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Chapter 0072 Fierce battle! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The roar of cannons broke the tranquility of dawn. The earth trembled, awakening the sleeping people.

"What's going on?"

Liu Lichuan, the leader of the Xiaodao Society, had just taken a nap and was immediately awakened by the sound of cannons.

"Report! The officers and soldiers outside the city have begun to attack the city!"

Liu Lichuan did not sleep all night, and the drum tower and the Asian Infrastructure Building in the city were stuck in his throat like fish bones, which made Liu Lichuan very uncomfortable. If he didn't pull it out, the knife would be attacked by Li Wei at home and abroad and fall into danger. However, Liu Lichuan racked his brains and couldn't think of a way to pull out the nail. Instead, he suffered more than 10,000 casualties, which made him so angry that he cursed.

Now that Li Weiguo's army has arrived in the north of Shanghai County and launched a siege. At this moment, the Xiaodaohui had to divide the troops into two groups, 30,000 soldiers defended the city, and 10,000 soldiers continued to attack the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank Building and Drum Tower. Even if they could not be taken down, they could not give the other party a chance to cooperate inside and outside.

Liu Lichuan left Chen Tao to take charge of the command, while he personally led his troops to the city wall and commanded the army to resist the fierce siege of the Li family army.

However, when Liu Lichuan climbed to the top of the city, he was stunned. He saw guns and bullets on the top of the city, countless corpses flowing into a river.

Six thousand soldiers of the Li family stood twenty or thirty meters away from the city wall and lined up into twelve large square formations, including ten square formations directly in front, each square formation of five hundred people, divided into five rows.

The soldiers of the Li family army held up foreign guns and fired one round after another, orderly, completely ignoring the defenders on the city.

This is because Xiaodao holds too few muskets, and after a series of battles, the ammunition is consumed countless times, but it cannot be replenished. Even the artillery was transferred by Liu Lichuan to attack the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank building, resulting in the Xiaodao defenders on the city who fought against the Li family's foreign guns and cannons with only bows and arrows and big swords. Obviously, they were only beaten.

Rows of bullets shot up to the city wall, densely filled with rain. The soldiers of Xiaodaohui were shot and fell down one after another, staining the city wall with blood.

One round of shells hit the city wall, and the solid bullet instantly smashed the female wall where the Knife Soldiers were hiding. The flowering bullet was even more powerful. Every explosion could blow the Knife Soldiers within a few meters of the attachment into flesh and blood.

After only half an hour of fighting between the two sides, thousands of soldiers of Xiaodaohui were killed and injured. In contrast, the Li family army under the city was completely unscathed.

This one-sided situation is surprising, and Liu Lichuan couldn't understand it.

"It won't work if this continues!"

Liu Lichuan realized that he had been a little arrogant before. He did not expect that the army under Li Weiguo was so powerful that it was stronger than any Qing army he had encountered before. Of course, this includes Liu Lichuan's underestimation of the enemy caused by his lack of attention to foreign guns and cannons.

"Open the city gate and kill the enemy with me!"

Liu Lichuan made a quick decision and led 30,000 Xiaodaohui soldiers to rush out of the city gate, preparing to fight with the Li family army in close combat, playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses.

Li Weiguo has been paying attention to the entire battlefield situation. When he saw Xiaodao coming out of the city gate, he immediately ordered two reserve phalanxes to take the lead in taking the enemy first, and then retreated from the ten phalanxes on the front. Three phalanxes on one left and one right surrounded the two wings of Xiaodao's army, and the other four phalanxes were transferred to the reserve squad, and as the battlefield situation was determined whether to enter the battle.

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The Li family army's artillery team adjusted their position and aimed at the Xiaodao Huijun gushing out of the city gate to firing.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Wherever the shells passed, a huge cloud of flames and mushrooms suddenly rose, frying people within a few meters around them.

These Xiaodao Cong members have seen such artillery fire before fighting with the Qing army. However, most of the Qing army was solid bullets. Even if there were flowering bullets, the amount of charge was very small because of their technical skills. Even if they exploded, they often only exploded a few petals, and their lethality was limited. What's more, most of the Qing army's flowering bullets did not explode and turned into dud bullets, which made Xiaodao Cong members almost not afraid of the Qing army's artillery fire.

It's different now. The Li family army used advanced Western artillery, with a perfect flowering bullet technology, and there were few duds that did not explode. Each shell contained a large amount of steel balls, making the lethality after the explosion amazing.

Under the guidance of Li Weiguo, the Li family army's tactics were basically to shell the two sides of the wheel first, and then the musket team. The soldiers of the Li family army had experienced the Battle of Baoshan before, and the elimination of the thousands of Little Knife Association soldiers guarding Baoshan made the officers and soldiers of the Li family army stabilize their mentality and could try their best to show their usual training results.

"First team, shoot!"

"Second team, shoot!"

"Third team, shoot!"

As the commander issued an order in an orderly manner, the soldiers of the Li family army took off their guns in an orderly manner, and rows of bullets were fired, forcing Xiaodao's charge to the death.

In just over thirty meters, the soldiers of the Xiaodao Society could not rush over, leaving behind a corpse and a large number of wounded people.

If the blood-flowing tragedy did not scare the soldiers of the Xiaodao Society, the wailing and helping sounds of those who were not shot in the middle of the battle would deeply scare them.

"Run up! Rush up and reward 100 taels of silver! Those who retreat will die!"

Liu Lichuan shouted with a tough bullet, knowing that if there is no special means, these arrested men will collapse instantly.

Sure enough, when he heard that the retreating person died, the soldiers of the Xiaodao Society could only grit their teeth and rush forward.

However, how can the flesh and blood break through the Li family army's guns and bullets only increase the bodies and wounded.

Seeing that he couldn't rush over, Liu Lichuan was scared. He couldn't figure out why his 10,000 army could not rush over a distance of just a few dozen meters. He was too out of date. Just like the truth that he was getting worse and worse with the chess game, he was limited to the backward feudal era of the Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible for him to understand the absolute overwhelming advantage of firearms over cold weapons.

At this time, the Li family army musket team phalanx on the left and right wings of Xiaodaohui had been approaching. With its firepower advantage, it cut off the enemy phalanx in half, causing the enemy to be divided into two sections.

Liu Lichuan was trapped in the middle of the Li family's siege and lost contact with the follow-up troops. Seeing that the Li family's army was strong and without Liu Lichuan's supervision, they immediately became timid and took the initiative to retreat to the city gate.

Seeing that the fighter plane had arrived, Li Weiguo immediately ordered three musket arrays from the four reserve teams to enter the battle, just like the last straw that crushed the camel. At the most critical moment, he shattered Liu Lichuan's confidence.

The sound of cannons and the howling guns and bullets were. In the blink of an eye, there were only less than ten thousand soldiers around Liu Lichuan. They could not rush over or retreat. They were suddenly panic and wanted to escape and no longer have the fighting spirit.

Liu Lichuan slashed and killed more than a dozen deserters in succession, making his hands weaker. Unfortunately, his deterrence was getting smaller and smaller, and more and more deserters were taking ten away, and ten away one hundred away, and in the blink of an eye, he formed a great defeat.

At this critical moment, a team of cavalry suddenly appeared behind the Li family army, with a small scale of about 500 people.

Li Weiguo was shocked. Fortunately, he had always been cautious in his work and still left a reserve phalanx, which came in handy at this time.

"Turn back!"

"preparation!"

"shooting!"

Under the command of the commander, the five hundred men's reserve team reversed the formation and aimed at the enemy who suddenly came from behind to shoot.

In the age of muskets, although cavalry was a living target under muskets, they could produce miraculous effects if used well.

The commander of this cavalry was Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying, a core member of the Xiaodao Society. They were originally protecting the Ming Dynasty court they had just established in Jiading. After learning that Baoshan County was lost, Zhou Xiuying guessed that Li Weiguo would likely send troops to attack Shanghai County and attack Liu Lichuan's troops from front to back. So Zhou Lichun followed his sister's advice and the two led the only 500-man cavalry team to reinforce.

Zhou Lichun originally wanted to take the opportunity to directly attack Li Weiguo's main formation, cooperate with Liu Lichuan's attacks from both sides, and eliminate the Li family army in one fell swoop.

However, he never expected that Li Weiguo would have kept a reserve team from beginning to end, which played a life-saving role at critical moments.

Seeing the reserve team of the Li family army turn the gun, Zhou Lichun saw Liu Lichuan in danger and had to save him. He was in a dilemma, so he ruthlessly led the team forward.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

After each round of muskets, Zhou Lichun will have dozens of brothers missing. His younger sister Zhou Xiuying hurriedly said: "Brother, it's useless to rush forward like this. It's better to hide on the side of the horse, so that you can avoid the enemy's muskets."

When Zhou Lichun heard this, he was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered everyone else to hide on the side of the war horse.

In this way, unless the Li family army's musket attack hits the war horse and kills the war horse on the spot, the war horse will continue to charge forward if it is not dead.

"not good!"

Seeing that the enemy cavalry used this move, Li Weiguo suddenly became nervous. He was worried that the enemy cavalry would rush into the Li family's musket formation, which would cause huge casualties to the Li family's soldiers. If they were defeated by the opponent's cavalry and threatened other phalanxes, the ending would probably be that the Li family's army would be defeated.

"Mark Resistance Formation!"

At this time, the commander of the square formation also realized the danger and hurriedly ordered.

Five hundred soldiers of the Li family quickly changed their formation. The original large square formation suddenly broke into ten small square formations, each of which had fifty people, surrounded by a circle, the front row squatted down, the butt was on the ground, and the bayonet was at a forty-five degrees angle outward. The second row and the third row were the same, forming a Modao Refusing Horse Formation similar to the Tang Dynasty to meet the enemy.

The remaining soldiers were back to back, in groups of three, bayonets rushed out, ready to fight for bayonets.

"Hey, what's going on?" Li Weiguo looked surprised. He had never taught the soldiers this horse-resisting formation. He was just a big enemy. He didn't bother to ask and looked nervously at the result of the battle between the two sides. If the reserve team could not stand it, he could only give up the plan to encircle and annihilate Liu Lichuan this time.

Not only was Li Weiguo surprised, but Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying were also stunned. They had only seen muskets kill people with bullets, but they had never seen muskets that could be used as sabers after being equipped with bayonets.

Seeing that the huge price of more than 300 people were paid, the brothers finally avoided the opponent's musket shooting and rushed into the opponent's military formation, but then hit the opponent's long bayonet.

"kill!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying had no time to think about it, so they shouted loudly and rushed around the formation with the last hundred cavalry.

However, there was no situation where cavalry massacred infantry. After the initial panic, the soldiers of the Li family gradually stabilized their positions. They were in groups of three, twenty people, and a small formation. The musket with bayonets can be used as long hair. It is very effective against small swords that use sabers and short weapons. In less than ten minutes, they killed more than ninety cavalry on the other side, and only twenty casualties were killed or killed on their own.

"withdraw!"

Zhou Lichun and Zhou Xiuying saw that there were only a dozen people left, and knew that they would be dead if they continued to fight, so they turned around and rushed out.
Chapter completed!