The 3,000 Qing soldiers who served as cannon fodder at the front were shelled and rifled by gunfire, and only about half of them rushed to the front of the Ming army. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info In the end, the Qing soldiers suffered heavy casualties under the blows of guns, grenades and bayonets, not to mention, the Ming stragglers and sharpshooters hid behind, constantly shooting some of the Qing soldiers with the highest hand-to-hand combat skills with cold guns.

The Qing army was quickly defeated, leaving behind more than 500 corpses and more than 600 wounded soldiers, leaving less than 400 people to turn around and flee. 3,000 cannon fodder soldiers were cleared, and nearly ninety percent of them were lost.

The Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion and the Qing soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty followed the cannon fodder and charged, but they did not get much benefit. The Qing soldiers were shelled by the Ming army halfway through, and many people were killed and wounded. The Qing soldiers rushed to the Ming army, and the Ming infantry had just driven away the Qing cannon fodder in front, and they had no time to reload their bullets.

Qing archers and musketeers fired in a row, musket bullets were blocked by shield carts, and the light arrows thrown could not penetrate the rattan armor on the Ming army, and only a few Ming musketeers were shot in the limbs by the Qing army, or were hit by musket bullets.

"Overthrow Minggou's shield cart!" Several Qing army officers shouted.

The Qing saber card hand in front stepped forward, waved the knife and axe, chopped the shield cart, and some people tried to overthrow the shield cart of the Ming army.

"Cast!" The Ming officer roared.

The Ming infantry behind the car formation threw rows of grenades, which blew up the flesh and blood of the Qing army. Then the Ming infantry rushed out from behind the shield cart with bayonets and dispersed the Qing army.

"General, the last general is incompetent! We're defeated! Wang Ying knelt in front of Cai Yumao, holding the helmet on his head in his hand.

Cai Yumao was very angry in his heart, and he couldn't wait to push Wang Ying out and behead him, but when it was time to employ people, if he casually beheaded a general soldier, others would definitely not be convinced, so Cai Yumao said: "You retreat!" ”

"Thank you for not killing!" Wang Ying knelt on the ground and kowtowed, then put on his helmet and retreated.

Fu Cheng, the deputy general of the Qing army, stepped forward and said, "My lord, what should we do?" Minggou's firearms are so powerful that the brothers can't rush through at all! ”

"Hold on! Send a messenger and send reinforcements to help you as soon as possible! Cai Yumao said.

The Ming army expelled the Qing army, and Wang [Fu] Chen personally boarded a hot air balloon, flew into the sky, and used binoculars to observe the Qing army's position. Wang [Fu] Chen already knows very well about such things as hot air balloons, and there is no danger in taking a hot air balloon to the sky, even if the hot air balloon leaks, it will fall slowly and will not fall all at once.

"The tartar has shrunk up, and he has become a shrunken turtle! We gradually break the defense line on the outskirts of the Tartars and build the railway line in front of the Tartars! "The king [auxiliary] put down the telescope and gave the order.

The railroad soldiers of the Ming army braved the scorching sun to push the shield cart, constantly pushing the cart to the front of the Qing army's position, and dropped bags of sandbags. Then the auxiliaries came up, waved shovels, shoveled shovels of dirt onto the sandbags, compacted them, and formed a roadbed. The weather was very hot, the sun shone on the earth, and the Ming army railway soldiers sweated like rain, but no one complained.

Nian Yaoling waved the shovel, sweating like rain, shoveling the soil onto the sandbag pile, and then slapping the mound with the shovel to compact the soil. There were also a few railroad soldiers pulling stones to grind and compacting the roadbed.

"It's too hot!" After retreating to the camp, Nian Yaoling took off his clothes, twisted it vigorously, and wrung out the water.

Yu Zhenxing raised his head and glanced at the sky: "It's too hot!" But on such a hot day, we are hot, and the Tartars are also hot! It was because of the heat that the Tartar reinforcements did not come so quickly! They thought we would go out after the autumn, but they didn't expect us to fight in the summer! The Tartars came from Shandong, and the journey on a hot day was more bitter than ours! ”

Cai Yumao's 800-mile expedited has been sent out, and Shandong Green Revenue has received an urgent report and is preparing to go on the expedition. But Jiang Zhanyuan, the governor of Shandong, raised his head, looked at the sky, shook his head and sighed: "In such a hot ghost weather, the expedition costs people's lives!" ”

Governor Yuan Maogong said angrily: "Fengyang sent an eight-hundred-mile expedited, and the thieves are not afraid of the heat, but they are pushing three and four!" Fengyang's military situation is urgent, if the military situation is delayed, the emperor will blame it, and you and I can't afford to take responsibility! ”

"The last general will start the army and set off in five days!" Jiang Zhanyuan Road.

"Leaving in five days? How long will it take to get to the expedition in five days? At least a month! By the time you arrive, I'm afraid Fengyang has already been lost! Yuan Maogong yelled.

Jiang Zhanyuan said: "Lord Futai, but the last general will raise troops and horses, and raise grain and grass, and the five days are already very soon!" It's not easy to arrive in a month! I hope Lord Cai can hold it for a month! ”

Yuan Maogong shook his head: "Hold for a month? Easier said than done! Lord Cai sent an 800-mile urgency, the situation is critical, how can it be held for a month? You start by ordering the horse team and send a vanguard general to set off first! The back of the soldiers, horses, grain and grass will be slowly prepared! Otherwise, Fengyang will definitely not be able to support it for a month! ”

"Wow!" Jiang Zhanyuan saluted and retreated.

On the Fengyang position, the roadbed of the Ming army extended forward little by little, and it had advanced to the first trench.

Braving the scorching sun, the railroad soldiers pushed shield carts loaded with stone ballast, and busied themselves on the roadbed that had already been built. Nian Yaoling and his comrades-in-arms pushed the shield cart, stopped on the roadbed in front of them, and dumped the ballast on the roadbed. Sleepers were then laid on top of the ballast.

Eight railroad soldiers carried a wooden track and placed it on the sleeper, after which someone used a road spike to drive the wooden track into the sleeper. Finally, someone carried a long iron sheet and placed it on a wooden track, and then fixed the iron sheet to form a wooden iron rail.

"Keep pouring!" Yu Zhenxing shouted.

The railroad soldiers pushed shield wagons loaded with ballast and poured the gravel ballast between the sleepers and the sleepers. Others were busy, pushing the sleepers that had already been paved to make the line as straight as possible.

"That's it! More than 100 steps! As long as the railway line is extended to the Tartar position, our ironclad fire dragon can drive straight up! Zeng Shirong said with a smile.

As the distance approached, the remaining artillery of the Qing army continued to roar, and the shells fell around the roadbed, and some shells hit the roadbed, causing casualties among the railway soldiers. However, the artillery bombardment of the Qing army was immediately returned by the heavy artillery fire of the Ming army. The four rifled guns on the ironclad train opened fire one after another, and more than 100 cannons of various calibers that cooperated with the operation spit out balls of fireballs, and pieces of flowering shells smashed into the Qing army's position, setting up a raging fire.

Sensing that his end was coming, Cai Yumao ordered the Qing army to launch a frantic counterattack.

However, the Ming army dug trenches on both sides of the roadbed, and there were more than 5,000 musketeers and hundreds of artillery pieces to protect the roadbed, and the Qing army attacked several times in vain, leaving more than 2,000 corpses in vain.