The three hundred shotgunners led by Deng Fang held flintlock pistols and looked at the pacesetters who rushed up from afar, with stabbing strips hanging from their waists and burning eyes.

Seeing that the green battalion soldiers were getting closer and closer, Deng Fang's mentality became more and more peaceful, and the hand holding the spear no longer trembled slightly, and was facing the front steadily.

"Fire", seeing that the distance was already close to eighty steps, Deng Fang roared and gave an order, and at the same time pulled the trigger.

"Bang-" A low, dense burst of gunfire rang out, and rows of projectiles whizzed down on the approaching pacesetters, knocking the leading dozen soldiers to the ground.

After the gunfire of the first row of gunfire, the gunfire of the second row also began to roar, and rows of projectiles rained down, and the new flintlock pistol showed its unparalleled power at this moment.

In the pale white smoke array, the two sides only gathered a few dozen steps together, but they could no longer see each other's faces clearly, only bursts of gunfire and the roar of cannons, reflecting each other, making the shouts of the officers and men of the Fubiao battalion seem so weak.

To a certain extent, the training level of Deng Fang and other 300 shotgunners is still very good, although it cannot be compared with the eagle battalion that trains every day, but it is also a drill every three days, while most of the ordinary green battalion soldiers are drilled every ten days, which cannot be compared with it at all. Coupled with the support of powerful weapons and equipment, the combat power of the Hanyang battalion is almost crushing.

In the roar of the cannons and the gunfire of the platoon guns, the green battalion soldiers had no way to rush up, and after hundreds of corpses fell, the rest of the people also looked gloomy, lying on the ground and did not dare to move.

The rest of the matter is very simple, Ning Zhongyuan commanded the sword players and spearmen to launch a wave of counter-charge, which directly crushed the fighting spirit of the remaining green battalion soldiers, and in just a quarter of an hour, the more than 1,200 officers and soldiers of the Fubiao battalion, together with most of the people below Yue Lingfeng, became prisoners, and only a few dozen officers and soldiers fled in small boats.

After the whole battle, the casualties of the Hanyang battalion were only more than 10 people, all of whom fell in the final charge, while more than 1,200 people of the 3rd Fubiao Battalion were wiped out on the spot, and more than 700 officers and soldiers surrendered on the battlefield and were captured.

Yue Lingfeng no longer has the ambition he had before he came, his braids were scattered, his clothes were stained with mud, his eyes were scattered, his face was desperate, and there was a shallow blood mark on his neck.

Gao Yuan was another tiger general under Ning Zhongyuan, and he personally led people to capture Yue Lingfeng, he clenched his fists and said excitedly: "My lord, this guy still wants to wipe his neck, but he was stopped by me, hmph, it's not so happy to want to die!" ”

Ning Zhongyuan stroked his beard and smiled, and said, "Escort all these people down and divide them into separate custodys, and put Yue Lingfeng and several battalions of more than 1,000 generals in one place alone to ensure safety." ”

After a while, a large number of prisoners were escorted away, and the remaining dozens of large ships were also captured and guarded by Ning Zhongyuan. As for the other seizures, it was also very rich, and a large amount of supplies were brought down from the ship———— including the five sub-cannons that had not yet had time to be transported.

Although he won a big battle, Ning Zhongyuan's brows were still wrinkled, firstly, after this battle, he would inevitably share life and death with the Qing court, and the future was unpredictable, and secondly, Ning Zhongjing was still imprisoned in Wuchang, and his life and death were unknown.

At this moment, Ning Qianqiu rushed over and said excitedly: "Tell the second uncle, the eldest brother has come over with many horses!" ”

As soon as Ning Zhongyuan heard that Ning Yu had brought someone over, his heart relaxed slightly, in today's Hanyang City, he really didn't even have someone to talk to, although his son was not very old, he acted steadily and moderately, and he was a person who could share difficulties for him.

It was not far from Yunmeng County to Hanyang City, and there were no other obstacles along the way, so Ningyu's trip was very smooth, much earlier than expected, but he didn't expect this battle to be fought faster, and he had already begun to clean up the mess.

The five hundred and fifty cadets of the Eagle Battalion were dressed in neat and clean military uniforms, carrying long flintlock pistols on their shoulders, all of them had confident looks on their faces, their military appearance was solemn, and the queue was neat, so that Ning Zhongyuan couldn't help but shout in his heart when he saw it.

Father and son met again, but each other's moods were very different.

Ning Yu looked at the layers of corpses of the war dead, his brows furrowed slightly, "Father, these corpses need to be disposed of quickly, if it takes a long time, I am afraid that it will breed a big epidemic." In addition, the bones of the war dead of our army should be properly disposed of, and the time is urgent to bury them now, and then pay tribute in the future. ”

Ning Zhongyuan naturally did not object, and said with a smile: "Everyone often says that tiger fathers and dogs are sons, but my Qilin'er has really grown up!" ”

Looking at the gray in Ning Zhongyuan's braided hair, Ning Yu couldn't help but feel a little emotional, his father was not yet forty years old, and now he was already like this.

After the group returned to Hanyang City, after Ning Zhongyuan had arranged everything, he pulled Ning Yu to discuss the matter, and now he was really racing against time.

"Now the Hanyang battalion has a total of 789 people, and the first eagle battalion has a total of 550 people, adding up to only more than 1,300 people, Xiaogan County can use the old foundation to pull out more than 3,000 people this month, but this adds up to only 5,000 people, and the entire Hubei Green Camp is expected to exceed 40,000 people." Ning Zhongyuan finally showed his weak side in front of his son.

Yes, this is the first pass in front of the Ning family, 40,000 green battalion soldiers against 5,000 patchwork Ning family soldiers, although the Hanyang battalion and the young eagle battalion among them are amazingly powerful, but after all, there are less than 2,000 people. Therefore, in the hearts of today's Ning family, it is not a lie to say that they are worried about the future.

Ning Yu groaned: "Now what is important for my Ning family is to strike first!" Now there will be no more than 5,000 green battalions in Wuchang City, mainly the city defense battalion and the governor's supervision, of which the city defense battalion is not enough to worry about, only the five battalions need to be carefully measured. ”

The so-called five battalions of the superintendent, that is, the superintendent green battalion directly under the governor Manpi, a total of 3,000 people, very well-equipped, can be called the most in the entire Huguang, compared with the Eight Banners Army led by the Jingzhou general, it is also the sharp knife of the entire Huguang green battalion.

Now that Ning Yu wants to take Wuchang directly in one fell swoop, then he needs to use the more than 1,000 people on hand to face the 3,000-person supervision battalion and the 2,000-person city defense battalion.

"Take Wuchang? You are crazy? "Ning Zhongyuan has fought all his life, and he doesn't dare to have such an idea, even if he adds the 3,000 people in Xiaogan's hometown, it is a fool's dream to want to take Wuchang. What's more, there are only 1,300 people today.

Ning Yu said firmly: "Now the news of the defeat of the Fubiao camp has not spread, once it spreads, I am afraid that the entire green camp of Huguang will be moved, and the 40,000 people we will face at that time will not be able to stop it at all, and the whole situation will be dead or alive." ”

"If you want to open up the situation, the only way to do this is to take Wuchang!"