Not only did Guo Xing'a stop laughing abruptly like a duck pinched by someone's neck. The others also shrunk their necks and pressed their bodies tightly into the trenches. Until the medics of the miscellaneous team walked away with their stumps, everyone's eyes were still looking in the direction of the medics.

But fortunately, the artillery of this era was still dominated by soft targets that were exposed to destruction, and it did not have much impact on the Qing troops hiding in the trenches. Except for a very few people, most of the Qing troops were still safe due to the reverse outbreak of character and the collision of shells. After several salvo counterattacks by the Qing army, the firepower of the Taiping army also became sparse and had to begin to retreat.

As the saying goes, weapons determine tactics, and what kind of guns are used to fight what kind of battles. With a machine gun you can dash, with a burning stick you can only doodle. The infantry line tactics were developed solely to match the flintlock muskets that were popular in Europe in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Densely formed a phalanx, one is to fight against the shock heavy cavalry popular in Europe, and the other is to concentrate firepower. Smoothbore guns are not rifled, and not only the chamber is slippery, but also the trajectory is slippery. Round buckshot, fifty meters away, I don't know where it flies. So everyone gathered together and shot together, so that not only the firepower was dense and strong, but also the probability of fighting if it was not accurate. Later, everyone used infantry line tactics, a bunch of people to fight a bunch of people, and this style of play was more reliable. Aiming at Zhang San to hit Li Si, pointing at Wang Wu and knocking down Zhao Liu, it is not a shot in vain.

A few blind Chinese people have suggested that because European infantry line tactics prevail and China only appears individually, Europeans are braver than Chinese and more disciplined than Chinese. This statement is like, because I am fatter than Zhang San, I have a better temper than Li Si, which is completely divine logic. It just looks like it, so I believe it. Because I don't understand, so it's nonsense.

Europeans will stand in a dense phalanx to fight, not because they are brave, but because the guns are unreliable. Under the blue sky and white clouds, among the green grass and greenery, two groups of European soldiers walked opposite each other, stood at a distance of more than 100 meters, and followed the officer's command, raising their guns and firing at each other. This is a common scene in line tactics, and those who do not open their eyes will begin to praise the bravery of European gentlemen when they see it. You can be fearless for the motherland, you won't dodge at all, and you can line up to shoot you, how brave you are! But if this is the case, there has been a burst of gunshots, why are so many people still standing, they should go to God with honor!

The secret is in the weapons in their hands, and more than half of the bullets can fly to God, and this smoothbore gun is not accurate at all. So more often than not, European gentlemen fight for character and luck. Round after round of shooting, like a Russian turntable, the two sides are actually gambling on luck. Until the courage of one side is exhausted and the morale collapses, and then the harvest season of cavalry and bayonets. The best proof of this is that casualties in European theaters have not been particularly high, such as the Battle of Austerlitz, which was a desperate battle between both sides, and a bloody battle that led to a decisive victory. However, in the Battle of Austerlitz, the 17th Army of both sides fought from 7 o'clock in the morning to 4:30 in the afternoon, and only more than 16,000 people were killed, and the French army only lost more than 1,300 people. Most of the coalition forces died not from musket fire, but from cavalry pursuits in a rout. The truth is that European gentlemen are brave, but not as ruthless as they think.

The reasons why China did not have a large-scale line strategy is complex, but if someone wanted to replicate the European line strategy in China, it would certainly not work. If nothing else, the European battlefield is a gentleman's battlefield, and officers are generally not targeted. It's okay to put it in China, Lao Tzu is an officer. Without officers, how can you line up to fight, and if you don't have a queue, how can you line up guns and shoot. The Chinese are the bravest in the world, and the four words "the whole army is killed" can be found in that history book. Not to mention the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, the most sloppy Qing Dynasty, the most wasteful Eight Banners, and the Zhenjiang garrison of the Eight Banners of the whole army of the dead city, and the Mawei Eight Banners garrison of the lonely army. Although it was funny that the old ladies of the banner people rushed towards the musket array with kitchen knives, and although the Eight Bannermen did not win any battles, their bravery was equally worthy of respect.

The Taiping Army's European-style line tactics are not only out of date, but also outdated. Because the smoothbore guns were not accurate, they could only gather in a pile and line up to fight. But now it's the world of rifled guns, and the guns are accurate. Standing there and queuing like this again is really queuing and shooting. After a burst of rifled gun fire, it is estimated that there will not be many people left on the field. It takes ten shots from a smoothbore gun to hit one person, so ten people shoot together. Now a rifled gun can hit a person with one shot, so it's better for everyone to stand up. Not to mention that the Europeans are still queuing, they have also fine-tuned, and they are now playing a hollow phalanx with infantry and artillery coordination. And experience is to be gained from practice, after the American Civil War, you see that stupid country played in line to be shot. Although Guo Xing'a has not practiced it, he has "been" seen others practice it, so buddy dig trenches to find cover! If you line up again, you'll be shot!

The time of the trenches has come! Hiding in the trenches has a good concealment effect, and it does not delay the loading of the gun and ammunition. On the premise of ensuring the rate of fire, you can protect yourself to the greatest extent. In the first battle just now, the Taiping army threw down at least 150 corpses, while the Qing army only lost two people killed and less than ten were wounded. With a force of three to one, a fifteen to one exchange ratio was played, and the Taiping army was completely defeated.

When Guoxing'a was about to make a summary of the battle, the warning suddenly came, and the Taiping troops on both wings began to move. Guo Xing'a couldn't figure out how the Taiping army was in contact, but the two sides moved in unison, and attacked almost simultaneously. Guo Xing'a, who was not very good at the art of war, was afraid that the Taiping army would have some conspiracy, so he hurriedly drew a platoon with Fengsheng A's assault company as a reserve to reinforce it. Guo Xing'a went to reinforce Tong Jia, and Feng Sheng'a went to help Nash.

The fighting style of the Taiping army on both flanks was quite Chinese, with a phalanx of 100 muskets opening the way, followed by infantry with 400 cold weapons. However, the first obstacle encountered by the Taiping army was not the earthen wall defense line, but *. When Huang Daping was in a hurry, Guo Xing'a was buried*. However, Guoxing'a is not buried at the entrance of the village, because the road is slippery and too easy to expose, after all, it is not triggered! The other three directions have no such concerns, which are already barren and overgrown, and are even more lush in the middle of summer. Not to mention burying it*, it is not easy to find the two living people. There is no thin, long, and tough rope in Guoxing'a, so the fuses of * are hung in the grass and trees, and the fuses will only explode when the Taiping army trips when they walk.

The * on both sides kept exploding, but Goxinga was not particularly satisfied, because the bombs were all ordinary infantry, and the musketeers walked over from the *. It has to be regarded as Guoxing's bad luck, this group of musketeers of the Taiping Army should have received perfect Western-style training. Not only are they lining up to shoot and play, but people are all raising their legs when they walk in unison. If you don't go on the ground, of course you won't be able to hang the fuse. The infantry in the back didn't have this problem, so they won the lottery one after another.

** is also very limited. Although it caused a lot of chaos to the Taiping army, it didn't kill a few people. However, *there is also a *benefit*, that is, it is unpredictable, and the Taiping army does not have sappers for demining. The Taiping army, who could only go to the thunder by themselves, was under great pressure, and the speed of their march dropped significantly.

After observing the equipment of the Taiping army, Guo Xing'a once despised the enemy very much. Although the Taiping army on both flanks was more numerous than the front, the musketeers were only a hundred, and the others were cold weapons. The level of equipment and training is completely incomparable to the three musket phalanxes in front. But after the real fight, Guo Xing's eyes almost didn't fall to the ground, and these guys were too fierce.

It is true that the Taiping army on the flank does not have advanced equipment and good training, and while they do not have foreign habits, they also have no foreign problems. That fool is standing in a phalanx and shooting at you! Throwing down the musketeers, the musketeers fired at the Qing army at about 100 meters, and the 400 infantry exploded like bees coming out of the nest. There are teams of more than a dozen people, some are teams of three or five, and some brave people ride alone. More than 400 people quickly dispersed into countless squads, scattered among the weeds and bushes. That is, it seems to be some kind of formation, and it seems to be chaotic and chaotic. Moreover, weeds and shrubs, and even obstacles set up by the Qing army, became their bunkers. These people spread out very thoroughly, and the difficulty of shooting suddenly increased, and three or five shots could not hit a single person.

Guoxinga was not afraid of the Taiping army's musket shooting, with trenches as barriers, and he could win the battle with attrition. But the Taiping army engaged in straggler charges, and Guo Xing'a was blind. After all, there is no rate of fire from a rear-loading gun, and there is no sustained fire from a machine gun. Not much, as long as one or twenty Taiping troops rushed into the trenches, the rhythm of alternating fire was disrupted. Then there is nothing to say, the Taiping army rushed up, and there was no other way than white-knuckle fighting bayonets.

The bandits have also engaged in cold weapon charges, but the bandits are also group charges, and the difficulty of shooting is low when the target is large. Moreover, the terrain at the entrance of the village is open, and there is nothing to provide cover for the bandits. Under the blow of Goxinga's dense firepower, the bandits' charge was like moths to the fire. The Taiping were different, they were skirmishers, with small targets and plenty of cover to hide, and Goxinga's firepower did not inflict a lot of casualties.

Moreover, in addition to the cavalry, Guoxinga invested almost all his troops when fighting bandits, and the firepower density was relatively large. And now there is only an infantry company and an assault platoon, and the overall firepower is down. In addition, when fighting bandits, bandits do not have long-range firepower. The Qing army could calmly aim and shoot like a rabbit, but now the Taiping army still has a hundred musketeers to provide fire cover. The Qing army stuck its head out of the trench, and could only see who counted, and after staying for a while, the bullets on the opposite side beckoned.

"Tong, Tong......" When Guo Xing'a was still meditating, the sound of gunshots had already sounded in his ears, mixed with the sound of small-caliber rifles, which was very harsh. The Taiping army had already reached about fifty meters, or had already rushed closer, otherwise the assault platoon with a limited range would not have entered the battle.

Guo Xing'a took a look, and indeed several of the forwards of the Taiping Army had rushed to about thirty meters. Moreover, these people were very smart, in the face of the suppression of the dense firepower of the Qing army, they did not blindly run and charge, but used a dirt slope to hide. The Qing army fired at the slope several times in a row, but they could not hurt the few Taiping troops behind. Taking advantage of these few people to distract the attention of the Qing army, more Taiping troops rushed to about thirty meters of the Qing army. Either by using trees or by using ravines, they are all well hidden.

Guo Xing'a secretly rejoiced, there is no need for any advanced weapons, each of these people has one*, and their own defense line is over. Fortunately, the Taiping Army didn't!

"My lord, the battalion commander of Fengsheng is in a hurry, and some bandits have already arrived at the defense line. Please send reinforcements. When Guo Xing'a was in his last place, a dusty Qing army ran to Guo Xing's side.

"Fuquan, let Hatan take the rest of the assault company to support Fengsheng!" Guo Xing'a recognized the disgraced man as Fengsheng'a's guard, and it seemed that Fengsheng'a's situation was worse than his own. In the east of the village, where Fengsheng Ah went to support, the terrain is slightly more steep, but there are many ups and downs in potholes, and there are more places for the Taiping army to hide. Guoxing, who had no choice, could only send all the remaining reserves to Fengsheng. Although he was already in danger, Guo Xinga still didn't want his subordinates to act too selfishly.

"My lord, there are bandits rushing up from behind the village, and the battalion commander Mushun has already gone up with the cavalry company!" This time it was Han Yu from the guard class, who was originally following Saishan'a to protect Saishan'a.

"Fuck!" Guo Xinga gritted his teeth.