The Qing army braved billowing smoke and dust and brought the artillery closer to a distance of only more than 800 meters from the Taiping army. After the smoke cleared, amid the exclamations of the Taiping soldiers, the Qing army began a real artillery charge. Kong Zhen personally led the team, and twenty-two Napoleonic cannons lined up and launched the first salvo against the dense crowd of the Taiping army.

Although the exhausted Taiping army, tormented by the flames and smoke, was densely packed, it was only loosely grouped together, and did not form an infantry formation, and although the first volley of the Qing army killed and wounded many people, the experienced Taiping army was not greatly affected. The Taiping soldiers, who were bombarded by artillery, quickly found a hidden position, raised their guns and began to return fire. A few capable officers even organized a small phalanx and began to shoot in rhythmic alternating sections.

The Qing army, which had narrowed the encirclement with fire, also immediately returned fire, but it was the artillery that was even more brilliant. The powerful solid spherical projectile was more accurate at a distance of 800 meters, and the Qing army could even use artillery to snipe the excellent commander of the Taiping army. The Qing army fired five volleys at a distance of 800 meters, and 110 12-pound iron balls were fired into the ranks of the Taiping army.

After the fifth salvo, the artillery of the Qing army stopped for a while, and the artillerymen began to push the artillery forward with their bare hands, and they advanced for about 100 meters before stopping. The artillerymen began to reload, launching the first salvo of shotguns under the astonished eyes of the enemy. The infantry attack was constrained by the artillery and could not follow up, so Goxinga simply let the artillery charge, and the infantry followed the artillery. Historically, Napoleon did this kind of artillery charge, although the artillery took a lot of bullets, but killed more than 4,000 Russians.

The shotgun had limited lethality at a distance of more than 600 meters, but the salvo of twenty-two guns was enough to form an invisible wall in front of the Taiping army. Iron sand, which has flown more than 600 meters, is like a bullet that has exceeded its effective range, and it is already weak but still has the ability to kill. Countless Taiping soldiers were beaten to a blur of flesh and blood by the iron sand, and they may not have been seriously injured, but they were the most spectacular. The Qing artillery still fired five volleys, and then continued to push the artillery forward.

"Can't let them go any further!" Without waiting for Huang Daping's order, the officers on the front line already knew that the Qing artillery could no longer be allowed to advance, and the Qing army wanted to squeeze them to death with artillery.

"Bang, bang......" did not need the organization of officers, and the guns of the Taiping salvo were concise and bright.

Several Qing artillerymen were knocked to the ground, and one was hit in the wrist joint, and the palm of the hand was broken at the wrist. Someone was caught in the chest and abdomen by a few extra blood holes, holding his stomach and rolling back and forth on the ground. Others were hit in the vital point and fell to the ground with only occasional slight convulsions.

Kong Zhen turned a blind eye to the tragic situation of his subordinates, and calmly instructed others to set up artillery to continue to reload, and responded to the Taiping army's bullets with shotguns. The first company also began to fire roughly in the direction of the Taiping army, suppressing the rifle fire of the Taiping army. Taking advantage of the heavy casualties of the Taiping Army, the artillery advanced to a distance of only more than 200 meters from the Taiping Army.

"Platoon commander, you can't press it anymore, it's too close to the long hair." The bullets of the Taiping army came like hailstones, and although the artillerymen tried their best to dodge, people were constantly knocked down. Kong Zhen and Guo Xing'a's most optimistic artillery seedling Bian Changdi gradually couldn't resist the pressure and suggested that Kong Zhen slow down the pace of advance.

"Can't stop, press up, fire again two hundred meters, completely open the long-haired defense line to Lao Tzu, and win or lose in one fell swoop!" Kong Zhen lowered his head and pushed the cannon, shouting loudly.

"Platoon commander, the brothers are too dead and wounded." Bian Changdi watched his comrades-in-arms fall one by one, crying and begging.

"If you don't die in front of the battle, you will die in military law! The cavalry can die, the infantry can die, and there is nothing that our artillery can't die. 200 meters, 200 meters is victory. Talk about the advance and retreat, talk to Lao Tzu's pistol! Kong Zhen also had red eyes.

Of the more than 60 artillery men and the infantry drawn from various units, only two-thirds of the 90-man team reached the 200-meter line of life and death. The artillery finished loading again, and when the shooter pulled the rope, not only the Qing army, but even the Taiping army seemed to stop time. Everyone stopped firing and watched the Qing gunners quietly, as if only when they pulled down the rope could the world be rejuvenated.

The world suddenly stood still, everything was silent, and every soldier seemed to be able to hear his own heartbeat.

"Boom, boom、...... Rumbling...... "The soldiers of the Taiping Army felt that their hearts were beating too fast, and the sound became louder and louder, and gradually turned into a sound of shaking mountains and rivers, like the sky falling apart.

"Put!" When the Taiping Army raised his head blankly to find the source of the sound, Kong Zhen waved his arm fiercely and gave the order to launch.

Iron sand flew out of the barrel of the cannon and swept across the Taiping positions like a raging wind. The Taipings' fragile bunkers could not withstand the shelling at close range, and their stiff bodies were blown down by the strong winds. The loose defensive line established by the Taiping army in the fire field relying on the terrain was instantly smashed into pieces by iron sand.

The artillerymen were quickly reloading their ammunition, and they were running out of time to perform, and they had to be fast for the sake of their comrades who fell on the road. After a compact three-round salvo, the fish that slipped through the net on the Taiping defense line were also cleared, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was already behind them. The artillery had to be reloaded with solid shells, raising the elevation angle of the artillery, and preparing to shoot at the Taiping army in the distance.

The cavalry of this charge did not run very fast, and for the sake of the neatness of the formation, they kept the speed of the horses running until they passed the artillery position. The first echelon led by Mu Shun was all transferred to the tall Yanmar, and even the horses that pulled the cart before were added to Mu Shun's horse team. The tall Yanmar provided a guarantee for the impact of the first echelon, and until the second echelon of Shirab was an authentic Mongolian horse.

The galloping cavalry took advantage of the artillery bombardment to open the gap, roaring into the ranks of the Taipings, and the horses' hooves trampled the ashes on the ground and brought up smoke and dust to the sky. The Yanmar, which is more than 1.8 meters tall, galloped up, with an irresistible impact in this era, and the Taiping soldiers who had fallen into panic along the way were completely crushed. They were broken by the bones of the galloping horses, cut off by the swords, and driven away like lambs.

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick, tick, answer......" The suona version of the charge horn sounded again, tailing the onslaught of the cavalry, and the Qing army, led by a special operations squad armed with rapid-fire weapons, also launched a charge.

The Taiping army, which was already at the end of the crossbow, inevitably collapsed, and the soldiers who had been baked by the fire for two hours, and who had been smoked for two hours, threw down the muskets in their hands and began to flee in embarrassment. The assault company also launched a charge when they heard the main force's charge, but they did not dare to block the Taiping army's rout like a sea wave head-on, so they could only get out of the way and crush the fleeing defeated soldiers on both flanks.

"Defeated, defeated again!" Huang Daping of the Central Army of the Taiping Army once again witnessed the collapse of the team, and like the last time, he was inexplicably defeated when he had the advantage, and it was another avalanche-like rout.

"Shi Shuai, the fire on the back road has been burned out, and the Qing army has also moved out of the way, I'll cover you to go first!" Stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood! Miao Hansheng found that the defeat had become a mountain downfall, so he immediately gathered the war horses in the team and formed a horse team of more than 50 horses, preparing to keep Huang Daping going first.

"Aoyama should be left to others! It's not the first time I've been planted in the hands of this stinky hairy boy, what face do I have to go back, I'll fight him to the death today! Huang Daping was already disheartened.

"Master Shuai, this frustrating thing is absolutely unspeakable! We still have more than fifty horsemen, it will not be a problem to rush out, you regain your strength, he will be able to take off the head of this little demon one day. Miao Hansheng eagerly persuaded that there was not much time left for them to break through.

"There are more than fifty horsemen, rush once, as long as we stop the cavalry of the Qing Demon and win the time to sort out the team, we still have a chance!" Huang Daping found a way to save the situation, the cavalry could not deal with the infantry in an organized formation, not to mention that the cavalry of the Qing army was not much, only more than 100 horsemen, and the Qing army only used the impact of the cavalry to scatter the Taiping army. The Qing army has launched a general offensive in an all-round way, and the previous terrain and artillery advantages are gone, as long as the Qing cavalry is stopped and the Taiping army is given the opportunity to regroup, the outcome is still unknown.

"Master Shuai, that's a blue-armored soldier!" Miao Hansheng was already sobbing in a hurry.

"What? Afraid of death? If you don't go up, I'll take someone up! Huang Daping never expected that the last intimate subordinate would be afraid of the blue-armored cavalry of the Qing army at such a time.

Miao Hansheng can't say what he suffers, since joining the Taiping Army, he has also been trained in the blood river of corpses several times, and he has long been numb to the fear of death. But he didn't think about the cavalry that blocked the Qing army in the past, because he knew that the heavy cavalry of the Qing army wearing blue armor couldn't stop it, and this was the lesson that his robed brothers returned with blood.

The last time he faced the Qing cavalry, it was when he and Kong Guodong escorted Huang Daping to escape. Facing the cavalry of the Qing army in hot pursuit, Kong Guodong, who was excellent in martial arts, also broke off with dozens of cavalry. When these blue-armored soldiers charged, Kong Guodong brandished his horse lance to meet the enemy, and the picture after that remained in Miao Hansheng's mind forever. Kong Guodong, who is excellent in martial arts, did not have much opportunity to perform, nor did he drag a few enemies to hell together. When his lance was stabbed, four or five sabers slashed at him at the same time. There was no room for martial arts to be played, and there was no room for flickering on the back of a small horse, and the battle ended in only an instant. Kong Guodong was slashed to death by a random knife, and his horse lance here only picked the shoulder armor of a blue-armored soldier. Individual bravery was meaningless in the face of the Qing army's wall charge, unless there was the same cavalry or infantry phalanx, no one could stop the Qing army's cavalry charge.

"Protect the commander and go first!" Miao Hansheng, who didn't want to make meaningless sacrifices, could only order his subordinates to set up Huang Daping, and then the group mixed in the defeated soldiers, taking advantage of the interval in the firepower of the Qing army's assault company, and rushed out of the Qing army's encirclement along the road they came.

After Huang Daping left, another four or five hundred Taiping troops escaped from Shengtian, and then the Taiping army was completely wiped out. More than 200 people obediently handed over their weapons and waited for the choice of fate, and others who insisted on their faith were sent to heaven by the dense rain of bullets of the Qing army in the sound of prayer.

"What about Huang Daping?" At the end of the war, seeing the long-lost Mu Shun and Chengtai, Guo Xing'a dedicated his first sentence to his old opponent Huang Daping. Guo Xing'a is really scared, Huang Daping is like a monster who can grow up with Guo Xing'a, every time he fails, he will come back with more powerful power to settle accounts with Guo Xing'a, he has become Guoxing's lingering nightmare.

"Goodbye, Huang Daping!" When he learned that Huang Daping was missing again, Guo Xing'a silently said goodbye to this shadow-like opponent in his heart.