Han Kaihui's estimate of the 10,000 enemies and other rear hands did not come in handy, the lethality and shock power of the firearms on the east road were greater than imagined, and the performance of the foot soldiers was not much better than the hungry people the day before, and even surpassed in the point of sparing their lives. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After three volleys of fire from the defenders after hitting the low wall, they were unsurprisingly in disarray.

The archers and firearms who supported them were suppressed by the large rockets behind the low wall, and they could not provide strong assistance, and the spearmen behind the low wall had a tendency to kill again, and the leading brigade learned the lesson of the previous day and decisively ordered a retreat, and the offensive of this wave of thieves ended somewhat anticlimactic.

However, this was only the beginning of the fierce battle, this wave of thieves had just retreated, and the defenders behind the low wall did not even have time to clean up the battlefield, after the wave of thieves retreated along the road to the opposite hill, the thieves on the slope of the ten formations, another formation rushed down from the road in the shouting order, and continued to attack the defensive line.

Then this wave of thieves had just retreated, and another wave of thieves came down, and they kept advancing on the corpses of their comrades, not giving the defenders a moment of respite at all.

On this day, the thieves attacked No. 5 in ten waves, and did not collect their troops until the sun was about to set before they returned to the camp, and the front of the low wall was already full of blood, and the stinging smell of blood was permeating.

The defenders behind the low wall also went from exhilarating to crazy at the beginning, and finally fell into numbness. The thieves' attacks were not long each time, but they were frequent and intense, and often the front wave had just gone, and the back wave had come again, and the defenders had not even had time to clean up the battlefield, carry away the corpses, and start the battle again.

In particular, the interval between their attacks is too short, which makes people highly nervous and physically unbearable. On the other hand, the thieves on the opposite side, each formation only needs to attack once, and then it is not their turn for a day, they have an absolute advantage in terms of troops, but this kind of terrain can't be opened.

The defenders guarding the first wall. The day was spent in constant killing and fighting, reaching the limit both physically and mentally.

The next morning, Han Kaihui had to transfer the defenders of the low wall elsewhere in No. 5 to change the guard. By the afternoon of the third day, Sun Chuanting also had to transfer the new troops from the forbidden ditch and the west plateau to rotate with the defenders of Yuanwanggou.

In just a few days, the Shaanxi New Army could no longer find recruits. Every day blood and madness are staged on this not wide ditch, and every day the thieves launch at least ten waves of attacks, and their lives are constantly consumed, especially on the side of the thieves, and human life is even more despised in their eyes.

In the end, both sides were killed, and the casualties increased more and more, but no matter how they fought, the Yuanwanggou defense line still stands.

……

Five days later.

On the 10th day of the fifth month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the fifth line of defense was A. Afternoon.

The corpses were full of broken flags and equipment, and the scorching sun was shining on the loess, and the heat was uncomfortable. The air was filled with the strong smell of gunsmoke and blood, and there was a disgusting smell in the fierce sunlight.

With a loud "boom", a tiger squat cannon let out a thunderous roar, and in the fierce smoke and firelight, more than 100 thumb-thick iron pellets rushed to spew out. The five-dollar projectiles swept out, and the flying debris of dirt was filled with patches of blood mist.

In the midst of a terrible scream. More than a dozen foot soldiers of the patrol battalion ran back with rolling and crawling, and some people stayed on the ground and rolled, without exception, there were blood holes on their bodies, and the wounds were shocking, and they rolled on the ground. There was an indescribable painful sound on the side.

"Move forward!"

The old battalion soldier roared angrily.

The footmen on the slope hesitated and crowded, and before everyone could move, a black and dull mouth popped out of the three staircase cliffs at the intersection of the road, and the sound of a bird like a popping bean was heard. The white mist on the cliff was rising, and the foot soldiers on the slope fell down in unison.

The soldiers who had been shot rolled to the ground, clutching their wounds and letting out a terrible howl.

"Bring their firearms down!"

The old battalion soldier roared in anger as he slashed several archers who tried to flee to the ground.

In the midst of panic and hesitation, suddenly there was another scream in the crowd, but several round objects were thrown out of the low wall.

"Ten thousand enemies!"

In the frightened screams of the crowd, these things landed in the slope, and they heard one explosion after another, and large puffs of smoke rose up, mixed with some terrible howls, and some foot soldiers who could not dodge were blown into a bloody blur. Not only at this intersection, the raindrops of 10,000 enemies at the low walls were thrown, and there were loud noises, and the officers and men of the patrol battalion under the slope were blown up and howled wolves.

The people who were hit by the bombing rolled to the ground, they were drenched in blood, screaming and struggling desperately to crawl.

The rest of the people could no longer suppress their fear, and ran down the hill with a howl.

"No backwards!"

An old battalion soldier wearing yellow cotton armor still wanted to stop everyone from routing, but suddenly there was a roar of birds, and a blood mist appeared on his chest, and his whole person flew backwards, rolling down the slope, but he was hit by a Jingbian Army chaser behind the low wall.

With a sound of birds, one after another the old battalion soldiers who tried to stop were knocked to the ground, and the remaining old battalion soldiers did not dare to stop it anymore, just as there were spearmen roaring out of the low wall, and the leader of the brigade took the opportunity to shout: "Retreat, all retreat......

Immediately, the soldiers of the patrol battalion retreated like a tide, and also announced the failure of their seventh attack on Jia-5 today......

The commander of the patrol battalion led the remnants of the army up the source slope in despair, and on each table sat the soldiers of the patrol battalion, with grass factories on them, blocking the increasingly fierce sunlight. Some of the servants were walking around, carrying buckets of water. It is almost the middle of May, and the solar calendar in the future generations is June and July, and it is close to Fuxia. The temperature is getting higher and higher, and without grass factories to block the sun, and without drinking water to replenish water, who can stay in the hot sun for so long?

However, in order to obtain drinking water from the grass factory, it also depends on the ability of each battalion to control the machinery and grinding, and in order to obtain grain and grass, the lords must use all their strength. It is impossible for the old camp to supply all the foreign camps, and they have to rely on themselves to fight for it, and in essence, the camp is a place where the weak eat the strong.

The soldiers sat numbly under the grass factory, watching these routs come up, and only silently watching them, the cruelty of the war had worn out all their passions.

On the table near the top of the hill stands a big flag, and there are some slightly elite soldiers gathered next to the flag, Lao Hu and Kong San stand under the big flag, and a young man with a fierce expression on the side is the personal general of the two.

When the palm brigade came to Lao Hu, he wanted to speak and stopped, his expression was a little ashamed: "Master Hu......"

Lao Hu waved his hand: "Don't say anything, take the brothers to rest." ”

Kong San handed over a kettle, and put some salt in it, which can well replenish the salt lost by the human body, and the palm brigade took it, and drank half of the pot to improve his spirits.

He looked tired and led the remnants of the soldiers to the top of the hill, and the battalion commander set up a camp there, and the patrol camp made a fire and made food there, and the camp could also allow the soldiers to rest better than the table.

Some of the old battalion soldiers who supervised the battle also went to the top of the hill, and when the sentry chief passed by, they also glanced at Lao Hu and them with hatred.

Lao Hu saw that these old battalion soldiers were depressed, and there were a lot fewer people in their team, so he couldn't help but feel a little happy: "This time the old battalion has suffered a lot of losses, I'm afraid that there will be more than a dozen people who will die, right?" ”

He saw that Kong San just looked down in silence, peeked left and right, and said in a low voice: "How is it, are you still fighting?" ”

Kong San saw that the ditch below was filled with gunsmoke, and the sound of artillery and fire guns was everywhere, and the shouting of killing was endless, and he said in a deep voice: "Fight, prepare for the next wave!" ”

Lao Hu sighed and muttered, "When will this day be the end." ”

The resoluteness of the defenders of Yuanwanggou was beyond everyone's expectations, but in fact, the strength of the defenders of the ditch was not much in the eyes of everyone who broke into the camp, and the new army added almost 20,000 soldiers. And this time to break into the camp and attack Tongguan, even counting the hungry people, the total strength is 300,000, almost ten times that of the Ming army. Even if the defense of the forbidden ditch is added, the Ming army in Tongguan still has ten times more troops.

It's just that this kind of irritating terrain, vicious defensive line, no matter how many troops can't be brought into play, barely heaping the number of people, is the experience of the three-day fiasco. So after that fiasco, the battalion changed its battle plan, with infantry as the mainstay, supplemented by hungry people, and some old battalions as overseers.

The change in this plan is that the core of the battle is transferred to the 150,000 infantry of the outer battalion, and the old battalion of the core cannot be moved, at most it exists as a supervising team. The terrain was treacherous, the defenders were resolute, and all kinds of sharp weapons were multiplied, so the infantry battalions fought very hard, and the special victory was far away, which was frustrating.

The patrol battalion participated in the battle for the second time today, and they had also attacked No. 5 in the previous two days, and once broke through the second line of defense and forced in front of the third low wall, which caused a great sensation at that time, and even many old battalion generals noticed his existence.

Of course, the result of the incident was that the mountain patrol battalion suffered heavy casualties, and the officers and soldiers in the special battalion who did not deal with Lao Hu and others were exhausted, so he had some coping with things after his turn today.

But in fact, even if it was seriously attacked, it was difficult to break into the defensive lines on the opposite slope, and that day the patrol battalion attacked the second low wall at a huge cost, but then the defenders organized a spearmen to counterattack and charge, and recaptured the lost stronghold. They fought repeatedly inside and outside the low wall, and the bloody tug-of-war Lao Hu at that time still shuddered when he thought about it.

What is particularly frightening is the new army in Shaanxi, all of whom are not afraid of death and are extremely fierce.

In fact, there were not many of them, and the battalions now knew that the Ming army had divided more than a dozen defensive places in Yuanwanggou, each with almost a thousand men, half of the new army, and then there were three or five low-walled defensive lines. That is to say, the new army was no more than four or five hundred, five or six hundred men in each defensive place, and even fewer were assigned to each low wall.

On the other hand, there are always four or five thousand, five or six thousand troops corresponding to each place, and even the hungry people are counted as 10,000 people. Even if the terrain is limited and you can't rush up, but each wave of thousands of people attack, a steady stream of wheel battles...... All the battalions said that if there were only battalions on the opposite side to defend, they would have already fought the ditch, but it was a pity.

The intention of breaking into the camp is to fight for the lives of the other party, to fight for attrition, to consume their troops, and to break their will. Now it seems that the expectations of all sides are far away, and it is not known whether the defenders have been consumed, but it is true that their own side is constantly being consumed. (To be continued.) )