Chapter 70: Xiangyang and Nanjing, XI

In battle, those who fall from their horses die. It's almost a law anymore.

People who can violate this law must have something special, either their status is noble, or they are very brave, if they are neither, then they can only be said to be particularly lucky. And Turai is the former. If you go forward a decade or two, Turai is naturally a man of both.

But now, it's old.

When he found out that his mount was wrecked, he wanted to jump off his mount, but his speed was a beat slower. He pulled most of his right leg in half, but his entire right foot was crushed under the horse.

Turai heard a clear "cluck", as a veteran, Turai has been fighting for many years, and he has been injured a lot, and he has almost died several times, especially in the Battle of Songshan, when he was fighting against Cao Wenzhao, he almost died, because of this, he has enough physical memory of all kinds of injuries on his body, knife wounds, arrow wounds, gunshot wounds, and even bruises.

So in this situation, he didn't need anyone to see it, he knew that he had a broken ankle.

"Your Excellency." A group of Qing soldiers pounced and protected Turai behind him, and the group rolled and crawled to pull Turai out from under the horse.

Sure enough, Turai's foot, at the ankle, twisted into an impossible angle. Even horseback riding is a bit inconvenient. Not to mention combat.

"The Tartar will fall off the horse, kill." Sergeant Zheng also rushed up as if he was crazy.

As I said before, Zheng Chenggong has always rewarded and punished heavily, so he was able to kill a Manchurian general with strong roots, and the reward he received made these low-level soldiers dare not think about it, it is definitely not as simple as being promoted to three levels in a row.

Therefore, they rushed up one by one as if they were crazy, not because they didn't know that the Qing army was not easy to mess with, but now they were willing to use their lives to gamble on future glory and wealth.

It's just that Tulai's personal guards naturally can't let them succeed, and the crime of losing the main general is enough to make them all dead without a body, and even implicate their families.

Therefore, with the fall of Turai as the center, a tragic battle began.

It seems that the Zheng soldiers liked to use some abnormal weapons, such as iron hooks, chain hammers, axes, etc., which they used when they boarded the ship for hand-to-hand combat.

Although the battle to seize the ship at sea was also hand-to-hand combat, the combat space of the two sides was different, and when seizing the ship, there was no strong requirement for whether the sailors carried standard weapons. That's how it got into the habit. But these weapons are often useless in battles on land, such as chain hammers, which can only be used as hammers, because there is no distance to throw them away.

The strength of the Qing army was relatively high, and under heavy pressure, they still rescued Turai.

However, the spirit has been frustrated. It was no longer as deep as before, and even some of them were surrounded, and some of them were forced to retreat step by step.

Surrounded by his soldiers, Turai retreated, trying to return the way he came.

Gan Hui was not reconciled to this. He immediately mobilized his men and horses and outflanked them from both sides, wanting to swallow this cavalry in one gulp. so as to give the Qing army a dismount.

It's just that things didn't go as smoothly as he thought.

Just as he was about to swallow the Turai Division, something happened on the frontal battlefield.

As soon as the Qing army gave the order for a general attack, all the departments rushed forward almost without reservation, regardless of life and death, the artillery of the Zheng army fired desperately, and the soldiers at all levels also fought for their lives.

But it still did not stop the Qing army's offensive, and the first to be broken was either elsewhere or the Iron Man Army.

Because the Iron Man Army is in the center of the battle between the two armies, it is also the place where the fighting is most intense.

I have to admit that Zheng Chenggong's carefully selected Iron Man Army assumed the role of the mainstay, regardless of the Qing army's infantry and cavalry, they all stubbornly blocked back, thwarting several offensives of the Qing army.

Because of their blocking, the Zheng army on both flanks was able to maintain the basic formation.

Although the Iron Man Army is powerful, it has a fatal flaw, no, all heavily armored foot soldiers have such a shortcoming, then it can't last, because the armor is too heavy.

The armor of the Iron Man Army, panic is not much lighter than the triple armor of the Qing Army. Basically, every soldier is carefully selected, and there are even many Westerners who serve, but it is still not iron-clad, every time the enemy is repulsed, every time there is a scene of broken human and horse equipment, behind it is a great consumption of physical strength.

Although all the Iron Man Army is dressed in armor, and they can't see their expressions or anything, it can be clearly seen that their movements are somewhat deformed, and some of them are wearing iron gloves and their hands are trembling slightly, this trembling is not what they want, but involuntarily.

If anyone could take off their armor now, they would find that they were already soaked from top to bottom, and their feet in the iron boots seemed to be soaked in sweat. The physical strength is seriously overdrawn, although the battle is not long now.

It's just over an hour.

But the high-intensity combat of this hour was enough to exhaust them, not to mention that the Qing army has launched a general offensive now.

Even if you ignore all of the above things, just listening to the sound of their breathing, you can only feel that you are in and out of a hurry, and your breath is like thunder. I know that they are already on the verge of not being able to support them.

At this moment, all the soldiers sent by the Qing army are white-armored soldiers. They did not use spears and knives, but iron axes and hammers.

These blunt weapons are designed to deal with, the iron armor of the Iron Man Army.

The Qing army attacked several times, but they all returned before the Iron Man Army. Regarded as a great shame by Duoduo, the Qing army has been running for so many years, and there is no position that cannot be attacked, so he ordered the transfer of various white armor soldiers.

As the elite of the Qing army, the number of white armor soldiers is not much, and every white armor soldier is an all-round warrior, whether it is from physical strength or combat skills, it is the world's first-class. The triple armor is on the body, although it is heavier and clumsy, but in terms of defense, it may not be much worse than the plate armor.

Under the cover of the cavalry of the Qing army, the white-armored soldiers rushed to the front of the Iron Man Army, and the two sides fought hand-to-hand, as if two clumsy male bears were fighting.

It looks like a turn-based game.

But they didn't know that they used heavy weapons, and if they didn't have enough armor, if one person was hit by it, he would immediately break his bones and tendons, and his internal organs would collapse and die.

But even with armor, the damage of this blunt weapon may not be completely negated.

The principle of blunt armor piercing is that I don't have to pierce the armor, I just need to deform the armor. The malleability of metals makes it easy for them to deform when they are subjected to heavy blows. Not to mention, whether this strong force will hit the human body through the armor, just to say, when the armor is deformed, what kind of person will be in the armor.

If the Iron Man Army had just started the war, and the white-armored soldiers rushed up, they would never have won so easily.

However, it is too late to say anything.

It took some time for the white armor soldiers to defeat the Iron Man Army head-on, and then as the leader of the army, they rushed into the ranks of the Zheng army.

Zheng Jun was stunned for a while, and then Zheng Jun's morale declined everywhere, and some people had already turned around and ran away.

They all know how powerful the Iron Man Army is. Because of this, this invulnerable Iron Man Army is used as a pillar by them. But now, even the Iron Man Army has been defeated, and the rest of the people naturally don't have the courage to support it. However, Zheng Jun's organizational ability was still there, and for a while, it did not completely collapse.

It's just that at this point, it's impossible to win. Or rather, infinity tends to be impossible.

At least Gan Hui thought so, he faced the tide of the Qing army's counterattack, his heart suddenly cooled, and immediately called a guard beside him to his side, and said in his ear: "You go and tell the king, you can't do anything, save your strength, go quickly, I must not delay time after this break." ”

This guard is none other than Gan Hui's eldest son, Gan Mingchen. In ancient times, it was a society of personal affection, and it was normal for officials to take their sons and nephews with them and carry their teachings, even the generals around Zhang Xuan had many such situations.

Gan Mingchen was taken aback when he heard this, and said, "Dad, what should you do?" ”

"There are no fathers and sons in the army." Gan Hui whispered: "Cannibal Lu." The matter of loyalty, my life, has long been given to Boss Zheng. ”