Like a surging tide, thousands of Qing soldiers slowly poured up the hillside, under the heavy blow of the rain of bullets, the waves in front were blocked, and the waves behind pushed up again, extremely stubborn, seemingly unstoppable, climbing up little by little.

The Chu army on the mountain also went crazy.

On the top of the mountain, the firing rhythm of the mortar cannon has obviously reached the limit, and compared with the daytime, the sound of the cannon firing has become drier, Zhu Mala knows that this is a sign that the cannon chamber is overheated, I am afraid that after this battle, many of these strange cannons of the Chu army will be scrapped.

In the woods on the slope of the mountain, with the order of the commander of the Chu army, the flintlock pistol fired a row of guns, and the continuous muzzle flame looked like a series of colored lights at night, lighting up according to a fixed rhythm, then extinguishing, and then lighting up again, constantly shooting out rows of lead bullets, taking the lives of Qing soldiers.

Jumala had never seen the lanterns of the afterlife, but when he saw such a strange scene, he was even distracted for a moment. Even though he knew that every time the "lanterns" were lit, there would be a few and more than a dozen Qing soldiers were defeated, he still felt that there was a cruel and beautiful temptation in these "lanterns", which was so intoxicating.

"Wang Thief's department, known as the most warlike soldiers and horses in the Pseudo-Ming Dynasty, really lives up to its reputation!" Zhu Mala had to admit that the Chu army was still able to maintain a three-stage volley of guns under such pressure and conditions, and several lines of fire supported each other, which was much stronger than the Wuzhen Chaoha soldiers, who were the most adept at using firearms in the Qing army.

While paying attention to the shape of the battlefield, he observed the deployment of these firepower lines, and he could see very clearly in the night, and the choice of the location of these "colored lights" seemed very simple. But there is a lot of truth in it, not only does it not have any firepower. Moreover, the power of the Chu army's flintlock pistol was brought into full play, which is why it caused such large casualties to the Qing army.

To say that it is not distressing. That's fake. If there was enough time, Jumala would definitely change his tactics instead of exchanging the lives of a hundred and ten Qing soldiers for a distance of ten or twenty paces.

In addition to the platoon guns and mortars, in the middle of the woods, the Chu army also kept pushing down the flying stone sassers, the formation of the Qing soldiers was too dense, although they tried to dodge, but as long as they were rubbed a little by the flying stone sassers, they would fly high like kites. Then he fell heavily to the ground.

Jumala's face was expressionless, but he was secretly calculating in his heart that if the casualty rate continued, if the casualty rate continued, whether the hill could be captured before the attacking force collapsed, and what the final casualties would be.

There are two possibilities for the result of the calculation, if the casualties collapse by 30%, even the woods in the middle of the mountain cannot be attacked, and if you can hold on to the casualties at 50% and then collapse. At the very least, it can capture the mid-mountain wooded position...... Further up from the woods in the middle of the mountain, there was another brand new battle, which the Qing army had never set foot on, and Jumala could not be predicted for the time being.

"Pass my orders. The Chinese army beats the drums! All trumpeters, blow the trumpet together! ”

With Zhu Mala's order, the Qing army took out two cowhide drums. Ringing together, more than a dozen trumpeters held conch trumpets. A mournful whine sounded loudly. The command flag waved back and forth, and 2,000 Qing soldiers regrouped in front of the hill. As the second echelon of the attack.

Under the urging of drums and trumpets, the Qing generals who attacked the mountain knew that no matter how heavy the casualties were, Zhu Mala would never withdraw his troops, and if he wanted to survive, he had to rush to the top of the mountain and wipe out the Chu army.

Fight!

Braving the rain of bullets and bullets, the Qing soldiers quickened their pace, gritted their teeth and rushed up the mountain.

This was a desperate gamble, Jumala did not let all the Green Battalion soldiers act as cannon fodder as usual, and half of the Qing soldiers who attacked the mountain were Eight Banner soldiers. Mengbaqi, full of eight banners, has primitive wildness and ferocity in their bones, completely different from the gentle Han people, although they suffered heavy casualties, they let out a beast-like roar and rushed upwards more fiercely.

The Qing army is attacking from the back, and it seems that the upward climbing speed is not fast, but this nameless hill is only about 200 meters high, and the Qing army has gone up to the halfway slope, and with the front row of the Eight Banners rushing into the woods with a shout, the "colored lights" in the woods finally stopped flashing.

"Oh!"

Jumala suddenly drew his sword in his hand, raised it high to the sky, and let out a roar full of rage.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

The Eight Banners soldiers who watched the battle raised their swords and guns one after another, shouting and responding, and the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted up and down the mountain.

Suddenly, halfway up the mountainside, there were clusters of fire in the woods, which were completely different from the muzzle flames just now, they were all flames rolling back and forth, and as soon as Jumala was stunned, the whole forest was lit up with a raging fire, and black smoke rose into the sky, although it was clearly visible at night.

Within sight, there were three woods on the mountainside, and a fire broke out at the same time, and the fire was so fierce, it was definitely not an accident, but the Chu army had already prepared for it - if the woods in the middle of the mountain were lost, they would ignite the flammable materials that ignited the fire and destroy the entire forest.

"Wang thief, really cunning!"

Jumala issued an urgent order, ordering the Qing army attacking the mountain to extinguish the fire while dividing the troops to continue the attack, avoiding the burning woods, and rushing up from the two open spaces in the middle.

Those two vacancies are too narrow, and they will inevitably be fiercely blocked by the Chu army, but in order to cover Gu Yigu, who is secretly attacking in the back mountain, it is worth paying heavy casualties.

Seeing that the fire in the woods in the middle of the mountain was getting bigger and bigger, Zhu Mala knew that this fire could not be extinguished in an hour or two, and even if the fire was extinguished, the Qing soldiers would not be able to get through from here for a while...... In other words, it is impossible to capture this nameless hill from the front tonight, unless it is not possible to continue the attack from the front until after dawn tomorrow, when the temperature of the ruins of the woods has cooled.

However, it is difficult to say what will happen to the situation of the battle after dawn tomorrow. The main forces of the Chu army were scattered around, and they were reluctant to rush down the mountain at night to fight the Qing army at night, but they could attack at any time during the day, or support this nameless hill...... In addition to this, there is another problem, the closer to the top of the mountain, the more tenacious the defense of the Chu army will be, and it will drag on until tomorrow morning, I am afraid that there will be more than one bad luck.

The only hope is Gu Yigu in the back mountain, if he can seize the opportunity to rush to the top of the mountain and cause chaos to the Chu army, the frontal mountain attack troops will have a chance.

On the slopes of the back mountain, there were corpses of Qing soldiers everywhere, but Gu Yigu took dozens of Eight Banner soldiers and finally climbed the steep mountain wall and rushed into the Chu army's position.

Several Chu soldiers jumped out of the trench, armed with flintlock muskets loaded with bayonets, and bravely met the enemy ten times their size.

The big bull picked up his gun and was about to rush up together, but a soldier stopped him.

"A few of us are in the way, you take Wang San and them to withdraw, and you can stand up for a while!" (To be continued......)