Excellent martial arts, strong physique, skilled coordination, firm will, coupled with perfect weapons and armor, when combined together, it becomes an unstoppable attack.
Each team of soldiers was advancing rapidly, like mercury pouring down the ground. Every stab and slash from their weapons would cause a rain of blood, causing broken arms and limbs to fly into the air.
On the road where the soldiers passed by, the piles of corpses were piled up, so that the soldiers who followed did not even need to identify the direction in the chaos, they only had to step on the corpses to move forward.
Any enemy who tries to block them will be killed instantly.
Even if some of the people who rushed up were warriors under Li Quan's command, it would be the same. The skills they had developed in the green forest would be difficult to use on a battlefield with dense crowds and ferocious beasts. If he hesitated for a moment, five or six more bloody holes would appear in his body, and his death would be no different from that of an ordinary soldier.
In the Red Coat Army, Li Quanneng was on a par with Yang An'er and Liu Erzu, and he was by no means an incompetent person. He is good at winning people's hearts and is also good at running the army, so even at this time, when many higher-status local tycoons are panicked, the soldiers at the bottom are still loyal and willing to serve Li Tiejian.
But this kind of loyalty melts like ice and snow when facing the enemy directly.
More and more soldiers found that the opponents in front of them were too strong.
There were defenders everywhere besieging the advancing Dinghai Navy. This was a natural advantage for the defensive side. But where does this advantage come from?
Amidst the roar of killing, defense lines were broken everywhere, camp gates were knocked down, trenches were filled, warriors were killed, and military flags were chopped down!
Teams of Dinghai soldiers would never retreat if they wedged themselves into the ranks of the defenders. No matter how hard the defenders fought, the armored figures looked like mountains made of steel.
In fact, the casualties among navy soldiers were not small. No matter how good the armor is, it cannot be completely invulnerable. Stabbing a vital part with an iron spear can still be fatal. If the armor is hit by an iron rod or a sledgehammer, it will immediately dent, causing the armor-wearing warrior to vomit blood and die.
But as long as the soldiers break through the gap, the subsequent troops will catch up, and even replacement soldiers will continue to come up. In the eyes of all Li Quan's soldiers, they are like those iron men who are tireless and will never die, always fighting fiercely on the front line.
There are also generals who are particularly brave, or who are eager to make achievements on the battlefield, and will always stick to the front.
Guo Alin, with the cooperation of an old soldier holding a sword and shield, had already rushed into the third ravine.
Li Quan's men obviously cut corners when digging this ravine, so there was no need for Ali Xi to step forward to pave the way. The old soldier held a shield to cover, while Guo Alin put away his long knife, dragged the enemy's corpses and threw them in. After throwing four or five corpses, he took a deep breath to gather strength and prepared to charge forward.
Guo Alin's companions walking side by side have changed twice. At this moment, the senior soldier Zeng Baida is standing beside him, holding a shield in his hand, cursing east and west, blocking stray arrows and being thrown. The daggers and throwing axes that came over.
After Zhao Bin broke his arm, he was treated coldly. When Guo Ning found out about this, Ding Haijun issued a special proclamation and formulated preferential treatment regulations for old soldiers so that those who are willing to join the army can still stay in the army.
Just like the person next to Guo Alin, not to mention a young general like Guo Alin who suddenly rose to a high position, even if he is a commander, he will be polite to them and respect their judgment on the battlefield.
Guo Alin asked Zeng Baida why he was still fighting in the military camp when he was over 40 years old.
Zeng Bai replied that he was old, had no children, and had no relatives around him from Monan to Shandong. The word Baida in his name means "rice" in the Jurchen language, so he just wants to eat safe, full, and good meals with meat every day in the military camp. It is a matter of course that you will die in battle on the day you eat.
This calm attitude towards life and death really impressed Guo Alin.
At this time, Guo Alin and Zeng Baida both suffered seven or eight minor and severe injuries.
Guo Alin's leather armor and cotton clothes were soaked with blood, and half of his body felt warm. Zeng Bai was injured more seriously than Guo Alin. He was stabbed in the side with an iron spear. The entire armor leaf was shattered, and blood continued to gush out from the deep wound.
Guo Alin felt that Zeng Baida was moving his shield slower and slower, so he cursed: "Old man, get out of here! If you don't get down, you're going to die here!"
Zeng Baida suddenly roared loudly and highlighted his own queue. He stepped across the path of corpses in the ditch and dashed toward the other side.
The defenders shot arrows from the left and right, and an iron vertebra thrown by someone hit Zeng Baida's helmet, making a loud noise.
Zeng Baida stepped on the soft and moist soil at the edge of the trench and continued to move forward, the shield in his hand still flapping wildly. and drove away any defenders who dared to stand in his way.
The fighting spirit of the defenders was severely shaken at this time. Even if the general Chen Zhi roared not far away, they were shocked and retreated.
Before joining the army, some of these people were heroes from the countryside, some were thugs in the salt fields, and some were just farmers. They had only experienced basic training, but they were far from being called true warriors. There is a limit to the intensity of battle they have seen or can endure.
Zeng Baida stopped on the opposite side of the trench.
However, he did not continue to move forward, but placed the shield heavily on the ground. Then, his whole body fell on the shield and became motionless. Blood kept pouring out of his iron helmet, flowing across his face, and then pouring down the surface of the shield like a waterfall.
"Old Zeng is dead!"
Another soldier stood next to Guo Alin and shouted.
Everyone knew that the old pawn realized his wish and died without any aggrievement.
Guo Alin cursed loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about! Follow me!"
Strength rose up in his body again, so he jumped directly onto the trench and slashed an enemy to death with a knife.
Scenes like this continue to play out on countless breakthrough routes in the Dinghai Navy. The officers and soldiers of the Ding Navy continued to penetrate deep into the enemy camp, and the offensive not only did not weaken, but became more and more fierce. In many places, it even became a one-sided crushing, chasing and massacre.
When they rushed through the fourth trench, they were embedded in about half of the Anding Town camp.
The two generals Wang Shixian and Guo Zhongyuan also integrated the formation into the camp. A large number of naval officers roared, rushing over their companions in front, and rushing to kill them.
Chen Zhi adopted a strategy of echelon defense, in which the defenders in the front retreated one by one and continuously thickened the defense in the rear. At this position, the defensive formation was thick and dense. He stood on the watchtower and looked down. They were all black heads.
But such a thick defense is of no use at all.
I don’t know who took the lead. At first, it was probably because the retreating troops in the front had become a habit and continued to run away without listening to the officers' orders. The law enforcement team had just chopped off two heads as a deterrent, but their house was dispersed.
As a result, the soldiers under the local tyrants who had been temporarily gathered dispersed in a hurry. Then Chen Zhi's headquarters, about 300 elite men wearing iron armor and holding iron guns, also began to flee. Then, Chen Zhi could no longer tell which part of the soldiers was escaping.
Chen Zhi initially sent his cronies to stop him, but the cronies never came back.
Did this guy run away? Or was he killed by deserters?
God knows!
Chen Zhi stood on the watchtower and watched as the black heads below became increasingly sparse, revealing the withered yellow grass and the mud turned up by the footsteps.
Less than half an hour after the fight began, no, not even a moment, four consecutive trench defense lines were penetrated. There are several lines of defense behind them, but even a fool can see that those lines of defense are meaningless.
Where there were no trenches to block it, Ding Haijun's offensive progressed faster. After several camp gates were breached, Ding Haijun's famous cavalry team was already dispatched. The scene of a large group of cavalry running was like an iron stream covering the ground, and the thunderous roar of countless horse hooves was getting closer and closer!
Is that the cavalry that can challenge the Mongolian army head-on? Who can stop it?
The situation of falling apart is right in front of you!
Seeing that the decoration of his house was like paper, seeing his subordinates being killed in front of him and being driven like a flock of sheep, Chen Zhi felt very bad. He also thought that this battlefield was so close to Tieling south of Beiqing River. Perhaps Li Quan at the foot of Tieling was watching right now.
The battle is going like this, how can I face Li Quan? How could I face so many companions from Weizhou to Binzhou who believed in Li Quanhui's victory?
Chen Zhi felt that his arrangements were correct and the soldiers had done their best.
Soldier against soldier, general against general, flesh against flesh, steel against steel, no one did anything wrong. The battle was fought like this because the Ding navy was so fierce that it was beyond imagination and was simply invincible.
But in this case, what kind of dreams have I, Chen Zhi, been having in the past few months?
Chen Zhi's emotions collapsed due to his unprecedented sense of shame and frustration. This veteran, who had experienced many scenes, suddenly started to cry, and soon turned into howling.
The few soldiers who insisted on staying by his side shouted twice under the watchtower, but received no response from Chen Zhi at all. Someone tried to climb up the watchtower to drag Chen Zhi, but he kicked him away.
The Janissaries looked frustrated and scattered.
Not long after, the Ding Navy's forward force arrived. Guo Alin walked under the watchtower and looked up at Chen Zhi, who was alone on the watchtower.
He felt that his physical strength was really about to bottom out. If he climbed the wooden stairs of the watchtower with dozens of kilograms of armor, he would look ugly, so he raised his finger and pointed, "Here's another one..."
Before he finished speaking, an arrow flew from behind and pierced Chen Zhi's throat.
Blood dripped down from the height of the watchtower, dripping into the soil in front of Guo Alin.
"Isn't it good to catch him alive?" Guo Alin cursed angrily and continued to move forward.
(End of chapter)
