Chapter 301: The Waves Crashing on the Shore (Part II)

The cross-lancers retreated in an orderly manner along the reserved passage, and when they got out of the way, the excited homeless people found that there was a ditch and barbed wire in front of them, and the five hundred riflemen with rifles standing in a line were thirty meters away.

Wang Ben had only 1,000 riflemen in his hands, and when he was attacked on three sides, he placed 200 men on each side, and the rest were placed on the front, forming a death zone with 200 crosspiers.

"Fire!" Two hundred rifles were fired in two sections, and at this distance, in such a dense crowd, aiming was superfluous.

Puff blood splattered up like pillars one by one. Despite the fact that there was already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood in front of them, the riflemen did not have time to think about anything else, at the urging of the password, shoot, retreat, reload, step forward, shoot. Repetition has become instinctive, and the numbing killing continues.

The breeze sent a strong smell of blood, and no one had time for even a short thought. At the urging of the command knife, under the impetus of the hoarse command, the same action was repeated over and over again. It wasn't until the barrel was hot that a beautiful voice was heard: "Stand back!" The second line of defense. ”

"Cross guns, arrays, guns." Hoarse commands echoed, unexpectedly muffling the shouts of the homeless.

It was not the cross guns or muskets that crushed the first wave of attack, and when the rogue in front rushed to the fifty meters or so of the riflemen at any cost, if you could look back, there was already a layer of corpses on the ground. No one knows how many bodies were in the trenches, and how many mutilated bodies were left along the way.

12 3-pounder guns. 6 six-pounder guns, at this time a salvo was fired. Shotgun is the mainstream of this era!

More than a thousand meters wide frontage. After this salvo, Shengsheng was shot out of a fifty-meter no-man's land by a shotgun.

"Wow! Run! The sound of collapse appeared first. There will be no worries about not having the next one. Although the sound was quickly drowned out by the incessant sound of rifles, the will to fight was completely destroyed by this volley.

The tide of Qiantang was afraid of hitting the embankment on the shore and the rapid crowd pushed down, and the black camp, like the reinforced concrete on the lift, stood still in the face of the fierce waves every time. Neither on the front nor on the flanks, the attack did not bring any results. If you have to count the results of the battle, it is the first barbed wire fence on both wings, which has been covered with corpses, and the next time you can step on the corpses and rush forward.

Courage is this thing. It's not that there is. For this food, these hungry people could die once, and when they found that these officers and soldiers were more terrible than the devil, the hunger for food was no longer enough for them to continue to die. You won't die of starvation for a few days, so rush forward and look at the corpses all over the mountains, right?

The displaced people retreated, and the sappers appeared, removing the dead bodies hanging from the barbed wire and piling them up into a low wall. It's a stressful job. Looking at the vast number of displaced people less than five miles away, the sappers did not dare to slack off at all. The point is not how many people were killed, the point is that there are many more of them, so many that it is not clear how many they can count. I can't estimate it.

Ma Hui Tie blushed and looked at the group of officers and soldiers on the mountain, and really didn't understand where these people came from. before his decision. It's not just that I see a small number of people, but I see a large number of birds. This thing is in the hands of the Ming army. The combat effectiveness is not as good as the sword and gun. As a result, he realized that he was wrong. Miss by a mile.

The officers and soldiers did not pursue, and Ma Hui was relieved, indicating that they really had few people. At this time, he didn't think of any scout reconnaissance numbers, after all, these scouts under his command like to exaggerate the numbers of the Ming army. Not to mention, the people's battalion was still seven or eight miles away, and Ma Huihui didn't dare to use his brains before he ate this group of officers and soldiers, lest he be stabbed in the eye.

"This group of officers and soldiers is very strange, do you want to fight again." A gang of thieves was called over for a meeting again. These people appear to be in a group, but in fact they are each guarding against their own kind. In particular, the main forces of each of them will not be lightly thrown into battle. Those who went into battle before were all cannon fodder.

"After fighting for so long, there are not many medicines for officers and soldiers, right? It's better to rush again, and everyone will come up with some food. I just asked if I would accept it overnight, because there were not many people in the officer and soldier camp, that is, two or three thousand people, and thousands of carts. Here, the people have to account for half of it, as long as we eat this hard stubble, the big camp will have to run away by itself. ”

"To put it lightly, Lao Tzu sent out 5,000 people, and came back less than 3,000. If you go up again, don't call me. I have 10,000 people under my command, and if I go up again, I will have to disperse. ”

"Don't call me either, my two thousand men have come back less than five hundred."

All kinds of yin and yang weird voices came out, and the first wave of Fang Cai was drawn out in the form of drawing lots, and the number of people they sent was discussed. After a wave of losses, even cannon fodder is very distressing. Each of his subordinates is waiting to be swallowed by his companions.

"Don't make any noise, I'll give 10,000 people, and you can make up the remaining 20,000." In the first wave, the strongest horse returned to the people, and the second wave was embarrassed, so he offered to send 10,000 cannon fodder. He's the strongest, it's really not bragging. The people who followed him to eat were Xiao 50,000, and the other dozen or so leaders added up to only 70,000 or 80,000. There are many who arrived yesterday, and the original destination was Yunyang, but now they are blocked here, and if they don't fight, they will definitely go hungry.

There were a few people from each family, and there were 20,000 people. Ma Hui nodded with satisfaction: "There is one more, this time it can't be like the last time, there are some good men who can fight." I sent 200 men to press the formation, otherwise I would definitely not be able to hold out a few shellings. ”

This opinion has been agreed by everyone, the last wave of fighting was too miserable, and it will definitely not be able to hold up a few shots without pressing the formation. This is another team of more than 1,000 people, which is the rhythm of forcing the hungry people to die. Anyway, if you don't die, everyone has no way to live.

Every family brought out dry food and gave a meal to those who were chosen, and it was better to be hungry than to be hungry all the time. Don't look at the lack of food, just this bit of food has boosted morale a lot. During the short meal time, the various leaders were still mobilizing before the war.

"Listen, just behind this group of Ming troops, there is a big battalion, more than 1,000 carts, loaded with grain. If you don't defeat them, you won't want to eat enough. Kill them, and the officers and soldiers in the big battalion will have to run, and everyone will eat food openly. ”

Under the command of the Inspector team, this attack seemed a bit orderly, knowing that he would first form a formation, and then save his body and move forward slowly. You have to walk close to 500 meters before you are embarrassed to rush forward.

This change attracted Wang Ben's attention, and seeing that there were no less than 20,000 on the front, he immediately dispatched 200 cross-spearmen from both wings to go up. The five hundred men of the engineer brigade were also placed on the two wings, and their weapons were crossbows, which were not a last resort, and generally did not allow these valuable technical troops to go into battle.

It was already noon, an hour and a half had passed since the last attack. Wang Ben glanced helplessly at the end of the official road, the Tianxiong Army of the dog day, and sure enough, they were pretending to be turtles in the back. The master is right, these Wenchen, none of them are good. I counted on the Dengzhou battalion to be cannon fodder for them, and they got a lot of the battle they won.

Suppressing the anger in his heart, Wang Ben slowly turned his head, raised the binoculars, observed repeatedly, and found no mistakes, and then shouted to the soldiers who hurried to eat and rest: "The thieves are dying, everyone cheer up, hold on for a while, General Chang will be able to fight from behind with the main force, the credit of these hundreds of thousands of thieves, our Dengzhou camp is going to be decided, and no one will be allowed to come." ”

Wang Ben, who was walking back and forth on the battlefield, had a striking banner behind him, as long as the flag did not fall, the army would not fall.

"Chainlink reloaded!" The six-pounder gun was again ready to fire, and immediately after the last time it came into range, it opened fire. This time we had to wait for the order, and then we had to shoot as many shells as we could. And this time it was not conventional shells that were prepared, but a new product of the Dengzhou Ordnance Bureau, chain shells. This was a weapon prepared for the navy, and when it turned out that the effect was not bad on land, this expeditionary force was also equipped with some, not in very many quantities, as an opportunity to test the product in actual combat.

"Kill the officers and soldiers! Eat your fill! The shouts of the overseers sounded, and about 1,500 meters, the trot began.

It's still the same as the last time, and it's all the hungry people who are impacted. The weapons in their hands are also rudimentary, but the craving for food has caused them to fall into a state of frenzy. One by one, with red eyes and simple weapons, instinctively rushed forward with the crowd.

Speaking of which, Ma Huihui can be regarded as having the ability, and he can organize two such large-scale sieges in one morning. In fact, he didn't want to, he was really unwilling, so much food was in the big camp, and if he entered it, he could ensure that tens of thousands of people could eat for a month. The risk was worth taking, even though it was difficult for the officers and men to deal with.

"A thousand meters!" Observing the number of soldiers, chain bullets need a distance to kill, and it is a last resort to risk putting the rogues within a thousand meters before fighting.

The endless crowd of people swarmed again, like the Yellow River bursting, and the flood water slanted. These people in front of them, they were wearing tattered clothes, and many of them didn't even have a pair of straw sandals. In order to survive, they gamble with their lives.

This is a battlefield where you live and die, and there is no way back in the slightest, you can only put away your sympathy and kill with a hard heart.

"Fire!" The six-pounder cannon fired a chain bullet, and shortly after the discharge, the lead bullet was halved, and under the action of the chain, it turned at high speed and turned into the crowd. Yes......! Screams of horror rang out, but soon fell silent. Those who fell were ruthlessly trampled by their companions, and the sword of the Warlord drove them forward, and after a little hesitation, they fell with a single sword.

Rush forward, rush past and you will survive. It's on everyone's mind. This thought drove the rolling crowd to set off a stormy wave and rush towards the black rock-like phalanx on the hillside. (To be continued......)