Luo Yang, who took advantage of it, ordered all the prisoners to be organized, nominally to form a group of people to help transport supplies, in fact, he explained it very clearly to the soldiers, "Brothers, it's not easy for us to build a town, this, things, are picked up by the men, as for the clothes or something, sewing and mending, hehe, those girls will do it for you!" ”

"General, then, you can only watch?" The soldiers were very slanderous.

"When Chengdu is defeated, among these people, which one you fancy is which!"

"Really?"

"Well, absolutely!" Luo Yang admits that he is very despicable, but what is all this in order to make a contribution? Anyway, the Hunan army raised by Zeng Guofan, who is known as the master of science, is even more of a gangster who does all kinds of evil.

The addition of more than 200 male and female laborers not only reduced the burden of this unit's operations, but also gave an ambiguous spiritual encouragement, and the morale of the soldiers was even higher.

On the same day, the troops of the Qing army stationed in Yuexi City urgently reinforced Mianning, and as soon as the troops of the black pressure rushed to the outside of Mianning City, they found the banner of the Taiping Army waving in the wind on the city. He also found that there was a faint stream of Taiping troops coming from the south, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly retreated.

Luo Yang stood at the head of the city, surrounded not only by the ambitious soldiers, but also by the people of the city. Not to mention that the Qing army fled, if they really want to attack the city, it will only increase the record of the Taiping army, in the face of the retreat of the Qing army, Luo Yang commanded 200 cavalry troops to chase decisively out of the city, caught up with the enemy's tail, beheaded thirty-one people, captured sixteen people, and returned with a small victory.

On May 9, 1863, the main force of Shi Dakai's troops entered Mianning City to rest and recuperate, and the forward troops had already arrived in Daqiao Town to conduct reconnaissance and clear the roads. Outside this small stone city, the woods and grass were exceptionally quiet, as if there was no trace of human beings, only two black and iron crows, hovering on the tree branches several feet high, screaming hoarsely, and a few brown-gray hares, occasionally showing their vigilant heads from the bushes. At this time, a goshawk will quietly attack and gallop towards it.

In the first half of May in the south, it is a lunar calendar, and it is already a hot weather, especially at noon, the unpredictable microclimate between the mountains has basically no effect, all the Taiping soldiers are wearing thin summer clothes, moving forward, the war horses are strangled to chew wide, whirring hot air, because the bites of mosquitoes and flies gather, they keep shaking their skin, flicking their tails, driving away, the whole skin, are sweaty and damp.

"Send men to scout immediately!" Luo Yang shouted to the captain of the first squad.

"Yes!"

The two scout cavalry hurried away, the horses splashed up clouds of fine dust that had been scorched by the sun, and the small banner on the back of the soldier was even more cute in the wind.

"Hmph, Longhair actually went here? I don't believe it! The leader of the town's regimental training viciously and bravely rubbed his fat oily face, "Come and kill one by one, come and kill two and kill a pair!" ”

"Yes, it's not ten years ago, we're all good people, we can bully people casually, and a long hair rushing over can scare a large piece to death! We have been in the army for five years, trained for five years, and each one is stronger than the other! Mayor and Lord Hosho were holding a shotgun and looking south.

More than 200 Baoding, armed with machetes, guns, shotguns, bows and arrows, quietly lurked in the trenches outside the town, and after the main road was crossed, the hollowed-out trenches could freely pass people, and the main soldiers were hidden on both sides of the official road. As the first batch of guns to strike fire, preparations were made in case of emergency.

"Quick, it's coming!" All the regimental training troops immediately became nervous and cautious, and disappeared.

The two Taiping soldiers split up, using monoculars to observe, and then, cautiously, returned.

"General Luo, it's okay, no one."

Luo Yang shook his head decisively, picked up his telescope, and carefully scouted the bridge town in his field of vision, he didn't believe that this quiet town would really be safe, this was an instinct, the quieter it was, the more dangerous it was.

"Have you come into town to see? Didn't you? Have you extended to both sides of the road? Didn't you? Is this reconnaissance? You think scouts and outposts are here to play? Luo Yang reproached angrily. Keep scouting! ”

Four Taiping soldiers galloped forward, two crossed the official road and approached the town, and the other two searched the roads and trees on both sides.

"Oops! Long Mao actually came, "Seeing a Taiping army's war horse rushing over, about to step on the top of his head, the hidden Lord Baozheng was in a hurry, lit the fire rope, counted a few, immediately stood up, pulled the trigger, aimed at the soldier and fired a shot.

"Hit! Call me all! Seeing that the leader of the regimental training had been exposed, he could only give the order to attack.

The Taiping cavalryman was suddenly beaten into honeycomb briquettes by the shotgun of his spear, and collapsed on the road in tatters, and the strong red horse also broke his leg, broke his stomach, and rolled on the ground and wailed.

The second cavalry immediately fled, but the Qing regiments, which had been hidden for a long time, jumped up to chase and shoot, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers even jumped directly onto the road and scattered two big-footed girls to chase the cavalry!

In the smoke of gunfire, the cavalryman was badly wounded and fled in disarray.

The two cavalrymen who rushed to the edge of the walled wall of the town were shocked, and knew that something was wrong, so they fled when they returned, but the retreat had been cut off, and more than thirty Qing soldiers swarmed in, brandishing swords and guns, and shouting wildly, like a pack of man-eating beasts.

"Sure enough, there was an ambush!" Dozens of Taiping soldiers in the vanguard all cast admiring glances at Luo Yang.

Luo Yang put down the monocular telescope and immediately came to the edge of the mule cart, here, the small foreign cannon was ready to shoot.

"All ready, don't move."

The Taiping army did not attack, but the Qing army took the lead and rushed over, and the leader of the regimental training and Lord Baozheng personally led the team: "Kill all the long hair, and the governor will be rewarded!" "Slaughter a long hair, Lao Tzu will reward you with ten taels of silver first!" I will reward you with a pretty girl as a wife! "Long hair can't eat all day long, and there is no gas in the war!"

The regimental training organized by the locals and villagers was the main force to deal with the Taiping army in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, not only in Xianghuai, but also in other places, and the force was very strong. Many generals of the Taiping Army, such as King Chen Yucheng and the famous general Shi Zhenji, were captured and killed by the regimental training.

Looking at the posture of the Qing army's charge, all the Taiping soldiers couldn't help but get nervous. Fortunately, Luo Yang did not organize a confrontation, but only told everyone to prepare their guns and foreign guns, and wait on the ground.

The Qing army rushed bravely and did not rush indiscriminately, and the first few people fired their guns from time to time, because the range was insufficient, and the shotgun hit the front of the Taiping army. But the most recent shot wounded three soldiers.

Luo Yang instructed the soldiers to be patient, "Those who disobey military orders will be killed!" Only shell bombardment, you can shoot! ”

"No!"

The Qing army rushed to 100 meters, Luo Yang did not give an order, and the Qing army rushed to 60 meters, but still did not give the order to shoot, causing many Taiping soldiers to be restless and cough again and again.

At this time, the range of foreign guns is only two or three hundred meters, and the most sophisticated long-range ones are four hundred meters away, and once they shoot, they are approached by the enemy, and there is no chance of a second round of shooting, so Luo Yang decided to give full play to the effectiveness of foreign guns.

In the history of colonialism, Britain and France fought for North America, and at about 100 meters, the French army and the vassal Indian army opened fire, wounding 100 British troops and vassals, while the British army was stoic and did not shoot until the first 50 meters, as a result, the French army was beaten, more than 600 people were killed on the spot, and a salvo ended the battle, winning a battle and a continental victory!

Seeing that the Qing army was too fierce, the two Taiping soldiers turned around and ran.

Luo Yang looked back and saw it, just smiled and didn't stop it.

When the Qing army forwards drove more than 40 meters, Luo Yang personally operated the foreign artillery bombardment, only one shell, accurately bombarded the densest place of the Qing army, where Luo Yang was the focus of attention, in the violent artillery sound, the six-pound shell fragments, actually cut down more than 20 Qing army training.

The splash of smoke and shrapnel enveloped the Qing army in an instant, so the Qing army knew that something was wrong and turned around and fled. Only the soldiers at the front, who had already rushed to the front, knew that there was no way back, only screaming and charging.

The foreign guns of the Taiping army immediately fired a volley, indiscriminately, cutting down all the Qing troops running within the explosion point of the shells.

Nearly 100 Qing soldiers were either killed or wounded, and lost their combat effectiveness. Luo Yang stood up, made a whistle, and immediately, more than fifty cavalrymen jumped on their horses like lightning, shouted, and rushed forward.

Dozens of cavalry were in the smoke of gunpowder, strong and surging, and soon caught up with the retreating Qing army, brandishing butcher knives and slashing and killing. Many Qing legions practiced and were killed by war horses.

Another hundred cavalry as the second attack wave, roaring, soon slaughtered the soldiers outside the Qing army's town, hurriedly jumped into the ravine trench of the Qing army, hugged the head of the rat, still by the strong bow and arrows, shot into a hedgehog.

Luo Yang led the troops and approached the town directly, outside the city gate, the two Taiping cavalry who were under siege had died, and on the ground, there were still six Qing soldiers lying down. The gates were closed, and the defenders of the city, seeing that the enemy had arrived, threw lime and masonry downward.

This time, two small-caliber foreign guns were in front of the formation, Luo Yang commanded the artillery, fired at the city, and under his precise guidance, the shelling was quite successful, and soon blew up the city gatehouse. The gates and pavilions collapsed with a thud, burying the entire defenders of the front gates, and the smoke rose into the air, almost obscuring the view of the surroundings.

Luo Yang commanded the troops again, bombarded the city gate, and after two shells, the city gate was opened, and the infantry and spearmen of the Taiping army advanced, followed by the cavalry charge.