Chapter 676: An Unexpected Battle
Two days later, a fleet of boats drove into the front lake, and nearly a thousand large and small ships filled the front lake. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the east side of the front lake, Long Kaisheng held a telescope in his hand, watching carefully, it was early in the morning, and he didn't know how to be so coincidental, at this time, the Qing Demon's fleet came to the front lake.
Long Kaisheng has ambushed more than 50 artillery pieces around the Qianhu Lake, the entire Qianhu Lake is not big, covering an area of more than 1,000 acres, the farthest place from east to west is only three miles, and the widest place in the north and south is only a little more than a mile, the artillery used by the Taiping Army, the smallest range is more than one mile, most of them are two or three miles of effective range, and 50 artillery pieces can completely cover the entire lake.
Seeing that almost all the fleets on the Huai River could enter Qianhu, a smile appeared on the corner of Long Kaisheng's mouth, well, the Qing Demon has all entered the ambush circle of the Taiping Army, and this time Qianhu is your burial place!
"Order the whole army, open fire immediately!"
Long Kaisheng gave his own order, and his signal soldiers kept firing arrows into the sky, and the artillery around them was launched!
Boom Boom!
Dozens of shells fell from the sky and landed in the front lake, and on the front lake, scattered ships were hit by shells one after another, the flames boiled, and the smoke billowed out!
Immediately after that, there were several waves of attacks, almost all the shells came towards the big ship, the small boat could not carry the sports car of the artillery in any case, and the huge waves set off by the cannonballs were enough to swallow the small boat directly, and on the water, dozens of large ships were ignited one after another, and the flames soared into the sky.
It's just that Long Kaisheng doesn't have the joy of victory, no, there is a problem! Definitely there is a problem!
Long Kaisheng has followed Shi Dakai for many years, and he is also a veteran general, with rich experience, it is said that such a big fire, such a big shelling, the Qing demon on the ship should have screamed a long time ago, but, until now, on the lake, there is no movement at all, the big ship is burning, but what about the imaginary fiasco? At the very least, there should also be traces of the Qing Demon on these ships on the periphery, right, there are no cries for help, fire extinguishing, all of them, and the telescopes are only ships that are about to be engulfed in flames.
"Order, send a small boat, and observe the results of the battle on the lake in front!"
Long Kaisheng reacted immediately, now the shelling has lasted for seven or eight rounds, almost all the ships have been severely damaged, the cannoning has stopped for a while, and a small boat is quickly heading towards the lake.
It didn't take long, and the personnel on the ship came back with a flag, and there was no one! Not a single one!
Worst! Fooled!
Long Kaisheng was shocked, there were only so many ships, where did the people go? It's definitely an empty ship, the people are not there, and those weapons and ammunition have definitely been transferred!
Long Kaisheng guessed wrong, the ship was not empty, on each ship, Guo Ye piled up a lot of stones or silt to keep the ship stable, and it looked like it was fully loaded, otherwise, he would not easily hide from Long Kaisheng.
"Quick, give the order, order the surrounding infantry battalions to strengthen their alert, prepare for the battle artillery and prepare to evacuate!"
Long Kaisheng had an ominous premonition from his heart, and he hurriedly gave an order.
It's just that at this time, it was too late to retreat safely, and the Taiping troops on the north and south sides had just begun to move towards the east, and the periphery remembered the violent artillery sound!
Guo Ye landed at night from the head of the green dragon, all hidden in the reeds, almost all the artillery had already reached the periphery of Qianhu, and the unfortunate Taiping army patronized the Qianhu, but he didn't expect that the periphery had been occupied by the Qing army.
"Boom, boom!"
The cannon roared, shaking the sky, and the Lu army began to pounce towards the south and east sides of the Qianhu, and the unfortunate Taiping army covered the artillery, and before they could run far, they had already confronted the Lu army.
A fierce battle unfolded on the shore of the former lake, and the dense gunfire rang out like popping beans!
Long Kaisheng accepted Shi Dakai's order, mobilized three infantry battalions to protect the artillery, the three infantry battalions are all foreign gun battalions, the combat power is considerable, but the opponent on the opposite side is stronger than them, Gao Qi's first brigade personally went out, mobilized the strength of four battalions in one go, and began to attack Long Kaisheng.
If you don't fight with the Lu army, you will never know how much your strength is, although the foreign gun battalion of the Taiping Army is also one of the best in the Qing Dynasty, but in front of the first brigade of the Lu army, it is still just a rookie, they are at most fighting with the Hunan army and the Huai army.
The infantry battalion of the Lu army is like a big scissors, from the east and west directions, to the Taiping army cut down, the fierce firepower hit the Taiping army is difficult to raise their heads, but for the safety of the rear artillery, the Taiping army can only go out, fight to the death and do not retreat, fortunately, the land here is close to the front lake, the soil is soft, the Taiping army is used to fighting on such terrain, and the Lu army is from Baoding, where has experienced such a terrain, a careless, feet will fall into the mud, It took half a day to struggle out of it.
Occupy the host advantage of the locals, the Taiping army can barely support to deal with, the back artillery is lifeless to push the artillery onto the boat, hurriedly sailed into the front lake, along the front lake, towards the east side of the Huai River, lifeless escape, this is the only family of the Taiping army, absolutely not lost here!
The first time the Lu army fought in such an environment, it was awkward to the extreme, and Gao Qi, who was supervising the battle in the rear, was so angry that he was like thunder, but there was no way but to watch the artillery battalion of the Taiping Army slip away.
The angry Gao Qi roared angrily: "Pass the order to Guo Dingsong in front, if you can't eat the Taiping Army's foreign gun battalion, let him come to see me with his head!" Dogs, shit, shit! ”
Isn't Guo Dingsong angry now? The design of the handsome's strategy is so perfect, but when it comes to implementing it by itself, it has changed, special, terrible, what's wrong with the old brothers today? Life and death are not smooth, even the shooting is not as accurate as usual, the mud under this foot is too terrible, in the process of advancing, it is already good to be able to stand firm, the body is crooked, how can you maintain the original shooting accuracy?
Under the threat of big scissors, the Taiping army still used all their tricks and fought hard to escape from the deadly threat, and fled towards Huainan City in a smoke, not daring to stay for a moment!
A battle that was originally tragic and abnormal, ended quietly, and both sides wanted to give each other a hand, but because of the underestimation of the other party, it ended miserably.
(To be continued.) )