"Raise your gun, prepare, shoot." The tired machinery of the Huaxia Army in the trenches repeated this action.

It was no longer the attack of the Mongol cavalry, and under the threat of the Chinese army's artillery, the Qing army, which had lost more than 20,000 cavalry, changed its tactics and began to use cannon fodder to consume the enemy's bullets like the Chinese army.

The soldiers of the 2nd Regiment of the Field Brigade had been on the defensive all night, and with the support of the artillery brigade directly under the rear corps, the artillery company of their regiment, the fire of the three-pounder guns carried by the companies, and the support of the battalion-level six-pounder guns carried by the battalions, the surging cannon fodder had piled up the corpses half a meter thick from more than 100 meters in front of their position to more than 30 meters in the nearest 30 meters.

The Qing army was also ruthless, and drove all the people in the vicinity to the front to block the guns for them, and then they followed behind to attack, and cavalry, infantry, and artillery kept sneaking up on the positions of the Huaxia army, many forts were blown up, many horses that could block them were blown up, and the trenches were filled with corpses.

Now no one can clean up those corpses, so they can only lie there, anyway, it is winter, and they are freezing to death, and they can't rot for a while.

Now no one cares how noble life is, it doesn't talk about slaughter, there is time to pay attention to those in war, it is better to kill more enemies and rest for a while.

The cruelty of war is a kind of exclamation, a superfluous thought, of those who have not fought when they have nothing to do in the rear.

Now the tired second regiment doesn't even want to lift its eyelids, how can it have time to think about whether it is cruel or not, and if it doesn't shoot, is it waiting for the enemy to kill it? The ideas of the Chinese in later generations are very advanced, always think that the enemy is very powerful, if I resist too fiercely, the enemy comes in not only to kill his wife, but also to kill himself, it is okay to kill his wife, but it is not okay to kill himself, so he often does some inexplicable things, such as Zhang Shaoshuai's northeast, hundreds of thousands of troops, actually said that weapons are in storage, the enemy comes and dies, kills himself, let the enemy kill, let everyone see if the enemy dares to kill people they do not resist, as a result, The Japanese clearly did not tune their thoughts and them to the same channel.

Just as the people in the city thought that the countrymen were as educated as they were, and would not punch them, they thought that the countrymen could be frightened by their so-called law, and the countrymen not only punched them, but also stabbed them.

That is to say, you can't measure other people's worldview with your imaginary worldview, now the Huaxia army and the Qing army are dead, if you want to say that it is for world peace, let's negotiate, you accuse me of being too cruel during the negotiation, I accuse you of not being Han, you say that I have occupied so much land, I have lived for so long, the land of the Ming Dynasty should be mine, you should surrender, maybe some people really think that the Qing Dynasty should rule the Han people, they should occupy the land of China, and they can really talk about a Qing Dynasty.

It is really possible to talk about a Chinese kingdom, everyone lives in peace, anyway, no matter how much land is missing, it has nothing to do with them, as long as they are still waiting to sell things, they can still exploit the people, even if there is only one village left, they are willing, and for people of insight, it is simply a crime and treason, but often the truth is not in the hands of patriots.

The Qing army was frantically looting the people, frantically using cannon fodder to storm the defense line of the Huaxia army, and fought all night.

The next morning, Dongfeng broke up early, knowing that the battle had been fought like this, he went to sleep, he did not watch the progress of the war all night, there was someone on duty, he knew that this battle had to be fought for a long time, in terms of manpower they did not have an advantage, they could only wait for reinforcements, mainly ammunition supply, sufficient ammunition he was confident to hold here.

The 3rd Regiment of each brigade and the troops directly under the brigade headquarters are already in place, and today he is ready to launch several counterattacks, of course, not to kill them, but to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops by counterattacking, otherwise the enemy will always let some cannon fodder to storm the defense line by hiding behind, and it will consume their ammunition.

One day, one night, the three regiments took turns to resist the enemy, and each brigade took turns, casualties were inevitable, but the Huaxia army still resisted the attack of the Qing army, with a mere 18,000 troops, plus more than 5,000 troops of the punishment brigade, resisted the Qing army's tens of thousands of cavalry, tens of thousands of cannon fodder, and tens of thousands of green battalion soldiers in turn.

"Today, the 1st Brigade is responsible for defending the county seat, the 2nd Brigade is responsible for the positions around the county seat, and at the same time helping the punishment battalion to guard the remaining prisoners and monitor the servant army.

After capturing the outer positions, the servant army escorted the captive soldiers and civilians to defend the outer positions, and the three regiments retreated to the various nodes of the outer positions, towns, and villages, and then arranged the servant troops around to defend these places, and the cavalry went out to inspect and reconnoitre, and when the time came, the second regiment sent a part of its forces to drive away the prisoners and civilians to help the three regiments build fortifications, connect the various villages and towns, and prevent the enemy from breaking through like yesterday, and after achieving the goal, the troops in front withdrew to the outer positions of the second line, Join the quest to defend these villages and towns.

Well, that's all we're going to do today. Let's go down and arrange, now the troops on the defensive front wait for the departure of the third brigade and the third regiment of the third brigade will be rebuilt, and follow behind to take care of the prisoners, after which the troops directly under the division headquarters will take over the defense of the third regiment of the third brigade.

The artillery regiment will support you. ”

At the same time, in the camp of the Qing army, countless people came out with arquebuses, and groups of people were driven like sheep to the Huaxia army position.

Duolong said to Suo Etu: "This is the last soldier and horse transferred from outside the pass, if we can't win this time, we can only retreat to Yanjing, in the face of the enemy's three-way soldiers and horses, we have arranged a counterattack of nearly 1.2 million soldiers and horses, each of which has more than 300,000 to 400,000 soldiers and horses, which is several times that of the enemy in terms of strength, the enemy's regular army and horses all the way are only in their early 20,000s, plus some servant troops are only 50,000 or 60,000 troops, although the enemy has a lot of captive soldiers and civilian cannon fodder, but we have more here, The Yanjing region has a population of more than 10 million, and the Manchus alone have a population of 3 million. ”

Suo Etu said: "What? How can we not change the fate that we will be wiped out by others, they are only a corps of 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses to march, but there are other soldiers and horses that have not been used, the southern front, there are still a corps of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, which is sweeping the enemy in Southeast Asia, and there are now more than 50 garrison brigades, all we can do now is to delay the enemy's attack, if the emperor still wants to hold on to Yanjing, the Qing Dynasty will perish, and there will be some years of respite in the northeast. ”

Duolong ......, "Report ——, southeast, Huailai County found the enemy's corps headquarters troops, with a strength of about 8,000 to 12,000 people. ”

A strong man of the Qing army with thick braids, a shaved red child's head, a bare forehead in the middle, a bare top of his head, and thick braids made of hair from both sides shouted loudly in Manchu.

(End of chapter)