On the dirt slope, Zhang Ying, who was leaning on the carriage, half-squinted, looking at the Qing cavalry getting closer and closer, the butt of the wooden-handled gun in his hand was soaked with sweat, but there was no trembling at all. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhang Ying is a native of Maping County, Liuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi, when he joined Li Kaifang to lead the troops to attack Liuzhou City, the Qing soldiers in Liuzhou fled, Zhang Ying and another local strong man He Wan, the two led more than 1,000 people to open the gate of Liuzhou Mansion and join the Holy Army. Zhang Ying performed well, and was later selected to enter the Whampoa Military Academy to study as an infantry scientist, and later was transferred to the Ninth Division, and was promoted to regiment commander all the way.

The sound of the horses' hooves of the Qing soldiers became louder and louder like thunder, and they kept stepping on the open field, rolling up a cloud of dust like a giant dragon and swooping them over.

Although there are only more than 4,000 horses, it is not clear how many are counted, and the surging waves of 10,000 horses galloping like rainbows, the killing intent is clear, and it is a hot autumn tiger, which makes the soldiers of the captive army sweat all over, breathe rapidly, and even the palms of the guns begin to sweat constantly.

Zhang Ying looked at the side and roared angrily: "All of them!" Concentrate and fight when you get closer! ”

The pro-soldiers around him also repeated, and in the monstrous sound of horses' hooves, it was particularly harsh, which made the soldiers of the captive army cheer up!

The Qing army forward is already closer. Four thousand cavalry, rolling up the smoke and dust in the sky, the sound of the horse's hooves hitting the earth, a strong impact on the capture of the army soldiers, fortunately these soldiers are trained by the Holy King himself, and after the transfer to the battle of Chixi and Zhejiang, has been on the battlefield for a long time, although the momentum of the horse's hooves is terrifying, but the soldiers of the capture army are also fearless.

However, despite this, the power of thousands of cavalry made the throats of the soldiers of the captive army who faced the cavalry dry and bitter.

I guess I'm eighty paces away. Zhang Ying roared and ordered: "The first battalion is released, the second battalion is prepared, and the third battalion is released!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the three regimental heralds waved down the pendulum with a red flag, a yellow flag raised high, and a blue flag waved down the pendulum vigorously, representing the first battalion to shoot, the second battalion to prepare, and the third battalion to continue shooting.

The order of the regiment commander Zhang Ying was immediately received by the heralds of each battalion and issued it.

Immediately, the four hundred soldiers of the first battalion of the first platoon behind the carriage listened to the commander's order, subconsciously aimed forward, and instinctively pulled the trigger. I don't know how many times I have practiced the shooting training of this kind of foreign gun, and I don't know how many times I have fired the gun in the face of the soldiers killed by the Qing Demon, but this time it is just a large-scale cavalry.

Listening to the bang-bang, the more than 100 cavalry soldiers who rushed to the front either fell off their horses with lead bullets in their bodies, or they were overturned and fell off their horses by the severe pain of the bullets, and they fell off their horses one after another, and then they were trampled by the horse's hooves that rushed at high speed, and their hands and feet were broken and even turned into a puddle of meatloaf.

Zhang Ying roared and gave a second order: "The second battalion is released, the third battalion is prepared, and the first battalion is released!" ”

Subsequently, the first battalion had already taken the initiative to squat down and reload the ammunition with good training, while the second battalion put the musket in its hand on the wooden board of the carriage, followed the first battalion just now, mechanically pulled the trigger, and after releasing the bullets in the gun, it quickly retreated and squatted, gave up its position, and loaded the ammunition.

Hundreds of gunshots rang out again, and the cavalry at the front fell off their horses one after another, and even the war horses that rushed after the river tripped and fell to the ground, raising heavy dust, and the tragic neighing of the war horses continued to sound.

After two rounds of intensive gunfire, nearly 300 Qing soldiers and more than 200 war horses fell, and tripped over more than 200 cavalrymen who had not had time to stop their horses, and before they could rush within 50 paces, the Qing soldiers lost more than 500 people.

At this time, the other two infantry regiments next to them also discovered the situation here, drove the carriage, and quickly rushed in the direction of the battle.

Two more rounds of gunfire rang out, and once again nearly 400 Qing soldiers fell from their horses. Of the 4,000 Qing cavalry, only 3,000 remained. At the same time, the Qing cavalry also broke into the carriage that was only thirty or forty paces away from the front.

On the left flank of the Qing army, Lan Li, the general soldier of Tianjin Town, who was charging at high speed, looked at the battlefield filled with gunpowder in front of him in amazement. Is this the power of the musket on which the Cantonese thieves rely on their invincibility?

It's really strong! Not only is it long-range, powerful, but also fast! At such a distance, the Cantonese thieves shot more than one round, and Lan Li estimated that he would have to brave a round of bullets to get into the Cantonese thieves.

Sure enough, the next scene surprised Lan Li even more!

The cavalry of the Daimyo Town, the front wing of the Qing army, had already died six or seven hundred people. Shi Rongchun, the chief soldier of Daimyo Town, was really scared! This Cantonese thief is simply a demon from hell, the envoy of the hook, and the cavalry that he managed to make up has lost most of it. He made a move that the left and right wings and the Zhili Admiral of the Chinese army did not think of: he turned the direction of the horse's head and rushed to the left flank, wanting the Chinese army and the Qing army on the left and right flanks to resist the thieves.

Due to the speed being too fast, Lan Li and dozens of his own soldiers in front rushed past the left flank forward and turned to the side, while the forward cavalry behind him was unavoidable with the cavalry of the left flank forward, and collided violently, and suddenly the people turned on their backs. Dozens of cavalrymen and horses fell to the ground, and then tripped the cavalry on the left flank, which was charging fiercely behind.

In this way, the entire left wing was like half of the Arhats, and more than 200 horsemen in a row tripped and fell off their horses in a heap, wailing one after another.

Lan Li's luck is not bad! He was in the rear of the left flank, and he was a good horseman, and seeing that something was wrong in front of him, he immediately ordered the cavalry of Tianjin Town to slow down and bypass the cavalry that had stumbled in front.

Of course, he actually did it on purpose, who is not selfish? The thieves' firearms were so fierce that it was not clear who rushed first or who was shot into a sieve. They are all their own subordinates, who doesn't want to preserve their own power?

As the charge of the cavalry on the left flank slowed down, Leshan, the chief soldier of Hebei Town on the right flank, also gave an order very skillfully, delayed it slightly, and rushed around the carriage that was stopped in front of him.

As a result, only the commander of the Chinese army in the middle, Zhili Admiral Bao Heng, led more than 1,500 cavalry of this standard to rush to the carriage in front of the captive army.

The standard cavalry he led had already rushed up, and the speed was also increasing, so even if he saw the situation of the forward cavalry and the left flank, he couldn't care so much about it, and then kill this group of thieves first.

Naturally, another violent burst of gunfire rang out, and the cavalry of this target also turned on their backs and suffered heavy losses. However, after losing nearly 300 cavalry, the Qing army finally rushed close to only 20 paces.

Bao Heng looked at the thief in front of him, and his face began to be hideous!

The thief who killed the banner man, and just shot so many of his subordinates, this time, he finally rushed closer! Hack and kill yourself and your men!

Bao Heng ordered the short guns in the cavalry of the Qing army to take out the short guns and shouted: "Shoot!" ”

I saw that the short guns of the Qing cavalry kept firing and shot at the captives behind the carriage. Although the Qing army did not have many short guns, it also killed and wounded twenty or thirty soldiers of the captured army, and three horses were shot, kneeling on the ground and neighing miserably, tearing the carriage formation in front of them to defend and block the road opening.

The Qing army stuffed the short gun into the belt hanging diagonally behind his back, and began to wield the card knife, ready to slash and kill. At this moment, what stunned Bao Heng was that more than ten steps in front of the carriage, the war horses that rushed in fell down one after another.

Bao Heng immediately realized that the thieves must have sprinkled the cart with thistles specially designed to deal with horses' hooves! No wonder the Cantonese thieves with more than 1,000 foot soldiers are so calm and safe!

Damn thieves! Vicious and cunning!

Bao Heng's face turned pale! How many of your men have been lost? Even if you kill all these thieves, it won't help! If you lose so many manpower and lose the Dagukou Fort, you will definitely have to take off the red top, and you may even be demoted to the army. At this moment, Baoheng actually remembered these thoughts.

Seeing that the two thieves on both sides were slowly approaching, Bao Heng shouted: "The whole army will attack and kill all the Guangdong thieves!" "He was going to order the left and right flanks to join his own army before the thieves came over, and slaughtered the thieves who were already approaching in one fell swoop.

Lan Li, the chief soldier of Tianjin Town, and Leshan, the chief soldier of Hebei Town, saw that the Chinese army had cleared the road, and the firepower was attracted by the Chinese army, and they were overjoyed, and together they ordered to kill the captive army from both sides.

At this moment, the two chief soldiers on the left and right wings, Lan Li and Le Shan, were stunned:

The thieves in the front row next to the carriage had been changed to holding shields and spears, and in the middle of the two thieves, sixty or seventy people, more than twenty people, in groups of three, holding strange black and swarthy bamboo tube-shaped things, set up on the carriage, aimed outside, and the other thirty or forty people in the back, surrounded an iron bucket, and trampled with their hands and feet, but it turned out to be a water dragon.