Zhao Xiaomei is much luckier than her parents and brothers. She did not die, but survived.

After controlling most of the hillside in the north of Xiaobei Mountain, the Qing army no longer drove the cannon fodder up the mountain, because the subsequent battles were no longer necessary for these poor cannon fodder to block the guns, nor did they need cannon fodder to tread the fortifications of the Taiping Army for them, and they would have to keep them in the way.

On the top of the mountain, the Ming army was still resisting, but the Qing army did not think that these remaining Ming army could save the situation without reinforcements. Their persistence was just because of fear.

The "hidden beasts still fight" line Guoan commented on the Taiping Army on Xiaobei Mountain with these four words.

The development of the war situation made the Guangxi Admiral very happy. He was happy that his patience in the past half month was not in vain. He was happy that he would defeat the Guangdong Ming army again and gain control of the highland north of Liuzhou City, so that he could gain more initiative in the subsequent war. Although the intensity of this war was far beyond his imagination and the cost of casualties was also high, as long as the Ming army in Liuzhou City could be successfully locked, the straight Guoan would not care how many people died. The person who died was not his headquarters.

Liuzhou City sent two groups of reinforcements to rescue Xiaobeishan. The first group was Brigade C led by Li Changrong, deputy general of the tenth town, and the second group was Brigade B of the fourth town and the Guangxi Xinyi Brigade adapted from the surrendered soldiers of the Qing army.

The combat effectiveness of the Brigade C led by Li Changrong was not high. The brigade was formerly a volunteer recruited by Guo Zhiqi, a Grand Secretary of the Pavilion, on the coast of Guangdong. Before entering Guangxi, he only fought several small-scale battles with the Qing army's green camp garrisons on the coast. He had never had the experience of fighting with the cavalry. In addition, his weapons and equipment were much worse than those of the old four towns of the Taiping Army. Therefore, no matter how Li Changrong supervised and issued strict orders, the Brigade C could not break through the interception of the Qing army's cavalry, but instead suffered heavy losses and finally had to retreat to Liuzhou City.

The unconventional interception of the Qing cavalry made Shao Jiugong realize that the war in Xiaobeishan must have reached a critical moment. It is very likely that the defenders on the mountain could no longer hold on, and even the ultimate goal of Guoan was not Liuzhou City, but Xiaobeishan. So he stopped hesitating and immediately sent the B Brigade and Xinyi Brigade of the Fourth Town of the headquarters to reinforce Xiaobeishan.

The second brigade had nearly 6,000 soldiers. Although the B Brigade of the Fourth Town had not participated in the Chaohui War, it was also a powerful brigade that had experienced the battle between Shenwan and Guangzhou. Both the strength and equipment were not comparable to ordinary Qing troops. Although the new brigade was adapted from the surrendered troops, the officers were all drawn from the Taiping Army. Even though they had just been formed, those surrendered troops were all Green Camp soldiers before, and they were still somewhat capable of fighting. Therefore, Shao Jiugong was confident in this reinforcement and believed that the Qing army could not intercept it.

After the two brigades left the city, the deputy general of the Fourth Town was Wang Youxi. After the army left the city, Wang Youxi took Brigade B as the vanguard and concentrated the firearms and soldiers of the entire brigade forward. Sure enough, the Qing cavalry did not dare to intercept them and retreated step by step. After leaving the city, Brigade B advanced more than four miles, which was within reach of Xiaobei Mountain.

But then, Wang Youxi found that he could not move forward. The Qing army transferred a large number of artillery, and the Taiping Army, without the cover of artillery soldiers on Xiaobei Mountain, could only passively withstand the attack of Qing army artillery fire. It would be fine if it was just artillery fire, but if the casualties were greater, they could always rush up the mountain. The problem was that the Qing army actually had a large number of firearms, and its tactics were so similar to the tactics of its own firearms. At a glance, I thought that the firearms on the opposite side were trained according to the Taiping Army's infantry exercises.

Wang Youxi organized several attacks, but was repelled by Qing munitions, cannons, guns and cavalry. Brigade B, who served as the vanguard, suffered a great loss, but no one retreated from top to bottom. Under the leadership of the officers, the New First Brigade also rushed up to reinforce Brigade B, and the two sides fought fiercely at a distance of only two or three miles away from Xiaobei Mountain.

As for the damage to the war, the Taiping Army suffered a lot of casualties, but the Qing army suffered a lot of casualties. However, in terms of mentality, the Taiping Army became more and more frightened and anxious as the battle fought. The Qing army was extremely relaxed because they only needed to stop the Taiping Army, while the Taiping Army had to break through the opponent's interception and attack Xiaobei Mountain. If reinforcements cannot go up the mountain, this battle is meaningless and it is failure.

Wang Youxi's voice was hoarse, and the smoke of gunpowder made him cry, but he didn't care about taking a breath or drinking water, because he knew that the defenders on Xiaobei Mountain could not give him too much time. If he could not break through the Qing army in front of him as soon as possible, the fall of Xiaobei Mountain could happen at any time.

I have rushed to the foot of Xiaobei Mountain, so there is no reason why I can't rush up!

Wang Youxi gritted his teeth and shouted orders, so that the troops could be dispersed as much as possible. The soldiers injured by cannons could not care about it. The only way now is to rush up the mountain with casualties.

But he could not have imagined that the Qing army's artillery was so fast that the formation would disperse the generals, and their artillery fired again. This time the confrontation was dispersed a lot, but there were also many shells fired from the opposite side, and there were still quite a few casualties. A wave of shells came over, dozens of iron balls of large and small hit the formation, and blood and flesh flew across the formation, and broken hands and feet. The officers at all levels were not frightened by the Qing army, nor were they fleeing in a hurry, but tried their best to control the formation and continue to move forward.

When the war reached this critical moment, everyone knew what retreat meant, but the Qing cavalry wanted them to collapse on their own!

Zhao Xiaomei, who survived the disaster, was covered in blood, and had wounds on her body and legs. Like other women, she was not at all happy or excited to survive, and was still mechanically driven from here by the Qing soldiers as before.

Just like being driven out of the military camp towards the mountain, when she went down the mountain, Zhao Xiaomei was still twitching. Suddenly, she saw a group of Qing soldiers no longer rushing up the mountain, but scrambling to cut something among a pile of corpses. That look was like cutting melons in a melon field.

The little sister was stunned for a moment, not understanding what the Qing soldiers were cutting on the corpses, but she soon discovered what the Qing soldiers were doing. They were cutting down the corpses and cutting down the heads of the Ming soldiers without braids. The little sister was so scared that she closed her eyes. Even if the Qing soldiers killed dead heads, it made her feel particularly terrifying.

The Qing soldiers who were fighting to beheaded were very happy and crazy, and even had disputes over the ownership of a head. They had to argue because the heads of the Ming army meant whether they were brave in fighting and whether they were desperate. More importantly, these heads could be used to accumulate merits and reward silver. Those who were fighting to grab the heads were all the green camp soldiers adapted from the Ming army, and few Han troops participated.

On a hillside with sparse trees, a sign was erected with three big words "Reward Place" written on it. Mr. Qian, Liu Qi, was responsible for checking the heads of the people, and several generals were taking a group of people to record, and someone was specifically paying the money.

There was a long queue in front of the reward area, some carrying a bunch of heads, some loading them in baskets, and some carrying them on the tip of the gun. Those bloody, grimacing and terrifying heads were as ordinary as big radishes in the hands of soldiers, which really made Zhao Xiaomei in the distance feel creepy.

After Liu Qidian checked the head of a soldier's basket, he asked the man what his name was?

"The little one is called Xia Dabao!"

"I remember, Xia Dabao, two first-level figures, one for the Thousand General Officer."

Liu Qi nodded and then someone sang a promise: "Xia Dabao, two heads, one thousand yuan per head. Twenty taels of silver rewarded"

Xia Dabao happily took the silver reward into his pocket, then pulled a handful of grass, wiped the blood on his body hard, took a pot of arrows and walked up the mountain, and he wanted to earn more silver reward for himself.

"The headmaster said that the Grandmaster was the reincarnation of Grandpa Yue. The Tartars were afraid when they saw our Grandma Yue's soldiers. The Grandmaster also blessed us. The Tartars' sword would not kill us! In the future, our Luo Cult will be the national religion, and our Luo Cult will all enter the National Martyrs' Temple."

The 19-year-old Xiangshan soldier Sun Zheng's eyes were closed tightly. He did not dare to open his eyes because he was afraid of seeing him pierced by the Qing soldiers with a spear. However, he was not afraid of death. He wanted to do his duties and he had to fulfill his mission. Even if he died, he would die like a grandfather's soldier.

Sun Zheng's body was picked up by three Qing soldiers with spears. The remaining consciousness made him murmur and cry out to his mother who loved her the most. Tears at the corners of his eyes slowly fell, and his young face turned pale due to excessive blood loss.

He looked at the three Qing Yao below with contempt and tried to struggle to show his indomitableness and anger, but his body seemed to be cramping, and his hands and feet were twitching constantly. The hands and feet seemed to be no longer their own, and he would not move no matter how hard he tried. The spear in his chest pierced the lung leaves, causing bubbles to emerge from his throat, accompanied by blood to form one blood bubble after another at the mouth. Under the direct sunlight, the blood bubbles instantly became very bright and colorful, like the rainbow in the sky after heavy rain.

The Liuzhou city wall in the distance suddenly became very huge, as big as the sky and the earth were connected with it, black and terrifying as if the top of the dark clouds.

"His grandma's dead demon."

After whispering Qing Yao's swear words, Sun Zheng smiled strangely, and his smile stopped forever on his young face.

Wu Mazi pushed the spear forward, and the two nailed Qing soldiers fell backwards. On the slope, dozens of Qing soldiers fled down. They ran very fast, fearing that they were caught up by the Taiping Army behind. However, there were no pursuers behind them. The Taiping Army was exhausted and exhausted, and it was impossible for them to chase the Qing soldiers again.

On the small slope, hundreds of Qing soldiers fell to the ground, with great results, but Wu Mazi was not excited or excited at all, because he saw that as the Qing soldiers who rushed up the top of the slope retreated, more Qing soldiers rushed up below the slope. There were only three or four hundred people left by his side.

Looking at these remaining subordinates, Wu Mazi felt very moved. These soldiers were all good, they were brave soldiers. He was not like them back then. Speaking of which, he seemed to be very greedy for life and fear of death.
Chapter completed!