The death of seven or eight thousand people is not the death of seven or eight people, the thick blood mixed with the pungent gunpowder smoke permeated the battlefield, and the two new army town troops led by Ma Bao and Kong Youxing under the tuyere were already pale at this time, and their faces were extremely uncomfortable, but because they were surrounded by comrades-in-arms, brothers, and heavy numbers, they would not collapse and escape, but the impact on morale was undoubtedly the heaviest.

However, when the remaining more than 20,000 troops launched an attack next time, the war situation underwent some changes, and after an hour of continuous fighting, the enemy's charge was isolated with firepower, but a large amount of ammunition was also consumed, and the ammunition of many soldiers was close to the bottom line, so the firepower became sparse, maybe it was a long battle, maybe it was two days and one night of catching up physically and mentally exhausted, and many people had deformed their movements after concentrating on fighting for an hour, which extended the time to reload the bullet and fire.

Often after the first row of shots, the second row has not been loaded with bullets, or there are a few people who have not finished loading bullets, so the fire gap comes out, and the third row has to be replenished, but when the first row of bullets is fired again, the first row of bullets has not been loaded, the enemy is charging, the time is calculated in a wonderful way, even the fastest gunner can not complete the reloading, moving, raising the gun, aiming, shooting action in a few seconds, there is always a time limit, The formation of the three rows is not thick enough, at the beginning, because the smoothbore guns are all fully loaded with three bullets, so they can cope with one or two rounds, and the next three bullets become a burden, and the second row is finished after loading.

So a rare thing happened, there is often a time interval on the position of the Guards Brigade of the Chinese Army where there is less than ten seconds of gunfire, more than ten seconds, let an athlete run, that is, fifty meters are finished, even if he is not an athlete, then a person facing the test of life and death can run almost, so the enemy quickly surpassed the 100-meter line, although constantly knocked down, although the formation is dense, but many people still run to the 60-meter line over time.

Sixty meters, the archers with a little stronger arm strength can shoot arrows to the enemy's position, so the Chinese army inevitably had real casualties, many people were either hit by the stray bullets fired by the shotguns in the hands of the green battalion soldiers, or were shot by the bows and arrows of the Manchu soldiers in the ranks of the Lu army, the bows and arrows in the hands of the Manchu soldiers are heavy bows, and the arrows are all conical arrows with thorns, which can fly far away, and can also hit the target steadily, and hit the enemy hard, so the casualties of the Huaxia army have increased, and the formation is a little chaotic.

The gunfire became intermittent, and only occasionally a continuous salvo was organized to eliminate the enemy who rushed closer.

As the enemy approached, the enemy was outnumbered and the battle line was very long, so the Guards Brigade, which had only 5,000 troops and horses, had to be close together, was surrounded, and the enemy attacked from all sides.

Thirty meters, the artillery of the Huaxia Army opened fire, countless scattered bombs flew out, and the enemy fell one by one, but the enemy was already red-eyed at the moment, and he couldn't take care of dodging, constantly stepping on the corpses of his own people to charge.

The drums of the Huaxia army became dense, and the sound of the horns also sounded rapidly, and the three regiments quickly divided into three circular hollow formations, separated by two hundred meters, each resisting the enemy, in the middle of the formation were the wounded and war horses, and on the periphery of the formation were three-pounder guns and musketeers of the Guards Brigade, and the musketeers had already hung bayonets on their guns, ready to fight desperately with the enemy at any time, hand-to-hand combat.

With the formation of the formation, Zhang Qiang led the personal guards into the middle of the formation of the third regiment, and the trumpeters, drummers, trumpeters, and heralds all entered their respective phalanxes and fought separately.

The three formations cooperate with each other, the enemy floods into the middle of the three formations, and then is killed by the musketeers of the second row, the front row of the circular formation shoots freely, and the second row goes out at any time to fire a salvo, or to fill the vacancy of the defeated comrades, at this time even the military doctor picks up the extra muskets to attack the enemy, and the personal guards and cavalry rush from the rear to the front formation from time to time, and use short firebolts to give the enemy a few consecutive blows to make up for the shortcomings of the lack of firepower in each formation after the number of people is reduced.

There was a neighing of war horses, and the cavalry that was originally blocked in the rear and could not let go of the charge also rushed in, hitting dozens of soldiers in a row, losing a lot of cavalry, and opening a gap, Zhang Qiang quickly led the personal guards to pounce, and the short fire guns fired continuously, and the cavalry who rushed in was eliminated in melee hand-to-hand combat, and then made up for the gap, at this time the personal guards were already on the periphery, and the situation of the third regiment was much more dangerous than the first regiment and the second regiment with 17,800 troops left, although they stayed in the rear of these two regiments, But the enemy rushed through other directions, gaps, and spaces, and at least seven or eight thousand people surrounded the third regiment, attacking the third regiment one after another.

Because the battle flag of the Metropolitan Governor was erected here, the soldier did not want to capture the flag and seize the enemy's handsome flag, especially those cavalry, they were unscrupulous, and even their own people cared, and they continuously knocked over the Lu soldiers along the way, and some also brandished knives to cut down their own people, and rushed to the third regiment with a bloody road, and then crashed into the formation of the third regiment at once, several times in a row, even Zhang Qiang barely closed the formation after hanging the color, and killed the enemy who pounced on the enemy, and the soldiers on the periphery no longer had to shoot, They all fought with bayonets and stabbed many people in a row.

Like a magnet, Shuai Qi attracted countless enemies to the position of the third regiment, the third regiment was already mired in hand-to-hand combat, countless enemies poured in through the gap between the first and second regiments, only a small part of them attacked the first and second regiments, and most of the enemies came aiming at Shuai Qi.

This created many opportunities for the 2nd and 1st regiments, which quickly gathered their formation and approached the 3rd regiment fifty meters, and the enemy ran in front of them about ten meters, and they fired at these dense crowds, occasionally attacking some of the enemy who turned towards them with bayonets.

Ma Bao here, he watched his more than 30,000 cold weapons troops from the hesitation of being killed by the enemy, the blood flowed like a river, to the enemy's firepower getting weaker and weaker, his own soldiers easily forced the enemy to change the formation at the cost of three or four thousand people, and after retreating to form a formation, he was ecstatic, and ordered the remaining 20,000 troops to march slowly, preparing to pursue when the Huaxia army finally collapsed.

However, he also found that his people were getting fewer and fewer, at the beginning he was shot by three guards regiments of the guards brigade of the Chinese army, and then the remaining 10,000 or so troops rushed into the middle of the enemy's three regiments, and then were knocked to the ground by the other two regiments like targets, at first the Lu army could still maintain pressure on the three regiments, and later the two regiments of the guards regiment focused on attacking the attracted Lu soldiers like the two regiments, shooting those soldiers from both sides.

Later, he could no longer see anyone attacking the enemy from his own direction, and all of them either fled to both sides, away from the first and second regiments, or rushed to the middle of the two regiments, and pounced on them like moths to a fire in the face of countless bayonets, and finally the gunfire stopped, leaving only the sound of cold weapons fighting.

The Huaxia army ran out of bullets and could only fight hand-to-hand.

Ma Bao was very anxious, constantly urging the troops to advance, and soon approached the distance of five hundred meters, after reorganizing the soldiers and horses, he drew his sword, "Open the cannon." ”

"Cavalry Shock ——,"

The remaining cavalry of the Lu army rushed to the enemy in a hurry, and at this time, there were only two thousand troops fighting hand-to-hand with the Huaxia army, the cavalry charged, the artillery fired, and the remaining two thousand Lu troops saw that the falling shells actually blew up even them, and they immediately dispersed.

At this point, almost all the soldiers of the 30,000 Duolu Army died, and perhaps after the war, they could find those nervous and almost unspeakable routs within a radius of 100 miles, but at this moment on the battlefield were not only corpses and exhausted, but wounded, more than half of the soldiers of the Guards Brigade had been killed into a bloody man.

(End of chapter)