In the trenches, the two companies of the first battalion waited silently for the sound of explosions under the city walls, their hands covering their ears or their mouths slightly open, as they would in normal training, to prevent the shock from hearing or bleeding from their ears.

In front of the trench there was a sloping sortie, which made it possible to spread out the front of a company, since the artillery suppression could not care at all about blocking the sortie on the opposite side.

As the earth shook the earth with a loud bang, the trumpeters blew the horns of the charge, and the foot soldiers covering behind quickly crawled out of the trenches, and the whole team of musketeers and crossbowmen aimed at the sides of the collapsed wall to suppress them.

The spearmen waited in line with their spears, ready to charge at the next few assault openings, and a brigade of flank cover to relieve the frontal pressure also prepared a long wooden ladder.

The two companies of the first battalion rushed out first, and the copper cannons behind had already begun to turn their muzzles and bombard both sides, and the gap dozens of steps wide was left to the two companies of the first battalion.

The company commander wore a red silk on his head, a red turban was wrapped around his forehead, and his slightly long tail fluttered, which was particularly conspicuous, and he led people to rush out first.

There are no living people on the collapsed city wall, but there is a low wall behind the city wall, and the Qi army has gathered a lot of people to prepare for a counterattack after the low wall.

A small and convenient wooden ladder was erected at the gap in the collapsed city wall, and a Sima of twenty-five people took the lead in throwing some iron thunder at the gap in the city wall, and then set up a low wooden ladder to climb to the gap.

Two of Sima's soldiers climbed and attacked from the broken and inclined city wall to both sides, controlling the commanding heights to control the Qi counterattack at the gap.

At the low wall behind the main wall, the Qi army above was also injured by the explosion just now, and the Qi army behind the low wall was also urged by the nobles to prepare for a counterattack at this time.

The nobles in the city also knew the siege tactics of the Mo family, and they knew that once this gap was opened, then the city would be taken away.

They gathered the dead soldiers, private relatives and other elites around them here, preparing to counterattack.

It is a blow, so the first wave of counterattack is extremely important, if the first wave can't defeat the Mo family, there will be no chance to fight back, because the first wave of counterattack is the elite warriors on their side and the skilled fighters hired by money.

Qi State's technical warriors are how much money they are given for a battle, they are professional mercenaries, they do not have the status of a samurai, but they are trained from the market and have enough ability to kill in close combat.

The samurai of the Qi Kingdom also wore leather hats, and the orthodox soldiers wore leather hats made of deerskin from the time of their crowning.

Before the explosion sounded, the skin-clad taxis pulled out their red turbans, held their hands on their foreheads, and drew their short swords.

The clothes on the heads of the first camp on the Mo family's side are very similar to them, and they also have red turbans on their foreheads, and they also wear leather bands for their hair, the only difference is that the soldiers on the Mo family's side also wear red scarves and arms on their necks and arms, so that they can easily identify each other on the battlefield.

Before the smoke and dust of the collapsed city wall had dissipated, the first company of the first battalion had already rushed to the breach and climbed the walls on both sides of the gap.

The warriors of the Qi army at the low wall behind the main wall also began to counterattack with the sound of drums.

The bombardiers on the Yishi's side formed a small array of twenty-five people on the uneven city wall, with two bombardiers in front of each team, and three people behind them handed over the ignited iron thunder, and a company spread out at the gap and on the city wall on both sides watched the Qi warriors who were not afraid of death and threw two rounds of iron thunder.

After the roaring explosion, the company behind also followed, and the commander of the first company took advantage of the smoke after the explosion and the Qi army that was blown up in formation, drew out the iron sword engraved with the simple and passionate words of Li Tianxia, and shouted: "Rush over!" When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins......"

The people in line waited for the iron thunder in their hands to be left for the company behind, and followed this slogan that had been circulated in the Mo family for more than ten years, and took advantage of the loose cluster of Qi warriors who were blown up, and launched an attack with the iron sword as a weapon.

They understood their task, opened the gap, scattered the first wave of the Qi army's counterattack, and bought time for the subsequent spearmen and musketeers to climb the walls, which was the foundation. And on this basis, after breaking through the enemy, cutting into the city and completely breaking up the assembly of the Qi army, that is the icing on the cake.

On the opposite side were the full-time samurai gathered together, and on this side were the Xianden camp, who had been training hard in the army for several years, each holding a short sword and almost no shield, and a most brutal fight was fought under the gap in the city wall.

The onslaught of the first company looked a little scattered, far less sturdy and neat than the spearmen's formation, but it was still a small formation of five people.

The four people next to the company commander stood a little closer, and in front of the company commander was a warrior from the Qi Kingdom, and his afterglow swept his companions during the struggle.

The Qi warrior in front of the two partners on the left is obviously a veteran, and he deliberately sold a flaw to lure the swordsman on the side of the righteous master to attack first, but there is no chaos under his feet, and his grasp of the distance is also superior, which is obviously a life and death skill practiced in countless fights.

The nominal swordsman on the left side of the company commander had already hit the plan, thinking that he had found an opportunity to take a step forward and stab a sword, but the Qi warrior on the opposite side took advantage of the moment when he could not retract his center of gravity to defend with all his strength, his right leg stepped forward and the front leg was like a bow, and the back leg was like a string, and the arm holding the sword stretched out and the whole body collapsed into a straight line, hitting the abdomen of the nominal swordsman, regardless of whether the righteous swordsman was dead or not, while drawing the sword, his body stood up like a wave and retreated, stabbing towards the nominal swordsman on the far left.

This step is extremely skillful, after the center of gravity is found, it can be attacked and defended, and the grasp of distance is an important feature of swordsmanship.

The company commander of the first company swept over, his heart was uneasy, and he stabbed to death a Qiren warrior on the opposite side, but because of the distance, he could only choose to support the partner on the right first, and shouted impatiently: "Sangzi, don't rush to attack!" ”

The righteous swordsman named Sang Zi saw the beautiful assassination just now, and he was also a little panicked in his heart, he had only served for two years, and he had practiced the simplest stabbing skills, at this time, the opposite stabbed him, according to the teaching of the usual training, he must have to retreat half a step, but Sang Zi panicked, and chose to chop to press the opposite sword.

The company commander secretly screamed that it was not good, but he lacked skills, and the Qi people in front of him were also good hands.

Mulberry's sword slashed down, and the momentum sank, but the Qi warrior did not withdraw his sword, nor did he retreat, but did not avoid the slash of his throat, and at the same time he held it close to the hilt of the sword, and his steps moved forward a foot.

The strength of the arm, if it is used to grid with the tip of the sword, it is extremely labor-intensive, and it is much less effort to grid with a position close to the hilt of the sword, which is a skill that is fought with life.

Sang Zi has been training in the army for two years, and the Mo family pays attention to knowing what it is, but after all, it is much worse than the samurai who has fought countless times on the other side in actual combat.

At the same time, Sang Zi suddenly felt a huge force on the sword, and the Qi warrior took a step forward at the moment when he struggled to go up, and his thick left hand stretched out directly to Sang Zi's wrist holding the sword, and at the same time, he suddenly grabbed it, twisted his waist and hips, and his shoulders sank and topped, and he took the shoulder as the axis to put Sang Zi's sword-holding arm on his shoulder, and pulled it violently, and Sang Zi's hand could not hold the sword at all under the severe pain, and then he felt that his feet were tripped by the man.

The Qiren samurai took off Sangzi's sword, and his feet were already inserted between Sangzi's feet that were opened before and after according to the military techniques, and his waist slammed into his body, and Sangzi stood unsteadily and fell to the ground, and then a short sword was inserted into his abdomen.

"Mulberry!"

The company commander who killed the Qi warrior in front shouted, and the Qi warrior who stabbed the two people in a row also approached, under the red curtain on his forehead, waiting for the company commander with calm eyes, grasping the almost perfect distance, not close or far, holding the sword and choosing to circle around.

"He's a good hand."

The company commander muttered to himself, took a deep breath, touched his waist with his left hand, and took out a short dagger, and the face of the Qi warrior on the opposite side became solemn.

The source of the Mo family's swordsmanship is complex, and Mozi's swordsmanship is superb, but the swordsmanship of the people who prepare for the city gate is mainly based on the stabbing of the military formation, and it was originally used by the sword and shield.

Later, those who were proficient in swords and shields went to Xiliu to teach the flow master who was engaged in broadside combat, and these grenadiers in foot combat only had iron swords and no shields, but there were swordsmen before the Mo family who made good use of daggers, using long swords as shields and daggers as thorns, and killing them in a way that deceived them into approaching.

The warriors of the Qi people were well-informed and had been fighting for many years, and when they saw the commander of the righteous division company on the opposite side holding a dagger in his left hand, he said in his heart: "I heard in the Gaotang Dynasty that thirty years ago, there was a man who was good at using this kind of swordsmanship, and then he fled because of the tyranny of the doctor, and he really entered the Mo family. This man's swordsmanship has been learned from that man, and he needs to be careful with it. ”

He is a native of the Tang Dynasty, there are many legends in the market, and he also knows that this swordsmanship is the skill of using a sword as a shield and a dagger as a sword after close quarters, and he said: "Only by keeping a distance, he will attack me and retreat, and after inducing him to show his flaws, he can be assassinated with a sword!" ”

After the company commander drew his dagger, he also knew that the skills of the other side were amazing, and said in his heart: "I need to keep a distance from him, he will attack me and retreat, induce him to show his flaws, and then take advantage of the chaos to deceive him, stick to him so that he can't retreat, and then kill him......"

The two looked at each other, ignoring the sound of fighting next to them, but they unexpectedly did not attack, but kept adjusting their steps.

After a long confrontation, he heard a few gunshots behind him, and when he saw that the Qi warrior's body trembled, he fell to the ground and convulsed, and was actually hit by a musket, and it seemed that the musketeers had climbed on the top of the city.

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Three hundred paces outside the city wall, there was a scene that could excite him in the suitable clairvoyant mirror, several musketeers set up a human ladder and put a musketeer on the high part of the city wall, and two or three companies of musketeers were already lined up on the low walls on both sides of the gap.

The musketeer, who had climbed up the ladder to the heights, planted the Mo family's strange banner with ears of wheat, sickles, and hammers high on the city wall, waving his hands.

At the gap, Qi people did not grasp the opportunity of the first wave of counterattacks, and if they did not succeed in counterattacking, it meant that the last counterattack opportunity was lost.

Shi didn't know what kind of battle took place behind the city wall, and he didn't know how many casualties the counterattack of the elite warriors of the Qi people had brought to the Xiandeng Company, but he knew that Pingyang City had already been breached.

So he waved his hand and called the trumpeter and herald beside him and said: "Order, let the warrior knights on the flanks form a formation and prepare, and the foot knights will pursue at will, and there will be a small group of enemy foot knights who have fled out of the city to pursue, more than three or five hundred, and the warrior knights will rush and chase and kill." Let the 2nd Division prepare to wait for the 1st Division to open the city gate, enter the city through the city gate, and break up the Qi people assembly. ”