Chapter 49: Casualties

Bang!

The bird gun sounded on the mountainside, and Chen Mu's vision only saw a figure in the distance falling to the ground and rolling down the mountain road, and then it was occupied by the diffuse gunsmoke, and his body suddenly retracted, and there was the sound of arrows breaking through the air and nailing behind him, and Chen Mu, who was panting like a cow behind the tree trunk, saw a flag soldier behind him screaming and staggering down with an arrow in his arm.

The slippery palm of his palm made him almost unable to grasp the small medicine cartridge with the belt around his waist, and quickly poured the sub-medicine into the mouth of the gun and put it into the lead pill, and the whole strip was tamped hard, and in the process, he did not forget to shout loudly: "Don't panic, form a formation!" ”

The ears were filled with the sound of fighting and shouting, the military formation had basically dispersed, and no matter how much they shouted, they could not return to the sky, so they could barely maintain half of the flag army around.

The horizontal formation he imagined could defend against the bows and arrows of the rebels was actually out of place, and the road at the foot of the mountain was wide enough, and there was still room for maneuvering, and because of this, at the beginning of the most difficult battle at the foot of the mountain, the horizontal formation brought them great help, and rushed upwards to a height of more than ten zhang without casualties, killing and wounding dozens of enemy soldiers.

But to the mountainside, the road is very different is a situation that Chen Mu never thought of, the mountain road that could accommodate seven or eight people in parallel was collapsed by artillery, the narrowest place is only for two people to parallel, the terrible thing is not far away, there are three high and low arrow towers each stationed five or six crossbowmen, volleying at them from all angles, the rain of arrows is so overwhelming that the sergeant does not dare to raise his head, as long as he shows his body in a blink of an eye, seven or eight arrows attack, and if he is not careful, he will fall off the cliff.

Seeing that the army was blocked behind, Chen Mu could only grit his teeth and order Shao Tingda to lead the sword team to rush over against the rain of arrows, which was a bad thing.

The sword brand flag paid a flag and the dead and wounded of the arrow falling down the cliff rushed over, and the soldiers behind did not have the protection of the sword brand, let alone charge. After the arrow rain slowed down a little and the enemy archers on an arrow tower were uprooted by Shao Tingda's banner army, a group of enemy soldiers rushed over and broke up their connection with Shao Tingdaqi.

And the four small banners of Chen Mubu were also driven to the forest due to the chaotic battle, and it was even more difficult to attack the mountain.

"The general flag, you can't attack it! There is an arrow tower! ”

Shi Qi leaned sideways and hid behind the trunk of the tree after releasing the gun not far away, shouting loudly at Chen Mu, Fu Yuan ran briskly on the other side, shouting as he ran: "General Banner, the barbarian camp is blocked behind and can't keep up!" Let's get back! ”

"Pull off the fart!"

Chen Mu scolded secretly, ignored Fu Yuan at all, and ordered loudly: "Don't stop, longbowmen, don't stop, shoot!" Fu Yuan, Lou Qimai, let the spearmen get ready, and the enemy will stab grandpa back when they rush up! ”

Bang! Bang bang!

A few bird guns rang out in the woods, and more than twenty enemy troops rushed down the mountain, and before they could get closer, they dropped three corpses and retreated like a tide again. But as long as the crossbowmen were not killed in the turrets erected in the mountains, it would be difficult for them to rush through.

The rain of arrows continued to fall, and no one dared to rush within thirty steps of the arrow tower, just as the enemy did not dare to rush to within thirty steps of Chen Mu and other bird-swordsmen, they were all afraid of death.

Rumble!

With the sound of the trees shattering, a cannonball accurately swept across the trunk of the tree that Chen Mu used to live in, and the loud sound frightened him so much that he reflexively threw himself aside, turned his head and the tall trunk was interrupted by the waist, and the sound of clicking above his head saw the giant tree smashing downward!

At the last moment, Long Junxiong, who was the guard, grabbed Chen Mu's arm and dragged him to his side, and the crown of the tree smashed in the direction that Chen Mu had fallen before, sending up a piece of rotten leaves and dust.

The frightened Chen Mu sat up on the ground and realized that he had taken a few wrong steps behind him, and then heard Fu Yuan shouting happily: "General Banner, the arrow tower is about to collapse!" ”

The culprit who broke the tree and almost killed Chen Mu, the big lead bullet changed direction after breaking the trunk of the tree, and swept and smashed on the load-bearing wooden stakes of the simple arrow tower built by the rebels in the mountains, although the remaining strength was exhausted to break the wooden pillar, but the crossbowmen on the arrow tower were greatly frightened, and their weight made the arrow tower fall with it.

Chen Mu dared to guarantee that those dog-day gunners at the foot of the mountain didn't know what they had hit!

"Spearman! Rush over now, rush over! ”

It was not easy for a large branch on the canopy to smash on his body, and he obviously didn't care about the embarrassed appearance at the moment, Chen Mu picked up the bird gun and got up to beckon the spearman to rush forward, and at the same time ordered the bird gun to continue shooting, reloading the sub-medicine and turned around to find that Long Junxiong's face was red with blood just now who had saved him, and he quickly asked, "How are you?" ”

Long Junxiong didn't realize it suddenly, he was guarding Chen Mu with a sword, and when he heard Chen Mu ask, he raised his arm and wiped his face, looked at the bloodstains on his sleeve and shook his head: "It's okay, the branches are scraped." General flag, let me go with the old man, they can't stop it! ”

Chen Mu remembered in his heart that Long Junxiong had just saved his life, and when he saw him asking for battle, he untied the Tongbao sword on his waist and handed it out and said, "Use my knife, you and Qi Zhengyan will open the way!" ”

When the two Japanese robbers heard this, they hugged their fists, but they had not forgotten the habits of their ancestors, and they ran out with their knives and rushed out to chase the spear flag, rushed to the front and jumped out, and no one could stop them in the light of the sword, and in the blink of an eye, they split three or four people, tearing a gap for the spear and spear banner army. The enemy troops, who suffered several casualties, scattered in all directions, and the banner army followed back to the mountain road.

Chen Mu didn't let go of his hanging heart until this time, shouting to his subordinates not to pursue, and when he turned his head, he saw Wei Balang holding a Japanese knife jumping up and down, and the little boy's male duck shouted loudly: "Longbow shooting, shooting!" Shoot them all over, and give you all the money! ”

This dead kid has also learned to lure his subordinates to his advantage!

Kankan released two guns, the enemy army left more than ten corpses on the mountain road and fled without a trace, Chen Mu couldn't see Shao Tingda's anxiety, not to mention that Bai Yuanjie's barbarian camp didn't keep up, looked up at the top of the mountain that was still a long way away, and ordered: "Count the casualties of each banner, be prepared and wait for the follow-up reinforcements to feel that they will take the fortress in one fell swoop!" ”

After some counting, there were no casualties in the bird gun team, two people in Wei Balang's longbow team were missing, three of Fu Yuan's subordinates were killed and one was seriously injured, and Lou Qimai's subordinates still had seven spearmen who could continue to fight, and the two Japanese were like tigers entering a flock of sheep to engage those chaotic armies without their opponents, Chen Mu's command was originally nearly sixty people, and now there are only thirty-eight reliable combat power left.

Waiting for a stick of incense, during which a small group of enemy troops came down from the mountain, but they could not break through the salvo of the bird gunner, Bai Yuanjie led the barbarian battalion belatedly, and they were separated from Chen Muqi on the way to attack the mountain, because the number of people was overwhelming, and the target was large, and they were intercepted and assaulted by more than 200 enemy troops along the way.

Chen Mu sighed when he heard this, fortunately he was fast-paced, if he led the flag army to meet this group of enemy troops, I am afraid that Chen Zongqi would be wiped out.

"There are dozens of casualties in the Barbarian Battalion, what are the casualties under your banner?"

"Including me, there are thirty-eight people, and I and the reckless worm were scattered by the enemy." Chen Mu's expression was grim, and he pointed to the top of the mountain: "The enemy army should still have less than 200 people defending the cottage, capture them, and this battle will be won...... I don't know how the battle is going in Xinjiang Town under the mountain. ”

"Reckless?" Bai Yuanjie patted him on the shoulder and smiled: "Your brother is fine, most of his subordinates are scattered, Tingda will take the three of them to be in the camp with the barbarians, and they will come up in a while." ”