The sound of war drums shook the sky, this is the rhythm of the Qing army's attack, now the Qing army has no need to hide anything, anyway, after three hours of fighting, the enemy here already knows what they want to do, so long, the enemy and us basically understand each other's strength, so the Qing army with 2,000 people as a team, launched an attack from three sides, the Qing army on the mountain will take the remaining 2,000 people to sweep the formation.

On the top of the mountain, there are artillery units in order, fifteen cannons are constantly slapping the walls of the mountain city, 1,500 artillerymen, 500 people, take off their sleeves, throw off their arms, one by one sweating profusely, a nine-pound projectile, one is nothing, if you move a dozen or so in a row, you will also take a breath, twenty or thirty, there will be some footsteps, not to mention those Qing troops who carry ten-pound shells, and the artillerymen who have to laboriously return hundreds of kilograms of cannons to their original positions every time they are fired.

Over there, more than 1,000 people were loading the wounded from the last few battles into wheelbarrows one after another, or supporting them, and retreating towards the ferry port of Phoenix Town.

The caravan of horses that had opened the way had already traveled more than three miles, and the soldiers who had escorted them rose up and pulled out of the camp, loaded the baggage onto the wagons and ox carts that had been scavenged from the nearby villages, and let the men drive them away, and they followed the baggage away.

There were also thousands of people, as well as captured people, carrying captured rice grain, chickens and ducks, and marching with the army.

Gunfire began to intensify in the rear.

At this time, they heard an abnormal noise, which was different from the sound of the cannon firing from the solid bullets they were equipping, and the sound of the explosion was also different from the sound of the solid bullets.

Solid shells are heard at the firing site and the ground shakes, and this sound is heard in other places.

Looking back, they saw countless fireballs in the air like meteorites and meteors falling to the ground, slamming into the artillery positions.

Then there was a fire on the artillery position, and then there was a scream, and in the cold night wind of the north, in the empty mountain stream, they heard extremely sharp screams, which were the screams of their soldiers.

The enemy's artillery hit the artillery position in the first round, and the second round hit the mountain range where the generals on the mountain peak were located, and the fire was also in the sky, and the shouts were all over the sky, and then they turned their heads to look at the city wall, and the rapid fire on the city wall hit the Qing army ranks charging everywhere, and it was also a piece of stump and broken arm, a piece of screaming, the previous was a neat artillery fire, and then it was uneven artillery fire, constantly smashing the flowering shells into the Qing army column, the Qing army was in chaos, although it was still charging, But apparently they can't find the sharpness that they started with.

The Qing army general was pulled up from the ground by his subordinates with a gray face, and was violently shelled by the enemy just now, although it was only a wave, but it also frightened his war horse, he was thrown down from the war horse by a subordinate desperately, and fell into the grass under a hillside, his mouth was a little salty, he must have broken his mouth, and touched it with his hand, although it was night, but because of the moonlight, he could see the sticky black and red blood on his hands.

Looking around, the pro-soldiers here are gathering the routs everywhere, and a group of soldiers and horses that were still densely surrounding them just now are only sparsely packed around a team of a few hundred or so at this moment.

Turning his head to look at the bottom of the mountain, where is the mountain city under the mountain, the attacking Qing army was beaten and scattered in all directions, how can anyone attack, so the enemy's artillery is still unrelenting in chasing these deserters to bomb, the enemy's shells are one by one, one by one, they are all blown up, from the fire of the explosion, every explosion can see five or six Qing soldiers being blown up limbs flying sideways, or by the explosion of the air wave to fly far away.

The enemy's city gate opened, a team of cavalry rushed out, although the number was not much, but dozens of cavalry chased and killed these hundreds of Qing soldiers, crackling a burst of muskets, and then rushed to the closer, and crackling a burst of muskets, and finally saw them brandishing the standard sabers produced by the Huaxia Army that flashed in the cold light in the moonlit night, the head of the Qing army of the easy harvester, where could the Qing army still be organized, they threw away their guns, took off their leather armor, armor, threw away their helmets, and ran down the mountain.

Some of them ran to the enemy's city gate in a daze, and were killed by the infantry of the militia company who came out of the city, and the fluorescence of waves of bullets flickered in the night sky, and the battlefield was filled with gunsmoke and firelight, and it looked like a defeated army.

"Adult, adult, hurry, hurry, escort the adult to Phoenix Town, quickly." Wearing a tattered horse coat and wielding a sword, he stood less than twenty meters away from him, shouting loudly.

His attendants also shouted loudly, "Bring your horse, quick, help your horse on." ”

The braids of the Qing army generals were also scattered, and the horse coat was also scratched a few holes, he held his waist knife and looked at the artillery position over there unwillingly, "Order, let people go and see our artillery, let them bring as many as they want, and quickly follow the brigade." ”

One of his attendants shouted on his horse, "Chirp." Then he slapped his horse and ran.

At this time, there was another sound of artillery in the mountain city, and they saw that the gunpowder explosion at the tail of a bunch of shells had not yet dissipated, and they were flying towards this side quickly.

"Escort the adults to go first, quickly," the loyal entourage hurriedly helped the Qing general onto his horse, but the cannonballs came too fast, how could the speed of people be compared with the speed of the cannonballs?

Then another explosion sounded all around, a cannonball fell suddenly, and the body of the Qing general just sat upright, and then shook, and before the entourage could understand, the general fell from his horse and died silently.

Not far away, he also climbed on the horse's pipe belt and watched the Qing Dynasty general die in the distance, full of excitement, patted the horse and left, and the personal soldiers around him also fled one after another, he was frightened by the enemy's shells, forgot to leave the chief officer, and he would be punished when he went back, and even beheaded.

But at this critical moment, he couldn't care so much, the enemy's troops were constantly coming out of the mountain city, a team of cavalry was about to arrive, followed by the black pressed infantry, watching those people flicker in the fire of the grass lit by cannonballs, that was the enemy even sent out the people and farmers, the kitchen knives were picked up, the enemy was going to fight hard, could he not escape?

He had never seen such a fierce artillery, the flowering bombs exploded when they landed, all he saw in the past were solid shells, where had he seen the explosion scene of flowering shells, just like the recruits who were suppressed by shells on the battlefield in later generations, he was frightened and fled quickly, and he did not gather his men.

Seeing the enemy fleeing, Wan Douni said to the garrison general, "Take the troops of the people and a company to defend the city, transfer the troops of each village back as soon as possible, and then return to the corps quickly, and I will lead the troops along the road to gather troops from all over the country to reinforce the Phoenix Town ferry." ”

After speaking, he didn't wait for the garrison general to reply, and left with the soldiers and horses.

At the same time, a lot of artillery in the city was also taken away.

After crossing thousands of rivers and mountains, Zhang Qiang was woken up in the middle of the night, then got out of bed with his clothes on, came to a corridor outside the hall, listened to the attendant on duty report to him on the battle situation of the Yellow River crossing, and walked into the study of the side hall, the attendant gave tea, and he quietly listened to more reports.

(End of chapter)