Chapter 64: Fierce Battle in the Wilderness

"Okay, grandpa, I'm hungry, you have to take care of the food, how about we find a place to eat hot pot?" Wei Ergou looked at Uncle Li, who was smiling very sinisterly, and with a roll of his eyes, he knocked on the bamboo bar of the old liar who loved to take advantage.

Uncle Li was stupid now, he really lifted a stone to shoot himself in the foot, but Wei Ergou was a grandfather, and Yang Yi was also coaxing maggots on the side, beating Uncle Li with words, plus watching the lively peach wood demon with a smile on the side, Uncle Li realized that these two boys were really grandsons, and there was no way, so they had to let them move quickly, and about a dozen miles ahead is Quwo County, and then they can find an inn to rest.

Subsequently, the peach wood demon sat on the mule, Wei Ergou led the mule in front, Li Shu'er and Yang Yi shrunk their heads and followed behind the mule.

At this time, the wind began to rise, and the sky that had been white before began to be cloudy, and sparse snowflakes fell sporadically, as if to indicate that a heavy snowstorm was coming.

"Hurry up, and feel Quwo before the snow comes, or you will suffer." Uncle Li looked at the sky, couldn't help but become anxious, and urged Yang Yi and Wei Ergou to leave quickly.

Walking out of more than ten miles, Yang Yi suddenly heard a sound like thunder, and it came and went, continuously, so he looked at Uncle Li and said with a wicked smile: "Uncle, what's the matter, it's still thundering on a snowy day, are you doing something unseemly, hehe"

"Nonsense, Uncle is not that kind of person at first glance," Wei Ergou heard Yang Yi teasing Uncle Li'er's words, and also turned around and joked: "Noodles, let me tell you, if this thunder splits you, I think, then it must be missed, haha"

"Shut up, two little brutes, you dare to entertain grandpa if you have nothing to do, you're really not afraid of five thunderstorms, right? However," Uncle Li stopped laughing, listened to it with a solemn face for a while, and said with a change in complexion: "This is not a damn thunder, it should be the sound of a mountain splitting cannon!" ”

"Is there a war ahead?" After listening to Uncle Li'er's words, the smiles on Yang Yi and Wei Ergou's faces also disappeared, and they couldn't help but ask in surprise.

"You guessed it, there was really a war ahead, it's really weird, this is the same people and horses fighting again?" Uncle Li covered his head a little nerve-wrackedly and wondered.

"It's okay, I'll use the Escape Technique to investigate again." Seeing that Uncle Li, Yang Yi, and Wei Ergou were hesitant, the peach wood demon jumped down from the green mule lightly, and said to himself.

"You're still addicted, aren't you?" Uncle Li glanced at the peach wood demon, and scolded with a straight face: "Listening to the density of the cannons, there are not a few soldiers and horses fighting there, Rao is you a demon body, but you must not have cultivated to the level of water and fire, the guns have no eyes, how can it be fun?" It's really a child's heart, and I don't know how important it is. ”

was robbed of a few words by Uncle Li, the peach wood demon was about to have a seizure, and then looked at Wei Ergou's worried and pleading eyes, his anger disappeared all of a sudden, and he obediently bowed his head and didn't speak.

"For the sake of today, we can only touch the past and observe it first, see what is going on, and then decide whether to continue to Quwo or take a detour, understand?" Uncle Li thought about it for a while and decided to investigate first and then make a plan.

Uncle Li and his entourage led the mules to move forward in concealment, and when they walked out of the three or two miles, they saw that in a huge open area interlaced with ravines, there were two teams of men and horses no less than a few hundred men and horses shooting at each other with shotguns, and occasionally the sound of artillery came from the two teams of troops.

If you look closely, one of the army soldiers is wearing a blue horn, a funnel-style warm hat, and a braid dragged behind the head, and you can see that it is the Qing army at a glance. And against it, is a group of not tall, dark face men, those men have wide foreheads, look like southerners, one by one wearing a variety of clothes, some at a glance know that it is the clothes of the common people, the only striking thing is that the clothes worn by those men have been cut from the waist traces, into a long but not long placket or changed to a pair of shoulders, there is also a red strip of cloth on the back.

Don't look at the opponents who are facing against the Qing army, the military appearance is not as neat as the Qing army, but the morale is high, everyone is dancing with knives and guns and shouting, the momentum is pressing, compared to the strong morale of the opponent, the Qing army seems to be a little cowering, and even a little ready to flee at any time.

Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and the Peach Wood Demon floated behind a raised mound, and after looking at it for a while, Li Shu'er exclaimed in a low voice: "Those who are fighting with the Qing soldiers are long hair!" ”

As soon as he heard that the men who looked like a ragtag army were actually soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that he had never heard of, the peach wood demon didn't react, but Yang Yi and Wei Ergou locked their eyes on those men almost at the same time, wanting to see what the legendary Taiping army was like.

Looking at this, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou suddenly understood why those men were all black and short, it turned out that they were all Hong Xiuquan's fellow villagers, famous Guangxi soldiers!

Looking at the Taiping Army who were not tall but had a sloppy face, Yang Yi suddenly remembered the history of the fierce battle between Li Zongren and Bai Chongxi with their Guangxi soldiers and the Siye People's Liberation Army commanded by the * who had destroyed all the way. It seems that there are really historical reasons why this Guangxi soldier can fight.

At the moment when Yang Yishen flew out of the sky, the shotgun shooting between the Taiping army and the Qing army became more and more intense, but it seems that the range of the Qing army's shotgun is better than that of the Taiping army's shotgun range, so in the shooting, although the morale of the Taiping army has been very high, and the shooting accuracy is not weaker than those Qing troops who are not strong, but the range of the shotgun is not enough, so that some brothers on their side continue to be shot and fall, and the casualty rate is higher than that of the Qing army.

After realizing this, the Taiping army began to try to shorten the distance with the Qing army, only to see the Taiping soldiers squatting in front of the front and several rows shooting alternately from the middle, and then there were more than a dozen wooden carts with thick planks in front and covered with mud, and those wooden carts were lined up, and the Taiping army behind the carts hunched their waists and pushed the wooden carts vigorously in the direction of the Qing army, while the other soldiers used the wooden carts as a cover and bent down to follow forward.

The Qing soldiers were a little panicked, and they shot at the wooden cart with their shotguns, some of the projectiles were wrapped in the mud on the wooden board, but more projectiles pierced the wooden board, and after the Taiping soldiers who pushed the cart behind fell down with a scream, some soldiers immediately made up for it and continued to push the cart forward.

Seeing that the wooden carts of the Taiping army were getting closer and closer to them, the Qing army was a little panicked, so they hurriedly pushed out four short and thick copper cannons pressed on the gun carriages equipped with wooden wheels from the ranks.