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"Brigadier Commander, isn't it a little inappropriate for us to go any further?"

Xu Ming, chief of staff of the 1st Cavalry Brigade, cautiously asked the brigade commander Guo Hong, hundreds of Qing troops behind them were happily lining up to the south by themselves, and the officers at the head were still holding the documents signed by Guo Hong, and after arriving in Wuxiang, this thing would become a proof that they took the initiative to go right, and then according to the standard of taking the initiative to go back to their homes to find their own mothers, and at their feet were the corpses of dozens of Mongolian officers and a Russian adviser.

This is the hinterland of the Taiyue Mountains.

In fact, this is the military demarcation line of the Ming and Qing dynasties, to the south is Qinzhou under the control of the 17th Brigade of the Ming Army, and to the north out of the Taiyue Mountains is Qixian and Pingyao under the control of the Qing army, and the watershed is the outpost of the Qing army, but the real main defense line is in the north of Nanguan. However, there are not many Qing troops stationed there, only more than 5,000 Mongolian soldiers, and the Ming army has a total of only a few thousand people in the Shangdang area, and it is impossible to cross the Taiyue Mountain to attack Jinzhong, and the total number of Manchu and Mongolian troops and 20,000 Russian mercenaries in Yinchu's hands is only 60,000, but it needs to defend the vast area from the Fenhe River Valley to the Taiyue Mountain, Taihang Mountain, and Yanshan.

And Guo Hong is going north.

"The order given to us by the commander is to contain the enemy army on the southern front, how can we contain it if we don't kill it?"

Guo Hong said solemnly.

However, the order he got was to cooperate with other armies to ensure the safety of Lu'an and other places to contain the Qing army, and if he wanted to hit Nanguan, it obviously had nothing to do with containment, that is, since ancient times, he crossed the Taiyue Mountain to attack the Jinzhong Plain or went south from the Jinzhong Plain to the throat, and defeating the Nanguan was equivalent to smashing Jinzhong.

Of course, Xu Ming is just doing his duty, in fact, he also wants to break into Jinzhong.

At this time, the Ming army was full of thoughts of making meritorious contributions, and it was obvious that if they could enter Jinzhong and go straight to Taiyuan, it would be a miracle, even if they could not take Taiyuan, it would be enough to completely disrupt the deployment of the Qing army and create opportunities for the frontal battlefield.

So immediately afterwards, the 1st Cavalry Brigade rushed straight to Nanguan.

And at this time, a large army of 5,000 cavalry was also marching from north to south along the ancient official road to Nanguan, these people were all in dirty leather robes, riding war horses slightly taller than Mongolian horses, some were still wearing chain mail outside, with leather hats on their heads, and even bareheaded, with only a handful of hair on their bare heads, spears about a foot or so erected upwards behind the saddle, and short-barreled carbines and curved sabers hanging from their legs, All of them are fierce and savage, like standard barbarians.

Well, this is a Cossack.

However, the classic Donhippo and Chashik saber are not yet available at this time, in fact, the Cossacks at this time are original, purely bandit-style ronins, except for killing people and setting fires, it can be said that there is basically nothing, of course Yinyu will not miss such a good thug, and the vast majority of the Russian mercenaries under him are Cossacks.

"Hurry up, gold, silver, wine, and women are waiting for us!"

At the front of the team, the commander of the team, Karekin, turned around and shouted.

There was immediately laughter in the procession, like a pack of spotted hyenas waiting to be hunted.

Their task is very simple, kill the area controlled by the Ming army, do what they like, in short, destroy unscrupulously, kill people, set fire and rob Qiang Jian as big as possible, force Yang Feng to send troops to encircle and suppress them, it is not much use to catch and kill 5,000 cavalry on the real battlefield, Yinchu has seen the power of the Ming army's multiple rocket launchers, tens of thousands of cavalry were burned to slag back then, not to mention such a few people, but these 5,000 people are scattered in the Ming army-controlled area as bandits, the effect is completely different, I'm afraid Yang Feng will have to transfer an army to protect those ordinary people.

The Ming army's field troops in the north only had three armies, and only one army was really used to attack Taiyuan.

This is Yinchu's trick.

"General Karekin, we must rush overnight, so that we can reach Qinzhou tomorrow morning, the defenders of the Ming army in Qinzhou and Wuxiang each battalion, but they are all infantry, and they will definitely not dare to go out of the city to meet the battle, we will go around Qinzhou and go straight to Xiangyuan, and then kill all the way non-stop, rush to Zezhou directly before the main force of the Ming army arrives, turn around and then cross Zhongtiao Mountain to Jinnan, cut off the logistics supply line of the Ming army in Linfen in one fell swoop, and the emperor's army will press over from the north and meet with us and the 17th Brigade of the Ming Army."

A Qing army general beside Karekin said excitedly.

Obviously, such a great victory as the total annihilation of a brigade of the Ming army is basically the greatest pursuit of his life, after all, after so many years of fighting, they have never been able to eliminate a brigade of the Ming army......

Well, not even a battalion.

"General Tian, our Emperor His Majesty is too cautious, 5,000 Cossacks can hit Beijing, 10,000 Cossacks are gathered in this land, and nothing can stop it, if there are 30,000 Cossacks, I can guarantee to conquer this country again for Your Majesty."

Kalegin said as he picked up the bottle and poured it.

"No, no, General Karekin, you must not underestimate the Ming army, we have been fighting them for many years."

Tian Wenjing, the squire of the Qing Dynasty's military department, said solemnly.

"You guys?"

Karekin said disdainfully.

However, as soon as he finished saying this, like a heavy thunder in the distance in the summer, a series of faint explosions suddenly came.

"Quick, Nanguan!"

Tian Wenjing's face changed and he hurriedly shouted.

Karekin immediately roared, and five thousand Cossacks marched south at full speed.

At this time, Nanguan has been swallowed by yellow-green mist, on the top of the hill south of this pass, twenty-four Ming soldiers carrying twelve single-barreled light rocket launchers lined up, one rocket after another instantly flew out and dragged a long trail into the yellow-green mist, with the sound of explosion, the fog immediately became much thicker.

Cavalry without heavy artillery lacks offensive weapons, so in this case, let's match it with duke bombs!

The poor Mongol soldiers who were guarding Nanguan didn't know anything at all, and suddenly disaster fell from the sky, and they screamed in the pungent chlorine gas and fled like headless flies, trying their best to avoid the demonic poisonous mist, and then one by one they fell to the ground and coughed violently, allowing the corrosive acid produced by the chlorine gas to ablate the internal organs of their bodies.

"I just love this thing!"

Guo Hong said while standing on the hillside with a saber.

"Brigadier Commander, look over there!"

Xu Ming pointed to the north and shouted.

Guo Hong raised his head and held up the binoculars to look, and a large number of birds in the northern sky were taking off one after another, and they were constantly circling and did not dare to fall.

"Ah, someone's coming."

He said casually: "How many more duke bombs?" ”

"One hundred and twenty."

Said the captain of the light rocket artillery team next to him.

This kind of light rocket weighs dozens of pounds, plus the launcher is less than sixty pounds, but the range can reach three miles, although the power is small, but the gas is still enough, the cavalry of the Ming army is camelped with war horses, a group of horses and four, basically can move at will with the large army.

"Stop, stop fighting, save it for the new guests!"

Guo Hong said.

At this time, the defenders of Nanguan have completely collapsed, those superstitious thoughts are serious, and they have not tasted this weapon, the Mongolian soldiers still think that it is a demon law, the descendants of the old adult are not very afraid of death, but there is a deep-rooted fear of this demon law, five thousand defenders except for the smoked down, the other swarms fled from Nanguan, and at this time, the Ming cavalry who dismounted had rushed to the nearby hills, and then leisurely found a place with a wide field of vision to stand, raised the rifle and erected the ruler and began to shoot the moving target.

Nanguan is not big, it is nothing more than a small valley with a length of several hundred meters and a width, and the effective range of the Ming army's rifles is one mile, that is, six hundred meters, basically covering the entire Nanguan.

Pity those Mongolian soldiers, just escaped from the hell of duke, and then fell in the dense bullets, and there is no ability to fight back, their smoothbore guns can't hit the Ming army no matter what, and the cannons that can hit the Ming army are all in the duke, who dares to go back and shoot? Anyway, they had already run, so let's just keep running, but just as they were running wildly and preparing to flee towards Beiguan......

The Cossacks arrived.

The Cossack cavalry, which was running wildly along the mountain road, instantly collided with the Mongol infantry, who were also fleeing north along the mountain road.

"Quick, go back, go back and hold on!"

General Tian Wenjing brandished his horsewhip and roared.

But his whip was useless, and the Mongol soldiers, who were all startled, paid no attention to the whip he drawn, and rushed so hard that he almost fell off his horse.

The general angrily threw away his horsewhip and drew his saber, slashing over one of the routers.

Immediately afterwards, the Mongol soldiers in front of him stopped.

"Go back and stick to Nanguan!"

Tian Wenjing roared majestically with a blood-dripping saber.

Suddenly, he had an extra rifle on his chest.

He looked at the owner of the rifle in disbelief, and the Mongol soldier jerked his rifle back, and the blood-stained bayonet was drawn from his chest.

"You ......"

He said indignantly.

But he was dragged off his horse by another Mongolian soldier, and then countless big feet stepped over him!

At the same time, Kalegin and those Cossacks were also unceremoniously brandishing sabers and slashing at the rout, trying to stop their rout, but there was an old feud between them and these Mongol soldiers, and the Cossacks often killed Mongolian herdsmen in the process of expanding to the Far East.

"Uh, how did they fight on their own?"

Xu Ming, who was holding the telescope, was directly confused by this strange scene.

"Leave them alone, it's all the same anyway, aim and shoot all the air bombs!"

Guo Hong said.

Immediately after that, the light rocket launcher beside him, which had been replaced with a special bracket, erupted flames. (To be continued.) )