"You guys, you're in charge of spying on those individuals, you know?" A cavalry battalion commander took 4,000 disarmed Goguryeo soldiers to a valley where 5,000 Qing soldiers had been taken prisoner from Shanxi Prefecture last night, and more captives would be brought in to gather in this valley, which was ten miles away from the city of Baoding.

"Yes, yes, we understand." The Goguryeo garrison general nodded.

"Do a good job, if you do a good job, you will become a servant, if you don't do a good job, you will charge with them, understand?" The cavalry battalion commander patted the Goguryeo garrison general on the shoulder, and he didn't know if he understood what he said, and he didn't understand what he said, but he said it anyway.

There are also soldiers and horses of a squad of the punishment battalion left here, these soldiers and horses are some of the former Ming and Green Battalion prisoners who have been naturalized because of their good performance, and they are led by the hundred households company of the original militia elite brigade of the Chinese Army, and now it is no longer called the hundred households company, it is directly called the company, and the leader is called the company commander, with the rank of captain, and they are the troops responsible for the affairs of the punishment battalion of the Shandong Prefecture Garrison Brigade after the reorganization.

Since the reform of military ranks and official positions, the entire army of the Huaxia Army has abandoned the complicated system of official positions and grades of the Ming or Qing Dynasty, and directly used the military establishment and ranks of later generations.

The chaotic ranks and official positions of the Chinese Kingdom army and the official system have become unified, otherwise many people can't distinguish clearly.

After a few notes, the cavalry battalion commander left with his battalion, and he had to welcome the new captives, as well as the servants and soldiers.

These people arrived one day first, and he had been busy all day, and there were more than 30,000 Hui prisoners from Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture, other miscellaneous prisoners of those nationalities who did not belong to the Han nationality, and all kinds of horse bandits, bandits, squires, bullies, officials, and family members who were captured in Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture.

During this day, the cavalry brigades were busy mobilizing, encircling the capital city of Baoding, clearing the places that had not been cleared in the countryside, selecting breakthrough points, deploying troops, and sending people to meet the prisoners and servant troops sent from the rear.

The servant army can be used directly, after all, they are not prisoners, they can share the responsibility of garrisoning and guarding prisoners, and the prisoners have to arrange manpower to guard and guide.

In the evening, the cavalry battalion of the 16th Field Division arrived, and they had a little more manpower, and a group of Japanese prisoners also arrived, from where in Shanxi Prefecture.

In the evening, before the cavalry brigade could react, their positions to the north were attacked.

I don't know how many people there were in the dark, in any case there were shouts everywhere, and the soldiers of the cavalry company guarding the three large forts had to throw out their torches, and under the firelight, a group of men and horses, wielding broadswords and spears, rushed towards them with ladders.

"Hit," the cavalry company commander shouted, and a barrage of spears rang out across the city walls.

In the fierce firelight, many people were hit, but it still couldn't stop their progress, there were too many people.

There are still fifty meters away, "Open the cannon, open the cannon, pull our cannon up." The cavalry company commander shouted.

Only a three-pounder gun of about 100 pounds was pushed to the battlement, the barrel was facing down, loaded with scattered shells, the cannon sounded, and a large part of the charging crowd was swept away and cleared, but there were still many people behind, and people rushed forward, even if the people in front did not want to rush and were afraid, the people behind were still rushing forward.

Soon the three three-pounder guns of the cavalry company on the Grand Fort were firing in a salvo, but they still couldn't stop the men from swarming forward, "Pull the six-pounder guns up and shoot together." ”

This cavalry company had only four guns in total, and the four guns were strengthened together to the cavalry company to guard the fortress, but they still couldn't stop the Qing army's charge, they had to use more three-pounder guns and six-pounder guns left by the original Qing army, and even ten-pounder guns, more than half of the cavalry company's troops were used to serve the artillery, and the twelve guns fired together, emptying a large area, but the enemy was getting closer and closer.

"Is there still any end?" The cavalry company commander shouted in annoyance, he looked up at the other two big forts, where the fight was also in full swing, the Qing army decided to take down these three big forts, otherwise they could not guarantee the safety of their retreat, or they wanted to escape, they couldn't run away without opening this area, the three big forts were built just inside the concave and convex of the three hills, and the hills were too slow to climb, and they could only escape by passing through the big forts.

The enemy stormed the great fort to the west of us, and hand-to-hand combat ensued.

Gunfire rang out from above the large fort to the east, and it seemed that the enemy was followed by musketeers, probably the Green Battalion.

The cavalry company commander saw that the big forts on the left and right were about to fall, and he was very anxious, and hurriedly sent cavalry to report the situation to the cavalry brigade.

Here, the enemy had already set up ladders, many people had climbed up, they had to fight hand-to-hand, the swarming enemy occupied the artillery, the artillery was dumb one by one, the cavalry company fell into a panic, and in less than half an hour, the enemy opened the gate on the other side, and a large number of soldiers and horses fled through the gate into the distance.

Under the dense fire, the enemy still rushed forward with heavy casualties.

At the most difficult moment, the whole earth was shaken by the sound of hooves, and the enemy, who had just rushed out of the city gate and ran not far away, ran back, followed by countless cavalry holding torches, and another cavalry fired on their horses, and rushed like a storm and clouds.

In a neat row of gunfire, the enemy fell in rows, and half an hour later, the large fort in the middle was recaptured by the cavalry battalion, and the enemy retreated.

But the large forts on both sides were captured by the enemy.

Hu Ze led a regiment of cavalry companies to fight in the middle of the night, losing the cavalry of a cavalry battalion, the enemy replaced the Manchu soldiers and the green battalion soldiers to defend the two forts, the cavalry brigade retreated a mile to build fortifications, and a cavalry battalion was stationed in the middle of the fort, and the original cavalry company was disabled.

On the hilly ground south of their city gate, there were nearly a thousand people lying in the city, and there were thousands of corpses of the landlords and gentry in the castle, and there was also the corpse of a small group of Manchu cavalry in front of the city gate.

Half an hour later, as soon as they had recaptured their positions and built some fortifications, the enemy's attack began to envelop the people again, and nearly a few thousand Green Battalion soldiers charged towards the positions defended by the cavalry brigade and the big fort.

Crackling gunfire, loud cannons, endless fighting, the enemy killed and wounded tens of thousands of people, the cavalry brigade seriously injured a cavalry regiment, at dawn Hu Ze transferred the cavalry battalion of the 16th Field Division, and at the same time transferred the squad of the punishment battalion thousands of soldiers and horses to defend the position, and the soldiers and horses of the cavalry brigade withdrew.

After resting for half a day, he transferred 5,000 captives of various ethnic groups in Shaanxi and Gansu Prefecture to build fortifications in and around the fort, and each of them threw them a captured cold weapon, stationed a company of Goguryeo prisoners, threw them arquebuses and 2 muskets, and told them to watch these people defend the fort, and withdraw the cavalry battalion of the 16th Field Division to the rear to build a fortification connected with the other two forts.

He understood that the Qing army wanted to use these civilians and the green battalion soldiers to open a way for them to escape.

(End of chapter)