"The foreigner is coming!"

On the city wall at the north gate of Baoshan County, the soldiers of the Little Knife Society who were patrolling suddenly noticed that a large number of foreign troops appeared in the north of the city, and hurriedly warned them.

Soon, Chen Alin, a core member of the Little Knife Society, who was in charge of the defense of Baoshan County, hurriedly brought people over, he climbed the city wall, and looked at the target with a monocular captured from the Qing army's headquarters, and suddenly felt confused.

He found that the dress of this army was very special, different from the foreigners' uniforms he had seen before. Neither the red shirt and white trousers of the British army, nor the black shirt and gray trousers of the French army, but the forest green of the upper and lower colors. The military hat is also different from the bow hat of the British army and the toilet hat of the French army, and the only thing that can be confirmed is that the cockade on the opponent's military cap is obviously engraved with the Chinese character "Li", which instantly indicates the belonging of this army.

"It's Li Weiguo! It's the Qing army from Chongming County who is coming! Close the gates and defend the city! ”

Chen Alin hurriedly ordered the knife to be ready for battle, although he had never seen Li Weiguo's army, but he knew that the only person surnamed Li near Baoshan was Li Weiguo, the county commander of Chongming County, especially this army was carrying foreign guns, and it was murderous, and it was definitely not here to visit the door.

The other party will not come sooner or later, but at this time, this timing is accurate, which makes Chen Alin grit his teeth, you must know that after the Xiaodao Society captures Baoshan County, Chen Alin is the party who strongly persuades Liu Lichuan to attack Shanghai first in terms of whether to attack Shanghai or Chongming first.

This is because Chen Alin saw that Li Weiguo of Chongming County had not sent troops to reinforce Shanghai County, and sat back and watched the Xiaodao Society capture Baoshan, so the budget thought that Li Weiguo was also an official who swept the snow in front of his door, and he was afraid of provoking the Xiaodao Society and did not move. Therefore, when the Little Knife Society discussed whether to attack Shanghai or Chongming first, Chen Alin urged Liu Lichuan to attack Shanghai first and then attack Chongming when the ferries were ready, citing the lack of ferries.

So, Liu Lichuan obeyed Chen Alin's construction, and a few days ago he led the main force to attack the county seat of Shanghai, preparing to take Shanghai and then turn around to deal with Li Weiguo.

As a result, as soon as Liu Lichuan left Baoshan for Shanghai with the main force, Li Weiguo led his army to attack Baoshan County.

But now Baoshan County is empty, there are only less than 3,000 defenders, Li Weiguo did not send troops early or late, but at this time he sent troops, obviously to seize the excellent fighter of Baoshan County's empty troops.

When Chen Alin thought of his remarks that he thought that Li Weiguo would not send troops in front of everyone in the Little Knife Club, he suddenly felt that his old face was hot, and he was embarrassed and thrown home.

Outside the city was Li Weiguo's army, which numbered 10,000 people. Among them, there were 7,000 regular troops, divided into 7,000 troops, and there were 1,000 laborers and 2,000 people, the former was responsible for carrying siege equipment such as ladders, and the latter was responsible for transporting weapons, ammunition, grain and grass.

In this era, there were no formed baggage and engineering units, and the baggage and siege equipment were all replenished by grasping strong men, and even in the Second Opium War, the logistics of the British and French troops were replaced by Chinese laborers.

There is a way to be a soldier who has passed through ten thousand, and there is no boundary.

It's not false at all, Li Jiajun at this moment looks like a turquoise sea, and he can't see the edge at a glance.

The 7,000 Li family troops were lined up in 14 large phalanxes, with 10 in the front being the main attacking force, and four in the rear, which were the reserves. Each phalanx was five hundred men, divided into five rows, each with a hundred men. In the vacant spaces between the phalanx and the phalanx, six 24-pounder guns and ten 16-pounder guns were deployed, respectively, to provide infantry fire suppression.

At this time, in the rear of the military formation, a group of people walked out and waved a huge Li Zi flag, and it was Li Weiguo who came in person.

I saw Li Weiguo wearing a neat official uniform, taking the binoculars from his own soldiers, and after observing the situation of the enemy and us, he immediately ordered, "Raise the battle flag!" Artillery suppression! ”

"Raise the battle flag!"

"Artillery suppression!"

The heralds conveyed Li Weiguo's order word for word, and the Chinese army flag bearers quickly erected a flagpole 15 meters high, then hung the battle flag, and raised the battle flag with ropes through the guò pulley group until the top of the flagpole.

Look at the flag-bearers carrying more than 30 pennants of various colors and patterns behind them, these are all flags used to convey various orders, different combinations represent different orders, only commanders at all levels can understand, once the battle starts, commanders at all levels only need to look at what kind of flag is hung on the flagpole where the Chinese army is located to know what the order is.

This is also Li Weiguo's military command system, which imitates the command system of the naval fleet's flag language, which is used to command the army to conduct operations on land.

"Prepare for shelling!"

"Prepare for shelling!"

……

The artillery commanders who were on the front line drew their Western command swords one after another and gave orders loudly.

The artillerymen quickly measured the distance, adjusted the elevation angle of the muzzle shot, and then loaded the gunpowder and shells, and reported one after another.

"Ready!"

"Ready!"

……

"Fire!"

With the commander's order, six 24-pounder guns and ten 16-pounder guns opened fire at the same time.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The cannon roared, and the earth trembled violently.

The muzzle of the cannon burst out, and one shell after another roared towards the north gate of Baoshan County.

Boom! Boom!!

I saw that the cannonball hit the city wall and exploded instantly, and in an instant, the earth and rocks cracked, flying in all directions, and the soldiers of the Knife Society who were standing on the city wall defending were blown away in an instant, and they suffered heavy casualties.

Chen Alin was dumbfounded, this was the first time he had encountered such a powerful artillery, before he led the army to attack Baoshan County, the Qing army also fired a few cannons, but the so-called various "general" cannons of the Qing army were just terrifying, the shells would not explode at all, and the casualties caused were only straight lines, which was not at the same level as the kind of flowering in all directions in front of him, it was simply weak.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The artillery of the Li Jiajun roared incessantly, and one shell after another was fired at the head of the city, reaping the lives of the soldiers of the Little Knife Society.

Every shell exploded, accompanied by a rain of blood, which fell from time to time several stumps and broken arms, and there were parts of various parts of the body, the scene was very bloody, and the bloody cruelty of war was vividly displayed at this moment.

Where had the members of the Little Knife Society seen such a cruel scene, they were all frightened and stunned, and some people with poor constitution and sensitive noses immediately vomited wildly when they smelled the smell of blood and internal organs. Some people directly threw away their weapons and turned around and fled.

After five rounds of shelling, Li Weiguo rode on his horse, saw the scenes on the city through the telescope, and immediately sneered; "A rabble! Pass my orders! Besiege! ”

Knock knock! Knock knock!

As Li Weiguo's order was given, the military band beat the war drums, and the trumpeters sounded the loud attack order.

"Attack!"

As soon as the commander gave the order, the soldiers marched neatly, holding muskets and stepping on the beat of drums, and launched an attack on Baoshan County.

"Shoot!"

When they were thirty meters away from the city wall, the soldiers of the Li family army raised their muskets one after another, aimed at the enemy at the city head and pulled the trigger.

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Dense muskets rang out, rows of projectiles rained down on the city, and the soldiers of the Knife Guild with swords, guns, and clubs were only passively beaten, and occasionally a few knives would be fired by the archers, but to no avail.

Soon, under the suppression of superior firepower, the soldiers of the Li family army quickly rushed to the bottom of the city wall, put the ladders on the city wall, and began to climb.

The members of the Little Knife Society quickly fought back with rolling wood and stones to prevent the Li family's army from ascending to the top of the city, and the two sides fought fiercely, instantly white-hot.

For the Little Knife Society, this is the most powerful enemy they have encountered, when they attacked Baoshan County before, the Qing army defending the city was vulnerable, almost no resistance abandoned the city and fled, but now the Li family army has advanced foreign guns and foreign artillery, so that the members of the Little Knife Society who use cold weapons to fight have suffered heavy casualties.

Similarly, for Li Jiajun, most of them are on the battlefield for the first time, and there are also psychological barriers to overcome in fear of the battlefield.

Fortunately, Li Weiguo chose Li Jiajun's first battle in Baoshan County, and chose Xiaodaohui as his opponent, because the opponent was too weak, so for Li Jiajun, even if it was Li Jiajun's first battle, he could also win.

Li Weiguo wanted this first victory, and Li Jiajun needed to win the first battle to boost morale, otherwise he would not have the courage to fight against the more fierce Taiping army in the future.

This is a clever military strategy, Li Weiguo understands, he wants to use this battle to boost the morale and morale of the army, Chen Alin, who is defending the city, also understands that the knife he leads will become the first stepping stone for Li Weiguo to become famous, he is unwilling, but in the face of the huge difference in strength between the two sides, he is powerless.

"Boom!"

At this moment, the gate of Baoshan North City was blown up by explosives, and all the hundreds of defenders on the city head were killed.

At the same time, Li Jiajun once again sounded a loud charge, as the most elite thousand-man team of Li Jiajun, the 1,000-man team that had been brought to Guangxi by Zhang Xiaoliu to fight against the Taiping Army, at this time, under the leadership of Zhang Xiaoliu, launched a fierce charge towards the city gate.

"The city is broken!"

"I can't hold it!"

"Let's run, everybody!"

……

The rabble is the rabble, these soldiers recruited by the Little Knife Society have almost no decent training, let them fight the landlord to divide the land and grab the women, let them fight with the regular army all rely on a drum of morale, once the morale is exhausted, it will be like a chicken and a dog in an instant.

"No backsliding! Give me back! ”

Chen Alin slashed a deserter with a knife, instantly frightening the other soldiers who wanted to escape.

"Retreat and kill without mercy!"

Chen Alin had already killed the red eyes and forcibly drove the deserters back to defend the city.

At this moment, the soldiers of the Li family army had already rushed into the city, and rows of muskets came over, like cutting wheat, ruthlessly harvesting the lives of the soldiers of the Little Knife Society.

During the battle, a soldier of the Li Jiajun armed with a P1851 rifled gun, took advantage of the chaos to aim at Chen Alin and pulled the trigger.

This person came from the Li Jiajun Special Operations Team, which consisted of only 200 people, all of whom used Enfield P1851 firing rifled guns.

Due to the rifling of the P1851, the shooting accuracy was very high, but the reload speed was too low, so it was impossible to form a formation with other soldiers who used the P1842 firing smoothbore guns. Therefore, the P1851 was used by Li Weiguo alone selected a group of soldiers with high shooting skills, the purpose of which was to wait for an opportunity to shoot important enemy targets on the battlefield, and became the earliest special forces in the Li family's army.

Bang!

The gunshot rang out, and the bullet instantly hit Chen Alin's chest, opening a bowl-sized blood hole, and in the blood splatter, Chen Alin glared angrily at the person who shot him, and fell unwillingly.

With Chen Alin killed, the other members of the Little Knife Society saw that the main general was dead and had no fighting spirit, so they either surrendered or threw their weapons and fled.

In less than two hours, Li's army captured the county seat of Baoshan.

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