No longer entangled in the style of Ma Ergu, no longer resentful of Shi Feng's shamelessness, no matter what Shi Dakai's character is, and even, even Han Yan'er's strange behavior, he didn't think about it, Luo Yang led the troops on the road to the north.

He asked repeatedly to know that this was the thirteenth year after the Jintian Uprising, and it should be 1863 AD, and it was also the period of decline and collapse of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Taiping Army on the Western Front was about to be destroyed!

No matter how much he hangs, he can also know from the Internet and film and television that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is completely demonized in the consciousness of modern mainstream society, and has become the culprit of the gangsters who have brought disaster to the country and the people, and the culprit who has harmed hundreds of millions of people, but with the simple eyes of the lower-class people, he can feel that the vast majority of the Taiping soldiers are simple, friendly, poor, kind, love life, and imagine beauty, and according to the soldiers, the decay of the Manchu Qing Dynasty at that time, the cruelty of the landlords and the powerful landlords were outrageous.

He fell in love with this unit and was determined to fight for the happiness of the vast majority of society.

Shi Da opened his voice to attack the east and west, dropped the main force of the Qing army, skillfully crossed the Jinsha River, and continued to attack northward, to take the city of Chengdu, Sichuan, will the tragedy of history continue?

With 500 infantry, more than 100 artillerymen, 100 breech-loading flintlock guns, four captured foreign guns, and 50 shells, the vanguard detachment of the Taiping Army, under the leadership of Luo Yang, advanced rapidly.

The rugged mountain road made all the officers and soldiers tired, but everyone did not complain, and almost all the officers and soldiers were elated to be able to belong to Luo Yang's subordinates.

Finally arrived at the first stop in the north, Mianning City, a small stone mountain city, steep rocky mountains, river valleys vertical and horizontal, and the steep terrain created a natural barrier.

The battle had already begun, a tentative offensive by the cavalry units in charge of reconnaissance.

The cry shook the sky, more than 300 Taiping soldiers under the leadership of several officers, rushed to the city, the war horses were abandoned far away in the woods south of the city, the cavalry were used as infantry, 50 soldiers took the captured foreign guns as the fire point, lined up and bombarded the city, 30 guns were not loaded with gunpowder iron sand and violently sprayed, more than 200 soldiers took turns approaching the city wall, covering their bodies with shields, copying short knives and spears, swarming up, first wading through the moat, gaining a foothold on the narrow riverbank, and then throwing out the long rope in their hands, Tripped over the battlements of the city wall, stuck the knife at his waist, grasped the rope with both hands, stepped on the slippery city wall, and struggled to climb.

"Kill, kill all the demons!"

The commander of the reconnaissance cavalry brigade waved a military flag and shouted frantically.

On Mianning City, there are dozens of banners of the Qing army, and behind each battlement, there are soldiers and people mixed defense, swords and guns are like a forest, and the face is ruthless.

The fierce offensive and defensive battles gradually entered the city, especially when the Taiping soldiers climbed the city, the Qing soldiers in the city immediately smashed and beat indiscriminately, and roared savagely.

The Taiping army's foreign guns are shooting, raising guns are bombarding, and soldiers are climbing, but the defense capability in the city is also very strong, more than a dozen pine wood earth cannons and eight iron cast cannons are also stubbornly returning fire, fluffy shotgun sand and solid projectiles emitted a heart-palpitating roar, although people are constantly being killed and injured by foreign cannons and foreign guns, the whole defense is in order.

After a quarter of an hour of stalemate, a large number of Taiping soldiers were killed and wounded, and the momentum of the swarm quickly collapsed.

The attack failed, and the remnants of the Taiping army broke away from the city walls, floated over the moat, and returned to their positions. Beneath the city walls, there were scattered corpses, or struggling wounded soldiers, some of whom fell into the depths of the moat and drowned.

The five Taiping soldiers who bravely rushed to the head of the city were killed by random knives because of the lack of follow-up support, their heads were chopped off and picked on spears, and many parts of their bodies were disintegrated. The Qing army on the city wall let out bursts of wild cheers.

As soon as the Luoyang army arrived, it immediately joined the reconnaissance troops.

"Who are you? How to attack the city casually? ”

"Ah, it's General Luoyang! General, you don't know, we sent an envoy to ask for a loan, and the Qing demon chopped it into several pieces and threw it out! The officer's eyes were red.

"It's okay! Rest, I'll avenge you! ”

"There are a lot of demons, according to my estimate, there are 200 regular soldiers and officials, more than 500 people in the regiment training township, plus the young and middle-aged people who are coerced, no less than 2,000, right? Generals must not be underestimated! ”

Luo Yang nodded, raised the telescope made by Zeng Shihe and the Westerners specially gifted, and observed.

In his modern military career, the battles he participated in were all partial, even exercises, and he lacked experience, but now, he has the newly captured Hunan army's explosive foreign artillery, and he has the advantage of weapons and equipment, which is his professional strength, so he is secretly glad.

After gathering the soldiers of the scout cavalry and inquiring about the enemy's situation, he immediately arranged an attack plan.

Mian Ning Zhi County inspected the city wall and couldn't help sneering: "I am a three-zhang stone city, two and a half zhang of river water, which can be described as solid!" Long-haired recidivism, in vain to send dead ears! ”

The Qing army practitioners were very arrogant: "Long-haired thieves, come up, come up!" ”

"General Luo, do you want Zeng Zaifu to reinforce the troops and horses to fight again?" The cavalry brigade commander said worriedly.

"No, I don't."

"However, there are so many demons in the city, even if we rush in, we won't be able to win."

"You'll see."

A six-pound light cannon was pushed three hundred meters outside the city by the soldiers. Luo Yang personally operated it, and twenty shells were placed not far away.

The Qing army in the city saw that the Taiping army was actively moving, arranged its troops, and immediately used iron-cast giant cannons to bombard downward. Several cannons bombarded at the same time, and the solid projectile roared in the sky, but it failed to hit Luo Yang and the others, because the accuracy of the solid cannon was really not flattering, and Luo Yang knew its drawbacks.

According to the plan, the vanguard cavalry dispatched 100 people, dragged tree branches with war horses, and moved in the distance, creating smoke and dust, as suspicious soldiers, and shocking the fighting spirit of the Qing army in the city. The rest of the cavalry, following behind Luo Yang's infantry, prepared to storm the city.

The suspicious soldiers' activities quickly took effect, and the smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun rose into the air at the end of the road and somewhere outside the woods, and the sound of the iron hooves and long neighing of the war horses was faintly heard. The Qing army and the people in the city were taken aback.

"Longhair has reinforcements?"

"Oh my God, that's a lot."

The telescope was observing the city at all times, and Luo Yang decisively ordered a bombardment.

Soldier squad leader in the highest rank, how much tactical literacy does he have? No, but, veterans have instincts, right?

Playing a miscellaneous army, as long as it hits its key people hard, it will solve the problem, and Luo Yang implements precision strikes.

"Heh, why don't you attack Longhair? Reinforcements? Phew," Mian Ning Zhixian dismissed: "The long-haired people are all turtles!" Hiding in a small pit and crying dad and calling mom! ”

He didn't know that he had been targeted by Luo Yang for a long time, and he personally observed, adjusted the angle of the cannon barrel, and estimated several times that the head of the Qing army, who was triumphant on the city tower, had already entered the range of attack.

The iron cast cannons of the Qing army in the city were all fixed positions, and the scope of the attack was basically determined, so Luo Yang was not worried, he prepared for a while and shot.

The first cannon, which accurately bombarded the tower, exploded in the crowd of defenders, and a large shout suddenly came out.

With just one shot, the Qing Dynasty magistrate wearing an ironclad suit was firmly enveloped and exploded into a hornet's nest!

Luoyang continued to observe after the bombardment, and then ordered to adjust the gun position, continue to aim, this time, the target was the cannon on the city, needless to say, the position behind the cannon was the hiding place of the enemy gunners, only the shell hit through the gap in the battlements, can fall on the city wall, and the shrapnel of the explosion has practical significance.

After a pause of three minutes, Luo Yang determined a new gun position based on his observations, and then fired another shot.

The cannonballs burst out and slashed across the sky with a sharp whistling sound, hitting the walls accurately.

After shooting, Luo Yang stopped care, re-observed, found the target again, and readjusted the gun position.

Within a quarter of an hour, he had only fired ten shots, and all the Taiping soldiers were anxious.

On the city tower, the bloody corpse of Mianning Zhixian in the Qing Dynasty has begun to cool, and more than 30 gunners were also killed and injured by the fragments of the shells.

Luo Yang didn't know the identity of the enemy officers on the city tower, but he only fought the officers and only the gunners. In particular, the killing and wounding of the enemy's artillery was more important, and in order to test the effect, he began to call the forward soldiers to make a loud noise, and a few of them rushed forward until they reached the bottom of the city gate.

The disruptive actions of the soldiers aroused the vigilance of the Qing soldiers in the city, and many began to look down from the battlements to look for the besiegers. Luo Yang also carefully observed and arranged new shooting targets.

After three shells, the defenders on the tower of the city escaped cleanly, because the newly replenished gunners were once again accurately hit, and although only three of the thirty-five gunners were killed, the rest were all wounded, covered in blood, and lost their combat effectiveness, and their bloody appearance frightened the others.

The tragedy of the castle tower quickly spread throughout the defensive line of Mianning City, and the news that the magistrate and the garrison were dead immediately turned a fighting force into a flock of Gygar crying ducks.

Two more shells were used to blast open a crack in Mianning's Tongzha wooden gate, and then, the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed up and completely blasted open the city gate with the gunpowder bag bandaged by Luoyang, and then, protecting the foreign gunners with infantry, rushed into the city.

More than a hundred scout cavalry waiting outside the city immediately stepped onto their horses, lined up in a column, and galloped over.

Ten minutes later, Luo Yang was already standing on the tower of Mianning City, on the city tower, bloodstained, corpses, wounded soldiers, weapons and equipment were lost to the ground, looking at the east and west, the stretching city wall, except for the Taiping soldiers, was empty.

During the siege of the city, Luoyang's troops killed one person and wounded three.