With a bang, Liu Xulei took the lead in rushing into the hall, and the rifle in his hand fired at the figure in front of him at the same time, and when the soldiers with torches behind him poured in to take a look, there were more than a dozen Qing soldiers lying on the ground of the hall that had been blown up to a blur of flesh and blood, and several of them were still convulsing.

Liu Xulei looked at the closed door of the east bedroom, and waved his head to the two soldiers, one holding a torch and the other holding a rifle, kicked open the door and rushed in.

I only heard a few gunshots of "pop pop", and then came "Dangchang!" Poof! Sound.

Liu Xulei hurriedly jumped into the room to investigate, only to see that a person who looked like a Qing army officer had been killed, barefoot? Lying on the ground with his lower body exposed, his upper body was still covered with a cotton robe, and he held a long knife in his hand, and next to it was a short gun with white smoke from the muzzle, and there was a bed not far from the back of the room, the tent was half open and half hidden, and a pair of leather armor and a helmet hung at the head of the bed.

Liu Xulei picked up the short gun and took a closer look at it with a torch, this is a flintlock pistol with exquisite workmanship, especially the handle of the gun, which is made of ivory.

Liu Xulei had seen this kind of gun, Lin Xiao had captured one from the captain of the "Unicorn", this kind of gun had just been introduced to China, and it had not yet been equipped with the army on a large scale, and only a few high-ranking officers were qualified to treasure and play with it.

"It seems that this is at least a general, but unlike Ma Jiaolin, there will not be only a few people around Ma Jiaolin."

Liu Xulei looked at the corpse and said with disdain.

When Liu Xulei's eyes fell on the man's lower body, he was suddenly stunned, then turned around and ran to the side of the bed, lifted the mosquito net with the tip of the gun to investigate, and saw a young woman naked? Bare? Lying on the bed, his eyes wide open, his neck had been cut, and the blood was still gushing out, staining the torn quilt under him.

Liu Xulei stretched out his hand to test the woman's snort, and found that he had lost his breath, staring at his blood-red eyes and about to attack, Dong Chengping, the commander of the second company, ran into the room with a torch in his hand, and reported in a deep voice:

"Battalion commander, Westinghouse found the bodies of three civilians, who looked like they had just been killed, two of them were children, and all three were tied hand and foot."

It turned out that although Ma Jiaolin's subordinates belonged to Kong Youde's moderation, most of his subordinates were the old subordinates he brought from the northwest, and they couldn't get along with Kong Youde's subordinates, so they often led the troops to fight alone.

As early as when he was in Changde, Hunan, Ma Jiaolin snatched a famous Henan opera singer who fled over, not to mention how charming she looked, so Ma Jiaolin took her with her all the way, and tossed hard at night.

Ma Jiaolin's subordinates saw that the handsome woman with such a spirit was looking for joy every night, not to mention being greedy.

These wicked men from the bitter cold land of the northwest, who have never seen such a delicate and charming woman, so every time they go to the station, they rush to grab women to satisfy their hunger, regardless of whether they are beautiful or ugly, old or young, military discipline is extremely corrupt, of course, cutting off the heads of the people to kill good and meritorious things is commonplace.

……

"These brutes!" Liu Xulei scolded again.

Then he shouted, "Quick! Find more people, search the rest of the grass huts at the same time, you must find Ma Jiaolin, I will slaughter him with my own hands! ”

"Yes!" The commander of the second company turned and left.

Liu Xulei walked out of the thatched hut and instructed the soldiers beside him: "When you can clean up the battlefield, don't forget to bury these dead people." ”

After speaking, he stood in place, he didn't want to search in person, and he couldn't bear to witness the tragic death of the people anymore, Liu Xulei from later generations, although he had been in the army for many years, but when he came to this era of treating human life as a mustard, he was still a little uncomfortable to see the innocent and tragic deaths.

As a result, in the remaining thatched huts, Ma Jiaolin was found, and the soldiers who entered the house to search met resistance again, and a Ma Jiaolin's personal soldier cut and wounded a soldier of Liu Xulei in the resistance, and was immediately killed, and Ma Jiaolin's body was found in the back room, and he had killed himself.

It turned out that Ma Jiaolin had already fallen asleep with the female actor in his arms when he was first attacked, and he had not yet fallen asleep with the beauty in his arms after a toss.

Although he didn't know what kind of firearms the enemy was using, he immediately sensed the strength of the other party after many years of service, and immediately gathered his own soldiers, leaving the beauty and the brigade to the west gate in a vain attempt to get on the boat and escape, but was blocked back by two machine guns on the river embankment, and the personal soldiers who rushed to the front suffered heavy casualties.

So he immediately led more than 1,000 people to turn around and flee to the south gate, but was blocked by thousands of routs near the south gate, and saw the thousands of people who had completely lost their formation in front of them and rushed together, and they were swept away by the dense rain of bullets fired from the hill, and there were also gunshots outside the south gate, and there were constantly stray bullets flying past him, and it seemed that the fire was more fierce than the north.

Ma Jiaolin, who was stunned for a long time, finally reacted, and repeatedly beckoned his soldiers to turn around and break through to the north, but more than 1,000 people were like eggs hitting a solid wall, and they died in the blink of an eye.

When the bursts of explosions and gunshots got closer and closer to the grass hut where he was hiding, he knew that he had no way to live, so he immediately howled, drew his sword, and cut off his sinful life.

Liu Xulei still went to take a look at the news when he heard the news, and ordered: "Later, I will let the prisoner identify the body, and then bring it back to Xunjiang and hand it over to General Jiao Lian." ”

At this time, at the Nanying Gate, a large wave of Qing troops braved the rain of bullets to rush out, and some stragglers who could not squeeze out of the camp gate fled south one after another, only to be beaten down by a series of bullets and rain of bullets, and the rest of the company crawled to the river, puff puff and puff into the river.

Zu Boyuan, the commander of the first company, led the soldiers to chase them to the river, and shot the Qing soldiers who were struggling to swim to the opposite bank one by one like shooting a target.

When the second company killed all the way to the vicinity of the Nanying Gate, the remnants of the Qing army, who saw that there was no hope of escaping, finally knelt down and surrendered, and knelt down in a large area.

Some Qing soldiers who finally escaped to the river grabbed the wooden boats on the shore and tried to escape by boat, but the boats that did not raise their sails could run fast with bullets, and the Qing soldiers on board were shot one by one and fell into the water, and none of them ran away.

Liu Xulei ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield and count the prisoners and booty, but found a horse pen in the small forest near the shore, in which more than 1,000 war horses and horses were intact, all of them were high-headed horses from the north, and there were hundreds of carts full of grain parked next to the horse ring.

After the war, more than 3,000 Qing troops were killed, nearly 4,000 were captured alive, incalculable people who escaped in the river and in the dark, hundreds of officers below the head of the thief Ma Jiaolin were killed, more than 1,000 horses were seized, more than 300 carts, 100 civilian boats, countless property on board, mountains of ordnance and materials were piled up, and more than 2,000 guns of various types and more than 100 artillery pieces of various types were captured.

Three of our soldiers were seriously wounded and fifteen were lightly wounded.

Liu Xulei was not interested in these trophies, he was most concerned about his soldiers, and he specially visited the three seriously wounded, and his face was slightly pale, when he learned that there was no danger to his life.