Chapter 289 Sudden Changes in the Battle Situation
Sharhuda, worthy of the word "tiger" in his name, charged at the leader of the Ming army with a mace.
After a while, he came close, and Sarhuda hit the big man on the head with a blow. He actually wanted to hit his head, but it was a pity that it was not high enough.
Seeing that it was about to hit him, Sarhuda was secretly proud. This Han dog looked tall, but in fact it was too clumsy and he hadn't reacted yet.
He was just thinking about killing this Han dog and then sweeping the mace across the next one, when the mace in his hand was grabbed by the Han dog and smashed aside.
Sarhuda was shocked and quickly retracted the mace. But at this moment, something got bigger and bigger in front of him and passed over his neck.
He looked at himself as if he was flying, and then he glanced at the Han dog who didn't seem to pay attention to him at all, just thinking that he was a dog on the roadside. He wanted to get angry, but he didn't know anything at all.
After Lu Xiangsheng killed the Jianlu leader who rushed forward with one blow, Xuantie Yanyue's sword kept sweeping through the second Jianlu, and then faced the Jianlu archers.
These Jianlu archers did not have a safe shooting distance or the cover of melee soldiers. If they dared to shoot arrows, it would be too late to escape. They gave their backs to Lu Xiangsheng and harvested them one by one.
The resting Jianlu, whether they were looking for food or taking a nap, were all alerted. After seeing the situation clearly, some mounted their horses, and some grabbed weapons and rushed straight away. Because the incident happened suddenly, there was no one in command to respond.
It looks messy.[
Lu Xiangsheng quickly rushed through the catapult position and then met the rushing Jianlu.
When he was almost in front of Jianlu, he suddenly turned over and dismounted, letting the horse continue to run forward, then turned to infantry and killed Jianlu.
Minzhuang, who was following Lu Xiangsheng, also imitated Lu Xiangsheng's example and dismounted to fight on foot.
In fact, dismounting and fighting on foot is also a last resort, because most of the strong people can barely run on horseback, let alone fight with the Jianlu who are skilled in bow and horse while riding on horseback.
After running for a short distance, the empty horse slowly stopped because there was no rider to control it, occupying a large part of the road.
The battlefield seemed very chaotic. The Jianlu who rushed over to grab weapons at first were already fighting with the Ming army. But the Jianlu who was looking for a horse at first did not easily get on the horse, but found that the people around him were either companions or horses, and they simply ran away.
Unable to get up, the horse was spinning in circles. In desperation, he turned over and dismounted, rushing forward in a swarm.
The battlefield slowly formed a 38th line, with the Ming army to the north and more Jianlu troops to the south. The two sides fought roughly in a linear shape.
On this line, Lu Xiangsheng and his servants killed the Jianlu in front of them until they were unable to resist, and gradually bulged into the Jianlu group.
Although other Minzhuangs have advantages over the tired Jianlu in front of them in terms of strength and energy, Jianlu has more fighting experience, and some simple moves are often difficult for Minzhuang to resist. If the battlefield space is larger, let these
Now that Jianlu has room to dodge, the people and Zhuang people may no longer be their opponents.
Thanks to this terrain, the narrow passage allowed Lu Xiangsheng and others to take care of their companions as much as possible, and also allowed Jianlu's military superiority to be fully utilized.
But even so, the casualties of Minzhuang are slowly increasing.
The Ming army only had a few thin layers, but the Jianlu army had a long and thick layer, killing one after another.
Six trebuchets are already on the side of the Ming army, and some civilians who have been summoned in advance are forcibly dismantling these trebuchets.
However, Yan Yingyuan did not rush to the front line like Lu Xiangsheng, commanding behind the Ming army, and serving as a reserve force to support the Jianlu where they could not withstand them.
When he saw Minzhuang dismantling those trebuchets, he suddenly felt something in his heart. He turned around and looked at Qingshui Mingyue Pass, and then hurriedly stopped the demolition of Minzhuang.[
Destruction is far easier than construction. In just a short time, three trebuchets had been dismantled.
Yan Yingyuan secretly expressed regret, and then ordered them to take the remaining three catapults to the city.
After all, Qingshui Mingyue Pass is known as a dangerous pass. When it was first built, the city gate was set high enough so that catapults could enter the city through the gate without any problems.
The original plan was that by this time, the trebuchets had been destroyed, and the Ming army began to slowly shrink towards the city gate. Finally, a group of people with the strongest force would block the Jianlu and retreat to the city gate.
The Ming army on the top of the city threw logs and stones to cut off the Jianlu troops, so that Lu Xiangsheng and the others could close the city gate after killing the Jianlu in front of them.
But now Yan Yingyuan changed his mind and changed this plan. Therefore, Lu Xiangsheng and others did not receive the signal, so they could only continue to persist and maintain a 38th line.
Zhong Jinwei on the top of the city saw Minzhuang returning to the city with a catapult, and he felt happy. He had never thought before that if there was a catapult in the city, he would be afraid that the Jianlu would put up a wooden frame. No matter how many people the Jianlu had, they would attack.
The city won’t be afraid anymore!
However, he saw that there were many people on Jianlu's side. Although Lu Xiangsheng in the middle and his servants were blocking him, Minzhuang on the left and right sides couldn't stop Jianlu. They exchanged their lives with Jianlu. If this goes on,
There are many Jianlu people, and the two sides are likely to be broken through by Jianlu, forming a siege to the Ming army outside the city.
Yan Yingyuan had also observed the crisis on both sides at this time, but he was the only one with strong combat power. After hesitating for a moment, he rushed to the most dangerous left side and took over from Min Zhuang in the front line of the fight.
His bright silver spear made the ghosts and gods unpredictable. The exhausted Jianlu was far from able to resist, and the front line on the left became stable. But it was not that easy to get past, because Jianlu killed one after another.
There are really many.
Zhong Jinwei frowned when he saw this situation, and then thought of a way to throw "hand grenades" behind Jianlu to reduce the pressure on Minzhuang's front.
He quickly ordered a group of tall and strong Minzhuang to pick up the treasure of defending the city, that is, the land that had not been used to defeat ten thousand enemies, and rushed to the battlefield.
After arriving behind the army formation, two minzhuangs formed a group. One held a weapon with ten thousand enemies, and the other lit the fuse. Then he ran forward with the minzhuang with ten thousand enemies and used the momentum to throw it towards the rear of Jianlu.
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An enemy of ten thousand people weighs about thirty kilograms. For these few strong people, it is no problem to throw them thirty steps.
Only five or six thousand enemies were seen thrown up from the rear of the Ming army, and after passing over the Ming army, they fell into the pile of built prisoners.
At the beginning, Jianlu thought that the Ming army would throw rocks or the like and just avoid them. But he didn't expect that as soon as these ten thousand enemies landed, the fuse would burn out and explode with a "boom".
Because there are no various drug stores in the city that can prepare poison, most of these home-made enemy weapons contain black powder.
Such an explosion was so powerful that it resounded in Jianlu's pile and shocked Jianlu at first.
Then a puff of black smoke dispersed, shrouding the densely packed buildings.
To be honest, the power of the explosion of a ten-thousand-person enemy made of black gunpowder did not satisfy later generations of Zhong Jinwei. Only the nearest few people were injured by the fragments.
However, the loud noise of the black powder explosion can still shock a group of people. Jianlu's ears near the explosion point were directly deafened and he could not hear anything.
In addition, the black smoke caused by the black powder explosion contained sulfur dioxide, a toxic gas produced by the black powder itself, which enveloped the Jianlu in large quantities. Not only did the smoke make their bodies black, they could not even breathe.
When the captives were so overwhelmed by thousands of local enemies, their morale suddenly disappeared and they began to run around in an attempt to escape from the black smoke area.
At this time, another three thousand enemies were thrown over, which eventually led to the complete collapse of the Jianlu forces in the rear.
The pressure on Lu Xiangsheng and the others was obviously relieved. He knew that the opportunity could not be missed and it would never come again. He quickly gathered up his energy and began to attack forward with all his strength.
In this kind of close combat, long weapons like the Yanyue Sword are very advantageous. You can sweep away a large area, but the enemy cannot hit you.
The middle part of the original 38th Parallel soon became much more prominent, heading towards the rear of Jianlu.
On both sides of Lu Xiangsheng, his servants attacked on both sides, tearing apart Jianlu's front.
On the Jianlu side, the people at the back had no time to support the front line because they were avoiding the explosion caused by the tens of thousands of enemies. However, the people in the front could not stop the Ming army with increasing morale. They did not hold out for long before the defense line was completely destroyed.
collapsed.
Zhong Jinwei was overjoyed at what he saw at the top of the city, and quickly sent out all the two hundred people who had stayed at Qingshui Mingyue Pass to support the front line and beat up the drowned dogs.
Yu Haijing no longer needed to protect Zhong Jinwei, because the situation would not be bad and she would lead Zhong Jinwei to escape. He was one of the two hundred people in reserve, leading the charge, and said secretly: "Mom, sister, I will take my place for you."