"Missing Jiang Zhongyuan? And missing 10,000 elite soldiers?"
Su Sanniang's expression changed again.
She won't take Guan Wen and He Chun seriously, but Jiang Zhongyuan is not easy to deal with!
I don’t know who Seng Gelinqin, along with his official documents, He Chun, Jiang Zhongyuan and ten thousand elite soldiers are going to deal with? "Deputy Manager Su, Qingyao is here!"
Su Sanniang wanted to ask Feng Zicai again, but someone suddenly called out to her.
Su Sanniang stood up quickly. This woman was really tall, more than half a head taller than Feng Zicai. She took a monocular telescope from a female soldier beside her and began to observe the situation on the front line.
It was getting late now, and it was about to get dark. But Xiang Rong decided to launch an attack before dark. If he could capture Jiangshe City in one fell swoop, he would be able to get a foothold near Xiangtan County, and then We can rely on it to try to break the siege of Xiangtan County.
Otherwise, it is still very dangerous for the eight thousand troops to be placed in the wilderness south of the stream! Because although the number of Taiping troops surrounding Xiangtan is not as many as the thirty thousand reported by Cheng Cai, there may be twenty thousand. If among them Fourteen to five thousand people rushed toward the south of the stream, and Xiang Rong was very worried.
So now he wants to attack quickly while the number of Taiping troops in Jiangshe City is still small!
Looking out from where Su Sanniang was standing, Xiang Rong sent out three "big armies" with about a thousand people each. One of them was rushing towards the stream bridge; along the way he was carrying some rafts to force the crossing from the west of Jiangshe City. The stream seemed to be trying to outflank the west gate of Jiangshe City; many rafts were carried along the way, and it seemed that they were trying to forcibly cross the stream from the east of Jiangshe City...
"Brother Feng," Su Sanniang put down the telescope and turned back to smile at Feng Zicai, "This is your chance to make a contribution!"
At this time, Feng Zicai had lost his braids and had a red scarf on his head. He was already a glorious Taiping Army soldier. After hearing Su Sanniang's words, he immediately knelt down on one knee: "Please give the order to Deputy General Su, Zicai." Not afraid of mountains of swords and seas of fire!
Su Sanniang smiled and said: "I don't want you to rush into the mountains of swords and seas of fire. The mountains of swords and seas of fire are reserved for Qingyao!"
Your brothers are still resisting in Jiangshe City. You first persuade them to surrender, and then when the Qing army crosses the bridge, you lead them to wave flags and shouts, and then rush out of the north gate of Jiangshe City!
Feng Zicai clasped his fists and said loudly: "Yeah...yes!"
Su Sanniang waved her hand and said with a smile: "Go ahead... I'll give you a pawn leader first, go and gather all your people! Tell them, I, Su Sanniang, know that they are all good men from Guangxi, as long as If they are willing to come over, I will give them a reward of ten taels of silver each.
You are also a good man. After this battle, I will reward you with one hundred taels of silver. From now on, you will work hard with His Highness the Peace Angel."
Feng Zicai was originally a fierce man in Guangxi's arena. Later, he joined Qingyao and relied on his ability to kill people. With the official position of General Qian, he beheaded Batu Lu. He was famous for his bravery. And his brothers were also capable of fighting. !
That's why Su Sanniang promised a silver reward and made Feng Zicai a soldier commander.
Li Shoucheng laughed at the side and said: "The chief soldier is in charge of more than a hundred people. After your brothers are gathered together, they will all be taken care of by you."
According to the military system formulated by Feng Yunshan, the Taiping Army has more than 13,000 troops at full strength, with five divisions under its jurisdiction. Each division has more than 2,000 people. One division has five brigades, and one brigade has five.
There are more than a hundred people, and a brigade has five soldiers. One soldier is more than a hundred people, which is almost a company in later generations.
In the past, the establishment of the Taiping Army was relatively weak. The organization of so many armies, divisions, and brigades was just to scare people. However, now the establishment of Luo Yaoguo's First Army and Second Army has gradually been enriched, and it is not far from full strength.
Therefore, Feng Zicai's "Company Commander" can really lead more than a hundred soldiers.
"Thank you, Deputy General Manager Su, for training with Commander Li Jun!"
Feng Zicai was naturally overjoyed. A soldier commander was nothing, but he could feel Su Sanniang's importance to him and her sincerity in winning over him. Su Sanniang's status in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was much higher than that of You Changling and Xiang Rong.
If the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can succeed, he will have a better future as Su Sanniang's younger brother than as Xiang Rong's younger brother.
Thinking of this, he bowed to Su Sanniang and Li Shoucheng, stood up, and went down to the tower.
Of course, Su Sanniang would not let him appease her subordinates alone, and immediately gave Zhu Ba, who had just been promoted to teacher lecturer, a wink. Zhu Ba immediately followed the men who came down from the tower to see Feng Zicai.
Su Sanniang's Taiping Army soldiers also followed Zhu Ba down the tower.
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At dusk, the sound of killings inside and outside Jiangshe Town was loud, the roar of cannons, and the sound of gunfire like fried beans. On the banks of the streams on both sides of Jiangshe Town, there were more than 2,000 people on each side.
's battle group.
Among these two battle groups, there were less than a thousand men in each group, and they were Qing troops who crossed on rafts from the south bank to the north bank of the stream. As soon as they formed their formation on the north bank of the stream, the Taiping Army's artillery shells and bullets came over
Yes, those shells were not bad, they were not very powerful and their hits were not accurate.
However, the Taiping Army's shotguns and flintlock rifles hit accurately and hard, knocking down many Qing soldiers!
These Qing soldiers who forcibly crossed the stream were all "selected frontmen". They had received silver rewards and smoked their fill of foreign cigarettes before they came to work, and they would not be driven back by dozens of flintlock guns and shotguns. And this kind of sparse but accurate
The firepower of the Qing soldiers actually inspired the Qing soldiers to select their front line with ferocity, and they all rushed forward with howls and screams.
The musketeers of the Taiping Army were originally lying in ambush on the north bank of the Xishui River. When they saw the Qing troops rushing towards them as if they were desperate for their lives, they all ran towards Jiangbei Town. Those Qing soldiers might have been smoking hot, but they followed them regardless.
He went up, but was shot again when he approached the city wall of Jiangshe Town.
This time the firepower was much stronger. Near the east and west gates of Jiangshe Town, two hundred muskets from the Taiping Army were fired at the same time. Hundreds of Qing soldiers were taken away in one wave, and their corpses were scattered everywhere!
Before the remaining Qing troops could react, more than 2,000 Taiping officers and soldiers who were ambushing in the dry ditch outside Jiangshe City came out with spears and swords and started fighting hand-to-hand with the Qing troops in front of them.
While shouting "Kill the monsters and divide the fields", morale is high!
On one side, the smoke was still strong, and they could barely resist it at first... But after all, the number of people was small, and they had been accurately shot by the Taiping Army before. Once the smoke had passed, they gradually lost ground.
But in Jiangshe Town, the Qing army unexpectedly gained the upper hand.
Xiang Rong's original plan was to let the Xianshui River's wooden bridge be used as cannon fodder to attract the attention of the Taiping Army, and the Xianshui River's forceful attackers should be used as the main force to attack Jiangshe City.
As a result, something went wrong with the Taiping Army in Jiangshe City. Even the more than a hundred soldiers left by Feng Zicai in the town could not suppress it. When more than a thousand soldiers sent by Xiang Rong rushed to the Xishui River Bridge, these people actually came out of hiding.
They rushed out of the house and fought all the way to the north gate of Jiangshe City.
As soon as they interfered like this, the Taiping Army in Jiangshe City no longer had the strength to resist the Qing Army who came over from the Xishui Bridge. As a result, half of the town was lost in one go... just half of it!
At this time, the Taiping Army in Jiangshe City seemed to have stabilized, and the shouts of "Kill the demons and go to heaven" gradually began to rise.
The atmosphere under Xiang Rong's command was solemn. General Hu Songlin, who led the troops into Jiangshe City, sent cavalry soldiers to report that the Taiping Army had arrived for reinforcements. They were hundreds of old Guangxi brothers who were very brave and were launching a counterattack.
Xiang Rong, Sun Yingzhao, and Liu Changqing all had gloomy expressions on their faces. They were all a bit trapped after this battle.
Originally, they thought that there weren't many Taiping troops in Jiangshe City, otherwise they wouldn't be able to take down even Feng Zicai's men. But they didn't expect that they had invested three thousand in the selection of fronts, and Jiangshe City still couldn't get it!
But they are unwilling to give up - if they give up, they have to "cut off their positions". With one blow, they may lose 2,000 people! It hurts too much!
"Junmen, please invest two thousand more people!" Liu Changqing, who followed Xiang Rong all the way from Sichuan to Hunan, gritted his teeth and said, "I will lead people to fight in, and we should be able to defeat it!" Xiang Rong frowned: "A night battle?
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It's starting to get dark now!
"Let's fight at night..." Sun Yingzhao said, "At worst, we'll order all the houses in the town for him!"
"Forget it!" Xiang Rong was not willing to give up, "Two thousand is not enough, add a fucking thousand more! Old Liu, I will give you three thousand men, you must defeat them!"
After receiving Xiang Rong's order, Liu Changqing immediately ordered 3,000 people and rushed into Jiangshe City along the stream bridge. But reinforcements seemed to have arrived from the Taiping Army!
Liu Changqing's 3,000 men did not achieve the expected results. When the battle went into the second half of the night, the Qing army only occupied more territory in Jiangshe City and set many houses on fire. Fires shot into the sky.
A small half of Jiangshe City was submerged in the fire, and there was a "boom, boom, boom" sound. This sound was mixed with the shouts of killing, explosions, and gunshots. It was like a battle was going on!
In the midst of this extremely noisy sound, Xiang Rong, who was extremely anxious, suddenly heard a very passionate singing voice coming from behind him! "Proud and arrogant laughs at thousands of waves, and the blood is stronger than the red sun..."
"This is..." Xiang Rong looked back and took a deep breath!
Chapter completed!