Qi Zhitao didn't mention it, but when he mentioned it, Shen Chaoyang immediately said angrily: "This group of dogs said that the Qing army, a letter of silver for two people, such a humid weather, and in a place with great surface moisture next to the river embankment, I was afraid that the gunpowder would be damp and covered with thick cowhide tent river gunpowder, such a hot day can be imagined, the gunpowder inside has become mud, completely scrapped, even if it is dried, it will lose its effectiveness!" Lao Tzu's assault this time can be called a perfect assault, and the action that could have been included in the teaching materials together with the classic battle examples written by the Führer ended like this! ”

Qi Zhitao looked at Shen Chaoyang, who was extremely aggrieved, angry, and crazy, and didn't know what to say to comfort him? Sailing all the way, Shen Chaoyang either set up a general-purpose machine gun to strafe at both sides of the strait, or stood in front of the 75 gun desperately urging the ammunition hand to load.

For this surprise attack by the armed gendarmerie special forces, Lin Haijiang was also a little speechless, the Qing army thought that a safe preservation method had destroyed their gunpowder, and in the governor's yamen in Changsha City, Lin Yi was also in a daze in the face of grabbing a handful of black and slimy things that he didn't know what to do.

The gunpowder of the Qing army is different from the chemical blending of the Chinese Empire, which is fried out, and the last process is baking, which can be said to be extremely dangerous in the whole process, so this granular gunpowder is also particularly precious, fifty catties of a kraft straw paper bag, and the outside is played with three horizontal and two vertical paper ropes, if it is a general slight moisture can be resisted, but put it in a sealed tent with stuffy heat, the consequences are naturally self-evident.

Lin Yitie blushed and said to Tu Atu: "Master Tu, this is the gunpowder you sent someone to see?" Is it like this? ”

Tuatu said with some disapproval: "Lord Lin, what did you say this?" If I hadn't had the foresight to wet all this gunpowder, I wouldn't have let Lin Rei's bandit army serve it all last night? Isn't it just a gunpowder? Let's talk about the river waterproof dock of Lord Taicha, so many boats drove rampantly, and more than 70 of my brothers were wiped on their necks, and more than a dozen were beaten like sieves! ”

As soon as Zhou Fuming heard Tuatu say that the gunpowder was finished, he was about to squirt out a sip of tea, Zhou Fuming only knew that Tuatu did not learn and did not know before, but the gunpowder is an important material for the march and war, and even a garrison should be clear, the difficulty of frying and baking the gunpowder, once it is damp, it will be completely scrapped, Tuatu doesn't know? Or are you playing dumb?

Tai Qia drank tea slowly, glared at Tu Atu with his eyes from time to time, and looked at Lin Yi with a blue face, Tai Qia snorted coldly: "You are amazing, today you will use your head to top Lin Yi's cannonball, give me a look at it?" ”

Tuatu glanced at Taicha and snorted viciously, and Taiqia smiled: "Grandson, right?" How about calling the guys all day long? Why is it soft when you mention fighting with Lin Wei? Aren't you quite a gentleman? What are you doing? The bitch in the alley screamed three times? If it's soft, it's all about the mouth? ”

Taicha is full of people, and the work of the mouth is unrivaled among these four people, the Tuatu Mongols have always been stupid and stupid, just by pretending to be stupid, their faces suddenly turned red, and their hands touched the pistol on their waists.

When Lin Yi saw this, he immediately slapped the table and said, "What do you all want to do at the moment of the great enemy?" Is there still a law of the imperial court in the eyes? Is there still an oracle? ”

At this time, Zhou Fuming, Tuatu, and Tai Qia suddenly remembered that Lin Yi still had the gold medal order arrow given by the two palaces in his hand, and all three of them died down for a while, although they could rely on the arrogant soldiers and generals not to take Lin Yi's eyes, Lin Yi had nothing to do with them now, but the gold medal order arrow given by the two palaces in Lin Yi's hand was not fake? Once Lin Yi is really angry, he doesn't want to fight for the future, even if he can't take his head now, he will definitely not have a good life of his own after returning to the court.

Lin Yi knew even more that at the moment guarding this Changsha City, none of the three people here could succeed, so the forces of all parties in Changsha City once again temporarily reached a balance, and the matter of Tuatu's custody of the cannon was concocted by the four of them into a counterattack, and the gunpowder was protected by the heavy grain and grass, and the 3,000 Lin rebel bandit army was annihilated.

This 3,000 people is the number that Lin Yi, Zhou Fuming, Tai Qia, and Tuatu racked their brains and spent a lot of effort to set, because too few is not enough for four people, too much and too fake, so they thought about it for a long time, and cut their braids and shaved their short hair, stripped their clothes and pretended to be corpses, so that there were both records and evidence, so the subsequent defeat and setbacks became a great victory.

In the Nanmu Temple outside Changsha City, Lin Haijiang looked at the battle report from Hangzhou and smiled slightly, the troops began to test the general attack on Hangzhou City on July 22, 1861, and the Qing army defender turned out to be Li Hongzhang? The original Hangzhou general Gretai took a few concubines and didn't know where he ran away.

It can be said that a mess was thrown to Li Hongzhang, but Li Hongzhang's rapidly expanding 17,000 people plus the 4,600 mercenaries of various countries commanded by Earl actually supported the city defense of Hangzhou.

Lin Haijiang analyzed the main specific reasons for the obstruction of the attack on Changsha City, and the Qing army used correct tactics and concentrated effective superior forces to prepare for street battles in the city defense, which was the Qing army's continuous echelon reinforcements with nearly 10,000 casualties in the battle for the breakthrough.

Li Hongzhang also implemented basically the same tactics as Lin Yi in Changsha in Hangzhou, but Lin Haijiang can only say that Li Hongzhang is not an excellent tactical commander, nor is he an excellent strategic decision-maker, he is a conspirator at best!

Li Anmin took Xu Dawei, Liu Quansi, and Zheng Zhipeng, the three so-called stinkers, to dig a big pit for Li Hongzhang together, in fact, it can be seen from Lin Haijiang in the war report that Li Anmin used not a cattle knife to kill chickens, but a big guillotine! Two main corps plus three full divisions, plus six supplementary brigades and the 2nd Marine Corps Brigade.

Li Anmin and Xu Dawei's three divisions occupied Wuhu and Ma'anshan respectively to deploy defenses in the direction of Tianjing of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and at the same time threatened Hefei, concentrating the Fourth Corps with two divisions of the Second Corps to encircle Hangzhou without attacking, the other two divisions of the Second Corps strengthened five supplementary brigades, bypassing Hangzhou and directly advancing to Changzhou and Zhenjiang, and the Second Marine Brigade was attached to a supplementary brigade to occupy Shanghai directly in the form of landing under the cover of the imperial fleet.

After besieging Hangzhou for seven days, Li Hongzhang realized the difference between Hangzhou and Changsha, which he was clinging to, that the city defense of Hangzhou was not at all the same level compared to Changsha, the land of the four wars, and secondly, Changsha hoarded a large amount of grain in the two lakes of the land of fish and rice, and Hangzhou had no grain storage at all, and tens of thousands of soldiers had to gnaw the bark of trees in less than a month.

Li Hongzhang, who was originally only going to wait for Zeng Guofan's army in Hangzhou for a month at most, very subjectively believed that Zeng Guofan's army would be able to come here to relieve the siege in January at most, not that Li Hongzhang did not want to prepare sufficient grain and grass, one was that the enemy army marched quickly, and the other was that most of the grain was hoarded and sold by the annihilation merchants. Li Hongzhang was dumbfounded, and in the end, it took a lot of effort to raise a month's worth of military rations.

After realizing his huge mistake at both the strategic and tactical levels, Li Hongzhang made an even bigger mistake in order to correct his mistakes, in order to ensure that the Huai army could retreat to the back road of Shanghai in the unfavorable situation of the war, Li Hongzhang left about 2,000 people in Jiaxing, and these 2,000 Li Hongzhang handed over to Li Jingbin, whom he trusted the most.

In Li Hongzhang's subconscious, there is still a plan to take precautions, in Li Hongzhang's view, if he breaks through from Hangzhou and arranges a force in Jiaxing to block the pursuing army, as long as the Huai army returns to Shanghai safely, Lin Haijiang's rebel army will have nothing to do, after all, Shanghai has been divided into a treaty port by the imperial court, and the British, French, Dutch, Spanish, Russians, etc. have all demarcated concessions in Shanghai. The imperial army's armies could be supplied and replenished with ease and safety, and any intrusion of Shanghai would be considered hostile by the powers.

Lin Haijiang understood the Qing court's plan when he first learned that the Qing court agreed to list Shanghai as a treaty port, but the Qing court's strategic arrangement at that time was mainly aimed at the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and the result was unintentional! dealt with himself.

In Lin Haijiang's view, the definition of this Shanghai treaty port is like a plug-in in the game of later generations, setting up a safe island that can recuperate and recuperate, Lin Haijiang will naturally not tolerate the appearance of this kind of plug-in, when Li Anmin rushed to the front, Lin Haijiang instructed Li Anmin not to be polite to the special situation in Shanghai, and now it is inevitable that the Chinese Empire and European countries will tear their faces, so Lin Haijiang will not care so much.

Li Hongzhang once found Earl for this, but Earl was busy looking for beautiful women in Hangzhou, and forcible annihilation and robbery still became commonplace, and the numb Huai army was always indifferent to the bestiality of foreigners and friendly troops, and even many Huai officers and soldiers joined in the looting.

Earl likes those little girls who are only in their teens, and they have to change to two or three almost every day, but in order to take into account the friendship of friendly troops, Li Hongzhang has a clear conscience to help the foreign gun team to suppress the bitter lord everywhere, and the city of Hangzhou is like a hell, before the Qing army was forced to abandon Hangzhou because of the Taiping army's offensive, and then the Taiping army abandoned Hangzhou in order to concentrate its forces to defend Tianjing, as the previous master once again carried out a cruel and bloody plundering of Hangzhou.

History proves that if you want to destroy it, you must first make it crazy! The frenzied Earl soon ushered in his last days!

Under the unified command of Li Anmin, Xu Dawei, Liu Quansi, Zheng Zhipeng and other departments have been interspersed in place, and the subsequent battle situation has become very simple, on July 30, 1861, Li Hongzhang, who lacked food, was forced to break through, the whole process of breaking through was relatively smooth, in addition to the heavy casualties of the foreign gun team, the losses of each department were about twenty percent, and when the army arrived in Jiaxing, the city head of Jiaxing County had already been full of white and blue imperial naval flags, and there were chasing soldiers behind, and there were interceptions in front!

Li Hongzhang can be said to be almost desperate, Zeng Marshal's reinforcements are far away, and Shanghai, which they expect the most, has hardly played any role, almost like an undefended city, and was directly sent to the Shanghai dock by sea by the other side?

Now that the back road has been cut off, Li Hongzhang can only fight his way out of the bloody road before being fully encircled, and the captain of the foreign gun team, Earl, agrees very much, and Li Anmin, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, is very kind to leave a way for Li Hongzhang's Huai army to live.

However, this road of life was immediately blocked in Jiaxing, so in the suburbs of Jiaxing, Li Hongzhang commanded nearly 10,000 Huai troops and 9,000 mercenaries from Lianyong and more than 3,000 foreign guns, which was the largest force they could gather after breaking through in Hangzhou, and began to attack the defense line of the Second Marine Brigade.

The Second Brigade of the Marine Corps responded with fierce firepower to the attack organized by Li Hongzhang, in order to compete for the so-called way of life, the Huai army each rushed to take the lead, and the 3,000 foreign gun team commanded by Earl also fought for their lives, in the fire network of the Imperial Type 1 general-purpose machine gun and heavy machine gun, the battle lasted from the afternoon to the evening, and the Qing army Li Hongzhang Huai's army headquarters can be said to have almost fought more than half.

The worst of all are Earl's mercenaries, because most of these mercenaries wear their own military uniforms, these people have been decoupled from the real war, and they do not pay enough attention to the new weapons such as machine guns, they still march in neat lines and to the beat of the drum.

The Marines were completely overwhelmed by the actions of these madmen and fools, and under the fire of machine guns, Earl's mercenaries fell to the ground like wheat, and when the casualties exceeded 30%, Earl's foreign guns completely collapsed! The day before, they were wantonly plundering everywhere, frantically looking for people and women, how could they have imagined that the breech-loading rifles in their hands that seemed to have incomparable power were so vulnerable to the stormy machine gun fire.

The Marines were instructed to do their best to give the enemy strength and casualties, especially against these foreign gunmen who were doing a lot of evil on Chinese soil.

In Li Anmin's view, Li Hongzhang was not unjustly defeated, especially when he made tactical mistakes one after another, first because he was not fully prepared, then he was not determined to hold on, and then he was confused in command, and the more than 50 most advanced Armstrong breech ammunition guns he was equipped with basically did not play any role.

As a commander who takes into account the implementation of overall tactics, Li Hongzhang's performance should be shot!

On the one hand, Li Anmin has already received protests from many countries, asking Lin Haijiang to arrive in Shanghai as soon as possible to resolve the complaints of many countries, and on the other hand, a new situation has emerged in Changsha.

In order to turn the capture of Changsha into a classic siege and reinforcement campaign, Lin Haijiang hoarded a large number of military supplies, weapons, and ammunition in Ningxiang, but this information was learned by Chen Yucheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so Chen Yucheng sent people to monitor and explore the temporary reserve of materials of the Chinese Imperial Army near Ningxiang many times.

According to the information obtained by Chen Yucheng, at least more than 100 artillery pieces, more than 20,000 new rifles, more than 100 electric cannons, and countless ammunition and materials were stored in the warehouse of the temporary reserve of supplies for the Imperial Chinese Army near Ningxiang.

Although Chen Yucheng knew that Lin Haijiang's army had not yet engaged in a large-scale battle with the Kingdom of Heaven, the main reason was that the Kingdom of Heaven had been retreating, otherwise the two armies would have been fighting each other, through the observation of this time, Chen Yucheng found that although Lin Haijiang's army of the Chinese Empire was very sharp, its demand for logistics supply was also very high, and it can be said that once the effective supply was lost, the combat effectiveness of this army would soon collapse.

Chen Yucheng's principle of warfare has always been to avoid the real and attack the false, mobilize the enemy army through illusions and feints, gather and annihilate the enemy army with absolute superiority, and seize the opponent's weapons to arm himself!

This is true for the Qing army, and the same is true for the Chinese Emperor [***], Chen Yucheng is more soberly aware than Hong Xiuquan that if this continues, the overall strategy of the Taiping army will be divided, and the Taiping army compressed in the north will lose its strategic depth, and it will be easy for the elite army of the Chinese Empire with strong mobility to surround and annihilate.

In this way, the Chinese Empire only needs two or three major battles to completely wipe out the mobile forces of the Heavenly Kingdom, Chen Yucheng knows that although the Heavenly Kingdom is known as a million army, but the actual soldiers who can fight are only 26 or 70,000, except for Peng Dake's 40,000, his own 70,000, plus 50,000 in Banbishan and other places, the rest are all deployed in Tianjing, a large number of auxiliary troops composed of old and young healthy women have little combat effectiveness at all, in order to maintain a mobile force can be mastered, even the gateway like Hangzhou has been actively abandoned.

Although there are hundreds of thousands of horses available on the Twist army, it is impossible for the Heavenly Kingdom to hand over the storming of the city to the Twist army, which is accustomed to wandering, for defense.

Chen Yucheng saw the current war situation very clearly, because this was a bad battle at all, the Heaven, the Qing court, and the Chinese Empire were all readable, and there was no possibility of union between the three sides, and there was no possibility of watching from the sidelines, because once the strategic center was lost, after the enemy army gained a firm foothold, the army would probably have to pay double the price to fight.

This is simply an unprecedented Three Kingdoms War, and for each side, the other two sides are enemies and need to fight to the death!

Just as the Qing court despised the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Chen Yucheng also despised the Qing court very much, and he believed that at the moment when the Chinese Empire was divided into two routes, it should take advantage of the opportunity of the Qing court and Lin Haijiang to fight and completely crush one of the eastern and western armies of Lin Haijiang.

If the overall strategic layout of the Chinese Empire was formed, Chen Yucheng believed that it would be difficult for the Heavenly Kingdom to break this blockade again, and that Chen Yucheng's own policy of recognizing the Chinese Empire would be more inclined to ordinary people and more likely to win the hearts and minds of the people than the Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing court.

Slowly, Chen Yucheng's gaze stayed on the word Ningxiang on the map!

(To be continued)