Huang Shengqiang walked back and forth on the stone bridge, looking west from time to time, it has been a few hours since Xiao Tianjian led his troops into the battlefield, and it has not been long since it got dark, but Xiao Tianjian has not led his troops back here, and the sound of explosions on the battlefield and the sound of fire guns have stopped for a long time just now, which can't help but make Huang Shengqiang a little worried, for fear that Xiao Tianjian will bring too few people and horses, and he will suffer a big loss after entering the battlefield.

But fortunately, after a while, the sound of platoon guns began to be heard sporadically from the west, and Huang Shengqiang knew that Xiao Tianjian had no problems, and he must be rushing back to this side, so he suddenly became energetic, stopped and looked towards the west.

After a while, a few scouts rode their horses and rushed to the stone bridge of the Xiaozhang River at high speed, and as soon as they saw Huang Shengqiang, they shouted: "General Huang, a large group of Tartar soldiers are rushing here to kill!" Prepare! ”

Huang Shengqiang was startled, but immediately calmed down again, waved his hand to let the scout retreat to Hexi, and loudly greeted Li Fusheng, the battalion commander of the baggage battalion who stayed with him in Hexi.

Li Fusheng is also Xiao Tianjian's old subordinate, with a calm personality, a long time ago, he drove a mule cart to pull people for a living, and then he couldn't survive, the mule was confiscated by the government, and even the cart was towed away, his wife and children starved to death, he fell into the grass and became a strongman, and then he was put into Xiao Tianjian's hands, and began to be sent to the chariot camp as a coachman, and gradually expanded the Xingtian Army, and he gradually accumulated merit to become the battalion commander of the chariot barracks, and this time he was personally followed north by Xiao Tianjian.

After hearing Huang Shengqiang's words, Li Fusheng said in a sullen voice: "Listen to Brother Huang's dispatch, the baggage camp is not a decoration, let the Tartars see the power of our artillery battalion and baggage battalion!" ”

So after a while, the soldiers of the baggage battalion were transferred to the bridgehead in a group and began to line up, the soldiers of the baggage battalion were all very strong, many of them were born in the handlebar style, and they were the most hard-working soldiers in the Xingtian Army.

And the quality of the equipment of the baggage battalion is also very good, although it is equipped with not much armor, but in terms of firearms, it is the largest proportion of the military in the Heavenly Army, each baggage battalion has 700 people, the establishment is relatively small, but there are 500 birds in the battalion alone, and many carts also have small Furlong cannons captured from the hands of officers and soldiers, in fact, every soldier is the gunner of the small Furlong cannon, and two of the three people in each car are gunners, compared to the real grid, the firepower even exceeds many war battalions.

And the most common thing that the baggage soldiers have nothing to do on weekdays is to train and operate the small Fran cannon or the bird gun, just because the number of self-generated guns is not enough to replace all the bird guns in the army, and now the soldiers in the baggage battalion still use most of the old-fashioned bird guns, and they have to drag a fire rope when fighting, but this has little impact on the baggage barracks, and its firepower is still quite powerful.

Because this stone bridge is the only way for Xiao Tianjian to lead his troops to retreat to the west bank of the Xiaozhang River, so Huang Shengqiang has not demolished this small stone bridge until now, but he has piled up two large barrels of gunpowder under the stone bridge, and has already prepared the lead, but they will not blow up the pontoon bridge at this time, they must hold on until Xiao Tianjian leads his troops to retreat.

When Xiao Tianjian led his troops into the battlefield, he told Huang Shengqiang that with him as the mainstay, he must defend the Xiaozhang River, and he must not let the Tartars go through the Xiaozhang River.

The surface of the Xiaozhang River is not wide, only more than 20 steps of the river, now the weather is freezing in the moon day, the river has long been frozen to half a foot thick, there is no problem for people and horses to step on it, for this reason Xiao Tianjian led the troops to leave, the army camp and the engineer brigade with the army immediately began to dig ice on the Xiaozhang River, and at the same time used their baggage carts to connect the carts in the west of the river with the end of the carts, and built a barracks.

And these people did not work in vain, and most of the time they chiseled a long section of the river ice cubes, and at the same time chiseled ice on a long section of the river and embedded black wooden barrels one after another.

Huang Shengqiang's artillery battalion and the artillery team directly under the battalion were all under Huang Shengqiang's command at this time, and they set up an artillery array on the slightly higher ground next to the car battalion on the west bank of the small stone bridge. From the box in the carriage, he took out the sub-guns of the small Furlong machine guns one by one and loaded them into the mother guns, although the power and range of the small Furlong cannons are very limited, but the scattered bombs at close range are very powerful, and they are very effective as the last means of defense, so they were not abandoned by Xiao Tianjian.

After Huang Shengqiang's orders were issued, the soldiers gathered on both sides of Shiqiaoqiao West Avenue and lined up in two five-stage firing arrays.

Five hundred firecrackers were neatly arranged at the spacing of one person, forming two arrays of fifty people, which just held the stone bridge firmly.

Some sappers quickly began to lay out thistles on the stone bridge, and strings of thistles were removed from the carts and sprinkled on the stone bridge deck, and in a short time, they were ready for battle.

After a while, I saw a large number of Tartar cavalry first appear on the east bank of the Xiaozhang River, a group of distant reins of the horses, those Tartar soldiers on horseback stared at the west bank of the Xiaozhang River Stone Bridge with cold and resentful eyes, and then a white poisonous dragon flag with red edges appeared in Huang Shengqiang's sight, a group of Qing army generals slowly set foot in the east of the river, and after a while, more and more Tartar infantry soldiers and followers also began to appear on the battlefield.

"Good boy! There are a lot of Tartar soldiers! If you kill this with a knife, it will take a long time! Huang Shengqiang looked at these Tartar soldiers with a telescope, and said to Li Fusheng who was standing beside him with a pout.

Li Fusheng's expression was grim and he didn't answer, but there was also a fanatical look in his eyes, it was difficult for them to get the opportunity to fight the enemy head-on in the barracks on weekdays, so it was not easy to get the merits, and the people who could become officers of the Xingtian Army, there were few who didn't want to have military merits, even if Li Fusheng was the commander of the barracks, he also wanted this thing, and today they finally had a chance, and he was full of strength all over his body, and he was going to do a big job.

Huang Shengqiang saw that Li Fusheng didn't react, a little boring, but he turned his head to look at Li Fusheng's expression, and immediately bared his teeth and shook his mouse whiskers and laughed, patted Li Fusheng's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Brother Li!" There are a lot of these Tartars today, our artillery battalion can't finish fighting, there are people killed by your baggage battalion, look at your face, it's going to bleed, don't get excited, haha! ”

Li Fusheng's face trembled a little, and said to Huang Shengqiang: "Brother Huang is not kind, on weekdays, your artillery battalion has the most opportunities to show your face, but we haven't gotten a few opportunities to go into battle in the barracks, and today I finally met this opportunity, you can't fire the cannon first, how about letting our sons and daughters in the barracks enjoy it first?" ”

Huang Shengqiang tilted his head and looked at Li Fusheng's face a little funny, and after thinking for a while, he nodded and said: "Your method is not bad, let the Tartars run to the bridge first, and after you finish fighting, we will fight again in the artillery battalion, and if you can't get more Tartars to be slaughtered, it's up to you today!" Let the brothers in the barracks also have the addiction of killing, but this time you are cheap, and we are killing Tartar soldiers this time! Ha ha! After you go back, you have to invite me Lao Huang to have a good drink! ”

Li Fusheng immediately laughed when he heard it, but he couldn't see his teeth, and his usual steadiness was suddenly thrown out of the clouds, and when he said that there was no problem, he ran to the queue of soldiers under his command, and after a while, he was heard roaring at the top of his throat......

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