Chapter 20: Distortions

Nearly 150,000 border troops, 300,000 dependents, and more than 100,000 Jurchen troops who later joined the battlefield all started a bloody battle in the wilderness around Shanhaiguan at this time.

However, unlike in history, after Li Zicheng's troops stormed Shanhaiguan for a whole day and the Guanning army were exhausted, the Jurchens cut into the battlefield and easily defeated Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of people all the way and fled, taking advantage of the situation to chase into the Central Plains.

Because the troops on the side of the dependents were on the field in batches, and they also took turns to rest in the middle, not only did the physical exertion on the side of the dependents army not much, but even the most elite troops of 100,000 had not moved from beginning to end, and at this time they were occupying a hillside on the east side of the battlefield with a terrain advantage.

And Huang Taiji is not a fool, although most of the troops are sent, there are still thirty or forty thousand elite people by his side, ready to attack or respond at any time.

It can be said that at this time, on the battlefield, except for the Shanhaiguan garrison and the border army with the smallest troops, all the troops have been invested, and the dependents under the command of Huang Taiji and Chen An have been retained.

The battle continued.

Every second, a multitude of soldiers fall on this battlefield.

Or he was shot by the Jurchens' delicate arrows, or he was shot with lead bullets from muskets that made a big hole in his body......

Even the elite soldiers of a hundred battles, or the Jurchen warriors with hundreds of invincible bravery, can play an extremely limited role in such a huge battlefield.

The war horse, which had been galloping for a long time with the Jurchen warriors wearing two layers of armor, began to breathe.

Sweat mixed with a lot of salt flowed out.

The sweat and blood of men and horses were mixed together, and the bloody smell on the battlefield and various substances in the human intestines, abdomen, heart and liver were mixed into a terrible smell that was smoking.

Phew——!

Another wave of black-feathered arrows roared over.

The family members who were the target only had a small number of shields in their ranks, and they knew that they were no longer afraid of this fierce and auspicious situation, and directly shot back against the rain of arrows.

Many fell forever before they could open fire.

And the people behind him set up and fired the hot lead bullets in the long-roded bird's gun and the three-eyed gun in the jagged queue.

It was as if the Houjin cavalry had crashed into an invisible wall...... Several rows fell in an instant.

The vitality is more tenacious than that of humans, but the dying horses that have been shot too much have fallen to the ground, struggling in blood and corpses.

"Fire!"

Someone shouted hoarsely.

On the other side, only a few dozen meters away, there were people shouting the same.

Boom Boom Boom Boom ......!!!

Dense artillery shells whizzed down on the enemy forces in close proximity, blasting both sides to pieces along the way.

The huge round buckshot still bounced on the ground with inertia after smashing several people, and all the soldiers, horses, or wooden horses that touched it were smashed to pieces.

The Jurchens were red-eyed to kill.

These veterans, who had participated in the Battle of Sarhu and participated in countless battles against the Mongol tribes, the Koreans, and even other Jurchen tribes, had long since been raised by the war into bloodthirsty beasts. These may have been ordinary hunters more than a decade ago, and the savages who lived by fishing and hunting in the tribe have already become terrible weapons of war.

They are violent, cold, and cruel.

They want to live, they want money, women, and slaves, but they also want to kill!

Some Jurchens began to attack the Ming border army that they were supposed to help.

No one stopped them.

Because all the Jurchens knew that in the eyes of their Great Khan - these Han Chinese would all be enemies! If they can die more here today, it means that they will have fewer enemies when they rush into the Central Plains.

The Jurchens' actions were soon exposed.

As a result, despite the efforts of the officers on the Ming side, more and more Ming troops began to attack the Jurchens who were close to them.

The bloody battle was stalemate because of the unyielding relationship between the two sides.

Huang Taiji was a little surprised by the fighting will of these exiles who were "bewitched by demons" in front of him.

Although the Seunai Hosaku also brought him some information about some kind of appalling "white bug", the ambitious Great Khan did not accept it.

Seeing more and more Jurchen warriors on the battlefield falling.

Huang Taiji, who had always been very aware of the dependence of his power, was a little distressed by these warriors, and he said to Dolgon next to him: "Tell our people to withdraw, and let these Han people divide the victory and defeat first." ”

The order had not yet had time to be delivered.

The situation on the battlefield has changed unexpectedly!

In the family army, which had always relied on formation to fight against the Jurchen cavalry, three or four thousand people suddenly let out a terrifying scream.

And what is even more terrifying with this screaming is that these screamers all become unrecognizable in just a few seconds.

Sharp bone spurs erupted irregularly from the shoulders, chest, back, arms, and thighs, like sharp knives with fascia and blood stains.

What's more, the head is directly cracked, and from the cavity of the neck, one or more huge "tentacles" that seem to be composed of muscles and blood vessels grow out.

I saw that these monsters whose heads had been split or folded back to their backs let out a crazy scream, ignoring the other colleagues around them, and seemed to have some sanity and quickly rushed towards the hostile Jurchens.

The Jurchens were so frightened by this sudden change that they suddenly lost their bearings.

In the hesitation of fighting or retreating, these monsters that ran extremely fast after transforming had already rushed in front of the cavalry.

A sturdy Jurchen warrior was stunned when he saw the monster flying towards him, but he was not a person who could be captured with his hands tied up after years of bloody fighting.

"It doesn't matter what kind of monster you are!" With all his strength, he smashed the mace weighing more than twenty pounds in his hand into the monster's head.

Whoosh——!

Before the monster arrived, an almost extreme phantom suddenly flashed in front of his eyes.

Before he could react to what was happening, a chill ran through his neck, and the warrior saw the image of himself upside down and falling.

The head fell into the mud.

In his vision, a familiar war horse and a stout headless corpse became the last images left in his mind......

……

Forbidden city.

Luo Shen switched perspectives at will, using the eyes of these dependents who were parasitized by the second generation of white worms to watch the entire battlefield.

Previously, after evolving the ability of 'White Worm', Luo Shen discovered the defects of these clansmen who could not improve their combat effectiveness from the first batch of clans that developed in Shanxi.

Then he collected enough energy in Shanxi, and after lurking in the Jingshi, he fell asleep as soon as possible, and evolved an ability called [Genetic Aberration].

In fact, this ability itself is not directly related to the 'white worm'.

It's just that Luo Shen didn't want to use radiation to turn all the humans around him into disgusting deformed monsters, so he found another way to transform the 'white worm', thus giving birth to the '2nd generation white worm' that now parasitizes most of the young and strong people in Beijing.

i.e. white worms carrying 'aberration factors'.