Since the infantry archers cannot take advantage, they can only press the whole army, rely on the infantry army to disperse the opponent, and then annihilate these thieves!

It seems that there is nothing wrong with this response, but it should be said that it is quite decisive.

On Luo Tianze's order, the archers continued to fire two rounds of volleys to cover their own troops. At the same time, the army marched in a neat queue, and soon collided with Xu Shizhong's wing. At a distance of only a few dozen steps, the expressions and even the eyes of the soldiers on both sides were clearly visible. On the one hand, there is a little fatigue in self-confidence, and on the other hand, the morale of the military is all at the peak.

Despite the slight difference in form, both sides are confident that they will win!

"Victory for the Empire!"

"Qianyuan is dead, Taiping should stand!"

In the uniform shouting and cheering, the front row of the main attack of the Daqingguan defenders invariably accelerated their pace, crossed the last dozen steps of the distance, and fought with the Taiping Battalion soldiers who were waiting in place with the help of the momentum. In the sound of gold and iron clashing and fighting, fierce battles broke out in an instant. Because of the limited number of troops that can be deployed in the front, the numerical advantage of the defenders of Daqing Pass cannot be brought into play at the first time.

The soldiers on both sides in the front row can almost guarantee a contest under the same conditions.

The swords staggered, the roars and screams of pain rang out one after another, and the number of casualties began to increase rapidly.

"Kill the thief!"

The defenders of Daqingguan are proud of the identity of the official army, and with psychological superiority, they are pressing step by step.

However, these soldiers of the Taiping Battalion were all killed from Taiping County with Chen Wu, and they had experienced the tempering of crossing the Bayan Mountains, and their minds were no longer comparable to ordinary thieves. They were very confident in the Taiping Army, and they did not show weakness to fight with the defenders of Daqing Pass, refusing to take half a step back!

The officers and soldiers have the pride of the officers and soldiers, and the soldiers of the Taiping Battalion also have their own beliefs!

Luo Tianze's face quickly became embarrassed as the battle progressed. He keenly noticed that the weapons, armor, and even tactics used by the thieves on the other side were extremely similar to the military practices of the empire, and they were well-trained. The soldiers of the two sides collided together, just like the officers and soldiers themselves in a civil war, with a tacit beauty in the cruelty.

The official army against the thief army should have a one-sided advantage, but now the two sides are evenly divided!

Because of his own superiority in strength, Luo Tianze saw that it was difficult to defeat the enemy army for a while with only frontal strength, so he quickly decided to make adjustments in order to give full play to this advantage. However, before he could give the order, the ambush soldiers in Chen Wu's ambush quickly appeared in the sight of the official army!

As early as the moment when the archers of the Daqingguan defenders ended their shooting and the whole army attacked, the 2,000 people who were ambushed in the rear of Xu Shizhong's department received the news and rushed to the battlefield to remove their concealment. Although it was not possible to join the battle in a short period of time, the greatest numerical advantage of the officers and troops quickly disappeared with the appearance of these two Taiping army wings.

"The thieves' brigade reinforcements have appeared!"

This news, which was enough to shake the hearts of the army, was quickly reported to Luo Tianze.

When he was in Dawangzhuang before, the reason why Luo Tianze dared to lead the army to catch up without any scruples was based on the intelligence brought by the cavalry of Yuyang Mansion - the thief army was only 2,000 people at most. The subsequent decisions were made on the basis of this intelligence. Who would have thought that the information he got was wrong from the start.

This fundamental mistake put the defenders of Daqingguan in a crisis!

"An army of thieves of more than three thousand...... There are more people than us. ”

Luo Tianze's heart suddenly became uneasy, but he was not too flustered.

Even if the number of thieves is slightly larger than that of the official army, the combat effectiveness of the later troops may not still be at this levelreads();. What's more, three thousand and two thousand six are not much different, and the two armies are roughly at the same level. Even if you can't defeat the main force of the thief army in front of you, at least retreating along the same path will not be a problem.

Main?

Thinking of this, Luo Tianze's heart suddenly shook.

What if the number of thieves is more than three thousand?

Since there is a heavy deviation in the intelligence of Yuyang Mansion, who can guarantee that the three thousand in the eye must be the entire strength of the thief army? If the thieves had more troops, where would they be at the moment?

Outside the city of Yuyang?

There may be some, but Luo Tianze told him with a faint uneasiness in his heart, maybe there is another answer!

As a brigade-level general, Luo Tianze is quite qualified, but his imagination and ability to grasp the battlefield are still lacking, and his thinking is also limited. In his opinion, if the thief wants to destroy himself and has enough strength, then the best way is to divide his troops and outflank him. However, he came all the way from Daqingguan, and there were also sentry posts along the way, and unless the thief army had wings, it was impossible for him to go around behind his army lightly.

He never thought that the other half of the thief army was behind the Tuweizi of Dawangzhuang! And his own army, swaggering through an earthen wall, swept in front of the thieves, so that the other party easily blocked his back road.

Then again, even if he found out at this time, it would be too late!

When a soldier of the Daqing Pass defenders inadvertently turned around and saw the dusty brigade of thieves approaching on the official road behind him, the entire 2,600 officers and soldiers fell into a complete panic.

The two thousand thieves army that appeared in front of them before surprised them, but they could barely maintain their feelings. But now, a large number of thieves have appeared behind them again, cutting off their back road like a divine soldier descending from heaven, and the situation is completely different. If they go this way, they will be surrounded by the thief army and annihilated!

"Where did they come from!"

The bad news that followed made Luo Tianze shake up. He couldn't imagine how these thieves could hide from his eyes and suddenly appear behind the defenders of Daqing Pass.

And, why are there so many of them?

The rapidly deteriorating situation left Luo Tianze without much time to think. He couldn't think about how so many thieves suddenly appeared in Songjiang, and he had completely seen the Taiping army's intentions, so he was forced to make a response that most suited the shape of his eyes.

"Wei Zizheng!"

He summoned his right-hand man and ordered: "You personally bring five hundred men to block the thief army behind, and buy me at least half an hour." ”

During this period, the remaining defenders of Daqingguan will break through to the south with all their might at any cost.

They were already under siege, and it was impossible for them to scatter and escape or turn around and return to Daqingguan. The only way to survive is to break through the interception of the thief army head-on, escape south into Yuyang Mansion City from a bloody road, and join the defenders!

They don't have any choice but that!

"Half an Hour ......"

Wei Zizheng is considered to be the number one co-captain that Luo Tianze can fight, but he can't help but be embarrassed in the face of the surging thief army. After all, now is the time for the life and death of the defenders of Daqingguan, whether it can be done will directly affect the lives of all 2,600 people, and there is no room for any boasting and boasting.

In the end, he could only say: "I will do my best to reads();!" ”

"Please!"

Luo Tianze also knew that this requirement was too harsh, and deployed most of the foot archers to him. In this way, you can shoot them a few rounds before the thieves are close.

At the same time that the Wei Zizheng Department began to turn around and line up, turning around and preparing to fight, Luo Tianze also concentrated the most elite strength in his hand and broke through!

"If you kill it, you can live, and if you can't kill it, you will die together!"

The simplest reason, as well as Luo Tianze's encouragement, made the besieged Daqingguan defenders briefly burst out with amazing morale. Under the personal leadership of several officers and army captains, the officers and troops of the Songjiang Second Garrison Brigade launched a fierce counterattack, which instantly shook the front of the Second Wing of the Taiping Battalion.

"Kill out and join the brothers of Yuyang Mansion!"

"Let this gang of thieves see how powerful our Songjiang men are!"

Encouraged by several captains, the officers and soldiers of Songjiang County advanced dozens of steps in one go, almost breaking up the Taiping camp of a brigade in front of them, killing and wounding dozens of people.

Everyone saw hope for a short time!

"Heavy infantry of the first brigade of the second wing of the Taiping Battalion, follow me!"

At the critical moment, Xu Shizhong gave a loud order and used the strongest force in the entire Taiping Battalion.

In Wu'an City, a whole hundred sets of heavy infantry armor were traded on the condition of the Fudo Lin family!

The defensive capabilities of a hoplite are absolutely amazing. The only thing that can deal effective damage to it is the crossbow heavy cavalry, or the same heavy infantry fighting. If you don't have any of these, you can only rely on a sufficient number of people to consume them. When a hundred heavy infantry formed a brigade, like a movable iron wall, and stopped in front of the defenders of Daqingguan who were trying to break out of the encirclement, these officers and soldiers who had risen up quickly tasted the bitterness.

Ordinary swords can hardly do effective damage when slashed into heavy armor leaves.

The heavy infantry of the Taiping Army, in the face of those less lethal attacks, directly used their armor to hard-connect, and then slashed out with a backhand. This kind of almost desperate fighting style was amazingly efficient, so that the officers and soldiers who rushed to the front killed dozens of people in an instant, but there were almost no losses to a hundred heavy infantry. Unless the strength of the enemy's sword looks particularly impressive, or if they encounter an officer or army captain wearing chain mail, they will consider parrying or dodging.

Xu Shizhong led by example and personally led the team to fight, winning an important five minutes for the Taiping Army!

The defenders of Daqing Pass, who tried to break through, were stopped by the heavy infantry, just like a flood that went down the river and encountered a strong embankment and gate. There was time for Xu Shizhong's troops to fight, and the Taiping army, which was in ambush not far away, completed the convergence and threw themselves into battle.

The frontal line of defense quickly became as stable as Mount Tai!

"How so!"

Faced with a line of defense that seemed to be impossible to break through, many officers and officers fell into despair.

The cost of training heavy infantry, although not as high as that of heavy cavalry, is far more expensive than that of ordinary infantry troops. Looking at the troops in the twenty counties of the empire, except for the main army, the ordinary second-line troops were not equipped with heavy infantry armor at all.

Where did these thieves get so many iron armor in front of them?