The most typical one is on the battlefield of Songjiang, when the Wu army in Shanghai was engaged with the Taiping army, a sudden rainstorm wetted the paper shell bullets of the Wu army's main battle rifle firing gun, resulting in the defeat of the Wu army in Shanghai. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Later, on the battlefields of Yunnan-Guizhou, Henan, and Sichuan, Wu's army was also plagued by rain many times, and was either forced to postpone the battle plan and give the enemy a chance to breathe or flee, or was taken advantage of by the enemy to counterattack and was forced to retreat and flee. And today, it is finally Wu Chaoyue's turn to be full of evil!

The sudden rain did not start to be heavy, and it was difficult to wet even the clothes, but as time passed, the dripping light rain gradually turned into a continuous rain, gradually soaking the clothes, shoes and socks of the soldiers on both sides, and gradually wetting the flint gunpowder of the muskets of the two sides, soaking the paper bullet casings of the Wu army's bullets, causing the gunfire on the battlefield to gradually thin out, and the density of firepower to decrease rapidly.

In this regard, the Qing and Russian coalition forces, which were overwhelmed by the Wu army's high-firing rifle gun, were of course thunderous with joy and loudly thanked Jesus Christ and the Sanqing Buddha for their blessings. The soldiers of the Wu Army, who had been majestic before, scolded one by one, and they all hated this untimely rain to the extreme.

"Ulla! God forbid, my luck is just too good! ”

Of course, the most excited cheers were the Russian commander Alepov, who was helpless with the Wu army's position, and then Alepov did not rush to attack, but asked the Qing soldiers to hurry up and build more bridges, and at the same time withdrew the two companies that had fought before, let them rest for a while and serve as reserves, and then sent the other two combat companies to the battlefield to attack the Wu army's position defense again.

In the loud military song, two companies of Russian soldiers strode forward in four rows of dense horizontal formations with snowy bayonets, and it was not until they were about to enter the range of the Wu army's grenadiers that the Russian soldiers suddenly dispersed, stretched a distance from each other, and charged in the formation of skirmishers that were gradually restarting to become popular on the western battlefield.

During this period, the Wu army's grenadiers have been firing desperately, smashing picric acid shells that are not afraid of water into the enemy group, but they have always had little effect, and it is difficult to kill and injure a large number of Russian soldiers in loose formation, let alone stop the charging and assault of Russian soldiers. It was only after the Russian soldiers entered the throwing range of the grenade shells that the soldiers of the Wu army relied on the grenade shells thrown intensively to kill and injure a large number of enemies, but they still could not crush the enemy's charge, and the Russians with a tenacious and tenacious character still continued to cross the trench on the temporary bridge and rushed to the bottom of the sheep and horse wall of the Wu army.

"Kill all the yellow-skinned monkeys!"

In the midst of the ugly roar, the first Russian soldier jumped onto the sheep and horse wall, and although he was immediately stabbed by the Wu soldiers with bayonets, more Russian soldiers still scrambled to jump onto the chest-high Wu sheep and horse wall. Seeing this picture in the telescope, Arepov's curly yellow hair also showed a smug smile on his face, and blurted out: "Win!" ”

"Win!"

The Russian soldiers on the front line also thought so, because they had just rushed to the sheep and horse wall, and the Wu soldiers under the sheep and horse wall had already fled, scrambling to flee in two directions, almost without any obstruction, to get out of the way for the Russian soldiers to enter the camp. Seeing this scene, the Russian soldiers, of course, were even more proud, and rushed to shout, "The yellow-skinned monkey is afraid to fight with bayonets!" Follow me, boys! ”

Cheering, the Russian soldiers rushed into the Wu barracks and seized the positions in the Wu barracks, and the Russian soldiers behind also shouted and rushed faster than one another, and it didn't take long for the Russian companies to rush into the Wu barracks, and at the same time, many Qing soldiers also rushed in.

It was also at this time that the Russian soldiers realized that something was wrong with the situation - the Wu soldiers who had taken the initiative to abandon the defense line of the sheep and horse wall did not flee far, and after retreating to the left and right, they relined and prepared for battle with bayonets. At the same time, in front of them, a Wu army soldier with distinctive clothing and equipment suddenly appeared.

It doesn't matter if the situation is a little wrong, the Russian soldiers, who are extremely confident in bayonet fighting, rely on the physical advantage of their own army, adjust their formation slightly, shout and directly launch a charge, holding bayonets to attack the Wu soldiers who suddenly appeared on the opposite side.

The Russian veteran Kappenov rushed to the front with a bayonet, roaring the hardest, and although the wind and rain were strong, it could not hide his roar like a polar bear. However, after a few roars, Cappenov suddenly laughed, because he clearly saw that the Wu army on the opposite side actually lined up in a firing formation of squatting forward and standing in the heavy rain, and also raised their rifles for aiming.

"Yellow-skinned monkeys, are you fools? It's raining so hard that your rifles can fire? ”

"Bang bang!"

Kappenov's wild laughter was interrupted by the sudden sound of dense gunfire, and in the continuous gunfire, Kappenov saw in disbelief that the muzzles of the Wu soldiers were all spewing flames and smoke, and Kappenov's lower abdomen and thighs were also hit by two bullets one after another as if they were hit by a heavy hammer, and between the blood splashes, Kappenov suddenly blurted out and exclaimed: "How is it possible? ”

Even more so that Kappenov couldn't believe that his eyes were still behind, after a round of shooting, the Wu soldiers on the opposite side did not make any reloading movements, and directly pulled the trigger again, and fired a wave of bullets again. And this time, a sinful bullet also hit Kappenov's throat directly, causing Kappenov to fall directly on his back, blood and mucus gushing together from his neck, and there was no way to save him.

"Am I dreaming? Can you shoot in heavy rain, or you can shoot continuously without reloading? Is there still such a rifle in the world? The yellow-skinned monkey has such a good rifle? This was the last thought of Cappenov's life, full of countless inexplicable questions.

The poor Russian veteran Kappenov was just puzzled, but his even more pitiful companion was completely frightened and stupid, in the wind and rain, the strange rifles in the hands of the Wu soldiers seemed to be loaded at all, and they fired bullets one after another, firing five or six bullets in a row without stopping, and the Russian soldiers who charged with bayonets were on their backs, with endless casualties, and almost in the blink of an eye, a large area was lying down.

It has been fired seven or eight times, but the strange rifle in the hands of the Wu soldiers is still pouring bullets, and the Russian soldiers who have never seen this kind of terrifying rifle are all scattered, and they all scream loudly, "Devil! The Devil's Rifle! The rifle used by the yellow-skinned monkey was invented by the devil and can shoot continuously without reloading! ”

At the same time, after hearing the sudden sound of intensive gunfire in the Wu army camp, the Russian commander Alepov was also a little surprised for a while, and did not understand why the Wu army could shoot in the rain, and then Alepov suddenly woke up again, and thought that the Wu soldiers were hiding in the house tent and shooting, and said with a smile: "The progress is good, so quickly hit the military tent area of the yellow-skinned monkey." Set it on fire and turn the yellow-skinned monkey into a roast pig. ”

The imaginary flames did not rise in the camp of the Wu army, on the contrary, Arepov was soon extremely dumbfounded to see that his brave and fearless subordinates actually began to rush backwards, not only the soldiers who were climbing over the sheep and horse wall turned around and fled, but even the soldiers who had already rushed into the Wu army camp jumped on the sheep and horse wall again and escaped from the Wu army camp, panicked as if some devil and beast were chasing after them.

Seeing this scene, of course, the confused Alepov immediately sent someone forward to understand the situation, but the messenger brought back an answer that made Alepov even more dumbfounded, "Major, the Qing rebels suddenly used a devil rifle, which is not afraid of rain and can be fired continuously, and the bullets are as if they can't be stopped, our soldiers can't resist it, so they can only retreat!" ”

"The devil's rifle? Not afraid of rain? Can it still be launched continuously? ”

Alepov suspected that he had misheard, and even more suspected that he was dreaming, but fortunately, Alepov soon knew if his soldiers were lying—the Wu soldiers with strange rifles jumped directly onto the sheep and horse wall and shot, condescendingly shooting the fleeing Russian soldiers like a roll call, and really firing directly in the rain! It's really like a bullet that can't be fired!

"My God! There really is such a devil rifle! Alepov exclaimed hoarsely, and almost without thinking, shouted and ordered, "Withdraw!" Withdraw now! We can't beat such a devil's rifle! ”

After this battle, the Henry Repeater gun equipped by the soldiers of the Wu army had a resounding name in the Russian army - the devil's rifle! And the Manchu army was horrified and called Henry's Lianzhu gun - Wu thief ghost gun!

Of course, the Qing Russian coalition army also paid a heavy price to help Henry become famous in one fell swoop, under the pursuit of Wu Chaoyue's personal battalion, the Russian army threw down more than 500 corpses before fleeing to the bank of the Yangtze River to obtain naval artillery protection, the eight field guns of the artillery company were all captured by the Wu army, more than half of the Qing army was killed, dozens of people surrendered and captured, and the casualties of Wu Chaoyue's personal battalion were - zero!

After receiving the news of the disastrous defeat of the land division, the surprised Russian commander Novosilsky did not dare to continue the offensive and chose to retreat in a hurry to reorganize the army. The Qing army's sailors suffered heavy casualties but in vain, and Wu Quanmei roared angrily, but there was nothing to be done.

After the defeat, the Qing-Russian combined fleet spent two days collecting intelligence, and only then did they know that the truth of the fiasco of Xin'an Temple was caused by Wu Chaoyue's pro-military battalion, but unfortunately, about the specific situation of the strange rifle used by Wu Chaoyue's pro-military battalion, but because the Wu army did excellent secrecy work, it did not know the details, and did not collect too much useful information, and the Qing-Russian coalition army only knew that the number of such rifles in the Wu army was not much, and this rifle may come from Daye.

Faced with such a situation, the Manchu court sent Qincha Wenxiang was of course a little worried that the Russians would choose to withdraw their troops, resulting in the futility of the expedition. However, to Wen Xiang's great surprise, after careful discussion with several staff officers for a long time, Novosilsky actually took the initiative to find him and asked to attack again and directly break through the Tianjiazhen defense line of the Wu army by force.

"Mr. Novosilsky, aren't you afraid of that kind of thief ghost gun?" Wen Xiang asked in surprise.

"Mr. Wenxiang, are you an idiot?" Novosilsky said angrily: "Although the devil rifle used by your Qing rebels is powerful, can that rifle threaten our warship?" A rebel soldier with a devil's rifle can block a single shell from our fleet? ”

"That's, that's." Wen Xiang hurriedly complimented and said: "Novosilsky is right, no matter how powerful the Wu thief's ghost gun is, it can't stop a single shell from the steamer. ”

"Go on the offensive." Novosilsky said coldly: "First destroy the main forces of the rebels' naval divisions, and then destroy the rebels' industrial base and seize the rebels' production equipment." ”

Wen Xiang hurriedly nodded his head again and again, but Novosilsky said again: "Remember, all the rebel devil rifles captured on the battlefield must be handed over to us!" ”

The key reason why Novosilsky had the courage to continue the offensive was, of course, that the combined fleet of Qing and Russia still had absolute superiority on the water, and it could directly break through the Tianjiazhen defense line of the Wu army without the need for a land battle. It is true that when the Qing and Russian coalition forces learned a lesson and no longer took opportunistic corners, and chose to only break through by water, the Wu army's Tianjiazhen defense line was indeed quickly overwhelmed, not only the battery fire was suppressed by the dense firepower of the Qing and Russian coalition forces, but as many as ten iron cable defense lines were gradually broken through by the enemy one by one, and gradually showed defeat.

Although the tactic of the Qing-Russian combined fleet only breaking through on the surface was correct and effective, the side effect was that it was costly, and in the fierce battle again, more than 30 Qing Red Single Boats were sunk by Wu Army batteries or blown up by mines, and more than 1,100 soldiers were killed and missing. Although the Russian fleet shamelessly continued to watch the fire from the other side, and did not enter the battle until more than half of the Wu army's fort was destroyed by the Qing army's naval divisions, Novosilsky and other Tsarist generals immediately discovered that the Wu army in Tianjiazhen still retained a fleet specially for their hospitality!

"Rockets! Put! ”

In the roar, more than 300 improved Congreve rockets roared out, swarmed to the surface of the river, and fell overwhelmingly on the head of the Tsarist fleet, blowing up the ship's side, igniting the sails, falling onto the deck and exploding, shrapnel flew sideways, and the Russian sailors who were caught off guard were killed and wounded, and the sound of screams resounded in the sky.

"Well played! Rakshasa foreign devil of dog day! ”

"Hit! Beat! Fight to the death! Kill all these Rakshasa foreign devils! ”

"Brothers in Hubei, come on, fight to the death! Avenge us! ”

Such a voice sounded in the Qing Army's Water Division, and many soldiers of the Qing Army's Water Division shouted out directly, but the Qing Army generals, including Wu Quanmei, the chief general of the Qing Army's Water Division, all pretended not to hear it. Looking at the Wu Army's rocket position, which was still being launched, Wu Quanmei's eyes even contained a trace of gratitude, and he said secretly: "In the end, it was his own people, and he didn't poison us." ”