After everyone had dinner on the Jinghai-class gunboat that night, Yang Xuan left Wu Yanghu, the chief soldier of the navy Chen Huaixi, the general soldier of the 3rd town Guo Chonglie, the general soldier of the 6th town Liu Weiming, the general soldier of the 10th town Feng Youqing, and the general soldier of the 13th town Liu Wenxiu one by one.

Wu Yanghu, Liu Wenxiu, Feng Youqing and others left the Wumu gunboat, and after sailing back to Jiujiang City after a day and a night, they immediately sent a group of soldiers and horses to the nearby Lushan Mountains to cut down trees and gather craftsmen to rush to make ships transporting soldiers.

Yang Xuan led the army of land and water down the river, and arrived in Jiujiang City in late May of this year and rested for two days, at the same time, Feng Youqing's 10th town stationed in Jiujiang also left Jiujiang and rushed straight to Meishazhou, where Zhang Dachief, the governor of the southern part of the Manqing River, was stationed.

The distance from this Meishazhou to Jiujiang is only more than 50 miles, and when they arrived at Meishazhou at noon the next day, the loyal and righteous army was not in a hurry to attack, but stopped 5 miles away from the Zhaimen, set up camp, and made a posture of long-term confrontation.

Unlike other places, this Meisha Prefecture is only a barrier at the mouth of Dongting Lake, shielding the naval positions on the opposite bank and the county seat of Hukou.

Compared with Hukou County, this Meisha Prefecture does not have too many dangers, it is easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the defense is already very difficult. If you let the opponent stand firm, this will definitely not be conducive to long-term defense.

Thinking of the repeated exhortations of Ma Guozhu, the governor of Liangjiang, the key to this battle is to firmly hold back the loyal and righteous army, consume its strength, and then surround the Qing army from all sides, so that the battle can be won.

Zhang Dachief, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, decided to take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold to kill the opponent by surprise first, and then defend the village.

Seeing that Zhang Guoxun, the deputy general of the Qing army, led 3,000 men and horses to attack the camp, the loyal and righteous army did not panic, but only sent a battalion of soldiers and horses to block the front.

Seeing that the other party only sent such a small number of people, Zhang Guoxun felt particularly annoyed, and waved the big knife in his hand again and again to command everyone to kill him.

Everyone shouted loudly, far away to release arrows to deter the other party, like a mountain and a sea of momentum towards this battalion of loyal and righteous soldiers, far away, only to see the front of the shouting earth-shattering, arrows like rain, the flames after the fire gun fire continued to rise, such as the overwhelming momentum of the mountains and the sea, like these hundreds of loyal and righteous troops pounced, there is a big bite to swallow the other party's posture.

Zhang Guoxun was the first to think that he had a plan, and he was already familiar with the battlefield after many years of climbing and rolling, and his past experience told him that as long as the momentum was bigger, not to mention the hundreds of people in front of him, even more people could be frightened by himself.

Zhang Guoxun took the lead, but he felt more and more that there was something wrong in front of him, the other party seemed to be like a piece of wood, and the formation was not chaotic under his own momentum, and there were no deserters, which was really incredible.

But another thought keeps comforting me, although the loyal and righteous army has become famous in recent years, after all, it started from the township soldiers, how can it be compared with the green battalion soldiers?

The opponent may have very few shotguns, and on the road of the Qing army's assault, except for a few muskets to counterattack, there was no movement in the army.

Everyone comforted themselves, and some generals shouted in front of the battle to boost their morale, and everyone wanted to rush forward with all their might, kill the enemy and capture prisoners, so that they could be promoted and make a fortune.

Stand at the front of the queue, let the projectiles and arrows fly by, and stand at the front of the queue without moving.

Since ancient times, there will be a soldier brave, a nest of bears, a soldier bear, there is no soldier who is not afraid of death on the battlefield, only a general who is not afraid of death, if the opponent will lead the bear before the attack, then the soldiers below will inevitably collapse at the touch of a touch.

The chief Feng De stood at the front, and the four brigades behind him, three in front and one in the rear, were all lined up in three columns to form four phalanxes, and everyone was ready to meet the enemy forces that were pouring in like a tide.

As the instructor said, this bird gun is not accurate, this bow and arrow has no crosshairs than the bird gun, and if it is fired indiscriminately from a distance of 100 meters, if it is hit, it will really be bad luck for ten lifetimes.

Feng De stood in front and carefully observed the enemy situation, while the captain, squadron leader, and squad leader behind him supervised and restrained the military to prevent everyone from firing indiscriminately in advance.

When studying in Zhongyi Hall, everyone learned from studying Qi Jiguang's "Record of Military Training" that the famous general Qi Jiguang had repeatedly restrained his generals to avoid long-distance shooting.

In the course of training, if it is found that the military shoots from a long distance, the light one will be reprimanded, the heavy one will be hit with the board, and even beheaded.

However, neither the world-famous Qi family army nor other departments of the Ming army have solved the phenomenon of long-distance military shooting.

This is also the reason why the Qing army was able to defeat the Ming army many times and achieve battlefield victories.

But Feng De is now full of confidence, thinking that now the loyal and righteous army has solved the phenomenon of military and military waves, and it is impossible for the loyal and righteous army to be unresponsive when they see the Qing army rushing from the top of the dark clouds.

In front of the position, the four No. 3 Franc machine guns had already been set up, and when the opponent rushed to a hundred steps away, Feng De pulled out his command knife and waved his hand, and the soldiers quickly lit the fuse, the fire ignited, and the lead ball weighing about half a catty burst out of the barrel and fell into the enemy formation, and then rolled back and forth in the formation, and the person who was hit was either killed or injured, causing a panic in the opponent's formation.

Seeing that the opponent's offensive was slightly destroyed, a rare smile appeared on the corner of Feng De's mouth.

In cold weapon combat, the most important thing is to maintain a stable formation, so that when the two armies collide, they will burst out with the strongest will to fight.

After the sudden attack by the Franco's machine gun, although the formation of the Qing army was chaotic, most of them still charged forward desperately, in everyone's impression that the loyal army on the opposite side was only from the local militia, if it was really close to hand-to-hand combat, how could it be the opponent of the green battalion generals?

Seeing that the Qing army was desperately coming to the front, the Franc machine gun gunners took out the guns one after another, loaded the iron balls that had already been loaded, and then fired back to disrupt the opponent's formation.

However, the Qing soldiers were numerous, although the formation was slightly destroyed, but most of these green battalion soldiers and horses were outlaws, although there were thousands of difficulties and dangers ahead, they still rushed up desperately to get promoted and make a fortune.

Feng De clenched the command knife with both hands, and the captain and squadron leader behind him shouted loudly to restrain his troops and avoid long-distance wave shooting, which not only did not shoot accurately, but also affected the shooting accuracy of multiple shots.

In order to avoid a wave of fire, these soldiers all carried guns on their shoulders, kicked one by one, clenched their own bird guns with both hands, and kept a close eye on the tartars who rushed to kill.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and sixty paces away, Feng De felt that he could no longer wait, brandished the command knife in his hand, and gave the order to attack in a loud voice.

The captain behind him brandished his command knife and issued various combat orders loudly, and the soldiers behind him also loudly agreed, everyone quickly picked up the two guns from their shoulders, took aim, and then released their guns at the Qing army rushing in front.

The distance between the two sides was too close, and the guns were suddenly released, the gunfire was intensive, the Qing army in front was completely disrupted, and seeing the painful fall of their companions around them, some people looked in horror at the muzzles of the smoking guns in front of them and hesitated, while other outlaws rushed up desperately, in vain trying to use the opportunity to reload lead bullets to kill in hand-to-hand combat in front of the battle.

But these outlaws immediately paid the bloody price for their recklessness, and in the face of the swarming Qing army, the loyal and righteous army adopted the tactic of stacking formations, that is, the front row stood at the front and fired their guns, and the soldiers in the back two rows helped to reload the ammunition, so as to ensure the continuity of firepower.

In addition, unlike the Bird Guns of the past, the Loyal Volunteers of this battalion were the most elite battalion in the 10th Town, and the entire battalion used flintlock guns (flintlock guns) and primitive paper bullets.

After several years of exploration, the Loyal and Righteous Army has now begun to use paper bullets, which is different from the past when gunpowder was packed in different bamboo pipes (the method of training soldiers), and now gunpowder and lead bullets are wrapped together with oiled paper, and when used, you only need to bite through the oiled paper, pour gunpowder, lead bullet and oiled paper into the barrel, and then tamp it, and then pour the ignition powder to fire.

Of course, today's paper bullets are also more cumbersome, but the speed has been doubled compared to the past, which can fully guarantee the consistency of shooting.

The outlaws of the Qing army who wanted to take advantage of the gap soon became the souls of the guns, and seeing the brave people slowly falling on the way to the charge, the soldiers in front of the Qing army were terrified, some felt their legs tremble, and some stopped and prepared to flee.

However, the soldiers in the back did not know the outcome of the battle in front of them, and everyone rushed like a tide with their past combat experience, in a vain attempt to disperse the loyal and righteous troops in front of them in order to win victory on the battlefield.

The two sides were getting closer and closer, and twenty paces away, Feng De gave a hoarse order, and suddenly several people rushed out from the various brigades of the Loyal and Righteous Army, and saw a person holding a tiger squatting cannon in the distance, and the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the densest place of the green battalion, and the fire burst out.

Unlike the Franc cannon firing solid bullets just now, the Tiger Squat cannon fires scattered shells at close range, covering an area of several meters, and although the lead is very small, it is difficult to penetrate the armor and padded jacket.

But now it is summer, except for a few elite soldiers wearing armor, many people are wearing single clothes, and they are hit by lead, although they will not die or die of serious injuries for a while, but they are also injured on the battlefield, and their combat strength is greatly reduced.

At the same time that the tiger squat cannon suddenly fired scattered shells, the gunners of the Franc machine in the front line also changed the scattered shells, so that the ghosts in front of the position cried wolf and howled.

But this is not over, at the same time as the scattered bomb attack, the various brigades rushed out one by one grenadiers, they held the flame in one hand, took out the earth-shaking thunder from the other hand, lit it and threw it into the dense place of the Qing army.

These grenadiers were all chosen by a thousand people, not only throwing far but also accurately, and suddenly threw one after another earth-shattering thunderbolts, and the front was full of fires and explosions.

If it is said that at the beginning, the Francophone cannon was fired, and the musketeers were fired, although the momentum was very large, but the Qing army behind could not see the results of the battle in front, and there was no fear in their hearts, and everyone still charged forward desperately.

Now that they suddenly saw the flames and heard the explosions, even the outlaws who had just entered the battlefield felt that the situation ahead was not right, and many people secretly stopped, not charging forward as desperately as they did at the beginning.

The loyal army in front strengthened this impression, and everyone quickly replaced the scattered bombs, and then launched a counter-charge under the leadership of the group leader and squadron leader.

Ten meters away, the two sides suddenly fired a scatter bomb, and then stabbed them with guns.

The Qing army was in a mess for a while, and everyone no longer ignored the command of the generals, turned their heads and fled behind, so that the 3,000 Qing troops were killed and retreated more than 500 meters.

Zhang Guoxun was full of congestion, like a failed gambler, he couldn't accept the fate of defeat at all, and led the pro-army to guard the back of the array, desperately driving away the fleeing green battalion soldiers to return to fight.

In order to boost morale, Zhang Guoxun cut off the heads of four deserters, so that everyone could stabilize the formation a little, even so, but the morale of the whole army was low and fell into a slump.

And at this moment, someone let out a frightened wail, and everyone followed the wailing sound, and saw two brigades of loyal soldiers on the left and right in the distance.

Zhang Guoxun felt that the general trend had gone, and the soldiers of the green battalion had no intention of fighting, so they fled one after another, but the road was narrow, everyone was blocked together, and they were constantly surrounded.

Zhang Guoxun fled back to the camp and watched his soldiers hang their heads one by one, their clothes were ragged, and the camp was full of wounded soldiers.

Now Zhang Guoxun is remorseful, stealing chickens and rice, the encounter just now, although it was less than an hour, but the 3,000 green battalion soldiers and horses lost 1,000, and now the consideration is how to save their lives.