Valley Emperor

Genius to remember the address of this site in one second: (apex Chinese), the fastest update! No ads! Although the parapet built by the first army forward troops is only more than two meters high, less than ten feet high, but the Ming army wants to climb over it. It's not easy, because there are soldiers of the First Infantry Regiment on the other end.

If the two sides fought with a parapet, the Ming army outside the chest could only raise the spear and bayonet, and could only attack the Tang army's head above the shoulders.

However, the Datang Army soldiers above the parapet were able to calmly kill the enemy from a height.

In addition, a key point is that the Datang Army has now changed its plate armor on a large scale. The First Infantry Regiment has completed its reorganization, and naturally it has also changed its plate armor. The original heavy armored spearmen, heavy armored sword shield soldiers , are basically wearing full body plate armor.

Even the original light-armored spearmen and light-armored sword and shield soldiers were equipped with the original cotton iron armor or iron armor. After all, these are also armors. The Datang Army has not yet had the luxury to throw these replaced armors directly. Instead, these cotton iron armor and iron armor were given to the original light armored spearmen and light armored sword and shield soldiers.

In other words, in fact, the spearmen and sword and shield fighters in the completely reorganized units of the Datang Army are already all heavy armored arms.

Even the musketeers and archers, depending on the situation, will be equipped with half-armor or breastplate, for example, in defensive operations that do not require frequent maneuvering.

This is the case with the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Vanguard Force, whose armor rate is far higher than that of the Ming army on the opposite side!

If both sides had not entered the age of firearms, but were still in the age of cold weapons, the 1st Infantry Regiment would have been able to kill the 30,000 Ming troops in front of them with just relying on these armors.

It's a pity that the current armor, even plate armor, has only a secondary role on the battlefield. After all, armor can't stop cannonballs, or even bullets!

But in the current stage of hand-to-hand combat, armor still plays an irreplaceable and important role!

The geographical advantage plus the armor advantage and the physical fitness and combat skills of the soldiers of the Tang Army are indeed much higher than those of the soldiers of the Ming army!

So it caused such a huge casualty exchange ratio!

And this kind of tragic casualties is also the first time that the new army, the supervising officer of these two guards, has been shaken. For a while, he didn't dare to step forward, and then he didn't know who started to turn around and run away, but in less than a minute, the Ming army of these two guards was in chaos and even collapsed!

Then, just like the training troops in the previous places, they were defeated in front of the Datang Army, and they all wished their parents gave them two less legs!

Looking at the new army of inspectors who ran away, Wang Chaohong on the top of the mountain showed a sneer: "Inspector Zhang Yue, it's just that!"

However, although he said so, the first line of defense, the front-line officers who had just experienced a fight, still had lingering fears!

The 1st Infantry Regiment is the veteran ace unit of the Datang Army. It has fought a lot of battles, but it is the first time that it has encountered such a fierce opponent.

In the hand-to-hand battle just now, although the opponent was repelled, Tang Jun also paid a big price!

In this round of defensive operations, the total casualties of the Tang troops of all divisions were no less than 400!

A small number of them were killed by enemy artillery fire, some were killed by enemy bows and arrows, some were killed by muskets, and some were killed or injured in hand-to-hand combat.

Although they killed and wounded more soldiers of the Ming army, the total strength of the Ming army was large, with a total of 30,000 people, and their vanguard troops were only more than 5,000 people, and there were 800 cavalry soldiers who were not here. In addition, hundreds of artillerymen and soldiers of hundreds of baggage units were also unable to participate in these hand-to-hand combat.

The combat infantry who can fight on the front line is actually only 3,000 people of the 1st Infantry Regiment.

In the battle just now, the 1st Infantry Regiment suffered 300 casualties, accounting for three-quarters of all casualties in the vanguard.

This casualty is not small.

More importantly, if you come a few more times, your First Infantry Regiment will probably be exhausted by the enemy.

Several officers of the 1st Infantry Regiment had dark faces and lingering fears, but Cheng Hongan from the Ming army was so dark that he was going to eat people.

He didn't expect that the two guards Biao Xinjun, who had high hopes for him, were still defeated from the front of the pseudo-Tang bandit army, and they suffered heavy casualties!

Because the new army of the Superintendent has a higher fighting will and a higher tolerance for casualties, so they can rush under the parapet for hand-to-hand combat. At this stage, thousands of people fell directly!

In the charging stage, they had suffered no less than a thousand casualties, but because of the large number of troops, the casualty ratio was only about a dozen percent. This casualty ratio was barely bearable for the new army. But after rushing to the low wall on the opposite side, instead of being able to rush in directly, he suffered huge casualties in a very short period of time, and this kind of casualties is no longer what the new army of the superintendent can bear.

Even if it hadn't happened for too short a time, and the soldiers on the frontline had not been given much time to react, I'm afraid they would have collapsed long ago.

And the consequence of this is that more than 5,000 supervising new troops who went to battle, only more than 2,000 people came back, which means that half of the troops fell in front of the pseudo-Tang bandit army!

In addition, the 3,000 places where they fought together were not much better, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded.

The total number of casualties reached nearly 3,000!

If you add to the fact that 3,000 troops were killed and injured in the previous three waves of offensive training, Cheng Hong'an's troops have already lost 6,000 troops in this small hill!

However, after paying such heavy casualties, the position of the pseudo-Tang thief army on the opposite hill is still standing there!

At this moment, a civilian who looked like an aide beside him said: "Sir, we can't fight any more. If we fight again, all the brothers will die here. They are all our sons and daughters!"

At this time, a young civil servant who had just returned and was still covered in blood didn't care about the decency of the official, and burst into tears on the spot: "It's over, there are not one out of ten children who have gone to war, how should this official explain to the elders in his hometown? !"

"And this is all my fault!"

"Today, this official has no face to face his parents in his hometown, and he can only apologize with death!"

Then he suddenly pulled out the long knife around his waist, and wiped it cleanly towards his neck!

A moment later, a **** arrow splattered from the person's neck. It was too late for others to stop him. Those who wanted to die would not be able to stop him.

Looking at the subordinate who killed himself in front of him, Cheng Hongan's body trembled slightly!

He knew and even knew this young civil servant very well, and even Wang Bingquan, the third son of his old friend of the same age, held the post of Qianhu as Zuowei under Cheng Hongan and was granted the title of prefecture.

Wang Bingquan's Qianhu, like the other supervising new army, was also recruited by him in his hometown. From soldiers to low-ranking officers, they were all his fellow villagers and even the same clan, and his hundred households and middle-level officers such as Zongqi were also the same. They are all his relatives, friends, nephews and even his own cousins.

In the battle just now, his thousands of households were almost wiped out. The sons, nephews and brothers of those hundreds of households and Zongqi were all killed in the battle, and most of the soldiers of the same clan and hometown died, and less than one tenth of them escaped alive. .

The elders in the hometown gave their children to him because they wanted to follow him to gain an official and a half-job, to earn a salary to support their family, but now they are all dead in this barren mountain.

He couldn't explain it to his hometown parents at all!

He has no choice but to die!

Looking at him who had lost his voice, Cheng Hongan took a few deep breaths in a row before saying, "Take care of yourself, this official will give him a seal in person!"

After he finished speaking, he looked at a group of his subordinates who had no fighting spirit, and sighed: "Retract!"

After saying this, he seems to be ten years older!

Wang Bingquan, who committed suicide before, is not what he looks like!

His former army is, to some extent, an enlarged version of Wang Bingquan's Thousand Households!

Most of the commanders and thousands of households under his command are also his relatives, friends, sons and nephews. He suffered such a fiasco today and suffered heavy casualties. He himself did not know how to explain to his relatives and friends!

After instructing his staff and a few other subordinates to organize the retreat of the army, he took out a pen and paper from the tent of the Chinese Army, and first handwritten a letter to his teacher. Well, his teacher is also Zhang Yue and Zhang Yuenai. It is a foreign test master~www.wuxiaspot.com~ He wrote the details of the battle in the letter, and said that he was going to lead the army north, success or failure was unpredictable, but he would do his best to save the remaining 20,000 people. The army is brought to Changsha!

At the end of the writing, he thought for a while, and then added a sentence temporarily: "In the humble opinion of the disciple, the bandit army defends the city, and is better at field warfare!"

After writing the letter to Zhang Yue, he wrote another letter to send to the defenders in Changsha. On the one hand, it was to report the situation of the battle. On the other hand, he also hoped that Changsha would send troops to respond!

After writing these two letters in a row, he still had no plans to stop writing, but took out another piece of letter paper and wrote: Brother Songyang personally...

He wanted to send a letter to Wang Bingquan's father, his best friend, to inform Wang Bingquan of the news, and at the same time, it was also a plea!

His friend entrusted his son to him, originally hoping that he would be able to take this opportunity to win a career for his son, but he would think that after a battle, it would be gone.

To this day, he still remembers that his old friend handed this young man into his hands at the beginning, and he smiled and said that his three sons were naughty and asked him to discipline him more in the future.

He struggled to write this letter, and he used words with careful consideration. After writing it, he sighed twice in a row!

After writing this letter, he still didn't finish it. He took out new letter paper and started to write the last few letters, but these letters were different from other letters, but the letters he wrote to his family.

One was for the second brother who was an official in Shandong.

One is for the mother at home.

One is for my eldest son who has just been admitted as a scholar!

However, after these three letters were written, they were not sent away immediately by Cheng Hongan like the other letters, but were kept close to the body, because this was not an ordinary family letter, but a suicide note!

When he wanted to send someone to send away these three suicide notes, it was when he was defeated and died!