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Chapter 173
From a distance, I saw a woman with small feet holding a bag of soil with both hands, with a numb expression, and staggering slowly forward.

Suddenly, the person next to her was whipped, staggered, tripped her, and fell to the ground. A Qing soldier behind her whipped the whip across her head and face, and she rolled on the ground crying bitterly.

Shouting loudly: "Tartar who killed a thousand swords, you kill me..."

"……Just kill me."

Her mournful cries were spread far and wide, heart-piercing, and everyone who heard them shed tears.

At this time, a Qing soldier strode forward, aimed at a woman who was walking a little slower, and stabbed him, the woman screamed and fell to the ground, convulsing and mourning.

Beside her was a rather strong man, who was carrying a load of earth. When he saw the Qing soldiers cut the woman down, his face was full of grief, and he howled loudly: "God tartar, I will fight with you... "

The soil in the soil baskets at both ends of the pole rose up, and he swung the pole and smashed it on the head of the Qing soldier. He never thought that these Ming people would dare to resist, and the Qing soldier was knocked to the ground by the pole. They all fly far away.

The surrounding people were encouraged by him, and immediately several people jumped on the Qing soldiers one after another, fighting, they scratched, smashed and bit, and the scene immediately became chaotic.

The Qing soldiers from behind rushed forward, swinging their swords and sticks, and several resisting civilians were chopped down, rolling and howling on the ground.

Under the fierce pressure of the Qing soldiers, the people came forward obediently again, approaching the trench step by step.

Zhang Cheng slammed on the pillars of the turret in a circle in anger, causing the turret to shake endlessly. He cried out in a mournful and deep voice: "The governor..."

Lu Xiangsheng clenched his fists tightly, closed his eyes in pain, and shouted in a sad and indignant voice: "Fire the cannon, let's fire the cannon. Today's affairs will be handled by Bendu alone!"

Zhang Cheng, Yang Guozhu and others didn't dare to delay, they turned around and went down the turret, and rode their horses to the defense line.

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"fire!"

On the south wall of Jia Zhuang, Liang Song, the commander of the thousand infantry army, shouted orders.

The No. [-] Francois machine guns are installed here. At this time, the muzzle is raised. Following the military order, the flames spurt and the roar continues. Solid iron cannonballs are shot into the sky, grazing over the heads of the people who were driven to fill the trenches. Pass.

When the gunfire was raging on the wall of the village, Cui Shijie, the head of the left sentry, had bloodshot eyes. He looked at the shells whizzing past his head, passed by the people who filled the trenches, and went straight to the back of the Qing army.

The people had already been driven to the first ditch. Loads of soil and soil bags were being thrown into the ditch. With tears in his eyes, he yelled heart-piercingly, "Fire the gun, shoot..."

Immediately, the firecrackers behind the earthen wall came out in a row, and they walked forward for more than twenty steps, forming a horizontal row, and lit the matchlocks in their hands one after another. The sound of firecrackers sounded.

The firecrackers fired a volley, the smoke rose, and there were repeated explosions. Clouds of blood sprayed out from the people who filled the trenches in the front row, and they fell to the ground one by one. Amid the deafening sound of the firecrackers, the people who filled the trenches were stunned at first, and then Shouting in unison like a bombing battalion:
"The officers and soldiers opened fire..."

Although the distance was about a hundred paces, the civilians who were driven to fill the trenches were all in tattered clothes and without the protection of armor. As long as they were hit by the bullets, there would be a bloody hole immediately.

"The officers and soldiers killed people..."

They rushed back screaming in horror, and the Qing soldiers behind them waved their whips, slashed and stabbed with knives and guns, but they couldn't stop the rhythm of their collapse in the slightest.

Those Qing soldiers who held the formation chopped down the civilians behind them one by one, but as more and more civilians fled back in large groups, there was a tendency that they could not be suppressed.

Suddenly, a loud roar came from the crowd: "The front and rear are dead, let's fight with the Tartars..."

These people were all captured by the Qing army from the surrounding counties, and they were guarded by the Qing army for several days as cattle and horses, just to survive. For them, they knew that they would eventually be taken to the bitter cold outside the Liaodong Pass .

But as long as they are still alive and used to being obedient citizens, they will not fight desperately.

Today I was driven to fill the trench. I was terrified in my heart. At the beginning, I didn't dare to step forward. Later, seeing that the Ming army on the opposite side did not attack, I began to boldly move forward slowly.

But all of a sudden, the opposite side was full of artillery fire and the sound of gunfire. The people in the front row fell to the ground one by one. He was coerced and suppressed by the Qing soldiers.

They frantically ran backwards, and the Qing soldiers were also thrown down and bitten by them. In order to prevent the formation from being disrupted, groups of Qing soldiers flashed out from behind the shield chariot, shooting bows and arrows. The people fell to the ground one after another.

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In the east formation of the Qing army, Dorgon, Hauge, Abatai and others faintly saw the situation ahead, and after hearing the reports from their subordinates, all of them turned pale.

Dorgon smiled angrily, "Okay, Lu Xiangsheng is cruel enough, this general really underestimated him."

Beside Dorgon, He Shuosu Prince Hauge gritted his teeth, but he didn't say a word. The rest of the banner owners, especially the eight banner Mongolian banner owners, all had a timid expression on their faces.

Abatai glanced at the people around him, and he came forward to accuse him, "It's all the last general's mistake, which almost caused these Nikans to rush into our army's formation!"

Dorgon didn't take it seriously, and said in a deep voice: "I don't blame Rao Yu Baylor, the general didn't expect Lu Xiangsheng to be so cruel, but he just killed some smart people. The good news is that the first trench also Mostly filled."

His eyes shot a sharp cold light: "Give me an order, the whole army will attack.

According to yesterday's plan, Abatai feigned an attack from the south to contain the troops of Yang Guozhu and Zhang Cheng in Xuanzhen. You ordered a group of elite cavalry to go around to the Haoshui River and attack the Ming camp from the west when the battle was in full swing.

Hauge is attacking the defense line of the Hudawei Department in Shanxi in the north. Don't stop for a while. All the artillery of the Han Army will be assigned to you to command;

I am mainly attacking Lu Xiangsheng's defense line in the east. All generals must use their lives and not retreat before the battle. Before sunset, we must break through Lu Xiangsheng's Jiazhuang camp.

All the armies can drive some of the people of the Ming Kingdom to the front of the battle. I want to see how many of their own people Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Cheng can kill! "

Hauge, Abatai and others rode their horses to their respective army formations. Following the delivery of the military order, there was another commotion on the fronts of the Qing army, and the drums were beating loudly.

Urged by the sound of war drums, the Qing soldiers who stopped two hundred steps away from the Xuanda army's line began to push the shield chariot forward slowly again, and at the same time let out earth-shattering shouts, as if they were cheering for themselves, densely packed The blackness of the sky is overwhelming, rolling forward.

All the sergeants of the Xuanda retreated behind the earthen wall and waited in full force. After experiencing yesterday's battle, they all knew that today will be even more tragic, and life and death are at this moment!

(End of this chapter)