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The choking smell of gunpowder wafted everywhere, and there was a bloody smell of blood in it, and in the hot sun, an indescribable smell filled everyone's nostrils.

The battlefield was littered with corpses and wounded soldiers, many of whom were covered in blood and flesh, just rolling on the ground and screaming loudly.

After several attacks, it had proved that no matter how many layers of armor the soldiers put on, it was not very useful, and the only weapons against the horsetails' muskets were those thick-skinned shield carts. It's just that before, whether it was a shield cart, a cart, a cart or a giant shield, they were all ordered by Le Erjin to rush to the battlefield, and many Qing soldiers hid behind the cart and pushed the cart forward step by step. The Mawei Army had only one response to the Qing army's approach, that is, to smash it with artillery, and under the command of Zhang Wenliang, fifty cannons kept pouring tongues of fire all the time, spraying heavy shells out of the barrels. The flowering bullets and solid bullets have not stopped, especially after getting closer, there are still a large number of grape bullets, killing and injuring countless Qing troops.

Now on the battlefield, there are corpses everywhere, only scattered Qing troops remain, and it seems that the number of sparse Lala is only five or six hundred, but they no longer have the courage to attack, but turn around and flee.

"Keep reloading ammo put!" On the battlefield, this artillery had the farthest range, and the Qing army was completely within the range of the artillery, Zhang Wenliang just ordered the gunner to adjust the lower firing angle, and then ordered the artillery battalion to fire again.

And just when Zhang Wenliang was happily ordering to increase the intensity of firing, someone suddenly ran to report to him: "Sir, the temperature of the artillery is too high. Subordinate Jianyì suspend launches! ”

"What? The artillery temperature is too high! Zhang Wenliang, who was nervously directing the battle, was stunned. Only then did I realize that the artillery in front of me had been firing for almost an hour. The temperature of the artillery must be very high, although it can also be used to cool down the artillery by pouring cold water, but the consequence of doing so frequently is that it will greatly reduce the service life of the artillery, and if it is like this, I am afraid that these artillery will have to be reheated after this battle, and Zhang Wenliang looked at the battlefield in front of him, he knew that the soldiers in front of him had been fighting for so long, and it was estimated that the temperature of the rifles in their hands must be very high.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Wenliang reluctantly ordered: "Order the artillery battalion to suspend the shelling, let's go down." At this time, the Metropolitan Governor will probably order the troops to pursue, and there will be nothing for us. ”

"Yes!"

With Zhang Wenliang's order, the cannon stopped firing, and he himself turned around and walked in the direction of Geng Jingzhong, and at the same time ordered: "Everyone in the artillery camp is standing still and on standby!" ”

"General, withdraw your troops. The Mawei Army's combat strength is too strong, our losses are too great, and now the soldiers have no will to fight, so we must withdraw immediately. Otherwise, when the Mawei Army reflects it, we just want to leave, and we won't be able to go! ”

Le Erjin also shook his head vigorously, and blood was dripping from his heart. Gritted his teeth and said: "You are right, you must immediately withdraw to the city, order the cavalry troops to break off, block the cavalry of the Mawei Army, and the other troops withdraw to the city in an orderly manner!" ”

Le Erjin's words sound ridiculous at first glance, although the Qing army has suffered a heavy blow, but the strength still exists, not to mention the number of people and horses, 30,000 or almost 40,000 still have, and the men and horses of the Mawei Army on the opposite side are more than 10,000 people and horses in the sky, and it is simply a fool's dream to encircle the Qing army of 30,000 or 40,000 horses, but the fact is so cruel, the Mawei Army is too strong, they lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses but even 10% of the Mawei Army was not killed, this ratio is too scary, and it is too shocking, Now Le Erjin and other Qing army generals have to admit that although the strength of the Mawei Army does not seem to be much, it really has the strength to eat itself.

After thinking about this, a series of orders were immediately sent out from the formation, and dozens of guards brought back a large number of panicked Qing troops with the orders of Le Erjin.

"Retreat, retreat as soon as the Mawei Army is blocked by the front-line battlefield!"

The Qing soldiers, who had been frightened by the continuous artillery bombardment of the Mawei Army and the dense explosives packs, all began to run back desperately after receiving the order to retreat, and countless Qing soldiers withdrew in the direction of Dangtu County, that is, their big camp, under the leadership of the generals.

The actions of the Qing army were all seen by the soldiers of the Mawei Army, and they wanted to pursue, but they were a little powerless, just now they in order to prevent the Qing army from suddenly scattering the iron thistle terrestris everywhere and the many corpses left by the Qing army, and the shield carts and other debris everywhere successfully became an obstacle to prevent them from pursuing, which can be described as this time and that time.

I don't know when Zhang Wenliang also came to Geng Jingzhong's side and sighed lightly: "Alas, it's a pity, if you can chase after you at this time, you will definitely be able to hit the enemy hard." ”

Geng Jingzhong stared at the Qing army who was retreating in a hurry in the distance, shook his head lightly, and sneered: "You don't have to be a pity, there are still battles, it is not so easy for the Qing army to run, you personally go over to tell Luo Cheng, let him quickly clean up the battlefield, and then let the new battalion behind come up to bury the corpses, now the weather is starting to get hot, once the plague occurs before the burial, it will be troublesome." By the way, tell Luo Cheng and let him count the casualties and material losses by the way, and report to me before dinner today! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Wenliang hurriedly left.

As soon as Zhang Wenliang left, Geng Jingzhong's blazing eyes looked around for a while, and then said to Gu Ping beside him in a deep voice: "Uncle Gu! ”

"In!" Gu Ping immediately stood up and looked at Yue Yang with his hands clenched into fists.

"You immediately order the soldiers and horses of the escort battalion, lead them to pursue the enemy army, hang on the tail of the Qing army to harass, eat him if there are few people, and get out of the way if there are many people, don't let the Qing army withdraw so easily!"

"Yes!" After Gu Ping answered, he turned around and went out to start preparing. Although there are all kinds of debris blocking the road ahead, it is still possible to quickly clear a way for the four hundred cavalry to rush out. The speed of the cavalry was very fast, and the Qing army brigade was all foot soldiers, and it would not take long to catch up. But Le Erjin also expected that the Mawei Army would pursue, so he also left a thousand cavalry behind the palace, in order to be prepared, the hundreds of cavalry of the Mawei Army.

At this time, Wang Yanzhi, the newly joined staff officer of the army beside Geng Jingzhong, asked, "The Metropolitan Governor." Tailgating is good. But what if the Qing army simply killed the rifle? It must be known that the main force of the Qing army is still alive. ”

Facing Wang Yanzhi's questions. Geng Jingzhong didn't blame him, he was not arrogant enough to tolerate dissenting opinions. "Wang Yanzhi, you are right to be cautious, but have you thought about one thing, the Qing army is now retreating, although they still have about 40,000 troops, but nearly half of them are auxiliaries, and besides, they can't abandon all their baggage and light equipment and run away, right? Although I only let the guard battalion chase it. But it can lack the unexpected effect of morality. At this point, Geng Jingzhong's eyes narrowed, revealing a trace of essence from the slit in his eyes

Soon, less than twenty minutes passed, and the debris in front of him was cleared out of a section of road about twenty meters wide, and Gu Ping immediately rushed out with four hundred cavalry. At that time, they had not gone far, and the cavalry who had gone out to explore the sentry came to Gu Ping and said loudly: "Report, the Qing army has left more than 1,000 cavalry as the rearguard, and now they are slowly moving slowly at the turn two miles ahead. ”

Gu Ping frowned and asked, "What about the large army of the Qing army?" ”

The sentry replied: "The large army of the Qing army is now seven or eight miles away from us!" ”

Gu Ping sneered: "Hehe, they run quite fast, thirty or forty thousand horses can sneak out seven or eight miles away in just half an hour, but it's really embarrassing for them." "Half an hour to run seven or eight miles. It also means that it can be seven or eight kilometers per hour, and the 10,000-meter long-distance race in the school in later generations. The speed is no more than that, and it seems that the Qing army is indeed running for its life.

Although there are only 400 cavalry around Gu Ping, they are inferior in numbers, but Gu Ping is not worried about his defeat at all, the short muskets in their hands are not decorations, and their marksmanship is sharp, far stronger than ordinary horsetail soldiers, so it is not a problem to deal with this more than 1,000 Qing cavalry who do not have much morale.

Gu Ping has always wanted to do it, and he shouted loudly to the soldiers of the guard battalion around him: "Brothers, everyone is usually the object of envy of others, and they are also known as the most elite team in our Mawei army, but there are still many troops who are not convinced, today is the time to prove you, so do you have confidence?" ”

"Yes and yes"

"Yes and yes"

"Yes and yes"

The soldiers of the four hundred guards battalion immediately roared to the sky, indeed, they had not been on the battlefield for a long time, and they were really eager to prove themselves. Soon, under the command of Gu Ping, the cavalry of the 400 personal guard battalion formed a sharp arrow formation very tacitly and rushed towards the direction of more than 1,000 cavalry after the Qing army was in charge.

The war horse turned into a bolt of lightning, carrying the horsetail soldiers and rushing forward bravely. Following the pointing of Guping's saber, they had only one goal: the Qing cavalry in front! At the same time, more than 1,000 cavalry of the Qing army also rushed towards them, although they were frightened by the artillery fire of the Mawei Army, but they were not afraid of the hundreds of horsetail cavalry in front of them.

When the relative impact distance between the two armies was only about 70 meters, more than 100 soldiers at the forefront took the lead in taking out the short firearms pinned to their waists, "Bang! "Bang!" "Bang!" Three shots in a row. Quickly shoot out the three short guns on his waist that have already been loaded. The reason why they only shoot at this time is because the power of the short-fired guns is limited. And it was also affected by the cavalry charge, so if you shoot after closing the distance a little, the hit rate is much higher, not to mention the lethality!

The three guns were all empty, and the horsetail cavalry and the Qing cavalry also officially collided together, but the horsetail cavalry did not slow down at all for the countless enemy troops that appeared in front of them, but desperately urged the war horse, like lightning, like thunder, straight to the enemy formation! The Shortfire Bolt had completed its mission, and after the gun was released, it was inserted into the cowhide pouch on the horse's back, and at this moment their saber began to show its terrible fangs!

The design of the saber of the Mawei Army is quite reasonable, and it exerts great power in the hand. Under these fearsome saber attacks, the corpses of the enemy flew up one by one. When their bodies fell to the ground, they were almost indistinguishable. The two armies were completely intertwined, and the more than 100 horsetail cavalry soldiers in front of them shot the short fire guns in their hands, but the more than 1,000 soldiers who followed behind had not yet started.

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

Although there were also many horsetail soldiers who were cut by the long knives of the Qing army, or were directly killed, the short firearms in the hands of the horsetail cavalry soldiers caused them more damage, almost reaching one shot, and some did not die immediately, but they also fell off their horses. At this time, if he falls off the war horse, it means that he can't save his life, and if someone else's knife doesn't cut him, he will also be trampled to death by the staggered war horse. After the horsetail cavalry warrior finished firing, he immediately inserted the short fire gun into the cowhide bag, brushed it, drew his saber, and slashed at the Qing cavalry. The soldiers of the Mawei Army's personal guard battalion are basically all five big and three thick, with big shoulders and round waists, and they are all taller than ordinary soldiers on war horses.

Like the sabers of the soldiers of the Horsetail Cavalry Division, the sabers held by the soldiers of the Guards Battalion were all unbladed, and even if they were bladed, they were only opened a little, and they were still relatively dull. Just imagine, when the cavalry is hedging, the speed is quite fast, so the kinetic energy is also very large, and the impact force of the knife is also very strong. Therefore, the full blade of the saber can be said to be meaningless and easy to damage. Cavalry battles rely more on weight to transfer energy to achieve killing of the opponent, so the old cavalry's knives are basically not bladed, and the weak are like axes. The cutting edge is very small.

Gu Ping took the lead, and at this time, he was like the tip of an arrow, leading the brothers behind him to continue to assault and move forward bravely. It can be said that there is no enemy on the battlefield at all, and the sophisticated equipment on his body makes him not afraid of being injured at all, and he himself can be Geng Jingzhong's personal guard commander, his strength is even more amazing, of course, his strength is far beyond ordinary people, and the long and heavy saber is under his vigorous chopping, and any Qing cavalry weapon is only snorted. As long as the cavalry of the Qing army was cut down by him, they would break their arms and legs, or their entire bodies would be divided into two. No one is afraid of killing gods like this, the Qing cavalry on the opposite side was already timid just by seeing Han Baohu's bloodstains, how dare they take the initiative to make it online! But the two armies are in battle, you can't hide if you want to, just in the few minutes that the two armies have been fighting, there are enough thirty Qing cavalry who died under Guping's saber! (To be continued......)