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The broken soldiers swarmed in layer upon layer, and an unknown number of people crowded together. Every moment, someone was pushed down and trampled to death.

And the arrows shot from the front of Ma Ke's main barracks continued to fall, and the defeated soldiers and civilians were either squeezed to death or shot to death by sharp arrows.

The ground was all red, mixed with patches of yellow and white. The originally dry and hard ground also looked muddy, and many people slipped and fell in the crowd, becoming the dead souls under the feet of others.

Finally, several rejecting horses in front were knocked away by the rout soldiers who forced their way up from behind.

It was as if the gates of the dam had been opened, and the flow of people poured in like a flood. However, when these people rushed to the front of the formation, they were stabbed to death by the dense array of spears sticking out from behind the chariot.

The sound of crying and wailing was earth-shattering, and the huge sound wave made Ma Ke in the sharp formation feel uncontrollable. His eyes were red and he looked like a devil. He clenched the shaft of the car with both hands, and even burst out with blue veins.

Ma Zhiren beside him had his legs trembling, and an unbearable expression appeared on his face. He opened his mouth, but he couldn't muster up the courage to speak, he just licked his dry lips with his tongue.

He didn't feel pity for those routs, he just couldn't stand it anymore, too many people died, even if they were as sinister and vicious as him, he couldn't help feeling compassionate.

Although he is not proficient in warfare, he also knows that if he opens his mouth and allows the flood of broken soldiers to come in, then in a blink of an eye, his army formation will be destroyed by them, scattered, or even congested.

And the final result was that among the thousands of soldiers in the main barracks, none of them survived!

The archers of Ma Kezheng's barracks also knew that if these rebels were forced to swarm into the main formation, they themselves would surely be coerced into the fleeing army by them, and then allowed to be chased and killed by the Tartars.

Therefore, like the spearmen in the front row, they shot deadly arrows mercilessly. Under their resistance, the situation of the rout troops attacking the sharp formation was slightly slowed down.

However, the heavy cavalry of the Qing army kept chasing and killing, and they didn't dare to stop. They still rushed forward in a crowded way. Some people saw that there was no way ahead, and the left and right were dead, so they regained their courage. They screamed Turn around and fight the captives desperately.

But in the era of cold weapons, if the infantry does not form an army formation, how can it be the opponent of the cavalry?

Almost none of those who turned around and rushed towards the Tartars and the barbarians survived. They were either hacked, picked up by guns, or hit by horses, trampled to death, and all of them died tragically.

However, if they are like them, they are indeed worthy of death!
Finally, someone came to his senses, since he couldn't rush in, why not go to the side?
I saw the dazed rioters began to run to both sides, they were either outside the Juma, or inside the Juma, in short, they no longer tried to rush into the formation of Marko's main barracks.

Instead, they followed the formation of cars on both wings, scrambling and fleeing from Wang Dong on both sides, the people behind were blindly following, they no longer knew the direction, they just followed the people in front of them and ran away.

Waves of heavy cavalry of the Qing army slowly approached, while those northern captives with light cavalry did not approach the formation of the main barracks, and only rode and shot from a distance outside to drive the rioters into the formation.

At this moment, they saw that the rioters, threatened by the spears and bows of the main barracks, no longer attacked the Ming army's formation head-on, but bypassed their formation from both sides, and immediately rode to drive them away.

They did not hesitate to get close to Marko's main barracks, rode past the rioters, and kept shooting sharp arrows, or throwing javelins, or throwing flying swords and broadswords, trying to force them to go to the Ming army again. flee.

The heavy cavalry of the Qing army who were chasing after them also discovered this situation. They hurriedly urged the horses under their crotches and rushed up, trying to intimidate the rout soldiers in front to break through the front of the Ming army formation.

In this way, the gap where the horses were pushed down in front has been crowded and blocked by rioters, and the rioters who fled to both sides were driven back by Mongolian Qingqi.

"Damn it, you can't escape, you'll be dead sooner or later, why don't you fight the Tartars..."

Someone yelled in the crowd, and then someone echoed: "Fight, you'll be exhausted at the end, why don't you kill a tartar and fight with his mother..."

This is how people are, when they have the hope of life, in order to escape their lives, they don't care about everything around them, and even pull their former comrades-in-arms around them to back them up.

But once the despair is complete, the hope of the previous life is completely shattered, and the courage of the person will be stimulated again.

"It's dead anyway, let's die like a man, go kill the tartar..."

Humans live in groups, as long as there is a leading brother, there will never be a shortage of followers. When they shouted loudly, they immediately became excited and turned around and rushed forward.

When many people fled, in order to run faster, shields, waist knives, helmets and iron armor became a burden. Some of them even took off their shirts and threw them away, so they ran all the way with their big arms bare.

Now, although there is no way to survive, most of them are empty-handed and have no weapons to use, but how can they take care of these who have lost their minds, and still rush forward like crazy.

Of course, there were also some people who were completely terrified. They saw that the front was blocked, and they could not advance or retreat. They just squeezed forward desperately, and finally got stuck in the crowd, unable to move.

There are even some people who used too much force when they ran away just now, and now they are crowded here. Once this force is released, the whole person collapses on the ground, allowing others to kick and step on them, and they ignore them.

They just muttered in their mouths: "Mother, I'm sorry, I can't give you the old man's death!"

The heavy cavalry of the Qing army, who were chasing up from behind, suddenly saw that one of the defeated soldiers dared to turn around and fight, and was immediately surprised. Will put these broken soldiers in the eyes.

Like devils, they howled angrily and rushed forward on horseback, mixed with the roars of the rout soldiers who turned around and killed the slaves, and soon the two sides collided.

The heavy cavalry charged head-on, and many of the rout soldiers who rushed ahead were knocked to the ground and trampled down by the hooves of the war horses. Then, those rout soldiers who were not knocked down were used by Qing cavalry with their scimitars , Long spear, chopped down and stabbed to death.

However, there were not a few who returned to kill slaves, there were hundreds of them, although most of them had no weapons in their hands, but some of them still had steel knives or hand knives.

Taking advantage of the rout in front of the Qing cavalry blocking the speed of the Qing cavalry, they stepped on the corpses of their companions, jumped up, or slashed with their knives, or hugged a Qing army heavy cavalry, and fell off the horse. , or biting or gnawing, or digging or scratching, tightly entangled together.

There are also some people who have no chance to jump up, they got under the horse's belly, or cut the horse's belly with a hand knife, or hugged the horse's legs tightly to prevent it from running again.

In just a split second, the middle part of the rushing Qing army's heavy cavalry lineup stagnated, stopped by hundreds of broken soldiers who had rekindled their fighting spirit.

Originally they were in the middle, and the left and right took turns to charge forward, so as to force the rout soldiers to run as hard as they could, so that they could save their own horsepower before they could catch their breath.

But now it was time to charge in the central part, but they were stopped by hundreds of rout soldiers. They rekindled their fighting spirit, and they seemed to have been completely reborn, and they had already forgotten their previous fear of the Tartars.

This situation reminds people of Han Xin's last stand, and the overlord Xiang Yu's desperate plan in the troubled times of the late Qin Dynasty. It is when people are on the verge of death and there is no way out that they can greatly stimulate people's desire to survive.

Seeing death as home, isn't that what he said!
But compared to Han Xin and Xiang Yu, they still had some preparations and plans, but today's counterattack by the rout soldiers was truly aroused under extreme despair.

Although their battle could not prevent the further development of the overall situation, it showed the courage of the Ming army and also shattered the rumors that the Ming army was cowardly, fearful of slaves like tigers, and would collapse without fighting.

Although most of the Ming army regarded the Tartars as ferocious beasts and demons, they dared not fight them. Whenever they encountered them, they either retreated to the big city or avoided them far away. If they fought with them, there were few invincibles.

But although the soldiers are at fault, the greatest responsibility lies with the generals who lead the troops, and their superiors and governors. They drink soldiers' blood on weekdays, don't repair their armor, don't do drills, how can they dare to fight? military?

Today's small group of defeated soldiers is also a fighting spirit spontaneously aroused under extreme despair. They have already put aside life and death, turned all fear into anger, and used all their strength to pounce on the Tartars who once made them so fearful A soldier.

The Mongolian Qingqi who were still wandering around on the left and right wings also discovered that something was wrong here, and their reaction was much faster than the Qing army's heavy cavalry.

After a whistling, groups of horses rode towards them, and before they got close, a wave of arrows shot at the broken soldiers who had just turned around and were rushing towards the Tartar armored soldiers.

They didn't dare to shoot arrows at the chaotic battlefield where the rout soldiers and the Qing cavalry were fighting together. It was completely indistinguishable which one was the Qing cavalry and which was the rout soldier. It was difficult to guarantee the accuracy of cavalry shooting. Isn't it a sin to ride?

The Mongolian Qingqi shot through a wave of arrows, successfully prevented more routs from running back, joined the battlefield, roared and interspersed, and drove the routs to the Ming army formation again.

In the era of cold weapons, bows and arrows have always been sharp weapons. After all, long-distance combat weapons are limited, and even firecrackers cannot shoot continuously like bows and arrows, and the dense rain of arrows has a strong deterrent effect.

After their cavalry and shooting, interspersed, divided and outflanked, the fighting spirit of the defeated soldiers was extinguished again, and they turned around and fled again, more flustered than before.

Seeing that there was no way to escape, some people actually climbed onto the bodies of their predecessors, trampled on the bodies of their companions, and continued to run and leap forward. More people followed their example.

In this way, those rout soldiers and rioters who were still ahead suffered a lot. They thought that they would have a chance to escape into the formation of Marko's main barracks, and they might survive. Unexpectedly, they were trampled to death by their own lives.

The Mongolian Qingqi continued to intersperse and divide, so that the routs behind could no longer form a systematic resistance, and the routs couldn't do anything else except flee like an avalanche.

Seeing that the pursuit situation had stabilized again, the Mongolian light cavalry no longer interspersed and outflanked them. They were still on the two wings, driving away the rout soldiers with cavalry and shooting.

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Ma Zhiyong's eyes seemed to be filled with blood, and he looked extremely permeable. He kept roaring hoarsely, and shot row after row of arrows, preventing the rioters from rushing forward several times, but was again defeated by Qingqi and Meng Qi forced back.

Many archers had already stopped shooting arrows. No matter how the superiors yelled and ordered, they didn't stop shooting, but their arms were exhausted, and they could no longer draw the bowstring in their hands.

During this period, some artillery and musketeers also finished loading, but they all did not respect the order, and basically they all loaded and released as they pleased.

The artillery was okay, almost all of the bombardment hit the formation of the heavy cavalry of the Qing army. Although it was not a volley, the power was not enough, and it did not cause major damage to the Qing cavalry, but it also somewhat hindered the Qing cavalry from advancing on the rout. .

But those musketeers were all panicked. Under the circumstances, it was much slower to reload the gunpowder. After finishing the loading, they all lifted up their guns and shot them out. shot into the air.

Also, in a panic, only the gunpowder was loaded, but not the bullets. This is a real mistake, and the hands are shaking. I don’t know how much gunpowder is loaded. I also lift it up and use the match to light it, causing the bomb to explode. , not only hurt himself, but also endangered the comrades around him.

Seeing the Jumas being pushed down one by one, and more and more mobs and soldiers crowding in front of the chariot, even the spearmen felt their arms numb, which shows how much pressure there is.

Many of the Qing army's heavy cavalry rushed to the front, and even jumped down one after another. They fought on foot with long knives and axes in heavy armor, while those who were still riding on horses used strong bows and crossbows to continuously shoot at the defeated soldiers. .

The Mongolian Qingqi were also in groups, constantly blocking the fleeing mobs and routs, forcing them to charge towards the Ming army formation again.

Marko's main barracks was already surrounded by fleeing rioters and rout soldiers on three sides. They worked together to overthrow Juma, and climbed onto the chariot one by one.

It seemed that the routed soldiers who had nowhere to escape wailed loudly, many wounded were lying on the ground crying and screaming, and the friendly soldiers rushing back and forth were wailing for help.

"Brothers, please help me..."

"Haha... Take a look, big guy. We have worked hard for the Marshal and the Ming Dynasty for so many years, and this is what we will end up with..."

"I don't want to die. I still have a wife and children at home. Whoever saves me, I will give him all my family wealth. I want my wife, and I admit it..."

"...die, let's all die..."

Under Qingqi's pursuit and interception, the infantry of the Left Wing Battalion could only blame themselves for their lives, and almost zero escaped.

The cavalry, relying on the speed of their horses, and under the leadership of the general He Youren, did not become chaotic. They desperately intercepted and killed a group of rioters, so that they could not attack Ma Ke's main barracks in the first place.

However, this is all they can do. If they continue to fight, they will probably end up in collapse. Therefore, He Youren didn't dare to persevere, so he led them to run from the north to the east.

Amidst the overwhelming cries, Ma Ke, the chief soldier of the Shanhaiguan Pass, turned livid. He felt resentment in his heart, and suddenly said angrily: "He Youren, you are a worthless thing. You have caused me to be like this today, and you will definitely die!"