When Ma Xiong ordered the cavalry of his headquarters to charge into battle, he ordered Li Ruchun, the deputy general of Fubiao, and Li Bensheng, the patrol of Cangwu soldiers, to also charge the Ming army. With the help of the cavalry, the Qing army marched at the same time in several formations, and from the head of Wuzhou City, the men and horses were as dense as a tide, pushing towards the Taiping army one after another. The Taiping army on the opposite side also retracted their positions after discovering that the Qing army launched a general attack, preparing to meet the full force of the Qing army.

When the Qing army entered the distance of two miles in front of the Ming army's array, as soon as the command flag on the hillside moved, dozens of artillery pieces on both sides of the Ming army's large array roared in unison, smashing one shell after another into the Qing army's large array. This round of artillery bombardment was even more intense than before, and all the large and small artillery pieces fired, turning the front of the battle into a thin corridor of flesh and blood.

Some timid green battalion soldiers were frightened when they saw the stumps and flesh all over the ground, and they turned around and wanted to run back, but they were immediately dragged aside by the Ma Xiong pacesetters who supervised the battle and cut off their heads. When the other Qing soldiers saw this, they could only bite the bullet and speed up their pace and continue to advance. After a while, the Qing army's front line approached the Ming army's formation 100 paces, and the infantry archers in the team trotted out of the formation under the urging and scolding of their respective officers, gathered into dozens or hundreds of people to build arrows and pull the strings, and when they were about to shoot a round, the Ming army on the opposite hillside rose in front of the Ming army's gunners, but there were puffs of smoke, and then lead shots fell into the Qing army column from both sides like hail. All around was the sound of projectiles plopping into the flesh and the screams and wails of the unlucky ghosts, and some of the cowards, who had only just become Qing soldiers from the people's husbands for a few days, were frightened into madness, and sat on the ground rolling on the ground crying and laughing, and were slashed and slashed by the overseers as usual.

Seeing that the Ming army's firearms were powerful, and the cavalry over there had rushed to the left flank of the Ming army, Ma Xiong hurriedly ordered the Qing army to charge in advance and fight with the Ming infantry as soon as possible, so that the fire guns and cannons on the opposite side would lose their effect, and the cavalry would give them another charge, and the Ming army would definitely be defeated. With the sudden rush of the cowhide drums behind the battle, an angry cry sounded in the Qing army's array, like a black fog rushing towards the Ming army's array.

On the opposite hillside, the gunners and gunners on both sides of the Taiping army's large array were still unhurriedly harvesting the lives of the Qing army. Just after the cannonballs, a volley of birds fired like fried beans, followed by a roar of cannons, the rhythm of which was like an orchestral alternation of strings.

Although the Taiping army was treated very well with food and drink, and the officers were forbidden to beat the soldiers at will, the training on weekdays was extremely harsh. Those who did not complete the action according to the regulations of the code were beaten with military sticks and cried for their fathers and mothers, and a few stupid people were beaten and disabled alive. With these chickens as an example, how dare the monkeys be lazy and slippery? After two months of training, everyone was obedient, and they didn't dare to disobey the order to complete the action before the landslide.

The results of this training should have been on the Qing army at this time, and they fell one by one according to the rhythm, with heavy casualties. When the Qing army rushed into the front of the Ming army's formation thirty paces, the Taiping army's artillery suddenly burst into a shower of bullets, and scattered lead bullets flew into the Qing army's front like scattered flowers, and immediately fell down again.

As the last cannon finished firing shotguns, the first two rows of the Qing army's elite armor were almost swept away. Some Qing soldiers who were slightly injured and fell to the ground were trampled to the ground by their comrades in the rear team as soon as they tried to get up, and they were trampled to death. Seeing that the Qing army continued to charge, the officers of the Ming artillery battalion blew their whistles and asked the gunners to drop their cannons and run back behind the infantry formation. The infantrymen, who had been waiting for a long time, laid down their spears as soon as the gunners ran past, and stabilized their center of gravity with one bow and one foot, forming a long wall of thorns with each other. After a few breaths, a burst of arrows, pikes and axes flew from the smoke of the cannon, and dozens of soldiers who were hit immediately fell to the ground, but more of them hit the various iron armors worn by the iron-clad infantry at the front of the Taiping Army.

The arrows that were bounced off by the iron armor had not yet fallen to the ground, and the Qing soldiers in the front row had already rushed forward with a howl and joined the Ming infantry again. The front of the two armies suddenly resounded with shouts of killing and the popping sound of spear tips penetrating the human body. What surprised the Qing army was that the vast majority of those who fell in hand-to-hand combat were Qing soldiers with braids.

Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, served in that iron army for many years in his previous life, and several sets of assassination routines were brought into the Taiping army by him. Although the bayonet and rifle became the tip of the spear and the twelve-foot white shaft, the characteristics of skill and power were not inextricably linked. The marshal himself often personally went to the troops to guide the training, and also organized various assassination competitions. The winner of the first brigade can be rewarded with five stone of food stamps and ten catties of pork.

Such material stimulation naturally attracted the soldiers to rush to it, and there were even more exercises after daily exercises. The intensity of the training of the old four towns is far more fierce than that of the later towns, and the infantry of the Taiping Army trained in this way will naturally have an advantage over the Qing army that drills every few days. The Taiping army was either in groups of two or three, one person stabbed the enemy in the head and the other hit him in the chest and abdomen, even if the martial arts were strong and barely resisted, not to mention the ordinary Qing soldiers, they were killed until the ghost cried wolf. In just a moment, the front of the Taiping army was already covered with the corpses of the Qing army, but their losses were not much, and most of the wounded were dragged back to the rear for treatment.

Seeing that the attack of the Qing army's central army was stagnant, Tie Yi, the second town commander, hurriedly ordered the middle infantry to advance. A long suona sounded, and the Taiping infantry immediately resounded with dense snare drums. The Ming officers and soldiers stepped on the drumbeat of the Taixi small drum imported by the Taiping Army from the Portuguese in Macao, and marched in unison towards the retreating Qing army formation. Some bold Qing army officers with their own soldiers wanted to pounce on them to disrupt the formation of the Ming army, but they were immediately pierced by dozens of spears.

A few of them who held on to their breath were also pierced in the throat with Miao knives or short swords by the gunners and men who followed behind the formation. The Qing army could not resist the front and retreated step by step. However, at this time, the two Qing army formations in the back also pressed over, and the Qing soldiers in the front had no way to retreat, so they could only fight with the Ming army head-on, and then fell to the ground by pieces of thorns. The corpses of the two fronts were piled higher and higher, and the blood and floating dust that flowed to the low-lying places became muddy and slippery after a while, but they could not stop the pace of the Taiping Army's middle infantry formation.

This tragic scene made Fubiao's deputy general Li Ruchun's scalp numb, he had raised soldiers for several years, or the elite soldiers who had fought with the old thief Li Dingguo were slaughtered by the Taiping army like pigs and sheep!

Is this a dream?

Li Ruchun tried to wipe his eyes, but he couldn't wake up from the nightmare. The Cangwu soldiers beside him, Li Bensheng, also turned pale. Taiping Kou was so fierce that his Guilin soldiers were frightened before they could get close. The overseer team stepped forward and killed several of the rear team's minions, and did not let the right side of the Chinese army take a few more steps. The morale of the Chinese army is like this, how can this battle be fought?!

The Qing army's infantry formation was stubbornly resisted by the Taiping army's infantry formation, and was killed and wounded in large numbers at the same time, more than 2,000 Qing cavalry wearing a beamless, shaped like a cone, and made of rattan and bamboo horn hats, frantically pounced on the right wing of the Taiping army's infantry array. However, before he rushed into the Ming army's array, the war horse under his crotch did not listen to the instructions of the reins and turned around. The rider on the horse looked at it, and the battle formation of the Ming army in front of him was lush, like a jungle! To be precise, a bamboo forest woven with spears.

The bamboo forest with the tip of the spear erected was densely packed with no less than a thousand spears, and the tip of the spear flashed with cold light, plus the infantry never failed to make the Taiping army's formation chaotic, and the cavalry of the Qing army naturally did not dare to touch this "bamboo forest" with their lives. Ma Ming, the leading deputy general, saw that the situation was not good, and wanted to bypass the charge, but the guns of the Ming army on both sides began to put up the platoon again, and more than 100 Qing soldiers were knocked off their horses in the sound of guns. Shocked by the fall from his horse, he had broken his shin bone by the heavy fall just now, and he could only endure the severe pain and lean on a dead horse as a spectator, hoping that his comrades would avenge him. Unexpectedly, the comrades failed to break through the Ming army's infantry formation, but instead beat their horses and bypassed.

The Ming army's infantry resounded with a deafening suona, and then a group of gunners pressed the drums on both sides of the team to press forward. The Ming army's gunners stepped on the wounded Qing cavalry, and those Qing wounded soldiers thought that the other party would not kill them, and they all said Hu Da blessed, not wanting to be the gunners After passing, a team of swordsmen rushed to the rear, and they searched the Qing soldiers who were not dead one by one, and then used long knives to kill them.

Hei Gara held the long knife and tried to resist, but was picked open by a stick, and then he was held down and cut his neck with the knife. Blood splattered from the arteries, and the fearful heart of the Black Gara was filled. wanted to shout Hu Da, but in front of me, I saw my long-dead mother beckoning to me, and the sky gradually darkened.

In the distance, the sound of cannons rumbled, and the shouts of killing still shook the sky.

……

"What's the demon called?"

On the hillside, Tie Yi put down the clairvoyant mirror, and he was relieved that the infantry formation had successfully resisted the Qing cavalry. Gushan Ezhen, who was originally Mengbaqi, and Su Rile, who is now the deputy general of the second town, knew a little more about the Qing army, and when he heard Tie Yi's question, he stepped forward and said, "Their name is Hu Da Bao." ”

"Hu Da blessed?" Tie Yi was stunned, "Who is Hu Da, who can bless them?" ”

"The general doesn't know, Wuzhou guard general Ma Xiong is Ningxia Huihui, and his soldiers are all Huihui soldiers from Guyuan, originally commanded by his father-in-law Ma Jiaolin, after Ma Jiaolin's death, these Huihui soldiers were all returned to Ma Xiong, because his father and son are surnamed Ma, and there are many generals surnamed Ma in the Hui soldiers, so outsiders also call this Hui army Ma Jiajun." Speaking of this, Su Rile smiled and added: "That Hu Da is the god of the Hui people, and the Hui soldiers all believe in him, just like the Guanyin Bodhisattva and the Jade Emperor believed by the Han people, they are all gods in the sky." ”

"Oh?"

Tie Yi suddenly became happy, pointed at Ma Jiajun and said, "They go back. Teach Hu Da, we Luo believe in Da Shuai, I want to see if their Hu Da is powerful, or our Da Shuai! After speaking, the red order flag waved.

Catch a glimpse of the flag waving, and the horse harrier king who has been sitting lazily on the ground. The assistant minister quickly turned over and got on his horse, holding a spear in his hand and wearing a red robe on his body, looking at the Qing cavalry who were bypassing from the front of the infantry formation, first shook his head, then smiled contemptuously, and pulled the reins violently, and the mount under his crotch immediately neighed, raised his front hooves high, and when he fell again, he was already rushing forward quickly.

"Brothers, follow me to kill the enemy!" (To be continued.) )