This machine gun alone has completely wiped out the command structure of the Qing army in the blink of an eye, but the drummers not far away are still beating the war drums hard, and a large number of Qing troops are still screaming and charging forward in confusion.

The other machine guns and rifles roared, and the first to suffer were the musketeers who rushed to the front, and according to tactics, these men had to rush directly under the city walls to shoot at the head of the city, covering the siege troops behind them to climb the city walls with ladders.

According to past experience, at this time, after experiencing the baptism of artillery fire, even if there are muskets and crossbowmen to return fire, they can no longer form a confrontation, they only need to take turns on both sides of the collapsed wall gap, they can effectively suppress the enemy above.

But today, not only did the Qing army's artillery not fire a single shot, but what they needed to face was the automatic firearms that came out hundreds of years later, Geng Jimao's stupid move directly sent these people into the Ghost Gate, and in a short time, more than 2,000 musketeers were beaten out of formation, and the rest of the people collapsed to both sides.

The musketeers were defeated, but the siege lion legion behind them continued to advance under the urging of the drums, the siege tactics of this era were the real crowd tactics, each mantle car was followed by a siege squad, charging forward in a neat formation, just became an excellent target for machine gunners, often a burst of fire, can hit a string of Qing soldiers, the riflemen aim is also very easy, basically do not need to turn the muzzle, just along a straight line one by one.

This kind of curtain cart is actually a cart with a wooden board in front, and the exquisite point is also nailed with cotton wool and cowhide on the wooden board, which can effectively prevent the killing and injury of the soldiers behind the car with firearms and bows and arrows in this era, and it was originally a reliable siege weapon, but who would have expected that this life-saving wooden board is so vulnerable today, like paper paste in front of machine gun bullets.

Not long after, in front of the east and north walls of Xunzhou City along the river, it became a sea of corpses and blood.

No matter how many Qing soldiers there are, how can they withstand the brutal blows of hundreds of automatic firearms, hundreds of people are killed almost every minute, and occasionally a few scattered Qing soldiers who have escaped the net, even if they can rush to the city, they will soon be killed by the Ming army's bows and arrows, and wooden rolling stones.

There was a squad of Qing soldiers, pushing a curtain cart and luckily rushed into the city gate hole, into the rifle shooting dead end, before the car had time to unload the door logs, suddenly a dozen black small iron bumps fell from the sky, it turned out to be the rebel soldiers above were throwing grenades.

These Qing soldiers looked at the iron lumps rolling to their feet in horror, and when they saw that these little things had no flames and were not dipped in tung oil, they were just relieved, and suddenly a strong light flashed in front of them, and the violent qi wave instantly sent them into the air, turning into pieces of flesh and blood, sticky all over the city gates and walls.

The Qing army behind finally reacted, no longer caring about the beating of the Laoshzi drum, turned around and fled backwards, especially the cavalry led by the general soldier Xu Dewei, who fled quickly and fled to the bank of the river in the blink of an eye.

Want to run away now? It's late!

I saw that 3,000 Ming troops suddenly came to the east bank of the Yujiang River, which was mixed with Liu Xulei's company of men and horses, and more than 100 automatic rifles fired at the Jiangxin ships and cavalry on the opposite bank, and the Qing soldiers who ran fastest reported to the king of Hades at the earliest.

Seeing this, Xu Degong was like a basin of cold water, quickly turned his horse's head and fled to the north, rode his horse and jumped onto a warship, and just wanted to give the order to sail, but saw that thousands of Ming troops on the north bank were already in battle.

The 30 or so carbines of the reconnaissance company continued to fire at the Qing army's naval division in the Qianjiang River, and before Xu Degong could dismount, a stray bullet had already passed through his chest, and he immediately fell off his horse with a muffled grunt, and fell into the river with a puff, leaving only a circle of dark red ripples on the surface of the river.

To add insult to injury, just when the Qing army's sailors wanted to abandon the infantry cavalry and turn the bow of the ship in a vain attempt to flee to the Xunjiang River, more than 100 Ming ships sailed down the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River, dozens of which passed through the formation, quickly traversed at the mouth of the Sanjiang River, and suddenly burst into flames, forming a wall of fire, completely cutting off the northward escape route of hundreds of Qing warships.

Suddenly, the Qing army on both the land and water routes fell into a situation where they could not advance or retreat, especially the Qing army on the land route, which was basically surrounded on a narrow sandbar in the northeast of the city.

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Seeing that there was no hope of escaping north, dozens of warships fled south along the Yujiang River in a panic, and were pursued all the way by dozens of soldiers on the riverbank, and the Qing soldiers on the ship were constantly shot and fell into the water, and several warships that lost the control of the ship boss were circled in the center of the river, or simply stopped, and the Qing soldiers on the ship were either lying in the cabin waiting for death, or jumping into the river and drowning.

Finally, the dozen or so warships that had fled the fastest reached a place called Wild Duck Pond, and the pursuing soldiers on the river bank were blocked by a hill and could no longer catch up.

Hearing that there was no more gunfire behind him, the general soldier of the Qing army, who had escaped by chance, got up from the cabin with a disgraced face, held on to the mast and looked back, and after being sure that there were no more pursuers behind him, he quickly ordered the soldiers to raise their sails, take advantage of the tailwind advantage, and flee to the direction of Yulin.

Standing at the bow of the ship, Lian Decheng saw that there were more than a dozen ships behind him who had raised their sails one after another, and there were probably hundreds of soldiers still alive, so he suddenly laughed and shouted: "Heaven will not stop me!" Heaven will not stop me! ”

"Boom!"

Before the cry fell, suddenly a 60-mm mortar shell whizzed and smashed right on the foredeck.

With a loud bang, the entire bow of the ship was blown up, and Lian Decheng, who was laughing a few seconds ago, was blown into pieces of minced meat in the blink of an eye, and there was no corpse left!

It turned out that it was Zhang Chenfeng who led the reconnaissance company and Ni Zhisheng's third company to arrive, and saw that more than a dozen Qing warships in the river were raising their sails.

With hundreds of modern firearms firing in unison, the fate of more than a dozen warships is self-evident, most of the wooden ships of this era can not block the bullets of modern rifles, when the Qing soldiers lying in the cabin are also constantly shot, the rest of them finally jumped into the river one by one, became a live target, and the warships hit by the shells one after another also sank into the river.

After eliminating this rout, Zhang Chenfeng heard that Xunzhou not far away was still gunfired, and ordered to continue northward to join the Xunzhou Annihilation Battle.

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Under the city of Xunzhou, the battle was nearing the end, when Liu Xulei saw that the Ming soldiers across the river began to cross the river to kill, and the encirclement had been formed, he finally turned around and nodded to Jiao Lian, Jiao Lian drew his sword and shouted:

"Pass my order, whole team! Sortie! ”

The 3,000 Ming troops in the city poured out of the city gate like a tide, and they did not start the real battle until now, but they found that waiting for them outside the city was not only the swords, guns, ordnance, baggage, and broken limbs and blood stains on the ground, but also a large number of Qing soldiers who had lost their souls and knelt on the ground, and their main job was to capture prisoners and clean up the battlefield.

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When the smoke of gunpowder cleared, Liu Xulei stood at the head of the city, looked at the burdens scattered all over the place and said to Jiao Lian in a deep voice: "Grandpa Guo, these Tartars have robbed so much property along the way, how many people have been killed, and the military discipline is so corrupt, they are all innocent. ”

"Yes, the most bitter thing is still my Ming people, who have been harmed by all kinds of armies." Jiao Lian responded thoughtfully.

Liu Xulei said lightly: "I heard that the military discipline of the Ming official army is not very good, so it often does not get the support of the people, and the water can carry the boat and capsize the boat, and an army that loses the support of the people will eventually fail." ”

"General Liu is reasonable, this governor has fought all the way, he is used to seeing strong enemies forced from outside, and there are even more treacherous internal coaxes, and he hates those black sheep who plundered and killed his compatriots, and for this reason, he also lost his right-hand man due to disputes, so that his combat strength is declining."

Jiao Lian hated the way.

For those guest troops whose military discipline was corrupted, Jiao Lian had punished them several times, and for this reason, he also lost Zhao Xing and Liu Qijiao, two powerful generals, one after another, and Jiao Lian has not been able to let go.