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At this time, Jiangxi, the three prefectures and one prefecture near Fujian were all taken. The credit of the cavalry division is also quite large, if it weren't for the fact that they dragged home to pacify and Fuzhou Mansion's more than 20,000 Qing soldiers, and a large number of Qing troops reinforced Ganzhou and Jianchang Mansion, it would be impossible for the Mawei Army to take these two places smoothly!

Spring is coming to an end, and summer will begin in a few days, but the temperature in Jiangxi is still a bit like early spring, which is a little cold for several days, and the northwest wind is very uncomfortable. The 6,000 men of the Qing army and the 3,000 cavalry of the Mawei Army Cavalry Division were facing each other five miles southwest of the capital city of Ji'an, and the two armies were only a mile apart. The cavalry division harassed Ji'an for more than ten days, and Hilgen finally decided to send a large army to destroy this rebel cavalry. After exterminating this cavalry, he immediately raised troops to reinforce Ganzhou and Ningdu. Thinking that at this time, he also had 3,000 Manchu elite Eight Banners under his command, plus 3,000 green battalion soldiers, it should not be a problem to destroy this rebel cavalry.

Jiang Yuanxun had long waited for these Qing troops to leave the city, otherwise they would stay in the city, they lacked siege weapons - artillery, so they had no way to take the Qing army at all, and they circled around Ji'an Mansion and the surrounding county towns for many times, but only a small part of them were killed with muskets. At this time, their three thousand cavalrymen, with a new musket on their horses, and three short muskets on their waists, plus a saber, were all they were equipped with.

As for artillery, at present, they only have a total of five six-pounder small-caliber general guns, the cannon body is only 500 catties, and a horse can pull the gun cart and run straight. This is a squadron split from an artillery division. There were fifty people in total. In order to cope with the situation in front of us.

The horsetail cavalry harassed Ji'an for so many days. Hilgen also knew that the muskets of the Mawei Army were sharp, so he specially sent out the firearms battalion with the army, half of the three thousand green battalion soldiers were musketeers, and there were ten cannons, but their cannons were a little messy, and only ten cannons were divided into four categories. But there are a few powerful ones among these ten cannons, that is, the Shenwei Invincible General Cannon cast by the Qing court, that is, the red-clothed cannon of the Qing court.

The red-coated cannon was improved from the Hongyi cannon of the Westerners in the Ming Dynasty. Because the Manchurians hated the word "Yi", it was changed to the word "clothes". This kind of gun body has a long barrel, a large caliber, a thin front and a rich back, the gun body is cast with multiple solid hoops, a smooth bore, there are cannon lugs in the middle, and the muzzle and tail are equipped with a front sight and a light door respectively. It has a large charge, heavy shells, long range and great power. It can be said that the Qing court was indeed superior to the former Ming court in this regard. At present, there are not many red-clothed cannons here, only three, but Jiang Yuanxun is not underestimated at all.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

After a few loud roars. The Mawei Army took the lead and launched an artillery attack on the other side. The target was the artillery positions of the Qing army. The artillery battle between the two sides, of course, is to knock out the enemy's artillery first, and then you can play to your heart's content.

Although only five artillery pieces were fired this time, the Mawei Army made artillery with a crosshair, the gunner training was very sufficient, and the hit rate was quite high, but the artillery units of the Qing army were very densely arranged, and after the five guns were ejected, not all of them hit the target, and four shells fell in the Qing army formation on the side, and only one shot hit the cast iron body of the Qing army's invincible general cannon. If it is a solid bullet, this time it can hit this artillery into a pit, so that it can no longer be used, but this is a flowering bullet, more powerful than a solid bullet, this time not only the Shenwei invincible general cannon was destroyed, but also the surrounding Qing army gunners were also killed, and suddenly five people fell, even if this cannon is intact, there is no one to operate it.

The gunners of the Mawei Army also cheered in unison, celebrating the success of their companions' first shelling, and immediately began to reload. In addition to the three Shenwei invincible general cannons, the artillery of the Qing army was captured from the former Ming army before, and the gunners were all Ming troops who surrendered before, but a small number of them were newly learned later. The soldiers of the former Ming Guard are basically veterans, and they belong to the grass on the wall, and they fall down when the wind blows. It's just that in the past, the Qing army always won battles, and in the battle of the wind, he was able to show off his might, and he had a little courage to move forward, but today he encountered a hard stubble here, and he and Ben were not ready, so the enemy took the first step, although only five soldiers were killed and a cannon was destroyed, but it almost frightened the courage of this group of Qing soldiers.

The four flowering bullets that fell in the formation of the Green Battalion soldiers were very powerful, and they made four holes in the Qing army's formation at once, and the Qing army suffered no less than 50 casualties, and the power of the horsetail army's artillery fire also made Hilgen have great fear.

At this time, although the gunners of the Qing army were very afraid, but Hilgen's military discipline was very strict, if he was timid and afraid of battle at this time, the supervising team behind him would never show mercy, so if he escaped now, it would definitely be a death.

"What are the artillery battalions doing to eat, why don't you fight back, give me a quick shot!" Hilgan yelled with an angry face.

After a period of panic, the Qing gunners quickly loaded their ammunition, ignited, and fired!

But while they were preparing, a new round of shelling began again on the side of the Mawei Army. These five six-pounder light guns, also known as the improved Furlong machine, are equipped with five guns that can be reloaded in turns, and can fire four rounds per minute! The Furlong machine gun originally used the sub-barrel loading method, which is similar to the current shell, and the mother barrel is the barrel. Because the Furlong machine can be reloaded in advance with multiple cartridges, it has a fast rate of fire and is very lightweight. However, the shortcomings of the original Furlong machine gun are also obvious, that is, the subbarrel is too thin and the bore pressure is not enough, so the power is not large, and the firing range is not far, at most it is 300 meters, and it can only be used as an auxiliary artillery. But the current general cannon is different, the casting material has been replaced with the special steel improved by the Mawei scientific research base, and the gun body has also been re-fired, so the firing range has been doubled, and the power is just look at the results of the explosion of the flowering bomb!

After four rounds of artillery bombardment by the Mawei Army, the firearms unit of the Qing army lost almost fifty or sixty people, and three artillery pieces were destroyed. Among them is a mighty invincible general cannon. At this time, most of the artillery of the Qing army was finally filled with ammunition. Finally, it is possible to ignite and fire. Launch a counterattack against the Mawei Army.

"Tom tom!"

"Tom tom!"

A series of shelling finally sounded from the positions of the Qing army, and the momentum caused by it was not small for a while. Hilgen, who was watching the battle from afar, also frowned a little at this time, it was finally his turn to use his artillery, and this time he could also let the Mawei Army taste the taste of artillery. But soon Hilgen realized that something was wrong, and he was stunned. After the artillery of the Qing army began to bombard, it was impossible to say that the Mawei Army was not nervous, Jiang Yuanxun and other senior officers all shrank in their hearts, but there were still two red-coated cannons on the opposite side. After this round of shelling, the losses of your own side are not small!

But they soon found out that the truth was not as bad as they imagined, five of the remaining seven artillery pieces of the Qing army fell at a distance of about 100 paces from the position of the Mawei Army, and two shells from the red-coated cannons flew directly over the head of the Mawei Army, and none of them hit the position of the Mawei Army.

After seeing the huge contrast between the results of the artillery bombardment between the two sides, Jiang Yuanxun and other senior generals finally completely relaxed, it seems that the artillery of the Qing army is indeed not in order, and it cannot hit their own positions at all. And on the positions of the Mawei Army. Once again, there was an earth-shattering sound of shelling, as if it was going to show the Qing army. Artillery should be used like this. After the shells fell, the Qing army's artillery array immediately burst into screams, although the shells failed to directly reimburse the Qing artillery, but directly overturned two of them, and also overwhelmed two gunners, killing and wounding more than a dozen gunners.

The gunners and spare gunners next to the artillery of the Qing army all knocked out their hearts and retreated, but when they looked back, they found that the overseers were actually following behind them, only more than a hundred steps. The gunners were naturally half cold in their hearts, if they escaped at this time, I was afraid that they would be killed by the Warlord team if they couldn't run a few steps, and it seemed that they could only hold on. So the gunners continued to reload, hoping that their level would be better and they would be able to hit a few shots!

"Tom-tom-tom!"

"Tom-tom!"

The sound of cannon fire rang out again, followed by a series of screams. It turned out that the gunners of the two Qing artillery pieces wanted to let the guns go farther, so the amount of gunpowder they filled was also increased, but the result was that there was an excess of gunpowder, the barrel of the cannon exploded, and it affected the surrounding soldiers, and more than 20 people died at once, and many people were injured.

At this time, some soldiers really couldn't stand it, and they turned around and ran away despite the fact that there was a team behind them. However, the end of the fleeing soldiers immediately frightened the gunners who had not yet fled, and as soon as they fled to the Overseer, the Overseer soldiers were unceremoniously killed on the spot, and cut off their heads and laid them out in front of the battle to warn the others. The Overseer slashed more than a dozen soldiers in one go, which really deterred the other fleeing soldiers, who saw that there was no hope of retreating, so they could only stop one after another, and then reluctantly turned back and returned to the artillery position.

But after such a delay, the Mawei Army launched four or five rounds of artillery bombardment one after another, and the Qing army also prepared these ten passable artillery, and at this time all ten artillery pieces were reimbursed. No, it should be said that the gunners were all reimbursed, and several of the guns just fell to the ground and did not break!

"You can't be beaten passively, order the musket battalion to attack, stand there as a target, pick up their muskets and shoot, and the muskets will continue to approach after not far from them!" Hilgen gave a quick order.

There were more than 1,600 musketeers in the Qing army, each holding a variety of weapons, but they all advanced step by step from the muskets filled with ammunition. The cavalry soldiers of the Mawei Army divided a thousand men into an array, and at this time they were not riding on war horses, and the two armies faced each other, and they changed to a musketeer formation, and they could achieve the maximum shooting effect with long muskets. The cavalry soldiers had already made preparations, and only waited for the Qing army's firecrackers to enter within 150 meters of the Mawei army's position, and then launched an attack on them.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

"Bang bang bang!"

After a series of gun shots, the Qing army's musketeers immediately fell in a row, and the musketeers in the back row were nervous, and they didn't care about many, some pulled the trigger, some lit the medicine, and shot desperately at the position of the Mawei army. But it's a pity that most of the musketeers of the Qing army use three-eyed guns, or a small number of bird guns, but the quality is too far from the new muskets used by the Mawei army! At a distance of about one hundred and fifty meters, the Qing army's old-fashioned firearms could not have any effect at all. can only shoot "bang bang" indiscriminately, and then busy reloading ammunition.

But the two sides fired at each other for a while, and the Qing army gradually realized that something was wrong, although the number of people on the other side did not seem to be as large as theirs, but the gunfire seemed to be louder than here. After each round of firing, a row always fell on his side, and after he shot, there seemed to be no movement on the opposite position, as if there were not many casualties. In fact, during the period of firing between the two sides, the Qing army's musketeers had been killed and wounded nearly 300 people, while only a few soldiers in the Mawei army were killed by the three-eyed guns loaded with sufficient ammunition, and none of the soldiers were killed by the shotguns. After the Qing army came back to their senses, they found that they were completely in vain, and there was no way, and there was a team of warlords behind them, and they had to brave the blows of the horsetail army, and continued to move forward, hoping to enter the effective killing range of their firearms.

As they advanced, the muskets of the Matails continued to fire. The musket firing of the Mawei Army was very intensive, and the frequency of firing was very high, almost uninterrupted, until the Qing army howled ghosts and wolves, and people fell continuously. At the same time, there were many bird guns in the Qing army, which not only blew up the soldiers who used bird guns, but also affected many of their companions. As a result, the other soldiers who used the bird gun did not dare to use the bird gun, and threw the bird gun away one after another, picking up the good quality three-eyed gun used by the dead soldiers, so that they dared to use it with confidence.

Hilgen was furious at this time, the ten cannons did not work at all, and the musketeers were only targets for others, and it seemed that in the end, it was their strong cavalry that would decide the victory. Under his command, the Qing army's 3,000 iron cavalry began to be dispatched, ready to start charging this side.

Seeing that the enemy had moved in a big way, Jiang Yuanxun shook the saber in his hand: "The Tartars have begun to move, and the whole army is ready, let them see the power of our horsetail cavalry division, and let them know who is the elite in the end!" ”

"Yes!" The cavalry warriors behind him shouted in unison.

"The artillery team is aimed at the Tartar cavalry, give me a few shots first!" At this time, Jiang Yuanxun still kept a clear head, the Tatar cavalry was too far away before, and the six-pounder cannon couldn't reach it at all, and now the Tatar cavalry rushed to the front, wouldn't it be too wasteful and a pity not to let them taste a few shells?

The Tartars began to attack, getting closer and closer, and when the Tartar cavalry entered the range of five hundred meters, the sound of artillery rang out.

"Tom-tom-tom!"

"Tom-tom!"

Five flowering shells landed in the formation of the Tartar cavalry, and the shells exploded violently, and immediately more than two dozen horses and Tartar cavalry fell. The explosion of the flowering bomb hit the shards that were splashed out, and the impact on the war horse was even more powerful than being slashed, and the war horse fell in the rapid run, and those riders were stunned if they did not die. At the same time, the war horses of the Tartar cavalry had not experienced the baptism of war at all, and such a violent explosion caused the surrounding war horses to explode at once, and the direction deviated, loading their companions on the side, and then another piece of Tartar cavalry fell.

After three rounds of shelling in a row, forty or fifty seconds passed, and a large force of Tatar cavalry ran over a distance of more than five hundred meters and appeared in sight, at this time the saber in Jiang Yuanxun's hand was also slowly raised, and when the enemy entered the range, the saber suddenly pointed forward:

"Kill!" (To be continued......)

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