"What the hell is this, maha!"

On the rugged and narrow mountain road, Yang Hu, the first sentry commander of the second battalion of the fourth brigade of the Ming army, said in horror. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The soldiers beside him, who hurriedly got out of the car to find concealment, were also looking at them with the same expressions, and as for the people of the convoy behind them, they had already held their heads and screamed in fright, because the enemy who rushed out of the mountains and forests opposite them could be described as evil spirits, all of them with red beards and blue eyes, tall figures, obliquely draped in animal skins and leather hats on their heads, and carrying a rifle with bayonets, howling like wild beasts, rushing out of the dense forest and rocks.

There are also people who actually carry wine bottles in their hands and run away while drinking.

Well, this is a Russian mercenary with a yinchu.

The fortress group composed of Niangzi Pass, the old pass, and the solid pass is the throat of the Jingcheng Road, once the Ming army is lost here, it will go straight to Taiyuan, Yinchu is not only stationed here with 20,000 elites but also 3,000 Russian mercenaries, but it is useless to just hold on, the Ming army's attack force is of course very clear, the best way to hold here is to let the Ming army come to attack, and then rely on the complex environment in the mountains to cut off its logistics supply, and finally wait for the Ming army to run out of ammunition and then launch a counterattack, and the most difficult task of breaking the logistics of the Ming army is of course to be handed over to the most capable Russian mercenaries.

Three thousand Russian mercenaries were divided into three teams, just in a secret stronghold between the surrounding mountains, waiting to be killed from the mountains at any time.

And that's just one of them.

"Fire!"

Yang Hu roared.

At the same time, he raised his revolver and aimed at the nearest Russian mercenary and pulled the trigger, and at the same time, the latter was also raising his gun and pulling the trigger, the guns of the two rang out almost at the same time, the Russian mercenary shook violently, and then fell on his back, but at the same time, a bullet was also hitting the stone in front of Yang Hu, and the debris collapsed and hit his face with a pain immediately.

At this time, other Ming soldiers also pulled the trigger.

Dense gunfire rang out suddenly.

The Russian mercenaries on the opposite side also opened fire during the charge.

But the result was very different.

Because of the proximity, the bullets fired by the Ming army almost missed, and the Russian mercenaries in the charge fell in pieces, but the bullets they fired could be said to be fruitless, because the Ming army did not stand as in the past when they fired, but all knelt behind the stones or simply lay on the ground. The Russians' smoothbore guns have no real accuracy, and the accuracy problem is solved by the density of the guns on the battlefield, and it is a miracle that this chaotic state of firing bullets and hitting a group of targets hiding behind rocks and trees and lying behind mounds of dirt can be hit.

Fortunately, the Russian mercenaries never relied on this tactic to win, and their favorite thing was to fight at close quarters, even if they were killed by the bullets fired by the Ming army, the rest still ran straight into them with rifles with bayonets.

They are all pure outlaws, most of them are all kinds of criminals exiled to the Far East by the Russian government, accustomed to being in the company of tigers, leopards and jackals in the mountains and forests, and they have nothing to think about in the future, as long as there is wine to drink, women and meat to eat, everything else can be ignored, and Yinchu gave them exactly what they have. These Russian mercenaries were truly in love with His Majesty the Qianlong Emperor, and now was the time for them to serve His Majesty the Tatar Emperor, and the charging Russian mercenaries shouted the slogan of Ulla, and crashed into the Ming army like a pack of hungry wolves snatching food.

The Ming soldiers opposite them did not show any panic.

At the same time that the officers kept firing with their revolvers, the soldiers pulled the bolt of the gun as fast as they could, put in the bullet and pushed it into the chamber with their fingers, then pushed the bolt and aimed at the enemy and pulled the trigger, and then without even looking at it, they lowered their heads again, pulled the bolt and took out the bullet and put it into the chamber of the gun to fire for the third time, and in less than 20 seconds, the two hundred Ming soldiers fired three rounds of bullets, leaving dead bodies in the path of the Russian mercenary's charge.

But they did it anyway.

"Kill!"

Yang Hu threw away the empty revolver, then pulled out his saber and shouted.

At the same time, his soldiers also jumped up with their bayonet rifles, and in the blink of an eye they collided with the Russians, and in the chaos of the crash, the screams of being stabbed through the body by bayonets rang out one after another. The Ming soldiers in groups of two and two were undaunted by the siege of the larger number of Russian mercenaries, and the triangular pyramid bayonets continued to pierce out in the roar, piercing the bodies of the enemies one by one in the blood splashes, and they were also constantly subjected to the attacks of the conical bayonets of the Russian mercenaries.

But......

The Ming army had cuirasses.

This alloy steel plate stamped cuirass has become the decisive weapon of this kind of battle, the Russians' bayonet because of the poor steel-making technology, in fact, it is forged by the steel filling method, in essence, it should be said that it is iron rather than steel, this kind of thing is not as hard as the cuirass of the Ming army, although it is not impossible to pierce with the strength of the Russian mercenaries, but in most cases it is easy to be slid away, and this situation is equivalent to suicide when stabbing is tantamount to suicide, and the Ming soldiers will not give them a second chance.

"Mah, it's not a big deal except that it's scary!"

Yang Hu slashed the arm of the Russian who was fighting against him with a knife, and sneered at the guy who was screaming on the ground.

But at the same moment a huge force hit him in the back, knocking him almost to his stomach, and he hurriedly ran forward two steps before turning, and a Russian mercenary behind him roared with a rifle and rushed again, but the bayonet, which was actually more like an iron bar, was clearly a little bent.

Yang Hu didn't think much about it, and at the moment when the bayonet stabbed him, he made a mistake, and the bayonet grazed his ribs, with the sound of rubbing against the cuirass, but at the same time, Yang Hu's saber also stabbed into the chest of the Russian mercenary, and he stirred it maliciously in the latter's screams, dragged it down and pulled it out, and at the same time he pulled it out, blood sprayed on his body, and then the Russian convulsed and fell.

"Quick, help the officers and soldiers kill the Rakshasa ghosts!"

At this time, the folk finally came to their senses, and a middle-aged man immediately shouted.

Then he picked up a front-loading smoothbore gun, which was also loaded with a bayonet, aimed at the nearest Russian mercenary and pulled the trigger, in the light of the black powder spray, the round lead bullet was hitting the latter, and at the same time as the Russian mercenary fell, he also stabbed the other Russian mercenary with this rifle like a small flower gun, and the civilians behind him also raised their shotguns and opened fire, and the Russian mercenaries fell one after another in the sound of gunfire.

Yang Feng allows the people to hold firearms, but they are not allowed to have rifled guns, but the smoothbore guns are casual, anyway, the people are just hunting, and the performance of this kind of gun is enough.

And the vast majority of these civilians are reserves and reserves, all have a certain military foundation, their participation immediately made the balance of victory directly tilted in favor of the Ming army, seeing that the situation was not good, the Russian mercenaries who were fighting with the Ming army finally lost the courage to continue. Immediately after that, with a series of panicked shouts, they retreated towards the dense forest, but fortunately, the terrain in this place was too conducive to their retreat, and the remnants of the Russian mercenaries disappeared into the mountains and forests in the blink of an eye, leaving only dead bodies and wailing wounded soldiers everywhere.

Yang Hu took off his cuirass with a gloomy face, only to find that there was a shocking scratch on his back, which had even been pierced, but it was blocked by the cotton military uniform underneath, and it was obvious that if he hadn't had a cuirass, he would have been nailed directly to the ground. He looked hatefully at the Russian, who had a broken arm, who was not yet dead, sitting on the ground covering his wounds, looking at him with horrified eyes, Yang Hu unceremoniously raised his saber, and with a cold light, a red-haired and blue-eyed head rolled to the ground.

"But that's it!"

He said with a sneer.

"Kill not a single captive, kill them all!"

Then he yelled.

The Ming soldiers, who were clearing the battlefield, raised their guns and stabbed their bayonets into the hearts of the wounded Russian soldiers.

At this moment, there was a sudden and dense sound of gunfire from the south of them, but it was not so real from a distance.

"It's the South Road, and there must have been an attack over there."

An officer next to him said.

The Ming army was divided into two ways to attack, all the way to attack Niangzi Pass, all the way to attack Jiuguan and Guguan on the southern front, these two are the Jingcheng Pass where Han Xin went out of the Jingcheng Road back to the water, and Niangzi Pass was more than ten miles away from each other and stood together to form a fortress group, the second brigade of the Ming Army on the south road was responsible for the attack, and the other two battalions of the fourth brigade escorted ammunition and materials for them, and their transportation line was also only separated by a mountain from the transportation line taken by Yang Hu.

The First Army of the Ming Army had only three brigades responsible for the offensive here, while the 1st Infantry Brigade was on guard in Baoding in the direction of Baoding Pass and Bauhinia Pass, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade marched into Lu'an from the southern line through Gankou, and from the southern front cooperated with the 17th Infantry Brigade of the Fifth Army to threaten Taiyuan. However, the main force of the Fifth Army did not participate in the attack on Taiyuan, they were attacking Qinzhou at this time, that is, Tianshui, and the attack on Taiyuan was mainly responsible for the First Army.

"Even if it's too late, we can just do our own work."

Yang Hu said.

They were less than eight miles away from them on the map, but in fact it would take at least three or four hours to cross the mountains, and even reinforcements would be of little point, not to mention that they would have to protect the convoy from attacking again. Immediately after they cleaned up the battlefield, they took the corpses of more than 30 Ming soldiers killed in the battle and more than 60 light and serious wounded, and continued to rush forward to Niangzi Pass in the west, where there was also a temporary field ambulance station.

Not far from them, the gunfire to the south stopped, and it was clear that the fighting was over. (To be continued.) )