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At Shen Shizhong, the Qi army's right wing and center army successively engaged the enemy's Jinxia heavy cavalry.

The Qi army on the right wing had the advantage, and with the cooperation of Lao Bai's 1st Battalion Mobile Grenadier, the battle line could barely maintain balance.

And Jin Guotiefutu was very determined to regard the location of King Chu as the target of attack.

Ignoring the harassment of small groups of Qi cavalry troops on the left and right sides, they charged directly at the Chinese army.

Just now, because Tie Yaozi had dragged the corpse of Commander Ximu Weiming in front of the formation, more than five hundred angered Tie Yaozi had moved from the right wing of the Qi army to the Chinese army, testing the strength of the Chinese army in advance for Tie Futu.

It was similar to the battle in the east of the city last month. When they were a hundred and fifty steps away, the sound of popping beans sounded again in the Qi army's central formation.

But humans undoubtedly learn the fastest in war. This time, more than 500 iron kites tried to disperse the originally dense charging formation.

Although the impact force has been weakened, the casualties after withstanding a round of salvo are indeed less.

So in the end, dozens of iron kites passed through the two layers of barbed wire and had a hand-to-hand fight with a group of guards arrayed behind the net.

A few hundred steps away, Tie Futu, who was participating in the battle for the first time since the siege of Tokyo, began to speed up slowly.

Quickly annihilating the participating Iron Kites who had just broken into the formation, the Guards Regiment quickly formed a team. The eldest son, Han Shizhong, and Jiao Tu all wore thick armor and stood in front of the formation.

At 400 paces, several three-inch guns in the Chinese army's formation opened fire first.

The three-inch sky thunder cannon is the smallest in the Huaibei Army. Its range and penetration are naturally inferior. However, it is also the only mobile firepower that can quickly follow the Ma Army.

Other large-caliber sky-thunder cannons weighing several thousand kilograms can only be kept at Chenqiaoyi Camp for defensive purposes.

At two hundred paces, a regiment of guards stood ready, and the eldest son shouted loudly, "Mountain!"

"Mountain! Mountain! Mountain!"

More than two thousand soldiers of the Guards Regiment shouted three times in unison to show that the Guards Regiment was determined to fight to the death.

This shout instantly filled every corner of the battlefield.

Whether it was the city walls of Tokyo's east city or the battlefield where tens of thousands of people were galloping and fighting, everyone knew that the final battle of the Three Kingdoms melee, which had lasted for several months, had officially begun.

One hundred and fifty steps, the two battalions of Qin Sheng's military department opened fire.

However, Tie Futu had quickly learned from the experience of Tie Yaozi's charge just now. During the charge, the distance between them was not only widened, but the charge formation changed from the previous fan formation to several columns advancing.

In this way, the vulnerable frontal area is greatly reduced.

This tactical move is indeed effective.

In the final analysis, the Huaibei Army still did not have enough fire guns to restrain the heavy cavalry.

Since the beginning of the second year of Xuanqing, the joint development team of Qin Yongtai, Huang Huihong, Yu Dameng and others achieved a technological breakthrough in the manufacturing of fire guns. After day and night trial production, testing, modification, finalization and production, they have only equipped one thousand guns so far. many lines.

Among them, the one that most affects efficiency is the production of the barrel. In order to prevent the barrel from exploding and increase the service life of the barrel, the iron smelting institute uses a process of drilling holes in the entire circular wrought iron to manufacture the barrel.

At first, it could only produce 30 sticks per month. It was not until the middle of last year that the workers became more proficient and the process was optimized again, reaching a monthly output of 100 sticks.

Now Qin Shengwu's 16th Regiment has three battalions in service. One battalion remains on the front line of Daling River, and two battalions follow Chen Chunan to aid Tokyo.

With a three-stage shooting method, more than 300 projectiles are fired in each round.

When faced with the charge of a cavalry army of less than a thousand people, the firepower density was barely acceptable, but for a charge of three thousand people, the firepower was obviously insufficient.

The charging distance of one hundred and fifty steps was reached in an instant.

The Sixteenth Regiment fired four volleys. Although two to three hundred heavy cavalry were shot and fell from their horses, it did not have much impact on Tiefutu's charge.

Until Tiefutu rushed into the area between the two barbed wire fences, the casualties increased sharply.

There are only a few dozen steps away from the fire gun soldiers at the rear. With such a close distance, the accuracy is naturally much improved.

The forward charging iron futu encountered the same problem as the thousand iron kites led by Ximu Weimingsuo last month. The distance across the second barbed wire fence was not enough for the horse to speed up. If it was forced to go over, the horse's legs would be barbed. Tangled in barbed wire.

Even if a few lucky gold soldiers cross the barbed wire, they will be quickly cleared by the infantry waiting behind the net.

In just a few dozen breaths, hundreds of iron pagodas that were unable to advance or retreat had been harvested by the fire gun soldiers behind the formation.

These people are the last elite of Daijin. Every time one of them is lost, Wan Yanlan's heart bleeds.

The elite soldiers supported by the whole country did not die on the battlefield in a direct confrontation with the enemy, but they were trapped like cowards and pigs and dogs within a short distance, and were killed one by one.

When Wan Yanlan was in a hurry, he yelled at Yimou Ke beside him: "Heihan! Split this iron net and open a way for our army!"

Heihan was also a brave man. Hearing the sound, he didn't hesitate at all. He led his subordinates to the front of the army, swung his long-handled sword and slashed at the barbed wire fence.

But the curly barbed wire is not completely fixed, and is as soft and tough as grass. When the knife is cut, 89% of the force is released, and it cannot cause much damage to the barbed wire at all.

At this moment, another volley fired from behind the Qi army's infantry.

'Papapapa~'

In the clear sound, dozens of golden soldiers fell down beside Heihan.

At present, Qi soldiers have not even been touched, and hundreds of brothers have been lost. Heihan has never fought such a frustrating battle since he joined the army at the age of seventeen.

In the desperate situation, Heihan's fierceness was forced out. He suddenly turned over and dismounted, and shouted to his subordinates: "My sons, follow me to pave a way for the general to come out!"

After that, he lay straight on the curly barbed wire, flattening the barbed wire with his weight and heavy armor.

The demonstration was clearer than any explanation. Upon seeing this, the Jin soldiers of the Heihan tribe quietly retreated after hesitating, but more people fell down on the barbed wire with a decisive attitude.

Wearing heavy armor, the barbs on the barbed wire couldn't hurt them.

But they used their bodies as a bridge. The armored war horse plus the armored knight weighed more than a thousand pounds. If the war horse stepped on it, the people underneath would have no way to survive.

The actions of Heihan and others not only made Han Shizhong, who was more than ten steps away, look surprised, but also many people in the Jin Army did not react.

Seeing this, Heihan suddenly turned around and shouted to Wanyanlan: "General, hurry up! Get over the net and kill a few more Han dogs for me. I must cut the King of Chu of Qi into pieces!"

Wanyan Lanhu's eyes turned red, and he shouted loudly, "Heihan, when we capture Tokyo after the war, each member of your army will be given a hundred catties of silver and thirty male and female slaves! Boys and men, charge!"

With an order, the remaining two thousand iron pagodas quickly passed through the barbed wire fence along the passage created by Heihanbu's body.

The horse under Wanyan Lan's crotch stepped on Hei Han's back and passed through the last line of defense of the Qi army. When the horse's hoof stepped on Hei Han's body, this subordinate who had been following Wan Yan Lan for many years had already lost his voice. There was only one breath. A stream of black blood surged out from between the gaps in the armor.

At six o'clock in the morning, the Guards Regiment engaged Tiefutu.

Although it was not yet five o'clock in the afternoon, the winter days were short and the sun was dim in the west, reflecting the earth slantingly.

The nearly 100,000 horse infantry troops of the Three Kingdoms of Qi, Jin, and Xia were fighting crazily in the east of Tokyo.

Some of these people do it for wealth and honor, some do it to protect their homeland, and there are also some careerists.

But at this time, they are all gamblers with no way out. The only choice before them is to kill the enemy or be killed by the enemy.

The chips on the gambling table are your own life, the honor and disgrace of your family behind you, and the fate of your respective countries.

In short, all the chips are on the table, and what is left is a competition of willpower to determine victory or defeat.

Although Tiefutu entered the battle, he lost his horse speed and did not show much advantage in front of the Guards group.

Han Shizhong was holding a long-handled horse-cutting knife, and his horse was halfway forward. When the Jin soldiers came towards him, he did not dodge, and he slashed the sword upwards and cut off the neck of an armored war horse.

This strength is truly terrifying.

The neat section of the neck of Jin Bing's horse was filled with hot blood, pouring all over Han Shizhong's head and face, like a blood Buddha.

The hot and smelly horse blood seemed to make this guy even more excited. He stuck out his tongue and rolled the blood from his mouth into his mouth. He laughed and said, "Master Han Wu of Yan'an Prefecture is here, and the golden dogs are here to die."

Such an arrogant posture naturally attracted several golden soldiers to attack him.

However, Han Shizhong refused to follow the method of beheading the horse's legs that the Guards group used, and would forcefully behead the horse's head every time.

More than ten steps away, Jiao Tu ducked down to avoid being stabbed by a spear, and cut off the legs of the horse and horse with a knife. He turned his head and shouted to Han Shizhong: "Brother Han! Don't show off, cut off the horse's legs to save energy!"

"Hahaha, I'm the one who killed you. Don't worry about me."

Han Shizhong, who still went his own way, shouted crazily.

The lines of the two armies collided, intersected, merged, and gradually blended together.

In the rear, Qin Shengwu ordered his subordinates to stop shooting in order to prevent accidental injuries to his own soldiers, leaving only dozens of good and accurate shooters standing behind to pick up Tie Fu Tu and fire cold shots.

At this time, Qin Shengwu's command was no longer needed. Qin Shengwu took the long soldiers and stood on both sides of Chen Chu with Xiao Yi.

Behind him is the king's flag with the word "Chu" fluttering in the cold wind.

In the middle of the convex front line of the 1st Guards Regiment, there are three fierce generals: Changzi, Han Shizhong, and Jiao Tu. The line is as stable as a boulder standing in the stormy waves.

But the right side wavered slightly, and the Jin army was once close to Chen Chu's fifty or sixty steps away.

A golden general even threw a short spear from a distance, but it was blocked by Qin Sheng's concentrating military envoy's long sword.

Tiefu Tu's purpose is very clear. They want to rush into the Chinese army regardless of huge sacrifices, just to kill the general!
Not only Wanyan Mouyan, but also Wanyan Lan believed that as long as the King of Chu was killed, the morale of the Qi army would collapse.

Seeing Tie Futu rushing dozens of steps away several times, Erlang, who was holding an iron shield to protect Chen Chu, couldn't help but said anxiously: "Brother Chen, go hide behind the slope first! If the golden dog rushes in front of you, just Brother Qin may not be able to stop him with his soldiers!" The fire gun soldiers under Qin Shengwu only wore light leather armor and had no long soldiers. Once they were approached by Tie Futu, they would be difficult to resist.

Chen Chu, who was observing the situation on the battlefield, said without thinking: "Don't move, don't retreat!"

Although there was fighting everywhere on the battlefield, many people still paid attention to the location of King Chu's banner. He nailed it here to show the entire army that the Chinese army was stable and would not retreat until the end.

At this time, the fierce battle between the two armies was in full swing. Any slight disturbance in the Chinese army may cause changes in the morale of the army.

But in the eyes of some people, it can't help but be frightening.

At the top of the east city wall, Cai Yuan watched the Iron Flotation attack the King of Chu's banner several times. On this cold winter evening, his inner and outer clothes were soaked with sweat.

In the situation outside the city, the Qi Army's left wing, with the Huaibei Horse Army and Zheyan Wenbu as the main force, has gradually taken advantage. After an hour of fierce fighting by the Xixia Horse Army on the left wing, not only was it unable to shake the Qi Army's formation, but the Qi Army began to push back.

Although the Xixia cavalry army on the left wing was still holding on with a sigh of relief, it already showed its defeat.

The right wing of the Qi army was attacked by the Jin Guaizima and Iron Harriers. Although it was once on the verge of collapse, it regained its position thanks to the support of the Second Guards Regiment and Geng Baoxi's troops and the counterattack of the Jing and Kuang armies regardless of damage.

On the contrary, it is the Chinese army that looks most in danger.

At this time, both armies are struggling to see whether your left-wing Xixia army will collapse first, or whether our Qi army and the center army will be unable to withstand it first.

But there is no doubt that no matter which side it is, as long as one side cannot hold on first, the balance of victory on the battlefield will quickly tip to the other side.

At the end of the Shen Dynasty, Wanyan's plan was rewarded. The Xixia Bubazi and Jin army's infantry who wanted to detour from the north encountered the Qi army's infantry ten miles east, and the two sides started a fierce battle.

As a result, the infantry could not be counted on for the time being, and it was learned from this that the Qi army's infantry had also arrived at the periphery of the battlefield.

After a brief thought, Wanyan Mouyan directly ordered two thousand Jinxia guards to rush to the aid of Tiefutu and continue to attack the Qi army's center.

Ren Dejing was stunned, but he did not stop him. These two thousand people were the last group of personal guards around them.

After the personal guards came on stage, there were less than a hundred people left around the two of them. If another Qi army attacked the camp located in the east of the city, they would have no soldiers left.

However, compared to defeating the central army of Qi and killing the King of Chu, it was worth taking this risk!

At the beginning of the Youshi period, two thousand Jinxia guards bypassed the left and right wings of the fiercely fighting Qi army and rushed towards the Chinese army where the flag was located.

Lao Bai, who had been leading the brothers in the scout battalion to throw tin cans at the kites, had also been paying attention to the situation of the Chinese army.

Seeing this, I couldn't help but be anxious.

He felt that under Tiefutu's desperate attack, the Chinese army was in danger. If the Jin army came to reinforce again, the King of Chu would be in danger.

Looking around again, wherever he could see, there were figures of military commanders fighting with the Jinxia Army. How could they spare manpower to support the Chinese army in such a short period of time?

I don't know what he thought of, but Lao Bai gritted his teeth and said to his deputy: "Continue to lead the brothers to harass Tie Yaozi. I will go to the rear!"

Without waiting for his deputy to respond, Lao Bai pulled the reins of his horse sideways and galloped towards the outskirts of the battlefield.

More than a mile away, it was the Qi Army's supply point where Peng Er was stationed. Nowadays, the Huaibei Army is fighting with more and more firearms, so it naturally needs more gunpowder.

However, if gunpowder is hoarded on the front line, if it ignites in a chaotic battlefield, it will definitely cause heavy casualties to our side.

Therefore, the gunpowder supply place was specially placed at the rear.

This is where the tin cans thrown by Lao Bai were collected. When the logistics soldier saw that only Lao Bai returned this time, he was surprised and did not ask any more questions. He quickly prepared his personal carrying capacity.

Unexpectedly, Lao Bai said directly: "If you don't want these, give me the explosive pack!"

"Okay, how much does Baiying tent cost?"

"twenty!"

"!"

Although he didn't understand why Lao Bai wanted so many explosive packs, the logistics soldiers still prepared the supplies as he requested.

It wasn't until he saw him strapping the explosive bags all over the horse and hanging the remaining explosive bags all over his chest and back that the logistics soldier noticed something was wrong and hurriedly said: "Battle Commander Bai, what are you going to do!"

Lao Bai, who was tangling several explosive fuses together, raised his head and glanced at the logistics soldier. He wanted to say something, but in the end he laughed, took out a hairpin from his arms and handed it over, "This hairpin belongs to the prince." I got it from the princess. I was originally going to use it to chase women. Hehe, but I have done wrong things in the past and the white lady won't accept it. Come on, I can't use it now. You will still have it with the prince in the future. "

The logistics soldier accepted it in a daze, but he also confirmed some of Lao Bai's intentions, and quickly went to Peng Er to inform him of the matter.

When Peng Er arrived, Lao Bai, who was loaded with explosives, had just galloped out of the supply camp. Peng Er quickly shouted behind him, "Lao Bai, what are you going to do?"

The white-haired rat turned around on the horse, smiled and gave a military salute to Peng Er, and replied from a distance: "Brother Peng, please tell the prince that we can stay with him for several years in this life and die without regrets."

"Brother! It's not over yet!"

"Haha, second brother, Lao Bai is going to go."

A moment of unity.

The battles are raging everywhere, and with every breath, countless fresh lives are frozen in this cold winter evening.

Tiefutu and the Guards regiment, each with less than two thousand men on both sides, were still frantically tearing at each other for their lives down the gentle slope.

At this time, Wanyan Lan was shot coldly in his left arm, and blood flowed down his drooping arm like a stream.

Jiao Tu was also shot in the shoulder, and the eldest son's armor was covered with blood, flesh, and knife marks. Only Han Shizhong was like a madman, abandoning his helmet, his hair disheveled, and half of a broken palm stuck to his shoulder.
When the two armies were fighting with all their strength, a lone figure on horseback suddenly came galloping from behind Tie Fu Tu.

When the Jin soldiers on guard in the back formation saw this, they didn't take it seriously and came alone. Wasn't it to die?
Unexpectedly, when this person approached the rear of the military formation, he did not fight with the guarding golden soldiers and rushed straight to the center of the iron pagoda.

The vigilant Jin Bing didn't know why, but he couldn't let him come and go as he pleased.

Helplessly, the heavy horse could not catch up with the light horse, who was wearing Qi army uniform and covered with linen bags.

In just a few breaths, the Qi Military Colonel rushed into the depths of the Tie Fu Tu.

The Jin army in the formation was obviously startled when they saw the Qi army suddenly appearing next to them with smoke all over their bodies. Immediately, weapons from all directions came to greet them.

Lieutenant Qi Jun relied on his flexibility to dodge three or four times in a row, but his horse was not so lucky and was smashed in the head by a golden soldier holding a mace.

The horse immediately stalled and fell to the ground.

Naturally, this Qi soldier could not escape the fate of falling off his horse. The surrounding Jin soldiers took advantage of him before he could get up, and stabbed him with five or six spears and horses.

The Colonel Qi Jun, who was as nimble as a monkey just now, was pinned to the ground by a gun. Although blood spurted from his mouth and nose, Qi Jun did not die on the spot. Instead, he glanced at the linen bag with the lead wire all the way down and spat out a mouthful of blood. He grinned at the many golden army iron pagodas above and said, "I'm going to call you Bai Yutang! Haha."

Almost at the same time as the laughter rang out, a huge fireball suddenly burst out from the depths of Tiefutu with Lao Bai as the center.

Immediately afterwards, the frenzied air wave expanded rapidly, tearing apart all surrounding objects, whether they were soft flesh or hard armor, they were like paper.

The severed limbs, pieces of flesh, broken armor, and broken spears that were trapped in it were shot towards the world in all directions.

On the gentle slope, Chen Chu clearly saw a circular air wave sweeping past the rear of the iron floating figure.

Two hundred steps away from the explosion point, the first-line soldiers such as Changzi and Jiao Tu who were fighting with the Jin army were pushed backwards by four or five feet by this huge force.

Then, a thick black mushroom cloud rose from the iron floating formation, rising more than ten feet into the sky in just a few breaths.

Then came the shattered limbs, broken pieces of flesh, and the rotten intestines, lungs, heart, and liver that fell like a shower.

Wanyanlan, who was knocked to the ground by the air wave, had a ringing in his ears and a dizzy head. His waist and legs were pressed by the horse and he could not move. He could only turn his head and look at the source of the sound.
However, he saw that the armored knight who was originally behind him disappeared from the spot!
It can't be said to have disappeared. Only some of them are still flying in the sky, and some of them are diverging from the explosion point. They are either bleeding from the mouth and nose, no longer breathing, or missing arms and legs, lying on the ground wailing.

Not to mention that he didn't know what happened, even Chen Chu didn't understand. He certainly knew that it was an explosion caused by gunpowder, but how come the explosion point happened to be in the middle of the Iron Buddha?
For a moment, the entire battlefield fell silent.

Even though many people had seen the explosion at Jinxia Camp in the south of the city, they were stunned by the power of the explosion.

Outside the city, the Qi, Jin, and Xia armies were equally horrified and inexplicable.

The Jin Xia Army knew that the Qi Army had thunder from the sky, so they naturally thought that this was done by the Qi Army again.

But when many soldiers of the Qi army saw this terrible explosion just a few hundred steps in front of the King of Chu's flag, they were afraid that the King of Chu would also be blown away, and the morale of the army was in chaos.

Geng Baoxi's troops on the right and Qin Dachuan's troops on the left even turned around and returned to aid the Chinese army, regardless of facing the enemy.

At the critical moment, I suddenly heard a loud and clear suona sound on the gentle slope, 'Didi woah di di woah di di di di.'

Huaibei Army's Charge!
The black smoke dissipated slightly, and the flag of King Chu was still fluttering in the wind!
Almost at the same time as the charge horn sounded, the Dongcheng Shincao and Lijing gates opened at the same time.

Jiang Huaixiong, the commander-in-chief of the ten towns of the Tokyo Xiang Army, did not wait for most of his troops to re-arrange themselves in the open space outside the city, then led more than a hundred horse troops and rushed straight to the battlefield.

Like a tiger coming out of the gate!

As soon as the charge horn sounded, there was a mountain of swords and a sea of ​​fire in front of them, which could not stop the Huaibei Army even a step.

Led by the various departments in Huaibei, the Qi army launched a tough counterattack.

The left-wing Xixia army, which had long been exhausted, collapsed first and fled to the camp in the north of the city.

Upon seeing this, the Jin Xia armies retreated one after another.
On the gentle slope, Chen Chu stood facing the wind. Seeing that the victory was imminent, he didn't feel much excitement and joy in his heart.

Looking up, the smoke and dust stirred up by the big explosion mixed with the blood mist that rose into the air, turned into a rainbow under the dim evening sun.
The blood-blue sky also looks like a rainbow.

Chen Chu raised his head and looked at this strange scenery. For some reason, he felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart. (End of chapter)