There are two continuous mountain ranges in the northeast of Anhua County, one is Dafeng Mountain and the other is Dawei Mountain, and the defensive position of the Chu army is located in the corridor between these two mountain ranges.

After a round of shelling, Da Guniu cautiously poked his head out of the trench, and the Qing army's attacking troops appeared in his field of vision.

In order to distinguish it from the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, the banner of the Tianyou soldiers is the black flag with white edges, which is the so-called soap flag, the flag of the Tianzhu soldiers is the black flag with the center of the white circle, and the Han army flag is a pure black soap flag.

The Tianyou soldiers in cotton armor jumped off the trench, followed the example of the Chu army, set up the fire on the edge of the trench, and fired freely at this side.

The green battalion soldiers in iron armor lined up in front of the trench, their movements were panicked and hurried, a volley of the Chu army's musket team hit over, the body of the green battalion soldier spun and fell to the ground, the green battalion guerrilla in charge of the command didn't care about the whole team, brandished a saber and ordered to charge, the companions in the front row gave up the firing position, and the big bull put the bird on the trench and aimed at the green battalion guerrilla.

"Fire!"

Under the order of the team officer, the big bull pulled the trigger, and another green battalion soldier was knocked down, the body of the green battalion guerrilla shook twice, and he fell into the trench at his feet, and seemed to let out a faint scream, at the same time, a white smoke rose from the trench opposite, and the firecrackers of the heavenly blessing soldiers also fired a round of guns, and the whizzing lead seemed to fly by the scalp. In front of the trench, there were also splashes of dirt and stones, hitting his face with a stinging pain, and the big bull subconsciously shrank his head. He hid in a trench.

He retreated to the back of the trench and sat down to load, but several of his companions fell to the ground, convulsing and wailing, and two of his companions lay motionless on the trench, but a pool of blood gushed from under their bodies, and the big bull had just compacted the gunpowder with a strip, but the sunlight above his head suddenly disappeared. A companion fell on top of him like an overturned pouch, the door covered with blood and broken bones, and his face smashed with lead.

Veteran Wu turned sideways. Pushing the dead companion away, Da Gu Niu wanted to straighten his body up, but was reprimanded by Wu Veteran: "Little rabbit, he is dead." Hurry up and reload. Killing a few more Tartars to get revenge is the right thing! ”

The Tianyou soldiers on the opposite side are well-trained, and they are also conducting three-stage shooting, but the frequency is a little faster than that of the Chu army, Da Guniu has fired three rounds of bullets before and after, but Tianyou soldiers have already started the fourth round, every time they shoot, Da Guniu thinks that he will definitely be hit, but he has not been shot. But his companions had already suffered thirty or forty casualties.

On a high ground in the rear, Wang Yi and Lu Renqing were watching the battle with binoculars. There was a sudden sound of footsteps in the traffic trench behind him, and when he looked back, the person who came turned out to be Wang Kefan.

"Wang Junmen, why are you here, it's too dangerous here, the Tartar's cannon can reach out and ......"

"It's not so evil, our trenches are dedicated to breaking the cannons of the Tartars, aren't you all bearded and all tailed? Why can't I come? Wang Kefan looked at the hillside, the trenches were stacked on top of each other, all kinds of antler obstacles were blocked in front of the position, and the corpses of the Qing army were stacked up high, but most of the corpses of the Ming army were snatched back.

"The Tartars are like mad today, and they have been storming since the morning, and they have broken through three more trenches, and it seems that the fourth trench will also be lost at noon." Obviously losing and retreating, Lu Renqing's tone was very relaxed, and there was a smile on his face.

"What about casualties between friend and foe?" Wang Kefan asked.

"The Tartars have already suffered more than a thousand casualties in order to seize these three trenches, but we have only lost about 400 people." Lu Renqing was very satisfied with this exchange ratio, there are sixty or seventy miles of corridor area on the periphery of Xinghua, and three trenches have been lost here, and three or even six more can be dug in the back, if it is this kind of casualty exchange every time, before the attack on Xinghua City, Kong Youde's troops will be dragged down.

"The casualties are still a bit big...... Wang Kefan frowned slightly, the defender occupies a favorable position, and the casualties are definitely far less than the attacker, and the loss of the Tianyou soldiers is only more than twice that of the Chu army, which can be seen that it is an elite army.

"It takes a hundred refining to become steel, and you should let the sons and daughters see the blood, otherwise you will only fight a good battle, and once you encounter a strong enemy, you will collapse." Lu Renqing said with a smile: "This battle has been fought enough, every time the Tartars fight hard with human lives, we will take the initiative to retreat, otherwise, they will be able to occupy my three trenches in one morning?" ”

Wang Kefan nodded, and didn't say anything more, Ci is not in charge of the troops, the cost of infantry and firecrackers in the Chu army is the lowest, and the casualty exchange ratio of one to two points with the Qing army can already be satisfied...... Anhua County is a pre-selected battlefield for the Chu army, and civil engineering operations are carried out here half a month in advance, and the Qing army launched a strong attack in a hurry, and the advantages of cavalry and artillery can not be brought into play, so they can only rely on infantry and bows and arrows to attack, and the Chu army welcomes this casualty exchange very much.

Lu Renqing asked, "Wang Junmen, can you pull the fan soldiers up?" With their help, I can stay one more day and night. ”

"No need, the Daye battalion will stay until tonight, retreat after the third watch, don't be bitten by the Tartars, the Tongcheng battalion and have already made preparations in the back, let them also fight with the Tianyou soldiers." Wang Kefan smiled again and asked, "What, is the fan soldier very useful?" ”

Wang Yi replied: "The fan soldiers are all veterans who are accustomed to fire, not much to say, the key is that their flintlock pistols are very good, fast loading, strong firepower, and the platoon guns hit the Tianyou soldiers so that they couldn't raise their heads, and they killed more than 500 Tartars in a while, and after they were wheeled down, they couldn't suppress the muskets of the Tianyou soldiers." “

"Why, you can't fight without those Franciscans?" Wang Kefan said: "The fan soldiers have been a bit ruthless recently, and there have been sixty or seventy casualties, these guys are not soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, they are unwilling to do their best to fight in battle, and the pension money they want is too high, let's hang them for a few days first." ”

There are some things that are inconvenient to say, this Portuguese reinforcement was sent by Emperor Longwu, and it is reasonable to say that there are more than 20% casualties, if they are all killed, it will cause unnecessary trouble in the imperial court.

"Don't worry, there has been progress on the side of the repair institute, three or four months at the fastest, and half a year at the slow, so that you can use the flintlock pistol we made ourselves, and there is no need to eat pigs with hair without Butcher Zhang, the Chu army is only a strong army when it becomes stronger, and there is no need to get used to those Francophone people."

"Really! That's great! Wang Yi has the deepest understanding of flintlock pistols, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard that the Chu army could produce it by itself.

"It can't be fake! I'll go back and ask you for a flintlock pistol, think about it first, I'm afraid the shooting drill code needs to be revised......" Wang Kefan was just halfway through speaking, and a thick cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the rear of the Qing army, and everyone's faces changed, and they immediately protected Wang Kefan and hid in the anti-artillery hole.

Shelling!

After the Qing army's attack was repulsed, they began to desperately fire their guns to vent their anger, their red-coated cannons were extremely powerful, and the largest Shenwei general cannons belonged to the twelve-pounder cannons, which could even destroy the strong city walls, but in the face of the natural earth mountains and highlands, there was a feeling of not being able to exert their strength.

The rumbling sound of artillery came, and everyone squeezed into the narrow anti-artillery hole, and then there was a loud roar overhead, and the earth trembled violently, and looking back from the hole of the anti-artillery hole, it could be seen that the shells hit the top of the mountain one after another, but under the action of the trench and the angle of the hillside, it lost its kinetic energy after a few bullets, and suddenly the momentum was huge, but it did not cause much damage.

The shelling lasted for about half a pillar of incense, and when Wang Kefan leaned out of the anti-artillery hole, the Chu soldiers were picking up those solid shells everywhere to prevent them from being recycled by the Qing army after retreating.

"Look at the military gate, Kong Youde's guy is here!"

With Lu Renqing's shout, Wang Kefan raised the telescope, and on the position of the Qing army opposite, under a soap-inlaid hat painted with a five-clawed dragon, stood a middle-aged man in his forties, with dragon ornaments on his chest and shoulders, which was Kong Youde dressed as a prince.

He obviously didn't know such a thing as a telescope for the Chu army, standing there with a calm demeanor, talking to the general next to him, although Wang Kefan didn't understand lip language, he could roughly guess that he was deploying and fighting, and he was about to launch a fierce attack......

Kong Youde had been delayed in Anhua for more than 10 days, but he was still more than 20 miles away from the county seat, and his prestige in the army was seriously damaged due to heavy losses but no results.

No matter how elaborate the operational plan is, it must be carried out one link after another, and if there is a problem in one step, the entire plan will have to be changed; because the Qing army on the southern front has not been able to break through and occupy Anhua, and Shang Kexi on the northern front has not made much progress, the loyal battalion is retreating in an orderly manner, and the plan to wipe them out in Changde Mansion has failed.

On the contrary, Luck Dehun side is like a bamboo, he bloodless after occupying Changsha Mansion, sent a few small troops to the south to try to attack, unexpectedly everywhere as if into no man's land, Hao Shaoqi, Wang Jincai and other departments have retreated south, He Tengjiao sent his Biao battalion to guard Hengshan County, the main general Dong Ying led more than 10,000 horses to surrender to the 508 Banner Light Cavalry, and then Huang Chaoxuan and other troops entrenched in the swallow's nest in Youxian County also surrendered one after another.

The Ming army either fled or surrendered, half of Hunan fell into the hands of the Qing army, and Hengyang, the capital of Hengzhou Mansion, was also wide open.

Kong Youde didn't want to divide his troops, but the battle situation had become like this, and he couldn't find a reason to refuse, the plan to attack Changde Mansion had gone bankrupt, and going south to outflank Baoqing Mansion seemed to be the only right choice.

He made a difficult decision, and after conquering Anhua County, he would let Geng Zhongming and Tong Yanghe go south and attack the southwest of Hunan. (To be continued......)