survivors, and there were no self-wounded people in the chamber, and the bird guns of the new village seemed to be able to fire continuously, and the fire did not stop, if the new village had enough gunpowder, I was afraid that no matter how many troops were, it would not be enough to kill. Not only Zhang Xianzhong was surprised, but even Qi Dayong, who had been in the killing field for a long time, saw fire for the first time. Guns exert so much power on the battlefield. I couldn't help but praise in my heart: "What a sharp firearm...... If the ammunition of the firearms is sufficient, not to mention Zhang Xianzhong's more than 10,000 people, there are more than 100,000, but I am afraid that I can't help Xincun.
However, Zhang Xianzhong still sniffed out something from the intermittent ceasefire in Xincun, and he judged that either there was a shortage of ammunition or fire. The gun has shortcomings and will only fire out intermittently. He decided to adjust his deployment, he not only wanted to get food from Xincun, but also to seize Xincun's firearms, and he was keenly aware that if he could get Xincun's firearms, his combat effectiveness would be greatly enhanced.
He didn't want to drag out the battle for too long, there was no food supply, and the scorching sun at noon would consume the physical strength of the soldiers, and if he didn't get it right, the entire army would be defeated without a fight.
The spearmen guarding behind the mound in Xincun, with the continuous assassination, the physical consumption is extremely great, the movement gradually slows down, there are more and more displaced people, and people continue to rush into the position, fortunately, the special battalion fills the position in time, and will rush in and kill again, but Xincun continues to have casualties.
Most of these auxiliaries were recruited on a temporary basis, and they had not undergone intensive training, many of them were one of the spearmen, and he had only been trained in very simple spear assassination, and he could assassinate frequently, and the strength of his use was uneven, but he used brute force, and he felt that his arms were sore.
At first, he still had a feeling of nausea, but slowly, he became numb, and mechanically assassinated the homeless people near the earthen wall, which brought great challenges to his mental and physical strength.
Just when he was about to lose his support, suddenly the horn sounded at the bottom of the mountain, and the enemy retreated like a tide. After retreating to the earthen wall of the first line of defense in the new village, many people suddenly felt relieved and sat down on the ground.