When the Sanwan Qing army made a big move, Ao Bai wanted to attack the Taiping defense line with superior cavalry, and then the infantry covered and routed the enemy in one fell swoop. However www.biquge.info the area around Sanwan and Gaomin Temple is the confluence of the Yizhen River and the ancient canal, which is a triangular area, which is not suitable for the group Qing army to charge. Therefore, after the battle began, the cavalry of the Qing army could not give full play to its advantages and did not achieve the great victory expected by Aobai, so Aobai had to order the cavalry to withdraw and compete with the infantry brigade of the Han army and the green battalion with the Taiping army.

The Qing army attacked the defense line of the first and second towns of the Taiping army at the same time, relying on the advantage of the large number of people, divided into several large phalanxes and lined up to suppress the Taiping army. It didn't take long for the Qing army to make rapid progress in the middle, and the soldiers and horses on both wings were held up by the Taiping army, causing a large number of Qing troops to advance along the middle line.

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On the defensive line of the second town, the dry grass and branches on the ground were burning, and corpses lay on the ashes, and if it weren't for the occasional movement of people's bodies, no one would believe that there were still living people here.

There are more than a dozen graves on the edge of the defense line of the Second Town A Brigade, surrounded by fertile fields. A grave looks very new, and there are traces of burning paper money on it, thinking that it is a new grave that was buried not long ago. A solid iron bullet landed on the new grave, cutting the grave head off, and more and more shells fell, smashing the dozen or so graves into disarray. I don't know how the bones buried below feel.

Around these dozen tombs, the Ming and Qing dynasties fought fiercely. The Qing army was pouring in, and the attack seemed to be endless. More than 2,000 Xuzhou soldiers piled up hundreds of corpses in this dead area, but they still couldn't occupy it. They kept coming up and being beaten back. The wounded soldiers were screaming miserably under the graves, and no one bothered to rescue them. The living Xuzhou soldiers seemed to be numb, they were driven by the Manmeng soldiers, up and down, down and up, every time they opened their legs and walked forward, they didn't know if they could go back alive.

The deeper the Qing army penetrated on the central line, the fiercer the resistance of the Taiping army became. The Taiping army on both wings fought even more fiercely, so that the battalions transferred from the north lost their combat effectiveness, and finally, the Han army went into battle, and the Mongol soldiers also went up, and Ao Bai, who gritted his teeth and supervised the battle, had to throw the Manchu children who had been reluctant to put it up. The soldiers of the two yellow flags also pressed up, they hung far behind, some Niu Lu rode horses to supervise the battle, and some Niu Lu got off their horses directly, picked up their big bows, and shot rounds of arrows towards the front line of the Taiping army.

The Taiping army retreated and resisted, and the Qing army had to pile up piles of corpses every time they stepped forward. The artillery behind the Taiping army's defense line kept firing, and the cannons that fell from the sky made every advancing Qing soldier look up at the sky from time to time when he was nervously facing the Taiping army in front of him, lest a big iron ball fall and smash him to pieces.

The Manchu and Mongolian children who have never been on the battlefield before may not have a deep feeling, but those Manchu and Mongolian officers and veterans who have fought with the Ming army will be shocked, because they have never seen the Ming army that can fight so densely with firearms and never stop.

Roundshot!

The Manchurian and Mongolian generals saw that the firearms of the Taiping army were not very advanced, and the firearms of the Han army were similar to theirs, but the Taiping army did not fire a salvo when facing each other like the Han army, and then hurriedly charged the medicine and then fought, but divided the guns into several teams, and the teams took turns to fire, which continued to stop, causing a barrage that seemed to never break. Every time they had to push the barrage back by one point, they had to pay a considerable number of casualties.

Half of the Han troops who participated in the war were children of Liaodong, but it is not correct to say that they were children of Liaodong, because many of them had their fathers and ancestors taken captive from Guannei to Guanwai by Qing soldiers twenty or thirty years ago. Some were civilians of the Ming Dynasty, some were military border soldiers, and some were descendants of the Ming army who surrendered.

In this decisive battle, Shunzhi transferred more than 7,000 Han troops to Sanwan, but the Han army using firearms was less than 1,000 people, and the rest were cavalry, and some were no different from the green battalion. The reason why this is so is because the firearms of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were concentrated in the hands of King Sanshun, and with the death and surrender of Shang Kexi and Geng Jimao, the Wuzhen Chaoha artillery was destroyed in Guangdong, resulting in the Manchu Qing Dynasty almost unable to take out the artillery or firearms in the hands of the formation. On the other hand, the Manchu Qing Dynasty did not attach much importance to firearms, but now, the Manchu and Mongolian generals, including Ao Bai, are deeply aware of the need to strengthen the firearms of the Qing army, otherwise, it will be difficult to fight in the future.

Looking at the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who had suffered heavy casualties by the Taiping army's firearms, Ao Bai's heart was dripping blood, and he couldn't help but think about how good it would be if the Wuzhen Hachao army had not been destroyed in Guangdong with Jidu, otherwise, the artillery fire of the Qing Dynasty would definitely not be weaker than that of the Taiping Kou. It's a pity that those children of the Liaodong Han army.

The faces of the Manchurian generals watching the battle twitched slightly, and Bel Tuntai, who was leading the troops on the front line, also sighed immediately, but after sighing, he still ordered the charge, because he had to do it, and he would never admit that the Manchu and Mongolian children thought that their proud cavalry would lose to the Ming burning sticks that they had never looked down on. If the firearms of the Ming army were really powerful, the Qing Dynasty would not have entered the customs!

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Ge Yi stood on a haystack piled up by villagers, holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the Qing army's offensive. Seeing the tide of Qing army offensive, Rao is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he was a little frightened at the moment. He thought that his first town would be able to withstand the Qing army's attack, but now it seems that he is too optimistic. If the Qing army continued to rush in this desperate frenzy, he believed that the first town would probably not be able to hold out.

Ao Bai was like crazy, and he kept throwing his soldiers and horses up. Although the casualties of the Qing army were large, the casualties of the Taiping army were not small. The posture of the two sides is clearly unstoppable.

(To be continued.) )