After the people quickly eliminated the line mines planted by the Taiping army by digging and igniting, and carefully confirmed that there was no omission, Wu Chaoyue then led the army into the open field that was most suitable for the Wu army to exert the power of linear tactics, so that two battalions of the Hubei New Army were in the front, and the two battalions were divided into two wings, Wu Chaoyue's main battalion was in the center, and the two battalions of the Qing army's green battalion were in the rear, and immediately built temporary fortifications in the rear to protect the back, so as to prevent the Taiping army from suddenly killing in the raging mountains and forests in the rear. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, the last remaining artillery battalions were used by Wu Chaoyue to disperse the arrangement, some of them arranged the artillery in the front, lined up the twenty breech guns brought by the army, and the muzzles were aimed at the enemy camp in the south, and the other part was to protect the ammunition and ten mortar guns in the second line and scatter them, so as not to be disposed of by the black powder and shells gradually equipped by the Taiping army.

During this period, the artillery of the Taiping Army, which had not learned enough lessons, could not wait to take the initiative to blossom, in a vain attempt to disrupt the artillery arrangement of the Wu army and seize the opportunity.

When the artillery was in place, news came from the fast horse on the side of the Wuwangmiao camp, saying that the Taiping Army's naval division had suddenly crossed the Yangtze River again, and was moving in the direction of the Wuwangmiao camp, which was empty, and it was very likely that it was about to land and attack the camp.

Wu Chaoyue, who had been mentally prepared, ignored the news at all, and sent away the scout fast horse with a wave of his hand and ordered to continue the investigation, and Qian Wei, the artillery battalion officer of the Wu army over there, also ran in front of Wu Chaoyue, and just wanted to ask for the order to open the cannon, but he never thought that two thick arrows flew out of the Taiping military camp, and smashed into the front of the Wu army's artillery position with white smoke and exploded, which frightened Qian Wei and Zhao Liewen and other Wu army civil and military forces, among which Feng Sanbao, the soil bun, also exclaimed: "What is that?" ”

"Congreve rockets." Wu Chaoyue replied lightly: "The British used it during the Opium War, and during the negotiations, the British representative Yilu sent two to Qishan, and later there were firearms craftsmen in China to imitate them, and there was a small amount of equipment in the sailors on the southeast coast, but I didn't expect Changmao to learn this thing." ”

"Comfort Ting, since you know this weapon so well, why don't you make a few to use?" Zhao Liewen asked curiously.

Wu Chaoyue smiled, and looked at the primitive rocket artillery Nunu mouth that flew out of the Taiping military camp one after another, but Zhao Liewen and others couldn't help laughing when they looked closely, it turned out that after the Taiping Army used a large number of Kangreve rockets that were introduced into China in the early forties of the nineteenth century, those primitive rocket artillery immediately exposed a huge weakness without accuracy, and the range could not be stabilized, and the rockets that could really hit the Wu army's position were pitiful, and several of them even turned around in the air and fell into the Taiping army camp and exploded.

"See, that's why I don't want to imitate it." Wu Chaoyue smiled bitterly and said: "This kind of rocket has been improved by foreigners in the past few years, and three spiral stabilization plates have been added, and the accuracy has improved a lot, and there will be no jokes about shooting out and hitting back, but the production process is too demanding, and our Shanghai Arsenal has failed to imitate it many times, and I have completely given up on the successful development of the grenadier canister." ”

"Lord Futai, this kind of rocket should work well when used to burn the enemy's big ship in a water battle." Shao Yanhong, who has not had any eye-catching performance since entering the Wu Chaoyue Shogunate, volunteered and said: "Why don't you let the villain bring some craftsmen to try whether you can imitate it, if you can successfully imitate the improved rocket of the foreigners, it will definitely come in handy for you, Lord Futai." ”

"Okay, after this battle, I'll ask Huang Sheng to give you the materials and sample materials, so that you can try to imitate it." Wu Chaoyue agreed, and then instructed Qian Wei: "Don't be scared, you, the artillery battalion officer, can't just stand and be beaten without fighting back, right?" Go, open the cannon, let Shi Da open that dirt bun to see what is the most advanced artillery in the world, the most fierce firepower. ”

Qian Wei clenched his fists and sang loudly, rushed back to order the cannon, and then, when the twenty rear-loading rifled guns of the Wu army roared neatly, the head-on decisive battle between the little comprador Wu Chaoyue and the young hero Shi Dakai finally officially began.

The artillery of the Taiping Army has been roaring and roaring, blasting a large number of solid shells and a small number of flowering shells into the Wu army's positions, and the primitive Congreve rockets have been whistling and flying in the sky, carrying thin copper blasters to continuously explode, bursting into loud noises of different sizes. But compared with the explosion sound of the Wu army's bitter acid shells, these sounds are as slight as mosquito buzzing, every picric acid shell blasted into the Taiping army camp, and an earth-shattering thunderous sound can break out in an instant, and the shrapnel flew horizontally and the flames were everywhere, and the power was so powerful that it was mad, and every explosion could take away the precious lives of the surrounding Taiping soldiers, and every explosion would cause a sky-high fire in the Taiping army camp.

The first to bear the brunt of course is the artillery of the Taiping Army, although the accuracy of the shells bombarded by the rifled artillery of this era is far less than that of the later rifled artillery, but it also threw off the smoothbore artillery of the Taiping Army more than eight streets, only the first round of shelling, there are six Taiping artillery accurately hit by the Wu Army, the explosion of the bitter acid shell caused the Taiping Army artillery and powder keg to explode, the two huge forces plus the exchange everywhere, all the Taiping soldiers who were affected were either directly crushed to pieces, dead without a corpse, or blood sprayed from the mouth and nose, and the internal organs were broken and died miserably.

The wooden fence defense line quickly ignited a skyrocketing fire, and flammable materials such as military tents, vehicles, guard towers and flags in the camp also rose from pitch-black smoke, and in the thick smoke of the fire, the artillery exposed by the Taiping army before seemed to be named, and one by one was uprooted by the Wu army's artillery, and the Taiping soldiers gradually turned like earth, Shi Dakai, Hu Yihuang and Zhang Suimou and other civil and military generals of the Taiping army gradually turned pale, and finally understood one thing - the power of the Wu army's artillery introduced by Lin Fengxiang in front of them before, It's not that it's deliberately exaggerated, but it's that it's deliberately belittled and contemptuous!

After quickly pulling out the exposed artillery of the Taiping army, Wu Chaoyue gave another order, and the Wu artillery immediately concentrated its fire and bombarded the north gate of the Taiping army's camp. The camp gate of the Taiping army is made of good pine wood, so strong that it is difficult to cut off even the axe, but in the face of bitter acid shells, the strong camp gate is as fragile as paper paste, the Wu army artillery only fired a salvo, the north gate of the Taiping army camp and the horizontal tower on the camp gate were directly bombed into a state of sawdust, the Taiping soldiers hiding on the horizontal tower did not survive, all were blown up alive and shocked to death, the fences on both sides of the camp gate were also broken and burned, only the sheep and horse wall that the Taiping army built overnight yesterday can barely remain intact, Even if it is defeated, it can still play a role in defending against the enemy.

Seeing this scene, Shi Dakai's face was of course even more pale, but Wu Chaoyue decisively ordered to stop firing the artillery, called Huang Weijie, the newly promoted battalion officer who came to Hubei, to the front, whispered a few words to him, and sent someone to Qian Wei to give an order, asking Qian Wei to quickly adjust the angle of the cannon and wait for the order to fire.

When he saw a battalion of the Hubei New Army striding out, lined up in a neat horizontal line towards the camp gate that had been directly smashed, Shi Dakai, who had always had a very bad face, first looked at it, and then showed joy on his horse, knowing that Wu Chaoyue was too light on the enemy's greed and wanted to immediately kill the battalion of the army, and without thinking about it, he let the order be loudly issued, so that the Taiping soldiers who were hiding in the rear to avoid bullets charged forward, seized the fortifications in the camp and strengthened the defense line of the sheep and horse wall to prepare for the battle.

Next, Shi Dakai, who once thought that Wu Chaoyue was too light on the enemy, opened his nose and was almost not angry, when Huang Weijie led a battalion of the Hubei New Army to a position only a mile away from the Taiping Army camp, Huang Weijie gave an order, and the Hubei New Army immediately stopped advancing and squatted down. Then before Shi Dakai and the Taiping soldiers could figure out what was going on, the breech guns of the Wu army had already roared neatly again, hitting the shells as far as possible on both sides of the road in the Taiping military camp, and the bitter acid shells exploded violently, and the Taiping soldiers who were hiding behind the bunkers, sand and gravel carts and sheep and horse walls didn't even have time to scream, and they were immediately killed and suffocated to death, and many Taiping soldiers who were on fire screamed and rushed out of the hiding place, running around and rolling all over the ground, but not only failed to extinguish the bitter acid flames on their bodies, On the contrary, it also ignited more tents in the camp, adding more chaos and fire points to the Taiping camp.

When the Wu army's artillery continued to roar, Huang Weijie's army had already seized the time to dig individual bunkers in front of the position and on both flanks with small shovels, and at the same time, the Wu army's mortars, which had been hiding in the second line, also stood out under the impetus of the artillery battalion soldiers, and quickly rushed forward to meet Huang Weijie's army. Seeing this situation in the telescope, although Shi Dakai didn't understand why Wu Chaoyue hadn't used these strange cannons before, just by seeing the terrifying caliber of the mortar cannon, Shi Dakai understood that the power of the shells of this weapon must be even more extraordinary.

"Do you want to send troops to fight back?"

When this thought flashed through Shi Dakai's mind, Hu Yihuang next to him couldn't wait to shout: "The Wing King is five thousand years old, don't be so beaten and don't fight back, you have to send an army to rush, otherwise if it goes on like this, our right battalion will be broken in a short time!" ”

Shi Da didn't say a word, but glanced at the left camp out of the corner of his eye - the main gate of the Taiping Army camp is the west gate, and the left camp faces the Yangtze River and is the least vulnerable to the enemy, which is suitable for sending troops out of the camp to fight. And after a little more calculation, Shi Dakai immediately ordered: "Give Chen Yucheng an order, tell him to lead the men and horses of the camp to fight, and attack the flank of the Qing Demon Front Army in a roundabout way!" ”

"The Winged King is five thousand years old, is there any lack of consideration?" Zeng Jinqian next to him hurriedly reminded: "As soon as Chen Yucheng attacks, his deception will be exposed immediately, and if you surpass the little demon, you won't be determined to storm our camp to the end." ”

"Mr. Jin Qian, do you know what this king regrets the most now?" Shi Dakai replied with a wry smile: "What this king regrets the most now is that he shouldn't use the deception trick to deceive the Transcendent Little Demon to storm our camp!" I knew that the artillery that surpassed the little demon was so powerful, and this king said that he would not fight him head-on on land! ”

Zeng Jinqian closed his mouth in shame, while Shi Dakai repeated the order, and at the same time sent someone to send an order to the sailors, so that the Taiping army sailors would storm the main camp of the Wu army and the iron cable defense line at any cost, and encircle Wei to save Zhao to share the pressure for himself. At the same time, Shi Dakai couldn't help but have such a thought, "I hope that the little demon will see that Chen Yucheng is deceitful and retreat on his own, otherwise this battle will not be much sure of this king." ”

The order was sent to the left camp, and Chen Yucheng, who had already assembled the Hou Order, did not hesitate, and immediately took the soldiers and horses out of the camp, and rushed to the west to the right to participate in the battle outside the north camp. Twenty taels of silver robbed Brother Ding of what you exchanged for your life? Brother Ding, is your life only worth twenty taels of silver?! ”

"Got the wrong person." Ding Ruchang couldn't help but whisper in his heart.

When he saw Chen Yucheng leading the army to attack the flank of his front army, Wu Chaoyue, who originally had a little hope, was of course disappointed, and shook his head with a wry smile, but Wu Chaoyue was not angry, and said in his heart: "I don't want to be casual with me, but you also have to fight for me, don't die here, kill more Manchu parasites for me in the future, even if you are worthy of me." ”

It was also time to fight in battle, and Shi Dakai, who had not fought with Wu Chaoyue before, really understood how big the gap between the weapons and equipment of the army and the tactical discipline was. In the face of Chen Yucheng's elite division that was swooping in murder, the Hubei New Army led by Huang Weijie was so calm that it was like a leisurely stroll, calmly lined up a hollow hedgehog array to protect the ten mortar cannons into the formation, and then until Chen Yucheng's army entered within fifty steps, the Wu soldiers opened fire together, and the continuous fire poured down the Taiping soldiers in a row like cutting wheat, and at the same time, grenadier shells flew out from time to time in the Wu army's formation, and they hit the Taiping soldiers one after another. The Taiping soldiers were killed and injured in pieces, and the Taiping soldiers screamed and screamed endlessly, and quickly became a mess.

During this period, of course, there were some Taiping soldiers who were not afraid of death and were lucky enough to kill in front of the Wu army's formation, but they couldn't even find a chance to fight bayonets, and they were immediately put down one after another by the revolvers commonly equipped by the Wu army's grassroots generals.

The disheartened Ding Ruchang was ordered to launch a second round of charging this time, but he did not take the lead as before, and the front team was just beaten Ding Ruchang subconsciously stopped, and as a result, he was also scolded and scolded by Chen Yucheng, "Ding Ruchang, are you scared stupid?" Why not rush? Give me the eggs you grow! ”

Forced to be helpless, Ding Ruchang could only reluctantly rush forward with the second team to fight with the Wu army, but fortunately, before handing over fire with the Wu army, the first team that had charged before had been unable to parry the Wu army's firepower and fled back, disrupting Ding Ruchang's own team, Ding Ruchang was forced to order to stop advancing and regroup, never thought that several artillery pieces arranged by the Wu army on the left flank suddenly opened fire together, and the cannonball was blown up in the crowd of Chen Yucheng's army, but I didn't expect the Wu army to be able to adjust the gun position so quickly Chen Yucheng's army was in chaos, Many of the soldiers left the team and fled.

Chen Yucheng's situation has become extremely embarrassing, he can't rush the hollow hedgehog formation of the front army of the Wu army, and he doesn't dare to impact the neat formation of the main force of the Wu army.

Fortunately, Shi Dakai didn't want Chen Yucheng's army to die in vain, and when he saw that the situation was wrong, he quickly made up his mind, and ordered Chen Yucheng's army to withdraw to the northeast corner outside the rear camp to wait for his life, and also let Chen Yucheng decide the timing of his own attack again. Chen Yucheng also breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly took his subordinates to move to safety, while Ding Ruchang turned back in three steps, constantly looking at Wu Chaoyue's handsome banner, and said secretly in his heart: "You must be very disappointed, right?" You must hate me, right? ”

Without the interference and destruction of the enemy, the Wu army's mortar artillery finally got the opportunity to take its wit, and bombarded a huge cannonball into the Taiping military camp in a parabolic line in the rumbling loud noise, and focused on hitting the Taiping army's sheep and horse wall defense line.

About half an hour later, Wu Jun's mortar successfully destroyed a large area of sheep and horse wall near the north gate of the Taiping Army camp, opening a large area of the road for the Wu army to enter the camp.

At the critical moment that decided the direction of the war, relying on the benefits of the clippers, Shi Dakai, whose face had been extremely gloomy, finally received a very important good news, under the leadership of Lin Qirong, a fierce general of the Taiping Army, after a bitter battle of sacrificing his life and forgetting his life, the sailors and soldiers of the Taiping Army who landed on the battlefield finally took the Wuwangmiao Fort of the Wu Army!

"Good! Hurry up and give an order to Lai Guiying, who is guarding the northern camp, and tell him that we have taken the Wuwangmiao Fort of the Qing Demon! Beyond the rear of the little demon is about to be in an emergency! told him to defend the north camp no matter what, and the Qing Demon was about to take the initiative to retreat! ”

After he was overjoyed and sent someone to Lai Guiying to give the order, Shi Dakai remembered that the sailor messenger who had always reported the news asked: "After Lin Qirong took the fort, did he immediately fire at the Qing Demon Camp?" ”

"The Returning Wing King is five thousand years old, and there is no way to fire the cannon." The messenger replied with a sad face: "Before the Qing Demon evacuated the fort, he threw all the shells into the Yangtze River, and poured all the gunpowder down the fort to ignite, and our shells are different from the shells of the Qing Demon artillery, so ......." ”

At this moment, the Wu army's artillery fire, which had been raging before, finally weakened, only the mortar cannon was still roaring occasionally, and the breech gun was temporarily stopped and cooled, replaced by the shouts of the Wu army's Feng Sanbao Department, and Shi Dafa's pale face............

"The son of a bitch raises a surpassing demon, and he still has this hand, it's so thoughtful! Give Lin Qirong an order, telling him to continue to storm the Qing Demon Camp, no matter how much it costs, he must take down the Qing Demon Camp for this king! also gave Shi Zhenlun an order, telling him to break through the iron cable defense line of the Qing Demon at all costs and force the Qing Demon Water Master to fight him in a decisive battle! (To be continued.) )