Chapter 478: Controlling Stillness with Movement

How to fight street battles during the offensive was once a difficult problem that plagued Wu Chaoyue's descendant corps, the terrain was unfamiliar, and it could not give full play to the advantages of strong firepower and fast rate of fire, on the contrary, it was easy to be cold shot by the enemy; The space is narrow, the bayonet in the hand is not flexible enough, and it is easy to suffer a big loss in the event of a sneak attack; Especially at night when the light is low, this weakness is doubly magnified. The Battle of Tianjin www.biquge.info pen ~ fun ~ pavilion, as well as the battle of Shanghai with the Little Knife Society, Wu Chaoyue's descendants suffered a lot in this regard.

What is very interesting is that on the contrary, it is the second-line army of the Wu army that is the best at this, unlike Wu Chaoyue's descendant army, which relies too much on advanced weapons, and has a variety of weapons and equipment, both long and short, and is more relaxed in street fighting. -- Of course, the most crucial point is that the second-line army of the Wu army is willing to die and take the lives of soldiers.

The elite corps of the Wu army is not without a way to solve this problem, but it was not able to do it before, so even if it knew how to solve this problem for a long time, it couldn't do it, and after nearly seven years of accumulation and development, Wu Chaoyue's descendant corps was finally able to do this.

The solution to this problem is four words, industrial strength!

"Bang!"

With a sound, the Taiping soldiers hiding behind the courtyard wall fired a cold gun from behind the window, accurately hitting a Wu soldier on the street, and the Taiping soldier who successfully shot the cold shot smirked, but before his smile ended, two black spots had already swished in the sky above his head, falling behind the courtyard wall and exploding, shrapnel and flames shot together, and the Taiping soldiers and his companions who shot the cold gun didn't even have time to scream, and lay directly on the ground.

Bang bang bang a few gunshots, a black shadow suddenly burst out from the corner of the street, rushed to the opposite wall behind the pile of debris to hide, ambushed at the intersection of the street several Taiping soldiers did not resist the temptation to shoot, the muzzle of the gun emitted fire to expose the position, but also immediately attracted a monstrous disaster, no less than ten grenades flew almost at the same time, in the blink of an eye the Taiping army ambush position at this street intersection turned into a sea of fire.

"Lie down, I'll rush together as soon as I rush, and fight with the demon soldiers!"

More than a dozen Taiping soldiers squatted in the dark alley with sharp blades in their hands, showing no traces, holding their breath and just waiting for the arrival of the Wu soldiers. Then soon, there was really a group of Wu soldiers with torches to the vicinity of this alley, the Taiping army was secretly happy in their hearts, and was about to charge, but the team of Wu soldiers did not look at it and threw two grenades into this dark alley, the grenade exploded shrapnel, the wounded Taiping soldiers screamed in pain, and at the same time the firelight also illuminated their figures, the long guns and short guns of the Wu soldiers fired together, and quickly put the dozen or so Taiping warriors who were ready to fight in close quarters fell in a pool of blood.

Even more unfortunate were the Taiping soldiers who guarded the important strongholds in the city, and if these Taiping soldiers guarding the barricades, high ground or important buildings in the city were replaced by fighting other enemies, even if they could not hold their positions in the end, they would at least have to break a few of the other enemy's front teeth. But it's a pity that they ran into Wu Chaoyue's descendant corps.

Shout! Shout! Shout! It doesn't matter if you can't take the barricade, on the grenadier canister, first shoot a few dozen grenadier shells, blow up the Taiping soldiers guarding the barricade, and then rush up and throw grenade shells, directly blowing up the barricade.

Woohoo! It doesn't matter if the enemy who grabs the highest point of the street in advance is not easy to deal with, or on the grenadier, as long as the shooting height of the curved flying grenadier is adjusted, the enemy at the height is just hand-to-hand, and the explosion can blow you up in a high place without any place to stay!

The worst thing is that the soldiers of the Taiping Army guarding important buildings, in addition to being bombarded by the grenadiers of the Wu Army without saying a word, as long as the gun is fired to expose the position, there will immediately be grenades and bullets to focus on, the soldiers of the elite corps of the Wu Army will never be like the second-line army of the Wu Army are eager to wrench a shotgun bullet into two, and when they are blocked, they will only think of using steel and gunpowder to solve the problem, and they have the right to control the river with the back of the Yangtze River waterway, and the elite corps of the Wu Army also has the confidence to squander ammunition.

In addition to effectively reducing the casualties of the self-commissioned soldiers, this arrogant behavior of Cao Yanzhong's corps of the Wu army also gradually shattered the determination of Huang Wenjin, the commander of Peng Ze's Taiping Army, to resist.

"Chengxuan, what should I do? Do you want to keep going? Or hurry up and transfer? ”

"If you want to continue to defend it, you have to quickly transfer the army on the stone mountain at the south gate, otherwise we can't hold it even if we want to defend it by relying on the army in our city alone!"

"If you don't defend it, you have to leave quickly, take advantage of the army that has not surpassed the little demon in the east, hurry up and go to Jiande first, and then find a way."

"Can't go! We have been operating in Pengze for many years, and there is so much food and ammunition in the city, so if you can say no, don't want it? Besides, the Winged King 8,000 years old asked us to hold on to Peng Ze and wait for reinforcements, and we only defended the city for less than a day before abandoning the city and fled eastward. ”

"Then you have to keep it! Can we keep this situation now? ”

The subordinates next to him were putting pressure on Huang Wenjin, and at the same time, Huang Wenying on the Shishan position also sent someone to ask if he needed to go down the mountain to help, but Huang Wenjin was even more hesitant in his heart, and said secretly: "If you can fight again, even if you can't hold Peng Ze in the end, at least you can consume a lot of ammunition beyond the little demon, and consume as many of his troops as possible." But what's the point of me doing that? ”

After a hard battle, the Wu soldiers successfully expelled all the enemies on the wall of Pengze West Gate, firmly controlled the position of the city wall, and also protected the road into the city, basically laying the victory. And after receiving this report, Huang Wenjin not only did not get angry anymore, but on the contrary, he also had a faint feeling of almost relief, and immediately said: "There is no way, it is no fun to defend any longer, take advantage of the fact that there is no enemy in the east, hurry out of the city and go to Jiande, and then keep the army first!" ”

Knowing that the defeat was decided, none of the generals of the Taiping Army opposed Huang Wenjin's decision, and after quickly arranging the order of abandoning the city and transferring the city and the army behind the palace, Huang Wenjin also glanced at the west and muttered in a low voice: "The Wing King is eight thousand years old, don't blame me, but if there is a little hope, I will definitely continue to fight, but I really can't beat the transcendent demon, I can't die in vain, right?" ”

Huang Wenjin made a smart choice, Wu Chaoyue adopted the frog jumping tactic to bypass the mouth of the lake and take Peng Ze directly, the purpose was to take Peng Ze as a base for advancement, and he was not in a hurry to spend too much time and strength to annihilate Peng Ze's Taiping army, so when Huang Wenjin's troops abandoned the city and fled eastward, Wu Chaoyue's loyal lackey Cao Yanzhong did not divide his troops to intercept it, but only commanded the army to give priority to clearing the remnants of the enemy in the city, so as to take over control in the future, and most of Huang Wenjin's remaining troops also took the opportunity to withdraw smoothly and fled to Jiande in embarrassment.

Huang Wenjin successfully kept the capital to speak, but after Peng Ze only defended for less than a day and was taken by Wu Jun after the news was transmitted back to Hukou, Shi Dakai's face was longer than a donkey's face, and he smashed the table very rarely, and roared: "What does Huang Wenjin eat?" After operating in Pengze for so many years, I can't even hold on for a day! ”

"Judging from the battle report, Huang Wenjin can be regarded as having done his best." Zhang Suimou, the chief staff of the Yiwang Mansion, who looked at Peng Ze's battle report, said a fair word for Huang Wenjin, and said: "Except for the somewhat hasty decision to abandon the city, Huang Wenjin is really not to blame for the rest, the main thing is that the demon soldiers who surpassed the little demon have too fierce firepower and too many foreign guns and cannons, so Peng Ze lost so quickly." ”

"You really can't blame Huang Wenjin completely." Zeng Jinqian, who is also a kind-hearted person, also said: "Before ambushing the baggage fleet that surpassed the little demon, he not only fought all the fleet of the sailors, but also took a lot of the main forces of the land division, which has already injured his vitality, which will make him use the strength of an army to resist the elite of the descendants who surpass the little demon, and it is not strange to lose the battle." ”

"I didn't expect him to win!" Shi Dakai said hatefully: "I just hate him for losing too fast and escaping too fast, so easily giving up Peng Ze's important town to surpass the little demon!" ”

"The Winged King is eight thousand years old, so do you want to send an edict to ask for the crime?" Zeng Jinqian asked.

After hesitating for a moment, although he somewhat doubted that Huang Wenjin was preserving his strength, Shi Dakai finally shook his head and said: "Forget it, as you said, Huang Wenjin can be regarded as doing his best, and he can't chill the hearts of soldiers." Give him a Taoist order, telling him to regroup in Jiande and wait for the call. ”

Zhang Suimou and Zeng Jinqian agreed together, first prepared an order for Shi Dakai, and then Zeng Jinqian asked again: "Yiwang, what should we do next?" Is it to continue to stand still and respond to all changes with the same? Or do you want to plan ahead and make adjustments early? ”

Shi Dakai didn't answer, and asked rhetorically: "In your opinion, what will the next step be to surpass the little demon?" Is it possible to use Peng Ze as a foothold and continue to ignore the Hukou battlefield? Continue to take Anqing with a partial division? ”

"It's probably not a big deal." Zhang Suimou replied: "Although the partial division that surpasses the little demon is strong, but if we want to capture the heavily guarded Anqing Jiancheng, I am afraid that there is still some lack of strength, unless we surpass the little demon and continue to increase the front line, or personally lead the main force to attack Anqing, otherwise we don't need to worry about the safety of Anqing." ”

Shi Dakai nodded slowly, and after thinking for a while, Shi Dakai slammed his fist on the table again, and said viciously: "Continue to stand still, and respond to all changes with the same, I want to see if the partial division that surpasses the little demon has the strength to take Anqing!" ”

After that, Shi Dakai quickly dispatched troops and sent reinforcements from all over northern Anhui to Anqing for reinforcements, and at the same time urged reinforcements from all over eastern Jiangxi to go north as soon as possible, thinking that Hukou was backing up, and also waiting for an opportunity to counterattack and recapture Pengze.

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As Zhang Suimou said, although Cao Yanzhong did not take the initiative to make a request, Wu Chaoyue also knew that it was indeed difficult to take Anqing Jiancheng, the number one town in the upper reaches of Nanjing, with the strength of his own army, so after receiving Peng Zejie's report, Wu Chaoyue quickly made up his mind and decided to let Huang Yuanbao lead the elite of the first corps of the Wu army, and dispatched some sailors and part of the second-line army to Pengze to reinforce together, and continued to use Cao Yanzhong as the commander to march east to Anqing, and asked Cao Yanzhong to speed up his actions and not give the Taiping army the opportunity to reinforce Anqing.

Wu Chaoyue's decision aroused unanimous doubts and worries from the Wu army, both civil and military, and it was not that the Wu army's partial division was too lonely to go deep -- the naval division was already invincible in the Yangtze River channel, and the water grain route could be guaranteed to be unimpeded, and there was nothing to worry about if the Wu army's partial division directly hit the city of Nanjing. What Wu Junzhong was worried about was Wu Chaoyue's own safety.

"King Zhennan, is this too dangerous for you?"

Huang Yuanbao, who is also a loyal lackey, first questioned and said: "The elites of our first and second corps have gone to Anqing, and most of the auxiliary army has also been transferred, and most of the sailors have also gone to Anqing, so there are not many troops around you that can be used?" The main force of the Western Front of the long hair happened to be at Hukou, what if they took the opportunity to launch an attack on Jiujiang? ”

"Yes, especially if you disperse the main force of the water division and use it, is it too light for the enemy?" Liu Mingchuan also said: "If the main force of our sailors is divided into two, our sailors who stay in Poyang Lake will not be able to form an overwhelming advantage over the long-haired sailors, and the long-haired sailors will take the opportunity to use their sailors to contain our sailors, and then land the land division in Jiujiang to fight, and our pressure on the land of Jiujiang will be too great." ”

The questioning of the generals of the Wu army only made Wu Chaoyue laugh out loud, and after laughing happily, Wu Chaoyue smiled and said: "Do you think I can't see the danger of over-dividing the troops? Have you ever thought about it, if I don't do this, Shi Dakai that long-haired man, and how dare he cross Poyang Lake and come to Jiujiang to fight me? ”

"King Zhennan, do you want to lure Hukou Changmao to fight you in Jiujiang?" Huang Yuanbao asked in surprise.

"Nonsense, otherwise why am I dividing my troops so repeatedly?"

Wu Chaoyue scolded with a smile, and then explained: "Shi Dakai's strategic intention of that long-haired leader is obvious, that is, to use the important towns along the Yangtze River to slow down our advance speed, and to buy time for them to completely wipe out the northern front and transfer the southern line of troops to the north to reinforce the Yangtze River battlefield. ”

"There is only one way not to be fooled, and that is to use movement to control stillness and chaos to disrupt." Wu Chaoyue sneered and said: "I dare to conclude that Shi Da will hold a meeting to respond to all changes, and continue to take his main force to contain us at the mouth of the lake, so that we dare not attack Anqing with all our strength!" With static braking, we are forced to hit the mouth of the lake that is heavily guarded by his heavy soldiers first, wasting time! ”

"I can't fall for his evil, take Peng Ze and immediately march to Anqing, in addition to not giving him time to mobilize reinforcements to strengthen Anqing's defense, and then lead him to force him to cross the lake to fight a decisive battle with me, and the anti-guest is the main thing to wait for work, and eliminate his main force on the Jiujiang battlefield, and then we can rest assured that we will march eastward, dredge the Yangtze River waterway and rescue Shanghai!"

"But King Zhennan, after our main force goes to Anqing, the army left behind in Jiujiang will not have an advantage in strength, and there is no certainty that it will annihilate Shi Dakai's main force with long hair?" Huang Yuanbao hurriedly asked.

Wu Chaoyue smiled and asked Huang Yuanbao three questions, "Forgot your brother's army in Daye?" Forgot about General Feng Sanbao's Hunan army? And, forgot about our telegraph line? ”