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Chapter 217 The Decisive Battle in Liantan Town ([-])
Ning Yu put away Uji Jing's letter, his face was a little dignified, "Send the second garrison division and tell Uji Jing that the key to winning this battle lies in him. Before I take Beixia Pass, I must Keep Liantan Town, don't forget to remember."

"Yes."

Dong Ce got the order, and then sent several messengers, carrying the encrypted information, and went to Liantan Town in disguise.This method of encrypting information has become the practice of the Fuhan army, which can ensure that the Qing army will get the information without leaking it.

Ning Yu got on the horse, touched the sweat from the horse, roughly estimated the distance, and sighed softly. This horse has been with him for a long time, and it can be regarded as seeing life and death together, but now the journey is over. , I am afraid I will be exhausted.

"Order the army to set off immediately, and must arrive at Xiang'an at night. Let's rest for a while now, and one more brother on the front line will die!"

After the order was passed on, the soldiers of the Fuhan Army who were resting hurriedly stood up. Although most of them were already exhausted, they still tried their best to support them.All they want is one thing, that is victory, and they don't want anything other than victory.

The setting sun was slanting, and the afterglow of the setting sun cast a faint golden light on the marching team. Looking at this scene from a distance, it seemed as if they had walked out of a picture scroll.

In Anqing City, Yue Zhongqi looked at the Fuhan Army below the city, with a bit of a bitter smile on her face. With all the main force of the Fuhan Army withdrawn, what was left was only an army of less than 8000 people, but still The entire city of Anqing was surrounded solidly, watertight.

Ever since he got the news of Kangxi going south, Yue Zhongqi thought about defeating the Fuhan army outside the city, and then went to fight with Kangxi's army, but what he never expected was that although the Fuhan army under the city did not have the main force to withdraw , but it is still not an object that the Qing army can deal with.

Yue Zhongqi sent people to organize several attacks out of the city, but they were all directly beaten back into the city. At the critical moment, they were even almost broken in by the Fuhan army. The Fuhan army did not have any powerful artillery, but the number of small artillery was not There were a lot of them, and the rate of fire was relatively fast. Every time the Qing army went out of the city to attack, those small cannons fired a lot of bullets, causing very tragic damage to the Qing army.

It would be fine if that was the case, but the combat power of the Qing army in Anqing City was already very low. In the face of a large number of casualties, they were running around like rats, but they couldn't think of a counterattack at all, and they didn't have the determination to rush out regardless. As a result, these attacks ended in vain.

Yue Zhongqi wanted to kill all these routs, but he endured it. After all, if all these people were killed, the lowly green battalion would probably rebel, and it would be no different from losing the entire Anqing City. This is Yue Zhongqi unacceptable.

"Junmen, now the Fuhan army under the city has dug deep trenches on the edge of the city. It seems that they want to trap our army in Anqing City. If our army goes out of the city, they will bombard them with artillery. Now we can only watch them dig .”

Yue Shan's face was a little ugly. When he left the city just now to test, he led 2000 people straight to the Fuhan army in the east of the city, but was bombarded by several waves of artillery on the way, and finally took advantage of the artillery to stop. During the vacancy, Yue Shan drove the remaining green battalion soldiers to continue the attack. Before they had formal contact with the Fuhan army, they were beaten back by several rounds of volleys of guns and grenades.

When it came time to count, the two thousand Green Battalion soldiers were either dead, wounded, fled or captured. A total of more than 700 people were lost, and the remaining 1000 people were too frightened to fight any more, but their morale was even lower. .

Seeing the lack of strength of the green battalion soldiers under her command, coupled with the lack of artillery and other heavy weapons, Yue Zhongqi was also very helpless, and completely dispelled the idea of ​​breaking through Anqing City, but in this way, the plan for a round with Kangxi's army was also very difficult. Then it was shattered, but Yue Zhongqi saw that the Fuhan army had no plan to take the initiative to attack, so she ordered the whole army to prepare and wait for the result in the direction of Liantan Town. After all the troubles, only the green battalion soldiers under Yue Zhongqi were left. Less than 5000 people.

The Kangxi army's attack around Liantan Town was not going well, and the number of artillery pieces did not play a suppressive role. At present, the Qing army's artillery only has about 130 honest son-mother cannons and splitting mountain cannons. As for the generals, there are only seven or eight cannons. , the range and power are not satisfactory, and the second garrison division of Liantan Town has been specially strengthened before Ning Yu left, and the artillery regiment of the main force first division has been temporarily transferred, so the number of thunder artillery it has has reached More than [-] doors.

Among the more than 130 cannons, the six-pound cannons accounted for more than half, and the rest were twelve-pound cannons. More importantly, twenty mortars newly produced by the Hanyang Arsenal were also transported over. , this kind of mortar can specialize in firing shotgun shells, which is especially lethal to clustered enemies.

Because of this, after the Qing army launched an attack, it was impossible to effectively approach the position of the Fuhan army. During the artillery battle, the Qing army's artillery was fired too close, so they had to approach and attack, and then they were locked by the Fuhan army. The positions were destroyed one by one with artillery. In just two hours, the Qing army's artillery lost about half.

Not to mention that the artillery battle was unfavorable, the Qing Army's Beijing Battalion and Eight Banners are now going all out, almost taking their lives to fill in.However, in the face of the powerful firepower of the Fuhan army, they often had to suffer huge casualties before they could approach the Fuhan army's position, and then they were completely suppressed in front of mortars and grenades, and a large number of Qing troops fell directly. On the ground, this piece of land was dyed red.

Kangxi had already hit enough nails on the iron hedgehog in Liantan Town, and his mouth was covered with blood. In just a few days, the entire Qing army had fallen in front of Liantan Town. More than 5000 people were injured. There were more than [-] Qing soldiers fleeing. This kind of tragic casualties was almost unprecedented in Qing military history. If Emperor Kangxi did not personally lead the army, the entire military camp might have mutinied.

Almost all the soldiers in the Green Battalion right now have been sent to another book. Those who died, those who fled, and those who hadn’t had time to leave have already been sent to the coolie camp. Every day’s attack is based on them as the vanguard. Their corpses were used to pave the way for the Eight Banners Army to attack, but now there are less than 3 of the [-] Green Battalion left, and each of them is full of complaints.

Blood and fire are staged on this battlefield. For the Qing army, these days are almost like hell. Attack is no longer a symbol of glory, but a synonym for death. More and more people have begun Thinking, when can I escape from this hell completely.

(End of this chapter)