It was obviously impossible for the Chu army to give Sun Kewang the opportunity to improve his military department.

After Sun Kewang's intention to take the initiative to win a battle to boost the morale of the army was shattered, the morale of the Qin army became even lower, and the wave of deserters intensified.

In this case, the Chu army intensified its efforts to persuade surrender, and at the same time pursued the victory, constantly storming the Qin army's frontline camp.

The power of the Chu army's Congreve rockets made the enemy frightened, no matter how strong the camp was, after the rocket flew into it and exploded, the camp would become a sea of fire, and the Qin soldiers who turned into fire men screamed and fled in all directions, and the Chu army easily captured the camp.

Under the opening of the rocket, the Qin army's defense line shrank again and again, and Fan Yingxu only found a small number of bees hidden deep in the treasury, although Sun Kewang was not satisfied with the power of this nest of bees, he no longer had the heart to find fault, and ordered the swarm of bees to assemble the whole army.

Soon, a swarm of bees had a chance to fight - Su Dingyuan decided to fight quickly, take Guiyang as soon as possible, and end this war.

Therefore, the Chu army of the central and southern roads began to besiege the Qin army of the Central Cao Division, and in the face of the flanking attack of the Chu army of the two routes, Sun Kewang knew that he had no way to retreat, so he ordered the soldiers and horses of the front-line camp to withdraw, and the army lined up with its back to the Nanmen River in front of the city of Guiyang, intending to fight against the water.

While retreating, he also scattered the Tusi soldiers who were still loyal to him and sent them out to harass along the way of the Chu army's march to weaken the morale of the Chu army as much as possible, but the Chu army did not pay attention to these flies.

Tusi, who belonged to the Chu army, took the initiative to attack and fought with the Tusi of the Qin army, which was harassing the army, which could really be described as making soil with soil.

On May 26, the advance of the Chu army arrived a few miles east of the city of Guiyang, and the vanguard cavalry camp could even see the tall city wall of Guiyang Mansion from a distance.

At noon on the 26th, Su Dingyuan led the army to Nanyue Mountain, and after receiving the report from the forward, he did not rush to continue to advance, but ordered people to urge Lai Xun's troops to arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible, and wait for Lai Xun's troops to arrive, and then flank the Qin army together.

After receiving the order, Na Lai Xun did not dare to slack off, and ordered to speed up the march, and finally arrived in the afternoon.

While Su Dingyuan was waiting for the friendly army, Nasun Kewang was afraid of the firepower of the Chu army, and did not dare to take the initiative to attack Su Dingyuan, who had only more than 10,000 troops, but ordered the army to boil water and cook, and eat a full meal before the battle to recuperate.

In the afternoon, the two Chu armies entered the battlefield one after another, and the villages around the battlefield were already empty, and when the local people heard that the Chu army was coming, they had already escaped the Nanmen River as soon as possible and took refuge in Guiyang City.

The Chu army was in the main formation, Su Dingyuan looked at the Qin army lined up against the Nanmen River with his back, and the Qin Wang flag flying high in the army, and said to the generals on the left and right:

"It seems that Sun Kewang knows that there is no way out, and decides to fight against our army on the bank of the Nanmen River, his courage is commendable, but Ben Du just wants him to see how our army can defeat his army in the frontal battlefield!"

As soon as the words fell, Su Dingyuan ordered to take the initiative to attack, and with the sound of passionate war drums, a heavy cannon was unloaded from the carriage, and the muzzle of the cannon was aimed at the Qin army formation opposite. ....The infantry of the Qinglong Left and Right Brigade, which was directly under the jurisdiction of Su Dingyuan, slowly advanced forward with neat steps to the rhythmic beating of the drummers in the company, and on their left and right flanks, the soldiers of the punishment battalion also followed under the constraints of the officers.

Most of these punishment battalion soldiers were composed of Qin soldiers who were captured in the Qin-Chu War, and the officers who restrained them were Qing soldiers who surrendered in the Huguang War.

At the same time that Su Dingyuan ordered the attack, the Chu army in the south also sounded the horn of attack, Lai Xun and Chen Shitai sat firmly in the middle army, Liu Zhenguo and Guo Li Ai guarded the left flank, and Lin Zhong sat on the right flank.

It is worth mentioning that in addition to some veterans of the Chinese army, Lai Xun's troops are all original Southern Ming soldiers who have not received systematic training, and their fighting will is not comparable to that of the system soldiers, but it is more than enough to fight with Sun Kewang's Qin army.

Getting back to the point, seeing that the Chu army took the initiative to attack, Sun Kewang calmly commanded a counterattack, and the Qin artillery deployed in front of the formation fired in unison, and many shells whistled and flew towards the advancing Chu army formation.

After the shells fell into the military formation, they were like droplets of water falling into the surface of a lake, causing a wave and then quickly returning to calm.

The Qin artillerymen are also experienced old fellows, and the accuracy of the shells they shoot is extremely high, and every time the shell lands, it can take the lives of several soldiers.

"Keep believing and keep going!"

In the face of the fierce artillery bombardment, Gao Fan, who was promoted from a grenadier to the first standard and second battalion of the Qinglong Left Brigade with his military merits, held the command knife in his hand and loudly encouraged the foot soldiers under his command.

Behind him, the grenadier company he had commanded, who had performed a great service in the Battle of Hangzhou, followed him indefatigably, each of them with a resolute expression, even if one of the shells pierced their ranks head-on, taking the lives of several robes.

Boom Boom Boom –

The earth trembled again, and the artillery deployed in the rear of the Chu army finally completed their preparations and began to exert their might, Gao Fan, who was walking at the front of the team, only heard several sharp sounds of breaking the air from above his head, and then countless cannonballs flew over his head and smashed heavily into the Qin army formation in the distance.

In the next second, the shell exploded violently, and the shock wave and shrapnel from the explosion of the flowering shell took the lives of dozens of people.

Under the artillery bombardment of the Chu army, there was a commotion in the Qin army's formation before the engagement, and the hearts of the recruits who had been sent to the battlefield after only a short training began to waver, and the war elephants deployed on the left and right flanks were also trampling on the spot restlessly.

Seeing this, Sun Kewang knew that he couldn't stay in place and defend passively, so he began to deploy an attack with a gloomy face, only to hear the rousing horn sound behind the Qin army, and then the Qin army began to advance in two directions.

The Qin army still used the huge war elephants as the pioneers, and the heavily armed foot soldiers followed behind the war elephants and waved their flags and shouted.

The huge war elephant should have become the priority target of the Chu artillery, and in the rumbling cannon, the Qin army war elephant was violently shelled, and the deafening roar made the already timid war elephant even more panicked. The panic in their hearts and the damage caused by the shrapnel that flew after the explosion of the cannonball caused them to gradually lose control of the elephant rider and accelerate towards the forward with a roar, which happened to be what Sun Kewang wanted to see.

"Stop advancing and line up to meet the enemy!"

Seeing the enemy war elephants roaring towards him, Gao Fan raised his saber and shouted loudly, and the soldiers behind him immediately lined up in place, and the soldiers in the front row raised their rifles in unison, aiming at the war elephants in front of him.

Gao Fan walked to the side of the queue, and after witnessing the war elephant rushing into the shooting range, he raised his saber high, slashed at the void in front of him, and shouted: "One row, put it!" ”

Bang bang bang –

The charging war elephant saw a row of sparks explode in front of them, and then the smoke of gunpowder blocked their vision, and the next second, their bodies were hit by a dense number of bullets, the lead bullet burrowed into the rough skin of the war elephant, embedded in it, and the pain made the war elephant's eyes bloodshot, and let out an even more angry hiss.

After the front row fired, without the officer's order, he quickly knelt on one knee, placed the rifle diagonally on the ground, and loaded it with ammunition, while the soldiers in the second row quickly raised their rifles and pulled the trigger immediately under Gao Fan's order.

The second volley completely frightened the out-of-control war elephants, they screamed and turned around and fled, seeing that they were about to disrupt the formation of the Qin army, the elephant rider on the back endured his grief in time, and inserted sharp weapons such as an awl into the spine of the war elephant, and the war elephant let out a long mournful cry and fell heavily to the ground.

The elephant riders endured the pain to avoid further casualties of the Qin army, and the huge corpses also became a cover that the Qin army could use, relying on the corpses of war elephants like mountains, they took bows and arrows at the opposite Chu army, and shot with bows, crossbows, bird guns, and a swarm of bees.

After the swarm of bee fuses ignited, it was like a violent storm, dozens of fire arrows roared and rushed towards the Chu army, where did the soldiers of the Chu army encounter this kind of weapon, and after the fire arrows hit the human body, there would be a small-scale explosion, and the Chu army was immediately killed and wounded.

But they did not waver because of this, but quickly lined up against the fire of the Qin army and continued to shoot at the enemy.

The two sides immediately began to shoot at each other, and the projectiles and arrows continued to pass through each other in the open space between the two armies, and although the Qin army hid behind the corpses of war elephants, the Chu army was slightly more accurate, and the casualties did not decrease in the slightest.

At this moment, the Congreve rocket behind the Chu army finally wielded its might, dragging the tail flame and smashing into the Qin army, as if someone had caused an explosion in the ant colony, the Qin army was extremely afraid of this weapon in his heart, and scrambled to flee back after only one bombardment.

There is no doubt that although the accuracy of the Congreve rocket was not high, only three of the thirty-two rockets fired this time hit the target, but the blow to morale was enormous.

After the Congreve rocket hit the crowd, the Qin army screamed and fled to the rear in a chaotic manner, and the Chu army, which was firing at each other, hurriedly stopped firing and chased the fleeing enemy to the dense beat of drums.

When they walked around the remains of the dozen war elephants and saw the corpses of the Qin army lying on the ground, they couldn't help but be shocked by the power of Congreve's rockets - a large number of corpses lay there, many of the corpses' faces and armor were charred, as if they would shatter at the slightest touch, and the air smelled of indescribable burning.

This reminded these Chu soldiers of the barbecue they had eaten on weekdays, but when they smelled the smell, they didn't have a little appetite in their stomachs, but felt sick and sick to their stomachs.

It wasn't until they saw the corpses left behind by the enemy that they finally understood how badly this particular weapon had shaken the morale of the enemy......

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