Sun Kewang's face was full of pain, and the 30,000 spearmen rolled back like a tide. They were so crazy when they charged before, but now they looked so embarrassed when they were running for their lives.
The officers and soldiers fired an unprecedented volley of firecrackers, causing at least two thousand people in the front of the army to fall in a pool of blood. The shock caused by such casualties made those long gunmen unable to hold on any longer, and the fighting spirit in their hearts suddenly disappeared.
The retreating troops continued to attack the troops in the rear, and Sun Kewang had to retreat with the retreating troops.
In this battle, he did not even see the officers and soldiers, and he led his troops to defeat. This was a great blow to the proud and arrogant Sun Kewang. Until he retreated to the rear, Sun Kewang remained silent and his face was expressionless. Very ugly.
Liu Yan held up his telescope to watch the battle. Seeing the complete defeat of the Rogue Firearms Battalion, a stone fell from his heart.
Immediately, Liu Yan received news that the gunmen from the guard camp guarding the two wings of the army had begun to engage in battle.
At this time, the sound of volleys of gunfire came from the two wings of the army. Liu Yan held up his telescope and looked at it. The army of thieves on both wings swarmed in. The boundless crowd almost surrounded tens of thousands of New Army officers and soldiers, and the momentum was very high.
"Tell Miao Shao to defend the two wings of the army at all costs."
"Immediately transfer the spearmen and swordsmen and shieldmen of the Guards Battalion to the two wings. At the same time, send an order to Chen Yongfu, ordering the Folan cannon on the top of the city to open fire and bombard the formation of traitors on both wings."
After a while, a large number of Folan cannons on the west wall of Kaifeng began to roar, and large and small shells continued to fall into the military formations of Liu Fangliang and Li Guo. Although the firepower of more than a hundred Folan cannons was powerful, when it fell into the military formation of 300,000 bandits on both wings, it was like falling into the sea, without causing many ripples at all.
Chen Yongfu looked at the fierce fighting outside the city. At this time, the roar of volleys of gunfire continued to be heard from the two wings of the new army. Fortunately, the attack surface of the two wings was not wide. The bandits and horses could only attack within one or two miles of the two wings. Each time, too many troops could not be invested, which resulted in countless rogue soldiers crowding together outside the two wings of the new army. They looked menacing, but in fact it made it easier for the new army's gunners to kill them.
"put!"
The gunners on the top of the city opened fire nervously. Two of the gunners were too nervous and the gun doors of the Folan machine were not locked. After ignition, hot air surged out, scalding the two gunners to death on the spot.
The surrounding gunners were shocked when they saw this and ran to the side. One timid gunner even peed out yellow soup all over the floor.
When Chen Yongfu saw this, he was so angry that he cursed. These gunners were still acting like this on top of the city. If they went to fight the enemy outside the city, why not surrender on the spot?
"You bastards, keep bombarding me. If the new army outside the city is defeated, you will all die!"
"Carry those two dead ghosts down, and you guys go reload that artillery!"
Chen Yongfu was commanding nervously when he suddenly heard a cry of "Wan Sheng" coming from outside the city. He hurriedly gathered an arrow and looked out.
On the right flank of the New Army's defense line, two to three thousand fully armored spearmen had broken out of the low wall defense line and were advancing forward in formation. Countless bandit soldiers in front were running and retreating. Such a scene made Chen Yongfu stunned. Two to three thousand people were chasing tens of thousands of bandit vanguard soldiers and horses. The new army not only had powerful firearms, but they were also so brave in close combat. It was really Incredible!
"With General Liu here, we will win this battle!"
On the battlefield on the right wing of the New Army, Wu Xingzhou, the commander of the left wing, held his head high, holding a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, and strode forward. Around him were densely packed spearmen, and there were many swordsmen in front of the army formation. The shield bearer is holding his shield high to protect his comrades behind him.
"go ahead!"
Wu Xingzhou roared loudly. Just now, the gunmen fired continuously, killing a large number of bandit troops, but they still made the numerous bandit troops rush forward.
Those bandit soldiers who rushed up on the piles of corpses of their companions were all ferocious-looking, cruel and vicious people. Even if such people were given money and food to go back to farming and living, they would not go back because these bandit soldiers I have become accustomed to killing, robbing, and living happily, and I will never go back to being a common citizen again!
Therefore, Wu Xingzhou hated such thieves deeply. After being ordered to lead his troops to attack, he and more than two thousand spearmen and sword and shield hands began to charge and fight fiercely.
In front, the new army's spearmen were wearing heavy armor, holding nearly four-meter-long spears in their hands and placing them on the shoulders of several rows of sword and shield players in front. They were advancing uniformly forward like the Macedonian phalanx in the west.
Facing such a military formation, the bandit soldiers had no way of breaking through. They were assassinated by spears two or three meters away. Most of the axes and spears thrown by the bandit soldiers could not break through the heavy armor of the new army soldiers. Only a small number of them hit the hands, feet, or faces of the New Army soldiers.
Soon, the retreating bandit army in front stopped fighting back. Under the pressure of Wu Xingzhou's troops, the retreat of the bandit army also turned into a rout. The crowd began to roll back like a huge wave, and the crowd was already overcrowded. The battlefield became even more dense, allowing the artillery on top of Kaifeng City to achieve better killing effects.
At this time, Liu Fangliang looked as usual. Although the attack was thwarted and there were many casualties among the soldiers and horses in the front, the dead were basically dead soldiers and a small number of infantry. None of the armored soldiers and knights in the camp were dispatched.
It doesn't matter how many of those cannon fodder soldiers die, as long as a city is captured, they can be replenished immediately.
"Assemble people to go up and supervise the battle from the front. If you don't get the generals and retreat, kill them!"
Liu Fangliang gave orders in a cold voice, and soon a group of armored soldiers was dispatched to establish a line of defense in front to prevent the retreating troops.
The armored soldiers were divided into two teams. The armored soldiers in the front held long spears, and the armored soldiers in the back drew their bows and were ready to fire. With an order, the flying arrows were like locusts, and many of the retreating soldiers were shot to death.
A skinny, disheveled woman in her thirties was running howling in fear, holding a five- or six-year-old child in each hand. The mother and son were among the "dead soldiers" of the bandit Zuoying. !
In the bandit army, only the family members of armored soldiers and heroic cavalry can be incorporated into the old camp for support. The rest of the infantry and the family members of dead soldiers will all be treated as dead soldiers, regardless of whether they are women or old people, or even how old they are. The children will also die in battle.
For Li Zicheng, although these women and children cannot kill the enemy, they can consume the firearms and arrows of the army and can serve as human shields for armored soldiers and heroic cavalry. This is enough.
At this time, the woman pulled two children and ran backwards with the crowd in fear. Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking through the air, and dense arrows fell. People around them kept falling to the ground after being hit by arrows, and screams came one after another.
Suddenly, the woman felt her left hand stagnate. She looked down and saw an arrow hitting the child's neck. At this time, the child's eyes were wide open and he had raised his head and became silent. Blood flowed down the child's neck, almost covering his head. His little body was all stained red.
"ah!"
The rear military formation was right in front of her, but the woman no longer had the strength to run. She held the child's body in her arms dejectedly and screamed loudly. The other child sobbed in fear and stood beside her mother at a loss. .
At this moment, the sound of neat footsteps came from the front, and the thief armored soldiers responsible for supervising the battle came over with long spears, driving the broken soldiers to rush forward again, fighting desperately with the new army soldiers.
The woman was still immersed in pain, and then her body was pierced by a spear. The bodies of the mother and son were strung together. The gun-wielding bandit soldier tried hard to close the gun, but found that the spear was stuck in the corpse. , couldn't help but cursed his bad luck.
The only remaining child was also stabbed to death with another spear. A bandit soldier picked up the child's body with a spear and swung it hard, then threw the little body more than ten steps away, attracting a group of bandits around him. Soldier A laughed maniacally.
Soon, the defeated troops on the battlefield were forced back and collided with Wu Xingzhou's gunner again, and the two sides fought again.
This time, Wu Xingzhou obviously felt the pressure doubled. Except for the vicious people who rushed to the front at the beginning, most of the bandits and dead soldiers were trapped common people. Their weapons were only farm tools and even wooden sticks. Among them, There were young people and old people. Wu Xingzhou even saw a young girl who was pregnant with Liujia. Her face was full of despair. She was covering her stomach with one hand and holding a hatchet in the other hand. She rushed over crying.
The New Army spearmen in front couldn't bear to look any longer, and closed their eyes with tears streaming down their faces, letting the pregnant girl bump into the spears. But when the girl died, a smile appeared on her face. Perhaps only by dying can she be freed and leave this hellish world!
Seeing this scene, Wu Xingzhou almost went crazy. He followed the commander-in-chief Liu Yan to fight in the north and south. He had seen the brutality of the Qing army, but he never expected that the bandits who were also Han people would be so cruel, and their methods of killing the people were no better than There are few Tatars in the Qing army and they should be killed!
"Stop rushing, stop rushing!"
At this time, many of the New Army's spearmen were in tears. The ratio of casualties in the fierce battle was very high, almost one to dozens, or even more. However, everyone could not be happy, but became more and more angry. of heaviness.
Wu Xingzhou even shouted loudly, hoping that the bandits and dead soldiers would stop charging, but to no avail.
This situation was also playing out on the left wing of the New Army. After the bandits escaped, General Li Guo led a large army to storm the left wing of the New Army. He also used tens of thousands of dead soldiers to open the way in front, and the heroic cavalry and armored soldiers held down the formation behind.
Countless dead soldiers attacked one after another, and then they all died in battle, and then came the next group, and after the death there was another group, continuously and endlessly.
The commander of the Guards Battalion, Lu Ying, who led his troops to guard the left wing of the New Army, was furious and kept asking Miao Shao for orders. Should he send the camp's night guards and guards to ride out on horseback, pass through the dead soldiers, and attack the bandit's massacre? Where the 纛 is, perhaps the bandits will retreat, and the people who were held hostage will not die.
However, Miao Shao, who arrived later, observed the battle situation for a while. Although his face was ashen, he still ordered to continue shooting the enemies with cannons, and occasionally formed a formation with spearmen to defend.
Lu Ying couldn't bear it any longer and roared loudly: "General, open your eyes and look outside. Those are common people, including old people, children, women, and even infants. I'll beat you how you want me to, and I'll beat you the damn way!" "
Miao Shao gritted his teeth and said, "I fucking saw it! But now they are the dead soldiers of the bandits. You can't save them, and neither can I! What you and I can do now is to guard this place and wait for your orders." !”
"Li Zicheng, I'm your mother!"
Lu Ying was so angry that she cursed angrily and threw her helmet to the ground.
Miao Shao didn't take it seriously. He just stared at the bandits and dead soldiers rushing up like a tide outside. Then he said: "Don't retreat." Then he turned around and left, riding towards the central army.
Some people died, but not completely...
