Chapter Eighty-Seven: Twisting
"Fengsheng, you go to Erlian to see Tong Jia! He's a piece of wood! It's also too deadly. Immediately after you have passed, arrange for the extension of firepower, especially to the direction of the enemy's flank and rear, to disperse the enemy's firepower, and to contain the enemy's advance to the position of a company. "I can't find Chengtai, the assault company can only be put aside first, and Guoxing'a can only send Fengsheng'a to the second company to supervise the battle.
"Huh!" Feng Sheng'a, who had been accompanying Guo Xing'a to observe the battlefield situation, also saw the problem of Tong Jia's second company. Under the protection of a few personal soldiers, Feng Sheng'a circled around the mountains in the direction of the second company.
Fengsheng Ah climbed the mountains and rushed to the direction of the second company and it took some time, but the battle situation did not wait for anyone. The Chinese military formation of the Taiping Army advanced with guns and approached steadily step by step. Everyone knew that once the two Taiping armies converged, the Taiping army would definitely be able to break through the weak frontal defense line of the Qing army through a white-knuckle charge, and at the same time destroy the artillery positions that the Qing army relied on. By that time, it would not be the Qing army that surrounded the Taiping army, but the Taiping army that divided and surrounded the Qing army.
Guo Xing'a can clearly see in the telescope that the Taiping army's marching in unison is almost the same as that of the British army. The first row fired and then stood still, then the second row fired forward, then the third and fourth rows in turn, until the fifth row also fired, and the original first row returned to its position. In this way, the Taiping army took one step at a time and fired a shot, approaching the Qing army's defense line step by step. Officers who are organizing the queue can even be seen, shouting slogans on both sides of the queue, or directly pushing the offside fighters back into the queue with scabbards and the like.
The artillery also tried to bombard the Chinese military formation of the Taiping Army, and the effect of solid spherical shells was better than that of blasting shells, and a bloody alley could take dozens of lives. However, the front team of the Taiping Army was also doing a rough shooting at the artillery positions, and stray bullets flew over the positions from time to time, and the environment in which the artillerymen aimed was not good. At the same time, the advance team of the Taiping Army also kept a close eye on every move of the artillery position, and as soon as the focus of the artillery changed slightly, they immediately launched a charge against the position of the company. The artillerymen, who were dragged back by a company, had to put most of their energy on the front team of the Taiping Army, and the military formation of the Taiping Army, which was more threatening, would only get the attention of a shell with little accuracy for a long time.
Huang Haojun, the commander of the Taiping Army's front team, held a telescope and hid behind a tree stump, he and Huang Daping were not familiar with each other, but they were temporarily deployed under Huang Daping's command. However, he believes that the judgment of the two people on the current battlefield situation is still the same, if there is no tacit understanding at all, then there is no way to fight this battle.
As long as the front team stares at the Qing army's artillery team, gives the Chinese army time to enter the front team's position, and then joins forces to win the battle of the Qing army's artillery team. Therefore, Huang Haojun, who failed to charge several times, was not in a hurry, and he did not care very much about the situation of the Qing army's infantry position opposite him. Instead, while eating and marching, he held a telescope and stared at the artillery positions of the Qing army.
In Huang Haojun's binoculars, the Qing army was adjusting the direction of seven or eight artillery pieces, and they once again aimed their muzzles in the direction of the Chinese army's formation. Huang Haojun knew that the Qing army's attempt would not succeed, but several of his subordinates would die again. Shaking his head helplessly, Huang Haojun gave the order to attack the two pawn commanders.
As soon as the Qing army's artillery adjusted its direction, the Taiping army launched a charge, and more than 200 Taiping soldiers rushed to the position of the first company with bayonets after launching two volleys. After the first company also fired a salvo to return fire, the artillery reluctantly began artillery support, and the six guns were divided into two rounds, loaded with shotguns, and fired a salvo. However, the Taiping army was obviously familiar with the pattern of the Qing army for a long time, and when they charged, they also stared at the artillery positions of the Qing army. It's a pity that people can't outrun the cannonballs, and there are still dozens of Taiping soldiers who have been beaten into a sieve by the shotguns.
The other Taiping soldiers continued to charge, but the Qing artillery did not react and stopped firing at the charging Taiping army. Huang Haojun rubbed his own people and started to get lucky, the Qing army didn't play according to the routine this time, and the time for gambling once came again.
The normal routine should be that the Qing army turned the muzzle, the Taiping army charged, the Qing infantry was in a hurry, the Qing army shelled for the first time, the Taiping army continued to charge with some casualties, the Qing army shelled for the second time, the Taiping army charged to the death, the Qing army transferred the muzzle back again, and the third shelling of the charging Taiping army, the Taiping army was forced to retreat with heavy casualties. The key point in the victory or defeat of this battlefield is the competition between the casualties of the Taiping army's front team and the Qing army's artillery casualties. The artillery of the Qing army can kill and injure the front team of the Taiping army, and it can rest assured that it can boldly bombard the moving military formation of the Taiping army.
But now that the Qing army suddenly doesn't play cards according to the routine, Huang Haojun can feel that the Qing army is ready to gamble. But the Taiping soldiers who were charging still habitually slowed down, they were waiting for the second shelling, but the shelling did not come for a long time.
"Boom, ......boom" cannon roared, and the Taiping soldiers on the battlefield quickly fell to the ground, but there was no hot wind blowing overhead, and there was no miserable scream from the robe. Huang Haojun, who instinctively lowered his body, did not feel the feeling of a shrapel sweeping in front of him or around him.
"Rush!" Raising his head again, Huang Haojun saw the picture that surprised him, the Qing army did fire, but not at his front team, but eight artillery pieces fired at the Chinese army formation of the Taiping army. The Qing army only had eight artillery pieces left and could fire a salvo, and at this time, Huang Haojun simply launched a charge of the whole team.
The key to victory or defeat lies in the frontal battlefield, and the key to the frontal battlefield lies in the artillery of the Qing army. As long as the Qing artillery is defeated, the battle will be won, Huang Haojun has no need to wait for Huang Daping any longer, he launched a charge regardless of it.
"Steady!" Seeing Huang Haojun's whole team rushing out of the position, Guo Xing'a also let out a long breath. One less surrounds more, and the company that was forced on the beam can finally be freed.
Huang Haojun's judgment of the situation of the Qing army's artillery was a routine he summed up through several observations of the Qing army's artillery, and in the end he was defeated in this routine. When the Qing artillery attack appeared a certain law, the soldiers charging from the Taiping army gradually adapted to this law and formed their own habits. Because all the charging soldiers knew that the Qing army would have three shells, after dodging the first shelling, the Taiping army would significantly reduce the speed of the charge and wait for the second shelling. It's like someone preparing a prank behind the door, knowing that there is someone behind the door, you will instinctively reduce your speed when you get to the door, this is the instinct of human self-preservation, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army are the same.
After discovering that the Qing artillery had hit the military formation, Huang Haojun decisively launched a charge of the whole team, and his calculation was not wrong. The Qing army has a total of 22 artillery pieces, and has already fired six at itself, and eight at the Chinese army's formation, and now there are still eight left. But he undercalculated one thing, that is, the reloading speed of the Qing army's artillery. Huang Haojun calculated that the Qing army had no time to reload before, so this time he also thought that the Qing army had no time to reload. However, this time, the Qing army was desperately reloading after the first shelling, and taking advantage of the time for the Taiping army to wait for the second shelling, the Qing army had already bought much more time than the other times.
Nearly 500 people in the front team of the Taiping army launched a decisive charge, from their commander Huang Haojun to every soldier, everyone knew that the Qing army relied on only eight artillery pieces. They suppressed the Qing troops in the trenches with muskets, but on the way to charge, they still cautiously stared at the artillery positions of the Qing army.
"Boom, boom......" The four artillery pieces launched a salvo, and the Taiping army's forward was swept away in an instant. Huang Haojun also led people to quickly lie on the ground, dodging the scattered shotguns.
"Boom" When they got up again, a blasting bomb really exploded in the center of the Taiping army's formation. The dust and blood clots scattered slowly dissipated after a long time.
"Boom" When the Taiping Army got up again, another explosive bomb hit the Taiping Army's array.
"The whole team is charging, they're dragging their feet." Huang Haojun, who had received two single shots, immediately understood that the Taiping army was just dodging the shotgun salvos fired by multiple artillery.
"Kill! Kill the demons! The Taiping army roared in unison and rushed to the position of the first company together, and the artillery of the Qing army did not fire again.
The "Bang, Bang ......" company fired the final salvo, and the Taiping army had already rushed into the defense line at a distance of 100 meters. The special operations team put the replacement wheels within easy reach, and the company began to prepare for the bayonets*.
"Boom, boom ......" eight Napoleonic guns lined up in a row, and fired a salvo of shotguns at a distance of less than three hundred meters.
The "bang, bang......" special operations team used its fastest speed to use up all the ammunition that had just been loaded.
Huang Haojun retreated with the remnants of only 200 men, and the Qing army used all kinds of methods to delay time to confuse him. Under all kinds of appearances, the Qing army had only one purpose, to lure the Taiping army's front team to the front of the position, and to attack it with preset saturation firepower. Unfortunately, he was tricked, although there were still more than 200 remnants of the Qing army, and he could still rely on the Qing army's position without retreating, but he could no longer form pressure on the Qing army's position. He had two hundred men, and the Qing army also had one hundred and seventy or eighty men, and the Qing army had trench defenses, but he needed to be bombarded by artillery. After Huang Haojun was defeated, Kong Zhen's artillery was finally liberated, leaving two guns to watch Huang Haojun, and the Qing army concentrated twenty artillery pieces and began to bombard the military formation in the Tianping Army.
In the musket fire, although Huang Daping was occasionally damaged, the Chinese military formation as a whole was still relatively elegant. Their military appearance was neat, their pace was firm, their position was coquettish, and the rows of guns pressed the Qing troops in the position so much that they couldn't lift their heads. But after the intervention of twenty Napoleonic cannons, Huang Daping's good days came to an end. The Qing army also gave up other types of ammunition, and the Taiping army could watch as iron balls smashed into their ranks. Seeing the heavy losses of the previous team, Huang Daping could only reluctantly order the phalanx to be disbanded.
The phalanx of the Taiping army collapsed, and the soldiers quickly began to hide around the road, using grass, wood, earth and stone to start building a defensive line. Even Huang Haojun's subordinate of the front team obeyed the orders of the Chinese army, abandoned the position, and retreated to join the Chinese army.
Guo Xing'a held up the binoculars and was dumbfounded, the Taiping army actually built a camp under the fire of the Qing army and began to fight back defensively. With a defense of two thousand experienced musketeers, Goxinga really couldn't kill them all with artillery, and even if he could, it would be a protracted job.