The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 48 Who says our Qing Dynasty double-lance soldiers can't fight? (Read more, please read more!)
More than two hundred female Taiping rebels, dozens of carts of valuables, and one Su Sanniang!

After listening to his subordinates' report, Yu Wanqing's eyes suddenly lit up.

He had more than 2,000 men under his command, all of them grown men. How could he not be able to defeat Su Sanniang's 200-plus female soldiers? Even if the other side had 1,000 female soldiers, his Qing soldiers, as long as they were full of foreign cigarettes, could defeat them with a single charge!

They are the Qing Dynasty's heavenly soldiers. Even if they cannot defeat the British, they are just long-haired men. Can't they defeat a group of Guangxi women?
In addition, Su Sanniang's men were also carrying dozens of carts of valuables. They should have been looted from the village ahead. Although the quantity might not be large, it could at least boost morale.

And there are more in Etang Town ahead!

Money, women, and opium. Those are the three treasures that boost the morale of the Qing Dynasty's soldiers!

It would be even better if we could capture Su Sanniang alive, because she is a famous beautiful thief in the underworld of Guangdong and Guangxi, the leader of Guangyi Hall of Tiandihui, and a master of martial arts. A beautiful woman practicing martial arts, that would be great!
He was just thinking about good things when the two thousand Green Camp soldiers below him started shouting.

"General Yu, give the order!"

"General Yu, lead us to rob money! Rob women!"

"General Yu, don't let Su Sanniang get away."

Yu Wanqing laughed, stroked his gray beard, and said in a loud voice: "Alright, stop making noise, go into the village first, and smoke as much as you want. Don't come back to the battlefield and get addicted to smoking!"

After that, he waved to Huang Shijie, who was frowning beside him, and said, "Ziying, tell your men to follow me and set up a battlefront in the front. Once my elite troops have smoked enough foreign cigarettes, we can take down those female Tai Maos with one charge!"

Yu Wanqing, with a group of "double-gun soldiers", is really confident!
But his confidence was not without reason, his "double-gun soldier" could still fight, but he had to take advantage of the smoke - that is, after smoking a lot of foreign cigarettes, he would rush forward when the smoke was in his head!
At this time, Yu Wanqing's "double-gun soldiers" were all in a state of "numbing", and were "not afraid of death"!
However, this "smoking narcotics" state is difficult to sustain. Once the effect of the smoke wears off, you will return to your daily state of "upper, middle and lower courage".

This state of "smoking a lot of foreign cigarettes, and feeling like a worm when the smoke wears off" is not unique to the Green Camp soldiers under Yu Wanqing, but is the norm for most of the Green Camp soldiers.

This is why in history, even when the Green Camp soldiers faced the Taiping Army at its peak, they were not always the "three braves of upper, middle and lower ranks", but sometimes they could fight brilliantly - that was because they were "smoking mahjong"!

"Understood sir!" Huang Shijie knew about the Green Camp soldiers' love for smoking, so he immediately called on his militia to cover the Qing soldiers in "smoking foreign cigarettes on the battlefield."

When Huang Shijie led his troops through the village, the open space in the village was already full of "heavenly soldiers" lighting their pipes. Huang Shijie's family business also traded foreign cigarettes, and at this time he remembered that there was still a lot of opium stored in the warehouse of the Huang family mansion in Etang Town!

So he shouted to the "heavenly soldiers" who were enjoying themselves, "My fellow soldiers, smoke more. Don't forget that there are still 200 boxes of East India Company's foreign cigarettes stored in the Huang family mansion in Etang Town. I will give them to you when the time comes! Plenty of foreign cigarettes!"

Plenty of foreign cigarettes! Now Yu Wanqing's "foreign cigarette elite soldiers" were more motivated, and the village was filled with cheerful voices.

"Thank you, Mr. Huang, for the reward!"

"Master Huang, don't worry, we can't beat women even if we smoke enough foreign cigarettes."

Yu Wanqing himself doesn't smoke foreign cigarettes. The old man is in good health, and his clothes are muscular. He doesn't allow him to smoke either. Those people are his disciples who have been trained since they were young, and each of them has good skills - don't smoke foreign cigarettes, practice good skills, so that Yu Wanqing can escape at the critical moment!
Otherwise, if I get high while running for my life, can I ask the enemy to pause for a moment so that I can take a breath and then continue running? This is impossible!

So while his "elite soldiers" were having fun, Yu Wanqing, under the protection of his subordinate Goshaha, crossed the village and reached the front line.

At this time, the two sides had not yet officially started fighting, and both were busy setting up their positions and deploying their troops.

It seemed that the Taiping Regiment also came out from the distant Etang Town. They were all female soldiers in red, holding red flags, and shouting slogans as they marched: "Kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven!"

Judging from the sound, they are obviously all female soldiers, and there are probably seven or eight hundred of them!

These reinforcements are all female, which should prove that there are really no male longhairs in Etang Town. Yu Wanqing is even more proud now. It would be great if all the female longhairs come out. Then his people will smoke enough foreign cigarettes and rush forward to attack. There is no fear of losing!

Just as the female Taimao soldiers in Etang Town rushed to the front line, the Taimao female soldiers in the north of the village had already started to build fortifications. They laid down dozens of carts - those donkey carts, but the donkeys had been pulled away, leaving only the carts - in a straight line. They also took down the boxes and bags on the carts and piled them on both sides of the "car array", and built a simple defense line in a hasty manner.

Soon after, muskets and flintlock rifles were placed on carts, boxes and bags, and they looked quite realistic.

The 200-man militia led by Huang Shijie, with the assistance of General Zhang Dingxiang, had formed a horizontal line and marched to within eighty steps of the female leader's "box car defense line".

With the support of the "Qing Dynasty's tobacco soldiers", their courage grew!
Admiral Yu, who was watching the battle from behind, took out a telescope. Before he began to look carefully, he heard a gunshot from the opposite side, and immediately one of Huang Shijie's militiamen fell down!
This shooting skill is too accurate, isn’t it?
Yu Wanqing quickly raised his telescope and looked around, just in time to see a cluster of white smoke rising from the female Taimao's position. Then he heard a crisp gunshot and an extremely miserable scream!
Hit another one?
Is there a sharpshooter among the female long-haired girls?
Yu Wanqing looked again and saw a tall and very pretty young female long-haired man standing on a high place. She took a "shotgun" from another female long-haired man next to her, raised it and took aim. There was another cluster of white smoke coming out of the muzzle, followed by a crisp sound.

Yu Wanqing put down the telescope again and looked at Huang Shijie's militiamen, and found that another person was falling to the ground!

Three shots fired at three people, but they were still eighty steps away!
This long-haired girl is amazing!
Yu Wanqing thought to himself: Fortunately, I was smart enough and didn’t rush up to act like Baturu!

As he was thinking, two more gunshots were heard in the front, and two of Huang Shijie's militiamen fell down one after another!

Yu Wanqing raised the telescope and looked again, and found that next to the tall and pretty female long-haired woman there was another even more beautiful female long-haired woman, who seemed to be Su Sanniang, and was also changing guns!
"It's really hot!" Yu Wanqing took a breath of cool air, and then muttered: "It feels good."

At this time, Yu Wanqing's Green Camp soldiers, who had already smoked enough foreign cigarettes, came up in groups and began to line up behind the soldiers who were being shot. Two more of the Huang family soldiers in the front were knocked down, and soon seven of them had fallen!
There were several more female long-haired women participating in the sniper operation. They all stood with Su Sanniang and fiddled with the rifles in their hands.

At the same time, the female long-haired people who ran out of Etang Town have also arrived in place and are lining up, ready to charge.

This won't work. If Su Sanniang and her gang knock down a dozen more soldiers, Huang Shijie's army will surely collapse, and then the group of female long-haired men will take the opportunity to charge forward.
Thinking of this, Yu Wanqing called out loudly: "Old Wu! Old Wu!"

"I'm here!" Lieutenant General Wu Shibin immediately rode forward.

Yu Wanqing raised the whip in his hand, pointed at the female long-haired men who were lining up in front, and said to Wu Shibin, "Old Wu, tell your men to stop sucking and come up quickly!"

"But they are still full!" Wu Shibin shouted, "They can't last long if they only suck half of it. How about sending some musketeers up to fight those long-haired women?"

"clap clap"

There was another burst of gunfire in the front, and five or six of Huang Shijie's militiamen fell down. The remaining militiamen were already a little loose and were about to collapse.

"We can't rely on musketeers alone. Their marksmanship is terrible!" Yu Wanqing knew the character of his musketeers very well. "Hurry up and tell the brothers to come up and tell them that there are thousands of long-haired women outside the village, and dozens of carts of valuables. If you come too late, you won't be able to rob them!"

"twitter!"

"Robbery! Robbing women!"

"General Yu has issued an order that except for Su Sanniang, the rest of the female long-haired girls will belong to whoever gets them!"

"Grab! Charge!"

The shouts of "Smoke!" soon resounded throughout the battlefield outside Etang Town. Nearly two thousand Qing soldiers, who were full of foreign cigarettes, fell into madness almost instantly under the triple stimulation of foreign cigarettes, silver, and women!

　At this critical moment, please read this and don’t give up!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)