In Liuzhou, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the competition for Xiaobeishan Fortress lasted for fourteen days.

Xiaobei Mountain is the only highland near Liuzhou City, and it is the only channel connecting Liuzhou City and land. If you pull the cannons to the mountain, you can directly fire the cannons into the city. Before the war began, the Taiping Army built fortifications on Xiaobei Mountain, and dozens of cannons left in Liuzhou in Cannon Town were placed on the top of the mountain. The A Brigade of the Fourth Town, as the most elite brigade in the town, took on the important task of guarding Xiaobei Mountain.

At the beginning of the war, Xiaobeishan became the target of repeated struggles by the Qing army due to its geographical importance. In order to seize this high ground, the front Guoan continuously drove the surrendered army to launch a charge towards Xiaobeishan. Within fourteen days, a total of more than 3,000 troops were launched twice, and more than a thousand troops were attacked seven or eight times.

After a series of attacks, the A Brigade of the Fourth Town stationed in Xiaobeishan 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 controlled by the Taiping Army, while the Qing army, which had been fighting for half a month, stopped attacking, but did not retreat.

On the mountain road that is inclined by more than 40 degrees on Xiaobei Mountain, a large amount of wood is built on this mountain road, and both ends of the wood are pinned into the ground to fix it. Several iron cannons weighing thousands of pounds are being pushed up by human force on this mountain road. Dozens of Taiping soldiers were dragged on the front of each cannon with long ropes, and seven or eight men were blushing and pushing up with great difficulty. Last night, a heavy rain made the road muddy, making everyone on the mountain road splashed with mud.

At the end of the mountain road is the main slope of Xiaobei Mountain. In the south of the slope are huts made of thatch and branches. The Taiping Army soldiers who were rotated in front are resting in this hut. There are no beds in the house, but large pavilions. The ground is covered with thick hay and leaves, and the quilts are laid on it. Dozens of extremely tired Taiping soldiers are squeezed on it and sleeping. They are so tired that no one is willing to open their eyes even if the sky falls.

The air was filled with the fragrance of food, and the soldiers were making a pot of food, just to make a pot of hot food after waking up. Because the mountain was transporting cannons to the top of the mountain, hundreds of wounded people could only wait on the slope with the help of the civil servants. Only after the cannons were pulled up were carried down the mountain and sent into Liuzhou City. Each wounded person had to help two or three civil servants to take care of, and the civil servants were also tired.

On the east slope of Xiaobei Mountain, graves were piled up at some point, and soldiers buried under the graves were killed. On the north slope, copper and iron cannons lined up along the mountain, and solid iron balls were placed on both sides of the cannons in bamboo baskets. In the trenches under the ring fortifications, Taiping soldiers were leaning against either holding muskets, or holding spears and big swords.

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Xiaobeishan seemed like a giant armed to his teeth.

The quiet was broken after an hour. As the sound of horns sounded again in the Qing army camp, the soldiers of the Fourth Town and the Cannon Town, who were hurrying to rest, were once again involved in the tense battle.

The Qing army's offensive was obviously more fierce than before. With the sound of the trumpet, the Taiping Army soldiers from Xiaobeishan saw thousands of Qing troops coming out of the barracks.

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

The Taiping Army disagreed because the Qing army drove the people to carry mud and fill the ditch many times, but they failed every time. But this time, they were a little nervous because they found that the people who were driven over were so crowded that they could not see at a glance.

The frightened people were driven to Xiaobei Mountain in batches by the Qing army. Some of them dug soil, while others took sacks to collect soil. After the soil was full, they handed it over to those who wanted to rush up to fill the ditch.

"Prepare to fire!"

The artillery commander Niu Gensheng, who was born in the Han army flag, put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and shook his head. He was already numb. He could only be cruel to those people who were not counted as casualties, otherwise he would have fallen.

These days, life is not worth a lot.

The gun soldiers under the fortification at the fortification at the fortifications began to load the medicine and check the fuse under the command of the officer. No one believed that the people would fill the ditch, but there were too many people coming this time. The people who came like a tide really doubled the pressure in their hearts, making them numb and terrified.

"Roar up, throw the bag into the ditch and withdraw it immediately. If you don't want to die, you have to move quickly!"

The Qing army's cavalry rushed forward with sabers and drove the cannon fodder forward.

This time, not only the people moved forward, but also the Qing army carrying bows and arrows and muskets in the crowd.

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

The people were clamoring and making noises for ten miles. The Taiping Army was extremely quiet in the fortifications, and every movement and the other was quiet, which was very strange.

Finally, the people carrying the earth rushed to the trench, and then heard a cannon sound, and then countless cannon sounded. The roar of cannons covered the sound of the muskets. At this moment, all they heard in the ears was the sound of cannons, and nothing else.

Countless people driven by the Qing army were ruthlessly beaten to death by cannons. Iron balls sank and jumped in the dense crowds, carrying countless corpses and taking countless lives.

With the sound of the guns pulled by the thunderbolt, rows of people were hit by guns, fell to the ground, or fell into the ditch. However, the people behind were not afraid, and stomped on the bodies of the people in front of them and threw the sack full of soil into the ditch, and then ran to the road without turning their heads. Amid the roar, many people who were not injured by artillery and guns were pushed directly into the ditch by the people behind, and their bodies became part of the trench. When people were alive, they threw countless sacks on their heads and directly pressed him into the ditch.

The Taiping Army's gun soldiers only mechanically charged, ignited, and fired according to their daily training. They didn't even look at the people who were beaten to death because they dared not look at them.

The Qing army calculated the unimaginable fire density of the Taiping Army. They drove more people than before, just because the Taiping Army's guns and cannons were not enough to suppress the speed of filling the ditch.

The Qing cavalry in the rear supervising formation kept swinging their swords to kill the people who were frightened by cannons. Under the threat of their hideous swords, the people could only rush forward, hoping that the Bodhisattva could bless themselves from being hit by guns.

There have been no natural disasters in Guangxi these years. People can live a life, but there are no natural disasters, but military disasters. Like Guangdong, the neighboring province of Guangdong, the Ming and Qing dynasties fought back and forth in Guangxi, causing domestic production to be destroyed, the people's wives and children were separated, and the population plummeted. The near Liuzhou was even more likely to be numerable because the Qing army massacred the city in Liuzhou.
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