Chapter 52: Bloody Battle
Surge attack? No, the surge attack is a straggler line advance in the era of hot weapons, and it is a continuous attack in this formation when it is replaced by cold weapon combat. With all the forces taking turns to attack, it seems that the Qing army is going to fight to the death. Zhu Yongxing looked at the Ming army lined up to meet the enemy, and he was really a little nervous.
"Raise the king's flag." Zhu Yongxing clenched his sweaty palms and made a decision.
A seven- or eight-foot-high flagpole was erected on the mountain beam, and a miniature version of the word "Min" with yellow characters on a red background made the flag flutter in the wind.
"Long live Daming!" Chen Yiyao raised the sword in his hand, looked at the king flag, and shouted loudly.
"Long live Daming!" The Ming soldiers raised their arms and shouted.
"Mighty! Fight the enemy! Chen Yiyao shouted the slogan again.
"Mighty! Fight the enemy! The harmony was louder, bringing a long-lasting echo in the mountains and forests.
The puppet clan stays behind, and the son of the Min clan is here? Wang Jinbao looked at the Wang Qi that suddenly rose on the mountain beam, and his eyes suddenly widened. The defeat of the gray slope is still fresh in the memory, and the fluttering royal flag makes people have both the idea of fighting for merit and the heart of resentment; Now, Wang Qi actually appeared here again, and he couldn't say what it was like in his heart all of a sudden
"Capture and kill the puppet Ming clan, the official will be promoted to three levels, and the bounty will be a thousand taels." Wang Jinbao soon realized that this was a morale boost, and he waved his sword and shouted loudly, and his soldiers repeated it loudly.
The slogan has a role, but it is not much. If it is to take advantage of the victory and pursue, it will undoubtedly be much better than when it is a desperate battle to survive.
When the Qing army went up the hill, they found that it was so difficult to walk under their feet, and if they were not careful, they would be tripped by the thorn vines, not only would they fall down, but the speed of the impact could not be fast, and they could only go up slowly.
Seeing that the Qing army was stumbling closer and closer to Lu Yan, Chen Yiyao's face was grim, his sword pointed forward, and he coldly ordered: "Archer, release the arrow." ”
A rain of arrows shot out from the right rear side of the Ming army column and flew towards the Qing army. Although the Ming army only had more than 200 archers, the first round of long-range projectiles still killed and injured many Qing troops.
"Shield protection, shrink the formation." The first Qing generals skillfully commanded the soldiers to make adjustments.
Another rain of arrows flew over, although there were still Qing soldiers screaming at arrows, but the Qing troops who had adjusted their hands were already very small in terms of casualties. The space after the contraction of the formation was quickly filled by the archers on the left and right, and under the cover of the shield, just approaching Luqi, the Qing army also began to shoot arrows.
The lethality of the bow and arrow is not as good as the knife, let alone the gun, and the physical strength of the archer can only make them shoot a dozen arrows with all their might, and the most difficult battle is still hand-to-hand combat, cruel and bloody white-edged combat. The shooting of the Qing archers became weaker and weaker. Because of the terrain, they had to shoot each arrow with all their strength to cause damage to the Ming army, so their physical strength soon became weak.
But at this time, the first formation of the Qing army had already begun to cut down the branches that stood in the way, and the simple deer barn did not seem to pose much of an obstacle to them.
"Crossbow!" Chen Yiyao gave a loud order, and the flag waved with it.
The shield-wielding soldiers in the first row of the left wing of the Ming army quickly squatted down, and thirty Mengshan Gram soldiers with crossbows were exposed, shooting crossbow arrows that had already been wound at the Qing army. When they had finished firing, they crouched and wound up, while the crossbowmen in the back row continued to fire, then crouched, and the third row at the end.
The crossbow arrows continued, row after row, stirring up blood flowers in the Qing army's array, and screams sounded. The drums were endless, and the Qing army had no intention of retreating, the soldiers in front fell, and the rear ones ran two steps to replenish it, stepping on the blood and the corpses of their companions, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties in the first formation, but still attacked on its back to the front of the rejection of the horse.
Dozens of spears mounted on the rejection horse stabbed together, these are two zhang long rejection rifles, although the stabbing speed is not fast because of the friction, but half of the Qing soldiers in the first row were still stabbed. The spear easily tore through their armor and wrenched into their torsos with broken flesh and bones, causing them to let out a dying scream.
The Qing soldiers in the back row pushed them away without hesitation, poked the guns in their hands with all their might, and suddenly screams sounded on the other side of the rejecting horses. Through the rejection of the horses, the spears of both sides stabbed back and forth, and crossbow arrows, javelins, and broadswords shuttled back and forth in the air, and flesh and blood flew sideways, and the battle was fierce.
The first Qing army was quickly exhausted, and the second Qing army followed closely, at any cost, not afraid of bloodshed and casualties, the elite was really unusual, and there was no way to retreat but also let them burst out with the courage to strike a desperate blow. Although comparatively speaking, the Ming army occupies a favorable position and has many fewer casualties than the Qing army, the momentum of the Qing army's impact is not inferior to that of the Ming army.
The rejection of the horse had already been pushed down, and the soldiers on both sides began to fight face to face, and the battle line resounded with screams one after another, and the sound of spears and swords entering the flesh was also endless, and at the same time, there were fierce shouts of killing that burst out of the chest.
One by one, the human body fell to the ground, whether it was a corpse or a wounded, trampled by enemies or teammates, and blood poured out, seeping into the hillside and staining the grass red. In the fierce battle, the second formation of the Qing army was consumed very quickly, and the crossbowmen on the left and right sides also suffered great losses.
Suddenly, a dark cloud rose from behind the battle formation of the Ming army, and countless stones the size of lead balls flew over a distance of dozens of meters, slamming into the Qing army that was bravely attacking.
A rudimentary trebuchet hastily made of bamboo, wood, and rattan could only have such a long range, and it could only be useful when the enemy was approaching. But this sudden blow surprised the Qing army, and immediately caused the Qing army to suffer a lot of losses. In the constant screams and wails, the Qing army's attacking position was in danger of being cut off by the middle. The momentum of the charge was even more frustrated. The front row was killed, and the back couldn't immediately follow up to fill the position.
"Assault!" The flag waved under Chen Yiyao's order, and the drum beat rapidly, urging the pace of the Ming army.
"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" The Ming army let out a shout, raised their swords and guns, and struggled forward. The sudden downward pressure of the battle formation defeated the second formation of the Qing army, and advanced dozens of meters from the mountain beam to the lower part of the army.
"Kill! The Retreater, Slash! Wang Jinbao let out a fierce roar, swung his knife and slashed to death an officer who was running backwards, and his own soldiers also slashed and killed the rout, stopping the defeat and re-attacking the army.
Husband war, courage also. And will be the master of the army, and will be cowardly. Wang Jinbao knew this well, so he led his pro-army to rush and kill with the battle to boost the morale of the frustrated army.