Qinhe
Before the corpses from the last fight could be restrained, the next attack came like a tide. Gao Jun, who had lost his position on the shore, became ruthless, and under Zheng Ziyu's personal command, he stormed towards the Black Flag Army's line again and again, regardless of casualties.
Xiahou Baichuan looked a little tired, since Zheng Ziyu's team started to attack last night, it has been more than six hours now. The soldiers on the front line didn't even have time to take a bite, because the enemy was biting too hard, and the reserve team had to go up one by one if they wanted to go up and replace them. Otherwise, if there was a gap in the front line, Zheng Ziyu's men would swarm up.
There is no tactic to speak of.
Just working hard.
On the day Gao Jun was repelled by the Black Banner Army and crossed the river, Xiang Qingniu led a group of well-cultivated quacks into Gao Jun's camp and destroyed most of Gao Jun's catapults and crossbow carts. He was attacked, and then caught off guard by Xiahou Baichuan, so he lost the line of defense on the river.
But even so, the Black Banner Army paid at least 2,000 lives for crossing the river.
"Xu Ding!"
Xiahou Baichuan observed with his clairvoyant eyes, and found that the defense line on the left wing showed signs of loosening. He quickly ordered: "Take two Zhechong battalions to the left wing for support. Zheng Ziyu has used all the heavy armored infantry on the left wing. The brothers over there are somewhat unable to carry it. Remember. , we have the means to deal with heavy armored infantry, don't get confused!"
The general named Xu Ding took the order loudly and took two men from Zhechong camp to make up for it.
Black Banner Army left wing defense line
At the beginning, Gao Jun charged with a small number of light cavalry, but was easily wiped out by the light cavalry of the Black Banner Army. Speaking of the combat power of the cavalry, the light cavalry of the Black Banner Army has yet to find an opponent in the Central Plains. But Zheng Ziyu just wanted to mobilize the cavalry of the Black Banner Army, and then gather all the heavy armored infantry under his command to attack the left flank.
Although the artillery of the Black Banner Army caused huge damage to the enemy, Zheng Ziyu, who was already half-mad, didn't care about using his life to fill it up. First, he used the light infantry to attack fiercely to attract the firepower of the Black Banner Army artillery battalion, and then the heavy armored infantry followed behind the light infantry. , Using the lives of the light infantry as a barrier to protect the heavy armored infantry to the front of the Black Banner Army.
The power of muskets has limited damage to heavy armored infantry, while feather arrows can't break through the thick layer of chain armor at all. Chain armor is the most effective means for infantry to defend against feathered arrows. The dense iron rings are woven together to effectively block the feather arrows from drilling in.
"Why did the ballista stop!"
General Zhao Yisi of the Black Banner Army turned his head and roared hoarsely. As the enemy got closer and closer, the ballista could hardly keep up with the speed. To deal with those heavy armored infantry armed to the teeth, ballista is the best weapon at this moment. The artillery can't hit so close, the feather arrows have no lethality, and the continuous crossbow is meaningless for the heavy armored infantry.
"The heavy crossbow is used up, and the auxiliary soldiers are being transported here!"
His personal team was running over to inquire and then came back to report.
"Pikemen!"
Zhao Yisi waved the command flag himself: "All the pikemen are pushed forward by me, at least four rows. It's up to you whether you can resist the heavy armor!"
A Zhechong battalion leader led the pikemen to form an formation and replaced the archers. Thousands of pikemen formed a multi-row horizontal square formation in front of the formation. The thickness of the pikemen's formation is the key to determining whether they can block the enemy's onslaught. But under the enemy's continuous attack, the formation was not very smooth.
"Haven't the cavalry come back yet?"
Zhao Yisi asked loudly!
"General Xiahou transferred all the cavalry away!"
"Then we can only rely on ourselves!"
Zhao Yisi beckoned and asked the soldiers to hand over his long spear: "The brothers from all battalions in this battle are desperately fighting, our side is under the greatest pressure, and the heavy armored infantry is here, but this is not our top priority. No reason! I always tell you that you have to be the best soldier to be a soldier. Even if the strongest enemy is here, we can’t let the brothers in other battalions say that we are cowardly! I stand in the first row , whoever sees me retreating, will slash me from behind! If I am still alive in this battle, I will get drunk with you even if I violate the military regulations when I go back. If I die, remember to live Burn some paper money for me today next year, and I will invite my dead brothers to drink underground!"
"Array!"
"kill!"
The soldiers growled and waited.
The heavy armored infantry with Mo Dao pressed forward neatly, like a moving mountain. Feathered arrows sprinkled over, and sparks sparked in the formation of the heavy armored infantry, but almost no one fell down. The ballista on the Black Banner Army's side has not been supplemented with heavy crossbows, and the artillery can't exert its power.
After losing thousands of people, the enemy finally sent the heavy armor to the front of the Black Banner Army.
"Don't be a coward!"
Zhao Yisi let out a loud roar, stood in the first row of the queue, and clenched the long spear in his hand: "Even if it is death, if someone mentions the brothers in our battalion in the future, they will have to give a fucking thumbs up and say we They are all real men, good men!"
"I'd rather die! Don't retreat!"
"I'd rather die! Don't retreat!"
The shouts were so neat, and everyone's face showed determination. Maybe this is the last sentence of many people before they die, but at this moment, none of them regret it. No matter what the purpose of this war is, as soldiers, they have not forgotten their duties.
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A soldier's world.
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"General, I will protect you and retreat!"
The soldiers rushed up to support the crumbling Zhao Yisi, trying to hug him back from the front. Zhao Yisi shook his shoulders to push away the soldiers, raised his hand to wipe away the blood that blurred his eyes. Too many comrades had already fallen beside him, and the corpses covered the land with a color that could not be seen at all.
"My soldiers are fighting to the death and I will not retreat."
Zhao Yisi tried his best to poke the long lance out. He was exhausted and couldn't accurately poke the lance into the enemy's face armor again. His martial arts skills were good, and he had killed at least a dozen enemy's heavy armored infantry before. Facing those soldiers wearing heavy chain armor, it seems that only the face and neck are the weakest places. The visor is thin, and the mail around the neck is relatively thinnest.
With a bang.
The heavy armored infantry on the opposite side split Zhao Yisi's long lance with a Mo Dao. The huge shock force made Zhao Yisi unable to hold the long lance tightly. He staggered for a while and couldn't stand still anymore, and a Mo knife from the opposite side slashed down fiercely. The soldiers around him roared, and threw themselves on Zhao Yisi. The heavy and sharp Mo Dao mercilessly cut the bodyguard into two, and the blade landed on Zhao Yisi's body under inertia.
Mo Dao got stuck on his armor, and blood continued to flow out along the opening.
The pain of the knife made Zhao Yisi wake up again. He struggled to stand up, clamped the enemy's Mo knife under his arm with his arm, and then rushed over to hit the enemy's face fiercely with his iron helmet. This time Zhao Yisi exerted his last strength, the iron helmet slammed into the enemy's visor, and blood immediately flowed out from the hole in the visor.
Perhaps because he was blinded, the heavy armored infantry backed back with a howl, covering his face, trying to dig out the iron sheet embedded in his face with his hands.
"Die in the same robe... don't live alone."
Zhao Yisi crawled over, holding the back of the armored infantry with both hands and pulling it down, then threw himself on the armored infantry, pulled out the dagger hanging from his waist, held it with both hands and stabbed it down fiercely, the dagger ran along the side of the visor. The hole pierced in, deeply entering the eye socket of the heavy armored infantryman.
puff!
Another Mo Dao slashed down, and Zhao Yisi's head and half of his shoulders were removed, and slowly slid down.
"Support is here!"
At this moment, cheers came from the defense line of the Black Banner Army.
Xu Ding came to support with two zhechong battalions, each holding a wrist-thick white wax rod in their hands. This kind of wood has excellent toughness, and it does not necessarily break when it is bent to the opposite side. The ash poles in their hands were two meters long, far longer than the pikemen's spears.
"Brothers, go down and have a rest, let's go!"
Xu Ding roared, and rushed forward first: "The general said, as long as we persist for another half hour, the enemy will be defeated!"
Holding the white wax rod with both hands, he stabbed forward fiercely, and stabbed it on the chest of a heavy armored infantryman. Even if he had a spear point, he couldn't pierce that layer of armor, let alone without a spear point. But Xu Ding didn't want to stab the enemy to death, but to knock the enemy down! The toughness of the white wax pole played a role, and it was almost 90 degrees without breaking. He sent it forward, and the elastic force pushed the heavy armored infantry back. The soldier was unsteady and tripped over the corpse, and fell to the ground with a plop.
Wearing such a heavy armor, it is not easy to stand up after falling down!
Seeing the soldier fell down, Xu Ding held up the white wax stick with both hands and slammed it down hard. The stick rolled in the air and threw an arc, and then hit the soldier's body with a bang. Cheeks can block swords, guns, feathers and arrows, but this kind of blow from a stick cannot be counteracted.
When the stick went down, the heavily armored soldier immediately groaned, unable to stand up even more.
In a dense offensive formation, once the heavy armored infantry fell to the ground, it was actually a dead end. Behind him, his fellow robes continued to push forward, the first foot was stepped on, and the next step was to be trampled into meat paste.
Two new troops from the Zhechong Battalion came up and temporarily blocked the heavy armored infantry with the special weapons in their hands. Pieces of sticks poked forward, knocking down the front row of heavy armored infantry one after another. The heavy armored infantry had to change their tactics and use Mo Dao to chop the sticks. But in this way, their physical exertion accelerated a lot. You must know that Mo Dao, ordinary people can't wield it at all!
Even though they are all burly and strong men, wearing heavy armor and holding Mo Dao, every step consumes their physical strength. That's why the heavy armored infantry choose such heavy weapons as Mo Dao, pursuing a one-hit kill. But now, they had to swing their knives to chop those long ash poles!
This unreasonable defensive method completely messed up the formation of the heavy armored infantry. The soldiers in the first row fell down, and the people behind were tripped one after another. The heavy armored infantry behind didn't know what happened, and they were still advancing at their usual speed.
The horn sounded, and the enemy's heavy armor began to retreat slowly and rearrange their formation.
At this moment, the drums of counterattack sounded from the Chinese army.
"Our Qingqi went around behind the enemy and copied their rear! The enemy is in chaos!"
"Brothers, forward!"
"kill!"
The generals of each battalion saw the opportunity and led their soldiers to launch a counterattack in an instant. The offensive was blocked, and Gao Jun, who was about to adjust and prepare for the next attack, was caught off guard, and the timing of the counterattack was just right!
Xiahou Baichuan got on his horse, took off his long spear and pointed forward: "Black Banner Army! Break through the enemy camp!"
"kill!"
The Black Banner Army, which had defended for more than seven hours, finally reached the time to feel elated. The counterattack was like a mountain torrent that burst a dike, drowning the enemy's front team in an instant. In the distance, two black lines inserted fiercely behind Zheng Ziyu's army, one from the left and the other from the right. They were the elite cavalry of the Black Banner Army who went around and made a surprise attack.
war
There may be a stalemate for a long time, but when the victory comes, it is often decided at that moment.