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The first time he smuggled across the Yellow River, he was discovered by Ma Chao only halfway through, and then he led his cavalry to fight out.

A large number of livestock and peasants, including Cao Cao himself, were bitten by the tail by Ma Chao's cavalry before they had time to cross the river.

Now, the Datong army directly built fortifications, leaving 4000 people to defend at all times, lest the Dashun defenders break out from Tongguan and repeat the mistakes of Cao Cao's crossing the river.

The main force is divided into several sections to rush across at the same time.

Liu Xiyao, who was guarding Tongguan, saw the waving command flags on the other side, and immediately brought three thousand elite soldiers and two thousand miscellaneous soldiers to attack the fortifications on the south bank of the Datong Army.

Moreover, when Liu Xiyao came out from the south gate, there were all high earthen beams, and it was impossible for the Datong army to build fortifications.

The Datong army wanted to cross the river and bypass Tongguan, and the defenders of Tongguan also bypassed the concrete wall of the Datong army from the earth beam.

"The bandit soldiers are coming around from the south!"

In the hot air balloon, the Datong sentry waving semaphore, and the observers on the ground hurriedly shouted.

"Dragoons abandon their horses, follow me to stop them!"

Cao Bianjiao got off his horse and led 2500 dragoons to climb up the ten-meter-high earth beam along the gully washed out by the rain.In some places, the height of the earth beams even exceeds 20 meters.

After Cao Bianjiao led his troops to climb up, Liu Xiyao's troops were only tens of meters away.

Cao Bianjiao said to the messenger: "Occupy the high ground, form an formation and fire the guns. Tell the friendly troops below to keep them still and just guard the fortifications to prevent the enemy from coming to Tongguan!"

This is a typical terrain of the Loess Plateau, with vertical and horizontal earth beams, ups and downs, and gullies washed out by rain.

After abandoning their horses, the dragoons stood guard on an earth beam, waiting for Liu Xiyao to attack.

"Three breads!"

Liu Xiyao's troops came to the ravine and dispersed into three groups to encircle and climb.

Cao Bianjiao shouted: "Commander, Commander, disperse and shoot!"

"Bang bang bang!"

The dragoons looked down and fired at the enemy in the ditch.

Today, the dragoons of more than a dozen divisions have all been replaced with flintlock guns.As for the infantry, about half of them were re-equipped, and the newly formed divisions still used the obsolete matchlock guns.

Because of climbing the earthen beams, the Dashun army did not form a formation when attacking, and scattered into east and west, and the Datong army also scattered into more than ten groups and fired.

Liu Xiyao's elite soldiers are all wearing cotton armor, and because they are far away, they can still hold the bullets.

But he still has two thousand miscellaneous soldiers, who have only trained for three months and only wear leather armor.After more than a dozen people were shot in a row, a group of miscellaneous soldiers collapsed immediately, turned around and wanted to flee the battlefield.

"Cut those who run away!"

"Boys, follow me to kill the enemy!"

The law enforcement team killed more than 20 people, and the miscellaneous soldiers finally stopped fleeing.Liu Xiyao simply took off his armor, stepped forward with his shirtless shoulders and knife in hand, and led his elite troops to attack desperately.

The mountain ridges of the Loess Plateau can't be climbed anywhere, only relatively less steep ones can be picked.

At this time, wearing armor is rather cumbersome, anyway, if you get close, you will be pierced by bullets.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three of Liu Xiyao's personal soldiers fell down one after another, and this man was still struggling to crawl, as expected of a titan from Li Zicheng's old battalion.

Suddenly, there was a shout of killing from the shore, but it was Liu Tichun who led the troops out of the pass and attacked the fortifications of the Datong Army from the front.

The main force of the Datong army is crossing the river in sections. Once they fail here, the army on this road will be finished.

"General, it's impossible to attack, we can only be beaten like this!" The soldiers shouted from behind the mound.

Liu Xiyao was also lying on his stomach to dodge, roaring angrily: "If you don't try your best at this time, Tongguan will be gone, and then you won't be able to fight if you want to! Listen carefully to the sound of the guns, and charge with me!"

Liu Xiyao sent a group of miscellaneous soldiers to attack first, and when the gunfire was the most intensive, he suddenly stood up and charged: "Let's charge together while they are changing their medicine! Archers, shoot upwards! Firecrackers, also attack!" Hit from above!"

Although the Datong Army took turns shooting in groups of ten, facing a wave of offensives, they would inevitably fire most of the bullets.

Liu Xiyao actually saw the right time, stepped on the corpses of many miscellaneous soldiers, and rushed to a place only four or five meters away from the top of the beam.

"Bang bang bang!"

Sparse gunshots rang out, and a few of Liu Xiyao's personal soldiers fell, and more than a dozen elite soldiers behind him also fell.

But Liu Xiyao was still charging. He was shot in the right shoulder and could only hold the knife in his left hand.

"Sure enough, a brave man!"

Cao Bianjiao had been directing the battle, and at this moment he finally picked up the blunderbuss and pulled the trigger towards Liu Xiyao.

At a distance of a few meters, if you can't hit it, Cao Bianjiao can go home to retire.

"boom!"

Liu Xiyao finally fell down, and the nearest Datong army was only three meters away.

Until his death, Liu Xiyao never thought to understand how the firecrackers of the Datong Army reloaded so quickly.

"The general is dead!"

The Dashun army all collapsed and ran towards Tongguan.

Cao Bianjiao shouted: "The whole army pursues!"

This kind of broken terrain is not easy to chase. It keeps climbing up the mountain ridge and then running into the ravine.

Panicked, many defeated soldiers no longer ran towards Tongguan, but went south along the mountain ridge, where there were all steep mountains.

There were rout soldiers kneeling and surrendering along the way, but there were still about [-] rout soldiers who managed to escape back to the south of Tongguan.The door was closed and opened, and the defeated soldiers entered, but Cao Bianjiao did not dare to chase in.

Because there is an urn city here, if you chase it in, you will be caught in the urn.

Cao Bianjiao sent out some people to receive the surrendered troops, and then led the troops to the north, intending to flank Liu Tichun's troops back and forth.

It's a pity that it was still too late. Liu Tichun was unable to break through the fortifications and had already withdrawn his troops back to Tongguan.

The battles that broke out between the fortifications and the earth beams killed more than 400 enemies and captured more than 1300 enemy troops.The casualties of the Datong Army were negligible. One person was killed by firecrackers, and several people were injured by bows and arrows.There are also a few unlucky ones who sprained their feet while chasing the rout, and one of them actually broke his leg.

frontal battlefield.

The sheepskins were blown up one by one, and tied with wooden frames to form a sheepskin raft, which was a popular tool for crossing the river since the Han Dynasty.

Merchants even used sheepskin rafts to transport goods across the Yellow River.

Eight Datong troops went down the river on a sheepskin raft.Two melee soldiers were in charge of paddling, two melee soldiers were in charge of raising shields, and four musketeers squatted halfway, aiming their guns at the opposite bank.

The current was turbulent, and the sheepskin raft was rushed downstream as it approached the north bank.

Tian Jianxiu deployed many archers and gunfire soldiers along the coast, and even set up a few artillery pieces, all of which were city defense artillery removed from Tongguan.

"Boom boom boom!"

When the cannons sounded, whether they could hit or not was entirely a matter of fate.Because even the Datong army in the river couldn't control the sheepskin raft and was being rushed downstream all the time.

"boom!"

Dashun Army's No.13 shells finally hit the first target.

The iron bullet concentrated on a sheepskin bag and failed to explode, but the huge impact force knocked over the sheepskin raft.The eight Datong troops all fell into the river. With the ups and downs of the rushing river, whether they can swim back to the bank depends on God's will.

Tian Jianxiu led the cavalry to chase along the river, and chased for more than half a mile. A few Datong troops came within the range of bows and arrows.

"Get off your horse and shoot an arrow!"

They all use step bows so that they can shoot farther.

"Shhhhhh!"

"Bang bang bang!"

Arrows and bullets flew back and forth over the Yellow River, and unfortunately people on both sides were hit.

As the deputy division commander, Wang Hui personally carried out the task of crossing the river.Crossing the river is only the first step, and the next step is to gain a firm foothold on the north bank and receive more friendly troops to land smoothly.

In the rushing Yellow River, he could not command the army, only the seven people around him.

"Paddle quickly, don't look at the opposite side!"

Holding up his shield, Wang Hui yelled, and said to the firecrackers: "Aim for it, give me a hard hit!"

A turbulent current hit, the sheepskin raft turned half a circle, not only could not aim, the raft even almost turned over.

"what!"

"Help!"

"Pull me!"

More than 20 meters away from Wang Hui, a sheepskin raft capsized. They were not attacked, but they lost their balance and fell into the water.

"Get on the horse and keep chasing!"

After dismounting and shooting arrows, the Datong army floated far away again, and Tian Jianxiu chased after him again on his horse.

The infantry of the Dashun Army also carried various weapons and ran along the river chasing the sheepskin rafts.

The nearest sheepskin raft was more than ten meters away from the north bank, and there were only six people left on the raft.So far, the operation of crossing the river has just begun, and the Datong Army has lost more than 30 soldiers!

Finally, the sheepskin raft landed, and Tian Jianxiu's cavalry rushed over.

The soldiers of Datong, who were not firmly established, quickly formed an formation on the shore.Three melee soldiers stood in front, and three musketeers fired at the cavalry. Six of them faced more than 2000 cavalry.

Shichang had already fallen into the river, Wuchang held up his spear and roared with red eyes: "Plow the fields and eat, and the world will be united!"

"Plow the fields and eat, and the world will be united!"

The six people shouted in unison, seeing death as home.

"Bang bang bang!"

Three firecrackers fired in salvo, hitting an enemy cavalry.

The enemy's bows and arrows also came, and all six people were hit by arrows, and the most had seven arrows stuck in their bodies.

After a round of bows and arrows, there were still two people who did not fall down.

They didn't reload the ammunition, but picked up the shields and spears of the melee soldiers, and defended their landing positions back to back.

"Fire arrows!"

Another burst of arrows rained, and the two finally died.

Tian Jianxiu said with emotion: "They are all good men, what a pity."

"Marshal, there is another raft across the river!"

"Chase!"

Tian Jianxiu roared.

One after another, more than 20 sheepskin rafts that successfully crossed the river, carrying more than 100 Datong soldiers, were besieged and killed by the enemy as soon as they landed.

However, there were too many Datong troops crossing the river, and the banks of the Yellow River were too long, so there were always places Tian Jianxiu couldn't take care of.

"Form the formation, raise the flag, and blow the trumpet!"

Wang Hui also crossed the river, and the nearest enemy army to him was 200 Dashun infantry dozens of meters away.

"Beep beep beep da da~~~~"

The suona blew the rallying horn, and the Datong soldiers who went ashore desperately moved towards this place.The Datong army in the river also rowed as far as possible to this side, where they wanted to form a real position.

Chapter 543 [Login]

Zhang Shijie, a subordinate of Tian Jianxiu, was in charge of guarding the north bank of the Yellow River.

He divided the infantry into groups of 500 people, and each group built simple fortifications at a distance of one mile.

Wang Hui was between two groups of enemy infantry at this time, and the nearest group had already charged towards him.It was not Zhang Shijie himself, but an unknown officer who led the troops.

When the 15 enemy troops arrived, there were also friendly troops from Wang Hui's side, two leather rafts, and a total of [-] Datong troops.

15 people, carry [-] hard, must hold on!

The melee soldiers erected two rafts to block the enemy's bows and arrows.The musketeers placed their barrels on the holes in the raft and fired at the enemy first.

Eight firecrackers hit three people. .

The enemy rushed to about ten meters, and the ammunition had been reloaded. The second round of salvo fired, and all eight bullets were hit.

"Fix the formation, mount the bayonet!"