The smoke from the musket fire enveloped the entire vicinity of the mound, and only a faint figure could be seen. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, for Shi Huanzhi and his soldiers, they simply ignored the obstruction of smoke.

As Shi Huan shouted: "The first column squats down to load, and the second lists the guns diagonally down, prepare, put!" ”

A dense row of figures, 400 shots of shots aimed at the Xiangyong who were faintly staying there under the mound, and opened fire with a bang.

Soon, under the action of gunpowder, four hundred rounds of lead bullets were fired at high speed at the Xiangyong under the mound, only dozens of screams were heard in a row, although Shi Huanzhi did not see how many casualties the other party had, but from the sound of the screams, it was definitely indispensable.

Since the cooperation with foreign guns, several British officers who surrendered were sent by the Holy King to teach the soldiers of a regiment to use foreign guns. The main thing is not how to shoot, this is not a problem for the doubtful warriors from Orion. The main lesson is how to use foreign guns to hit more enemies and maximize their advantages.

Under the guidance of foreign instructors, Shi Huanzhi, who was naturally sensitive to war, soon realized the power of hundreds of foreign guns, gathered together to fire!

Just like it is now.

Even if the smoke of gunpowder has been so thick that the soldiers of the captive army can't see the enemy on the opposite side clearly, they are roughly in that group, and they always know.

The two columns of soldiers and soldiers, each with 400 people, were close together, and there were only two fist-sized gaps between them, and this space was only used for squatting.

According to the British instructor, if the two men were close enough, the musket bullets fired in a straight line would also be within this distance, so that the enemy troops under fire would be suppressed in full coverage. As long as the distance is close enough that the distance between two adjacent guns is less than the width of a person, it will be possible to do so, and no lead bullet fired will hit the enemy.

As a result, the captive army that adopted this battle formation arrangement tasted the sweetness for the first time.

A gust of mountain wind blew by, diluting the smoke of gunpowder, and both sides saw each other clearly.

After the second round of gunfire, I saw that nearly 200 people had fallen to the Xiangyong, wailing and rolling on the ground.

On the side of the captive army, only three very unlucky soldiers were shot in the head and face, and the rest only more than 20 people were slightly injured and hung up, and the entire queue was still neatly lined up in two columns, not chaotic at all. But on the side of the Xiangyong, Luo Zenan thought that the Xiangyong, who had always been well-trained, had exploded at this moment. Some hurriedly pulled the shotguns in their hands, and the more eager they were, the more they could not fill the gunpowder; Most of the other half were helping their hometown brothers who were lying on the ground and were wounded.

After a few breaths, the soldiers of the captive army who were squatting after the first round of shooting had already loaded their ammunition, and shouted coldly with Shi Huanzhi: "First column, raise your guns and step forward, prepare, put them!" ”

This time, more Hunan warriors were shot by the captive army, and more than 100 Hunan warriors were shot. The entire Xiangyong seemed to be frightened stupid, and only a dozen or so were left to shoot out the shotgun bullets in their hands that had not yet fired.

Luo Zenan reacted quickly, seeing so many soldiers being shot, and the opposing camp was almost unharmed, he knew that he couldn't go on like this. Although his face was pale, he was still a tyrannical Xiangxiang character, and he roared angrily and ordered: "The children of Xiangxiang, the Cantonese thieves are close at hand, don't be afraid of death, there are many of us, rush up and hack them to death!" ”

After speaking, he took the lead in pulling out the waist knife on his waist, and led the others to rush to the top of the mound, as long as he rushed through these dozens of steps, desperately killed one or two hundred brothers, and also killed all this group of Cantonese thieves, and it was best to seize all the firearms in their hands.

The other Xiangyong also did play the tyrannical character of the people of Xiangxiang in southern China, and when they were ruthless, half of them threw away the shotgun in their hands, took out their waist knives and rushed forward. And the other half, quickly reload the shotgun gunpowder in his hand, followed closely.

At this time, Xiang Yong in the south also entered 60 steps and began to shoot at the captive army. Li Xubin, who was born in Gongsheng, was extremely powerful, and was known for his strict military art and military discipline, he ordered Xiang Yong to rush close and release a shot, then directly threw away the bird gun in his hand, drew his knife and continued to charge.

In the same way, the five hundred soldiers of the captive army lined up in two columns, and when they saw Xiang Yong rushing nearly 60 steps, the deputy regiment commander also gave a loud order: Fire! Suddenly, two hundred and fifty rounds of lead bullets, with high-speed kinetic energy, hit the Xiangyongs. And then the opening of the second column!

Li Xubin was lucky, the two Xiangyong beside him were quickly shot and both fell to the ground, but he didn't, he still held a waist knife and continued to lead a group of Xiangyong to rush to the mound. There were only 50 paces, but at this time, the muskets in the hands of the Cantonese thieves were more powerful and more accurate. In the third round of buckshots, nearly 200 Xiangyong were shot, and although not all of them were seriously injured and killed, more than 100 people completely lost their ability to fight.

Finally, rushing within 50 steps, the Xiangyong in the south lit the rope of the shotgun in their hands in the roar of Li Xubin and also shot. Immediately, more than a dozen soldiers were injured.

However, the captives on the mound immediately retaliated.

"It's all aimed at Lao Tzu, fight to the death!"

The dense queue of the captives remained unchanged, and the foreign guns in their hands began to quickly reload ammunition, and then shot at the rushing Xiangyong, and then continued to reload.

When Li Xubin led the people to rush into 40 steps, he was horrified to find that charging was the biggest mistake! Because, there were originally only two columns and 500 people to beg for captives, but at some point, there was another column behind. It turned out to be the army facing the teacher Luo Zenan's side, could it be that the teacher and they were defeated so quickly?

In fact, Li Xubin guessed right! Luo Zenan and the 1,500 Xiangyong led by him have already failed in a short period of time!

After two rounds of gunfire, Luo Zenan saw that he had lost nearly 300 Xiangxiang disciples, his heart ached, and he was furious, and led the Xiangyong men to rush to the mound with waist knives in hand, wanting to take advantage of the large number of people and cover up the killing with his disciple Li Xubin and others.

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have expected this, and had been waiting for them on the mound for a long time. I saw that the dense two columns of thieves were close together, and the large group of brothers who rushed in front of them just rushed 40 steps away, and they were covered by a storm of gunfire, and after the dense gunfire like fried beans, almost all of the brothers in the front two rows were shot and fell, if it wasn't for Luo Zenan himself running slower, he was afraid that he would also lie down.

The children of Xiangxiang in the back went further, and before they could rush a few steps, behind the thieves who had just finished firing and were squatting, a row of thieves stood up, all holding muskets that were obviously not shotguns, and they opened fire again, and immediately, more than 100 people fell.

Seeing so many hometown children lost in front of this small mound, Luo Zenan's heart was like a knife, and his heart was painful! From 60 steps to almost 30 steps, the 1,500 soldiers he led lost more than 500 people!

Despite this, he still had to harden his heart and continue to urge the soldiers he personally trained to rush forward and kill. If it retreats like this, the 500 brave exercises that were lost in front of it will be lost in vain.

This is also Luo Zenan's typical character of not admitting defeat, which hurt him. He thought that even if he converted another 500 people, he would have to rush into these 30 steps, and when the time came, he would fight from both sides in a short fight, and with the training of the Xiangyong people in the past few months, he would kill the thieves to repay the hatred now.

Unexpectedly, the more you go to the back, the more difficult it is to rush closer. Under the command of the thief chieftain, the thieves became three columns, lined up, and the cycle of shooting, retreating, reloading, and firing again made the gunfire never stop.

Xiang Yong's sons rushed to a maximum of 20 paces before being beaten into a sieve by the thieves' firearms and fell to the ground and died. Luo Zenan hesitated slightly, and then lost more than 200 Xiangxiang children, looking at the remaining less than 800 Xiangyong, Luo Zenan finally couldn't bear the loss, and shouted in pain and madness: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

Li Xubin also hurriedly ordered Xiangyong to retreat, but at this moment, his face suddenly changed greatly, it turned out that not far from the south, a large group of soldiers appeared, but they were all wrapped in red turbans, what is it if it is not a Cantonese thief?

A cold sweat broke out on Li Xubin's back! I originally wanted to flank the thieves, but I was caught by the thieves!

He hurriedly led the remaining 700 people and fled to the thorny bushes on the side. But how could Shi Huanzhi on the mound let him go?

Let the group of more than 700 people in the north run away, Shi Huanzhi is already very unhappy, the south side was attacked from front to back, how can he still let him escape?

This time, Shi Huanzhi completely felt the charm of the foreigners' foreign gun tactics of "lining up to shoot" in this era, which the Holy King said.

The captives under his command were tightly lined up in a dense formation with foreign guns, and his subordinates were originally from Orion, with a sense of proficiency in muskets, and they were very skilled in loading gunpowder, and they turned Xiang Yong, who rushed over with great momentum, into a moving target that rushed over in line and was shot!

Seeing the other party's heavy casualties, Shi Huanzhi was happy! At the same time, he was also glad that he listened to the words of his eldest brother Shi Huanzhang before he died, and led Ning Yuan to join the Holy Army, becoming the current party that slaughtered the enemy army, instead of the side that was shot in line!

Li Xubin failed to escape in the end, and after he and his more than 700 people fled into the bushes that were inconvenient to walk, they were quickly surrounded by the oncoming Chen Yucheng's army.

The extremely brave Xiang Yong, under the leadership of Li Xubin, wanted to rush out from the side of the mound, but under the concentrated fire of no longer 500 foreign guns, but a whole regiment of 1,300 foreign guns, Li Xubin and Xiang Yong couldn't even rush closer to 40 steps, and they were ordered by the ruthless Shi Huanzhi to order a regiment of soldiers to continue to fire and slaughter all of them!

Soon, the five battalions of Xiangyong were defeated, except for Luo Zenan who led more than one battalion of troops to escape, the news that the remaining four battalions of Xiangyong were all annihilated was quickly reported by the fleeing Xiangyong to Zeng Guofan, who was still outside Hengyang City.

Zeng Guofan, who was immediately shocked, and then wept bitterly, hurriedly withdrew the camp, led the seven battalions of Xiangyong overnight, made a detour through Hengshan, and fled to Xiangxiang.

The defenders in Hengyang City, when they heard that Zeng Guofan, the minister of regimental training in the two provinces, had led his troops to flee, and they no longer had the heart to defend the city, so they scattered and fled.

On the third day, Chen Yucheng and Shi Huanzhi and others led the capture army of the Third Division of the First Division to return to the north of Hengyang City, and together with Liang Litai in the southeast of Hengyang City, they surrounded Hengyang City.

And a cadre of officials in the city and the city guards of the flood guard, instigated by a group of heaven and earth congregations in the city, opened the city gate to welcome the captive army into the city!

Hengyang, the capital city of Hengzhou, was captured by the captives so easily. (To be continued.) )