Luo Yang thought very simply, Luo Bingzhang thought very far-reaching, but the tip of the needle to Mai Mang, the elite division of the army, took out the confrontation under the city of Chengdu, with Luo Bingzhang's idea, even if Shi Da opened the army no matter how crazy and sharp, it was impossible to eliminate the Qing army outside the city within a quarter of an hour, no, at least the Qing army outside the city could resist the Changmao army for half an hour, creating a perfect opportunity for the sudden attack of the ambush soldiers.

Luo Bingzhang sneered, Liu Rong sneered, even Tang Yougeng, who knew the strategic idea, also sneered, they definitely thought that the old governor's move could instantly poke the big array of the long-haired army to pieces, and the sudden charge of two thousand cavalry was not a joke.

When the Qing army left the city, the artillery was fired repeatedly, which was not only to show a tough stance and boost the morale of the army and people in the city, but also to ambush troops somewhere in the southeast.

Luo Bingzhang stroked his white beard lightly, calmly observed the position outside, and when he found that the long-haired army was still in a steady formation, he turned around and left.

"Handsome? You see? Liu Rong was much more tender and asked worriedly.

"Our army will win, Shi Dakai will not die, and he must only be spared! Hahahaha! Luo Bingzhang laughed wildly all the way, swaggering directly back to the Governor's Palace. Go, write a report to the court! ”

"This?"

The self-confident commander of the Qing army did not hesitate to believe that the Taiping army had fallen into his trap. Even the generals of the Qing army, who knew the inside story, also secretly admired Luo Dashuai's ingenious battle arrangement. In the battle of Dadu River, the remnants of the defeated generals did not dare to report the true situation to Luo Bingzhang, in Luo Bingzhang's opinion, it was just the numerical advantage of the long-haired army. On the contrary, he did not blame the generals, after all, the long-haired army was weakened by more than seventy percent, and the Qing army achieved brilliant results.

"Self-inflicted abuse, don't live!" Luo Dashuai couldn't help but pity his old rival Shi Dakai.

Indeed, hearing the cannon, the elite troops of the Qing army in ambush swarmed over, and a large group of cyan mushrooms appeared on the woods and meadows all over the mountains, and the war horses were victorious, and the dust was all over the sky.

On the city of Chengdu, the artillery of the Qing army was aiming below, preparing to inflict heavy casualties on the Changmao army when the two armies fought fiercely.

However, Luo Yang did not give the Qing army the slightest chance.

Always attaching importance to the enemy's firepower points, the Luoyang Army has basically confirmed the setting area of the Qing army's artillery and other heavy firepower through several infantry losses reconnaissance, and has also recognized the number, caliber, and power of the Qing army's artillery. Corresponding measures were identified.

The foreign artillery captured by the Taiping army had already run out of ammunition, but after a series of bloody victories, they captured a large number of new foreign cannons and iron-cast cannons at the Shaluo Pass, the Dustpan Bay Pass, the Songlin River section, and the north and east banks of the Dadu River.

Luo Yang understands the significance of firepower preparation for a big war, which is the basic procedure of modern warfare, which can reduce battle losses, deter the enemy, and even directly seize the initiative on the battlefield.

Demand that all the shells of the new artillery be exhausted in the first battle!

Without waiting for the Qing army to rehearse the formation, the Taiping army began a fierce attack, first all dozens of foreign guns opened fire together, and carried out a covert bombardment towards the artillery on the Qing army's city wall to suppress the enemy's firepower. Then, with little pause, the troops of the Flying Thunder Cannon quickly rolled over the cylinder-shaped half-cut object and quickly advanced forward.

The sound of artillery shells was shocking, and the whistling of shells flew over the heads of the officers and men on the battlefield, and the terrifying and sharp whistling made the officers and men on both sides uneasy to dodge, and even directly lay down.

This is the artillery bombardment that the Qing army has never seen before, and the firing speed of foreign cannons is much faster than that of Chinese earthen iron cast cannons, so only listen to the swishing and swishing, clusters of cannonballs soar into the air, and fiercely smash into the head of the Qing army's Chengdu city.

The smoke of gunpowder burst into a cloud of mushrooms on the city wall, swallowing and submerging the nearby Qing army, and the towering city wall had been blown up and collapsed in several places.

Such a bombardment, of course, was not enough to destroy the city walls, and a solid city wall required large siege artillery to be effective.

The intensive firing of artillery shells inflicted a devastating blow on the troops on the walls of the Qing army, and most importantly, completely paralyzed the enemy's preset artillery firepower, and gained air supremacy for the advance of the flying thunder artillery unit.

The foreign spear troops quickly followed, covering the flying thunder artillery troops, and quickly rushed to the city, quite close to the Qing army out of the city, at most a hundred meters.

The foreign spearmen on both sides began to shoot at each other.

Seeing that the artillery at the head of the city of the Qing army was paralyzed, the artillery of the Luoyang army immediately turned to attack the enemy's troops outside the city, although there were not many shells left, they still beat the enemy into chaos.

At this chaotic time, the Taiping Army's flying thunder artillery unit entered a working state.

The Taiping Army's flying thunder artillery unit had already had an order to start firing as soon as it entered the position.

Boom, boom, boom.

A huge bag of explosives rose into the air, covering the dense crowd of people outside the Qing army.

One, three, ten. More than 40 large-caliber flying thunder cannons are no joke!

The troops of the Qing army are indeed relatively dense, the cavalry is covering outside, the infantry and spearmen are behind, and the artillery is pulled out one after another, and it has not yet been arranged!

Each Flying Thunderbolt fired three shots, and then, stalling, moved forward. Despite the heavy smoke of gunpowder, the Taiping army did not know what the results of the battle were, and began to move in accordance with the command and operation procedures.

There happened to be a cool breeze blowing, which quickly blew away some of the gunpowder smoke under the city, and also allowed the Taiping troops to see some of the situation.

Oh, my God!

There were more than 3,000 Qing troops, most of them were paralyzed on the position, bleeding all over the ground, some were blown to pieces, some were blown stupid, some were blown up so that they lacked arms and legs, screaming, and some of them did not see any scars, but fell to the ground without any movement. The experienced Taiping army knew that these Qing demon troops had been shattered by the flying thunder cannon, and their souls had returned to the western sky.

The elite soldiers of the Qing army outside the city were destroyed in just a few minutes, and the Taiping army's flying thunder artillery unit advanced decisively.

This set of combat procedures has been repeatedly emphasized by Luo Yang many times before the war, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army are very skillful.

Immediately, this strange barrel of cannon rolled again, and the Taiping troops rolled forward, and the foreign spearmen and ordinary infantry decisively protected the Flying Thunder Artillery troops to march forward.

At the gate of the city, the Taiping Army's flying thunder artillery unit found that the remnants of the Qing army had closed the city gate and immediately fired cannons.

Five explosives smashed into the city gate, and immediately blew down the thick gate wrapped in copper and iron, and then the infantry of the Taiping army shouted and frantically poured in.

Luo Yang was commanding the troops at the front, and when he saw that the situation was good, he personally charged and led the troops to catch up with the city.

In the city of Chengdu, the remnants of the Qing army fell into chaos. The shock of being attacked by large-scale artillery has not yet passed, the Qing officers and soldiers suffered heavy casualties, the establishment was in chaos, the officers and soldiers could not find each other, and they were no longer able to resist systematically.

Rack up the Flying Thunder Cannon. Faced with the stubborn resistance of a small number of Qing infantry groups, Luo Yang commanded artillery to carry out targeted killings.

This tactic is terrifying, and often reimburses dozens, or even hundreds, of Qing soldiers with a single shot.

From firing the artillery to completely defeating the stubborn resistance of the Qing army, it took only fifteen minutes for the Taiping army.