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Looking at the group Ding Tian Yong of the Taoyuan Shrine who had retreated all the way to the west, he couldn't help but make Wu Biao, Wang Jin and others a little eager to try.

Wang Jin came to Wu Liuqi's side, "Big guy, oh, brigade commander, do we want to go up and kill for a while?" ”

Wu Liuqi's hands holding the iron rod were covered with sweat. He paused, holding his binoculars and looking in the direction of the main camp of the Taoyuan Taisha in the west.

"No, you can't! The teams of the Liu family and Guan Zhang have not moved. At most, they have lost those family soldiers on the periphery, and their own elites have not yet been hit. Let's see how the district brothers respond! ”

"Brother Wu is right. Brother Wu, I bother you to command the troops of the Chinese army and the two wings, I will go to the front to command, and I will also move forward here, so as to make room for the baggage on the mountain, don't let our baggage team still be on the mountain, if this group of dog thieves burns our baggage, hehe! This cold day is enough for us! ”

Ou Dapeng grimaced at Wu Liuqi, and led the people to follow up slowly with the pace of the striker's attack. Wu Liuqi was left to command the Chinese army and the two wings to move forward slowly, making room for the guards and baggage stranded on the mountain.

"Alright, I've finally come out of this hanging place!"

Ou Dapeng looked back, and the flags of the baggage team on the mountain road began to move, and one after another baggage trucks and cooking trucks appeared on the flat ground at the foot of the mountain.

When the battle was fierce, what he was most worried about was that the group of local stubborns of the Taoyuan Shrine took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain to suddenly appear from an unknown location to the stationing position of the baggage team. Don't say that if you take away the baggage, you will be in a dilemma if you burn the grain, grass, military uniforms and ammunition with a fire.

Since the stone hanging in his heart has fallen to the ground smoothly, he can deal with the enemy in front of him without distraction.

Under the command of the battalion officer, the soldiers and horses of the fourth battalion were still lined up in four columns, and they pursued slowly but under great pressure in the direction of the Taoyuan Taisha rout. As soon as a small group of Ding Tianyong stopped and planned to tidy up the team, the firecrackers on this side swooped forward and made a move forward on the entire front.

In the military formation of the Taoyuan Shrine opposite, a few horns sounded dullly, followed by a loud gong. "The leader has an order! Horses from all sides bypass! Those who dare to attack this formation will be killed! ”

After the roar. It was dozens of firebolts that rang out in the sky. Sort of a cue and a demonstration. The defeated soldiers woke up like they had just woken up from a dream, and formed two streams of people behind the horses of the leaders of the three families, from both sides of the main formation of the three families, to the back of the formation, and after a little respite, they cleaned up the casualties and reorganized the ranks.

"The tricks of the South Central Army are nothing more than that! Rely on firearms Elite Il! Right now, they are chasing the team of the outer seven families. The formation is scattered. A salvo of firearms will not work. Though there is a sword on it. What can it be used for? Kids! Go up and teach them a lesson with a spear and a broadsword! Learn what it means to be a strong dragon and not to suppress the head snake! ”

With Liu Ting'an's roar, the basic team of the three families, nearly 2,000 sword and spearmen, began to meet the pursuing troops of the Southern Chinese Army.

Thirty steps. Twenty-five steps, twenty steps.

The members of the Taoyuan Shrine could already clearly see the facial features and eyebrows of the soldiers of the South Central Army on the opposite side, and the pikemen began to turn the spears in their hands and rotate them slightly to find the best position, ready to use them to pierce the heads and throats of the guys on the opposite side after a while.

However, at a distance of twenty paces, a brass horn sounded again, and the people who were still running in small steps immediately stopped, and a human wall stood quietly in front of the regiments.

"This group of local buns is going to play with us, so let's give him some spicy taste!"

Fang Cai's three shots had already caused the team of the outer seven families to collapse. However, on average, it is only one shot on each firecracker. In the military law of the Southern Central Army, if the gun does not heat up after fighting on the battlefield, the battle is not over, and it must be reloaded. Get ready for the next round of launches.

Before the bayonet charge, almost all the musketeers completed this action.

"Raise the gun! Put! ”

This time, the first test firing of the first column was not carried out. Instead, the first two columns squatted and stood at the same time, firing at the same time. After they pulled the trigger and the guns roared, spewing out flaming white smoke and sending the projectiles flying in the opposite direction, the sentinels gave the order, "First two columns, three steps forward, sit down!" ”

Not bothering to observe their own results, the firecrackers took three steps forward with their firearms and sat down on the ground.

"The last two columns, raise the gun! Fire!! ”

The two columns of concentrated fire were equivalent to the four battalions in front of them firing a gun at the opposite side in two batches, and no matter how bad the hit rate was, at a distance of more than a dozen paces, it was also worth a bullet.

"Go up and give them a little bit of a bayonet!"

Ou Dapeng saw that the scene of Fang Cai was repeated again in the military array opposite, taking advantage of your illness to kill you, if you don't do it at this time, when will you stay?

"Kill!"

The musketers slammed into the array of swordsmen in front of them with their bayonets.

The regiments, who had been beaten by two rounds of intensive firearms, had barely been able to wake up from the screams and wails of their companions before the bayonets of the Southern Central Army were handed in front of them.

The Nanzhong Army tacitly adopted the consistent tactic of fighting more and fighting less, using armor as a unit to target a few sword and shield soldiers and pikemen, and then even one against another.

The thorns flashed with the cold light of metal, and were stabbed out by the fire guns, and the angle, speed, and position were as fierce and tricky as poisonous snakes. As the spurs came out, a heart-rending scream rang out.

The eyes, throat, chest, and the place where the spurs are directed are all fatal, and with the tacit cooperation of the musketeers, almost all the guns and guns do not miss, and every shot is stabbed, and when it is withdrawn, it must be full of blood on the spurs.

Over the years, the war between the north and the south, although the cannon was meritorious and powerful, but the army still thought that the spear was a good man. Although the socket bayonet replaced the pikemen, most of the pikemen were converted into musketeers. But these people's skills are still there, not only did they not lose them, on the contrary, when they learned that they could see red with bayonets like firearms, these people used more energy to practice marksmanship.

At the beginning of his enlistment, he practiced his marksmanship hard, with no less than 1,000 stabs each time, and he could hit the target's heart, eyes, throat and other vital parts within dozens of steps. Accurate and ruthless, plus a set of assassination actions compiled by Daoist Liu Guidan that day. The most important thing is to pay attention to pace, queue, and cooperation. In the South China Army, an army that has always paid attention to the formation of queues, it is even more deserved. They are well-armed, and those who are armed with spears and who have practiced the Yang family gun, Jiang family gun, Ma family gun and other marksmanship schools are proficient, and they do not pay attention to the queue footwork when fighting. Even without the blows of these two volleys of firearms, they were not necessarily their opponents. Not to mention. After two rounds of intense fire, a third of the regiment had already become dead.

"It's over! I thought that the officers and soldiers relied on firearms, but. But we were wrong! Big mistake! ”

Liu Ting'an watched the 2,000 regimental backbones that he relied on to gallop across the northeastern region of Guangdong being knocked over in half with a firecracker, and then he kept driving and slaughtering with a spear like a duck, and his eyes couldn't help but burst into tears.

The two lines of old tears were blown by the cold wind mixed with gunsmoke and blood, screams and moans, and Liu Tingan felt more and more desolate.

Compared with the elite regiments of the same clan, the firecrackers of the Nanzhong Army are becoming more and more fierce and tenacious. With them, no matter how good the marksmanship is, he will not have the upper hand at all. The fire hammer and the short spearhead were like a poisonous snake wielding in their hands, and the attack was completely unscrupulous and fierce. Precise positioning, plus surprisingly fast speed. Even if both sides shoot at the same time, they can still stab the opponent in the vital part first.

And these Nanzhong troops paid great attention to cooperation, even if the regimental soldiers stabbed them with a single shot, stabbed them in the body, and before they had time to kill the opponent, they were pierced through the ribs by the left and right guns. Often, such regiments were picked up by the soldiers of the South Central Army with spurs and thrown backwards. After that, several people pounced on it and stabbed it at the head, face, throat and other vital parts with their guns, until they were poked into a honeycomb of flesh with a random gun.

With the help of the telescope, Liu Tingan found that under the strict formation of the other party, although his side was skilled in marksmanship and knife skills, when he really fought for his life on the battlefield, he often found that the heroes could not stand the crowd, and a spear was stabbed by several firearms from different positions and angles by the opponent.

Especially in hand-to-hand combat, the pikeman's spear becomes an obstacle, turning unfavorably, maneuvering requires space, and is pale and powerless in the face of relatively short firearms.

After a while of fighting with the spears with the guns equipped with sleeve bayonets, the regiments began to show signs of collapse, these Nanzhong troops were simply terrible, not only the guns and artillery were powerful, but they couldn't imagine that this battle was so fierce and tenacious. The regiments had been beaten and killed more than half of them under the dense gunfire of the Nanzhong army, and when people fought hand-to-hand with each other, they were stepping on the dead and wounded everywhere, but the hand-to-hand combat in front of them was more shocking to people's nerves than the previous dense gunfire.

This kind of military organization, which is formed by family blood ties, is of course united internally and externally, but it also has its drawbacks. This kind of disadvantage is that when they continue to pay for their lives in order to win the victory, they are faced with the brothers, nephews, and uncles of the clan falling in front of and beside them, their screams before they die, the moans and wails they make after they are injured, and the blood they shed out forms a small pool after a puddle on the ground in the cold winter, all of which greatly stimulate the nerves of the group members and impact their psychological endurance.

Just as the members of the Taoyuan Taisha were fighting again and again, whether to continue to fight until they became dead or wounded, or escaped like those guys from the Outer Seven Families, the last straw that crushed their nerves finally fell.

Suddenly, the trumpet of the Nanzhong Army array sounded, and the soldiers who were still fighting with the Taoyuan community were a little weaker with their guns, and they jumped out of the circle one after another, and retreated under alternate cover. Before the regiments could breathe a sigh of relief and cheer for victory, they heard the high-pitched and passionate sound of the trumpet in the Nanzhong army formation, and another layer of fire guns rushed over with their spurs and shouts.

"Leader!"

The Zhang family's advocate Tingyu is very much in line with the real image of Zhang Fei in history, a white horse scholar. However, the 800 firearms of the Taoyuan Shrine are under his command, and they are also people who speak their word in the Taoyuan Shrine.

"Mingjin! Let the disciples in front of me withdraw, and my firecrackers lined up by the Meijiang River to resist for a while. Let the brigade withdraw along the ruins of Shekeng! Can't go on here! Leave some seeds for the clan! ”

"That's right! Will! Withdraw! ”

"We can't beat them in the wilderness, it's not a shame, their Southern Chinese Army is an official army, and it's a field battle! Let's go back, clear the wilderness, rely on the fortress to hold on, and then accept the appeasement after they have exhausted their food and retreated! ”

A gong sounded, and the Taoyuan community members who were struggling to support and slash with the Nanzhong army alternately covered the retreat.

It was able to preserve the basic structure and command system under the three-plank axe tactics of artillery bombardment, firearm shooting, and bayonet assault of the South Central Army, although it was defeated. But junior officers are still able to control the troops. The combat effectiveness of Taoyuan Taisha is far stronger than many armies encountered by the Southern Chinese Army in the past.

Even compared to the border army of the nine sides, this army established by the bond of clan relations is not far behind.

"This unit is good!"

From the binoculars, I saw the retreating formation of the Taoyuan Taisha and the various flags that were still stubbornly carried in the team. Ou Dapeng couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart.

But. Praise is praise. For the opponent, it is still necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

Wu Liuqi, who was beside him, looked at the Taoyuan community members who retreated in the direction of Shekeng Ruins, and the corpses of people and horses lying on the battlefield were broken with broken guns. There are also those wounded who are injured by a projectile and do not stop howling but beg for a quick death, but only inhale hard. It was Wu Biao, who was standing beside him, who shouted excitedly: "Good fight!" It's fun! Our army is mighty! ”

Ou Dapeng put away the binoculars and arched his hand towards Wu Liuqi, "The enemy army is defeated and retreated, and this matter of pursuing the enemy army, cleaning the battlefield, and cleaning up the wounded will bother Boss Wu." ”

Wu Liuqi and the others, who were worried about how to prevent the Sixth Garrison Brigade from stealing all the limelight, immediately smiled: "The district brigade commander is polite!" After you have fought the tough battle, this pursuit is naturally within our part! ”

"Wang Jin, Wu Biao!"

"In!"

"The two of you each lead a group of men and horses on the left and right wings, and pursue them separately! Wang Jinling's left wing was chasing first, and Wu Biao's right wing was slowly approaching! The two are rotated for a limit of ten miles! This general's brigade headquarters guards are in the middle! Yang Zhen led the rest of the troops to clean up the battlefield! Heal the wounded and count the captures! ”

Amid the roar, Wang Jin led a group of men and horses of the newly formed brigade on the left flank to rush into the battlefield of Fangcai, and launched a pursuit of the small group of scattered militia soldiers and those scattered regiments Ding Tian Yong who wandered around the battlefield.

They had just been serving as guards on both flanks, and they had been recuperating all the time, and they had already been very energetic, and the pursuit and retreat but the defeat of the enemy army was in the nature of beating the water dogs, how could this not make them excited and morale high? The whole brigade had already been very happy about Wu Liuqi's choice to join the South Central Army.

"Kill!"

Outside the ruins of Shekeng in winter, the vast land is full of people running and howling.

The scattered small teams of Taoyuan Taisha saw the Nanzhong Army Brigade chasing after them, where did they have the energy and courage to distinguish whether it was the Nanzhong Army or the newly attached Wu Liuqi troops? Just run for your life! Along the way, he constantly tore off the knives and guns in his hands and threw the turban on his head and threw them to the ground, and from time to time the outdated regiment Ding Tian Yong was caught up, and he was hacked to death by the soldiers of the new brigade who were eager to make meritorious contributions while crying and pleading.

Fang Cai's artillery bombardment, the accumulation of two rounds of firearms, and the assault of the sleeve bayonet had already killed the courage of these members of the Taoyuan Taisha so much that they didn't know where they had been thrown, and the previous bravery and arrogance had long been replaced by fear, and the body full of spirit and spirit was replaced by the exhaustion after the fight, and the fatigue and panting of long-distance running.

People have no heart to resist, and they have no strength to fight, where are these wolf-like opponents of the Southern Chinese Army?

In addition, when Fang just faced off, the elite Tuanding of the inner three families also suffered heavy losses in front of the two rounds of firearm bombardment and spur stabbing against others, and the elite of two thousand enough to be proud of eastern Guangdong lost more than half in an instant, and these Tuan Ding of the inner three families Tian Yong and the outer seven families thought that they were not opponents one by one, and they were even more terrified in their hearts. I only know that I desperately escaped, escaped, fled, and fled to the edge of the Meijiang River, where there was a covering firecracker, and after crossing the Meijiang River and escaping the ruins of the She pit, I could save my life!

To their left and right and behind, Wu Liuqi, Wang Jin, and Wu Biao led the three teams to drive away the retreating team like sheepdogs and wolves. When Wang Jin led the army to chase and kill, Wu Biao was responsible for cleaning the battlefield, cleaning up the captures, treating the wounded, and sheltering the prisoners. When Wang Jin's troops were tired, Wu Liuqi led hundreds of elites to pounce, causing Wang Jin's subordinates to take a breather and take over the task of Wu Biao's troops.

Kankan pursued to the Meijiang River, and Wu Liuqi waved the command flag to stop the pursuit.

In front of him, Zhang Tingyu led eight hundred firecrackers to line up with their backs to the Meijiang River. The musketeers were arranged in a three-fold formation common to the officers and soldiers, and the eight hundred musketeers were divided into four divisions, three in the front and one in the rear. The firecrackers lit the firerope and looked at Wu Liuqi's team like a tide with indifferent eyes.

Behind them, the remnants of the Taoyuan Taisha were crowding across the pontoon bridge over the river.

In Shekengxu Town, there was a sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping, and the banner of Taoyuan Shrine had already left the town and led the hastily arranged team to the west.

Wu Liuqi has seen the power of the Nanzhong army's firecrackers, and although the firecrackers of the Taoyuan Shrine in front of him are not similar to the formation of the Nanzhong army, the muskets are not to be underestimated.

What's more, these firecrackers were either purchased from the Nanzhong Army, or they were purchased from Foshan and other places to hire craftsmen to make fine iron.

At that time, there was a literati note saying: "...... Otherwise, when you taste the trade between the East and the West, Zhuyi will buy the guns of Guangzhong. Those who sell to the people are extremely fine, and those who make them for the government are indiscriminate. From this point of view, I China is unwilling to Seiko ears, and it is not possible to Seiko. ”

The range and power of these guns are no less than those of the Southern Chinese Army.

Wu Liuqi's face was solemn, and he stopped the officers who were eager to try beside him, but he strictly ordered them to line up and slowly step forward. (To be continued......)