Bi Yuntao is definitely the first person in the Gu'an Army to have artillery, and from the time he was still the deputy battalion commander in charge of the first company, he attached great importance to the coordinated operation of infantry and artillery. To this day, Acton's 1st Infantry Battalion still has a tradition of attaching importance to artillery, and is the most proficient and successful in the use of artillery. Along the way, the status of artillery has become more and more important, and Bi Yuntao has become more and more addicted to it.

However, the artillery in the establishment of the infantry regiment has long been unable to satisfy Bi Yuntao's appetite, Bi Yuntao has asked Guo Xing'a several times to transfer the artillery battalion directly under him to use, but Guo Xing'a refused, which made him very depressed. Guo Xing'a rejected Bi Yuntao because other troops also needed artillery support, and the artillery battalion needed to be dispatched and applied globally. Second, because the terrain of Biyuntao's defense line is not very suitable for the use of artillery, Guo Xing'a believes that the mountainous area of the Wanshou Mountain generation is more suitable, and the artillery will have a better effect if it is condescending.

Although he didn't get the elite artillery battalion of Guoxing'a, he still had the magic weapon to press the bottom of the box. The artillery battalion, if not counting rocket artillery, was only a few dozen pieces of artillery, and the most powerful was the twenty-four twenty-pound Armstrong heavy guns that had just been captured. Bi Yuntao now has more than 150 artillery pieces in his hands, including not only 30 24-pound smoothbore guns, but also 15 48-pound 10,000-pound cannons.

Although Bi Yuntao is also Guo Xing'a's confidant, he is still far away from Aijiang, so these treasures were not allocated to him by Guo Xing'a, but he picked them up on the road. When Guoxing'a conquered the military grain city, he once captured a large number of artillery, and the advanced foreign artillery was not taken away by the artillery battalion, and none of them were given to Bi Yuntao. But the equipment in the strange armory of the Qing army, there are some old goods that Guo Xing'a can't look down on, and they are all in Bi Yuntao's hands with a shy old face. All the way from the fight, all the advanced equipment of the coalition army was taken away by Guo Xing'a, and Bi Yuntao couldn't do anything when he looked greedy. But they also found some equipment of the Qing army, some of which were trophies of the coalition army, and some of which were still unwanted in the wilderness. Guo Xing'a is not interested in these things, in Guo Xing'a's eyes, this is a pile of scrap iron, not brass, and Guo Xing'a is too lazy to move. Bi Yuntao was the one who picked up the rags, and Guo Xing'a didn't bother to care about him, as long as he could move and not delay the speed of the march, Bi Yuntao would pick it up if he was willing to pick it up.

From Bali Bridge to Beijing City, the coalition army followed the route of the Qing army, and the Gu'an army followed the pace of the coalition army, and everyone picked up a large amount of equipment abandoned by the Qing army. The coalition army and Guoxing Adu used these things as decorations, and no one cared too much, but Bi Yuntao became the king of rags, carrying hundreds of carts, and even picked up dozens of well-maintained artillery pieces of various calibers in Wanping at once.

The Qing Dynasty was able to determine the Central Plains, and artillery was vigorously developed, so the Qing Dynasty attached great importance to artillery in the early stage, and also took heavy artillery as the core of weapon development in the middle and later periods. And because China is a belief in the gods, and the gods are also very approachable, the management of the gods is also very meticulous. Every industry has its own immortals, and the brothels are all for the ancestor Guan Zhong and the white-eyed and red-eyed immortals, so the artillery must also have its own immortals. Every autumn, a part of the artillery of the Beijing division should be gathered at Lugou Bridge, and a sacrificial activity should be carried out to give gifts to the artillery god.

This year, there was a big battle, but the artillery had already been transported to Lugou Bridge, after all, although the battle was fighting, the sacrificial activities could not be stopped. Otherwise, these masters in charge of the sacrifice will find someone to go to this year's extraneous time. But no one thought that Monk Greenqin would be defeated so quickly, and in a blink of an eye, he would be defeated all the way from Tianjin to Beijing, and this sacrifice would naturally not be completed. However, Emperor Xianfeng was in too much of a hurry, and the officials who stayed behind were in a mess, so he threw this sharp weapon to defend the capital at Lugou Bridge and no one cared about it. Bi Yuntao, who was passing by here, laughed without saying a word, these sacrificial cannons were extremely powerful, much stronger than the rags he picked up before.

Bi Yuntao picked it up all the way and gained a very rich harvest. In terms of imported artillery, there are the M1841 twelve-pounder gun, the little Napoleon gun, the Krupp nine-pounder gun, the Belgian eight-pounder gun, and a large number of foreign cannons that Goxinga didn't know, and I don't know where the Qing Dynasty got them. In terms of domestic artillery, there are Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon, which can be called the fine cultural relics of the Kangxi period, the Divine Invincible General Cannon, the Weiyuan General Cannon, the Yaowei General Cannon, and even the Anguo Whole Army Pingliao Jingyu General Cannon, which was imitated in the early Qing Dynasty. There were also some artillery pieces made after Jiaqing with very imposing names, but under Guo Xing'a's repeated suggestions, Bi Yuntao reluctantly sent them back to Gu'an.

Although the artillery manufactured by Qianlong before was older, the overall quality was not bad, but the ones after Jiaqing were not good at all. That is, the outer skin looks good, the casting material is not good, the inner chamber is not smooth, there is a large number of trachoma, the material of the gun body is uneven, and there are all kinds of strange problems. Guo Xing'a found a lot of problems after reading it, and he didn't dare to let Bi Yuntao use it indiscriminately. After Jiaqing, the effectiveness of these artillery pieces in killing one's own people is definitely much higher than that of killing the enemy. With this kind of artillery, it is to commit suicide, no wonder that during the Opium War, the defenders of Jiangnan would rather use Ming Dynasty antiques than use the newly allocated artillery of the imperial court.

When Bi Yuntao got the artillery, he also picked up a lot of matching projectiles and *, but after a few test shots, everyone was not satisfied. The formula of the Qing Dynasty* is barely good, but it is definitely not comparable to the double base of Guoxinga*, and a bunch of large iron balls are completely incomparable with the high-explosive bombs used by the Gu'an army now.

Bi Yuntao's regiment still has a very strong advantage in terms of ammunition supply, after all, the regiment is the old foundation of the original infantry battalion, and it was mixed up with Fengsheng from top to bottom. Feng Sheng'a is now in charge of the arsenal, which is also a supply, and Fengsheng's hands are inevitably a little biased. Bi Yuntao is much more convenient for others to get supplies, and the battalions and companies of a regiment basically have what they want, although the equipment is the same, but the regiment must be the best, and the ammunition is also as much as it wants.

But this time, Feng Sheng'a couldn't take care of his old subordinates, the batch of artillery that Bi Yuntao got was too complicated, and most of the caliber was too different from the existing equipment of the Gu'an Army. Even if Feng Sheng'a specially designed a set of ammunition for Bi Yuntao temporarily, and Ma Shan put it into production, he would not be able to catch up now. However, Bi Yuntao also has his own methods, * Naturally, you can use it by changing the measurement, and you can continue to use big iron balls in terms of projectiles. However, the arsenal had produced a batch of ammunition for the twenty-four-pounder cannon of the Armstrong gun before, and the Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon picked up by Bi Yuntao happened to be of about the same caliber, and it could be used with a bottom bracket.

The batch of generals that Bi Yuntao swore to invite were the antiques with the title of general that he had collected before. It is precisely because of the tradition of attaching importance to artillery that the first regiment is completely inferior to the professional artillery battalion in the actual combat application skills of artillery, and after their Bi Yuntao invited the big killer, the first goal was artillery warfare, preparing to take out the British artillery in one fell swoop and completely abolish the British army's ability to fight back.

Mitchell was born in the aristocracy and has been in the army for more than 20 years, so he has a lot of combat experience. When the Gu'an army first began to abandon some of its positions, he did not notice anything unusual, and he was happy that the British army had made a breakthrough. However, when the British army broke through the defense line of the Gu'an army, he gradually noticed the abnormality, and the retreat of the Gu'an army was obviously selective. The British army, which had made progress at many points, was faintly divided by the Gu'an army, like a flood rushing into the floodgate, and was involuntarily diverted by the embankment.

After redirecting his forces to attack the Gu'an salient, Mitchell was even more convinced that he was in serious trouble. These salients, which had fallen into the middle of the British army, were very well fortified and had very strong firepower. In the face of several attacks by the British army, they did not show the embarrassment of exposing their flanks, but fought very tenaciously. The British broke through the dikes of the Gu'an army, but had to face stronger fortresses one after another.

"Stop the charge, let the artillery attack, without the suppression of artillery fire, there is no difference between our infantry charging and committing suicide!" Wilson, who was on the front line, experienced the bitterness more deeply.

The main defense points of Gu'an were all equipped with machine guns. Because of the increase in the rate of fire, the Schneider rifle already had an overwhelming firepower advantage in the face of the British Enfeld rifle. Coupled with the stormy fire of machine guns, the dense charging formation of the British army suffered unprecedented losses. Moreover, the front-line command officers have a huge psychological pressure. Most of them have seen or heard of the case of the Gu'an army slaughtering the British cavalry with machine guns during the second battle of Bali Bridge. The speed of the infantry's charge could not be compared with the cavalry in any way, and even the cavalry could not withstand the machine guns, and they could only look away.

The British troops who summoned artillery support with "boom ......boom boom boom" heard the sound of artillery, but this huge sound was not something that the light field guns of their army could make, only heavy artillery had such a might. The Pingliao Jinglu General Cannon, the Tianyou Cheering General Cannon, the Divine Invincible General Cannon, the Yaowei General Cannon, and the Wucheng Yonggu General Cannon, all kinds of large-caliber artillery were fired at the same time, all aimed at the artillery and artillery of the British army.

Huge iron balls roared through the sky, sending a rain of blood through the crowd, smashing the hard steel cannons into piles of broken waste. Even if they didn't hit any targets, these big iron balls that flew for miles were just as powerful. They leave horrific scars on the ground like craters, kicking up countless clouds of dirt and sand, and even throwing nearby bombs into the sky like blasting bombs. The twenty-four pounds of ammunition fired by General Wu Cheng's Yonggu cannon were even more terrifying, and these big guys with a caliber of 150 millimeters had a killing radius of 100 meters. A single shell can completely wipe out a company, and the British soldiers, who have no cover, are thrown away by the shock wave like fallen leaves.

"Damn, how many artillery did they concentrate!" Mitchell, who was also covered in dust, looked at the British army that had fallen into confusion, and roared helplessly, but they were like a lonely boat in the vast ocean, with enemies everywhere in all directions, and countless shells in the sky were flying towards them.