Chapter Ninety-Three: An Unexpected Tie

After the first round, Fan Wei didn't think of the gunfire until more than 20 breaths, at this time the fastest Qing army had rushed to within 50 steps, and after the second round, the small explosive bag in the Fan Wei formation flew out and threw it more than 20 meters in front of the position.

This was also provided to him by Li Qingyuan, and if you want to have a killing effect, you have to do a lot of it, so being able to throw twenty meters is specially practiced.

And this kind of grenade can only be thrown when it is lit with fire, Li Qingyuan thinks that this thing can be used when defending the city, otherwise it will only be a waste of physical strength if you carry it.

But Li Qingyuan has never encountered this situation of Fan Wei, one of them has a lot of idlers, and the other has a lot of others, so he can find a little bit of strength!

So this round of explosions did not kill many people on the Qing army's side, but the horse was frightened, and the short-term chaos of the Qing army gave Fan Wei another chance to shoot another round.

In addition, the frightened horses scurrying around affected the cavalry's attack speed, and the impact was reduced when the speed decreased.

However, even if the speed was reduced, the Qing army still easily broke through the first line of Fanwei, and the first line was indeed the strongest force of Fanwei, and the troops of twenty battalions were in the first row.

The Qing army also paid a certain price, and the cavalry lost a tenth of its strength, almost five hundred men.

The Qing troops, who had broken through the enemy camp, began to gouge through, intending to rush out from the other side.

Fan Wei's Chinese army has 40,000 people, gathered together with a battalion and a battalion of hedgehogs, at this time the broken battalion has collapsed, but those battalions that have not been attacked can barely maintain, Fan Wei's military formation has six layers, the Qing army does not stop at all, and quickly passes through the gap between the battalions and battalions.

The Qing army that followed behind rushed in through the gap torn by the cavalry, and Fan Wei's formation gradually collapsed, and after the cavalry chiseled through, he saw that the other party began to collapse, so he simply aimed at the place where Fan Wei was and charged this time.

Fan Wei was frightened half to death by these wolf-like officers and soldiers, but fortunately he was not completely stupid, while ordering the people around him to block, while urging both sides to speed up the siege.

Fan Wei didn't understand military affairs, and Li Qingyuan only gave him the battalion-level grouping method, so he would only do so much, piling up battalion after battalion.

In this way, the defense of the first line has become weaker, but the level of defense has indeed increased, and the first round of the Qing army's charge quickly penetrated Fanwei's formation by relying on horsepower and their own physical strength, but they penetrated tightly only a few battalions, although the other battalions were also a little rioty, but they could still control it.

In the second round of charge, the horses of the Qing army were a little tired, because the horses did not rest well for more than a thousand miles from Mongolia to this side, and the current Mengbaqi was not the one that was back then, so the speed of the Qing army was reduced.

In order not to take advantage of the traitors, Meng Baqi began to besiege the city in a circle formation, slowly recovering his horsepower, and also waiting for reinforcements from the infantry.

At this time, the infantry of the Qing army had long been disconnected from the cavalry, and according to the original plan, they would break through the enemy formation in one fell swoop, and these bandits should have collapsed.

But Fan Wei miraculously resisted, maybe it was the absolute majority of the number of people who gave everyone confidence, maybe it was the heavenly thunder that Fan Wei had recently flickered and the heavenly soldiers and generals who came down to give everyone expectations, maybe it was Li Qingyuan who taught them a lesson last time, and their generals were no longer so afraid of the Qing army.

In short, no matter what, Fan Wei did not collapse, the Qing army was not killed and scattered, and the two sides fell into a scorching battle.

The Qing army had muskets, and Fan Wei also had them, although the shooting skills and accuracy were not high, but everyone didn't need to have high shooting skills at such a close distance.

The Qing army was not stupid, seeing that the war was not going well, the cavalry tried to storm the town of Fanwei's army, but the town of Fanwei was fortified and a wooden fence was set up to prevent the cavalry from attacking, so the cost of breaking through was too great.

Unable to break through the main town of the Chinese army, the two forces of the Qing army began to merge, and then planned to use the infantry to impact and destroy the fence, the infantry wanted to attack to solve the musketeers of the Van Wei main formation, and if they wanted to defeat the musketeers, they only had muskets to shoot.

As a result, Fanwei's musket shot farther than the Qing army's shotgun, and the loading was more rapid, and there were hundreds of short guns, and the Qing army tried for a long time without success.

As a result, the Qing army moved slowly, but Fan Wei did not stop, and everyone surrounded the Qing army in the middle and besieged it, so that the Qing army gradually lost the other.

The double shot fought from morning to evening, the Qing army saw that there was no hope of victory and began to break through, Fan Wei wanted to stop, but could not stop, on the last day, the Qing army broke out of the siege only more than 7,000 left, nearly 4,000 died, and more than 10,000 people died on Fan Wei's side.

But Fan Wei still felt that he had earned it, and the Qing army retreated twenty miles in one breath, intending to wait for other troops to come and come to attack again, Fan Wei's self-confidence swelled after this battle, and began to divide his troops to attack Xuzhou while confronting the Qing army.

In order to replenish the lost troops, Fan Wei sent many teams of soldiers to plunder around Xuzhou, and for a time his range of activities exceeded the south of Xuzhou, and his momentum soared.

Li Qing is still far away from this side, so he doesn't know the battle situation here, and he doesn't know that Fan Wei plans to fight hard with the Qing army in Xuzhou.

After Lu Liang's troops were sent, Li Qingyuan focused on Wu Duyan and Fukangan, and Fukangan did not win in the end, after all, Wu Duyan's terrain advantage was too obvious, and the Qing army was like queuing up to die, although Fukangan didn't care about the lives of these soldiers. But they didn't dare to push people into a hurry, otherwise if these soldiers started a mutiny, it would be even more terrible than the ineffective suppression of bandits.

Li Qingyuan paid attention to this side because the Qing army actually transferred 10,000 troops from this side to support the Xuzhou side, so that Fukangan only had more than 10,000 people in his hands, and Fukangan's strategy also changed from attacking to besieging, intending to exhaust Wu Duyan's trapped ammunition.

How could Li Qingyuan not do something when he saw such a good opportunity! At least the Qing army focused its main efforts on Wu Duyan's mountain, and Li Qingyuan's road to the north bypassed Wu Duyan's cottage.

Li Qingyuan didn't plan to save Wu Duyan by himself this time, but sold weapons on a large scale in the north, no matter who it was, as long as he gave money, he would sell them, and he planned to make these people make trouble.

The first batch of 1,000 guns was snapped up by these village owners as soon as they were pulled over, and Li Qingyuan released another 1,000 short-barreled muskets, which were quickly sold out.

After that, as Li Qingyuan expected, the north quickly became lively, and with muskets and the method of making explosives packs provided by Li Qingyuan, these villages and small towns could no longer restrict the footsteps of these bandits.

Although Li Qingyuan knows that many people will die innocently in this way, and how many wives and families will be separated, but the current Li Qingyuan is no longer the passionate and angry youth he was at the beginning, but a revolutionary.