While charging to the top of the mountain, the cavalry of the Shun army received heavy fire from the Ming forces, and as they approached, the shotguns fired by the Ming army knocked down the Shun cavalry in rows and rows.

Despite this, Liu Zongmin still rushed towards the Ming army without stopping with his banner, and the Ming army on the opposite side shrank into a hollow phalanx, this formation Liu Zongmin had seen Xu Ping practice many times, and knew that this was not something that the cavalry could easily deal with. However, as long as the enemy soldiers were forced to adopt this formation, it was already a success of the cavalry, and Liu Zongmin did not stop in front of these Ming troops for long, but continued to move forward, handing over these turtle shells that could not exert frontal firepower to the infantry following behind him to deal with.

When he reached the top of the mountain, Liu Zongmin saw that the Shun cavalry in front had forced the Ming infantry on the southern slope to form a formation, which was good news that Liu Zongmin expected, because he remembered that Xu Ping had repeatedly emphasized when training his troops that if the infantry was superior, then it was best not to form such a formation but still use an ordinary formation to meet the battle. The stronger the frontal fire, the more it can kill the opposing cavalry, and the continuous battle line can further hinder the maneuver of the opposing cavalry and prevent them from making further movements.

It seems that the other side does lack fighting spirit and is prone to panic, Liu Zongmin is mentally prepared for heavy losses, his job is to delay the reaction speed of the Ming army's follow-up infantry, so that his own counterattack troops have time to destroy the Ming artillery and their covering troops on the top of the mountain.

Several battalions of the New Army cavalry did not launch a counter-charge, but stayed with their infantry, protecting their battalion officers. There was also about a battalion of cavalry of the new army who stepped forward to meet them, and their formation was suddenly rushed away by the cavalry of the Shun army, which was ten times their own cavalry, and in the blink of an eye, these Ming cavalry, who had to deal with seven or eight enemies alone, were hacked to death by the cavalry of the Shun army.

"It's going well......" Liu Zongmin had just come up with this idea in his heart, when he suddenly saw dozens of artillery pieces being deployed at the foot of the distant slope, in the rear of tens of thousands of Ming troops.

He Baodao only sent a part of the artillery to the top of the mountain, although only half of it was no longer able to withstand the weak artillery of the Shun army, He Baodao also expected the counterattack of the Shun army, and he planned to sacrifice a part of the artillery in exchange for the heavy losses of the Shun cavalry, just as he had imagined at the beginning.

"Rush, rush!" Liu Zongmin suddenly pointed his saber forward, and before he could finish speaking, he took the lead and rushed down the hillside.

Although it did not conform to the orders given in advance, Liu Zongmin's personal guards and flag bearers were just stunned, and then rushed down the mountain with the commander.

The Shun cavalry of the brigade rushed between the countless phalanxes of the Ming army, the Ming troops on both sides of them kept shooting, and countless Shun cavalry rolled their saddles and fell off their horses, but this rain of bullets could not stop them, they galloped south desperately, and they had no time to pay attention to whether their companions were still safe and sound, whether they were still with them.

Liu Zongmin realized that such a suicide charge was unlikely to launch a second time, and it was estimated that the sabotage of the Ming artillery would only be possible once. Didn't Xu Ping always say that the duty of the cavalry was to cover the infantry? Then while the cavalry of the Shun army is still there, try your best to cover the infantry.

Seeing the cavalry of the Shun army driving straight into the gap between the hollow phalanx of the Ming army, He Baodao, who was watching the battle in the rear, shouted: "How can the whole army deploy the phalanx." "All the battalions in the center were in formation against the cavalry, and the commanders were well protected in the middle, but the artillery, which had been under the direct jurisdiction of He Baodao, was left unattended, and although they stayed behind the distant formation, they were immediately about to encounter the charge of the cavalry of the Shun army.

Some of the rows of artillery have been replaced with shotguns, and the officers of the other artillery crews are still shouting for the crew to change the ammunition immediately, and attack the Shun cavalry that has been seriously weakened with direct fire, but the soldiers of these artillery crews saw the black-clothed cavalry rushing over, and they threw down the *** in their hands and ran to the rear.

The reloaded crews were also affected by these deserters, and one after another gunner threw down his flotter and ran desperately towards the nearest infantry phalanx or away from the cavalry. He Baodao only saw one cannon fire, and the shotgun fired from this cannon knocked down all the Shun cavalry who rushed to the front at close range, but there was no second fire, and the flintlock musketeers defending the cannon had already run away.

The cavalry of the Shun army, which rushed up closely, had already killed the side of the cannon, their mounts swept past the cannon, and a cavalryman of the Shun army raised his sword and fell, and the head of the brave gunner, who opened the gunner, was lifted into the air, spraying blood and drawing an arc in the air, and when the head hit the ground, his still upright body fell down.

"Let the straight guard be dispatched immediately." He Baodao hurriedly ordered.

……

When he rushed to the artillery position of the Ming army, there were less than a hundred people left around Chi Shude, and the others had either fallen off their horses or had not yet followed, he cut down the gunner who had escaped without a knife, and then shouted loudly: "Plug the artillery!" ”

Some soldiers jumped off their horses, took out wooden stoppers and hammers, and were about to seal the fire gate, Chi Shude glanced back, and the cavalry of the Shun army was circling around the phalanx of the Ming army, preventing them from coming over to interfere with the actions of the vanguard troops.

"My lord, cavalry! Cavalry! ”

A guard raised a loud alarm, Chi Shude glanced around, and a large number of Ming cavalry wearing red feathers were coming out from the side where the Ming army's handsomeness was, rushing towards him with the momentum of stepping through mountains and rivers.

Every second counts.

Chi Shude, the battalion officer of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, turned his horse's head and hurried back a few steps, jumped off his horse next to the corpse of a subordinate who had been knocked down by a shotgun, took out a hammer and other tools from him, and quickly ran towards a cannon that was left unattended.

Although he didn't look up, the sound of thousands of cavalry trampling the ground trembling slightly could still be felt, Chi Shude ran to the cannon, put the wooden plug against the fire door, swung the hammer hard, and smashed the wooden plug into the ground until it was completely submerged in it.

When they were still carpenters, Chi Shude and Liu Zongmin, blacksmiths, were neighbors, and their stores were connected, and they were also good friends, and their wives and daughters did not avoid them. Liu Zongmin is a very strange person, he is not a farmer but a blacksmith, he claims to have never farmed before and does not have any relatives of farmers, but he hates the imperial court's examination method to the core, and always says that this world is not a day when good people can survive.

Thinking of his wife, Chi Shude felt distressed again, which made his heart and lungs hurt, and he couldn't help but let out a loud roar.

A subordinate next to him stuffed another cannon, and then he was about to leave to stuff another one, Chi Shude shouted at the subordinate: "No, this can't work." ”

The wooden plug was not completely stuffed in, and there was a leak outside the fire door, if the other party had a good carpenter, a carpenter as good as Chi Shude, he could pull this wooden plug out of the fire door, and this cannon would still be usable.

"This is not the way in which good people can live, follow Brother Li and do the way for heaven, even if you die, you are not dead." After Li Zicheng was imprisoned and paraded in the street because of his grievances, Liu Zongmin said to Chi Shude, and he did not live up to Liu Zongmin's righteousness and trust, and robbed Li Zicheng with his old friends, and followed Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin to vote for King Gaochuang.

Wave after wave of officers and soldiers came to encircle and suppress, in Chi Shude's memory, he kept fleeing for many years, and when he met officers and soldiers, he ran, and those who ran slower died. It's just that there will always be new people who join the camp, and follow King Gao Chuang together *** - in fact, it is to run for their lives, there are too many people who can't survive in this world, and it is a dead end if they don't surrender, so as long as they run fast enough, if they don't fall behind and are caught up by the officers and soldiers at the end, they can live a few more days.

Chi Shude carefully adjusted the angle of the hammer and smashed it steadily into the fire door, leaving nothing outside.

In the days of breaking into the camp, Chi Shude was still doing his old job as a carpenter, he had not been sent to the front to fight for many years, and he was always tinkering on weekdays, Liu Zongmin always said that he was not a murderer.

Countless people were chased and killed by officers and soldiers, even King Gao Chuang was caught up and killed, Li Zicheng and Brother Li became King Chuang, or run, continue this endless road of escape.

How many years has that been in Chongzhen? Chi Shude couldn't remember the specific day, the days of the chaotic escape seemed to be the same, the camp was caught up again, most of them were killed by the officers and soldiers, and only eighteen people were still staying by Li Zicheng's side.

Because the goal was small, he finally settled down, but Li Zicheng was very dissatisfied, he sighed all day long, and always said that hiding in the mountains was not a thing.

Finally one day, Li Zicheng called the rest of the brothers over, saying that he didn't want to drag everyone down, so let everyone escape separately, which can't be done for Tianxingdao, at least not by breaking into the camp. If someone wants to be rich and wants to ask the court for pardon, Li Zicheng said that he will also help everyone.

"King Chuang doesn't want to live anymore, he wants to commit suicide, let's use his head to ask the court for credit." After the meeting ended that day, Liu Zongmin said to Li Guo, Chi Shude and others.

Chi Shude also looked at it this way, and Li Zicheng could see that he was already disheartened and had already sprouted the will to live and die.

"This world is not for people to live, leaving King Chuang is still a dead end, unless we really have a wolf heart and lungs to be officials, like Cao Cao and the Eight Kings, we become officials and soldiers, and kill the people for wealth and nobility. But did you do that kind of thing? In front of a group of silent people, Liu Zongmin looked very excited, and Chi Shude knew that he was always like this.

"But my uncle." Li Guo also sighed at that time, no matter how he and Liu Zongmin persuaded him, Li Zicheng refused to change his mind.

"King Chuang is worried that we won't be able to let go of our own family," Chi Shude still remembered the coldness on Liu Zongmin's face at that time: "I can let go, there is nothing I can't let go, in this world, I can't let go of them and there is no way to live." ”

Liu Zongmin called Chi Shude aside and made a request: "Brother Chi, I plan to kill my wife and children, and swear to follow King Chuang, are you and I of one mind?" ”

Seeing that Chi Shude was still hesitating, Liu Zongmin said angrily: "Do you want them to be taken away by the government to offset the light grain?" Or do you want to learn from Cao Cao and the Eight Kings? At that time, Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong both defected to the official army, expressing their willingness to help the government encircle and suppress other people fleeing famine and hunger.

That night, Chi Shude killed Liu Zongmin's family, and exchanged the bloody heads of Liu Zongmin's wife and children from him to his wife's head. Eighteen people all killed their own families, and only Li Guo left his adopted son Li Laiheng, saying that the child was an orphan with no blood relatives.

When everyone came to Li Zicheng's room behind closed doors, Liu Zongmin took the heads of his wife and children, kicked open Li Zicheng's door and broke in: "Brother Li, when you said that you wanted to do the right thing for heaven, no one has forgotten this, brothers, we swore to obey the king for this, not for anything else." This is your blood debt to us, and if you don't keep your promise, you are our enemy! ”

King Chuang is determined not to run anymore, and to fully follow the model of the Ming army and build a Chuang army that can confront the Ming army head-on. He went down the mountain again with eighteen desperate people, and broke through the warehouses of the local government, and the materials in them were no longer sent to the hungry people, but some reworked military funds were left, and the silver was no longer divided, but announced the recruitment of soldiers. Chi Shude didn't get married again, neither did Liu Zongmin, nor did Li Guo, but he still had an adopted son with him.

After the capture of Luoyang, Liu Zongmin came to Chi Shude again: "Chi San, there is something that depends on you to break into the king." ”

General Xu Da, the general of the new army who fled from the famous Huang Hou and broke into the camp, was thought by Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, and Niu Junshi to be the only person who could help the army to form an army against the officers and soldiers, and wanted to set up a new battalion.

"Chi San, you have to keep an eye on him, don't let him betray King Chuang, and don't let him harm the people." This is Liu Zongmin's explanation to Chi Shude.

The general fulfilled his promise, the people of Henan were able to live and work in peace and contentment, and countless poor peasants were able to survive because of the general.

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency!" The guards around him shouted more urgently.

"Block them!" Chi Shude ordered without raising his head, still checking the cannons one by one.

“…… Loyal people will not be thieves, people who respect God will not have broken families, good people will not be separated from wives, the elderly will be supported, young children will not be sold into slavery, and the dead will ...... There will also be a burial place for them to rest in peace. ”

Chi Shude still remembers what Xu Ping said yesterday, in the early days of the war in Henan, Xu Ping took the lead again and again, begging for soldiers and people, so that Chi Shude believed that Xu Ping would do all this, and he really helped King Chuang to do the right thing for heaven.

There was already a sound of fighting around him, Chi Shude checked the last cannon, and sure enough, he found an unqualified carpenter job again, he hurriedly ran to the side and carefully repaired the work.

Before Chi Shude raised the hammer high and prepared to smash the last hour, he was so engrossed that he didn't notice the sound of horses coming from behind him, nor did he feel the cold wind coming at the back of his neck.

When the hammer fell, Chi Shude's head flew into the air like the Ming gunner he had just killed, and he opened his eyes wide as he looked at the cannon next to his headless body, and when it rolled in the air, he confirmed that the wooden plug had been deeply sunk into the fire door.

"Go forward, my friends, my brethren, for ahead is our time, the age of peace."

- This is an era that I, my mother-in-law didn't see, General, I trust you, don't let us down......

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