Cutting 1719

Chapter 65

The remaining Qing army endured the artillery fire and was approaching the Ning army little by little. However, under the suppression of the long-term artillery fire, their will was broken, and it was only the last straw.

The white smoke gradually spread down from the mountain, and a small stone flew over Xu Chengliang's head. It turned out that the Qing army transported two small cannons to the mountain road, and the stone fell on the mountain just now. The solid bullets in the distance hit the ground and knocked out stones.

Xu Chengliang had no scruples. Just now he had walked through the barrier of life and death. When the Qing army was approaching eighty paces, he let out a roar.

"Fire!"

In an instant, the soldiers in the first row pulled the trigger, and the 350 flintlock guns fired a small bullet at the same time, like a torrential rain, and attacked the Qing army on the opposite side.

The Qing soldiers who rushed to the front seemed to hit an invisible wall, and fell to the ground as soon as their bodies softened, their faces were stained with blood, and their pupils gradually lost their luster.

Ning Yu can clearly see from the mountain that what is displayed in front of him is such a magnificent picture. The foot of the mountain in the distance is covered by gunpowder smoke, and the entire mountain path going up the foot of the mountain is densely covered with large and small trees. Small pits are also densely covered with corpses of Qing soldiers.

After this row of guns passed, the second row of Ningjun soldiers came forward and continued to roar. The first row of soldiers retreated to the rear and began to load gunpowder and bullets. The air was full of gunpowder smoke, and everyone's bodies were smoked one time.

The Qing soldiers didn't dare to charge anymore. They had just endured two rounds of gun volleys, and more than 70 people had already fallen down. The remaining hundreds of people lay on the ground, not daring to move, for fear of being bitten by bullets.

Everyone knows that if it is stabbed with a knife, a knife, or a gun, there is still a chance of survival, but if it is hit by a bullet, there is almost no chance of survival. The bullet will stay in the body and destroy wantonly, and the subsequent germs will directly Destroy all life in a person.

"Mr. Qian, I can't move anymore!" A Qing army lying on the ground wailed, seeing his two older brothers fell to the ground at the same time, they used their bodies to protect their only younger brother.

A bloody man roared angrily: "The general is watching from below! There are still sixty steps, if you don't get up one by one, I'm going to kill someone!"

In desperation, the rest of the generals kicked up the lying Qing soldiers one by one, and regrouped.A total of more than 300 Qing soldiers stood up. They were all shotgunners, and they began to prepare to load ammunition nervously.

Ning Jun on the opposite side was only fifty steps away from them, and they could almost see each other's faces clearly. Those faces were almost the same, and their dark faces were dotted with bright eyes. Many of them were just teenagers.

Seeing the third round of fire from the Ning army's flintlock guns, but the Qing army hadn't finished loading. After a row of gunfire, the Qing army fell down more than 50 people.

This time, it completely crushed the fighting spirit of the remaining Qing army. No matter whether they were loaded or not, they directly raised their shotguns and fired. Probably less than half of the shotguns fired bullets. Some people forgot to take out the poke sticks and fired them directly, but the Ning army on the opposite side only fell down seven or eight people.

Then the Ning army was not to be outdone, and another round of gunshots made the remaining Qing soldiers lose their fighting spirit. They ignored the threats from the generals and the generals behind them, and threw the shotguns in their hands on the spot. Run down the hill.

Seeing this situation, Ning Yu laughed loudly, pulled out the saber on his body, slashed down fiercely, and shouted: "Brothers, put on the bayonet!"

All the soldiers of the Ning army shouted in unison, fixed the bayonets hanging from their waists on the muzzles of their flintlock guns, formed a short spear, and rushed down the mountain.

The entire battlefield was already in chaos. The soldiers who escaped from the mountainside directly smashed the team behind them. Hearing the sound of chasing and killing behind them, many people panicked and even jumped directly from the mountain.

Gao Laibao looked at the rout soldiers fleeing from the Snake Mountain with a livid face, and then at the soldiers of the Ning Army rushing down from the mountain, and said angrily, "Whoever takes a step back will be killed! Order the gunners to fire!"

Everyone was taken aback by this order. Fired from the foot of the mountain, they could not hit the Ning army at all, but could only hit the defeated Qing army colleagues. Only seeing the gloomy face of Gao Laibao, in desperation , had no choice but to obey.

The defeated soldiers who hadn’t come down from the mountain never expected that the cannons at the foot of the mountain fired directly at their own side, and the bullets beat the Qing army to their heads, and many people knelt on the ground directly, waiting to surrender.

Xu Chengliang is brave by nature and loves this kind of close combat, so he was the fastest one to rush down, but he was almost hit by a bullet fired by the Qing army, and said cursingly: "These bastards are like this when they attack their own people!" ruthless!"

Seeing that the Qing army at the foot of the mountain was firing artillery, and the mountain road had been cut off, Ning Yu didn't want his soldiers to sacrifice needlessly, so he decided to order the troops to withdraw.After all, at this time, the more vitality, the more combat power.

Some soldiers of the Ning army, who were fighting vigorously, were a little reluctant, but the military order was like a mountain, and they had no choice but to retreat under the leadership of their respective commanders.It can be seen from the retreat that the Young Eagle Battalion, which has been trained for a long time, has done better in this respect and executed orders more resolutely and decisively. Although the soldiers of the original Hanyang Battalion were brave and sturdy, they were a bit worse in this respect.

After the Qing army fled down the mountain, Gao Laibao almost turned his nose out of anger, and directly ordered the heads of three Qianzong and seven Bazong to be chopped off.

There were 300 people in the green battalion of the three battalions, but now there are only less than [-] left, and the rest are either dead or captured.

Although there are still nearly 3000 Qing troops remaining——the combat effectiveness has dropped by more than half, because more than 1000 people with the most combat effectiveness were left on the mountain, and the three battalions on the mountain were almost wiped out.

At the same time, the momentum on the mountain became more and more high-spirited. There were only dozens of casualties on our side, most of them were injured by the mother and child artillery transported to the mountainside, but the results were astonishing. More than 700 captured soldiers.

Ning Zhongyuan chuckled, "I don't know the virtues of the remaining troops? I'm afraid they won't dare to attack the mountain again in a short period of time, and they will definitely adopt a strategy of siege. Our army just happens to sneak attack at night."

Ning Yu shook his head slightly, "Father, I think the generals at the foot of the mountain are brave and resourceful, and I'm afraid they already have countermeasures against our army's night attack."

Ning Zhongyuan smacked his lips with some regret, "Gao Laibao is leading the troops at the foot of the mountain, and he can be regarded as a good leader, but he is following a master who has no kind."

Ning Yu smiled, "It's not impossible at all. The original plan was to set fire to the city tonight to attract the attention of the enemy. However, Gao Laibao is cautious, and he probably guessed that this was a combination of internal and external tactics by our army. More and more strict precautions."

"Then after tonight, when the morning is about to dawn, the Qing army may lose energy after a night of defense, and then our army can take advantage of the victory to attack and smash the fifth battalion of the supervising standard in one fell swoop! "

(End of this chapter)