Bowang.

"Steady!"

Zhang Cheng, the commander of the second battalion of the first brigade of the first town of the Holy Sect Army, shouted with a knife.

A large number of Mongol cavalry galloped in front of him.

And the cannon beside him suddenly erupted flames, and the solid shells of the four-and-a-half-pound cannon whistled out and fell instantly in the cavalry, immediately shooting a splash of flesh and blood, almost at the same time on the high ground behind him, the shells of the brigade's nine-pound guns also flew out and swept over their heads, and the characteristic whistling of the mortar shells belonging to the town artillery brigade also sounded, and then one after another cannonballs with smoke trails fell at a large angle, turning into bursts of explosive flames, in the impact of the solid bullets and the explosion of the flowering shells, countless Mongolian cavalry fell on the way to the charge, but the tsunami-like attack continuedObviously, these nomadic herders on the steppe still retain a little bit of their ancestors' bravery.

But that's about it.

Without heavy artillery support, they could only hold on in this way.

Forward amid artillery fire and death.

"Ready!"

Zhang Cheng raised his knife and shouted.

The distance of the Mongolian cavalry is getting closer and closer, just like the last time they broke through the Xuanwu army formation, all the cavalry held spears and shields on horseback, relying on the speed advantage of the cavalry, with the momentum of ten thousand horses galloping into Zhang Cheng's defense line, this is the most ferocious attack force in the classical era, their ancestors once swept almost the entire Eurasian continent in this way.

But this is no longer the classical era.

The distance is twenty zhang.

After firing the last round of shotshots, the battalion artillery that had been placed in front of the formation for better firing was to abandon their cannons and withdraw into the formation as quickly as possible.

The distance is ten zhang.

"Fire!"

Zhang Cheng roared.

Suddenly, like a volcanic eruption, eight hundred rifles erupted flames at the same time, and the charging cavalry vanguard collapsed in an instant, and the corpses of countless people and war horses piled up at this moment, and some wounded war horses even fell forward with inertia less than five feet away from the line. At the same time, the soldiers in the first row, who had already loaded their bayonets, knelt down in a neat motion, and the rifles of more than 1.7 meters after adding the bayonets in their hands were propped diagonally on the ground, while the rifles in the hands of the second row of soldiers above their heads were also held diagonally, and the bayonet walls of the upper and lower layers were quickly formed.

Soon the first Mongol cavalry, slowed down by the corpses everywhere, arrived in front of the battle, and the dense bayonets made the horses neigh and try to turn around, and at this moment, behind the line of the Holy Cult Army, one after another fused black powder grenades fell from the sky, and exploded one after another in the middle of the cavalry. The cavalry immediately went into confusion in the explosion, but the companions who arrived behind forced them to move on, and the spears in their hands began to stab at the Holy Religious soldiers, and the rifles with bayonets in the hands of the first and second Holy Religious soldiers were also stabbing at them.

And so the chaotic battle unfolded.

Then the third platoon of infantry completed the loading of bullets.

At the same time that the spears of the Mongol cavalry stabbed some of the Holy Cult soldiers, a dense barrage of bullets was fired across them.

The cavalry fell again in pieces.

At this time, the same scene was playing out on the left and right of the second battalion.

On the battlefield with the middle high ground as the core, the four brigades of the first town all had three battalions as the front, and one grenadier battalion as the reserve, forming a huge hollow phalanx with a side length of more than one mile on four sides, and the middle of the phalanx was along the high ground from low to high, and the heavy field guns of the four brigade artillery battalions and the 20-pound mortar guns of the four mortar battalions of the town's artillery brigade were divided into eight artillery positions and fired continuously on all sides.

The 4,000 cavalry of the town's cavalry brigade waited in formation.

On their periphery were numerous Mongol cavalry, fiercely charging the infantry lines of four brigades on all sides in various ways, but neither side could break through the strong defensive lines of the Holy Cult soldiers.

As the number one main force of the Holy Religion Army, the soldiers of the First Town are all honed on the battlefield, most of them are veterans who have fought countless battles, and they are also the most staunch believers of the Holy Religion, they are not afraid of death, and their faith tells them that death is the starting point of entering the heavenly realm, and the reincarnation of those who die for the Holy Religion will enjoy a rich and glorious life in the next life. With the support of faith, they can calmly face those terrifying cavalry, and even do not fire until they put the charging cavalry within ten feet, and the volcanic eruption-like salvo will create a dense dead speed bump to force the cavalry to slow down, the same dense erection of bayonets will block the cavalry like a spear array, so that the frightened war horses instinctively dodge, and then the grenadiers throw black powder grenades to create chaos, and the third row of soldiers continue to reload and fire at the fastest rate of three rounds per minute.

The grenadiers who did the reserve later would replenish the line losses.

Not to mention that this is the Mongol cavalry, which has been greatly degraded, even Napoleon's cuirassiers may not be able to break through their defenses.

"What kind of era is this, and it's still the same old thing!"

Yang Zhong sneered under the banner of the highland.

"Governor, do you want to attack?"

The cavalry brigade commander said impatiently.

"Wait!"

Yang Zhong said.

At this time, the Mongol cavalry, which could not break through the defensive line, had begun to turn, crossing the front of the formation to try to find a weak point and attack again, but this huge hollow phalanx had no weak point at all, and all four sides were densely packed with bright bayonet guns, and those soldiers in the third or even the second column were quickly loaded and aimed at them and fired, and the cavalry continued to fall while running. There are also like their ancestors, who shoot arrows from a distance of twenty zhang, but unfortunately they can only bring shame on themselves in such a confrontation, after all, the horn compound bow can not shoot the flintlock pistol, and the weak cavalry bow is lucky to shoot on the galloping horse, such a distance can not hurt anyone, but the closer distance under the musket fire they will die. Nearly 20,000 cavalry are helpless to take this phalanx like this, and each side of this formation is only one mile wide, such an attack width can't spread out many cavalry, the Mongolian cavalry is not a dense cavalry charge, less than 600 meters wide can spread thousands of cavalry?

But the shells kept falling on their heads.

Both solid and flowering bullets were reaping their lives with impunity, and more and more cavalry fell in front of the battle, and the dead bodies of men and horses stretched out to stain the wasteland with blood.

Soon the cavalry, which had failed in the attack, retreated and regrouped to await orders.

"Governor, still not attacking?"

The cavalry brigade commander asked anxiously.

"Keep waiting!"

Yang Zhong said angrily.

He's waiting for another battlefield.

Flag shop on credit.

"The rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty, in one fell swoop!"

Hylancha roared as he brandished the Imperial Treasure Sword.

At this time, he has retreated to Houhe Street, that is, a kilometer Changsha Prefecture formed by the diversion of the Pan River in the south of the credit flag shop, and the credit flag is the social flag, but the credit flag city was built during the Xianfeng period, this town is a famous commercial ancient town, the end point of Jianghan shipping to the north, and the southern goods based on tea are ashore at the wharf of this Houhe Street, and then go north by land as far as Moscow, and the control of this commercial line is the famous Jin Shang Group.

Of course, the advantage for Highlanza is that it is surrounded by water.

for he will defend this place to the death.

On his periphery was the Fifth Town of the Holy Sect Army, which was advancing at the same level as the First Town, and when Yang Zhong and the Mongol cavalry were fighting, Feng Ming, the commander of the Fifth Town, led a cavalry brigade and four infantry brigades, and launched an attack on the credit banner, while Hailancha only had 10,000 banners......

He actually has 30,000 green battalions.

But it's a pity that I don't dare to use it.

Hailancha knew very well that at this time, the green battalion might as well not have it, if he let the green battalion and the Eight Banners guard Houhe Street together, then once the green battalion turned against him, it would be completely finished, so he drove the green battalion to the credit flag shop to garrison and defend his flank, of course, if he could hold the credit flag shop and wait until the Mongolian cavalry defeated, it would be fine, if he couldn't hold it or the Mongolian cavalry was defeated, then these green battalions would not hesitate to defect, so this is really the rise and fall of the Qing Dynasty in this move, if he fails, then the south of the Yellow River will collapse on the whole line, At this time, he also showed his pride in the bloody battle in Junggar back then, and was ready to fight to the death against the bandits for the Qing Dynasty.

It's a pity he was wrong.

"Why fight to the death?"

Feng Ming said proudly.

"It's supposed to be their death, let's just see."

Then he stroked the cannon beside him and said.

The muzzle of this cannon almost allowed him to get into it without difficulty, and the slightly short barrel looked like a modern cement sewer pipe, cast in high-quality bronze and slightly greenish, mounted on a huge wooden four-wheeled gun carriage, behind which two wooden hoes were stuck diagonally into the earth, and several soldiers were using gantries and inverted chains to hoist a soft pocket for the cannonball, which was of pig iron, large enough to hug in diameter, and was carefully pushed into it by the soldiers after it had been hoisted to the muzzle, and on the shell was a wooden pipe fuse dot.

Uh, it's a flowering bomb.

And the cannon is the invincible general cannon of Shenwei.

The five-ton beast was transported from Wuchang along the Han and Tang rivers by water, and then to the Pan River, a small river that almost no one knows about in modern times, and in this era it can be easily transported to a flag shop with a specially built flat-bottomed boat, and then ......

"Kill these demons!"

Feng Ming roared excitedly.

He then pestled the fire rope of the ignition rod in his hand directly into the ignition hole.

With the terrifying loud noise, the whole cannon body retreated fiercely in the smoke of gunpowder, and the two hoes were like plowing the ground to plow out two deep ditches, and at the same time, the cannonballs like meteors whistled out, instantly flying over a distance of five miles, and the hundreds of pounds of shells with the sparks and smoke traces sprayed by the woodpipe fuse accurately hit the Qing army mobilized in Houhe Street with a ferocious momentum, like a rhinoceros that crashed into the flock, and hit a blood mist formed by a broken limb and arm, and then with the sprayed soil and splashed gravel, After a sharp wipe from the ground, it immediately bounced off and flew towards the heads of more Qing soldiers.

"Mah!"

Hailancha, who was thirty feet away, subconsciously scolded.

At the same time, the cannonball, which was completely visible to the naked eye, suddenly turned into a blazing flame in the trembling gaze of the Qing army below.