Hongyi and Fuquan were caught in front of them by two imperial guards, and rode straight to the castle.

Behind them, the Rakshasa spearmen, led by Bekotov, lined up in a neat queue and quickly entered the square castle modeled after Humar's Castle and "almost" copied from the original. Soon, shotguns poked their heads out of the dense design holes.

After Hongyi stood at the head of the city and watched the group of Rakshasa spearmen take place one after another, and a considerable part of them quickly disappeared into the hole in the city gate, then he looked at Bekotov beside him and asked his opinion with his eyes.

"Master, you're all set!" In just a few months, Bekotov has mastered a lot of daily Chinese.

"Good!" Hongyi raised his right hand and clenched his fist violently, and a white flag behind him immediately waved left and right, signaling to the VIPs on the stage: The defenders are ready, and the show is about to be staged! And Fuquan on the side couldn't wait to shout: "Fight!" War! ”

The emperor gave an order, "Xing! The yellow dragon flag on the high platform was immediately waved in the wind, and then, a trumpet sounded in the distance, and a thousand elite horsemen of Ao Bai set out.

Ao Bai is indeed a general, and he did not take it lightly because the opponent's two hairy children and a group of foreign hairy soldiers surrendered. Yesterday he carefully checked the specific locations of these two castles, and he had a plan in mind. This square castle is built on a gentle platform, with a large river behind it, but the other three sides are flat and flat, and there is not even a gentle slope that can be accelerated by a horse.

Ao Bai did not act impulsively, but pressed the horses of a battalion of thousands of horsemen, brushing and brushing slowly, coming from ten miles to the west. Arriving at a place eight miles away from the city, he also operated according to the actual combat standards, immediately stopped advancing, and changed to a slow sideways horse. At the same time, several scouts were released, and they were out of range of shotguns, and they were far from the city. It's just that there is no movement in the city at all.

This is not a hesitation and cowardice, but to give the horses a warm-up time, and at the same time prevent the red-coated cannons on the city walls from bombarding the fixed targets. You must know that in the early Qing Dynasty, he was already very proficient in the use of red-clothed cannons, and a three-thousand-pound Hongyi cannon could easily hit seven or eight miles away from the way of nature. Although according to the agreement, today's cottage Humar City is not equipped with a red-clothed cannon to defend the city, but everything is based on actual combat, showing the basic quality of a general.

After a while, Ao Bai ordered the scouts to return. With a wave of the banner, 1,000 cavalry left 100 as the central army, and the remaining 900 in three directions, preparing to surround the fortress from the southwest and east.

The distance of seven or eight miles is not far in the eyes of a thousand cavalry, and it is not even possible to increase the speed of the war horse to the limit. However, this time the siege does not have to be too fast, anyway, the horse will run, one can dodge the shotgun at the head of the city, and the other can be more accurate to cast the bow and arrow on the horse's back.

The 900 cavalry, with a circuitous and maneuvering route, soon approached the trench outside the fortress for about half a mile, and began to charge at a rapid pace. This distance, coupled with the distance of more than 100 steps between the moat and the city wall, is still beyond the reach of the shotguns at the head of the city! The soldiers of the Yellow Banner Pioneer Battalion began to divide into two routes, continuing along the edge of the range to the south and east, while the 300 horses in charge of the west also began to disperse as they picked up, preparing to quickly cross the trench, set up their bows and arrows under the city, and then quickly retreat while the shotguns were changing and reloading, ready for a second attack.

Ao Bai in the distance watched with satisfaction as this well-trained cavalry team unfolded in an orderly manner. According to the agreement of this exercise, the front of the Qing soldiers' arrow clusters was changed to a single-edged blunt head, wrapped in cotton, and stained with lime. In the shotgun of the Rakshasa soldiers, the lead ball steel ball was also replaced with a polished and smooth soft clay ball, coated with cinnabar, although it was painful after being shot, it was not fatal. As long as the Qing soldiers have a red mark on their bodies, they will also be counted as killed! However, now it seems that the Rakshasas, under the command of the two children, have not yet realized that once the relatively scattered and echoing hundreds of cavalry raise their speed, even if the spearmen are in array, they will not be able to capture much......

Just when Ao Bai thought that the overall situation had been decided, the city commander suddenly waved a big flag, and then the horn sound unique to the Rakshasa people sounded, but seeing that in the trench that had not attracted too much attention from Ao Bai, there was actually a row of shotspearmen, almost twenty or thirty people, and they did not aim at the "ping pong" and released the gun, and more than a dozen war horses fell in an instant.

Ao Bai was taken aback, yesterday he was still laughing at this little Belle Lord for not understanding war, digging a trench with twists and turns, and it was so narrow, less than the length of a horse's body, and shallow, less than a person high, and people standing in it were just up to their chests, this was simply child's play. That's why I went back to such a bold horse crossing today, who knows when I actually hid some Rakshasa spearmen! Fortunately, the procedure for changing the ammunition of these shotguns was very cumbersome, and even after the battlements, it took a long time to fire again, and by then the remaining cavalry had already rushed to the city!

At this moment, the scene in front of him made Ao Bai dumbfounded-the first row of shotgunmen did not stand in place to reload and reload, but leaned down and disappeared, but another row of twenty or thirty Rakshasa soldiers stood behind him, and there was another "ping pong", and more than a dozen cavalrymen fell off their horses! And then for the third time. The three hundred cavalry folded fifty or sixty, and the horses behind had to deliberately slow down to avoid stepping on their comrades. This slowdown greatly cheapened the Rakshasa people, and the shotguns in the original first row were re-raised! After a volley, there were two more in a row, and Aobai lost another fifty or sixty people! Ao Bai hurriedly ordered the left flank to retreat, and the officers and men of the forward battalion who ran to the "wooden barricade" less than a dozen paces away from the trench had to turn their horses' heads, and were put down by the three rows of shotgunners who had finished loading, and fifty or sixty were put down, and three hundred people ran back to the Chinese army, leaving only a little more than a hundred.

The other two groups of cavalry were no better, and the pikemen in the trenches calmly aimed at the cavalry moving under their noses, and fired in turns, and they were also very successful. Seeing that the situation was not good, some cavalry rushed directly through the trench to force the city, ready to turn around and shoot arrows at the Rakshasa people in the trench, but the battle flag was displayed at the head of the city, and one or twenty shotguns stretched out from the battlements to deal with these two unlucky ghosts who rushed through the trench......

An hour later, the 900 forward battalion rode back less than 400, losing more than half of them. The remaining 500 or so people, rubbing the little red spots on their bodies, barely got up from the ground, and went to chase after their wounded and frightened horses that had fled in all directions.

Ao Bai was greatly annoyed, this was completely unexpected, and he concluded that this result was also beyond the reach of all the civil and military ministers in the Mulan martial arts arena!

"Soldiers, follow me!" Ao Bai roared, took the lead, and rushed down the small hill with the remaining less than 500 people to watch the battle, which was fierce and inevitable! Hongyi, who was standing at the head of the city, couldn't help but think of the scene in the old movie that he saw when he was young, describing the Second Opium War: the Battle of Bali Bridge [1], the 30,000 cavalry mixed Qing army was slaughtered by the combination of Makqin machine guns and infantry artillery of the 8,000 British and French forces, and completely collapsed! After the war, according to the estimate of the Russian envoy Ig, the Qing army at that time invested a total of about 50,000 to 60,000 people, including 30,000 cavalry, and lost 1,000 people (the Qing Dynasty itself estimated 3,000 people). The French lost 3 killed and 17 wounded, and the British lost 2 killed and 29 wounded. 3,000 people versus 5 people, how tragic! How desolate!

Although the artistic creation is seriously inconsistent with history, because the Maxim machine gun was not invented by the British-American Hiram Stevens Maxim until 1883, the tragedy that lags behind history is a bloody reality!

At this moment, Hongyi couldn't help but have a trace of admiration for Ao Bai who took the lead! However, if you don't completely defeat Aobai this time, this crossing will be really too inferior! Come on! Eight Banners Iron Rider! Hongyi waved his hand at Bekotov, and the military flag at the head of the city danced again, the horns sounded in unison, and the three hundred Rakshasa soldiers under the city were already quietly in place......

It's close, it's close, Ao Bai and the guards are about to rush to the front of the wooden thorn barrier, Hongyi on the head of the city can see it very clearly, and the "Baturu" gentleman not far away below has angry eyes, roaring something, and has begun to open his bow and arrows, ready to get closer to "ten thousand arrows"!

"Put!" It was Hongyi who was the first to roar, and Bekotov was busy blowing the horn again, and another salvo of shotguns, but this time it was not in the trench, but a salvo of shotguns behind the trench and on the flat ground more than a dozen steps wide below the city wall!

Aobai, not far from the city, was suddenly shocked! Running all the way, he clearly saw that the shotgunners in the trench had disappeared and no longer showed their heads, and thought that they had returned to the castle to defend it, who would have thought that there would be hundreds of shotgunners lying on the ground on this flat ground? This shotgun has always stood in a row and then fired in unison, how can there be a reason to lie on his stomach and fight separately, isn't that looking for death under the cavalry knife? But Weishenme was lying there but there was no trace?

How did Lord Aobai, who made the mistake of empiricism, know that this is the "foxhole" pioneered by Sha'er Huda and his son, which has been arranged by Hongyi in the southwest and east directions according to a certain scattering surface, without dead ends. What's more, Hongyi further developed the single-column trench jishu of Shaerhuda, and added several communication trenches behind the trenches, connecting the foxholes and trenches together, as long as the Rakshasa soldiers shuttled back and forth in the traffic trenches with their waists, the cavalry outside really couldn't see a single figure without careful observation!

As a result, the remaining cavalry of Aobai was about to cross the wooden barricade when dozens of people were wiped out by the first wave of crossfire. According to the deployment of three people in each pit, the remaining two firepower salvos once again left more than 200 cavalry under their horses, including Aobai, who rushed to the front.

Emperor Fulin in the stands finally understood at this time where Xuan Ye's new "trigger-type firing arquebus" was advanced! In fact, in terms of firing range, it was limited to the production process at that time, and the effective range of the general arquebus was generally about 100 meters, that is, 30 zhang. However, the trigger-type firing arquebus has greatly improved the shooting accuracy and rotation speed, and can fire an average of 2 to 3 shots per minute, while the old arquebus needs to use one hand to press the arquebus into the fire cover, the firing speed is very low, the shooting accuracy is also very low, and many times two people need to cooperate with each other. This improvement in the firing frequency was evident as soon as the cavalry entered the scattering surface of the trench, which greatly surprised everyone.

The three armies lost their commanders, the formation was chaotic, and they were wiped out by the remaining waves of straggler volleys. The only accident was that several of Aobai's personal soldiers, although they had already been "killed" in red, could not bear to lose the boss's anger, and actually turned over the trench and really stabbed three or five Rakshasas lying in the tunnel...... The Cossacks, who had been told that this was just an exercise, were also a little angry, and they all raised their guns to shoot these untrustworthy Qing soldiers. Although the lead pellets had been replaced with stones, they must have been shot one at a time when aimed at their heads at such a close distance.

Bekotov saw the change in the situation, and even jumped down from the city, got up from the ground without caring about the pain, and loudly reprimanded and warned those men with burning eyes in Russian, and was almost slashed to death by a Qing soldier behind him with a knife. Fortunately, Hongyi at the head of the city could see it clearly, even if he yelled: "Stop it!" The Qing army turned around like a vicious look, and saw that Lord Belle in a yellow coat was furious, so he angrily withdrew his knife and retreated.

Bekotov was startled by Hongyi's yell, and when he turned around, he realized that his life was really hanging by a thread just now, and he was very grateful.

Hongyi couldn't care about anything else, and hurriedly ordered the herald Ming Jin to withdraw his troops, and at this time, Fu Lin on the platform ordered the Yellow Dragon Flag to shake violently in a very timely manner, and it was also a herald that both sides were ordered to withdraw their troops, which stopped the deterioration of the situation......

[1] The Battle of Bali Bridge broke out at around 7 a.m. on September 21, 1860 in the area around Bali Bridge, only 10 miles from Beijing, and was a large-scale battle between the Qing army and the British and French forces. Because it was only a few kilometers away from Beijing, it was a life-and-death battle for the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing army dispatched about 30,000 troops from the Eight Banners Army and the Mongolian cavalry to prepare for a decisive battle. However, unexpectedly, the backward weapons and tactical mistakes caused most of the Qing army to be routed, ending in a complete defeat. The next day, Emperor Xianfeng fled to the Rehe Summer Resort on the grounds of hunting in the north (officially called Northern Hunting in the Qing Dynasty). The Anglo-French alliance was victorious, and it also opened the way for European armies to Beijing.