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At 7 o'clock in the afternoon of February 7, 1850, the artillery shells of the Taiping army began to fall on the Ming positions on the front line of Jihuang Town. The fires were all 12-pounder cannons or earthen cannons that had been modified with gun mounts, and there were no flowering shells, but they were quite accurate, and the artillery shooting skills of the Taiping Army had obviously improved. I saw that holes had been punched out of the outer wall of Jihuang Town, the masonry outside had been shattered, the cannonballs had been embedded in the rammed earth layer, and from time to time there were gravel and dirt falling down.

Zhu Jishi immediately entered his former enemy command post, which was remodeled by the sappers of the Guards with the gate hole in the town wall, and the front was built with sandbags and door panels, leaving only a camouflaged observation port. Zhu Jishi is now standing in front of the observation port, watching the battle through the moonlight with a telescope.

The cannons of the Taiping army are lined up in the wilderness less than 500 steps away from the city wall of Jihuang Town, and there are simple artillery fortifications as a cover, so it is difficult for the Ming artillery erected on the city wall to hurt them, so the artillery of the Ming army is not fired now, and it seems that the progress of the Taiping army is really fast enough.

Luo Xuan had already been on the front line at this time, and the emperor had pressed to the front line to supervise the battle, and he, the army commander, had no choice but to go to the front line. He was in charge of the 1st Guards Regiment and the 5th Guards Battalion on the defensive positions west of Jiwei Town. This burst of shells hit, and all the people in the trench craned their necks and did not show their heads. The horses built of wood were destroyed a lot, and even the barbed wire fence was broken in many places. Looking at the big iron balls that flew over his head and were visible to the naked eye, Luo Xuan was ruthless in his heart: "Hold your lungs, and see how Lao Tzu cleans up your dead long hair later!" ”

The smoke of artillery fire has not yet dissipated. The Taiping Army brigade with red cloth and head rushed towards it. This unit was significantly different from the previous Qing army, which used dense formations to pile up barbed wire with corpses. They rushed up in loose straggler formations! The Taiping army dispatched stragglers armed with modified brown bess guns. And not ordinary infantry.

"These guys learn so fast!" Zhu Jishi couldn't help but praise when he saw such a scene, this battlefield and the enemy are really the best teachers, if they don't all die in the Central Plains but go to the northwest, then the northwest reactionaries will have to drink a big pot.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

The gunshots rang out, and they were not very dense, after all, it was still the era when the front-loading gun sang the leading role, because the rate of fire of the front-loading gun was not fast at all.

Although both the Jason-Churchill and Jason-Besser munitions companies were given orders to develop rear-loading guns (after the release of the Dreiser gun in 1848, all the world's arsenals accelerated the development of rear-loading guns). Even the Prussian Army began to equip Dreiser with rear-loading guns. But on the battlefield in China, it is definitely still the world of front-loading guns. Because the firing device of the rear-loading gun was so complex, even the branches of the Jason-Besemer Company and the Jason-Churchill Company in China did not have the ability to mass-produce the firing device of the Dreiser-firing pin gun.

"You don't have to think about the machine gun for the time being, even if you have a rear-loading gun now, this kind of squatting pit and barbed wire must be invincible, right? Before the start of the war with Russia, in any case, a part of the army had to be equipped with Dreiser's firing pistol, which could still shoot on its stomach with 5 times the rate of fire, and it was worth it to import it from Prussia at a high price......"

Seeing the sparse firepower on the battlefield, Zhu Jishi pondered.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, look at it. The Taiping army seems to be digging a hole! ”

Old Peel's voice pulled Zhu Jishi out of his thoughts, and he looked in the direction of the old man's finger. Really. Behind the stragglers who followed the Taiping Army, there were some sappers with shovels and shovels!

"It's really digging a pit, it's going to be a pit!" Zhu Jishi smacked his lips, this Yang Xiuqing is much stronger than those elm-headed generals of the Qing army, this time he really met an opponent.

"It's good that I didn't put the cavalry in Jiwei Town, otherwise there would be pits all around, and I wouldn't be able to rush up." Zhu Jishi muttered. "It seems that this battle is really good!"

"No, it won't last a few days!" Old Peel shook his head: "At most, for a week, Yang Xiuqing will definitely retire." ”

"A week?" Zhu Jishi was stunned for a moment before he nodded and said, "One week at most...... Yang Xiuqing's soldiers who stayed in Guide could at most buy him these time, but I am afraid that there will be a fierce battle this week. ”

Yang Xiuqing was also standing on his own starting position at this time, watching the smoke of gunpowder on the front line. His own troops were exchanging fire with the Ming army in front, and the losses were naturally very large. After all, one side is standing in the pit, and the other side is standing on the flat ground to load and shoot. But in order to cover the diggers digging the pit, this is the only way. It would be good to wait until a trench was dug, and then the foreign spearmen would be able to stand in the trench and fight with the Ming army!

"His Royal Highness the East King, the quilt has been collected!" Li Kaifang walked over quickly and bowed to Yang Xiuqing, "A total of 10,000 quilts have been collected, which should be enough." ”

Yang Xiuqing smiled and said: "Zhu Demon wants to point to the wire array to block our heavenly soldiers, it is whimsical, I will use 10,000 quilts to break it, see what other tricks he has!" He looked at Li Kaifang, "King Yong, the key to this battle is tonight, you have to fight in one go, do you know the way?" ”

"The last general obeys!"

……

In the night, the sound of rifle fire from both sides became more and more intense, and finally the sound of shouting and killing also sounded. This time, the Taiping army formed several long horizontal formations and slowly walked forward. Their artillery had moved to the sides of the formations, escorting the infantry with fire. At the same time, the stragglers of the Taiping Army, who had already squatted into the pit, were also firing with their best efforts to suppress the firepower of the Ming army.

It's a very methodical fight! Zhu Jishi, who supervised the war, sighed in his heart. The Taiping army was more than a little stronger than the Qing army, and the latter only knew that Lu Dao took human lives to fill in, and he couldn't move his brain at all, but there were fewer human lives. However, the Taiping army is very good at learning, and they can already squat and pit flows, I wonder what method they will use to deal with barbed wire? Those Taiping infantry don't have iron tongs in their pockets, do they?

The 12-pounder howitzers lined up in the open space behind the walls of Jiwei Town began to fire, stirring up a cloud of snow and dust on the battlefield. The shells exploded on the frozen ground, making large and small gaps in the horizontal formation of the Taiping army, but under the diligent control of the junior officers of the Taiping army, they maintained a dense formation and pressed over at a brisk pace.

"Platoon guns! Get ready to shoot the platoon gun! ”

Luo Xuan, who was squatting in the pit, roared. Now is the era of the coexistence of the squatting pit stream and the queue shooting stream, the stragglers who deal with the enemy have to squat in the pit, and the line infantry who fight them still have to line up, but the first row is lined up in the pit, and the second row stands on the flat ground outside the trench - the pits of this era are straight and straight, and they do not dig all kinds of corners to the trenches of later generations, so they can be lined up in this way.

"Bang Bang ......"

More than 2,500 Bessemai rifles were fired at the same time, and blood lines suddenly floated on the Taiping army's horizontal formation 150 paces away, and the soldiers standing in the first row were beaten down by at least a third, and the hoarse screams suddenly rang out.

"Emperor God bless us, kill the pig demon, and protect the kingdom of heaven!"

Their shouts also rang out, tens of thousands of people shouted in unison, even drowning out the sound of gunfire and the screams of the wounded, and their morale was suddenly raised to the top, and the pace of advance was even faster, so that the formation was somewhat scattered.

"Gun flat - aim, fire!"

With the sound of the officer's command, the second platoon of guns of the Ming army was fired again, and this time the firing distance had been shortened to 100 steps! At the same time, the 9-pounder and 12-pounder cannons on the rear wall also fired, and what came out were shotnades, which were extremely lethal, and thousands of steel balls swept across the horizontal formation of the Taiping Army's foreign guns like raindrops, and suddenly there was another rain of blood. Under the crossfire of guns, shrapnel grenades and flowering shells, the Taiping army's horizontal formation finally dispersed, but their junior officers did not restrain the ranks anymore, but drove the scattered formation forward.

"Rush! Come on! Rush up and spread the quilt on the wire array......" (To be continued......