Shengbao did not look down on the Taiping Army, even though he suffered a lot of losses in several battles with the Northern Expeditionary Army, but Shengbao still insisted on this view. Because since he fought with the Taipings, the two sides have not fought a very traditional frontal battle. Whenever Shengbao lined up his troops and wanted to fight a field battle, the Taiping army would adopt the strategy of avoiding but not fighting. This is not only the case in Hebei, Shengbao and the Taiping army fought from Jiangsu to Anhui, Shandong, and Hebei, and the Taiping army has always avoided frontal field battles.

And Shengbao himself is also confident, he now has 7ooo horse infantry under his command, nearly 1,000 cavalry, including more than 300 Mongolian cavalry who grew up on horseback since childhood, and everyone in the infantry has muskets. Because of the operation in Zhili, the logistics supply was quite complete, and the 5,000-pound cannon fell behind because of the inconvenience of movement when going south this time, but the guns and birds still fully armed the troops. Even if the Shu Yue bandit was blown up in the legend, Shengbao did not have the slightest fear.

The two sides arrayed under the plains, and Shengbao opened the "clairvoyance" of imports in the Qing army's array. It can be seen clearly in the mirror barrel that the infantry of the Taiping Army is in front and the cavalry is in the rear, setting up a simple formation of left, center and right. After Sheng Bao saw it, he laughed greatly in his heart, and the Shu Yue bandit on the opposite side was really not as famous as meeting.

Even the generals of the Qing army who are not very good will choose some more distinctive formations. And the Taiping army in front of him is a formation that can be discharged by very mediocre generals in the Qing army.

Opposite Shengbao was the troops of the Eleventh Army, and the army commander Wei Changrong finally breathed a sigh of relief after his subordinates finally breathed a sigh of relief. Even in the plains, the ground is undulating. It was very troublesome to set up a well-organized phalanx, but fortunately, Wei Changrong was engaged in combat training and had a good understanding of the general level of the unit commander and each unit, so he was able to arrange the troops smoothly.

6,000 people against 7,000 people, among which the cavalry in the rear of the Taiping army was still a twist army, and Wei Changrong still felt that the victory was in his hands. The Qing army on the opposite side had no heavy artillery, and the cavalry was less than 1,000, and the possibility of making changes on the battlefield was already very low. As for the Qing army's simple formation of the Taiping army, Wei Changrong felt that when he caught the commander of the Qing army, he could give him a more merciful death.

Looking at the sky, and then at the troops standing in the cold wind of early spring, Wei Changrong shouted to the staff officers beside him: "Order!" Offensive! ”

"Herald! Offensive! "Wei Ze personally led the 13th Army to fight. Ke Gongyu, the original commander of the 13th Army, served as the chief of the General Staff, and Lin Asheng, the former minister of logistics, served as the commander of the 13th Army. At this time, Wei Ze directly commanded the 13th Army to fight, and the battlefield of the two sides was located in Zhangguantun, northeast of Linqing City, and the enemy opposite was Chong'en, the political envoy of Shandong.

The various units of the Qing army did not expect that Wei Ze only sent a small number of troops to feint to attack Linqing, and the main force saw the opportunity to try to carry out a field battle with the various units of the Qing army. The news of Shengbao's troops rushing to the Qing Dynasty aroused the courage of the gang who had disappeared due to the defeat of Shanlu, and they tried to make some similar offensive actions to fool the already angry Emperor Xianfeng.

Wei Ze seized this opportunity, and at the very short opportunity when Chong'en ran out of Linqing with his troops from Linqing, and turned back to try to reach Zhangguantun, he led 6ooo troops to force Chong'en's 4ooo troops. At this time, Wei Ze did not calmly set up the formation like Wei Changrong, but directly ordered the 1,000 men of the two brigades to march head-on, and the left and right flanks went around the back of the Qing army together.

Wei Changrong's two thousand horse teams are all members of the four largest factions of the Twist Army, they followed Wei Ze all the way to kill, and after attacking the city and doing a lot of work, they naturally had a strong will to fight.

The 1,000 cavalry that followed Wei Ze were a very weak group of more than thirty twisted army gangs. Their twenty or so gangs together were only a thousand cavalry. The smaller the gang, the more it cannot afford to lose, and the more it does not dare to lose, the smaller the chance of obtaining the spoils of war, and this is the law of a very vicious circle on the battlefield.

When these people saw that the battle was decided, they began to go out to hunt down the fleeing Qing army, several large gangs had already been killed. When these small gangs arrived on the battlefield, the big gangs had already annihilated the Qing army in pieces and controlled the battlefield. These people can only get battlefield gains by chasing and killing the sporadic Qing troops who are "eating leftovers" of the big gangs. If they want to achieve such a goal, they can only run a farther way, because they are far away from the brigade, and these people have to be careful of the counterattack of the Qing army.

This situation made this small gang depressed for a long time, but they couldn't compete with the big gang, Wei Ze's Taiping army never participated in snatching the spoils of war on the battlefield, and it was Wei Ze's troops who were responsible for defeating the Qing army head-on. So some of the gang simply defected to the big gang temporarily, and those who refused to defect all approached Weser in the hope that Weser could provide them with a better fighting opportunity.

Now the opportunity has come, as long as the 4ooo troops of Chong'en, the political envoy of Shandong on the opposite side, are completely resolved, these people will be able to make a big profit. Although Wei Ze asked them to outflank the Qing army and block the retreat of the Qing army. Such a battle is far riskier than chasing down the collapsed Qing army. However, when these people saw that Wei Ze had easily dealt with so many Qing army troops, they had long lost fear in their hearts.

When thousands of horses galloped, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves shook the earth. Even if these troops from Wei Ze's right flank were still three or four miles away from Chong'en's troops, the sound of horses' hooves alone made Chong'en's troops look a little frightened.

In the north of Linqing, Lei Hu led the troops of the Fourteenth Army into battle at this time. Lei Hu did not have cavalry under him at this time, Wei Changrong divided 1,000 people and more than 2,000 troops to feint the south of Linqing City, and Lei Hu took the 14th Army to feint to attack the north of Linqing City. Thunder Tiger's enemy was a pure cavalry force, and this force suddenly appeared on the periphery of Thunder Tiger, with the intention of launching a surprise attack.

Having endured hardships under the city of Changsha, Lei Hu's troops conducted combat training against enemy cavalry raids. Despite some losses among his brothers in the perimeter reconnaissance force, Lei Hu was prepared when the enemy approached. Seeing that there were only more than a thousand enemies, Lei Hu was also fierce, and he personally led the three most elite brigades to meet the enemy's cavalry in the mode of a hollow phalanx.

Fifteen hundred infantry attacked the cavalry without fear, which undoubtedly frightened the Manchu cavalry opposite Lei Hu, only to see the cavalry retreat like a tide.

But this was just a moment, and this group of cavalry didn't seem to have the intention of letting go of Lei Hu. After running out for a distance of less than 2oo meters, the cavalry was divided into two teams, left and right, and turned to continue to come to the left and right of the advance troops led by Lei Hu.

"No guns! Let's get as close as possible! Lei Hu quickly gave the order. The advance of the troops had only slowed down slightly, and at the outskirts of the hollow phalanx were two layers of pikemen, who were now marching forward in a common marching point. Although the Qing troops rushed to the left and right of the Taiping army, the troops did not receive any order to stop their operations. Although he was also extremely worried in his heart, the whole army was still in a state of marching.

The Qing cavalry obviously had no intention of rushing over, and their horses stretched out their bows and arrows, shooting a shower of arrows at the hollow phalanx of the Taiping army. However, the cavalry was too far away from the Taiping army's phalanx, and a round of bows and arrows failed to hit the Taiping soldiers.

"Keep going, hurry up and take the road!" Lei Hu urged. The order quickly reached the grassroots level, and with the command, the troops entered a state of trot. Less than 3oo meters ahead is the road, and once occupied, the infantry will have an increased superiority in action, while the cavalry will have to "gallop" through the fields if they completely lose control of the road. Although the official road in these years is not smooth, compared with the field, the official road is much better.

The cavalry of the Qing army quickly reorganized their formation, and for the second time they outflanked Lei Hu's troops. The cavalry of the Qing army brandished sabers in their hands, shouted loudly, and rushed over with great momentum. Lei Hu couldn't understand what they were shouting, in fact, because of the distance, he basically couldn't hear the shouting of the Qing army.

Lei Hu's eyebrows were furrowed, and there was a fierce struggle in his heart. As the commander of the troops, Lei Hu bears a completely different heavy pressure. He will give orders to the whole army, and the well-trained troops will obey his orders. Even if the cavalry of the Qing army came straight to the Taiping army, everyone was still marching fast. Now Lei Hu has to make a judgment on whether the Qing cavalry's charge this time is real, or just like last time.

Among Wei Ze's troops, Lei Hu's troops were the only ones that had suffered under the Qing cavalry, and Lei Hu knew what would happen if the infantry was killed in a queue by the cavalry when they were not fully prepared.

As a military commander, Lei Hu of course passed the cultural exam, he can read and write the word "inertia", and he understands this in practice. The cavalry is massive, and if you want to stop moving, it will take a certain amount of time. Theoretically, this amount of time would allow the troops to react quickly. But it had to be a small number of infantry, not fifteen hundred troops advancing in very dense formations.

It takes a lot of training time to bring the 1,500-strong troops to a halt, and the hardships of this can only be experienced by those who have personally participated in the training and commanded it. Take the stop movement as an example, when the various troops are very close, if the order is wrong, the direct result is likely to be that the front team stops, the rear team does not stop, and then a group of people fall all over the ground as if they have overturned the gourd frame.

The hollow phalanx is not something that can be stopped if you want to, and in terms of "inertia", the hollow phalanx is even more difficult to control than the cavalry unit in some respects.

Lei Hu stared at the appearance of the Qing cavalry, looking at them from a distance, Lei Hu made up his mind, "Don't stop, stop after rushing to the intersection!" ”

The Qing army's action this time was judged correctly by Lei Hu, and after they rushed to a place very close to the hollow phalanx, they still turned their horses and retreated. Lei Hu breathed a long sigh of relief, the biggest crisis has passed, and then Lei Hu will take the initiative! rg

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