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Chapter 653 Chapter 607 Beyond the Blade (5)

Chapter 653 Chapter [-] Beyond the Blade ([-])

The blade cut across the ice and snow, and there was a vast expanse of color in the field of vision.The sky had just dawned, and the wind and snow in front of him were stirring and swirling.

There was a sound of fluttering, mixed with countless sound waves around, bloody and viscous breath rushed towards the face, someone beside him stabbed with a spear, and the arrows of the companion behind him shot out, and the bowstring vibrated.Mao Yishan's eyes widened, looking at the appearance of blood gushing out from the tall and tall Northeast man in front of him, from his ribs to his chest, thick blood just spurted out from there, splashing his face, some even Rush into his mouth, hot.

summer village.

Half an hour had passed since the battle started, and a soldier named Mao Yishan killed the enemy for the first time in his life.

It has been several years since he joined the army.Joining the army, getting a salary, flattering the superiors, and occasionally training. In the past few years, the Wu Dynasty was not peaceful, and he occasionally dispatched, but there was no chance of killing people. When Jurchen called, he was trapped in the army In the movie, following the killing and fleeing, on the night of blood and fire, he also saw his companions being hacked to the ground and blood flowing into rivers, but he never killed anyone.

That's okay, he's just a paid man.Above the battle formation, there is a sea of ​​people, and outside the battle formation, there is also a sea of ​​people. No one pays attention to him, no one has expectations of him. Whether he can kill people or not, he will still be defeated when he should be defeated. Even if he is killed, there must be no one. Miss him.

Until he came to Xia Village, for some reason, everyone was defeated, gathered together, huddled together to keep warm, he heard them tell such and such stories, about those very powerful people, generals, heroes and so on.He followed the food and training, and he didn't expect too much at first, but he vaguely felt that after training for so long, it would be great if he could kill two people.

Originally, he also thought about leaving here, the village is too far away, and they actually wanted to have a hard fight with the Jurchens.But in the end, I stayed, mainly because I had something to do every day. I went to training after eating, and shoveling snow after training. At night, everyone would talk together, sometimes laughing, and sometimes it made people want to fall. Tears, and gradually became acquainted with a few people around me.If it was in other places, after such a defeat, he could only find a superior he didn't know, and a few fellow villagers who spoke with similar accents. No one will really pay attention to him. After such a big defeat, there may not even be training.

Relatively speaking, he prefers the atmosphere of Xia Village, at least he knows what he is going to do next, and even because he works so hard in shoveling snow, several high-ranking officials even mentioned him one day: "This guy Willing to do things, have the strength.” His superior said so, and then several other officers with higher status nodded, and one of the younger officers patted him on the shoulder: “Don’t be exhausted ,brother."

How can it be exhausted...

Then he heard that those powerful people had gone out to fight the Jurchens, and then news came that they had won the fight.When these people came back, the most powerful scholar in the entire Xia Village came to speak on stage. He felt that he didn't understand too much, but when it was time to kill, his hands trembled for half the night. Is it possible to kill an enemy or two - if not get hurt.The next morning, the people of the resentment army launched an attack.He was in the middle of the front row, waiting behind the wooden house, and the archer was still a little behind.

The resentful army rushed up, and in front of him was the 100-foot-long wooden outer wall on the east side of Xia Village. The sound of killing was boiling, and the smell of blood came into his nostrils.I don't know when, the sky was bright, and his officer held the knife and said: "Let's go!" He turned out of the wooden house with the knife in hand, and the wind and snow parted before his eyes.

He and the soldiers around him rushed towards the wooden wall in front of them at the fastest speed, the bloody smell became stronger and stronger, figures flickered on the wooden wall, and his commander rushed up first, as if he had killed an enemy in the snowstorm, he When he was about to rush up, the soldier who was fighting on the camp wall in front suddenly fell down, but was shot by an arrow, Mao Yishan supported him and let him down, and the people around him had already rushed up.

The man was shot by an arrow in the shoulder when he was leaning out to kill. Mao Yishan was a little confused, but he picked him up and ran back. He came up with a hook, but he hadn't encountered the enemy for a long time.So until he was a little discouraged, someone suddenly climbed over the wall and killed him. Mao Yishan was still hiding behind the camp wall, and subconsciously swung his knife, blood splashed on his head and face, he was slightly stunned, and then knew, Killed himself.

In fact, he was already familiar with the bloody smell, but the fact that he personally killed the enemy made him slightly dazed.But the next moment, his body still rushed forward, and he slashed out again, but this time the slash was in the air, and two spears pierced out, one pierced the man's neck, and the other pierced into the man's neck. The man's chest stabbed the man in mid-air and pushed him out.

Snow mist swirls in the nose, people and shadows are intertwined around the field of vision, where someone jumped in just now, there is a simple ladder outside, and a man from Liaodong rushed in "Ah--".Mao Yishan only felt that the whole world was alive, his mind was full of the scene of the fiasco that day, his companion in the barracks was killed on the ground, the ground was covered with blood, and some people's stomachs came from their stomachs. The flow came out, and there were even some who were not dead. The 40-year-old man cried, "Help, spare..." He didn't dare to stop, he could only run desperately, peeing in his crotch...

He rushed forward suddenly, and slashed at the head of the Liaodong army man from the upper left to the lower right. With a bang, the opponent swung his knife to block it. Mao Yishan was still shouting "Ah—" and the second knife came from Right up and down, there was another bang, he felt the tiger's mouth tingling, the opponent fell without a word, Mao Yishan shrank behind the camp wall, knowing that the knife had split the opponent's head.

"Hahaha...hahaha..." He squatted there, let out a low whistling sound, then grabbed a sharp-edged hard stone behind the female wall, turned around and swung it out, the soldier who ran up the ladder He bowed and dodged, the stone hit the thigh of a runner on the snow behind him, the man jolted, he picked up his bow and arrow and shot towards this side, Mao Yishan quickly retreated, the arrow flew across the sky.Just as he was in shock, he grabbed a stone and was about to throw it again. The soldier on the stairs had already run up a few steps and was about to charge when he was shot in the neck by an arrow.

The archer ran past Mao Yishan: "Well done!"

Mao Yishan replied loudly: "Kill, kill well!"

Someone on the battlefield responded: "Leave them all here—"

A few feet away from the wooden wall, a fierce fight was going on. Several vanguards of the resentful army had already rushed in, but they were cut off from the rear by the Wu Dynasty soldiers who rushed up. They shouted and fought frantically. One man's hand was severed and blood was scattered.The men who surrounded and killed them on my side were equally crazy, covered in blood, and fought together with those resentful men who wanted to go back and tear the defense line, shouting: "Don't even think about going back when you come! Your father hurts you!" you--"

Outside the wooden wall, resentful soldiers rushed in.

No matter what kind of siege battle, as long as there is no room for trickery, the general strategy is to use strong attacks to break through the opponent's defense limit. The fighting consciousness and will of the resentful soldiers are not weak. At this point in the battle, the sky is full , Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren have basically seen the strength and weakness of this camp wall, and started a real strong attack.The camp wall is not too high, so it is common for the opposing soldiers to risk their lives to climb up and rush in. However, Xia Village did not fully expect the camp wall to be this high. Behind the camp wall, the current defense line It is surprisingly thick, and there are a few teams with high combat strength. In order to kill people, they will deliberately let go of their defenses, and when the opponent comes in, they will seal the opening and eat them.

Mao Yishan hid behind the camp wall, waiting for a man who resented the army to rush up, stood up and slashed at the opponent's thigh with a knife. He shrank his head, and then buzzed, the light of the knife passed over his head, and the image of the enemy whose head had been chopped off flashed in his mind, thinking that his own head had also been chopped off.Two thirds of the legs of the resentful army man had been cut off, and he was screaming and rolling on the camp wall while slashing wildly with his knife.

Mao Yishan only felt that his head was covered with blood, and when he touched it, his scalp was smashed by the opponent's steel knife.He was about to rush over, but the desperate slashing of the resentful soldier's steel knife made him retreat again. He then grabbed a wooden stick and hit the man's head and body several times until he was beaten to death. It didn't move, there was blood all around.A companion rushed over and fought a resentful soldier behind him, then fell to his feet, his chest was blood red, Mao Yishan turned around, and fought that resentful soldier again With one blow, his wooden stick gained the upper hand and embedded the opponent's steel knife, but the burly soldier of the resentful army kicked Mao Yishan hard in the heart, kicking him out, Mao Yishan He couldn't catch his breath, and he was grabbing desperately with his hands beside him, but the soldier of the resentment army had already rushed towards him with a knife.

On the inside of the camp wall, someone also charged at high speed, kicked on the inner wall, jumped high, that figure slashed the resentful soldier's waist, and Mao Yishan saw blood and internal organs rushing out.

The man who rescued him climbed up the platform inside the camp wall, and began to fight with the members of the resentment army who rushed one after another. At this moment, Mao Yishan felt blood on his hands and body, and he grabbed the knife on the ground—— The enemy of the resentful army who had his legs chopped off and was beaten to death by him got up and was about to speak, when the companion who blocked the Jurchen from coming up was also shot in the shoulder by an arrow, and then another arrow, Mao Yishan yelled Going to the past, took his place.

At this moment, he only felt that this was the first time in his life that he had come into contact with the battlefield, the first time that he wanted to win and kill the enemy so much.

In the front, soldiers from the resentful army swarmed, and in the rear, generals who sensed this weak point also rushed in.Feeling the companions rushing to the side, feeling the fierce enemy in front of him, he dodged an arrow suddenly, the dodging movement was almost subconscious, but he actually avoided the direction of the arrow, And while evading, he didn't completely retract into the parapet, but kept an eye on the movement ahead.

It doesn't matter if you die, I will pull you all down...

At this time, Mao Yishan felt the air move.

Two feet away from his side, inside a camp wall higher than this side, flames and air waves burst out suddenly, the camp wall shook, and Mao Yishan even saw snowflakes scattered and solidified in the air. The shape of the moment, in this wind and snow, there are clear traces brushing away into the distance.After that moment, the sound of roaring explosions continued to ring out on the snow in the distance.That was where the resentful army surged and charged. At this moment, dozens of traces were formed in the snowflakes. They were almost connected into one piece. The raging explosion drowned the crowd.

Boom boom boom boom boom-

Snowflakes, air waves, shields, human bodies, black smoke, white water vapor, and red blood plasma all rose in the barrier created by the explosion at this moment, and everyone on the battlefield was stunned for a moment.

Then, the ancient and loud horn sounded.

The side door of the camp opened just like that.

The heavy cavalry in black armor and cloak appeared in the sight of the resentful army.Behind Mao Yishan and the others, shield guards and archers swarmed.

The fighting only stopped for a moment, and then continued.

Not long after, the second round of explosions sounded.

The roar of the elm cannon and the heat wave scorched the entire battlefield back and forth...

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When the explosion sounded suddenly, Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren felt a little dazed.

From the moment they decided to storm the camp, they were ready to go through a hard battle. The opponent used more than 4000 elite soldiers as the skeleton to prop up a camp of 2 people. Five or six weak soldiers cannot support the wall. Once the number of dead people increases, they will turn around and affect the morale of more than 4000 elite soldiers.

It is not impossible to break through, but there is a price to pay.

This is nothing, even though they played a disgraceful role in the first battle of Chaobai River, after all, they fought hard among the hungry people in Liaodong.Being unwilling to fight recklessly with the Jurchens does not mean that they are like officials of the Wu Dynasty, thinking that they don't have to pay for everything they do.Really desperate, they all have such awareness and strength.

Chang Shengjun has already betrayed twice, and there is no possibility of betraying a third time. Under such circumstances, it is the only way out to gain credit in front of Zongwang with the strength at hand and gain a place in the Jurchen court in the future.With that figured out, there is nothing left to say.

They attacked in the most orthodox fashion.

This initial attack is usually used to test the quality of the opponent, first make a feint, and then pile up the crowd. For a skilled general, it will soon be possible to test how strong the opponent is.Therefore, for the first half an hour, they were still a little restrained, and then they started a targeted and intense attack.

The outer wall of the entire Xiacun Valley is surrounded by the banks of the Yellow River. Although it took two months to build the outer wall of several hundred feet, it is not easy to build a defense more than ten meters high. There are high and low, most places have wooden thorns extending outwards to block the attacks of outsiders, but naturally, there are also strong and weak, some places are easy to attack, and some places are not easy to attack.

An hour after the offensive started, Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren had already roughly grasped the situation of the defense. They launched the strongest onslaught against a section of wooden wall to the east. At this time, more than 800 people had gathered under the wall, including forward warriors. , there were archers mingling among them suppressing soldiers on the wooden wall.And in the rear, there are still chargers who are constantly coming forward with shields on their backs.

If there is no change, Zhang and Liu will directly attack here for a day, and simply break through this section of the city defense.Based on their understanding of the Wu Dynasty army, this is not an exaggerated idea.On the other hand, the opponent's defense is also firm. Unlike other city defenses in the Wu Dynasty, which were either life-for-life or tragic, what was shown in front of their eyes this time was indeed two men of equal strength. Army fights.

Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren knew that the other side had put their elites into the battle, and they only hoped that they could quickly push the other side to the limit after testing the bottom line of the other side's strength.When the battle reached this level, Liu Shunren was also considering launching a large-scale assault on another section of the camp, and then, something happened suddenly.

"firearm……"

"Wu Dynasty firearms?"

Moments after becoming aware of this concept, before they could have more doubts, they heard the sound of horns coming from the snowstorm, the air trembled, and the ominous meaning was being pushed up, accumulated since the beginning of the war, as if they were not The feeling of fighting against the Wu Dynasty people is becoming clear and intense.

"Call the cavalry to respond—"

"No! Go back! Go back—"

The moment they saw the heavy cavalry in black armor, the two generals issued different orders almost at the same time——

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Since the Jurchen went south, it has become normal for the Wu Dynasty army to be defeated and run away in front of the Jurchen army. There are almost no exceptions in the countless battles that have continued.In such an atmosphere, one hour after the battle in Xiacun finally broke out, the elm cannons began to strike hard like lines, and then, following the suggestion of a young general named Yue Pengju, the heavy cavalry attacked.

In the process of building defenses for Xia Village, the woodland far from the outer wall has been bulldozed. Basically, the land with an arrow has been emptied, and half of the land has wooden piles left on it, and the other Not half of the spaciousness, it is really suitable for the running of war horses.

The elm cannons blasted from different directions directed towards the direction of the resentful army, drawing a bullet point about ten feet wide and ten feet long.Due to the limited power of the cannonballs, of course not all of them died. In fact, there were no more than 60 or [-] people in total. The colors are mixed together, the wounded soldiers have broken limbs, bloody bodies, screams like crazy... When these things came into everyone's eyes, the chargers in this area almost involuntarily stopped.

On the side, more than a hundred heavy cavalry rushed down, and in that slightly low-lying place, nearly eight hundred elite resentment troops faced the wooden wall, such as Lin's shields were rising.

Some mid-level generals of the resentful army began to charge to block the heavy cavalry, but the sound of explosions sounded again on the route of their charge. When the order to retreat from the camp came, it was a bit late, and the heavy cavalry was blocking their way way to go.

Some people in the rear were still trying to escape—several people escaped—but then the heavy cavalry blocked the way like a barrier. Generally advance towards the camp wall.

The slaughter began.

The cavalry of the resentful army did not dare to come over. In such an explosion, a few horses would be startled if they approached. Long-distance bows and arrows are meaningless to the heavy cavalry, but they will shoot their own people.

At this moment, facing Xia Village's sudden surprise attack, the nearly [-] resentment soldiers outside the camp wall to the east seemed to be surrounded by an urn.Among them were many skilled soldiers and generals of the middle and lower ranks. When the heavy cavalry crushed them, the general Pu Hai was the highest officer here. He tried to form a spear formation to resist, but it was meaningless. Arrow rain wantonly shot and killed the crowd below.Soon after, he was shot in the back and died.

More people choose their own way, facing all this at a loss. Some people still try to attack upwards, but in the strengthened defense above, if they want to break through the shield wall and the spears and guns behind them for a short time, they still It's an idiot's dream.

The crowd trying to flee to both sides was shot by more archers, and some resentful soldiers tried to surrender, and they were then run over by heavy cavalry.

This sudden scene shocked everyone. The resentful soldiers in other directions ran away after receiving the retreat order-in fact, even in a high-intensity battle, in such a charge, the soldiers who were shot and killed by bows and arrows , still not a lot, most of the people rushed under the wooden wall, if they didn’t rush into the wall to fight hand to hand, they would still survive in large numbers—but during this time, the surroundings have become quiet , only in this depression, the boiling lasted for quite a while.

For soldiers, that is the most tragic result. They cannot go up, cannot come down, cannot escape, and cannot descend.

The soldiers of the resentful army were massacred to death.

From a distance, Zhang Linghui and Liu Shunren watched all this - they could only watch, even if they invested 1 people, they couldn't even keep this heavy cavalry, the opponent would go back after charging and killing, and they could only die or wound More people—the entire Ever Victorious Army unit was watching all this. When the last scream disappeared in the snow, the depressions and snow slopes were covered with broken corpses and blood flowed into rivers.Then the heavy cavalry dismounted, the shields were put down on the barracks wall, and a long row of archers was still aiming at the corpses below to prevent someone from pretending to be dead.

"Damn it, I'll fuck his ancestors!" Zhang Linghui clenched his fists, his veins bulging, his fists trembling as he watched all this, "Who is this..."

Before this, they had dealt with the Wu Dynasty many times. They were all aware of the ugly behavior of the officials and the corruption of the army. That was why they gave up the Wu Dynasty and surrendered to the Jurchen.Have you ever seen someone who can do this kind of thing in the Wu Dynasty...

"Chop off their heads and throw them back!" On the wooden wall, Yue Fei, who was in charge of this attack, gave the order, full of murderous aura, "Next, let them step on the heads to attack!"

He never showed mercy to his enemies.

The heavy cavalry cut off the heads, and then threw them in the direction of the resentful army. One after another, the heads flew through the air and landed on the snow.

On the foothills farther away, someone watched all this, saw the members of the resentment army being slaughtered like pigs and dogs, and watched those heads being thrown out one by one, and they were trembling all over.

...It's so simple.

"Eat!" On a lookout in the valley, Ning Yi clapped his hands and said.

This is the beginning of the Battle of Xia Village.

Soon after, the whole valley erupted for this first victory...

Zhang and Liu withdrew their troops for the time being, and made simple siege equipment that could be used to attack the camp at the fastest speed. On the other hand, a scout was passing through the snowfield to inform Guo Yaoshi of the result of the battle...

...and Wanyan Zongwang.

(End of this chapter)