Chapter Thirty-Eight: A Surprise Attack on the Luo Pass

Luo Yang could feel how powerful and strong the iron arm he fought bravely was, how strong and strong it was on the steel knife, how sharp it was, under the charge of the war horse, the huge inertia and speed made him have super strength, and the flying saber swirled up and down, cutting off the heads of the four Qing soldiers.

The splash of blood stained his face and sprayed on the ground, especially the moment when one of the guys was cut off his neck, the blood fountain suddenly burst out, and under the glow of the sun, the shocking blood mist had a brilliant color.

"Kill!" Every time he waved the butcher knife, Luo Yang shouted loudly, the kind of hoarse and low muffled roar that burst out of his chest, which had terrifying power.

"Kill!"

The iron hooves of the war horses were boiling, rushing forward, and the bright swords were waved again and again, cutting off the huge human heads, and even, several war horses rose into the air, trampled into the Qing army, and directly kicked several people into meat paste.

The mountain road dozens of meters wide became a place for the cavalry soldiers of the Taiping Army to exert their might, and the Qing army was cut to pieces before they had time to react, and they suffered heavy casualties.

In almost a minute, most of the Qing officers and soldiers who gathered around the mountain road to admire this uninvited guest cavalry unit were ghosts under the knife and dead souls at the bottom of their hooves.

The power of the cavalry was simply terrifying.

After annihilating the Qing army at the mountain pass, this brave cavalry did not stop at all, and directly killed into the depths of the mountain road, this short mountain road, also has a depth of 100 meters, low mountains on both sides, like a knife to see the axe, majestic and magnificent.

On the mountain road, a small number of soldiers of the Qing army immediately fainted, and immediately, they either shouted and called the police, or urgently loaded ammunition and fired.

At that time, the most advanced foreign guns, the type that was transmitted to China, and the breech guns that were also loaded with ammunition, how fast could they be? Before the Qing army could raise their guns, the long saber had already been chopped, and a head was harvested.

A blood mist erupted wildly, polluting the narrow mountain road into a terrifying red.

Dozens of Taiping cavalry marched north quickly in the mountain road, killing or wounding the oncoming Qing infantry.

A certain soldier of the Qing army was quick to move, and a foreign gun rang out, and the face of a Taiping cavalryman was beaten.

Before the cavalry could land, the rest of the Taiping cavalry swarmed and trampled the brave Qing soldier into a broken tomato.

Luo Yang was also in the army, he led more than 30 cavalry, and the Qing army camp stranded south of the mountain road was in chaos, and 100 Qing army infantry crawled out of the small barracks crying and shouting, and pouted their fat big butts and ran around. The cavalry of the Taiping Army did not hesitate, and chopped with a knife, killing these guys who did not have long eyes like chopping melons and vegetables.

In less than ten minutes, the entire Qing army camp south of the Shaluo Mountain Road was completely destroyed, more than 300 Qing infantry were killed, dozens of people escaped from the ravines and woods, and the tent of the military camp was cut down and became a ruin. On the ground, the mess was full of corpses and quasi-corpses of the Qing army, and the dying Qing officers and soldiers struggled violently and let out screams.

After confirming that the Qing army had completely collapsed, Luo Yang led his troops to the north to support the cavalry that had marched north to seize the mountain pass.

As soon as the battle began here, the subsequent cavalry units immediately caught up. It was already moving to the vicinity, not far away, at this time, the wind rushed over, and suddenly, the power of more than 300 elite cavalry of the Taiping Army had already occupied the entire Shaluo Mountain Road, and it was also continuously crowded to the northernmost point of the mountain pass, entering the purple land!

Ahead is the purple earth!

Luo Yang saw clearly the outline of the purple earth. The area around the mountain road is much lower, but it is still possible to see a large area of mountain in the shape of a cow's horn clearly.

In the distance, there is the shadow of the Dadu River, the turbid river is faintly intercepted, drawing a semi-curved shape, from the north-south direction to the east-west direction, the south bank of the river, is a low mountain basin, surrounded by lofty mountains. The entrance to the mountain road in Chaluo is just halfway up the mountain.

The cavalry of the Taiping army went straight down, killing the clearance soldiers along the way to lose their armor and abandon their armor, wolves rushed to the pigs, and the barracks occupying the mountain road and the fences blocking the mountain road were all cut down by the cavalry.

The Qing army did firmly control the Shaluo Mountain Road, the entire military camp, colluding with the north and the south, and judging from the tents in the military camp, there were at least 1,000 troops.

The scattered rejection of horses, the sharp fences, and the ingenious digging of ravines all prove that the Qing army has thought of many ways and made various preparations in order to prevent the surprise attack of the Taiping army in the north.

More than 20 cast iron cannons, more than a dozen pine cannons, a large number of shells, and gunpowder all became the pockets of the Taiping cavalry.

These things have been well handled by the terrain and made critical preparations, if the Taiping army in the northern basin really swarms to counterattack, it will definitely be killed and wounded terribly, because the mountain road is really not wide enough. Any artillery with the most indiscriminate can hit the target.

However, all this is gone.

The Luoyang cavalry troops converged, and the team of more than 300 people rushed directly to another large camp of the Qing army north of the mountain road.

Either the Qing soldiers are too confident or too careless. The battle south of the Rubra Mountain Road and in the middle of the road should be able to attract their attention!

No, when he rushed into the camp of the Qing army, Luo Yang found that a battle was taking place about a thousand meters north of the barracks, and the Qing army was all there, establishing fences and ravines, and resisting the attack of the Taiping army.

Indeed, the Taiping army, wearing red jackets, wearing all kinds of red and yellow turbans, and all kinds of weapons, is not attacking?

Luo Yang was overjoyed, and immediately raised his arms and exclaimed: "Quick, our brothers are in front, kill the Qing demon, and join the brothers!" ”

In the noisy battlefield, this sound is not earth-shattering, but it also has a particularly shocking power, in fact, seeing the situation of fierce battle in front, all the Taiping cavalry are enthusiastic, and crazy and crazy.

"Kill, kill! Kill all the demons! ”

"Quick, support our brothers!"

"That's the army of the Winged King!"

Three hundred and sixty lines of cavalry launched a brave assault, and in the north of the relatively flat mountain road, they stabbed the Qing army fiercely, and the Qing army was thrown into chaos.

However, at this moment, a group of men and horses, also cavalry, and regular Qing troops, rushed out from the flank, and then, another cannonball whistled and smashed from a distance.

It was a completely chaotic war, because everyone was wearing the clothes of the Qing army, and it seemed that it was all the Qing army in civil strife.

The most outrageous thing is that the troops of Shi Dakai, the wing king of the Taiping Army, who were attacking the Qing army camp, saw the Luoyang cavalry swarming and retreated decisively!

The Taiping army was all infantry, and when they retreated, they almost collapsed and scattered.

Do you think that these two groups of cavalry are reinforcements?

Under the counterattack of the Qing cavalry, under the bombardment of the Qing army's artillery fire, and because the Qing infantry in front of the Qing army relied on the obstruction of the ravine fence, the Luoyang cavalry lost the advantage of the assault, and he decisively ordered a retreat.

As soon as the cavalry of the Taiping army retreated to the mountain road, it was chased by the Qing army, and some of the Qing army also fiercely rushed to kill, Luo Yang immediately lined up part of the cavalry, stabilized the position, and formed a thick cavalry column in the narrow mountain road.

"Kill! Kill! "The Qing cavalry launched an offensive in an attempt to take back the mountain pass.

Under the leadership of Ouyang Jiong, the artillery battalion of the Taiping Army played a role in time, and several flowering foreign cannons let out a shocking roar, and the cannonballs whistled and smashed into the Qing cavalry formation, and the violent air waves blew up a nest of Qing cavalry to the back.

It is estimated that the cavalry of the Qing army has never been mentally prepared to suffer such a blow, and they immediately dispersed in a hurry.

In today's battle, the Luoyang army won a great victory after repeated times, annihilating more than 300 Qing troops in the south of the Luo Mountain Road, slaughtering more than 100 Qing troops in the mountain road, destroying a large area of military camps in the north of the mountain road, slashing and killing more than 400 Qing troops, and the artillery bombardment just now reduced more than 40 Qing cavalry to stiff corpses.

The successful control of the Shaluo Pass was a decisive victory.

The Luoyang army lost only forty-five people.