After the civilians quickly eliminated the mines buried by the Taiping Army by excavation and ignition, they carefully confirmed that there were no omissions. Then Wu Chaoyue led the army to the open area that was most suitable for the Wu army to exert linear tactic power, so that the new Hubei army of the two battalions were in front, and the two battalions were arranged on both sides. Wu Chaoyue personally led the main camp in the center, and the Qing army green camp soldiers in the two battalions were behind, and immediately built fortifications in the rear to protect the Taiping army from suddenly breaking out in the brisk mountains and forests behind.

The remaining artillery battalions were of course used by Wu Chaoyue to disperse the artillery. Some of them were in front of them to arrange artillery, and the twenty breech guns brought by the army were lined up, aiming the muzzles at the enemy camp in the south, and the other part protected ammunition and ten mortar cannons were dispersed on the second line to avoid being gradually expelled by the Taiping Army's black gunpowder and flowering artillery shells.

During this period, the Taiping Army artillery, which had not learned enough, couldn't wait to take the initiative to bloom, trying to disrupt the Wu army's artillery arrangement and seize the initiative. As a result, the result was very little, and the location of the artillery position was immediately exposed. The experienced Wu army artillery battalion veterans immediately measured the distance through triangular positioning and clock method, adjusted the artillery ruler to the correct position, and quickly arranged the breech gun.

When the artillery was in place, news came from the fast horses from the Wuwangmiao camp that the Taiping Navy suddenly crossed the Yangtze River again and was heading towards the Wuwangmiao camp with empty troops. It was very likely that it would land on the attack camp. At the same time, the Taiping Army also divided a large number of fast ships to attack the Wu army's iron cable defense line, and the Wu army navy had already left the port to prepare for the battle.

Wu Chaoyue, who was mentally prepared, ignored the news at all. He waved his hand and ordered to continue to explore and sent the scouts away. Qian Wei, the artillery battalion officer of the Wu army, also ran to Wu Chaoyue, clasped his fists and was about to ask for an order to fire the artillery, but he never thought that two thick arrows flew out of the Taiping Army camp, and roared and smashed half a mile in front of the Wu army's artillery position with white smoke, which shocked Qian Wei, Zhao Liewen and other Wu army civil and military officials. Among them, Feng Sanbao, a native bun, also exclaimed: "What is that?"

"Congrive Rockets." Wu Chaoyue replied lightly: "The British used them during the Opium War. During the negotiations, the British representative Elliot sent two to Qishan. Later, firearm craftsmen in China imitated them. There were a small amount of equipment among the navy on the southeast coast. But I didn't expect that Changhai could learn this thing."

"Weiting, since you know so well this kind of weapon, why don't you build a few for use?" Zhao Liewen asked curiously.

Wu Chaoyue smiled and said to the original rocket launcher flying out of the Taiping Military Camp. As a result, Zhao Liewen and others couldn't help laughing when they looked closely. It turned out that after the Taiping Army used a large number of Kangliff rockets introduced to China in the early 1840s, those primitive rockets immediately exposed their huge weaknesses of inaccuracy, and their range was even more unstable. There were very few rockets that could hit the Wu army's position. Several of them were roaring and turning around in the air and exploded into the Taiping Military Camp.

"See, this is why I refuse to imitate it." Wu Chaoyue smiled bitterly and said: "This kind of rocket was improved by foreigners in the past few years. Three spiral stabilization plates were added, and the accuracy was greatly improved. There will be no jokes about shooting and hitting it back. However, the production process requirements are too high. Our Shanghai Arsenal has been imitated many times but failed. In addition, the grenade launcher was successfully developed, so I gave up completely."

"Master Futai, this kind of rocket is used to burn the enemy's ships in water battles. "Shao Yanxuan, who has not performed well after entering Wu Chaoyue's shogunate, volunteered and said: "If you don't let the villain lead some craftsmen to try to imitate it. If the foreigners' improved rockets can be successfully imitated, it will definitely be useful for you to imitate it."

"Okay, after fighting this battle, I will let Huang Sheng give you the materials and sample materials and let you try to imitate them." Wu Chaoyue agreed and ordered Qian Wei: "Don't be stunned. You artillery battalion officer can't just stand and get beaten and fight back, right? Go, fire the cannon, let Shi Da open the local bun and see what is the most advanced artillery in the world and the most violent firepower."

Qian Wei clasped his fists and sang loudly, ran back and ordered the firing. Then, when twenty Wu army rifled guns were roaring neatly, the frontal battle between the little comprador Wu Chaoyue and the young hero Shi Dakai finally officially began.

The artillery of the Taiping Army kept roaring and roaring, bombing a large number of solid shells and a small number of flowering shells into the Wu army's positions. The original Kangliff rockets kept roaring and flying in the sky, carrying thin copper blasting tubes constantly exploded, making loud noises of varying sizes. However, compared with the explosion of the Wu army's bitter sour shells, these sounds were as light as mosquitoes. Each bitter sour shell blasted into the Taiping Army camp, and it would instantly burst into earth-shaking thunder. The shrapnel flew across the sky, making the fires so powerful that it was so powerful that every explosion could take away the precious lives of the surrounding Taiping Army soldiers, and every explosion would trigger a sky-high fire in the Taiping Army camp.

The first to be hit was of course the Taiping Army's artillery. Although the precision of the rifled cannons in this era was far less than that of the later rifled cannons, it also left behind the Taiping Army's smoothbore cannons in more than eight streets. In the first round of artillery attacks alone, six Taiping Army artillery was accurately hit by the Wu army. The explosion of the bitter sour shells triggered the Taiping Army artillery and powder kegs to explode. Wherever the two huge forces were connected, any Taiping soldiers affected were either crushed to pieces and died without a complete body, or had blood sprayed on their mouths and noses, and their internal organs were broken and tragic.

The wooden fence defense line quickly ignited a fire, and flammable materials such as military tents, vehicles, mail towers and flags in the camp also blew up black smoke. In the thick smoke of fire, the artillery exposed by the Taiping Army seemed to be named, and one by one was removed by the Wu army cannons one by one. While the Taiping Army soldiers gradually looked like earth-like, Shi Dakai, Hu Yihuang and Zhang Suimu and other civil and military generals of the Taiping Army gradually turned pale and finally understood one thing that Lin Fengxiang introduced before them was not deliberately exaggerated, but should have deliberately belittled and contempt!

After quickly removing the exposed artillery of the Taiping Army, Wu Chaoyue gave another order, and the Wu army's artillery immediately concentrated its firepower and blew the north gate of the Taiping Army's camp. The Taiping Army's battalion gate was made of good pine wood, so strong that it was difficult to cut off even an axe. However, in front of the bitter sour shells, the solid battalion gate was as fragile as paper. The Wu army's artillery fired in one round, and the north gate of the Taiping Army's camp and the horizontal tower on the camp gate were directly bombarded into wood chips. The Taiping Army soldiers hiding on the horizontal tower were all blown away and were all blown away and killed. The fences on both sides of the camp gate were also broken and burned in large quantities. Only the sheep and horse wall built by the Taiping Army overnight could barely remain intact. Even if it was collapsed, it could still play a role in defending the enemy.

Seeing this scene, Shi Dakai's face was of course even more pale. However, Wu Chaoyue decisively ordered the stop of firing, called Huang Weijie, the newly promoted battalion officer after coming to Hubei, whispered a few instructions to him, and sent someone to send orders to Qian Wei, asking Qian Wei to quickly adjust the corner of the gun to wait for the firing order.

When he saw a new Hubei army in a battalion attacking, lined up in neatly and horizontal lines towards the camp gate that had been directly smashed, Shi Dakai, who had always looked very ugly, was stunned at first, and then immediately showed joy. He knew that Wu Chaoyue underestimated the enemy and wanted to enter the camp immediately, but he didn't think about it and let the Taiping Army soldiers hiding behind to avoid bullets charge forward, seize the fortifications in the camp and strengthen the sheep and horse wall defense line to prepare for the battle.

Next, Shi Dakai, who thought Wu Chaoyue underestimated the enemy, almost got angry. When Huang Weijie led a battalion of Hubei New Army to a position that was only about a mile away from the Taiping Army camp, Huang Weijie ordered the Hubei New Army to stop advancing and squatted down. Then before Shi Dakai and the Taiping Army soldiers figured out what was going on, the Wu army's breech guns roared again, and shot the shells as much as possible to the two roads in the Taiping Army camp.

On the side, while the bitter sour shells exploded violently, the Taiping Army soldiers hiding behind the bunker, the sand and stone carts and sheep and horse walls did not even have time to scream, and were immediately blown to death and even suffocated to death. Many Taiping Army soldiers on their bodies screamed and rushed out of the hidden place, running around and rolling around. As a result, not only did they fail to extinguish the bitter sour flames on their bodies, but on the contrary, they ignited more camp tents, adding more chaos and fire points to the Taiping Army camp.

When the Wu army's artillery continued to roar, Huang Weijie's army had already seized the time to use a small shovel to dig up individual bunkers in front of the position and on both wings. At the same time, the Wu army's mortar cannon, who had been hiding on the second line, also extended its position under the push of the artillery battalion soldiers and quickly rushed forward to meet Huang Weijie's army. Seeing this in the telescope, although Shi Dakai didn't understand why Wu Chaoyue had not used these monster cannons before, just seeing the terrifying caliber of the mortar cannon, Shi Dakai understood that the power of the shells of this weapon must be even more extraordinary.

"Does the troops send a counterattack?"

When this thought flashed through Shi Dakai's mind, Hu Yihuang next to him could not wait to shout: "The Wing King is five thousand years old, don't just be beaten and fight back. You have to send an army to rush forward, otherwise if we continue like this, our right camp will be broken in no time!"

Shi Dakai didn't say anything, but glanced out of the corner of his eyes at the main gate of the Taiping Army Camp of Zuoying. The Zuoying faced the Yangtze River and was the least likely to be attacked by the enemy, and it was suitable to mobilize troops to go out to fight. After a little calculation, Shi Dakai immediately ordered: "Send an order to Chen Yucheng, ask him to lead the troops in the camp to fight, and attack the flanks of the Qing Yao Front Army in a roundabout way!"

"Wing King Five Thousand Years Old, are you thinking about it?" Zeng Jinqian next to him quickly reminded: "As soon as Chen Yucheng attacks, his fraudulent surrender will be exposed immediately. If he surpasses the little demon, he will not be determined to attack our camp to the end."

"Mr. Jinqian, do you know what I regret most now?" Shi Dakai replied with a wry smile: "What I regret most now is that I should not use a trick to surrender the little demon to attack our camp! If I had known that the cannon of the little demon was so powerful, I would not have fought a head-on battle with him on land!"

Zeng Jinqian closed his mouth in shame. While Shi Dakai repeated the orders, he sent someone to order the navy to ask the Taiping Navy to attack the main camp and the iron cable defense line at any cost, and surrounded Wei and rescue Zhao to share the pressure here. At the same time, Shi Dakai couldn't help but have such an idea, "I hope to surpass the little demon to see Chen Yucheng surrender and retreat on his own, otherwise I wouldn't be sure of this battle."

The order was sent to the Zuoying camp. Chen Yucheng, who had already gathered the Hou's orders, did not hesitate. He immediately took his troops out of the camp and rushed to the west to the right to join the battle. Ding Ruchang, a subordinate of Chen Yucheng, certainly followed him to the battle. However, Ding Ruchang, who was usually extremely excited when encountering the war, was no longer so excited this time. On the contrary, what flashed in front of him was the precious pistol full of commemorative significance given to him by Wu Chaoyue. What echoed in his ears was also the roar of his fellow villager Liu Mingchuan, "Twenty taels of silver? Twenty taels of silver will snatch the things you exchanged for your life, Brother Ding? Brother Ding, is your life only worth twenty taels of silver?"

"I followed the wrong person." Ding Ruchang couldn't help but whisper in his heart.

When he saw Chen Yucheng leading his army to attack the flanks of his front army, Wu Chaoyue, who had some hope, was of course disappointed and smiled bitterly, but Wu Chaoyue was not angry, and said in his heart: "I don't want to follow me, but you should also be more arrogant. Don't die here. Kill more Qing parasites for me in the future, even if I am worthy of me."

It was also time to fight in formation. Shi Dakai, who had not fought with Wu Chaoyue before, truly understood how big the gap between his own weapons and equipment and tactical discipline. Facing the elite army of Chen Yucheng who was rushing towards him with murderous intent, the Hubei New Army led by Huang Weijie was calm and calmly lined up a hollow hedgehog formation to protect the ten mortar cannons into the formation. Then, it was not until Chen Yucheng's army entered fifty steps that the Wu army soldiers fired together, and the continuous firepower dropped the Taiping soldiers in rows like cutting wheat. At the same time, grenade launchers flew out from the Wu army from time to time, and attacked into the dense areas of Taiping soldiers one after another, killing and injuring the Taiping soldiers in groups. The Taiping soldiers screamed and screamed in a row, and quickly became a chaotic group.

During this period, of course, some Taiping soldiers who were fearless and fearless were lucky enough to kill the Wu army. Then they could not even find the opportunity to fight for bayonets. They were immediately knocked down by revolvers generally equipped by grassroots generals of the Wu army. Several people who were closer were directly welcomed by grenade bombs and fell to the ground screaming in the explosion, either dead or injured.

The disheartened Ding Ruchang was ordered to launch the second round of charge this time, but he did not lead the way like before. Ding Ruchang subconsciously stopped as soon as he was hit by a painful attack. As a result, Chen Yucheng scolded and scolded, "Ding Ruchang, are you scared? Why don't you rush? Just grow eggs and put them on me!"

In helplessness, Ding Ruchang could only barely lead the second team to fight against the Wu army. Fortunately, before he could get angry with the Wu army, the first team that had previously charged could no longer withstand the firepower of the Wu army and fled back, causing Ding Ruchang's team to disrupt Ding Ruchang's team. When Ding Ruchang was forced to order to stop moving forward and reorganize the team, he never expected that the several artillery pieces arranged by the Wu army on the left wing suddenly opened fire together, and the shells shot into the crowd of Chen Yucheng's brigade. Unexpectedly, Chen Yucheng's army could adjust the artillery position so quickly, and there were many soldiers leaving the team and fleeing.

Chen Yucheng's situation became extremely embarrassing. He could not rush to the hollow hedgehog formation of the Wu army's front army, and he did not dare to attack the neat formation of the main force of the Wu army. He stayed there and was only being beaten by cannons. He could not help but stand in the three difficulties of advancing and retreating. The embarrassing situation made the future famous general Chen Yucheng completely at a loss.

Fortunately, Shi Dakai didn't want Chen Yucheng's army to die in vain. Seeing that the situation was wrong, he quickly made up his mind and ordered Chen Yucheng's army to withdraw to the northeast corner outside the rear camp, and also asked Chen Yucheng to decide the opportunity to attack again. Chen Yucheng then breathed a sigh of relief and quickly took his subordinates to move to the safety. Ding Ruchang turned around in three steps, constantly looking at Wu Chaoyue's handsome flag, and said in his heart: "You must be disappointed, right? You must hate me too?"

Without the enemy's interference and destruction, Wu Jun's mortar cannon finally got the opportunity to show off his power. With a loud bang, a huge shell was parabola and a focus on attacking the Taiping Army's Sheep and Horse Wall defense line. The Taiping Army's soldiers who had never seen shells turn in the air cried behind the Sheep and Horse Wall crying and shaking the sky. They were bombed and killed and injured and fled continuously. The Sheep and Horse Wall defense line, which should have effectively restrained the Wu army's rapid shooting needle gun, gradually became useless.

About half an hour later, the Wu army's mortar cannon successfully destroyed a large area of ​​sheep and horse wall positions near the north gate of the Taiping Army camp, opening a large area of ​​entry for the Wu army. Only then did Wu Chaoyue order his father-in-law Feng Sanbao to lead the special camp, which is good at street fighting and close combat, to attack and capture the Taiping Army's Beiying Camp. During this period, the Wu army's breech guns and mortar cannons continued to shoot into the interior of the Taiping Army's northern camp, reducing the pressure for Feng Sanbao's army to attack.

At the critical moment when deciding the direction of the war, Shi Dakai, who had always had a gloomy face, finally received very important good news. Under the leadership of the Taiping Army's strong general Lin Qirong, after a hard battle of life, the navy soldiers of the Taiping Army who were landing in the battle finally took down the Wu Wang Temple Fort!

"Okay! Go and send an order to Lai Guiying, who is guarding the Northern Camp, telling him that we have taken down the Wuwang Temple Fortress of Qing Yao! The rear of the little demon is about to be anxious! He told him to defend the Northern Camp no matter what, Qing Yao will immediately withdraw his troops!"

After sending someone to pass the order to Lai Guiying in joy, Shi Dakai remembered the navy messenger who had reported the message and asked: "After Lin Qirong took the fort, did he immediately fire the Qing Yao camp?"

"The King of Wings is five thousand years old, and there is no way to fire the artillery." The messenger replied with a sad face: "Before evacuating the fort, Qing Yao threw all the shells into the Yangtze River, and then poured all the gunpowder down the fort to ignite. Our shells are different from the shells of Qing Yao artillery, so..."

At this moment, the artillery fire of the Wu army that had been raging before finally weakened, leaving only the mortar cannons still roaring occasionally, while the breech cannons temporarily stopped cooling down. Instead, they were the charge shouts of Feng Sanbao's troops of Wu army, and Shi Dakai's pale face...

"The little demon raised by the bitch is even more powerful than the little demon, and he is really thoughtful! He sent an order to Lin Qirong and asked him to continue to attack the Qing Yao camp. No matter how much the price he paid, he would take down the Qing Yao camp for me! He also sent an order to Shi Zhenlun and asked him to break through the iron cable defense line of Qing Yao at all costs and force the Qing Yao navy to fight him with a decisive battle!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!