Chapter 291 Learn from the barbarians and learn skills to defeat the enemy, go to Shanghai (please order, please vote)
North of Yangzhou City, outside Wayao Town.
The sun was setting in the west, the sky was red and misty, a cloud of clouds was floating, and the thunderous sound of cannons gradually weakened, showing a moment of drowsiness.
Suddenly, impassioned singing swept across the vast autumn land, rushing toward the more than 10,000 Hunan warriors who had long been plunged into panic and chaos due to the fierce bombardment by Lien Chan, Lienbei and the Taiping Army.
"Arrogance laughs at thousands of waves, hot blood beats the red sun"
There was a disturbance among the Hunan Yong army arrayed with their backs against the canal. Everyone involuntarily took a few steps back and looked up at the sky full of red clouds.
In the past few days, whenever this song sounds, a "red ball" will rise from behind the Taiping Army formation, and then the most terrifying hand-to-hand assault will begin!
Although the artillery fire of the Taiping Army, which is equipped with twelve 12-pound cannons and has the help of foreign gunners, is now extremely fierce, the Xiang Yong under Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie can still fight hard with the simple fortifications piled up randomly and the knives of the supervising team. top.
However, once the Taiping Army, which sang "A man should strengthen himself", launched a hand-to-hand attack, Zeng Guofan's Xiang Yong would definitely collapse at the first touch. The reason for this is not because Xiang Yong really did not have a hand-to-hand encounter with the crazy Taiping Army. Courage. But the elite Taiping Army under Yang Xiuqing have now learned a set of extremely lethal new tactics from Luo Yaoguo's superior army!
In every hand-to-hand assault, the first ones were those brigades equipped with bayonet-mounted guns. The bayonet-mounted guns were two-in-one long-range melee combat! Moreover, the Taiping Army's "hundred-step ammunition" was effective. The range is long, and the killing effect within fifty steps is quite impressive!
In addition, these Taiping foreign gun brigades not only include "line soldiers", but also skirmishers and grenadiers. Skirmishers are snipers. Although they are also equipped with muskets, their marksmanship is better, and they specialize in hunting officers and gunners. . Most of the grenadiers of the Taiping Army have learned how to make nitrate grenades (including smoke bombs). Although the quality of the nitrate grenades produced varies, they may not necessarily kill many enemies, but at least they can explode. Create a cloud of smoke - by adjusting the ratio of nitrate to sugar or because the nitrate sugar is damp, it is possible to explode into clouds of smoke that fill the battlefield.
Therefore, before the Taiping Army's hand-to-hand assault, there would often be sniping by skirmishers, bombs dropped by grenadiers, and several rounds of volleys from line soldiers. After the battlefield was filled with smoke and the Hunan Army was in chaos, the bayonet assault came.
Zeng Guofan's Hunan Army is not equipped with many foreign guns now - some of the foreign guns Luo Xueyan bought from Shanghai were given to Jiangbei Camp and the Hunan Army, but none of the foreign guns given to Jiangbei Camp were sent to Zeng Guofan. The foreign guns used by the army and given to the Hunan Army were of course all given to the leftist Hunan Army.
Therefore, the muskets equipped by Zeng Guofan's troops were almost all old-fashioned matchlocks. Not only could they not form a dense array of muskets, they did not even have bayonets. There was no new equipment, and naturally there were no new tactics. Everything looked like the Green Camp. The difference It is nothing more than that the military pay can really be sent to the hands of the brave soldiers, and the soldiers and brave soldiers below do not smoke, and have relatively good physical strength. In addition, the generals have a network of relationships with their clans, masters and apprentices, township parties, and in-laws, which makes the army cohesive. Higher, you can achieve repeated defeats.
In the past few days, the Hunan troops of Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie were defeated three times by Yang Xiuqing, but each time they were able to gather their troops, fight and retreat, and retreat towards Wayao Town on the west bank of the canal in the north of Yangzhou City.
There was a reason why we retreated to Wayao Town instead of Yangzhou City. Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie wanted to come, and Yang Xiuqing came to attack Yangzhou this time, and there was also Prince Gong in Yangzhou City.
Therefore, as long as their Xiang braves give way to Yangzhou, Yang Xiuqing will probably let them escape.
Moreover, Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie had already left back-up forces in Shaobo Town on the east bank of the canal. Several battalions of Li Wenxuan and Miao Peilin were stationed there, and a lot of food, wages and ammunition were also stored there.
As long as the army retreats through the canal, it can take a breather when it reaches Shaobo Town, and then retreat to Huai'an
But how could Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie have thought that Prince Gong and Qi Shan had already abandoned Yangzhou City and ran away! Among them, Qi Shan led more than 10,000 troops from the Jiangbei Camp to flee to Huai'an, burning everything they encountered along the way. Prince Gong and Shengbao led a small number of followers and soldiers to Guazhou, boarded two old lock boats from Guangdong parked there, and headed to Shanghai to join Luo Xueyan. .
As soon as they escaped, the whole city of Yangzhou suddenly fell into chaos, and all the wealthy people followed Prince Gong to escape to Guazhou. The Tiandihui and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's secretaries lurking in Yangzhou took the opportunity to launch an uprising and sent people to contact Yang Xiuqing's army.
So Yang Xiuqing divided more than 10,000 troops to seize Yangzhou City and Guazhou Port, while he led his troops to continue to pursue Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie's troops. As a result, they chased all the way to the canal bank outside Wayao Town and found that there were no wooden bridges on the canal. Zeng Guofan was burned by someone, and Huang Shijie had to bite the bullet and put up a back-and-forth battle, hoping to imitate Han Xin and Yang Xiuqing in fighting a back-and-forth battle.
But they ignored that most of the children of Xianghu Lake can swim, and the Grand Canal is not very wide, and there are not many winds and waves. They can swim in just a few splashes. Who wants to swim with more than 10,000 Guangxi epilepsy people who are blessed by God on the spot? Will you fight for your life?
So after a while, Zeng Guofan and Huang Shijie saw Xiang Yong under their hands rushing to the bank of the canal like a dumpling, and then jumped down with a "plop plop"!
Behind them, the Taiping soldiers carrying foreign guns with bayonets shouted the slogan "God bless the emperor" and rushed forward like crazy!
And in mid-air, "God Yang" was "blessing" on the spot. If any holy soldier died, his soul would immediately go to heaven!
"Teacher, my student has already tried it. If the water is not cold, I respectfully ask my teacher to jump into the river!"
While Zeng Guofan was in a daze, he suddenly heard someone telling him to jump into the river. He turned around and saw that it was his good student Huang Shijie, so he smiled bitterly and said, "Ziying, it's time to repay the king in the face of adversity?"
"Teacher!" Huang Shijie knew that Zeng Guofan had misunderstood, so he pulled him towards the river embankment and explained, "The canal is not very wide, so you can just swim across it. It doesn't matter if the teacher doesn't know how to swim. The student has arranged for two good swimmers." There is a horse that can carry you swimming, and there is also a horse that can hold you by the tail and cross the canal. A few miles away is Shaobo Town, where Li Yuchuan's soldiers are. As long as we join Li Yuchuan, everything will be fine!"
"Can it still get better?" Zeng Guofan seemed a little discouraged.
"Yes!" Huang Shijie nodded heavily, "I can definitely do it! Teacher, you have also seen that the reason why Changmao is so powerful is actually that he bought foreign guns and cannons, and hired foreign generals to train troops with Western methods.
To control the barbarians? This plan was proposed by our Wei Liangtu from Hunan! By the way, Wei Liangtu is in Gaoyou Prefecture now. After we cross the canal, we will retreat to Gaoyou and work with Wei Liangtu to plan the important matter of the barbarians developing their skills to control the barbarians!"
"good!"
When Huang Shijie mentioned this, Zeng Guofan immediately cheered up and looked back behind him. He only saw a flash of bayonets. The Taiping Army was about to attack!
"Let's go! Let's cross the canal and first find Wei Liangtu in Gaoyouzhou! Then we have to go to Shanghai!"
"Going to Shanghai?" Huang Shijie was stunned.
"Yes! Go to Shanghai and find the foreign barbarians, and then you can learn from the barbarians and learn their skills to defeat the barbarians!"
In the air, on a balloon.
Below, the Taiping Army was victorious and the Qing Army was defeated like a mountain. Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, had already seen it all.
However, he did not show much joy at this moment, and his pale face became increasingly gloomy.
"White!"
Yang Xiuqing suddenly spoke.
"I'm here!"
The person who answered was a foreigner with a pale face but a light in his eyes, it was Winster White.
"How many foreign gun teams does Luo Xueyan have?" Yang Xiuqing asked.
"Ten thousand!" Winston White replied, "At least ten thousand! During this period, he purchased more than one million silver dollars worth of arms, including foreign guns, artillery, custom-loaded ammunition, barrels of gunpowder, saltpeter, and military wheels.
, in addition, he signed a large number of contracts that have not yet been executed, and most of the arms shipped from India are in his hands!"
Yang Xiuqing narrowed her eyes slightly and chuckled: "It seems I have to contact the foreigners more, Lao Bai, do you think I can set up a port in Guazhou Port and invite foreigners to do business?"
"Yes, of course I can!" Winster White immediately realized that this was a rare opportunity, "Your Highness the King of the East, can I contact the ministers from various countries in Shanghai for you?"
Yang Xiuqing shook her head: "No need to bother, I will go to Shanghai myself!"
Chapter completed!