On Xiaobei Mountain, Wu Mazi was a little unbearable, the outermost defense line was driven by the Qing army to fill in the people, and several defense lines close to the top of the mountain in the inner circle were also broken through by the Qing army's "sea of people" tactics, because the medicine was exhausted, the artillery and guns became decorations, and there were no archers in the fourth town, resulting in the inability to intercept the Qing soldiers remotely. Now, he can only rely on broadswords, spears and the Qing army to exchange his life for his life.

The artillery positions on the top of the mountain have been chaotic because of the breakthrough of the Qing soldiers, and they are in a hurry, and Wu Mazi has no troops to adjust, so he has to throw the soldiers directly under the brigade at hand to resist the Qing soldiers, so as to ensure that those artillery can withdraw from the back of the mountain.

Niu Gensheng wanted to destroy the artillery on the mountain, but the Qing army advanced too fast, and he had to order the soldiers to give up the destruction of the artillery and seize the time to retreat back to the mountain. As for what consequences those artillery pieces would have on the next Liuzhou offensive and defensive battles if they were cleared, he couldn't care about it. In this way, the safe withdrawal of the gunners who have been trained with great difficulty is the most important thing that he, the commander of the artillery, should do.

If the cannon is gone, it can be captured later; When people are gone, there is nothing. Niu Gensheng, who was born in the Han military banner, knew too well what it would cost to train a skilled gunner. Besides, in this kind of simple life-for-life battle, the artillerymen staying here will not play much role, so it is better to withdraw them to the safety of Liuzhou City to let these gunners who have spent a lot of money and painstaking training die senselessly. Even if the price paid for it was the loss of the Xiaobeishan position, Niu Gensheng thought that it was a good deal.

Under the wave after wave of attacks by the Qing troops, the casualties of the Fourth Town Brigade stationed in Xiaobeishan have been more than half, and if it were not for the fact that there were still fortifications and terrain to rely on, I was afraid that the First Brigade would have collapsed. Another reason why the soldiers insisted on not retreating was because the Taiping Army's old four towns implemented the method of sitting together, and one person retreated on the battlefield and one was killed, so if a soldier was afraid of retreating, the first person to kill him was not the Qing soldier, but his comrades-in-arms who got along day and night.

What's even worse is that in addition to the joint sitting method in the army, there is also a sharp sword hanging over the heads of the soldiers, that is, if they flee without a fight or withdraw without being ordered, then their families will pay a heavy price for their cowardice and cowardice. This price ranged from being stripped of all the military treatment enjoyed by the family to hard labor, and at worst the whole family was executed. This is an extremely inhumane decree, so cruel that Song Xianggong and others have repeatedly persuaded Zhou Shixiang to revoke this decree, but Zhou Shixiang, who has come in the 21st century, has no values and ideas of that era, and is obsessed with violence and torture.

One sentence he often puts on his lips is: "This is a troubled world, this is a troubled world where a person's life is as cheap as a dog, and this is a troubled world where people eat people, so the troubled times must be recoded." Non-heavy canons can't be treated, and non-heavy canons can't turn the tide! This is true for the enemy, and it should be true for one's own people. What is the difference between obsessing over the reasonable law in this troubled world and a fool's dream? The Manchurians don't talk about the law, they don't ask about the reason, and they don't need to repeat the rules, they only speak with butcher's knives. In fact, their approach works, so we're going to learn. There is only one thing we can do now for the soldiers and the people, and that is to ensure victory in the battle, and to ensure that the people under our rule do not starve. As long as these two points are met, even the harshest laws are justified. To exist is to be reasonable, and to be reasonable is to exist. ”

The Taiping Army did not issue any punishment for the families of the captured or surrendered soldiers, but the Taiping soldiers on Xiaobei Mountain thought at the moment that they would not surrender even if they died in battle, because before that, the Qing army killed more than 3,000 surrenderers and people in Dushan Prefecture, and more than 4,000 prisoners and people were massacred in Nandan.

The Qing soldiers killed prisoners, brutally killed prisoners, and most of them were killed in pits, which cut off the idea of surrender of the Taiping soldiers.

Death, everyone is afraid, but if you have to die, then choose a better way to die, a death that can bring honor and benefits to your family.

The Taiping soldiers who are still fighting Xiaobei Mountain are not unarmed civilians, they have knives in their hands. Therefore, they would rather die in battle than surrender.

Wu Mazi has sent people to Liuzhou to bring reinforcements, as long as he can hold on for half an hour, the reinforcements can arrive

"Lord Admiral, there is a Ming army out of the city in the direction of Liuzhou, and it seems that they are coming to Xiaobeishan!"

In the camp of the Qing army under the mountain, the Qing army, who was always monitoring the movement of the Ming army in the direction of Liuzhou, immediately reported the information of the Taiping army in the city to rescue Xiaobeishan to the line Guoan.

"How many Ming soldiers are there out of the city?"

"About three thousand!"

"Three thousand?"

Hearing this number, Quan Jie laughed out loud, "Sending such a small number of soldiers to save Xiaobeishan, is it crazy for the Ming general?" ”

"General Ming is not crazy, he just doesn't know how much money Bendu has invested in this attack."

Xian Guoan shook his head with a smile, and ordered Wang Sheng, the commander of the Han army, to lead the horse team to intercept the reinforcements of the Ming army out of the city, and not let them get closer to Xiaobeishan. Wang Sheng's horse team had more than 2,000 cavalry, which was more than enough to deal with the Ming army's reinforcements of only 3,000 people.

In the previous attacks, the Ming army in Liuzhou also went out of the city to reinforce Xiaobeishan, but Line Guoan never sent troops to intercept it, because as long as Xiaobeishan was there, he could not stop the Ming army in Liuzhou, not only could not stop, but also had to withstand the artillery fire on the mountain. Now, the artillery of the Ming army has been muted, and he can confidently and boldly send troops to intercept the Ming army in Liuzhou.

"It's too late for the Ming army to come to the rescue at this time, maybe it can be saved half an hour earlier, now, hum." The whole section sneered.

Line Guoan picked up the clairvoyant mirror and looked at it, and found that although the soldiers and horses who attacked the top of the mountain were driven down by the Ming army, they quickly rushed up again, and couldn't help nodding slightly, and turned to ask the whole section: "Is there any movement in the north?" ”

Quan Jie said: "Xu Tianyou has no news to come. ”

"No news is good news. The Taiping army in the north is a threat, and when I was in Nandan the previous time, I wanted to eat this Taiping army, but unfortunately the Taiping army ran too fast and ran ahead of schedule. ”

Thinking of this, it is a pity for the line Guoan, and a little regretful, if the cavalry had been sent to take Qingyuan earlier, cutting off the way for the Taiping army to flee north, the credit book would have been added to the book, and now there is no need to worry about the north.

Quan Jie said: "The Taiping army in the north is only a few thousand people, and they were driven all the way by us, and they didn't even dare to go to Liuzhou, which shows how afraid they are of us." Therefore, the Admiral does not have to worry about the north, according to the general, most of the leaders in the north are probably thinking of preserving their strength and waiting and seeing.

Hearing the words of the whole section, Xian Guoan chuckled, and agreed a little in his heart, but he was still a little uneasy, and ordered the herald: "You go and tell General Xu that he will block the northern line for me no matter what, even if the sky falls here, he will nail me there." If you let the Taiping army from the north rush over, you tell him, just say what I said, let him wipe his neck himself, and save me from doing it. ”

"Wow!"

The herald left in response, and said with a smile: "Xu Tianyou heard the words of the Admiral, I'm afraid his face will turn blue." ”

"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years, I have been planning for so long under the pressure of King Xin's urging for so long in today's battle, and I will succeed in one fell swoop, if it fails, the fake will come true."

The whole section pursed his lips and did not speak. If they still can't take Xiaobeishan today, they really can't stay in Liuzhou anymore, and the best outcome is to withdraw their troops and return to Qingyuan to breathe, and the biggest possibility is to return to Guizhou all the way. After all, they returned thousands of miles from Yunnan, and the military rations and materials they carried were not too much, and if it weren't for the Guangxi governor Chen Weixin in Duyun who provided a batch of grain and grass, they would not have been able to delay in Liuzhou for so long

The bones move tomorrow morning, there is something to do at noon, and the update may be late.

Also, today's update doesn't count as debt repayment. The five verses owed will be made up later. (To be continued.) )