"It's broken! It's broken! The Green Battalion Qing soldiers of Mulima's army on the right let out an excited shout.

Countless Qing soldiers broke through the trenches and sand piles outside the Ming army, but at this time the Qing soldiers found that they had only broken through the first line of defense, and the Ming army had retreated into the second line of defense. Although this is a valley between the hills, the position of the Ming army's defense is high, the original terraces and orchards have been changed into fortifications, and the Ming army uses the terraces to form a multi-level stepped defense line, and at the bottom are the bird and the sword and shield hand; The second floor is arranged with archers; The third layer is small cannons such as tiger squat cannons; There are also various heavy artillery pieces at the back.

The multi-level fortifications formed a three-dimensional crossfire network, and the Qing soldiers who came to attack were like moths to the fire, falling one by one under the blows of various long-range weapons of the Ming army. It was easy to rush to the front, but was beaten back by the Ming saber and shield hand.

"Roundabout attack! Find a path to get around! "Mulima sent scouts to find the way.

Soon after, the scouts sent out returned, but only less than a third of them returned, and the other Qing scouts were hunted by the Ming scouts, and the Qing scouts who came back brought bad news: there was no relatively large road to bypass! There are several small roads with dangerous terrain, and there are Ming army scouts in action, if the Qing army tries to detour past the path, then the Ming army scouts will immediately summon a large number of Ming troops to stop the Qing army.

The hot-tempered and impatient Mulima did not believe in this evil, and he ordered his troops to go out and make a detour from the southern path.

"My lord! We have a large number of soldiers, and we should seek stability in combat, and we must not take risks rashly! Jie Shu persuaded bitterly.

However, Mulima did not listen to the advice at all, and still sent 3,000 Qing troops to make a detour from the path.

As expected, the Qing army, which tried to outflank the detour from the south road, crossed the rugged and dangerous path, but was first blocked by a small group of scouts of the Ming army, and the condescending Ming army beat the Qing army with rolling wood and stones, causing heavy casualties to the Qing army. After that, 500 Ming troops rushed to reinforce and take advantage of the favorable terrain. Blocked the Qing army to the death.

Although the Qing army that attacked in a roundabout way was six times larger than the Ming army, the Ming army occupied an absolutely superior terrain, using the hillside terrain to block the enemy, artillery and stones flew sideways, and arrows and projectiles rained down, causing the Qing army to suffer heavy casualties, and they could not cross the thunder pool by half a step.

Hope of passing through the trail was completely cut off, and Mulima lost nearly a thousand men and horses in vain.

In desperation, Mulima could only break through from the front in the end. Although in front was the terraced defense system of the Ming army. But after all, this road is the best way to go, and breaking through from the front is the only way.

"Let your people all go up and fill in the trench in front of you!" Mulima gave an order to Zu Zeqing.

"Wow!" Zu Zeqing was ordered to retreat.

The order from above was to fill the trench at the cost of human lives, and of course Zu Zeqing could not let his soldiers go up, so he asked the Green Battalion Qing Army to drive away the people and auxiliaries, and launched a fierce attack at any cost.

More than 1,000 people and auxiliaries launched a fierce attack on the Ming army's position under the coercion of more than 100 green battalion soldiers. However, the Ming army fortifications in front were firmly nailed to the position like a nail, and more than 1,000 people and auxiliary soldiers were ruthlessly killed and injured by artillery, bows and arrows, bird guns, crossbow arrows, 10,000 enemies, and rolling wood and stones. In just one round of attack, more than 1,000 people and auxiliaries lost more than three-quarters of their lives in front of the Ming army's defensive line, and only more than 200 people retreated.

"Pull all the auxiliaries up! Let your people go up too! Mulima said expressionlessly.

Zu Zeqing knew that Mulima wanted to let his people be sent to death as cannon fodder, and he cursed in his heart. But he didn't dare to say anything, so he had to agree, and he was ruthless and pulled out more than 800 auxiliary soldiers. He let his five hundred soldiers blend in the middle and attack again.

Groups of Qing soldiers braved the fierce artillery fire of the Ming army and poured up like a tide. After entering the firing range. The archers and bird gunners of the Qing army used the corpses in front of them as cover and fired at the Ming troops in the heights.

The advantage of the terrain completely offset the numerical advantage of the Qing army. The Ming army stationed at a high place not only because of the high place, the range of the weapons in their hands is longer, and the condescending attack is clear to the below, and all kinds of throwing weapons can play the greatest effect, and the Ming army also has cover protection, even a fool can know who suffers a big loss in the shooting between the two sides.

The Qing army used Hongyi artillery to bombard, but unfortunately the elevation angle of this heavy artillery changed from naval artillery was too low, and the lethality of the target at high altitude was very limited, and the shells fell on the high ground, and it was difficult to form a bounce, unless it was some Ming soldiers who were unlucky enough to be directly hit by the shells, the Qing army's artillery was no threat.

The range of small cannons such as the tiger squat cannon and the general cannon of the Qing army is equivalent to that of the Zheng army, but the Ming army is in the high place, and the Qing army is in the low place, and the high place not only shows the artillery position in the low place at a glance, but also the range of the shells has increased a lot.

The unfavorable terrain caused the more than 1,300 people who had been lined up by Zu Zeqing to quickly be completely damaged.

"Let your people go up again! It's all dead, send another batch up! How many rocks, arrows, and gunpowder can a thief have? Your soldiers are gone, send your own soldiers! As long as we keep going up, we can always wear them out! Mulima said in a calm tone.

Zu Zeqing was sweating profusely in the morning, and he didn't know how many people he would lose if this battle continued. Those green battalion soldiers are not very distressed when they are damaged, and new recruits can be recruited everywhere anyway. But those pro-soldiers were all brought back from outside the customs back then, and they have followed them for more than ten years, and they are all veterans who came out of the sea of corpses and blood.

But Mu Lima would not give Zu Zeqing any room for maneuver at all, and in desperation, Zu Zeqing could only bite the bullet and let his soldiers escort the auxiliaries and Minzhuang to death, to consume the Ming army's rolling wood, arrows and ammunition.

As the number of auxiliaries and Minzhuang became smaller and smaller, Zu Zeqing's face became more and more ugly. The wilderness at the junction of western Zhejiang and southern Anhui was originally sparsely populated, and the hateful Ming army implemented the tactics of clearing the wilderness, and the people of all the cities and villages and towns had already been transferred, and the local people could not catch people to be the people and auxiliaries, and the Qing army's people and auxiliaries were brought from Anqing, Guichi and other places, and these cannon fodder were all dead, and the next thing to go up was Zu Zeqing's own soldiers.

Zu Zeqing scolded in his heart: Dog [Tartar!] Your own people refuse to send them to death, and let Lao Tzu's people go to die?

scolded and scolded, but now that his own life is still in the hands of others, Zu Zeqing has not yet reached the time to turn his face with the Qing court, so he can only bite the bullet and let his soldiers go up.

The Qing army paid a heavy price. Rush into the firing range and shoot at the Ming army with bows and arrows and bird guns. Although the long-range weapons of the Qing army also caused some casualties to the Ming army, the casualties of the Qing army were far greater than those of the Ming army. Even if it was easy to cover a group of sword and shield men who rushed into the trenches of the Ming army, they were driven out by the well-armored and sharp steel sword soldiers of the Ming army.

The fierce battle lasted until dark, Zu Zeqing's soldiers lost nearly half, and more than ten of his own soldiers died, but the Ming army position in front stood still, and the big red Ming battle flag fluttering in the evening breeze stimulated Zu Zeqing's nerves.

"He's niang! If it weren't for Lao Tzu's family members in the capital. It's been reversed a long time ago! These gourds! Just know that let our people go to death in vain! In his own camp at night, Zu Zeqing muttered to himself indignantly.

Zu Zeqing inherited the genes of his father Zu Dashou, and he was a figure who hated the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in real history, he raised troops against the Qing Dynasty twice, the first time was in response to Wu Sangui; The second anti-Qing was after the death of Wu Sangui, when the anti-Qing was basically hopeless, Zu Zeqing still chose to oppose the Qing Dynasty, and was finally defeated and killed.

Zu Dashou's first surrender was a fraudulent surrender. After that, I looked for an opportunity to run back; The second time he was cleared was completely helpless, and he was pitted by Hong Chengchou.

Mulima on the right flank attacked for a whole day without success, and also lost more than 3,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion and more than 5,000 auxiliary soldiers. And Yue Le on the left, although the number of soldiers lost is not as good as that of Mu Lima, who is easily impulsive and hot-headed. But Yue Le also did not advance an inch, and lost more than 2,000 soldiers of the Green Battalion and more than 100 auxiliary soldiers of the People's Republic of China in vain.

Why did Yue Le's militia lose fewer people than the soldiers? It was because Yue Le was relatively calm-headed and would not let the unarmed Minzhuang auxiliaries die in vain, so he adopted the Hongyi cannon to suppress it. The sword and shield men covered the slow advance of the bird gunners and archers, and fired at the Ming army, depleting the strength of the Ming army. After suffering many losses because of the terrain. Yue Le ordered Minzhuang and his auxiliaries to build a large number of shield carts, which were used to advance and protect archers and bird guns.

Yue Le's tactics had a certain effect, and the Qing archers and bird gunners hiding behind the shield carts inflicted considerable losses on the defending Ming army.

The Ming army transferred artillery to bombard the shield vehicles of the Qing army, and fired with a gun that could penetrate the shield vehicles, which repelled the attack of the Qing army.

After that, Yue Le asked people to build more shield cars, and they went hand in hand, and after paying the price of losing more than 20 shield cars, the rest of the shield cars simply came up. Subsequently, the Qing archers and bird gunners fired at the Ming army, the auxiliaries and Minzhuang carried sandbags to fill the trenches, and the axe men went to destroy the deer stakes and pressed the battle line to the Ming army.

The Ming army bombarded fiercely with artillery such as general artillery and Franc machine, and the Ming army at the height also threw out 10,000 enemies and national surname bottles, and a large number of Qing soldiers who killed and injured the attack, and finally repelled Yue Le's attack.

In terms of military talent, Yue Le is actually not under Aobai, they are all brave and resourceful generals, but the aura of Aobai back then was too dazzling to cover Yue Le.

Yue Le's attack caused great trouble to Qiu Hui, and the Ming army stationed on the north road suffered heavy casualties. Although the losses of the Qing army were greater, the Ming army was small, and even if four or five Qing soldiers were exchanged for one Ming army, it was not cost-effective for the Ming army. Therefore, after receiving Qiu Hui's urgency, Wang Xinyu asked the 5,000 reserves served by the Qiongzhou Army to go up to assist Qiu Hui's Zheng Jiajun and resist Yue Le's attack.

The reason why Wang Xinyu has not yet used the weapons of mass destruction such as the fire box car and the copper mortar cannon is because these weapons should be used by the enemy after encircling a Qing army, and they should not be exposed too early. What's more, the flowering rockets fired by the fire vans and the flowering shells fired by the copper mortar cannons are extremely expensive, and if they are not used at a critical moment, they cannot completely annihilate an enemy army, and the cost of these precious ammunition is not worth the loss.

There are more than 10,000 Ming troops stationed, stubbornly blocking the enemy, even the resourceful Yue Le, he can't find a way to crack it for a while, so he can only order Mingjin to withdraw his troops and wait for the next day to launch an attack.

In the middle road, Li Rui dealt with the Qing army veteran Luo Keduo, after the first sand defense line was completely destroyed by the Qing army's artillery, the Ming army retreated into the second line of defense to continue to block the enemy, and the well-equipped and high-morale Qiongzhou army beat the Qing army's corpses piled up. The auxiliaries in the back used river sand and sandbags to pile up the third line of defense in case the second line of defense was breached.

The veteran general Luo Keduo also adopted the method of advancing with shield carts, allowing the Qing army to press up and shoot at the Ming army, and then sent sword and shield men to launch a fierce attack on the Ming army's position.

However, after the sword and shield hands of the Qing army broke into the position of the Ming army, they found that they had encountered the same king of infantry as the iron army of the Zheng army: the Qiongzhou Army Iron Armor Army!

Wearing full-body plate armor, wearing a helmet protected by an iron mask, and even wearing iron boots on his feet, the ironclad soldiers who looked like iron cans brandished Miao knives and cut the Qing soldiers to the ground. The neat spear formation behind the ironclad soldiers continued to stab out sharp spear tips from behind the ironclad soldiers, stabbing the hammer soldiers and axe soldiers of the Qing army who posed the greatest threat to the ironclad soldiers into a pool of blood. There were also muskets and crossbow arrows in the rear formation, which constantly output firepower, and the Qing soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Seeing the ironclad soldiers shining with silver light all over his body, Rocco Duo gasped: "Good guy! This Qiongzhou Haikou is too rich, right? There are so many ironclad soldiers! How much money does it cost! ”

Rocodo had to let the infantry retreat and bombard the sand piles with Hongyi cannons, finally blasting the second line of defense of the Ming army.

After the second line of defense was broken through, Li Rui did not fall in love with the battle, nor did he fight back to recapture the line of defense, but ordered the Ming army to retreat to the third line of defense, and the auxiliary troops behind were building the fourth line of defense.

The fierce battle continued until the evening, and Rocoduo broke through the four lines of defense of the Ming army in a row, but there were still fifth and sixth lines of defense behind the Ming army waiting for the Qing army. The Qing army spent a lot of gunpowder and artillery shells, but only the simple fortifications piled up by the Ming army with sandbags of sand and soil did not make any progress.

The big traitor Cai Yurong offered a poisonous plan: "Lord Luo, we can let the green battalion soldiers go up, mix with the most elite soldiers of those barbarians, and then bombard them with cannons!" Anyway, the lives of our Green Battalion soldiers are not worth anything! The ironclad soldiers who can exchange four or five for a barbarian have all earned! ”

"That's a brilliant plan!" Rocco was overjoyed and immediately agreed to Cai Yurong's plan.

The Qing army attacked again, this time without firing artillery at first, but waited until the green battalion soldiers paid a heavy price and rushed into the Ming army's position, the Ming army's ironclad soldiers were mixed with the Qing soldiers, and the Qing army suddenly opened fire with tiger squat cannons, Franc machines and other artillery. As a result, the shells like torrential rain penetrated into the crowd of soldiers on both sides, and while a large number of green battalion soldiers fell, the Ming army was also knocked down by the dense artillery shells of the Qing army.

"What a poisonous trick! Send the green battalion soldiers to death, and bombard the soldiers on both sides at any cost! Li Rui was shocked. (To be continued.) )