The remaining Qing troops endured artillery fire and were approaching the Ning army little by little, but under the suppression of long-term artillery fire, it was only the last straw to break their will.

The white smoke gradually spread down from the mountain, and a small stone flew over Xu Chengliang's head, which turned out to be the Qing army that transported two small sub-cannons to the mountain road.

Xu Chengliang didn't have any scruples about walking on the life and death threshold just now, and when the Qing army was approaching eighty steps, he let out an angry roar.

"Fire!"

In an instant, the soldiers in the first row pulled the trigger, and three hundred and fifty flintlock muskets fired a small bullet at the same time, like a torrential rain, towards the Qing army on the opposite side.

The Qing soldiers who rushed to the front were like crashing into an invisible wall, and their bodies fell to the ground as soon as they went limp, their faces covered with blood, and their pupils gradually lost their luster.

Ning Yu can clearly see from the mountain that what is shown in front of him is such a magnificent picture, the foot of the mountain in the distance is covered by gunsmoke, and the whole mountain road that goes up along the foot of the mountain is densely covered with large and small pits, and at the same time, it is also densely covered with the corpses of Qing soldiers.

After this platoon of guns, the soldiers of the second platoon of Ning soldiers stepped forward and continued to roar, and the soldiers of the first platoon retreated to the rear and began to reload gunpowder and bullets, and the air was full of gunsmoke, which smoked everyone's bodies.

The Qing troops did not dare to rush any further, they had just withstood two rounds of guns, and more than 70 people had already fallen, and the remaining hundreds of people were lying on the ground, not daring to move, for fear of being bitten by bullets.

Everyone knows that if it is a knife and a gun, there is still a chance of survival, but if you are hit by a bullet, there is almost no chance of survival, the bullet will stay in the body and wreak havoc, and the subsequent germs will directly destroy all the vitality of a person.

"Mr. Qian, I can't move!" A Qing soldier lying on the ground let out a mournful cry as he watched his two older brothers fall to the ground at the same time, using their bodies to save their only younger brother.

A man with a bloody face roared angrily: "The general is watching from below!" There are still sixty steps, and if you don't get up one by one, Lao Tzu is going to kill someone! ”

In desperation, the remaining generals kicked up the Qing soldiers who were lying on their stomachs one by one and reassembled the formation. Only a few hundred Qing troops stood up, all shotgunners, and began to prepare for the nervous loading of ammunition.

Ning Jun on the opposite side was only fifty steps away from them, and they could almost see each other's faces clearly, those faces were almost the same, their dark faces were dotted with crystal bright eyes, and many of them were just teenagers.

Seeing that the Ning army's flintlock pistol fired a third round of volleys, but the Qing army had not yet finished loading, only to see that after a row of gunfire, the Qing army fell more than 50 people.

At this time, it completely crushed the fighting spirit of the remaining Qing army, whether they were loaded or not, they directly picked up the shotgun and fired, probably less than half of the shotguns fired bullets, and some people forgot to take out the stabbing strip and directly shot the piercing strip out, and the Ning army on the opposite side only fell seven or eight places.

Then the Ning soldiers were not to be outdone, and another round of gunfire made the remaining Qing soldiers no longer have the fighting spirit, they ignored the threats and intimidation of the generals and thousands of generals behind them, threw the shotguns in their hands on the spot, and ran down the mountain together.

Seeing this, Ning Yu laughed, pulled out the saber on his body, slashed down, and roared: "Brothers, get on the bayonet!" ”

All the soldiers of the Ning army shouted in unison, fixed the bayonet hanging from their waists to the muzzle of the flintlock musket, formed a short spear, and rushed down the mountain.

The entire battlefield has shown a chaotic situation, the soldiers who escaped from the mountainside directly rushed down the team behind them, hearing the sound of chasing and killing behind, many people panicked, and even jumped directly from the mountain.

Gao Laibao looked at the rout soldiers who fled down the Snake Mountain with an iron face, and then looked at the Ning soldiers who rushed down from the mountain, and said angrily: "Kill those who take a step back!" Order the gunners to open fire! ”

This order frightened everyone, firing artillery from the foot of the mountain, it couldn't hit the Ning army at all, and could only hit these defeated Qing army colleagues, but when they saw Gao Laibao's gloomy face, they had no choice but to obey the order.

The defeated soldiers who had not yet come down from the mountain never expected that the cannons under the mountain fired directly at their own side, and one by one the bullets beat the Qing soldiers to the ground, and many people knelt directly on the ground, waiting for surrender.

Xu Chengliang is brave by nature, and he loves this kind of hand-to-hand combat the most, so he rushed down and was the fastest one, but he was almost hit by a bullet fired by the Qing army, and scolded: "These beasts are so ruthless to their own people!" ”

Seeing that the Qing army under the mountain was firing artillery and the mountain road had been cut off, Ning Yu was unwilling to let his soldiers sacrifice senselessly, so he decided to order the troops to be withdrawn. After all, at this time, if there is more vitality, there will be more combat power.

Some of the soldiers of the Ning Army who were killed were a little reluctant, but the military order was like a mountain, and under the leadership of their respective commanders, they had to retreat. From the retreat, it can be seen that the long-trained Eagle Battalion has done a better job in this regard, and has been more resolute and decisive in carrying out orders, while the original Hanyang Battalion soldiers, although brave and fierce, are a few points worse in this regard.

After the Qing army fled down the mountain, Gao Laibao almost crooked his nose in anger, and directly ordered to cut off the heads of three thousand generals and seven generals.

Of the three battalions of the Green Battalion, 1,500 men and horses, there are now less than 300 left, and the rest are either dead or captured.

Although there were still nearly 3,000 Qing soldiers———— combat effectiveness had dropped by more than half, because the most combat-effective more than 1,000 people were left on the mountain, and the three battalions that went up the mountain were almost completely wiped out.

At the same time, the mountain was becoming more and more imposing, and there were only a few dozen of our own dead and wounded, most of whom were wounded by the cannons that were transported to the mountainside, but the results were very astonishing, killing six or seven hundred people on the spot, and more than three hundred prisoners.

Ning Zhongyuan smiled, "I don't know what virtue I have for the rest of the people?" I am afraid that I will not dare to attack the mountain again in this short period of time, and I will inevitably adopt a siege strategy. Our army can sneak attack at night. ”

Ning Yu shook his head slightly, "Father, I think the generals under the mountain are also brave and strategic, and I am afraid that they have already taken countermeasures against our army's night attack." ”

Ning Zhongyuan smacked his lips with some regret, "At the foot of this mountain, Gao Laibao led the troops, and this person can be regarded as a good leader, but he followed a master who didn't have a seed." ”

Ning Yu smiled, "It's not completely impossible, the original plan was to start setting fire to the city tonight to attract the attention of the enemy, but Gao Laibao is cautious, and it is estimated that he can guess that this is the plan of our army, and it will be more and more strictly guarded at that time." ”

"Then wait until tonight is over, when it is almost dawn in the early morning, the Qing army has been prepared for this night, I am afraid that the energy will decline, and then our army can take advantage of the victory to attack and smash this fifth battalion of the superintendent in one fell swoop!"