The row of carts in front of Li Laiheng acted like a city wall at this time, protecting Bai Wang and other intruders at the rear. They were condescending and stabbed the officers and soldiers with spears, knives and sticks, and achieved extraordinary results.
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More importantly, this row of "car walls" that did not reach his chest gave Li Laiheng a complete sense of psychological security, and made it particularly difficult for the officers and soldiers of Zuozhen who were trying to annihilate the intruders.
During the thrusts of the spear, Li Laiheng felt like he was popping balloons. The touch of the human body and internal organs after being punctured did not make Li Laiheng feel sick. Instead, it made the fighting spirit in his heart burn.
It became more intense.
Li Shuangxi, who was at the front, had no protection from the car wall. He rode his skinny horse and rushed through the rugged mountain roads. With an irresistible offensive, he smashed the line of officers and soldiers into pieces. Li Shuangxi's men were capable.
The Yebushou soldiers also followed up one after another and rushed into the gap in the torn battle line, forcing the left army officers and soldiers to retreat one after another.
During the camp break, Liu Zongmin was the most rugged and good at fighting, while Li Shuangxi's fighting style was slightly different. Liu Zongmin rushed into battle like a desperado, while Li Shuangxi focused on showing off his extraordinary martial arts. At this time, he looked nothing like his usual self.
Like, he is both courageous and calm, without any of his usual irritable and unreliable temperament.
The stern Li Guo stood still like a mountain. He was busy directing the infantry to fill the battle line and keep the left army officers and soldiers at the periphery. Then he carefully observed the changes in the battlefield situation, and from time to time concentrated more than a dozen intruders in a certain place.
At this point, a concentrated attack was carried out to force the officers and soldiers back.
Li Guo's calm command and deployment were the core of Chuangying's ability to resist the offensive of the army. Since the second year of Chongzhen, when he followed his uncle Li Zicheng to raise an army, his army was in a trance, and he earned the nickname "Tiger" with his extraordinary bravery. However,
The real strength of Li Guo lies in his calm character. No matter how the situation changes suddenly, he can seize the hope and opportunities in the chaotic waves.
This calm style and calm personality made Li Guo a natural general. In the history of Li Laiheng's later generations, Li Laiheng's adoptive father would turn the tide and break through the great defeat of the army in the Battle of Shanhaiguan.
The Qing army pursued and intercepted them, fought for thousands of miles, and retreated completely, leaving behind a seed of the Zhongzhen Camp and the Kuidong Thirteen Family.
On the side of the Ming army, seeing that the offensive was unfavorable and that the battlefield situation was constantly tilting towards the Chuangying side, a general from Zuozhen finally couldn't hold himself back.
The Zuozhen general organized his troops in a panic, shouting repeatedly: "Fire the blunderbuss, fire the blunderbuss! Quickly fire the marbles!"
A series of continuous firing of firecrackers sounded on the battlefield. The Ming army, half kneeling on the ground, finally lit the firecrackers in their hands, and a cloud of smoke exploded on the front line of Zuozhen officers and soldiers.
Due to the influence of the heavy rain and moisture, more than half of the fire cannons failed to successfully fire the marbles. However, only the remaining small half of the marbles still had a significant impact on the battle situation.
The elite platoon led by Li Shuangxi stayed up all night and was hit many times by firecrackers. Even Li Shuangxi himself took a bullet in his arm. The counterattack of the intruders was suppressed, and the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to stabilize their position and rush in.
The Yebushou who were deep in the left army's front line were killed or driven back one by one.
Some more marbles hit the cart in front of Li Laiheng, stirring up many fragments. The smoky firecrackers shocked him, as they were much more of a threat than bows and arrows.
The sudden blow from the left army's artillery had a great impact on the morale of the soldiers who broke into the camp. The entire front line, which was rushing forward bravely and desperately charging, was frustrated by it.
The mist after the rain mixed with the smoke caused by the bullets fired from the firecrackers. The officers and soldiers' swords and guns passed through this layer of mist and killed again. The second round of firecrackers was also fired at this time, making the battle extremely tense.
A tragic situation.
The cart in front of Li Laiheng was pushed over by Zuozhen officers and soldiers who rushed up again, and some food and supplies fell on the ground. Ming soldiers wearing cloth armor and helmets, holding long knives in their hands, had already rushed to Li Laiheng.
At this distance, the advantage of the spear's length becomes a disadvantage.
Li Laiheng, who was getting nervous, had no choice but to put aside the spear in his hand. He quickly took out the waist knife he carried on his back. This waist knife was a gift from Li Shuangxi. It was supposed to be a weapon used by a certain Ming army general.
The craftsmanship is very sophisticated, and the blade shines with a cold light.
Li Laiheng moved his body, dodged the attack of the Ming soldiers, and then drew out his sword and slashed with his backhand. But after all, his physical strength and martial arts were very ordinary, and the sword failed to judge the distance and timing well, so it failed.
Fortunately, Bai Wang, who was not far from Li Laiheng, was the first to react: when he saw that the "car wall" in front of Li Laiheng was broken through by the left army first, he was worried that the entire front line would collapse, so he immediately led two soldiers to support him.
Bai Wang and the other two soldiers used spears and big staffs to pierce the armor of the Ming soldier from the side. The officer and soldier let out a scream of pain, and stared at him with a pair of ferocious and angry eyes.
Li Laiheng's eyes are scary.
Without thinking much, Li Laiheng stabbed the soldier's abdomen from the front with his sword. With a pop, Li Laiheng pulled out the sword, and some blood spattered on his face. The sharp sword was still dragged from the soldier's lower abdomen.
Out came some runny guts.
But Li Laiheng really didn't have a minute or a second to be afraid or pretentious about the scene in front of him. The counterattack of Zuozhen officers and soldiers became more and more fierce. Li Shuangxi was injured by the bullets of the fire cannon and fell off his horse. The entire battle situation was changing.
Things took a turn for the worse. Li Laiheng didn't even bother to wipe the blood off his face, and hurriedly pushed the cart back up to maintain the integrity of the "car wall" front.
Li Guo looked at the army array whose morale was low due to Li Shuangxi's fall. He didn't panic. He asked Bai Wang to mobilize the front line, while he and a few soldiers beside him, plus the few remaining Yebu troops.
They gathered together and rescued Li Shuangxi from the encirclement of Zuozhen officers and soldiers.
"I couldn't dodge... and I got everyone involved!"
Looking at Li Guo who had put down his command position and fought desperately to save him, causing many scars, Li Shuangxi felt guilty. He even felt that his loss had caused a low morale in the entire camp, and he blamed himself especially.
Li Guo shook his head and said: "Don't worry...Shuangxi, the night guard you sent to the old camp should have arrived, right?"
Li Shuangxi was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered the two Ye Bushou who had been sent back to the old camp to deliver the news, and said in surprise: "Yes! They should be here, and the old boss will definitely send someone to pick us up!"
Li Guo nodded in agreement and replied: "That's right... As long as we hold on to the front and wait until the old camp comes to help, the battle situation will turn around."
Li Guo and Li Shuangxi retreated behind the "vehicle wall" built by Li Laiheng, and handed the injured Li Shuangxi to Bai Wang and Li Laiheng for their care and protection.
He appreciated Li Laiheng's military strategy and quick wit in organizing the "car wall" defense line, and said: "When I was in Guanzhong, I saw the Qin soldiers using similar tactics. It was really effective when I used it now."
Li Laiheng took the time to answer Li Guo's words and took a break to restore his physical strength. He replied: "When I was in my hometown in Mizhi, I organized some village warriors. Although I don't have much experience in marching and fighting, I don't have much experience in marching and fighting.
Not completely clueless.”
People like Li Laiheng who had participated in Xiangyong were not taboo in Chuying. In fact, many of the backbones of the militia that dominated the world at this time came from mutinous and unemployed frontier soldiers.
"What a boy!" Li Shuangxi, who fell injured, exclaimed, "I think in time, Laiheng will also be a tiger. In addition to the second tiger Liu Tichun, we will have another tiger in the camp!"
Li Guo smiled, and while organizing and mobilizing the front line, he said: "Then Laiheng is a little tiger, which is not bad at all."
Bai Wang also intervened and said: "When we kill the officers and soldiers, Laiheng can use 'Ruhu' as his nickname."
Ruhu...
When Li Laiheng heard the nickname casually spoken by Bai Wang, he inexplicably thought of Liang Qichao's famous "Young China".
A young man is like the rising sun, a young man is like a breasted tiger, a young man is like the origin of the Yangtze River.
When the red sun rises, its path shines brightly.
The river flows out and flows into the ocean.
The hidden dragon soared into the abyss, its scales and claws flying.
The tiger roars in the valley, and all the beasts are terrified.
"The tiger roars in the valley, and all the beasts are terrified!"
A sudden ambition arose in Li Laiheng's heart. The sky is blue and the earth is yellow. The future is as bright as the sea and the days ahead are long.
He picked up the spear and shouted: "Then let's watch Ruhu break into the camp and kill the enemy for me!"
Relying on the "vehicle wall" defense line, the soldiers of the camp guarded the danger and blocked another wave of attacks by the officers and soldiers. Many of the firebombs that were the most threatening to the camp hit the grain transport trucks.
It didn't cause too many casualties.
The morale of the soldiers who broke into the camp gradually recovered, and the battle line became stronger and more stable. At the same time, from the valley in the distance, Li Guo vaguely saw a group of figures approaching closer and closer.
At first he was worried whether this was a reinforcement of the Ming army, but as the distance got closer, Li Guo finally gained full confidence from the familiar and fair face of the leading general.
"Reinforcements from the old camp have arrived!"
Li Shuangxi first sent two men who were still in charge of the old camp, and they lived up to their expectations. They reported the plan of Liu Zongmin and Li Guo to separate the troops to transport grain and fodder, and fully reported it to the old commander Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng immediately sensed the difficult situation that Li Guo's team might encounter through his keen sense of battlefield, so he sent Liu Fangliang to take dozens of soldiers who stayed in the old camp, and five or six soldiers around Li Zicheng to respond.
Li Guo.
Liu Fangliang is handsome and has a rare fair face among the many dark-skinned men in the camp. But his temperament is completely different from his appearance. He is brave, ruthless, bloodthirsty and warlike. He is a very dangerous person in the camp.
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At this time, Liu Fangliang rushed to the battlefield with the remaining soldiers and Li Zicheng's personal soldiers, and immediately became the last straw to turn the tide of the war.
These newly arrived troops broke the stalemate balance between Chuangying and Zuozhen. They were overwhelming and dealt a terrible blow to the exhausted Zuozhen officers and soldiers, both in strength and spirit.
Liu Fangliang was merciless. He took this pair of powerful soldiers and horses to cut the official and army lines from the outside like a long knife cutting flesh.
Liu Fangliang's martial arts skills are not as good as those of Liu Zongmin and Li Shuangxi, but his inner temperament is much more ruthless and fierce than the powerful Liu Zongmin. On the battlefield, he not only looks lifeless, he simply regards his own life and the lives of others as
Child's play.
Li Laiheng was simply amazed when he watched Liu Fangliang's charge. This fair and handsome general was more like a character like Zhang Fei or even Li Kui than Liu Zongmin. He used killing as a sport. His ferocity and bravery even made Li Laiheng feel a little jealous.
A little bit of the long-lost feeling of fear.
"The officers and soldiers are fleeing..." Li Guo's battlefield sense is also very keen. He noticed the loosening of the officers and soldiers' lines outside the "car wall" and knew that the resistance of the officers and soldiers was on the verge of collapse. "We pushed down the cars and rushed out.