Ponytail grenades exploded in the crowd, sending up clouds of smoke and mud, followed by screams and screams. That's when people were hit by shrapnel from a grenade explosion.

After several actual battles, the horsetail grenade of the Hongwu Army has been continuously improved by the arsenal and the soldiers on the front line. In addition to the gradual fixation of the charge and the type of gunpowder, the shell of the grenade is also consciously made of different thicknesses during the casting process, laying the foundation for faster and better fragmentation after explosion.

However, it was not the fragments from the explosion that mattered most, but the smoke that came with the explosion.

"It's a poison smoke bomb!"

"It's a gray bullet, big guy, run!"

In the roaring explosion, puffs of choking smoke filled the air. Some of the Qing soldiers who happened to inhale immediately coughed. All screaming and running.

The most basic ingredient of these fumes is quicklime, and then arsenic, the most famous weapon for the murder of one's husband during a home trip. These two things are the most basic standard equipment. Imagine that the shock wave after the explosion pushes quicklime mixed with arsenic into the humid air after the rain, and is inhaled into the lungs and respiratory system by people who exercise vigorously.

The Qing soldiers, who were unlucky enough to inhale a lot of poisonous smoke, felt that they were dizzy and had splitting headaches. Then I felt in horror that I was short of breath and felt like I was suffocating. They desperately stretched out their hands to ask for help. Then I tried to speak, but I found that I couldn't say anything, only a sound came out of my mouth, and my whole body twitched violently.

After inhaling poisonous smoke, some people found that their eyesight was difficult, and they ran around in fear and howled, vomiting and vomiting as they went, and vomited dirt all over their bodies. There are more people running at the same time, in the nose and in the mouth. From time to time, black blood flowed from time to time, which added to their fear.

Quicklime releases a lot of heat after encountering water, burning people's skin and various tissues and organs, arsenic, croton, wolf venom has a great effect on people's health, with the dense grenades continue to explode in the crowd, a stream of smoke rises in the Qing army's offensive formation, quickly turns into thick smoke, gray-white smoke blocks the sun's rays, making people feel as if they are in the day hell.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

The Qing army could only stop in the thick poisonous and harmful smoke, throw away their weapons, cover their mouths and noses with their hands, and try to block the terrible smoke, all of them kept coughing and moaning, and some people kept falling to the ground, bleeding black blood from their mouths and noses and dying.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the soldiers of the Hongwu Army in the trench were desperately loading, firing, clearing, reloading, and firing, firing in the direction where the shouting and groaning in the smoke were the most dense, knocking the Qing soldiers to the ground and turning them into corpses. Those grenadiers struggled to throw horsetail grenades one after another, thickening and heightening the invisible wall of smoke in front of them!

"Quick! Rush up! Rush up! This is a poisoned smoke bomb! Dip your headscarves with water and cover your mouth and nose and you'll be fine! ”

"Don't escape, violators are killed on the spot, don't escape, cough cough ......"

There were incessant Qing army officers with swords, leather whips and cursing sounds, driving groups of Qing soldiers into the smoke. They covered their mouths and noses with their headscarves and howled and shot at them. As a result, another group of people used their health and lives to learn a basic equation in chemistry class. Calcium oxide reacts with water to become calcium hydroxide while releasing a large amount of heat energy. Choking lime powder was accompanied by various drugs of unknown composition flying everywhere on the battlefield. The lime invades the eyes, and the pain is unbearable immediately, making people unable to open their eyes at all, and after a long time, it is the end of blindness.

Usually, the eyes are hit with quicklime and cannot be cleaned with water, so they have to be wiped with vegetable oil, but on the battlefield where tens of thousands of people don't know when the life and death will end, where to find vegetable oil? What's more, what these people have in their eyes, on their bodies, in their mouths and noses, is not as simple as quicklime?

Wave after wave of Qing troops rushed up, and wave after wave turned into corpses and fell there. Gradually, the corpses covered the earth, and the corpses of the latecomers fell on the bodies of the former, layer upon layer, layer upon layer, and in the most places, there were seven or eight layers of corpses.

However, even if the rows were killed in front of the position, their eyes were still blood-red and they did not flinch. The spears pierced in layers and the dense rain of arrows also kept causing casualties to the Hongwu soldiers in the trenches. Although they may only be able to rush to the edge of the trench and stab them with a single shot and be killed by a gun, or they may only shoot an arrow in the direction of the trench and fall to the ground, however, it is better to have more people. Gradually, there were fewer and fewer people around Mo Sande.

"Mother Diurege! Top hard! The Guangxi boy brought out by our second young marshal is by no means worse than the eastern soldiers of the eldest young marshal! He kept swimming back and forth in the trench with two short muskets, constantly rushing up to knock over the Qing troops who tried to jump into the trench on the edge of the trench, and kept motivating his soldiers.

However, the distance of the Qing army's charge became shorter and shorter, and the interval between the charges became shorter and shorter. The deer barn has been demolished or burned by the Qing army, and the deer barrage that still exists in several places is full of corpses of the Qing army, and latecomers can trample on it.

Finally, another charge of the Qing army came.

"Kill the barbarian!!"

"Kill the Tartars!!"

After firing the trigger, the soldiers of the Hongwu Army were almost synchronized with the discharge of the projectile, raised their guns, picked up the butts of their guns, and headed towards the Qing soldiers who jumped from the edge of the trenches.

The Qing soldiers also had red eyes and spears in their hands and stabbed at the Hongwu army in the trenches.

The two sides instantly collided together, countless miserable howls sounded, in this dense crowd of people and guns, there is almost no room to show your body skills, no matter how good your personal martial arts are, people can not show their personal martial arts in addition to stabbing forward, what they compare is each other's will, discipline and endurance. It depends on who can't support it first and collapses first.

Puff puff! The sound of spears and spears piercing into the body continued, and the soldiers on both sides who were the first to make contact fell in a large area in the blink of an eye. The combat of cold weapons is very cruel, the pain of being pierced into the body is unimaginable, it is lucky to die on the spot, if you are punctured or something, the pain is really not unbearable for ordinary people, if you are stabbed in the lungs, there is no other injury, because you can't make the lungs expand and enter the fresh air, you will also suffocate to death.

Although the Hongwu army paid great attention to the training of stabbing white-knuckle warfare, and Li Huabao was a registered disciple of Daoist Liu Guidan, he grasped the training of his subordinates more tightly in stabbing assassination, but the good tiger could not stand a group of wolves, and the pikemen of the Qing army kept entering the battlefield regardless of casualties, and the two sides stabbed each other between the trenches, and there was no room to hide at all. Gradually, the Hongwu Army showed signs of collapse.

Mo Sande's two short firecrackers were too late to reload, and at this time, he had already picked up a firearm that did not know the whereabouts of his master's life and death, and used the guns to fight for his life with the Qing army that rushed in.

He couldn't remember how many Qing soldiers he had killed who jumped into the trenches, and he had forgotten that there were a few soldiers around him who were stabbed by the Qing army.

There were constant falls, wails on both sides, many undead people struggling on the ground, blood and rain mixed together in the trenches, the internal organs of the war dead were piled up on the ground, trampling under their feet, and from time to time they would touch the wounded and corpses.

In the crazy stab, he gradually discovered a cheap. The spear of the Qing army is long, and it is difficult to use it in the trenches, so once the Qing army jumps into the trenches, it is to find a way to die. However, if they stand on the edge of the trench and only stab into the trench, then nine times out of ten the unlucky ones are the soldiers of the Hongwu Army.

In the face of the sword and shield soldiers of the Qing army, the wider the place, a few Hongwu soldiers formed a formation, and a few more came up, and the Hongwu soldiers could also teach them to be human beings with spurs. However, if it is replaced by a narrow area, and the soldiers of the Hongwu Army have not formed a formation, those guys with personal skills will have room to display their personal martial arts!

He began to beckon the people around him who could gather together, and they fought in formation! Three people are outside, and one person is in the center. Those on the outside greet with a stab, and those in the center either use a horsetail grenade or reload a firebolt with a projectile, in short, to make the most of their firepower!

Gradually, tactical squads were formed one by one in the trenches, clearing the trenches one by one, and driving out the Qing troops who rushed in.

The limited space in the trenches was quickly popularized by Mo Sande's new tactics on the front line, and the morale of the Qing army's attack gradually declined. No matter how many silver dollars the commanders have put on their rewards, we must have the life to receive them! Their frenzy stimulated by the silver dollar slowly cooled, and some began to hesitate and fear. As the casualties continued to mount, more and more people appeared frightened and hesitated, all trying to push their partners forward, so that their battle line became more chaotic and less capable of fighting.

The soldiers in the front row fell, and the vacancy he had bought with his life was lost in the hesitation of the soldiers behind. Gradually, the morale of the two sides was better than the other.

Finally, the last straw that broke the camel's back appeared.

Behind the city walls, there were bursts of loud brass trumpets. With the sound of the trumpet, dozens of artillery fire in and under the city began to fire fiercely at the rear of the Qing army's offensive line.

"Not good! Reinforcements from the Southern Barbarians have come up! Come on! Someone suddenly realized, shouted loudly, turned around in a panic and ran. It was faster than the spread of the plague, it was completely the replication speed of a computer virus, and one person fled with a loud howl, taking away the will to fight of countless people, and the Qing army began to rout.

Take advantage of your illness to kill you! Mo Sande jumped out of the trench with one arrow step, led the only few dozen people left under his command, and chased and killed the brothers in the trenches all the way with his friends and neighbors. He picked up the firearm in his hand, and used the firecracker as a three-eyed gun and a mace, and when he knocked the head of a Qing soldier in front of him, and sprinkled him with red and white, the gun was shattered together with the head of the Qing soldier.

Before he could retract his firearm, a spear stabbed from beside him, slashing through his side, and the stab was empty. He pulled out a horsetail grenade from his waist, picked it up, and slammed it in the direction from which the spearhead was intended. But out of the corner of his eye, a spear on the right side stabbed at his skull.

"It's over! I can't eat rice noodles at home! The thought flashed through his mind.

However, the shot was a little crooked, passing through his cheek, and I don't know whether it took away a piece of skin or bit off a piece of meat, Mo Sande just felt that his face was hot.

The man who stabbed him was already looking at his chest in great astonishment, where a patch of blood was growing until it stained his entire torso red.

Looking back, it was Luo Agui, the head of his regiment, who brought people to answer. The soldiers of several guards companies around Luo Agui were emitting faint green smoke from their mouths. It seems that they fired in time to save his life.

"Mo San Mengzi! You're a street boy! You shovel! Lose that mother! Lao Tzu clearly sounded the trumpet of mobilizing troops, so that you can shrink your positions and leave room for the artillery brothers to shell. You dogs! I can listen to the troop transfer call as the charge number! If the Tartar soldiers run away, you will chase them, do you want to chase them to Beijing City?! ”

Luo Agui's face turned blue with anger, and he kicked Mo Sande to the ground with a kick.

"Pull it back for Lao Tzu! Blow the trumpet, collect the troops! Withdraw to the city! Then the battalions took cover alternately and withdrew to the trade zone! ”

He took a life-saving bag from the hand of the guard next to him, and pressed it on Mo Sande's face indiscriminately, "It looks like a sweet potato head!" And a fucking guy in the face! If this is broken in the future, I see how you say kiss! Which girl is willing to marry you ugly bastard! ”

He scolded in his mouth, but the movements in his hands did not stop at all, ordering the trumpeters to blow the trumpet, gather the troops, check the results of the battle, count the casualties, evacuate the wounded and the dead, arrange for people to burn and destroy the ammunition that could not be transported, and take back the swords and guns of the Qing army to be used in the report for meritorious service.

"Commander, this is a good fight, why do you want to withdraw to the city, and then withdraw to the trade zone alternately?" Mo Sande covered his face with his hands, and followed Luo Agui's ass in small steps like a fart.

"What are you asking for? Are you commanding the stay-behind or staying behind commanding you?! ”

"Then of course we have to listen to the second young marshal!"

Luo Agui and Mo Sande both joined the army when Li Huabao was presiding over government affairs in Guangxi, so they naturally regarded themselves as Li Huabao's descendants.

"How big is the county seat of Shanghai? How many people can it hold? Let's withdraw to the trade zone, rely on the fortifications there, and delay and consume the tartars! ”

Look at Mo Sande's group of soldiers and horses stationed outside the city have already driven into the city wall, and the troops outside the city have also taken advantage of the gap between the Qing soldiers to collect troops and rectify lunch, and withdraw the artillery in the fort. Only then did Luo Agui freeze his mind.

"Let me tell you, the batteries along the river have sent a message that the fleet under the command of Li has passed the Gaochang Temple, and is about to lure the Tartar fleet out of the sea. Over there, the sea is wide, which is where our county lord can show his skills! ”

"These dogs and tartars really don't know whether to live or die. Actually playing a water battle in front of the county lord's fleet?! ”

Luo Agui didn't know whether it was contempt or sympathy, and he snorted twice at the behavior of the Qing army's sailors.

Li Huamei and Li Huabao's siblings did not know everything about the arrangements for the entire campaign, although officers such as Luo Agui and Mo Sande, who were descendants, still had some understanding of the general arrangement steps. First of all, Li Huabao's army battalion soldiers and horses wanted to drag the hundreds of thousands of people in the vicinity of the Shanghai county seat and the Shanghai Trade Zone, so that they could not go elsewhere, so as to gain time and space for Li Huamei to eliminate the Qing army's water division. At the same time, it was also necessary to facilitate the Qing army's naval division to arrange flowers behind the Shanghai defenders on the Huangpu River and land on the Huangpu River.

Li Huamei wanted to meet the Qing army's naval division first, and after a period of contact, lured the Qing army's naval division down the east of the river, and in the process of movement, distinguished the main warships of the Qing army from those boats, grain ships, and even passenger boats and fishing boats. In the wide area of the mouth of the sea, use the technical and tactical advantages of the naval division fleet of the Hongwu Army to solve these warships, and then deal with the large number of ships of the Qing army, which has few combat effectiveness.

(Does it look familiar?) That's right! Shi Dakai, the winged king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, adopted such a tactic when he faced the Hunan army sailors of Master Zeng the head shaver during the Battle of Hukou in Jiangxi, separating the elite warships of the Hunan army sailors from the logistics fleet, and then cutting off the connection and eating them one by one. In this battle, Master Zeng, the head shaver, crossed the border again and staged a three-meter board diving. ）

First defeat the Qing army's naval division, so that the Hongwu Army's Shanghai defenders can be relieved of the biggest hidden danger, and then the water and land armies can work together to deal with the Qing army's land attack. In Li Huabao's view, as long as there are no problems on the waterway, there is no need to worry about the Qing army coming from behind, and the Huangpu River has become a continuous channel to ensure the Hongwu Army's external communication, then he will not mind fighting with Lucketthun in this battle!

"Three fierce sons, your battalion officer was shot and carried down for treatment, and you won't be able to come back for a while, you guys will take this battalion first, and I will report to the brigade commander later, and you will be promoted to be a helper first, acting battalion officer." Luo Agui's face was dark, obviously he had promoted Mo Sande by one level, but he still seemed to be reprimanding him.

"I'll give you a hundred recruits when I go back, and you can make up for all the minor injuries first. The vacancies left by the dead and seriously wounded brothers can only wait for the left-behind adults to send new soldiers. ”

"Thank you! Thank you, Captain! I'll ask you to go back and powder! Mo Sande grinned, but his teeth were cracked by the wound on his face, "Regiment commander, this is the brigade commander's firecracker, when you report to the brigade commander, return this to him by the way." Let's just say that we didn't embarrass the second young marshal! ”

"Get out! Lao Tzu doesn't run errands for you! Go back and give it back to the brigade commander yourself! Luo Agui saw through Mo Sande's little care, but he didn't say anything.

"Alas! Leader, tell us how those Qinggou Sailors behaved in front of the county lord? ”

Looking at Luo Agui in the distance, Mo Sande was still speechless.

"This bunch of rammers! What kind of arson trick did you play in front of the county lord! I don't want to think about it, what year it is, and who is our county lord! ”

Luo Agui threw a hard sentence from afar.

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