"Minggou must be stopped from paving the railroad! Otherwise, when Minggou paves the railroad and the land warships come in, we will all be finished! Cai Yumao, the commander of the Qing army who was in charge of garrisoning Fengyang, shouted anxiously, "Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, it is better to kill it, drive away the Minggou auxiliaries, and dig up the roadbed repaired by Minggou!" ”

Cai Yumao, but Cai Shiying's son and Cai Yurong's younger brother. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoCai Yumao's father and brother both died at the hands of the Qiongzhou Army, and there is an irresolvable blood feud between him and the Qiongzhou Army. It was precisely because Cai Yumao was loyal to the Qing court that Bumu Butai sent him to garrison Fengyang.

"Hit out? Can we still fight if we go out? Chief soldier Wang Ying asked.

Cai Yumao stretched his face and said, "If you don't go out, you can keep it?" Wait for Minggou's railway to be paved in front of him, and the land warship appears in front of you and me, how else can we fight? Sitting here waiting to die? General Wang, you immediately send an order down, reward the recruitment of death squads, and attack immediately after summoning people, and be sure to destroy Minggou's roadbed! ”

"Wow!" Wang Ying got down on one knee and hit a thousand.

After Wang Ying retreated, he explained a few words to several pro-soldiers. Soon after, Wang Ying's personal soldiers and confidant officers stood in the trenches and shouted: "Brothers! The opportunity to make contributions to the Qing Dynasty has arrived! If someone rushes out, expel the Minggou auxiliaries, dig up the Minggou roadbed, and each daredevil's death team member will be rewarded with two taels of silver! It's white flower pattern silver, not the Qing Dynasty dragon banknote! Behead one level, reward ten taels of silver! Destroy the first meritorious person of the Ming Dog Roadbase, reward a hundred taels of silver, and raise the flag to become a naturalized citizen! ”

Maybe it's because the cash of the white flowers is too tempting, and there are actually 3,000 green battalion soldiers who want money and don't want to die to sign up and are willing to participate in the death squad.

Wang Ying stood in front of the death squad and shouted loudly with all his dantian qi: "Brothers! Ahead is the roadbed of Minggou! If the Ming Dog Auxiliaries push the roadbed into our position, we will all be doomed as soon as the land warships come! Now is your chance to make contributions and serve the court! Each daredevils can get two taels of silver! If you go forward bravely, those who die in battle can get a pension of five taels of silver! Decapitation and destruction of the roadbed, and another reward! But the official's ugly words are ahead, since he has joined the death squad, anyone who does not cower will be beheaded no matter what position, and the whole family will be enslaved! ”

Although it is said that taking the initiative to attack is tantamount to suicide and going to die for nine lives, since these guys who want money and don't want to die have joined the death squad, they can't help it. At this time, even if someone wants to retreat, it will be too late to quit the death squad, and those who quit will be executed by military law, and their families will be affected.

The Qing soldiers scattered in the various trenches emerged from the positions one after another and gathered in the middle. More and more Qing troops rushed from various trenches, like a trickle of water converging into a big river.

In fact, Cai Yumao still left a hand, the first batch of green battalion soldiers who attacked were cannon fodder, followed by 1,000 Han Eight Banner soldiers, 2,000 clothed soldiers and 5,000 green battalion firearms soldiers, those are Cai Yumao's real main offensive force. Cai Yumao's plan was that the cannon fodder in front was used to attract the firepower of the Ming army, destroy the defense line of the Ming army, cover the main force behind to drive away the Ming army railway soldiers, and then destroy the roadbed piled up by the Ming army railway soldiers.

"The Tartars have fought back!" Wang [Fu] Chen put down his binoculars and said, "Brothers, prepare for battle!" ”

Gong Xiaoda picked up the binoculars and looked at the shape of the Qing army. After looking at it for a while, he put down the binoculars and said, "General, the Tartars are here to give a big gift this time!" There are about 3,000 people in front, and at least 7,000 people in the back, tsk, more than 10,000 Tartars! If we greet with a swarm of rockets, after a few rounds, the Tartars will all fall! ”

Wang [Fu] Chen shook his head: "This is just a part of the Fengyang Tartar garrison!" This official got the latest news, the Tartars of the Shandong Green Camp will still come, plus the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed from the capital, there will be at least 200,000 Tartars! Wait until then to greet them with a swarm of rockets, that's where it comes in handy! Use it now, and then the Tartars will not dare to come and die! ”

The Qiongzhou army attacking Fengyang concentrated more than 300 swarm of bee vans, which could quickly launch tens of thousands of civilized rockets, and their power was unimaginable. However, Wang [Fu] Chen did not intend to expose his strength too early, but showed weakness first, using the roadbed built by the railway soldiers as bait to attract more Qing troops to crash into his fire network.

The artillery of the Ming army has completed cooling and has been loaded, and it is only waiting for the order of the superior officer to immediately open artillery bombardment. The infantry of the Ming army was also ready to meet the battle, and the line infantry lined up in a neat formation, just waiting for the Qing soldiers to come and send them to death. The skirmishers and sharpshooters clenched their new rifled guns in their hands and stared at the Qing soldiers who were walking up step by step.

More than 3,000 Qing army death squads walked out of their positions, lined up in dense formations, and pressed up on the Ming army's position.

"Fire!" Gong Xiaoda gave an order.

Several flowering shells swept through the sky with a sharp and piercing whistling sound, and smashed around the Qing formation. The shells fell to the ground, bursting into a few fires, and a thick smoke of gunpowder rose up. However, this was a test shot, and all of them hit the target.

Then several shells whistled, two of which landed in the crowd of Qing soldiers, the flames flashed, shrapnel flew sideways, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers fell screaming.

"Quick, charge! Minggou has completed the test firing, and the next thing is a salvo! Hurry up and rush over to stay alive! Wang Ying asked his soldiers to issue a flag order.

The war drums rumbled, and the Qing soldiers waved their banners and ordered the death squads in front to speed up their pace and charge at the Ming position. Seeing the signal behind them, several soldiers in the Qing army's death squad in charge of the order saw the signal behind, and immediately ran and waved the small flag, issued a flag order, and let the cannon fodder team charge.

"Brothers, Minggou is about to fire a volley! We can't walk around slowly! Show off your weapons and charge at the Minggou position! Rush forward, we can still survive! A Qing officer drew his knife and pointed forward.

The formation of the Qing army has been chaotic and has turned into a chaotic crowd. Under the command of grassroots officers at all levels, the Qing troops dispersed, and the original dense formation turned into a straggler line charge. It was also at this time that the artillery of the Ming army began to fire a salvo, and hundreds of artillery pieces of various calibers spewed fire, and meteor fire-like flowering shells whistled and smashed into the Qing army's formation one after another. The shells hit the ground, exploding a continuous burst of firelight, shrapnel and iron beads flew in all directions, and the formation of the Qing army's death squad of more than 3,000 people became more loose, and I don't know how many Qing soldiers fell under the personnel killing and wounding shells.

Because the Qing army dispersed in time, although the artillery shells that landed caused great losses to the Qing army, they could not completely stop the pace of the Qing army's attack.

The gunners were nervously loading, and before they could send out a second salvo, the Qing army had already rushed within two hundred paces.