"Who are these heroes?" Xu Ping pointed at the dozen or so big men behind Lin Guangyi.

"Oh, reply to General Xu." Lin Guangyi pointed over to a few people one by one: "Several of them are death row inmates in Texas prison, and some of the death row inmates have gone to thieves, and these few are still following their humble duties." ”

The five people who were ordered bowed their hands to Xu Ping together: "The villain has seen General Xu." ”

Xu Ping waved his hand: "The strong man is exempt." ”

"These four were cell bosses, and they were enemies with those five, but now they are brothers."

The four cell bosses also stepped forward and bowed their hands to Xu Ping.

Then Lin Guangyi introduced two more butchers to Xu Ping.

Lin Guangyi pointed to the few leaders in the last group of people and said, "These three are the heroes of our Texas, as well as a few of their disciples. One is the Iron Fist invincible Zhang Jiefu Zhang Daxia, the other is his junior brother Lin Bei Leg Le Lin Le Daxia, and the last one is the good Jiang Ye Jiang Daxia. ”

When the three Texas heroes stepped forward to salute, Xu Ping didn't dare to slack off, and replied with a half-salute: "Long admiration." ”

Then he comforted them and said: "The three heroes, in the future, maybe they will have to suppress bandits in Shandong, and I hope that the three heroes can help each other when the time comes." ”

Zhang Jiefu and Le Lin were both busy: "Certainly, definitely, the grass people must serve the imperial court." ”

Jiang Ye said with a smile: "The thieves broke the city, and the grass people thought they would die, but the general talked and laughed, he was really a young hero, and the grass people admired him." It seems that this cheap life must have been saved. In the future, the general will have a sentence, the grass people will never frown when they go up the knife mountain and go down to the sea of fire. ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly and didn't say anything, he said these words with the original intention of boosting the morale of the army. While Xu Ping was trying his best to boost morale, a large number of infantry of the rebels gradually turned back, and soon outflanked the two flanks of the main Ming army from the direction of the left and right flanks of the Ming army. Without the interference of the Ming army's positions on both flanks, the rebels were already very comfortable in commanding. The rebels approached Xu Ping's general banner from the southwest, southeast, and northeast, leaving only a small opening for them in the northeast.

The main cavalry of the rebels and Chen Yuanlong's general banner have not returned for the time being. Liu Zhewen's 150 cavalry pursued Liao Kezong without success, but they did not pursue the defeated Ming army to the north, but ran to rest behind Xiao Baiwolf's formation. With these cavalry alone, the Ming army would not want to break through - even if Xu Ping made up his mind to retreat now, he would be entangled by cavalry on the plain and unable to move quickly, and would eventually be chased and wiped out by a large number of rebel infantry; And in case the Ming army is really defeated, although the pursuit of more than 100 cavalry may not be able to kill the Ming army cleanly, the vast majority of soldiers have no hope of survival.

Knowing that the rebels were determined to destroy their last Ming army, the officers and soldiers turned solemn. In the distance, some rebels followed, and there were one or two thousand more in the distance. Xu Ping has now completely let go, and he doesn't even bother to use a telescope to observe the new rebel backups. Seeing the rebels regrouping under the banner of "Xiao", Xu Ping said: "It seems that the thieves are unwilling to let us go." ”

Everyone couldn't help but peek at Xu Ping a few times, but no one spoke.

Jiang Ye and Jiang Daxia asked loudly: "When the grass people saw the thieves gathering, General Xu was not surprised or happy, I don't know why?" ”

"You don't know, the fire battalion and the new army guards are on their way here, and the general has been ordered to contain all these traitors here, so that they can be annihilated in one go." Xu Ping was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile on his face: "If the traitors spy on us with a small number of soldiers and horses, and the main force continues to go north, so that the lives of Zhili are ruined, not only will the emperor be blamed, but the general will also be unable to escape military law." Now that the traitors are not seeing good, they will take it, but they are coming to attack our army, which is really self-defeating, and the general is happy for this reason. ”

Anyway, there were a lot of big words to say, Xu Ping simply continued to analyze the big words to everyone and said: "After careful consideration by the general, the traitor must feel that it is difficult to capture the main formation of the general." Imagine that if the traitors could capture the general's main formation in one fell swoop, then they would have done it a long time ago. However, the traitor first attacked the left and right flanks of the general, and then went to take Texas, trying to lure the general's command to help. Then they tried to scare Ben Jiang into retreating on his own, which showed that the traitor had no choice but to take Ben Jiang. ”

After hearing this, everyone also felt that Xu Ping seemed to be quite reasonable. Lin Guangyi had already asked about the battle just now during this time, and after listening to Xu Ping's words, Lin Guangyi took the lead in responding: "What the general said is extremely true. Snow warfare is the most physically demanding, and the traitors marched repeatedly at this hour, although there was no hard battle, and their physical strength was exhausted. ”

Jiang Yizhou also said loudly: "General Xu just said 'fight if you die', our army was only attacked by one side before, and Texas is still there, so it is inevitable that the soldiers will be lucky." Now our army is isolated and helpless, and all the officers and soldiers know that only by fighting to the death can they survive. Our soldiers have the heart to die, and although the thieves and soldiers are numerous, what can they do to us. ”

Xu Ping nodded frequently, and ordered to pass on their words to the nearly 1,000 Ming troops on the mountain to listen, and at the same time ordered: "Let Cao General stop, the rebels are about to attack the mountain on a large scale, and we must always maintain some physical strength." ”

Sure enough, it was less than a quarter of an hour after the calm, and as the rebels waved their flags, thousands of rebels simultaneously advanced towards the Ming positions from three directions. Xu Ping stood with his hands in his hands, his hands hidden under the cloak behind his back were tightly crossed together, and the joints of his fingers were pinched by himself.

The rebels had not yet entered the range of the musket, and he ordered: "Shooting is forbidden with the musket!" ”

"Yes, General Xu."

Soon the rebels came into range of two three-pounder guns, and Xu Ping saw Jiang Yizhou looking at him again, he opened his mouth slightly, and tried his best to calm down: "Artillery is not allowed to shoot." ”

"Yes."

"Herald ......" Xu Ping tried his best to restrain his nervousness, and added an order: "Tell all the gunners to shoot uniformly after hearing the sound of cannons." ”

"Yes, General." Jiang Yizhou hurriedly ran forward, accidentally mixed his heels on the stone, he got up with his hands and feet, covered his helmet and ran to the front line to give orders.

The rebels on the front stopped, while the rebels on both flanks continued to advance to their established positions, first on the left flank and then on the right flank also stopped at a distance of 400 meters from the Ming army's ring defensive circle. They held their ground, and with the sound of the drums beating again, they marched forward again in unison.

300 meters,

Two hundred and fifty meters,

200 meters,

One hundred and fifty meters,

……

The Ming gunners on the fence closed one eye and nervously aimed at the rebels who were getting closer and closer. Three months of training for the Forces nouvelles soldiers did not seem to have been in vain, with each soldier just staring at the slowly advancing rebels without firing. Xu Ping saw Jiang Yizhou walking slowly behind the soldiers who were strictly guarding the defensive circle, and kept shouting in a low voice: "No fire, no fire, no fire." ”

The rebels have already entered a distance of one hundred and twenty meters.

The Ming soldiers in the defensive circle leaned forward one by one, the guns in their hands gently moving on the fence, making a continuous lattice, and the muzzles of their guns trembled slightly with the target in front of them. The generals behind the soldiers also issued more and more urgent orders, and they shouted in a low voice together with Jiang Yizhou: "Don't fire, don't fire......"

There was the sound of heavy and rapid breathing from his subordinates behind him, as well as the sound of coughing that he was trying to suppress, and Xu Ping felt his body begin to shake involuntarily. He took a deep breath and held his breath tightly, controlling the shaking of his body. In front of him, the rebels had slowly walked to a hundred meters in front of the Ming army's formation, and suddenly shouted in unison, and the sound of the waves was surging like a mountain and a sea, and then they rushed towards the Ming army.

"Artillery......" Xu Ping shouted: "Shoot!" ”

This sound seemed to spit out all the breath in Xu Ping's chest, and as the sound came out of his body, the person also shook it, as if the strength of the whole body was also shouted out,

The ignition bearers of the two three-pounder guns had already hung their torches at the fire door, and when they heard this loud roar, both igniters shook their whole bodies, and then pressed the torches down in impatience.

The powder hissed and burned, and the flames rushed into the fire door under the eager gaze of the gunner, and after what seemed like a century, the first cannon awoke like a sleeping beast, and the cannon shook violently, roaring forward and spitting out fire and white smoke.

The fingers of the more than 300 musketeers of the Ming army had long been pale, and after hearing the sound of the cannon, they also opened fire together, and the thunderclap of hundreds of firearms even drowned out the boiling shouts of the rebels. In the smoke of gunpowder, Xu Ping saw countless rebels in the front row fall to the ground, many rebels in the back were tripped and fell on them, and more rebel soldiers stepped over their bodies, without looking at their companions who were still writhing on the ground, and continued to rush towards the Ming army's defense line unmoved.

"The firecracker stepped back."

Now Xu Ping's staff officers are running to the front line, and they are anxiously shouting everywhere: "Pikemen, fight and rob." ”

Xu Ping knew very well that after the first shot was completed, it was unlikely that the gun would shoot again before the rebels rushed up, so he arranged for the gun to retreat as soon as the shot was finished. After taking a few steps back, the musketeers bowed their heads and began to recharge, as a large number of pikemen rushed past them.

"Brothers, go up."

The generals, who had only been appointed officers today, rushed to the front row, and the spear commanders were the first to rush to the fence, and their soldiers followed in the footsteps of the non-commissioned officers, and countless spears were erected on the fortifications, and sharp blades of guns were poked forward. By this time the rebels had rushed to the trench, and without saying a word they set up ladders in the trench, and then climbed under the fence with their hands and feet.

Without the officer's order, the spears of the Ming army scrambled to pierce the rebels on the ladder, and one rebel after another was pierced down the ladder, and the officers were all shouting frantically: "Thorn, stab, stab!" ”

More rebels flocked to the ditch at this time, and they took advantage of the gap to put more ladders directly on the low wall of wooden fences and mud.

"Push the ladder, push the ladder."

Seeing this direct threat, the officers of the Ming army anxiously gave orders, and some people rushed directly to push the ladder with the soldiers. Only at this time, the rebels had jumped up the ladder, they lay on the ladder, and pressed it tightly with their weight, and the Ming soldiers could only push the ladder back and forth and shake it back and forth, but could not push it away from the fortifications.

The rebels who climbed the ladder climbed up the ladder with knives in their mouths one by one and climbed down the ladder. The Ming soldiers in the front row no longer shook the ladder, but stabbed them with spears. As the spearmen stabbed forward, the Ming musketeers began to reload, and they immediately fell down on one knee and took advantage of the difference in height of the hillside to condescendingly shoot at the rebels who were trying to climb the low wall. Xu Ping had already given the order to shoot freely, and for a while, the three sides of the hill were filled with the sound of fighting, the sound of gunfire and the continuous white smoke.

While the Ming troops in the front row continued to stab forward, the Ming soldiers in the back row shook the probe exposed on the fence as much as possible, and the rebels on the ladder struggled to maintain their balance in the swing and crawled towards the Ming army. However, at this time, they were also the best targets of the Ming army, and the pikemen in the front row of the Ming army all raised their spears above their heads and stabbed their spears fiercely at the climbing rebels from top to bottom.

It was not easy for the rebel soldiers to fight against the constant stabbing of spears while they were swinging, and there were people who were violently shaken off the ladder while dodging the spears, or stabbed by the spears while trying to keep their balance and clinging to the ladder, screaming and falling down, leaving bright red blood stains on the ladder.

Since the main focus of the Ming army was on the rebels who tried to climb over the fortifications, a large number of rebel soldiers soon succeeded in crossing the trench and reaching the bottom of the low wall. The rebel soldiers immediately sprang under the fence and earthen wall, each with their backs against the low wall, their heads held high, their hands raised above their shoulders, and they stretched out their arms to grasp the ladder that crossed their heads. After these rebels grasped the ladders, these ladders were firmly placed on the top of the fence of the Ming army, and the Ming army behind the fence could no longer shake them with all their strength.

After the ladder stopped shaking, Xu Ping saw the rebel soldiers start to get up from the ladder and run towards the Ming army fence with a wild shout, squeaking the ladder under their feet. Under Xu Ping's gaze, a rebel accidentally stepped into the air, and his body fell forward violently, and the huge forward force made his jaw hit the ladder heavily, and the ladder flicked the person's body involuntarily thrown out of the ladder, and the leg that was stuck in the middle of the ladder was easily broken like wheat straw and turned into a strange shape.

At this time, the rebel soldiers, who were also armed with spears, flew up the ladder on the high place, and they began to stab the Ming soldiers. There were also a number of spear rebels crawling up the ladder below, standing low, stabbing the heads of the Ming soldiers on their backs exposed by the low wall. The Ming army relied on the protection of the low wall and stabbed them without flinching. Xu Ping kept seeing spears piercing the edges of the low walls, many of which were pierced through the helmets of the Ming army. But there were also times when the badly wounded Ming soldiers dropped their spears, covered their faces or eyes, rolled on the ground in pain, and struggled at the feet of their companions before dying.

Jiang Yizhou was no longer supervising the battle at this time, but picked up a firearm to load. From time to time, the fierce warriors of the rebel army stepped on the ladder to fight the Ming spearmen, and the Ming gunners kept shooting at them. One of the rebel soldiers rose to the occasion, rushed forward, writhed deftly, dodged four or five spears that stabbed at him, and leaped forward as he ran to the edge of the ladder, dancing his hands and feet in the air and jumping over the Ming fence.

The rebel soldier fell to the ground with a heavy blow, and he rolled over in quick succession before falling to his knees. But before the rebel soldier could stand up, the spears of the Ming army in the back row stabbed at him in rows. The man fell to his knees on one knee, his chest held out angrily, his eyes bulging out, and he stubbornly held several spears piercing his chest and lower abdomen, and even pushed the pile back a little. The Ming soldiers who stabbed him shook the barrel of their guns violently, and quickly withdrew their spears, blood spurting from the wound, and he opened his mouth, and blood gushed out of his mouth at the same time. The rebel soldier fell to the ground heavily, lying on his side with his eyes wide open, and the crimson liquid continued to flow from his wounds and mouth onto the snow.

When the first arrow flew over the edge of the low wall, Xu Ping knew that the battle was getting hotter. The rebel archers and their musketeers had also reached the front edge of the battle line by this time, and most of them jumped off the trenches and fired at targets on the low wall. More and more arrows flew over the low wall and landed on this side of the battle line, and more arrows pierced deep into the fence, soon making the other side of the fence look like a hedgehog.

Xu Ping knew that he couldn't do anything now, so he could only quietly wait for the outcome of the battle. Time kept passing, and gradually Xu Ping had begun to turn a deaf ear to the screams of fighting that resounded in his ears. On the edge of this hill, thousands of people are fighting with their lives, whether it is Xu Ping at the top of the high hill, or the rebel commander under the banner of the word "Xiao", their personal wisdom and force have been called meaningless.

The battle line is also constantly expanding with the fierce battle, originally the rebels still left a gap in the northeast to the Ming army, but the continuous fierce fighting, so that the war continued to spread along the Ming army's circular defense circle, now there is no gap, there is no place in the entire defense circle without a hot battle.

More rebels followed the example of the soldier and jumped over the Ming army's fortifications from the ladder. The officers of the Ming army also drew their waist swords and stepped forward to fight with the soldiers. One of the rebels seemed to be dizzy when he landed, and he staggered to his feet like a drunk, his body turned one hundred and eighty degrees, facing the low wall of the Ming army and the large number of Ming pikemen who fought against him with their backs in front of the fortifications. The rebel soldier let out a roar of rage, pulled out the dagger at his waist and lunged forward, hugging a Ming soldier while sticking his knife deep into the Ming soldier's back. At this time, a Ming soldier flew to the general, and with a sword he and the Ming soldier were put together, and he stepped on the back of the rebel soldier who fell to the ground, drew his sword, and killed another rebel who jumped over the fence......

Author's note: Today is Sunday, there will be a change in the afternoon, but it may be late, the author has plans to go out to lunch with friends, depending on the situation, maybe I will seize the time to proofread the manuscript before lunch.

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