Chapter 65: The Fierce Battle in the Wilderness

The Qing army seemed to have been in a battle formation for a long time, and the loading of gunpowder and shells was very clumsy, and it took about ten minutes to drum up a cannon, so that the Taiping army pushing the home-made "armored vehicles" would not be a stone's throw away from them.

Fortunately, just when the Taiping army was about to rush in front of those Qing troops, the twists of the two mountain splitting cannons were ignited, accompanied by a burst of white smoke and dust, and the two mountain splitting cannons exploded violently, and then, the wooden cart that the Taiping army used to cover was hit into countless fragments by the whistling scattered bullets, and the Taiping army behind instantly flew flesh and blood, and fell a large piece, and those wood chips formed after being strongly impacted in turn became countless sharp arrows to shoot at themselves, causing secondary damage to the Taiping army.

Taking advantage of the setback of the Taiping army's offensive, those Qing soldiers set off two other mountain splitting cannons that had been loaded with ammunition, and with a few loud bangs, the Taiping army was a corpse pillow in the blink of an eye, with more than half of the casualties.

However, those Taiping soldiers were really ruthless and tough enough, although they watched their brothers being torn to pieces by gunpowder shells, they were still one after another, fighting hard and not retreating, and the bloodiness of the battle in the era of cold weapons really made Yang Yi and Wei Ergou look frightened, and at the same time, they finally knew why the ancients would leave a quatrain that would succeed and dry bones.

Not to mention the sighs and unbearable surprises of Yang Yi and Wei Ergou, those Qing troops thought that the Taiping army would be intimidated by the huge power of the mountain splitting cannon and fled, but it did not want to inspire their determination to fight for their lives, and the army's heart was shaken for a while, and it took time for those mountain splitting guns to load ammunition, so that those Qing troops actually abandoned their positions and scrambled to retreat to the back, even if the garrison or the officers who looked like thousands of generals behind the battle shouted, they couldn't stop the Qing troops from fleeing for their lives. Seeing that those Taiping soldiers who didn't want to die rushed towards him with red eyes and big snowy blades, the leader turned off his horse's head and fled for his life.

In this way, the Taiping army was victorious without victory, and the Qing army was undefeated and defeated when it clearly had a military advantage.

The so-called poor Kou Mo chased, and the casualties of those Taiping troops were not small, so after seeing those Qing troops fleeing, they did not chase relentlessly, but they just surrounded the four mountain splitting cannon treasures for a while, and then led the war horse, put on the reins, and led the four mountain splitting cannons forward, and the soldiers behind were very orderly to rescue the wounded and pick up the weapons, it can be seen that those Taiping troops attached great importance to the gunpowder and bird guns on the Qing army, no matter how many, all of them were collected and kept for themselves. Turning a blind eye to the bows, arrows, and swords that can be seen everywhere, it can be seen that these Taiping soldiers obviously also understand that the power of firearms is far greater than those cold weapons such as knives and spears.

After a while, the Taiping army cleaned up the battlefield, piled up the bodies of their own soldiers who had died in battle, poured oil on them, and set them on fire, while the corpses of the Qing soldiers were left to the wild.

It wasn't until the Taiping troops who cleaned up the battlefield quickly ran away to chase after the accomplices who were guarding the slow-moving mountain splitting cannon in front that Li Shu'er and the others breathed a sigh of relief and emerged from behind the invisible mound.

"Uncle, the combat effectiveness of these Qing troops is also too faced, isn't this about to collapse at the touch of a button, just this*, and expect them to be able to fight, but don't make trouble." Wei Ergou looked at the corpses of the Qing army left on the battlefield, shook his head and sighed.

"How do you know why?" Li Shu'er copied his two hands into the sleeves of the coarse cotton robe, sucked and washed his nose, and said with a white sigh: "These Qing soldiers are all green battalion soldiers, that is, they are all an army composed of Han people, it is said that these green battalion soldiers are before the Qianlong lord, and they can be regarded as a strong force. The governor ignores the military and politics, and the military administration is gradually becoming corrupt, and the habits of drilling camps, tricks, slippery, and lazy continue to grow in the green camp, after Jiaqing and Daoguang, many soldiers are also infected with the vice of smoking, in order to raise money for cigarettes, withholding, taking money, advocating nests, harboring thieves, and opening casinos. Scenes like today's are commonplace and not surprising. ”

"I'm grass, such an army and the country pay for them to raise a bird, it's better to raise a group of pigs to kill and eat meat, hehe" As a former criminal policeman, Yang Yi also looked down on the performance of the Qing army, and couldn't help but say casually.

"Hehe, this, you don't know it again, now this green battalion soldiers, fighting is not their only duty, they also have to take on the cantonment and river work; Caoyun, guarding the tomb, detecting traitors, arresting, anti-smuggling, transporting, guarding, urging and so on, the status is not much better than those people who were sent by the imperial court, of course, they are a little pus, and they also dominate these things. ”

Uncle Li smiled, and his disdain for those green battalion soldiers was overflowing.

"Oh, it's not good......" Uncle Li'er was talking with his eyebrows fluttering, and suddenly his face changed, showing a preoccupied look.

"Uncle, what's wrong, you are so startled, laughing so much that my endocrine is disordered, if I don't come to trouble this month, I'll look for you, hehe" Wei Ergou saw Uncle Li frowning, thinking that this old liar was going to make a cough with the big guy again, so he smiled and said poorly.

", my sixteen-zhang coffin buried you and me," Uncle Li glared at Wei Ergou angrily, and continued to inhale cold air as if he had a toothache, "Hey, did you see, those long hairs are going in the direction of Benquwo, could it be that they are going to take Quwo County?" If that's the case, we won't have anywhere to sleep tonight, so can we really sleep in this cold and snow? ”

As soon as Li Shu'er said this, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Taomu Demon realized the seriousness of the problem, and once the Taiping army and the Qing army had a siege battle in Quwo, it would not only be a matter of whether to surrender or not to stay, because Li Shu'er said just now that Quwo is the road to Cangzhou after all, if Quwo falls into the flames of war, then they will inevitably be trapped here, but how is this good.

"What else do you see, let's hurry up, let's try to get ahead of those long hairs and enter Quwo County, and then leave as soon as possible, go, go, go......"

At the urging of Li Shu'er, the peachwood demon rider Qing Mule was speeding in front, while Li Shu'er, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou followed behind and trotted, and when they ran behind, Wei Ergou's tongue was pulled out of his mouth, and it seemed that he was about to run and die.

About two hours later, Li Shu'er and his group of four, who seemed to be marching forcefully, finally saw the earthy yellow city wall and city gate of Quwo County, and the pedestrians at the city gate were extinct, and only a few figures hid in the shack erected on the side of the city wall to avoid the wind and snow.

"My grass, I seem to smell the fragrance of boiled meat, hehe" Wei Ergou sniffed, swallowed and foamed.

"Go into the city, find an inn, uncle invites you to eat mutton feast, uncle has money, hehe" As soon as he said the boiled meat, Uncle Li's Adam's apple also began to slide up and down, and the little hands in his stomach kept hooking his fingers.

Because of the mutton banquet, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou both came to the spiritual leader, and led the group of green mules to the direction of the city gate.

The sound of kicking footsteps aroused the alarm of the people in the shack, and after hearing the sound of the collision of iron horses, three or four black and thin men with very strong bodies ran out of the shack with knives and guns. "Your feet are at the end", "Your feet are at the gate......

Take a look at it again, Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, and Wei Ergou are secretly complaining, what's going on, those men can see that they are Taiping soldiers at a glance, it seems that this Quwo County has been occupied by the Taiping Army, but this speed is also very fast, it's really lightning fast!

The Taiping soldiers shouted at Li Shu'er and them for a long time, Li Shu'er and they didn't understand a word, Wei Ergou couldn't hold his breath, and committed the temper of the rich second generation, his small eyes glared, and shouted: "Is it okay for your mother to talk about people?" It's a bird walker, chirping, grass! ”

Wei Ergou's shout was like a spring thunder on his tongue, and the Taiping soldiers were startled, so they stopped squeaking at that time, but the swords and guns in their hands were also erected, and they were aimed at Li Shu'er's chest.

"Do any of you speak official language? We are not bad people, we are just passing by here, no malice, no malice, hehe" Seeing that there was going to be a stiffness, Uncle Li didn't want to fight with a group of Taiping soldiers who didn't want to die, and he couldn't make it if he won or lost, so he hurriedly came forward to play a round.

At this time, a man less than one meter five tall walked out of the shack, wearing a red tasseled animal skin out of the front warm hat, wearing a silver red Xing'er cloth Yuan Yuan color silk, a green tweed gown with rolling lamp grass edges, and acacia walnut knots, adding a semi-new and old Erlan Palace silk white foreign cloth jacket, white Xing cloth pants, tied with silver red Xingbu Zhan jade silk silk, wearing a pair of old pine flower green silk silk machine cloth jacket pants, the trouser cuff also has the traces of removing the wide rolling strip turnip belt, and a pair of azure satin eight treasure class pointed thick-soled shoes, There is also a jade spot finger on the thumb of the left hand, and in the winter, he also holds a black oiled paper fan with bamboo bones in his hand, which is painted with a hundred single and eight generals of the Water Margin, and the whole post-modernist local tyrant modeling.

The man walked up to Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, and Wei Ergou, looked them up and down a few times, and greedily stayed on the peach blossom demon's beautiful face for a long time, and then said in a Cantonese official dialect that could barely be heard: "Where are you from, and what are you doing here?" ”