There is a pagoda built on the top of Linglong Mountain, called Longxiang Tower. From this tower overlooks the entire Sanjiangkou area, you can see the terrain. About two miles below the mountain is the official road. The official road passes through the north side of Linglong Mountain and winds for several miles.

Several flag bearers carried the flags of the steel knife camp and inserted them on a gentle slope in front of the stone tower, so that all the soldiers of Qiongzhou soldiers on the mountain could see them.

"The flag is there and the people are there, and no order is allowed. Those who take a step back will be killed!" Zhang Chaoyang, deputy to the Steel Knife Camp, issued a military order. He ordered the camp to be directly under the guards. After the war began, no matter who dared to cross the flag, those who took a step back will be killed.

You Dahai, behind the third village wall, looked up at the flag erected at the Longxiang Tower. When the Qing army arrived at Bachizhai, he received the news and redeployed the Linglong Mountain defense line. Considering that the Qing army did not have a navy division, he only deployed a spearmen infantry and a hundred gunners at the Mucheng on the Yongjiang River. All the remaining troops were transferred to Linglong Mountain by him. In other words, there are now 2,080 defenders in the Qiongzhou Army on Linglong Mountain, including two spearmen infantry, a sword and shield army, a archer infantry, a musket army, a 236 gunners and more than 200 personal soldiers.

As the second battalion established after the Qiongzhou Army was formed, in the past three months of defense in Nanning, it was barely considered a strong army that had been tested by blood and fire.

"Discover the Qing army!"

As the flags on the Dragon Elephant Tower shook, the flag bearers in the Ming army's defense line waved the flags in their hands one by one. In an instant, more than 2,000 Qiongzhou troops in the entire steel knife camp immediately stood up from the ground, as if a black dragon turned over. The soldiers immediately picked up the weapons in their hands, and at the call of the officer, they advanced forward, and then entered the circular fortification arranged in the middle of the foothills.

On the 19th, the Qing army's left army, Kang Diaoyuan, General of the Datong Green Camp, and Cheng Fuliang, General of the Henan Green Camp, arrived first at the foot of Linglong Mountain.

After discovering that the Qiongzhou army on the mountain was ready, Kang Diaoyuan did not dare to act rashly, but sent people to report to the central army.

At the moment of Si, the Qing Fuguo Gong Pingdu led the Manchu and Han army to arrive. After observing the terrain, Pingdu decided to attack the mountain. At around noon, the sound of war drums sounded on the north side of Linglong Mountain.

The steel knife camp set up defenses along the mountain, which made the Qing army forced to attack the mountain. The first one to dispatch was Cheng Fuliang's troops in the Henan Green Camp. The Qing Dynasty's auxiliary Duke also thought about this. The reason was that Cheng Fuliang had long suppressed bandits in the mountainous areas of Henan, and his Green Camp was quite familiar with mountain warfare.

At the beginning of the battle, Cheng Fuliang took out twelve points of his strength to attack the Ming army position of Linglongshan. The General Kang Tiaoyuan of Datong followed closely, and more than 7,000 battalions of soldiers divided into three formations amid the sound of the horns that shook the sky, and launched a fierce attack on the Linglongshan defense line.

"Open fire!"

After the Qing army arrived at the range of the first formation, the Archer Arctics and the Muskets Arctics, deployed behind the first village wall, launched a dense firepower against the Qing army attacking the mountain, and the crackling sound of muskets suddenly sounded.

The fifty cannons transported from Nanning City to Linglong Mountain were constantly bombarding the charge of Henan battalions. Although they were not very powerful, they successfully slowed down the attack speed of Henan Green Camp. In front of the formation, the Qing army continued to fall to the ground with guns and cannons.

Almost all the muskets and cannons used by the Qiongzhou Army were seized by girls from the Qing army. The quality was quite good. Moreover, after several months of combat and training, the muskets and gunners also mastered the three-stage shooting method. Therefore, since the Qing army launched an attack, the sound of the gun behind the first wall seemed to have not been cut off. The two-mile-long defense line was filled with smoke, as if Linglong Mountain was shrouded in black fog.

Faced with the Qing army's offensive, the spearmen and swords and shield soldiers in the defense line would naturally not be idle. They kept throwing rolling wood and rocks about a meter long from the village wall.

Since all the trees in front of the defense line were cut down, the Qing army that was burying the mountain could not find any cover, as the rolling wood and rocks rolled down from the mountain, many Qing army were either swept down by the rolling wood or smashed into blood and blood.

The Henan Green Camp, which could only be beaten passively but could not fight back, was only less than two quarters of an hour, and hundreds of casualties were killed or killed by the Qiongzhou army guarding the mountain.

Looking at the companions rolling and wailing on the hillside, and the battalions with broken arms and thighs, the Henan soldiers who attacked the mountain dared not forcefully attack the mountain. They became hesitant, and let Zhang Zhong, who was commanding in the front, boost morale. These Henan soldiers were like eggplants beaten by frost and lost the courage to attack.

"Fire the artillery and pass on the orders of this manchu, and let Cheng Fuliang and Kang Diaoyuan continue the attack. Aosa, you will bring five Niulu Manchu soldiers to supervise the battle. Anyone who dares to rush forward will be afraid of the thieves and avoids the war will be killed without mercy!"

The Linglong Mountain defenders had artillery, and the Qing army also had artillery. This time, Pingdu did not carry small cannons in Nanning, but the Red and Barbarian cannons were equipped with fifty cannons. Seeing that the Ming thieves in the Linglong Mountain defense line had strong firepower, and the Henan Green Camp, which was attacking the mountain, had begun to patrol, Pingdu also issued a military order to attack.

Fifty red cannons fired at the same time, with a shocking momentum. With only a few rounds of artillery bombardment, they smashed the wooden fences, earthen walls, and watchtowers built by the Qiongzhou Army at the foot of the mountain to the east and west, and it was a mess.

The Qiongzhou Army guarding the mountain did not expect that the Qing army would use powerful weapons such as the Red Cannon after the infantry encountered setbacks. After reacting, dozens of people had been killed or injured, they hid in the bunker to avoid the attack of artillery fire.

Seeing that the artillery fire was sharp, he saw the Manchu man wearing the banner of the blue flag appear at the foot of the mountain. The morale of the Henan Green Camp who was attacking the mountain was restored. Zhang Zhong took the opportunity to reorganize his troops and launched an offensive on the Qiongzhou Army Defense Line of Linglong Mountain.

The Qing army's gunmen and archers began to fire at the Qiongzhou army within the defense line two hundred steps away from the village wall. The Henan Green Camp, who had been suppressing thieves for many years in the Central Plains, not only had excellent shooting skills, but also had accurate and fierce guns. The Qiongzhou army guarding the village wall inevitably suffered certain casualties. Before many people could push down the rolling wood on the wall, they were hit by the flying guns and arrows.

"Spread bullets!"

Zheng Wang Si of the Blasting Soldiers of the Steel Knife Camp, who was born in the Dingbian Green Camp, ordered his subordinates to open fire, staring at the Henan camp soldiers who rushed up.

Although the Qing army's artillery fire was strong and the battalions' combat qualities were not bad, the Qiongzhou army, which was well-known in the territory, had obvious advantages in this offensive and defensive battle. Especially after the cannons deployed behind the defense line fired a shotgun, the dense rain of bullets hit the Qing army archers and musketeers who were wearing only the zither clothes were covered with corpses. Although the Qing army was wearing cotton armor, it could not stop the destruction of the artillery fire. The iron beads, leads and small stones that were flying in, made them unable to avoid it. Therefore, the death rate of the Qing army was also rising sharply.

Of course, the Qing army's artillery was also roaring constantly, and from time to time, cannons blasted into the Qiongzhou army's defense line, stirring up dust in the sky. As smoke and dust rose in the village wall, it was the painful howl of the Qiongzhou army in the defense line.
Chapter completed!