"Is that the Jiangbei camp of the Qing army?" Weeser asked. In the tile kiln shop, Wei Ze said after putting down the monocular in his hand.

Immediately, a staff officer replied: "Chief of the General Staff......, King Qi, that's not the Jiangbei camp." The Jiangbei camp of the Qing demon is in the southwest of Yangzhou City, and the tile kiln shop is a fortress built by the Qing Demon in order to besiege Yangzhou City. ”

Wei Ze didn't want the influence of his official position in the General Staff, so he insisted that everyone call Wei Ze's position in the General Staff, not Wei Ze's status as a prince. However, at this time, it is close to Tianjing City, and it is not appropriate to maintain the title of Chief of the General Staff. The chief of the general staff was Wei Ze's self-appointed chief, and the king of Qi was the "official establishment" granted to Wei Ze by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Wei Ze must use the title of King of Qi on the side of Tianjing City.

Although he also knew that there was such a thing as a long base, it was the first time that Weser had seen such a defensive structure. The long fortress is made of earth, and the height reaches the chest of ordinary people. At the exit of the long base, there are facilities such as horse rejection and wooden fences. The reason for this was to make it easier for the musketeers to mount their muskets on the long base and shoot. In addition, there are holes in the lower positions of the long base, which can be shot out with muskets, and the spears can also be poked out of these holes to assassinate enemies who are close to the long base. At this time, when cold weapons and muskets coexisted, it was a rather effective way of defense.

According to the information obtained by the Taiping Army, the Qing army's Jiangbei camp and Jiangnan camp have built this kind of long base. They used this gadget to block the key roads of the Taiping army. Moreover, the strength of the Qing army was also stationed in the stronghold surrounded by the long fortress.

"No matter how I look at it, I don't think this thing can withstand the shelling." Wei Ze looked at the telescope for a while before he said.

"King Qi, just this long base can defend against the Taiping army, and his subordinates are also very puzzled." Up and down, Ruan Xihao said more directly than Wei Ze.

Although the weapons and equipment of the Taiping army in Tianjing City were indeed inferior to Wei Ze's troops, they had food supplies provided by Anhui, and the total number of troops was nearly 100,000, and they could not solve the large camps in the north and south that were close at hand. This can't help but be strange.

Wei Ze has not dared to ask Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, why he didn't send troops to kick the camp in the north of the Jiangnan and Jiangbei provinces, at this time, seeing that his subordinates were full of confidence, he was worried that his subordinates would underestimate the Qing army too much, and even Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, underestimated it, so Wei Ze said: "Be careful to sail the ship for ten thousand years, everyone attack this tile kiln shop, and see what kind of defense capability the Qing army's long base has." ”

"This is natural. Our Fourteenth Army is not very cautious when to fight. Lei Hu said immediately.

Several other army commanders, look at me, I look at you, everyone didn't expect Lei Hu to start fighting like this now.

"If you want to go, let you go." Weser laughed.

Although the tile kiln shop in the northwest of Yangzhou is called a shop, it is actually much larger than the ordinary town. In addition to being famous for its salt merchants, Yangzhou also has a good porcelain manufacturing industry. Although the tile kiln shop may have burned tiles in the past, it is now a large number of porcelain kilns.

The Qing defenders guarding Wayaopu were the guerrilla Xiong Qi under the Jiangning general Tuo Ming'a. The first time he learned of the Taiping army's southward movement was on August 8, when Tomina said that a Cantonese bandit army was heading south along the canal. Other than that, there's nothing else. Xiong Qi did not receive any orders on how to defend or how to face the battle.

The Taiping army obviously did not leave Xiong Qi time to think, and on August 1o, the Taiping army had already arrived outside the tile kiln. As a guerrilla, Xiong Qi is also eligible to be assigned clairvoyance. Just the Cantonese bandits who can be seen with clairvoyance are more than 5,000 people, and as for the follow-up troops that are enough to see the shadows, I don't know how many. Xiong Qi is only 2,000 men and horses in his hands, and no matter how you look at it, he is not the opponent of the Cantonese bandits.

Seeing that something was wrong, Xiong Qiguerrilla rolled his eyes, and came up with a way, "Come on, order those regiments to practice and attack!" ”

"My lord, can those group exercises be able to handle things?" Xiong Qi's guerrilla orders were questioned by the adjutant general.

"You think I don't know they don't work?" Xiong Qi asked rhetorically.

Such a blunt answer was extremely lethal, and the adjutant general immediately shut up and no longer questioned Xiong Qi's guerrilla orders.

There were seven or eight hundred people in the regiment of Wayaopu, which was funded by the rich people in the town. It is very clear from top to bottom that the reason why they spent money to form such an armed force was not to fight the Taiping army, but to defend against the Qing army. Yangzhou is known all over the world as a rich land, since the establishment of the Qing army's Jiangbei camp, there are not many battles with the Taiping army, and the main energy is focused on looting places.

Knowing that the Qing army ordered them to go to engage the Taiping army, this regiment naturally refused. Xiong Qi didn't want to reason with this group practice at all, he squinted at the leader of the group training, and suddenly sneered, "Hmph! Do you dare to disobey? Come, take them to the front! ”

The Qing army's 2,000 men and horses had already been assembled, and the regimental trainers were only seven or eight hundred people, because they came in a hurry, and many of them did not bring weapons. The Qing army's muskets, knives and guns were all in their hands, and in a moment they arrested the regimental trainers and forcibly pushed them to the front line.

"Lord Xiong, it's useless to let them go into battle!" The lieutenant couldn't help but remind again. The two thousand Qing troops have made it clear that they can't withstand the attack of the Taiping army, what can these seven or eight hundred regimental training without fighting will do?

Xiong Qiguerrilla glared at his lieutenant with hatred and hatred, and he said angrily: "Someone!" Burn the town! ”

Hearing this order, the lieutenant jumped up like a frightened dog, "My lord, what do you mean by this?" ”

Xiong Qi replied, "What does this mean? The people who ordered the subordinates to burn the town while shouting that the Cantonese bandits had come in. And then all our troops immediately ran to the south? ”

After all, the deputy general was a collaborator who had been following Xiong Qi's guerrilla attack for a few days, and after listening to the complete order, he no longer refuted, but praised Xiong Qi's guerrilla wisdom and decisiveness in his heart.

If the Qing army runs away by itself, the Taiping army will chase after them from behind, but I am afraid that few people will be able to escape. If the town is burned, and at the same time shouting that the Cantonese bandits will come in and burn the town. The group of group drills were in a hurry, and they were afraid that they would not have time to distinguish at all, if the Cantonese bandits really chased into the town, the group drills would fight to the death with the Cantonese bandits in order to defend their hometown. With regimental training in the back to "help the Qing army break off", the Qing army will be able to retreat safely to the Jiangbei camp in the south.

Knowing Xiong Qi's guerrilla plan, the adjutant general didn't say much, and he took people out to do things according to Xiong Qi's guerrilla orders. Seeing the deputy general leaving, Xiong Qiguerrilla immediately ordered his soldiers to hurry up and take the gold and silver he had scavenged from the tile kiln shop and leave first.

"You don't have to wait for me, hurry up and go first. As soon as my business is done, I will immediately chase after you. So you have to take the big road. Do you hear that? Xiong Qi's guerrilla expression was stern

"Yes!" The soldiers were immediately ordered to leave. They didn't want anything but divided the gold and silver into several parts, one man with two horses, and the gold and silver on the backs of the horses behind, and a dozen men began to go south on thirty horses.

When they got out of the town, some of the more loyal soldiers asked puzzledly, "Why don't you go with me?" Since he wants to direct the retreat, how can he do without our guards by his side? ”

Some of the quick-witted Qing soldiers almost laughed out loud after hearing this. Xiong Qi's guerrilla stay in Wayaopu was indeed to command the Qing army to retreat, but if the Qing army could not retreat, then Xiong Qi's guerrilla would immediately have to hurry south, and after joining up with the Qing army carrying gold and silver, they would quickly flee south for their lives. As for those Qing troops, they were good bait to attract the Taiping army.

If these pro-soldiers carrying gold and silver followed Xiong Qi's guerrilla attack to the south, these pro-soldiers carrying heavy gold and silver could not go fast, and if things reached the point where they had to go south quickly, then Xiong Qi's guerrilla could only leave their money and property to save their lives first. Things have really come to this point, isn't it in vain for Xiong Qi's guerrilla to be rampant in the tile kiln shop for the past year?

But this kind of thing can be understood by yourself, although some people cover their mouths and snicker, but no one gives any explanation for it. The soldiers were all on horseback, and even if they were not fast, it didn't take long for them to run out for miles. At this time, he turned his head to look in the direction of the tile kiln shop, and saw that the black cigarette butts had risen from the tile kiln shop town.

They ran out of more than a mile again, and saw a large group of Qing troops rushing out of Wayaopu South Road from a distance, and running along the main road in the direction of Jiangbei Camp in the south.

Lei Hu really didn't expect the Qing army to retreat so simply, he was indeed very cautious to line up along the road to attack Wayaopu, there was a long base to block, and he couldn't see what was behind the long base. The only thing that can be said for sure is that there is a lot of change in the long base.

When the smoke billowed from the tile kiln shop, Lei Hu became more cautious, and the troops' march was even slower. Anyway, the town behind the Qing army was on fire, and there was something big going on inside. Since the victory is in hand, why not be more calm, so that you can lose less soldiers and horses in battle.

After Lei Hu's troops approached the long base, someone behind the long base began to release their guns. The 14th Army had been prepared for a long time, and the troops did not act brutally, but first tested the enemy's firepower with a volley of platoon guns at a long distance. After determining the enemy's firepower point, the artillery began to test-fire and calibrate the enemy's firepower to clear the enemy's firepower point.

After this process, the troops should suppress the enemy fire on both sides of the destroyed fire point and send troops to storm the open gap. Without waiting for the troops to do so, the scouts came to report that a large number of Qing troops had fled from the south of the town.

Lei Hu's brows furrowed, a large number of Qing troops fled south, so it should be the blocking troops who stayed in the town. What kind of Qing army can sacrifice itself for others, leave itself on the battlefield, and let its comrades retreat safely?

There shouldn't be such a Qing army!

But at this time, even though the Qing army behind the long base was heavily wounded by artillery, it did not mean to give up resistance. For such a strange situation, Lei Hu couldn't figure out what was going on at all. Lei Hu was indeed steady enough, and in such a situation where he did not know the enemy's situation, he gave an order: "Continue to attack according to the original plan!" ”

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