Chapter Seventy-Three: Please Enter the Urn
"Can you speak well?" Guo Xing'a, who was also a little distressed, couldn't stand Mu Shun's cyborg-like accent.
"Gotta hold on! The five thousand essences of the long hair are coming straight to us, if it spreads, I'm afraid the army's heart will be shaken! Mu Shun still had the same stiff language and expression as a ghost. However, it can also be seen that he is trying his best to make others think that he is just talking to Guo Xing'a about some trivial things, or just chatting casually.
"What are you afraid of, tens of thousands of people in Little Nanjing have been defeated, and you are still afraid of thousands of him?" Guoxinga has the feeling of walking to the cemetery and singing a song.
"It's really different!" Mu Shun smiled bitterly.
Guoxing'a attacked Little Nanjing, and beat the Taiping army of tens of thousands into thousands of people, although it can be called a brilliant result. But there is a very important premise for Goxinga to be able to do this, that is, these are a group of ordinary people. Although they participated in military training, their original life organization and living environment remained unchanged, and more often than not, they were engaged in production. It is not so much that they are a group of soldiers who mainly farm the land, but that they are militiamen who use their spare time for military training. And these people have never fought a war, and they identify more with themselves as ordinary people.
The people Huang Daping brought this time were different, they were soldiers who had left their families and hometowns, and the momentum of the march could be seen at a glance that these people had experienced the baptism of war. Moreover, these people's equipment is extremely luxurious, not to mention the troops from Xiaonanjing or Huangda Plain, even compared with the Guoxing Asuo Division, their equipment is also quite superior. These people are marching at high speed, and they will be able to enter the city before evening, and Guoxinga will not have a chance to attack them like a sneak attack on Little Nanjing.
"It's a pity, my lord, let's go!" Xiande patted the cannons fixed on the gun emplacement, sighed and said, these cannons are fixed to death, and they will not be able to be dismantled for a while.
"Lao Tzu is here to arrest Huang Daping, Huang Daping sent it to the door, but Lao Tzu wants to lead people to run away, nonsense! Order the whole army to reorganize and fight! "After beating Xiao Nanjing, Guo Xing'a is addicted to gambling, he doesn't want to give up what he has now, since he has won so many times, then gamble again.
"My lord, there are 5,000 of them, all armed with firearms, you really want to fight!" Mu Shun looked at Guo Xing'a in disbelief.
"He is the whole army with one artillery, what can they do, do they have more artillery?" Goxinga blows, but the mention of artillery is also a little weak.
"Thirty or so!" Mu Shun's scouts have really counted.
"Prepare to retreat!" Guo Xing'a lost his spirit in an instant.
"You're not fighting again!" Mu Shun felt that Guo Xing'a was a little convulsive.
"We have eight cannons, more than 30 of them, stay and wait for death! Don't run yet! Goxinga secretly hated that Peters and his brothers were not strong, and it would be nice if he could make some Armstrong cannons for himself.
"But we have a big gun, and they have a small cannon." Mu Shun didn't think that the artillery battle would suffer a loss.
"Do you know Cannon?" Guo Xing Ah didn't believe Mu Shun's vision, and Huang Daping might be able to get a rifled cannon.
"Yes! It's all common mountain splitting artillery in the battalion, and I don't know anything. Mu Shun hated and was not convinced, and Guo Xing's contempt for him.
"More than thirty of them are mountain-splitting cannons?" Guo Xing'a suspected that Mu Shun was a heart.
"Yes, they have a lot of muskets, almost one shot per person, and they are all good guns, which look better than ours, but there are only more than 30 guns, and they are all small cannons." Mu Shun confirmed.
"Order the whole army, reorganize the army, and capture Huang Daping alive tonight!" Goxinga became agitated again.
"Will it work?" Mu Shun is still not at ease.
"Don't worry! I have my own clever plan, how did Little Nanjing get down? Let you see what it means to be a famous general! Guo Xing'a boasted to himself, and then left Mu Shun and the others behind, and ran around the city tower to start researching and deploying.
"I hope so!" Mu Shun muttered.
Mu Shun doesn't believe in Guo Xing'a, after all, Guo Xing'a has won some battles with the big guys, but does Guo Xing'a really have the brains of a famous general? Mu Shun felt a little uncertain in his heart. The so-called famous generals must have classic examples of miraculous skills, and Guoxinga also has them, such as the night attack on the Battle of Little Nanjing, but there is still a difference between Guoxinga and famous generals.
Many famous generals have the ability to turn decay into magic, even with cats and dogs. It's like a night attack on Little Nanjing, if it's really a famous general, no matter what kind of people his subordinates are, he can fight, and it's an exaggeration to say that even if he has four blind people, five lame people, and ten dumb people, the famous generals can also beat Little Nanjing down. But Goxinga didn't have this ability, he had to take his long-trained special combat team, and it was a special combat team that specialized in special training, and it was not possible to replace it with other cavalry and infantry. It's not so much that Guoxinga is powerful, but that these soldiers are powerful, and anyone can beat them down with these soldiers. As I said last time, the great thing about Guo Xing'a is that he can train these powerful soldiers, not how good he can use them.
Guoxing's strategy was also simple, concentrating all his forces on the inner and outer urn cities, and the cavalry company as a mobile force concentrated behind the inner urn city. In addition to the original eight artillery pieces at the head of the city, the eight artillery pieces belonging to the artillery, as well as the original light and heavy artillery from the arsenal in the city, were all moved to the city.
The place where Guoxing'a suffered against Huang Daping was the troops, although there was an advantage in defending the city, but the side chief had the city wall of Lixu, which was enough to expose the disadvantage of Guoxing'a's troops. The inner and outer urn city is also equivalent to a small city in terms of type, Guo Xing'a was preparing to walk, and the only thing that was a little reluctant was on the head of the inner and outer urn city, and he just moved all his belongings over and guarded this inner and outer urn city. The other three city gates will be given to you Huang Daping, you long hair can go casually, you can enter the city if you want to enter the city, anyway, there is nothing in the city except the people.
The main reason why Guoxing'a couldn't run away with a large number of seizures was the terrain of Little Nanjing, with only a large road facing the inner and outer urn cities, and the other directions were either mountain roads or low-lying mud fields, and carts or horses could not be allowed to pass. If Huang Daping really led the main force into the city and besieged Guoxinga from four directions, it would just give Guoxinga a chance to break through from the front. In a one-on-one fight, Guo Xinga is confident that he can still win.
"If Huang Daping attacks the city, where will he set up camp, and where will he choose to launch the first attack?" Guo Xing'a held a telescope and observed the terrain outside the city, a little unsure how Huang Daping would attack.
"The city defense is weak, far away from the city tower, and it is the corner of the city wall, if the long hair launches an offensive, the first attack may be the largest." Mu Shun pointed to the junction of the city wall and said.
"There are rice paddies under the city, and there is mud and water, and if the infantry can't get up, they will become targets. And there is no road that is completely groping, and it is not suitable for night battles. Guo Xing'a held the binoculars and looked at it, shook his head and said.
"How can Long Hair attack overnight, how can the first attack be tomorrow morning!" Mu Shun felt that even if Huang Daping hated Guoxing'a, he would not attack the city overnight.
"Surprise attack! Just like when we laid down this little Nanjing, it was a surprise! Otherwise, what did he Huang Daping do when he ran to the city in a hurry! Give me a chance to rob the camp? I don't play any midnight three watches, Lao Tzu will bombard him with a cannon! Guo Xing'a guessed Huang Daping's intention to come.
"They came in such a hurry to rest in the city and spend the night!" Mu Shun also tried to guess Huang Daping's purpose.
"Huang Daping is too crazy! You want to kill my dinner! It's not that we haven't fought before, and they look down on us too much! ”
Guo Xing laughed.
"Will Huang Daping not know that we are in the city?" Feng Sheng, who rushed over with a team on the side, suddenly thought of a possibility that no one had noticed.
"When the city of Little Nanjing was broken, how many people escaped?" Guo Xinga also felt that it was not impossible.
"I don't know how to count, but there must be a lot, it's been so many days, even foreigners have been here, it's impossible for Huang Daping not to know." Xiande said with his fingers wrenched on the side.
"How's his troops looking?" Without sufficient information, Guo Xing'a could only rely on guessing.
"It's just a normal march, nothing special. The queue is quite rigorous, everything else is normal, and the person walking doesn't have any expression! Changlu, who had observed the enemy up close, recalled.
"Nervous?" Although Guo Xing'a also felt that his question was a bit vague, he still wanted to grasp some details.
"Don't be nervous! There was no one in the queue to speak, but I guess I was a little impatient! I'm not sure! Changlu reminisced hard. Although they usually pay attention to details in reconnaissance, this time Guo Xing's request is too detailed, and they have not yet reached it.
"If we let Huang Daping into the city, what harm will it be?" Goxinga had a bold idea.
"As long as the city passes of the inner and outer urn cities are not lost, it is nothing to let Huang Daping enter the city, but it can also dilute the long-haired troops!" You don't think there's anything wrong with it.
Guoxing's city defense plan was originally to only defend the inner and outer urn cities, and the other three city gates and various places in the city were not wanted, whether Huang Daping wanted it or not, whether he entered the city or not had no impact on the Qing army. As long as the Qing army sticks to the inner and outer urn cities, the initiative on the battlefield is in the hands of Guoxing'a, which can be said to be offensive and defensible. Although the inner and outer urn cities are small, they are just in line with the strength of the Qing army, and under the dense firepower, the Taiping army without heavy artillery is extremely difficult to overcome.
"You said that I opened the city gate and stood at the head of the city, Huang Daping recognized me, did he dare to enter the city? Can you play any tricks? "Guo Xing'a must be prepared to be dismantled by Huang Daping.
"I'm afraid it's not easy to trick, either rush into the city with a fight, or retreat to prevent an ambush, he has no chess!" Everyone analyzed for a while, and they also felt that Huang Daping couldn't play any tricks.
"The clothes that the Taiping Army stripped off are still burning!" Goxinga asked the reader logistically minded.
"I didn't even move to repay the merit!" Everyone had guessed Goxinga's plan.
"The uniforms of the Taiping army are all on the outside of the uniforms of the Taiping army, including the cavalry, all of them have entered the city. The 1st and 2nd companies are responsible for the defense of the outer line, and the assault company, cavalry company, supply company, special operations squad, guard squad, and artillery platoon are concentrated in all light and heavy and melee rapid-fire weapons, all of which are concentrated in the inner and outer urn cities. Guoxinga bet that Huang Daping didn't know that Little Nanjing had changed hands.