Behind the Ming army's big array, under the dragon banner of the red regiment of the Great Tomorrow, Zhu Jishi was observing the military formation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and he had already seen about 30,000 or 40,000 Taiping army horses leaving the battlefield and heading to the southeast, so he knew that Lu Dao was his own guards cavalry approaching.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Taiping army seems to be on the defensive, Yang Xiuqing may want to wait for his cavalry to defeat your guards cavalry before attacking, I also advise you to wait patiently for the guards cavalry to come to help."

Old Peel's suggestion came, and Zhu Jishi raised his telescope to look in the southeast direction, and saw snow and dust floating in the sky, gradually moving away. He didn't know where his cavalry had been, and where the decisive cavalry battle would begin. However, he was sure of one thing, the thirty or forty thousand bandit horses were certainly no match for the 6,000 Guards cavalry. That's a heavy cavalry that specializes in assault! One brigade was a lancer, the other two were cuirassiers. All of them were rigorously trained by European officers, and almost all the knights (the Guards cavalry did not have ordinary soldiers, they were all officers) were born in Wuxiucai! Such an elite man is this 6000, pull out the Lu and the British and French cavalry have a fight, if you lose to the twist bandits, the sun will really come out of the west. As long as the guards cavalry arrived, Yang Xiuqing's nearly 100,000 troops did not run.

"Your Majesty, our brocade guards are not here to watch the battle, please give the emperor an order to attack!" Luo Outline also suggested.

Zhu Jishi raised his binoculars again to observe the Taiping army's military formation, and after a while, he shook his head and said: "Wait a little longer, the infantry of the Taiping army is well organized, and the number of cannons is at least twice as large as ours. ”

"Your Majesty. Although the Taiping army had many artillery. But it's all cannons. There are no howitzers, let alone flowering shells, so the firepower is inferior to ours. Moreover, their cannons were mostly placed in the center, and no artillery was deployed on the sides. The subordinates proposed to transfer the Guards Light Cavalry Regiment, the 5th Guards Howitzer Battalion, the 4th Guards Infantry Regiment, and the 5th Guards Infantry Regiment to attack the left flank of the Taiping Army, and at the same time press the enemy's front with the main force. ”

Zhu Jishi pondered for a moment and then shook his head: "Do you want to use slash tactics?" Not now, there is no cover from the Guards cavalry. Our troops will inevitably be overwhelmed by their horse corps as they move towards the left flank of the Taiping Army, and 1,000 light cavalry alone will not be able to stop them. If you have to attack, let's play from the front. He looked back at Old Peale.

This French military expert knew that Emperor Zhu also wanted to fight, so he said: "Your Majesty, maybe you can let the stragglers attack from the front and shoot the Taiping artillery at a distance of 500 yards with Besemai rifles." ”

The tactic of shooting artillery with skirmishers was extremely common in Europe, and in today's China, the Taiping Army also learned this trick from Engels's "Taixi Military Strategy", which was used against the New Army of the Eight Banners. However, the Taiping army used Baker rifles and ordinary lead bullets at that time, and the rate of fire and range were far inferior to those of the Bethese Wheat rifles. Therefore, it only played the role of harassing the artillery of the Qing army. And the Ming army, which is now heavily equipped with Besemai rifles, can theoretically even drive artillery out of the first line. Turns into a support class.

This Besemai rifle is similar to the historical Migne rifle, and it can indeed be regarded as an epoch-making weapon! Thanks to the use of the bottom extension cartridge, this rifle has a theoretical effective range of up to 600 yards! It must have exceeded the effective range of the shotgun fired by the 12-pounder cannon.

Zhu Jishi thought for a moment and said: "Let the light cavalry cover the rocket artillery battalion to bombard Yang Xiuqing's left flank horse team, and send another regiment to attack Yang Xiuqing's artillery with skirmisher tactics, and then concentrate all the pontane howitzers on the left flank." ”

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Under the fluttering banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army, Yang Xiuqing, the king of the East, stared ahead. About 2,000 Ming infantry lined up in a dense line of skirmishers, like a gray tide.

Yang Xiuqing said to Li Kaifang beside him: "King Yong, the Ming army is coming, gather all the light soldiers of each army, meet them, and then let the horse team on the left flank rush them." ”

Li Kaifang didn't say anything, he was the earliest general of the Taiping Army to command the foreign gun team, knowing that the Ming army's stragglers came, and also knew that the Ming army's Besemai rifle had a very long range, he glanced at the left flank, and suddenly said to Yang Xiuqing: "The cavalry of the Ming army has also been dispatched, and they are heading towards our left flank, their left flank is empty, and the king of the east can order the right flank to attack." ”

Yang Xiuqing hurriedly raised the binoculars to observe the battlefield, and sure enough, the Ming army's horse team was moving to his left flank, and their left flank was only left with infantry, without the protection of the horse team, which looked very empty. If an attack is launched on their left flank now, there may be no small chance of winning.

However, Yang Xiuqing did not think that this was Zhu Jishi's negligence, Zhu Jishi's front formation only had about 10,000 infantry, and there were at least tens of thousands of infantry in the rear formation, which could completely strengthen the left flank. But he didn't do it, there must be a deception in it!

Yang Xiuqing thought for a moment and finally shook his head and said: "Let's fight them on the left flank, send a foreign spear army with 20 cannons to reinforce Su Tianfu's cavalry, and see if we can inflict heavy damage on the Ming army's horse team." ”

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On the front of the battlefield, the Second Guards Infantry Regiment commanded by Colonel Shi Dakai is slowly advancing in the formation of a skirmish, the 20-year-old young commander of the Ming Army did not shine much in last year's Northeast Liberation War, and the Vladivostok he was in charge of was in danger all the way, and was transferred to the sky in December last year to join the Guards as the commander of a regiment. Although it is only a flat adjustment, the commander of the Guards is undoubtedly a shortcut to a higher position, considering Shi Dakai's age, he must be one of the famous generals of Daming in the future.

The Taiping army on the opposite side was disturbed, and at least 4,000 soldiers armed with foreign guns also formed two similar lines of skirmishers to advance towards Shi Dakai's 2nd Guards Infantry Regiment. Commanding them was also a young hero of the Taiping Army, Chen Yucheng, looking at the thousands of elites temporarily under his command, Chen Yucheng felt that no opponent could stop his own army, even the Ming Guards who had killed and injured the Taiping Army in the previous defensive battle of Ji Huang Town. Now they don't have the protection of barbed wire fence in the trenches!

The light infantry of the Taiping Army either held a Baker foreign gun, or held a modified rifled brown besz, walking slowly forward with almost leisurely steps, they were all veterans who had participated in the Battle of Huaxian County, and all of them had the official body of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, at least two Sima, and they were the real elite of the Taiping Army. Although the morale was a little low before, but when you really go to the battlefield, you can still eliminate all distractions and concentrate on fighting, and thinking too much at this time is not conducive to saving your life.

The distance between the two sides is 350 paces, which is about 600 yards (for Mao to use yards or not rice?). Because the metric rice has not yet appeared), the Ming army has stopped advancing, Chen Yucheng's vision is very good, and he can see from a distance that all the Ming infantry have flattened their guns!

Shoot at 350 steps? As soon as the question rose in his heart, the muzzles of more than 2,000 black holes in front of him suddenly erupted into countless dazzling fires, and the white smoke instantly covered the Ming army front, and almost at the same time, the screams rang in Chen Yucheng's ears!

The veterans of the Taiping Army, who were originally strolling leisurely, were immediately in chaos, and at least thirty percent of the people on the first straggler front fell! The rest of the people also hesitated, and the shouts and cheers of the grassroots officers came and went, all urging their subordinates to continue to move forward.

This shot is so far and accurate......

Chen Yucheng roughly estimated the distance between the two sides and gasped. 350 steps! There aren't a few foreign guns on my side that can hit it!

In fact, the Taiping Army actually has a small number of Bese Maiyang guns, but they do not have the ability to manufacture bottom expansion bullets, and only the factory controlled by Zhu Jishi in Asia can mass-produce this kind of bullets, of course, it is not for sale, and the Taiping Army can only buy them from Europe if they want to buy them. The price is high, and needless to say, even the transportation time is enough to delay the military situation. All the rifled guns of the Taiping Army still use traditional round lead bullets, and they are very crudely made, so the range of rifled guns is greatly reduced, and the speed of bullet loading is also very slow, and it is good to be able to shoot one shot in three or four minutes.

Just when Chen Yucheng was lamenting the range and accuracy of the Ming army's foreign guns, the sound of the second volley of guns sounded again!

This shot is so fast! As soon as Chen Yucheng thought of this, he felt a sharp pain in his thigh, and then he no longer had the strength to stand...... (To be continued......)