Hu Qili's lineage headquarters pacesetter is the elite of the green battalion formed by Li Shutai, the governor of Guangdong, and his pro-soldier team is carefully selected from the Guangdong green battalion.

"Raise soldiers for a thousand days, use them for a while! The brothers eat and drink well on weekdays, and the girls can be happy, and today the general uses us, who he. Mother's can't shrink her eggs, it's all with Lao Tzu! ”

His own soldiers also wore leather armor, but Li Blind rushed down the hill shirtless. He doesn't know how to ride a horse, and he doesn't have a sword in his hand, but like Xu Zhu, a hero and tiger idiot in the Three Kingdoms, he uses a big hammer weighing dozens of pounds, and the hammer is full of sharp and sharp irons, which can kill the tiger with a hammer!

With Li Blind as an example, a group of pro-soldiers were also screaming, and their morale was not affected by the retreating Qing army in the slightest.

Seeing that his own soldiers were so brave, Hu Qili was also pleased, but seeing that his own soldiers and horses on the side of the Lutou River had retreated on all fronts, and the superintendent pacesetters were also wrapped in the retreating battalion soldiers in front of him and retreated, this heart couldn't be relaxed, and secretly complained that if it wasn't for the delay of the Han Army Banner's uncles, how could he fall for the thief's trick!

What Hu Qili can do now is to keep sending people to collect the rout, and strictly order the pacesetters to stabilize their positions and prevent the repetition of the Xinhui rout. At the same time, he sent two groups of envoys to the Han army banner Tong Erhan behind him to ask for help, so that they must rush to the Lutou River immediately

Although Li Blind looked like a muddy man, he was actually very shrewd, and after taking his own soldiers downhill, he did not rush to stop the cavalry of the Taiping Army, but ordered his soldiers to take off the fire on their backs, light the fire fold and wait for the Taiping cavalry to come. He knew that the cavalry was born to restrain the infantry, so he rushed down with people so rashly, let alone blocking these Taiping Kou, I was afraid that he couldn't even drag them for a while. The only way to do this is to take advantage of the hillside terrain to delay the Taipingkou. They can't rush up the hill, and as long as the horses of the Taipingkou come down quickly, they become live targets on their horses for their own hunting.

After discovering that Li Blind led people to stop on the slope in front of him, Zheng Guodong also came to his senses, and hurriedly led the horse team to bypass the side, exposing the Taiping cavalry chasing behind him to Li Blind's personal army.

The cavalry of the Taiping army did not notice the movement in front of them in time, and when they found that there were Qing soldiers with firearms in front of them, they had no time to change direction, so they could only continue to rush forward.

"Release!"

In the smoke of gunpowder, more than 40 Taiping soldiers who rushed ahead fell from their horses. But more Taiping soldiers rushed closer, but the speed of the horses slowed down significantly, and with the influence of the corpses of their fallen companions, only a few dozen people could rush directly past.

The Taiping cavalry battalion weapons came from a very complex source, and they were not all sabers like the Qing army's horse teams, some of them were armed with long knives, some with spears, and some with long-handled axes. Seeing dozens of Taiping cavalry rushing up, Li Blind did not wait for his subordinates to reload. With a loud roar, he picked up the sledgehammer and slashed forward.

"Taiping Kou can't run, brothers copy me guys!"

Hearing the shouts of the blind man Li, a group of pro-soldiers threw the firearms in their hands towards the Taiping army. Then he picked up a long knife from the ground and took advantage of the hillside terrain to kill the Taiping army.

The Qing army horse team that went around to the left saw that the Taiping army was dragged by the pro-soldier team, and Zheng Guodong also saw the fighter plane from it, so he hesitated and pulled the horse's head and turned around and rushed down the slope.

In front of the Qing army, the Qing army did not want to die, and the flank was hit by the Qing army's horse team that killed the horse pistol. All of a sudden, the Taiping cavalry battalion, which could only be called horse infantry rather than real cavalry, was besieged.

The eyes of the battalion officer Shao Guocheng are almost dripping blood, since the formation of the cavalry battalion. I haven't suffered such a big loss, I was originally chasing the Qing Demon, but now I am surrounded by the Qing Demon, and I can't rush at all!

He couldn't care about blaming himself, so he could only desperately lead his subordinates to retreat down the slope. Under the attack of the Qing army's horse team and the pro-soldier team, the cavalry battalion suffered more than 100 casualties before retreating to the bottom of the slope, but it was surrounded by the Qing army's horse team and could not retreat at all.

The cavalry was like a bloody man, and the battle was far more fierce than any battle they had ever experienced before. Looking at those who were still alive just now and following their own pursuit of the Qing Demon, one by one turned into cold corpses lying on the slope, Shao Chengguo's heart was like being stabbed by a needle.

"Kill, kill me!"

"The infantry brothers have already defeated the Qing Demon, the Qing Demon here will run away sooner or later, brothers, don't be afraid, hold on, hold on!"

Shao Chengguo kept shouting cheers for his subordinates, but more and more of his subordinates fell, and the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and only half of the Taiping army was still on horseback.

The situation on the battlefield presented two completely different situations, the thousands of Qing troops in front were unable to retreat by the right battalion of the infantry army and the remnants of the left battalion of the infantry army crossing the river, but the cavalry of the Taiping army on this side was surrounded by the Qing army.

The sound of artillery was still rumbling, but it was becoming less and less, and after the Qing army completely retreated from the preset shelling circle, Zhou Shixiang ordered the artillery battalion to stop the shelling, and ordered Qi Hao to mobilize all the tiger squat guns and poles to cross the river.

The Tiger Squat Cannon was so light that three soldiers could carry it across the river, and the pole was even lighter, and two soldiers could successfully wade through the water when they held it one after the other.

These two cannons have not fired a single one in the previous shelling, because their firing range is extremely short, the tiger squat cannon can be four or five hundred meters, but the pole gun can only hit more than 100 meters away, this distance is obviously unable to hit the Qing army.

Now that the Taiping army has stabilized the defensive line and successfully repelled the Qing army, the retreating Qing army cannot organize an effective attack again in a short time, and it is not even possible to reorganize the team. This is where the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Pole Gun come into play—they fire not solid iron bullets, but dense lead shots. As long as these extremely powerful short-range guns were transported, Zhou Shixiang believed that they would definitely be able to achieve a major victory for the Taiping army.

On the other side of the river, accompanied by the sound of suona, the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the right battalion of the infantry army slowly moved forward in a phalanx under the command of the officer, and the remaining more than 1,000 soldiers of the left battalion of the infantry army pursued the retreating Qing army in a straggler formation under the leadership of the battalion officer Ge Yi.

During this period, the artillery of the Qing army fired several times, but it could no longer shake the Taiping army's array, and after hitting the artillery on the head of his own retreating soldiers and horses and the Taiping army at the same time several times in a row, Hu Qili ordered to stop the artillery bombardment, and the artillery team immediately transported the artillery to the rear, so as not to be captured by the Taiping army when it was too late to retreat.

Zhou Shixiang saw from the clairvoyant mirror that Shao Chengguo's cavalry camp was suppressed by the Qing army, but there was no way to send troops to rescue.

Before the war, Zhou Shixiang gave Shao Chengguo the task of expelling the Qing army horse team from the battlefield, if not, he would drag them down, so that the Qing army horse team would not have an impact on the right battalion of the infantry army crossing the river, but he did not want Shao Chengguo to kill the enemy, and after driving away the Qing army horse team, he actually ignored the reality that his own strength was not enough to annihilate the Qing army horse team.

The Taiping army still has a force and horses that have not moved, that is, Shao Jiugong's personal barracks, but even if he saw that the cavalry battalion continued to have soldiers falling, Zhou Shixiang still did not have the idea of sending the pro-military battalion to cross the river to rescue, because he was very worried that the Qing army had a rear hand in addition to the troops that had already appeared on the battlefield, just like he had planted an ambush on the other side of the Lutou River.

When the Qing army attacked Zengcheng, the left battalion of the infantry army found that there was a Han army flag inlaid with blue flags outside the city, and now, this Han army flag has never appeared on the battlefield, which can not help but make Zhou Shixiang cautious, if he sends the pro-military battalion across the river now, once the Han army flag joins the battlefield, the Taiping army has no mobile force to deal with them.

The purpose of attacking Zengcheng to grab grain has been achieved, the battle of Lutouhe is just the end of the battle, Zhou Shixiang does not want to pay too much loss in this final battle, the purpose he wants to achieve is very simple, force the Qing army to withdraw. (To be continued.) )