Chapter 117: Cavalry (Ask for Recommendation)
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The caution of the people has made this official road more and more deserted, but today a sound of horses' hooves broke the silence of the official road. This is a team of hundreds of horses, although the speed of the horse team is not fast, but the movement of the thousands of hooves on the ground is also extremely amazing, like thunder.
Even though the villages near the official road listened to the sound of hooves, they all panicked, and hurriedly closed their doors and windows praying for peace in the sky, but they just smelled the sound of horses' hooves, and when the thunderous sound of horses' hooves disappeared, people looked towards the official road with some confusion.
After bypassing a market again, An Guoliang, who was riding on a horse, thought about the prosperity of Wuchang City, as a countryman, he had never entered the provincial capital, and even that Huangzhou was only the first capital city he had ever visited, and the capital city was so prosperous, let alone the provincial capital?
And in order to avoid the eyes and ears of the officials and soldiers, their cavalry team bypassed villages and towns, although it was inevitable that they might be exposed, but all they needed was to come to Wuchang City!
Thinking that he was about to arrive in the provincial capital, An Guoliang was suddenly in good spirits. In fact, this so-called war horse, in the eyes of people who understand horses, is just a shoddy horse used to pull goods in the countryside, although so, it is not easy to make such a cavalry battalion of more than 300 horses in the south of the Yangtze River, to some extent, this may be the largest cavalry team in the south of the Yangtze River...... Of course, this naturally does not include the cavalry of Jingzhou.
A group of cavalry along the wheels of the long form of rammed earth official road, towards Wuchang all the way to attack, the speed of the cavalry is not fast, but for the cavalry team that left Wuchang County last night, but more than 130 miles, but only more than 20 miles left, in Wuchang Mansion City is still less than 30 miles, as the cavalry battalion commander Zhao Fengguo ordered, everyone jumped off the horse, unsaddled, let the military horses make the final rest.
Although Zhao Fengguo is not from the cavalry, as a native of Henan, he has been a bandit and a horse thief, not to mention the nature of horses, and knows how to use horses, and it is precisely because of this that he can become the commander of the cavalry battalion directly under the commander as an "outsider".
However, there is another reason why he can be used - in Wang Fu's army, he is just a groom, yes, just a groom with two fingers missing and not much use. But this inconspicuous groom has equestrian skills that are difficult for others to match.
"Brothers, press the horse's legs, give the horse blood, and don't forget to feed it a few more mouthfuls of beans......
For Zhao Fengguo, who has led the horse to the leader since he was a child and became a horse thief when he grew up, he knows that the more he wants to use the horse, the more he must serve the horse well before, and if he doesn't serve the horse well, the horse will "serve" you at that time, and that "service" may also lose his life.
When Zhao Fengguo was feeding the horse beans, with a rapid sound of horse hooves, two cavalrymen galloped over on horseback, which was the scout sent before, and the cavalry on horseback almost rushed to the front of the battalion commander.
"Battalion commander, look at Wuchang, the city gate of that place is now wide open, and the soldiers and horses guarding the city are partly outside the city and partly inside the city......"
Wang Lao Liu, who jumped off the horse, said while taking a few broken bricks and putting them on the ground, although he had only been trained in the camp school for ten days, but he also knew how to set up a "sand table", although the sand table was simple, but it could also be compared to the same.
A brick represents Wuchang City, and a few pieces of gravel represent the barracks of the Qing army, as for the wide open city gate, it was temporarily used as a few pieces of mud, squatting on the side of the sand table, that is, when Zhao Fengguo was thinking, he listened to Wang Lao Liu say there.
"Battalion commander, I look at the appearance of the city gate wide open in that place, otherwise, we will attack it directly!"
Straight in?
Wang Laoliu's suggestion made Zhao Fengguo raise his head in surprise, and without waiting for him to speak, the company commander Deng Mingshao raised his eyebrows sharply, and glanced at Wang Laoliu with the eyes of a fool.
"I said Sixth, you kid is not crazy, we have more than 300 people, and there are more than 10,000 horses and horses outside the city......
said so, but he knew that this Wang Lao Liu was not a stupid person, otherwise he would not have become the platoon commander of the search platoon and the outpost of the whole battalion.
"When the time comes, the bite will bite you to death......"
"Hey, Governor Deng, look at what you said, why are you ......crazy?"
Taking the cigarette pouch from his waist, Wang Lao Liu wrapped a bag of cigarettes and smoked it.
"It's true that we only have more than 300 people, but don't forget, that's different, this ...... Well, didn't the marshal say it in the school, one man is hard, ten thousand people are invincible, don't say anything else, just rely on this ......"
He slapped the revolver on his waist.
"What happened to more than 10,000? It's just a matter of getting a few more shots! ā
Revolver!
If the arrival of the "Pacific" brought thousands of spears to the Huangzhou Rebels, making them half firearms, then for the cavalry, the more than 200 revolvers they brought with them -- that was a deliberate over-carried weapon just in case, and if they needed to fight hard when passing through Jiangning, dozens of sailors could keep using their revolvers to shoot the approaching Taiping army -- this was Liu Yixuan's suggestion, after all, when he was in Hankou, he had seen the "sailors" of the Taiping army. It's just a bunch of sampan boatmen, and a pistol that can fire continuously against swarming sampans is even more useful than artillery.
Although all the preparations were not used in the end, these revolvers became Zhu Yifeng's killer weapon - all 260 revolvers were gathered together and handed over to the cavalry for use, and in the past half a month, these riders have been learning how to use sabers on horseback on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are constantly learning to use revolvers.
Although the cavalry company had nearly 400 men, only qualified riders, cavalrymen who could accurately hit five targets on the run, could become musketeers.
"Those more than 10,000 people, at most, are ten rounds of guns, just that group of guys, let alone ten rounds of guns, can hold up one round of guns, my king is written upside down......"
"The word king is written upside down, and it is still a king word! You can read! ā
"As far as you are literate, a guy who can write Deng Zi can be less than a strong, and he still has the face to say that he is literate......"
With an ironic sound, Wang Lao looked at the battalion commander with blank eyes.
"Battalion commander, this is the first achievement in capturing the city! If we take Wuchang City, when the time comes, our cavalry battalion will be sideways in the rebel army......"
Wang Laoliu's words made Zhao Fengguo also smoke a cigarette pouch, this fruit is too sweet and too tempting, looking at the "Wuchang" made of bricks and stones, like a stripped girl, she is floating at him.
"Battalion commander, actually, this siege is indeed a bit of an adventure, if it doesn't work, our brothers will all fall into it......"
Song Junmu, the commander of the second company, narrowed his eyes into a slit, stared at the "sand table" on the ground, and pulled the stones on the side with his hand.
"Sixth, this is the Qing army's camp outside the city?"
"That's right!"
Wang Lao Liu nodded hurriedly.
"In the east of the city, there are about 6,000 people stationed in it, and leaving the city is the kung fu of the land, if something happens, it is only a few bags of cigarettes to withdraw to the city......
"Fill the ground, ......"
He pulled the stone with his sabre, slowly raised his head, looked at the battalion commander and said.
"According to me, if we don't stir up this big camp, when the time comes, the soldiers will be divided into two ways, all the way to attack the camp, all the way to wait for the opportunity, if there is a chance, we will attack with the defeated soldiers, and drive them to attack the city, if it doesn't work, these six thousand people will scatter three or four thousand, that is also a great achievement!"
Compared with Deng Mingshao's conservatism and Wang Laoliu's radicalism, Song Junmu's suggestion is more secure.
"Well, take a bite before they react, and if you have a chance, play bigger, wood, you kid, this head has all the ideas!"
After appreciating it, Zhao Fengguo immediately ordered it.
"Order the brothers to rest for another half an hour, and now we are going to make trouble in this Wuchang Mansion......"
(Deng Mingshao is a book friend who does not extinguish the evil sun, and Song Junmu is a book friend who is a guest who is a guest of the heavy rain and a quiet swallow.) ļ¼