Gu Mengliu's subordinates were nervously digging the pit, because the time was pressing, the artillery commanders of each group personally and their companions worked hard to shovel the soil. When Gu Mengliu walked back, he saw a cannon commander throw down the shovel in his hand and shouted, "Okay." He and the others pushed the cannon with all their might, pushing the heavy bronze cannon to the pit.

"Report to my lord, about 800 officers and soldiers have attacked the mountain, and at the front is a reconnaissance team, about 20 people." The lookout post waved the flag to Li Laiheng.

"Got it."

In front of him lay a sketch of the southern slope that the sapper had just drawn, even without this drawing, Li Laiheng knew the terrain on the other side of the hill well, he was very talented in memorizing the terrain, and in the past few months, Li Laiheng has been more tirelessly learning infantry and engineer tactics, so that his talent can be better utilized.

"The officers and soldiers here should reach the top of the mountain as soon as possible, and the road here is steep and not easy to walk, so it will be slower, and eventually they will be separated by the rocks in these two places, so we will see three groups of officers and soldiers appearing separately." Li Laiheng rushed to Gu Mengliu's side next to the artillery, and quickly pointed out the estimated order of appearance of the officers and soldiers and the specific appearance location to Gu Mengliu, these three places are within Li Laiheng's prediction, Gu Mengliu has already determined their positions: "Major Gu aims here first, and then fires after I fire a salvo, once!" Then here, shoot once before I attack, and finally here, or once before I attack! ”

"Okay." After Gu Mengliu agreed, Li Laiheng raced against time to ride to the top of the mountain, and there were fifty intruders in each of the two slower places to defend, while in front of the position where the officers and soldiers appeared first, there were three hundred intruders, and one hundred in the positions that were even higher.

The artillery crew officers who followed Gu Mengliu up the mountain just now were squatting on the ground one by one, spreading out the paper with the surveyor and several other non-commissioned officers, making nervous calculations with charcoal, bringing the height and distance into the trigonometric formula, and after finding the results, the gun commanders of each group made the final adjustment according to their specific gun positions.

Gu Mengliu looked at the sentries on the ridge of the hill, they issued a flag to inform the officers and soldiers that they were close at hand, and a hundred soldiers who broke into the camp stayed a little behind the ridgeline under Li Laiheng's order, and Gu Mengliu saw that they began to move forward and prepare to block.

At this time, the deputies of the gunners, each with a chain with a lead sinker tied to their heads, let go of their hands so that the pendant pointed vertically to the ground, while the gunners held the protractor in their hands, put their heads to the chain and carefully pointed at the angle. Gu Mengliu looked at his dedicated subordinates and felt very satisfied, the more urgent the situation, the more they couldn't panic, they didn't have more time to correct, and the work of adjusting the muzzle was best completed at one time.

Under the guidance of the gunner, the gunner adjusted the muzzle of the gun to the appropriate angle and began to reload.

Seeing that the work of the ten guns was completed, the artillery prime minister walked quickly to the gun column and shouted to his men: "A test firing!" There is only one time for a test launch, and everyone is ready! ”

The artillery crews responded loudly, they pierced the gunpowder cannon, poured down the medicine lead, and Gu Mengliu shouted: "Fire!" ”

The first one was ignited, and Gu Mengliu turned around to face the pheasant gang with the sound of the cannon, and looked at the landing point of the cannonball with the gun commander. Gu Mengliu didn't shout anymore but waved the saber in his hand, and the second cannon fired, resetting and fine-tuning the gun commander. One after the other, all ten guns were quickly test-fired.

As the artillery began firing, the 100 infantry who had been ordered to block the attack reached the highest peak of the hill, and the friendly artillery almost stirred up smoke around them. As soon as the smoke and dust cleared, they rushed to their positions and condescendingly opened fire on dozens of Ming soldiers who were trying to climb the mountain. After seeing the gunpowder smoke rising from the opposite side, the hundred-man squad of the invading army hurriedly ran towards the north slope, and behind them, there was a series of muffled thunderous continuous explosions, followed by a loud sound of cannonballs whistling and smashing on the hillside. Bursts of dust stirred up on the pheasant hill, and several Ming artillery shells crossed the highest point and swept over the heads of the intruding soldiers lined up on the northern slope.

"Luckily, fortunately."

Li Laiheng watched his subordinates retreat safely to the south slope, and the artillery behind him had also been fired, he glanced back, Gu Mengliu made a finished gesture at him, Li Laiheng turned his head and stopped his chest, although the counterattack of the officers and soldiers came quickly, but finally, finally: the defensive measures to break into the camp were barely completed at the last moment.

"If they had been a little earlier, even a little," Li Laiheng felt that his luck was very good, which gave him a premonition of victory: "We will be in trouble." ”

The hundreds of invading troops of the Fifth Infantry Wing remained in a neat formation, and the intruders who had retreated from the ridge quickly joined these formations, standing tall on the top of the slope in front of them.

"This Major Li is a well-trained soldier." Gu Mengliu was greatly praised for the performance of the armored battalion, he had never participated in the training of the infantry in the camp in the past, nor had he been to the scene to participate in several coordinated operations between artillery and infantry. Before this battle, Gu Mengliu had watched several infantry and artillery coordination exercises, and the performance of the infantry at that time was far less skillful than what he saw today, and he was not very impressed. He didn't know that these five hundred people were almost all the elites of the Fifth Infantry Wing, including ordinary soldiers, almost half of them had served in the Guards Battalion, and the Fifth Infantry Wing, like the First and Second Infantry Wings, was the trump card in Xu Ping's hands.

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"The thieves did not give up the mountain," after seeing that volley, the former army officer of the Changqing battalion was sure that the opposing army was ready to fight, and put on a posture of holding in front of the 30,000 new troops, and should also have considerable strength: "But they have not all rushed up the mountain, and the front army has quickened its pace!" ”

The officers of the first two infantry units did not wait for the arrival of the Chinese army, then drew their swords and led their subordinates to rush to the ridgeline, and the 800 officers and men of the Evergreen Battalion formed a formation and attacked the mountain together. After the two officers ordered the charge, they also ordered the standard-bearers to raise their flags to inform Wu Zhong of their decision.

At this time, dozens of soldiers who broke into the camp came forward and shot at the Evergreen Battalion while shouting loudly, and the two officers who had a tacit understanding continued to attack without showing weakness. They saw that the number of people breaking into the camp was small, so they did not scatter in all directions but still maintained a neat formation, and the two teams marched in unison, and the harassment and shooting of the camp did not cause any damage.

"If the enemy is very noisy, then the changeability is a bluff." The officer of the Evergreen Battalion on the left thought in his heart, he had served under Xu Ping back then, and had also participated in the battle after the break. When he saw Xu Ping's prancing horse army encouraging morale, the team officer thought in his heart that if he encountered a similar situation in the future, he would also remember the commander's words: "The enemy's guns are not terrible, if there is silence, then we have to be careful." ”

This kind of sporadic shooting is not too threatening, the officer drew his sword and walked in the front of the whole team, after the army broke up, he also fled back to the army after the breakup, but he didn't dare to participate when Yu Shenhe made trouble, and after hearing that they defected to the camp, the team officer felt very complicated, and didn't know what to say. At this time, a thought came to his mind: "I heard that Brother Yu is already a battalion officer, is it him that I am meeting now?" ”

The artillery of the Ming army rang out again, and they fired a large number of shells to the top of the mountain of Pheasant Hill and landed beside these harassing soldiers.

"There are about twenty cannons," Li Laiheng, who was standing with the soldiers on the north slope, listened to the rumbling cannons, looked at the clouds of smoke and dust rising from the top of the mountain, and mentally calculated the number of cannons on the other side of the mountain: "Maybe twenty-four, a whole battalion of artillery." ”

There were seven battalions of the New Army on the opposite side, and Li Laiheng was thinking about the other party's possible reaction in his heart: "If I were the commander of the officers and soldiers, I would be reluctant to carry out all the tactics of the seven battalions for hundreds of enemy soldiers, he would definitely want to recapture Pheasant Gang in one fell swoop with the least number of troops, and the remaining troops would still maintain a marching formation, ready to attack quickly at any time." ”

Seeing that the Ming army rushed over quickly, the sentries and blockers located on the top of the hill began to retreat, and they did not even dare to reload in front of the Ming army, because the eight hundred Ming soldiers did not stop to shoot, and if they were close to the front of them if they were greedy for another shot, one volley of the opponent could destroy the entire blocking team.

Knowing that the officers and soldiers were approaching the top of the mountain, Li Laiheng raised his sword, and the soldiers in the front row fell down one after another, the soldiers behind them half-squatted on the ground, and the soldiers in the last row maintained an upright posture.

A flaming red military flag poked its head out of the other side of the mountain first, and it swayed to the sound of loud drums and military music. Then came a row of shiny bayonet tips, and then another, and another......

"Why do officers and soldiers like to march with bayonets?" Li Laiheng was a little strange every time he saw this scene, the intrusive army always put away the bayonet to shoot the musket, and only loaded the bayonet before charging, because Xu Ping was worried that when the soldiers were wounded and fell to the ground during the shooting, the bayonets on their muskets would stab their comrades. In the past, after capturing officers and soldiers, the army also asked the other party why they formulated regulations for marching with bayonets, but those new officers and soldiers who were captured could not say why, only knew that this was a regulation issued by the prime minister of military training.

But there was no time to think about this problem, Li Laiheng raised his sword high into the sky, whether it was lying on his stomach, squatting, or standing in the army, they flattened the muzzle of their guns in the direction of the top of the mountain, and aimed at the position where the Ming army was about to appear.

As Li Laiheng expected, the troops in the middle of the Ming army crossed the ridge line before the two wings and appeared in front of the intruding army deployed on the anti-slope, when the helmets of the first row of Ming troops appeared in Li Laiheng's field of vision, these soldiers also immediately saw the intruding army on the northern slope after climbing the hill, they may want to stop their footsteps, but the drums of the Ming army did not stop immediately. The soldiers of the Evergreen Battalion closed their eyes and continued to move forward, and the companions behind them continued to rush up, following the Ming soldiers in the front row.

The officer at the front of the team, holding his sword, waited with his subordinates to meet the inevitable rain of bullets: "One person at a time." He thought to himself.

But Li Laiheng's saber never waved, and the muskets on his side aimed at the enemies in front of him, holding their breath and waiting for the order to shoot.

When he saw the military flag that explored the peak line of Pheasant Gang, Gu Mengliu couldn't help but take a deep breath, this military flag that he was familiar with made him stunned again: "Evergreen Battalion." ”

The state of distraction lasted for a breath, Gu Mengliu recovered from his trance, and he raised his sword high: "Ready-"

The gunners brought their fiery red ignition strips close to the cannon's fire door.

The soldiers of the Ming army were still advancing, and the first group of Ming troops to reach the top of the mountain was about 300 people, half of whom had already crossed the front line, and the front row began to go down the northern slope, and on their left flank, the Ming army's military flag also poked out of the peak line, and the intruding army there began to aim and prepare for battle.

The officer watched his troops walk straight and straight towards the muzzles of the hedgehogs that had gathered like a forest, and finally waved his sword, and the drumming suddenly stopped, and the troops stopped advancing. Li Laiheng suddenly stopped when he heard the drum music on the opposite side, and he could clearly see the beards and eyebrows on the faces of the Ming soldiers on the opposite side, and he could also hear the orders given loudly by the Ming army officers on the opposite side:

"Aim—"

The rows of muskets of the new army on the opposite side were flattening, and Li Laiheng swung the saber in his hand fiercely-

"Fire!"

Li Laiheng shouted,

The 400 invading soldiers opened fire together, and rows and rows of Ming officers and soldiers fell to the ground without saying a word, and some of them rolled down the slope, their bodies rolling rapidly on the ground, and rushed to the front of the invading army in a few strokes.

"Lie down! Get on the bayonet! ”

Li Laiheng shouted again, hundreds of Ming soldiers had been knocked down in this close shooting, but the Ming soldiers behind them had also flattened their guns, Li Laiheng did not give the order to reload but immediately pounced on the ground, with his order the soldiers rushed forward one by one, tightly pressed their chests on the ground or the legs of their comrades in the front row, took out the bayonet from their waists, and put the barrel of the gun hard.

After seeing a whole row of gunpowder smoke rising from the position of the intruding army, Gu Mengliu also waved his sword: "Fire!" ”

The Ming soldiers who had already leveled their guns did not seem to have reacted from the shock caused by the salvo, and the Ming officers in the front row all fell to the ground with bullet holes, including their team officers, and the adjutant of the team who had just crossed the ridge in the back row looked a little dazed, because he had been obstructed by the ridge, he had not been clear about what was happening in front of him, and he looked towards the side of the army and did not seem to understand the situation in front of him.

The sporadic firing sounded in a chaotic manner, with many soldiers shooting at the intruders following the sound, while many of them hesitated and did not fire, still waiting for the officers' orders.

Li Laiheng lay on the ground, pricked up his ears to listen to the movement behind him, and when he heard the sound of cannonballs, he pressed his hands tightly on the ground and held them hard: "Stand up-"

The officers of the intruding army repeated Li Laiheng's order loudly, and the non-commissioned officers jumped first with their spears in hand, and the soldiers around them also stood up.

"Kill!"

When this shout sounded, the shells of the invading army passed over the heads of Li Laiheng and them, and flew straight towards the Ming army's military formation, and ten heavy iron bullets fell into the Ming army's ranks one after another, opening large holes in the thick formation of the Ming army.

The distance of more than a dozen steps passed in a flash, and the intruding army that rushed up with the cannonball had already killed the Ming army at the same time as the cannonball landed, and some Ming troops could not wait for the order to fire at the intruding army on their own.

"Fire! Fire! ”

After the adjutant of the team saw the deployment of the camp on the back of the mountain, he hurriedly shouted an order, and at the same time as he gave the order, Li Laiheng's subordinates had already rushed to the front row of the new army, and the soldiers of the two armies began to stab each other with bayonets. When the non-commissioned officers who broke into the camp came over with their spears, the flag bearers of the Evergreen Battalion also lowered the flagpole and stabbed the non-commissioned officers who broke into the camp. Although they heard the order of the adjutant of the team, several officers in the front row felt that it was no longer possible to fire safely, and they did not even give the order to open fire, so they swung their swords to meet the intruding soldiers who rushed up.

Li Laiheng also joined the battle group with his sword, regardless of the tens of thousands of officers and soldiers behind this mountain, at least at this point, it was 400 camps against more than 200 new troops, and it was the enemy who had been salvo once and had been subjected to a round of artillery bombardment.

But as soon as he rushed to the front row, Li Laiheng was almost stabbed head-on by a flagpole, and after finally dodging this flagpole, Li Laiheng was about to swing his knife, when another bright bayonet pierced him, forcing him to retreat again.

"The sword is really bad," Li Laiheng wanted to rush forward twice, but was forced back twice, feeling that his fighting spirit had nowhere to vent, and his subordinates had already rushed past him, shouting and fighting with the new army, like a wall to separate Li Laiheng from behind. He looked around, picked up a spear from a fallen sergeant, held it high and squeezed it forward.

After squeezing hard a few times in a row, Li Laiheng finally saw the enemy again, at this time the battle lines of the camp and the new army were already staggered, Li Laiheng just wanted to pierce the spear in his hand at a person, and before he could stretch out his arm strongly, a soldier in the camp blocked in front of his spear, and Li Laiheng's target waved his rifle to fight, and there was a series of dull butt collision sounds.

Holding the spear and looking around, there were people everywhere, as if there were not hundreds but thousands of people crowded together, and Li Laiheng's spear tail always hit people, so that he had to put the spear up in order to turn around.

As soon as he raised his spear, he saw a New Army officer swinging his sword and rushing towards him, and a cold light slashed his head, and Li Laiheng grazed his forehead with a sharp blade on the side of his spear, knocking his felt hat out of the air.

Then there was another blow, and Li Laiheng's spear hit a body next to him again, watching the cold light fly, Li Laiheng hurriedly leaned back, rolled over and rolled north twice on the hillside. When he got to his feet, he saw the New Army officer fighting with a companion who used a bayonet as a dagger.

"This broken spear is really hard to use." Li Laiheng got up from the ground, wiped the dirt on his face casually, and then drew his sword and rushed forward.

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