Outside the Great Wall of Heaven, in order to open the passage to rescue Xuyi, Luo Jian led the Yangzhou army to launch a strong attack on the strong camp of the Qing soldiers.

The battle began early in the morning.

The three divisions marched in unison, and came to a halt more than a mile from the Qing battalion, and the troops parted to both sides, revealing a row of artillery behind them.

The preparation time of Yangzhou artillery was not long, and under the skillful command of Yan Yingyuan, they were quickly ready to shoot.

With Huang Degong's order, 20 artillery pieces began to shoot directly at the fence of the Qing barracks, and the other 20 or so artillery pieces fired at the Qing soldiers' tents in the barracks.

Luo Jian, who was standing behind the artillery, saw that the direct aim shooting effect was very good, and the fence of the Qing army camp was quickly blown up, and he felt that he might have walked into a misunderstanding before.

In the past, Luo Jian always felt that this kind of mountain artillery similar to howitzers had the best effect of semi-direct aiming, but today he found that the accuracy of direct aiming of artillery has been greatly improved, and it can even shoot at point targets.

The so-called semi-direct aiming means that the target can be seen within the line of sight, but the flight trajectory of the shell is a curve, and in the case of extremely backward sighting devices, this kind of shooting depends on the experience of the gunner and the use of a large number of shells to cover the target.

The biggest advantage of semi-direct aiming is that the enemy cannot hit himself, and the distance from the enemy is greatly increased, which can ensure the safety of artillery.

But the efficiency of direct shooting has greatly increased, which makes Luo Jian very excited.

Although the losses caused by the firing of more than 40 artillery pieces of the Yangzhou army to the camp of 70,000 soldiers and horses were not small, they could not fundamentally hurt the Qing soldiers, and the losses of the Qing soldiers who had already built countless fortifications in the camp were not large.

But Turai couldn't bear it anymore, he didn't know how many shells the Yangzhou army still had, he only knew that if the Yangzhou army was allowed to bombard his camp like this, it would be a matter of time before the 70,000 horses collapsed.

After gathering the generals to discuss, Turai decided to go out to meet the enemy.

I have to say that Duoduo's reorganization of troops has achieved great results in the past few months, although under the threat of Yangzhou artillery fire, the Qing troops have still completed the assembly.

The Qing soldiers did not put up a complete formation, but knocked down the fence from more than a dozen places and rushed out, Tulai was to prevent the Yangzhou military artillery from killing and injuring a large number of people in its dense formation, and at the same time, it was also to give full play to the advantage of the number of Qing soldiers as much as possible.

The 3,000 cavalry of the Qing army did not dispatch, they were still waiting outside the firing range of the artillery outside the camp, waiting for the infantry army to break through the defense of the Yangzhou army and then come up to kill.

I have to say that Tulai's approach did catch the Yangzhou army a little off guard, most of these Qing soldiers came out from the left and right sides, the artillery wanted to adjust the direction of fire, and there were also several groups of Qing soldiers in the middle, Yan Yingyuan's artillery fire did not know which target to hit.

However, Huang Degong's battlefield experience was indeed extremely rich, and when he saw that the Qing soldiers attacked in such an unconventional way, he immediately ordered small trebuchets to prepare after a short period of surprise, and the infantry troops put on a defensive posture, and the artillery directly suppressed the Qing soldiers coming out in front.

Under the blow of a series of long-range firepower such as Yangzhou artillery fire, explosive yao bags, mini guns and bow and arrow firearms, the Qing soldiers lost three or four thousand people, and the two men and horses in the middle were defeated, but the Qing soldiers on both sides finally approached the Yangzhou army, and the two sides began to engage in short combat.

Luo Jian was closer to the battlefield this time, only less than three hundred meters away, the withdrawn Minnie gunners, musketeers and archers were in front, Yan Yingyuan ordered the artillery to pack up the artillery and prepare to retreat, this kind of hand-to-hand combat His artillery really could no longer work.

The battlefield is constantly expanding, and the scene of tens of thousands of people fighting is still shocking.

What made Luo Jian feel gratified was that after several bloody battles, the coordination and cooperation between the various departments became more and more proficient, and the ability of the grassroots generals to grasp the battlefield was also greatly improved.

Tulai did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the Yangzhou army would be so strong, his number was almost twice that of the enemy, and he was beaten on the battlefield and was powerless.

Turai ran to a dirt slope and carefully observed the entire battlefield, hoping to find the weak points of the Yangzhou army.

Finally, Turai found the Yangzhou army artillery that was retreating, and these artillery had opened a distance of nearly a mile from the battlefield where the fierce battle was being fought.

Turai beckoned his own soldiers, and after a short time, the 3,000 cavalry of the Qing army made a large circle from the west and rushed towards the cavalry of the Yangzhou army.

Luo Jian, Yan Yingyuan and others were not defenseless against the cavalry of the Qing army, but the more than 1,000 cavalry of the Yangzhou army were pressing their positions on the right flank at this time, waiting for the infantry to attack after defeating the Qing army, and Luo Jian did not plan to use cavalry to fight against the cavalry of the Qing army at all.

As soon as the cavalry of the Qing army moved to this side, Luo Jian and the others immediately discovered it, but it was too late to set up some trenches and traps like last time.

More than 1,000 Minnie gunners, musketeers, and archers were at the front, ready to shoot, and more than 2,000 people from the second regiment of the second division behind had already set up a defensive formation, and more than 100 guards protected Luo Jian in the middle, and Luo Jian even pulled out his pistol.

This time, Turai was obviously very determined to destroy the artillery of the Yangzhou army, and this time his cavalry had no reservations, and all of them were dispatched, including a thousand white-armored soldiers.

Turai was at the back of the cavalry, constantly urging the cavalry to hurry up, and these cavalrymen no longer spared no horsepower, and began to accelerate two miles away, rushing towards Luo Jian's side.

The gallop of thousands of cavalry seemed to make the earth tremble, and Luo Jian also began to get nervous.

Yan Yingyuan wanted to deploy the artillery again, but found that it was too late.

More than 3,000 cavalry frantically rushed towards the temporary position of the Yangzhou army, this time the white armor soldiers did not rush to the front, the front was full of Han cavalry and Mongolian cavalry, Tulai obviously wanted to sacrifice these cavalry to the white armor soldiers behind to get out of the passage to the artillery.

Two hundred meters later, the Minnie guns had already begun to fire, and there were scattered cavalry being knocked out of their horses, which did not seem to have any effect on the brigade.

Fifty meters later, the firecrackers have already lit the arquebus, and the archers have pulled the full strings.

Nearly a hundred horsemen were hit, and dozens of horsemen fell off their horses, but not a single horse fell, and it was clear that this kind of firearms and bows were not enough to cause fatal damage to horses.

The first row of musketeers quickly retreated behind the infantry, and it was too late to load the second shot, so the second row of musketeers went up, and after a violent sound, the cavalry of the Qing army fell more, the distance was closer, and the killing effect was much greater.

However, the firing effect of more than 100 mini guns exceeded five or six hundred guns, and as long as they hit, they could make the Qing soldiers lose one horse.

When the third row of muskeoners began to fire, the Qing cavalry was already less than thirty meters, and the loss of two or three hundred cavalry did not have much impact on the Qing soldiers.

Seeing that the firepower of the Yangzhou army could not stop the cavalry of the Qing army, Luo Jian was so anxious that Zhao Quan hurriedly led the guards up, and asked him to take a few rifles to block the enemy with only three hundred rounds of ammunition and dozens of grenades, Zhao Quan glanced at the entire battlefield, but let the other four gunners and bombardiers rush forward quickly, and he was still holding the rifle and guarding Luo Jian's side.

Four rifles and dozens of grenades finally temporarily stopped the charge of the Qing cavalry to the infantry, killing and wounding nearly 100 Qing cavalry, but the most serious moment finally came.

The two magazines for each rifle were quickly discharged, and dozens of grenades had been dropped.

The bombardier had already picked up his waist knife and joined the ranks of the infantry of the second regiment, and the rifleman also turned around and handed the rifle to the guards beside Luo Jian, grabbed a waist knife and rushed forward.

This short time finally allowed the Minnie gunners to complete the reload again, and the firing of more than a hundred Mini guns caused more than a dozen Qing cavalry to roll off their horses.

The Qing soldiers, blocked by rifles and grenades, turned their horses in a circle and accelerated again towards the infantry of the 2nd Regiment.

"Grand Governor, retreat quickly!" Zhao Quan was already in a hurry, and the majority of the governors were only one or two hundred paces away from the cavalry of the Qing army, and if these cavalry broke through the defense of the infantry, it would be difficult to get on their horses and retreat.

Luo Jian resolutely refused, he knew very well in his heart that once the artillery was not guaranteed, even if the Yangzhou army wiped out all the Qing infantry in front, this battle could only be regarded as a big defeat, how could the Yangzhou army without artillery still save the defenders of Xuyi?

Most of the cavalry of the Qing army still bypassed the guns erected by the infantry as usual, and the white-armored soldiers behind had already arrived, and a white-armored soldier inserted a knife directly into the buttocks of the Han cavalry war horse in front, and the war horse neighed in pain and crashed directly into the gun, and the gunlin was finally knocked out of a gap.

The white-armored soldiers who followed behind also learned from them, and slashed at the horses of the cavalry in front, and these horses rushed towards the gun forest like crazy.

Seeing that the infantry's defense was about to be breached, Luo Jian was so anxious that he rushed forward with his guards, hoping to plug the gap.

Zhao Jianla was too late, so he could only follow Luo Jian and run forward.

Several white-armored soldiers who rushed past the infantry spotted Luo Jian and them, turned their horses' heads and rushed towards Luo Jian.

Zhao Quan saw that when he lifted the rifle, it was a shuttle bullet that hit it, and suddenly several horses were turned on their backs, and a white-armored soldier rolled on the ground a few times and stood up and rushed towards Luo Jian, only a dozen steps away from Luo Jian.

Luo Jian lifted the pistol and knocked the white-armored soldier to the ground, and was about to continue to rush up, when suddenly there was a familiar roar of the engine behind him, and when he looked back, it was the warrior car coming.

Liu Lan got up very early today, and she didn't sleep well last night, knowing that Luo Jian had reached the end of the day, but there was no news about the battle situation, just that the two armies were still in a confrontation.

Knowing that the men and horses who came to attack the Qing army far exceeded the Yangzhou army, Liu Lan was always worried.

The situation she learned from the staff made her worried, the bullets and grenades were gone, how could they fight this battle, Brother Luo?

Knowing that the Yangzhou Army has a new type of artillery, but Liu Lan, who grew up in the barracks since she was a child and has an elder brother of the chief of staff of artillery, knows that the power of this kind of artillery in the Yangzhou Army is still too poor, and it is not easy to use artillery to offset the superiority of the Qing Army in terms of strength.

After stumbling around twice in the courtyard, Liu Lan always felt that something was wrong in her heart, looked up and saw the garage of the warrior car, and suddenly remembered that the warrior car was still parked in the courtyard.

Liu Lan quickly ran back upstairs to take out the garage and the key to the car, opened the car door, got into the car to take a look, and saw that the box with the machine gun was still there, Liu Lan carefully checked the magazine of the machine gun, found that there were still thousands of bullets, and quickly drove the car out of the garage.

Seeing Steward Luo walk out, Liu Lan asked him to go to the door and call two guards over.

With the help of two guards, the machine gun was quickly remounted to the roof of the car and taught them to press the bullet into the magazine.

Steward Luo saw that Liu Lan was about to go out by car, so he came over and asked, "Miss Liu, you haven't had breakfast yet." ”

"Is the steamed bun steamed? Grab some of them! Liu Lan shouted at him.

Butler Luo ran to the kitchen, wrapped more than a dozen buns and handed them to Liu Lan.

"Are you two trained to shoot?" Liu Lan asked the two guards.

Seeing that both of them were nodding, Liu Lan waved and asked the two of them to get into the car quickly, and when they were about to leave the house, they found that they didn't know the way to Tianchang, and asked the two guards, but they hadn't been there.

Liu Lan was so anxious that she yelled at the two guards: "Hurry up and go to the staff headquarters to find a staff officer who has been to the chief of the sky!" ”

The guards quickly dragged a staff officer over, and the staff officer who had just gotten up was dragged into the car before he knew what was happening.

Fortunately, after so many material transportation on the official road from Yangzhou to Tianchang, the road surface has been pressed relatively smooth and solid, and Liu Lan drove the car as if it was about to fly, and it only took nearly an hour to arrive at the distance of more than 100 miles, turning the staff officer and two guards on the car upside down.

Didn't enter Tianchang County, the guards at the gate told them that the Governor of Yangzhou with the Yangzhou Army had been fighting in front of Tianchang, Liu Lan took a dozen directions, and went around directly from the edge of Tianchang County, there was no road here, the warrior car was almost dancing all the way, the staff officer had stretched out his head and vomited for a long time, and the two guards were also holding the hand tightly, and their faces were already pale.

"Brother Luo, get in the car!" The warrior car stopped beside Luo Jian, Liu Lan stretched out her head and shouted at Luo Jian, but the three people in the car took the opportunity to jump out of the car.

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