Liu Zongmin has followed Li Zicheng and has been fighting for nearly ten years, and he is used to seeing all kinds of bloody scenes.

At the beginning, Li Zicheng was almost cornered by Cao Wenzhao, and when the main force was in mourning, when Gao Yingxiang, the former king of Chuang, was surrounded and captured by Sun Chuanting, the combat performance of the Ming army was like a wolf and a tiger, and it was bold and domineering.

However, Liu Zongmin had no fear in his heart. Because as long as he can see the eyes of the enemy general, he can see from them that the other party is just fighting with him.

The other party won for a while, but it was only in terms of bravery and ruthlessness that he was not afraid of death, and he temporarily overwhelmed him; In terms of the number of people and the well-armed, they overpowered him.

And these elements can be improved, victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, if you lose, as long as you are good at wandering, then you will do it again, and you will be able to pull people to loot and save weapons again, this kind of thing has been done for so many years, what is there to be afraid of?

Today, however, is different. With the musket team of the Shen family's army, they insisted on firing without retreating, and they were rushed thirty steps in front of the intruding army, and they were still indifferent and resolute there, and they didn't dodge.

Liu Zongmin's heart was shaken for the first time.

Rows of musket shotguns, at extremely close range, are destined to be terrifying, as has been proven repeatedly over the past two and a half years.

On the front of the battle line, which stretched for several miles, hundreds of people were directly killed in each platoon, and many more wounded fell to the ground wailing.

The frantic charge of the soldiers of the invading army, the more casualties will be greater in the later stage, and it is not until they enter hand-to-hand combat that the gap in equipment can be gradually erased, which is also well known to the generals of the invading army.

But everyone, including Liu Zongmin, felt that they had the ability to crush the other party! The Sinking Tree Man is a backwater! There's a boat in the back! Isn't this kind of battle the easiest way for the enemy to collapse out of fear? When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins! Just fight hard!

However, why the progress of the war situation is not the same as imagined.

On some fronts, the musketeers of the Shen family army did not even retreat to replace after firing the last shot at a distance of thirty paces, apparently fearing that continuing to use the stacking method would lead to confusion in the front.

So the soldiers checked the bayonet directly, and even crouched down, holding the bayonet diagonally upward, the butt of the gun supporting the ground, and did not take a step back from beginning to end.

The musketeers in the back row, who were supposed to rotate forward, took an over-the-shoulder shot directly after crouching in the front row, and fired directly at a distance of two feet above the opponent's head.

The firing distance of this last round was already only a dozen paces, and the fierce splashing of broken lead beads beat the rows of thieves in the front row of soldiers into a sieve, and the miserable howl resounded through the sky.

This style of play can only be done occasionally, and it requires great trust and courage.

Even in Europe, in the second half of the 18th century, it was not that there were no Western generals who thought of this tactic, from Frederick the Great to Napoleon, there have always been attempts to shoot over-the-shoulder, and if it is not used well, it is possible to directly shoot the head of the comrades in the front row because of nervousness.

Moreover, the squatting posture of the first row is very unfavorable for the upcoming hand-to-hand combat, although the number and density of bayonets that can be stabbed by one's own side have increased sharply, but the height disadvantage of the soldiers in the first row is too obvious.

If there is a cavalry rushing from the opposite side, the height of the head and face of the squatting infantry is almost at the knee of the horse's leg, and those who are a little less determined will be afraid to retreat when they see the chaotic horse's legs flying in front of them.

All kinds of abnormal performances lead to a truth - the group of soldiers opposite Liu Zongmin are not normal and ordinary soldiers at all, and they have been aroused into a kind of belief. Whether it's defending your homeland or cutting off the clutches of a raider.

……

"Puff puff!"

"Click!"

"Kill!"

As the invading army withstood huge initial casualties and finally narrowed the melee distance, the Shen family musketeers on the opposite side only stabbed their bayonets in unison and did not retreat at all.

The soldiers in the front row who were in a squatting position also struggled to resist and slowly adjusted and straightened up. The length of the musket is five feet, so in close combat, I am not afraid that my comrades in the back row will hurt me, as long as I fully trust and move forward in unison, the combat power shown by this dense formation is by no means simply one plus one equals two.

At the same time, the musketeers in the Shen family's army only accounted for about one-third of the total number of troops after all. Two-thirds of the pikemen, crossbowmen, and other auxiliaries are also constantly pushing forward and frantically out.

The pikemen did not retreat at all against the rain and stones in the back row on the opposite side, and the soldiers in the front row all wore iron cotton armor, even if they were pierced by three or five arrows on the stomach of the armor, they did not blink their eyes.

Unless a crossbow arrow happened to be shot through the crack in the iron of the cotton armor, it would snort and scream, but most of them still did not retreat, wielding their weapons to resist the enemy.

"Kill! Kill all the thieves! Defend Huguang! The spontaneous and neat shout, as soon as I heard it, it was the descendants of Shen Shuren who brought out from Huangzhou and Wuchang.

"Dog mongrel, tell you to slaughter my hometown! Shaanxi dog Lao Tzu kills five to make a profit! ”

"Dad, mother, I have avenged you! Second brother, your revenge has also been avenged! ”

And the people who shouted these words were obviously the local soldiers of Henan, the victims of the city slaughtered by Li Zicheng's strategy of "those who resist to slaughter the city, and those who surrender directly open warehouses and release grain" in the past year.

Those who shouted at every turn to kill several people were enough, and at first glance, they counted the number of their entire family members who were killed.

Between the knives and guns entering the flesh, the stumps and broken arms flying wildly, and the blood and flesh splashing, Liu Zongmin felt more and more shock, and even a little fear in turn.

"Death to the master! Why not refund! Why not refund! Grandma's drip boat is in the back, and those who don't escape die! Liu Zongmin himself was extremely brave and wielded a machete, relying on his personal bravery and wearing the finest iron armor, frantically slashing and killing the officers and soldiers in front of him.

But he slashed and chopped, but his heart became more and more impetuous, because he didn't see that his crazy slashing could make the other party's morale collapse and retreat out of fear.

On today's battlefield, the only advantage for the intruding army is that if the enemy's morale is low, they turn around and flee and mess up, they can cover up and drive them down the river, and drown countless officers and soldiers directly in Yingchuan.

If you can't break down morale, you won't be able to take advantage of the army at all by just relying on the substitution of lives with a knife and a gun. Moreover, the firepower of the officers and the army is more powerful and the firepower is hierarchical, and as long as the stalemate is held and this place is turned into a meat grinder, the exchange ratio of the officers and the army can have an absolute advantage.

The morale of the officers and soldiers has not been low, how can Liu Zongmin not doubt life? He chopped and chopped, feeling a little tired, that feeling, like a crazy fighting, met an indifferent dumb chicken.

One by one, the officers and soldiers who were hacked to death by Liu Zongmin had cold meaning in their eyes, and deep hatred, even if they were fatally wounded, they still wanted to take away a little organ from Liu Zongmin's body and leave an extra scar.

Where is this still the Ming army? The Ming army has this momentum, and the Ming Dynasty will not fall to this step of the field a long time ago!

……

Li Zicheng after the battle, seeing that Liu Zongmin couldn't take it, of course, the whole army pressed it, and pressed Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang to the front line, and there was no reserve at all.

When the battle comes to this point, both sides must lie down, unless there is a global collapse, and today's game will be unstoppable.

Li Zicheng's face was gloomy, his eyes were resolute, and he was also full of incomprehension: what he had been thinking about was to finally try to force a Shenshu man, let the Shenshu man get out of the tortoise shell in Chen County, and fight a field battle with him.

If he can't force it, in fact, in another month or two, he will have to go, and in the process, thousands of soldiers may starve to death, plus many more injuries.

However, Shen Shuren fell for the trick, because he cut off the food route, and went out of the city to fight very decisively.

Li Zicheng felt that he should have been the one who succeeded with a strategy, and finally contributed to this situation, how could he not be able to beat it? How can you not beat it?

If you can't beat it, what kind of battle will you force in the first place! It should be the Shenshu people who are here to force the battle!

Unfortunately, the facts will not be transferred by Li Zicheng's will. Tian Jianxiu and Liu Fangliang also pressed with all their might, and the situation of the army still did not improve.

Moreover, as the battle continued, the viciousness of the formation on the side of the official army was gradually exposed-the official army was set up along the river in a moon formation, and it already had a terrain advantage. But the Shen Tree Man is a little paradoxical.

In the densely populated parts of the cane, the front line is often more convex, and after several cars are piled up to form a protrusion, the position between the two protrusions is filled in by musketeers and pikemen, and it is somewhat concave back.

Such a layout will obviously make the attacker desperately want to rush into these gaps, so that there is no need to climb over the car formation. However, the officers and soldiers at the gap shouted for a fierce battle and swore not to retreat, and after a stalemate was formed, the horse-drawn cannons deployed by the officers and soldiers on the chariots began to exert their power wildly.

The Sinking Tree Man deployed most of the portable rapid-fire Franc planes in the army on these carriages, forming crossfire in advance, and as soon as the enemy troops poured in from the flanks, they immediately began to fire left and right. The enemy soldiers on the ballistic axis were killed and wounded almost in rows in dense formations.

After dozens of rounds of continuous bombardment, there was already a clear disconnect between the rear team of thieves and the front army that had entered the gap, and the corpses of the pillows blocked the way to charge and support, and also made the soldiers in the front row who tried to retreat stumble.

In the fierce battle, Li Zicheng's face gradually turned gray, like a gambler with red eyes, he repeatedly scanned the battlefield like a hungry wolf, and finally decided to put all bets on the decapitation action-

He saw the flag array of the Sunken Tree People, and under the protection of several three hundred large sand boats behind him, he stood firmly on the bank of the Yingchuan River. The official and military formation in front of Shen Shuren is also the thickest.

Li Zicheng's eyes were red, and he shouted frantically: "All the rear army, all follow me to kill the Shengou Official Banner Formation!" The Sinking Dog Officer is cowardly and afraid of death, and he will definitely abandon the battle and board the ship and escape! Then the morale of the officers and soldiers will collapse! Let all the soldiers shout, the Shen Dog Officer has fled! ”

Some of the generals had already developed cowardice and tried to dissuade them, and there were a few personal guards, purely for Li Zicheng's safety, hoping that he would not take risks.

But Li Zicheng had already gambled everything, he personally killed two cowards with his own knife, said that he would personally share the hardships with all the soldiers, and forcibly suppressed the doubts completely.