In November of the ninth year of Xianfeng, Jiangnan had also begun to become cold, and the long-lost figure of the Qing army appeared between Tu and Ningguo. This was the second expedition after the expansion and reorganization of the army of the Guoxing Asuo, but like their first expedition, they still found nothing.

After the initial formation of the troops in mid-October, Guo Xing'a left the second infantry company of Saishan'a and Tong Jia to guard the deserted village camp, and personally led the main force of more than 1,400 people to go out again to pursue Huang Daping. The first stop is the hometown of the Tianni sisters, where Huang Daping was originally stationed, where there is nothing left but the ruins. The second stop is Xiao Nanjing, which Guo Xing'a is most worried about, although Xiao Nanjing was demolished and only an urn city remained, but Yu Wendao and the blind dates were fine. After Guo Xing'a left, they withstood the onslaught of the Taiping army, and used underground fortifications until the Taiping army ran out of food and retreated.

In Little Nanjing, Guo Xing'a not only met Yu Wendao, who was mature and many villagers were directing the villagers to repair the city wall, but also met his lovely arms supplier Big Peter again. Big Peter has been waiting for Guoxinga here for more than half a month, most of his property has been withheld by Guoxinga, and Little Nanjing is the only place where he can find Guoxinga, and he has no other choice but to wait stupidly.

After receiving a large number of tools and raw materials from Big Peter, Guo Xinga returned the detained property in full as promised, but this time the payment needs to be settled next time. Big Peter was very indignant that a large number of goods were only exchanged for a white slip, but he couldn't do anything about Goxinga. His dealings with Goxinga have always been unequal, and instead of paying a deposit, Goxinga never pays a deposit, but has to deposit his money for a batch of goods every time.

Guo Xinga persuaded Big Peter with kind words, and planned a better tomorrow for Big Peter for a while, which finally made Big Peter with a bitter gourd face a little happy. The transaction location of the two was initially set in Little Nanjing, but the specific transaction time was to ask Guo Xing'a to send someone to Shanghai to find Big Peter to agree. Big Peter, who had recovered part of his capital, could only return to Shanghai with a stomach full of complaints and visions for the future.

There is also a reason why Guoxinga does not pay, because he never brings money when he goes out with his troops, and he usually robs it. This time it was also Big Peter's luck, when Guo Xinga sent his troops, he considered that he would come to Taihu Lake and might encounter arms dealers, so he prepared money to buy arms. Otherwise, Guo Xing'a didn't fight a battle along the way, so he could only give Big Peter two white slips.

The first expedition turned into a receipt of goods, and Guo Xing'a, who completely lost Huang Daping's traces, could only return to the base camp of the deserted village with the goods. Guo Xing'a engaged in weapons processing in the base camp for half a month, and the troops became more familiar with it, so they had to go out again.

But this time it's not about Huang Daping, it's about finding a rut. Huang Daping disappeared in the area of his previous activities, and Guo Xing'a had no clues, so he went there to look for him, and could only wait for him to come to him. But the Qing army had to come out to fight, and the food and salary in the base camp of the deserted village were no longer enough.

Although Guoxing'a treats the soldiers of his subordinate equally, and there is no difference in food, he is actually divided into two categories in terms of salary and silver treatment. The first category is the regular army with an establishment, that is, the Zhengding of the three assistant leaders of Guoxing'a, Bo Ritu and Ji Ying, as well as Bi Yuntao's 150 green battalion soldiers. They are all paid staff of the imperial court, and they are paid by the imperial court every month, which is the so-called regular employees. Their income was a monthly salary, plus a bounty for the consequences of each battle. The second category is the private soldiers who are not established, that is, the personnel recruited by Yu Ding and Guo Xing'a among the three assistant leaders. They do not receive a fixed salary and are roughly equivalent to casual workers. The bounty after each battle is their only source of income. But after all, there is more time for training and less time for fighting, and the soldiers will inevitably mumble a little. Although their money is all on the books, and there is no place to spend money in the camp, who doesn't want to make more money? Even if it's just a number that doesn't cost anything.

When he received feedback from the instructors of each company on the soldiers' ideas, Guo Xing'a had just made a fortune in Xiaonanjing, and it was when he had a lot of money that he immediately increased the monthly allowance to these temporary workers to stabilize the morale of the army. The three armies were open-faced, but Saishan'a had a bitter face. The Jiangnan battalion paid Guoxing'a food and salary according to the regular employees, and the green battalion's salary had to be owed, but Guoxing'a had more than 1,500 people to eat, drink and get money. The silver bag in the Zuo Ling Gong was like a big hole, and the silver began to flow out. Although it is only a number, the subordinates only owe the debt, and the money belonging to the leader in the account book is getting less and less.

There is no food and rice at home, and Guo Xing'a, as a parent, has to go out to make money to support his family, and Guo Xing'a has only one way to make money, that is, robbing, so Guo Xing'a led the army to the expedition for the second time. The ghost knows where Huang Daping went, and the Taiping army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is also looming and it is not easy to find, so Guo Xing'a pointed the finger at the real hinterland of the Taiping army this time, the area of Dangtu and Ningguo in southeast Anhui.

But along the way, Guo Xinga did not find an opportunity to start grabbing. His more than 1,000 people were a lone guerrilla force, and he did not dare to provoke the Taiping Army's heavily defended town. There was only a small village of ordinary people, and he could not bear to plunder the people, and as a result, he wandered for more than ten days and found nothing.

In order to avoid premature exposure, the Qing army generally went out by day and night, and even Guo Xing'a was wearing camouflage. Today, I can see the coat of the Qing army on the main road and canal, because Guoxing A has been a savage for more than ten days, and finally found a suitable target for robbery, Taibai Town, which is under the jurisdiction of Tu County. It's not far from Dangtu, but it's only more than thirty miles, but Guoxinga can't wait. Guo Xing'a, who hadn't even eaten a hot meal for more than ten days, was even thinking about attacking Dangtu County.

Taibai Town is not big, if it weren't for the legend that the poet immortal Li Bai would be able to return to heaven here, it would be even smaller. The so-called walled wall is just a circle of earthen walls around the town, and there are no battlements, and the walls are not standing, and there is no way to compare with the solid stone walls of Little Nanjing. There were no more than 2,000 residents in the town, and the defenders were only a few hundred, and Guo Xing'a thought that he could scare them away by illuminating the team, but he still fought a rather disgusting bad battle.

"The infantry battalion and the cavalry company besieged the city, the infantry company attacked the main company, the cavalry company responded in three companies, and the cavalry company and the second company alerted the enemy reinforcements." Seeing that the enemy did not run or surrender, Guo Xinga could only order an attack. The main attacking team was also chosen purely to give Acton and Hatan, who were recovering from injuries at home last time, a chance to make meritorious contributions.

After Nash, Cao Meng, and Chengtai besieged the town from the other three sides, Acton began to command his troops to attack the city from the front. After the two guns directly under the first company fired a few intimidating shots into the town, Acton personally led the team and began to approach the wall. But they were almost within a hundred meters of the wall, and there was no defensive shooting in the town.

Acton, who had always been cautious, ordered his troops to slow down their march, lower their figures, and slowly approach the wall very cautiously. At the same time, two platoons were left no longer to advance, and preparations for cover shooting were made to ensure that they could fire at any time to suppress the fire of the enemy wall. But when he continued to walk almost fifty meters, the defenders still didn't react, and Actun's forehead was a little sweaty, what kind of play is this, I haven't seen it!

The swaying figures on the walled wall prove that the Taiping army did not flee, and it is somewhat unusual that they have already entered the distance of the charge and are still not attacked. Acton, who has been recuperating from injuries for a long time and missed several big battles, attaches great importance to the first game of his comeback, and he doesn't want to make any mistakes. Although he has only fought with Huang Daping, Acton has also heard from the people who participated in the war about the tactics of the Taiping Army, and no one fights like this!

When the Qing army approached more than 30 meters, the head of the city finally reacted. Dozens of Taiping soldiers showed their heads on the wall, and they opened their bows and arrows to prepare to release arrows at the Qing army, but unfortunately Acton had already made preparations. The two platoons in charge of cover began to fire alternately at the wall, while Acton's two platoons approaching charged after a single salvo.

Guoxing'a has always been willing to train soldiers, and every soldier of the Qing army has dozens or hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and veterans who have experienced several battles have fought hundreds of rounds of ammunition. The marksmanship of the Guoxinga Division can be said to be the first in the world at that time, because most of the troops do not use guns yet, and those who use guns are reluctant to practice ammunition. The marksmanship is good, the equipment is equipped with the most advanced rifles, and the shooting distance is close, of course, it is extremely accurate. After a burst of gunfire from the Qing army, there was not a single Taiping army on the wall. And the feathered arrows of the Taiping army have either not left the bowstring, or they have flown to strange corners.

Although there were no human figures on the wall, the Taiping army did not put up resistance, they did not dare to show their heads, but threw out piles of strange weapons. First there was something that seemed to be *, which almost scared Acton to death. The Qing army stood in several rows in order to exert firepower, and the formation was relatively dense, and if it was thrown at *, the casualties would definitely not be small. However, although the Taiping Army's * looks almost the same as the Qing Army's previous use, it is not very powerful. Either it fell to the ground and smashed into a flash of flames, or it turned into a large fireball spitting flames in the air, and none of them exploded. Acton was scared out of a cold sweat, but only a few unlucky people were ignited in his clothes.

But what the Taiping army threw out later, Acton had to retreat. * Without making any contributions, the Taiping army began to throw quilts outside the wall, and I don't know what was wrapped in the quilts one by one, and they caught fire when they saw it, and it burned very violently. Actun's mistaken kung fu, there was already a sea of fire under the wall, not to mention that the Qing army climbed the wall, it was difficult to get close. Acton, who didn't want to bake the fire under the wall, could only reluctantly order a retreat, eager to show himself, he had already thought of a way to break through the wall, and there was no need to delay any longer.

"What the hell is this?" Guo Xing'a, who was holding a telescope, couldn't cry or laugh, the well-equipped Qing army couldn't go down with a drum, but was blocked back by some strange weapons of the Taiping army. Although he has studied weapons and other things, Guo Xing didn't see what the Taiping military was.

"It's ten thousand enemies and earth-shattering thunder!" Not only was he forced to follow the army, but he also had to follow the Bo Ritu by Goxinga's side all the time, so that he knew these two weapons.

"Ten thousand enemies are to block Qing Taizu in Ningyuan...... That thing from Grandpa? Guoxinga almost called Nurhachi's name, which was extremely taboo before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, but fortunately he reacted in time.

"This thing is indeed the first creation of Yuan Chonghuan of the Ming army when Emperor Taizu Gao attacked Ningyuan. The so-called 10,000 enemies are nothing more than wrapping quilts*, saltpeter, straw and other things. However, this thing ignites immediately at the sight of fire, the fire is extremely violent, and it is not easy to extinguish, which is quite difficult to deal with. "Feng Sheng's miscellaneous studies are also very knowledgeable.

"Sky Shaking Thunder I know, it's similar to ours, but why don't their Sky Shaking Thunder explode?" This kind of primitive firearm Guo Xing'a really didn't dabble in his previous life, but since he said the name, Guo Xing'a still knows the general situation. Shocking Thunder Guoxinga is more familiar, and the ** of the Qing military is a strengthened version of Shocking Thunder.

"Their earth-shattering thunder seems to be porcelain, and there should be a problem with the workmanship, the sealing is not good, and the fireworks leak out, so it can't explode." Fengsheng'a followed Guoxing'a can be said to have learned both Chinese and Western, and the word seal was learned from Guoxing'a.

"Big flowers!" Guo Xing'a shook his head and smiled.