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It was raining heavily, and Duoduo and Ning Wanwo seized the opportunity. Thirty thousand cavalrymen marched seventy or eighty miles in the rain at night, and at five o'clock in the morning, they launched a fierce attack on Hao Yaoqi's vanguard camp.
As the heavy rain continued, the Qin army's muskets could not be used, and the same went for bows and arrows. Bowstrings are usually made of animal tendon glue, and humid weather will make the bowstrings soft, so they must be dried over a fire, not to mention in the rain, so they are basically unusable.
As a result, the Qing army besieged Hao Yaoqi's vanguard camp and started a hand-to-hand combat. The temporary camp set up by the Qin army could not compare with the tall city. 30,000 Qing troops swarmed up and launched a fierce attack from three sides.
From the fifth watch onwards, the sound of killing was deafening at Niutoupo. In the heavy wind and rain, the Qing army quickly flattened the flooded trench outside the village wall, then used chopped down huge logs as battering rams, and dozens of people worked together to ram into the Qin army's village wall.
Since long-range weapons such as muskets and bows and arrows could not be used, stones, bricks and even mud became the Qin army's weapons, but even stones were limited in the camp.
Fortunately, the Qin army's thunder bombs were still usable. Shang Yi was quick-witted and asked people to find oilcloth to block the heavy rain from the sky. He asked the soldiers to hide under the oilcloth to light the fuse of the thunder bomb and then throw it out. Fierce explosions occurred one after another, rumbling continuously, causing heavy casualties among the Qing army.
Relying on this move, the Qin army stabilized the situation for a time, but the Qing army's attack was very fierce and seemed to be determined to fight to the death.
Bang! A large section of the northern wall was knocked down, and the Qing army swarmed in. The roar, the sound of wind and rain, and the sound of explosions intertwined like a tide;
The Qin army's defense line in the village was constantly dented under the powerful impact, like a constantly tightened bowstring that could break at any time.
Commander Hao Yaoqi was horrified. Once the northern defense line was broken, the Qin army would inevitably collapse. He had to throw in his last 1,000 reserve troops.
Guerrilla Wei Wu led a thousand reserve troops, stepping on the rain and blood, roaring and rushing towards the northern gap. The wind blew in the face, the rain curtain flew across the sky, and the battle flags were wet and heavy. Lightning flashed through the sky, the sky was roaring in anger, and the earth was filled with the sound of killing, and the mountains were collapsing.
Once Wei Wu's 1,000 fresh troops were deployed, they were like a huge wave, pushing back the Qing troops that had rushed into the gap in the village wall. The two armies fought hand-to-hand at the gap, and the swords were broken in the clash of swords.
The huge roar of killing shook the wind and rain, and the sound echoed in the river. The flying sword lights danced like lightning, and heads and broken arms flew into the mud. The gushing hot blood had dyed the ground red, the fishy wind wafted into the nose, and the blood covered the feet.
"Kill!" Wei Wu roared, and just as he pulled his sword out of an enemy's chest, blood spurted out like a fountain, and then he chopped it out again, and there was a clang of metal clashing. A Qing soldier was shocked and took a step back, his feet slipped, and his body fell forward. Wei Wu took the opportunity to kneel down;
Bang! His knee hit the opponent's face fiercely, and a shrill scream shook the eardrums. The Qing soldier's nose was broken, and blood spurted out of his mouth and he fell to the ground;
Wei Wu ignored the pain in his knee and bravely took two steps forward. With a whoosh of his sword, he chopped off the right arm of another enemy. The Qin soldiers around him also rushed forward without regard for their own lives. Everyone understood that they could only hold on, otherwise once the Qing army broke through, everyone would die even more miserably.
"Push forward!" Shang Yi led two hundred men and rushed in from the left, desperately trying to plug the gap. Both armies rushed to the gap one after another, relying on their murderous aura to kill each other. The battle was extremely brutal.
While Shang Yi was hacking and killing with all his might, he shouted to Lu Shan, who was on the battlefield for the first time: "Thunderbolt... ....kill!" Shang Yi slashed with his sword, knocked down a Qing soldier, and continued to shout, "Hide behind me! Use your shield to block the rain, ignite the thunderbolt... ...kill!"
There were flying swords and shouts all around. Lu Shan was so nervous that his hands and feet were shaking and he didn't know what to do. If Shang Yi hadn't blocked him, all ten of his heads would have been chopped off.
Tang Lu, who was wielding a sword beside him, saw that he was still in a daze, and could hardly hold back and hacked him to death with one blow, "Lü Shan, if you keep on being in a daze, I'll... hack you to death first. Didn't you listen to what Shang Bazong said... and why don't you just do as he said!"
Lu Shan woke up with a start, raised his round shield, took out a fire starter and blew it to light it. Due to his nervousness, the shadow of swords flew around him, and the fuse of the first thunder bomb was wet before it was lit.
Shang Yi and Tang Lu tried to protect him, and the second thunder bomb was finally lit. He yelled hysterically and threw it forward with all his might.
Boom! An explosion sounded, and the Qing army swarmed like ants. It was unknown how many people were killed in the explosion. But with this successful experience, Lu Shan was much calmer. He threw the third and fourth bombs out in succession, with continuous rumbling sounds.
At this moment, the sound of a horn came from outside, and the Qing army immediately retreated like a tide.
Shang Yi looked out hastily and couldn't help but yelled, "Oh no! The enemy is going to use cavalry to attack! Quick! The chevaux de frise..."
The Qin army soldiers who had just repelled the Qing army's fierce attack had no time to cheer. They were all shocked when they heard Shang Yi's roar. It was too late. The Qing army's cavalry had been ready. As soon as the infantry retreated, they immediately rushed to the gap.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Wei Wu shouted in time. Fortunately, Hao Yaoqi also saw the Qing cavalry in advance and ordered Lu Yun to lead several hundred cavalry to rush over. "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!" Lu Yun shouted while urging his horse to fight.
In fact, no one could hear his voice at all. The rumbling sound of horse hooves was the best warning. The Qin troops at the gap moved to both sides one after another, like waves plowed open by a giant ship.
Immediately afterwards, the two cavalry units of the enemy and ours collided with each other at the gap with a "bang". For a moment, the mountains and rivers shook, thunder and lightning flashed, and the bloody rain was endless, which was shocking and thrilling.
After the first wave of fierce collisions, the two cavalry units were in a stalemate again, squeezed in the gap and unable to move. Lu Yun roared like thunder and fought with the Qing army general Gong Acha. Gong Acha was slightly better at cavalry than Lu Yun. Lu Yun was forced into a dangerous situation and simply fought. Every blow was a fight to the death, but he forced Gong Acha to retreat again and again.
Wei Wu, Shang Yi and others took advantage of the opportunity of Lu Yun's cavalry to rush forward, and shouted at each other to reorganize the infantry. At the same time, they took out two-meter-long spears and huge shields nearly as high as a person, and assembled them into a formation.
Just when they were holding on here, the western side of the camp was breached by the Qing army again. The Qing army continued to advance. Hao Yaoqi had no reserve troops to send. Seeing that the camp could no longer be defended, he made a prompt decision and sounded the horn to order the abandonment of the camp wall. All the Qin troops fought and retreated and assembled in the middle.
The morale of the Qing army was high. They rushed into the camp shouting and pressed the Qin army to attack. The battle became more and more brutal.
Duoduo and Ning Wanwo were stationed outside the horse camp. Watching this scene, they not only did not relax, but frowned even more tightly. Although the wall of the camp had been captured, the Qin army had not completely collapsed. They were still fighting and retreating, constantly gathering in the middle.
Duoduo had fought for many years and had never seen such a situation. Usually, once the camp was breached, the defenders would be defeated.
Although it was Hao Yaoqi who took the initiative to order the abandonment of the stockade wall, the Qin army was still able to advance and retreat in an orderly manner under the pressure of the Qing army that was several times their number. This alone was awe-inspiring.
Almost all the tents in the camp were flattened. The Qin army shrank tighter and tighter, with huge shields as a wall and long spears like a forest, like a hedgehog with its body curled up, welcoming the Qing army's violent attack.
From time to time, some thunder bombs flew out from the Qin army's formation, making loud rumbling noises, causing heavy casualties to the besieging Qing army.
With 30,000 troops besieging 10,000, the Qing army still used cavalry to attack repeatedly, but because they could not use bows and arrows, they fought bloody battles for more than an hour but were still unable to break the Qin army's circular formation. Duoduo gritted his teeth and felt impatient.
This bloody battle started at five o'clock in the morning and there was no winner until the afternoon. The casualties of the Qing army were no less than those of the Qin army. Especially before breaking through the village wall, the casualty rate of the Qing army was at least twice that of the Qin army.
Duoduo had wanted to take advantage of the rainy weather when the Qin army could not use their firearms to wipe out Hao Yaoqi's army of 10,000 in one fell swoop, but he had never dreamed that the battle would turn out like this. Both sides were exhausted.
Ning Wanwo sighed, "Your Majesty, we miscalculated. The Qin army's thunderbolts can still be used. If not for this..."
"Stop talking!" Duoduo roared violently.
"Report, Your Majesty, tens of thousands of Qin cavalry are coming to reinforce us, twenty miles away..."
The news sent back by the sentry forced Duoduo to order his troops to withdraw. "Retreat!" The horn sounded again, and the Qing army, which had long been unwilling to fight, retreated like a tide.
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