Guo Fu realized that Li Weiguo had turned against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but he didn't have time to think about it because Li Weiguo's army was massacring the Taiping Army, and it was unknown whether he could survive tonight.

"Call another team of archers over!"

"You must guard the village gate!"

The village gate is the key. The Taiping Army had some muskets and artillery, but unfortunately the ammunition depot was blown up. Their only artillery and muskets failed. They could only rely on the only village walls and use bows and arrows to fight back to prevent the Shanghai army from approaching.

Outside the village wall, the Shanghai army kept approaching.

"The third team, prepare - let it go!"

"Fourth Team, prepare - let go!"

Bang bang! Bang bang bang!

The gunfire was bursting, and rows of projectiles shot towards the village wall. The Taiping Army soldiers were constantly shot, blood splattering, and screaming.

The entire mountain pass was filled with a sea of ​​fire, burning half of the sky red. The firelight made the Taiping Army in the bright spot, and the Shanghai soldiers in the dark could easily aim and shoot.

At the same time, the Shanghai soldiers all wore sunglasses, and were not affected by the light of the muzzle flame in the dark, and could exert the same combat power as during the day.

On the other hand, the Taiping Army relied on counterattacks. First, the distance was too far, and the power of the bow and arrow was weakened, making it difficult to cause fatal penetration injuries to the Shanghai soldiers. Second, the arrows were shot from the open to the dark, almost blindly, with very low accuracy. In addition, the fire broke out in the village, and all the food and ammunition were burned out, which had a huge impact on the morale of the army.

Therefore, although Guo Yu personally supervised the battle, the Taiping Army suffered heavy casualties and gradually lost to the attack of the powerful muskets and artillery of the Shanghai Army.

"Bang!"

With a loud bang, several shells hit the village gate at the same time.

A cloud of mushrooms soared into the sky, the village gate was split into pieces and collapsed with a bang, and hundreds of Taiping soldiers who were standing here were killed.

A loud charge sounded, and the Shanghai army began to launch a full charge.

"kill!"

"kill!"

The shouts of killing were everywhere, and the Shanghai army rushed into the fort, under the bright bayonet, blood splattered, and a crazy massacre began.

The Shanghai soldiers were three in a group, five in a group, and they were well-trained on weekdays. At this moment, even if they could only exert 70% to 80% of their strength, they were enough to deal with the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army, because the other party was obviously panicked and was defeated.

"when!"

An elite Taiping Army soldier swung his sword to block the frontal assassination of a Shanghai soldier. He kicked him down with one kick, and was about to use a move to use a boat to cut off the head of the Shanghai soldier, but unexpectedly, two Shanghai soldiers suddenly appeared behind the other side, one with guns on the left and the other one was stabbing.

The elite Taiping Army soldier hurriedly slashed left and right, knocking the left and right of two Shanghai soldiers, and was about to draw the sword to kill one of them, but two Shanghai soldiers appeared again on the wings behind him. The Shanghai soldier who was kicked before was also stabbed from the front with a gun.

These three Shanghai soldiers formed a triangular position and stabbed out at the same time. The elite Taiping Army soldiers will be directly stabbed by two other people regardless of attacking anyone.

Puff! Puff! Puff!

It was this moment of hesitation that this elite Taiping Army soldier who survived more than a dozen wars was pierced by three Shanghai soldiers with bayonets. The body fell to the ground with a bang and died with his eyes closed.

This is the power of the standard combination of fighting tactics of the Shanghai Army, commonly known as one, two, and three fighting tactics. First, one person assassinated the enemy head-on. If it is not successful, the other two stabbed out from the flanks. If it is not successful, then the two will form a triangular offensive with the previous one. This is a high-intensity fighting. The moment of life and death, the enemy avoided the previous two rounds of sprints in succession. When the third round, most of their strength and mind were basically exhausted. It is difficult to escape. If they still cannot kill the opponent, they will start a round again until they are exhausted.

The bayonet skills of Shanghai soldiers were already personally taught by Li Weiguo. They were powerful. When combined, the power of fighting skills was extremely powerful. For the Taiping Army, who did not know how to combine tactics and fought with martial arts only with one hand, they were completely restrained.

In just half an hour of fierce fighting, more than 5,000 Taiping Army troops under Guo Yu were wiped out. Li Weiguo did not want the Taiping Army to be captured, and none of these Taiping Army surrendered and were eventually killed.

At the same time, Li Weiguo did not let them go, but ordered people to take them on the spot and use them as free laborers.

"Master, the fire here is soaring into the sky. I'm afraid Qi Huan from the direction of Sanhe Pass can also see it, and they will return to help soon."

A staff member named Chen Jingnan next to Li Weiguo suddenly said that he called Li Weiguo the Lord, and some staff members also called Li Weiguo this way, indicating that they were Li Weiguo's retainers. Of course, it was just a title. The aides during the Qing Dynasty called the person who was loyal to him very chaotic. Some called the master and the master, and some called him directly from the master. Anyway, the meaning of the expression was similar, but Li Weiguo still liked the title of the master.

Li Weiguo nodded and asked, "Taking Meiling is equivalent to taking over the entire Hengzhou Prefecture, but Qi Huan still has more than 10,000 elite troops. I am uneasy and I don't know what good plans Mr. Chen has?"

In fact, Li Weiguo already had a plan in his mind. However, as a superior, he could not do everything himself. He wanted to give his subordinates a space to display and perform. Li Weiguo only needed to know what was going on, so he asked Chen Jingnan.

Chen Jingnan immediately said: "The Lord doesn't have to worry. You only need to send a strong general, choose 10,000 elite Shanghai troops, and ambush them on both sides of the Meiling Road. Qi Huan led his army to hurry back to Meiling, and he would not notice it. Chief Su of Sanhe Pass was smart. Once Qi Huan withdraws his troops in a hurry, he will lead his army to follow him. At that time, the Lord will sit in Meiling, ambush left and right, block and kill him. Qi Huan can be destroyed in a blink of an eye!"

Li Weiguo saw that what he thought was similar to what Chen Jingnan said, but Chen Jingnan's plan was more careful and steadily. As expected, listening to others' words would be beneficial to him.

"What the sir said is the most true, just act according to the sir's plan!"

Li Weiguo immediately summoned a group of officers and then assigned tasks.

Soon, ten thousand Shanghai troops set out quickly and set up an ambush to the Meiling Road. Li Weiguo was in charge of the mountain village. Once the ambush started, he led his army to attack again.

As for Su Sanniang's side, Li Weiguo wanted to send someone to inform him, but was stopped by Chen Jingnan because he was worried that the Taiping Army would intercept the intelligence, which would lead to the failure of the ambush battle and even the danger of Qi Huan's counter-ambush.

Li Weiguo thought about it, so he gave up, hoping to have a good relationship with Su Sanniang.

Under Sanhe Pass, Qi Huanzheng organized the Taiping Army to pretend to attack the city, but he was very annoyed because he found that the Shanghai army at Sanhe Pass was not merciless at all, and the guns and cannons fired, causing considerable casualties to the Taiping Army.

"Mom Peter! Isn't it acting? Why did you really do it? I'll kill so many brothers!"

Qi Huan was puzzled until he suddenly saw the fire in Meiling at night. He was stunned and realized that something had happened in his nest.

As for whether Li Weiguo was doing it, Qi Huan was still not sure, but he just led his army to evacuate in a hurry.

On the top of the city, Su Sanniang was relieved when she saw the Taiping Army withdraw. Although she had already worked for Li Weiguo, after all, she had been in the Taiping Army for a long time and was always a little sad to let her fight against the Taiping Army.

This is also the reason why Li Weiguo did not take Su Sanniang to attack Meiling, but instead asked Su Sanniang to stick to Sanhe Pass. At the same time, for the sake of security, Wu Yong stayed by Su Sanniang to take care of him.

"Mr. Su, fires surged into the sky from Meiling. Now Qi Huan led the Taiping Army to retreat in a hurry. It must be that Lord Li successfully attacked Meiling!"

Su Sanniang nodded and said, "Weiguo wants me to restrain Qi Huan at Sanhe Pass. Now that Qi Huan has suddenly retreated, I'm afraid that Weiguo doesn't know yet, so why don't you send someone to inform me immediately. What does Mr. Wu mean?"

Wu Yong shook his head and smiled, "Mr. Li has Chen Jingnan around him, so he will definitely expect Qi Huan to retreat. If I were him, he would set up an ambush halfway. Lord Su just needs to lead the army to follow him. Once the fierce battle is fierce in front, he can attack him immediately and he will win a complete victory."

"Mr. Wu said so!"

Su Sanniang led troops for many years and understood military affairs. So she agreed with Wu Yong's proposal and immediately ordered three thousand Shanghai soldiers to follow the Taiping Army. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!