The drum beat is monotonous and mechanical, but it makes people shudder. With the sound of this drum, the army of a thousand people originally gathered in the northwest of the valley stretched out into a wide horizontal formation, and if you look closely, it is composed of several small horizontal formations. Each horizontal formation has four rows, and each row has about ten people. The distance between each horizontal formation was less than ten paces, and there were skirmishers swimming between the gaps.

Twenty small horizontal formations unfolded, although thin, but the killing aura was stronger than the more than 2,000 people who rushed over.

Da, da~ daladeda~ dalada, daladeda...... The gray-blue figure of Yishui, well-dressed, with a musket on his shoulder, and the sound of heavy boots stepping on the ground also converged into a low-pitched wave, which matched the sound of the drum.

The Qing soldiers who had just woken up from the bombardment of that shotgun subconsciously wanted to raise their voices and shout, the rows of neat queues, the unified clothing, the unified hats, and the unified pace, forming a strange and compelling whole, and they were not facing thousands of people, but a giant snake gathered by thousands of people, which was slowly coiling towards them.

The crowd subconsciously took a step back, and then was pushed back by the shouts of their superiors. The spearmen gathered in front of the battle like white foam on the beachhead, and the valley was suddenly cut off by a thick white smoke.

I vaguely saw that the gray-blue giant snake in the distance was not half blocked, and even the ripples of the stone into the water could not be seen, the shotgunner was sweating and hurriedly reloaded, and the archers in the back row also stepped in front of the shotgunner, and the whining arrow rain splashed out, drawing an arc, and spilled towards the gray-blue giant snake in the distance, crackling and splashing a little smoke and dust, many gray-blue figures fell, and the Qing army suddenly let out a burst of cheers, which could be regarded as hurting the enemy.

Eighty steps, seventy steps, a little closer...... Wu Ya secretly calculated the distance, and with a snort, a feather arrow grazed the top of his head, so frightened that he also shrunk his neck, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Stand!" ”

After a horn, the rhythmic drum beat suddenly turned into a rapid and dense click, and the Qing archers cheered up, which was just the right distance to be a target. Just as he was about to launch a rapid shot, a large cloud of gunpowder smoke suddenly erupted from the gaps in the opponent's horizontal formation, like countless spikes shot out of the scales of a giant snake, and when he heard the sound of cannons, many archers had already been hit by dozens of tiny shotguns, and they fell to the ground with blood rushing all over.

The archers and shotgunners in the front row were knocked down countless by the divine arm cannons between the gaps in the horizontal formation, and were about to retreat, when thousands of guerrillas danced with their swords at their waists, all shouting "Rush forward!" ”

It's only fifty or sixty steps, and it seems that I can rush up.

The hand-to-hand fighters came out in a tide, and at this time, the guards who had just completed the steps of "flat guns" and "aiming" received the order they had been waiting for for a long time: "Release!" ”

A louder and more violent roar poured out than the last one, almost tearing the valley apart. And with this voice, a machine, the war machine that Li Shi had worked so hard to forge, finally opened up at full power and galloped at its own pace.

The western foot of Guanyin Mountain seems to have risen into the sky, obscured by clouds and mist, and the thunder roars in the clouds, but the thunder is a straight line, flickering very rhythmically.

Even standing on the high platform made of the carriage, it was difficult for Li Xi to see the situation on the battle line clearly, there was no wind in the valley, and the bombardment of the previous artillery, together with the first round of guns, had already plunged the battle line into chaos, making him subconsciously think about what smokeless gunpowder was.

At the same time, Li Xi thought of what had been said in his previous life, when the musketeers began to shoot, the entire war machine was no longer under the effective control of the commander. The soldiers were shooting mechanically and desperately, and no other sound could be heard, and the only thought was to let the smoke fill their eyes and plunge all enemies and dangers into chaos, so that they could rest assured. All sorts of absurd things that happened in the meantime, such as loading several rounds of ammunition and leaving them in the chamber of the gun, or shooting with a gun at all, are unavoidable even for the best army.

But Li Xi is very confident that his small army will not be like this. The third round of platoon guns was still neat, showing that his soldiers were still in a good state of operation.

Zhang Hanjin, who was on the left side of the horizontal array, bit off the greased paper tail, poured a small pinch of gunpowder into the fire gate medicine pool, closed the lid of the medicine pool, and then poured the remaining gunpowder into the barrel. Looking around, his subordinates were not much slower than him, nodded with satisfaction, and waited a few more breaths before shouting: "Release!" ”

This is the fourth round of guns, and not only the gunfire on his wing is still neat, but also Zhang Hanwan on the right flank. There are 800 of them on both wings, and they have been training hard for a year or two, and the two of them are even called "ascetics", and they have been buried in gunfire for more than two years.

Other Chinese characters, and even the young people of the Tang generation, began to shoulder various military affairs. For example, the naval department led by Jia Hao, such as Fang Wang and others who integrated Hong Kong Shui Yong and Boat Ding into Si Wei. And the two of them took the core guards to train and exercise day after day, building the foundation of the future army in all aspects. Not to mention other skills, just shooting, their guards have at least 1,000 rounds of live firing experience on average, and most of them are already playing with muskets.

"...... per minute Four shots, it's still almost. ”

After four rounds of guns, Li Xian looked at his pocket watch, and after about a minute, he let out such a sigh again.

Although he was full of confidence, Li Xi had to admit that he could no longer control the frontal battle situation, so he could only let the front-line commanders control it themselves.

Two or three miles away, Wang Wenxiong also felt the same way, but the direction of his feelings was diametrically opposite. Not only was he unable to grasp the situation on the battlefield, but his command of the three battalions in front was completely ineffective, and he could only see thunder and lightning constantly climming in the clouds and mist covering the middle of the valley.

Li Wei beside Wang Wenxiong has fallen into a state of semi-dementia, and the battle situation in front of him can't help but remind him of the earlier ambush of Li Shi in Baihualou, Guangzhou, at that time, with ten against one, he was still killed by Li Shi, and now he ...... The strength of both sides was not even four to one.

"Losing ......"

This thought was hovering in Li Wei's mind very clearly, and he was about to grit his teeth and persuade Wang Wenxiong to retreat immediately, anyway, Li Xi was forced to rebel, but another thought rushed straight up and forced a monster like Li Xi to rebel, is it still a credit?

"Where's the horse team! Where's my horse team!? ”

Wang Wenxiong shouted loudly.

"The front camp picks up! The right side of the middle camp strikes! Sons, follow Ben Du to kill the enemy! ”

Seeing the clouds and mist, the unsteadiness in Wang Wenxiong's heart became stronger and stronger, and he hurriedly gave an order. As a veteran who experienced the rebellion of the three feudatories and climbed up by military exploits, the official to the admiral is almost the end of the martial arts. If he really wants to be defeated here, it is better to die, so he pressed all the weights, and even rushed to the battlefield with his own soldiers himself.

Wang Wenxiong's horse team rushed around the left side of the infantry team, but they had already been the focus of Li Shi's attention, and before they could get closer, more than a dozen open-top carriages rushed out, blocking the flanks they wanted to insert. Li Xi didn't have any cavalry, and all his men who could ride horses were sentinels and heralds, but the carriage was very useful. Two horses pulled a magic arm gun crew and seven or eight musketeers, whose agility and range of movement were far inferior to that of simple cavalry, but it was still effective in blocking the opposing cavalry. One of the purposes of deliberately choosing this relatively flat valley to meet the attack was also to ensure that the carriage could run.

The carriage came to a halt in an arc and spread out into a defensive line, and the cannons and muskets roared more than a hundred paces away, instantly breaking up the momentum of the horse team. The cavalry of the Qing army subconsciously deflected their horses' heads, and also drew an arc, rushing into the chaotic clouds and mist in front.

There was more neighing of horses in the thunder, and a moment later, on the right side of Li Shi, the sound was mixed, and then the scattered cavalry rushed out of the clouds and mist and rushed towards Li Shi's carriage group.

Just nearby, Zhou Ning and the others had been shocked by the cloud of gunpowder and the thunder in the clouds, and they still had some resentment in their eyes when they looked at Li Xi before, but now they felt a little uncomfortable, why couldn't they follow Li Xi and indulge in this thunderous power together and enjoy the joy of the battlefield battle?

Then seeing a group of cavalry breaking through the clouds and mist, Zhou Ning subconsciously shouted: "Be careful! ”

When the shout came out, Zhou Ning's heart jumped a little more, which side was he standing on?

There was no need for Zhou Ning to remind them, hundreds of guards rushed out from both sides of the carriage, gathered into a phalanx, guns and cannons rang out, and the scattered cavalry fell under the fire net. The few rushed to the front of the phalanx, but were held back by Rulin's bayonets.

"If the British had played against such Qing soldiers during the Opium War, maybe the outcome would have been different."

Seeing the tenacity of this horse team, Li Xian also sighed in his heart.

Come and not be rude, Wang Wenxiong has a horse team, and he also has chariot soldiers, the horn sounded, and the carriage that originally blocked the horse team started again and went around the left flank of the Qing soldiers.

The slight north wind flowed into the valley, and the thick clouds and mist were gradually blown away, and the thunder in the middle of the battlefield began to move forward, and every thirty or fifty paces forward, it stopped and flickered and roared, and everything seemed so orderly.

The sound of the drums became clearer and clearer, and the thunder seemed to be close to him, and Li Wei, who was behind, desperately suppressed his urge to turn the horse's head, but when more than a dozen carriages broke through the smoke and were already within half a mile, he screamed at a sharp voice, and the embankment in his heart collapsed, and even the people and horses galloped away.

When the carriage carried more than 200 guards to the rear of the Qing soldiers, the battle also came to an end, and the whole battle was so long that even Li Xian felt a little surprised. But when the smoke of gunpowder dissipated and the situation in the valley was clear at a glance, Li Xian was shocked and realized that he might have overestimated the tenacity of the Qing soldiers.

"Can't they even run?"

Wu Ya said while vomiting, he was used to seeing enemies who were shot, but like now, the corpses were covered in the valley, and in the densest places, the color of the earth could no longer be seen, and it was the first time he had seen it. Not only him, but Zhang Hanjin and Zhang Hanwan, as well as many guards, couldn't hold back the churning in their chests and vomited on the spot.

"I was stupid, or the smoke was too thick, and I couldn't tell the direction when I ran."

Long Gaoshan also shrunk his neck, unable to believe what he was seeing.

"It's still that Wang Wenxiong is too stupid to fight with me in this narrow valley."

Li Xi knew in his heart, if he wanted to escape, he would just run away with the sound of the gun, how could he not know the direction? It was clear that the rout was blocked by the people who came up from behind, and then his own chariot soldiers went around the back, attacking back and forth, and in the end they really didn't know the direction anymore.

"Stop chasing, let that Wang Wenxiong go."

Li Xi did not forget to quickly explain that Wang Wenxiong could not die, he had to live to defend his defeat, and at the same time to defend Li Shi.

But as the old saying goes, heaven does not fulfill people's wishes.

Wang Wenxiong...... When he died, he and a dozen or so soldiers were so bombarded by muskets that they fell to death in the middle of the battlefield, and the soldiers who were lucky enough to be alive confirmed his identity.

Li Xi only felt a headache and a toothache, which ...... Is it too much force?

"Desheng...... How can I explain this, the whole standard was killed by you......"

Zhou Ning wanted to cry and couldn't cry, but he felt weak, this was no longer a hole, but the whole sky had fallen.

"Where are you done? Didn't you run more than a thousand, and catch a thousand? ”

Li Xian touched his nose embarrassedly, it was a bit excessive, more than 4,000 people in the fifth battalion were raised, and nearly 2,000 people were lying in the valley, and the dead and wounded of the guards were less than 200 people, all of which were caused by bows and arrows and cavalry.

"Even Wang Junmen was killed by you, what should I say about this?"

Zhou Ning was completely forced to get on the thief ship by Li Xian, and the battle of Guanyin Mountain not only erected his banner, but he himself was also present.

"How so...... Only living people can say it. ”

Li Shi's mentality has also adjusted, Wang Wenxiong is dead, no matter what he will say, he will never be able to refute it again.

Wang Wenxiong...... Who gave you this name? ”

Li Shi also secretly vomited a groove, when the White Lotus Sect rebelled, he also killed a Wang Wenxiong, who was only a general soldier of Nanyang Town. And before he officially raised the flag, he killed Wang Wenxiong, the governor of Guangdong, and he was really careless...... "You haven't understood it yet, have you?" ”

Li Xi asked Zhou Ning, and Zhou Ning nodded like a chicken pecking rice.

"It's better that everyone doesn't understand."

Li Xian smiled.

"But there's another thing that everyone should understand."

Then he looked south.

"Now in the whole of Guangdong, who speaks counts."

(To be continued)