After returning from receiving goods from Xiaonan, Guo Xing'a took the engineer company and the craftsmen of the base camp to carry out weapon transformation for half a month. Everything else is a small fix, and the biggest result is *. With enough raw materials, Guo Xing'a ignited all the * at hand from an open flame and converted it into a pull fire detonator, and also added a wooden handle. Although it is still *, it is still large, but the modified * is a lot more practical, and it still looks a bit like an anti-tank * in World War II. After the successful transformation, Guoxing increased production, and by the time of the expedition, a total of 15,000 pieces had been produced, and this time 10,000 pieces were brought out. Bi Yuntao is also a ruthless character, he used nearly 2,000 pieces* in the first battle, and completely blew Taibai Town to the ground.

Bi Yuntao, who had experience in street warfare in small Nanjing, knew very well that it was difficult to quickly clear out the urban guerrillas who were familiar with the terrain and had a large number of houses to entrench. At first, he also engaged in cannon demolition like Acton, this method of warfare was invented by him, and he was familiar with it, but the effect was not good. Not to mention the slow reloading speed of shells, Taibai Town is also very different from Little Nanjing. There was only one group of people in Little Nanjing, and the artillery had a key target. However, Taibai Town is full of enemies, and it must be demolished one by one.

Looking at the slow progress, Bi Yuntao almost personally raised his knife into battle, but there was still nothing he could do. Just when he was worried, a soldier who didn't have time to reload and throw* to kill the enemy gave him an excellent inspiration. After that, more than 500 people from four companies of the Qing army began to clear the enemy house by house with * under the cover of muskets. One room at a time*, there is absolutely no waste, and the survivors in the ruins that were blown up will also be quickly cleaned up by the bayonets that follow. It does not need to be ignited by an open flame, and it becomes extremely convenient to use, and it can blow up all the houses that can be blown up in less than half an hour. The "mud man" that Guo Xinga saw was a poor man who was blown up and covered in blood and covered in dust in the ruins.

The remnants of the people and the Taiping army were driven outside, and finally surrounded by the Qing army in the middle of the town, and then became the target of artillery and muskets. Bi Yuntao, who is very old-fashioned military style, only said the word "kill", and nearly 1,000 people died in less than five minutes. The lucky ones who dodged the shells and guns did not escape the bayonets in the end, and a magnificent mountain of corpses was built in the middle of the town.

"Clean up the battlefield and search for the remnants of the enemy!" Before going to greet Guoxinga, Bi Yuntao only left eight words.

With a Shura-like aura, the Qing army began to search Taibai Town like a tomb robber. They dug up grain from the ruins, dug up gold and silver in chests, and then found women in hidden compartments and cellars. Before Bi Yuntao left, there were several red-eyed soldiers in front of his horse stripping a poor girl of her clothes, and he only said, "Don't let the adults see it!" And that's it.

After learning about what happened before and after, Guo Xing'a looked at Bi Yuntao and was silent for a long time. He has always disliked Bi Yuntao, firstly because Bi Yuntao is too loyal and patriotic, and secondly, because Bi Yuntao's green camp habits are too heavy, or he is too cruel. Although the people in the town are oriented towards the Taiping Army, only a few of them can really help the Taiping Army fight, and a large number of old and weak, women and children can do anything. Guo Xing'a definitely couldn't bear to order indiscriminate killing, and he believed that Mu Shun, Actun, Fengsheng'a, Saishan'a and others couldn't bear it, but Bi Yuntao could. Bi Yuntao never thought of surrendering or forgiving, and there seemed to be only one word for killing in his dictionary. Refusing to surrender is the enemy, and if he is the enemy, he will be exterminated, he is a cruel but qualified commander, and Goxinga cannot say that he has done something wrong. Goxinga's strength is still too weak, so weak that he is not qualified to be benevolent.

"The town is basically safe, please choose a place to rest!" Bi Yuntao looked at Guo Xing'a's face and knew that Guo Xing'a was complaining that he had killed too many people. Although he was a little aggrieved, he was reluctant to explain, so he had to persuade Guo Xing'a to rest first.

"Are you going to let me build my own house, or will I see if there's a leeward spot in the pile of corpses! Let's go! I don't want to stay in this place! Although he understood, Guo Xing'a felt very uncomfortable, and naturally he didn't have good words to say to Bi Yuntao, so he turned his horse's head and walked out of the town.

"Adults are kind-hearted, a little unbearable, don't mind, you still have merit. Hurry up and clean up the battlefield, hand over the capture and baggage company, and drink your celebration wine at night! Xiande comforted Bi Yuntao with a smile.

"Don't worry! I know it all! Adults are still young, all normal! Bi Yuntao didn't care about Guo Xing's attitude towards him, he also had such a time. He felt that when Guo Xing'a was older and experienced more such scenes, he would naturally be the same as him.

After waiting for more than an hour, the baggage company received this seizure, more than 10,000 catties of grain, and less than 200 taels of gold and silver. The delay was not that the soldiers were privately seizing, and they didn't have the courage to do so, and Taibai Town really didn't have much oil and water. The soldiers were enjoying their other capture, delaying for more than an hour just to have fun.

The Qing army that reassembled did not stay on the spot, but left quickly, and Guo Xing'a didn't want to stay in this place for a minute. For 10,000 catties of grain and a few hundred taels of silver, more than 1,000 lives were harmed, and Guo Xing'a felt that his heart was trembling.

Dangtu County Chronicle: "In November of the ninth year of Xianfeng, the officials and soldiers sought to restore Dangtu. A certain leader conquered Taibai Township, broke the bandits with one drum, rebelled with the villagers, and slaughtered Taibai Township. The corpses are piled up like a mountain, and the ghosts are crying for ten miles, and there are more than 1,800 people in the township, and there is not a single one in ten. ”

The Qing army did not go far from noon to the afternoon, because they were building a bridge. The reason why Guoxing'a was able to bump into Taibai Township was an accident, because the map of the Qing Dynasty borrowed from it was too rough, which led to a series of misjudgments in Guoxing'a and fell into the water network in the south of the Yangtze River. The Qing army had heavy equipment and no ships, and even if it was a tributary of the Yangtze River that was 1,200 meters wide, the Qing army had to build pontoon bridges, and a third of the time in the past 10 days was spent on bridge projects. Goxinga had to go as far north as possible in order to get out of the dilemma of being full of water. Fortunately, there is a mortise and tenon pontoon bridge in Wendao, and the Qing army built the bridge quickly and labor-saving, otherwise Guo Xing'a would definitely be worse than Xiang Yu.

The Guxi River is wide and wide, and the pontoon bridge has not yet been half built, and Guoxinga has new troubles. The Taiping army stationed in Dangtu reacted quite quickly, and the Qing army attacked Taibai Township in the early morning, and they sent troops to help in the morning. However, the Qing army was too strong, and when they arrived at Taibai Township, they only saw a pile of ruins and corpses in one place. The generals of the Taiping Army who led the army were furious, and chased down with the army following the traces of the Qing army. The bridge project of the Qing army was not even completed by one-third, and the army of the Taiping army appeared behind it. Guo Xing'a, who was full of evil fire, immediately gathered his team and put on a posture to prepare for the battle.

After the battle, Xing'a regretted killing the main general of the Taiping army, because he should be grateful to the Taiping army who pursued him. The two armies lined up on the banks of the Guxi River in the northwest of Taibai Township to prepare for a fight, and if no one was chasing, Guo Xing'a would have foolishly built a pontoon bridge to cross the Guxi River, and on the other side of the river was a Jiangxin Island in a tributary of the Yangtze River.

However, when the two armies faced each other, Guo Xing'a didn't know this, this was his first time fighting with people in a dignified field, and he was very nervous. The Qing army formed a hollow phalanx with battalions as units, with infantry outside, cavalry, artillery, baggage, and center. The Taiping army was lined up in a huge military formation, with swords, shields, bows and artillery arranged extremely complicated, which dazzled Guoxing'a.

"What kind of formation is this?" Guo Xinga didn't know much about ancient formations.

"Gossip Array!" Feng Sheng'a and Xiande and several others were a little unsure.

"Long hair believes in God, can you use gossip?" Goxinga didn't think it was credible.

"It's kind of like a crane wing." Bo Ri Tu also tries to perform in a good direction.

"Crane Wings?" Guo Xing'a held the binoculars and looked carefully, the overall formation of the Taiping Army was somewhat circular, but it was a handful of east and west. However, if you look at the overall situation, the inner array is really like two half-open wings.

"It's a six-point plum blossom array! This array looks like a circle formation from a distance, and once the formation changes, it will fall and hook up, and the twists and turns are opposite. "Bi Yuntao is the person who is really familiar with military books when he was a child.

"I didn't understand what you said, is it that as soon as our army attacks, their formation will change." Guo Xing'a instantly forgot his unhappiness with Bi Yuntao.

Bi Yuntao came to Guo Xing'a's side and began to point to the Taiping army's position to explain to Guo Xing'a. After listening to Bi Yuntao's explanation, Guo Xing'a only felt dizzy. The formation of this Taiping army is too complicated, there are several changes in each place, and they are connected everywhere, each part can take care of each other, if you fall into it, it is impossible to escape.

"How do I crack it?" Feng Sheng'a and the others also admired Bi Yuntao, and hurriedly asked for advice on how to break the formation.

"This array originates from Zhuge Liang's eight array diagrams, divided into ......" Bi Yuntao's vanity is also satisfied, after all, he is only in his twenties.

"Stop talking nonsense, play a few rounds and see!" Guo Xing'a, the three good students just now, interrupted Bi Yuntao rudely.

The two armies were only a few hundred meters apart, and the artillery of the Qing army was directly loaded with shotguns, and the riflemen also raised the Enfield M1853 in their hands. Bursts of white smoke rose from the Qing army's position, and then the Taiping army's position fell into a bloody storm. If you want to find an image adjective, it is the wind blowing wheat waves, and the soldiers in front of the Taiping army are like wheat that has been cut down, falling one by one.

"The formation is good, let's study it when we go back, our fortifications can be used for reference, but it is useless if the good formation is too rigid. Although this formation is clever, there is a premise that the enemy must enter the formation. There are so many muskets and cannons in our army, who would stupidly rush in and fight them hand-to-hand! Guo Xinga said, holding up the binoculars.

"It's still an adult!" Bi Yuntao, who had just finished speaking in the vernacular, was almost choked to death by Guo Xing'a. If you just shoot the cannon, you can do it, and spend half a day studying other people's formations.

The Taiping army blocked the Qing army by the river, and was confident that the Qing army would inevitably take the initiative to attack, so they set up a large array and waited for the Qing army to come and send them to death. But I never expected that the Qing army would not play cards according to the routine, and the guns were so sharp. The Taiping army, which had suffered hundreds of casualties, had to change its formation and began to charge the Qing army.

The charge of the Taiping Army was quite methodical, paying attention to the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and fighting wave after wave. That is, it can fully deploy its troops, and at the same time, it can continue to press the Qing army's defense line, but all this is still premised on cold weapons. Wave after wave needs to ensure that most people can rush in front of the Qing army, but in the face of the Qing army equipped with all firearms, they simply can't do it.

Guoxinga attached great importance to the effect of fire suppression, so the Qing army did not pursue shooting accuracy like European and American armies, and then relied on bayonets to solve the battle. Although the Qing army also attached importance to bayonet training, it resolutely did not use the knife to solve the problem that could be solved with bullets. The alternating firing of each company ensured that more than a hundred bullets were flying in the air at all times, and the cavalry was on horseback to help. The waves of 1,200 Taiping troops rushed in, often only a few dozen of them slipped through the net, and then they were checked and filled in by the revolver rifles. The artillery that continued to roar angrily beat the Taiping army's position to the ground.

"It's cruel!" Looking at the corpses and wounded soldiers one by one, Guo Xing'a felt a little dizzy.