The artillery of the Qing army fired.

The descendants of the line Guoan were originally the Han army under the Dingnan Domain, and the Han army under the Dingnan Domain was the best at firearms in the entire Qing army, and the number of artillery and firearms equipped far exceeded that of the Jingnan Domain and the Pingnan Domain. When the line Guoan led his troops into Guizhou, he seized a large number of firearms of Sun Kewang's Ming army along the way, making the line department the most powerful firearms force in the Qing army in the southwest. It was precisely because of the strong firearms that the Ministry of State Security was able to defeat the Ming army with elephant soldiers in a row, and advanced all the way from Guizhou to Kunming.

This time, Line Guoan was ordered by Doni to lead the army back to defend Guangxi, and the number of artillery he carried actually exceeded that of the Taiping Army Artillery Town stationed in Liuzhou, but in the previous battle, Line Guoan did not fully show his strength, so that the Taiping Army did not know his true foundation in person. Just like the battle in Dushan Prefecture, the line Guoan first confused the eleventh town of the Taiping Army with weakness, and then when the eleventh town was slacking off, he unexpectedly smashed it with a punch, resulting in the almost total annihilation of the eleventh town.

Similarly, Xian Guoan's patience was used in the battle of Liuzhou, even if he was eager to break Liuzhou City, he still patiently tempted, consumed, and attacked the Taiping Army little by little, in order to be able to capture the best fighters and take the high ground north of Liuzhou City in one fell swoop at the most powerful time. The various unbearable performances of the Qing army before, to a certain extent, were just another show of weakness by the line of national security. In order to make the Ming army believe that he could not conquer Xiaobeishan, he wanted to withdraw the army but could not withdraw, in this dilemma, the line Guoan even ordered someone to reveal the news to some green battalion soldiers, and the green battalion soldiers who knew the "actual situation" of the Qing army would be sent to attack the Ming army the next day, and as a result, the Ming army knew the difficulties of the line Guoan from the mouth of the captive.

In fact, at the beginning of the fight, Line Guoan had no intention of attacking Liuzhou at all, because he knew better than anyone how difficult Liuzhou was to overcome, because he had personally commanded the attack on Liuzhou. Liuzhou City, which is surrounded by rivers on three sides and has a naval division that can maneuver to transport troops and grain, has never been the target that Line Guoan wants to take, his target is Guilin. If you want the whole army to go north to attack Guilin, you must take the high ground north of Liuzhou.

The importance of Xiaobeishan is not only the northern gateway of Liuzhou, but more importantly, the occupation of this place, the Qing army can completely lock the Ming army in Liuzhou City in the city. Only when the Ming army in Liuzhou is trapped, can the line Guoan boldly move north. Although the Fifth Town, which the Taiping Army has been operating on the outer front, is not weak, the line Guoan believes that if he goes all out to advance Guilin, the Fifth Town, which has thousands of troops, will not be able to resist him.

Since the start of the war, Line Guoan has continued to drive the troops to attack the positions of the Taiping Army, making the Taiping Army think that the Qing Army is desperate, coupled with the false information obtained from the prisoners, Shao Jiugong, the governor of Guangxi, can't help but be a little optimistic, thinking that Line Guoan is nothing more than that.

As the commander-in-chief of the governor, Shao Jiugong's optimistic attitude naturally infected the Taiping soldiers stationed in Xiaobeishan, and the Fourth Town A Brigade and Artillery Town stationed there were some contempt for the Qing army, believing that these Han troops and the green battalion were not as good as the Manchurian Tartars, but they were just guys who helped the people to fight hard, and there was no means to defeat the enemy except to drive the people to act as cannon fodder. If they really have the ability, they won't even be able to touch the city wall of Liuzhou for more than ten days.

The Taiping army with this idea was naturally taken aback when they heard the sudden sound of artillery in the Qing army's array, and they were surprised not that the Qing army had so many artillery, but that before that, the other party had been hiding the cannon in the army and not showing up.

The gunners of this artillery under the line Guoan were all veterans of the Han army under the Dingnan Domain, and the officers were all in the new army built by Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, and participated in almost all the large-scale battles of the Ming and Qing wars after the Qing Dynasty. In the Battle of Songshan that year, the Qing army was able to quickly occupy Bijia Mountain, where the Ming army's grain road was located, and this artillery played an irreplaceable role in it. During the Battle of One Stone, although it was a head-on battle between the Manchurian soldiers and Wu Sangui's Guanning Army and the Chuang Army, if there was no artillery of King Sanshun in the rear and captured the infantry of the Chuang army, the result of the battle is difficult to say.

After the artillery of the Qing army rang out, the elite soldiers of the National Security Headquarters of the line, who had been on standby for a long time, together with more than 10,000 surrendered troops, rushed towards Xiaobeishan. The Qing archers and gunners who had been mixed with the negative soil also began to attack the Taiping army after the fortifications.

Most of the trenches have been filled, and the rest does not need to be filled anymore, because people can go directly through the piles of corpses and mud. The advance of the Qing army made the surviving people of the negative land excited, they thought that they were no longer needed in the next battle, and they could save their lives. However, when they were about to run back with the excitement and excitement of escaping death, the Qing cavalry behind them used their sabers to force them to continue to rush towards the Taiping defense line on the opposite mountain.

There was no room for negotiation, and there was no time to hesitate, so Zhao Xing rushed towards the defense line of the Taiping army with the crowd. Zhao Xing couldn't help but rush, because those who didn't want to rush were all cut off by the Qing soldiers. He didn't want to be a headless corpse himself, he wanted to return to his hometown alive. He also wanted to bring his little sister back alive, and the Qing soldiers promised that as long as the Ming army was broken, the women could be put back. Father and brother are dead, Zhao Xing only has one relative in this world, although he is afraid of death, but if it is possible, he still wants to take his little sister home.

In order to be qualified to live, or to be able to bring their daughters and sisters home, the people rushed over the trenches and rushed towards the Taiping army's defense line under the threat of the Qing soldiers again.

Cannons and guns continued to fly around them, and Zhao Xing saw with his own eyes that a fellow villager in front of him was smashed off his head by the Ming army's cannons, and his headless body still ran forward for more than a dozen steps before falling to the ground. It was terrifying.

The Ming army obviously discovered the Qing army's large-scale attack, their artillery was too fierce, and the guns were even more dense, resulting in the natural result that the people who served as cannon fodder fell one by one, like the wind blowing rice waves.

Despair and panic were spreading, shouting louder, and no one had any reason anymore. Zhao Xing was caught in the crowd and rushed forward numbly, he jumped into the ditch with his bare feet, and crawled out of the ditch, when his feet were pulled out, he felt that his feet were pulled down, it felt like a water ghost suddenly pulled his feet from below when he was swimming in the river.

Even crawling and rolling out of the trench, Zhao Xing was soaked all over, his upper body was sweaty, and his lower body was urine. He screamed "ahh

The Han people who rushed to the front were all hideous, and their faces were either dirt, blood, or sweat. They seemed to have inexhaustible strength, running very fast, they saw the obstacles set up by the Ming army in front, and saw the circle of wires, bamboo guns, and fences set up the defense line. There were a lot of thistles hanging from the wire.

"Ah, my feet!"

Suddenly, the people in front of them suddenly screamed, and many people jumped around with their feet in their hands. Zhao Xing could see that the ground in front of him was full of thistles, scattered everywhere, making people have nowhere to stay. In some areas, there are no thistles, but there are sharpened bamboo stakes and iron nails on the ground. It's so dense that people are shocked to watch.

More and more people were having their feet torn and nailed alive. The pain finally brought them to their senses, and they tried to turn back, but the crowd behind them pushed them forward like a wall.

The people who fell one by one became the "stepping stones" of the rear companions and the Qing army, and Zhao Xing also fell, his body was less than ten steps away from the fence of the Ming army in front. But he could no longer come near, his right hand clenched into a fist, and he looked at the fence, and he clearly saw a red military hat behind the fence.

Am I just dead? Am I going to die like my father and brother?

Zhao Xing looked at the Ming soldiers wearing red hats in despair, his body was constantly trampled by the people behind him, and every time he stepped on it, his body hurt a point. He couldn't move his whole body, because his body was pinned to death by countless iron nails and bamboo stakes, what posture he was in when he fell, and what posture he still was.

Countless Qing soldiers shouted and rushed towards the hillside along the passage paved with the lives of the people.

"Boom!"

A cannon sound came from the Ming army's formation, and with the sound of artillery, the Qing troops who were charging fell one by one. The iron nails and lead fired from the Ming army's big poles and tiger squat cannons turned the front of the position into a forbidden area. (To be continued.) )