The artillery shells of the Qing army roared in, and after they landed, they continued to bounce and the momentum was amazing, and the vicinity of the grove where the Yangshuo soldiers were hiding was beaten into a mess.

The Qing army's red-coated cannon was imitated from the Western Franc machine gun, although the low and flat trajectory sacrificed the high elevation angle firing range, the power bonus of the forward rush was pointed to the fullest, just like the principle of playing in the water, the kinetic energy lost by the shell each time it landed was limited, and it could cause multiple repeated kills through guò continuous bounce. When fighting in the northern plains, in the face of the Ming infantry who were fighting in formation and moving slowly, the Furlong machine gun became a nightmarish invincible weapon with this advantage, and if its shells were fired into the dense military formation, the damage caused was not inferior to that of the flowering shells of later generations.

(The effect of the red-coated cannon is also good, because the angle of penetration is relatively flat, the impact on the city wall is greater, and when Duoduo hits Yangzhou, he uses the red-coated cannon to blast open the city wall and directly break the city.) But the redcoat cannon also has several fatal shortcomings, such as poor maneuverability, such as too slow rate of fire, and so on. ）

The special terrain conditions of the Battle of Ningzhen severely limited the power of the red-coated artillery, and the artillery of the Qing army always had a feeling that they could not do it, and many times they could only watch the battle dryly, allowing the mortar artillery of the Chu army to show off their might. Tonight, they finally had a chance to vent, and the resentment that had been accumulated for more than ten days erupted from the muzzle, completely ignoring the darkness of the night, the target was unknown, and after roughly aiming in the direction, they fired one cannon after another.

This can make the Yangshuo soldiers miserable.

Every time a shell hits hard, the ground trembles, the trees that have been hit break and fall, the branches and rocks scatter everywhere, and the wounded soldiers scream in a loud voice...... Regardless of whether or not they participated in the battle of the 177 Heights. None of them had such experience withstanding continuous shelling, and many of the soldiers were overly nervous. Lying on the ground with his head in his hands, his buttocks raised high. Knives, guns, and weapons were thrown aside, and the standard ostrich was posed. Whether they believe in God or not, they are all praying desperately, the gods and Buddhas will bless them not to hit themselves, and at the same time they are cursing incessantly, when will this damn shelling stop?

Tang Miaozi lay behind a ridge, cautiously raised his head during the interval between the shelling, and looked around to check the situation of the troops. Fortunately, the Yangshuo soldiers conducted a drill in advance under the guidance of the Chu army. Taking full advantage of the undulating terrain, scattered and hidden behind a few ridge ditches, the real casualties are not many, as long as they grit their teeth and persevere, the Qing army will stop this kind of disruptive artillery bombardment sooner or later. After all, it's night, and blind shelling is more of a waste of shells......

Suddenly, there was a sound of human footsteps in the direction of the Qing army camp, and a small group of Qing army sentry scouts came out of the camp gate with torches. Voices are heard. Some Yangshuo soldiers subconsciously leaned over to check, but a few shells happened to shoot in front of them, hitting them with flesh and blood, and the corpses were incomplete. There were stumps, severed arms and blood everywhere.

"Idiot!" Tang Miaozi shrank his head and fell to the ground, avoiding a cannonball that bounced off the ridge. The clod of dirt hit the back of his neck like a hard stone, and he felt dizzy in pain.

Twenty paces away. A young Yangshuo soldier lay on his stomach behind the ridge, with a bloody corpse lying on his body. Face to face. After he pushed the corpse away and saw it clearly, a hoarse cry of fear came out of his throat, the voice became louder and faster, and the expression on his face became more and more hideous, Tang Miaozi was about to shout and scold, but the soldier pulled out the national knife on his waist with his backhand and wiped his neck.

Tang Miaozi was stunned, the corners of her mouth twitched a few times, and her face was very ugly. The fact that a soldier committed suicide out of excessive fear was not only a heavy humiliation for an army, but also a precursor to the imminent collapse of the morale of the army.

"Pass my general's order, all the wounded soldiers who shout will be mended, whoever dares to get up and run away will be killed!"

Under the continuous shelling, the Yangshuo soldiers became agitated, some of the soldiers lying on the ground looked left and right, and a few wounded soldiers were still moaning, if the Qing army's shelling was not so fierce, some timid soldiers would have fled. However, the group of Qing army sentries is getting closer and closer, and if the commotion cannot be stopped in time, the hidden position of the 800 Yangshuo soldiers will be exposed immediately.

Five hundred steps to go.

The Qing army sentinel probed to the left and right, and one team became two teams to expand the search area.

Three hundred and fifty steps to go.

I don't know when, the artillery of the Qing army has stopped firing.

Tang Miaozi sighed, gently drew his saber, and commanded to the left and right: "Prepare to fight......

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling cannon sound behind him, and one after another cannonballs flew high into the sky, smashing their heads and faces at the Qing army sentry scouts!

The range of the mortar artillery of the Chu army is limited, and it is very reluctant to reach the vicinity of the Qing army camp, but this team of Qing army sentry has already entered the firing range, dozens of mortar cannons are aimed at the torches in their hands and fire at the same time, and the large error of the mortar cannon has caused an effect similar to the barrage coverage, so that this small group of Qing army sentry scouts can not hide.

Cannons fight mosquitoes.

It's a waste, but the mosquito is dead.

With a miserable shout, the Qing army sentry was hit by shells one after another, and the Yangshuo soldiers poked their heads out to look, although they couldn't see clearly, they were still gloating and happy. Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, now it is the turn of the Qing army to be beaten, and the morale of the gloating Yangshuo soldiers has been greatly boosted.

Tang Miaozi exhaled softly, and the hanging heart was finally put into his stomach.

This artillery bombardment came too timely, if it was detected by the Qing army sentry, although the Yangshuo soldiers could eliminate them, their hidden positions would be exposed, and the Qing army would launch a more fierce and intensive artillery bombardment, and the Yangshuo soldiers would probably not be able to withstand it, and a large number of fleeing guides would collapse. If this really happens, even if Tang Miaozi is planted at home, his dream of being promoted and making a fortune will be completely shattered, and he doesn't know how to face Jiao Lian's anger.

Over the years, the Ming army has always been defeated and won less than the Qing army, except for the Chu army, a battle can behead dozens of levels is considered a great achievement, like the 177 Heights to kill more than 400 Tartars in a battle is even rarer, and after such a few battles, Jiao Lian and Tang Miaozi will inevitably be famous all over the world, and adding officials to the knighthood is like exploring the bag.

Jiao Lian wants to be a marquis, and Tang Miaozi also wants to follow an uncle.

The so-called Delong Wangshu, after the battle of the 177 Heights, Jiao Lian's expectations have been greatly improved. Tang Miaozi also hoped to make another miraculous achievement, so he insisted on participating in the battle of Wawu Mountain. If the Qing artillery crushed the troops before the battle, the humiliation would be secondary. It is likely that he will also be severely punished by Jiao Lian.

With the cooperation of the artillery of the Chu army, the crisis has passed, and it will be dawn after holding on for another half an hour, and after launching the general attack, it will be time for the Yangshuo soldiers to perform.

For the Chu army's imminent tactics, Tang Miaozi was full of confidence.

The artillery of the Qing army was very powerful, and it was possible to avoid the terrible artillery blockade by pressing as close to the target as possible before the general attack. It's a bit like stealing a camp, but with detailed intelligence and meticulous planning. Careful preparation, precise time coordination, coordinated operations between artillery and infantry, and between Chongyang battalion and Yangshuo soldiers, each with very clear tactical objectives, is completely different from more improvisational stealing camps and robbing villages.

Subconsciously, his gaze turned to the south side of Wawu Mountain.

It was the hidden position of the Chongyang battalion, and there were also Qing army sentries warning just now, and the heavy shelling also lasted for more than a quarter of an hour. But like a mud cow entering the sea, the south side of Wawu Mountain has been quiet, which is obviously different from the riots on the side of the Yangshuo soldiers, and Tang Miaozi even suspected that the attacking troops of the Chongyang battalion were not in place.

If hit by a shell. The wounded soldiers will instinctively scream, such as the Yangshuo soldiers, who are constantly screaming, just because there is no light. The Qing artillery could not determine the direction at night only by sound, so they sent a team of sentry scouts to check on the ...... There has been no movement on the Chongyang camp. It made Tang Miaozi feel incomprehensible. Even if the Chongyang battalion is more experienced, the concealment is faster and safer. But in that situation where the shells bounced irregularly, and the broken trees and stones flew indiscriminately, didn't a single soldier be injured?

At the southern foot of Wawu Mountain, the hidden position of the Chongyang battalion.

The Qing army occasionally fired two shots, and it seemed that they were not at ease here.

In the darkness, the soldiers of the Chu army lay quietly in their bunkers, no one spoke, and none of the light and serious wounded groaned. Compared with the Yangshuo soldiers, the hidden position chosen by the Chu soldiers was safer, and they also dug out a horizontal bunker with a sapper shovel, which was much safer to lie in.

The attacking force consisted of 900 people, led by He Shanyong, the deputy general of the Chongyang battalion, who would take out his pocket watch every few minutes to look at it and give orders in a low voice.

"Backwards, all of them, prepare for the raid."

"Pass back, all of them, leave the bunker and return to the whole team."

"Pass back, go!"

With his order, the soldiers of the Chu army left their hidden positions, took advantage of the darkness before dawn to sneak forward, and went straight to the southern slope of Wawu Mountain, ignoring the Qing army camp in front of the mountain!

For thousands of years, warlike generals have camped in front of the mountains, and this mindset is difficult to change.

During this period of fighting, the Chu army caused great trouble to the Qing army by defending the high ground on the mountain, but when it was time for the Qing army to defend, their main force had to camp at the foot of the mountain. The reason is very simple, the Qing army does not have mortars that can turn, due to the narrow terrain on the top of the mountain, it is impossible to place a large number of red-coated cannons, in order to block the road in front of the mountain, the artillery position of the Qing army has to be set up at the bottom of the mountain, so their main force is still camped at the bottom of the mountain, and only a small number of defenders are left on Wawu Mountain.

This gave the Chu army the opportunity to raid Wawu Mountain.

The Qing army did not have mortars? Chu Jun has it! As long as Wawu Mountain was captured and the mortar artillery was mounted on the top of the mountain, the Qing army camp below the mountain would become a live target, and it would not be able to hold it no matter what it was due to constant close-range shelling from morning to night.

Artillery bombardment? First of all, the firing range of the red-coated cannons was insufficient, and secondly, even if the Qing army mounted the cannons on other nearby peaks, they could not hit the mortars hidden behind the woods on the hillside.

New weapons inevitably brought new tactics, and the Qing defenders still did not fully grasp the power of the mortar cannon.

Nine hundred Chongyang battalions sneaked close to the foot of the mountain, and encountered two Qing army sentinels along the way, both of which were silently solved with bows and arrows, and finally found a secret outpost by the Qing army, and with the sound of the warning gong, the battle began.

Almost at the same time, shouts of killing also sounded on the western slope of Wawu Mountain.

When the Yangshuo soldiers were fighting with the Tusi of Guangxi, they drilled around in the 100,000 mountains, and these hilly hills in the mountainous area of Ningzhen were really small to them, and they were only discovered when they went up the hillside, which was a moment later than the Chongyang camp.

The Qing army resisted stubbornly and fought back fiercely.

Guarding Wawu Mountain was the unit of Zhang Dayou, a famous banner general of the Han army, who was good at using firearms. In the previous stage of the battle, they learned a trick from the Chu army, digging trenches on the hillside, building a breast wall, and using bird guns and tiger squat cannons to defend the mountain, and forcefully repelled the first attack of the Yangshuo army.

"This trench is so hateful!" Tang Miaozi hated itchy, the Qing army's strength to defend the mountain was not much, as long as it could break through this defensive line composed of trenches and chest walls, the Yangshuo soldiers would definitely be able to win in hand-to-hand combat by virtue of their numerical superiority. Just now, the Yangshuo soldiers had rushed to the front of the trench, but they were hit down by a fierce gunfire, and instead lost dozens of soldiers......

On the southern slope on the other side, the soldiers of the Chu army did not suffer many casualties.

Seeing that the Qing army was defending with bird guns, the Chu soldiers did not rush to charge, but squatted down on the spot far away, raised their flintlock pistols and fired at the Qing soldiers (front-loading guns could not be fired in a lying position). ）

The flintlock pistol against the bird gun, just like the three-eight big cover against the old sleeve, the difference is a whole era, the range is completely incomparable, between forty and fifty steps, the flintlock pistol can ensure a certain hit rate, but the bird gun completely depends on luck to hit the target, and can not break the armor. The soldiers of the Chu army knew this, and they all stopped between forty and fifty paces to shoot at the Qing army, and several platoons of guns came down, and the bird guns behind the chest wall of the Qing army were dumb for more than half.

He Shanyong looked back at the bottom of the mountain, and the follow-up troops of the Chu army had already followed, blocking the reinforcements coming out of the Qing army camp, and the two sides were fighting fiercely.

Time is enough, shoot back!

Under the continuous volley of gun fire, the Qing troops hiding behind the breastwork were beaten so that they could not raise their heads. He Shanyong blew the whistle and ordered loudly, three hundred Chu soldiers picked up their flintlock pistols with bayonets, and charged upwards at the cat's waist, and the other six hundred Chu soldiers continued to maintain fire suppression, and the two tiger squat guns of the Qing army were especially taken care of, and hundreds of flintlock guns were aimed at them together, as long as the Qing artillery dared to show their heads, they would be immediately beaten into a sieve.

Jumping off the trench and climbing the breastwork, the Chu soldiers raised their snowy bayonets and plunged them into the enemy's chest.

On the western slope on the other side, Tang Miaozi made a desperate bet and concentrated all his forces to launch a fierce attack, and after paying more than 200 casualties, he finally broke through the Qing army's defense line.

Stimulated by the blood of their companions, the Yangshuo soldiers became extremely fierce one by one, chasing and killing the Qing army from behind, cutting people when they saw them, leaving no one alive. When they attacked the top of the mountain, the Chu soldiers of the brigade had already arrived first, and they were shouting inside around a cave.

"Surrender and avoid death!"

The Qing army in the cave still resisted stubbornly, and from time to time fired cold guns outside, and the soldiers of the Chu army gathered a large pile of firewood and grass, lit it and threw it into the cave, and then attached a "General Lei...... After several rounds of fighting, the Qing army could not hold on and was forced to surrender, and under the guns of the black hole, a string of prisoners crawled out of the cave and fell to the ground.

At the top of Wawu Mountain, a bullet-riddled red flag fluttered in the wind. (To be continued......)