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Chapter 69 Difficult Breakthrough

The air waves generated by the explosion of the gunpowder truck did not hurt half of the hair of the Taiping General Ji Wenyuan. But no one expected that after the chariot and war horses were blown by the air waves, they would die and hit Ji Wenyuan's body. With such a huge force, even if they failed to take Ji Wenyuan's life, they smashed Ji Wenyuan off the war horse and knocked him unconscious on the spot.

Perhaps the gunpowder truck exploded among the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army as planned, because at most it would kill and injure dozens of elite soldiers of the Taiping Army, which would chaoticize the formation of the Taiping Army and relieve some pressure on the Wu army's courage. However, the effect of the gunpowder explosion inadvertently caused Ji Wenyuan to fall into a coma, and the situation was completely different.

"Prime Minister Ji!"

Amid the screams, Ji Wenyuan's flag formation was immediately in chaos. The Taiping soldiers who were waiting for the formation were also in an uproar. They rushed to stretch their necks and looked at the situation ahead. They did not understand what was going on, and the morale of the army was suddenly in panic. The elite Taiping Army soldiers who were charging turned around and saw the gunpowder cart explode in front of Ji Wenyuan's flag formation, and they saw the chaos in the flag formation. No matter how experienced these elite soldiers were, they could not help but feel nervous and worried. Before they could fight with the Wu army, they shook their own spirits, and the charge speed was somewhat slowed down.

"Blast the long-haired general to death! Brothers, keep your formation and move forward! Go forward!"

When he used a telescope to see the gunpowder truck exploded near the enemy's flag formation, and then saw the enemy's flag formation appearing in chaos. Wu Chaoyue certainly seized the opportunity to yell nonsense to boost morale. The result was quite good, which somewhat eliminated the fear and tension of some Wu Jun Jian Yong's army, and also allowed more than 400 Wu Jun Jian Yong to continue to maintain a strict formation and trot forward. Although the marching speed was far less than that of the infantry charge, it was better than the neat line and could be put into collective combat at any time.

"Let's go! Go! Go quickly! rush out and fight out! Kill the siege of long hair, everyone will have a great reward!"

He didn't understand the essence of linear tactics, but he saw that Wu Jun Lian Yong was still walking slowly after he was out of the siege. Lu Jianying, who was hiding in the carriage, was of course anxious and sweating provoked Wu Jun Lian Yong to start a charge. Fortunately, Wu Jun Lian Yong, who had been strictly trained, only listened to Wu Chaoyue's orders. No matter how big Lu Jianying was, he had no effect at this moment. Wu Jun Lian Yong still maintained a strict formation and trotted forward, holding the rifle tightly and waiting patiently for Wu Chaoyue's order to shoot.

After several cruel and fierce battles, Wu Chaoyue, who had accumulated some battlefield experience, was no longer the first brother on the Qingpu battlefield. Although he had no courage to be as crazy as the British lobster soldiers before firing before firing, he was patiently waiting until he was only fifty meters away from the enemy. Wu Chaoyue ordered his army to stop and aim at it. During this period, although the Taiping Army fired a few shots randomly, it had little effect. Not only did he almost not hit Wu's army's army, but he also chaoticed the queue on his own, which further expanded the hidden danger of losing the commander.

"shot!"

With Wu Chaoyue's order, a thunder sounded in front of the Wu army. White smoke gushed out, and dense bullets roared at the Taiping Army soldiers rushing towards the front. Immediately afterwards, screams and roars immediately rang out among the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army soldiers who were shot and fell to the ground continued. In the first row of shooting, more than fifty Taiping Army soldiers were killed and injured, and the Taiping Army's charge momentum was immediately promoted.

In the first row, Wu Jun Lianyong knelt on one knee and loaded bullets. In the second row, Wu Jun Lianyong aimed at the opposite side without hesitation and fired at the enemy. Although the shooting accuracy of the smoothbore rifle was low, the shooting error was almost negligible within a distance of 50 meters. With the continuous gunfire, the Taiping soldiers rushed towards him fell to the ground like they were cutting wheat.

Lu Jianying and his group must be protected. The formation arranged by Wu Chaoyue this time was two whistles in front and back, and he could not use three stairs to shoot, but the impact was not great. The Wu Jun Lianyong, who was gradually trained in actual combat, cooperated with the high-speed firing needle gun, and the two stairs fire speed was only faster and slower than the three stairs of the stairs of the stairs. After two rounds of shooting, before the Taiping Army rushed forward ten meters, Wu Jun Lianyong, who was kneeling on one knee in the first row, had already stood up and aimed at shooting, and then replaced the second row of fire shooting. The continuous gunfire sound formed a death fire net, which knocked the Taiping Army soldiers who were charging forward with people and horses, with casualties constantly exceeding two hundred.

The Taiping Army soldiers were not fools, and the elite combat soldiers were also old loaches on the battlefield. Seeing that the frontal firepower of Wu Jun Lian Yong was too fierce, many people immediately had the idea of ​​surrounding the two wings. When the left and right were scattered, the Taiping Army's queue was naturally even more chaotic, and the charge inertia was completely lost. Wu Jun Lian Yong's firing gun fired more calmly, and continued to kill Taiping soldiers in large numbers. The Taiping Army soldiers in the roundabout charge were naturally also in the line. Then even if they deviated to the two wings of Wu Jun, it was still difficult to get close to each other by Lian Yong, who was shot and killed by the Minni gun of Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers. A few Taiping Army soldiers who were lucky enough to rush within ten meters had revolvers to entertain. Even if they could not swing their swords, they had already been killed by Wu Chaoyue's personal soldiers' revolvers.

Like the last battle at Shence Gate, the Taiping Army, which had an absolute advantage in the number of troops, was still beaten to death in front of Wu Jun Lianyong, who specialized in linear tactics because of its backward weapons and equipment. Before he could catch any opportunity to fight Wu Jun Lianyong in close combat, he was already hit by the most advanced firing guns and Minnie guns in the world in this era, and suffered heavy casualties and countless casualties.

This time was even worse than the last time. Last time, the famous general of Taiping Army Li Kaifang saw through the biggest weakness of the Wu army's hedgehog formation at a glance. The charge order was to rush into the Wu army's hedgehog formation at any cost. Huang Yiduan, who was ordered to charge, was one of the few rare generals in the Taiping Army. He relied on his life to pile up in front of Wu army Lianyong to fight for the opportunity for melee. However, this time, Ji Wenyuan's order was to block Wu army's Lianyong's advance. After giving this order, he fainted directly. He could not adjust his tactics flexibly like Li Kaifang and fight for the opportunity for melee. Therefore, with the continuous continuous gunfire, the soldiers of Taiping Army, who were unable to get support from the rear and could not get close, quickly could not resist the casualties of the Taiping Army, and the generals and soldiers retreated one after another. Wu army Lianyong, who had an absolute range advantage, took the opportunity to shoot continuously, killing and injuring more Taiping Army soldiers.

At this time, the general of the Taiping Army, Zhao Zhenyuan, had temporarily taken over Ji Wenyuan's command. Seeing that the front army was defeated, Zhao Zhenyuan, who had poorer command capabilities, did not consider that most of the soldiers of his army were old and weak soldiers with bluffing, actually ordered 6,000 troops to attack the two wings of the Wu army, one left and one right, and ordered the central army to form a formation to defend, trying to defend the front and use the number of people to subdue the Wu army to practice courage. Although Wu Chaoyue was far inferior to Zhao Zhenyuan in terms of experience, he had won the advanced tactics teaching. Seeing that the Taiping Army came to run on both wings, Wu Chaoyue immediately changed the formation and set up a famous hedgehog formation again, forming a square formation to surround Lu Jianying and his group with him in the middle, and then continued to trot forward.

As soon as Zhao Zhenyuan's stupid move was released, the true face of the Taiping Army's bluff was quickly exposed, as if the Sanyuanli Battle twelve years ago reappeared. Although the Taiping Army soldiers holding bamboo guns, iron knives, axes and hammers in their hands, they surrounded the Wu army's Jianyong formation in just a blink of an eye. Then they did not even dare to approach within seventy or eighty meters of the Wu army's Jianyong formation. They just shouted from afar, encouraged each other to rush forward, but they almost dared to move forward. Occasionally, a few who were not afraid of death came forward, and were immediately repelled by the Wu army's Jianyong's gun, and then fled further. It seemed that the roar was shocking, with dense heads, but in fact they were like tigers biting hedgehogs, and they could not find a place to go.

In contrast, after trotting forward to the close proximity of the Taiping Army's central army, Wu Jun Jianyong shot down in just a few rounds, blocking the Taiping Army soldiers in front of the road were already seriously injured, and they continued to escape. At the same time, the snipers of the Wu army also kept firing fire, and took action against Taiping Army generals wearing apricot yellow clothes, killing and injuring several Taiping Army generals one after another.

Depending on the situation, Zhao Zhenyuan once imagined Li Kaifang charging at all costs. Unfortunately, his prestige was far less than that of Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan. Even if the soldiers of the Taiping Army gritted their teeth twice, they were immediately shot by the Wu Jun Lianyong's firing gun. Their formation quickly shook. Wu Chaoyue also took the opportunity to command the square formation to move forward slowly, slowly like a forest, constantly pushing forward, crushing the Taiping Army's central position bit by bit.

At this time, Ji Wenyuan was finally awakened by his personal soldiers. He returned to the front of the formation with his horse blood and took over the command again. After only taking a look at the battlefield, Ji Wenyuan couldn't help but complain because the formation of the Taiping Army had been in chaos at this moment. The front army did not dare to approach, and the rear army could not rush up, crowded with each other, pushed and trampled on each other. If they wanted to re-adjust the queue, they had to retreat temporarily. In the current situation, once they ordered the retreat, the second-line auxiliary soldiers might not be able to stop, causing the terrible consequences of the collapse of the entire army.

There was no way out, and Ji Wenyuan could only be mentally prepared to suffer heavy losses. While sending people to contact Wei Changhui in the rear to make Wei Changhui ready for blocking, he ordered the rear army who had not yet been dispatched to make way left and right, and continued to hold on, not giving Wu Jun Lianyong the opportunity to drive them to play a free vanguard. At the same time, he personally commanded the central army to retreat slowly, restrain Wu Jun Lianyong's speed of marching and buy Wei Changhui behind him to block the attack time. In addition, he also gathered the elite strong troops who had retreated before and asked them to reorganize the team on the left to wait for their orders.

As for the 6,000 auxiliary soldiers who had been sent by Zhao Zhenyuan before, Ji Wenyuan neither wanted to pay attention nor did he dare to pay attention! If they dared to give them a retreat order, they would immediately collapse and flee in chaos like a mob. It would be necessary that people would go there more people. Not to mention breaking down Ji Wenyuan's army, which had not yet been dispatched, it would be impossible to break down Wei Changhui's blocking position!

The orders were conveyed quickly, and the Taiping Army, whose organizational capabilities were stronger than those of the regular Qing army, responded quickly. The large number of second-line troops in the rear separated from each other and took the initiative to give way to avoid being defeated by the Wu army Lianyong; the elite soldiers who had retreated before quickly gathered to the left and reorganized the team. They were also wary of Wu army Lianyong fled to the left and the Yangtze River on the right; Ji Wenyuan tried hard to restrain the central army, commanded the central army and retreated, and dragged the Wu army as much as possible; while the six thousand auxiliary soldiers who had been sent out before were still shouting at the left and rear of the Wu army's hedgehog formation, and they still did not dare to rush up to fight with Wu army Lianyong. The battlefield was on the surface and the gunfire was constant, but in fact, they were orderly and murderous intent.

Seeing this scene, Wu Chaoyue frowned, because even though Wu Chaoyue lacked experience on the battlefield, he understood that if the Taiping Army, whose combat effectiveness was actually uneven, would be the most beneficial to the self-army. However, the enemy's commander not only did not do this, but also took the initiative to let the self-army pass through, which made Wu Jun very uncomfortable to launch a charge and a chaotic formation, seeking death. Continue to advance slowly, wasting time and ammunition, and it was also dangerous to continue.

When he was in trouble, someone next to him suddenly patted Wu Chaoyue on the shoulder. When Wu Chaoyue turned his head to look, he saw Lu Jianying getting out of the carriage at some point. He said excitedly: "Master Wu, it's amazing, it's amazing. I never thought that just by these hundreds of people, you can kill the long hair so hard that you dare not get close to. Why don't you practice more elite soldiers like this?"

"Which silver did I come?" Wu Chaoyue said angrily: "From the founding of the army, the court has given me a total of 10,000 taels of silver. It is not enough to buy weapons and ammunition. I came here to train more soldiers? Also, go back to the car and be careful of the stray bullets and wave arrows!"

Hearing Wu Chaoyue's words, Lu Jianying quickly retracted back into the car and shouted in the car: "Master Wu, when you escort the governor to Zhenjiang, I will definitely ask for merit and rewards from the court for you. Please live the emperor and give you more money and train more such heroic soldiers!"

After saying that, Lu Jianying subconsciously looked at the twenty horses he brought with him, and the consciences of the world were really books on them!

At the same time, Wu Chaoyue quickly came up with an idea, ordered the stop to shoot and continue to move forward, and asked the soldiers to pick up the bayonet and pretend to fight with the Taiping Army in close combat. As a result, although Ji Wenyuan, who was treacherous and sloppy, was not deceived, all the six thousand auxiliary soldiers who had been scattered by Zhao Zhenyuan were trapped, and all shouted that Qing Yao had no guns and charged. Wu Chaoyue urged Wu army to speed up the march and narrow the distance with Ji Wenyuan's troops as much as possible. Until the second-line auxiliary soldiers rushed to thirty meters, Wu Chaoyue loudly ordered the soldiers to shoot together.

More than 300 firing guns fired at the same time. Of course, the scene and sound were as spectacular as it was. As white smoke gushed from all sides, Taiping soldiers from all directions were also shot and fell to the ground one after another. Then Ji Wenyuan's central army was better. The Taiping Army's auxiliary soldiers attacked the Wu army's wings and the Taiping Army behind them were howling. Without even thinking about it, they turned their heads and ran away. The Wu army quickly loaded bullets and filled up the medicine and shot again, driving the defeated soldiers to escape faster and more chaotic. The result was just as Wu Chaoyue wanted, the Taiping Army's auxiliary soldiers did not look back as soon as they ran away, and they ran everywhere, and they were completely in formation.

Seizing the opportunity, Wu Chaoyue gave another order. The Wu army Lian Yong on the left and right wings immediately lined up and quickly arranged the troops of the three whistles directly in front of him, and shot the enemy in front with three sections. As a result, Ji Wenyuan, who gritted his teeth to block the Wu army's road, finally couldn't hold on. The soldiers and generals fled one after another. Ji Wenyuan was also forced to run back by his personal soldiers. Ji Wenyuan knew that the defeated soldiers were difficult to stop, so he quickly shouted, "Go to the right! Go to the right! Go to the right!"

As he wished, he finally temporarily repelled the enemy. Wu Chaoyue did not dare to hesitate, and did not even make any adjustments to the formation. He urged Lian Yong to charge and seized the time to escape along the official road towards the outer Guanyin Sect in the northeast. When Wu Jun Lian Yong, Lu Jianying, Hui Zheng and others cheered loudly, Wu Chaoyue was extremely shocked to find that the commander of the Taiping Army had not ordered a general attack. He had never thought of temporarily slugging the cannon fodder army with temporary stagnation. Wu Chaoyue also knew in his heart that there must be enemies ahead, and it must be a more difficult enemy. The enemy commander was afraid that the cannon fodder army under the combat power would be defeated by the cannon fodder army and collapsed the blocking position in front, so he chose not to move!

As expected, when the Guanyin Sect was far away, Ji Wenyuan indeed chased after him with the reassembled elite soldiers. He was very cunning and did not rush forward directly to seek death. He also kept the distance from Wu Jun's bravery. He bit Wu Chaoyue's tail and made Wu Jun unable to move forward. At the same time, there were also a large number of cannon fodders following him. Wu Chaoyue ignored them at all, and quickly raised his telescope to see the situation of Guanyin Sect.

It would be fine if I didn't look at it, but when I saw it, Wu Chaoyue felt desperate. Although the Guanyin Gate, which was tied up by the hills, was already full of Taiping Army archers and musketeers on the city walls and hills. More than 2,000 Taiping Army soldiers were waiting for the battle under the city, and they also pulled some vehicles to the front line, filled with earth and rocks, which not only had a bulletproof effect, but also blocked Wu Jun's way to Jian Yong.

Seeing this scene, Wu Chaoyue and Wu Jun Lian Yong's faces began to turn pale, and Lu Jianying's entourage, who had few left, began to leave the team to escape again, the Taiping Army soldiers behind also chased after him with a grin, not in a hurry to attack the Wu army, but immediately divided their troops to block the road on both sides. At the same time, neat shouts sounded from the Taiping Army that blocked the road in front of him, "Chaoyue Xiao Yao, come on, see where you go this time?"

"What should we do? Master Wu, Changmao blocked our way. What should we do this time?"

Lu Jianying's crying sounded in his ears, making Wu Chaoyue, who was already confused, even more upset. He had to keep reminding himself in his heart, "Calm down! Calm down! As long as you pass this level, you can go forward! You must find a way to rush over!"
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