Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"Reporting to Ono-kun, the Japanese navy has been defeated!" A man on horseback reined in his mount and said impatiently.

The faces of Ono Haogu and Yang Dagon who were standing outside the battalion battle changed. The visitor got off the horse and stepped forward.

Kono Ono looked away from the tall ladder and the white smoke-filled battlefield in the distance, turned his head, and asked with a livid face, "When did it happen?"

The person who came bowed and said: "Three days ago, our navy gathered more than a thousand warships and intercepted and faced Xu Guo's navy near the Xiaguan waterway. The decisive battle was defeated, and the casualties were heavy. Half of the warships sank, were damaged, and disappeared..."

Ono Haogu and Yang Gun looked at each other, speechless.

"It's unlikely..." Yang Gun said in a daze.

There was a "buzzing" in Kono Ono's head, and he suddenly raised his head and roared "Wow...". The soldiers of the Japanese army who didn't know the situation far and near looked sideways, looking at the commander in amazement as if he had gone crazy.

This is not just a disgrace of defeat!

At this time, Ono Koko felt that the most painful thing in the world was not losing a bet, but finding it meaningless after paying a heavy price... How many days and nights have you besieged this damned castle! How much painstaking effort, effort, and blood have been put in, and the enemy's ammunition and military supplies are completely consumed by human lives; now that all previous efforts have been wasted, what have you got? Is a human life worth only a few small lead pellets so humble?

He opened his mouth wide after roaring, and after a long time, he suddenly stood upright, and his expression seemed to have regained his composure. Yang Gun looked at him in surprise.

Ono Haogu said coldly: "Never give up! Tonight, the main force will gather in the north, and they will take turns attacking this fort regardless of the cost. Kill all the living creatures and smash them to pieces!"

Yang Gun felt that he was crazy, and it would be useless to think about it...no matter the victory or defeat. Even if the fortress is really broken, hundreds of Xu's troops will be killed. The reinforcements have arrived and they have lost power at sea. In the end, they will not be able to prevent Xu's troops from reoccupying this place.

But Yang Gun didn't warn him, he felt that Ono Haogu was crazy, and it was useless to talk more.

Later in the evening, under the order of Yoshiko Ono, the Japanese army set up a new battle formation.

... Zhang Jiankui and others on the city wall also discovered the mobilization of the Japanese army. A large number of tall ladders gathered in the north, and a large number of people gathered on a battlefield!

Everyone still doesn't know the situation at sea. At this time, Ishijianbao is out of ammunition and food. Zhang Jiankui and others speculate that the Japanese army will launch the final blow tonight!

Zhang Jiankui said to Zan Jurun next to him: "There is no ammunition for artillery, kerosene, tung oil, and arrows left. There is no way to destroy those ladders. Now there is not much gunpowder left for fire|guns. Our department is really at the end of its rope. Losing this fort is not a loss to the emperor."

At this time, Zan Jurun no longer cared about his dignity, and whispered: "It's a failure! It's a pity, I hope that in the next life, I can be born better, with the great grace of the emperor in this life, the glory and wealth..."

Zhang Jiankui understood Zan Jurun's meaning: I really don't want to die!

As soon as the sun went down and there was still dim light between the sky and the earth, the Japanese army couldn't wait to push the ladder. The crowd surged towards the fort, and a large number of bonfires and torches were lit before dark... At this time, Xu Jun had no way to prevent them from approaching within a hundred steps of Iwami Fort.

Tonight is the last night, no one believes that it will last until tomorrow morning!

Even the ammunition of the matchlock|gun could not fire a few rounds. Without long-range firearms, such a low earthen fortress with hundreds of people could not withstand the attack of dozens of times the enemy.

"I promise the imperial army, the best is the battle formation, not fighting alone." Zhang Jiankui made a temporary decision, "It is said that all the ministries, abandon the fortifications, and go to the north gate to form an array. I will open the city gate with the Japanese army tonight and fight to the death!"

After the order was issued, the "General's Order" was played in the castle, and the orders from the military branch were sent out by the messengers, and all the ministries gathered from the wall and the barracks to the castle one after another.

Some soldiers carried things into the healing barracks, which was full of groaning wounded soldiers. The soldiers went in and put daggers on the pillow of the wounded soldier next to each other. A general said loudly: "Commander Zhang said that after the city is broken, those who want to end the pain should do it themselves! Those who want to survive don't force it. Where do you go, you can do it yourself!"

Someone scolded feebly: "Damn, brothers killed so many Japanese soldiers, can they be let go?"

Some people sighed in the barracks, and some people talked to each other, "This time, I will see you in the next life." "It's no big deal to be a soldier and eat food."

The general who came in to release the weapon clasped his fists with some sobs and said, "Everyone, farewell!"

In the Central Military Government Office, everyone left, only Zan Jurun remained. Zan Jurun took out the good tea leaves that he had kept and was reluctant to drink, and waited for the water on the stove to boil. After a while, he took out a small bottle from his pocket and put it on the table, and straightened the official hat on his head with his hand. When he was young, he studied hard day and night and suffered a lot, but Zan Jurun had never tasted the pain of flesh and blood, and he was unwilling to taste it. As a pampered scholar-bureaucrat, he thought it would be more respectable to drink poison.

There was a hissing shout outside: "Open... the city... gate!"

"Ga..." The city gate was pushed open by several people with difficulty, and the dust on it fell down. It was like an ancient tomb, and the city gate seemed to have never been opened.

Behind the city gate, hundreds of soldiers marched neatly to the city gate.

The fire outside the city gate was brightly lit, shining on Xu Jun's armor with brilliance. Countless enemy soldiers saw that the city gate was open, so they didn't have to climb the earthen wall, and they quickly gathered towards the city gate. The surging torch is like a fire dragon.

"Ah! On board..." There was a strange cry, and the Japanese army rushed over in a swarm. In the light of the fire, the crowd seemed like a tide.

"Crackling..." Gunpowder exploded at the gate of the city, followed by two rounds of salvo. The raging tide ebbed...

Zhang Jiankui looked up at the city wall from side to side, thinking that once the Japanese army suffered a disadvantage at the gate of the city, they would climb the ladder and come down from the city wall. And now there is not enough ammunition left to fire another salvo.

He immediately ordered: "Change the knife and shield! Throw out the fire|gun!"

Some soldiers went up one after another, picked up the firearms thrown out of the army formation by "Papa", and threw them on a pile of bonfires in the city.

After a while, the second batch of enemy troops rushed up, and the shouts filled the night sky again. Zhang Jiankui yelled: "Prepare... to die standing up, to live up to the prestige of Huben's army!"

"Drink!" All the soldiers shouted in unison.

"Papa...swoosh..." The locust-like arrows hit, like hail on the shield and armor, and people hummed from time to time.

After a while, the crazy crowd rushed forward! There was a sound of ping-pong-pong, and the two armies fought close to each other, as if a pot had exploded.

Most of Xu Jun Dongdao's command came from the old forbidden army, and they were infantry melee troops. At this time, they fought with the Japanese army in a dense formation. People's eyes widened, and they just slashed wildly with a single knife, their shoulders against their shoulders. They didn't need tricks at all, they just needed strength!

"Ah!" A Japanese soldier covered his face with his hands and screamed hissingly, but was violently lifted by the people behind him, and he staggered forward, and his chest was immediately pierced by Xu Jun's single knife! The soldiers of the Japanese army behind also rushed forward, knocking the soldiers of Xu army to the ground at once. Sergeant Xu couldn't pull out his saber, staring at a sharp curved long knife facing his face, he stretched out his hands to grab the blade! Blood immediately flowed down the blade, and the tip of the knife was slightly deflected, and it stabbed the breastplate with a "nail". That day, the sergeant used the weight of his whole body to pierce the tip of the knife through the plate armor! But suddenly the straw hat on his head split into two petals, and the fellow screamed, and fell down with blood on his head.

The plate armor of Xu Jun's soldier was pierced, but he blocked the force and the piercing was not deep. He struggled to get up from the ground, his hands were covered with blood. The helmet was also off, and the blood on his hair and face was not his.

With a knife stuck in his chest, he stood there in pain, staring at it, the blades around him were waving in the flames, everyone was fighting and hacking like crazy, people screamed in fear and desperately made the loudest sound, this place is like a Shura field.

Sergeant Xu only had pain and numbness in his hands, and he couldn't hold anything anymore. The back is full of dense armor, and the enemy soldiers in front are rushing up with their mouths open! He was at a loss for a moment.

"Ah! Ah..." The soldier opened his arms and rushed out with a roar. The few Japanese soldiers who faced them backed up a few steps in fright! It was so frightening, a big man with disheveled hair and blood on his face rushed forward, his hands were dripping with blood, his mouth was wide open, and saliva and blood flowed out along his teeth!

If it weren't for the battle formations surrounded by people, if I saw such a person in the middle of the night, I would have been scared to death!

"Nail!" A Japanese soldier stabbed over with a long spear, the wooden pole bent, but he didn't stab|go in! "哐!" There was an impact, sparks lit up, and a samurai sword slashed on the soldier's shoulder armor... The shoulder armor was also a plate armor, and the blade's edge was cracked. The soldier with disheveled hair was still standing there with a painful expression on his face, not dead!

Finally, there was a "click" sound like a solid object shattering, and a knife was slashed vertically at his head, and the soldier immediately fell forward heavily.

"Crack!" There was a terrifying sound, and the flickering blade swept across the face of a Japanese soldier. The soldier's face was torn open from the cheek, the corner of the mouth to the other side of the face, and blood flowed horizontally. He let out a horrified scream from his throat, his jaw could no longer be closed, his voice was very strange, it didn't sound like a human voice at all...

In the narrow place at the gate of the city, where soldiers fought hand-to-hand, corpses quickly piled up! The blood and water mixed with the soil between the corpses, and the people and horses seemed to be trudging in pain in the mud, and they seemed to be struggling in the dark hell.