"It's only a little bit of that!" Wei Ze in the city and Jiang Zhongyuan in the city almost had this thought in their hearts.

Wei Ze turned his head and saw that at the west gate of Guanyang City, the cart and troops were rushing into the open gate. turned around again, but saw that the Qing army under the city was out of breath, and it seemed that they could no longer run.

"Brigade Marshal Ke, fire a few shots for them to taste!" Wei Ze said to Ke Gongyu, the commander of the teaching brigade.

"Yes!" Ke Gongyu's troops followed Wei Ze closely, and although they were also out of breath at this time, they also quickly pulled up a few small cannons. This is more than 100 catties of Qing army mountain splitting artillery. According to the mountain splitting cannon cast by the Qing army, "the style is like a big cannon, and the body is only five feet, can eat half a catty, half a catty, and can reach four or five miles." "This kind of artillery weighs from tens of catties to hundreds of catties, and it belongs to a type of light artillery.

The Qing army was equipped with this type of artillery, and the Taiping army also began to equip it after seizing these guns from the Qing army. Wei Ze's troops began to be equipped with light artillery weighing dozens of pounds from Guilin City, and hundreds of pounds of light artillery were captured from Liu Changqing's troops, and these artillery pieces were captured from Quanzhou. The cannons have not yet been able to reach the city.

Ke Gongyu was originally the commander of the Third Brigade in Wei Ze's troops, and Wei Ze still maintained his original title to the outside world in order not to cause trouble to himself. In fact, a lot of internal adjustments have been made, and the organizational model is completely different from the system of the Taiping Army.

Wei Ze originally had four brigades, but after Wei Ze was promoted, they all changed divisions. Wei Changrong, the commander of the 1st Division, became the head of the combat training department, similar to the position of chief instructor of the whole army. Hu Chenghe, the commander of the Second Division, is now in charge of the command of the whole army. The commander of the Third Division was supposed to be Ke Gongyu, but Wei Ze did not promote Ke Gongyu to the rank of officer, but appointed Ke Gongyu as the commander of the teaching brigade.

But no one in the entire army dared to underestimate Ke Gongyu, the teaching brigade has always been the highest priority to get the best equipment and personnel, and Wei Ze is personally responsible for the training of the teaching brigade. And that's just what ordinary fighters think about the teaching brigade. The top echelons of the troops in Weeser were well aware of the important role of the teaching brigade, and that the tactics, training, and even the discipline of batting that were popularized throughout the army were gradually completed in the teaching brigade. The Teaching Brigade is responsible for training non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level, and this rotational training is only at the beginning, but it will not be too long, and all the commanders in Weeser's entire unit will be trained in the Teaching Brigade and will be recognized before they can take up their posts.

Although the current commander of the Third Division, Ruan Xihao, seems to have a higher status than Ke Gongyu, and Ruan Xihao has brought more than 800 people from six villages to participate in Wei Ze's troops after all. However, all high-level officers, including Ruan Xihao, knew Ke Gongyu's status, and the actual influence of this brigade commander was definitely no less than that of Wei Changrong and Hu Chenghe.

The teaching brigade has its own artillery unit directly under it, and when he heard Wei Ze's order, Ke Gongyu immediately shouted at Liang Changtai, the commander of the artillery guard: "Prepare to open fire!" ”

Liang Changtai was born in the Boat Army, and it was originally his turn to do the 6th Army. But because Liang Changtai was a boat army, he had to learn arithmetic and distinguish the direction and terrain. As a result, this experience allowed Liang Changtai to complete Wei Ze's test questions in the army's assessment rarely, although the results were only just passed, but Liang Changtai had high qualifications, so he became the commander of the artillery unit.

After setting up the wrought iron artillery carriage built in Yongming County, Liang Changtai instructed the artillery to load gunpowder, and then wrapped the shells in oil-soaked linen cloth and stuffed them into the muzzle. Because of the problem of gunpowder holding gas, the solid shells of the Qing army were as close to the muzzle as possible, and the problem of technical control made artillery shells of various calibers very uncommon, so most of the Qing army used artillery to shoot scattered shells. Only thousands of pounds of artillery mostly use solid metal shells. Weeser used the American Civil War method he had read about in books, wrapping the shells in linen, which could improve the breath holding, and the diameter of the shells could be significantly smaller than the muzzle.

When Wei Ze was in junior high school, the beginning of the geometry class was the ruler and gauge drawing method, and the artillerymen of the Taiping Army also learned this thing. Regardless of whether you learn it well or not, the wrought iron artillery mounts of the artillerymen have different scales to determine the angle of artillery firing. The teaching brigade can become a teaching brigade because the logistical supply is very "loose" for them. Liang Changtai became an artilleryman halfway through, and participated in hundreds of real shootings. Most of the Qing gunners were less experienced than him.

"Report to the brigade commander! The artillery is ready! In accordance with the regulations, after receiving reports from various artillery departments, Liang Changtai ran over and shouted to Ke Gongyu. These days the training is very hard, physically tired, and mentally even more tired. It took more than a dozen steps to fire the artillery and hundreds of drills before the artillery unit could be considered to have mastered these steps. As long as each process and flyer are in place, even if there is a problem, Liang Changtai can roughly figure out which link is the problem without looking at it.

"Report to the Prime Minister! The artillery is ready! Regardless of Liang Changtai's voice, Wei Ze can definitely be heard, Ke Gongyu personally reported back to Wei Ze. This matter can only be done by teaching the brigade, and Wei Ze repeatedly stressed that he cannot coldly overstep the command. As long as the higher level does not personally issue orders to the middle command level, no matter how inefficient the report is, it must be reported according to the level.

"Have you ever measured the shooting elements?" Weeser asked.

"It's all measured!" Ke Gongyu replied. Many of the people in the teaching brigade guarding the city were from the staff department, and they had not been idle in the past few days, and they had already measured the shooting elements outside the city.

"Try it, how far away from the banner of the Qing army can be hit." Weeser gave the order. He didn't want to give the order to hit the commander of the Qing army directly. Because this kind of order is too nonsense, even if you see a few guys in the Qing army who are dressed more specially, but who knows what level of commander it is. However, the banner of the Qing army is more conspicuous, and the position of the banner is among the Qing soldiers, and they can achieve results when they hit that vicinity.

"Shoot at the banner of the Qing army!" Ke Gongyu summed up a more accurate order very clearly.

"I was ordered to shoot at the banner of the Qing army!" Liang Changtai replied.

Because artillery is not a standard standard, all kinds of ballistics are very unstable. The guns they chose had a characteristic, that is, after a relatively strict comparison, the muzzle caliber and breech length of the selected guns were relatively close. For the sake of such a core parameter, even some of the more sophisticated artillery pieces were abandoned by Weescher. For some guns of so-so quality, Weeser had to ask the blacksmith to build an iron hoop to put on the outside of the cannon to minimize the risk of exploding.

The gunpowder was all fixed, and the shells were also supported by scales, and after spending a lot of labor that the Qing army was absolutely unwilling to pay, Wei Ze created the prototype of his own artillery unit. The first artillery commander Liang Changtai ordered: "No. 3 and No. 4 gun positions, 18 degrees in the front and zero degrees in the rear!" Fire! ”

The gunners of the two small cannons shouted to confirm Liang Changtai's order, and then lit the cannons. "Bang bang twice!" Eyes popped out of the muzzles of the two small cannons. Two shells, propelled by gunpowder gases, flew out of the muzzles and flew towards the positions of the Qing troops. From the time Weeser gave the order to prepare for the shelling to the beginning of the shelling, the whole process took less than ten minutes.

When Jiang Zhongyuan arrived at Guanyang City, he was also exhausted. It didn't take too much effort to persuade Hechun, after all, Jiang Zhongyuan had Yao Ying's backing behind him, and the Taiping army brigade was in Daozhou, and a rather elite small army was attacking the weak areas of the Qing army as if it were in a no-man's land, which was too big a blow to the morale of the Qing army.

In this situation, the best way to deal with this situation is for the Qing army to also send a good fighting force to annihilate this small force of the Taiping army. If he can win, he will naturally eliminate the disaster and improve the morale of the Qing army. Jiang Zhongyuan had seen the Taiping army hang the heads of the Qing army commanders and commanders outside Guilin, such as Ulantai and Qin Dingsan, and inflicted a huge psychological blow on the Qing army. The head of the Qing army Liu Changqing hung outside the Qing army camp in Wuli Pavilion, Daozhou, and the Qing army in Daozhou was also frightened enough.

If this warlike Taiping army can be eliminated, and its commander's head can be hung outside the city of Daozhou, where the Taiping army is entrenched, it will also be able to deal a great blow to the Taiping army.

Therefore, Jiang Zhongyuan strongly asked to lead troops to attack, and He Chun was barely able to accept such a construction. But when Liu Changqing was annihilated, there were more than 1,000 people under his command. He Chun felt that the excitement of this Taiping army must have at least 3,000 troops. Therefore, Hechun sent Jiang Zhongyuan another 1,000 troops, and the strength of the Qing army of 3,000 people was equivalent to the mobile force of the Taiping Army, and the brave Jiang Zhongyuan led the troops, and he would not be swallowed in one bite like Liu Changqing.

Although it did not receive the support of the local Heaven and Earth Society like the Taiping Army, the Qing Army was an official army, and the local landlords and gentry were willing to send people to lead the way, so it took more than three days to hurry up, and Jiang Zhongyuan finally approached Guanyang. After sending someone to investigate, the spies came back to report that although the gates of Guanyang City were closed, there were few defenders in the city. At this time, the news of Quanzhou being captured also reached Jiang Zhongyuan through the contact line, although he was very surprised by the decisiveness of the bandits, but Jiang Zhongyuan felt that there were at most two or three hundred Cantonese bandits defending the city, and he should be able to capture the city with two or three thousand troops, make long ladders and other siege objects, and shoot intensively with artillery and muskets.

Therefore, Jiang Zhongyuan spent another day making engineering equipment in concealment, and rested by the way. As a result, they began to go out early the next morning, but when they were about to arrive at Guanyang City, they reported that a large group of Cantonese bandits were rushing to Guanyang City. Jiang Zhongyuan was really taken aback at this time. Generally speaking, bandits always have to raid a place after they have conquered it. The Cantonese bandits had very good military discipline and never robbed ordinary people, so when Jiang Zhongyuan calculated, he had already calculated that the time for the Cantonese bandits to return to Guanyang from Quanzhou was relatively short. According to Jiang Zhongyuan's estimate, the Cantonese bandits rushed back to Guanyang from Quanzhou, and they had to do it tomorrow. Unexpectedly, he miscalculated, and the Cantonese bandits advanced by a day. Now the two sides are competing to see who is faster. If Jiang Zhongyuan could arrive at Guanyang even an hour earlier than the Cantonese bandits, he would still be able to start organizing the siege. There is still a great deal of hope that a wall will be captured. At that time, three thousand against three thousand, Jiang Zhongyuanpo was able to fight a battle with the Cantonese bandits.

So Jiang Zhongyuan gave the order, marched with all his strength, and pounced on Guanyang.

When Jiang Zhongyuan led his troops to the city, he saw more and more Cantonese bandits at the head of the city, although they looked panting, but they quickly occupied the battlements on the city wall with weapons in hand. Jiang Zhongyuan's troops were on standby. Although the west gate of Guanyang City had not been closed at this time, Jiang Zhongyuan was still able to suddenly rush to the west gate and fight with the Cantonese bandits. But Jiang Zhongyuan's troops marched more than ten miles, and they were also tired and out of breath at this time. I'm afraid that kind of scuffle is not pleased.

He was reorganizing his troops more than a mile away from the city, when Jiang Zhongyuan suddenly saw the city firing two cannons. Guanyang does not have thousands of pounds of cannons, and the small cannons all use scattered bullets, and they can't fly more than a mile at all. Jiang Zhongyuan didn't care about this.

Then he watched as one of the two shells punched a big hole in the banner of the Qing army, and then the other shell flew two or three feet above the source of Jiang Zhong. Two shells smashed directly into the dense Chinese army column of the Qing army, and in the scream, a Qing soldier was smashed in the head, and the shell drilled out of the Qing army's skull, and smashed the chest bone of a Qing soldier behind. Another Qing soldier had his arm broken, and the Qing soldier in the back was smashed and broke his leg bone. The dead Qing soldiers were better, and the wounded Qing soldiers screamed at their throats.

The Chinese troops of the Qing army were suddenly shelled, and it was still such an accurate shelling. The Qing army, which was originally surrounding the banner of the Chinese army, began to disperse with a bang, leaving only Jiang Zhongyuan and a few personal soldiers standing near the banner. Even if he was bold and arrogant, Jiang Zhongyuan still felt that his scalp was numb for a while. Just now a cannonball passed directly above his head two or three feet above, and Jiang Zhongyuan knew very well that if this cannonball was lower, it would not be the head of the Qing army directly behind Jiang Zhongyuan that exploded like a watermelon, but Jiang Zhongyuan's head.

"Forcing these guys to shoot all the ...... At this time, Chief of Staff Zhang Yingchen had already gone to the city, and he happened to see the shooting of the Taiping artillery, he shouted excitedly, because he forgot the word "shooting Zhuyuan", Zhang Yingchen simply did not use the standard vocabulary, but shouted excitedly: "I forced those guys to do the measurement, it seems that the measurement is very accurate!" ”

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