At this time, Li Wuliu's whole army was five miles outside the city. ｗＷＷ。 lωχＳ520。 ｃｏＭ

In the center is five rows of birds, 30,000 people, 2,000 zhang long, the front width is longer than the city wall of Guide Mansion, but Li Wuliu did not spread out in a line, but divided into three groups, 10,000 people, into an inverted triangle, or an inverted character formation, the left and right wings in front, the central phalanx in the back, and the command of the Chinese army was set up in the central phalanx.

There are still 10,000 cavalry on the left and right sides of the Pinzi array, which is 20,000 cavalry specially from Zhao Kang, Zhao Kang has trained 50,000 cavalry, and divided 20,000 to Li Wuliu to let him practice a more complex attack phalanx.

At the rear, behind the junction between the Pinzi array and the cavalry on both wings, there were artillery positions of 5,000 each, where Hu Quan personally led the artillery troops.

Now in Yang Chao's army, each army has its own artillery team, but Hu Quan's artillery is a separate army, and the artillery is assembled and used, this Napoleonic combat principle, Yang Chao is still very clear, when he studied in France, he went to many museums and had such oil paintings.

At this time, to attack Guide, Yang Chao transferred the artillery unit with the most powerful firepower, that is, when attacking the city, Hu Quan was equipped with a large number of Hongyi cannons to exert the greatest power.

Yang Chao felt the earth tremble for a while, pulled open the telescope, and sure enough, Hu Quan's artillery array fired.

The sound of a thousand Hongyi cannons roaring together was really impressive, and I saw a large number of cannonballs flying through the firing range of the cavalry and infantry. The city wall that rushed straight to Guide Fu shook when it hit the city wall.

Retract your gaze. When I returned to the artillery array, I saw that after the artillery carriages opened fire, they retreated violently, and the agile artillery carriages rushed backwards, and were naturally lowered after being dissolved by a steep upward slope, and ten artillery men immediately stabilized the artillery carriages. Wash the breech charge and reload. Then proceed with the launch.

This series of steps was completed, it took less than a quarter of an hour, and I heard that the most elite gunners of the British could fire a shell in two or three minutes, but Yang Chao's artillery could not do it, not because the training was not hard, nor that Yang Chao did not have the financial resources to let them train at high intensity, but because they lacked experience in battle formations, they were inevitably nervous at this time, and they were placed in ordinary training. They can do it in a quarter of an hour to fire two rounds.

The Qing troops on the city of Guide also fired back, but unfortunately their only less than ten Hongyi cannons missed, and the only shells that hit in front of the artillery position were also blocked by a high ridge like a hill piled up in front of the artillery position. The artillery work excavated deep pits one after another, but it was definitely not only for leveling the land and building a buffer slope, but also for the front ridge to be one of the results.

The artillery bombardment of the Qing army not only failed to suppress the artillery of the Ming army, but attracted dozens of times the retaliation, and in less than half an hour, all their Hongyi artillery were reimbursed. And their small artillery could not hit the Ming army, and they could only be beaten passively for a while.

The dreary shelling lasted two and a half hours, from early morning to noon, and finally concentrated the bombardment of the front gate, and the city wall collapsed along with the gate, but the artillery continued to bombard.

And a team of artillery drove out of the position, pushing a thousand pounds of general cannon towards the city wall.

The artillery commander shouted: "The cannon must be hit against the human head!" ”

Firing artillery at the enemy's head, this slogan was originally put forward by Yang Chao to inspire the courage of artillerymen, and at this time it seems to have become a maxim in the army.

The tiger squat cannon advanced to a distance of 1,000 steps outside the city wall, and immediately began to bombard the targets on the city wall, and more than 1,000 general cannons appeared, and immediately suppressed the Qing army's less than 100 artillery pieces in the city, and the other firepower of the Qing army did not have such a long range.

Li Wuliu also sent 3,000 bird soldiers, all the way past the artillery, and only stopped after arriving at the moat, and then continued to shoot at the gap section of the city wall in a three-fold formation, and the suppressed Qing army could not raise its head.

At this time, the shield carts were pushed out, and there were bags of dirt bags that had been loaded long ago, and under the cover of the cannon birds, they advanced to the moat, and pushed the shield carts together with the soil bags, and then ran back quickly, and the shield cars continued to advance into the moat, and after half an hour, a three-zhang wide passage was filled.

Immediately, the three thousand iron cavalry on the left flank rushed up, rushing straight through the passage to the gap.

The cavalry soon engaged the Qing army's troops who had blocked the gap, and Li Wuliu sent infantry to advance under the city wall and began to fire at the city wall to suppress the Qing army's bow and arrow fire.

Not to be outdone, Hu Quan sent five hundred tiger squat cannons, pushed in groups of two, and had already begun to advance rapidly towards the city wall.

Although the cavalry was the first to rush into the gap, the Qing army's will to resist was still very strong, and there were 1,000 eight banner soldiers behind them with bows and arrows, but those who retreated were immediately shot, so that these green battalion soldiers did not dare not work hard, and for a time the cavalry was blocked in the gap, and the people who were requisitioned were building high sandbags behind the gap regardless of the danger and nervousness.

The cavalry seemed to be overwhelmed, and slowly retreated, retreating around both sides of the gap, only then did the rows of tiger squat artillery carriages behind them be revealed, and there was a thick wooden shield on the gun carriage, and from the round hole dug out of the wooden shield stretched out an arm-thick barrel, and these gun carriages reached the gap, and immediately burst flames, and apple-sized lead bullets flew out.

Because the gap is only more than ten zhang wide, so only more than 20 artillery trucks can be arranged at a time, after the gun carriage of one shot, immediately retreat to both sides, give way to the middle passage to the later gun carriages, just like the musketeers in turn, the dense shells do not stop, after a full quarter of an hour, the front is already empty, not to mention the sandbags piled up by the people, even the people and the Qing army behind have also been beaten and scattered, and even the Eight Banners who supervise the battle in the distance are also hiding in the houses, so as not to be affected by the shells.

At this time, the cavalry once again rushed into the city, brandishing their swords and slashing the scattered Qing troops along the streets, and the infantry also rushed in, slowly clearing out the stubborn enemy street by street.

"All the army, get on the bayonet!"

Li Wuliu's trumpet sounded, and I saw that more than 20,000 bird-fired soldiers who had been in the remaining part took down the bright bayonet from the belt (belt) next to it, this kind of Yang Chao imitated the appearance of the bayonet in Japan during World War II in later generations, and the bayonet was lengthened to two feet, and the bayonet with three blood grooves was very good.

The Bird Soldier removed the bayonet, put the tail of the bayonet on the three-inch wooden handle protruding from the bird's gun, then pulled two rivets from his belt, and inserted them through the small holes in the bayonet sleeve, which also had two small holes in the wooden handle, so that the bayonet and the wooden handle were riveted together.

After hearing the order, the bird-strapped soldiers with bayonets in place began to act in a row, but the action was not chaotic at all, starting from the very center, and advancing directly in a mandarin duck formation to avoid a large frontal attack surface, and at the same time convenient for marching.

One by one, the mandarin duck team crossed the moat, entered the city, and rushed in various blocks in a formation of mandarin ducks, and the bird guns with bayonets could not be reloaded, so none of them had only one bullet to fire, and they had to start charging after firing.

For a while, the sound of crackling birds continued to sound in the city, and the gap in the south of the city had been trying to radiate in all directions, and after an hour, the sound slowly disappeared.

"The Governor of Dadu is fortunate not to be dishonored, and Guide City has taken it!"

Li Wuliu rode a high-headed horse with mixed flowers and galloped to report to Yang Chao.

Yang Chao has seen it clearly.

"Your formation is useless, but I am optimistic about you, continue to practice, it is best to find an opportunity to defeat the Qing army in the field on the plains."

"The Governor of the Cavalry, it's the Tartars who don't dare to fight with me in the field, otherwise they will be defeated with one blow earlier!"

In fact, the city has long been dispersed, as early as the tiger squat artillery bombarded the gap, the cavalry rushed in, the Eight Banners Governor Combat Team was the first to escape, and the city wall and the green battalion reserve army left in the city had no will to fight at all, if it weren't for the relatives of their officers who carried the flag and were sent to Beijing as hostages, it is estimated that they would have surrendered without waiting for Yang Chao to fight.

"Well, courage. Now come with Ben Governor into the city! ”

Yang Chao rode a pure white horse, escorted by two columns of 2,000 cavalry led by Li Liang and Zhang Dian respectively, and advanced towards Guide City.

Soon they entered the city, and there was cheering everywhere they passed.

With the victories again and again, Yang Chao's prestige in the army is unprecedented, this time when he learned that Yang Chao personally came to supervise the battle, the morale has risen to the level of fanaticism in front of the station, and many soldiers want to show their faces in front of Yang Chao with a sigh of relief.

At this time, the whole city was controlled by Yang Chao's army, and the city wall was full of Yang Chao's soldiers, Yang Chao ran past the soldiers on horseback, waving to them, and next to him was Zhang Dan with the Yang character banner, waving the flag vigorously.

Whether it is a soldier or an officer, everywhere he passes is frantically cheering, and even some people have tears in their eyes, Yang Chao feels that he is like the golden three fat men of later generations, and he is a fanatical admirer of a group of people, but it is a pity that they are all a group of big and rough people, if it is a group of little ladies who are like flowers and jade, then it feels really fat.

After taking the Guide, a three-day celebration banquet was held, and the soldiers celebrated in three waves, so as not to give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of.

At the same time, the gentry in the city were called, a notice was issued to the people, and the military rations were taken out to relieve the people, before the Qing army fled, a fire burned the warehouse in the city of De, and the grain in the grain merchant's store had already been concentrated in the granary, obviously they intended to hold on for a long time.

"The news that our army will return to Defu in one fell swoop will be immediately published in Jiangnan Daily and sent back!"

At the same time, the news of the catastrophe immediately spread throughout Jiangnan with the newspapers.

"My lord, a group of Xiucai from Jiangnan are coming to watch the troops!"

Li Wuliu reported an unusual news from Yang Chao, hundreds of scholars in Jiangnan, under the call of Gu Yanwu, actually united to submit a petition to the Nanjing Metropolitan Governor's Office, asking to come to Henan to watch the troops, and to see with their own eyes how the Jiangnan soldiers recovered the Central Plains!

Yang Chao nodded: "Okay, let them come, this group of people are all good writers, let them eat and live with our soldiers, but tell them that they must write articles to Jiangnan Daily, which will be their food expenses, and the governor will not give a penny of pen fees (manuscript fees)." (To be continued.) (LＷXＳ５２０。 ＣＯＭ))>