Chapter 556: The Decisive Battle of Zhu Xianzhen (19)

The Jingbei Army, which occupied a favorable geographical position, gave full play to the advantages of the terrain, and the firecrackers of the two infantry units fired the strongest firepower on the fan surface.

The intrusive army lacking artillery could not disperse the dense formation of the Jingbei army's gunners, and the guns and arrows they fired from their backs only confused the Jingbei army's guns in the ring-shaped fortifications for a while, and then they were stabbed to the ground by the white-pole soldiers rushing up from both wings.

The white pole soldiers, who are good at mountain warfare, effectively rely on the favorable terrain and the weapons in their hands, in the face of the Shun army gunners and archers who are hiding in the foothills of the mountain to shoot, they use round shields as cover, and the spears or hammers in their hands, or sweeps, and even a few squads of white pole soldiers use the spears in their hands to connect, descend the mountain from the flank of the ring fortifications, and suddenly kill the side of the Shun army archers and gunners.

The result is obvious, the long-range attack of the Shun army is not the opponent of the hand-to-hand combat of the white pole soldiers, two rounds of killing, there are hundreds of and the Shun army long-range soldiers were knocked to the ground, the sneak attack of the successful white pole soldiers do not love to fight, and then return to the fortifications with a gun hook.

Without the cover of the long-range soldiers, the rest of the Shun soldiers suddenly became the target of the Jingbei army's gunners, and the dense firepower pressed the Shun army attacking the mountain to the point that they could not raise their heads.

Looking at the fallen companions one after another, the Shun army attacking the mountain was afraid, but they did not dare to retreat, because behind them were more than 3,000 Li Shuangxi's supervising teams.

Li Shuangxi is Li Zicheng's godson, this year has just passed eighteen, Li Zicheng has no heirs, so Li Shuangxi, the righteous son, has become the nominal young master of the Shun army, Li Zicheng left him in the rear, one is to supervise Tian Jianxiu and Liu Xiyao and others, and the other is to protect him.

With this Dashun possibly having an heir to supervise behind him, then Tian Chou and Zhang Chao can't be allowed to work hard.

It's just that although the Jingbei Army is close at hand, in the eyes of the Shun army attacking the mountain, it is far away, because no one can use the dense bullet rain in front of the flesh and blood.

The Shun army attacking the mountain had to lie down on the mountainside as much as possible to reduce the possibility of being attacked, and then desperately climbed towards the fortifications of the Jingbei army.

"Rolling logs and rocks ......."

Seeing the soldiers of the Shun army lying on the mountainside lying on the ground or the cat struggling to move forward, Wang Deren and Jing Sile were happy, isn't this a fucking target for us?

Countless rolling logs and stones were pushed down the ring like rain, and then tumbled down the slopes to the foot of the mountain, and all the soldiers of the Shun army in front of them were either smashed in the head or had their arms broken by the rolling logs.

The most important thing is that these rolling logs and stones rolling down all over the mountains did not stop because they hit the soldiers of the Shun army in front, but rolled faster and faster under the action of inertia, as if plowing and sweeping holes, and cut bloody holes on the hillside.

Tian Chou died, hiding behind a tree, he was first hit by a piece of rolling log, and just when he was in pain, he didn't know where another stone flew out of nowhere and hit him heavily on the skull.

The main generals were all killed, and the remnants of the Shun army dared to advance, and one by one they turned around and retreated wildly down the mountain, this time without the Overseers behind them, because the rolling logs and stones that were rolling faster and faster had already smashed into the ranks of the Overseers.

The Shun army, which attacked the mountain head-on, suffered a devastating blow, and the Shun army attacking the mountain in the south was also in trouble.

Taking advantage of the fact that the Shun army was smashed by rolling logs and stones, Jing Si saw the opportunity and waved his army to assault, and the two mandarin duck soldiers and one infantry white pole soldier jumped out of the ring fortifications at the same time, rushing towards Zhang Chao of the Shun army who was being baptized by the rolling wood and the stone.

The Shun army, which had long been embarrassed under the attack of rolling logs and stones, suddenly killed and wounded hundreds of people in the face of the attack of the infantry of the Jingbei Army, and the Shun army in the rear was even more frightened, and many soldiers wanted to turn their heads and retreat because they were afraid of the soldiers.

Zhang Chao slashed down a soldier of the Shun army who was not moving forward and shouted angrily: "Those who retreat die!" Since the bandit is out of the line of defense, it is the time for us to make contributions, and I will rush up! ”

Stabbing with a spear, sweeping with a wolf, slashing with a long knife, shouting at the foot of Pingdingshan to kill the heavens, and the sound of firing firearms is even more connected.

On the high slope, the soldiers of the Jingbei Army and the Shun Army frantically strangled together, and at this time the geographical advantage factor appeared, although the Shun Army seemed to be outnumbered, but after all, they were hit even by the blows, and they were attacked from the back.

However, the Jingbei army waited for work at ease, and its physical strength and morale were not comparable to those of the Shun army.

After a rush to kill, the hillside was suddenly covered with corpses, most of them were Shun troops here, only a small number of corpses were from the Jingbei army, in the face of the aggressive offensive of the Jingbei army, Zhang Chao's Shun army finally felt afraid, and some people in the rear team began to hesitate.

Zhang Chao knew that once the defeat was retreated, the officers and troops would chase and kill, and once the officers and troops drove the rout to attack the camp that had been under the mountain, then the battle might cause a total collapse, in order to save the defeat, Zhang Chao personally carried an iron gun and rushed straight to Jing Si, who led the army to assault, he was intending to kill the enemy with the courage of the army, so as to boost the morale of the army.

"Kill!"

Zhang Chao was one of the fierce generals under Tian Jianxiu, and the iron spear in his hand blocked left and right, and several white-pole soldiers who were blocking in front of him suddenly fell.

After stabbing several Jingbei soldiers to death in a row, Zhang Chao was even more powerful like a tiger, dancing like a flower with a big gun, and breaking through a small formation composed of five or six white-pole soldiers.

The courage of the main general inspired the courage of the officers and soldiers of Shun who followed Zhang Chao's charge, these people were all directly subordinate to Tian Jianxiu, and their combat effectiveness and willpower were still okay, one by one they shouted like thunder, wielding long knives and slashing and killing.

"Get out of the way! Let the musketeers shoot! ”

Witnessing Zhang Chao's bravery, Jing Si was also beating the drum in his heart, he was naturally afraid of death, otherwise he would not have betrayed Zhang Xianzhong and took refuge in Li Xingzhi, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers on the left and right to dodge immediately, so as to leave room for shooting.

"Bah, Bah, Bah......."

After a burst of gunsmoke, the mandarin duck soldiers and birds who charged with the army shot at the same time, just because of Zhang Chao's bravery, the morale of the Shun soldiers suddenly fell, Zhang Chao, who bore the brunt of the bullets, was shot several times, his body was covered with blood holes, and a gun happened to hit his face door, and Zhang Chao, who was just and majestic, was beaten and his brain burst out, and he died on the spot.

Zhang Chao was killed, and the Shun army attacking the mountain in the south collapsed instantly, and ran back one by one.

The rout of the horses on the front and south sides also made the soldiers of the Shun army who were supervising the battle behind them also lose their courage, and they all retreated backwards, and for a time the hillside was crowded with people, people pushed people, and trampled on each other's legs and feet, and countless casualties were inflicted.

"Retreat, Zhou Baoguo, you take the leader's personal soldiers to suppress the position, you must not let the rout roll back our army, and order the troops to go to Nanyang to ask for help from Ma Hui as soon as possible, so that he can see that he is also a righteous army, and he must send troops to support, otherwise the main force of our army will be cut off!"

The fiasco on the mountain made Tian Jianxiu's heart sad, now that the official road is cut off, and Li Zicheng's army is in Zhuxian Town again, his only hope is that Nanyang's horse returns.