Chapter 54: Between Life and Death

Brother Guan was like being in a forest composed of spears, flanked by the spear heads stretched out by his comrades in the back row, and in front of him were the spear shafts of himself and the enemy, and the spear heads of the infantry armor directly opposite were swaying up and down slightly, only four feet away from him.

Thanks to Zhong Laosi, the chief officer, after the battle of Shenmi Island, the third company had a super-long spear confrontation with the blue team in the Wendeng training camp, and also received Zhu Daichun's comments and improvements, but what he said at the time, Brother Guan couldn't remember it at all, but this feeling of facing the spearhead was not unfamiliar.

But this is not a drill after all, the spearhead in front of him shook slightly, probably almost to the range of the assassination, Brother Guan did not dare to approach again, the three spearheads in front and on the side had great wēixié, stimulating his nerves, and dense beads of sweat appeared on Brother Guan's forehead.

The Houjin soldier on the opposite side was also hesitating, Brother Guan's spear was also in front of him, the formation of the Dengzhou phalanx was very straight, and his right hand was hidden behind him, he couldn't judge the enemy's assassination distance, maybe he would be attacked by three spears if he took another step, and this Houjin soldier was holding the gun with the lower grip method, not only was it difficult, but also had to leave a section of the tail of the gun behind, reducing the range of attack, as time dragged on, after the body continued to consume, he would have to extend the length of the tail of the gun to keep the body balanced, So now he is both worried and anxious.

Brother Guan was next to a short soldier on his right, his breathing sound was clearly audible, Brother Guan knew that he was waiting for the opportunity for the opponent's spearhead to deal with the above, in the slow approach, only the heavy breathing of both sides and the gentle impact of the armor leaves were left on the front line, and occasionally the officers shouted, but no one listened.

There was silence. The Dengzhou soldier faced the gun head on the opposite side and rubbed forward with the smallest stride. Brother Guan's heart almost jumped out, and his whole body was in a highly tense state. The short period of confrontation was as long as 10,000 years for him.

Suddenly, the side of his right leg was empty, and a crouching black shadow quickly crossed a short distance, avoiding the spear in the back row on the side of the golden soldier, and smashed the dagger on the thigh of the golden soldier.

"Ahh The Houjin soldiers, who were tense all over, let out an earth-shattering scream, this scream finally broke the nerves of the two sides who were extremely nervous, and the soldiers shouted wildly, and almost at the same time began a chaotic stabbing confrontation, and the dense guns of the two sides went back and forth between the lines. After the body of the gun moved, the sound of collision was as dense as raindrops.

In the chaos, Brother Guan took advantage of the Jin soldier being stabbed and distracted, and reflexively took a step forward to occupy the attack position, just like his hundreds of exercises every day, his left leg stepped forward, his body leaned forward slightly, his right hand and left hand were both forward at the same time, and the spear stabbed out as quickly as lightning. When he was still a foot away from the opponent's spear blade, he felt a stagnation in his hand, and the spear accurately pierced the neck of the Houjin soldier, and the whole action was completed in an instant.

The pesky spear in front of him fell to the ground. The Houjin soldiers on the opposite side were distracted, barely dodging his assassination, and fell to the ground clutching his neck.

The melee man of the musketeers below stood up nimbly. Stabbed in the neck of a nearby post-gold spearman, who was howling and preoccupied with the opposite side of the assassination. It's close to madness, and I didn't react when I was stabbed in the neck. Blood from the carotid artery spurted out like a fountain, and he continued to stab twice in the opposite direction with blood foaming from his mouth, before falling to the ground with a thud.

Houjin's back row was filling forward, Dengzhou melee soldiers did not dare to stop, squatted down and moved quickly to the side, two spears from the back row stabbed sharply where he was standing just now, this melee soldier dodged a catastrophe, just about to run back, another spear came out from behind, stabbed him in the back, and he suddenly rolled on the ground in pain.

The other melee soldiers on both sides burrowed under the spears, with clusters of sharp spear blades shuttling back and forth over their heads, and they rushed over to stab them when they saw the hole, and then quickly retreated before the rear row could counterattack, and the killed spearmen were often distracted and killed by the spears on the opposite side.

At this time, the battle line had been slaughtered into a pot of porridge, more and more soldiers rushed to the middle ground, struggling in front of their respective positions, the pain caused by the cold weapons was very strong, the hoarse howls of the wounded soldiers resounded throughout the battle line, the wide and dense jiēchu side quickly brought huge casualties, the first platoon of both sides quickly lost most of it, and the spearmen in the back row continued to fill forward. The neat rear row quickly turned into a zigzag shape.

The soldiers of Dengzhou Town almost always fought in a state of numbness, relying entirely on the instinctive reaction of the body to assassinate repeatedly.

With the assistance of that melee soldier, Brother Guan had already occupied the position of taking a step forward at this time, his spear controlled the gap between the two people on the other side, preventing the opponent's back row from filling it, and when the opponent's back row was too late to step forward to contain himself, Brother Guan stabbed another one on the right side, killing a Houjin spearman on the right, and Brother Guan immediately took a step back and returned to the queue.

He rushed up with the back Jin soldier in front of him, regardless of the shouting, the spear in his hand stabbed at Brother Guan, a spearhead expanded rapidly in front of him, Brother Guan maintained a flat gun posture, his hands were blue and he held the spear shaft, his right hand was slightly oblique to the chest of the Hou Jin soldier, the spearhead was about to arrive in front of him, Brother Guan closed his eyes in despair, a force came from his hand, and then his face was cold, when Brother Guan opened his eyes, he saw that the soldier on the opposite side did not slow down, hit his spearhead, and pushed hard in his hand, and the soldier fell down on his back.

The spear blade on the opposite side cut a cut in Brother Guan's face, blood flowed down his cheek, but he didn't feel it in the slightest, the sharp secretion of adrenaline made his strength and endurance greatly increased, and the high tension made him have no time to care about anything other than the enemy.

After the first casualties, the two sides fought more and more frantically, and there was no cautious temptation, such as the spears of the forest were swallowed and vomited, quickly harvesting human lives, and people fell every second in the middle, often two people stabbed each other at the same time, and the corpses almost covered the battle line, and the two armies still did not retreat, showing the strongest combat power of this era.

Brother Guan has been replaced on both sides, the right side is already the second one, his face is covered with blood, and another spearman on the opposite side pounced again, Brother Guan was about to assassinate subconsciously, there was a sudden sharp pain in his calf, and his body was crooked just to avoid the stabbing of the Jin soldiers behind the front, and then he stood unsteadily and fell to the ground.

A spear quickly took his place, stabbing at the opposite side with the sound of the whirring wind, and a pair of shoes stepped on Brother Guan's body several times. Brother Guan half stood up in panic, and the ground was covered with blood. Piles of corpses and wriggling wounded, the strong smell of blood filled the air. Surrounded by countless shaky dense human legs.

In the earth-shattering shouts and hoarse screams, Brother Guan took a few breaths, he finally stabbed his calf to something, it was the Houjin soldier he killed just now, he was lying on his back on the ground and did not die, a hole was pierced by the spear blade in his chest, and he was gurgling blood, he struggled to lift his upper body, holding a spear in his hand and trembling to stab another Ming army.

Brother Guan pulled out the dagger on his waist. Holding back the sharp pain from his calf, he pounced violently, snapped and pressed the spear shaft under him, then Jin Bing was seriously injured, he couldn't hold it in his hand anymore, and his upper body was also pressed back to the ground, Brother Guan's calf became more and more painful, and the blood flowing from the wound on his face dripped down his jaw, and Brother Guan spit out the flow in his mouth.

He immediately crawled down the shaft of the spear and pressed against the golden soldier, and the ground was soaked with blood. Touching the sticky feeling of his hands, he quickly climbed there, and then Jin Bing was already exhausted, and he weakly raised his hand and knocked on Brother Guan's head. Brother Guan couldn't help but say, stabbed the dagger into his neck, and stirred it a few times. The wound made a spurting sound of blood, and then Jin Bing's mouth was wide open. The head was tilted to one side.

Brother Guan had just drawn his dagger, and another Houjin soldier fell on it. The blood in the wound sprayed on Brother Guan's head, Brother Guan struggled to push it away, one was a Houjin soldier, and suddenly found that he had climbed to the opponent's battle line just now, and there were countless human legs shaking in front of him, and there were still shaking spear shafts on it, and he had no way out.

He hurriedly replenished a dagger for the Houjin soldier who had just fallen, and then grabbed a waist knife next to him, which was left by the melee soldier beside him at the beginning, his left hand was supported and ready to slash from below, and the corner of his eyes shook to find that a shadow was approaching seven or eight steps away on the left.

Brother Guan immediately turned his head, a broad-shouldered Houjin soldier was holding a ladder knife in his hand, his face was covered with blood, his eyes were full of fierce light, he was squatting and rushing quickly, the spear shaft on his head came and went, but he did not have the slightest fear.

Brother Guan hurriedly got up to adjust his posture to face the battle, but before Brother Guan could adjust, the man had already pounced, and the ladder knife in his hand stabbed at Brother Guan's neck, Brother Guan eagerly used his left iron arm to hand a grid, and the ladder knife was blocked in a bad friction sound, and then Jin Bing's body still pounced unabated, and the two rolled on the ground a few times, scuffling together, and Jiliè's fight brought blood and water splashed on the ground.

The two desperately tried to suppress each other, Brother Guan dropped the waist knife and grabbed the other party's right hand, and then Jin Bing also grabbed Brother Guan's right hand holding the dagger, his strength was very strong, and Brother Guan was between the two brothers, at this time the back of the right hand was grabbed, he was like a mad tiger, desperately kicking with his feet, Brother Guan's calf wound was kicked by him again and again, Brother Guan's face was pale in pain, and the blood loss from several wounds made him feel very tired, and the state of tension was very strict on the body.

Then Jin Bing finally gained the upper hand, and suddenly turned over and overturned Brother Guan, he just pressed up, Brother Guan suddenly lifted his upper body, and slammed his forehead on the door of Hou Jin Bing, Hou Jin Bing's nose bones were almost broken, and the strong pain stimulated his eyes, his eyes were confused, but he still pressed Brother Guan hard, and his right hand began to break free, Brother Guan's body became weaker and weaker, and he couldn't hold it anymore, and then Jin Bing rolled on the ground, his whole body was covered with blood and mud, and his face was hideous and raised the ladder knife.

The ladder knife crossed an arc and fell towards Brother Guan's neck, Brother Guan was bleeding profusely, and he was no longer able to move, looking up at the flying spear shaft above, he suddenly remembered his younger brother Second Brother Guan, what would he be thinking about before he died, and the little sister should not be a soldier, the little brother is not at home, the little sister should help her mother do farm work at home, the mother is old, what about herself, the most regrettable thing is that she did not get married.

The roar of the two-winged muskets was earth-shattering, but it seemed far away from him, in the middle of this flesh mill, no one could help him, Brother Guan closed his eyes and waited for death to come.

Suddenly, there was a scream of "ah", Brother Guan didn't wait for the ladder knife, but he felt that the people above fell to the side, he quickly opened his eyes, the Houjin soldiers above were crooked to one side, and the back of his neck spurted out of Lao Gao's blood, a spear was retracting to the Dengzhou Town front, and the screams around him were mixed with countless panicked shouts, Brother Guan turned his head excitedly and looked around, the spear array in Dengzhou Town in front of him was advancing, Houjin's infantry was fleeing backwards, and a team of Dengzhou cavalry in the west rushed diagonally and began to chase those deserters. The detachment with bayonets and flintlock pistols rushed out of the flanks and gaps, ran in pursuit, and when they encountered a small group of resisting Jiannu, they stood up and fired at a platoon, and then began to assassinate at close quarters, defeating the recalcitrant Jiannu.

"The phalanx keeps the line, march quickly, drive Jiannu to the south, and don't let any of them go." Zhong Laosi's familiar voice sounded behind him.

Listening to the familiar tone, Brother Guan opened his mouth and let out two brief hum sounds, and then laughed out loud......

Dolgon's face was pale at the collapsed infantry, they ran desperately in panic, and even scattered the garrison behind them, and they had completely become lost dogs, and even Bayara, who was overseeing the battle, could only avoid the front of the rout, and fled backwards.

More than 1,300 infantry, lost 300 before the engagement, and the loss after approaching was even greater, especially the musketeers on the two wings of the Ming army were very dense, nearly 100 musketeers were divided into six rows and continued to shoot, their power far exceeded that of the ordinary Ming army, the two wings of Houjin could not bear the loss of continuing to approach, and had to fight with bows and arrows from a distance, so that the two wings not only could not form a breakthrough, but also suffered great losses.

The spearmen in the middle also did not gain an advantage, but were quickly defeated by the opponent in a formation, he only knew in formation that the spear-wielding elite infantry armor in front of the middle line had lost most of it, and the ordinary infantry armor and Yu Ding in the back had lost their fighting spirit in the face of the still dense Ming army.

Dorgon stammered, he had never expected to be defeated in a comparable number of people, and the defeat was so rapid that even the white-armored soldiers behind him could not be committed.

Meler's voice trembled next to him, "Master, the minions will escort you to the west, our cavalry is basically here, and we have only lost about a hundred people." ”

"Run?" Dolgon said in despair, "There are mountains and hills in the west, if the exit is blocked by this Ming cavalry, these infantry will come all over the mountains and fields to kill, and a few can escape." ”

"Master, let's run, we still have a flag in Liaozhong, let's ......"

Dolgon interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Needless to say, our Niu Lu are all the two yellow flag men and horses left by my father Khan, and they are the most elite armor soldiers of my Dajin, if they are all lost here, I will have no shame to live." ”

Meler really knelt down and said, "The slave swears to follow the master to the death." ”

Dolgon nodded, at this time, there was a Houjin cavalry to stop the pursuing Dengzhou cavalry, the two sides were scuffling and left to the flank, he said lightly: "The Bayala soldiers in Bakshan are not chaotic, we still have a chance, gather all the armor soldiers here, including all the bannermen, Goshha, Bayala, all who can move, follow me to impact the Ming army's infantry formation, if I die in battle, you take the cavalry to break through from the west side, how much can you go out......"

Meler was about to say yes, when a Goshha next to him suddenly pointed to the north and shouted.

Dolgon hurriedly went, only to see dust rising in the distance to the north, and the Ming army sentry cavalry was constantly hurrying to come, and the Ming army's large array sounded gold, and the phalanx gave up the pursuit, and after staying in place for a while, the whole team began to move towards the ferry.

A sentry horse with a blue back flag appeared on the official road in the north, and a black line appeared on the horizon in the distance. ”

Dolgon closed his eyes and secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he only hoped to leave this place as much as possible, and the Ming army would not be destroyed. He said to Meler: "You go and collect the defeated soldiers, and when the three beylers arrive, we will look for an opportunity to attack." ”

Meler's eyes were really south, and he replied in a low voice: "Master, the slave will go immediately, I'm afraid that there may not be time to collect it all." ”

Dolgon's heart tightened, and he turned to the south, where there were some people fleeing for their lives on the avenue, and behind them were several Dengzhou sentinels chasing and slashing, and farther away was a faintly visible queue of infantry.

"Immediately go and gather the infantry armor, let them all take the horses, be quick, and when the three beylers arrive, we will break through." (To be continued.) )

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