This deafening sound of gunfire was the loudest Wu Zhong had ever heard since he joined the army, and it was not even comparable to any thunderbolt he had ever encountered in his life. With the sound of platoon gunfire, the front line of the Evergreen Battalion, like ice and snow thrown into boiling water, dissolved without a trace in an instant.

Looking at the enemy troops close at hand, Yu Shenhe did not launch a white-knuckle charge as originally planned, but quickly ordered: "Let the soldiers in the back row who didn't look at their guns come forward, and put bayonets on the front row." ”

One of the staff officers took the order, and the other staff officers of the Guards Battalion were all tense and speechless, and the salvo was like a scythe of death, and the enemy troops on the opposite side fell neatly like cut wheat, and thousands of upright soldiers rushed to the ground in the blink of an eye. At such a close distance, the staff officers of the Guards Battalion could clearly see the blankness in the eyes of the enemy soldiers in the rear row, they were like a group of people still in a dream, not looking at the intruders who suddenly appeared in front of them, but looking down at the comrades in the front row who were lying in a pool of blood, and just a moment ago, these people were alive in front of them. The few remaining commanders of the Forces nouvelles were also reduced to stone sculptures, and the command knives in their hands were still held motionless in the air, while others were already hanging down, and these officers looked around at their empty sides with the same blank eyes.

The last row of intruders passed through the gap between the companions in front, and Yu Shenhe, who had been watching the progress of the Ming army on the opposite side, let his army advance again, until he was less than twenty meters away from the officers and soldiers, Yu Shenhe noticed that some enemy soldiers were beginning to recover from the shock, although it was a very few people, but this had already posed a threat. At such a close distance, the musket would become depleted, and no one knew if the enemy soldiers would suddenly rise up, and Yu Shenhe, who did not intend to risk being shot or charged, ordered to stop again and charge after shooting......

"Fire!"

The officers of the Guards Battalion shouted again, and then rushed first: "Charge! ”

……

When the Guards Battalion launched a running charge, the armored battalion was running and retreating, and when the Chuang Battalion on the other flank saw the new army starting to attack, they immediately began to fight and retreat according to Xu Ping's prior arrangement. The new battalion officer of the armored battalion was Li Laiheng, who had just made a battle exploit at Pheasant Gang, and the battalion on this wing was ordered to shoot at the Ming army from a long distance, and then retreated sharply. In the face of the Taishan battalion and the Xiliu battalion, the strength of the armored battalion and the Xirui battalion was less than one-third of the attacker.

"Only fools will fight with them" Li Laiheng said to himself as he took the lead and ran backwards, Xu Ping's plan was simple, he concentrated the remaining forces outside the main three battalions near his general banner. If the new army launched a counterattack from this flank, the battle line of the two armies began to rotate around Xu Ping's general flag, and now the evolution of the battle situation developed as Xu Ping expected, and the left flank troops of the new army, trying to outflank the new army, were following the retreating armored battalion, deeper and deeper into the flank of Xu Ping's general banner. Although the two armies flanked each other, the new army on the left flank walked in a longer arc than the two western battalions, which had a shorter march.

The losses caused by firing at the Forces nouvelles from such a long position were negligible, and each salvo of the camp resulted in single-digit casualties among the Forces nouvelles, while the Forces nouvelles opposite Lee Lai-hyung were not at all willing to return fire from this position, and they resolutely continued to advance, forcing – or rather watching the retreat of the camp on the opposite side – without stopping.

Seeing the camp once again shoot at the limit distance, and then turn around and flee as if flying, the commander of the Tarzan battalion could hardly believe his eyes, and the roundabout action on the flanks was much better than he had expected the best-case scenario, and the situation of flanking had been formed—if the camp dared to stop and meet the battle. Now that the sight of the camp officer of the Taishan battalion has been completely obscured by the central intruding troops, he is optimistic that the front of the new army has formed a semi-encirclement state, and more and more invading troops will not be able to exert their firepower because of this unfavorable situation: "We have been able to surround the intruders with the same strength as us on the great plain!" This thought was inconceivable to the officers of the Tarzan battalion, and at the same time stimulated them to speed up their march in order to achieve this perfect victory as soon as possible: "They were surrounded without encountering resistance from the thieves. ”

……

The cries of killing still exploded on the battlefield, and the Guards Battalion had surrounded the troops of the Evergreen Battalion who were still fighting to the death, so that they could no longer interfere with the advance of the Liangxi Battalion.

The Tianyi Battalion, which was close to the Changqing Battalion, didn't have time to turn, and fell into the flank attack of the frontal assault and the Western First Battalion that came out from the flank, and the Xifeng that was not disturbed on both sides had already flashed out from behind the Guards Battalion and advanced bravely towards Huang Xiwen's location, and now the right wing of the camp had been bent back thirty degrees under the pressure of the new army, but the right flank of the new army had been bent nearly fifty degrees.

Yu Shenhe ordered his subordinates: "Report to your lordship, our army's losses are less than expected. ”

The Xifeng Battalion, which was closely following the Guards Battalion, fell into Yu Shenhe's eyes, they held high the military flag and walked by steadily, Yu Shenhe sighed lightly: "It's up to them next." ”

……

"The Evergreen Battalion is still resisting." Xu Ping looked at the battle situation ahead, although a large number of soldiers in the Changqing battalion collapsed because of the collapse of morale, but it could be seen that there were still a small number of officers and soldiers who did not retreat, which slightly affected the speed of the Xifeng battalion into the flank of the Ming army, Xu Ping no longer paid attention to the direction of the Changqing battalion, but was engrossed in the flank attack of the Ming army by the Xishou battalion.

The Tianyi Battalion, which was attacked from three sides, was rapidly disintegrating, and the shooting from all directions made the battalion unable to resist at all, a large number of soldiers were knocked to the ground, and the back was detoured back into place by the Xifeng Battalion, and the soldiers of the Tianyi Battalion, who had no way to retreat, squeezed into the Chizhuo Battalion position in the center of the battlefield, this battalion not only could not complete the order that Huang Xiwen had just given them to flank General Xu Ping's banner, but had to fight for their own survival.

……

"It's collapsed, Tianyi Camp has collapsed." Huang Xiwen looked at the mess on the left flank and the central battle situation, and countless soldiers of the New Army dropped their weapons and fled from the attacking firepower of the invading army in a hurry. They passed through the positions of the Chi Zhuo Battalion, discarding their weapons and running directly in front of Huang Xiwen's general flag, no matter how angry the officers roared, they could not stop them, and the flight of these soldiers further shook the formation and morale of the Chi Zhuo Battalion, and the soldiers began to refuse to carry out the orders of the commander, and there were enemies everywhere, and they fired indiscriminately in any direction of the enemy they could see. And even the commander of the Red Burning Battalion did not know where to resist in such a situation.

The herald had already been sent out to catch up with the Panshi battalion that had just been sent to the right flank to try to expand the results of the battle, and Huang Xiwen urgently needed this force to stabilize the battle line, as for whether the right wing without this battalion could continue to advance to the rear of Xu Ping's battle line, and whether it could repel Xu Ping's central forces, it was no longer in Huang Xiwen's consideration.

"The Xiliu battalion has stopped attacking, and the Taishan battalion has also stopped attacking."

The herald brought a report from the left flank, because there were no more reserves, the two battalions that cut into Xu Ping's rear could not continue the attack, they were worried that once they encountered a counterattack, the battle line would become impossible to retract, and Huang Xiwen was inadequate, he neither had clairvoyance to observe the battle situation on the right flank, nor was it difficult to remotely command the two battalions that had penetrated deep behind the enemy line.

Huang Xiwen watched the battalion flag of the Tianyi Battalion on the right flank disappear from the battlefield, and he didn't know whether it was captured by the enemy or carried away, and the battalion flag of the Chizhuo Battalion also began to waver, and when he saw the soldiers who retreated from the battalion flag, he began to turn around and flee with the soldiers of the Tianyi Battalion. The crisis has spread to the central front, and the Chinese army that broke into the camp has cut off the connection between Huang Xiwen and the two battalions on the left flank, and even more obscured his vision.

The Panshi Battalion, which had been ordered to return, returned to Huang Xiwen's control, but the three battalions of the center and left flank collapsed to the point that even the life and death of the battalion officers were unknown. Huang Xiwen is often in the far-reaching position of the left flank, the banner of the Changqing battalion is still standing, and the sound of fighting and gunfire from there shows that Wu Zhong is still resisting, but Huang Xiwen does not have any reinforcements to send, the central front of the Ming army has disappeared, and the brigade is following the collapsed Tianyi Battalion and Chizhuo Battalion, pouring towards Huang Xiwen's general flag, and the resistance of the Changqing battalion has become meaningless.

"Get the Rock Battalion ready to fight back." Huang Xiwen coldly ordered.

The staff officers on the left and right were all pale, and Huang Xiwen's cold voice was still coming: "You guys...... Let's escape. ”

After finishing speaking, Huang Xiwen drew his sword and shouted to the personal guard: "Follow me, I will personally command the Panshi Battalion to fight." ”

……

The helmet had long since disappeared, the bun was scattered, and the handcuffs he carried with him had been shot empty, and Wu Zhong, who was scattered in his cape, had no time to reload, and kept wielding his sword to fight. There were sharp blades stabbed everywhere, and he didn't know how many wounds had been left by them, but Wu Zhong had no pain or thoughts, and he just instinctively swung the sword in his hand hard.

A man swooped down on Wu Zhong's back and knocked him to the ground, Wu Zhong roared angrily, rolled on the ground, rolled over and hugged the attacker, crushing the person who attacked him under him, and as soon as he lifted his hand, he was about to slam the hilt of his sword into his face.

At this time, Wu Zhong suddenly saw the attacker's face clearly - Fu Tianjun's eyes were closed, his face was covered with blood, Wu Zhong screamed, put his hands on the head of this loyal subordinate, and shook it vigorously a few times - he did not react.

Wu Zhong let out another cry of sorrow that was not like a human voice, jumped up from the ground, raised his sword above the top—and then stopped.

The guards and staff officers around him had been killed and wounded, and the dense intruding soldiers formed a small circle with Wu Zhong as the center, and countless bright bayonets pointed at him from all directions. The hot blood that was still churning in Wu Zhong's chest just now turned into a piece of ice and snow, freezing him to the core.

Wu Zhong did not take another look at these enemy soldiers, but listened to the right, and from the direction from which the sounds of fighting and gunfire came from, the battle had already begun in the central rear of the new army. Wu Zhong listened carefully, the knife in his hand gradually hung down weakly, and the strength of his whole body had already left his body, he had to prop the sword on the ground, and cooperate with his trembling legs to prevent himself from falling.

"General Wu."

With this call, Wu Zhong raised his head again, and the invading army in front of him flashed a gap, and a general of the intruding camp was riding on a tall horse, looking down at Wu Zhong, and behind this general, an eagle flag was raised high.

Blood and sweat dripped from his eyelids, Wu Zhong stared at the general in front of him with wide eyes, and said hoarsely after a while: "Brother Shen." ”

Shen Yunchong looked at Wu Zhong condescendingly, and shook his head lightly: "General Wu, don't fight." ”

Wu Zhong turned to the right again and listened to the killing shouts coming from there, suddenly let out a wry smile, and sat down on the ground with his hands loosened. After sitting on the ground, Wu Zhong slowly crossed his legs, put the saber flat on his knees, gently rubbed the three stump fingers of his left hand on the blade, lowered his head and said loudly: "Brother Shen, you know that my father is a friend of Lord Hou. ”

Shen Yunchong sighed, turned over and dismounted, and said after standing still: "General Wu, Mrs. Sister-in-law, and Ling Lang, they are still waiting for you to go home." ”

Wu Zhong had already put down his sword, gently hugged Fu Tianjun, who had fallen to the side, to his lap, carefully wiped the blood from the face of his chief of staff, looked at the faces of his subordinates and friends, and looked up at Shen Yunchong again: "After my father passed away, the people around me hid far away, only the Hou Ye was different, and he took me home and handed it over to his wife to raise, and regarded me as his own." ”

As he spoke, Wu Zhong held his dead comrade-in-arms in one hand and raised his sword to his neck with the other: "Brother Shen, remember to say to General Xu for me, that incident is indeed that I am sorry for him, and I have always been ashamed of myself." ”

……

"Tell the general, the Panshi battalion has been annihilated, the enemy general Huang Xiwen has been captured, the Xifeng battalion has captured his battalion, captured his banner, and Yang Zhiyuan's coffin has also been found by us."

After the breaking army broke through the left flank of the Ming army, the two battalions of Xishou and Xifeng swept the entire front, and the Ming army suffered a general collapse.

"Huang Xiwen is really ruthless, and he uses the rock battalion to fight back, otherwise we will be able to wipe out all the officers and soldiers." Now the officers of the Chinese army who broke into the camp were all happy, and the suicidal counterattack of the Rock Battalion bought some time for the other battalions to escape the battlefield of the defeated Ming troops. However, this fly in the ointment has nothing to do with the overall situation, tens of thousands of Ming troops were killed and captured, and all the artillery that was too late to blow up was captured by the invading army. Now the main force of the camp is pursuing the two battalions of Taishan and Xiliu, which are still relatively complete.

From the end of the battle to the present, Xu Ping has not made a sound, and he waved his horsewhip: "Take me over." ”

In front of Yang Zhiyuan's body, Xu paralleled a standard new army military salute: "Lord Yang, go all the way." ”

Several officers who followed Xu Ping also saluted in the same way as Xu Ping, Xu Ping turned around and said to Yu Shenhe and the others: "When it was found that it was impossible for the new army to retreat, Huang Xiaohou tried his best to rescue more of his subordinates. ”

Zhou Dongtian seconded: "General Huang Xiao's reaction is still very fast. ”

"We have eliminated the Xuanfeng Battalion, and today we defeated the Panshi Battalion here, and the three main battalions under Hou Ye are left, and only the firefighting battalion remains." Xu Ping raised his anger and asked his subordinates around him, "What do you think?" ”

"Can't wait!" Yu Shenhe replied loudly: "The last general can't wait to fight with it." ”

Shen Yunchong looked at Yang Zhiyuan, who was lying there quietly, and said in a low voice: "My lord, here is the first confidant of Zhendong Hou. ”

"Yes." Xu Ping nodded, and there was not much joy on his face after the big victory: "I'm afraid that the next time we will face is Zhendonghou himself." ”

As soon as these words came out, the officers around Xu Ping, whether they were from the New Army, or other generals Chi Shude and others, all looked serious, even if Li Dingguo, a figure who was not afraid of heaven and earth, had no joy at all.

Shen Yunchong saw that the atmosphere was dull, and said, "My lord, Wu Zhong asked me to send you a message before he died. ”

After hearing Wu Zhong's last words, Xu Ping just shook his head vigorously, Yu Shenhe and Zhou Dongtian had indignant looks on their faces, among them, Yu Shenhe opened his mouth several times to speak, but thinking that Xu Ping was framed was implicated too much, and the entanglement between Xu Ping and the daughter of the Hou Mansion was inconvenient to reveal in front of people, and finally just snorted: "Lord Zhang's hatred, so many brothers' hatred, one sentence of sorry, is it enough?" ”

"Forget it, forget it."

At this time, Wu Zhong's body was also transported and placed with other senior generals who had died in the Ming army, Xu Ping knew that Wu Zhong could not be the mastermind in this matter, so he shook his head and said: "Put the coffin together and return it to his family." ”

After the destruction of the Panshi Battalion, its military flag was awarded by Xu Ping to the western first battalion infantry team that captured it as a team flag, and although the other battalions of the Ming army suffered heavy losses, the military flags escaped safely. When the soldiers of the Guards Battalion brought the bodies of Wu Zhong and other Changqing Battalion generals, they presented a military flag to Xu Ping at the same time, and Xu Ping held the military flag in his hands with both hands, and only slowly unfolded it after half a day.

The emerald green praying mantis on the banner was still wielding its pair of broadswords violently, Xu Ping looked at the fierce praying mantis, and remembered the scene when he saw this flag for the first time: Zhang Chengye held this flag high in front of the officers of the whole battalion, and Xu Ping, who was on Zhang Chengye's left hand at that time, couldn't help but raise his arms and cheer loudly with the brothers in the whole battalion.

Holding this flag, Xu Ping looked back at Wu Zhong, Yu Shenhe, Shen Yunchong and others lying on the side, and when they looked at this military flag, they all showed complicated expressions on their faces.

"It stands to reason that I should award it to the Sixth Infantry Brigade." Xu Ping slowly rolled up the unfurled flag: "However, if Wu Zhong had withdrawn from the battlefield at that time instead of desperately blocking it, it would not have fallen into our hands." ”

Xu Ping handed the rolled Changqing Battalion military flag to the guards around him, and ordered: "Put it together with General Wu's body and return it to Zhendonghou." ”

After giving the order, Xu Ping turned to look at Yu Shenhe and Shen Yunchong in front of him, and asked, "I took your loot, what compensation do you want?" ”

"There is no need to compensate," Yu Shenhe and Shen Yunchong shook their heads together, and they, as well as Zhou Dongtian, Gu Mengliu and others, said in unison: "It's just that you're really biased, my lord." ”

Xu Ping smiled slightly: "Don't take it as an example." ”

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