Chapter 136: The Corner
The front of the Bao Yi screamed, was driven to the edge of the trench by the Hou Jin soldiers behind, the desperate Bao Yi stepped on the soil bag to cross the trench, the passage set up by the soil bag was not wide, the back Jin soldiers behind the speed was fast, the spear and the big knife forced to come, it was too late to pass the guò Bao Yi desperately howled and jumped into the deep trench full of sharp stakes and thistles, and the Bao Yi who was stabbed by the sharp wooden stake did not die for a while, and screamed miserably.
They jumped into the small trench under the breast wall in front of the earthen wall, and there were two explosions inside, and several coats were instantly engulfed in white smoke. The coat in the back continued to jump into the small trench, and was pierced by the thistle terrestris, and the foot plate was unaware.
The Mongols in the back were also forced by the armor soldiers to pass through the trench, they carried iron tips, filled the small trench in front of them with earthen bags, drew their waist knives and hacked those scurrying clothes to death, used their corpses as materials to fill the trench, and then inserted five or six feet of long sticks with iron tips into the breastwork, and five or six people shook the wooden handle together, so that the soil on the breastwork fell off in large pieces. (Note 1) There are no Dengzhou soldiers behind the breastwork, and these Dengzhou soldiers have withdrawn along the breastwork to both wings, and retreated back to the earthen wall from the passage.
More and more people poured through the trench, they expanded along the small trench to the two wings, the Houjin soldiers climbed the trench like ants, and the remaining Mongols continued to dig under the city wall, the Dengzhou soldiers on the earthen wall fired, and the earthen walls on both sides of the sharp angle oblique line, there were also continuous musket salvos, and the piled up Houjin soldiers spewed out pieces of blood mist, and no place was safe.
Two thunderbolts were thrown down the earthen wall, this kind of iron-shelled thunderbolt was very heavy, and could not be thrown through the main trench, but it could roll down the earthen wall, and the violent explosion blew up the Mongols in front of them, and there was a mess under the chaotic earthen wall. Bayara, who oversaw the battle, shouted loudly and forbade everyone to retreat.
Zhang Zhongqi followed at the end of the first wave, and at this time there were no two channels through guò. The smoke from the explosion in front of him drifted over, and the edge of the trench was blurred, and at this time, another volley was fired on the earthen walls on both sides, and Zhang Zhongqi fell down in response.
Several armor soldiers held long wooden poles. Two fire thunderbolts hung from it, ignited and pushed through the earthen wall, exploding on the other side of the earthen wall, and then a series of short ladders set up the earthen wall. The armor soldiers under the earthen wall began to climb the city with shun knives and cloud ladder knives, and the people below pressed the ladder to prevent them from being pushed down by the Dengzhou soldiers, and a large number of armor soldiers poured out of the trenches behind. Many archers also entered the horse barrier ditch and fired their bows and arrows at the Dengzhou soldiers on both sides of the sharply angled oblique edges, and the horns on the Dengzhou city wall sounded loudly. They seem to have discovered that this is the main direction of attack of the Houjin soldiers. Alerts are being sent elsewhere.
The sound of shouting and killing on the earthen wall shook the sky, one by one the spearheads continued to expand and contract, and the Houjin soldiers wielded round shields and cloud ladder knives to resist, and those who were lucky enough to survive the first round of assassinations jumped into the chest wall on the earthen ramparts, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Dengzhou soldiers, and the armored soldiers in the rear kept coming. Ascending the ladder to the city, the two sides fought bloodily on the earthen wall, and as time passed, the Mongols finally dug down two sections of the earthen wall, and the last wave of armor soldiers and Bayala jumped on the trench and rushed towards the collapse of the earthen wall.
Huang Shan hid in the barrage ditch, a Mongol corpse pressed on his body, and a group of Bayala wearing bright silver armor ran past him, and the sound of guns, drums, conch horns and trumpets rang everywhere, and the imminent death at any time made his whole body tremble lightly unconsciously, and his mouth let out a whining cry.
After a while, he stabilized a little, so that his body no longer trembled, his vision just happened to see the passage on the east side, where there was a Dengzhou artillery emplacement, he had hit the Houjin soldiers many times before, this time it seemed to have been hit by the Hongyi cannon, and he had not fired, after it went out, it became the focus of the Houjin soldiers' attacks, those bright armor shook in the smoke, slashing and assassinating at the two earthen walls, one by one, the figures fell, and sometimes there were even some red figures, which were the Dengzhou soldiers that Huang Shan had seen from afar, But in the blink of an eye, they were counterattacked by Bayara and the armor soldiers, and the horns sounded very quickly, and there was often a volley of guns, followed by a neat shout, and then the armor soldiers would be beaten back again.
The armor soldiers from other places climbed the earthen wall from the ladder one after another, more and more armor soldiers poured in from the gap, and another group of more than two hundred armor soldiers and Bayala appeared from the trench in the direction of Houjin, flooding through the middle area, watching the Houjin soldiers disappear on the earthen wall in batches, Huang Shan clenched his fists, he didn't know who he was worried about.
The endless stream of Han troops and Zhenyi continued to pass from here, and the Zhenyi on the two flanks also found a breakthrough here, and spontaneously hit here, those Mongols dug the gap wider and wider, and the rear gold front sounded horns and conch horns, obviously adding men and horses here, and the guns and cannons in the distance of the battle line were like fried beans, and he didn't know what the battle had become, if it was like here, then Lushun might be overcome.
Some scattered soldiers fled back from the passage, and before they could cross the trench, they were shot to death by Bayala who guarded the trench, and several people who looked like Pashku appeared on the wall, howling to stop the soldiers from escaping, and then a group of more than 300 Han soldiers arrived, and they took a strange bird gun, climbed up the earthen wall and shot in ping-pong, and then stood on the head of the city to load and shoot, and constantly people were hit by the other side, and turned down the earthen wall, and became corpses under the corner.
The shouts of killing inside shook the sky, and white smoke rose from behind the earthen wall. Huang Shan didn't know what kind of killing hell it would be, just as Huang Shan was thinking wildly, there were several fierce cannon sounds behind the earthen wall in Lushun, and then there was that strange military horn, which sounded like a tide of rushing and killing, Huang Shan opened his mouth and watched more and more figures appear on the earthen wall, as if they were about to be beaten back.
There was a new group of armor soldiers put in, this group of as many as five or six hundred people, they did not approach from the trench, but directly from the ground to guò, and quickly ran to the edge of the trench, where the Mongols piled up corpses inside, the width of the trench was filled wider, this group of Houjin soldiers densely ran in front of Huang Shan, the artillery fire around and the head of Lushun City was shooting here, iron bullets flew in the crowd, broken arms and stumps were flying, those armor soldiers ran desperately under the urging of Bayala, no one bothered to look around.
Red figures appeared on the earthen walls on both wings, and they attacked along the earthen walls, trying to cut off the passage of the Houjin soldiers, and the newly arrived armor soldiers rushed up the earthen walls, suppressing those Dengzhou soldiers with bows and arrows, and the dense bowstrings vibrated like swarms passing by.
The cannon sounds in the earthen wall came one after another, and after a few sounds, rows of armor and Han soldiers fell down on the earthen wall, piled up under the earthen wall and squirmed and wailed.
Huang Shan buried his head, he can't go anywhere now, he will be hacked to death by the Paishku and Bayala in the back when he goes back, and the advance is the Shura Hell, the clothes that came with him are almost all dead and wounded, and even those Mongols are also killed and wounded, he has not seen Zhang Zhongqi's figure later, it seems that he was the first wave to hit the earthen wall, and fell in front of the trench, he should have been killed by a musket, Huang Shan has nothing sad in his heart, but he can be sure that there is a dead way forward. So Huang Shan can only hide here and pretend to be dead now, if he is discovered by the armor soldiers, he will also be beheaded, just like one hanging in the air
Suddenly, a person fell in beside him, Huang Shan was so frightened that he almost screamed out, but he was covered by a hand in his mouth, and when he looked over in horror, he found that it was Zhang Zhongqi.
"You're not dead yet?" Huang Shan asked in amazement.
Zhang Zhongqi gasped lowly, lying on his side in the barrage ditch, touched the wound of the Mongolian man a few times with his hand, and then wiped the blood stains on his face, he whispered to Huang Shan: "You dog slave is hiding well, I almost reimbursed the master, fortunately, Lao Tzu saw the opportunity quickly, and rode the Dengzhou soldiers to shoot, Lao Tzu also loaded it, and it was easy to climb here." ”……
Before nightfall, the sky was still shining at the last of its kind, a thin cloud of gunpowder smoke remained on the battlefield, thousands of corpses were spread around the mutilated earthen walls, and the dying wounded soldiers roared low, making the sound of wild beasts.
A corpse in the barrage moved slightly, a head emerged from under the corpse, Zhang Zhongqi wiped the blood on his face, panted and looked around, some vague figures were shaking on the earth wall of Dengzhou, they seemed to be cleaning up the corpse.
After a day of bloody battles, although the Houjin soldiers destroyed many earthen walls, but finally failed to achieve a breakthrough, especially Zhang Zhongqi and them here, the Houjin soldiers invested a large number of troops, the two sides repeatedly saw at the gap, and the reserves were continuously put into it, Zhang Zhongqi estimated that more than 2,000 Zhenyi, Han soldiers and Mongolian soldiers were invested, and the number of coats was not counted, at least fifty or sixty coats of their cattle were dead.
Before dark, the Ming army threw in combat sappers here, and the Houjin soldiers at the end of the crossbow could not resist this strong force in close combat, and were finally driven out of the earthen wall, and the wolf returned to the earthen wall. The Dengzhou soldiers were almost crazy, Zhang Zhongqi saw with his own eyes a Dengzhou soldier holding a thunderbolt jumping from the earthen wall into the retreating Houjin soldiers, and five or six Houjin soldiers died together, after seeing this, he completely lost hope in conquering Lushun.
"Huang Shan, let's go, crawl back, slow down."
Huang Shan came out of the back and asked Zhang Zhongqi in a low voice: "Master, what should I do if I go out at this time and am caught by the Dengzhou soldiers?" ”
"They fought for a day, and it is estimated that a lot of people died, and they had to redeploy people after the battle, and they would not have the time to come here for a while."
Huang Shan pulled him, "Wait a little longer, it's not dark yet, and when it's dark, you won't be shot by the Dengzhou soldiers." ”
Zhang Zhongqi opened his hand, "It's almost dark, if you go back too late, you will be suspected by the master, you will climb in front in a while, and touch the silver of those armor soldiers on the road by the way." ”
After Zhang Zhongqi finished speaking, he was about to climb out of the horse barrier ditch first, when there was a sudden sound of heavy breathing behind him, Zhang Zhongqi looked back consciously, and a ladder knife stabbed at him. Zhang Zhongqi turned his body suddenly, grabbed the hand holding the knife, and a person pounced on him and pressed on him, pressing the cold blade through his skin and stabbing it in the chest for a short time.
"Lotus" Zhang Zhongqi howled in a low voice, desperately holding on to the ladder knife, not letting it go any further, Huang Shan's distorted face appeared in front of him, that face was mixed with sweat, blood and mud, and looked hideous and terrifying in the last afterglow of the sunset.
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