The sand was flowing under their feet and it was extremely hot, but neither Lao Cheng nor Xiao Tian Shui stopped.
Nothing is more important now than the heavy secret message in your hand.
Occasionally, gunfire and Niu Er's wanton mocking could be heard behind him.
But when they ran far away, the only sound left in their ears was the sound of wind.
If there is nothing, a faint cry comes from the horizon.
But soon the sound was torn apart by the strong wind.
Xiao Tianshui paused subconsciously, and he vaguely heard the subsequent explosion.
But now he has to move forward.
Lao Cheng didn't even pause, and climbed over another sand dune with three steps and two steps at a time.
He was running north, which meant he had to go around a big circle, so his task was even heavier, and he didn't have time to look back or even take a breath.
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It was already three days later when Pei Zilie, who was on the south bank of the river, received the news from Lao Cheng.
Three days, for a long-lasting war, may be just a blink of an eye, but in these three days, countless soldiers have fallen in the rolling yellow sand and on the banks of the Taotao River.
Although they didn't know why the enemy took the initiative to retreat, Pei Zilie and Li Xun more or less sensed something, so the orders given to their subordinates were very simple and clear.
At all costs, we must open up the river as soon as possible and seize several ferries.
Under the strong attack of the Han army, several ferries on the east bank of the river were successively captured. Of course, this was also because Murong Fuyun did not arrange too many troops in order to shrink the defense line. Otherwise, it would have been possible to defend these places based on danger.
It lasted for a while. After all, when Xue Wang was on the east bank of the river, he used the terrain here to effectively delay the enemy's crossing of the river.
At the last remaining ferry, the outer defenses have also been breached.
Although the trenches can block the Han army's artillery, for the Han soldiers who are not afraid of using shields to open the way and close hand-to-hand combat, it cannot really stop their progress. In the past few days, the Han soldiers have been marching along
The trenches advanced bit by bit, fighting the enemy one trench after another, and fighting fiercely in one pit after another. Almost every blow was bloody, and I don't know how many "encounters around the corner" I experienced.
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In addition, the fire blunderbuss and thunderbolts of the Han army soldiers were naturally put to use. These items were either used to directly kill the enemy face to face, or they were thrown directly when passing the corner.
It can surprise enemies hiding behind corners.
However, this thing has always been able to kill a thousand enemies and damage itself by eight hundred. It often hits one's own people or simply blows up one's own people. Fortunately, the Han army soldiers have now figured out a set of whistles or knocks to indicate their identity.
The shield was used to inform the people at the corner of the trench in front not to take action. Otherwise, sometimes a sudden attack at night would be enough to kill and injure many soldiers of the Han army.
However, as the Han soldiers went deeper along the trench, the enemy also began to capture a lot of firecrackers and thunderbolts. However, firstly, the enemy was not very good at using these things. Secondly, the amount they captured was still only a small number.
Therefore, it will not directly threaten the stability of the Han army's soldiers' front line.
Now the Han army is fighting steadily, attacking forward with a posture of advancing one horizontal trench every day. The enemy dug a total of five horizontal trenches. The distance between trenches is not very long, but each two horizontal trenches are separated from each other.
There are many connected communication trenches, which means that if you want to capture the entire trench, you need to fight back and forth at the intersection of each trench. Almost every intersection is filled with the corpses of soldiers from both sides, so much so that in some places even
Han army musketeers could lie on the corpse and use it as a cover to shoot.
Fortunately, the Han army's advance was relatively stable, and the corpses piled up in the trenches could be dealt with in time the next day as the Han army advanced. Otherwise, there would have been some kind of epidemic. After all, the wind was very strong on the bank of the river.
It was a big day, the sun was strong, and it was very hot at noon. This was not the first time that the body had swollen.
As the Han army attacked for a long time, almost all the troops went into battle to fight.
The main force of the Han army that followed Pei Zilie's arrival was no longer dominated by the Gong Han Army. The Zhenlin Army, the Tiger Wing Army and other elite Han troops were among them. During the previous Northern Expedition, these main forces of the Han Army were all on a certain battlefield.
The rulers have all made great achievements in the past. But now, almost all the troops transferred to the northwest are the teams that these troops originally replaced.
It is not that these teams are weak in combat effectiveness, or even quite the opposite. Most of them were elite troops who were responsible for breaking down the tough bones in the enemy's defense line at the beginning of the Northern Expedition.
Just by looking at the flags they displayed, we can tell that the "Pu Ban Pioneer" of the Zhenlin Army showed that this army had participated in the battle for Pu Ban at the beginning of the Battle of Hedong, and had made great contributions in seizing the strategic point of the river here.
The "Tiger of Xiaoshan" of the Tiger Wing Army naturally means that this team once attacked the Tongguan-Hanguguan defense line on the flank of Heluo under the personal leadership of Hussar General Xiao Shilian and achieved a breakthrough. As for the "Dahe" of the Yingyang Army
Not to mention "climbing first", it shows that this is the first Han army forward to break through the enemy's defense line on the river and plant the flag on the north bank of the river.
Most of these troops suffered heavy losses in the early stages of the battle, and some of them had even been reorganized. Unfortunately, by the time they had completed their rest and planned to go back to battle, the huge edifice of the Northern Zhou Dynasty had already fallen apart, and naturally it was
Without their place to use, he could only watch with envy the subsequent troops marching ahead with his former honor, while he had to take on the task of guarding the rear.
The Northern Expedition ended, and the war in the northwest started again. It was too late for the armies to retreat. Therefore, these soldiers who had been growing grass on their heads during the long rest and could not wait to go out to help the people farm all day suddenly had the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy.
Of course, they all raised their own loud banners, and then rushed to the northwest boldly and high-spirited. They had to show these guys guarding the border in the northwest what an elite force is and what it means to be a warrior who can fight through a hundred battles.
After arriving in the northwest, everyone discovered that this was not the case.
The guys guarding the border in the northwest fought hard enough, so fiercely that the fierce Tuyuhun army even wanted to take a detour. Now, everyone can no longer see the original robes in the northwest, because they are all surrounded by Wuwei or Jincheng
etc.
What everyone can see are guys who are all using similar banners to themselves, calling themselves elites in various armies, and their noses are almost raised to the sky.
Elites versus elites, and they are friendly forces. They obviously dislike each other and want to drag each other into a fight. However, the result is that they can only fight side by side and even have to help each other. This feeling is really not good.