Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Liuzhou, the Ming and Qing Dynasties have been fighting for the Xiaobei Mountain Fort for 14 days.

Xiaobei Mountain is the only highland near Liuzhou City. It controls the only passage connecting Liuzhou City to the land. If the cannon is pulled to the mountain, it can shoot directly into the city. Before the war began, the Taiping army built fortifications on Xiaobei Mountain, and all the dozens of artillery pieces left in Liuzhou in Paozhen were placed on the top of the mountain. The Fourth Town A Brigade, as the most elite brigade in the town, took on the important task of guarding Xiaobei Mountain.

At the beginning of the war, Xiaobei Mountain became the target of repeated contention by the Qing army because of its geographical importance. Within fourteen days, a total of two attacks with more than 3,000 troops were launched, and seven or eight attacks on a scale of more than 1,000 troops were launched.

Under the repeated attacks, the Fourth Zhenjia Brigade stationed in Xiaobei Mountain suffered heavy losses, and the Qing army also paid a heavy price. After fourteen days of fighting, the Taiping army suffered more than 1,400 casualties, and the Qing army suffered more than 4,000 casualties.

Now, Xiaobeishan is still firmly in the hands of the Taiping Army, while the Qing army, who could not advance even after half a month, stopped the attack, but did not retreat.

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Xiaobei Mountain is on a mountain road that slopes more than 40 degrees. A lot of wood is built on this mountain road, and both ends of the wood are fixed with long nails into the ground. Several iron cannons weighing thousands of pounds are being pushed and pulled by human forces on this mountain road. In front of each cannon, dozens of Taiping soldiers were dragging them with long ropes, and behind the cannons, there were also seven or eight men pushing up with blushing faces. A heavy rain last night made the road muddy, so that everyone on the mountain road was splashed with mud.

At the end of the mountain road is the main **** of Xiaobei Mountain. Ponan is a shack built with thatch and branches. The Taiping army officers and soldiers who had been rotated in front were resting in this shack. There was no bed in the house, but a large bed. The ground is covered with thick hay and leaves, and a quilt is placed on top. Dozens of extremely tired Taiping soldiers were huddled on top of them and slept soundly. They are really tired, and even if the sky falls, no one is willing to open their eyes.

The smell of food is in the air, and the gangs are cooking pots and pans of food, just for the comrades to have a hot bite to eat when they wake up. Because the cannon was being transported from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, the hundreds of wounded could only wait on the **** with the help of the civilian husband. Only after the cannon was pulled up were they carried down the mountain and sent to Liuzhou City. Every wounded person needs two or three civilian husbands to help and take care of them, and the civilian husbands are also tired.

On the east **** of Xiaobei Mountain, there were graves piled up at some point in time, and buried under the graves were soldiers who died in battle. On the north slope, copper and iron cannons are lined up along the mountain, and solid iron **** are placed on both sides of the cannon with bamboo baskets. In the trenches under the ring-shaped fortifications, there were Taiping soldiers leaning on either with fire guns, or with spears and broadswords.

Shelling, gunshots, arrows, spears...

Xiao Beishan is like a giant armed to the teeth.

The silence was broken after an hour, and as the horn sounded again in the Qing army camp, the soldiers of the Fourth Town and Cannon Town, who were hurrying to rest, were once again engaged in tense battles.

The Qing army's offensive this time was obviously more violent than before. As the horn sounded, the Taiping army officers and men in Xiaobei Mountain saw thousands of Qing troops move out of the barracks.

Like the previous attacks, the Qing army also drove the captured Han people to fill the trenches with mud.

The Taiping Army did not take it seriously, because the Qing army drove the people to fill the ditches with mud many times, but every time they failed. But this time, they were a little nervous, because they found that the people who were driven over were so dense that they couldn't see their heads.

The terrified people were driven to Xiaobei Mountain in batches by the Qing army. Some of them specially digged soil, while others took sacks to pick up the soil. When the soil was full, it was handed over to those who were going to rush up to fill the ditch.

"Ready to fire!"

Artillery commander Niu Gensheng, who was born in the Han army, put down the telescopic mirror and shook his head. He was already numb. For those people who were not counted as casualties at all, his heart could only be ruthless, otherwise, the one who fell would be he.

Human life is worthless these days.

The gunmen under the fortifications in the front began to load medicines and check the match ropes under the orders of the officers. No one believed that those people would fill up the ditch, but this time there were too many people. The kind of people who came in like a tidal wave really increased the pressure in my heart, made my scalp tingle, and made me tremble with fear.

"Rush up, throw the bag into the ditch and withdraw immediately, if you don't want to die, you have to act fast!"

The cavalry of the Qing army drove the cannon fodder forward with sabres on horseback.

This time, it wasn't just the people who moved forward, there were groups of Qing troops carrying bows, arrows and guns in the crowd.

Driven by the Qing army, the people who filled the soil had no choice but to run forward crying.

The people were making noises, and the voices could be heard for ten miles. The Taiping army was unusually quiet during the fortifications. Every movement and silence was very strange.

Finally, the people who were carrying the soil rushed to the ditch, and then they heard the sound of a cannon, and then countless cannons sounded. The roar of the cannons covered up the sound of the fire guns. At this moment, only the sound of shelling was heard in the human ear, and nothing else.

Countless people who were driven by the Qing army were ruthlessly beaten to death by cannonballs. Iron **** swooped and jumped in the dense crowd, bringing up countless corpses and taking away countless lives.

Amidst the sound of thunderbolts, rows of people were hit by the guns or fell to the ground~www.NovelMTL.com~ or fell into the ditch. The people in the back were not afraid. They frantically stepped on the corpses of the people in front and threw the mud-filled sacks into the ditch, and then ran back to where they came from without looking back. In the roar, many civilians who were not injured by artillery and guns were directly pushed into the ditch by the people behind, and their bodies became part of the ditch. While he was alive, countless sacks were thrown from his head, pressing him directly into it.

The gunmen of the Taiping Army just mechanically charged, ignited, and fired according to the usual training. They didn't even look at the people they killed because they didn't dare to look.

The Qing army calculated the unimaginable firing density of the fire guns of the Taiping army. They drove in more people than before, because the firing speed and density of the guns and artillery of the Taiping army were not enough to suppress the speed of filling the ditch.

The Qing army cavalry in the rear kept slashing and slashing at the people who were scared by the guns and ran back. Under the coercion of their ferocious sabres, the people could only rush forward, hoping that the Bodhisattva would bless them from being shot. hit.

There have been no natural disasters in Guangxi these years, and the people can live on, but there are no natural disasters, but military disasters. Like the neighboring province Guangdong, the Ming and Qing dynasties fought back and forth in Guangxi, resulting in the destruction of domestic production, the separation of common people, and the plummeting of the population. In the vicinity of Liuzhou, it is because the Qing army massacred almost ten rooms and nine empty cities in Liuzhou. (To be continued.)()