Chapter Eighty-Five: Pacification

Bang!

On the position of the Ming army, the artillery fire was fired in unison, and the ten small guns of the Furlong machine were violently thrown back, and ten red iron bullets rushed towards the left flank of the Houjin army, and the position of the Chinese army was also shrouded in white fog, and more than a dozen iron shell bullets fell into the Houjin array with hissing fuses.

The screams soon came, and ten iron bullets ploughed out ten bloody roads in the Houjin position, although the iron was not big, but the Tartar slaves blocking the iron flight route were all broken hands and feet, and the shells penetrated the Houjin army's solid formation, and finally bounced on the slope, which stopped.

The formation of the Houjin army that suffered an artillery blow was chaotic, but under the command of various divisions, it quickly regained calm, and several white swingers hacked the screaming wounded on the ground to death one by one, they held shields, holding heavy blades in their hands, and their hateful eyes stared at the Ming army's formation and began to speed up and run, the Ming army's artillery could only fight one round, and the loading speed was very slow, they were not afraid.

However, what they never expected was that this was just the beginning, and soon, the iron shells that fell in the position also exploded, and this kind of cannonball with dozens of iron shells was extremely sharp against dense formations, often ten salvos could cover a team of 100 people.

"Ahh

The screams on the Houjin position were heard again, and severed limbs, blades, and broken shields flew in all directions......

Shu Muda looked at a soldier in despair, holding his right limb that exposed his bones, and howled miserably in front of him, and ran over in a wave to end his pain.

"Rush forward!" The Han Banner Army led by Chen Derong also followed, and when they saw the white swing tooth lama who was charging into the battle suffering heavy casualties, they brandished their weapons and shouted.

There are only a few short steps away from the Ming army's position, Shu Muda calmed down, his face returned to a murderous look, a gust of sea breeze blew and took away the gunpowder smoke on the Ming army's position, and the people of the Houjin army who were still running suddenly found that on the right wing of the Ming army and the position of the Chinese army, some auxiliaries were busy cleaning the cannon chamber with a roller, and some people took something to load the cannon chamber and stabbed it with a stick, and then, these people who were blocking the muzzle of the cannon scattered in a hurry, and a person standing on the side of the cannon waved his hand violently!

The Ming army and the Chinese army rose again with a trace of white smoke......

"So fast?"

Shu Muda's face was pale, his heart was full of despair, the garrison guarding the island was only more than 1,000 people, and the elite bannermen were less than 400 people. Before he could finish thinking about it, there was a whistling in his ears, and one after another iron-shelled bullets hit a white tooth-wrestling shield wearing iron armor, and they fell to the ground with a bounce, still hissing

"Quick!" Shumuda pointed to the ground, not knowing what to do with this thing

One of the armored soldiers had quick eyes and quick hands, and with a flick of his hand, his whole body shield just covered the iron bullet, and then he pounced, and his whole body was pressed against the shield.

Disheveled!

The iron-shelled bullet burst open, and the armored soldier was bounced up, and by the time he landed on the ground, he had turned into a corpse, and there were more than ten large holes in the corpse.

In any case, this iron bullet did not cause much damage because of the heroic behavior of this armored soldier, Shu Muda recovered his hideousness, and he shouted to the people around him: "The drum beats, tell the warriors, if we don't kill all the Han dogs today, we will be killed by the Han dogs!" If you don't want to die, rush me! ”

The dense drums beat up, and the archers on the right flank began to draw their backs while running, approaching fifty paces, and they would give the first blow to the Ming army's array.

Zhong Hanming squatted in front of the formation with the handle of the spear, due to the large clouds of gunpowder smoke rising from time to time, the soldiers who were lined up in front of the formation could not see each other's situation clearly, but there were clear screams in their ears, obviously the blow of the artillery team to the Tarslaves was huge, the mortars behind Zhong Hanming were still firing, he could even feel a ball of fire over his head, whistling into the Tartar slaves' array, Zhong Hanming took the time to look left and right, several of his fellow countrymen were pale, holding spears with their eyes closed and trembling.

"Hey, I said fellow, our artillery team is killing Tartars, why are you nervous?" Zhong Hanming's problem of liking to talk can't be changed, the more nervous he is, the more he talks.

"The sky is falling apart, the sky is falling apart!" A fellow in his right hand opened his eyes slightly, and quickly closed them, his whole body kept shaking, they Dengzhou soldiers had only been recruited for a short time, and later Lord Li Weiluan took them to Lushun again, and trained with several battalions in Lushun for more than a month, but it was the first time to face the Tartar slaves.

"Fellow, what's next? Is it our turn to go into battle and kill the enemy? A recruit on the left also asked with a shudder.

"Ahem!"

Zhong Hanming looked back at the Inspector team, and then turned around and said: "Don't worry, this artillery team will fight for a while, and the Tartars will not stop until they rush to within fifty paces, where are the Tartars running now?" ”

"I don't know how far away" A fellow could only see a vague figure of a Tatar slave in the distance through the heavy smoke of gunpowder.

"At least eighty steps to go" Hearing the random speculation of the recruits in the front row, a veteran behind him replied lazily, his voice calming the panicked crowd a little.

"Eighty steps? That Tartar is running too slowly, and the artillery team can still fight at least three rounds."

Zhong Hanliang saw the scene not far away, and said to his nervous fellows: "Generally, the Han Banner Army has collapsed for almost a long time at this time, there is no doubt that Lao Tzu has fought so many battles with adults, and he will definitely not lie to you, but this Tartar may continue to charge the battle." ”

"That's when we got in?" A fellow couldn't help but tilt his head over.

"It's still early, when the Tartar rushes to fifty paces, then it's our turn to be beaten, the Tartar vest is going to shoot an arrow at this distance, the Tartar shoots the arrow accurately, saying to shoot your right eye, not the left eye." We braved the rain of arrows on the one hand, and fought desperately with the Tartars who rushed over. Zhong Hanming said seriously.

"Haha" Several veterans laughed when they heard Zhong Hanming's words, and those recruits became more and more panicked when they heard the laughter.

At this moment, another gust of sea breeze blew, and all the gunpowder smoke on the entire position was blown away, and the Ming army in front of the battle saw clearly the situation of the Tartars on the hillside, and the corpses on the ground!

"I'm a good girl!" The recruits gasped one after another.

The veterans, on the other hand, had heavy faces, their eyes fixed on the Tartars who were running with their blades, and on the entire hillside, a line of skirmishers reflecting the colors of various armors rushed towards them like the waves of the sea......

There was a scolding sound behind them, and the recruits turned around to see a group of Lushun soldiers squeezing in, they were in groups of four, holding short guns and carrying flintlock pistols to the front of the formation, these soldiers ignored the complaints of the recruits, and squeezed out a vacant lot.

Seeing their arrival, the recruits had some expectations in their hearts, they were deeply impressed by the demeanor of these people sniping the Tartar sentry in front of the battle just now, and the recruits felt very relieved to see their burly figures.

"They are elite soldiers under the command of adults, and they can't pick out one out of a hundred, special, from the special forces battalion," Zhong Hanming explained triumphantly when he saw the puzzled eyes around him.

"Fellows, you can't compare to them?" A recruit already admired Zhong Hanming's composure and boasting.

Several veterans laughed, and even a soldier who was squatting on the ground and aiming took the time to smile here, Zhong Hanming was immediately furious, and then said angrily: "Lao Tzu also signed up to try, ** his grandmother drops, just like this mountain, you have to run back and forth ten times and are not allowed to pant, isn't that torture?" ”

There was a stirring in front of the Ming army, and a company of the special forces battalion all crossed the line, and sixty paces away from the opposite side, the light armored archers running in the front of the Tatar army were approaching, and many archers drew arrows while running, and began to prepare for the first wave of strikes to the Ming army.

The special forces battalion or a group of four, or a group of two, formed more than 30 small teams in front of the formation, due to the lack of flintlock guns, except for the flintlock pistols used in groups of two, the others are all with short guns, under the attention of the Ming army in front of the formation, these people suddenly opened fire together, with the smoke of gunpowder rising into the air, the tartars running in the distance fell more than ten, these soldiers handed over the short guns to the people behind them, ignored the cheers behind them, and took the loaded short guns and continued to aim and fire, with the sound of fire one after another, In the distance, there were people in the Tartar straggler line who suddenly fell to the ground, or fell to the ground tossing and turning, screaming and screaming.

At this moment, there was a crisp sound of gongs from the Chinese army, Zhong Hanming's face changed, and he shouted: "Hurry up, erect a shield!" ”

At this time, the order of the commander behind him also arrived, and several heralds ran in their respective formations to give the order: "Erect a shield!" Vertical shield! ”

Zhong Hanming put down the spear in his hand, put the heavy shield on his back in front of him, grabbed the spear in his right hand and pointed it forward, several recruits followed his movements, learning quickly, and several rows of Ming soldiers behind him put the heavy shield on top of their heads, putting on a turtle-shaped array.

Collapse ~~~~~

The Tartars on the opposite side ran to fifty paces away one after another, and as soon as they let go of their hands, the heavy arrows roared towards the position of the Ming army with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, and in mid-air, there were more and more black arrow feathers, and finally converged into a dark cloud.

The gong of the supervising team sounded loudly, and a few Ming soldiers who threw down their weapons had just gotten up, and they were killed one by one in front of the formation without running two steps, and the commanders of each battalion were also roaring loudly: "Steady, steady!" ”

Many of the recruits closed their eyes in despair and shrank under the heavy shields, and soon, the heavy arrows fell in front of the battle like rain in arcs, and the erected shields clanged and fell full of arrows.

There were people on the front who kept screaming and falling down, except for the other recruits of the Liaodong battalion, there was no heavy armor, and the leather armor could not block the shooting of heavy arrows, although most of the body was covered by shields, but some of the exposed parts still caused a lot of losses after being hit by arrows, and several teams of auxiliaries quickly stepped forward and dragged those who fell to the ground in.

The lightly armored archers shot a round and then galloped quickly, and when they were thirty paces away, they stopped again, drew their arrows and began to draw their bows and arrows, and under their cover, the heavy armor behind them also advanced considerably.

Bang bang~~

There was a burst of smoke in front of the Ming army, and after the soldiers of the special forces battalion fired a round, they took the loaded short guns and fired another round, and then continued to erect a shield to dodge, and the people behind them were nervously filled under the protection of the shield, and the archers were originally the kings of this distance, but they did not expect to suffer several rounds of musket blows in just thirty steps, because the distance was too close, and some people were constantly beaten and flew out, and some were silent, throwing away the bow and crossbow in their hands and falling to the ground.

With a wave of the knife, the archers moved towards the relatively fragile left flank of the Ming army with a whistle, revealing the dense charging heavy armor behind them, and at this time, the Ming army's Chinese army rose up a cloud of gunsmoke, and more than a dozen iron-shelled bullets whistled and pierced past......

The soldiers in front of the battle with short guns have moved to the left flank with the archers of the Tartars, and they will continue to fight at a distance of thirty paces from each other on the left flank, and a soldier fell alone in front of the formation, his ** was pierced by a crossbow arrow, but his face was covered with sweat particles the size of soybeans, and he struggled to crawl towards the back of the formation, but he did not say a word.

A recruit couldn't stand it, suddenly threw away the weapon in his hand and ran over, ran to the soldier and squatted in front of the soldier, signaling the soldier to lie on his back, a sergeant of the war team brandished a snowy ghost head knife and ran over, saw this situation stunned for a moment, helped him to support the wounded soldier back to the formation, and several auxiliaries took the wounded soldier and ran towards the Chinese army.

"On the battlefield, you are not allowed to leave the team in the name of helping the wounded, even if he dies in front of you, this time you don't understand the military regulations, and next time it will be the crime of killing the head! Remember? The sergeant of the Warlord warned the recruit viciously.

When the Warlord sergeant was gone, the recruit smacked the ground, but the veterans were full of disdain and gratitude for his heroic act.

"Get up!" Zhong Hanming kicked away the shield of a fellow countryman and stood up, and several recruits around him stood up tremblingly, they learned from Zhong Hanming to throw away the shield and hold the spear in his hand tightly.

"Fellow, do you want us to go?" A recruit asked boldly......

However, he found that this fellow who had more saliva than tea had a solemn face, holding a spear, and bowed slightly, but he did not answer him.

"Front-row erectors, front-row erectors! Get ready to take on the enemy! There were shouts everywhere in the front, and under the order of the squad leader, the soldiers in the front row stood up, the spears in their hands pointed diagonally ahead, and reorganized into a forest of spears.

Shu Muda's face was full of gunsmoke, staring at blood-red eyes, there were a few iron shells falling beside him, but his luck was amazing, except for a few guards who suffered heavy casualties, he himself was unharmed, he never expected that the firearms of the Ming army on the opposite side were so ferocious, and the thousand two soldiers lost most of them before they rushed to the front of the battle, just now Chen Derong, the capital of the Han Banner Army, came to report, saying that the Han Banner Army of the rear army had scattered more than 200 people, plus the more than 100 more armor and light armor soldiers lost before the battle, and more than 400 soldiers were lost before the battle, but anyway, Finally rushed to the front of the formation, the artillery on the Ming army's position also completely stopped, Shu Muda is still full of confidence, as long as the front line is broken with the help of geographical advantages, no matter how many the Ming army is, it will not play a role, it will only be scattered into a stream and be killed, thinking of this, Shu Muda said to a share: "You go to command the Han Banner Army for Chen Derong, if he refuses, you will kill him, let the Han Banner Army follow, the Han dogs run too slowly"

Fende nodded and turned around and ran to the back, Shu Muda waved his knife, and the Chinese army sounded fierce drums, and the bloody battle was about to begin!

The fierce battle on the left flank is still continuing, nearly two hundred lightly armored archers stood thirty steps away, facing the Ming army's position with bows and arrows, but their stragglers line, there were constantly people screaming and falling to the ground, some people in front of the opposite position spewed out a stream of white fog, every time a puff of white smoke was spewed, there were people on their side who fell in a blur of flesh and blood, at this moment, a sharp chirp sounded, collapsed~~, and the archers who heard the order finally shot the arrow crossbow!

The arrows and crossbows were still flying, and on the opposite position, the shields were erected one by one, covering themselves from the wind, but when this wave of arrows fell, the screams suddenly became louder.

The left flank of the Ming army was covered by a rain of arrows, and the flying arrows instantly filled the surrounding ground, and some of the exposed parts of the Ming army were shot, they couldn't bear the pain and jumped up in a panic, but they were shot like hedgehogs by more arrow feathers and fell to the ground, their confusion caused more casualties, and the entire left flank position was like an instant overgrown with dense weeds.

The counterattack speed of the soldiers of those special forces battalions slowed down, they not only had to dodge the arrows and crossbows, but also had to reload under the gaze of the Tartars, plus the rifled short guns were very slow to load, and the lightly armored archers fired seven or eight rounds of crossbow arrows They could only counterattack one round, and they immediately fell behind when they fired in front of the formation, and the left flank position was shaky and began to loosen......

At this moment, the Chinese army of the Ming army suddenly heard three sharp swan sounds, and the spearmen of the forward Liaodong battalion suddenly stomped on the ground with their feet, all the spears in their hands were flat and pointed ahead, and their mouths let out a neat "Hey! ”

"Engage the enemy!" Hu Mazi brandished a spear and pointed sharply at the front, and suddenly the Liaodong battalion shouted everywhere, and countless soldiers in heavy armor began to slowly step forward against the rugged mountain road, less than thirty steps away from them, those Tatar slaves wielding heavy blades also roared, just a few dozen steps away in the blink of an eye, the two iron streams collided violently together, violent vibrations, screams, killing shouts, and the sound of weapons intersecting suddenly resounded throughout the earth......

Tie Niu, who was in command of the Chinese army, was a little confused, and his brother often said that if the Tatar elite bannermen lost more than thirty percent, it would be easy to collapse, but the loss of the Tatar slaves stationed on the island had already exceeded thirty percent, and there was still no sign of collapse.

Shu Muda is also a little strange, there is no sign of collapse of the Ming army in front of him, and even the heavy armor white swing teeth have begun to charge the battle, they actually dare to take the initiative to catch up, this phenomenon makes him anxious, according to their original habits, just those light armor archers can disrupt the Ming army's formation, and then the heavy armor soldiers rushed to thirty steps away, the Ming army's formation should be completely chaotic, and finally the light armor archers were covered by several waves of arrows, the Ming army began to rush to flee for their lives, and the slightly firm Ming army would also be infected and frightened, In the end, the white swing tooth lamas who broke into the formation easily harvested the head, it can be said that the impact on the Ming army's formation should be easier than going up the mountain to hunt large beasts, but the left wing of this Ming army did begin to loosen, but the crumbling appearance is not crossing, and now the front army has begun to fight, and the left wing has stabilized!

Shumuda didn't have more time to think about why, as they were also about to rush to the front......

With the charging white swing teeth of the horns raised, countless flying axes, iron bones, and javelins shot out, the Ming army in the front row of the Liaodong battalion snorted, more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground, Zhong Hanming was fiercely short, and a hovering flying axe slashed across the red tassel on the helmet above his head, and slashed heavily on the heart guard of a veteran behind him, causing the veteran ** to fly out.

The Liaodong battalion lined up in a dense formation and the white swing tooth of the rushing formation staggered, the two sides killed more than a dozen soldiers at the same time, the soldiers in the formation faced each other's dense knives and guns at all There was no room to dodge, life or death, it all depends on their luck, the first row of soldiers of the Liaodong battalion withstood the first wave of white swing tooth horn blows, the second wave of blows followed, the two iron streams hit together again, the white swing teeth rushed to kill with the help of steep terrain, and the sharp long-handled tiger tooth blades staggered, From time to time, there were casualties, and the blood of the soldiers sprayed on the land, and the screams were endless, and the cruelty of the battle in the era of cold weapons was fully reflected.

Zhong Hanming straightened up without guilt, and the spear in his hand suddenly rushed forward like a poisonous snake, directly piercing through a double-layer iron armor that rushed to the white swing tooth, and the hideous face of the white swing tooth horn did not stop, until it hit his face door before stopping.

"Phew!" Zhong Hanming dropped his spear, pulled out the blade on his back with his backhand, and swung it over, and the head of the white swing horn that was nailed to the ground flew up, sprinkling blood all over the ground.

"Ahh

With a scream, a fellow beside him fell down with a bleeding right shoulder, and kept crawling towards him, Zhong Hanming just turned around, and a strong white tooth like a calf smiled and plunged a tiger tooth blade into his fellow countryman's back, and twisted left and right a few times!

Zhong Hanming's fellow finally let out a dull scream, his pupils began to dilate, and Zhong Hanming's left hand raised for help hung down softly, Zhong Hanming didn't have time to check the tragic situation of his fellow countryman, he clenched the handle of the knife, and stared intently at the white swing tooth that was walking towards him.

"This guy grew up eating dog whips?" Zhong Hanming's mouth was empty, but he still took the time to mutter.

The war drums on both sides were beating rapidly and continuously, perhaps both sides understood that they had no way out, and each broke out with unprecedented fighting spirit, although there were people screaming and falling down in front of the formation, but the two groups of soldiers behind them rushed over again, and collided together, and the entire hillside was full of strands of soldiers fighting.

On the left flank, those lightly armored archers had already fired nearly fifteen rounds of arrow rain, as their strength gradually ran out, they could no longer gather such a dense rain of arrows as just now, and the arrows shot by everyone were crooked, but they had to grit their teeth and struggle to support, they could only pray in their hearts that the next wave of shots would collapse the Ming army.

At this moment, a gong suddenly sounded on the densely covered Ming army position on the opposite side, and countless Ming soldiers abandoned their shields and stood up, and a group of soldiers with ghost-headed broadswords and only leather armor on their bodies slowly pressed towards them.

"Charge!" With a finger of the old cannon's broadsword, the soldiers of the two companies of the sin camp rushed over......

"Charge!" The grizzled Wang Tiehammer also shouted, the battle line that had been battered by the Qi Barracks was formed again, and countless Ming troops who had accumulated a belly of anger rushed forward with spears and broadswords.

At the critical moment when the two sides were fighting fiercely, the right flank of the Ming army suddenly broke out with three loud slogans: "Kill slaves!" Kill slaves! Kill slaves! ”

As the drumbeat of the right flank sounded, countless soldiers pointed their spears obliquely, and began to slowly press up towards the position in front of the Liaodong battalion.

"It's over!"

Shumuda's first thought was to retreat, but the lapping of the waves on the edge of the island told him that he had nowhere to retreat but to die. The lightly armored archers did not disperse the left flank of the Ming army, and the white swing tooth in the middle did not disperse the Ming army formation in front, but fell into the heavy encirclement of the Ming army, and now the right wing of the Ming army has also pressed up, what do you do to block?

"What about the Han Banner Army?" Shumuda yelled.

"Your Excellency?" A bloodied general ran to him, and Shu Muda looked at it for a long time before he recognized it, it turned out to be Chen Derong.

"The Han Banner Army has also filled in, and there is really no manpower," Chen Derong said in a choked voice.

Shu Muda looked around, only to find that almost all the white swing tooth lamas who had rushed into battle before had been killed and wounded, and now it was the Han Banner Army led by Chen Derong who took over the battle line, and was still fighting with the heavy armor soldiers in the front of the Ming army.

"General Chen" Shu Muda said sincerely for the first time: "In this case, everyone will fight to the death with the Ming army!" ”

Chen Derong nodded and said: "The small one and the big Ming enmity are as deep as the sea, and today I am willing to follow the adults and be loyal to the master!" ”

"Good!"

Shu Muda stretched out his hand, touched Chen Derong's braid and said, "The master will not treat our family members badly, and it is also a pleasure to die here with General Chen today." ”

However, no matter how the Houjin boosted morale, with the addition of the Ming army supported by the right wing, the Han Banner Army in the front could not resist and began to retreat slowly towards the mountain, Chen Derong jumped to his feet in a hurry, and killed a number of soldiers in a row still could not stop the decline, and the Ming army firmly stepped forward and drove them towards the mountain, and some of the coats behind him saw that the situation was not good, and they had begun to quietly run towards the back mountain, and the collapse of Houjin's formation was in a moment!

At this moment, the swan sound of the Ming army in the army rose again, the formation of the Liaodong battalion changed, the offensive became more and more rapid, all the pikemen stabbed a round, there were sword and shield soldiers behind them to replace, after the sword and shield soldiers attacked, the pikemen stepped forward again to stab, the continuous offensive forced the Han Banner Army to retreat again and again, as another wave of pikemen ignored the Han Banner Army around the fierce battle stepped forward, the Tatar slaves guarding the island finally began to collapse!

With a shout, the defeated Han Banner Army ran all over the mountains, they were scurrying here like headless flies, they didn't even have the courage to turn back, the elder brother only hated his father and mother for having two legs less, and rushed towards the depths of the dense forest, as for how the Ming army would search the whole island and encircle and annihilate them one by one, they didn't think much about it.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! ”

The Ming army broke out with a thunderous roar, and countless recruits and veterans brandished their weapons and rushed towards the remnants of the Han Banner Army.

"Wan Sheng! Wansheng! ”

The left flank of the Ming army also heard the sound of harmony, the Ming army of the sin camp and the strange camp was chasing those light armored archers, the light armored archers who were forced to the front of the formation just now were full of white faces, they occasionally turned around and shot an arrow, hoping to hinder the speed of the Ming army's pursuit, but the Ming army simply ignored the strong crossbows they shot, and unceremoniously hacked the archers who caught up to the ground one by one, and then got up and continued to chase.

"There's a slave chief here!"

A recruit suddenly shouted, and several soldiers quickly gathered around, Shumuda died on the ground with two spears stuck in his body, his head was still connected to his body, and as soon as the soldiers lifted his body, their heads rolled down the hill with a gurgling head.

"Isn't this a fellow?" Next to Shu Muda's corpse, Zhong Hanming's eyes were open, and a tiger tooth blade pierced through his chest, nailing him to the ground, his mouth was still slightly open, but he didn't know what he wanted to say in the end.

The recruit couldn't help crying suddenly, just now he was squatting in the third row, hearing the nonchalant boasting of this fellow in Dengzhou, he had already regarded Zhong Hanming as his pride in his heart, but he didn't expect to die here.

"This slave chief was killed by my fellow countryman"

Later, this recruit told Zhong Hanming's merits when he met people, and he often asked others: "Do you know what my fellow wants to say before he dies?" ”

"Give you a day to surround and annihilate all the Tartars on the island, except for some prisoners asked by the special forces battalion, and leave no one behind," Iron Bull ordered coldly

"Yes!" The commanders of each battalion all bowed down and clenched their fists

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