Daming kill

Chapter 11 Survival in a desperate situation
"Don't go, don't go, cross the ditch immediately..." Zhao Jin shouted.

But the panicked crowd did not stop, but accelerated their speed, as if they still had hope of escape.

Zhao Jin's authority began to fail, and people began to follow their instincts.

Li Ping hastily stretched his neck and looked around the ditch. He didn't see the enemy for a while, and the enemy had a blind spot in this area.

He suddenly woke up. The peasant army's strength on the opposite side of the ditch should be very weak, otherwise there would be no need to dig such a long and deep ditch.If not, wouldn't it be more secure to fight by directly gathering these people together to form a strong force advantage, and directly intercepting the retreating army?

After all, a clenched fist is far more powerful than fingers apart.

It was fear and non-stop running that prevented everyone from thinking calmly, and Zhao Jin must have seen through it a little.

At this time, Zhao Jin, who was a little frantic, ran back and forth on his horse to persuade: "The peasant army must have limited ambushes. Their current energy is mainly on the brigade behind us, and they can't take care of us for the time being. Now it's just a ditch, and the cavalry will catch up in a while. We really can't get away..."

Li Ping, who was awakened, immediately echoed loudly, and raised his knife and ran to the chained mules and horses to stop him.

Shi Ming should have understood it too, stepped forward and directly stopped the mule cart.Immediately after Shi Ming made a move, Wang Chengwu drew his bow and threatened everyone to stop advancing without hesitation.

Under the effect of force and blind obedience, the whole team finally stopped, and some other Ming troops who were running around together also stopped.

There was no longer any hesitation, and the only two mule carts were immediately untied and pushed down the ditch.

Li Ping, who was staring at the bottom of the ditch, was thinking about how to get down, when suddenly Shi Ming's continuous shouts came from behind him.

Li Ping looked back vigilantly, only to see Shi Chang in a post being knocked over by Shi Ming with a knife and fell down the mule.

When I fixed my eyes, I saw a lot of people gathered around the mules and horses, and Captain Wang, who didn't know how to ride at all, was running crookedly to the east on the mules. Continue to run away.

Captain Qi, who was a villain and a mule, had long since disappeared, and the team was getting out of control.

At this time, he couldn't stay out of the matter, so Li Ping quickly drew his knife and ran to the mules and horses to support him.

Another scream came, but someone was shot to the ground by Wang Chengwu's arrow.

This Wang Chengwu really knows how to shoot arrows, and he uses them well, so he is not pretending to be cool.

Li Ping, who had already arrived, was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly went around, blocking a man who was dragging a mule in a panic.

Taking a closer look, it was Marsh, the leader of his own team.

Li Ping was stunned, subconsciously pulled Marsh's long clothes with his left hand and shouted: "What are you doing?" But he couldn't lift the knife with his right hand anyway, he just kept swallowing dryly and spitting.

The two people who were entangled were stunned for a moment.

Chief Marsh was the first to react. He knocked Li Ping away and wanted to get on the mule, but Li Ping rushed up and dragged him down, kicking him while cursing.

Suddenly, Yiqi rushed over.

There was a flash of the knife, and while Li Ping was stunned, a [-] to [-] centimeter long gash was cut deeply from his left shoulder to his chest, blood spurted out, and he screamed heart-piercingly. In an instant, it rang in Li Ping's ears.

Li Ping, who was splashed with blood, immediately felt something rolling in his stomach.

Immediately, Zhao Jin only paused for a moment, his eyes became firm again, and he shouted at Li Ping: "It's over, hurry up, go down to the ditch to organize immediately, see if you can build a bridge, hurry up, hurry up!" ,quick."

After finishing speaking, Zhao Jin hurriedly turned his horse's head and yelled at other people nearby: "Go down and build a bridge for me. Whoever runs away will die, and only if you go down can you live..."

Li Ping looked at Marsh who was lying on the ground and was still howling. The right hand holding the knife suddenly slipped wetly, and cold sweat began to break out on his forehead.

The rolling flesh made him sick.

kill!
He wasn't ready yet, his heart trembled violently.

While gnashing his teeth, Li Ping forced himself to be ruthless while turning his head and stabbing Marsh's long chest with the knife.

Something obstructed it fiercely, and the knife that was pierced was deflected a lot to the side.Li Ping's heart skipped a beat, but he still held it back, and with another effort, the knife was still completely pierced in.

He couldn't tell what it was like when the knife entered the human body, Li Ping just felt that there was no sound around him, and then he felt that only his own violent heartbeat and heavy breathing were left.

He wiped the sweat off his face with his left hand, and when he pulled out the knife, he found that the knife seemed to be stuck.

Suppressing the sour water in his stomach, Li Ping stepped on the person on the ground bravely, raised his hands vigorously, and finally pulled out the knife.

The blood flowing on the knife made him a little dizzy and even a little silly.

Without knowing why, he just stretched out the knife to wipe Marsh's clothes on the ground, and then saw Marsh's hideous and unwilling expression.

Miraculously, he didn't tremble this time. Li Ping just stared at Marsh's long face with a stiff expression, wiped the knife back and forth twice, and then stood up straight.

When Li Ping came to the ditch to look for Zhao Jin as if fleeing, he saw that Zhao Jin, Shi Ming and others were driving the remnant soldiers in the sentry and the scattered soldiers of other battalions into the ditch.No more thinking, Li Ping followed a sloping ditch to the bottom of the ditch.

But he immediately found to his astonishment that most people at the bottom of the ditch were desperately climbing to the other side of the ditch. No one cared about building a bridge at all, and their priority was to escape first.

But the high wall of the ditch is difficult to climb up alone, and the result is chaos everywhere.

Li Ping hurriedly dragged people everywhere, beat and scolded him everywhere, but he couldn't restrain himself at all.

A soldier who is climbing is about to succeed. His body is very flexible, and many soldiers around him are inspired by him.

Suddenly, a feathered arrow pierced into his back with a "poof", and the soldier fell down screaming.

The rebels at the bottom of the ditch turned their heads in astonishment, only to see Wang Chengwu standing on the ditch with his bow on his back, and Shi Ming next to him kept shouting ferociously repeatedly: "Whoever runs will die, whoever runs will die."

However, the flow of people at the bottom of the ditch has already formed a long, long line. Some people who were driven to the bottom of the ditch are still losing their minds and running away to both sides. Running for the sake of running, and just a tragedy in one place can't deter them at all.

But soon, more screams began to come.

Above the trench, two strong men from an unknown battalion began to shoot with their bows. The arrows of these two men were very precise, and each arrow would bring a scream.Then, many soldiers who still held bows and arrows were ordered by Zhao Jin to attack the disobedient people at the bottom of the ditch.

Finally, the people at the bottom of the ditch were driven into a group.

Be obedient or die now, everyone knows how to choose.

When Li Ping ordered the flustered soldiers to straighten the two mule carts, he found that the mule carts were still quite a bit taller with the tents on them.

At this time, there were constantly messy things being thrown down, such as parcels, cloth, tents, buckets, bamboo poles, etc. Zhao Jin shouted from above: "Li Ping, think of a way quickly, think of a way quickly, let the Horses pass, we need horses."

Li Ping, who was being urged, was in a mess, but subconsciously yelled at the people at the bottom of the ditch to gather all kinds of things together to see if they could build a bridge pier, and at the same time hurriedly took the lead in taking the lead.

The silly big Liu San and the long Duan Qiang all came to his side to help at this time, and led the others.

But the construction was not smooth, and the hastily built things could neither guarantee firmness nor meet the minimum height requirements.

Suddenly, amidst the chaotic shouts, another car was pushed down, and the people on it were obviously robbing everyone who passed by.

Wang Chengwu and Song Baolai also jumped down to help.

Seeing that random construction could not solve the problem, Li Ping forced himself to calm down.

His brain was running fast, trying to combine the messy things into all possible things in his mind.

At this time, Song Baolai was trying indiscriminately to strengthen a car body, and Li Ping had a flash of inspiration, and then shouted to explain his idea.

He needs to re-adjust the stacking order of things, the car body needs to be inserted into the ground to stabilize the foundation, and the bamboo poles and long flagpoles need to be inserted into the ditch walls on both sides to further fix it...

Seeing that Li Ping had an idea, Wang Chengwu was overjoyed, and immediately drove everyone to listen to Li Ping's orders.

Among the chaotic crowd at the bottom of the ditch, an old man in coarse brown clothes and straw sandals gave Li Ping a lot of help.

The old man kept beckoning to the young men who were dressed in the same simple clothes around him to accurately arrange all kinds of things according to Li Ping's requirements step by step, and adjusted them more firmly from time to time.

Although Li Ping looked very unfamiliar to this old man, he also passed on more requests to him first. Now Li Ping urgently needs accurate execution and professional assistance.

Finally, a solid small pier with a height of more than four meters was formed.Then, several dismantled car panels were erected on the pier and the ditch banks on both sides, and a simple bridge with a width of one meter was erected.

When the first person led a donkey successfully, everyone started to shout excitedly.

When the last Ming army from an unknown battalion near the bridge climbed across the ditch, the cavalry troops of the intruding army had already covered the distant view, and one of the cavalry troops with more than [-] people had reached hundreds of meters away. outside.

Seeing that the Ming army on the other side of the ditch was pushing down the temporary bridge and still unleashing torches, the knights who led the team showed a hint of sarcasm on their faces.Then, this team of Peasant Army cavalry began to turn around three to forty meters before the ditch, and continued eastward without stopping.

As for the trembling and crying Ming army who came over to cross the ditch, they didn't even pay attention.

Watching the cavalry of the Peasant Army go away, hundreds of Ming soldiers who were standing [-] meters away from the ditch (to defend against the enemy's bow and arrow attack) with bows and spears waiting in full battle but trembling all breathed a sigh of relief, and many of them slumped on the ground.

They didn't run away immediately because they were afraid that the cavalry of the Peasant Army would quickly extinguish the fire with a convulsion, and then chase them like cats and tigers, building bridges and crossing ditches, and then they might have to finish the game.

Zhao Jin, who led the sergeants in the sentry behind the formation, ordered the withdrawal of the law enforcement line (draw a line behind the army formation, whoever retreats and crosses this line will be killed), and then quickly gathered people to go to the mules and horses at the back. Pull mules and horses.

Li Ping didn't move for a long time, he was still staring blankly at the simple and messy cavalry troops of the Peasant Army who had already left.

There are mixed feelings in his heart.

Zuo Liangyu's army was finished, if they hadn't gained the opportunity to go ahead of the army, they would probably be the fish of this group of invading cavalry now.

This group of people in front of them is Li Zicheng's peasant army cavalry in the history books, they are all old and young, they are generally rough and thin, with mixed clothes, little armor, dirty and dirty riding short Mongolian horses, and although they are only more than a hundred, they swarm in groups. No formation was seen.

From Li Ping's point of view, they are definitely not elite soldiers, and they are even a bit scumbag.However, it was such a group of people who completed the fatal blow to the [-] Ming army; it was such a group of people that finally destroyed the Ming Empire.

This world is so dumbfounding. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, who would believe that a veteran who has fought a hundred battles would foolishly retreat in the dark?Who would have believed that Li Zicheng could dig such a long and deep ditch quietly behind the Ming army.

The real world is always amazing.

Although Daming's official army was indeed ineffective, and the peasant army seemed to be the same, Li Zicheng's victory was by no means a fluke.

If you can work hard to such an extent, the officers and soldiers will not be wronged.

(End of this chapter)