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Section 89: Battle on the Dike

 Chapter 89 Fierce battle on earth embankment

The situation of the battle was indeed as expected by the staff, He Ming thought. However, the Ming army was only defeated for a while. The opponent's flags were not in disorder, and the troops and horses showed no signs of wavering. Judging from the sound of drums and the movement of military flags, the enemy was intensifying.

Deploy troops and generals. At this time, the enemy will definitely mobilize their elite main force to attack with all their strength.

"The enemy is mobilizing new troops." The observation post continued to receive new information, "The enemy is transporting things out of the city!"

He Rubin mobilized his troops and actively prepared for the second attack. In order to resist the firearm advantage of the Kun thieves, a large number of chicken buses from the firearms camp and the baggage camp were gathered together, and many bags and straw bags filled with sand were piled on them.

It was soaked with water. Some cars were also equipped with a large number of heavy door panels dismantled from the county seat. Even several thick iron-clad doors in the county government office were removed. Liu Jingxuan followed the instructions of the Chinese Army

The order was given, and he personally led the government officials everywhere to remove wooden boards and collect carts and bags so as not to "delay the military plane." The carpenters and blacksmiths in the army hurriedly carried out modifications.

No matter how thick the door panel is, even if it is covered with iron sheet, it will not be able to withstand the shells. He Rubin still understands this basic truth. What he shoots alone is the enemy's blunderbuss.

Judging from the several battles that started yesterday, in addition to the Kun thief's artillery, the shotgun is also very "powerful". The power of killing a person three hundred paces away can make the soldiers frightened. No matter how many kun thief cannons there are, it is nothing.

Twenty or thirty gates, compared with a cannon in each hand, the threat is not too great.

Earth bags and door panels were used to cover the soldiers and resist lead during the charge. When they reached the bottom of the trench, they could be used to cross the trench. With the help of a telescope, He Rubin could see clearly: The soil embankment of the Kun thieves was very wide, but it was not

It's not high, no more than two feet high at most. There is no defense except for a low wall made of low sandbags. As for the towers built with wooden poles, they are too thin to be equipped with cannons. At most, there are only a few birds.

He's just a gun shooter and doesn't pose a big threat.

While watching the movements of the Ming army, He Ming ordered the distribution of high-calorie dry food and water to the soldiers - the battle in the afternoon was likely to be very intense and last a long time.

"Eat quickly and prepare for war!"

The second attack was launched in the afternoon. Those who launched the attack were the elite of the Ming army in this crusade. In the center were 1,500 Biao battalion soldiers from Fu Biao, commanded by the guerrilla Wang Daoji, who was known as a fierce general. His left wing was composed of

Li Guang's 1,000 standard guerrilla soldiers were on the right side, and Wang Xi's 1,200 guerrilla training soldiers were on the right wing.

As soon as the cannon fired, only the wheels rolled. Hundreds of chicken carts were either piled with soil bags or erected with wooden planks to clear the way. Behind them were the army infantry following in long columns.

The officers and generals had already seen the Fubo Army's artillery superiority. This time they no longer used dense formations to surge up together. Instead, they dispersed their troops into sparse formations, keeping distance between columns to avoid Kun's attack.

The thief can create an alley of flesh and blood with one shot.

Wave after wave of people and horses surged forward amidst the sound of military drums and smoke billowing. The generals rode on horseback and shouted loudly in the team, driving the troops forward. Behind them, flags were flying, and there were people of varying numbers surrounding them.

The soldiers and servants, with their swords unsheathed and arrows unloaded, are ready to protect their generals and fight against the enemy or deserters.

The cannon on the embankment fired again. The thick smoke and fire when the cannon was fired shocked all the Ming army generals and officials. They already knew what useful things would be done with the thick smoke and fire.

This happened to the soldiers and generals who were running forward in the open field. Everyone was watching the battlefield with breathless concentration.

The black shadows of the cannonballs made a terrible whistling sound and landed one after another in the queue. Nothing could stop these black beating iron balls. Once they landed in the queue, there would be a burst of screams and wailing. The smoke cleared and the ground was covered with water.

Only piles of corpses and severed limbs were left. When the shell was about to hit the ground, its speed had slowed down so much that it seemed like you could reach out and catch it. A reckless gunman raised his iron gun upwards, as if he was firing an arrow.

He was waving violently, desperately trying to knock the cannonball to the ground. The cannonball broke the tip of the spear, and a huge force was transmitted through the gun shaft, tearing half of his body. Some people turned around and tried to escape.

, but was instantly killed by the officers supervising the formation behind him.

"Go forward, go forward!" The generals were giving orders, but they themselves were not safe. In addition to the cannonballs that would kill them regardless of their official position, from time to time someone would suddenly fall off their horse, and some would circle around on horseback.

He pretended to wave his sword and roar, but he never moved forward.

As the team got closer and closer to the earth embankment, the artillery fire became more and more intensive. As the Ming army rushed to a distance of 500 meters, the artillery began to fire shrapnel and grenades. The shells either exploded in the air or exploded on the ground.

, fragments and iron bullets knocked down rows and groups of soldiers.

"Charge quickly! Charge quickly!" The officers waved their knives, "Charge down the embankment!"

The soldiers roared loudly and surged forward like dying beasts. The black formation rushed towards the embankment. The gunners of the Fubo Army took off their arms and tried their best to fire as fast as they could.

Artillery shells were fired. The sound of artillery came one after another. The entire embankment was completely shrouded in white smoke. Only the sentry towers protruding above were floating on the smoke like attics on the clouds. Below the clouds were rolling waves.

The approaching crowd. The snipers on the sentry tower have lost the leisurely energy of loading their ammunition slowly at first, searching for the target themselves, carefully aiming and shooting, shaking their heads or nodding, and then drawing a mark on the wooden board next to them.

Everyone quickly pulled the bolt, aimed and fired, and then quickly looked for the second target.

"Target 300 meters, shotgun!" Zhang Bolin finally shouted the command to load shotgun. The battle finally entered the level of close combat. More than a dozen cannons quickly loaded shotgun and fired.

"put!"

27 shotgun shells were sprayed out with each beat of the muzzle, forming a dense barrage. Many soldiers were killed before they even got close to the trench.

"Infantry fire!" He Ming watched as the officers and soldiers approached the trench regardless of the artillery fire. Some soldiers had already thrown earth bags, chicken carts and corpses of dead soldiers into it to fill up a road. Although they soon

They were killed by pieces of shotgun, but the follow-up troops were coming in a steady stream.

"The ruler is 150 meters, let go!"

The smoke from the artillery fire was so thick that no one could see the target clearly, so the infantry set up a scale and fired volleys one after another without aiming. The clear gunshots rang out one after another. Many people did not

When they got close to the trench, they were shot and fell down. Some people retreated, but He Rubin had already sent 2,000 more troops to rush over. The rolling crowd once again filled the battlefield. The front team rushed forward against the rear team.

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"Come on! Fight through the ditch and get five taels of silver, climb the wall and get ten taels!" Several officers and their soldiers galloped along the already chaotic ranks of officers and soldiers, roaring and encouraging morale.

"Come on for me! If you kill the Kun thief at the first level, you will be rewarded with two taels of silver! If you kill the Kun thief as the director, you will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. If you are afraid to move forward or retreat from the battle, you will be killed!"

Wang Daoji took the lead and rushed to the front. Half of the servants and soldiers around him were dead or wounded. The flag officer also changed two people, but he was the first to lead the team to the edge of the trench. Some archers were already stretching their bows at the edge of the trench.

Arrows were fired, and dense arrows were fired. The first wave of casualties appeared on the embankment. The three-eyed gunman also fired the three-eyed gun.

Tian Liang stood on the right side of his company, his ears almost deafened by the sound of gunfire. He saw the company commander - regardless of life and death, he simply jumped onto the low wall, waved the command knife in his hand and roared, his voice was almost suppressed.

The sound of firing from the entire company's platoon of guns was silenced. At this time, five or six feather arrows shot out from the smoke, one of which hit the company commander. He grunted and fell down the embankment, and was instantly cut down by the officers and soldiers.

Went to the first level.

The soldiers were so stunned that they forgot to fire for a moment. Tian Liang was so surprised that his command knife almost fell to the ground - the company commander always ranked among the best in military training assessments, and those who dared to fight and charge died like this!

"Quick, Second Lieutenant Tian, ​​it's your turn!" Seeing that Tian Liang was still in a daze, the company commander quickly pushed and pushed him to the company's flag.

Tian Liang almost forgot the command he shouted for a while. When he found out that the company commander in his camp was killed, he quickly ran past You Laohu, who was supervising the battle, and kicked him hard:

"Why are you so stunned? Shoot!"

Only then did Tian Liang react. His command sword slashed down hard.

"Salvo! Release!"

A gust of sea breeze blew away the thick gunpowder smoke. A red fire snake flew along the earth embankment. When they arrived at the trench, the soldiers who were firing arrows to fill the trench fell to the trench one after another under the fire from the left and right wings.

, but the second group of people came over again.

Fu Sansi carefully held the SKS rifle. While paying attention to the situation of the entire battalion, he picked up the gun and fired a few bullets from time to time. He specialized in shooting the officers and archers beside the trench. His marksmanship was very accurate, and he shot well.

It is not affected by the outside world at any time, basically one shot at a time.

Seeing that some sections of the trench were filled with corpses and sandbags, more and more Ming troops rushed to the wall. Although they avoided the frontal fire, the rifle fire fired from the other side of the slope still killed them in groups.

of knockdown.

However, as a large number of archers and firearmsmen rushed to the trench for cover shooting, the casualties on the embankment also increased. Fu Sansi felt that the time had come, picked up a grenade from his hand, pulled the ring and released the bomb in one go.

"Drop the bomb!" he shouted as he took off the grenade.

"Drop bombs! Drop bombs!" A stack of orders was passed on the earth embankment. The soldiers who were shooting arrows and filling ditches only saw many small iron lumps dropped on the earth embankment.

The grenades exploded one after another. Although the grenades loaded with black powder had a mediocre killing effect, the power and momentum of many grenades thrown together was still amazing. Then the second and third rows of grenades continued to drop. At this distance, shotguns could no longer be used.

To be effective, it can only be fired in depth. Grenade became the best weapon. The officers and soldiers crowded beside the trench and under the earth embankment had almost no place to hide under the rain of grenades, and they fell to death one after another.

Before the first group of people fell, the latter group of people had already rushed over driven by the generals. The soldiers fell to death in the open space between the horn forts one after another. Each volley fired on the earth embankment.

Like a sickle, they quickly harvested a group of people's lives. The smoke shrouded the earth embankment, and people in the distance could only see the firelight of rifles and artillery fire.

There were more and more casualties on the embankment. Many infantrymen were hit by arrows and bullets fired from three-eyed muskets. Health workers continued to pull away the fallen casualties. The infantry line on the embankment began to weaken, and the firepower also increased.

It's sparse.

The first batch of officers and soldiers took advantage of the sparse firepower and had already pulled out and chopped off the standard bamboo sticks stuck diagonally on the slope. Although some of them kept getting shot and rolling down, the people behind them still came in batches.

Those who had climbed up using ladders or simply using hands and feet were immediately killed by the infantry's bayonets, but more and more people climbed up, and some three-eyed gunmen also climbed up. After firing, they used

This heavy iron tool was used as an iron bar. Many officers and soldiers rushing to the fortress threw burning fire pots onto the earth embankment while climbing. Although these ceramic fire pots could not explode, the flames and smoke after they landed also caused a certain amount of confusion for the defenders.

The infantrymen began to be forced back step by step, and their positions were in chaos. A general jumped up onto the earth embankment, cut off the rifle of an infantryman with his long knife, and stabbed him down. Then he chopped down another soldier.

The infantrymen who came up. The two militiamen who rushed forward with spears actually retreated continuously under his momentum of slashing with swords. Seeing more and more officers and soldiers coming up behind him, he became more courageous and rushed forward several times.

With one step, he forced the defeated militiamen back, reached out and planted a military flag on the earth embankment. The morale of the Ming army above and below the city was greatly boosted, and at the same time they let out a fierce howl and rushed here risking their lives.

Seeing that a breach was about to open on the earth embankment. Lin Shenhe, who was still holding a civilian version of the semi-automatic M14, shouted loudly, and rushed over with the M14 with a bayonet in his hand. Seeing that the two sides were getting closer.

He was fighting with his body, but he dodged to the side and shouted: "Let go!"

A typewriter mounted on a trolley behind him immediately let out a huge roar, and the dense fire of lead bullets wiped out all the officers and soldiers who climbed up the embankment. One person's head was immediately smashed, and another was hit by lead bullets.

The bullets were torn apart several times. Those who were lucky enough not to be hit also rolled and crawled away from the earth embankment.

Breakthroughs appeared everywhere, but the militiamen and reserves of each battalion continued to seal the breakthroughs and beat down the officers and soldiers who broke through the defensive and occupied embankments. The battle entered a fierce stage: on one side were the crowds who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and on the other were artillery fire.

The volley guns were still spitting out fire and thick smoke.

Tian Liang was at a breach where Wang Daoji's servants and soldiers attacked with all their strength. The company under his temporary command had already suffered one-third casualties. The officers and soldiers took the opportunity to climb up the earth embankment and engage in hand-to-hand combat.

.His command knife was lost somewhere during the fierce battle. After the revolver was fired, an officer and soldier rushed towards him before he had time to reload. In desperation, he slammed the revolver into the opponent's face and picked up an officer.

The three-eyed fire cannon whipped up and hit the enemy's brains with a single blow.

Before he could find any more weapons, the officers and soldiers had already swarmed in front of him. He had completely forgotten all the military regulations at the critical moment of life and death. He just relied on a desire to survive and swung the heavy iron guy with his bow from left to right and smashed it.

Invincible. At this time, an arrow shot through his thigh. Tian Liang screamed and fell into the pile of corpses on the embankment. An officer and soldier saw that he had a scabbard hanging on his waist and knew that he was an officer. He jumped over and waved

The waist knife was about to cut off his head, but he was immediately stabbed to death by the infantrymen who came from behind to save his acting company commander. The two sides fought back and forth where Tian Liang fell.

The staff officers on the command platform began to lose their composure. They saw more and more enemies boarding the embankments and starting hand-to-hand combat - some of the battles started right next to the cannons.

"Come into the reserve team." Zhu Quanxing came to ask for a fight in person.

"Wait a little longer, you can still hold on." He Ming picked up the telescope and carefully observed every breach in the earth embankment. Yes, officers and soldiers boarded the earth embankment in many places, but there were Fubo troops in every gap.

He was fighting with the militiamen, and he firmly believed that the rigorously trained soldiers could repel the few officers and soldiers.

You Laohu gave full play to his role as "one muscle" in the battle. He rushed into each breach with a joyful roar, hacking indiscriminately with the long sword of the frontier army, and in large numbers

While slashing the officers and soldiers, he almost cut off his own head, but his madness boosted the morale of a large number of militiamen and infantrymen. They surged up and followed him, slashing and charging, sealing the breaches one after another. Facts

It proved that the officers and soldiers were far less resolute in one-on-one hand-to-hand combat than the well-trained infantry of the Fubo Army. There were often cases of three or five infantrymen repelling a group of officers and soldiers with bayonets.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, although Wang Daoji organized fierce attacks again and again regardless of casualties, the soldiers were hit by shells next to the trench, causing many casualties. The defense on the earthen embankment gradually became flexible. The militiamen supplemented the casualties of the infantry.

The typewriter played a vital role in the battle to seal the breach. This terrifying continuous fire monster completely destroyed any officers and soldiers who tried to occupy the earth embankment.

The determination to break through, the lead bullets pouring like raindrops, wiped out the incoming officers and soldiers. The artillery fire also cut off the following troops from time to time. The officers and soldiers who boarded the embankment did not receive timely reinforcements and were unable to open the breakthrough.

And were driven down one by one.

Wang Daoji was still shouting to board the camp, when a bullet from a Mini rifle hit him. He staggered and fell off his horse. Finally, the soldiers could no longer hold on and ran away with a roar.


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