Chapter 39: Counterattack

If Carl hadn't stopped him just now, Huang Daping would have almost personally raised his knife and gone into battle. The musket can't win the shooting, and Huang Daping can bear it. But the white-knuckle fight was also defeated, and the defeat was almost a one-touch collapse, and Huang Daping couldn't bear it. The Qing army has always been as timid as a mouse in front of the Taiping army, so they dare to let go of their guns from afar. As long as the Taiping army rushed closer, the Qing army would flee like a lost dog. But this time, the Qing army actually hedged against the Taiping army, and the Taiping army was defeated with a blade, and Huang Daping couldn't accept this reality anyway.

A mad Huang Daping ordered Karl to open fire on the fighting crowd and ignore the scum of the kingdom of heaven. Since they can't win the Qing army in hand-to-hand combat, what's the use of keeping them. After a burst of artillery fire, Huang Daping saw a turning point, and the Qing army fled back to the trenches in disarray, and some Taiping troops followed.

"Attacked!" Huang Daping almost ordered the army to enter the village, but the Taiping army of the brigade had already been defeated. The scattered defeated troops not only failed to take advantage of the momentum to attack the defensive line, but also blocked the way for the follow-up troops to attack. By the time Huang Daping's rear pair gathered the defeated troops and reorganized the team again, the Qing army had also stabilized and cleared the invading Taiping army. A fighter plane slipped away in front of Huang Daping's eyes. Huang Daping, who was so furious, did not kill people to vent his anger, but urged to reorganize the offensive. He could see that although the Qing army was stubborn, the casualties were already not small, and they were exhausted. Now the Qing army's defense line is like a broken house, and it only needs to be kicked again.

Liu Ju, Kong Guodong, and Miao Hansheng, the three brigade commanders who feinted to attack, also returned, Liu Ju and Kong Guodong brought back a group of defeated soldiers in disgrace, and Miao Hansheng, who was covered in blood, only came back. Huang Daping knew that they would lose, but he didn't expect Miao Hansheng to lose so badly. did not reprimand the three subordinates, and after a few words of simple comfort, Huang Daping sat on the back of the horse and was silent for a long time. His heart ached, and although he had just ordered an artillery bombardment that did not distinguish between friend and foe, every soldier here was his elite. It is the seed of the development of the kingdom of heaven, and every time a person falls, Huang Daping's heart is dripping blood.

Miao Hansheng, who was not lightly injured, was assigned to the rear team to recuperate, while Liu Ju and Kong Guodong were responsible for reorganizing the offensive. Carl, though with impure motives, was a good military man. He kept boosting morale and preaching Huang Daping's clever plan among the officers. Now that the Qing army has fallen for Huang Daping's clever plan, it must dilute its forces to defend on all sides, and the frontal troops are already insufficient. Just now, the Qing army was already in great danger, and the fact that there was no half reinforcement to arrive is the best proof of this. We can conquer the deserted village in one go and annihilate this demon. Carl can only speak fluent Chinese, but he has a fiery expression. The officer quickly understood Huang Daping's deployment, and at the same time knew that there were not many people behind the defensive line he was facing, and his morale was greatly boosted for a while.

Huang Daping reformulated the strategy of attack, because the Qing army's strength had been exhausted, and the Taiping army's firepower would completely suppress the Qing army, and there was no need to have any scruples. Therefore, the musket phalanx led by Liu Jutong pressed on at the same time as the ordinary infantry led by Kong Guodong. After approaching, Kong Guodong charged, and Liu Yi took cover on both flanks. As soon as Kong Guodong attacked the trenches and began to fight, Huang Daping waved his whole army to press on and crushed the Qing army in one fell swoop.

When the soldiers attacked, Karl also directed the artillery to start covering. The first three rounds of shelling had a slightly higher angle of fire, bombarding targets in the village, trying to kill and injure the exposed personnel of the Qing army and damaging the morale of the Qing army. When the Taiping army approached the Qing army's defense line, Karl ordered to lower the firing angle and began to bombard the earthen wall to suppress the Qing army's firepower and cover the Taiping army's charge. This attack was already a must, and there was no need to use artillery in the melee, so Karl no longer cared about the heat dissipation of the artillery, but chose to fire rapidly. At the fastest speed, the most shells were fired. When the musket phalanx of the Taiping army began to cover the infantry charge, Karl had to stop the shelling to dissipate the heat from the artillery.

Huang Daping watched the progress of the offensive and was in a much better mood. The Taiping army had already approached the Qing line, but the Qing army did not fight back with muskets as before, and everything went well. The Qing army may have been suppressed by artillery and could not raise its head at all, and it was possible to be scared away. At present, this kind of offensive method of artillery, musketeers, and ordinary infantry is still very effective. When the attack is launched, the artillery will suppress the enemy's firepower while killing and injuring a large number of enemy troops at a long range, and continue to suppress it with muskets at the medium range, and then the cold-armed infantry will launch a charge and hand-to-hand combat after approaching. The effect is far better than the previous simple artillery bombardment, musket salvo, and infantry charge. Connect a single attack combination to get twice the result with half the effort! Huang Daping thought about the war, and he wanted to sort out the details and then report to King Zhong. If this tactic can be popularized, it will be greatly beneficial for the Taiping army to conquer cities in the future.

"Division commander, it seems that the Qing army has concentrated all its forces on the defensive line." Karl rushed over.

"What?" Huang Daping's surprise is not trivial.

"I just observed the results of the shelling and found that a large number of soldiers were hidden in the trenches of the Qing army. The Qing army may have abandoned the other three defenses and concentrated all their forces on the front. Carl said and handed his monocular to Huang Daping.

"Not good!" Huang Daping took the telescope and only glanced at it, and his soul was already flying out of the sky. There were nearly 500 Qing soldiers in the trenches, who had already leaned out of the trenches and raised their muskets in their hands.

Huang Daping's "bad" was too late, all the deployments of the Taiping army were made on the premise of assuming that the Qing army was insufficient, and even ordinary soldiers thought that there were not many Qing troops in the defense line. Faced with the sudden appearance of a large number of Qing troops, the Taiping army was defenseless. After a volley, half of the unprepared Taiping Army strikers were knocked out, and the rest were in chaos. The musket phalanx, which could have suppressed the firepower of the Qing army and stabilized the situation, went too far forward, suffered heavy losses in the salvo of the Qing army, and was completely unable to return fire due to the chaos.

When cold sweat slid across the tip of Huang Daping's nose, a shirtless young man jumped out of the trench of the Qing army. The young man gestured on the trench for a short while, and rushed towards the Taiping army in disarray, carrying a knife. With the figure of the young man, the tsunami-like sound of "long live" sounded on the position of the Qing army. Countless Qing troops jumped out of the trenches and rushed towards the Taiping army amid the shouts of "long live".

"Fire, fire!" Huang Daping jumped off the horse and tugged at Carl's shirt.

"Divisional commander, the artillery can't be fired when the heat is dissipating. We have failed, please calm down and prepare to take on the withdrawn troops! Carl helplessly spread his hands at Huang Daping.

"I'll take it personally, and you dissipate the heat from the artillery as soon as possible. As long as we hold on, we still win, leave the barrier, and kill ourselves when we clear the demons! Huang Daping let go of Carl, pulled out his cloak and big knife and left.

"Okay commander, if you fight a field battle, the strength of the Qing army is indeed not your opponent!" Carl said with a smile behind Huang Daping's back.

Kong Guodong immediately commanded the infantry to meet the battle, trying to block the counter-charge of the Qing army, and buy time for Liu Ju's musket phalanx to form a whole team. Unfortunately, the Taiping Army, who were about to break into the empty door but encountered a family gathering, was demoralized, and their spears and swords were no match for organized bayonet killings. With just one face, the array organized by Kong Guodong was scattered by the Qing army, and the defeated troops continued to retreat like a mountain. Kong Guodong could only use his own life to delay the speed of the Qing army as much as possible, and buy time for Liu Ju's musket phalanx to escape.

The battle line continued to move in the direction of the Taiping camp, until it was less than fifty meters away from the Taiping camp before it fell into a stalemate. Huang Daping took his own soldiers into battle, and only then did he take all the defeated soldiers down. However, Huang Daping found out that something was wrong, the Qing army that was fighting with him was using weapons such as waist knives and hand axes, although occasionally there were retreating Qing soldiers who suddenly shot with muskets, but it was completely different from the bayonets inserted in the muskets seen in the binoculars before.

The main musketeers of the Qing army, behind the Qing army that charged this pair. Huang Daping's heart instantly cooled down, and the musketeers of the Qing army must have formed a whole team behind, ready to fire a sudden volley. If the Qing army fired a salvo at such a close distance again, I am afraid that their position would be disrupted immediately.

"Let Liu Ju immediately form a team, and the musketeers must immediately counterattack the Qing army! Huang Daping hurriedly ordered his own soldiers to give Liu an order.

It's a pity that Huang Daping didn't notice that among the routs that had just passed by, there were some large groups of weeds, which were also quietly moving. In the chaos, no one will care about those weeds that may or may not exist, and the defeat of the Taiping army is doomed.

The shirtless Goxinga was the first to jump out of the trench, but his running speed was too flattering. Ten seconds later he was in the second echelon, and in less than a minute he was back with Cezanne. Of course, he didn't run back, it was Cezanne who chased after him. Lord Zuo Ling and a group of staff officers ran at the end of the line, shouting and killing, showing the excellent physical fitness of the soldiers.

"Your Excellency, you are doing well!" Sezanne smiled.

"I am an example to my brothers! But heroes have to be brothers, and it's enough for me to take the lead! Guo Xing's face was slightly rosy.

"You will definitely go farther than Lao Zuo Ling in the future, and our Zuo Ling is blessed!" Xiande and Guiwu also nodded while running.

"Almost, let Hatan go up and tell Feng Sheng'a's infantry battalion to use firearms to solve the battle as much as possible." Guoxing Ake will not be stupid and keep fighting bayonets, but it is very heart-wrenching if the casualties are large.

When Guo Xing'a was jogging, Changlu just ran a 400-meter sprint and crawled for more than 100 meters. He crawled on the ground, covered with weeds and branches. He couldn't see that his warriors were all there, they were running separately, and the devil knew they were all there. However, he knew that the soldiers should not be far from him, and they were all staring at the artillery positions of the Taiping army like him, and they were waiting for Changlu's first shot.

Changlu quietly poked out the rifle pressed under him, and waited for a while before aiming at the strangely dressed guy in the Taiping Army's artillery position. The Taiping army closest to him was only a dozen meters, and Changlu had to be careful. Although the rifle was not loaded with bayonets and was entangled with a lot of weeds, Changlu still did not dare to make too many movements, so as not to be exposed.

Before leaving, Guo Xing'a said a word to Changlu alone, "The mission is very dangerous, but life and death are all up to you." I'm staking my life, betting that you and your reconnaissance platoon can do it! ”。

Changlu aimed for a long time, adjusted his breathing again, and finally pulled the trigger, just like Goxinga taught him at the beginning.