This was the most ferocious offensive by the rebels since the start of the war. The rebel soldiers, who knew that they would die in battle, pushed forward with red eyes, ignoring the fallen comrades in front of them one after another. The weapons in the hands of the spearmen rushing to the front were crude, and many of them broke their guns due to excessive force. They were only in a trance for a moment, and they were stabbed to death by the officers and soldiers standing behind the giant shield with long spears.
When the sun climbed to the south, the sunlight illuminated the color of the blood more vividly.
Walking forward with the accumulation of human life, the front of each shield formation is covered with corpses.
A rebel soldier who seemed to be in his forties saw the opportunity and poked a spear in through the gap in the shield. When he pulled it out, he brought out a stream of blood, but he didn't feel the slightest sense of excitement, or even any feeling. He avoided the stabbing front from behind the shield formation, and tried his best to continue his life. At this moment, he suddenly discovered that his fellow villager Ermao, who was only sixteen years old, had been stabbed over by a lance, and the lance pierced his thigh, causing blood to flow like a fountain.
The young man fell to the ground wailing, waving the horizontal knife in his hand violently like crazy. Seeing that Er Mao was injured, the rebel soldier who usually regarded Er Mao as his son rushed over immediately, threw away the spear in his hand, hugged Er Mao from behind and dragged him back. The crazy boy didn't know who was behind him, and subconsciously stabbed Er Mao back. In the bodies of rebel soldiers.
The rebel soldier was stunned, and slowly looked down at the horizontal knife pierced into his lower abdomen, watched the blood flow out like a waterfall when the blade was drawn out, and watched the intestines squeeze out from the wound and hang outside. For a moment he felt the whole world turned red, pure bloody red.
"ah!"
At this moment, Er Mao realized that it was Uncle Liu who was injured. He was so frightened that he dropped the horizontal knife in his hand and looked at this middle-aged man who took care of him in every possible way.
"Uncle Liu... yes... I'm sorry."
"Alive."
The middle-aged man grinned, and suddenly turned around in front of Er Mao, followed by two long spears that arrived almost at the same time, stabbing hard into the middle-aged man's back. The two-foot-long spear pierced his body easily, and there were still blood beads on the spear protruding from his chest. And on his face, there was still a smile that gradually solidified.
"Alive!"
The middle-aged man tried his best to speak in the gentlest tone, and then pushed Ermao back with the greatest strength. The pale-faced boy stared blankly at the compatriot who fell to the ground, the pain in his heart was stronger than the pain in his leg. He moved over subconsciously, dragging the middle-aged man's body to crawl back: "Uncle... let's go home, we won't fight."
He moved back with difficulty, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
"Go forward!"
A rebel army rushed over and kicked Ermao, his eyes were cold: "Don't pretend to be dead, let me go forward, I don't have time to cry now, I have the ability to kill the enemy who killed him!"
Seeing that Er Mao was still stupidly dragging the corpse and crawling backwards, the team was furious, and slashed across Er Mao's neck with a knife, and the head flew out immediately, and suddenly, blood mist sprayed out from the neck and splashed the team's body. With a full face: "The one who retreats will die! You all remember, if you don't work hard today, not only you will die tomorrow, but none of your family members, men, women, old and young will survive!"
The corpse of the headless boy hugged the corpse of the middle-aged man, and the blood of the two fused and seeped into the ground.
After hearing the roar of the rebel army, the rebel soldiers next to them gritted their teeth and continued to charge forward, shouting to release their animal nature to hide their fear. No one took a second look at the pair of corpses that fell on the ground. In the distance, the boy's head was kicked and rolled around by the following soldiers, getting farther and farther away from the corpse. But he kept his eyes open, persistently looking at the world that he could no longer see. Blood and dust mixed together and covered the outside of the head, and the once clear eyes also became dull.
In just half an hour, the rebel army took more than 10,000 deaths to advance a dozen steps forward, and the four-layer shield array was breached, but the thickness of the army array gave them a sense of powerlessness. In terms of equipment, the official army is stronger than them, and in terms of fighting spirit, the official army is not inferior to them, so it depends on whose courage is more durable at this moment.
Shi Lei watched the soldiers die one after another with a blank face, then mechanically waved his hand to signal the rear team to continue to move forward. The casualties of the rebel soldiers were far more than that of the official army. After all, the official army was blocked by a solid and heavy shield. In the past, Shi Lei would never have watched his soldiers die like this, but today, he didn't even want to say a word.
He looked to both sides, and found that the attacking rebel teams on the two wings were still probing, and only his own team was rushing forward like crazy.
For some reason, Shi Lei actually smiled.
"Let's go."
He said to the trusted guards around him.
"Walk?"
The captain of the personal army was puzzled: "General, where are we going?"
Shi Lei shook his head: "I don't know, but it's time to leave the battlefield. Our manpower is insufficient, and Li Yuanshan's calculation is just to use our lives to consume the Sui army. They are all abandoned... no accidents... Then Jin Shixiong will dispatch troops to fight back. If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave when the officers and soldiers rush out... Li Yuanshan has never been in love with me, and I have tried my best to be worthy of him in this battle. The Li family is unstoppable, we There is no need to follow him to death. The world is big, the big deal is to hide your name or go far outside the Great Wall... If you are nostalgic for your hometown, find a place to hide, and never lift a knife again... Remember!"
After saying this, Shi Lei steered his horse and rushed out of the formation.
His hundreds of soldiers were a little dazed, not understanding why the general made such a decision suddenly. With Shi Lei gone, the rebel army with no command still has a chance of winning
They hesitated for a while, looking at each other and trying to find the answer from each other's eyes. I don't know who spat first, scolded Li Yuanshan, I'm fucking your eighth generation ancestor, then turned around and chased Shi Lei. Others followed, but no one missed this battlefield.
Just when they left the battle formation, there was a rumbling sound of war drums from the official army!
The officers and soldiers fought back.
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General Jin Shixiong has been watching the battle, and when he saw that the rebels' attack was weak, he immediately ordered to beat the drums. The soldiers who were ready to fight back drew out their horizontal knives and held them tightly. As soon as the war drums sounded, the officers and soldiers on both wings took the lead in attacking, pressing back the feint attacking rebels like tigers on the mountain.
The officers and soldiers who had completely defeated the rebels today rushed forward screaming, their morale was like a rainbow. The rebels on the two wings were originally a feint attack to attract the officers and soldiers. Although they were guarding against the counterattack of the officers and soldiers, it did not mean that they could stop it. The officer archers who retreated to the back opened the prelude to the counterattack with a round of projectiles, followed by countless light armored infantry rushing out like a tide.
If the teams on both sides are torrents, when they collide, it depends on who has more stamina.
On the side of the Chinese army, the offensive of the rebels was immediately suppressed by the counterattack of the official army. After a moment of stalemate, the rebels who were already tired were pushed back by the more aggressive official army. With every step forward, the officers and soldiers stepped on corpses, and their boots were soaked in blood within a few steps.
Human heads rolled on the ground, and broken limbs and arms were everywhere.
A rebel soldier looked around blankly in the crowd, looking for his arm that had just been removed with a knife. He bent down to pick up an arm and looked at it, only to find that it didn't belong to him. He had no chance or time to continue his search, for his enemies would feel no mercy for the loss of an arm.
When an official soldier rushed forward, he stabbed the rebel soldier's abdomen with a knife, and the two bodies collided and fell to the ground. The moment the rebel soldier fell down, he saw his severed arm next to him. He ignored the officers and soldiers stabbing with knives and crawled forward with difficulty to get the arm back. The officers and soldiers killed Hongyan, stepped on his back and raised the horizontal knife to stab him down.
But at this time, the rebel soldier suddenly went mad, turned over and knocked the officer soldier away, then jumped up and hugged the officer soldier with one arm and pressed it to the ground, he hit the officer soldier hard with his head Head, one click, both of them soon had blood on their faces.
"Why don't you let me get my hand back!"
"why why why!"
The rebel soldiers yelled as they bumped into each other frantically, and then lowered their heads and bit the officer soldier's neck. Soon one after another, the officers and soldiers gradually lost their strength, and their eyes were full of fear. With a puff, the rebel soldier bit open the enemy's artery, and slightly hot blood sprayed his face.
After going crazy, the seriously injured rebel soldier was unable to stand up again. He lay on the corpse of the officer soldier and slowly closed his eyes. Before he died, he kept looking at his arm not far away.
"Report!"
A messenger ran back with a pale face, and knelt down in front of Li Yuanshan on one knee: "Your Majesty, it's not good! General Shi Lei fled in front of the battle, and the front army was completely defeated. The Sui army counterattacked and chased after us. Can't stop!"
"Shi Lei!"
Li Yuanshan gritted his teeth and made a clicking sound.
"Archer!"
He ordered loudly: "Fire the arrows!"
"Your Majesty, those are our soldiers."
Someone said in horror.
Li Yuanshan said coldly: "Shut up if you don't want to be disrupted by your rout soldiers! Let the arrows go, and no one is allowed to stop without my order!"
He pointed forward with his hand, and tens of thousands of feathered arrows poured out immediately. The former army of the rebels who retreated did not expect that the Chinese army would greet them in this way, and they were at a loss in panic. The archers did not dare to stop without Li Yuanshan's order, and sent out the feather arrows in the quiver one by one. Soon, the routed rebel soldiers were cleared out of a vacuum that no living person could see.
"Blow the horn and let Zhou Dingguo charge forward with the heavy armored infantry. If the heavy armor doesn't break through the Sui army's left wing within half an hour, let him not have to come back to see me!"
"Here!"
The messenger immediately ran out to deliver the order.
Li Yuanshan looked at the officers and soldiers rushing towards him like a tide, his expression did not change much. At this time, he is the general who has led the army for many years and has experienced many battles, not the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
"The ballista, after two rounds of firing, the heavy cavalry rushed forward with me. According to my order, all horses will follow behind the heavy cavalry, and those who fail to advance before the battle will be killed without mercy!"
He took his long spear off the victory hook, his eyes determined.