boom! boom! boom!
The squatting tiger cannons in the front row placed on the ground were all fired.
Countless iron sand and iron beads flew out from the barrel, pointing directly at the Qing army directly ahead.
The distance of dozens of steps from the target allows the Tiger Crouching Cannon to hit wherever it is pointed, without worrying about being unable to cause damage to the Qing army in front.
The Crouching Tiger Cannon is slower to reload than the Fire Cannon, but its power is far greater than that of the Fire Cannon.
As soon as the six or seven squatting tiger cannons fired, the Qing army directly in front was cut down like wheat, and was directly beaten out of an open space, making the Qing army within fifty steps become sparse.
The sound of the Tiger Crouching Cannon sounded, and the gun soldiers who came behind stepped forward and continued to fire at the Qing army in front with their fire guns, reaping the lives of the invading Qing troops.
The Qing army that rushed out from behind the earthen wall did not even come over for a quarter of an hour. The thousands of troops directly killed and injured two to three hundred people.
Everything happened so fast that many Qing troops did not have time to react.
However, the guard general Xiong Yueyi and the Han flag generals on the earthen wall of Xiong Yueyi could clearly see the situation outside because they stood at a high place.
There was fear in the eyes of the two people.
"Zuo Ling, can we break out of the encirclement?" the Han flag general asked in a low voice.
He was afraid that after a while, the less than a thousand Han bannermen and horses outside would be defeated and come back, and those of them who wanted to break out and evacuate to Gaizhou City would not have time to leave.
"Well, let's break out!" General Xiong Yue Post pursed his lips and nodded.
The other person's worries are also his worries.
After the two people decided to break out, the Qing troops in the earthen fort quickly moved into action. In order to be discovered later by another Qing army outside the earthen wall, they directly chose to go through another door to avoid the Qing army outside. military.
Qian Zong, the Qing army commander who was the first to come out of Xiong Yueyi, also discovered at this time how difficult it was to deal with the troops and horses of the Tiger Flag. It was no longer possible to destroy the dozen or so cannons of the Tiger Flag.
In addition, he had brought hundreds of losses to the Qing army. He suffered a big loss and was ready to return to Xiong Yueyi.
However, just when he was about to retreat, he discovered that there were two more soldiers and horses with the Tiger Flag on each side from the left and right sides. Their number was no less than the soldiers and horses with the Tiger Flag in front of them that blocked them.
"Retreat, retreat, retreat."
Seeing that his side was about to be surrounded, the Qing army general Qian hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat.
At this moment, thick smoke suddenly came out from Xiong Yueyi's earthen wall, and it became bigger and bigger.
"What's going on!" Zhao Wu looked in the direction of Xiong Yueyi in surprise.
The battalion chief of staff on the side said: "Someone should have set fire inside. It seems that they want to burn down Xiong Yueyi."
"Our people didn't attack Xiong Yueyi, so why did it catch fire! It looks like it's not small." Zhao Wu looked at the increasingly thick smoke, his eyes suddenly widened, and he said anxiously, "No, the fire inside I'm afraid people are going to run away! Quickly send orders to people in other directions, instructing them to stop the Qing troops who want to break through."
The messenger mounted his horse and rushed towards other teams in the distance.
At this time, the chief of staff of the battalion next to him also reacted. He said: "The Qing army commander here in Xiong Yueyi is really ruthless. Thousands of troops gave up when they said they would."
"This is called decisiveness. Using these 1,800 people in exchange for others to evacuate Xiong Yueyi smoothly. The Qing general himself knows that continuing to defend will only lead to the annihilation of Xiong Yueyi's defenders." Zhao Wu admired Xiong Yueyi in his heart. The decisiveness of the Qing army general.
It would have been difficult for him to give up so many of his subordinates so decisively.
"In addition to the Qing army in front of us, there are probably seven to eight hundred Qing troops in Xiong Yueyi. Why don't we send a troop to chase them?" the battalion chief of staff suggested.
Zhao Wu shook his head and said: "Don't worry, let's eat the Qing army in front of us first."
At this moment, the sound of gunshots came from the north direction of Xiong Yueyi.
Zhao Wu raised his monocular and looked towards the north.
Because several earthen walls of Xiong Yueyi blocked his view, it was difficult for him to see the fighting situation to the north.
"Would you like me to go north?" the battalion chief of staff said.
Zhao Wu thought for a moment and said, "Take a large group over and try to stop another Qing army as much as possible."
"Okay." The battalion chief of staff turned and left.
However, just as he left, a messenger came over on horseback from a distance.
After approaching, the messenger jumped off his horse, ran to Zhao Wu in a few steps, and said urgently: "The camp is at the center, the Qing army has broken through from the north."
"How did you defend the north and let the Qing army break out so quickly?" Zhao Wu's face darkened.
He thought that the defenders in the north might not be able to stop the remaining Qing troops in Xiong Yueyi, but he never expected that the Qing troops would escape the siege so quickly.
The messenger defended him: "Captain Chen and the others tried their best. The Qing army that broke through completely ignored casualties. Captain Chen and the others tried their best to stop them. In the end, they managed to escape with almost two to three hundred Qing troops."
"Stay back first!" Zhao Wuchong waved his hand at the messenger.
Although I had expected that it would be difficult to annihilate all the Qing troops in Xiong Yueyi, I was still a little disappointed when I heard that some Qing troops still escaped.
Zhao Wu, who did not have many cavalry available, knew very well that it would be difficult to catch the Qing troops who escaped from the encirclement, so he simply directed all his anger on the Qing troops in front of him.
Three brigades of soldiers attacked the Qing army. The Qing army did not last long before being defeated and fled.
Many of the Qing troops directly abandoned their armor and chose to surrender, and some of the Qing troops fled back to Xiong Yueyi along the gate of the earth wall.
However, a fire has already broken out in Xiong Yueyi. Because no one has been putting out the fire, the fire has become bigger and bigger, and the flames have reached the highest point of the earthen wall.
Under the raging fire, many wooden doors and windows in Xiong Yueyi were burned, and some firewood piles were the first to be burned.
The Qing troops who fled back to Xiong Yueyi quickly ran out again.
The fire in Xiong Yueyi made it impossible to stay inside.
Several brigades from the Tiger Character Banner quickly surrounded them, surrounding the last remaining Qing army.
General Qian of the Qing Army returned to Xiong Yueyi and found that there was no one inside. He guessed that they had been abandoned, so he immediately chose to surrender as soon as he exited Xiong Yueyi.
The battle ended quickly as the last Qing troops surrendered.
The people of the Tiger Character Banner began to clean up the battlefield, escorting the surrendered Qing troops to Xiong Yueyi.
However, no one went to put out the fire in Xiong Yueyi. The fire was too big and it was too late to save it. We could only wait for the fire to stop on its own, or a sudden rain to put out the fire.
The Hu Zi Banner camp was also evacuated to a place two miles away to prevent it from being affected by the fire in Xiong Yueyi.
The fire in Xiong Yueyi burned all night, and there were still sporadic flames that were not extinguished until the next morning.
(End of chapter)
