Chapter 558: An overwhelming rush

Ten bronze cannons roared together, and the shells poured down on the hillside, and the Qing army shells formed a blockade line, dividing the enemy into two parts, and the shells fell into the enemy camp like eyes, and the flesh and blood were blown apart, and the roar of the shells was more terrifying than the shouting and killing of the Qing army, which made the rebel soldiers feel timid, and there were no rebel soldiers to climb up the hillside

Hand-to-hand combat on the hillside, the mentality of the enemy and us is completely different, the rebel army is in chaos, originally wanted to win the victory with crowd tactics, Lei Heng's heart is intertwined, regret, chagrin, should not provoke Li Ziying, this time the rebel army is in a dilemma, Li Guolou artillery tactics are diverse, he has no determination to fight, looking at the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, Lei Heng can't make up his mind, the battle is not divided, and he will be defeated as soon as he retreats, and his family will be defeated

Lei Heng hesitated for a moment, listened to the sound of the cannon, constantly lost his calm judgment, and wanted to fight with Li Ziying, and when the cannon barrel was hot, the enemy would stop shelling, but he didn't take into account that dozens of bronze cannons had been placed on the top of the slope, and the enemy was aiming at the artillery bombardment, and the suffering under the hillside of the rebel soldiers would not be able to bear it at any time, and more than 2,000 rebel soldiers showed signs of collapse

Lei Heng's heart was as solid as iron, and he gave an order on the grass to disperse the team to avoid the artillery attack of the Qing army, and the hand-to-hand combat of the warriors on the hillside was fierce, so that he had the determination and courage to fight to the end

The copper cannon loading shell is a front-mounted type with a very high rate of fire and a range of two or three hundred meters, and within 100 meters, the artillery can point where to hit the artillery observer, without using the gun scope, the left hand thumb is in front of the eyes, and the eye is used to estimate the distance of the enemy, the handle adjusts the angle of the barrel, and then the gunner ignites the credit, and a four-pound shell flies out of the barrel and jumps into the enemy camp

Boom, boom, boom

The power of the copper cannon is not as good as the howitzer, but it is light, it can be pulled out at any time to fight, and it is not restricted by the environment, two soldiers can pick up a copper cannon, and now the copper cannon of the Li Ziying is constantly rising, and there are as many as fifty copper cannons on the high slope, and fifty copper cannons are fired together, that power is enough to blow people into minced flesh, and the cannonballs form a blockade line, which becomes so terrifying, and a cloud of smoke and cannon fire rises within two hundred meters from the hillside, raging and raging on life

The rebel army was frightened by the high slope, the red flags were getting more and more, looking up, the Li Zi battle flag was approaching, and the officers and soldiers of the Li Zi battalion took advantage of the momentum of hand-to-hand combat to rush down the hill directly

The rebel army was timid, and the commander, team officer, and sentry officer took the lead in turning around and fleeing backwards, surrounded by hilly areas, as long as they got out of the attack range of Li Ziying, they could escape, and Lei Heng's team had already become bandits, and they couldn't run away

The group effect on the battlefield is vividly embodied, as long as someone escapes, the whole battlefield is like a hornet's nest, all messed up, the team will not be formed immediately, originally lying on the grass to endure the torment of artillery fire, the rebel soldiers will run away, and finally expose the original face of the rebel army, the three boards and axes can not be formed, more than 2,000 rebel soldiers saw the bloody hand-to-hand combat, and lost the courage to fight

The officers and men of the Li Zi battalion on the battlefield were like chickens, plucked up the courage to charge, and killed the chaotic army, facing the arrow, showing their true colors, and the trumpet of the charge resounded throughout the position

"Kill Kill Kill"

In the position, all the soldiers rushed out of the position, and the red flags were all over the mountains, the morning breeze was blowing, and the officers and men of the Li Zi battalion rushed to kill in the mountains

Li Guolou waved his pistol and rushed up the high slope, so excited that he overlooked the entire battlefield, and the pursuit battle was to beat the water dogs, and he defeated more than 2,000 enemy main forces with 1,000 people

Moreover, more than sixty percent of the soldiers of these Li Zi Battalion are more than a month soldier, and the composition of these soldiers recruited from the Yan'an area is very mixed, some of them are forcibly arrested villagers, some of them are surrendered on the battlefield, and some are veterans of the Gaozi Battalion, so in such a short period of time, in the good atmosphere of the Li Zi Battalion, they have changed their thinking and become brave warriors, and the ideological education of Wutang has made great contributions, and the army has persevered in inheriting the fine traditions of the old belt

Li Guolou looked at the war scene, he only needed to stand under the red flag, the pursuit battle did not need him to command, every Li Zi battle flag was the commander, Li Zi battle flag was facing the wind, and the officers and soldiers of the Li Zi battalion followed the battle situation like this, there was no suspense, and the victory scale tilted towards him

As the old saying goes, "the poor don't chase"

But if you don't chase how to destroy the enemy, Li Guolou won't Mingjin collect his troops and chase and flee, and the enemy will chase until he can't chase him

Will he fall into the enemy's trap, where will the enemy's rear army put the battlefield, Li Guolou does not think too much, the soldiers before the charge will inevitably be shot, even if they fall into the enemy's trap and kill hundreds of Li Zi battalion officers and soldiers, Li Guolou does not hesitate to be as a commander, his heart has become as ruthless as iron stone, and he will accept it when he sees it, it is not his character, if he wins a big victory, it is not as simple as defeating Lei Heng, but completely eliminating Lei Heng's main force, making the rebels become rogues, and only by using local armed forces can wipe out the remnants of the rebel army

A blocking battle has turned the balance of strength between the enemy and us upside down, and the enemy has already occupied a numerical advantage in the enemy, and many fleeing rebel soldiers turned their heads to see that the Qing army was chasing after the back of their buttocks, and they knelt on the ground and surrendered

This is a competition of endurance, if you want to escape a little, you have to throw away your weapons, many escaped rebel soldiers into the mountains and forests empty-handed, if they wait alone, they will starve to death, the wolves in the mountains and forests will follow and chase at any time, tearing and taking delicious human flesh

Li Guolou also wanted to see the combat effectiveness of the enemy's rear army, waiting for the battle report, hoping that the Battle cavalry could draw a successful end to this blocking battle, at this time Li Guolou did not know where his cavalry troops had gone, and he still knew the approximate location of each team before the war, but from the first shot, the battle situation was developing in a favorable direction, and the victory was too much for him to have time to mobilize the troops, if each team did it according to the pre-war task, and the enemy would have long since disappeared without a trace when the military order was issued, and the troops without combat merits would be scolded by him for being dead-brained, and people were not enough to take on the big responsibility

At this time, Li Guolou could only wait, and all the 1,000 men and horses in his hand were used, and even the last 100 companions Goshha were sent out by him, but instead of looking at the battlefield, he turned around and looked in the direction of Luo Daxiang, hoping that a miracle could happen

On the winding mountain road, Fan Ye led the four sentinels to the battlefield in time, seeing this scene, Li Guolou was quite pleased, his officers gave full play to their subjective initiative, Fan Ye is a rare general, he was happy, held Fan Ye's hand and said: "Fan Yingguan has worked hard for you, you fight well, I can defeat the enemy, how about the main force, can the team still fight?"

"Report, Chief Li, Fan Ye led the four sentinels and waited for Chief Li's order," Fan Ye panted and replied, straightening his waist and arrogance, full of pride, and capital

"Well, I order you to lead the four sentinels to pursue and flee Lei Heng until it gets dark and can't see clearly," Li Guolou sent out the new force with a finger of his hand

This is the spirit of a general, even if there is still a large group of enemies in front of him, let his subordinates solve it on their own, Li Guolou only needs to grasp the scale of the battle situation, have the temperament of the commander, give full play to the overall planning ability, let every officer use it, mobilize everyone's potential, and show his true character as a hero in times of crisis

"Yes, to ensure the completion of the task", Fan Ye led more than 400 soldiers to pursue the enemy at a rapid marching speed, and disappeared from the horizon

Li Guolou's military order was transmitted, and every commander and soldier had a different understanding of the military order, and it was transmitted from the battalion officer level to the level of each outpost, each team, and every unit, and the officer of the team obeyed the order and acted according to his ability, pursued the enemy and captured a group of prisoners, and the officer of the team had already been carried away by the victory, leading the squad into the jungle to fight and chase the enemy fiercely, and even the sentry officer did not know where the team had run

At this time, the battle situation depended on each veteran of the army, and the commander decided that the team would go to the front, and no one could say what the battle would be, anyway, a big victory had already been bagged, and the battlefield was full of black pressure prisoners of war

Li Guolou did not move the place, he did not know which enemy to chase, he could only inspect the captured firearms and prisoners of war

Seeing a group of unkempt female prisoners of war, at least more than 200 people were sitting on the grass and looking at him stupidly, Li Guolou was stunned for a moment, and reacted very much and shouted: "Bastard, who let them sit on the ground and rest, tie them all up for me, and search me again, and don't hide a needle to become a Kun person, do you want to be whipped?"

"Chief Li, I am in charge of this group of prisoners of war, I want to ······" Zhang Haojie looked at Li Guolou with a hippie smile, and before he could finish his words, Li Guolou's whip had already whipped him in the face

"Don't let me say it a second time, understand" Li Guolou's eyebrows tightened, he looked like he wanted to eat people, he didn't want to be happy and sad, and was stabbed to death by a female prisoner of war

"Yes" Zhang Haojie was so frightened that he didn't dare to move, standing straight and standing in place, the military law of the Chu army was extremely cruel, and he didn't obey the military order, and there was only one way to die

"These female prisoners of war are all handed over to Zuo Dashuai to deal with," Li Guolou put aside a sentence, didn't look at those weeping faces, he didn't listen to the story of Les Miserables, the weak woman still kills people with guns, arsons, and runs away, surrender, the ghost cries wolf, and the wolf howls to whom, the enemy is the enemy, whether male or female has not been reformed, prisoners of war must be vigilant and prevent trouble before it burns

Li Guolou didn't want to leave a bad impression on Zuo Zongtang, like a ghost, a female monster, no one would like Li Ziying's strict military discipline and treat prisoners of war like relatives

"But······ Yes" Zhang Haojie's words came to his mouth and swallowed again, he couldn't reason with Li Guolou, or he was looking for a meal to complain to the master, Li Guolou said that he only managed military affairs, how could he meddle in logistics work, this kind of military order did not need to be reasonable, let the master do it, he didn't want to be whipped

Zheng Hengdan was a lot smarter, his eyes rolled to his heart, and he quietly approached and whispered: "Chief Li, there must be Lei Heng among these female prisoners of war, do you want to catch them?"

Li Guolou's body was nailed all of a sudden, like a stake, and it didn't move at all, it was terrible, the war made women go away, but the cruel war made women suffer, the rebel leaders had no good deaths, the rebel leaders moved women, and it was impossible to escape death, these women belonged to the rebels' families, and the head was a light punishment, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also had cruel punishments for women

Li Guolou hesitated a little, made up his mind, and decided to bear all the sins, bear the infamy, and let the world laugh

After returning to Beijing, he was ridiculed by those fellow scholars, smeared by courtiers, and dug up by storytellers

"The old rules are done according to the merits of the war, let Master Fan be sure to get it all done before tomorrow night, don't allow those women to speak, Li Ziying will not hold a criticism meeting," Li Guolou thought very clearly, and he didn't want to be used as an arrow if he didn't give a woman a chance to speak

"I understand, I'm going to tell Master Rice," Zheng Heng bowed back, wanted to laugh, but couldn't laugh, but felt a sourness, depressed and uneven, there are many cruel rules in the world, only people like Li Guolou dare to break this kind of rule

Zheng Hengdan behaved cautiously, loyal to Li Guolou, abandoned the belief in the White Lotus Sect, and rebecame a person, in fact, the hatred of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in his heart has never changed, he does not believe in the White Lotus Sect, he has no knot, he believes that Li Guolou will one day change the world, how can people who accept ideas be loyal to the decadent Manchu Dynasty, Zheng Hengdan has long seen through Li Guolou's dark thoughts

Fan Ye's department annihilated 1,000 enemies, more than 1,000 prisoners of war were captured on the frontal battlefield, 500 enemies were killed, and Li Ziying's prisoners of war were more than 1,800 people, this number is still increasing, and the battle of Luodaxiang ended with a great victory for the Qing army, and the results were brilliant

Li Guolou was full of anticipation, but he heard a thunderbolt on a sunny day