"Five thousand years ago we faced the flood like the Egyptians,
Four thousand years ago, we played with bronzes like the Babylonians,
Three thousand years ago we thought about philosophy like the Greeks,
Two thousand years ago, we fought around like the Romans and established the largest unified dynasty in the world,
A thousand years ago, we were as rich as the Arabs,
And now we have a longer and shorter time with the Americans.
We have been at the world's poker tables for five thousand years, and our opponents have changed several rounds. "
"The first lesson of school"
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The Outer City Camp of Dantu City.
On the edge of the largest soil barrier, there are corpses piled up like mountains and stacked heavy barriers. The surface of most of the rammed earth has been soaked with blood water into different shades of brown, and the hierarchical resistance and barriers have been cut off. They were chopped and pulled out, but the newly piled up corpses became their natural shelter and shelter.
"It's a big loss. I knew I was looking for a woman when I was in the army before, even if it was an older one... It won't be a waste of this life..."
Not long after he returned to the team, he became team deputy and flag leader Wang Qiu, and was once again shot through the double strands by Liu Ya; instead he could only sit sideways on the dead body against the edge of the hand card filled with tail feathers, and pulled the bow with all his strength. The arrow put down an officer who had rolled downstairs and stood up, and muttered to himself for the time being.
Most of these corpses belonged to the officers and soldiers, and a few of them belonged to the Taiping Army. However, they were shaken and comforted in the critical situation, and were the result of the execution of military laws before the battle; one of them was shot and stabbed by him from behind. Yes, and then he was also lost his helmet and cloth, and he was swollen from the forehead to the base of his ears.
But after letting go of the arrow, his hand twitched again, and he couldn't hold the tie rod of the crossbow machine tightly. At this time, a hand stretched out and took the crossbow machine over, and he immediately released it when he knocked it on his leg. It lost the ratchet teeth stuck in blood and mud, and dropped diagonally to the empty quiver.
Then the visitor re-squeezed a box full of sixteen tailless daggers on the iron-clad string groove of Liannu; only then did they hand it back to Wang Qiu and took out a half-full iron. Coming from the flat pot, gently shake the ** sound.
"Or, the team mate will come first and say something..."
But it is the family of Wang Qiu with the same surname; in the not long but quite frequent military career, he has faded away from the original newcomer Wang Jian, who was jerky, cringe, and shy, but he also wears a quilt on his waist. The rod cut off the broken arrow, and the body always looks like it can't stand upright. .
"By the way, on our side, how much can we breathe..."
Wang Qiu also relentlessly leaned on the tuan card, slightly raised his head and took a sip of the slightly spicy wine in the jar, and struggled to say in the heat that penetrated his ears and nose.
"Just calculated, in addition to being carried away and unable to be found, there are more than 20 people in the two teams that can breathe..."
However, Wang Jian held up a crossbow machine again neatly, pressed it firmly and leaned against the edge of the group card.
Wang Qiu couldn’t help feeling a little sad, which meant that this direction was full of two teams of six fires (ten people per fire), and only sixty-six people, including the officers and deputies and the flag head (drum trumpeter), remained. It's less than a third.
This battle was a bit miserable. The team alone has been refilled and reorganized three times; the two teams are working together with the deputy and the head of the team, and only Wang Qiu is left alone; as for ten The two fire chiefs and the five heads are the only one who can stand in front of him, breathing and talking.
Although there may have been preparations for this situation earlier, and a large number of fortifications from the inside out were laid on the edge of the soil platform, and water equipment and alternate and garrison manpower were stocked; but under the prominent army attack in these cities, It is still inevitable that the deaths and injuries continue to be reduced and contracted.
Many soldiers have not waited for the expected result or the moment when they insist on a turn for the better, they have fallen into this seemingly isolated and helpless battle; and the officers and soldiers still show no signs of letting go or retreating. .
"However, there are enough spare parts for arrows and crossbows..."
However, Wang Jian seemed to catch his thoughts, and said in a relaxed relief, he stretched out his hand to pat the group card, and the many tail feathers nailed to it trembled with the wind.
"What's more, there are officers and soldiers from outside sending us miles..."
Before his words fell, he heard the squeaky sound of the wind, and suddenly a lot of arrows flew from the room, and then leaked through the gap of the group of cards, and Wang Jian fell to the ground; and then it blew fiercely. In the sound of the whistle, there were also shouts one after another.
"The officers and soldiers have attacked again..."
The officers and soldiers holding up the newly-made wooden signs and the baffle were also digging the soil along with the prying shovel, clearing out the companions of the temporary steps one by one, and slowly forced the soil barrier again. .
On the other, slightly smaller high platform, the officers and soldiers climbing up with the temporary long ladders, like ants attached to honey, were once again covered and the edges and Xiaoban entered and exited the door.
Amid the intensified killings, the core position of the inner circle was strictly guarded, and it was surrounded by several material camps surrounded by temporary wounded settlements. Surrounding the big tank with a few inverted mouths, dozens of fire-throwers in full suits, but some agitated, stood up again and asked for orders.
"Lieutenant, can you go on..."
"It's not enough, please hold it back for me..."
As the only surviving deputy senior officer Zhang Dong, his face was solemn.
"If you don't get the order, even if the outsiders are all dead, even if I die in front of your eyes, I can't act rashly..."
Then, he personally guided the knife and the bow and rushed out with the last two guards, and then drove head-on into the ranks of the officers and soldiers who had already gained a firm foothold on the high platform. Like a catfish breaking into the stagnant water, the blood-colored whirlpool brought out by the swing of a sword, struggling to stir the leaders of the officers and soldiers who want to form together.
On the largest soil platform, Wang Qiu, who was crushed by a corpse, also looked at Wang Jian, who was shot through his shoulder and fell to the ground, bleeding unconsciously. Chop the broken knife on the leg of the officer who is running past;
After even putting down the three of them, the officers and soldiers who spotted him stabbed him back with knives and guns, and the splashed blood flowed together along the gaps between the corpses, and penetrated into the increasingly bright soil.
However, Wang Jian, who appeared to be dead, suddenly moved at this moment, calling his name loudly, and poking the officers and soldiers who had not been pulled out, pulling their legs and knocking them to the ground again. Broken Arrow poked frantically on his chest and throat, and it was done.
Then, there was another officer who stumbled, threw down and pressed him tightly, banging his head and biting his face in a scuffle. . . . After not knowing how long, there was a piercing and sharp sound suddenly in the sky, and a few faintly visible fireworks rose up; and in the clear blue sky, the collision blew up into several brightly colored balls. A cloud of smoke comes.
It’s like pulling away some signs and origins,
Outside Dantu City, overlooking from the sky above, following the influx of officers and soldiers like tides, in the midst of retreat, they were gradually smudged and infiltrated with a mottled and strangely colored besieged city camp. Also following the demarcation from Gouli Mountain, the rockets and inflammable objects that were shot out in a dense concentration were suddenly shrouded and covered in the blazing fireworks in a short time;
Among them were many bursts of thunder bursts and roars one after another. As one after another rises around those high platforms, the gray-black smoke clouds in the densely wriggling official and military trend roll over, and they look like fungus communities springing up on the ground like bamboo shoots after a rain; they will gather together like ants. The scattered and panicked formations and queues further rushed, shattered, and torn apart.
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"Earth Dragon Stands Over!"
"The landslide!"
"There's a wave..."
On the other side of the battlefield, Dong Chang's side was also screaming one after another. Because in the distance of their vision, they are on the battlefield in full swing.
Halfway through the lush and lush and cascading fortifications of Gouli Mountain, it was boiling and jumping for joy, as if it had come alive in an instant, and suddenly it was bursting out by countless successive clouds of smoke and layers. The flames shrouded in the period.
It was pre-arranged on the hillside to obtain the largest firearm position from top to bottom and cross-killing coverage. After removing the temporary cover of turf and bushes, it suddenly began to break through many peripheral fronts, and continued to make an effort. The soldiers and horses of Hangzhou, the three capitals who attacked Mimi Zaza, became powerful one after another.
Among the many panicked, shocked and appalled at each other, only half an hour passed. Sitting on the foot of the mountain, the Dong Chang Zhongjun's team had already seen the Fuchundu soldiers who fled across the mountains and plains; then the defeated soldiers under the banner of Longquandu, who was responsible for flanking feint attacks; finally, even the banner of Shi Jingdu, which he had high hopes for, was lost. The appearance of armor and armor appeared among the people who were racing to escape.
Although he reacted quickly and acted decisively, with the personal team and the shooting team in charge of the cover, he tried to contain the sudden wave of defeat with the sharp light of the sword and the hard bow. However, it's like when the sea is low tide, reluctantly wanting to hold a handful of waves;
The screaming roar and yelling in front of the battle, coupled with the falling bloody splashes and corpses lying on the bed, paved a temporary retreat line; it only made this very frightened tide of collapse and barely stopped. It automatically evades and spreads when it hits it, and then it becomes more and more sparse.
Then, the chasing soldiers holding the green flag in hordes also shimmered in the light of the dazzling armoured soldiers, and competed to appear behind the defeated army, in the smoke and dust that had drowned the verdant glory. .
Then, a few more clouds of smoke gathered around Dong Chang, and splashed out among the waiting team; at that moment, the screams and screams of people turned their backs on their backs; the dust that was stirred up recently rolled up again. The next swoop was on the edge of Dong Chang and the jerk around him; suddenly everything became hazy.
And Dong Chang, draped all over, could only see the faintly struggling and hissing figures in the choking dust of Sakon. Then his mount suddenly neighed and raised his hooves, falling him down and knocking on the ground. The bumper fought a few times before he got up dizzy with the help of the left and right.
Only then did he discover that his mount didn't know when, one corner of his eye was injured by a splashing gravel, and he was screaming in pain and kicking and ramming all around.
"Don't worry about it, raise my big flag and flag quickly... gather again..."
Dong Chang shouted to the left and right without hesitation.
However, the big flags and general flags, which were erected in the smoke and dust, suddenly made some sort of crumbling sound and fell to the ground. At this moment, even though it has been through many battles, it has been repeatedly defeated and challenged. However, a person who is persevering or hard-hearted, as firm as Dong Chang, does not show an expression of absolute despair. (End of this chapter)