At the foot of Xiaobei Mountain, Wang Youxi was supported with difficulty. Brigade B in the Fourth Town suffered heavy casualties after several failed attacks. If it weren't for the B Brigade in front and blocking most of the pressure of the Qing army for them, I am afraid that the new First Brigade formed by the surrender of troops would have collapsed.

So far, Wang Youxi has no hope of winning, or that he has no way to reinforce Xiaobeishan. Now, all he could do was to close the defensive line, gather the soldiers, and keep the formation slowly retreating towards Liuzhou.

The shouting and killing sound on Xiaobei Mountain can no longer be heard, and even the artillery of the Qing army has stopped bombarding Xiaobei Mountain, no matter how optimistic he is, Wang Youxi does not think that Xiao Beishan is still in his hands.

Shao Jiugong in Liuzhou City sent someone to ask Wang Youxi's opinion, and Wang Youxi replied that there was no need to send reinforcements out of the city. What Liuzhou needs to do now is to organize the next defense of the city, instead of sending troops outside the city like adding fuel to the city.

In this situation, no matter how many troops are sent, it is useless!

For the generals, the most taboo tactics are to add oil. If Liuzhou had mobilized three brigades out of the city to reinforce Xiaobeishan at the beginning, then the war would probably not be the way it is now, but it would be useless to regret it now. Before the war, Wang Youxi did not suggest that there were more soldiers and horses on Xiaobei Mountain in the past, but Shao Jiugong thought that although Xiaobei Mountain was an excellent defensive highland and the only passage to control the north of Liuzhou City, it was not Liuzhou City after all, and the focus of Liuzhou's military strength should still be on Liuzhou City, rather than stationing heavy troops on Xiaobei Mountain.

This can also be said to be an old-fashioned and serious approach, although Xiaobeishan is important, but it is not as important as Liuzhou, 10,000 steps back, Xiaobeishan is really lost, and the Qing army will never be able to take Liuzhou. As long as the sailors on the Liujiang River are there, as long as Liuzhou is not an isolated city, it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to take Liuzhou City by tens of thousands of soldiers of the line Guoan alone. So although Wang Youxi felt that something was wrong, he didn't persuade him much.

Now, it cannot but be said that it was an extremely stupid and wrong decision not to station heavy troops in Xiaobeishan at the beginning, because Wang Youxi felt that the purpose of the line Guoan might not be to attack Liuzhou, but to change the position of the attacker and the defender -- the Qing army that took Xiaobeishan would become a difficult hurdle for the Taiping army in Liuzhou to pass, just like he is in a dilemma now.

Wang Youxi really feels very embarrassed now, because he was pressed and beaten by the artillery fire of the Qing army. The opposing cavalry kept coming out to harass and pinn down, making it difficult for him to successfully withdraw the remnants of the two brigades.

Since joining the Taiping Army, Wang Youxi has never been so aggrieved as today. Even if he was besieged by the Qing army in Xinhui City, he did not have such a strong sense of grievance.

"Fire!"

With the officer's order, the gunner of the Qing army waved the torch in his hand neatly, and the fire rope suddenly made a "whoosh" burning sound, like an apricot of a poisonous snake. Burned to the end, there was a "boom", the fire flashed, and the cannon roared out and smashed into the Ming army in front.

More than 50 artillery pieces fired in a salvo, the sound of which moved the heavens and the earth, and the power was also amazing. In the black smoke, soldiers who had been scurrying around in the Taiping army, which had been supported for more than an hour, finally began to appear.

"The Ming army can't hold on, don't waste the medicine, the horse team will follow me!"

Wang Sheng, the commander of the Han army, put down the clairvoyant mirror unexpectedly, and he unequivocally ordered the cavalry to rush and kill.

The artillery is a good bombardment, but the final solution to the battle has to rely on cavalry. Wang Sheng didn't want to throw away the credit he had received.

"Kill!"

More than 2,000 Qing cavalry roared and rushed towards the Ming troops who were scattering and fleeing.

The Ming army is indeed in a rout.

The first to collapse were the surrenders of the New 1st Brigade, and the rout of the New 1st Brigade directly affected the B Brigade, which was maintaining its formation and trying to fight and retreat.

The Qing cavalry rushed into battle, leaving Brigade B, which had lost the protection of its flanks, into a bitter battle.

Wang Youxi and Li Binglong, the brigade school of the Second Brigade, were surrounded by the Qing army.

The Qing army divided half of its troops and horses to pursue the Ming army of the new brigade that had fled, and the rest of the cavalry continued to rush the front of the second brigade under the command of Wang Sheng, the commander of the capital.

On the battlefield, there were Ming troops crying for their fathers and mothers everywhere, and more than 2,000 soldiers of the new 1st Brigade were running back indiscriminately, and the officers couldn't hold back at all. There were more than 1,000 corpses lying on the ground, and severed limbs and stumps could be seen everywhere, all of which were stoned to death by the Qing army's artillery, killed by firecrackers, and hacked to death by sabers.

In addition to the hundreds of Han troops under the original Southern Domain, the cavalry led by Wang Shengtong was the newly surrendered Ming army of Yungui, and a small number of horse bandits recruited from An. These horse bandits are all outlaws, and if they want to fight a tough battle, they are afraid that they will be discounted, but chasing and killing a group of Ming troops who are fleeing is everyone who is working hard, the sabre in his hand is waved high, and his eyes are full of hideousness.

"Die!"

A horse bandit slashed at the back of a fleeing soldier and pulled out a long bloody mouth, and the soldier ran forward for more than a dozen steps before he felt a huge pain in his back, and then the whole person leaned forward. The flesh on the back has been completely lifted, revealing the ribs of Sensen, from top to bottom, and then an inch long, I am afraid that people will be split in half.

The cavalry of the Qing army was slashing everywhere, and the battlefield was full of fallen Ming troops. Killing sexually, chasing excitedly, the Qing army is no longer gathered in one place, they run everywhere. In the rear, more than 1,000 Han troops with firearms and more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers also rushed up.

The remaining more than 1,000 soldiers of the B Brigade fell into a heavy siege, but did not collapse, but firmly resisted the Qing army's repeated charges under the command of the officers

On the northern front, after the general army of the left flank arrived with people in the whole section, the Qing army was finally able to breathe after three consecutive defeats. After briefly inquiring about the specific situation of several battles, Quan Jie frowned, and intuitively felt that the tactics and weapons of the Ming army under the banner of the word "Qi" were quite similar to the Qi army that was wiped out in the Hunhe River back then.

After the Qi army was wiped out in Hunhe and Sichuan, the Ming Dynasty never reorganized the Qi army in Zhejiang, and it can be said that the Qi army has become a history of the past, and there is no Qi army in this world. However, from Xu Tianyou's description, it seems that the thief Xiucai in Guangdong has reorganized the Qi family's army.

Thinking of the performance of the Qi family army in the Battle of Hunhe that year, the whole section was a little uneasy, it was a strong army that even tens of thousands of Manchurian Eight Banners could not beat. If it weren't for the Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty who fired indiscriminately on the heads of the Qi family army and the white pole soldiers, I am afraid that the victors of the Battle of Hunhe would not have been Manchurians, and history would have been rewritten.

Quan Jie quickly made a decision that regardless of whether the Qi army was rebuilt in the Taiping army, troops must be sent to eliminate them immediately. However, the scouts sent out returned a piece of news that shocked the whole section very much, the Qi family army that had been chasing them just now and was suspected of being rebuilt was gone. (To be continued.) )