The 30,000-strong Qing army was divided into 10,000 against 10,000 and 10,000 against 20,000, so that the numerical advantage of the Qing army was reduced by one level, and sometimes the numerical advantage was also a huge advantage, and quantitative changes often led to qualitative changes.

The two sides set up a formation, and the Qing army was embarrassed to find that its formation was not as neat as the other party's group of bandits, which was not only embarrassing, but the excellent army in ancient times was strict discipline, and the other party was able to discharge such a neat formation.

Li Qingyuan looked at the enemy army and felt a little apprehensive, the number of the two sides was not much different, but in fact, the so-called veteran training on Li Qingyuan's side was only half a year, and more than half of the soldiers had not been able to get their guns for a month.

Therefore, Li Qingyuan's side can fight a tough battle with about 3,000 people in the front, although the 3,000 people in the back have also been trained for a long time, but Li Qingyuan has no score in his heart, as for the last ten battalions, Li Qingyuan originally wanted to use the way of changing guns to maintain continuous firepower.

But I tried it once on the road, and this kind of gun change also requires training, and let people who are new to this formation do it, and the result is not as fast as loading their own ammunition in addition to chaos.

So in the last 3,000 people, the effect became a bluff, and Li Qingyuan hoped that they could train their courage through this battle, and they would not pee their pants in the future.

The two sides continued to approach, and the Qing army of 10,000 people was divided into three phalanxes, a very traditional formation, with 3,000 on the left and right flanks, and 4,000 on the Chinese army. Li Qingyuan dealt with 3,000 on the left and right, and 3,000 on the Chinese army, so that each side was evenly distributed with new soldiers and veterans.

The two sides set up a position, and the Qing army pressed up together on the three roads, but the middle route army obviously had to move forward a little bit, and it also appeared more elite, and the meaning of the Qing army was obvious, and the three armies were finished in a zigzag to break through, and then defeat Li Qingyuan's side in one fell swoop.

Seeing this formation, Li Qingyuan immediately ordered both sides to stay still, and slowly retreated in the middle, the Qing army wanted to break through Li Qingyuan, and Li Qingyuan wanted to net the Qing army, which depends on whether the spear of the Qing army is sharp or his Li Qingyuan's net is firm.

Originally, the two sides were only seven or eight hundred meters apart, and Li Qingyuan only changed the formation slightly, and when the other party reached four hundred steps, Li Qingyuan immediately ordered the troops to stop the whole team, and the formation was sorted out, and the other party reached two hundred steps.

The Qing army charged with shields in hand, and the 10,000-strong rush caused huge psychological pressure on Li Qingyuan's side, Li Qingyuan looked at the order and said: "One hundred and fifty steps to start shooting!" ”

As soon as the order flag waved, each battalion immediately raised its guns to aim, and the Qing army charged quickly, seeing that the other side had no spears or shields, and the rows of musketeers stood still like that, and they breathed a sigh of relief.

In the eyes of the Qing army, this kind of troops, which are all muskets, as long as they rush in, they will not be ravaged as much as they want, and it is absolutely foolish to put this kind of formation.

After all the preparations were made here, the Qing army had rushed to one hundred and sixty steps, and a few breaths of ten meters had crossed, and Li Qingyuan's red order flag waved on his side, and the battalions released their guns one after another.

The Qing army had not yet arrived and laughed at the other side for firing their guns at such a distance, and a large number of people were hit, especially more than 100 people fell in one attack in the middle lane.

The 3,000 veterans on Li Qingyuan's side took turns shooting, and there were only 1,000 guns at a time, but every time they fired, 300 people were killed.

Don't underestimate these three hundred, Li Qingyuan's side can shoot quickly for five to six rounds in one minute, and he can knock down more than 1,500 people in one minute, if calculated at this speed, this Qing army is not enough for Li Qingyuan to fight in ten minutes.

Sure enough, in less than three minutes, the Qing army's side was a little unbearable, and twenty percent of the casualties were enough to collapse an elite team. The Qing army retreated on a large scale, and Li Qingyuan scratched his head a little here, is this a bit too fierce?

Now there are more than 6,000 Qing troops running back, so his plan to consume the Qing army troops will be in vain.

No wonder the British army in the Opium War was able to move unimpeded from south to north, it turned out that the Qing army was really so weak!

Looking at the Qing army that fled back to the camp, Li Qingyuan scratched his head: "The only way to play like this is to attack the opponent's camp, and his own 10,000 troops will attack the opponent's 30,000 troops......"

There is no way, the Qing army can be consumed as a shrinking turtle, but Li Qingyuan can't afford to wait, people are waiting for reinforcements there, what can Li Qingyuan wait for? Can only be the enemy.

The troops marched in a queue until they reached 300 meters outside the Qing army's camp, and Li Qingyuan pushed out the prepared tiger squat cannon.

Although this kind of cannon is a bit insufficient to deal with the city wall, but to hit this kind of wooden wall, is it not a hole in one cannon?

Li Qingyuan carefully watched the Qing army not rush out from other places, and on the other hand, he wanted to study how to break through the Qing army's camp as soon as possible.

After ten rounds of shelling, the cannon has to stop firing, the barrel is red, there is no way, the iron used is not good, the heat dissipation is not good, once it is red, there is a danger of exploding at any time.

The wall of the Qing army's camp has been torn open by Li Qingyuan, and the Qing army inside is holding a shield to guard the wall.

This time, the Qing army attacked from the front and the left and right sides together, so Li Qingyuan Li Qingyuan also divided the troops into three ways to defend, left and right and front, and temporarily changed the formation for fear of messing up the formation, so Li Qingyuan let the left and right sides deal with both sides, and the middle one dealt with the front of the Qing army.

The Qing army probably planned to disperse its forces to give full play to its numerical advantage, so that Li Qingyuan's side could take care of one and lose the other, as long as there was a problem with the formation, the Qing army found a breakthrough, and this musket array would be broken.

The distance between the two sides was already very close, and Li Qingyuan's side only came and simply changed the formation, but the battalion behind it was still a mess, but fortunately, the old troops were not in chaos.

The Qing army saw that Li Qingyuan's formation was in chaos, and immediately rushed more energetically, Li Qingyuan was also very worried, urging all battalions to hurry up and form a team, while encouraging the veterans in front of them, so that they had the confidence to persevere.

The Qing army reached one hundred and fifty steps in an instant, and the battalions immediately fired freely, this time the Qing army seemed to have arranged a team to supervise the battle or promised some reward, even if the people around them fell, no one looked back, only knew the screaming rush.

The musket fire continued, and the Qing army gradually rushed to within eighty paces of the position, and at this distance, the bird guns could cause casualties, and casualties began to appear on Li Qingyuan's side.

The battle continued, the Qing army was getting closer and closer, the forward was approaching fifty paces with Jing Neng , and the smoke of musket fire was filled, covering the soldiers' sight, and everyone could only rely on feeling to shoot.

The casualties caused by the Qing army to Li Qingyuan's side are also getting bigger and bigger, Li Qingyuan saw that some soldiers began to waver, and began to look left and right, Li Qingyuan could only helplessly order a battalion commander to suppress.

Finally, the Qing army entered thirty meters, and at this time, after taking a step forward and holding on for less than two minutes, the Qing army began to retreat.