On the morning of November 26, 1861. The battle to attack Hengyang began.

The 6-inch cannon was extremely powerful, and although the artillery was not enough to destroy the city walls, it was enough to destroy a qiē fortification on the city walls. Zhou Jinguo stood on the high ground and looked at the tragic situation after the shelling of the city with a telescope, and only felt his blood boiling. This is war, this is destruction. If you just see the six-inch cannon and the shells, it's not much awe-inspiring. But when the artillery exerts its might, it really has the magnificence of destroying a qiē. Zhou Jinguo was able to firmly implement the prisoner policy, and Zhou Jinguo would not slack off in the face of the resisting enemy.

And it was not only the six-inch guns that fired, but also the three-inch guns in the field fired fierce artillery fire at the city. Four huge balloons were raised high to calibrate the artillery. Under such a fierce blow, the defense system of the city head of the Hengyang Xiang army quickly collapsed. The infantry of the Liberation Army rushed towards the city with ladders on their backs.

Zhou Jinguo could clearly see the difference in the bodies of these soldiers, and when the Guangfu Army entered Guangdong, the ages of the soldiers were uneven. There are teenagers, and there are also middle-aged people in their forties. Today, the grassroots fighters are between the ages of 18 and 22, and most of the older soldiers have moved to work in factories, while some have returned to the countryside to work in agriculture. The vigorous actions of the young men made Zhou Jinguo, who was less than thirty years old, a little envious.

The artillerymen stopped firing for the time being, and the soldiers, with rifles on their backs, quickly climbed up the ladder to the top of the city. Without a pause, loading bayonets, the troops began to expand the control range in squad platoons, and some troops followed the city ladder to kill the city wall, and began a fierce attack on the Hunan army in the city.

At this time, the Hengyang Xiang army had blocked the city gate with stone bars, and the soldiers carrying steel pipes and other parts on their backs quickly ascended the city. Soon the improvised crane was erected. The ropes and pulleys were soon hung on the crane support. The three-inch guns were hoisted up to the head of the city, and the artillerymen opened a fixed position, and after the test firing, they began to fire fiercely at the positions guarded by the Hunan army in the city.

This tactical action is the result of the accumulation of the Liberation Army bit by bit over the years, and it has been tempered by training and war, so that it can have today's best performance. Zhou Jinguo, who saw this qiē with his own eyes, only felt extremely proud. Not only was he commanding this great army himself, he was a member of this great army himself. This identity alone makes Zhou Jinguo extremely proud.

On the same day that the Guangfu army attacked Hengyang, in Baoqing City, the siege battle also began. Same training, same equipment. The Guangfu Army has this same excellent table in Baoqing. Zhou Jincai, the commander of the first regiment of the 13th Army, went up the ladder to the city. After the reorganization of the troops, most of the regiment commanders were promoted to brigade commanders or division commanders, and some battalion commanders were even promoted to the position of division commanders. But Zhou Jincai was not in this ranks, he only became a regiment leader. And being promoted to regiment commander was also discussed by the troops, and Zhou Jincai's opposition to land reform was rewritten in his record. This had a very negative impact on his path to promotion.

The division commander specially talked to Zhou Jincai and asked him to "work hard, don't embarrass me!" Zhou Jincai naturally knew what the division commander did not say directly, so Zhou Jincai excitedly assured the division commander that he would definitely fight the battle well.

Baoqing's Hunan army once defeated the siege of Shi Dakai's 100,000 troops, although they once attacked Yongzhou without knowing death, and were ruthlessly annihilated by the Guangfu army. However, after the Hunan prisoners were released, they were transferred back to Baoqing to continue to defend the city.

According to the inspector, Zhao Huanlian and Zhou Kuanshi, the general soldier who escaped by chance, bravely sent troops out of the city to fight, and after being easily annihilated by the Guangfu army, they stuck to Baoqing City and tried to wait for reinforcements. Moreover, according to the inspector Zhao Huanlian, he had the experience of defending Baoqing last time, and he did not stupidly defend the city, but constantly sent small troops to try to harass the Guangfu army. These Hunan troops, who were familiar with the terrain, were as annoying as flies, and the local regimental trainers also participated in the battle against the Guangfu army.

So the original plan was revised, and the troops drew a map first to familiarize themselves with the terrain. The troops first surrounded Baoqing City, and the troops took the company as a unit to carry out a devastating attack on the regimental training forces that participated in the battle. Even if the landlord's armed forces were local snakes, the Guangfu Army relied on its abundant body and sophisticated equipment to uproot the regimental training armed forces within 50 miles.

After the landlords who prepared the regimental training were killed and their property was distributed to the local poor people, no one cooperated with the Qing army's fighting. Although the original plan of the troops attacking Baoqing was to attack Baoqing City directly, when they began to attack, they actually started attacking on the same day that reinforcements had been delayed for a while at the Hengyang encirclement point.

The enemy in Baoqing City was extremely stubborn, and when the Guangfu Army attacked the city, Zhao Huanlian and Zhou Kuanshi, the chief soldier, did not mean to give up. They actually set fire to the houses near the city walls, trying to organize the momentum of the Liberation Army's attack with fire, and second, they also planned to clear a clearing with fire. With this clearing, the Hunan army was able to hide behind other houses and shoot the Guangfu army who wanted to rush through this clearing.

The Liberation Army really had never encountered such a stubborn enemy, and this arrangement actually worked. After the fire stopped for a while, the attacking troops of the Guangfu Army did not want to use artillery to shoot at the houses, and the Hunan army had already drilled many shooting holes in the walls of the houses, and they opened fire fiercely at the rushing Guangfu troops from these shooting holes, and the Guangfu Army was caught off guard and suffered more than 50 casualties.

Standing at the head of the city, seeing the Hunan army resisting so stubbornly, Zhou Jinguo gritted his teeth and squeezed out the voice of the command from between his teeth, "Use artillery to collapse those houses!" ”

The attacking troops were quickly evacuated with the bodies of the wounded and fallen comrades, and by this time the artillerymen had skillfully assembled the disassembled parts that had been hoisted up to the head of the city, and the gun wagons were pushed down the road. After setting up the gun emplacement, the artillerymen began to fire at the houses. After the head was cut, a somewhat pointed cone-shaped cannonball shot through the wall with a huge kinetic energy, and exploded in the house a moment later.

It took quite a while to destroy the well-prepared defensive line of the Qing army, and the infantry continued to attack. To Zhou Jincai's great surprise, the Hunan army did not collapse after being attacked like this. They were still resisting, and when the Guangfu army attacked along the street, the door of a house that was originally closed suddenly opened, and several or a dozen Hunan soldiers rushed out from inside, and they carried cold weapons and pounced directly on the soldiers of the Guangfu army.

Although each such battle ended in the victory of the Liberation Army, casualties were inevitable in such a surprise attack, and the wounded and sacrificed soldiers were constantly brought back. At this time, the stone bars blocking the city gate had been cleared by the engineers of the Liberation Army, and hundreds of light and serious wounded were quickly sent in the field hospital set up in the open space outside the open city gate.

Although in order to kill and injure hundreds of officers and soldiers of the Liberation Army, the Hunan Army also paid the price of thousands of people. But this is also something that has never been seen before for the Liberation Army. Zhou Jincai participated in the battle to attack Yongxing, annihilating thousands of enemies, and the casualties of the Guangfu Army were only this number. Zhou Jincai promised the division commander that he must fight the war well and make meritorious contributions. When exterminating the regiment and training these local snakes, Zhou Jinguo's troop performance was very good and was rewarded by the division commander. But I didn't expect to suffer such a big loss in the siege warfare that the Liberation Army is best at.

Zhou Jincai's eyes were red, and he scolded in the city: "These people are doing!" ”

After only scolding like this, Zhou Jincai turned his head and shouted to his side: "Guard platoon, follow me." ”

The regimental chief of staff grabbed Zhou Jincai, who was about to take the lead in person, and the regimental chief of staff shouted: "Regiment commander, are we slowing down!" This is the street fight that the Governor said! ”

In fact, there was no need for the regimental chief of staff to remind him, Zhou Jincai had just thought of this. In the internal exercises and training subjects of the Liberation Army, there are street battles. It's just that the attacker of this kind of training is the Liberation Army, and the defending side is also the Liberation Army. And in the battle, there has never been an enemy who can attack the Liberation Army with a small team.

Shaking off the regimental chief of staff who was holding his arm, Zhou Jincai shouted: "Do you think I don't know? I knew it was street fighting, so I was on the front line. The troops are poorly trained, and you don't see them just shooting guns. At such a close distance, they need to use bayonets, but the enemy doesn't need to poke these bastards with guns, they can't remember that they have bayonets on their guns! ”

Being cut off by Zhou Jincai like this, the battle that had just happened in the mind of the regimental chief of staff quickly flashed, and he immediately understood what was going on. As Zhou Jincai said, the troops paid too much attention to shooting, and did not think of taking the initiative to attack with bayonets when the enemy had just rushed out and the formation was not spreading.

"Regiment commander, then we will stabilize the troops first and reorganize the troops to attack." The regimental chief of staff built yì said.

Zhou Jincai's eyes seemed to burn with two fires, and he said loudly: "The Hunan army can fight like this, and those who dare to fight to the death are only afraid of more than half of the casualties at this time." As long as we work harder, we can break the resistance of the Hunan army in one fell swoop. At this time, the troops were withdrawn, which was an opportunity for the Hunan army to reorganize. At this time, the officers will have to take the lead! Needless to say, I personally led the troops to attack! ”

The regimental chief of staff no longer dissuaded, not only did he no longer dissuade Zhou Jincai, but he even had a feeling of being impressed by Zhou Jincai. Those who dare to openly oppose Wei Zedudu can basically be labeled as "not a good person" in the eyes of the cadres of the Liberation Army. And Zhou Jincai was still promoted under such circumstances, so he naturally had his advantages. At this time, Zhou Jincai looked angry, but he could completely see through the problems between the enemy and us, and made the decision to personally lead the team to attack. This ability, this heroic spirit of a soldier, cannot but make the regimental chief of staff a little awe-inspired.

Ordering the chief of staff of the regiment to be responsible for mobilizing troops in the back, Zhou Jincai led the guard platoon straight to the front line. At this time, the first battalion of troops in charge of the attack had already attacked the vicinity of the prefect's yamen, where the streets were narrow, and the Hunan army had built a strong camp here, and the attack was extremely difficult.

Zhou Jincai just looked at the situation and immediately ordered the troops to leave two platoons here to shoot at the Hunan army. Other units occupied nearby houses and climbed on the roofs to attack the enemy behind the barricades.

Zhou Jincai led the guard platoon in the front, the second battalion followed, and the troops went around from the side to try to find the enemy's gap. At this time, the four city walls were occupied by the Guangfu army, and the Hunan army withdrew to the fortifications in the city. If the Guangfu Army had bombarded the Qing Army at any cost at this time, the destruction of the Qing Army would have been nothing more than a blink of an eye. However, this is obviously unrealistic, and the task of the 13th Army is not only to take Baoqing, but also to level the surrounding area and ensure that the Qing army in Sichuan will not send troops to join in the excitement at this time. So shells are very important at this time. With the current transportation capacity, it is very laborious to transport artillery shells from Guangdong to the front line. The pressure on the back office is enormous. So the troops can only rely on infantry warfare to solve the problem.

Baoqing's Qing army is worthy of being able to resist the siege of Shi Dakai's 100,000 army, and the defense system is very complete. After walking a few streets, the Hunan army blocked the street with very strong fortifications. Leaving the troops to contain the enemy, Zhou Jincai continued to look for possible opportunities.

After bypassing two more streets, suddenly as soon as the courtyard gate next to it opened, Hunan troops rushed out. Zhou Jincai raised his rifle and pulled the trigger on the leading Hunan army more than a dozen paces away, and the leader of the Hunan army was shot in the chest, and the person fell backwards. There was no change of bullets at all, Zhou Jincai raised his bayonet and pounced on the Hunan army behind.

The Hunan army took a spear, and when he saw Zhou Jincai rushing over, he stabbed the spear. Zhou Jincai's rifle spread out and suppressed the spear of the Hunan army. The bayonet blocked the head of the Hunan army's gun, so that he could not draw the gun out. The Xiang army hurriedly picked up the spear with all his strength, trying to pick Zhou Jincai's rifle away.

Zhou Jincai quickly withdrew his rifle and slammed it from the bottom up. Where did Xiang Jun think that Zhou Jincai was so "cunning", he only felt a great force in his hand, and at the same time that the tiger's mouth felt severe pain, Xiang Jun's own strength and Zhou Jincai's strength were added, and his arms involuntarily raised upward. The Xiang army saw that there was blood coming out of the tiger's mouth in his palm, so he took a pick, and the tiger's mouth was shocked.

The tiger's mouth cracked, the Hunan army could no longer hold the spear, Zhou Jincai approached with an arrow, and the bayonet was lightly inserted into the left chest of the Hunan army more than an inch deep, and then the bayonet was lightly pulled out. This dexterous movement was completely different from the brute force that provoked the spears of the Hunan army before.

Someone took the lead, and the soldiers of the guard platoon did the same. The place is small and close to each other. Everyone was afraid of accidentally injuring their comrades by shooting, so they raised their rifles and started hand-to-hand combat. Whether it was a gunfight or hand-to-hand combat, the Hunan army was not the opponent of the Guangfu army. The fact that I was able to have some results before was entirely because of the mistakes of the Liberation Army itself.

Only a minute passed after a simple hand-to-hand fight, and the Hunan army was knocked down seven or eight. There were more than a dozen people in this group of Hunan troops, and the rest of the Hunan troops were so frightened that they turned around and ran. As soon as the distance was opened, the fighters were ready to shoot. At this time, from behind, those people can't run away.

"Don't fire! Follow them! Zhou Jin said. R1058