On the outskirts of Hongqiao Town, two battalions of the 23rd Garrison Brigade Wu Changqing encountered the outpost of the Qing army, and the news of the encounter occurred after Ji Changming's fast horse appeared in front of Li Huabao, who was left behind in the Shanghai Trade Zone, in less than an hour.

"What is the origin of this Wu Changqing? Will he be able to withstand the onslaught of at least twice as many Qing troops? What's more, this is just an outpost of the Qing army, and there is a large group of Qing soldiers to follow up! ”

Because this was the first battle of the Shanghai Defensive War, the impact on the morale of the army was extremely significant. Li Huabao had to pay special attention to this small battle, and the total number of troops invested by the two sides did not exceed 10,000.

"Wu Changqing is also the old foundation of the Nanyue Army! He joined the army from Rili and has been fighting in the north and south under the command of the lord. It's just that he rarely fought in the Central Plains in these years. Most of them are in Nanyang, Tianzhu, Punggara, Myanmar and other places. Last year, he became the commander of the regiment and was incorporated into the sequence of the 23rd Garrison Brigade. He followed Brigade Commander Ji Changming to Shanghai, which was also his first battle in the Central Plains. The military and political secretary on the side immediately reported Wu Changqing's resume like a few treasures.

"Oh! What did he do?" Li Huabao immediately became interested in this Wu Changqing. The reason is very simple, this guy has fought in Nanyang, Tianzhu, and Banggeladu, but he has not been promoted too quickly, which shows that this guy named Wu Changqing has not entered the field of vision of his younger brothers, perhaps because he is not treated well by those younger brothers. However, he was able to accumulate military merits all the way, which shows that this guy does have two brushes and is more capable of fighting. Let others not cover up his credit. If he, Li Huabao, could contain Wu Changqing into his pocket, it would be a multi-benefit event. Needless to say, with an extra general in his hand who can die for him, he has a good reputation for knowing people, and his reputation among the generals of the Nanyue Army is bound to be even better. Moreover, you can also piggyback on a resounding slap in the face to those younger brothers! Such a character has also worked under you, how can he not be discovered by you?!

As everyone grew older, their knowledge and vision became broader, and various open and secret battles began to appear between Li Shouhan's sons. This point, with the death of the eldest son Li Huayu, is almost on the surface.

"Back to the words of the left-behind adults. Last year, when Wu Changqing was in Tianzhu and served as a gang commander, he led a battalion of people out to patrol the sentry. I don't want to be surrounded by a rebellious army of soldiers and horses. With less than 1,000 soldiers and horses, he responded calmly, facing the Tianzhu indigenous soldiers and horses several times his size, and finally held on until the reinforcements arrived. More than 1,000 people were killed, more than 2,000 people were captured, nearly 1,000 mules, horses, camels were seized, and knives, guns, equipment, gold, silver and jewelry were not counted. It was precisely because of this that we found the best excuse to start a war against the earth king and annexed him in one fell swoop. The territory of the Lord has been opened up for nearly 1,000 miles, and the population of Ding Zhuang is nearly 100,000. As a result, he was promoted to regimental commander. ”

"This guy really has two hits!" Li Huabao confirmed his opinion in his heart. He pressed the question he wanted to blurt out, "You don't know why he was so slow to be promoted?" Just slowly arranged to many officials in the Military Administration Department and the Battalion Office of the General Staff Office: "Pass the word, as long as Wu Changqing can retreat from this battle, he will be promoted if he stays behind." Can serve as a brigade commander in a reserve brigade! ”

"Subordinates, remember!"

Although according to the system of the Nanyue Army, officers at the brigade commander level must be personally appointed by Li Shouhan, Li Huabao's promotion can basically determine the brigade commander position of the person who is promoted.

On the outskirts of Hongqiao, Wu Changqing had already exchanged fire with the Qing soldiers.

Before the six-pounder cannon could fire, the Qing infantry had reached the distance that the rifle could reach. The chaotic formation, the noisy noise, the noise and the shouting and scolding all brought tremendous pressure to the soldiers and horses of the two battalions of the Nanyue Army. Fortunately, there were officers at all levels who whispered bullets and pressed them, so that there was no situation where those soldiers who could not hold their breath and could not bear the pressure fired indiscriminately at the Qing army. With the encouragement of the commander and the officer, they tried to adjust their breathing, hoping that these soldiers would enter the range of the musket as soon as possible, and waited for the commander's firing signal.

Although it is said that the distance that a bow and arrow can shoot can also be fired, the Nanyue army, which pursues the best shooting effect, is generally allowed to fire only when the enemy infantry enters a distance of forty or fifty paces! Fortunately, the harsh military discipline and more or less battlefield experience in peacetime played a role, although the Qing soldiers approached step by step, and in this weather, some people were already sweating on their palms and foreheads, but they still didn't say a word. Just wait for them to come within their range. From time to time, I used my peripheral vision to observe the flint on the dragon's head, hoping that it would not drop the chain at a critical moment and affect its own meritorious service.

The Qing soldiers on the opposite side were also unusually worried. According to their own thoughts, when they had reached one hundred and forty or fifty paces, someone was almost ready to burst into fire. In their impressions, even if the Nanyue Army has always been known as elite, not to mention the opponent's firearms, they couldn't help but fire indiscriminately before they could enter the firing range. But there are some anomalous behaviors at this distance. However, the army on the opposite side stood so quietly, like a group of clay sculptures and wood carvings.

But where on the battlefield is there room for them to think too much. The march had reached a distance of 100 paces. The huge pressure and the imminent killing of wealth and many other factors made the Qing army let out a loud shout in unison, and the Qing soldiers shouted in unison, quickened their pace, and rushed towards the front of Wu Changqing.

One hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, seventy steps, sixty steps, it's now!

The commander of the artillery squad shouted violently: "Fire!" ”

The muzzles of the two six-pounder guns spewed out huge white smoke and fleeting red flames. Let a few Qing soldiers who were closest to them and were already eager to come up and seize these two cannons for meritorious service suddenly flew out! By the time the body hit the ground, it had been shattered into a tattered mass of flesh by the dense shrapnel.

"Fire!"

The speeches of these two guns opened the prelude to the fire of the artillery team. It seemed that at the same time several cannons on both flanks were deafeningly cannonballed, a large cloud of smoke rose up, and groups of whistling shotguns were mixed with the sharp whistle when it pierced the air, although human ears could not hear it, but those war horses could hear it clearly. This sound is like the bursts of laughter emitted by these projectile little devils!

At a distance of less than ninety meters, the six-pounder cannon is placed horizontally, the double shotgun is fired, and the opponent is in a dense formation of rapid movement.

The speeches of these six-pounder cannons not only turned the flesh and blood of dozens of Qing soldiers into a tattered mess, but also gave those Qing soldiers who were urged by various desires to turn their eyes red! Let them suddenly find that the enemy on the opposite side is not those businessmen and wealthy people who can let them slaughter and plunder at will, let alone good ordinary people. It's a ruthless character with a cannon knife and gun in his hand, and his combat effectiveness is better than theirs!

Thinking of this, suddenly, the attacking team that had just been aggressive stopped for a moment, as if it was a vicious dog that had been beaten down with a stick, and the momentum that had been dancing with its teeth and claws suddenly stopped. Suddenly, as if they had been awakened by the autumn rain and autumn wind, many people let out a terrible cry in unison, turned around and ran away along the way they came.

If these troops who were recruited by Duoduo to surrender and recruit rebels along the way belonged to the scum with a combat strength of only five, then the performance of the Eight Banners cavalry, who supervised at the back of the queue and responded on the flanks of the two flanks, was also a little disappointing.

The flames, thick smoke, loud noise, and the scene of flesh and blood flying from the muzzle of the cannon also made the two or three hundred cavalry and eight-banner cavalry who were coldly peeking at the battlefield on both wings a little abrupt. Most of the war horses under the crotch had never experienced such a simple, bloody and violent scene, and were startled by the loud sound of smoke and fire emitted from the muzzle, and dozens of war horses couldn't help but neigh and began to retreat. The riders on the horse, shouting at their mounts, quietly moved backwards.

Since the crossing of the Yellow River, it has always been a good battle, and many cities only need to unfurl their flags under the city, take off their iron helmets to reveal their money rat tail braids, and then they can enter the city and their children will be given jade silk to what they want. This kind of city is not bad, at least it will wait until the Qing soldiers come to the city. A large number of prefectures, counties, and towns were all tens of miles away from the Qing army, so they sent people to the army to contact and surrender, and changed the flag in the city, announcing that they were already the people of the Qing Emperor!

The jade silk of the children who can be easily obtained, why should you fight with your life? As long as we can lay down the city in front of us, then the food, property, and jade silk in the city are not up to us to move at will? Desperately, let's let those Han people surrender their troops to do it!

Such an idea spread rapidly among the Eight Banners of the Qing Army after crossing the river. Today, when they encountered such a piercing enemy again, they couldn't help but retreat back one after another, retreating the battle line at least one stone's throw back. Hiding from the sidelines and watching the Nanyue army fight with the green battalion soldiers.

Take advantage of his illness and kill him!

"First column! Advance! Fire! ”

Seeing that the queue of the Qing soldiers showed signs of collapse, at this time, if Wu Changqing didn't make a move, then he would be Song Xianggong. Don't think about developing in the Nanyue Army.

A series of cold commands sounded, followed by a deafening sound of fire. In the sound of firearms, several elite soldiers who were originally rushing to the front, wearing iron armor and leather shields in their hands, were hit by projectiles flying from behind! The projectile easily broke through the tattered iron armor on their bodies, knocking the armor leaves into the air. As streams of blood appeared on their bodies, these Xuan Feng staggered and were knocked to the ground one by one.

"First column, squat! Second column, fire! ”

"Put!"

I didn't have time to think about it at all, the first row of firecrackers half-squatted to clean up their firearms, check the flints, and load ammunition, and the second row stepped forward, hundreds of firecrackers faced the Qing soldiers who were facing away from them in front of them, and they didn't need to aim at all, as long as they pulled the plate machine, at a distance of sixty steps, the Qing soldiers formed a group of escape teams, as long as the firecrackers sounded, someone in the team would scream and fall. And the people who fell even worsened the speed of the team's rout and escape.

In the eyes of the retreating Qing soldiers, this mass of things with the smell of sulfur saltpeter after burning is undoubtedly similar to the demon wind when the bull head and horse face come out of the eighteenth layer of the netherworld with the soul card in his hand to ask for his life!

If there were Western missionaries in their ranks, perhaps they would have corrected this misconception, "Devil! When Satan the devil of hell appears, he stenches with a sulfurous smell! ”

"Put!"

In the cloud of smoke behind him, the roar of the devil was heard again.

The second platoon of musketeers stopped in place, cleared the muskets, and loaded their ammunition. The third row of firecrackers stepped forward, and a large stream of gunpowder smoke erupted, and one by one, the Qing soldiers who were running wildly screamed and were knocked to the ground forward! The projectile tore through their armor and rolled rapidly inside them, ruffling their entrails into a pulp.

"The first column, the upper spur! Get ready to rush! ”

The first column had already been reloaded, and was waiting there for orders. Hearing the commander's command, he immediately pulled out the sleeve spur from his waist, clicked twice, and installed the spur.

"The first column is all! Prepare for the thorns"

"Whew! Ha! The soldiers of the first column shouted in unison, and the installation of the ordinance stipulated, that the fire guns should be held flat in their hands, and the spurs should be pointed diagonally upward, just as the position of the man's head and face, the front legs bowed, the hind legs tensed, ready to leap forward at any moment.

"Kill!"

In the midst of the smoke, nearly a thousand stingers suddenly struck. The impact of this scene on the Qing soldiers was undoubtedly devastating. They had already been beaten by shelling and firecrackers, where would they have thought that such a thing would happen?! In their eyes, it was as if the gates of hell had suddenly opened, and countless Shura demons had come out of it, shouting and screaming to come to the world to plunder their own blood and food!

It's worth it!

With a shout, these green battalion soldiers finally returned to their original colors. Everyone pushed and shoved all the obstacles that blocked their escape, whether he was a brother in Paoze or a prefect at all levels, or a baggage vehicle, as long as he was in the way of Lao Tzu, then he would all go aside! Compared with the two-foot-long spur behind him, what is the military stick that he is about to face? What's more, so many people fled together, and the law doesn't blame the public! At this moment, many people were in a trance, if it weren't for the fact that the hat on their heads was blown by the wind and their scalps were a little cold, they seemed to have returned to the time when they were eating food and serving as soldiers under the banner of Daming.

Running forward in a hurry for less than a mile, many people have not yet completed the warm-up of the skills of running or turning into the battlefield, and they have just seen the flag formation of the chief soldier, and they have not yet scattered the main formation of the chief soldier Xu Youxin, and they have fled with him. The situation on the other side made these defeated soldiers quickly know their current identity, and now you are Qing soldiers, no longer Ming soldiers!

The hundreds of cavalry of the Eight Banners, who had withdrawn from their flanks and were threatened by the guns of the Nanyue army, suddenly rushed over from the flanks of the defeated army, cutting off their route, separating them from Melzhangjingsa Suka and the chief soldier Xu Youxin.

In addition, dozens of elite cavalry rode into the ranks of the defeated soldiers, and the eight banner spears and tiger spears in their hands stabbed fiercely, and dozens of blooming blood flowers were splashed in the rout. Blood, death, and violence suddenly made these routs realize that if they ran again, they might not face something as simple as a military stick, and they might become the chicken that showed the monkey.

"Mana, Alamu!" Sasukha's cold, cruel voice came from between his lips.

"The minions are here!"

"You take your minions up and enforce military law among the defeated soldiers of General Xu! All the officers below the sentry officer in the defeated army were cut down by Benmel Zhangjing! The rest of the people, who have official positions, will be rewarded with twenty lashes each, and lead the charge! Ordinary soldiers, ten lashes each! ”

Dozens of heads of officials at all levels were picked up on the tips of their spears by the Eight Banners soldiers, and they rode slowly in front of Xu Youxin's soldiers and horses, in order to let them see what the fate of escaping from the battle was!

"Back then, this official followed the regent in Tashan, and he was able to face Li Huamei's artillery fire, and hundreds of thousands of elite warriors who dared to fight did not fall behind, relying on this continuous sitting method! Back then, the regent had a word, which one retreated and killed which! If the soldiers retreat, they will kill the soldiers, and if the officers retreat, they will kill the officers! That's why he led a slave like us to defend the dangerous land of Tower Mountain! Let that Li Huamei hate and go! Now that this official is leading you to implement this set of regulations in the same way, what is a mere Shanghai county?! ”

I don't know if it's because of the cold in the autumn wind and rain, or because of some other reason. When Sasu Kamel Zhangjing bragged about his heroic deeds in Tashan on horseback, and took the lead in implementing the joint sitting method in the green camp, the house slaves around him found that when Li Huamei, Tashan and other words were mentioned, the master's right leg, which had been injured in Tashan, involuntarily trembled in the stirrup.

Under the stimulation of spears, axes and silver dollars, in less than half a pillar of incense, Xu Youxin finished the whole team of soldiers who were already as earthy as a group of mud-tired puppets, and drove in the direction of Hongqiao Town again.

"Amitabha, Amitabha! It was best for that group of killers to take advantage of our rout just now, and then accept it when they saw it, and retreated back to Hongqiao Town. Then we can camp outside the town, rest, have dinner, and wait for the army to arrive before attacking the city!" ”

Many soldiers and officers prayed silently in their hearts while marching.

However, it backfired.

When the team drove to the position where the fire had just been exchanged, sure enough, Wu Changqing had already led the team to retreat. However, he did not retreat into Hongqiao Town, but lined up in a position of one and a half miles outside the town, just waiting for the arrival of the Qing army!

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