"What kind of world is this?"

The woman cried and shouted, "My man died at home, and his head was cut off, and he died without a whole body......"

Kong Youde knew that this was his subordinates cutting off the heads of the people and pretending to lead the battle exploits, this kind of thing was a common thing in the army, so he just frowned and coughed, and waved his hand in disbelief to let the soldiers drive the woman away.

At this time, a personal soldier hurriedly came: "Prince, prince!" ”

He ran so red that he even dropped his hat, "Vice-masters......"

When he saw that there were still several generals beside Kong Youde, he quickly changed his words and shouted, "Over there, over there, there's a fire!" ”

Gou Youxin was taken aback, and saw that there were already fires in several houses in the village, and hurriedly shouted, "Quick, quick, knock the gong, quickly extinguish the fire!" The prince is going to stay here! ”

After speaking, he glanced back at the stunned soldiers of the headquarters, waved his hand and stomped his feet, and said, "You guys should go too!" ”

"Mom, these rotten cubs, it's too unbelievable!"

Kong Youde saw that the soldiers were so nonsense, and he was deeply afraid that he would be denounced by the Manchus who accompanied the army, and he would be in trouble if he was impeached by the officials, so he immediately ordered a personal general to take dozens of personal soldiers to patrol around with his orders and arrows, and beheaded a few robbers and murderers on the street to maintain order.

"How far is this place from Luwei?"

Kong Youde turned to ask an adjutant general, and the chaos had made him lose all interest.

"It's less than forty miles, but you have to go through the valley in front of you, turn around and go west for seven or eight miles to Luwei, starting from Luwei, and then walk more than ten miles to Gantang Town."

The lieutenant general was a general from Guangxi, who was more familiar with the terrain of this place, and looked up at the sky as he said, "If you go faster, it won't take three hours......

"Pass my general order, there is no need to stay here, the whole army will be mobilized immediately, and be sure to rush to Luwei Town before dark." Kong Youde said to a Chinese army general upset. He knew that out of Gantang was out of this mountain, and he could go all the way west to Nanning.

"Huh!" The pro-general took the order and left.

……

When the Qing army poured into the gourd, Lin Xiao was standing on a boulder halfway up a mountain peak accompanied by Ding Shuai, watching the Qing army with a high-powered telescope.

They were so numerous that they quickly filled the valley like mercury, and countless marching horses, countless banners, the footsteps of the soldiers, the clatter of horses' hooves, the clanging of armor, the hunting of the flags in the north wind, and the trumpets of the soldiers pushing their cannons, were like a great tide surging towards the place.

Unlike Feng Suqin and the others who were hiding in the woods a little farther behind him, Yu Cheng, who followed closely behind Lin Xiao, stared at the bottom of the mountain motionlessly, his expression was slightly nervous, he had been humiliated by these people, and he had become one of them for a short time, although he had not participated in the murder and arson, but he knew that this was a team with extremely bad military discipline.

He was secretly glad that he had the opportunity to get out of the sea of suffering and regain his life, today he would witness their demise with his own eyes, he was eager to go into battle and kill, he had seen with his own eyes which of these people had plundered the people in Guilin City, and which ones were strong? He had violently beaten women, and who had cut off the heads of his captive comrades...... He resisted the urge to go down the mountain, the joints of his hands clenched into fists rattled.

Lin Xiao glanced back at Yu Cheng, turned around and patted him lightly on the shoulder, and said softly: "You know Kong Youde, I will let you find him later, whether he is dead or alive." ”

"Don't worry, Yu Cheng will definitely catch the thief!" Yu Cheng came back to his senses and gasped.

Before the words fell, gunshots had already been heard on the bank of the rapid water river in the south, Lin Xiao hurriedly raised his binoculars to look at the north end, only to see that the rear baggage of the Qing army had begun to enter the valley, and immediately turned around and called Situ Zheng, grabbed the hand-held intercom of the radio, and pressed the button to call: "The headquarters calls the third battalion, the headquarters calls the third battalion, please reply when you hear it!" ”

"Three revenues are here, three revenues are here!" Zhu Yujia's voice was very clear.

"There's already a firefight ahead, and your troops can move!" Lin Xiaolang said.

"The three battalions understand! Act now! ”

Putting down the walkie-talkie, Lin Xiao turned his head to look at the direction of the rapid water river at the foot of the mountain.

I saw that the front team of the Qing army was suddenly attacked, and the formation was suddenly chaotic, and they scattered in all directions to avoid the bullets, but the position of the Chinese army was not disorderly, and a group of artillery battalion soldiers under the command of the officer under the cover of the iron shield artillery were hurriedly pushing more than 20 red-coated cannons to move forward slowly, which was to open the way for the cannons.

Lin Xiao knew that the range of this kind of cannon was still a bit threatening, at least farther than the carbine of the blocking force, so he immediately said to Ding Shuai: "You can fire!" ”

"Yes!" Ding Shuai turned around and ordered the signal soldier: "Order, fire!" ”

As the horn of the signal corps sounded, the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon on the hill where Ding Shuai was located took the lead in firing, and suddenly the guns rang out loudly on the hills, and the bullets rained down in the direction of the Qing army's formation, cutting down the dense personal soldiers like mowing grass.

Due to the mountainous terrain, the view of the mortar position selected by Duan Zhenghong was not good, and there were several observation blind spots, so Duan Zhenghong built two machine gun positions on the hillside to assist the attack, and the rest of the machine gun positions were responsible for blocking the mouth of the canyon, climbing a towering ancient tree himself, and personally acting as an observer to direct the artillery bombardment.

When he saw the Qing army's artillery going into battle, and the distance was beyond the range of the machine gun, he immediately picked a red-coated cannon closest to the foot of the mountain, personally calculated the distance and direction of the cannon, and estimated the wind direction based on experience, and then slid down the tree, commanded a gunner to aim, and decisively ordered: "Target, run ahead, shoot at an angle of 930, one test shot!" ”。

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, a 60mm mortar shell rushed out of the muzzle flame, whistling forward, and a red light suddenly erupted a few meters behind the red-coated cannon at the foot of the mountain, and then there was a "Boom!" With a bang, a cloud of smoke rose into the air, and several Qing soldiers who were following behind the cannon were suddenly blown up, and a severed limb flew into the air with a war knife.

However, the gunner who operated the cannon was not hit, and still pushed the cannon forward quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he entered the blind spot of Duan Zhenghong's field of vision, and if he didn't kill it quickly, he would miss the net.

Seeing this, Duan Zhenghong scolded angrily and shouted: "Pay attention to all artillery, add a secret position, and fire a salvo!" ”

"Knock knock! Knock knock! ”

The six mortars opened fire in unison, and the six shells flew towards Duan Zhenghong's estimated position at the same time, and clouds of smoke rose along with the firelight, followed by a louder bang.

Duan Zhenghong estimated that the gunpowder of that cannon had been hit, so he ordered the guns to correct and shoot at Zhu Yuan again, and bombarded the other cannons.

However, the artillery of the Qing army was not bad, and after such a short period of time, there were a few red-clothed cannons that had slipped through the net and had already fired, only to hear a few loud "boom booms" that shook the sky, and several huge iron bullets flew to the blocking position on the other side of the river with fireworks, like a flock of big black birds, very imposing.