Chapter 490: Death Charge

Although the deep trenches were wide and deep, the Ming army launched several times to fill trenches, but the speed was indeed very fast when Shunjun filled the trenches he dug.

The Ming army on the opposite side made a strait, and even the flags used to indicate the troops could not be straightened. This was not because of lack of energy, but because it was because it had no strength to move at all.

The situation in front of him is indeed not the best effect that King Li Zicheng wants to siege. At least the Ming army can still stand up. It is estimated that at the critical moment, they can still fight with weapons. But with such morale and status, they are already watching Shunjun constantly filling the trenches there.

The soil inside the mabao was constantly poured into the trench. Nearly 10,000 infantrymen poured the soil in front of the Shun Army, and the formation was quite loose so that everyone could turn back to the back team to fill the soil after the pouring.

More than 10,000 people continued, as if a huge machine was running. Each soldier quickly ran back to the back team, and then ran back with soil on his back. Their station positions were almost the same. Such organizational strength and discipline were amazing. After the Shunjun Zijianwang came out in the Yufu Mountains, he had indeed trained an army in recent years.

But in the eyes of Ming Jun on the opposite side, there was no sign of admiration. He was shocked, even more timid and more depressed.

Bai Guangen and He Renlong were separated and returned to their own army, preparing to drive their infantry attacks when the Shun Army crossed the trench. However, with the continuous movement in front, the two generals could not stay there, and each brought their people to watch. When they stepped forward, the trench was already half filled.

The nearly five hundred steps of the trench will be filled over and over again this week, with the front of the 500 steps. This means that the Shun Army will be engaged in a major battle to devote itself to the main force.

When Zhuxian was in charge of the land, the Shun Army first waited for the Ming army to collapse, then used a small group of troops to completely disrupt the Ming army, and then attacked the entire army and wiped out completely.

At that time, the Ming army dominated by Zuo Liangyu actually moved first and rushed towards the trench, and when the bodies almost filled the trench. The Shun Army came out in full swing. With this kind of fighting, the Shun Army did not have to spend any effort or worry about paying too much casualties, and completely annihilated nearly 200,000 Ming army.

They rushed to cross the trenches and trampled on them, which was extremely miserable, but this was a waste. Bai Guangen, He Renlong and Xu Dingguo were also considered military generals who had fought old wars, so they naturally understood the key points. Zuo Liangyu was hungry at that time, and they had no mounts to kill the horses until the critical moment, and they were calmly blocked by the Shun Army. It was reasonable to annihilate it. It was really good luck that Zuo Liangyu could run out.

But now there are differences here. Bai Guangen, He Renlong and Xu Dingguo's three generals have a total of about 5,000. Relying on the strategy of starving the ordinary soldiers below to make them eat enough, these people are still elite new forces, and they can stand out in the space.

However, I didn't expect that the Shun Army's determination would be so great this time. Although most of the Ming army was hungry and weak, they were not yet at the level of no physical strength. At that time, they were on the verge of despair, and fighting with weapons would cause casualties to the Shun Army. According to Zhuxian Town, the Shun Army should not take the initiative to provoke such expenses.

At this time, the Ming army should be stronger than Zhu Xianzhen, while at this time, the Shun army was smaller than the Li and Luo coalition forces at that time, and there were also the main force on guarding various key points, so it should not be so big.

Things on the battlefield changed rapidly. The generals of the Ming army were thinking well, but the situation was moving in a direction they didn't want at all.

Bai Guangen and He Renlong no longer bothered to say hello, but they all returned to their own army at the same time. To mobilize their troops. This is a real trouble.

The width of the trench can be used to hit the ground, whether it is a bow or an arrow, or a bird gun. Not to mention the artillery, but the personal guards of the generals of each family can shoot bows and archery, the control of the firearms is relatively unfamiliar. For them, they still dare to fight first.

Nowadays, even if you want to cause some trouble to the Shun Army on the other side, the soldiers who are in the front can only draw their bows and shoot one arrow or two arrows, and this archer cannot tolerate any carelessness.

But even those who can shoot arrows are far away from the trench, because the Shun Army had already set up artillery on the opposite side early, and even if they wanted to push the artillery up here, they would not be able to.

"The soldiers of all battalions obey orders and work hard to move forward, be loyal to the emperor and sacrifice their country for the imperial court. At this moment, if they retreat and hesitate, the military law will deal with it immediately and behead them!!"

After Bai Guangen and He Renlong returned to the back team, someone immediately loudly passed the order to the front, layer by layer. The Shanxi General Xu Dingguo and the General Hou Xun behind them ignored the infantrymen and directly ordered them to garrison on the spot, while he led the horse team to follow the two generals.

In the back team, the personal soldiers and horses were shot into a big squad, not to attack the enemy, but to drive their infantry forward.

When the Tartars attacked the city, they liked to use the people of the Ming Dynasty as cannon fodder in front and wait for an opportunity in the back. Now they treat their own soldiers as cannon fodder and let them rush forward.

When the order was issued, the soldiers of Shun Army opposite were still filling the trench. Yuan Zongdi, who was watching the formation in front, saw the orders in the Ming army's array, and the entire team began to stir up. The soldiers of the Ming army were reluctant, but they could not help but leaned towards this side.

Seeing the movements of the Ming army, the general of the Shun Army Yuan Zongdi immediately issued an order. The soldiers who were filling the soil stopped filling the soil and put the soil buns down on the edge of the trench. When all the Shun Army soldiers put the soil buns down, a wall of earth that was half a person high was already formed on the side of the trench against the Shun Army.

Shunjun dug this trench, lands it again, and now he builds a low wall. This civil engineering project consumes a lot of manpower, but for Shunjun, the only thing that is not lacking is this manpower.

After all the soldiers threw the carrying of the landblocks there, the musketeers and archers of the Shun Army began to come to the front row, and the cannons also began to load ammunition.

The front end of the Ming army was reluctantly leaning towards the front. To be honest, although the Ming army is exhausted now, it is not time to collapse, and the orders issued by the above will be executed.

Moreover, the weapons in the hands of the cavalry behind were hitting downwards, and the soldiers in the back team slowly moved forward, but if the soldiers in the front were slow, they would be beaten. If they wanted to move forward, they would also beat the soldiers in the front team. They went forward one by one, and the entire team slowly pressed over.

Soon, the Ming army in the front team entered the range of artillery, but the Shun army's artillery did not fire. Anyway, it was through a trench that had not been filled, so it was more certain to hit it when it was placed closer.

"Shoot the arrow!!"

The leaders of the Shun Army shouted loudly, and the archers of the Shun Army pulled their bows and shot arrows one after another. When they shot, the arrows did not shoot flat, but rose slightly.

Arrow clusters were trampled by parabolas and landed in the Ming army's array. Such shooting did not require any precise aiming, it only needed to aim in one direction and shoot the bow and arrow in your hand. Anyway, the Ming army opposite was surrounded by clusters and arrows shot over, and they would definitely hit or hit.

The more than two thousand archers of the Shun Army fired together, and the momentum was quite amazing. The bowstrings were flexing and the trembling buzzing sounded. The sound was accompanied by the screams and falls of the Ming army opposite.

Seeing the arrow shooting here, the Ming army's momentum was only slightly slower, and then the order was passed from behind to forward, and hesitated and rushed forward!

Rather than starving to death here or being eaten by a companion, it is better to be shot to death by a bow or even trampled to death during this charge, which is much better than starving to death, eating people or becoming food.

When the commander issued the command, everyone hesitated for a moment, then rushed towards the trench. There are too many cruel and cruel things in this world than death, so it is better to die so happily.

The trained archers were able to shoot seven or eight arrows continuously with all their strength. Seeing the Ming army on the opposite side rushing forward, they were covered by trenches and low walls, they shot them continuously without caring about it.

Such arrow clusters are diffused, except for some unlucky people, and few people die in one blow. However, most people believe that they are extremely weak during this period. When they are shot by bows and arrows, their bodies cannot withstand this damage at all. They lose their ability to move and fall to the ground. Then they are trampled by their companions and can no longer get up.

Most of the ones ahead were miscellaneous brands such as landlords and civilian tyrants, which were originally in a state of collapse. In such a scene like Shura hell, it was completely crazy, but the soldiers in the back team could not tolerate them blocking the way in front.

As soon as the movement slowed down, the sword and weapons immediately greeted him without hesitation. There was death in front and death closer behind. Everyone could only rush forward without hesitation.

Although the rain of arrows from the Shunjun archers caused great casualties to the Ming army, it did not stop the opponent's advance. The Shunjun's artillery finally completed its preparations. Nearly seventy artillery pieces of different sizes roared in sequence, and the bird guns behind the archers also fired.

Within this distance, even the worst firearm can exert lethality. Moreover, after this firearm, the Ming army array in front of him was directly wiped out.

But they still ran to the edge of the trench. The comrades in front died, and the people behind pushed the comrades' bodies down into the trench. The trench is still as deep as half a person, and a few corpses do not work. It is too late to see this deep trench even if hesitates.

The people behind pushed them down like they were pushing corpses, and then the people behind were pushed down further.
Chapter completed!