When Song Zuoxian was building fortifications here, the other party tried to attack and harass several times, trying to obstruct or delay the progress of the coalition army.

In the case of a traditional cold-armed army, in order to prevent the onslaught of cavalry, the infantry must assemble in formation every time to meet the battle, at least free up enough strength to defend it. The rest of the manpower can continue to build. The cavalry, on the other hand, can calmly choose the time and not go up if there is no chance, making the opponent tired. It is a pity that the cavalry of the Qin army are equipped with Mini rifles, although these carbine pistols are not as long range as conventional rifles, but the accuracy is not low. In addition, the fork road is narrow, and there is a basic inventory of the Nanchuan camp around it, and it is difficult to detour to it. Song Zuoxian only used one squadron of troops as an infantry, and it was more than enough to guard the perimeter - you cavalry dare to rush forward? Before the cavalry accelerated the charge, Fan Cheng was beaten bitterly.

If you want to rush through the carbine's maximum range of 500 meters and the effective range of 350 meters, you have to fill it with human lives!

Several raids failed, leaving fifty or sixty corpses of men and horses in vain. The first three or four hundred rebel horse teams finally understood a simple truth - just the number of cavalry that had already arrived at the scene could not threaten the opposing coalition army at all.

In fact, if it weren't for Song Zuoxian's prudence, he directly blocked the gap in the counterattack, and with the strength of nearly 1,000 cavalry of the coalition army, he could directly eat the vanguard of the riot army in front of him in one bite.

After repelling the harassment of the rebel horse team just now, the Mongolian nobles who led the troops all asked Song Zuo to fight first. Both Hanmeng are confident and can eat the opponent in front of him. But Song Zuo first suspected that the riot army in front of him was just a bait for Erma to lure him to attack, and he was afraid of being fooled, so he held down his subordinates' invitation to fight and continued to build fortifications. Otherwise, this vanguard of the riot army would not be able to patrol and monitor the crossings coalition army from afar like it is now. I watched as the wall of earth was dug at the pass here, and the road was firmly blocked like a little crumpled paper plug.

However, the number of rebels on the opposite side has been increasing, and after the second horse received the return of the vanguard, his heart was so frightened that he was about to stop. However, Ma Guiyuan and Ma Gasan were not sure that Liu Xian was really overwhelmed by the south. Or just send a small force to block the Nanchuan camp fork?

Just as Song Zuoxian couldn't be sure whether the riot horse team in front of him was bait or really fat, Erma was also facing a difficult choice at this juncture.

The difference is that Song Zuo first chose to be conservative under the confidence of the general trend -- not to seek merit but to seek no fault. And Erma chose to take a risk at the moment of life and death - to storm the fork of the Nanchuan camp.

After seeing this scene, Liu Xian pressed down the speed of the team. Slowly regain the horsepower. Ma Guiyuan and Ma Gasan are so bold, so it is not impossible for Nanchuan Camp to become their burial ground.

can be stewed with a spoonful, and Liu Xian doesn't want to go to the Guide Hall anymore.

At the beginning of Shen Shi [3:15 p.m.], the formation of the Erma Riot Army Horse Team had taken shape. Here, Song Zuo climbed high and looked into the distance. Through the guò monoculars, you can clearly see that there are two huge banners with the word "horse" flying in the opposite military formation. The two of them are tied under the banner, and they must be two of the three thief chieftains of the Xining riots.

"It seems that the rioters want to kill us!" Song Zuoxian had a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and the excitement in his heart rose straight up like a rocket in the sky. What a group of people looking for death!

As long as the two horses want to die, their great achievements will be able to be obtained immediately. The army can save the burden of going south to Guide Hall.

"That's why they're looking for death."

The Qin army officers and Mongolian nobles who followed Song Zuoxian's side were all confident and happy. It's all a credit to the door. The main force of the coalition is close at hand.

It may be that he had heard that the artillery of the expeditionary army was powerful, and the second horse stopped the main force two miles away from the fork. However, the terrain on the west side of the official road is low, and the weather is good. The sky is clear and cloudless, which is just right for battle. Song Zuo first took a small hill as the main position, and the observation of the opponent's position on both sides was clear.

Tong guò inventory. Song Zuoxian preliminarily estimated that the number of troops on the opposite side was between 1,500 and 2,000 horses, which was still a little different from the number of horses of the rebel army that he knew before.

"Is it hidden?"

But where is there a place for hundreds of horses to hide?

"Kill, ......" a * riot horse team rushed towards the fork in the road like a flood. They carry rings in their hands, and this wrangler's ability to harness horses has become a crucial move for the rebel horse team to break through the obstacles.

Fences, antlers, and an obstacle in front of the three breastworks must be removed in this way.

Moment. Gunfire erupted.

The dozens of riot cavalry in front were knocked down in unison like mowing grass, but this did not discourage the enemy too much. Ma Guiyuan and Ma Gasan preached that Liu Xian had slaughtered all the Protestants in Xining. Let the Protestant riot army horse team under his command, everyone have an unrelenting hatred for Liu Xian. In this way, their tolerance will naturally increase. Such a "small scene" as a salvo could not frighten them anymore. It's even counterproductive.

It's just hearsay that the conquest of firearms is powerful. But these Protestant riot horse teams who had not really fought with the expeditionary army, guessed the Domini rifle according to their understanding of the shotgun, and thought that even if the hundreds of people in front of them all fired, how many could they knock down? This will fire, and the next fire is not known until when. And when they soon realize that they were wrong, they can't stop. The horse team galloped behind, and they suddenly reined in their horses, which was going to make a big mess. I could only rush forward involuntarily.

I have to say that these Protestant horse teams are quite high compared to the Protestant infantry teams. At the instigation of a group of outlaws chanting for their lives, rows of horses fell, but rows of new cavalry made up for them. The fences and antlers in front of the breastwork were quickly removed.

But so what?

Song Zuoxian, who was on the top of the hill, didn't have a nervous look on his face at all. A squadron of Qin cavalry served as an infantry garrison breastwall. On the top of the hill, the remaining Qin soldiers raised their horse pistols one by one and aimed at the narrow fork and beat hard.

Five hundred small carbines, which was enough to block the fork in the road. The riotous horses who pulled out the fence and antlers thought that this would be considered a victory, but they were very wrong.

Song Zuo didn't retract his strength at first, for fear that he would fight hard. Let the two horses be unbearable, and then the riot army horse team will turn around and run south. But it was by no means impossible to stop the onslaught of this horse team of less than two thousand horsemen.

North Road of Nanchuan Camp. Liu Xian had already dispatched troops to outflank the back of the rebel army. The scouts on the front road have reported back, the Nanchuan battalion is receiving fire, and the riot horse team will not retreat.

Shen was on time. That is, half past four in the afternoon. When the overwhelming Mongolian cavalry roared and pressed from the north road, and when the 2,000 Qin cavalry galloped to outflank from behind, Ma Guiyuan and Ma Ga were dead on three sides.

They know they're done.

If they misjudge in a life-or-death situation, they will have to pay the price for their wrong decisions.

The time was not punctual, and the battlefield of the Nanchuan camp returned to calm. Except for the occasional scream. There was not a single Protestant riot cavalry still standing on the battlefield.

About 1,7800 horsemen were slaughtered by the coalition forces. Liu Xian's cavalry squadron equipped with Colt revolvers, experienced actual combat for the first time.

The decisive counterattack of the Protestant riot horse team was smashed by this cavalry squadron.

The six-shot Colt revolver shines on the battlefield. It is no wonder that later generations said that it was only in the mid-to-late nineteenth century that the American cavalry, which was equipped with Colt revolvers, popularized the American cavalry. Before the final fall of cavalry, the most powerful cavalry in the world. The cavalry squadron only killed three people in battle, and at the cost of eleven minor injuries, at least three hundred rioters were killed, including Ma Gasan himself. He was shot in the head!

Ma Guiyuan's body was also found on the battlefield. In addition to the blood marks on his neck, there are no other injuries on his body, and he should have killed himself by wiping his neck when he saw that it was irreparable.

If he is really captured. Liu Xian gave him to Yutong. Ma Guiyuan will inevitably be punished.

Then there is Ma Zhenyuan, this person is Ma Guiyuan's younger brother, and Ma Guiyuan is another important general in the riot army. It's just that the name is far less than that of his two brothers. His body was also found on the battlefield.

Liu Xian, a small 2,000 riot cavalryman, did not stay. Don't say that he is ruthless, you can only blame them for their own death. On the way to lead the troops to attack the Guide Hall, the second horse even dared to wash and kill the Han people who came out of the mountains and forests where they took refuge along the way, causing thousands of innocent souls to be added to the land of Hehuang.

On the third day of the sixth month, Wei Ming led 1,000 Qin cavalry and 2,000 Mongol cavalry into Hualong. easily wiped out the remaining remnants of the riot army, and then attacked Xunhua non-stop. On June 11, the cycle was cleaned. Capture and kill more than ten people such as Duobai, the leader of the five works of Sarah.

What Wei Ming was doing in Xunhua Hall, Liu Xian didn't care. It is the old nest of the Ma Guiyuan family. There are so many followers of the True God Cult that it should be inevitable that they will go on a killing spree. He only knew that when Wei Ming returned to Xining from Xunhua, he brought back a full 300,000 taels of silver and 13,000 taels of gold. There were more than 7,000 horse-drawn carts and more than 1,000 ox carts, more than 15,000 catties of sulfur and fire salt, and more than 40,000 stone of grain and rice.

During this period, Liu Xian also sent Huo Guangcheng to lead the army to assist Huang Wuxian's Xining Town battalion to level Xiangyang Fort in Datong County, kill more than 4,000 bandits, and capture the thief chieftains Ma Jinlu and Ma Shou. Two days before Wei Ming led the team back to Xining, Yutong beheaded Ma Jinlu and Ma Shou.

However, on June 15, the headquarters of Xining Town, which was stationed in Jishiguan, reported to Xining, and Ma Zhanao, the general of Hezhou, led Ma Haiyan to attack Jishiguan.

Yutong was shocked and hurriedly asked Liu Xian to send troops to support. How could Liu Xian go to Jishi Pass to fight the Hezhou rebels again. It's just that how long has Xining been delayed in this battle? If he continues to fight, he will wait for the winter in Xining this year.

There will be three months at most, and Qinghai will be snow-white. Liu Xian also wants to enter the Qaidam Basin before the arrival of winter. I don't want to stay in Xining anymore!

However, the dispatch of troops was refused, but Lu Liu Xian did not seal Yutong. He promised that he would send people back to Songpan Hall and mobilize some of the troops left behind there to help Xining. And the newly recruited soldiers in Xining Town are not afraid of low combat effectiveness. As long as there are sufficient firearms, whether it is the Great and Small Gorges or Jishi Pass, it is a desperate danger in the world, and there is no need to be afraid of the Hezhou riot army, which is mainly based on cold weapons warfare.

And the firearms or something, he Liu Xian Liu Junmen still has a batch in his hands. (To be continued) R655