Liu Xian only rested for three days at Bayuguan. On September 19, the army left the pass and went straight to the Qingshi Pass. Zhu Guiqiu and Zhang Yougeng also led 3,000 men to follow, leaving the rest of the troops to guard Bayu Pass.

The journey is less than a day, and it goes straight north along the Laozhu River, all the way to the flat riverside.

Of course, the generals of the Taiping Army guarding Qingshi Pass will not be Lai Wenguang, Liang Chengfu, and Lan Chengchun, but Qiu Yuancai is also a famous general in the Taiping Army's Western Expeditionary Corps, the Taiping Army's Guangxi brother, one of the generals under Chen Yucheng, and was awarded the title of Tianfu on December 26, the tenth year of Gengshen.

In the Taiping Army of the Western Expedition, he and Fan Lichuan, Xiantianyi, Ni Longhuai, Lu Tianyi, Song Xianfu, Zhentianfu, Yang Binan, and Zhitianyan Yu Zhonghou were all first-class generals under the Big Five. There are tens of thousands of people under his command, and after deducting the old and weak women and children, there are still three or four thousand capable soldiers, and the bluestone pass is impregnable, which is not at all something that Zhu Guiqiu and Zhang Yougeng can gnaw.

Liu Xian's army, which began to camp again, impressed Zhu Guiqiu and Zhang Yougeng. The guard post is not mentioned, and the stronghold is even stronger than the Hunan army. Ten streets more than three days ago when he set up camp at Bayuguan.

Qiu Yuancai also tried to harass with soldiers, but in front of the platoon of guns of the police troops arranged by Liu Xian, in addition to the dead and wounded, there were still dead and wounded.

The bluestone was closed, and Qiu Yuancai looked at Liu Xianjun not far away with hatred. From the clamor of the Qing army under the pass, he already knew who the new Qing army was. Liu Xian, that is the absolute enemy of their Western Expeditionary Army.

Ma Ronghe, one of the five main generals, was folded in his hand, not to mention the fire outside the city! The entire Western Expeditionary Army was disgraced.

Since the Western Expeditionary Army entered Hanzhong, all the losses it has suffered have come from him.

[Ma Ronghe is a famous general of the Taiping Army, although he has not been crowned king, but his influence is greater than that of Lan Chengchun and Liang Chengfu. In history, the collapse of Chen Decai's 200,000-strong army lies in his surrender. 】

On the second day, outside the Qingshi Pass.

"Boom, boom, boom—" The cannon roared.

Twelve 300-pound mountain splitting guns spewed flames in unison, and the scorching fire and nitrate erupted from the muzzles glowing with metallic cold light a foot away, and the white smoke that rose soon covered the sky over the entire artillery position.

As soon as the cannon was fired, the twelve 300-pound mountain splitting guns fell backwards in unison, and the hard gun carriage brushed up on the slope piled up behind the gun emplacement, and only after the recoil was exhausted did it rumble down again. There was also a slope directly in front of the gun emplacement, but it was much shorter than the one behind it, and not as high as the wheels of the gun carriage itself.

Under the action of the two slopes, it only took a few moments for the gun position to be restored, and after slightly adjusting the firing elements, and after loading the gunpowder and iron bullets, the cannon fired again.

Compared with the Han Yuan cannon, the range and accuracy of the mountain splitting cannon are significantly reduced. But the city defense of Qingshi Pass can not be compared with the county seat, and then there is quantity to make up for the quality, and the two-pound iron bullet hits the gate of Qingshi Pass, and it can also collapse the thinned battlements.

At the same time, the first shotgun that Liu Xian's army was using on the battlefield was also fought in this battle. It was after twenty mountain splitting cannons almost swept away the bluestone pass, and a batch of shotguns cast in Chengdu were used.

The small body of the projectile is filled with a full fifty iron locks, and if one is exploded, the coverage range of the iron locks and the fragments of the projectile body can reach 3X3 zhang.

Compared with the flowering shells of the mortar cannon, the shotgun is one level stronger in terms of lethality alone.

While the mountain splitting artillery was bombarding, Liu Xian's mortar artillery team was also making intense preparations. When the iron bullets and shotguns cleaned the entire Qingshi Pass City, the mortar artillery team had to rush to the city to quickly rush to the city according to the time difference between the Taiping army and the defense. Continue to use the flowering shells specially prepared by the mortar artillery team to suppress the Taiping army again.

Of course, these flowering bombs were also made in Chengdu, and Zhang Shoudai was also an envoy according to the inspection, and with his support, Liu Xian was definitely not short of gunpowder, craftsmen, etc. Although it is a very old-fashioned flowering bomb, it is no different from the flowering bomb at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the explosion rate test site is only half open, but it is enough to suppress the Taiping army.

And the danger ......

It is only allocated to the mortar artillery team, isn't that just to prevent accidents? The mortar cannon muzzle cannon body is short, and if something happens, it is easy to solve it quickly. And the muzzle of the cannon is large, and the flowering shell is also large, and the power is great.

Rockfall cracks.

The gate of Qingshi Pass quickly transformed into a ruined wall under the bombardment of mountain splitting artillery. After the shotgun swept the field, the twelve 300-pound mountain splitting guns adjusted their firing Zhu Yuan, replaced them with iron bullets, and immediately extended their fire into the town. The mortar artillery team immediately pressed to the front of the pass.

"Boom, boom, boom," a series of loud noises far exceeded the sound of the cannonballs.

The flowering bomb appeared on the battlefield in Hanzhong for the first time, and as soon as it appeared, it was a heavy bomb close to five catties. Filled with three pounds of gunpowder. [The M1852 24-pounder mortar gun during the Old American Civil War was only 75 kilograms without a thick wooden base. Therefore, the mortar cannon hit the five-pound flowering bomb really not high. 】

It's completely rocket-level power. One by one, the flowering bullets crossed the city and fell into the pass, causing far more losses to the Taiping army than the iron bullets that entered the pass.

"Boom-"

The gunpowder pack exploded, and the bluestone gate turned into countless fragments and flew around.

"Kill—"

Liu Xian waved his hand. Immediately, the four murderous war drums rang out.

"Kill!" In the roar of the earth-shattering, the tide of Qing troops poured towards Qingshi Pass.

The Taiping army roared like ants and collided with the first brigade of Liu Xian's army, which rushed to the front.

The sound of killing shook the sky, and the mortar cannon that had been powerful before withdrew from the battle, and the handle-type grenade appeared on the stage. Also produced in Chengdu, the shell is as thin as possible cast iron, and the casting is engraved with longitudinal network cables. Although the ignition era is several levels worse than the 'border area grenade', the fuse is not at all what Liu Xian can do now, but the power is definitely stronger than the border area that explodes in half.

Zhu Guiqiu and Zhang Yougeng looked at this qiē dumbfounded, Liu Xian actually had such powerful firepower?

Iron bullets are not uncommon, but shotguns are only heard of. They also know the things of foreign devils, but mortars are too rare.

From the arrangement of Liu Xian's artillery positions to the convenience of handle-type grenades, Liu Xian's powerful firearms left a deep impression on them.

Firepower wins!

Liu Xian is now completely relying on his own equipment to suppress the Taiping army in the pass. Such a blow is not to mention the Taiping Army of the Western Expeditionary Corps, even the elite of Chen Yu's troops who guarded Anqing back then, and they can only rely on human lives to fill it.

"No, I can't. We're going to send troops too. Lao Zhang, you come to pick the elite, I'll go to Liu Xian and talk about it. This great achievement can't eat him alone......" Zhu Guiqiu woke up from the shock and slapped his thigh.