Gu Jiaming grinned silently, but this smile was a sneer.

Zu Kuan thought that Yu Guozhen would not have time to transfer troops to Jiaozhou, but he was not wrong in his consideration, even if it was Huwei, the road of one hundred and thirty miles was not so easy to rush to. But he obviously lagged behind, and did not expect that the railway from Qingdao Kou to Jiaozhou had been repaired, and this railway was not for horse-drawn carts to run as Zhou Zhong saw in Xinxiang.

This is the locomotive running railway, with the new locomotive, a car can pull 12 carriages, each carriage can be squeezed to take 400 people, nearly 5,000 people is a train solution.

The locomotive and carriage arrived at Qingdao as early as a month ago, and were originally ready for trial operation in the near future. Yu Guozhen rushed back to see its trial operation, but it happened to meet Zu Kuan.

It can be said that the invention of the train, a strategic level, played a role for the first time in the war, causing the tragedy of Zu Kuan. He didn't know that trains had meaning, but Yu Guozhen knew that this was the difference between people who were limited to history and those who had a historical vision.

But he was lucky, because his name will surely go down in history because of this battle.

Seeing that his artillery was wiped out by the opponent in almost one round, and the result of his own bombardment was only to add a few pits to Jiaozhou City, Zu Kuan almost vomited blood.

Yu Guozhen was too cunning, he sent those rabble to attack the city, the purpose was to confirm whether the scout's words about the city's armament were true or false, if the other party used artillery at that time, it would definitely cause greater casualties to the recruits, but the other party just didn't move. Instead, muskets were used.

Only now do I understand that what the other side is waiting for is its own artillery.

After bombarding your own artillery and solving your own long-range projection capability, the next thing that will come down should be mass destruction of military personnel......

Through some channels, Zu Kuan also got Xinxiang's artillery drill code, and thought of a text in the artillery drill code. Zu Kuan was about to cry while inhaling the cold air.

"The first task of artillery on the battlefield is to destroy enemy artillery, and for this reason. Your artillery must maintain a certain degree of mobility, so that it is convenient to move positions according to the situation and avoid the attack of enemy artillery. Furthermore. It is to kill and injure the enemy's living forces as much as possible. ”

How did I forget this text!

"Uncle, uncle, the brothers can't hold on!"

While he was still feeling sorry for himself, one of the generals of his own army grabbed the reins of his horse and said loudly. The destruction of their own artillery made everyone see the crisis, and their morale was also greatly damaged, and the fire intensity of the opponent's artillery was also greater than that of any unit they had seen before.

In such a situation, the best choice. It is to retreat for the future.

But will the Tiger Guard let them retreat?

Zu Kuan thought of Qi Niu, who had a relationship with him, this person is said to be also in Qingdaokou, just by Yu Guozhen's side, thinking that he and the iron horse he brought should also be there.

No need for much. As long as there are 500 iron cavalry, driving and chasing behind, and 3,000 foot soldiers to respond, it is enough to make Zu Kuan's 60,000 army difficult to return.

At this time, Zu Kuan was shocked to realize that he was blinded by greed after all. dared to do such a stupid thing as challenging Yu Guozhen first.

He thought for a moment, gritted his teeth and said: "Yu Guozhen has five thousand people around him at most, kill me, even if you use corpses, you will also pile them into Jiaozhou City!" Yu Guozhen himself must be in Jiaozhou City, as long as he is captured, we will eat and drink spicy food and spicy food in this life, and we will not worry about anything! ”

"But the brothers can't hold on!"

"The musket cannon of the Yu thief can kill, but our swords and guns can't kill? Whoever dares to rout again, kill it! Zu Kuan's eyes were red, and he was determined to gamble. Anyway, retreating means slumping, even if he can escape, most of the strength in his hands will be broken, who else will buy his account?

"Yes." The recruit general knew that he had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything anymore, just spit in his hand, and then shouted loudly: "Brothers, Uncle is raising us with good food, drink and fun, today is the time to fight to the death, kill them all back, and those who dare to retreat will be killed." Lao Qi, you lead people to supervise the battle, and Lao Tzu will kill to the front! ”

This pro-general took the lead, and after roaring, he really led people to kill.

But what did it do, the enemy had woven a dense net of fire in front of them, shells and guns were harvesting their lives every moment, they could not move an inch, and every time they approached the city walls, they were driven back by merciless slaughter.

The pro-soldier general was finally shot in the third charge and fell in front of the battle, along with Zu Kuan's banner.

This scene made Zu Kuan's eyes crack, even if there was a gap in combat effectiveness between his troops and Huwei, it shouldn't be like this!

The battle lasted from noon to evening, and three or four hours passed, and Zu Kuan did not achieve any results. More than half of his men had been killed in battle, and the morale of the army was scattered, and it was entirely by slaughter that they were restrained. Zu Kuan has already decided to have dinner first, and after he is full, he will personally lead the team to kill, if it doesn't work again, he will retreat.

But the fire only started at dinner, and a strange sound came out.

Zu Kuan was on a high place, he picked up the binoculars and looked south, and found that the smoke and dust were billowing on the way he came, as if hundreds of thousands of horses were coming. His heart beat wildly, and he knew in his heart that his troops were all here, how could there be thousands of horses riding over?

Then he saw a gray figure shining under the setting sun.

This is the uniform color of the tiger guard, at least eight hundred to one thousand two hundred horsemen, the leader of the flag, Zu Kuan recognized at a glance, it was Qi Niu!

The speed of these thousand horsemen was not fast, and behind them, they were also followed by foot soldiers, there were two to three thousand foot soldiers, neatly dressed in armor, and the pace was the same, approaching Zukuan's camp step by step!

"How is this possible!"

Zu Kuan screamed, and his voice was as miserable as if he had been pierced by a hedgehog.

This was completely unexpected, Yu Guozhen had only 5,000 troops at most near the mouth of Qingdao, which he confirmed several times. But he did not capture Jiaozhou City after attacking for two hours in a row, judging from the firepower at the head of the city. The number of defenders in the city should be about five thousand. But now there are four or five thousand tiger guards around him, how is this possible!

He didn't know that according to the procedures compiled by Xinxiang and the militia training methods after experimenting in Changhua and other places in Hainan, Yu Guozhen had already asked Gu Jiaming to train a full 30,000 armed militia in Shandong'dong, although its combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of Huwei, but he set off muskets at the head of the city according to the order. Absolutely no problem.

Therefore, Zu Kuan had not yet woken up from the shock of the Tiger Guard elite who appeared behind him, and there was an uproar around him. He turned his head and saw that in the open gate of Jiaozhou City, teams of soldiers wearing tiger guard uniforms and holding muskets drove out!

Followed by. On his left and right flanks, there were also tiger guards, and he was surrounded!

At this time, Zu Kuan was completely stupid, he didn't know how many of these people wearing tiger guards as training uniforms were real tiger guards, but the number of this row and row, the smoke and dust that were raised covered the sky and the sun, at least exceeded 60,000, which was not inferior to his troops!

Ma Dabao wore the camouflage of the Tiger Guard's training. Holding a stick posing as a musket, he gritted his teeth.

He was full of "railroad soldiers" like him, and they had one day of military training every six days, so they walked around in line and everything, at least so far. The enemy on the opposite side couldn't tell the difference between them and the real Tiger Guard.

For Zu Kuan and his subordinates, this was the last straw that broke the camel's back. I was full of confidence and ran to sneak attack, but when the sneak attack failed, I lost half of my teeth, and when I was about to catch my breath, I found that my enemy was much stronger than myself.

At this time, Zu Kuan also had no fighting spirit at all.

On all sides. The fortified city in front of it, obviously don't think about it, it looks like there are thousands of enemies on the left and right, only the back road, although there are enemy cavalry, it is the smallest number.

"Retreat!" Zu Kuan said in a hoarse voice.

His order was too late, and the entire ancestral army collapsed, except for his own soldiers. It's just that others are fleeing in all directions, and Zu Kuan is still fleeing with his own soldiers on the way back.

The enemies on all sides were shouting "Kneel down and don't kill", the sound was like a sea tide, like a spring thunder, like a war drum, which made Zu Kuan's subordinates tremble. They knelt down in hundreds, after all, Yu Guozhen's reputation was very good, and except for the treatment of Jianyu, almost no prisoners had been killed.

When Ma Dabao saw the person who ran to his knees in front of him, he suddenly felt an extreme sense of pride in his heart.

Although he didn't fire a shot and didn't dare to kill, at this time, he felt as if he had become a member of the Tiger Guard, and won the battle with the Tiger Guard. Not only him, but all the railroad soldiers cheered, and they even forgot about the formation military discipline.

If Zu Kuan was still observing at this moment, he would definitely be able to discover the truth of these impostors, but now Zu Kuan was holding his head and scurrying towards the southwest, hoping to break through before the tiger guards on both sides were encircled.

Qi Niu had already noticed the situation here, the enemies elsewhere were all fleeing aimlessly, like headless flies, only this one was about a thousand people, not only with a clear goal, but also well-equipped, most of them were cavalry.

"This must be Zukuan's headquarters." Qi Niu licked his lips: "The little official has an order, this time Zu Kuan must not be allowed to escape, and none of the four towns in Jiangbei of the small imperial court can stay!" ”

Now in Xinxiang's propaganda, he has openly called Jinling a small court and refused to recognize the legitimacy of Jinling's righteous power.

"I'm coming!" Wang Qinian said excitedly.

"Let you go, such a mess, it's not worth my hands." Qi Niu said proudly.

Although he is an honest man, he has won many battles over the years, but he has also developed some arrogance. Zu Kuan, who was once regarded as a great enemy by him, is no longer in his eyes.

Wang Qinian cheered and left, with nearly a thousand tiger guards dragoons behind him. Today, in addition to retaining the lethality of the cavalry saber, the dragoons also have a musket around their necks and four palm mines pinned to their waists. They went into battle, first throwing thunder in their palms, blowing the enemy line to pieces, then musket fire, and then saber appearance. They swept out diagonally, and when they were still sixty meters away from the enemy, some people began to throw palm mines—and they successfully threw them into the enemy formation and exploded with a bang, blowing up Zu Kuan's own soldiers!

"Who is Zu Kuan, take your life!" Wang Qinian looked up to the sky and howled wolf.

(To be continued)