Chapter 739 The longest day

Several large villages of the Great Vietnamese army were arranged in the east and west directions, and the distance between them was not far from each other.

The military camp built barriers with wood and hard bamboo, including tents, straw sheds, and various material barriers built by the Vietnamese army.

A thick layer of mud was also pasted outside the fence to prevent it from being burned by fire, and there were perforations between the bamboo and wood above; bamboo pagodas were built outside the entrances of the fence to watch and archery.

There are many ponds and paddy fields around, as well as larger water pools.People standing on the bamboo pagoda can see a large water in the east with their naked eyes.

Ruan Shuai ordered the entire army to line up in the military camp to resist the enemy and block the approaching Ming army with bows and arrows.

The fortifications had been built earlier, but the troops had just retreated from the front and the deployment of defense was very hasty.

Not long after Ruan Shuai and others gained a foothold in the military camp, they saw the Ming army chasing from the north coming towards the north.

Flags can be seen shaking everywhere on the dirt roads in the rice fields and between the trees and grass.There were a column of Ming army growing dragons, with more and more people, and their offensive was rapid and crazy.

Can it block the enemy?I don't know who muttered fearfully, but no one could answer this question.

Everyone held the bow and arrow, watching the scene in the distance from the shooting hole. Most of them were afraid, and some people seemed to hold their breath.

However, the Ming army did not rushed over immediately. They began to rectify their formations two or three hundred steps away, and asked the long dragons to find a place to set them up.

There was not much open space in the north, so the army had to arrange large formations, and each part was opened to form a horizontal, vertical and large square array.

The horse riders were running around.

In this way, the two sides confronted each other about half a mile away.Ruan Shuai began to speculate that the Ming people were afraid that they were waiting and wanted to pull the cannons up!

He looked up at the sun in the sky. The sun was still east and it was less than noon.

The sun seemed to be frozen in the sky, and it didn't move for a long time; today undoubtedly made people feel that living a life is like a year, which is probably the longest day in Ruan Shuai's memory.

At this moment, a general hurriedly ran over and said: General, a Ming army detoured from the riverside and headed to Beijiang Prefecture City!The number of people is unknown and there are many people. Look at the flag, it is a general of the Ming Dynasty named "Yin".

After hearing this, Ruan Shuai was furious and asked: Why are you reporting now?

The general hurriedly said: The last general just got the news, and the people on our side were just concerned about running away, which was too chaotic.

Someone next to him said: Beijiang Prefecture City has empty troops. Will the surname Yin take advantage of the situation to occupy the city?Then we have no way out!

Ruan Shuai looked at the large number of enemy troops nearly two or three hundred steps ahead and couldn't speak for a moment.

Several enemy soldiers had begun to move, their square formations disbanded one after another, and the growing team ran sideways and backwards.After the crowd left, rows of black copper muzzles appeared!

Then there was a burst of military music blowing from the air.Ruan Shuai's face turned black and he stared at the artillery in the distance. Before he could come to his senses, the flashing flames made his eyes hurt.

Boom... Boom boom boom!A loud thunderous sound came, the loud sound was deafening, and the smoke from the distance rose.

After ordinary artillery fire, sometimes people can only see stone bombs falling from the air with their eyes.But the bronze cannons of the Ming army were different. As long as the sound was heard, the iron cannonballs had arrived!

There was a banging sound around, and the bamboo and wood fences were covered with mud, and many places collapsed, with wood chips and broken objects splashing everywhere.

The soldiers of the Great Vietnamese army who were waiting for battle with bows and arrows behind the fortifications, even before the enemy came up, many of them were suddenly overturned to the ground by debris; some were bloody and some were crying loudly.

The hail-like iron ball not only penetrated the fortifications, but also caused damage in the middle of the military camp.

People didn't know how the iron bombs flew over, so they saw many people lying on the ground. The straw sheds and tents built a few days ago seemed to have been dug out of the corner of the wall and suddenly collapsed.

The scene was very terrifying. The soldiers who were unheard of for such a situation almost instantly lost the courage to fight against the enemy.

If you fight face to face, everyone can fight hard, but this kind of thing like a disaster cannot make people willing to wait for death. People just want to escape from such a place.

Ruan Shuai lay behind a perforation hole, holding on to the barriers with both hands, his mind was blank, and his body and mind were shrouded in pain and despair.

The huge cannon fire continued, and the military camp seemed to have suddenly had an earthquake, with shouts and noise chaotic.

After a while, some Ming infantrymen advanced in columns, and had already reached the range of bows and arrows, and they all set up horizontal lines.

However, the Great Vietnamese archers who were originally waiting for battle were already hit by artillery and avoided the enemy. Behind the fortifications that had overturned, the soldiers were in chaos and could not immediately carry out effective coverage and shooting.

Ruan Shuai was still leaning over there, unable to say a word, and could only recite in his heart: I didn't expect it would be like this.

He was eroded by all kinds of negative emotions. The gap between the expected situation and the reality in front of him was too far, and no one could accept it.

The remaining reason also made Ruan Shuai understand that the war had reached this point and that nothing was effective now; the battlefield with a large number of people was not like a few people fighting, and the chaotic battlefield would be out of control for a while.

Bang bang bang... Rows of muskets flashed outside the perforation hole, and the smoke was heavy.The dense explosion made Ruan Shuai come to his senses a little.

Not far away, a soldier shook all over and fell down from behind the barrier.Two other people screamed in horror. Some soldiers of the Great Vietnamese army were nearby, threw away the bow and arrow, turned around and ran away.

Finally, a general came over with his waist and grabbed Ruan Shuai and said: The military camp cannot be defended anymore, so go quickly!

Ruan Shuai turned around with a sword in his hand, and saw the people, donkeys and horses in the military camp running in panic. There was a lot of noise. He blushed and raised his sword and shouted: Kill!kill!Kill the people of Guangming...Ah!

His thigh suddenly became soft, and then he felt a severe pain. A missile penetrated into his flesh. The man immediately knelt down on one knee and stuck his sword on the ground, barely stabilizing his body.

The general and several personal soldiers led the horses over, helped Ruan Shuai get on the horse, and surrounded him and ran south quickly.

After the war started for a long time, Ruan Shuai has completely collapsed. He has never fought a decent battle with so many troops in his hands.He felt like he was running back and running all the time!

The roads directly south were full of defeated soldiers.Ruan Shuai and others had to go around and walk towards Beijiang Prefecture City.

After a long time, they could finally see a city tower from the treetops.The soldiers who came forward to watch came back and said: You can’t go to the city anymore!

Ruan Shuai ignored the persuasion and endured the severe pain and rode his horse to continue moving forward. He came to a forest and looked at the city in the distance.

In the depths of the smoke, a bright dragon flag on the city wall was floating, and the city was in chaos.

He looked carefully for a while and roughly understood the situation.

Some soldiers of the Great Yue army who fled from the battlefield did not enter the Dazhai to resist at all, so they ran straight to Beijiang Prefecture City; and the Ming army that appeared under the city was probably the men named Yin who came from Shangjiang on the west side.

The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty drove the devastated Great Yue army to the city gate and brutally shot at it with muskets, which was simply a massacre.

The dragon flag on the city wall has shown that the city has fallen, and the city is not sure how it was captured.

Although the city defense is empty, the Ming army's troops come quickly and only have muskets, so they should not be able to capture the city too quickly; most of the defenders opened the door and wanted to run away, but the Ming army took advantage of the situation to seize the door.

Because the Ming army did not stop the defenders from all sides.Until now, a city gate has not been blocked by the Ming army, and soldiers of the Great Vietnamese army have been constantly escaping from that gate.

At this moment, a general said from the side: We have to run into the woods, hide in the woods until dark, and then send someone to find a house without anyone, and pick out the guns in the wounds for the Grandmaster.

Another person said: Go to the woods and take off your armor and bury it.

Ruan Shuai sighed and said regretfully: I am sorry for your loyalty.

The general said: Now all the troops in Dayue are from each family. If the general has different strengths and weaknesses, we brothers will have nowhere to stay.

After discussing, the group tied up the horse's mouth with cloth strips to prevent the horse from calling out to attract the enemy; they were reluctant to throw away the war horses and were also hoping to ride away from the Beijiang area.

In a suburban village within the Great Vietnamese territory, it is not easy to find a few mounts.

The horse was obviously very uncomfortable and kept waving his head to break free.

Everyone walked slowly and hard in the woods for a while, but soon there was a movement coming from behind.I don’t know if it was the Vietnamese army’s riots or the Ming army’s pursuits who discovered their whereabouts.

Near... Suddenly a horse broke free from the cloth strip and neighed.

Ruan Shuai and others immediately looked at each other.

There are some big trees in this forest, but the most are bushes. You can't escape by horse, and you have to use a knife to split a narrow road. In addition, Ruan Shuai's leg is injured and he is slow to move, so he can't escape anymore, as if he has become a turtle in a jar.

After a while, people could be seen shaking between the roads they opened behind.

Some light flashed behind the leaves, like fireflies. The Ming army's muskets did not use fire points.

The enemy soldiers finally showed their heads. Several gun-shield hands in front, wearing wide-eaved iron helmets, squatted down on the spot vigilantly. The person holding the musket behind immediately raised the firearm and faced Ruan Shuai's side.

Everyone stood there, nowhere to escape.Watching those shiny iron guns, time seemed to be frozen in an instant.

Jili Wala A voice that I couldn't understand started shouting fiercely.Ruan Shuai could have understood some Chinese language, but the person who shouted obviously spoke in dialect, and he didn't understand a single word.

At this moment, Ruan Shuai's subordinates threw swords and bows to the ground one after another.