He Luohui was able to fight well, and even if he decided to break through, he did not rashly order a swarm to rush forward, but made some tactical arrangements as much as possible, dividing more than 1,000 people under his command into several parts and cooperating with each other to cover.

After some rough selection, he cobbled together an offensive force of 300 people, launched a feint attack on the Chu army's position from the mountain beam, in order to cover the main force to break through from the mid-mountain path, these 300 Qing troops still have basic weapons, and they are all fierce Eight Banner soldiers who are not afraid of death, He Luo will promise a heavy reward, led by Jialazhang Jingbaozhu, to launch a decisive charge to the Chu army's position.

Baozhu is his henchman general, has always been the most courageous, although he knows that he will die for a lifetime, he did not hesitate to take a group of Qing soldiers with incomplete armor to fight, they avoided the rocks and woods, slowly moved forward along the top of the mountain beam, approached within a hundred steps from the Chu army's position, accelerated the pace and began to charge, at the same time, He Luo will take the Qing army team of men and horses is also moving forward, after entering the range of the Chu army, two hundred people will attack the top of the mountain, and the team of men and horses will break through along the mountain road.

Dead or alive, it's up to this hammer deal!

The gunshots like popping beans suddenly rang out, patches of fire and gunpowder smoke flashed on the Chu army's position, countless lead bullets shot with a terrible sound of breaking through the air, and the attacking troops on the hillside were like the woods in late autumn encountering a shower, and they were instantly much sparser. He Luo would be surprised to see that the Chu army had divided a limited number of several hundred people into two teams, the one with fewer troops facing the pillar and the more one facing the halfway slope, and both refused to give up.

"Both fish and bear's paws, this gang of southern thieves has such a big appetite!" The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs, the phoenix that landed was not as good as a chicken, and the invincible Eight Banners soldiers in the world were so despised by the Chu army. He Luohui was helpless and unwilling, but also a little sad and angry. The Chu army only had more than 400 people, and it dared to fight on two fronts. Isn't it rare that they are not afraid of being rushed to the position by the guards?

It doesn't make sense! Even if the soldiers of the Eight Banners are all exhausted, but the musketeers are most afraid of hand-to-hand combat, although the flintlock pistols of the Chu army are equipped with bayonets, they are not comparable to real cold weapons, if they are rushed to the front by the pillars, it is the Qing army's chance of victory, He Luo will raise his hand to stop the army, stop and watch the battle.

On the top of the mountain, the position of the Chu army. Wang Yi commanded 150 soldiers to meet the pillar, and more than 200 soldiers intercepted He Luohui, maintaining a fire blockade on the mountain road, under the command of the team officer Yu Shizhong.

"First team, ready."

"Second team, fire."

"Third team, reload."

After the first platoon opened fire, the smoke had not yet cleared, and the flintlock pistols of the second platoon had been fired again. Followed by the third platoon standing at the highest point, Yu Shizhong still used three-stage shooting, which was a routine that the firearms battalion had practiced for two years, and the rotation of fire between the soldiers in the three rows could achieve a truly seamless connection. Far from being comparable to other units of the Chu army, even the musketeers of the Gongyi battalion were slightly inferior.

Standing on the hillside low in front and high in the back, the three rows of soldiers are not used to rotate positions. The rate of fire was further increased, but the musketeers had developed a habitual frequency of fire after several trainings. Under Yu Shizhong's deliberate control, the rate of fire remained within the upper limit of normal levels. So much so that many soldiers have a few seconds of free time after completing reloading, which looks a little leisurely, which is incompatible with the tense atmosphere of the battlefield.

This looks a bit silly, but Yu Shizhong didn't dare to speed up rashly.

If you rush to speed up, you can increase the rate of fire at first, but it will disrupt the rhythm that the soldiers of the Chu army are used to, causing uncontrollable chaos, too dense gunpowder smoke and muzzle flames will cause serious interference, once the gunfire is chaotic, the soldiers can no longer hear the officer's orders clearly, and finally develop into free fire...... Without the stacking of firepower fired by platoon guns, this kind of random bombardment of free fire, although it looks lively, is difficult to hit the target, and ten or twenty shots may not hit an enemy.

Now this rate of fire was sufficient, two hundred Eight Banners soldiers made a feint from the halfway up the hill, and because the speed could not be rushed, more than half of them were knocked down by the calm Chu army musketeers, and the remnants of the defeated generals had already retreated, without any real danger. The Chu army's position was located at the convex corner of the mountain beam, and if He Luohui forced his way through the rain of bullets, he would have to circle around the Chu army's position, enough for the well-trained Chu army's musketeers to fire three or four shots, and under such a density of firepower, there were very few Qing troops who could rush through.

At the front of the flanks of the position, there were also thirty stragglers firing freely, the best thirty sharpshooters in the team, who could ensure a hit rate of more than 50% with a single shot within forty paces, and were selected to act as snipers on the battlefield and not participate in the volley of guns in the whole team.

At this time, the side position suddenly sounded dense gunfire, Wang Yi took advantage of the location, put the charging Qing army within 60 steps before shooting, the top of the mountain was covered with rocks and groves, the charging Eight Banners were crowded together, under the three rounds of guns, the front row of the Eight Banners were all emptied, and then, the fourth round of guns rang out immediately.

Seeing that the strong attack was frustrated, the pillar whistled, and the two Niu Lu Zhangjing took one hundred and ten Eight Banners soldiers into the woods on both sides, and outflanked them from the flanks...... Bows and arrows are the second life of the Eight Banners, and they are weapons that will be discarded at the last moment, although the more than 1,000 Qing troops under He Luohui have lost their armor and thrown away heavy weapons such as knives and spears, but there are still more than 100 people with bows and arrows, which really played a role at this moment, and with the sound of bowstrings constantly sounding, the soldiers of the Chu army fell to the ground one after another.

The soldiers of the Chu army also did not wear armor!

In order to chase the Qing army and flee the enemy, Wang Yi's musket team advanced lightly, and did not have enough time to build a chest cover, so they could only use their lives to resist the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners.

"First platoon, fire."

"Second row, ready."

"Third row, reload."

The soldiers of the Chu army kept falling to the ground, but Wang Yi was not disturbed in any way, calmly gave the order to shoot, a cold arrow flew in, hit his right arm, he turned the command knife to his left hand, and swung it down again: "Second row, fire." ”

It seems to be slow but fast!

After a long period of training and many actual combat exercises, the musket team has formed an iron-like military discipline, all soldiers can bravely face the oncoming arrows, and if the commander does not give an order, they will not have superfluous movements, and no one will disrupt the rhythm of shooting, and no one will crouch down to avoid the arrows...... In this way, these 150 musketeers are like a sophisticated machine, always maintaining a fixed firepower output, and if a traverser like Wang Kefan sees this scene, he will immediately think of the blood and cruelty of queuing up to be shot.

Although it was only a skirmish of three or four hundred people, because both sides were not protected by armor, it was extremely bloody and tragic, and He Luohui, who had experienced a hundred battles, had never seen such a battle, and had been holding his breath nervously, almost suffocating before he gasped a few times, and subconsciously held his breath again as the next round of guns rang out.

The number of people in the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties was roughly equal, the Ming army was in strict shape, and it was always able to maintain a volley of guns, and the Qing army's individual soldiers were stronger, and the rate of fire of bows and arrows was also faster, and it was impossible to distinguish between high and low for a while, at this time, the stragglers of the Qing army rushed out of the woods and rushed straight towards the Chu army's position, and Wang Yi's pressure increased sharply.

Yu Shizhong had already prepared, and ordered a team of musketeers to reinforce Wang Yi, and the number of troops on the slope of the mountain was reduced by one-third.

The top of the mountain is being killed inextricably, and the Qing army seems to have a slight upper hand, but He Luohui can see very clearly that the Eight Banners at the end of the strong crossbow are fighting chaotically, relying on their personal courage to rush forward and kill, like the general scattered sand, it will definitely not last, but the Chu army is still a disciplined army, and it has been fighting with a clear eye, so if it continues to develop, don't expect Baozhu to really defeat the Chu army, seize the opportunity to break through quickly, and maybe there is a glimmer of life.

Thousands of Qing troops rushed forward along the slopes of the mountain, and He Luo would cut down the flag, take out an ordinary soldier's uniform and put it on his body, and follow the Qing army brigade to run wildly. If you want to hide an egg, the best way is to hide it in a basket of eggs, at this moment when the battlefield is in the most chaotic time, the soldiers of the Chu army suddenly found that the main general of the Qing army, He Luohui, was gone, and they couldn't care so much for a while, so they just kept firing at the crowds of Eight Banner soldiers.

He Luohui is experienced, deliberately avoiding crowded places, and running forward on the outside of the mountain road with a few personal guards, so that although he took some long detours, he avoided the platoon of guns of the Chu army's musketeers, and the safety factor was increased several times.

The platoon guns rang out again and again, and the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the front were knocked down like cutting crops, but more Eight Banners soldiers poured up from behind...... At this moment, the Eight Banners are like the great migration of wildebeest horses in East Africa, facing the bloody mouth of crocodiles, they also step into the Mara River one after another, and use the number of stacks to overcome individual casualties.

In the face of such a dense and unprotected Eight Banners, the soldiers of the Chu army did not need to aim at all, and they could hit the target by firing, and for the first time in the history of the Chu army's musket team, the volley of guns lost its meaning, and Yu Shizhong finally ordered all the musketeers to shoot freely.

The dense gunfire could no longer be separated, and the musketeers of the Chu army turned into bloodthirsty executioners, mechanically completing the action of loading and shooting, shooting out lead bullets one by one, and killing the Eight Banners like mincing...... Baozhu died under the stray bullets, the Eight Banners attacking the top of the mountain were defeated, the Eight Banners who broke through were slaughtered, and most of the Eight Banners with a total of nearly 2,000 people fell under the guns of the Chu army, and only a few hundred people fled and rushed through this death blockade.

"Chase!" Under Wang Yi's order, hundreds of Chu officers and soldiers rushed out of the position and continued to pursue and kill the Qing army's rout, biting to the death. (To be continued......)