"The only remaining senior officer of the Qing army, Ha Feng'a, was leading the crowd to fight for the city gate, and saw the Ming army attacking, but there was no one to command the pass. In a panic, the guards of the city shot all kinds of firearms and crossbows indiscriminately at the bottom of the ridge, where was there any accuracy.

In addition, Mulima lent all the cannons in the pass to Tong Peng's raid and suppression army, and at this time, there were only two cannons available on Xianxia Pass, one of which could only shoot at a distance due to the fixed angle.

Although the Hussars of the Dragon Guard Army paid a lot of losses under the pass, there were still people rushing into the city gate along the path in front of the pass.

The reed wheel guns held by the hussars were extremely convenient in short-handed battles, and the dozens of people who followed Zhao Shichao raised their hands to be a row of guns, and the Qing troops in the city gate cave immediately turned their horses on their backs, and even if someone shrank back.

The ten people who fought to the death with Zheng Chenggong to seize the door were all covered in blood, and at this moment, the enemy army was slightly frustrated, and they found that the large group of people and horses behind them were killed, and their hearts were relieved, and they were already crumbling.

Then there were hussars rushing into the city gate, each with two short guns of reed wheels, and they also unceremoniously raised their guns and fired.

The captives and Zheng Chenggong and others were in a stalemate for a long time, it was the time of impetuousness, and there was no one to restrain the command, and they were not prepared for the indirect company to be shot by firearms.

Zhao Shichao knew that he didn't have many people, so he didn't continue to advance, so he asked people to put the horses and other things near the city gate on the inside, and picked up the birds, bows and crossbows and other things dropped by the Qing army, and set up a defensive formation in the urn city.

Sure enough, several groups of Qing troops attacked, but Zhao Shichao led less than 300 soldiers to defend desperately, repelled the enemy's attacks in turn, and always firmly entrenched in the urn city, trying to ensure that the city gate was not lost.

Two quarters of an hour later, a large group of people arrived outside Xianxia Pass again. Zhao Shichao looked down the ridge and saw a row of dazzling fires flickering, followed by the roar of fierce artillery.

The artillery of the Dragon Guard, which had already been fully cavalry artillery, was extremely powerful, and under the emergency of the military situation, all the six-pounder guns were dragged by twice as many horses, and the road south of Xianxia Pass was relatively smooth, so the artillery battalion was the second to arrive on the battlefield after the hussars.

Although most of the shells fell on the stone wall of Xianxia Pass, the terrifying sound of the artillery salvo and the few shells that hit the Qing army's tent in the pass still caused great panic.

The guards knew that the city gate had been lost, and at this time, more than a dozen cannons appeared under the ridge and bombarded non-stop, and their morale quickly fell to freezing point.

There were fewer and fewer people holding on to the pass, and after a few moments, even the only cannon on the pass was silent.

The dragoon battalion then also entered the city, and the flintlock guns they were equipped with were obviously more suitable for foot combat, and with Zhao Shichao's troops, hundreds of people quickly cleared the enemy troops on the road to the city and rushed to the city.

Xia Fu led the dragoons to advance all the way in a volley. The Qing army guarding the pass had already lost their morale, and there was no one to organize resistance, so the sporadic counterattacks were instantly suppressed by a dense volley of flintlock guns.

By the time Liu Guoxuan's infantry battalion arrived in front of Xianxia Pass, the battle on the pass had basically ended, and the city was full of the military flags of the Dragon Guard.

Liu Guoxuan's subordinates were immediately pulled by Chen Xiongfei as a "strong man", and helped him drag more than a dozen six-pounder guns up to Xianxia Ridge, lined up at the head of the city, and aimed at the Qing army camp in the pass and began to bombard.

Durd had already heard the sound of firecrackers on the southern pass, but he was just sitting in the tent, and even taught a few of his subordinates in the demeanor of a general, "What are you panicking about?" Such a steep and majestic pass, even if there are 100,000 troops attacking, it will be difficult for one person to come up! Give me a little more ground. ”

It wasn't until the roar of artillery outside the gate and the cannonballs slashed over his head with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, destroying several military tents not far away, that he realized that something was wrong!

Durde went out of the tent and grabbed a soldier who was fleeing in a hurry to ask, only to know that Mulima was dead, and the Ming army attacked Xianxialing.

He was frightened, hurriedly took a few guards, and before he even had time to pack his luggage, he fled to the north entrance of Xianxia Pass, and now there is only one way out of the pass to Quzhou.

The mountain road was extremely difficult to travel at night, and it took Durd a long time to run to the edge of the Qing army camp when he heard the earth-shattering sound of cannons behind him.

Immediately, an iron ball weighing five pounds smashed a Qing soldier to pieces, fell to the ground and bounced forward twice, jumping out more than ten feet before exhausting the momentum, and finally slowly rolled to Durd's side.

He heard a faint "grunt" on the ground, lowered his torch to watch, and saw a black iron ball rolling towards him.

He reflexively raised his left foot quickly, but the iron ball swept over his supported right foot, and with a "click", Durd fell to the ground, and his entire right leg was smashed into pieces from the seemingly slow cannonball from the knee down.

Before he could scream, he had already fainted in pain. Several pro-army guards called out again and again, but they didn't wake up, so they hurriedly lifted him up and continued to flee north with the rout of the brigade.

When the sky gradually brightened, the entire Qing army camp behind the pass was almost flattened by Chen Xiongfei with artillery, and the captives who escaped under the cannon all hurriedly drilled into the mountains and ran towards the north of the pass.

The engineer company was busy repairing the damaged city walls, and the infantry were searching for the captives hiding nearby, and the entire Xianxia Pass was completely under the control of the Dragon Guard.

After Lin Yaotian learned that King Chen had captured Xianxia Pass, he also volunteered to lead his rebels who were good at climbing in the mountains into Xianxia Ridge to pursue the captive army.

Zhu Linmiao stood on the pass of Xianxia Pass, listening to Yu Xin's report on the casualty figures that had just been counted.

"The 2nd Cavalry Battalion lost 120 killed, 60 seriously wounded, and 37 lightly wounded."

Yu Xin glanced at Zhu Linmiao's face and continued: "The dragoon battalion lost thirty-one people, fourteen were seriously wounded, and were slightly wounded......

"Of the thirty-one people led by the general surnamed Guo, twenty-one were killed and ten were slightly wounded. The general himself was wounded in the right shoulder.

"In addition, there is a cavalry battalion ......"

Zhu Linmiao's brows were furrowed, and his face was extremely solemn, although after a chaotic battle last night, coupled with Zheng Chenggong's sacrifice to defend the city gate, he finally succeeded in capturing Xianxia Pass, but the Dragon Guard Army also suffered the most serious casualties since its creation.

Among them, a total of 400 hussar battalions rushed to Xianxia Pass, and more than half of them suffered casualties. Of the more than 30 people brought by Zheng Chenggong, seven of them died in the country, and the rest were all injured.

Who said that the end of the land was full of deserters and demoted officials?! The Chinese nation has never been short of men, as long as they see the future and hope of the country and the nation, they will never spare their lives!

"Your Highness." A somewhat weak voice interrupted his train of thought.

Zhu Linmiao turned his head to look, only to see Zheng Chenggong reluctantly bowing to him with the support of two soldiers. "