"Retreat, retreat!" Luo Yang decisively ordered.

All the soldiers of the Taiping army were at a loss, and after hesitating for a while, they withdrew their troops in a rather chaotic manner.

When the army returned to the Ma'anshan barracks, Shi Dakai, who was watching the battle in the southeast of the barracks, was extremely shocked, and Zeng Shihe, who cooperated with the battle, was indignant: "Why do you want to withdraw the troops? ”

Luo Yang talked about the range of the flying thunder cannon, and talked about the flowering foreign cannon of the Qing army: "Yiwang, Zeng Zaifu, when our army decided to start a battle, we didn't notice that the Qing demon was equipped with a new cannon, so the battle plan must be modified!" ”

Luo Yang described his idea in detail, and the generals listened to it and nodded one by one: "Yes, yes, it makes sense!" ”

Luo Yang's meaning, the Taiping army attacked, because of the range of the flying thunder artillery, it must lag behind the enemy, and the enemy's equipment of the flowering foreign artillery, exposed a few, the rest of the number is not yet known, since there is no advantage in firepower, it will inevitably suffer huge losses in the battle, at that time, the victory is also defeat. Luoyang had to adopt the tactics of night attack to completely defeat the Qing army, and at the same time, he had to seize the enemy's newly equipped flowering cannons, and the shells of the flowering cannons used by the Luoyang army were quite scarce and could not be confronted by the Qing army.

The embarrassed retreat of the Taiping army confused the Qing army, and the Qing army firmly held on to the inside and outside of the mountain pass, and at the same time, planned to send troops to attack the Shaluo Mountain Road, block it again, and complete the siege.

After nightfall, the Taiping army moved quietly and moved the troops to the north of the mountain road where the Qing army was located, and although it was a secret operation, it still attracted the attention of the Qing army, and the Qing army immediately lit many torches for lighting, and at the same time, bombarded with some artillery.

The foreign guns of the Taiping infantry, sporadically bursting, distracting the attention of the Qing army, because of the dark night, no matter how many torches, the lighting effect is quite poor, the danger of the Taiping army's night attack, so that all the Qing troops were mobilized, and the general Yang Yinggang personally rushed to the front line to encourage the officers and soldiers to fight bravely to kill the enemy.

"Long hair didn't get a little cheap last time, during the day, he was bombarded by our army's foreign artillery and lost his courage, and now it's just harassment!"

The Qing army worked together to fill the back of the fence and ravine.

Luo Yang personally led the soldiers to transport the flying thunder cannon to the forward position, and stopped at a distance of 100 meters. According to the place illuminated by the fire of the Qing army, guess the location of the Qing army's troops, and then arrange for everyone to prepare for bombardment.

More infantry, moving to the point of attack, just lay on the ground, not moving.

A small number of troops harassed the Qing army two quarters of an hour later. Luo Yang commanded the artillery to bombard, and in addition to the flying thunder cannons, the artillery also brought all the shells of the flowering foreign cannons to the battlefield for attack.

At this point, Shi Dakai and others once expressed their worries, but Luo Yang's faint words made them suddenly enlightened: "We are in business, we have to have capital, right?" When we occupy the position of the Qing Demon Army, all the flowering cannons and shells of the Qing Demon Army are ours! ”

The Qing army's flowering shells raged in the dark wilderness, occasionally lifting one or two hapless Taiping soldiers and blowing them into rags. However, in general, the Qing army did not know the details and was very cautious. The casualties of the Taiping army were minimal.

Luo Yang's telescope had been observing the Qing army, directing the Flying Thunder Cannon and the Blossom Cannon to aim at the target.

The flying thunder cannon was placed under the nose of the Qing army, and the flowering foreign cannon was much farther away, but it was within the firing range.

A small number of Taiping soldiers disregarded their safety and disturbed the vision of the Qing army, and in the roar of the Qing army's artillery, people continued to die, but they were still active.

Because of fear, the flowering artillery of the Qing army bombarded decisively, and suddenly, let Luo Yang, who was observing, confirm the location of the enemy's artillery position, so he repeatedly revised the target of the attack, and then, walking through it himself, told all the gunners.

The small number of flowering shells of the Taiping army were all aimed at the Qing army's position, while the flying thunder artillery was aimed at the enemy's infantry group.

The real water has no fragrance, the real tactical command, boring and boring, but, as a professional artillery officer, Luo Yang did it in an orderly manner.

When the Qing army was dazed in the chaos, constantly exposing the target, and concentrating the troops too much to the front, Luo Yang smiled.

He personally rushed back to the artillery position of the flowering artillery, urged the artillery to adjust the direction, confirm the target, and agreed on the time of the strike, and then decisively returned to the front line.

The Taiping army suddenly roared with thunder cannons and began to attack.

On the forward position of the pitch-black regiment, there was a sudden shining fire, and then, a violent explosion sounded, which shocked the Qing army, and many officers and soldiers hurriedly looked for directions.

This is actually just an explosion that fires gunpowder, and the real big guy killer has already taken off into the air and flew above the heads of the Qing army.

This is the signal, and together with the signal, the foreign artillery units of the Taiping Army can concentrate on smashing the flowering shells towards the positions of the Qing artillery. Because Luo Yang had an order, the sooner the better, and all the artillery officers were engrossed in their efforts and worked efficiently, so that the frequency of firing of the cannon was unprecedented.

At the same time, the flying thunder artillery position began to exert its power, and a tube of flying thunder cannon let out a shocking roar, launching dozens of catties of explosives into the sky, and then smashing into the head of the Qing army.

The roar of dozens of flying thunder cannons, in an instant, almost made all the Qing officers and soldiers at the front line deaf!

Yang Yinggang, a general who participated in dozens of battles and had unparalleled courage and courage, fell to the ground in shock, and was also injured on the spot by the iron sand wrapped in a flying thunder cannon, bleeding profusely.

In the first round of bombardment, all the obstacles and facilities in the forward positions of the Qing army were destroyed, and the infantry and foreign spearmen of the Qing army gathered behind the ravines and fences suffered heavy casualties. Often a shell bombards it, and it is a large area of no man's land!

Luo Yang was not careless, and ordered the artillery to carry out three rounds of bombardment, and then let the infantry charge.

The infantry of the Taiping army easily crossed the bombarded ravine and entered the Qing army's position without any hindrance, because many fences and other objects were burned by the cannons, and the bright fires reflected the terrible scene on the Qing army's position. The vast majority of the Qing army has been killed or wounded, turned into minced flesh and mud, and many places are empty!

The artillery of the Qing army was also attacked suddenly, and it was impossible to distinguish the direction of the enemy's artillery at all, so it was covered by continuous blows, and the gunners were killed and wounded one after another, and the position became a vacuum.

1,300 Taiping infantry infiltrated silently and quickly advanced to the vicinity of the mountain pass, occupying all the Qing army camps and positions northwest of the mountain road.

The light of the fire extinguished, so that the vision near the mountain pass is more blurred, the remnants of the Qing army here carried out the most stubborn resistance, causing the Taiping army in this battle The largest casualty in this battle, but only more than 40 people, the Taiping infantry used to throw dozens of meters of home-made grenades, forming a powerful fire network, immediately covering the Qing troops, the Qing army screamed defeat and retreated.