Hearing the sound of the Ming army's bird guns firing, Song Kui was very disdainful: "What is the barbarian's bird guns!" There are still fifty steps to fire, what effect can it have? When my Eight Banners warriors rush to me, I will definitely kill all the barbarians! ”

Before the words fell, he saw that the Eight Banners soldiers who rushed to the front were shot one after another, and blood mist erupted from their bodies, and they fell down one after another.

The Eight Banners soldiers in the back learned smartly, and blocked them with shields, reducing the lethality of guns and bullets by a certain amount.

"The barbarian bird is finished! Rush up and kill them all! A Eight Banners soldier leader shouted.

The Ming army retreated steadily, maintaining a three-stage shooting in the retreat, constantly throwing the Eight Banners down in a pool of blood. The Eight Banners also used bows and arrows to shoot, but the threat to the Ming army with armor protection was not too great, and there were more Ming soldiers who were shot and injured in the limbs, and not many were killed by being shot in the face.

In the past, the two sides fought, and the Ming soldiers were prone to infection after the arrows were shot, causing the soldiers to have a high fever and become seriously ill, and even die. However, Wang Xinyu improved the medical and health care of the Qiongzhou Army, using fire-sterilized props to dig out arrows for the soldiers, and using alcohol to disinfect, which greatly reduced the mortality rate of the soldiers.

Alcohol is obtained by distilling sweet potato liquor, which has a large yield and is made from sweet potatoes at a low cost and can be used to distill to make medical alcohol.

"Rush forward! Close to the barbarians, they are a herd of sheep to be slaughtered! Songkui in the back shouted.

At this time, the more powerful guns were raised, and at this time, the shields of the Eight Banners were useless, and the powerful projectiles hitting the shields, whether they were iron shields or wooden shields, became the same as paper paste, and the projectiles that pierced the shields were still powerful, and they could also penetrate several Eight Banners.

The Ming army's three-pounder bronze cannons, tiger squat cannons, and Franc machines opened fire one after another, spilling a dense stream of shotguns.

It is worthy of being the first batch of old Eight Banners to enter the customs, and it is more than one or two points stronger than the second and third generations of Eight Banners born in the customs! The Eight Banners had not yet rushed in front of the Ming army. More than 100 people were killed and wounded by the Ming army's bird guns and guns, and nearly 200 people were killed by artillery, but they did not take a step back and bravely rushed towards the Ming army's position.

As the distance between the Eight Banners and the Ming Army became closer and closer, many Eight Banners took off their hard bows and shot armor-piercing arrows.

A scream sounded in the Ming formation, and many bird-sturding hands were shot at the door by the heavy arrows that came straight and fell backwards on their backs.

"Ironclad forward!" Li Rui roared.

The ironclad soldier quickly moved forward, relying on the sturdy iron armor on his body to block the sharp arrows fired by the Eight Banners. The pikemen behind formed a dense formation and followed the ironclad forward. The swordsmen on both sides flanked on two wings. Before they got close to the Eight Banners, the bottle with the green smoke in their hands was thrown first and smashed into the crowd of Qing soldiers.

"Boom" the national surname bottle exploded again and again, and dozens of Eight Banner soldiers flew flesh and blood.

At this time, the Ming army had withdrawn to the sixth line of defense, which was a flat land that could be fought in formation. Li Rui was not worried that the Qing army would bombard it with artillery, no matter who the Qing generals on the opposite side were, no matter how bold they were, it would be impossible to open fire on the Eight Banners, so that the Ming army and the Eight Banners would die together.

The ironclad stepped back. The swordsmen and pikemen stepped forward, and the soldiers on both sides slammed into each other. The pikemen in the middle stabbed out rows of spears, and overturned more than a dozen Eight Banner soldiers at once.

"Kill the barbarian!" Several Eight Banner soldiers roared hoarsely.

After entering the melee battle, the losses of the Eight Banners increased suddenly. In the blink of an eye, more than 200 Eight Banner soldiers were stabbed down. A part of the sword men on both sides blended into the pikemen, crouched on the ground, and kept attacking. Slash down the Qing soldiers who have slipped into the pikemen's formation.

The Han Eight Banner Bird Gunners who followed behind the Eight Banners were as annoying as flies, and those Han Eight Banner Bird Gunners fired at the Ming formation, with bullets with a dense range. From time to time, the Ming army was shot and fell.

"Kill those traitors to Lao Tzu!" Li Rui was furious.

Three-pounder cannons, tiger squat cannons, Franc machines, carrying guns, bows and arrows, bird guns, trebuchets and other long-range weapons were all aimed at the Han Eight Banners following behind the Eight Banners, the guns roared, the arrows fired volleys, and the trebuchets threw out 10,000 enemies and national surname bottles, making the Han Eight Banners birds and hands fly with flesh and blood.

"Kill!" The sword soldiers who outflanked the two wings slaughtered the Han Eight Banner Bird Gunner.

At this time, the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were already entangled with the melee arms of the Ming army, and they only wanted to kill a few more Ming soldiers by themselves, and they would not go to the life and death of those traitors on both wings.

The sword soldiers slaughtered into the crowd of the Han Eight Banner Bird Guns, and the bird guns that had finished the bullets were like burning sticks. Looking at the steel knife that slashed at his head, the Han Eight Banner Bird Gun soldiers dropped their bird guns one after another, turned around and ran. A few of the more daring ones pulled out their waist knives and tried to resist, but they were cut down by the Ming sabber hand in the blink of an eye.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty threw away the bird guns, left the Manmeng Eight Banners Master in the middle, turned around and fled.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners had completely mixed with the Ming army, and the two sides had launched a fierce bloody battle.

The Eight Banners soldiers in front were stabbed down by spears, and after coming up, they were stabbed down again, but more than a dozen fierce Eight Banners soldiers in the back crashed into the pikemen formation, using hammers, axes, maces and other heavy weapons to slash, killing and smashing over more than 20 pikemen. However, the halberds mixed in the formation of pikemen kept stabbing out, and the short knives slashed over, and in the blink of an eye, all those fierce Eight Banners soldiers turned into sieves.

"Kill the barbarian!" More than a hundred soldiers from the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, dressed in white armor and armed with various sophisticated weapons, rushed forward.

The so-called Eight Banners Guard Battalion is the Bayala White Armor Soldiers outside the Guan, renamed the Guard Battalion in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, these are the most elite soldiers, the ordinary Eight Banners in front, and the Eight Banners of the Guard Battalion, are just cannon fodder. There were ordinary Eight Banner soldiers in front of them to open the way, and the Eight Banners of the Guardian Battalion entered the Ming army formation.

The Eight Banners of the Guardian Battalion were really fierce, and these beast-like Qing soldiers rushed into the formation of the Ming Army's pikemen, whether it was a spear or a halberd, they could not exert their power, and they were smashed by the Eight Banners with maces and other heavy weapons. The sword soldiers who came up from the two wings also fell under the heavy weapons of the Eight Banners of the Guardian Battalion.

However, no matter how fierce the Eight Banners soldiers are, they are also flesh and blood, densely packed with spears and halberds, Miao knives and long knives, and they have also harvested the lives of more than 20 Eight Banners soldiers in the guard camp.

Li Rui didn't want to fight for his life with the Eight Banners like these beasts, so he gave the order to let the flintlock team attack.

Iron-clad flintlock musketeers in thick armor stepped forward one after another, and more than 300 dog-lock flintlock flintlock pistols were aimed at those who were strong in martial arts and had infinite strength. Strong as a brown bear, the Eight Banners of the Guardian Battalion. With the sound of gunfire like bursting beans, the flintlock pistol spewed out white smoke, and the dense bullets harvested the lives of more than fifty Eight Banner soldiers of the Guardian Battalion.

The remaining twenty or so white-armored Eight Bannermen shouted, took out their bows and arrows, and fired armor-piercing arrows at the flintlock musketeers. At the same time, another fifty flintlock gunners pulled the trigger, and the muzzles of their guns spewed flaming white smoke.

More than a dozen white-armored soldiers were beaten into a hornet's nest on the spot, while the iron-clad flintlock musketeers who were attacked by the sharp arrows of the Eight Banners suffered very little losses, and only a few were wounded by the shot in the arm without iron-armor protection.

For ease of reloading, flintlock musketeers had no iron armor on their arms.

The remaining seven white-armored soldiers were surrounded by the Ming army in the core.

"Kill the Tartars!" Rows of spears pierced out. The last seven white-armored soldiers were stabbed all over in blood, their eyes were round and lost their brilliance, and they struggled unwillingly a few times before slowly falling.

Seeing that the most elite white-armored soldiers were all killed in the blink of an eye, the other Eight Banners soldiers were like deflated balls, and they all turned their heads and ran.

The flintlock pistol was reloaded much faster than the bird's gun, and more than 300 flintlock musketeers stepped forward and opened fire on the back of the Qing soldiers, knocking down dozens of Eight Banner soldiers.

The attack of the Eight Banners ended in a crushing defeat. More than 2,000 Manmeng Eight Banners were killed, more than 1,000 Han Eight Banners were killed, more than 700 people were damaged, and the most elite more than 100 white-armored Eight Banners of the guard battalion were all killed. The Eight Banners in the middle lane lost more than half, which made Songkui heartbroken.

Rocodo did not dare to let the Eight Banners attack head-on again. So he gave the order to let the green battalion attack. At the same time, he sent a signal for help to Aobai in the back, asking Aobai to send him additional green battalion soldiers to be cannon fodder.

Ao Bai received the battle report and immediately asked Liu Zhaolin and Li Zhifang to send another batch of green battalion soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and civilian strongmen to come up. Allocated to the front army in the center, it was given to Rocodo to be used as cannon fodder. At the same time, Ao Bai ordered Liang Huafeng, who was good at sneak attacks, to lead a group of green battalion soldiers to detour through the hills on both sides. Attempt to attack the flank of the Ming army in the middle lane.

After Liang Huafeng received the order, he immediately led 5,000 green battalion soldiers into the mountains and forests, and made a detour from the path.

It's a pity that the mountains and forests in the south belong to the mountain army, Liang Huafeng took the green battalion soldiers into the mountains and forests, and took a detour along the path, but it had already been discovered by the Ming army at night, and then there were 5,000 mountain soldiers waiting for him on Liang Huafeng's road. When Liang Huafeng led his troops into the ambush circle, he was caught off guard by the Ming army.

For a while, arrows flew everywhere in the mountains and forests, and the green battalion soldiers who fell into the ambush circle were hit by arrows one after another, screaming and falling. After a few rounds of arrow rain covered, the fierce Miao Li people rushed out of the mountains and forests and killed the green battalion soldiers.

These mountain soldiers from the Miao Li people are all beneficiaries of Wang Xinyu's land reform, and after ideological education, they swear allegiance to the Qiongzhou army, in order not to let people deprive them of the land they have gotten, the mountain soldiers are extremely crazy and brave, holding all kinds of weapons, shouting to kill the enemy.

Before the mountain sergeants arrived, blowing arrows and flying knives arrived first, knocking down a large number of Qing soldiers.

The two armies collided together, and the mountain sergeants cut down the flesh and blood of the soldiers. These madman-like mountain soldiers were not afraid of death at all, and the spears and machetes of the Qing army slashed at their heads, but they did not dodge, but stepped forward, slashed with axes and long knives, and adopted the same way of fighting, which frightened the Qing soldiers into dodging.

Some Miao soldiers were stabbed by a shot by the Qing soldiers, but they rushed forward, allowing the spear to penetrate their bodies, and took advantage of the opportunity when the Qing soldiers had no time to pull out their spears, and used Miao knives to split the Qing soldiers in two; Some Li soldiers were slashed with knives, but they fought back and cut off the heads of the Qing soldiers; Some Miao soldiers were surrounded by several Qing soldiers, one of whom slashed him in the shoulder, but this Miao soldier stretched out his hand and grabbed the Qing soldier's neck.

Even if the arm was cut off and the weapon fell, these Miao Li soldiers bit with their teeth, hit their heads with their heads, and rolled down the cliff with their broken arms to hug the Qing soldiers.

These mountain soldiers are not only not afraid of death, their own quality is also good, they are like walking on the ground in the mountains, they are strong and strong in martial arts, in terms of heads-up, the Qing army is not an opponent at all. In the mountains and forests, the Qing army could not form a formation, it could only be a melee, and the competition was completely brave and courageous.

When the two armies met, the brave won, and the mountain soldiers like bloodthirsty wolves were terrified, and they turned around and ran, exposing their defenseless backs to the enemy.

"Kill the Tartars!" The mountain soldiers roared and slashed after the Qing army.

The 5,000 Green Battalion soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and Liang Huafeng fled back with less than 1,000 defeated soldiers.

"Crazy! A bunch of maniacs! Is there such a lifeless person in this world? Liang Huafeng said to himself with palpitations. How did he know that in real history, more than 200 years later, there was a great man, who used the method of land reform to turn a group of peasants into a group of strong warriors!

With the existence of the king of the mountains like the Mountain Army, the Qing Army would not want to take a detour from any path.

On the middle road, after Luo Keduo received reinforcements from the Green Battalion, he continued to adopt Cai Yurong's method, letting a large number of auxiliaries and Minzhuang push the shield cart to attack the Ming army's position, and let the Green Battalion soldiers follow behind, and when they rushed to the Ming army's position, they saw the Ming army coming out of the trenches, ready to fight in formation, and then covered with artillery fire.

Li Rui knew that the Qing army was going to take this move again, so he could only take the initiative to abandon the sixth line of defense again, lead the Qing army into the trench, and then use ironclad soldiers and sword soldiers to cut and kill.

Cai Yurong triumphantly pointed to the sixth line of defense of the Ming army that was captured in front and said: "Ming Dog obviously can't stop our offensive, they are losing and retreating!" As long as we continue to fight like this, we will soon be able to advance to Lin'an! When we arrived in Lin'an, there was an open field in front of us, and we used artillery and cavalry to cooperate, and the southern barbarians died without a place to be buried! ”

Liu Zhaolin and Li Zhifang flattered again and again: "Your Excellency is clever! ”

However, their hearts are more bitter than eating Coptis chinensis, and their green battalion soldiers are sent over to be used as cannon fodder, and every time they occupy a position, they have to pay the price of thousands of casualties. I'm afraid that before Lin'an is hit, the auxiliaries and Minzhuang will be dead, and more than half of their green battalion soldiers will be killed or wounded.

Wang Xinyu learned about the situation in the middle lane, and was very satisfied with the order: "The middle lane is like this!" You just step back and let the Tartars advance step by step! They want to drive you into the open area, don't they? Then let them into the open! We'll cut them off again, surround them and annihilate them all!" ”

In order to cooperate with the battle in the middle, the Ming army on both flanks also slowly retreated to a certain extent, so as to alternately cover, steadily retreat, and resist step by step, so that the Qing army advanced slowly, so as not to make Ao Bai suspect that he wanted to lure the enemy deep and eat the Chinese army. In this way, the three lines retreated at the same time, and Ao Bai would not think of the Ming army's counterattack for a while, and it was too late for him to understand it.

Li Rui's army on the middle road resisted for three days and three nights, and was about to retreat to the open area west of Lin'an City.

But Ao Bai was still suspicious, and he ordered the two flanks to increase the intensity of the attack, but the Chinese army slowed down the attack. (To be continued.) )