Jintian Town, then known as Daxuanwei, is more than 40 miles north of Guiping, backed by Dayao Mountain, at the northwest end of the Xunyu Plain, is the outbreak place of the Taiping Rebellion of Hong Xiuquan in later generations, and the residents are mostly Hakka people who emigrated here in Guangdong.

From Xunzhou to the north, all the way to the low hills and plains, the march was fast, and in the middle of the night arrived near the Qing army camp.

Liu Xulei ordered the troops to rest on the spot, and he summoned Zu Boyuan, the commander of the first company, Dong Chengping, the commander of the second company, and Gong Zhiming, the commander of the machine gun platoon, to assign tasks.

According to Zhang Chenfeng's pre-departure reconnaissance, the Jintian Qing army was Kong Youde's subordinates, from Gongcheng all the way to follow Jiao Lian, only eight or nine thousand people, led by a Hui general named Ma Jiaolin, this person was originally a thousand generals under the command of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi Province, and then followed Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Mengeng to the Qing Dynasty, after Zuo Mengeng was snubbed and imprisoned by the Qing court, Ma Jiaolin followed Kong Youde everywhere to attack and kill, which can be regarded as a fierce general.

This time, his army was not actually in Jintian Town, but had crossed the Nanmu River, and was stationed in a place called Hongtangling, where there was a small hill not far from the river bank, and there was a clearing at the foot of the mountain bag on the west side of the Nanmu River, and there was a lake next to the east of the mountain bag, and the big camp was set up in the open space at the foot of the hill.

The area of the camp is not large, about 500 meters wide from east to west, about three miles long from north to south, there is a camp gate in the northeast and southeast directions, and there is also a camp gate leading to the river bank in the west.

Outside the camp to the west, dozens of wooden boats were docked on the banks of the Nanmu River, presumably loaded with looted goods and food.

Liu Xulei ordered the first company to go directly from the south and lay in ambush in the mountain pass about 200 meters outside the camp fence, and he led the second company to go around from Hudong to the north, while the main force of the machine gun platoon quietly touched the commanding heights of the hill and built a simple firing position, and agreed that the second company would take the lead in attacking.

"The second company and the first squad of the machine gun platoon must approach the camp fence in concealment, take the sound of my guns as a signal, attack all with grenades in the first round, try to set fire to part of the camp tent, and then quickly rush into the north gate and drive the Qing soldiers to the south;"

"The two squads of the machine gun platoon blocked the foot of the mountain and the Nanying Gate with firepower respectively, and they fought wherever there were many people;"

"A series of ambushes outside the south gate of this mountain pass, do not attack for the time being, and when the Qing army escapes, they will press me to the river, do you understand?"

"Understood!" Zu Boyuan and the others replied in a low voice.

"Good! Shoot all the ammunition and don't have to save bullets. ”

"Remember, I don't need a lot of captives, these abominable Tartars burn and kill traitors? Lewd, bad things are absolutely done, they all deserve to die! Let's do it! Liu Xulei gritted his teeth and shouted.

It took about half an hour for Liu Xulei and the second company to reach the vicinity of Beiyingmen under the hazy moonlight, and found that the west gate of the camp gate was still dozens of meters away from the riverbank, so he signaled the machine gun squad to take the only two machine guns to use the riverside bushes to move covertly along the riverbank to the riverbank to find a firing position, so as to suppress the Qing army rout who fled from this gate to the riverbank after the fire started.

After all the soldiers of the second company moved in place, Liu Xulei signaled to Dong Chengping, the commander of the second company, that he must first eliminate the Qing soldiers next to the camp gate and in the guard tower, and then use the chaos caused by the grenade explosion to quickly rush into the camp and push all the way to the south.

Everything was arranged, Liu Xulei stood upright outside the camp gate, and fired three shots at the guard tower in a standing posture.

"Smack! Syllable! Syllable! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom Boom! A violent explosion pierced the silent night sky, dozens of tents in the camp were suddenly blown up, and in the light of the fire, people were faintly running out of the tents, and the Qing soldiers in their sleep were obviously stunned.

"Shoot!" Liu Xulei shouted loudly.

"Da Da Da! Da-da-da-da! Da-da-da-da! ”

"Bang bang! Bang Bang Bang! Bang Bang Bang! ”

The first volley smashed the remaining tents near the camp gate.

"Smash open the camp gate and rush in!"

At the sound of the order, the commander of the second company left only one squad to guard the gate of the north camp, and the remaining more than 100 well-trained soldiers rushed into the battalion and automatically formed a tactical group formed by the squad as a unit and formed a straggler line according to the three-three system to attack and advance all the way.

Liu Xulei took the lead in the middle with a squad, shooting and moving forward, controlling the speed of the advance.

Along the way, I saw the Qing army bombing the camp, and there were Qing soldiers scurrying like headless flies everywhere, accompanied by the sound of gunfire like fried beans, and the sound of angry scolding, screaming, and wailing was endless.

"Sneer, snort!"

"Da-da-da, da-da-da!"

The machine guns on the hill suddenly roared, which meant that a large number of Qing soldiers began to pour towards the south gate and the west gate of the river, and the machine guns were blocking with firepower, killing and wounding a large number of enemy troops.

Liu Xulei led people to the depths of the camp in one breath, and a gang composed of thousands of Qing troops appeared in front of him, which was divided into two groups and tried to counterattack, Dong Chengping, who was not far from Liu Xulei, immediately called several nearby squads of soldiers, and also formed two arrows, opened the way with dense firepower, and pressed up on the Qing army brigade.

Under the shouts and scolding of the officers, these 1,000 Qing soldiers screamed and desperately swung their swords forward, but their bodies could withstand the collective fire of dozens of assault rifles, and one by one they were shot and fell to the ground like sawed down stakes.

In just a few minutes, the two gangs were beaten to the ground, and the remaining hundreds of lucky people who were not hit were frightened by this never-before-seen firearm, most of them threw down their swords and guns and surrendered on their knees, and the remaining dozens shouted "Defeat!" Defeated! "Flee backwards.

Liu Xulei led people over the dead bodies lying on the ground, stepped on the dirty blood all over the ground, and quickly chased after them, he felt that there would be important people in this gang.

Not far after chasing, there was a small village with more than a dozen thatched huts in front of him, hidden in the sparse woods, it turned out that there were people here, Liu Xulei hesitated, he knew that he was about to arrive at Ma Jiaolin's Chinese military tent, but he didn't know if there were any people in the house.

Liu Xulei beckoned more than a dozen soldiers beside him to put bayonets on their rifles, forming a loose encirclement, slowly approaching the first thatched hut, Liu Xulei took the lead, and a tactical leap into the middle hall with a gun, the torches inserted in the wall of the thatched hut were still burning, and there were five corpses of three men, two women lying on the ground in the room, all of whom were ordinary people wearing tattered and coarse cloth clothes, and the Qing soldiers were nowhere to be seen.

"These bandits!"

Liu Xulei scolded in a hateful voice, and then shouted: "With a torch, search house by house, and if you see a person with long braids, you will be killed!" ”

"Yes!"

The soldiers who were gritting their teeth screamed.

The second hut was also empty, and when the third hut was searched, several arrows suddenly shot out of the dark window, mixed with a gunshot, and several soldiers were caught off guard by arrows, and one of them was shot in the chest and fell to the ground with a muffled grunt.

Liu Xulei's eyes were cracked and he shouted: "Medic! Call the Medic! …… Someone who dares to kill me? Grenades are waiting! Lawfully kill on sight! ”