As for whether Cao Limei has heard of this gossip, everyone has not exactly determined it, and Cao Limei never mentioned it, at least in public, Cao Limei and Zhu Beiguo are a genuine loving couple, the two have two boys and three girls in their lives, the two grow old together, and their marriage is very happy---- in the eyes of outsiders, this is a model couple......

Okay, now let's go back to the middle of August of the solar calendar in 1659.

On July 18, that is, the third day after the battle of Shentangyuan, the four thousand green battalion soldiers from Lianzhou approached Leizhou City, this time, Chen Shangchuan, Chen Anping and Wei Ai, who witnessed the combat strength of the Australian army, formulated a more ambitious battle plan - they planned to annihilate the enemy under Leizhou City, once victorious, the Qing army wanted to occupy Leizhou City, it was necessary to reorganize and draw men and horses to attack, obviously there was a process, then Leizhou City could get at least two to three months of respite.

Wei Ai and the others completely agreed with Er Chen's judgment, in fact, the brothers knew very well in their hearts that the respite period in Leizhou City might not be more than three months, and maybe a year and a half would be possible.

Because Chen Shangchuan didn't know at this moment, Zheng Chenggong had now entered the city of Jiangning, the momentum was huge, the south of the Yangtze River vibrate, the Qing court had fallen into panic, and Emperor Shunzhi even had the intention of giving up the Central Plains and retreating to Liaodong, but then the war suddenly became beneficial to the Qing army, and the discussion was finally closed.

Obviously, the current Qing court has no time to take care of this small Leizhou city in the southwest corner, in the history of the old world, during this time, the Qing army from Zhili Luyu to Huguang has been timed to support Jiangning to varying degrees, the Qing Dynasty in the entire southwest region only Wu Sangui's team is still a new force, but Wu Sangui is currently busy controlling the newly occupied prefectures and counties in Yunnan and Guizhou, and also guarding against Li Dingguo's counterattack, so for the prefectures and counties far away in the coastal areas of Guangxi, the imperial court is not able to take care of it at all.

In the history of the old world, because Chen Shangchuan lived on an island, the news was very closed, and he did not react until two years later, and this bold general, after realizing that he had overestimated the strength of the Qing court, did not hesitate to immediately lead his army to land from the island to counterattack.

It was three years after the history of the old world, even if Zheng Chenggong had already fled to Dayuan Island at that time, and the Qing court had regained a firm foothold in the south of the Yangtze River, but the Qing court's control over these "border provinces" prefectures and counties was still very weak, so Chen Shangchuan was able to defeat the siege of the Qing army and capture ----Qinzhou City and many coastal counties in one fell swoop.

Therefore, at this time, Wei Ai and the others were determined to fight another battle to help Chen Shangchuan control Leizhou City as long as possible, and to gain more time to transport as many refugees as possible.

The battle took place outside the west gate of Leizhou City, Chen Shangchuan set up an ambush outside the west gate, and the Australian army guarded the west gate, obviously the green battalion did not get the news that the Qing army on the north road had been wiped out two days ago, and even did not know that the Qing army on the north road was going south, in this era, the speed of information transmission was not so fast.

The green battalion soldiers swaggered along the official road to the west city wall of Leizhou, seeing that the west gate of Leizhou City was closed, they immediately sent people to the city gate to call the city, and the soldiers of Chen Shangchuan who defended the city pretended to be scared and immediately put down the drawbridge, so the large group of people lined up to the city wall under the city wall, at this time, a cannon sounded at the head of the city, thousands of Australian troops appeared on the city wall, and a row of guns caught the Qing army off guard The team was in chaos, and then thousands of five-seven grenades @ bombs were thrown from the city wall - okay, Wei Ai and the others finally seized the opportunity to make a wonderful combat advertisement for the 57-style grenade @ bomb.

The green battalion soldiers under the city wall were stunned on the spot, but fortunately, the chief soldier and his personal soldiers were in the middle of the team, and the blow suffered was relatively light, so several thousand generals and hundreds of personal soldiers surrounded the general soldiers and retreated to an arrow away, but before they had time to count the losses, the drums and trumpets around them, Chen Shangchuan was on the left, Chen Anping was on the right, each led two thousand war auxiliaries to kill, and then the Australian army in the city also killed out of the west gate in the sound of drums and trumpets.

This time, Wei Ai and the others led the team to fight the bayonets directly with the green battalion soldiers, at this time, the green battalion soldiers had already been panicked by the sudden blow, and the officials were retreating in a hurry, how could the soldiers still be in the mood to fight hand-to-hand?

So the front of the green battalion soldiers scattered in a hurry, at this time the rear of the green battalion is mostly responsible for escorting the vehicle baggage auxiliary soldiers, there is no combat effectiveness at all, seeing Er Chen kill out also scattered and fled, in the end, only about six or seven hundred personal soldiers on the battlefield gathered together, escorting the chief soldier and the thousand generals in the same place to do the trapped beast fight.

Seeing this, Chen Shangchuan planned to harden himself, but Wei Ai and the others said that there was no need to do such unnecessary casualties, please sit down and surround the hundreds of soldiers.

So, in front of Chen Shangchuan's thousands of officers and soldiers, the Australian army once again demonstrated what it means to crush, what is the difference in the times of weapons and tactics, and especially put on a big force in front of everyone---- especially let the 57-style grenade @ bullet show a general face.

At a distance of less than a hundred meters from the enemy, Xiao Ai's six hundred soldiers of the garrison perfectly demonstrated what a three-stage attack with muskets is called - six hundred soldiers, lined up in three columns, each column of two hundred men, three columns staggered with each other, and Airosh personally commanded, I saw him holding high the signal flag and shouting loudly:

"A platoon ready ~ aim ~ put!"

After a deafening roar, the hedgehogs gathered together in the green battalion suddenly fell down a layer, and then Xiao Ai shouted:

"Second row ready ~ aim ~ put!"

Unlike the first row, when Xiao Ai called out the second row to prepare, the 200 soldiers standing in the second row did not stand still, but took a few steps forward over the first row, at which point the soldiers who had completed the first round of shooting would crouch on the spot and reload their bullets.

So the original second row became the first row, and the original third row became the second row.

When the second round of firing was completed, the soldiers in this platoon also reloaded their ammunition in a semi-squatting position, and at this time, the soldiers of the original third platoon who followed them came out of the crowd and became the front row to shoot with a platoon of guns.

This wheeled circular forward attack method formed a continuous platoon of gun attacks, giving great pressure to the enemy in front of them, coupled with the accuracy of the Type 57 rifle beyond the times, under normal circumstances, it only took a few rounds of fire to collapse the opposing front due to heavy casualties.

However, there is a saying that the trapped beast is still fighting, when the green battalion soldiers find themselves in a situation where there is no way to retreat, they will also fight back desperately, so under the example of the chief soldier taking the lead, his own soldiers suddenly burst out with great courage, they held their swords and guns, and shouted from the slightly weak long phalanx of Xiao Ai.

However, the Green Battalion soldiers probably ignored for a moment that behind these six hundred people, there were more than a thousand heavily armed soldiers, and when the Green Battalion soldiers rushed halfway, countless small black dots dragging smoke suddenly flew in the sky, and these small black dots kept falling under their feet or smashing on their heads, and after a few breaths, a roar sounded around them.

If the explosion of grenades @ bombs near the west gate of Leizhou City just now could not cause a visual impact on onlookers because of the long distance, then the explosion of hundreds of 57 grenades @ bombs that occurred on the open ground hundreds of meters away really shocked every onlooker from Chen Shangchuan to ordinary soldiers.

Standing behind Xiao Ai's six hundred soldiers was Wei Hong's four hundred selected grenadiers, with Wei Hong's order, the grenadiers rushed to the front, and threw four hundred grenades @ bullets hard---- the target was the green battalion soldiers who rushed to the open space 60 meters away, this density of grenades @ bombs attacked, almost two green battalion soldiers were assigned to one, because there was no shelter in the open space, so the 57-style grenade @ bullet average 20 meters radius fragmentation lethality was unhindered.

There was a roar, the earth trembled slightly, the bloody air rose to the sky, the breeze blew on the face, and when the smoke cleared, it seemed that the whole world had become quiet.