Flags covered the sky and howled the earth. Zu Kefa led 15,000 Qing troops, and rushed to Chenqiao Town like a tide. According to the reports of the traitors and their repeated investigations, Gu Zhenhua was in Chenqiao Town, with only 5,000 soldiers under his command, of which the main force of the Anguo Army had only three battalions, and the rest were all Kaifeng troops.

After receiving this news, Zu Kefa felt that happiness came too suddenly. Speaking of Gu Zhenhua, Zu Kefa had to grit his teeth. This guy built Jingguan at the time of the Qing Dynasty and fried Kong Youde alive. The smelly corpse, as long as he thought about it, would feel chill all over.

When Kong Youde's body was sent back to the capital, his adoptive father, Zu Dashou, had not eaten for three consecutive days, and he would be scared to wake up in his dreams, making him nervous and mostly become a useless person.

When he thought of this, Zu Kefa gritted his teeth. As long as he did not get rid of this popular and extremely vicious Gu Zhenhua, he would definitely be the mortal enemy of the Qing Dynasty and the nightmare of the traitors!

"Tiger also takes a nap. The surname Gu, you didn't expect it to fall into the hands of this general!"

"Listen, let's go into Chenqiao, no matter how hard it is. As long as you kill Gu Zhenhua, the general will personally ask the Regent for merit, be promoted to the third level, and give him a reward of 10,000 taels of silver!"

"OK!"

These Qing troops shouted loudly, and they rode wildly, and Zu Kefa and Bayan rushed to the front.

"Sir General, after another hill, Chenqiao Town is ahead, and there is no one to investigate along the way. Gu Zhenhua's use of troops is just like this, which shows that it was just a lucky person in the past!" Bayan said wildly.

But before his words were finished, the red flag suddenly shook on the hill facing him, and the war drums sounded, and a team slowly pressed up.

"stop!"

Zu Kefa waved his hand and stopped the soldier. He looked at the opposite side in confusion.

At this moment, three neat infantry phalanxes came down from the hillside, each with five hundred people up and down, with a distinctive banner and a majestic soldier. Especially with the amazingly consistent pace, a group of infantry actually walked out of the powerful sense of oppression that only the cavalry had, which surprised Zu Kefa.

The three infantry phalanxes set up a font-shaped formation on the hillside, waiting for the formation. A large number of soldiers rushed out of the two wings, but their banners were chaotic. The team was not in a complete way, and it was far less shocking than the three phalanxes.

"We still underestimated Gu Zhenhua. He was prepared for it." Zu Kefa couldn't help but say.

Bayan looked at it again and again with a telescope, and couldn't help but sneer: "Sir General, what if he discovered it, we have more than 10,000 elite soldiers. And Gu Zhenhua is probably only those three battalions can be used. As long as these elite soldiers are broken through, Gu Zhenhua will definitely be defeated. He is not talented and is willing to be the vanguard of charge."

Zu Kefa observed it repeatedly, then nodded, "General Bayan, be careful!"

"Don't worry!"

Bayan agreed and hurriedly called his troops to gather together. The Qing Dynasty was not sufficient. Most of Zu Kefa's subordinates had just surrendered. After cutting their braids, they became the Qing army. There were only two most combat-capable parts, one was the old Liaodong subordinates who surrendered in his early years, and the other was the Han army flag led by Bayan.

Zu Kefa is still quite confident about his own combat power, so Zu Kefa looks like he is watching from the wall.

In order to show his courage, Bayan did not conduct any tentative attacks, and directly concentrated six or seven hundred elite cavalry and rushed towards An Guojun on the hillside.

"Kill. Crash, kill Guangming Dog!"

The cavalry shouted loudly, the distance between the two sides was constantly shortening, and the soldiers of the Anguo Army were still alive, as if they had seen nothing. They squatted on the ground neatly and maintained their strength.

After the Qing army entered about 200 steps, Zhou Yingjie gave an order: "The whole army stood up!"

With a swish, all the soldiers stood up together and stared at the front. Everyone was moving slowly and almost exactly the same. After loading gunpowder, they knelt on the ground with one leg in front, and pointed their black muzzle at the rushing enemy.

Seeing that both sides entered a distance of 100 steps, Zhou Yingjie suddenly shook the red flag in his hand, and then fired the gun.

The Qing army rushing in front didn't care at all. When they saw the opponent shooting, they showed a proud smile. The Ming army's firearms looked pretty. Shooting at a distance of thirty or fifty steps was useless, let alone one hundred steps, how could they be able to hit them!

But before they could get proud, the cavalry in front seemed to be electrocuted, with blood splattering on their strong bodies, and more than a dozen people died under the horse.

The Qing army, which could kill armored guards from a hundred steps away, was actually very simple. The gunpowder of Anguo Army had undergone a huge innovation. It changed from the original powder gunpowder to a pellet gunpowder. Although it was just a small step, it had a considerable qualitative change.

The powder gunpowder burns fast, but it is not uniform. It often burns partly, and the other part does not react. Therefore, after the explosion, a large amount of residue will remain. It needs to be cleaned before the medicine can be recharged.

Gu Zhenhua had long noticed this problem, but when he was escaping, he couldn't care so much. After arriving in Xuzhou, An Guojun also began to produce gunpowder on his own. At this time, Gu Zhenhua proposed the suggestion of pelletizing gunpowder.

Speaking of which, granular gunpowder is not complicated. Glue the gunpowder into a uniform medicine cake, then smash it and dry it, and basically it is made into granular gunpowder.

However, this is still far from being able to be used on the battlefield. To improve the efficiency of gunpowder, the particles must be made as uniform and small as possible. After making the particles, they must be screened repeatedly to pass the powder and fine particles. Then polish and sieved again. Seven times before and after, the maximum power must be ensured.

The craftsman also explored for more than a month before he produced the first batch of qualified granular gunpowder. With the arrival of Japanese sulfur, the Anguo Army produced a large number of gunpowder, and the number of people was sufficient, and the production was basically processed into granular gunpowder with great power, few residues, and more efficient and reliable granular gunpowder.

This is the first time that An Guojun has truly experienced the power of particulate gunpowder. Originally, the musketeer had to risk shooting against the bow and arrow, but now he is not required. At about one hundred steps, the lead balls will have fatal lethality. After entering for seventy or eighty steps, he can easily penetrate two layers of armor, causing the enemy's bones to break and tendons to break.

With the skillful three-stage shooting, coupled with the use of fixed-pack gunpowder, the loading speed has been increased by five or six times. The soldiers don’t have to worry about how much they are. Just bite the paper bag open and pour the pellet gunpowder into it, everything is done, and there is little residue, saving a lot of cleaning time.

Relying on technological innovation, a dense fire net was built, easily blocking the Qing army from fifty or sixty steps away. They had no chance to fire bows and arrows. The battlefield turned into a one-sided massacre. Amid the howlings of pain, the Qing army fell in large numbers, with broken limbs and broken arms, and corpses and seas of blood. In a blink of an eye, a large area was piled up.

The dazzling dark red made people's heart tighten. Bayan watched his subordinates being slaughtered from a distance, as if he had picked his heart. In the blink of an eye, hundreds of Qing troops were shot dead.

"Bastard! Bounce it for me!"

Bayan waved his saber and greeted all his subordinates around him, and rushed up together. This guy was like a gambler, eager to push forward and quickly turn the money.

Just as they were fighting hard, there was a row of side vans on the top of the mountain, blocking everyone's sight. At this time, side vans had quietly reached the hillside, connecting from beginning to end, forming a strong long dragon.

On the top of the mountain, a hundred tiger squatting cannons looked down at the prey below, revealing their most ferocious expression!

Gao Hongtu held the red flag tightly, his palms were sweating. This was the first time in the artillery battalion, and there was no mistake. Seeing that the Qing soldiers and horses were piled up and crowded together, the best time for attack had arrived.

"put!"

The fire flashed, the cannons were like thunder, and a hundred tiger squatting cannons roared together, and the earth was trembling. The Qing army didn't know what was going on, but the deadly shells came.

In order to pursue the best killing effect, all the grape bombs were used. One shell was shot out, just like a scattered flower of the heavenly girl, with a large area of ​​killing. More than a dozen Qing troops around were blown into pieces, leaving no living mouth.

The lethality of one hundred shells can be imagined. The most elite soldiers under Bayan were killed in an instant. This was not a war at all, but a giant hand falling from the sky, which directly flattened a piece of land.

The people and horses were blown into pieces, and various parts formed a flesh-and-blooded picture, which was particularly miserable and terrible. The Qing army, who escaped by luck, was already scared silly. They grew up their mouths and blood flowed out of their ears. They didn't believe that this would happen. Hundreds of elite soldiers disappeared in an instant!

"ah!"

The person who could not stand the blow screamed in panic and turned around and ran away. No one could restrain him. Even Bayan, who had always been extremely rampant, was frightened at this time. There was only blood red in front of him, and the Qing army, who had occasionally not died, was still struggling and howling.

In the deepest part of hell, in the sea of ​​corpses and blood, an evil ghost stretched out his bloody claws and howled desperately. Save me! Save me!

"Sir, retreat quickly!"

The subordinates grabbed Bayan's horse reins, retreated in a panic, and fled to the back in a mess.

Zu Kefa also saw Bayan who was so scared that he was demented. In fact, this was not the case in his heart. In his eyes, the Iron Cavalry of the Qing Dynasty was a symbol of invincibility, and the guns and cannons of the Han people were just some bluffing toys!

But the cruel reality made this traitor feel like he was struck by lightning. It turned out that firearms could be used like this!

"Sir, what should we do? Should we retreat?" the terrified subordinate asked quietly.

But Zu Kefa waved his hand and whipped his subordinate hard on the face, making a blood groove.

"Idiot, Anguo's army is not large. If you don't destroy them now, no matter where you run, you will be chased by them. Everyone obeyed my orders, the musketeers walked forward and shot against the Anguo army. The cavalry protruded from both wings and detoured to the side of Anguo army."

Zu Kefa said viciously: "Everyone remembers that either you die or I live. This battle will not eliminate Gu Zhenhua, and everyone will never have peace in the future. Do you want to follow the old path of Kong Youde?"
Chapter completed!