As the drums sounded, the bandits were getting closer and closer, and Dong Ce could even see the hot air coming out of the noses of those people, in the form of smoke in the early winter.

Two hundred steps......

Two more cannon shots, but this time the iron bullets smashed into the crowd, and a mist of blood turned up.

Many bandits had begun to panic, they didn't know why the artillery of the Green Battalion in the past had become so powerful today, which was beyond their imagination - until now they couldn't believe that it was a group of teenagers.

One hundred and eighty steps.....

Dong Ce pulled out the knife at his waist and raised it high, the first row of soldiers squatted, the second row of soldiers stood, and at the same time raised the flintlock pistol in his hand, each with a bayonet hanging from his waist, and when the white-knuckle battle began, they would fix the bayonet on the muzzle of the gun and charge.

One hundred and fifty steps.....

Dong Ce's waist knife slashed down, and all the soldiers pulled the trigger at the same time, like a storm, more than two hundred lead bullets were fired out of the gun, and the thick white smoke engulfed the entire team in an instant, and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke made people both disgusted and a little addicted.

Ning Yu was accustomed to hearing the high and sharp sound of artillery fire in later generations, but now when he heard this gunshot, he felt a little strong, and the dull gunfire was much less atmospheric than the sound of firecrackers, but it was more terrifying.

Through the telescope, Ning Yu could see that the front part of the bandits in Peach Blossom Mountain were hit by these projectiles one after another, and seventy or eighty people fell like cutting wheat, this scene was like hell, so that the remaining hundreds of bandits were terrified, and one by one they directly dropped the knives and guns in their hands and ran towards the back of the cottage.

This scene is also in line with common sense, because most of the army is like this, and the casualty rate has collapsed at 10 percent, which is already considered a strong army.

Before these Taohuashan bandits went up the mountain, they were just landless peasants who couldn't survive, and they didn't have any professional military training in essence, and after the casualties reached about 100 people, or the bravest 100 people, the rest of the people were scattered like birds, scattering swords and guns on the ground, and no longer had the strength to fight.

"All surrender and don't kill! Let the artillery stop firing. Ning Yu quickly gave an order, what is the most valuable in this era, in fact, it is still a human being.

From this moment on, the war is actually over, and if the killing continues, it will become a massacre. Ning Yu is not a soft-hearted person, but he is very rational and very disgusted with senseless slaughter.

After receiving the order, Dong Ce was still very calm, commanding the soldiers to approach the bandits, releasing guns from time to time to create deterrence, and making the soldiers shout: Surrender or kill!

More and more bandits put down their weapons and lay on the ground, and any bandits who dared to continue to resist with weapons would be shot by name, until everyone obediently lay on the ground and did not dare to move.

After only half an hour of surrender, Ning Yu left two teams of soldiers to guard the surrendered bandits, and the rest continued to set off towards the cottage.

After a while, the bandits in the cottage also came out with the rest of the people and raised their hands to surrender, after all, all the bandits who could fight had already gone out to fight, and the rest were just some women and children.

Ning Yu arranged for Xu Chengliang to receive these remnants of the old and weak, and repeatedly advised: "These people are still useful in the future, soldiers are not allowed to beat and scold, and they are not allowed to rob property without permission, the soldiers of my Eagle Battalion are not bandits, if anyone dares to take advantage of the victory and act recklessly, the Military Justice Department will severely punish them." ”

Xu Chengliang had just finished this big victory, his face was flushed with excitement, and after saluting, he hurriedly took people to receive the surrendered troops.

Dong Ce's personality has always been calm, but now that he has won a big victory in the first battle, he is also excited in his heart, and he came over to say: "Yingzao, our army won a complete victory in this battle, eliminating 115 bandits, including bandit leaders Huang Cheng, Dong Dahai and others, and captured 520 bandits on the battlefield, of which 47 were slightly injured. Except for some ammunition, our troops did not suffer a single casualty. ”

Ning Yu exhaled and said with a smile: "My Eagle Camp is out of breath this time!" Attention should be paid to the timely treatment of those who are slightly injured, and the bandits will be screened in a timely manner, and those who have committed the most heinous crimes will be detained separately. ”

The smoke on the battlefield gradually dissipated, and Ning Yu looked at this battlefield, the interweaving of iron and blood, making this white land dotted with red and black.

Half an hour later, Xu Chengliang came over and said excitedly: "Tell the camp, there are still 447 people in the camp, of which 385 are women and children, and the rest are the old and the wounded. In addition, there were 8,000 taels of silver and more than 900 stones of grain in the camp, and the 100 stones of salt that we had thrown away were also in it. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Chengliang hesitated a little and said: "In addition, after the brothers surrounded the back of the mountain, they caught three people, and it seems that their identities are a little unusual. Camp, you see......"

Ning Yu's heart moved slightly, these people must have something to do with this incident, if they dig deeper, maybe they will gain something.

In Ning Yu's heart, he always felt that this matter was not so simple, but the top priority at this time was not this, so he said: "Dong Ce Xu Chengliang, I will bring the team back later, hold a post-war reflection meeting, and summarize some shortcomings of this operation, pay attention, I only listen to the shortcomings." ”

This kind of post-war reflection meeting, in fact, Ningyu has been holding it before, but it was a training reflection meeting before, and this time it was a real sword.

However, speaking of which, the psychological quality of the soldiers of the Eagle Battalion is very good, and there is no fear of fighting on the battlefield, but there is some discomfort when seeing the dead, which seems to be easier to accept than the face-to-face fight of real knives and guns in the past.

Ning Yu paused and continued: "As for these captured bandits, the most heinous public trials among them will be killed, and the rest of the young men who can be absorbed will be sent to the auxiliary barracks, and the women and children will be sent to Xiaogan County along with the captures. As for the reward for this battle, I will decide when I return. "The auxiliary battalion is another sub-camp established by Ning Yu before, which is mainly based on construction, supplemented by combat, and can be regarded as a reserve force.

Thinking about it, with so many young and strong supplements this time, the combat effectiveness of the Eagle Battalion can also be increased to a certain extent.

Dong Ce and Xu Chengliang immediately made a military salute, and after the commander cleaned up the battlefield, he burned the original Taohuashan camp and escorted the remaining young men back to the Eagle Camp.

Ning Yu took three teams of soldiers, escorted more than 300 women and children, illegal salt and other goods, and set off to Xiaogan County, but the way back was more comfortable. Because after the victory, Ning Yu sent guards back to the Ning family's old mansion early to report the news, and halfway through, he saw Ning Zhongjing waiting for him with Ning Zhonghai.

Ning Zhongjing looked at the long queue and the carload of goods, with a look of relief on his face, and laughed: "Ning Family Qilin'er, it really lives up to expectations!" ”