Chapter 636 Iron Armored Heavy Infantry
When Zhang Yong was in great enthusiasm, Yu Shizhong's eyes also turned to his Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp in the Taiping Army opposite.
"Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong?"
Yu Shizhong was a little confused. The two of them were not well-known in the Qing army. Why did the general deliberately write the names of these two people on paper and hand them over to him? He also said that if they could be captured alive, they would be captured, and if they could not be captured alive, they would be killed. They would never let the two people escape.
Zhou Shixiang's solemn confession made Yu Shizhong particularly concerned. Before the war, he summoned surrendered generals to inquire about the details of Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong. As a result, he knew very little, which made Yu Shizhong even more puzzled. Why did the two unknown soldiers pay more attention to the general than Roto and Xing Guoan.
In fact, Zhou Shi was a little more important than Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong. When they were really useful to the Qing court, they were the "Three Feudal Rebellion" more than ten years later. Now, the two generals are insignificant in the Qing army. As for the other two Wang Jinbao and Sun Sike, the other two generals of the Four Han generals in Hexi can be regarded as unknown soldiers. In other words, the stage where Zhang Yong, Zhao Liangdong, Sun Sike and Wang Jinbao shine has not yet arrived.
Zhao Liangdong was a bearded man. Zhang Yong was able to lead troops. Zhou Shixiang read from a novelist in later generations. At that time, he felt that these two were great heroes, but now it was not the same. From the perspective of Manzhou people, Zhang Yong and Zhao Liangdong were indeed heroes of the Qing court, but from the perspective of Han people, these people were genuine people who forgot their ancestors and real traitors executioners! As for the novelist, Shixiang also believed that his heart could be punished.
However, even so, Zhou Shixiang was still preparing to recruit Zhang Yong and others, hoping that these Han generals who served the Qing court could serve for themselves. They didn’t doubt others, and they would not doubt others. As long as they came back, they would not investigate any of the past actions. Zhou Shi’s usual attitude towards surrendering officials and generals. The Ming and Qing Dynasties were forced by current affairs, and some people’s actions were really impossible to blame too much. For example, Li Chengdong and Wang Deren, who worked for the Qing army before, had their hands covered with blood from the Han people, but they would not lose the heroes of the Han family afterwards.
Zhang Yong was in Roto's army, but Zhao Liangdong was not there. Yu Shizhong carefully observed Zhang Yong's Shaanxi-Gansu Green Camp with a thousand-mile mirror. Gradually, his expression was a little solemn
After Roto readjusted the deployment, the Qing cavalry responsible for surrounding the two wings of the Taiping Army suddenly turned around and gathered together, and began to quickly launch an attack on the Taiping Army's defense line. Ma Yaozi, located in the back of the Taiping Army, was a little impatient. He could not wait for the orders commanded by the army, and could only watch the Qing cavalry roaring towards his infantry array.
Thousands of cavalry charged forward, like ten thousand horses galloping, causing the earth to be earth-shaking, and the sound of horse hooves trembled. The left and right wings of the Taiping Army were Wang Youxi's fourth town and the thirteenth town of Shang Keyuan. The former was the fourth town of the old town, but in the battle of Liuzhou, the two brigades were severely damaged by the line Guoan, and the latter was the newly built Langbing Town in Guangxi, and had never been on the battlefield. The large-scale rush of thousands of Qing cavalry was undoubtedly a huge test for the soldiers of these two towns. Sure enough, under the fierce impact of the Qing cavalry, the fourth town and the thirteenth town could not support it, so they quickly retreated and fled to both sides.
The battlefield was full of fighting armies between our enemies and our army, and tens of thousands of people gathered to fight, which made Roto, who was watching the battle, unable to see clearly what was going on the battlefield. However, when he saw the flags on the left and right wings of the Taiping Army retreating to the rear, he was immediately overjoyed and knew that the cavalry had succeeded.
Roto moved Qianlijing from the wings of the Taiping Army to the Central Army's general flag, and he was looking forward to the falling of the general flag. But he soon discovered that the success of the cavalry seemed to be not a good thing.
After breaking through the thin defense line of the Taiping Army on the left and right wings in one fell swoop, the Qing cavalry, who were about to take advantage of the situation to advance and expand the gap and obtain greater results, found that the Taiping Army that they defeated did not collapse and retreat, but retreated to both sides in an organized manner. As the Taiping Army retreated, the Qing cavalry saw the Taiping Army launching a cannon in front.
Nearly seventy artillery pieces were pushed out at the same time on the left and right wings, half of which were tiger squat artillery that could be used to fire shots, many of which were abandoned by Guoan on Xiaobei Mountain. These artillery had already loaded up ammunition. After the Qing cavalry rushed through the Taiping Army's defense line, Yu Shizhong's order flag was waved.
"fire!"
The artillery lit the fuse under the officer's order, and dozens of artillery roared. Amid the rumbling cannons, hundreds of Qing cavalry were dropped at the same time, which made the Qing cavalry array behind them stagnate. Then several rounds of artillery bombardment, and more and more Qing cavalry were in the forefront of the formation. The Qing army array was also in chaos, and people in front of the Taiping Army were overturned and neighed.
The red triangle flag in Yu Shizhong's hand waved it again, and the blind Li, who had been sitting on the ground, saw the big flag that was shaking Yi with his commanders under his command.
"Putting armor!"
The blind Li yelled excitedly, and the eight hundred iron guards jumped up from the ground in an instant, and quickly put on iron armor with the help of the auxiliary soldiers.
"kill!"
The blind Li shouted, took the lead, carrying his big hammer and rushed towards the Qing army. According to Yu Shizhong's instructions before the war, the blind Li took the Iron Guard to attack the Qing cavalry on the right wing, because the right wing was a newly-organized wolf army town, which lacked firearms and could not effectively restrain the Qing cavalry. The fourth town on the left wing had many firearms and faced much less danger than the Thirteen Towns.
Shang Keyuan, who was commanding the thirteen towns to fight the enemy, saw the Iron Man Guard of the Blind Li, and his heart was immediately moved. What made him feel at ease was not those heavily armored elite soldiers, but the Blind Li.
The Qing cavalry, blocked by artillery, discovered that a soldier wearing iron armor was driven from the Taiping Army formation opposite, and the generals and schools called in unison, quickly adjusted the queue, and rushed towards the iron armored soldier with their companions in front.
The Eight Banners of Manzhou who were rushing in front waved their long swords and rushed straight towards the armored soldiers with their cavalry. The war horses were running faster and faster. From time to time, the Qing soldiers fell from their horses by guns, arrows and cannons, but more Qing soldiers rushed to the Iron Man Guard with a roar. In an instant, the Qing army's cavalry spear stabbed the armored soldiers fiercely.
The moment the cavalry came into contact with the iron armor, crackling sounds sounded on the battlefield. The Qing soldiers immediately found that the sharp spear heads in their hands not only failed to pierce the Taiping Army's iron armor, but also broke the gun rods on them. The Iron Man Guard was hit by the Qing army's horsepower, and many people fell backwards. Many people were even knocked into the air. Then, with the heavy armor on their bodies, they flew away from the ground and landed heavily on the ground, making a dull sound after another. Some Iron Man Guards could no longer get up from the ground, and some people who got up suddenly spit out blood, but their internal organs were stabbed by the Qing army's cavalry gun.
The blind Li was not knocked away, but hit the chest of a Qing soldier in front of him with a hammer. The hammer fell and the war horse was already spurted out blood. The knight immediately fell down. Before he could get up, the blind Li hit hard and even the armor on his body was slammed down.
Dozens of Iron Man Guards were knocked away by the Qing army, but the formation was not loosened. The empty position of the fallen Iron Man Guard was filled with by his companions behind him, and it was firmly blocked in front of the Qing cavalry.
Raise troops for a thousand days, and use troops for a while.
The Iron Man Guard raised by Zhou Shixiang with meat did not disappoint him, nor did the blind Li. Like Chaohui's battle, the Iron Man Guard once again proved his value. They told his friendly forces with practical actions that they were not a bag of wine!
The charge speed of the Qing army was completely slowed down, and the Iron Man Guards were originally heavy-armored infantry. Their existence, their sacrifice, and their courage made the Qing cavalry, who were in front of them, unable to move forward any further.
There was no emotion on Yu Shizhong's face, but he subconsciously waved the flag in his hand again. So the wolf soldiers of the Thirteen Towns roared and rushed towards the stagnant Qing cavalry.
"Retreat, withdraw!"
Aljin shouted loudly and ordered to retreat. Except for the hundreds of Qing soldiers in front who had no time to retreat, who were killed by the Iron Man Guards, the rest of the cavalry quickly turned their horses and retreated quickly along the jungle of the spears of the 13th Town Wolf soldiers. Qing soldiers were constantly stabbed by spears and knocked over by guns. Time passed by, and the Eight Banners Cavalry, who had just been slammed by the shore, quickly broke out from contact with the Taiping Army like a receding tide.
"Damn it, run faster!"
Chapter completed!