Chapter 206: Progress

The soldiers holding big shields on both sides held a knife in one hand and a shield in the other. Several large shields leaned against each other, and rushed into the city gate hole. The guards who were pushing the crash all took out the spears from the big cart, pushed the crash under the bridge with all their hands and feet, and followed the knife and shield soldiers and walked inside.

The sword and shield soldiers among the personal guards are the troops with the strongest close-fitting skills among Li Meng's subordinates. They are also the only troops that Li Meng will not interfere in addition to physical training and combat skills training. These are soldiers trained by old officers from Lingshan and Aoshan Guards.

Thirteen people stood in a row with shields and walked towards the city gate hole in small steps. You could see that the soldiers of the Liu army outside were already standing in a circle, staring at the entrance of the city gate hole in a solemn manner. It seemed that the Liu army did not give up resistance, but instead bet on the melee battle in the city. Seeing the soldiers from Jiaozhou camp appear, someone issued an order, and the archers and firearms launched at the same time and rushed towards these vanguards.

The soldiers who were in the forefront often die the fastest, but there is always such a person in any army. Thirteen rectangular shields almost formed a wall, and suddenly accelerated and collided outward. Four people were knocked down. However, nine people began to rush out of the city gate, and the people behind fell immediately followed. If, when they first rushed out of the gate, the soldiers of the Liu army rushed out to fight with each other, the outcome was unknown. They might not fight with each other from a distance. This was already the norm in the Ming army. This method of saving lives was naturally something that everyone would like to use.

Before the second round of launches were launched, thirty swords, shields and hands had already rushed out of the city gate, forming a semicircular shape in the open space of the inner city gate. Behind the raised semicircular shield array was the spear soldiers with flat spears.

The sword and shield hand moved forward with big strodes, followed by a spear soldier with a flat spear, and the semicircular shield formation gradually expanded.

The soldiers of Liu Zeqing's troops surrounded outside also retreated, always leaving a distance. They could only listen to the orders outside the city gate. Just as they retreated, they found that the other soldiers stopped again and stood there, thinking that this group of thieves were stupid and could not stand there as a target.

The musket soldiers held the muskets and entered the city gate hole one after another. The soldiers were panicked. One hundred musket soldiers stood behind the half-squat swords, shields and spearmen, quickly completed the preparations, and completed a volley against the opponent's chaotic bows and arrows and firearms.

The muskets of Jiaozhou Camp were all heavy smoothbore guns, with a controllable range within eighty or ninety steps. Those who were hit either die or remained. After a volley, Jiaozhou Camp's semicircular array with the city gate as the center expanded fifty steps away, and all the archers and firearms arranged by Liu Zeqing's troops at the city gate were defeated by this volley.

The officers of Liu's army could no longer control the team, and the soldiers were afraid of the smoothbore gun. The same was true for the officers, and everyone rushed toward the inside.

Li Meng's soldiers still had no chance to fight in hand-to-hand combat this time, but the other party had already given up the city gate. It was already opened. I simply sorted out the same route here. Dozens of spearmen and swords and shields were in a team of dozens of people, following the road in the inner city, and the troops behind me continued to flow in.

Except for the soldiers guarding the prisoners outside the city, Li Meng's personal guards were all dismounted and lined up with weapons to stand by. In addition to the 100 soldiers who dismounted and rushed to the city, Tang Er was also ready to go immediately.

There are more than a thousand newly recruited cavalrymen. Although their clothes and clothing are already the standard of Jiaozhou Camp, their weapons are already complex, ranging from swords and axes to maces and eyebrows and sharp knives. Now the shouts of killing in the city are gradually increasing, and cavalry are not very useful in such street battles.

Tang Er kept letting his subordinates dismount as a team of 100 people and turned into infantrymen, rushing into the city. The newly recruited Jiaozhou camp cavalry were all from bandits and horses. He also knew in his heart that this kind of street fighting was just the time when they were using cannon fodder, but there was no way to do so. Li Meng was powerful and was already a kindness to their background. If he didn't earn a formal identity with his life, he would take advantage of this.

Some of the top figures scattered in this team were about to ask for a fight when they heard Wang Hai shouting at the top of his throat:

"Except for Tang Er's direct subordinates, everyone else dismounted and entered the city to fight."

As expected, these new recruits of the horse team were dismounted and prepared to use weapons to enter the city to fight. The veterans of Jiaozhou Camp who made them live a hard life outside were indeed jealous. It was worth it to try their best to earn a formal identity.

However, the recruits quickly opened their eyes wide. They saw that Li Meng, who was sitting upright on the front of the team, turned around and got off the horse, took off the cloak, exposed the special plate armor, and took a Park Knife from the guards beside them. The scene that was originally a bit chaotic actually became quiet at this time.

Li Meng weighed the weight of the Park Knife in his hand. He was used to using the assassination technique in the army. This long-handled infantry weapon was just right for him.

The scene became quiet. Li Meng didn't think much about it. He just thought everyone was waiting for his order. He held the Park Knife with one hand, pointed to the city gate, and walked out with great strides.

The guards naturally followed. After taking a few steps, the quiet scene was suddenly broken by huge cheers. The bandits who had newly joined the Jiaozhou camp shouted excitedly. It was worth the fucking death. At the moment of the battle, there was nothing more inspiring than the head coach who led the way.

The enthusiasm of all the members was not based on a few sensational words, but on real actions. The recruits held their weapons and lined up in a not-too-neat formation, followed Li Meng in front of them, and rushed into the inner city with a shocking sound of killing in front of them. Following such a main general, it would be no different!!

Liu Zeqing is now quite sane, but his mind is confused. No matter how he can't figure out the matter today, how the other party came to Caozhou City silently and how he entered Caozhou City silently. And how those cannons brought over were all puzzled.

Behind him is the magnificent mansion he built, with gold, silver and treasures he plundered, or beautiful concubines he bought or robbed, but in his ears there were shocking shouts of killing.

After entering the inner city, the use of narrow and complex terrain was no longer effective. Liu Zeqing's veterans had little courage, but they were very tenacious. Jiaozhou Camp had never spoken words of surrender, so they had to resist to the death. The interests of these people were combined with Liu Zeqing, the general of Caozhou.

In order to eliminate these enemies, we can only solve the problem through hand-to-hand combat step by step, including swords, shields, spearmen, and newcomers who poured in from behind and fought desperately with the opponent.

With pure hand-to-hand combat, Liu Zeqing's troops did not suffer any losses. They were even slightly stronger than Li Meng's troops in terms of experience, and the battle finally began to stalemate.

In the circle around Liu Zeqing's house, there were more than 1,500 Liu Zeqing's troops, the armored veterans, were compressed to this small area by the Jiaozhou camp troops, which were not much larger than them. Because they were compressed, the rest were all old men, which was difficult to fight.

Although Li Meng fought with swords, the personal guards led by Wang Hai did not dare to let him return to danger alone, but he also knew the courage of his own general, so Li Meng did not need to worry about his side and behind, but just needed to solve the enemy on the other side.

The officer of the Liu army in front of him seemed to have a high status, at least there were four or five guards around him, and the armor and weapons on his body were brand new and neat.

Until the end of the 19th century, commanders could not get rid of the front-line battles and could have the possibility of hand-to-hand combat at any time. Therefore, the times became higher and the commanders' martial arts were generally not weak. In the era when personal soldiers and servants were the backbone of the Ming Dynasty, the martial arts of officers were far superior to ordinary soldiers.

The guards from both sides met, and the officer from Liu's army mistakenly chopped over one of Li Meng's personal guards. Maybe he had seen Li Meng on the top of the city and knew that this was the enemy's leader, so he rushed over desperately.

This kind of street fighting is basically impossible to fight one by one. Li Meng took a step forward, and an enemy soldier next to him seized the gap and slashed with a knife.

Li Meng's attention was entirely on the officer opposite, but his hands kept pausing, and Park Knife stabbed him accurately. Park Knife was long, the opponent's sword was short, and Li Meng's straight stab was extremely fast. Before the enemy's arm had fallen, Park Knife had already stabbed into his throat.

The blade was withdrawn as soon as it entered, and the enemy soldier's movements stopped immediately. The body fell down softly and the long sword was retracted. It was a little longer. The officer of Liu's army on the opposite side seized the opportunity, and rushed over with the knife, chopped it down. According to Li Meng's movement trend, no matter how he moved, he would be hit.

Several Jiaozhou camp guards behind him were already anxious, but they couldn't get ahead at this position, and the soldiers beside him were entangled by the enemy.

Li Meng's response was very simple. He just turned to the side, turned the long knife in his hand and lifted it upside down.

"Wow~" with a sound, the officer's knife accurately hit Li Meng's chest. But this chopping just cut a few scratches for the plate armor made by Li Meng, which was made by finely crafted. However, Li Meng's strength and the big knife hit the opponent would be fatal damage.
Chapter completed!