The direction of the second company of the Qing army has also improved, and it is obvious that Feng Sheng'a, who has passed through the rain of bullets, has been in place and has taken over the command from the too rigid Tong Jia. The fire of the three companies formed an encirclement and put it on the head of the Taiping army like a big hat, striking at it from three directions. But the threat of artillery bombardment to the Taiping army was gradually decreasing, and after the phalanx broke down, the Taiping army also made good use of weeds and trees to cover itself.

The spherical solid bullet no longer has a conspicuous target to hit, not only the personnel of the Taiping army have spread out well, but even the banner of the three armed forces that Kong Zhen aimed at several times, the Taiping army also took the initiative to put down. Although the blasting bomb can still be useful, it can only injure one or two people at a time, which is really not a good result.

Watching the shells explode in the array magnified by the Taiping army, Guo Xing'a felt anxious and helpless in his heart, the artillery had lost its role in killing and injuring the enemy in a large area. Through the telescope, Guo Xing'a found that the array of the Taiping army was slowly retreating, and they were orderly opening up the distance from the Qing army. At this point in the battle, the Taiping army lost hundreds of elite soldiers, and finally found the most suitable tactics for themselves. Since there was no hope of breaking through from the front, Huang Daping decisively chose to retreat.

The morgue took advantage of the superiority of troops to fire intensively at the Qing troops in three directions, suppressing the already sparse firepower of the Qing army, and at the same time retreating slowly and orderly at the same time. The firepower of the Qing army was too thin to annihilate the moving Taiping army, and at the same time, it could not play the role of blocking the return route of the Taiping army, and the Qing army had no way to pursue. The current advantage of the Qing army is the terrain advantage obtained through ambushes, once the Qing army pursues out the trenches, the Taiping army with superior forces is bound to be at a disadvantage. The artillery relied on by the Qing army, no matter how mobile and flexible it was, could hardly keep up with the pace of infantry charges. The killing distance of the shotgun could not exceed 700 meters in any case, and the Taiping army adopted a scattered formation, and the artillery that could not get close was greatly limited.

"My lord, do you want to let the recruits attack?" The battle has become a situation of dog biting hedgehog, and the anxious Xiande has also begun to make suggestions.

"Forget it, let them go! Save some effort and clean up the battlefield for a while! Looking at the retreating Taiping army, Guo Xing'a put down the binoculars in his hand. There was a problem with his ambush circle itself, Huang Daping got out, and Guo Xing'a had nothing to say. Fortunately, this ambush also knocked out nearly one-fifth of Huang Daping's men, and the Taiping army was unable to continue the pursuit, which can be regarded as meeting strategic expectations.

The Qing army no longer had hope of annihilating the Taiping army, and the Taiping army's tactical actions of alternately covering the retreat were also quite perfect, and the situation began to develop in a direction agreed by both sides. The team of the Taiping army seemed to be about to take off the monkey with the hoop spell, and the iron hoop was about to leave their heads, and when they were about to shrink their necks for the last time, an accident happened that no one expected.

In the bushes behind the Taiping Army, hundreds of snorting iron bumps suddenly flew out. Many Taiping soldiers had not yet seen the invention of Guoxing'a*, but they were also soldiers who used firearms, and they instinctively sensed the danger in the face of the iron lump burning at the bottom. But there was not much time left for them to dodge,* but they were still burned out, and the explosion was more ferocious than the blasting shells of the artillery, and the sound of explosions rang out in the back of the morgue. In the smoke and dust of the explosion, more * was thrown out, and then an even more terrifying explosion. If it weren't for Huang Haojun, who retreated to the rear team to rest, a loaded baggage vehicle was almost ignited by the flying open flames.

In a panic, the Taiping hurriedly pointed their guns behind them, but there was a dead silence behind the trees that had just sent the Grim Reaper, as if there had never been any living beings in their shadows. Rows of bullets from the Taipings rained down on the silent woods, but there was no response, neither a bullet to fight back nor the miserable wails of being shot.

The firepower of the Qing army in the other three directions did not relax, although they were suppressed by the Taiping army, they also kept tilting the rain of bullets towards the Taiping army. Every now and then, a cannonball whistles and lands at someone's feet, which then takes that person into the sky. In such a harsh environment, the Taiping army in the rear also had to slow down, calm down, and began to carefully explore the dense forest behind them.

Huang Haojun led a few teams of Taiping soldiers with rifles in their hands and began to search behind him, but except for the fact that he had just flown out*, everything here was normal. Normal weeds, normal trees, normal gravel, staring at the eyes for a long time, Huang Haojun did not find any trace of the enemy. Just as he was about to give the order to expand the search area, he suddenly noticed that a weed between the two trees moved, and then more weeds around him.

"Get down!" Huang Haojun didn't have time to shout more prompts, and when he just threw himself to the ground, countless figures had already stood up among the weeds and trees.

Even the muskets in their hands were camouflaged with weeds, and from a distance, these Qing troops covered with blades of grass had blended into the mountains and forests. When they suddenly stood up, the morgue was defenseless, and many people took the Qing army for a disturbed mandrill.

Before the Taiping army could react, the Qing army had already pulled the trigger, and the iron sand in the * sprayed out, sweeping away the enemy in front of the Qing army. A few lucky people trembled and raised their muskets to fight back, but they were already knocked down by the second round of fire from the Qing army*, and dozens of Qing soldiers holding revolving rifles were ready to shoot at any time.

Huang Haojun and a few smart people around him lay on the ground and didn't dare to move, listening carefully to the movements of the Qing army. When there was a sound of tearing paper and the sound of the whole strip inserting into the barrel of the gun, Huang Haojun and the others dared to jump up, they also knew that there was no point in fighting back, and several people turned around and ran.

The Qing army did not deliberately chase a few of them, but they also quickly followed out of the woods, and they threw a large number of * at the Taiping army of the brigade again, and then took advantage of the * rate of fire and killing area, and frantically began to kill and injure the living force of the Taiping army.

Huang Daping found that there was a fire in the backyard and hurriedly gathered forces to fight back, Chengtai began to turn around and run away very tastelessly. In the face of the Taiping army with superior forces, Chengtai led the assault company directly into the woods, using the cover of trees to avoid the bullets fired by the Taiping army. The angry Taiping army was in a hurry, but they couldn't beat their opponents alive or dead.

"Set fire to these bastards." Miao Hansheng hastily gave the order.

"Can't, don't ......" Huang Haojun's subordinates were the most seriously injured, and when he just fled for his life, he was swept by the iron sand again, and Huang Haojun, who was in pain and injury, was lying on the ground and was very dying. Hearing Miao Hansheng's order to set fire, he still hurriedly spoke out to stop it, but he was so weak that people couldn't hear him stop it.

There was an open valley between the two mountains, but the reason why it did not appear in the form of a valley floor was that trees and weeds blocked the part of the road. Chengtai's assault company hid through trees, and the Taiping army hid in the face of the Qing army's ambush. Once the trees are set on fire, they can be separated, and they will be burned in one piece. At that time, Chengtai will certainly be forced out, and the Taiping army will have to be directly exposed to the eyes of the Qing army. Where there is no fire, there is the Taiping Army, which is almost no different from the target, and the high temperature and smoke produced by the flames are also shared by the Taiping Army and Chengtai and others.

The * and cold guns thrown by Chengtai's headquarters from time to time greatly slowed down the retreat of the Taiping army. And not only did the Taiping army set fire, Chengtai also lit a fire on the back road of the Taiping army. The Qing army not only expanded the fire around it, but also piled up many dead branches and other materials on the road and ignited them, cutting off the back road of the Taiping army with fire.

Whether it was Guo Xing'a, who was holding a telescope to cheer for Chengtai, or Huang Daping, who was secretly complaining in his heart, he didn't expect that the fire was lit by Miao Hansheng. The fire was getting bigger and bigger, and he secretly regretted that he didn't attack with fire at the beginning, and took out the treasure at the bottom of the box-burning bomb.

The sight of burning Tokyo has appeared in Goxinga's mind countless times, so in terms of weapon development, Goxinga has not relaxed his exploration of incendiary weapons. However, due to the limited materials, the development of incendiary weapons in Goxinga has not been smooth. At present, the incendiary bomb at the bottom of the pressure box can only be regarded as having a name, and Guo Xing'a still can't figure out the white phosphorus that can spontaneously ignite in the air, so the incendiary bomb is filled with red phosphorus. Although the effect is slightly worse, it is enough as a simple incendiary bomb.

The Qing artillery scattered the only burning shells around the Taiping army, and after the shells were bombed, the Taiping army was suddenly plunged into a sea of fire. In September, the vegetation is covered with a lot of moisture, and as soon as the flames appear, they are covered in billowing smoke. The battlefield was plunged into endless smoke for a while, and the Taiping army in the middle of the fire reached the point where they could not see their fingers.

Huang Daping had to shrink the front, the fire was too big, the loose front not only threatened the lives of the soldiers, but the excessive temperature could detonate the baggage at any time. The Taipings had to gather together again, digging fire ditches to keep the flames out of the flames, and using the only water they had to mitigate the smoke damage.

The Qing infantry could not pass through the sea of fire, and it was pointless to shoot aimlessly at the smoke, and of course Goxinga hoped that the smoke would make all the morgues lose their resistance, but he still couldn't rely on God's help. While the Taiping army was digging ditches to prevent fire, the Qing army was also doing manual work, and Guo Xing'a decided to move forward the artillery position under the cover of thick smoke.

It was a bit risky to send artillery without melee combat ability to the enemy's nose, but Guoxinga did not believe that the Taiping army, which had persevered in the smoke and fire, still had the strength to counterattack. This fire can't be burned in vain, after a fire, the Qing army only has a slight advantage, this is not what Guo Xing'a wants, what he wants is a son to set the country, and completely checkmate Huang Daping.

Two hours later, the assault company in Chengtai in the outer ring and the Taiping army in the middle of the fire showed their dark faces and white teeth through the smoke.

"Cannon!" The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who had been tortured by the smoke and fire for two hours, all exclaimed from the bottom of their hearts when they saw the light of day again.