Chapter four hundred and thirty second son of a bitch, pay off debts
Wu Lang didn't even look at the Ming soldier he had just chopped down. Instead, he strode forward, raised his shield with his left hand to block, and then swung away a spear that was thrust towards him, and then made a standard
The move of bullying the body and slashing forward!
In less than two seconds, the Ming soldier in front of him who dared to fight with a spear in close combat and had no armor on his body was chopped down with a single sword!
After cutting down the spearman in front of him, he saw that one of his comrades a few meters away was being surrounded by four Ming soldiers. He immediately took a few steps and a Ming soldier on the opposite side also spotted him. Moreover, this Ming soldier seemed to be an officer.
, although he didn’t know whether it was a hundred households or a general banner, but he was wearing armor. Facing such an enemy, he didn’t need to slash with a knife, he just raised his shield and hit him hard!
The tall man's shield attack was so powerful that he directly knocked the Ming army officer in front of him back several steps. However, Wu Lang was unyielding and followed closely, the steel knife in his hand coming from behind.
Slash forward from top to bottom.
The entire blade did not directly hit the Ming army officer in front of him, but only a few centimeters of the blade tip lightly scratched his neck!
In an instant, blood spurted out from the neck of this Ming army officer, spraying out like a fountain several feet high!
The Ming army officer threw away the shield and knife in his hands and covered his neck with both hands, trying to stop the blood from flowing out, but it was in vain.
Wu Lang still didn't care about this dead man. He bypassed this man directly, then raised the long knife in his hand, raised his comrade to block the long knife, then turned around and stood back to back with his comrade.
Together!
"Goro, you are still alive. I thought you were dead just now!" the comrade behind him said in a breathy voice!
"Be careful, left!" Wu Lang dodged and dodged the thrust of a spear. Without even looking, he slashed directly at the Ming army spear who had used too much force and could not stop his steps.
Hands cut off!
The spear and a pair of hands fell to the ground at the same time, leaving only a Ming soldier who had lost his hands and let out a shrill scream!
"If you, surnamed Wang, die, I will not die!" When Wu Lang spoke, he glanced quickly and saw several more Ming soldiers coming around to his side. He immediately raised his shield again and made preparations.
blocking posture.
"Haha, I thought you were dead, so I don't have to pay back the money I owe you!" The voice of the comrade behind him paused, and after he finished speaking, there was a continuous muffled sound!
"What's wrong?" Wu Lang looked at the few Ming soldiers in front of him who were trying to rush forward. The soldiers who didn't look back at their comrades at all could only ask: "Are you alive?"
The voice of the comrades behind him came again: "I can't die... I just... was bitten by a knife... and a piece of flesh fell off. It's not... no big deal!"
This was said very easily, but it was said with a pause. Wu Lang also noticed something was wrong, but several Ming soldiers in front had already rushed forward!
He didn't have time to think about anything else. He immediately raised the shield in his hand to block, swinging away the spear that was the greatest threat to him, and then the long knife in his right hand once again deflected it and struck him on the head.
After pushing away the long knife, the steel knife in his hand did not stop. Instead, it drew a semicircle in the air, directly turning diagonally from bottom to top across the Ming army holding the long knife in front of him.
abdomen!
The tip of the knife accurately cut across the abdomen of the Ming army in front of him again, and the blood droplets splashed in the air, and even a few drops fell on the face of a Ming army soldier next to him!
The Ming army swordsman who had his abdomen cut open was already covering his abdomen in pain and fell down. The man hadn't fallen down yet, but strings of intestines were already flowing out of his abdomen!
He did not die, even after lying down, he still did not die immediately. He was enduring the pain and tried to put his intestines back into his abdomen, but he couldn't get it in!
This scene made a Ming soldier next to him, whose face was stained with this man's blood, scream at the top of his lungs. The next moment, the Ming soldier threw away the long knife in his hand, then turned around and ran away. , but he ran in the wrong direction, and behind him was the edge of the city wall!
I don't know if it was because he couldn't hold back his feet, or because he had no intention of holding back his feet at all, or simply because he had completely turned a blind eye to the surrounding scene. He only saw that his feet were in the air, and then he jumped down from the city wall. !
The posture is graceful and artistic, as if he didn't stumble and fall, but was walking in the air!
The next moment, the Ming soldier fell to the ground with a thud and curled up sideways on the ground. Although his body was a little twisted, he looked as if he had fallen asleep.
If someone passes by him and looks down at his face, they will find that his eyes are not closed, and the expression on his face is still full of fear!
However, although people kept passing by him, no one stopped to take a look at him, let alone take a closer look at his face!
Under the city wall, Cai Erhu urged the Second Assault Battalion to launch a charge, and then led several of his subordinates and guards to climb up the city wall. On the wall in front of him, hundreds of heavy-armored sword and shield bearers had already stabilized their position. , and forcibly squeezed out a city wall only more than ten meters wide from the crowd of Ming soldiers.
For this reason, the first wave of more than 100 troops of the New Army of the Tang Dynasty who climbed the wall suffered more than one-third casualties, and no less than 50 people were killed or injured!
These fifty people are not ordinary soldiers, but the most elite heavy armored sword and shield bearers in the entire new army of the Tang Dynasty!
The new army of the Tang Dynasty, which can serve as the first wave of troops to climb the wall, was selected from the entire army and consisted of more than 16,000 people. It only gathered 600 heavy armored sword and shield bearers!
However, in order to fight for a mere ten-meter section of the city wall, more than fifty people were killed and injured!
The price is not heavy, but it is all worth it!
They captured this section of the city wall for the follow-up army. Although it was only a dozen meters long, it allowed the follow-up troops to continuously pass through this gap and climb to the top of the city, and then advance to both sides until they captured all the city walls and gates. By that time, The city of Liping completely opened its clothes to the new army of the Tang Dynasty.
Compared with the captured section of the city wall, the massive casualties they caused to the Ming army during the fighting were secondary. The corpses of the Ming army lying all over the city were not even looked at by anyone.
The senior generals of the Ming Army saw that the new army of the Tang Dynasty had stormed the city wall and were mobilizing their troops. Zhu Zhihai even ignored his previous high-ranking high-ranking officials and became a little desperate. He was urging his subordinates. The generals mobilized their troops and tried to drive out these puppet Tang rebels in the shortest possible time.
Why do we have to work as quickly as possible and strive for the shortest time? Because in less than a minute, a large number of soldiers from the puppet Tang rebel army will rush to the top of the city through this gap. This means that as time goes by, the Ming army wants to attack the city.
It will become more and more difficult for Tang Xinjun to drive down the city!
Zhu Zhihai and other Ming army generals wanted to drive down the more than 100 new Tang troops on the city as soon as possible, while Cai Erhu mobilized as many troops as possible to board the city, and cooperated with other troops to board the city to expand the occupation.
area to accommodate more soldiers!
In this way, they can hold on during the upcoming Ming army's counterattack and hold the passage up the city wall for the subsequent army!
After Cai Erhu also climbed to the top of the city with his own soldiers, more than 400 people in the assault force had climbed to the top of the city, and there were dozens of grenadiers inside!
These grenadiers were vulnerable in the initial stage of hand-to-hand combat on the city. Without the protection of heavy armor, they held the muskets in their hands. Even if the muskets had bayonets, it was absolutely impossible for them to survive the early Ming army siege.
survived.
But when the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers opened the gap and these grenadiers successfully climbed to the top of the city, their power was clearly demonstrated!
Facing the counterattack of the Ming army, Cai Erhu directly arranged the grenadiers to line up behind the sword and shield soldiers, and then threw grenades towards the crowded city wall of the Ming army in front, while using bayonet-mounted muskets to provide cover for the sword and shield soldiers!
Facts have proven that this tactic is extremely effective!
Grenades can intensively kill enemy troops, and they are also protected by the heavy armored sword and shield soldiers in the front row, so they will not be attacked by the Ming army's melee troops. At the same time, they can also use bayonets or even directly shoot to provide cover for the sword and shield soldiers.
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At the same time, on a small city wall, a musket with a bayonet of just over two meters is far more flexible than a three or four-meter spear. With the cooperation of sword and shield soldiers, the power it exerts is far greater.
For those who use inconvenient spears!
After all, the battle on the top of the city is not the frontal fighting in the field, but the close combat. The chaotic fighting between the two sides makes it impossible for you to slowly line up and then form a dense spear formation to move forward.
Opportunity!
When all three assault battalions of the assault force climbed onto the city wall, the first brigade outside the city was no longer outside the city. Hao Bainian immediately ordered the two main infantry battalions under the first infantry regiment to advance forward!
At the same time, he also strictly ordered the 7th Infantry Regiment and the 8th Infantry Regiment to continue launching operations to climb the city, not expecting them to open a gap, but to let them contain a large number of Ming troops!
These two Ming army surrendered infantry regiments also have four to five thousand people. They can at least contain the same number of Ming troops in front of them. If the Ming army ignores these two infantry regiments, then there will be no need for the hard battle between the assault force and the first brigade.
, these two Ming army surrendered infantry regiments can also conquer the city!
Although the Ming army's descending troops have weaker combat effectiveness and lower morale, they are still an army after all. If the Ming army in front of you doesn't block it, they can still charge forward.
When the first brigade also launched its final charge, Zeng Ziwen from the rear said to Li Xuan with a face full of joy: "Congratulations, Your Majesty, congratulations, Your Majesty, our King's Division is only a few inches away from defeating the puppet Ming thief army!"
In fact, when thousands of new troops of the Tang Dynasty rushed to the city, the outcome of this offensive and defensive battle had actually been decided, and the next step was nothing more than how many results were achieved!
This is, for many people, the battle has just begun, such as the 1st Infantry Battalion that has just climbed to the top of the city!
But for many people, their battle is over. For example, the first wave of elite heavy armored sword and shield soldiers who entered the city had suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted. At this time, they were sitting on the top of the city one by one.
Smiling with joy, some people simply sat on the ground in a daze!
Wu Lang, on the other hand, was half-kneeling to lift up the comrade he had fought back to back with just now, letting the blood from his comrade's body stain his armor! The comrade's mouth was dripping with blood, and the armor on his chest had been torn.
A large hole, a penetrating wound apparently caused by a spear, penetrated his right chest!
At this time, his comrade was muttering something. He leaned over and put his ear closer to listen. Then he straightened up and said, "Are you kidding? How can you not pay it back? That's three taels of silver. I'm still waiting for you."
When you get better, you can pay me back with your salary!"
However, at this time, the comrade he was supporting had already collapsed and couldn't even murmur. Finally, when he tilted his head, he completely lost his voice!
Seeing this, Wu Lang immediately said loudly: "You haven't paid back my money yet. How can you die? How can you die? Please open your eyes!"
"Wang, you are a bastard. You refuse to repay your debts. How come I got to know a bastard like you?"
"Get me up quickly, that's three taels of silver, enough for me to drink for a month!"
Wu Lang shouted, and finally he shouted, and he just said the word "pay back the money" repeatedly!
Occasionally, soldiers passing by looked at the living man and the dead man in the corner of the city wall, but no one went to see what happened to them!
No one could hear Wu Lang's cry except himself and his dead comrades!