As the soldiers finished speaking, Yang Guozhu and the deputy general looked forward.
Wherever he looked, he saw an additional troop of soldiers and horses on the official road, slowly moving in the direction of the official army.
"What a strange formation!" The deputy general on the side frowned.
The Tiger Flag soldiers who came out of the car formation formed a square formation of a thousand people, each holding a spear in their hand, and each spear was one length longer than an ordinary spear.
Yang Guozhu raised his hand and pointed forward, saying: "Who is willing to take care of the rebel bandits in front of me on my behalf?"
What he was pointing at was the spear phalanx moving on the official road.
"The general is willing to go." A general wearing a helmet stood up.
Yang Guozhu ordered: "This general allows you to lead a battalion of soldiers and horses to fight. There is only one requirement: capture the rebel band in front."
"The last general takes orders." The general agreed loudly.
After saying that, he turned and left.
Not long after, a team of five to six thousand people broke away from the army and rushed along the official road towards the spear phalanx of the Tiger Flag.
The spear phalanx was led by a deputy captain of a thousand-man team. He saw the officers and soldiers rushing over, and at the front were more than a dozen cavalrymen, led by a military general wearing a suit of armor.
"Reject the horse!" the deputy captain of the thousand-man team shouted loudly.
The soldiers in the front row of the spear phalanx placed the tail end of their spears diagonally on the ground, with the tip facing upwards, and crouched on the ground.
The spearmen walking in the front row all wore plate armor, iron helmets and masks on their heads. Even their feet were protected by armor, and their whole bodies were covered in iron from head to toe.
The spearmen in the second row were also crouching on the ground, wearing half armor.
The spearmen starting from the third row only tilted their spears. They no longer squatted but stood.
The row of spears further back also held the spears in their hands at an angle, so that the tip of the spear pointed toward the sky.
Behind the four rows of spearmen were the fire gunmen holding fire guns.
All these gunmen were holding new rifles, with a sharp bayonet inserted into the front of the gun's mouth.
The generals from the government and army rushed to the front with their own soldiers, but when they saw the spears flashing with cold light, they suddenly slowed down their horses and let the infantry rush in front.
Soon, a large number of infantry rushed to the front.
Because the general and the soldiers around him were surrounded by infantry, it was impossible to increase the speed of the horse, so they could only let the war horse trot among the infantry.
The deputy captain of the thousand-man team, who was standing on the far right side of the second row of the spear phalanx, saw the official cavalry mixed in with the infantry rushing over, and immediately ordered: "Leave the spears flat!"
The two rows of soldiers who were crouching on the ground stood up, and the spears in their hands changed from diagonally upward to facing forward.
"Charge! Kill all the rebels in front." The general on horseback shouted loudly, pointing the long knife in his hand at the square formation of tiger flags and spears in front.
There were only about a thousand rebels in front of them, but there were five or six thousand people in the official army. No one in the official army thought that they would be unable to take down the soldiers and horses with the tiger flag in front of them.
The soldiers of the army fought bravely to be first, and some physically strong people even pushed the people around them to the back, so that they could rush to the front of the team.
Some brave soldiers held swords in their hands and wore black cotton armor.
Although these people are not the personal servants that the generals rely on, their skills are no worse than ordinary personal servants. Every time they charge into battle, almost all of these people are at the forefront.
Facing the phalanx of the tiger-shaped flag, these fierce soldiers rushed to the front.
Seeing that these tough soldiers were about to rush to the spear phalanx, someone in the spear phalanx shouted: "Stab!"
Spear after spear thrust forward.
The officers and soldiers rushing at the front were about to wave the sword in their hands, but before they could swing it, they were stabbed with spears.
"Right stab!" Someone in the spear formation shouted again.
With the right thrust of the spear, some more officers and soldiers rushing in front were stabbed by the spear.
Rows of officers and soldiers fell in front of the spear phalanx. No one escaped the spears. The only difference was that they were stabbed several times by the spears.
Some soldiers wanted to dodge the spears that were piercing them, but they dodged the tip of one spear, but they couldn't dodge the spears that pierced behind them.
After a short time, dozens of corpses were piled up in the area between the spear phalanx and the army.
These dozens of corpses were insignificant to an army of five to six thousand soldiers and horses, and were not enough to deter the powerful soldiers coming from behind.
The spear phalanx of the Tiger Flag just stood there and stabbed forward and to the right continuously.
The officers and soldiers who rushed up in batches died under the spears, and their bodies were left on the official road in front of the spear phalanx.
As officers and soldiers continued to be stabbed to death, there were more and more corpses on the ground. Someone on the officer's side finally realized that something was wrong. All the dead people in front of them were soldiers and horses of the officers and soldiers, but none of the people in the tiger-character flag died. Not even the injured.
Some smart people in the army have figured out that no matter how hard they try, they can never get close to the people with the tiger flag, because they will be stabbed by those spears before they get close.
More and more officers and soldiers were stabbed to death by spears. Some of the soldiers in the front wanted to retreat to avoid the spears, but they were squeezed forward by the people catching up behind them.
Many officers and soldiers who wanted to escape could only watch themselves being stabbed by spears and died under the spears.
From the beginning, dozens of people died under spears, to hundreds of people later.
Corpses piled up on the official road to form a low mountain. The smell of blood permeated the surroundings. Taking a breath of air at will would give people a sticky feeling in their noses.
Those bloody and brave soldiers were almost dead. Some of the remaining officers and soldiers rushing in front were frightened by the corpses in front of them. They lost the courage to attack the square formation of tiger flags and spears in front of them. They turned around and headed towards the official road. Escape from the drainage ditch on the side.
Some people took the lead in escaping, and the people behind them started to follow. Some people still didn't know what was going on. They only saw people escaping and thought the army was defeated, so they started to follow them.
More and more officers and soldiers fled into the drainage ditch, and then escaped into the wheat fields through the drainage ditch.
The officer general who led the army wanted to stop the fleeing soldiers, and he even did not hesitate to kill. He hacked to death several soldiers who tried to escape towards the wheat fields from him.
It's a pity that everything he did could not prevent the defeat of the army.
In order to escape for their lives, some officers and soldiers threw away the weapons that hindered their escape. Some unlucky soldiers did not die under the spears of the Tiger Flag, but died at the hands of their own people in chaos.
The army of several thousand people was defeated, and the officers and soldiers on the entire official road were in a mess. Even the general who led the army was almost pulled off his horse by the defeated army.
Fortunately, he had personal guards around him, which barely kept him safe.
The defeat was determined, and the general knew that nothing could be done, and that he would be in danger at any time if he continued to stay in the army, so he called his own soldiers, used the swords and guns in his hands to fight his way through his own people, and headed towards where Yang Guozhu was. The army retreated.
