Ma Shouying's strategy has made significant progress, and after two days of fighting, the army of thieves has launched several attacks on the positions of the 1st Brigade of the Tianwu Army.

Ma Shouying was worried that the casualties would be too large and the phenomenon of collapse and escape, so every attack made each battalion take turns, even if the losses were greater, he would not allow a collapse and escape.

After losing tens of thousands of people, two of the three trenches in the Tianwu Army's position were filled, and the army of thieves had broken through to the front of the third trench and had already formed a semi-encirclement trend.

During this period, the Tianwu Army felt that the defense was becoming more and more difficult, and Huang Degong directly ordered the Royal Heavy Artillery Regiment to bombard the thief soldiers, although the effect was very good, forcing the thief soldiers back, but it only stopped the thief soldiers for one day.

Seeing that the thieves were surrounded, Huang Degong had to shrink his defensive position, and pulled over the 5,000 people of the reserve brigade in Lu'an Prefecture to act as a melee defense.

The addition of the Tuntian soldiers of the 5,000 Reserve Brigade made the position of the Tianwu Army like an iron bucket, which could not be broken no matter how the thieves attacked.

The horn sounded again, and I saw a black line spread over the horizon again, and it was full of thieves from south to north.

On the trenches, holding binoculars to observe the surrounding Tianwu army, the night did not receive an early warning signal, reminding all units to prepare to defend against the enemy.

Looking at the endless rogues, many of the Tuntian soldiers who participated in the battle for the first time were nervous with their weapons in their hands, but they were much better than yesterday.

In the thief array, Ma Shouying and other battalion leaders frowned, this is the most difficult hard battle they have fought since the rebellion, many people didn't expect the martial army to be so difficult to gnaw this day, only barely close after two days of fighting, each time the officers and soldiers broke through a trench and shrank back dozens of steps, and then fucking dug out a new trench, disgusting!

Ma Shouying said in a deep voice: "The cavalry of each battalion assembled, prepared to attack, smashed the positions of the officers and soldiers in one fell swoop, killed them all, seized the firearms, and took Lu'an!" ”

Ma Shouying was ready to launch a desperate attack, the old battalion soldiers of the 5th Battalion of the Revolution and the Ma army totaled tens of thousands of people, they were the elite of the rebel army, the hungry soldiers filled the pit in front of them as cannon fodder, and when the last trench was almost filled, the cavalry could rush in a wave.

If this attack fails again, Ma Shouying will be ready to give up Lu'an Prefecture and fight Shouzhou instead, the grain must be grabbed, who will work for himself without food, it is estimated that his men will run out in a short time.

After half an hour, after losing another 5,000 hungry soldiers, the front team of the thieves finally filled in the newly dug trenches of the officers and soldiers, and the artillery battalion of the Tianwu Army was also pulled to the rear early.

The cavalry army of the thieves launched an assault on the left flank, and Huang Degong ordered that all the easily mobile Fran machine guns be transferred to the left line to assist in the battle, and also transferred a regiment of musketeers, and ordered the pikemen in the Tuntian soldiers to prepare for battle.

The artillery of the Tianwu Army on the left line was once again powerful, and dozens of Franc machine guns and hundreds of tiger squat guns all greeted the rogue horse army on the left line.

When the cavalry of the thieves had just entered the distance of 200 paces, hundreds of large and small cannonballs fell mercilessly on their heads, and the men and horses who rushed to the front were hit by the cannonballs and fell to the ground one after another, screaming miserably.

A solid bullet hit the neck of a war horse, instantly smashing the neck vertebrae of the war horse, falling to the ground with huge inertia, and tripping several horse troops behind. Some of the horses of the rear army were frightened and jumped around, and the horse army on their backs overturned to the ground, and for a while people shouted and neighed, and there was chaos in the horse army.

Liu Xiyao, the king of the troubled times in the horse army, hurriedly drank the war horse under his crotch, and seven or eight steps away from his war horse, a bloodstained cannonball rolled over, which made him feel a sigh in his heart, and remembered the fate of Lin Yang, the king of the world, and he retreated again.

He Yilong rode past from behind and yelled: "Cowardly! Look at Lao Tzu! ”

Saying that, He Yilong sat down on the war horse violently, and the war horse immediately let out a violent scream, and rushed forward like crazy, and the horse army and the old battalion soldiers under He Yilong followed closely and rushed up one after another.

Liu Xiyao looked at He Yilong who was going away with a blue face, and his heart was very angry, he mocked himself several times this dog day, why didn't he die!

Just when he was hesitant to rush forward, he saw that He Yilong's old camp in front of him exploded, and He Yilong, who was originally riding a war horse and galloping happily, shook and fell off the war horse, and was taken away by the fire of the officers and soldiers.

"Retribution comes so quickly......" Liu Xiyao felt for the first time that his mouth was as good as opening the light.

In the position of the Tianwu Army, Zhao Jinglin, the leader of the sniper brigade, blew out the green smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and continued to start loading bullets, beside him, a soldier with a telescope in his hand was constantly looking for a person with conspicuous clothes in the horse formation of the thieves, preferably the kind with a cloak and a strong war horse.

Zhao Jinglin's deputy said: "Captain, at three o'clock, one hundred and thirty steps away, there is a person wearing a cloak, it should be a big fish!" ”

"Roger!" Zhao Jinglin nodded, pointed the loaded rifled gun at three o'clock, and looked for the beautiful boy in the cloak.

The gunners of the Tianwu Army still reloaded the shells at their own pace, methodically, and then waited for the order, opened the cannon bombardment, reloaded, and fired again.

In the ranks of the thieves' attack, there were constantly people and horses being hit by cannonballs, and often one horse fell to the ground, and several horses behind would trip one after another, which greatly slowed down the attack speed of the rogue horse army.

The cavalry of the Qing army was completely incomparable, and the cavalry of the Qing army still had many skilled equestrians, either bypassing quickly, or riding horses to cross, and the cavalry that fell to the ground in the front had limited impact on the rear formation.

And the horse army of the rogue is hard to say, many people are just newcomers who have just started, if you want to talk about equestrianism, there is no one, the best equestrian belongs to the old battalion soldiers of each battalion, and one of them is even equipped with two horses.

As the Liukou Ma Army continued to approach, the musketeers of the Tianwu Army on the left line began to reappear, arranging four rows of volleys, and the corpses piled up on the battlefield became more and more pulled.

A large amount of blood stained the black-brown earth, and the air was filled with a thick smell of blood and sulfur, which made people feel suffocated.

The smoke of the Tianwu Army's position was even thicker, and the entire position was shrouded in smoke, and the visibility could only be seen twenty or thirty paces, which was very unfavorable to the battle situation.

Although the rogue horse army suffered a heavy blow, the attack was much faster than the infantry, and soon rushed to within fifty paces of the position.

"Brothers, victory is at hand, kill it!" Liu Xiyao, the king of troubled times, roared, and then rode his horse back a distance again, quietly watching the rebels and horses rush forward to kill.