In the evening of 13 May, the fighting was unsuccessful for both sides. The Taiping army failed to crush the enemy in pursuit, and the Qing army failed to lure out the Taiping cavalry and annihilate it. The commanders of both sides were not annoyed, and everyone arranged for the troops to rest and prepare. Waiting for the next day's battle.

On the morning of May 14, the fifth watch of the Spring Festival made rice, and after dawn, the troops had breakfast and headed out to the flat battlefield that the Taiping Army had tacitly acknowledged yesterday. Admiral Hechun also recognized the plain area, which was enough for him to fight the Taiping army, at least for Admiral Hechun, who sent 7,000 troops.

Under Changsha City, Admiral Hechun also fought with the Shuyue bandits, and he didn't take advantage of it that time. And in that battle, the strength of the Shu Yue bandits was about 5,000 people. According to the tradition of the Qing army, it is impossible to become a veteran without fighting three or five battles, and even if it is a veteran, it must have more than half a year of training to become an elite.

He Chun knew that Wei Ze's troops were expanding rapidly, so he thought that about 2,000 of the 5,000 troops opposite him would be "elite". With 7,000 troops, 5,000 men were attacked, and another 3,000 troops were outflanked from the flanks. Admiral Hechun believed that the Qing army had a good chance of victory in this battle.

Waiting for the two sides to face each other, things are not quite right with Admiral Chun. The bundle of Cantonese bandits on the opposite side was neither the column that the Cantonese bandits were accustomed to, nor the horizontal line that the Cantonese bandits once liked. The bundle bandits discharged a huge phalanx. On each side, there are bundles of Cantonese bandits neatly arranged, and the flags in the array are densely packed, and there is no mystery in it.

He Chun looked at it for a while and couldn't see anything, the only thing he was sure of was that this phalanx was difficult to move. The other side undoubtedly handed over the initiative in the battle to the side of the Qing army. This is also the problem that He Chun once thought of, for the Cantonese bandits, their overall strength is superior, if they can drag He Chun's more than 10,000 troops in the wilderness, their reinforcements from all walks of life have arrived. Naturally, victory is easy. At this point, it is the most efficient way to do this.

And Admiral Hechun could not defend, he had to defeat the Taiping army. He Chun used the monocular "clairvoyance" to look at the array of bundles of Yue bandits on the opposite side, and he really couldn't see any clues. He only noticed that there were many marks on the flat ground between the two armies that seemed to have been left by the shelling. He Chun couldn't care so much, he ordered: "Send cavalry to take a look." ”

A dozen cavalrymen were divided into six teams, each consisting of two or three cavalrymen. They began to gallop back and forth between the two armies, and with each walk, they would get closer to the side of the Taiping army. These cavalry were the elite of the cavalry of the Qing army. When they galloped back and forth, they did not forget to make some difficult movements on their horses. Stand on the horse and shrink to the side of the saddle. This seemingly juggling action is not necessarily all for showmanship. Standing taller, you will naturally be able to see more of the situation in the Taiping Army.

This performance obviously played a role in boosting the morale of the Qing army, and before he slipped over, a burst of cheers broke out in the Qing army's array. Traditionally, not only did these cavalrymen have to put on these shows, but they also had to fight the enemy's cavalry when the enemy sent them out to drive them out. Because they had a high casualty rate, they were rewarded for not dying after each battle. If you can kill the scout cavalry sent by the enemy, or have a very good look. The commander should reward him immediately before the battle to boost morale.

However, the Taiping army on the opposite side did not send cavalry to the array, so they let the Qing cavalry gallop back and forth on the battlefield. and constantly moved closer to the position of the Taiping army.

When these cavalry were still about 100 meters away from the Taiping army's array, the Taiping army first had six artillery pieces in the formation. Each shot was aimed at a group of Qing cavalry, and the artillerymen used grapeballs. There were four teams of Qing cavalry that were bombarded, and even the men and horses were hit by more than a dozen projectiles the size of pigeon's eggs that flew in, and the bones were broken and broken, and the people were killed on the spot, and the horses could not survive when they saw it, and blood was gushing out from the wounds and mouth and nose, and the four hooves were still desperately kicking.

The other two teams of Qing cavalry wanted to turn their horses and flee as soon as they saw that something was wrong, and the two rows of infantry facing them shot at the Qing army, 1oo meters was more than 60 paces away, and the Qing army's platoon guns could not hit at all, which is why the Qing cavalry dared to approach this distance......

Jiangnan Admiral and Chun saw with their own eyes that the number of troops in the two rows of volleys of the Taiping army was only about 25 people, and the firing of 5o people killed five people and knocked down five horses. The horse's limbs suddenly stretched straight, and then he fell to the ground with the cavalry. The cavalrymen on the horses were originally raising their arms and whipping vigorously, preparing to escape from the range of the Taiping artillery. Before they could put their arms away, their limbs twitched after being shot, or when their strength was drained.

Then He Chun watched as the cavalry held such a posture and fell to the ground with the horses. After falling to the ground, the cavalry did not struggle to get up, but remained motionless like a cloth bag, and looked dead.

The whole process was only more than half a minute, and the Qing army didn't even have time to stop cheering. When Admiral Hechun witnessed the cavalry being bombarded and shot and died in a blink of an eye, what was accompanied by the cheers of the Qing soldiers was wave after wave of cheers.

Of course, the Qing army's response was not slow. Soon they realized that something was wrong, and the cheering stopped. At this time, Admiral Hechun also determined from the naked eye observation and clairvoyance that more than a dozen cavalry in front of the Qing army were all killed. A wave of anger rose violently from Admiral Hechun's chest, and the behavior of the bandits made Admiral Hechun not only feel "angry", but also "angry". Admiral Hechun greatly appreciated this kind of cavalry "performance" before the war, and for Admiral Hechun, it was a ritual, a way to show respect for the war. However, the Shu Yue bandits in front of them brutally destroyed the ritual with guns and cannons, clearly expressing their contempt for this kind of ritual.

"Don't you just don't have cavalry sentries as good as we are!" Admiral Hechun scolded angrily in his heart.

If the angry scolding worked, Shu Yue bandits would have been killed countless times. If you want to kill them, you can only rely on knives and guns. Admiral Hechun soon understood the significance of what the bandits had just done, they were demonstrating to Admiral Hechun, and they were silently telling Admiral Hechun, "Our artillery and muskets are very powerful. ”

"These must be the elite of the bundle of bandits!" Admiral Hechun confirmed this. So how to fight? Admiral Hechun ordered, "Open fire on the Cantonese bandits!" ”

Such a large phalanx, as long as one shot is fired, it can always kill several people. Admiral Hechun was very confident in this, and the two sides were a mile apart, and Admiral Hechun felt that it was necessary for him to have an artillery battle with the Shuyue bandits.

The Qing army worked hard to carry the cannon to the front of the formation, and before the artillery position could be stabilized, they saw that many slender poles were suddenly erected in the front of the formation of the Shu Yue bandits, and there were people sitting on the poles, and they were sitting on the poles like monkeys, and there were still some things in their hands. Admiral Hechun raised the monocular clairvoyant in his hand and looked at it, almost angry. The bundles of Cantonese bandits on those poles actually held monocular clairvoyance, and one by one they also aimed at the Qing army's position with clairvoyance.

Clairvoyance is a thing that can only be used by high-ranking officers of the Qing army, judging from the attire, the guys on the pole opposite are not officers at all, but they are holding clairvoyance one by one, which is really funny.

Not long after the pole was erected in the formation of the Shu Yue bandits, bursts of white smoke suddenly appeared near the pole, and soon a dull sound came. A little slower than the sound of artillery, the whistling shells flew towards the array of the Qing army.

"Gun emplacement, five meters to the left! Ten meters ahead! ”

"Gun position No. 5, one meter to the left! Five meters back! ”

"Gun position No. 9, two meters to the right, twenty meters forward!"

On the poles are artillery observers, who are high up and are responsible for artillery calibration. The Taiping Army will not play a trick of "10,000 artillery pieces" like the Qing Army, and the artillerymen themselves do not have observation scopes, so they rely on the artillery observers to be responsible for commanding. Each emplacement fired one at a time according to the artillery drills, while the different artillery observers fired according to where the shells landed.

In order to cope with the attack of the Qing army, the Taiping Army of the 14th Army was divided into two. A force of 2,000 men was responsible for dealing with Kaharu's forces, and the other 3,000 men went straight to the outflanking troops sent by Kaharu. In order to make He Chun feel that the 2,000 men of the Fourteenth Army on the opposite side were far more than they seemed, the troops had to discharge a hollow phalanx. And in the phalanx, more flags were erected to confuse and spring.

When the Qing army finally dragged the cannon out, Cai Yubin, the commander of the 14th Army who remained here, finally breathed a sigh of relief. Compared with the musket, the arquebus and powder gunpowder under the spring are not worthy of licking the feet of the 14th Army. The only thing that could threaten the 14th Army was the artillery of the Qing army. According to tradition, the Qing army swung its artillery in front of the formation, which gave the Taiping army an excellent opportunity to bombard the Qing artillery.

Under the command of the artillery school shooters, the Taiping Army's 12-pounder mountain howitzers became more and more accurate.

"Hit the Qing Demon Cannon!"

"Well played!" Immediately there was encouragement.

"There are a few people who hit the Qing Demon Artillery, maybe five or six."

"Keep fighting, hit hard!" Everyone cheered, and the artillery of the Qing army was not only of poor level, but also of small numbers. Killing the artillery is afraid that it will weaken the artillery power of the Qing army more than destroying the artillery.

"Hit the powder keg of the Qing army!"

"Oh......" was immediately a low response. The Taiping army under Wei Ze still failed to completely solve the problem of gunpowder, and the people were poor and short-sighted, even if it was dozens of catties or hundreds of catties of gunpowder, Wei Ze's troops could see it very well.

……

"The Qing Demon dragged the cannon back!" The observation post shouted.

The reported information did not provoke a burst of ridicule, "It's only been a few minutes!" "That's not going to work?" "Will you just drag the cannon to the back?"

In the midst of this ridicule, the information was quickly sent to the commander Cai Yubin. Cai Yubin looked at the deputy chief of staff for operations, "Do you want to let that thing out?" ”

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