"Shoot!" The governor of Guangxi, the commander of the Beida battalion besieging Yong'an City, shouted to Rong.

The herald immediately shouted, and the Qing army, which was still in a neat line, rushed towards the Taiping army and began to shoot. In a muffled sound of "bang", some Taiping soldiers fell to the ground, holding the place where they were shot and began to shout, and the remaining Taiping soldiers saw that the knife in their hands alone could not fight against Xiang Rong, who had an orderly formation, and they immediately retreated back and retreated beyond the range of Xiang Rong's musket team.

However, the retreating Taiping army did not flee, they hid behind the rocks in the distance, shouting and scolding at Xiang Rong and them. Some of the warriors also built small stones and threw them at Xiang Rong.

The distance between the two sides is very far, and a small stone can't hit the Qing army at all, and of course it can't do any harm. Xiang Rong didn't care about this. At this time, he repelled the attack of five or six Taiping army squads, and Xiang Rong's mood became more and more nervous. looked at the battle that his son Xiang Jixiong was responsible for, and saw that three miles away, Xiang Jixiong was simply letting go of his gun, and he had no intention of attacking. Xiang Rong's mood was even worse.

Xiang Rong has been on the battlefield for a long time, and he is very clear about the battle situation at this time. After bypassing the mountains, several Taiping forces directly attacked Xiang Rongsuo's troops, which were far away from the battlefield, which meant that Ulantai was finished. If he waits any longer, the main force of the Taiping army will rush to Xiang Rong.

If it was a sunny day, Xiang Rong was not afraid, but it was just a platoon of guns shooting, and the entire army slowly retreated. Unfortunately, it was raining, it was very difficult to retreat, and the musket artillery was also vulnerable to rain and failed. As long as Xiang Rong's team is in chaos, the Taiping army will take advantage of the situation to attack and turn the battle into a melee battle.

Xiang Rong fought many close battles with the Taiping army, and on September 11, 1851, the Taiping army abandoned the Bauhinia Mountain base area and broke through to the south of Ping. Xiang Rong led his troops to chase and block, and was ambushed by the Taiping army in Guancun, and the whole army was defeated, Xiang Rong suddenly encountered this defeat, and felt very frustrated, he sighed: I have grown up among the soldiers for decades, and I have not seen this thief; Self-run this thief, big and small, dozens of battles, never tasted this defeat! At this time, Xiang Rong's headquarters was in the mountains, and the roads were in the canyon. If the battle was lost, the Qing army would not be able to break up if it wanted to, and could only be wiped out in the long pursuit battle. Although he still wanted to rescue Ulantai, Xiang Rong knew that it was time for him to give up. If it continues to be consumed, Xiang Rong will also have to be buried with Ulantai.

"Order, let Xiang Jixiong defeat that traitor!" In the army, Xiang Rong can only treat his son as a member of the war. Ordering his son to step up the battle, Xiang Rong also began to command the Qing army troops to prepare for retreat.

After Xiang Jixiong got his father's order, he also knew that he had to do his best to deal with the Taiping army in front of him. This Taiping army was extremely cunning, and the position they occupied was very uncomfortable for the Qing army. The mouth of the valley is located in the middle of the mountain, with a mountain on one side and a deep valley on the other. There is a large depression in the mountain wall here. The Taiping army occupied the high ground against the mountain wall in the depression.

If the Qing army did not need to retreat, the place where the Taiping army was located would be a dead place, and the Qing army could easily seal the Taiping army inside. When the Qing army wanted to retreat, the Taiping army could not stop the retreat of the Qing army. It's just that the position occupied by the Taiping army is about 5o steps away from the deep valley. When an ordinary musket fires, it is not accurate, but it is within the effective range.

If the Qing army did not care about this Taiping army at all, they would have to let the Taiping army shoot freely. If the Qing army wanted to deal with this Taiping army, they would have to attack from the front. In that way, the distance between the two sides is pulled into 4o steps, or even 3o steps. At this distance, it was really a volley of guns passing by, and there were bound to be dead and wounded. Xiang Jixiong was very aware of the virtues of the Qing army under his command, and let them shoot at the Taiping army at this distance, but the Qing army could not hold out for long.

Since Xiang Jixiong's father, Xiang Rong, has already given the order, he has to insist on it for a long time. Shouting loudly, Xiang Jixiong began to command the Qing army to move towards Wei Ze's troops.

Wei Ze still stood calmly in the center of the first row of battle lines, two steps ahead of the soldiers in the first row. To his left and right, the troops were divided into two rows and formed an array of four-stage blows.

Weeser wasn't a brave guy to face the bullets, but when Weser, who was already standing in the first row of the line, took two steps forward, Weser's subordinates fully believed in the bravery of their commander.

For Weese, it's not about how heroic he is. But under such tremendous pressure, Weeser can only choose to believe in what he has learned. Many movies and books have content about the arquebus shooting era. For this kind of weapon, which basically does not need to consider the quasi-head, standing in the first row and the second row, there is not much difference in the hit rate. The unlucky guy on the battlefield stood in the third row, but the first and second rows were unharmed, but it was an example of a guy who only showed his head and was hit. If the first two steps will not lead to a significant increase in mortality, Wei Ze can still show his bravery with the backbone and courage.

More importantly, standing at the front, you can see the enemy's movements clearly, and at the same time, Wei Ze can also let the soldiers see Wei Ze's command clearly. On the battlefield, the soldiers are looking forward, and Wei Ze's command knife is the baton of the soldiers who have undergone strict training.

The Qing army on the opposite side got closer and closer, and when they trembled to a distance of about 35 steps, Wei Ze didn't care whether the Qing army shot or not, his single knife was raised high, "The left team prepares!" ”

"The left team is ready!" Immediately, a pawn commander responded not far from Wees.

At this time, the Qing army had stopped, they stopped at a distance of about 3o steps from Wei Ze, and before they raised their muskets to aim, Wei Ze's command knife was instantly commanded, "The left team shoots!" ”

At the moment of the order, the sound of arquebuses "bang" finally sounded in the left team. This is called "lining up to shoot", after the first row fires, it switches places with the second row, and the second row becomes the first row and continues to shoot. At the same time, the original first row continued to swap places with the third and fourth rows, becoming the last row. This last row calmly filled with gunpowder and lead, and if the fire rope was extinguished, it continued to be re-lit. And so on and so forth, until there is no ammunition or the two sides engage in hand-to-hand combat.

The warfare of this era is like this, more than the density of firepower, more than the number of soldiers, and the proficiency. The tactics are very simple compared to later generations. The way infantry fights has changed dramatically, and that will have to happen until the metal-hulled bullet introduces the rifle to change dramatically.

Xiang Jixiong appeared before the attack, and the Taiping army on the opposite side did not fire with their guns. He hoped that this was because the Taiping army on the opposite side lacked gunpowder or even had no gunpowder, and the muskets were just to scare and scare people. He didn't expect that these Taiping troops on the other side turned out to be a well-trained and disciplined team.

After approaching about 3o paces, without waiting for the Qing army to fire, the Taiping army actually took the lead with a very skillful platoon of guns. In the front row of the Qing army, which leaned forward to shoot, more than a dozen people were immediately knocked down by successive rows of fire. Those who were not shot were frightened, and they hurriedly retreated. It was only a distance of more than 20 steps from the forward position of the Taiping army to the valley, and in the middle of this push and backwards, accompanied by a few terrible screams, several unlucky people were squeezed out of the valley. This time, the ranks of the Qing army became even more chaotic.

Weeser did not continue to strike, he even ordered to stop shooting. After all, the Taiping army did not have much gunpowder, and Wei Ze's gunpowder hidden privately consumed a lot in training.

Xiang Jixiong knew that he had encountered a strong enemy, so he turned his head to look at the Chinese army where his father was. But I saw that the Chinese army of the Qing army actually began to retreat, and there were more than 3,000 Chinese soldiers and horses, and even if more than 3,000 people swarmed in such a place, they could not deploy their troops. Gritting his teeth, Xiang Jixiong shouted to his subordinates: "Those who can rush to the camp of traitors will be rewarded with five taels of silver!" ”

As soon as these words fell, they also aroused a little morale of the Qing army, of course, Xiang Jixiong continued to shout: "If you escape from the enemy, Admiral Xiang will come to us immediately, and you will not be spared at that time!" ”

Xiang Rong was stripped of his official position after his defeat in the war last year, and after his resurrection, he attached great importance to the pacification of the army. It can really be clear about rewards and punishments and appease the soldiers. Xiang Jixiong, like other second generations, especially believes that there will be brave men under heavy rewards. When he sprinkles money, he is very happy, and he never breaks his word. Under the combination of grace and power, the Qing army also pulled out more than 100 people.

Xiang Jixiong did not attack in an orderly manner, he first organized a musket that could still be fired, and hit the Taiping army with a musket from more than fifty paces away, and then more than 100 Qing troops were brave, carrying knives and guns, and rushed towards Wei Ze's position.

Wei Ze saw that the Qing army's charging team did not have muskets at all, "Wei Changrong, lead the team out!" ”

"Yes!" Wei Changrong, who had been hiding behind the musket team, immediately happily led the pikemen around to the front of the musket team, holding a spear and waiting for it. Seeing that the musket team on the opposite side suddenly turned into a spear formation, the Qing army not only did not decrease, but accelerated its pace. It's a disadvantage to fight a spear, but it's much easier than a single knife to a musket.

The Qing army soon rushed to the front of the ditch, and among them, they were dexterous, and they directly jumped over the ditch that was not wide with a single knife, and the Qing army behind also followed suit and crossed the ditch one after another.

When thirty Qing soldiers crossed over and were about to arrive in front of the spear array, Wei Ze shouted: "The pikemen squat." ”

Wei Changrong led the spear team, and at the same time half-squatted down, the spear in his hand pointed straight forward, the Qing army originally thought that the hand-to-hand combat was not alive, and they were immediately blocked by the "horse rejection array" composed of the spear array.

Behind the "Horse Rejection Array" were rows of black muzzles.

"Shoot!" Wei Ze's single knife swung down again, and within ten paces, in the face of the dense Qing army, the musketeers swung with astonishing lethality. Not a single bullet missed. In a moment, the Qing army's charging team was drowned in a cloud of gunpowder smoke and disappeared.

Xiang Jixiong didn't expect his opponent to be such an army at all, he opened his mouth wide and froze in place.

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