Chapter 74: Ambush (3)
"Forward! Forward!"
He waved the knife in his hand and urged loudly.
Another wave of arrow rain fell, which also brought casualties to several Ming soldiers.
When Ma Weixing saw this, his face became gloomy at that time. However, he did not expect that after he asked Gao Ligong, he learned that the official army had no long-range defensive power, he was ready to come out a team of archers, which would crack it so simply.
"The gun is coming!"
Ma Weixing looked at the Ming army's approaching him, and looked solemn. He stretched his hand back and immediately a personal soldier handed him a spear.
He sat on the back of the horse, without assisting, and his body stretched backwards, just like a bow. When he reached the extreme, he suddenly bounced up, swung his arm hard, and threw the huge spear out.
The spear was like a meteor, flying to the front of a Ming soldier in a very short time. The soldier stood up with his shield in front of him.
"Bang!"
The spear stabbed into the big shield, and the iron-covered shield was pierced. The spear head penetrated through the big shield and pierced the body of the Ming soldiers. This was not the end. Under Ma Weixing's great force, the spear head actually penetrated the body of the poor soldier and pierced into the ground, sinking half a foot deep, and the gun rod was still trembling back and forth.
Seeing this situation, all the Ming soldiers looked horrified. Seeing the companion who was still twitching back and forth on the ground, a trace of sadness appeared on their faces.
"kill!"
Among the Ming army, only Li Ying remained unchanged. He raised his head and licked some dry lips. Under the blow of the cold wind, a thick layer of white skin appeared on his lips, which would be more comfortable only by moisturizing with his tongue.
After Li Ying screamed loudly, he took the lead and rushed towards the bandits.
"kill!"
The veterans of the Ming army in the first three rows waved their weapons, and followed Li Ying in an attack like a tide.
After Yang Xiao and Li British discussed the modification of the formation, the battle between the Ming soldiers changed even more from the previous ones. The entire Ming army was divided into groups one by one. Each army had two sword and shield soldiers and three spearmen. The sword and shield soldiers were responsible for blocking the attack, while the spearmen were specializing in killing the enemy. Although the entire team was divided into various groups, the groups cooperated with each other and protected each other, and the entire formation was scattered without being chaotic.
At the beginning of the attack, the spearmen and the sword and shield soldiers were not fully cooperated. Every enemy attack would make the spearmen subconsciously want to block them.
"Chen Lao Er, block the attack for me!"
"Yang Mazi, just kill the enemy, you believe in your companions!"
"Tiedan, you are afraid of a bird! No one will hurt you!"
"Hao Yaoqi, be optimistic about your team, just like I ordered it!"
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After Li Ying only chopped down two enemies, he stopped attacking. He stood on a piece of bluestone about half a meter above the ground. He looked at the battle around him and shouted loudly. His screams were aimed at each time, and he called out the sergeant's name and the mistakes he made.
Under his command, the cooperation between the spearmen and the sword and shield soldiers became more and more tacit. After the sword and shield soldiers successfully blocked several attacks against the spearmen, the spearmen sergeants clearly trusted their partners and began to let go of the enemy.
This kind of trust is not something that can be done by just a few roars or a common saying of determination. It must be established after passing the test of life and death on the battlefield, blood and fire.
When the official army performed better and better, the bandits began to lose their luck. Their equipment was countless times worse than that of the Ming army. And their courage was much worse.
"Follow me!"
At the beginning of the battle, Ma Weixing reached the last side of the team. This is also a practice for all thieves to command the army, because they rely on many people to fight. It is easy to recruit soldiers. As long as they burn the house and grab the food, residents have no house to live in, clothes and wear, and food to eat. If they want to survive, they can only choose to surrender to the thieves. The main purpose of the thieves to be located in the last side is that they can easily escape when the war fails. This is also one of the reasons why there have been no fewer bandit suppression battles since the first year of Chongzhen, but there are very few thieves to be captured and killed.
But at this time, Ma Weixing had no choice. Because today is different from the past, the strict order given to him by Li Zicheng was to guard the valley entrance and not let Yang Xiao go into the valley. Ma Weixing followed Li Zicheng for several years and knew his nature very well. If he was willing to abandon the formation and escape, even if Li Zicheng went to heaven and earth, he would have to kill him quickly. What's more, when Li Zicheng handed over the order, he said vaguely that someone would help him at a critical moment.
"Zicheng won't let me down!" Ma Weixing looked at it for a long time but couldn't see any difference around him. However, out of trust in Li Zicheng, he raised the big knife in his hand high and shouted loudly: "Follow me to fight!"
Ma Weixing was surrounded by old thieves who had been around him, with about fifty of them, which was his foundation for fighting. Unlike other thieves, these thieves were able to eat and wear well every day. After breaking the city, they would also give priority to them when sharing the women.
"Huhh!"
Hearing Ma Weixing's shouting, the old thieves raised their weapons and roared loudly.
Seeing this situation, Li Ying suddenly shot out two shimmers in his eyes: "Hao Yaoqi, bring someone to deal with him."
"yes!"
Hao Yaoqi roared, waved the big knife in his hand, and rushed up with more than a hundred soldiers.
"drive!"
Ma Weixing shouted loudly, drove the horses first, and came to Hao Yaoqi and the team to welcome him.
When he was about ten steps away from Hao Yaoqi, he raised his long sword high, narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed out.
"kill!"
As the horse speed ran with all its strength, ten steps passed in the blink of an eye. The man used the horse's power and the sword was heavy. A cold light suddenly appeared and slashed towards Hao Yaoqi's shoulder fiercely.
"ah!"
Just as Ma Weixing raised the knife, Hao Yaoqi was ready. He held the long knife tightly with both hands, and there was no human expression on his face.
"when!"
A violent sound alarmed the audience. Hao Yaoqi held the knife in both hands. When Ma Weixing was about to slash himself, he tried his best to lift up, and the two big swords collided hard.
"puff!"
Even though Hao Yaoqi was extremely powerful, his strength was not enough to compete with Ma Weixing and Ma Shi. Although this time blocked the long sword and slashed, under the force, he felt that his chest was hot, his legs were weak like cotton, and he knelt on one knee.
Before Hao Yaoqi could react, he saw a huge horse's hooves lifting high, and the sound of wind slamming down at his head. In a hurry, he could not stop it, so he could only roll with his body. Then he avoided the horse's hooves when he was in a hurry.
Chapter completed!