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Chapter 132 The old man

The wood is exhausted!

The stones are exhausted!

The Qing army was less than thirty steps away from the defense line! Twenty steps! Ten steps!...

The soldiers of the rear camp of the Qing army without long-range attack weapons finally ushered in a head-on battle under the fierce attack of the Qing army regardless of casualties.

The consequences of the extreme lack of weapons emerged at this time. Faced with the Qing soldiers armed to the teeth, the soldiers of the Houbastion, who had only a small number of iron weapons, could not suppress the crazy attack of the Qing army.

The first to cross the obstacle and rush to the defense line of the rear battalion were dozens of Han army flag soldiers wearing double-layer cotton armor. They did not carry muskets, but each had a long sword. Like the Qing army who were slaughtering the battalion, they rushed up the mountain, and they killed everyone when they saw it. Almost a few breaths, dozens of security guards and Ku army on the defense line were killed and injured.

However, because the mountain road was covered with dead and wounded Qing troops, and the back battalion blocked the road with a large number of rocks a few days ago, the Qing army could not attack in a swarm, and could only climb up through obstacles in batches. Therefore, although the Han flag soldiers at the forefront broke through the defense line, the Qing army behind could not follow immediately. This made Zhao Sihai, who had already raised his heart to his throat, calmed down for a moment, and then rushed towards the flag soldiers with 30 soldiers and 30 security personnel used as the reserve team, and urgently mobilized troops from other directions to reinforce, trying to repel the Qing troops who rushed up the mountain.

Unfortunately, the flag soldiers who came up were too brave and had few people, but they were all brave and good at fighting, and the weapons in their hands were too sharp. When fighting in close combat, the soldiers of the Houbastion, who were extremely poorly equipped, were no match for them at all. Zhao Sihai led his men to rush several times, and hundreds of casualties were unable to drive these flag soldiers down. The Qing army below also took advantage of this time to come up to a group of people. There were many archers in this group, and they started to shoot arrows at the Taiping Army as soon as they came up.

After a small flag under Zhao Sihai had just stabbed a Qing soldier with a spear, he heard a "swoosh" sound before he could turn around. He immediately paused and looked at him. A sharp arrow hit his chest. Most of the arrows were drilled into his chest. Warm blood dripping along the arrow shaft.

The distance was so close that there was no need for any aim. The Qing army archers frantically shot sharp arrows at the Taiping Camp soldiers without any protection. Life was harvested one by one, and Zhao Sihai could no longer organize people to counterattack the Qing army, nor could he effectively command the remaining soldiers, and could only support the soldiers around him.

As the number of Qing troops attacked increased, the defense line of the Hou battalion was shaking. Except for the previous one that broke through the Han army flag, the rest were also broken through one after another. Each of the broken holes was covered with the bodies of the soldiers of the Hou battalion, and many people did not even have the chance to pull a Qing army to take the back. They were shot to death there.

More regrets, regrets before death, they have tried their best. They are not cowards, they have not run away, they have tried their best, but why can't the wooden gun in their hands kill those Qing dogs and those Tartars?

When the sound of the Qing army's muskets came in his ears, Zhao Sihai knew that the first line of defense must be unable to defend, in order to save the remaining personnel, he ordered the Ku army and the male recruits to retreat to the second line of defense, while the remaining soldiers and security team members followed him to fight and retreat.

The second line of defense is built in the area of ​​Guifeng Pavilion, and is more than two miles away from the first line of defense. The only passage between the two is still the mountain road that hovers up from the bottom of the mountain, but this section of the mountain road cannot be set up and the defenders cannot be deployed, because one side is a cliff and the other side is a steep forest.

When retreating, several soldiers around Zhao Sihai were running with a box. More than once the soldiers carrying the box said something loudly to Zhao Sihai, but Zhao Sihai did not agree to them.

Zhao Sihai could not agree to his subordinates' request. Although he knew that the sky-shaking thunder in the box could cause damage to the Qing army. It was enough to shock the Qing army, he knew even more. When Xinxing divided the troops, Zhou Shixiang of Qianhu only gave him twenty sky-shaking thunders. There were only fourteen in the box now, and the remaining six had just exploded in the back mountain.

Until the end of the road, Zhao Sihai would never have taken out the only fourteen remaining thunders. He even thought that if he really couldn't wait for Zhou Shixiang's reinforcements, he would not have lost his life here for nothing. These fourteen thunders were his only hope for life. Yutai Temple is so big, there may not be no way to survive in the middle of the night.

.........

The first line of defense in the front mountain was lost; the situation in the back mountain was extremely critical.

The roar of Duke Xiang of Song could not save the defeat, and the courage of the security team could not defeat the Qing army.

"I can't stand it anymore, hurry up, go and protect Lord Song and retreat to Daxiong Palace, go!"

Seeing that his own hands could no longer stop the Qing soldiers, Zhou Da, the personal soldiers of Duke Xiang of Song, pulled a security team member beside him and asked him to quickly take Duke Xiang of Song to retreat to Daxiong Hall.

"Go quickly, I'll hold on here, and I must not let them catch Lord Song!"

After yelling anxiously, Zhou Da yelled with a knife and rushed towards the Qing army who was rushing in.??

Zhou Da has done his duty - to do his best to protect the safety of General Affairs. After several stabs, he fell to the ground and cried back: "Sir, go quickly, go quickly!"

Duke Xiang of Song was carried forward with tears in his eyes. He turned around several times to try to look at Zhou Da again, but in the end he could see nothing except the Qing soldiers who were chasing him.

The road leading to the mountain ahead was filled with escaped women and children. They were frightened by the Qing soldiers behind them, and some of them were even scared to their legs and feet, and they sat on the ground weakly, which made this only escape path difficult.

"Let women live, let women live!"

There was a sudden shout in the night ahead, and then I saw several old men with white hair squeezed out of the crowd with difficulty. They had no words to communicate with each other, but they had a common purpose - to let women and children and let their relatives leave first.

The more and more elderly people came out of the crowd, and they struggled with their relatives' begging and turned back without hesitation.

The crowd of people who escaped were crying, and everyone knew what these old people wanted to do. They were leaving their hope for life!

"Grandpa, grandpa, don't leave me, don't leave me!"

"Dad, come back soon, come back soon!"

"Auntie, you can't go!"
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