In the open field, countless iron wires were woven together, like something that resisted horses. Each lane is three or four zhang wide, nearly one person high. Several small strands are intertwined into one large strand, and there are also raised iron spikes. The ends of the entire net are wrapped around wooden stakes and buried deep into the ground. Hundreds of horsemen and horses crashed into the swamp of wire, rolling and moaning on the ground.

"This, this, this...... How much money does it cost...... "[1]

Everyone was dazzled, this is iron thread, not cotton thread! A pound costs dozens or hundreds of dollars, how can a piece have a few dozen pounds, and pulling one back is enough for a few months' salary. Looking at this vast network of iron wires, is the thief army really too much silver to spend...... Erlu was also twitching out of the corner of his eye, and the gunfire suddenly rang out, and more than a hundred steps away, the red-clothed soldiers roared a row of guns, and the flowering bullets also exploded intensively in the crowd of people and horses.

The cavalrymen swung their swords and tried to cut the wire. The bell was crisp, but only half of the slash was successful, and the price was still the blade collapse. Although these iron wires are soft iron, they are intertwined and extremely tough.

The most effective way is to get off the horse and pull out the pile, but the guns are constantly lined up in front of you, and you don't know how much time it will take to die.

"Drive the horse! What can you block with just a few iron lines!? ”

Seeing that the horse team was in a mess, Elu jumped like thunder, and saw the net that had been broken before, and in a hurry, he also had a countermeasure.

Dozens of horses were blindfolded, stabbed in the buttocks, and rushed forward in shock, and the horses fell to the net, and the horse team, which was being beaten by the guns, finally had a few roads.

Finally rushed out of the wire swamp, but the horse team lost its speed. Erlu had no choice but to lead the horse team to run sideways, firing his bow and arrows while speeding up, but under the frontal bombardment of the platoon guns, the horse team was in a mess.

By the time the speed finally picked up, the horses turned their heads, and rushed towards a phalanx, the horse team had already drawn into several scattered arrows, each of which was no more than two or three hundred people.

"Rushing in is victory!"

Erlu's blood burned all over his body, and regardless of anything else, the figure of the red-clothed soldier in front of him became clearer and clearer, and even his face could be seen. He was satisfied to see the fear in it, and the trembling bayonet seemed less terrible.

Rumble...... The team of horses collided with the crowd, and the neighing of the horses resounded in the sky.

The brave and fearless cavalry broke through the numerous gaps in the phalanx, but they also strung their men and horses to the bayonets. Most of the cavalrymen were fearless, but their horses neighed and were reluctant to take a single step. Behind the bayonet forest, the platoon of guns roared, knocking down the hesitant men and horses.

Rush in!

A few people, such as Erlu, a warrior with superb horse skills, actually rode their horses up at the moment when the men and horses collided, and the horse's hooves passed by the tip of the bayonet, and then stepped on the red-clothed soldiers, and fell straight into the hollow array.

The gunshots continued, and several blood streams appeared on Elu's body, and he fell to the ground. The officers in the phalanx were holding the moon thunder guns, and the muzzles of their guns were smoking. The scattered cavalry that broke into the formation were named one by one, and the Manchurian warriors who were wielding their swords and shuttles on their horses left only angry and unwilling roars.

In front of the phalanx, the cavalry, which had lost its horse speed, looked like a madman, and was still desperately attacking the defensive line that was no more than four people thick. But they were greeted not only by bayonets and platoon guns, but also by the thick arms of the gods, which spewed out large pieces of shotguns, knocking down the approaching men and horses. There were also redcoat soldiers in the phalanx who were constantly knocked down by archers and pikes and darts, and with the dispatch of the officers in the rear, the gap was quickly closed.

The noise lasted for half an hour, and the cavalry finally fell silent, and three or four hundred cavalry fled sporadically, and the red-clothed soldiers did not bother to pay attention to it, carefully searching the enemy troops in front of the formation. Here they conscientiously implemented the policy of one person making up for the sword, and it was the first time they had encountered such a fierce opponent.

The front battalion Ding Yi also sent two sentries to support the two wings of A and B, including Huang Shen. The battle was only half an hour, but he felt that it was as long as a whole day, and every detail was shocking to his heart. When I woke up, I felt that I was trembling all over.

"Sentry Chief, just kill a few more people."

The sergeant in the sentry said lightly as he stepped on the stomach of a wounded man. The bayonet pressed against the man's chest, and he didn't pay attention to what the man was saying, his arm sank, the man's eyes bulged, his throat rattled, and he tilted his head for a long time before he lost his breath.

Huang Shen turned his head and rejected the suggestion in his heart. Killing people in wartime is a last resort, but to kill wounded soldiers, even if it is full, he still does not want to. He threw himself into Rong, but he didn't want to turn himself into a murderer.

Just as he was thinking this, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a pile of corpses, a man pretending to be dead, pulling an arrow and drawing a bow. My heart was pounding, and I subconsciously pulled out my gun and shot it. He is the marksman of the first phase of the Whampoa Martial Arts School, known as the cattle man who knocked down the wings of flies within thirty steps, and this shot did not lose the level, and the forehead of the full man exploded in a red and white ball in the gunshot, and the account was settled.

"Sure enough, it's the sentry chief!"

The sergeant smiled and cocked his thumb, and Huang Shen, who was sweating on his back, sighed, and suddenly felt that what he had just thought was extremely ridiculous. What a soldier does, he kills. But unlike the murderers, the soldiers obeyed orders and killed people to defend the country.

The cavalry led by the Oro was destroyed, and it was difficult for the Green Battalion soldiers who were shooting at the front camp to hold on. Not only were there heavy casualties, but after dozens of rounds of muskets, there were problems such as exploding chambers or bolt failures, and no one dared to use them anymore.

All the horses retreated, and he lost a deputy commander, but Bahun Dai didn't realize it. continued to deploy troops and prepare to attack again, but found that the British and Chinese troops had retreated in front of them.

Bahun Dai trembled with excitement, he repelled the thief army!

"Report Narsu! Don't miss the opportunity! With him leading the army to march forward, he will gather the thief army with us and others to destroy the thief army under the city! ”

Not only was Bahun Dai happy, but Norbu was also breathing a sigh of relief in the east, although his onslaught did not work, but the offensive of the thief army across the Kuitang River was also repulsed, and now the two armies are facing each other across the Kuitang River, and the battle line has finally stabilized.

"With Kang Mazi in charge, these guys have finally entered the role."

In the rear camp of the British and Chinese army, Li Shi looked at the battle report and frowned slightly. The Huben army's shrinking defense line had been arranged a long time ago, and the purpose was to give Bahun Dai a false impression, so as to attract Nersu, who was still playing soy sauce in the Iron Buddha Temple in the north, to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible. But in today's battle, the Qing troops were extremely tenacious, and the various armies suffered heavy casualties. Three or four hundred people were killed in the battle, and more than 1,000 were wounded, most of which were caused by the front camp of the Tiger Ben Army resisting the cavalry of the Qing army.

Kangxi went to Yuezhou in person, and the biggest effect has appeared. He was able to keep abreast of the situation on the front line. Anyone who is afraid of war and ineffective will be beheaded immediately, plus the power he has accumulated over the past 50 years of ruling the world, these more than 100,000 Qing troops are like chicken blood, no longer cowering as before, and they are no longer tofu scum that will flee with a few shells and a row of guns.

This also made Li Xian faintly worried, how many casualties will he have if this battle continues?

"The Qing army suffered ten times as many casualties as me, and also killed a deputy commander, three staff leaders, three staff generals, and countless guerrilla assistant leaders, the king of heaven, there is no need to be demanding, how can there be no casualties in a war?"

Fan Jin didn't understand Li Xian's lamenting his own casualties in every battle, what do you want? Nearly 10,000 enemy troops were killed in one day, and the casualties were only a fraction of the opponent's, so why don't you still want zero casualties? We're 30,000 or 40,000 against more than 100,000.

"Well, I'm a woman, and when Narsu is in place, I'll send orders to all the ministries and prepare to carry out the plan."

Li Xi also smiled to himself, and turned his mind to the most critical step of this battle.

"The army I hold in my hand is the key to this battle, and I can't move it lightly as a last resort."

In the Iron Buddha Temple, the king of Doroping County, Nersu, unceremoniously reprimanded the cloth sent by Bahun Dai to contact.

"I am the commander of the army with your master, I have no right to control him, and he has no right to control me! How I want to move, I have to listen to the emperor, don't be so stunned to give me orders in the future! ”

Bahun Dai's coat was sweaty and panicked, and Nersu snorted disdainfully.

"Bahun Dai should be earnest, it's rare for that old man to go into battle again, and always treat our juniors as subordinates."

Nersu's deputy, Basai, the Manchurian capital of the Yellow Banner, appeased the young county king.

Bahun Dai relied on the fact that he had been a general in Jingzhou before, thinking that he was the commander of the Hunan battlefield. I didn't seriously think about it, in this battle of Hunan, the emperor awarded four generals, but not one general, for what? It was the emperor who appointed himself as this general! All the plans, but they are all in the emperor's own heart. ”

Nersu is not yet thirty years old, and he has no previous military experience, but he is one of the eight iron hat kings after the Great Belle Daishan. was selected by Kangxi, leading the Shaanxi-Gansu Horse Team, the Shaanxi-Gansu Governor Firearms Battalion and the Jingying Han Army Flag Firearms Battalion, with horses, guns and cannons, they were the core and main force of this battle, and they naturally had a deeper understanding of Kangxi's plan.

"The emperor is a body of ten thousand gold, so naturally he will not go into the battle array, and our army is the last hole card. At present, the troops and horses in front of us have not exerted their full strength, and the thief army has not shown defeat, so we cannot move lightly! What's more, the thief army still has a force attacking Changde, and it is difficult to guarantee that it will not turn east and attack the Yuezhou Holy Driver. We were guarding outside the Changsha battlefield, with a pair of eyes...... But there are two things to look at. ”

Basai is also a clan, and Narsu has no scruples about talking to him.

"But I heard that the thief army has occupied Tianxin Pavilion, and Changsha City is in danger."

Basai was very worried that Kangxi initially dispatched four generals and did not make a unified arrangement. Anyway, Kangxi is in Yuezhou, and it is not necessary to directly command the armies. But at present, the battle situation is stalemate, not only in the army of Basai but also in Nersu, there are many people who want to enter the Changsha battlefield in a hurry.

"Changsha...... The thief army wanted Changsha, and they had already taken it, but they were just using it as bait. The emperor didn't take Changsha in his eyes, Oro Dai could defend it, but if he couldn't keep it, he just took his head. ”

Nersu snorted coldly disdainfully, the thief army uses Changsha as a chess piece, and the emperor also regards Changsha as a chess piece.

"Then we'll just have to sit and wait? is so passive, doesn't the emperor have a deeper plan? ”

Basai still didn't understand much about the battle situation, and Nersu shook his head and pointed to Changsha on the map with one hand.

"Let's fight with the thief army, now it's a game of fighting up and down to see who has all the hole cards. We are a hole card, and the army of thieves who are heading to Changde in the west is also a hole card......"

Nersu's fingers slid southeast of Changsha.

"But the emperor has more than one hole card in his hand, there is another one here."

Looking at that position, Basai's eyes narrowed, "Wonderful, the thief army should have thought of it, but they were powerless to take care of it, who made them stunned and went out to Changsha." ”

Nersu nodded: "So, our soldiers and horses, what we really want to fight is the Yulin army of the thief army in the west, the emperor expects it thoroughly, and the soldiers and horses lead me not to move, and I will inevitably turn around and move eastward." ”

Basai also counted in his heart: "It looks like a chess game, but it is actually three chess games set together." As long as the thief army is in chaos and the three games are combined, it will be defeated like a mountain. ”

Nersu picked up a fruit, snapped and gnawed, and said while gnawing: "So Changsha City, it's good to fight like this, it's nothing if Changsha City is lost, and then the thief army will have to occupy the city, and the whole army will enter Changsha, which just cuts off their back road." ”

Basai looked at the map, and the point south of Changsha was Hengzhou. The heart says that this is the root of the three games, but if this hole card fails to shake the thief army, then what should I do?

The night was dark, and as soon as there was a fierce battle, both sides died down and seized the time to rest. In the south of Changsha City, in the big tent of the Heavenly King, the generals gathered together and were holding a routine military meeting.

Luo Tangyuan made a report to Li Shi with a gloomy face, and there was still no movement in the Iron Buddha Temple forty or fifty miles away.

Fan Jin chuckled: "Then the situation will be clear, what Nersu is waiting for is another hole card." ”

Li Xian snorted and said: "Kangxi Lao'er still wants to press on it, just rely on his little chicken and dog pieces?" Our plan is Yangmou, and the Yulin army is placed there, maybe to Changde, or it may go east to attack Yuezhou, he can naturally see it. But he didn't really think about whether his hole card was reliable. ”

He looked at Shang Jun, who nodded: "The ...... has been arranged"

Seeing that Shang Jun wanted to speak and stopped, Luo Tangyuan seemed to have something to say, Li Xian frowned, could there be something wrong?

The two intelligence leaders glanced at each other, and finally it was Luo Tangyuan who spoke, "Heavenly King, Aunt Pan...... Still in Hengzhou. ”

Li Shi was stunned for a moment, and then his face became gloomy.

"Long Gaoshan, go and get that disobedient mother-in-law back!"

Then Li was furious, when he set off from Hengzhou before, he had instructed Pan Jinling to let her go back to Guangzhou as soon as possible, and she dragged it out for a while. After Kangxi arrived in Yuezhou, he urged him again, but she promised well. After that, he was busy with the war and didn't care anymore, but he didn't expect that the stupid woman was still there!

"The spies reported that there were Qing soldiers and sentry detectives appearing in the east of Hengzhou, so I don't know if it was too late to ......"

Luo Tangyuan stared at the ground with both eyes, and said in his heart, Aunt Pan, Shang Jun and I can only hide it for you until now, don't sell us then.

"Long Gaoshan, you take the Praetorian Guard Battalion!"

Li Xian glanced at Luo Shang and the others viciously, and the two of them were silent, knowing that the agreement between Aunt Pan and them must have been exposed.

"Heavenly King, how can you move the Praetorian Guard Camp!? What about your safety? ”

Long Gaoshan was dissatisfied, without the Praetorian Guard Camp, in case of any situation in front of him, what else did Li Xi rely on to ensure safety?

"Panjin Ling...... It's a stupid woman! But no matter how stupid she is, she is also my woman! ”

Li Shi gritted his teeth and said that from Chenzhou to Hengzhou, there were only a small number of internal guards and local people guarding the line. It's just that there should be no problem in defending the city and thwarting Kangxi's attempt to cut off his back road, but to protect the safety of a specific person, these people alone can't do it.

"But I won't ruin this battle for my woman and let the soldiers sacrifice in vain, so I can only let the Praetorian Guard Camp go!"

For the first time, he "blatantly" announced the ownership of Pan Jinling, and many people were stunned, and the secret rumors were finally verified by Li Shi himself, but they could only look at their noses and noses, pretending not to hear.

"What is there to worry about? There is no one to protect me except the Praetorian Guard Battalion? Aren't these 30,000 troops all my guards? ”

Seeing that Long Gaoshan was still hesitant, Li Shi said this, and the generals in the tent were hot in their hearts, and they all raised their middle fingers towards Long Gaoshan, feeling that only you can protect the Heavenly King and treat us as air?

Seeing that Gesang Dunzhu Nakang Ba Han was also pointing at him, Long Gaoshan glared angrily, Gesang Dunzhu quickly took his finger into his mouth, and stretched and retracted, facing this Yao family man, he was also guilty...... "Aunt Pan is a living Bodhisattva, how can something happen." ”

Gesang Dunzhu thought so, not only him, but everyone thought so.

(To be continued)