"It's ...... Quilt!? ”

Seeing the black and dirty quilts covering the barbed wire, Emperor Zhu admired his enemies more and more! Such an enemy did not overthrow the Qing Dynasty in history - it seems that the Tianjing Incident was really their own sin!

"Good! It's paved, and the wire array of the Zhu Demon Head is nothing more than that! ”

"His Royal Highness the King of the East is still powerful, and the head of the Zhu Demon will be captured this time!"

"That is, His Royal Highness the East King is the son of the Heavenly Father, and Zhu Demon Head is only the son-in-law of the Heavenly Father......"

Hearing the shouting of the generals around him, Yang Xiuqing scolded with a smug smile: "You guys, Zhu Jishi's wire array hasn't been completely broken yet!" There are two more, which of you is going to break them for me? ”

"The young general is willing to go!" A young general who was at most a teenager stood up, and it was Chen Yucheng, who captured Emperor Daoguang alive.

Yang Xiuqing looked at Ai Jiang and nodded with satisfaction: "Yucheng, do you still want to capture the head of the Zhu demon alive?" ”

Chen Yucheng said: "I am willing to bring the Zhu Demon for the East King." ”

Yang Xiuqing smiled and said: "Let's go and catch the Zhu Demon slowly, let's go and boil the water first, Yucheng, go and boil dozens of pots of boiling water, and then find hundreds of wooden barrels." ”

Boiling water? Is this to burn the pork chop and pig hair?

The generals were confused, and they all thought in their hearts, although Zhu Jishi betrayed his Heavenly Father, but after all, he was the son-in-law of Heavenly Father, and even if he caught it, it would be difficult to cook the bar?

Boiling water and barrels were soon prepared, poured into the barrels, carried by hundreds of powerful Taiping soldiers, following behind the horizontal formation of the third wave of the Taiping army's attack.

"Pour water on the quilt and finish it, and when you go back, you will be rewarded with three taels of meat. Two taels of wine. Three white-flour steamed buns! ”

In charge of commanding these big Taiping troops carrying wooden barrels was Chen Yucheng, who had not yet developed well. It was Chen Picheng who captured Emperor Daoguang alive, and the jade character was "given" by Yang Xiuqing, and there was also a marquis who was given. If I can hold Zhu Jishi again this time, I can probably be crowned king too, right? Chen Yucheng thought eagerly.

Thundered......

The huge explosion brought Chen Yucheng back to reality, and a Hochsky grenade exploded not far from him, turning into a huge fireball that blew up all the human bodies within the range of power, and even Chen Yucheng could feel a heat wave rushing towards him!

"Rush! God bless us, invulnerable! Invulnerable! ”

The Ming Army's Hochsky grenade was like a starting pistol for the Taiping Army's charge. Everyone shouted slogans and marched forward, and no one cared about the formation and queue. The officers of the Taiping Army are not the guys who have been trained by the Western military academy and are full of a sense of honor, they are just some peasants who can't survive, there are not so many rules and regulations, and of course they will not stick to the queue formation at this time - their task is very simple, rush to the first wire array that has been covered with the quilt as quickly as possible, and wet the quilt with water, the temperature is very low now, below freezing, as long as the wet quilt is frozen. It's as hard as a steel plate, and it can probably block bullets.

Such. The barbed wire array of the Ming army has become a bunker for the Taiping army, and you can rely on it to start a shootout with the Ming army!

When Zhu Jishi saw this scene, he didn't panic at all, and said to the old Peel next to him with a smile: "This Taiping army is really good at fighting, but the ability to govern the country is too poor, otherwise it is really difficult to say who is under heaven." ”

"Their tactics are flexible, but they don't work until we have a solid defense...... Although they were smarter than the Qing army, they did not realize the fact that the strength of our army was still above theirs, and even if there were no barbed wire and trenches, and the two sides were fighting on the plains, we would be sure to win. His Majesty the Emperor, do you want to send a signal to the cavalry and ask them to find an opportunity to fight the horse team of the Taiping army? ”

Zhu Jishi glanced at the Taiping army who were leaning on the "quilt wall" and the Ming army shooting at each other, although they were still insisting, but they were obviously not happy under the combined fire of the Ming army's grenades, shrapnel grenades and rifles, and it seemed that this wave of attacks ended here. He shook his head and said, "No need to ...... tonight Drain the morale of the Taiping army again, and talk about it tomorrow night. ”

Zhu Jishi's 6,000 guards cavalry are now deployed in Yutai County on the edge of Weishan Lake, 160 miles from Jihuang Town. In this era, there was no wireless telegraphy to communicate with, and fireworks could only be set off at night - during the day, the Taiping army's horse corps were active, blocking the area around the town of Jihuang and searching for Ming ambushes everywhere. At night, the visibility was too low, and there were many loopholes in the blockade line of the Taiping army's horse team, so it was possible for the Ming army's scouts to get a little closer to Jihuang Town.

At this time, the third wave of the Taiping army's offensive had ended, and the Taiping army's front was sounded by gongs, which was a signal for them to retreat, and Mingjin withdrew his troops. However, the fourth wave of attacking troops had already begun to line up, and some stragglers were stationed behind the "quilt wall" to fight stubbornly at the Ming army. On the side of the Ming army, a chest wall made of sandbags, stones, broken furniture and other miscellaneous things has appeared behind the trench garrisoned by the Ming army, and the Taiping army's "quilt wall" blocked the Ming army's shooting sight - the Ming army has just begun to play with barbed wire and has little experience, so their barbed wire is a little high, and the Taiping army takes a quilt to cover it, which is a low wall. In desperation, Luo Xuan had no choice but to order the reserve team to temporarily build a chest wall as a cover, it seems that this barbed wire squatting pit flow is still not very mature.

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At this moment, in the vicinity of Guide City, which is about 150 miles away from Jiwei Town, there is also a positional battle that is about to begin. However, it was not the Taiping army that attacked the city of Guide, but the Ming army that attacked a large town called Gaoqiangzhai that was entrenched about 30 miles northeast of the city of Guide.

The 26,000 men of the Third Army of the Ming Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Huang Zhisheng, had already arrived in the evening at the city of Guide. The 50,000 Taiping troops besieging the city did not dare to start a battle with them, but according to the original plan, the Taiping army general blocked the king (gambling king?). Hong Xiuquan is really humorous) under the command of Huang Wenjin, he withdrew to the high wall village to garrison.

As the name suggests, this high-rise village is naturally protected by high walls and deep trenches. Originally, it was a large stronghold of the Guide gentry militia, with tens of thousands of people living in the high-walled village, and thousands of people. However, these people moved into the city of Guide before the arrival of Yang Xiuqing's army, and the walled city of Nuoda was immediately occupied by the Taiping army and transformed into a large stronghold. A circle of trenches was dug outside the walled city, and countless pits more than a foot deep were dug outside the ditch, and sharpened wooden sticks were inserted into the pits, which would be very fun if you stepped on them.

After the third and sixth armies of the Ming army met, there were 52,000 soldiers, plus the gentry armed in Guide Province who were attached to the Ming army, with a total strength of no less than 70,000 or 80,000 people. Huang Ren and the others discussed with Luo Zenan, and then the troops acted in two ways, and Ren Yijiang commanded the Third Army to search for the main force of the Taiping Army in the northeast. Luo Zenan and Huang Zhisheng commanded the Third Army and more than 20,000 gentry armed to attack the high-walled village.

Huang Zhisheng followed Zhu Jishi as early as the Nanyang period, and after a few years of dozens of battles, after arriving at the front line of Gaoqiangzhai, he knew at a glance that the morale of the Taiping army stationed here was very high, much stronger than the Taiping army he met in Xiangcheng and Xuchang.

"Baopei, the long-haired soldiers in the high-walled village are not their elite, only bird guns, carrying guns, earthen cannons, and no foreign guns and foreign cannons, but their morale and fighting spirit are extremely high." Luo Zenan had dealt with these Tuntian troops of the Taiping Army for several days, and he had a better understanding of their situation.

"Since you are not an elite, how can you have such a high morale and fighting spirit?" Huang Zhisheng asked a little puzzled, "Now even their elite soldiers in the North Hall don't have any energy, these people ......"

Luo Zenan explained: "These people are different, they are known as the Eighth Army of Tuntian, they were all victims of the Yellow Flood Area before, they had no food, clothing, no home, they were sheltered by Yang Xiuqing and given the land around Jingshi, so they were extremely loyal to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. According to the military system of the Taiping Army, the regiments and battalions are also farmers and soldiers, which are similar to our guards in the northeast, and they are indeed not elite. ”

Huang Zhisheng nodded: "I see...... Their land came from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they are one with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and our soldiers are not the same? Without 40 acres of land, how can we have the current morale? Military advisor, it seems that this method of giving land in Tuntian does have merit. (To be continued......)