Chapter 94: The Kingdom of Heaven Falls Apart (16)

When the troops were assembled, they had already done the movements of relaxation and stretching, and after the muscles and bones were stretched, the officers and men looked very calm in their gestures. $(). ()(x). The group quickly finished arranging their weapons and quietly waited for the battle order.

"Comrades, follow closely the commanders of the units and obey orders." The content emphasized by the Liberation Army before the war was also exceptionally simple and clear.

"Out!" "Out!" The commanders of the various units shouted one after another. The troops began to advance in columns in the direction of the enemy.

Zeng Guohua was also watching the actions of the Liberation Army at the head of the city at this time. As the third brother of Zeng Guofan, Zeng Guohua completely led the troops to fight with the combat tips summarized by Zeng Guofan. Zeng Guofan advocated not to bring too many men and horses when looking at the terrain, because if the Taiping army saw the soldiers coming to attack, it would be easy to break the generals in battle, and if they left, they would lose morale. So bring three or five retinues, just travel lightly. And when watching the enemy's situation, you should be more careful, there is no need to put on a show. Zeng Guohua changed into the uniform of an ordinary soldier of the Qing army at this time, and only brought two entourages to watch the battle at the head of the city.

Seeing the column action of the Liberation Army, Zeng Guohua frowned. There is nothing unusual about marching in columns, this is the most traditional mode of marching for thousands of years. However, the number of columns of the Liberation Army was too large, and there seemed to be no subordinate relationship between the various columns. That's weird.

Cold weapon battles, you must form a battle formation. In this era of fire fighting, the battle formation has become even more important. In order to be able to shoot continuously, it is the most basic mode for troops to line up in three rows or even more horizontal formations. And the Liberation Army is very particular about horizontal teams in the legend. It is said that the Liberation Army was even able to line up horizontally, go out for a few miles, and still maintain the front line of the troops, and barely maintain a straight line. The Hunan army's daily hard training is also working in this direction.

Now Zeng Guoquan saw that the Guangfu Army showed no sign of organizing horizontal movements, as if they had given up the plan to line up in a neat queue and only cared about marching. What kind of moth is the Liberation Army preparing to make? Zeng Guoquan really couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that there were about 500 people in the Guangfu Army lined up in a column and went straight to the direction of the Qing army in ambush in the south of the city, Zeng Guohua already understood that the ambushed troops were revealed by the Guangfu army. Such a judgment did not make Zeng Guohua nervous, and the Hunan army had already prepared for this. Back in the city, Zeng Guohua ordered the Hunan army in the city to attack.

The total number of troops in the south of the city was only about 1,000. The Hunan army in ambush had two battalions of men. The 6th Army of the Hunan Army has 500 people per battalion (one battalion officer and four sentinel officers are outside), ten people are a team, and the team has a leader; Eight teams are sentinels, and there are sentinel chiefs at the sentry, and they are all sentinel officers; The four outposts are battalions, and the jurisdiction is governed by battalion officers; Yu is a personal soldier and is directly under the battalion officer. Each team cooperated with long and short weapons such as carrying guns, knives and spears, and small guns. At this time, the Hunan army in the city sent two battalions of troops, 1,000 people in the front and rear, and a total of 2,000 troops flanked the Guangfu army of about 1,000 people.

Zeng Guofan believed that the troops on the defensive side had a combat advantage, and even if the Hunan army was on the offensive, it was necessary to let the other side take the initiative to attack the camp set up by the Hunan army as much as possible. Although Zeng Guohua took the initiative to attack, which somewhat deviated from Zeng Guofan's campaign idea of "Ming host and guest", the Hunan army, which had an advantage in numbers, had a great chance of winning no matter how 2,000 people attacked 1,000 people before and after.

The second half of the Guangfu Army did not form a formation, let alone set up a horizontal formation to meet the Hunan army. Zeng Guohua, who returned to the city, still maintained his own column mode to meet the Hunan army. And these columns hid their troops in undulating terrain according to the terrain. Although the scattered men and banners of the Liberation Army can be seen in many places, these people are scattered quite widely, and even if they want to form a horizontal team, they will not have time to do so. Watching the horizontal team of the Hunan army methodically approaching the position occupied by the Guangfu army, Zeng Guohua seemed to see victory and beckoned to the Hunan army not far away.

Then, the artillery of the Liberation Army began to threaten.

The shells flew into the Hunan army's horizontal column with extremely accurate landing points, and exploded immediately after touching the ground. Each shell swept through the Hunan army around the landing site like a storm, and after each shell exploded, it created a break in the horizontal line of the Hunan army. And the Hunan army actually withstood such an artillery bombardment, even if the horizontal team moving forward stopped in place, even the Hunan officers and soldiers watched the baptism of shells that allowed the three artillery pieces to fire continuously. At least the ranks of the Hunan army did not collapse.

The composition of the Hunan army was quite simple, with honest peasants from the mountains serving as soldiers, and scholars from Hunan serving as officers after being trained by Zeng Guofan. This is almost a transplantation of the system of the local gentry controlling the common people in Hunan to the army. Even if the three artillery pieces of the Guangfu Army continued to shell, the shelling caused a lot of casualties to the Hunan army, but the soldiers subconsciously gathered around the officers and carried it to the death.

The Hunan army worked so hard to support, but the Guangfu Army acted quickly. Because it was far away, Zeng Guohua couldn't hear what the Guangfu Army was arguing about. He looked through the smoke from the explosion of the shells and saw that the Liberation Army had begun a rapid assault in columns. When these troops began to assault, the artillery of the Liberation Army adjusted the direction of their firing, from the continuous lateral movement at the beginning to fierce fire in the direction of the Liberation Army's charge. The Guangfu army, which was in a group of forty or fifty people, rushed forward with Buqiang, advancing to a distance of 2oo meters, and the leader of the column slowed down, and the column became a horizontal formation very miraculously. One by one, the horizontal detachment first carried out an effective shot at the Hunan army. Casualties immediately appeared in the Hunan army's horizontal column, which was cut off by artillery fire.

The Guangfu Army's horizontal formation, which had been transformed from a column, had a unified command, but the Hunan Army, which had been forcibly cut off into horizontal formations by the artillery of the Guangfu Army, did not have such a command system. Some of the officers in the horizontal team commanded the counterattack, and the Guangfu army in front of them was not afraid of the counterattack of the Hunan army, and the horizontal team stabilized the rhythm and calmly shot at the Hunan army.

The Hunan army with officers commanding the battle was a minority, and more Hunan troops stood in place because there was no officer to command, stupidly watching the horizontal formation of the Guangfu Army and the Guangfu Army quickly reload ammunition, and then continue to approach the Hunan army. When the Guangfu Army advanced to a distance of 1oo meters from the Hunan Army, the various horizontal teams fired another volley. At this distance, the fire cap gun was fully wielded. The Hunan army was dealt a heavy blow and suffered heavy casualties. These uncommanded teams no longer had the will to fight, and they all turned around and fled. The Guangfu Army quickly reloaded its ammunition and concentrated its firepower on the Hunan troops who remained on the position. Most of these Hunan troops, who were either overly brave or overwhelmed by fear, were killed, and those who did not die finally turned around and fled.

Without the need for a higher commander to take command, each small unit was able to fight independently, and the Liberation Army continued to advance after crushing the enemy in front of it with a platoon of guns.

Zeng Guohua at the head of the city was dumbfounded, when there were barriers to rely on, the Hunan army, which used the tactical means of "fighting a dumb battle" as a tactical means, could ignore the enemy's actions and just bury his head and put his guns down. After breaking away from the barrier, the Hunan army waved the disadvantage of the long horizontal team to the fullest, and when the small column of the Guangfu Army suddenly changed to a horizontal team to engage in battle, the Hunan army was hit by a fierce blow to the troops. The Hunan army's battle line, which had originally formed a line, was left with only a few troops still fighting in front of the front, and the numerical superiority of 1,000 men over 500 men turned into an absolute disadvantage of 200 men against 500 men in a short period of time. The 200 troops who continued to fight were immediately flanked by fire from the left and right.

The Guangfu army did not stop stupidly, they loaded the bullets and continued to approach the Hunan army, and put the last gun at a distance of about 50 meters, so that when the Hunan army was still standing on the battlefield with less than 60 people, the Guangfu army began the final charge, the infantry rushed with bayonets, and the grenadiers threw their hands 1ei exploded in the last array of the Hunan army, and the frenzy of bayonets engulfed the last Hunan army.

At this point, the Hunan peasants, who tried to fight back with cold weapons, were quickly killed by bayonets. The artillery of the Guangfu Army used flowering shells to carry out a fierce blow to the fleeing Hunan army. The combat units of the Liberation Army did not stay on the battlefield, and after they eliminated the Hunan army, the horizontal team turned into a column and began to retreat towards the position of the attack.

The 1,000 Hunan army recovered the 500 Guangfu army, and the battle ended in less than 20 minutes. The remnants of the Hunan army fled back to the city of Fuzhou, and the Guangfu army withdrew from its position. Fuzhou City was still in the hands of the Hunan Army, and the troops of the Guangfu Army still relied on the terrain to guard the range of the Hunan Army's artillery at the head of Fuzhou City. The only people who can prove that there was a fierce battle are the corpses and wounded of the Hunan army in the middle of the two armies.

Zeng Guohua looked at the corpses of the Hunan army outside the city, and his legs were weak and he almost fell to the head of the city. The relatives next to him hurriedly supported Zeng Guohua and took him down from the city. I can't see the Shura field outside the city, but Zeng Guohua has to face the tragic situation in the city. Many of the Hunan troops who fled back were wounded, and some of them were seriously injured, but they only showed the potential of human beings when they fled for their lives on the battlefield. When they entered the city, they relaxed, and the injuries were immediately done, and they fell to the ground and struggled for a while before whimpering for their lives. The Hunan soldiers, whose injuries were not yet fatal, either groaned, or cried out in pain, as if the end of the world had come.

Just when Zeng Guohua had not been able to recover from the killing he had just seen, a person from the Hunan army carried over, but it was He Junxi, one of the two battalion officers who had just gone out of the city to fight. He was lying on his side, blood gushing from the place where he had been shot in the back. Seeing that his face was getting paler and paler, he was already out of breath and out of breath.

"My lord......" He Junxi said with difficulty, and before he could continue, He Junxi opened his mouth and coughed. Blood immediately poured out of his mouth, blocking the words He Junxi wanted to say in his throat along with the blood. The trachea was blocked by blood and caused suffocation, causing a violent spasm in He Junxi's body. By the time He Junxi finally quieted down, he was already dead.

There was no response from inside the city, and the gunfire outside the south of the city rang out for a while before slowly stopping. A clear thought came out of Zeng Guohua's chaotic brain, and that part of the Hunan army was only afraid that it was finished.

"Hurry up to the city, beware of the sneak attack of the Liberation Army!" Zeng Guohua gave the order almost unconsciously. After several years of fighting, Zeng Guohua had never seen such a bloody unilateral killing. At this time, the two legs could no longer support the body, and Zeng Guohua fell to the ground.

The Guangfu army did not take advantage of the situation to attack the city, but surrounded the city of Fuzhou. In the afternoon, the Hunan army probably counted the number of battles, and more than 700 of the 1,000 Hunan troops who went out of the city to fight were killed and wounded, and the two battalions of the Hunan army were completely finished. The final statistical report made Zeng Guohua feel collapsed.

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