Changsha is a 3,000-year-old city. The name and site of the city remain unchanged for www.biquge.info 3,000 years, and in the 21st century, it is still the center of the land of Huxiang.

In the history of the original time and space, this ancient city was burned to ruins by a fire during the Anti-Japanese War, and Chen Ming did not need to sigh for the history of the original time and space, he only needed to face the current situation, facing the criss-crossing trenches outside the city of Changsha, as well as the strategic places outside the city that had been built one after another.

After Chen Ming raised his troops south, the 20,000 Qing troops in Xiangyin immediately withdrew from the city and returned to Changsha at full speed. The Qing army occupied both sides of the Xiangjiang River, and Fang Shijun crossed the river with an iron lock, cooperating with the Jiangxi position, preparing to hold on to the Xiangjiang River, the lifeblood of Hunan, while defending Changsha.

Chen Ming had no intention of fighting the Qing army in Changsha City on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River and the strategic points around it, and his offensive direction was Fujiazhou and Orange Island in the middle of the Xiangjiang River, as well as the land on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River.

The two-mile-wide Xiangjiang River can be crossed by the warships of the naval division of the Fu Han Army, and the range of the cannons cast by the Hunan government itself is inferior to that of the small cannons on the warships of the Fu Han Army. Many of the cannon chambers are honeycomb-like pores, and the cannon casting bureau in Changsha can only continue to increase the thickness of the barrel wall in order to prevent the bore from exploding, so that the weight of the cannon is constantly increased.

"Your Highness, the Qing army has arranged eight camps along the west bank of the Xiang River. The first one is in the three forks, ten miles away from Changsha City. ”

Of course, the defense map of the Qing army in Changsha presented in front of Chen Ming was sent by the secret camp, which was not a difficult thing to investigate, Fang Shijun wantonly sent people to dig tunnels and build barracks, and the people from the dark camp were mixed in, and the investigation was easily completed. There's no need to take a little risk.

The map in front of him reminded Chen Ming of the "Layout Map of the Taiping Army's Attack on Changsha" that circulated on the Internet in his previous life.

The Qing army set up a battle line in the north of Changsha City, with trenches and trenches, which was much more complicated than the Changsha offensive and defensive map seen in the previous life. There is no 'soldier trench pit' that extends more than ten miles south from the city of Tianxin Pavilion, and there are no ten barracks set up by the Qing army from Qinwan Town to Pingtang, because the Qing army did Shi Dakai's work at that time. The eight barracks along the Xiangjiang River were all of the Qing army.

There is a pontoon bridge in the lower reaches of Orange Island, which is used by the Qing army to communicate the troops and food and salary on both sides of the strait. In the upper section of the river, the Qing army set up a total of five barrage iron cables and prepared hundreds of large and small fireboats.

"You all have a good look at this defense map. The Qing army set up two forts on the east bank of the Xiang River. Although their cannons had a short range, they were lined with barrage cables, and if our troops hit the iron cables, the warships would inevitably be damaged. ”

Chen Ming took the whip and brushed down the eight camps on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River on the map, "Let's just ignore the Qing army in the east as we said before, and just let the Guards Brigade stay in front of them and lead the Qing army." The 1st Brigade of the 1st Division and the 15th Brigade of the 4th Division crossed the river and launched an attack directly from the west bank. "Anyway, now he is not going to bite Changsha, Changsha will have to wait a while.

The commander of the First Brigade was concurrently served by Chen Yongsheng himself, and he and Zhao Yongji stood up, and Chen Ming continued to order: "Eight camps seem to be a lot, and the total strength is only three or five thousand people. The two of you are fighting alternately, taking turns. The whole military discussion Chen Ming ended so simply. It seems that his purpose in convening this military meeting was not to fight the next battle, but only to let the 1st Brigade and the 15th Brigade not compete for merit.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The battle began in the afternoon. Chen Ming led the Guards Brigade and the Cavalry Artillery Corps to camp in the north of Changsha City. The troops of the two brigades landed on the south bank by boat, and then quickly rushed to the Qing army's position on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River. The first target is the Trident Rock.

The Qing army had very few troops at Sanchaji, because there was no danger to defend this place at all.

The 15th Brigade, which was the first to attack the Qing army, launched an attack on the Qing army camp after a quarter of an hour of shelling, a team of musketeers, together with four small cannons and a squad of grenadiers.

The artillery fire stopped when the musketeers of this team advanced to 100 meters in front of the Qing army's formation, and the mortars that followed behind the attacking troops roared. The battalion lieutenant who led the group waved his hand back, and the three columns of musketeers in a horizontal line spread out larger and more sparsely.

When the attacking troops reached a distance of 20 zhang from the Qing army's trench, the Qing army's counterattack finally arrived.

Rows of shotguns stretched out from the trenches and hit the Fu Han army. It's just that these shotguns are too untidy, and there is no sequence. If the Fu Han army is on guard, the front and rear trenches are arranged to continue, the soldiers in each trench are made as a column, the officer or the commander sticks out his head to observe, with a copper whistle in his mouth, the soldier only listens to the copper whistle as an order, raises fire as soon as the whistle sounds, and after firing the musket, he shrinks his head and kneels in the trench to load ammunition.

If all the firing sequences can reach a state of 'flowing water', this kind of defense is really good. But it is impossible for a man to be as accurate as a machine, especially the Qing army under shelling.

The attacking musketeers of the Fu Han Army then launched a counterattack, and the grenadiers behind the musketeers quickly stepped forward, braving the guns fired by the Qing army to rush out for about 20 meters, and then picked up grenades and threw them towards the trenches.

These grenadiers who followed the troops into battle were equipped with the most reliable fire-pulling grenades, although they still could not keep their explosion reaching 80%, but three of the four explosions, or two of the three explosions, which was already a good explosion rate.

"Rush, ......"

When the grenades exploded in the tunnel, the officers of the attacking troops raised their waist knives in their hands and slashed at the Qing army's front. The current defense line is just the defense line of a small Qing army camp, and it is not the defense line of Changsha City? The officer didn't think there were many Qing soldiers on the opposite side at all. As long as they rush into the trenches, they can also break the Tartars with the armor on their bodies.

Zhao Yongji, who was in the rear, immediately ordered the reserve troops to reinforce them, which was also a team of soldiers, but they were all cold weapons. The mortar artillery units also extinguished their fire, and they had to advance their positions again, and then hit the shells directly into the camp of the Qing army.

Zhao Yongji knew that the Fu Han army had encountered stubborn resistance from the Qing army under the city of Wuchang, and he didn't know if his attack could be successful. At this moment, he was holding a telescope in the back to watch the battle, and the back of his hand burst with high veins.

"Kill......"

The soldiers of the Fu Han army, shouting and shouting for killing, rushed into the trenches of the Qing army without any delay, and the Fu Han troops in the back row rushed deeper through the wooden planks on the trenches. The Qing army at Trichadenia seems to be far less heroic and resilient than those from outside Wuchang City.

Zhao Yongji temporarily put down the doubts in his heart, and joy filled his heart. Regardless of what happened to the Qing troops, it was appropriate for the 15th Brigade to win a good start in this attack. Half an hour later, he walked into the Qing army camp with a relaxed pace, and more than 100 Qing prisoners of war were escorted to the north by soldiers of the 15th Brigade. At the same time, the good news was also sent to Chen Ming on the other side of the Xiangjiang River.

"So fast?"

The camp of the Fu Han army in the east of the Xiangjiang River has not yet been established, and Chen Ming is still dealing with the army on the ship, and the three forks have been defeated?

"The Qing army only put a half-empty battalion head and more than 200 people there, not even a cannon of earth, only a hot fire that can still be fired from a distance, and when we saw our team charging with bayonets, it collapsed immediately." The fifteenth traveler who returned looked relaxed. In total, they suffered only fifteen casualties, only four were actually killed, six were hit by shotguns and grenades, and only one was killed and one was seriously wounded in hand-to-hand combat. The corpses of the Qing soldiers they killed were sixty or seventy, and the number of prisoners they captured was two hundred.

After the three-pronged rock, it is the sand ridge, and then the camp ridge. The latter was renamed Yinpenling in the 21st century, echoing Jinpenling in the east of the Xiangjiang River. The camp ridge is connected with the lion ridge, and there are six slopes around it, such as the lion, the altar, the Wei family, the Sun family, the Tongzi family, and the real bamboo. In the exploration of the hidden camp, this is one of the main positions of the Qing army's defense, and then there is Qinwan Town, and then Yuelu Mountain.

"Kill......"

In the midst of the loud cannon fire, the officers and men of the 1st Brigade directly launched a charge. The artillery of the 1st Brigade bullied the Qing army with no firepower, and pushed the artillery directly to the position 200 meters in front of the Qing army's formation, and only some thick wooden planks and felt blankets blocked it in front, and this distance was within the effective range of the shotgun.

The 1st Brigade struck at the positions of the Qing army not with solid bullets and flowering bullets, but with shotguns. Although the penetration of the shotgun is not very good, the shotgun has coverage, and the barrage is very wide.

It was also an artillery bombardment of about a quarter of an hour, and the attacking troops of the 1st Brigade launched a direct assault on the positions of the Qing troops.

The troops stationed here are no longer the Hunan soldiers and Minyong who are clawed, but the Yunnan Green Battalion.

These people have fought hard battles in Burma, won battles and lost battles, and belong to the Qing army in the southwest of the country, although they can't raise their heads when they are greeted by the Han army's shotguns. But after the Fu Han army launched a charge, he still raised his head and fired a shotgun, and then threw away the bulky shotgun and raised his sword and gun to meet it.

And then without exception, they were defeated. In terms of hand-to-hand combat, how can they compare with the armored Fu Han army?

When Chen Ming had dinner at noon, the good news of Guanshaling was also sent to the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, and Chen Ming was happy to let the whole army report that the morale of the Fu Han army itself was not low, and it immediately swelled up again.

And they were happy here, and the morale of the Qing army was low. Whether it was Fang Shijun and Changqing on the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, or Daxing'a who supervised the battle on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, they all had blank expressions on their faces.

They knew that the Fu Han army focused its attack on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, so how to stop it?

If you don't really fight with the Fu Han army, you just rely on hearsay and conjecture, and you can't think of the real combat ability of the Fu Han army at all. Absolute superiority in artillery bombardment and absolute superiority in hand-to-hand combat ability, how did this make the Qing army fight?

Guanshaling was defeated, it was the camp shed ridge, which was also the location of the first two of the five barrage iron cables arranged by the Qing army on the Xiangjiang River, with Fu Jiazhou in the river, which was already the strongest defense of the Qing army.

Fang Shijun and Changqing also want high-quality and high-range cannons, but Changsha doesn't have them. (To be continued.) )