"Are you still stunned to do anything, to die? Hurry up and reload! Veteran Wu yelled, he was usually very polite to Wang Kebin and Zhu Huaqi, but when he went to the battlefield, he didn't care about their origins, he would quarrel when he should be noisy, and he would scold when he should scold.

Wang Kebin and Zhu Huaqi looked back, Da Guniu didn't pay attention to the chores of the Portuguese soldiers at all, loaded the ammunition early, and was waiting for orders with guns in his hand, and there were many soldiers of the musket team who were also ready to fight, ignoring the interference of the outside world at all.

The flintlock pipers were selected from various battalions, most of them were children of peasant families, simple and simple, and regarded the orders of their superiors as greater than the sky, so that they could abide by military regulations and concentrate on fighting on the battlefield.

"That's what makes a good soldier." Wang Kebin and Zhu Huaqi glanced at each other, and they both saw a trace of guilt in each other's gaze, fortunately, the officers were quelling the riot of the Portuguese soldiers and did not give the order to shoot for the time being.

The Bird Soldiers were slightly inferior, and they stood in the front row, and the casualty ratio was higher, so when the Portuguese soldiers rioted, they were also affected, the soldiers crouched or lay on their stomachs, just trying to avoid bullets, and some people hid behind their companions.

The chiefs stopped fighting and turned to urging their subordinates, but just pulled up this one, and that one squatted down again, no matter whether the chiefs were good words and persuasion or threats and scolding, they were unwilling to stand up and bear the rain of bullets fired by the Qing army. Dozens of people from the war team ran around, and even cut off the heads of two soldiers, wherever they went, order would be restored, but there were more than a thousand musketeers in the Chu army, and there were still many soldiers squatting on the ground.

Seeing that the situation is about to spiral out of control. Wang Kefan sent his own personal team to help the team maintain battlefield discipline.

"Let's see who can hold on for the last five minutes." He knows very well that the decisive moment has now come. If the Tianyou soldiers could not be completely defeated in the musket fire, the battle would have turned into a tug-of-war that was repeatedly delayed, delaying the opportunity to rescue Wang Sheng.

The flintlock pistol had twice the rate of fire of the Bird's Gun, and the density and accuracy of the firepower far exceeded that of the opponent, and the Chu army's musketeers had the advantage in strength, and they were bound to win the battle, and the only thing that could hinder them from winning. It's their own psychology and morale.

Now is not the time to do ideological work, Wang Kefan speaks directly with a knife, who dares to disturb the morale of the army in fear of war. Just cut it with a knife......

On the dirt mountain, Hutabu and Jiang Dingyuan rubbed their hands excitedly.

Seeing that the Chu army's shooting was becoming scarce, they immediately realized that this was a rare opportunity to counterattack, and immediately ordered the remaining five hundred infantry to fight. Jump over the antler barrier. Launched a counter-charge against the Chu army. At the same time, several officers were sent to the artillery positions to direct those artillery to fire again.

The artillery of the Tianyou soldiers totaled less than 200 people, and more than half of the casualties were killed after two rounds of salvos, especially the gunners and other key arms suffered heavy losses.

The infantry then charged. Under the cover of the Birdmen, they rushed to the antler barrier and carried them together. Wielding a knife and axe, he quickly cleared several passages, and the follow-up infantry swarmed up and killed the Chu army not far in front.

"Bang bang bang!"

In the face of the loud gunfire, the Chu army's firecrackers as if they had just woken up, shot rows of lead bullets at the Qing infantry, thousands of bird's guns fired almost in one direction, and the corpses were immediately piled up in front of the antlers.

After Wang Kefan's two hundred personal soldiers arrived, the left and right clumsy overseers finally took control of the form, almost every musketeer stood behind a steel knife overseer, no one dared to challenge their authority, all the soldiers returned to the battle, under the order of the officer, fired a round of unprecedentedly fierce fire.

The bird guns specialized in fighting the infantry of the Qing army, and the flintlock muskezeers were responsible for solving the tiger squat artillery of the Qing army.

"The Tiger Squat Cannon of the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers is completely dumb this time, and they have been beaten for two and a half rounds in total, which is barely acceptable." Wang Kefan was not too satisfied with this result, the loading speed of the tiger squat cannon was very slow, if it were not for the riot of the Portuguese soldiers, the officers of the Chu army would definitely be able to detect the abnormal movement of the Qing artillery in time and eliminate them before they opened fire.

After three volleys of flintlock pistols, the artillery of the Tianyou soldiers was almost completely killed and wounded, even if a group of officers were sent to command, they could not let the tiger squat cannon fire again, after all, the artillery belongs to the technical arms, and ordinary soldiers without training cannot control the artillery......

"Wang Kefan, this guy is really cunning!" On the dirt mountain, Hutab was furious.

Because the passage through the guò barricade was too narrow, the 500 infantry who rushed up almost became a live target, and they were defeated by a salvo, and there were only more than 200 people left when they withdrew, and they had lost their combat effectiveness in a short time, and the artillery suffered heavy losses, and even several officers he sent were killed together.

"Let those infantry atone for their sins and add them to the firecrackers." There is no mistake in the commander who is strategizing, and the only one who is wrong is those soldiers who are ineffective in combat, since the more than 200 infantry are unable to fight anymore, let them serve as cannon fodder.

Hutabu also ordered to issue a flag to the left flank, let Zhang Yingxiang grit his teeth and insist on it alone, and transferred the Eight Banners cavalry back to support: "If Zhang Yingxiang can't hold it, it's good to give up the left flank, it doesn't matter if Zhaojiawan is lost, Tushan must not be lost." ”

As for the more than 1,000 Green Battalion soldiers who are still struggling to support, they are already outcasts in Hutab's eyes.

"Even if the Eight Banners are withdrawn now, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold the mountain, so it's better to retreat to the river and fight against the southern thieves with the sailors." Jiang Dingyuan pointed to the musketeers in front of him and said, "Our musketeers have suffered too many casualties, and they are almost unable to hold on. ”

The problem encountered by the Tianyou soldiers was the same as that of the Chu army, the soldiers only saw the sacrifice of their comrades, but could not see the casualties of the enemy, and the enemy's fire showed no signs of stopping, and more and more soldiers squatted on the ground, and even lay behind the corpses of their companions, hoping to safely avoid the next salvo of the Chu army.

The officers stepped over the corpses, their shoes and trouser legs stained with blood, and kept whipping the soldiers on the ground, pulling them up to fight, but the soldiers struggled desperately, shouting and crying, and even when the overseers came up to maintain order, the number of soldiers involved in the battle was decreasing.

As the Chu army fired a round of guns, hundreds of soldiers fell to the ground, some of them would convulse a few times, screaming, it would be even more perfect if there were the bodies of their companions next to them, they fell directly in a pool of blood, covered with bloodstains, tightly closed their eyes and motionless, as if they had been killed.

On the artillery position, the short tiger squat cannon was almost covered by the corpses, the officers and gunners were either dead or wounded, the remaining loaders hid among the corpses and did not dare to move, and the auxiliaries carrying the shells had long since fled completely.

The more Hu Tabu and Jiang Dingyuan looked at the dirt mountain, the more frightened they felt, how could the firepower of the Nanban become more and more fierce, more than 100 people were killed in a single salvo, and after four or five rounds like this, the Qing soldiers would die.

"Transfer all the auxiliaries and wounded soldiers, and if you can get the fire, you have to go into battle for me!" Before the firecrackers were exhausted, Hutab made the final mobilization of troops, and the auxiliaries, wounded soldiers, and the cooks were all gathered together, following behind the two hundred infantry, ready to go into battle at any time.

Their eyes were full of dazedness and fear, Jiang Dingyuan looked at this patchwork reserve team, and couldn't help but secretly shake his head in his heart: "Such a soldier will definitely not help, but at the moment, he can only be a dead horse as a live horse doctor." ”

"Get up, fill the medicine!"

The officers of the Heavenly Blessing Soldiers roared angrily, but the soldiers were slow, and many of them had just been replenished, and it was okay to shoot with other people's loaded birds, and let them complete the complicated loading steps by themselves, and they would not be able to touch the size of the head at all.

"Fire!"

Now it is impossible to teach these infantry to reload, so they can only let the musketeers who have completed the loading shoot first, how many count, the crackling gunshots rang out, Jiang Dingyuan sadly found that there were no more than 500 bird guns that could be fired, and the intensity of firepower had dropped significantly......

The left flank of the Qing army, Zhang Yingxiang's green battalion.

Zhang Yingxiang and Tan Xiao fought for a long time, the two sides came and went, half-truths and half-falsehoods, the casualties were not large, at this moment the green battalion soldiers were still in their early thousands, but as the battle on the front of Tushan became more intense, the green battalion soldiers all withdrew from the battle, turned around and stared at the tragic battlefield, Tan Xiao had already been ordered, there was no need to fight with Zhang Yingxiang, since they stayed there honestly, they did not continue to fight.

Zhang Yingxiang's body was motionless for a long time, and in the eyes of his generals, his own handsome man was really as solid as a rock, and he had the spirit of Mount Tai collapsing in front of him without changing color, but several nearby soldiers found that Zhang Yingxiang's face was pale, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead that kept dripping down.

He had heard of the murderous name of the Chu army for a long time, and yesterday's battle with the Yuezhou battalion made him even more afraid, as a member of the army, he knew that if he fought a decisive battle with the Yuezhou battalion in a fair environment, the Henan Green Battalion would definitely not be an opponent.

Although he is not an opponent, he doesn't care too much, the so-called mountain is higher than a mountain, when Zhang Yingxiang was under Zuo Liangyu, he was not as good as Jin Shenghuan, Xu Yong, Li Guoying and other generals, he has always been a second-rate army under Zuo Liangyu, but later they did not surrender to the Qing army together?

No matter how strong the Chu army is, it can only be majestic in front of the green battalion soldiers, and the army of Luck Dehun has not yet been dispatched, Tan Xiao ran away with the Yuezhou battalion overnight, in Zhang Yingxiang's opinion, the Chu army and Jin Shenghuan and Xu Yong are almost the same grade, and they can't beat the invincible Eight Banners soldiers in the world, and they can't beat the Tianyou soldiers who are good at using firearms.

What he never expected was that he would see such a vicious battle today! (To be continued......)