"What kind of demon soldiers have we encountered? How can there be so many powerful weapons? ”

No matter how shocked and frightened they were, it didn't have much effect, Huang Laohu's army was strictly coerced, and more than 1,000 Taiping soldiers still dared to charge the Wu army's position at the bottom of the mountain, in a vain attempt to break through the Wu army's blockade, and raid and destroy the Wu army's artillery position, which posed a huge threat to Pengze's city defense. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This is also the first time after seven years that the Taiping Army and Wu Chaoyue's direct elite have fought again, and it is obvious at the beginning that Peng Ze's Taiping Army has obviously forgotten that Wu Chaoyue's direct elite and the Taiping Army's last battle more than seven years ago was to use five battalions of troops to step on Shi Dakai's more than 20,000 elites to fight violently, and even dared to attack the Wu army's position with an offensive formation crab formation.

The essence of the crab formation of the Taiping army is to outflank the two wings, to contain the enemy head-on with the middle army, to outflank the army with the two wings to resemble crab feet, or to flank the assault, or directly to the back to cooperate with the front and rear of the Chinese army, and then can also evolve a variety of tactical changes according to local conditions, it is the strongest attack power of the four famous formations of the Taiping Army, and it is also one of the killer features of the Taiping Army that swept the Qing army in its heyday.

It's a pity that although the formation of the Taiping Army is exquisite, the soldiers of the Taiping Army who have been carefully trained by the famous general of the Taiping Army, Huang Wenjin, can also skillfully use this formation, but they just ran into the elite corps of the Wu Army, which has been completely Europeanized and Europeanized. Suffering from constant casualties, he did not pay any attention to the enemy's tactical intentions and blindly suppressed them with firepower.

Here I also have to praise the Taiping Army, seeing that the situation is not good, the Taiping Army commander's order flag waved, and the Taiping Army marching in the middle of the road immediately changed its formation, turning into a hundred bird formation with 25 people as a team, scattered Luo Xingbu, to avoid intensive casualties, and the later generations of the three-three system tactics have the same effect, immediately effectively reduce the casualties of the soldiers, and at the same time continue to maintain pressure on the Wu army frontally, continue to create fighters for the two wings.

Taking advantage of the opportunity to contain the front of the Wu army in the middle, the Taiping army on both flanks immediately launched a charge, in a vain attempt to attack the two wings of the Wu army's position, but it was still a pity that the commander of the Wu army just gave an order, and the Wu army, a battalion in the front, immediately lined up a dense horizontal column to attack, ignoring the fact that the two wings were just attacking the enemy on the opposite side head-on, and took out the close-range shooting tactics that were in the same vein as the British lobster soldiers to shoot the enemy on the opposite side intensively.

At this time, the Taiping army outflanked from both flanks had also launched an attack on the weak sides of the Wu army's front team, and as a result, when the Taiping army was full of hope, the flag was waved, and the Wu army's front team suddenly changed into a hollow hedgehog formation that Wu Chaoyue relied on to become famous.

The ping-pong guns rang out endlessly, and the dense bullets were like a raging storm, hitting the Taiping soldiers who hit the hollow phalanx of the Wu army on three sides so that they could not get close at all, and at the same time, the Wu army's grenadiers inside the hollow phalanx also continued to fire, and the cannonballs were fired one after another, which made it difficult for the Taiping soldiers to accumulate into groups, and naturally they were even more unable to pose a threat to the dense phalanx of the Wu army.

The formation of the Taiping army was messy, and the soldiers of the Wu army of another battalion naturally got the opportunity to attack, and they were also lined up in a dense horizontal line, and the soldiers of the Wu army in the rear team strode forward, collectively impacting the left wing of the enemy's most chaotic formation, and it took only two waves of round fire to completely defeat the Taiping army on the left flank, and then continued to move forward, in a clockwise direction to impact the Taiping army in the front, and as a result, the front team of the Wu army also quickly changed its formation into an offensive queue and charged the Taiping army on the right flank.

The tactics are flexible, and the weapons occupy an absolute rate of fire advantage, the attack of the Wu army is of course like a devastating and decaying quickly defeated the Taiping army on the front and right flank, the Taiping soldiers have fled back to the mountain, Huang Wenying's face is blue on the top of the mountain, but the Wu army's main general Cao Yanzhong is not even bothered to look at the battle situation here, the Wu army's artillery has also been firing artillery continuously, and continues to crush the fortifications under the city of the Taiping army in Pengze with artillery fire.

Just like a textbook, when the Wu army's artillery fire seriously damaged the Taiping army's defense line of the sheep and horse wall under the city, the Wu army commando team composed of a battalion immediately launched an attack, with the team as a group, using the straggler line tactical charge, rushing to the Taiping army's defensive position, a team and a grenadier are responsible for attacking the enemy's dense fire, under which the firing pin gun fire covers, and responsible for building a wooden bridge over the trench with the wooden planks brought by the army, and two other demomen carrying grenades forward, specifically responsible for dealing with the Taiping army's bunkers under the city.

It was also at this time that the Wu army suffered a certain amount of resistance in the real sense, and the Taiping soldiers hiding in the bunker and the Taiping soldiers hiding behind the crippled sheep and horse wall opened fire frantically, somewhat suppressing some of the Wu army's offensive, and also causing some casualties to the Wu soldiers. -- This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, the Taiping army can barely be regarded as a modern army.

However, it was okay for the soldiers of the Wu army, although the Taiping army had the advantage of fortifications, but the rate of fire of the arquebuses and front-loading flintlock pistols in their hands was too slow, and it took a lot of time to reload the ammunition after a shot, and the sheep and horse wall fortifications were seriously damaged, and they were suppressed by the grenadiers of the Wu army, and they could not play the three-stage shooting tactics, so they naturally could not make up for the lack of firepower by relying on tactics, so that the soldiers of the Wu army could seize the opportunity to reload after they fired and quickly stepped forward, and gradually approached the Taiping army's bunker under the city.

The Taiping army's rammed earth bunker was used to prevent bullets but the effect was good, unless the Wu army's pinch gun accurately hit the firing port of the Taiping army's bunker, otherwise there was no possibility of killing or injuring the Taiping soldiers in the bunker, but after the Wu army commando gradually approached the Taiping army's bunker position, the Taiping army's carefully built bunker became the grave of their soldiers - as long as a grenade bullet was stuffed into the shooting port and exploded, the Taiping soldiers in the bunker had nowhere to hide, but could only be blown up alive into flesh and blood.

In the continuous sound of gunfire, the experienced Wu soldiers rolled and moved, constantly approaching the bunker of the Taiping Army, and constantly stuffed or smashed the grenades emitting green into the firing mouth of the Taiping Army bunker, the Taiping soldiers in the bunker screamed heartbreakingly, but still could not stop the violent explosion of the grenade bullets, one after another Taiping soldiers died tragically in the explosion, and one after another the Taiping Army bunker firing port spewed smoke and flames, directly turned into graves.

The first trench defense line of the Taiping army was quickly broken through by the Wu army, and in front of the second trench, although the Wu army commando team was resisted more violently, but when Cao Yanzhong temporarily withdrew the assault team and covered the second trench defense line of the Taiping army with artillery fire, a large number of Taiping soldiers who retreated to the second line of defense were also re-immersed in the iron fire hell.

In order to reduce the casualties of the elite soldiers, the Wu army's artillery fire took an hour to cover the second line of defense of the Taiping army, during which the Taiping soldiers hiding in the bunker were slightly better, unless they were very unlucky and happened to be hit by the Wu army's shells, they were basically safer. However, the Taiping soldiers who were hiding behind the sheep and horse wall were unlucky, constantly being buried alive by the collapsed wall, and constantly covered by the bitter acid shells of the Wu army, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

At this time, Huang Wenjin, who ventured to climb the city wall again to inspect the situation, saw that the second line of defense was doomed, in order to reduce casualties and preserve strength, he really made the decision to retreat, and sent a signal to call the soldiers under the city to return to the city.

Although it was relatively easy to destroy the Taiping army's defense line under the city, the real test of the Wu army was still to come-if it could not break through the Taiping army's wall defense, the previous hard sacrifice was doomed to be in vain. However, just when it was time to continue the attack on the city wall of Pengze, Cao Yanzhong unexpectedly temporarily stopped the attack, and chose to continue to cover the city of Pengze with artillery fire, and at the same time sent auxiliaries to fill the trenches under the city of the Taiping army, and build as many trench bridges as possible so that the army could reach the city.

Huang Wenjin, who is also a veteran of the battlefield with a hundred battles, saw at a glance what was caught behind Cao Yanzhong's buttocks, and expected that Cao Yanzhong was preparing to exert his strength at night when the defenders' vision was difficult, and he also concluded that Cao Yanzhong must be fighting Peng Zeximen's idea. Therefore, Huang Wenjin did not stop doing anything, and simply ordered to completely block the city gate of Peng Zexi Gate, so that Wu Jun could not enter the city even if he blew up the city gate.

"Hurry up and rest, be sure to finish dinner before dark, prepare enough dry food and torches, and prepare for the night battle!"

After quickly arranging the preparations for the night battle, Huang Wenjin looked at the position of the Wu army, gritted his teeth, and said secretly: "Come on, I can't beat your foreign guns and foreign artillery in the field battle, but when you fight ants and join the battle, I will see how useful your foreign guns and foreign cannons can be!" ”

According to Huang Wenjin, Cao Yanzhong did plan to attack the city at night, and he also seized the time to let the soldiers of the Wu army have a good dinner, and at the same time prepared enough dry food and torches, and then at more than seven o'clock in the afternoon, when the sky was basically dark, Cao Yanzhong redeployed his troops and arranged for the army to attack.

Huang Wenjin was a little puzzled by the siege tactics of the Wu army - Cao Yanzhong actually ordered the Wu army's artillery to shoot at the city of Pengze with all its might, but did not focus on attacking the Taiping army's city wall position. As a result, although the artillery fire of the Wu army also caused a lot of casualties and chaos to the Taiping army in the city, Huang Wenjin only gave an order to let the reserve team hide as much as possible in the shooting corner under the city wall, and the long-range artillery fire of the Wu army did not play much role.

Huang Wenjin soon found himself in Cao Yanzhong's evil position, and tried his best to use long-range artillery fire to force the Taiping army's reserves to the dead corner of the artillery under the city wall, and the ten super-large caliber Wu army mortars that had never fired the cannon took the opportunity to quietly step forward, and gradually touched the city under the Peng Zexi Gate, and then fired together, suddenly blasting out the curve of ten 210MM caliber picric acid flowering shells, and violently hitting the Taiping army's city wall position and the dead corner behind the city.

The mortar shells fell from the sky and exploded, and the unprecedented violent explosion almost instantly harvested the lives of the Taiping soldiers within a few zhang of the surrounding area, Huang Wenjin roared in disbelief, but the Taiping soldiers on and below the city wall were heart-rending screams, and the mortar cannons of the Wu army continued to fire, constantly bombarding the curve of the large-caliber flowering shells on the top of the city wall and the rear of the city wall, and the Taiping army reserves hiding under the city wall were caught off guard, and the casualties were so heavy that they could not be more miserable.

At this time, when Huang Wenjin was still in the middle, when the Taiping army in the city was panicked because of the sneak attack of the mortar artillery, the Wu army demolition team quickly crossed the bridge with explosives, touched the pile under the Peng Zexi Gate, quickly placed the fuse to detonate, and successfully blew up the Peng Zexi City Gate with only one blasting!

But it's a pity that the road at the city gate has been blocked by earth, stone and sandbags, and even if the Wu soldiers blow up the city gate, they still can't directly enter the city.

In this regard, Huang Wenjin of course laughed proudly, and admired himself for being like a god, and taking precautions to sabotage the Wu army's blasting and siege plan in advance. However, after the news was reported to Cao Yanzhong, Cao Yanzhong didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately said: "Blow up the city wall directly." ”

Under the cover of guns and cannons, the Wu army's demolition team stepped forward again with a pointed wooden donkey, quickly found the blasting position that had been favored during the day, picked up a giant hammer and struck the iron drill, smashed the city bricks and destroyed the city wall, Peng Ze's Taiping army also quickly discovered the vicious intentions of the Wu army, and hurriedly focused on the Wu army's excavation position, while reporting the situation to Huang Wenjin, who was pressed to death in the city by the Taiping army.

"Blow up the city wall directly?"

Huang Wenjin, who didn't know that there was already a thing called Dana dynamite in the world, laughed directly when he heard it, and laughed loudly: "Okay, since the demon soldiers who surpass the little demon like to blow up the city wall directly, let him blow it up, I want to see how much gunpowder he needs to use to blow up the Pengze city wall that we have repeatedly reinforced!" ”

After laughing, Huang Wenjin looked at the direction of Gaojiazui in the south again, and said secretly in his heart: "Chen Zhongli, it's time to do it, I don't expect you to break through the camp that surpasses the little demon directly, at least share some pressure on me here." ”

Under the leadership of Chen Zhongli, more than 300 elites of the Taiping army took advantage of their familiarity with the terrain and roads to unknowingly touch the vicinity of the Wu army's camp, and suddenly launched an attack on the Wu army's camp before being discovered by the Wu army's scouts.

If the Taiping army's hand is used in other armies, it will definitely receive a lot of results, but it is still a pity, the Taiping army met Wu Chaoyue's own son army this time, not to mention well-equipped, and the top and bottom have received strict training, and there are corresponding ways to deal with all sudden situations, the sneak attack of the Taiping army ambush only slightly disturbed the Wu army camp, and the two battalions of the Wu army elite in the remaining camp immediately reacted, and quickly rushed to the camp to guard the fence and ditch defense line, played the role of the backbone and joined forces with the auxiliary troops to meet the sneak attack of the Taiping army, and it was very old and spicy, but it could not be defended, and did not give the Taiping army any chance to take advantage of the situation.

When the news of the attack on the camp reached the front, Cao Yanzhong did not have any anxiety and panic, and let the rear army in the camp meet the battle on their own, and at the same time gave orders to the soldiers of the Wu army who were monitoring the Shishan position, telling them to prepare to prevent the Shishan Taiping army from coming down the mountain to attack again.

This time, it was Cao Yanzhong's turn to be like a god, and after discovering that the ambush of the self-army had been started through the sound and firelight, the Taiping army on the Shishan position really went down the mountain again under the command of Huang Wenying, in a vain attempt to take advantage of the fire to rob and completely disrupt the Wu army. However, Huang Wenying soon found out extremely depressed that the Wu army under the mountain not only had prepared in advance, but also changed its tactics, and tightly blocked the Taiping army's road down the mountain with grenadiers and muskets.

Seeing this scene, Huang Wenying of course remembered the situation when he led the army to attack the Wu army's baggage fleet, and couldn't help muttering even more depressedly: "How did the soldiers who surpass the little demon train?" How can no matter what the situation, be neither panicked nor chaotic? ”

Wu Jun's calm and composed, of course, is based on absolute confidence in the strength of the self-army, no matter how fierce the Taiping army firepower on the city wall is, and no matter how many torches and stones fall around him anytime and anywhere, the Wu soldiers hiding under the pointed wooden donkey are not stopping, quickly digging the city wall, and at the same time, the Wu soldiers in the rear are also calmly and constantly shooting and firing cannons on the city, suppressing the defenders on the city with firepower, and sharing the pressure for the self-army demolition team.

In the middle of the night, a blast hole was finally excavated, and the explosive bag of the inner Dana explosives was quickly filled into the hole, and the mercury nitride detonator was installed, and the lead was quickly laid and ignited.

The guns were dense, and the Taiping soldiers on the city wall seemed to sense the danger, and they shot and threw stones at Wu Jun's explosion even more frantically, but they still couldn't stop the fuse wrapped in nitrate powder and picric acid powder from burning rapidly, and gradually approached the blasting hole......

"Boom!"

In the midst of a violent explosion that surpassed all else, the wall of the Penzexi Gate suddenly jumped as if it had been pushed by a ghost, and then made a loud noise, collapsing in the dust and earth, revealing a huge gap no less than five zhang wide. The Taiping army was shocked and screamed in despair, but the soldiers of the Wu army were thunderous with joy and did not hesitate to charge towards the gap.

"What? The walls were blown down? How can it be? How could the city wall, which I had worked so hard to build for so many years, be blown down so quickly?! How much gunpowder did the Transcendence Little Demon use, how could he blow up the city wall of Pengze so quickly?! ”

After receiving the report, Huang Wenjin first yelled in disbelief, and then a thought quickly flashed in his heart, "Do you want to continue to fight in the street and fight to the death?" ”

"Chengxuan, what should I do?" The generals of the Taiping Army next to him also asked: "Do you abandon the city and retreat immediately?" Or fight to the end with the transcendence demon? Trying to fill the gap? ”

Huang Wenjin didn't answer immediately, and subconsciously remembered the letter Wu Chaoyue wrote to himself, his heart was shaken, and he said secretly: "I really fought the army out, and the king of heaven took the opportunity to settle accounts with me after the autumn, what should I do?" ”