The town of Yanhe is not a big town because it is not close to the Grand Canal.

In Baoying, in the whole northern Jiangsu, Shandong, the villages, towns and counties next to the Grand Canal is the key point to determine their fate, next to the prosperity, such as the Linqing Dynasty, a city that people from other provinces have never heard of in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has the reputation of "prosperous and pressing two capitals" and "rich Jiaqi County". And not next to each other, such as the Yanhe Town in front of you, is very ordinary and ordinary. The status of the Grand Canal at this time was much more important than the highways and railways in Liu Xian's previous life. Those would be two completely different worlds.

The small Yanhe Town was bombarded by the Qin army's artillery fire in ruins, and the Qin officers and soldiers of the two brigades entered the ruined Yanhe Town, but the resistance was still not small.

Pan Dingxin still has 20,000 or 30,000 people, but if Yanhe Town is also drummed down by the Qin army, even the few small villages behind Yanhe Town that have not had time to be strengthened will definitely not be able to stop the Qin army's troops. At that time, the Huai army will all herd sheep.

So the town of Yanhe must be defended, at least until it gets dark!

Give Huai Jun a chance to breathe.

Therefore, Pan Dingxin commanded the troops one after another to improve the ruin-like Yanhe Town. At this time, the standard refueling tactic, before the two battalions of reinforcements that had been increased had not yet entered the town, they were bombarded by the Qin artillery, and nearly half of them were broken on the spot. But Pan Dingxin just wants to hold on at any cost and drag the time down hour by hour.

Although he did not succeed!

Because when the battle in Yanhe Town was going on at more than three o'clock, the 105 guns of the Qin army had already arrived. Its range of more than 75 guns allowed the Qin army to quickly suppress the artillery fire of the Huai army, and Liu Xian directly sent troops to take the two villages in the north of Yanhe Town, completely surrounded Yanhe Town, and at half past four, he completely took this place!

Then the Qin army began to open the way with artillery, and the victorious rhythm of the rapid advance of the infantry cavalry - the Huai army could not stop it at all!

World War I, World War II, World War III, World War IV......

By six o'clock it was dark, but in just over two hours, the two armies of Qin and Huai fought four battles, and the Huai army was defeated. From being suppressed to being completely wiped out, Li Hongzhang mobilized a total of more than 160 artillery pieces, although some of them were breech guns, but that was only a small part, most of them were the most advanced Krupp breech steel guns, and the overall strength was that the many armies that replaced the Huai army to defend Beijing and Tianjin were inferior by three points. However, in the defeat and retreat of the Huai infantry again and again, they were either forced to open fire and were countered, or they were forced to abandon the artillery and flee.

The infantry cavalry of the Qin army is chasing after the buttocks, and if the artillery pulls the artillery, will they still escape?

By the time it got dark, the main force of the Huai army was already in disarray, morale was low, the army had suffered heavy losses, and almost no one still had the confidence to win.

"Insert it from here, bluff outside Baoying City with a small force, and set up an ambush here!"

Tens of thousands of Qin infantry were still attacking the Huai army like a raging wave, causing the Huai army to retreat one after another, and the Huai army did not find out, and silently, the cavalry of the Qin army had retracted their fists.

Song Zuo squatted beside Liu Xian first, and the attendant next to him half-bent over and carried a horse lantern, illuminating the map of Liu Xian Beach on the ground.

A red curve on the map connects the current location of the Qin army and the county seat of Baoying County, and a circle is drawn on the south side of the county three or four miles, and there is a cross on the circle.

What does it mean to be clear at a glance? Of course, Song Zuoxian will not have doubts. got up and saluted Liu Xian, and roared: "The last general will take the order." He strode away.

The route taken by the cavalry was not without the Huai garrison, but the strength of the Huai garrison was very weak. Song Zuoxian's more than 3,000 cavalry in his hands can be killed as lightly as if they were piercing tissue paper, and then they can let Pan Dingxin know that the Qin army has gone to Baoying County. It should be another blow to the panicked Huai army!

Looking at Song Zuo's presumptuous back, Liu Xian felt sorry for Huaijun. Pan Dingxin should have made great strides to retreat to Baoying County, not to mention other places, only the two hours when the Qin army attacked Yanhe Town, the time was absolutely enough. But the Huai army's actions have always been slow, I don't know what Pan Dingxin is worried about, it seems that he is extremely unwilling to retreat to Baoying, and always wants to stalemate the battle outside Baoying County!

As a result, now, the Huai army is already standing on the edge of the cliff!

The cavalry's attack was the kick that Liu Xian completely kicked the Huai army off the cliff!

Of course, Liu Xian has always set aside an eye to keep an eye on the bottom of the canal.

The west embankment of the Baoying Canal is the east bank of Gaoyou Lake, which is a well-known hanging lake on the ground. In many places, the bottom of the lake is higher than the ground at the foot of Liu Xian. If Li Hongzhang wants to kill the new Qin, after seeing the defeat of the battle, let people blow up the canal embankment, the Qin army will suffer a big loss if he has no defense!

Therefore, Liu Xian had already sent out a reconnaissance brigade, and he still held a cavalry of 1,000 people in his hands.

……

"Bang Bang ......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Outside Baoying County, the crackling guns spread far away, and the roar of countless horses' hooves trampling the earth also spread far away. Although the cavalry of the Qin army had not been able to directly kill under the city gate, Li Hongzhang's face was pale.

"Quick, quick—"

"Run. Fuck, run......"

Zhou Liangcai, Huang Yuanliang, and Li Sheng were sweating profusely and hurrying towards Baoying County. Damn, the Qin army was directly transferred to Baoying City, and the hearts and livers of the generals of the Huai army were trembling.

You say, what if Lord Zhongtang does something bad, and he and the others are in front of the Qin army?

Anyway, Zhou Liangcai and the three of them, as generals of the pro-army family, said hello to Pan Dingxin, and then pulled the troops to Baoying County.

The terrain of Baoying is a typical plain terrain, but in this era, it is impossible to say that all of them are endless crops and acres. The greening of the Qing Dynasty is definitely better than that of Liu Xian in his previous life, and there is a small forest around Baoying County. The woods are next to a village, and the people in the village have deserted a lot, and some have been arrested by the Huai army, and some have been captured by Ding Zhuang, and the rest are all old and weak women and children, and it is easy to control them.

Five brigades of cavalry hid in the woods and in the village.

The cavalrymen led their horses and stayed quietly, and no one took advantage of this time to boost morale. Cavalry does not need!

"Brigade seat, the Huai army is here." Detective rode a fast horse to report.

"There are at least three thousand of them, and it's dark and unkind. And the Huai army is very long. ”

Song Zuo didn't say a word, just held the telescope and looked south. "Hehe, this queue is really long enough!"

Not long after, the telescopes of all the officers were already in the Huai Army soldiers wearing Manchu uniforms. The forward queue banner does not exceed ten people, and the further back it goes, the thinner it gets.

As the Huai army got closer and closer, the fighting spirit of the Qin cavalry rose rapidly, and when the Huai army approached unsuspectingly and passed from the official road in front of him, his officers said to Song Zuoxian: "Brigade seat, it's now!" ”

"Then get ready to attack!" Song Zuo pointed a little at Huaijun first, "Give me one and don't leave it." Lao Tzu wants to be annihilated! ”

"Hello, just look at it!" The officers shouted in response, and quickly dispersed, each running back to his own ranks. Song Zuoxian himself also turned over and jumped on the horse, and whispered to the guards beside him: "Get on the horse!" ”

As the cavalry of the five brigades turned over and mounted their horses together, Song Zuoxian's next order was passed down, "Prepare the swords and guns, and the whole army will advance slowly!" ”

And just when the cavalry in the first row was about to walk out of the woods, the officer headed by no longer had to wait for Song Zuoxian's order to act, but gave the order directly in a very timely manner: "Trot forward!" ”

He quickly urged the war horse under his crotch to trot. After the war horse galloped up, the whole person was bumped up and down, and at this time, the Huai soldiers had already discovered the cavalry that suddenly appeared a few hundred meters away, and the whole queue was of course panicked.

"Bang ......"

Mortars began to fire. These 60 and 82 mortars are the only heavy weapons equipped by the cavalry, together with the heavy machine guns, the configuration of the cavalry of the Qin army is to dismount and do infantry positional warfare, and the firepower can also crush the general Qing army.

The cavalry of the Qin army who were assaulting did not pay attention to them, but felt the speed of the war horse while estimating the distance.

Not long after, the surrounding Qin cavalry heard a shout: "Kill!" ”

It's the rhythm of the quick-speed assault!

With this 'kill', the cavalry units of the Qin army all urged the war horses to burst out with the maximum charging speed, and the cavalry who wanted to sleep with the horses on weekdays no longer cared about the horses, urging the war horses to launch the final charge. At the same time, it can also be found that the carbine that they had been carrying on their shoulders has been quietly turned down, pointing straight ahead.

The last two or three hundred meters of the charging distance is actually only a dozen seconds for the cavalry who have already raised their speed, and in this short time when the total time is only one minute, the Huai soldiers on the opposite side who were previously in a state of march cannot reflect in time and organize a defensive formation.

Facing a large number of cavalry whizzing from the mountains and fields not far away, wielding sabers and horse guns, those infantry couldn't help but tremble their legs and feet, even if they were mentally strong. Several officers could only shout in despair and in vain: "Shoot, shoot!" ”

But in a hurry, how many people obeyed these orders? More Huai soldiers are thinking about how to save their lives.

The guns rang out densely, but the target of the shot was the Huai infantry, because it was the cavalry on horseback who fired.

Of course, the Huai army also fought back, a Qin army was after the gunshot, a fallen war horse fell to the ground, and the war horse that followed the charge could not dodge, or did not dodge at all, the horse's hooves stepped directly on the body of the cavalry, and the sound of the sternum being broken by the horse's shoe iron could be heard on the noisy battlefield.

However, after a few breaths, dozens of cavalrymen who rushed to the front had already waved their sabers one after another, and sacrificed their comrades with the blood of the enemy! R1152