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The dark white clouds filled the field of vision, and the sky was still gray, although the sun was still hanging. But at this time, the sun is like a poor egg who has lost the essence of light, listless, and lazily hanging in the middle of the day.

Dark clouds moved heavily, slowly across the sky.

The cold wind of late autumn is unstoppable, driving straight in, mixed with a menacing whistling sound, so that the empty fields continue to show the emptiness and roughness that can only be found in autumn and winter.

From time to time, leaves and straw are blown over by the strong wind, and the big trees try their best to stand firm in the howling winter wind. Let your branches make noise and shake with the wind, and sometimes you can hear the "click" of the branches.

Xuxikou, water, an ordinary town, an ordinary river. Although this river also left the glory of the Battle of Pengcheng during the Chu-Han War 2,000 years ago, today, 2,000 years later, it is just an ordinary small river, an ordinary tributary of the Huai River.

Because of the arrival of the Qing army in Anhui, they have left another mark on the books of history, because of the arrival of the Fu Han army, today's battle, this shallow mark will be much worse.

- Siege and reinforcements!

Chen Ming led the troops from Xuzhou to Xuxikou with a smile all the way, and personally came to the battlefield in the southwest of Xuzhou. Because of how many times he has done 'siege reinforcements' in the past few years, this time he finally succeeded.

The Qing army and civilians who drove from Fengyang Mansion totaled about 10,000 people, and they arrived at Xuxikou quite quickly, and it was only seventy or eighty miles away from Xuzhou.

Chen Ming only brought one regiment of infantry, plus one artillery, no artillery, all mortars. It's not that he's stupid, but because although the Qing army that came to help seemed to be quite numerous, the main force was the people of Anhui, with low combat effectiveness and no artillery at all. Chen Ming was afraid that bringing too many people would scare the other party back.

The northeast of Anhui, that is, the area of Fengyang, has a river that runs vertically and horizontally. If the Qing army in Anhui was to 'seduce' the next part of the Fu Han army, it would be enough to think that the Fu Han army would advance, they would retreat, push to the river area, especially the Huai River, and defend it according to the river, it would be very bad. Therefore, Chen Ming directly brought a regiment, plus a part of the artillery, and only 2,000 people were advertised to the outside world. You can also let the unwitting Manchu officials yy a look at the intensity of the battle in Xuzhou!

The low and majestic war drums rumbled, and a Qing army general in military uniform rode on a Mongolian war horse, pulled out his waist knife and swung it forward. The three or four thousand soldiers at the vanguard of the Qing army suddenly rushed forward like a flood that broke the embankment, and the shouts, war drums, and neighing of war horses were mixed together and resounded in the sky.

Knowing that the firepower is not as good as the Anhui Qing army of the Han army opposite, the main general Shouchun general Tong Jin, and the deputy general Li Yuelong all used the tactics of the sea of people in 'the same as the heroes', anyway, the team under them is of this color, most of them are the people who are not in a good array, if they fight in a regular array, they will die faster and more miserably.

This kind of battlefield is the most untechnical and only blindly relies on the tactics of a large number of people. Compared with the crowd tactics of the Red Dynasty Volunteers on the Korean battlefield, the same four words are completely blind. This is a pure 'sea of people', not a tactic. [In other words, at the beginning, I really thought that the crowd tactics of the volunteer army were crowded, and the author bowed my head and pleaded guilty......]

Looking at the Qing army who were screaming and rushing up, Chen Ming did not pout his lips with disdain, but laughed happily. Such an old method of warfare is used on the banks of this flat river, which can fully exert the power of firearms, in the face of an enemy with powerful firepower, which is purely looking for death. There were twenty-four medium-sized and heavy mortars in front of him.

Three infantry battalions plus the command headquarters, two artillery positions, four columns of soldiers, three main force squares lined up in front, and then the command phalanx composed of the regimental headquarters and Chen Ming's personal guards, although they are lined up in four horizontal columns, but a large row of muskets also has about 400 good shots, that is, the tactics of the Qing army in front of them, the number of Qing soldiers and civilians who rushed over is doubled or doubled, and they are purely here to deliver food when they have no artillery power.

They are not here to fight at all, but to die.

Chen Ming didn't believe that the Qing generals on the other side would not see the consequences of doing so, but they still chose to give it a go. In the final analysis, it was because there were too few troops led by Chen Ming, only 'two thousand people'!

"Order the artillery team to open fire when the enemy advances a hundred feet." Chen Ming asked people to send orders to the artillery commander Kong Jie, but he was still afraid that the opponent would not be able to stand too many casualties, so he retracted his claws after shouting, and then turned around and ran away. So he ordered to get closer and fight again.

From being afraid of scaring the opponent, Chen Ming only led one regiment to the south, and now he is still afraid of scaring the opponent, so that the artillery can be put closer and then fight, Chen Ming is also hard enough for this 'siege and reinforcement'. In fact, at this moment, the morale of the Qing army and the people is still relatively strong, because their number is much more than that of the Fu Han army, and Chen Ming also put on his own guard of honor, if Chen Ming can be captured, that scene will not be too beautiful. Chen Ming could feel the 'heat' of high morale.

However, Chen Ming was not worried at all that the Qing army would be able to brave the artillery fire to rush to the front and rear of the formation, and he could also withstand the volley of guns and kill him.

If all the soldiers in front of them could be able to shoot a salvo of a regiment of privates, the invention of the musket and war would have no meaning.

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the signal soldier immediately rushed to the artillery team and immediately conveyed the order to Kong Jie. This person just happened to have a surname of 'Kong', but he was not a member of the Qufu Kong family.

"The enemy is one hundred and fifty zhang."

"The enemy is one hundred and twenty feet."

"The enemy is full of troops--" The observers quickly reported the advance distance of the Qing army.

"Fire!" Kong Jie calmly gave the order, still holding his monoculars and looking at the black pressure on the opposite side to suppress the Qing army. After many wars, he can be regarded as an old bird. I'm used to seeing dead people, and I'm used to the scene at hand.

The Qing soldiers he saw on camera were already dead in his eyes. Around him, there were six medium mortars and six heavy mortars, and the weight of the latter's flowering shells had reached an astonishing twelve catties! On the left and right two artillery positions, twenty-four mortar cannons lined up in a long line, and the barrels with a dark green luster exuded a dark and deep light under the lazy sunlight, dignified and cold. Now that everything is ready, they are waiting for the Qing army to send them to the door to drink.

The muzzle of the gun was not moved in the slightest, because they had already adjusted the angle in the previous preparations. To adjust it again, you need to base the shell landing point and operate it slightly.

After a rumbling cannon roar, twenty-four shotguns pierced through the white gunpowder smoke, dissolved into black shadows in the sky, accompanied by a muffled roar, and landed on top of the Qing army's charging crowd.

In the second explosion, the thin cast iron shell was completely torn apart by the impact force, and countless projectiles mixed with fragments of the shell flew out of it, spreading into a large piece in mid-air. The sharp tail whistle seemed to be still echoing in the ears, and countless terrible screams had already been heard in the Qing army's brave charging procession.

Twenty-four mortar cannons, even if one-third of the flowering shells were not of good quality, failed to explode and disperse, or exploded a second time after they landed, this wave of blows also swallowed up at least hundreds of lives of the Qing army.

The earth bloomed with flowers of death, and the bright red color rendered the earth.

Eight catties and twelve catties of medium and heavy flowering bombs are very powerful.

In an instant, the charging Qing soldiers fell silent, and many people were stunned by this killing. Although they continued to attack under the leadership of the leader in the next moment. "No stops! Rush, rush—"

"As soon as the cannons sounded, they rushed closer, and when they got closer, they couldn't hit......"

"Don't stop, don't stop—"

Roaring and brandishing swords and guns threateningly, the Qing army continued to rush.

As a mortar cannon second only to the sub-mother cannon in terms of loading speed, how can it not be enough for them to reload at a distance of 100 zhang and more than 300 meters? Those Anhui soldiers are not all Bogut possessed, all of them are full 100-meter flyers?

At this distance of 100 zhang, they are still jogging, otherwise they will have no strength even if they reach the front of the formation.

Chen Ming also has a batch of rockets in his hand, which is the last killer weapon. Although Chen Ming didn't think it would come in handy, he still brought a hundred to be on the safe side.

After a short burst of cannon fire, the reloaded flowering shells pierced through the white gunpowder smoke, turned into graceful arcs in the sky, and landed in the Qing army's assault queue with a whistling aftersound.

The long tail whistle seemed to be still echoing in the ears, and the explosion of "boom-boom" was heard again in the ranks of the Qing army.

The quality of the flowering shells used by the mortar artillery units of the Fuhan army was indeed problematic at the beginning, and even now the extinguishing rate of two or three percent is normal, but even if one-third of the twenty-four flowering shells are removed, there are fifteen or sixteen that will explode in the columns of the Qing army.

Every time a cloud of smoke rises into the air, there will be a few or more Anhui soldiers who are killed, wounded and bloodied. The smallest flowering bomb weighs seven or eight pounds, and the power must not be underestimated.

The air in the chest cavity seemed to freeze instantly, and the Anhui soldiers who were wrapped in the orange-red gunpowder smoke of the explosion, everyone felt the suffocation like the black clouds crushing the city, and they couldn't breathe, and they were buried in the grave in the blink of an eye.

"Fire!"

The regiment gave an order, and when the Qing army's brave front line was still 60 zhang away, it decisively gave the order.

There is no need to put the Qing army within 100 meters before fighting, the projectile will still have a very strong lethality after flying out of 200 meters.

The Qing soldiers who were scattered were crying wolf, and they fled in confusion without even rushing to the front of the battle, and they left at least a thousand dead and wounded on the battlefield.

During the defeat and escape of the Qing army, twenty-four mortars fired a fourth round. Putting the Qing army closer to fight has such benefits. It is more fruitful than blowing them apart from afar.

Tong Jin, Li Yuelong and the others all had gloomy faces, originally wanted to rely on the strength of the crowd to disrupt the array of Chen Ming's army, and fight a group of melee battles on both sides, the Qing army was five times the number of the Fu Han army, even if it was not a big victory, it should not suffer a big loss.

Then you can think of it, the strong firepower of Chen Mingjun on the opposite side is a bottomless pit at all, four or five thousand people charged before they reached the ground, and a thousand people fell before they could reach the ground, and their entire army was only 10,000 people, how many should they fall when they charged 10,000 people to get close to hand-to-hand combat?

The heavy pressure was like a mountain pressing on the top, which wiped out all the confidence of Tong Jin, Li Yuelong and other Qing army generals.

"Back off. Go back to Xuxikou! ”

The momentum came violently, and the withered and dejected left. Li Yuelong personally led the team to suppress the formation, and Tong Jin led the team to retreat quickly.

Of course, Chen Ming chose to pursue, killing from the battlefield to Xuxikou Town, and the ten-mile road was full of corpses of Qing soldiers and prisoners of war with their heads in their hands. Then the results of the battle were counted, and more than 2,000 Qing soldiers were captured, of which 70% were people.

Chen Ming fought so easily in this battle, and it was really cool.

"How nice would it be if the Qing army had been fighting in the field?" The Fu Han army killed and captured three or four thousand Qing troops, and how many people did they themselves lose in total? Five people were killed and twenty-three wounded. Except for one dead and one wounded due to stray bullets during the formation, the rest were all suffered in the follow-up pursuit.

Chen Ming can be regarded as having experienced the majesty of the British and French armies in history. With so few casualties, the Westerners exchanged very few casualties for the Qing army's major victories. The most important factor is the crushing of weapon firepower!

The modern army, complete guns, in the face of the current tactics, armed Qing army, or the Qing army in formation, first shelling, after the Qing army array is scattered, and then the infantry platoon gun salvo to close the bottom, if there is a cavalry at this time and then the cavalry to chase and kill, it is really completely crushed.

"Boom ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

As the sun went down, the Fu Han army, which had pursued outside the town of Xuxikou, began artillery bombardment. The Qing army destroyed a brick and wood bridge that communicated with the water in the town, and the Fu Han army sent one after another flowering bombs into Xuxikou Town on the one hand, and urgently built a pontoon bridge on the other side.

The most commonly used pontoon bridge for the Fu Han army was built by boats, and if a small boat could not be found in Xuxikou Town, it used a sheepskin raft and a wooden raft.

Kong Jie held a pocket watch in his hand and looked down at the time, it was only four o'clock, and there was at least an hour and a half before dawn. If the pontoon bridge is built before five o'clock, then the Fu Han army can spend the night in Xuxikou Town.

The smoke of gunpowder enveloped the entire artillery position, and when the cold wind blew away, it re-emerged.

Chen Ming stood on a high place and looked at the direction of Xuxikou Town with a telescope. It is not very intimate, the magnification of the telescope is still lower, and I can only see smoke and dust......

The morale of the Qing army in the town seemed to be declining faster with these dust and smoke.

"Let's pick a team and cross the river on a wooden raft." Chen Ming suspected that the Qing generals had fled.

The earth collapsed and cracked, and the houses and buildings in Xuxikou Town quickly turned into ruins under the bombardment of flowering bombs. After only a quarter of an hour of shelling, the entire town of Xuxikou seemed to be in tatters.

Chen Ming gave an order, and immediately a group of soldiers carried wooden rafts and threw themselves towards the water.

There was not a single shadow of the Qing soldiers on the other side of the twenty or thirty-meter-wide water, and they had long since fled in the shelling.

However, when the soldiers of the Fu Han Army rushed into Xuxikou Town with bayonets, among the ruins in the north of the town, the blue-gray Qing soldiers also came out one after another and collided with the attacking troops.

The sound of killing shook the sky, and the mortars that had been in full swing began to shoot at the rear of the town. The follow-up support troops did not need Chen Ming to speak, and quickly followed up under the command of Tuanzheng.

"Kill-" Zhu Yan took the lead in rushing into Xuxikou Town with his troops, he is now the deputy regimental leader, and his eyes are staring at the battle exploits, so hurry up and go one step further, and it is the right thing to get the position of the regimental leader.

The station of the Inspection Department in Xuxikou Town has now become the location of Li Yuelong's camp. As for Na Tong Jin, he had already fled with his town mark.

"Xietai, Zhenbei was lost, Peng Si died, and Xu Guang surrendered. Zhou Guerrilla Liang also died in the battle. ”

"Then surrender......" Li Yuelong said as if nothing was right. Tong Jin has run away, let's still fart? ”

"Whoever wants to work for Da Qingguo will go, he will die, don't drag the brothers into the water together." (To be continued.) )