Chapter 499 The decisive battle in the mountain of corpses and sea of ??blood (1)
This was the most ferocious attack by the rebels since the war began. The rebel soldiers, knowing that they were about to die if defeated, pressed forward with red eyes, ignoring the fallen comrades one after another in front of them. The weapons in the hands of the pikemen who rushed at the front were crude, and many of them broke the barrels of their guns because of excessive force. They were just stunned for a moment, and were stabbed to death by the officers and soldiers standing behind the giant shields.
When the sun reaches due south, the color of the blood shines brighter.
Walking forward with human lives piled up, the front of each shield formation was covered with corpses.
A rebel soldier who looked to be in his forties took the opportunity to poke his spear through the gap in the shield. When he pulled it out, a stream of blood flowed out, but he did not feel any excitement at all, or even any feeling. He avoided the attack from behind the shield array and tried his best to continue his life. At this moment, he suddenly discovered that his fellow villager, Er Mao, a boy who was only sixteen years old, was stabbed over by a spear. The spear pierced his thigh and blood gushed out.
The young man fell to the ground wailing, waving the horizontal knife in his hand wildly and forcefully, as if crazy. Seeing that Er Mao was injured, the rebel soldier who usually regarded Er Mao as his son immediately rushed over, threw away the spear in his hand, hugged Er Mao from behind and dragged him back. The crazy boy didn't know who was behind him, so he subconsciously stabbed Er Mao back. in the bodies of rebel soldiers.
The rebel soldier was stunned. He slowly lowered his head and looked at the horizontal knife that had penetrated his lower abdomen. He watched as the blood flowed out like a waterfall when the blade was pulled out, and he watched his intestines squeeze out of the wound and hang outside. For a moment, he felt that the whole world turned red, pure bloody red.
"ah!"
It was only then that Er Mao realized that the one he had injured turned out to be Uncle Liu. He was so frightened that he dropped the horizontal knife in his hand and looked at this middle-aged man who took care of him in every possible way with his hands open and confused.
"Uncle LiuyesI'm sorry."
"alive"
The middle-aged man grinned, and suddenly he turned and stood in front of Er Mao, followed by two long spears that arrived almost at the same time, and stabbed the middle-aged man's back hard. The two-foot-long blade easily pierced his body, and there were still blood beads on the blade that emerged from his chest. And there was still a gradually solidifying smile on his face.
"Alive!"
The middle-aged man tried his best to speak in the gentlest tone, and then pushed Ermao back with all his strength. The pale boy stared blankly at the fellow villager who fell to the ground. The pain in his heart was stronger than the pain in his leg. He subconsciously moved over and dragged the middle-aged man's body back: "Uncle let's go home. We won't fight."
He moved back with difficulty, leaving a trail of blood on the ground.
"Go forward!"
A rebel army was rushing over and kicked Ermao, with cold eyes: "Stop pretending to be dead, rush forward for me, there is no time to cry now, if you have the ability, go kill the enemy who killed him!"
Seeing that Er Mao was still dragging the body back stupidly, the team was furious. He slashed Er Mao's neck with a knife. The head immediately flew out. With a pop, blood mist spurted out from the neck and splashed all over the team's body. His face was full of: "Those who retreat will die! You all remember this, if you don't work hard today, not only you will die tomorrow, but none of your family members, men, women, children, will survive!"
The corpse of the headless boy and the corpse of the middle-aged man were hugged together, and the blood of the two people merged and seeped into the earth.
After hearing the roar of the rebel commander, the rebel soldiers next to them gritted their teeth and continued to rush forward, using their shouts to release their animalistic nature to cover up their fear. No one took a second look at the pair of corpses lying on the ground. In the distance, the boy's head was kicked and rolled around by the soldiers who followed him, getting further and further away from the body. But he kept his eyes open, persistently looking at the world that he could no longer see. Blood and dust mixed together to coat the outside of the head, and the once clear eyes became dim.
In just half an hour, it took more than 10,000 deaths for the rebels to advance more than a dozen steps. The four-layer shield formation was breached, but the thickness of the official and military formations gave them a sense of powerlessness. In terms of equipment, the officers and soldiers are stronger than them, and in terms of fighting spirit, the officers and soldiers are not inferior to them, so at this moment it depends on whose courage lasts longer.
Shi Lei watched expressionlessly as his soldiers went on to die one after another, and then mechanically waved his hand to signal the rear troops to continue pushing forward. The number of casualties among the rebel soldiers was much higher than that of the official army. After all, the official army was blocked by a solid and thick giant shield. In the past, Shi Lei would never have watched his soldiers die like this, but today, he didn't even want to say a word.
He looked to both sides and found that the attacking rebel teams on both sides were still testing, and he was the only one.The team was rushing forward like crazy.
For some reason, Shi Lei actually smiled.
"Let's go."
He said to the close guards around him.
"Walk?"
The military commander was puzzled: "General, where are we going?"
Shi Lei shook his head: "I don't know, but it's time to leave the battlefield. Our manpower is insufficient. Li Yuanshan's plan is just to use our lives to consume the Sui army. We are all abandoned If there is an accident, Jin Shixiong will send troops to fight back. If we don't leave now, we won't be able to leave until the officers and soldiers rush out Li Yuanshan has never been attentive to me. I have tried my best to be worthy of him in this battle. , I don¡¯t need to follow him to death. The world is big, the worst is to hide incognito or leave the Great Wall If you are nostalgic for your hometown, find a place to hide, and never carry a knife again Remember!"
After saying this, Shi Lei turned his horse and rushed out of the formation.
Several hundred of his soldiers were in a daze, wondering why the general had suddenly made such a decision. With Shi Lei gone, do the rebels without anyone under their command still have a chance of winning?
They hesitated for a while, looking at each other to find the answer in each other's eyes. I don't know who spat first, scolded Li Yuanshan, "I-fuck-you are eight generations of ancestors", and then turned around and chased after Shi Lei. Others followed, but no one cared about this battlefield.
Just when they had just left the battle formation, the rumble of war drums came from the army!
The officers and soldiers fought back.
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General Jin Shixiong has been watching the battle. When he saw that the rebels' attack was weak, he immediately ordered the drums to be beaten. The soldiers who had long been prepared to counterattack drew their horizontal knives and held them tightly. As soon as the war drums sounded, the officers and soldiers on both wings took the lead in attacking, like tigers descending from the mountain, pushing back the feigning rebel team.
The officers and soldiers who had suppressed their strength and completely defeated the rebels today rushed forward with great morale. The rebels on both wings were originally a feint attack to attract the army's strength. Although they were prepared for a counterattack by the army, being prepared did not mean that they could be blocked. The official archers who retreated behind kicked off the counterattack with a round of projectiles, followed by countless light armored infantry who rushed out like a tide.
If the teams on both sides are like torrents, it will depend on who has more stamina when they collide.
On the Chinese side, the rebel offensive was suppressed immediately by the counterattack of the official army. After a stalemate for a while, the already tired rebels were pushed back by the more fierce official army. The officers and soldiers stepped on corpses every step they took, and their boots were soaked with blood before they took a few steps.
Heads were rolling on the ground, and broken limbs were everywhere.
A rebel soldier looked around blankly in the crowd, looking for his arm that had just been removed with a knife. He bent down and picked up an arm and looked at it, but found that the arm did not belong to him. He had no chance or time to continue searching because his enemies would not feel pity for him because he lost an arm.
When an officer soldier rushed forward, he stabbed the rebel soldier in the abdomen with a knife. The two bodies collided and fell to the ground. The moment the rebel soldier fell, he happened to see his broken arm next to him. He actually crawled forward with difficulty to get the arm back, regardless of the officers and soldiers stabbing him with knives. The officers and soldiers killed Hongyan, stepped on his back, raised their swords high and stabbed him down.
But at this time, the rebel soldier suddenly went crazy. He turned over and knocked the officer soldier away. Then he jumped up and hugged the officer soldier with one arm and pressed him to the ground. He hit the officer soldier hard with his head. With one blow to the head, the two people's faces were soon covered with blood.
¡°Why don¡¯t you let me get my hand back!¡±
"why why why!"
The rebel soldiers yelled while bumping into each other crazily, then lowered their heads and bit the officer's soldier's neck. The officer soldier screamed and struggled and pushed with all his strength, but the rebel soldier refused to let go and was bleeding. Soon it was coming out one after another, and the officers and soldiers gradually lost their strength, with fear in their eyes. With a pop, the rebel soldier bit open the enemy's artery, and the slightly hot blood spurted into his face.
After going crazy, the seriously injured rebel soldier never stood up again. He lay on the corpse of the officer and slowly closed his eyes. Before he died, he kept looking at his arm not far away.
"Report!"
An orderly soldier ran back with a pale face and knelt on one knee in front of Li Yuanshan: "Your Majesty, it's not good! General Shi Lei escaped before the battle, the front army was completely routed, the Sui army counterattacked and charged behind our routed troops, and the supervising team has stopped them. Can¡¯t stand it anymore!¡±
"Shi Lei!"
Li Yuanshan gritted his teeth and made a clicking sound.
"Archer!"
He ordered loudly: "Fire the arrow!"
"Your Majesty, those are our soldiers."
Someone said in horror.
Li Yuanshan said coldly: "If you don't want to be disrupted by your own defeated troops, just shut up! Shoot the arrows. No one is allowed to stop without my order!"
He pointed his hand forward, and tens of thousands of feather arrows immediately poured out. The retreating rebel front army did not expect that the Chinese army would greet them in this way, and they were at a loss in panic. The archers did not dare to stop without Li Yuanshan's order, and sent out the arrows in the arrow pot one after another. Soon, the defeated rebel soldiers were cleared of a vacuum zone, and not a single living person could be seen.
"Blow the trumpet and ask Zhou Dingguo to charge forward with the heavy armored infantry. If the heavy armor does not break through the Sui army's left wing within half an hour, he will not have to come back to see me!"
"Here!"
The ordering soldier immediately ran out to convey the order.
Li Yuanshan looked at the officers and soldiers rushing towards him like a tide, but his expression didn't change much. At this time, he was the general who had led troops for many years and experienced hundreds of battles, not the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom.
"The ballista, after two rounds of firing, the heavy cavalry will rush forward with me. According to my will, all the horses and horses will follow the heavy cavalry. If you don't reach the front in battle, you will be killed without mercy!"
He took off his long hair from the winning hook with a determined look in his eyes.