However, although Lin Zhe was already a little flustered in his heart at this time, he still did not lose his mind in the end, he knew very well that once he left at this time, then the first regiment, the second regiment and other troops of the Yongying in Yuyao County would fall into their own battles, and it would inevitably be a big rout at that time. Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.

The Yong Battalion in Yuyao County is the hard work of his struggle for half a year, and he will never abandon his troops until the last moment.

So he took a deep breath, then looked at Wang Luyun and said, "Captain Wang, you immediately take the personal guards forward, ready to attack the flank of the enemy cavalry at any time!" ”

When Wang Luyun heard this, his face changed, he was not afraid that he would lead a personal guard of only more than 50 people to attack the enemy's more than 800 cavalry, but that once he led the personal guard into the battlefield, what would Lin Zhe's safety do?

Without the protection of the personal guards, how could Lin Zhe survive the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry?

Wang Luyun is different from other officers, other officers may have slowly changed from scholars to professional soldiers, but Wang Luyun is still a traditional martial artist, and he still prides himself on being the head of the Lin family's nursing home.

Before going north, Mrs. Lin specially instructed him to ask Wang Luyun to ensure Lin Zhe's safety.

So he hesitated, but Lin Zhe, who saw his hesitation, snorted coldly: "Don't hurry up and execute the order!" ”

Immediately, Wang Luyun gritted his teeth, looked left and right, and then said to the two knights who followed him: "You stay to ensure the safety of the young master, and the others come with me!" ”

Those two knights were both old men of the Lin family's courtyard, and their personal martial arts were extremely outstanding from bandits, although it was very difficult for only two people to ensure Lin Zhe's safety under the impact of the enemy cavalry, but this was already the best arrangement that Wang Luyun could make.

"Brothers, come with me!"

As Wang Luyun shouted, more than 50 horsemen of the personal guard armed with hollow spears, abandoned their muskets and replaced them with hollow spears, they became a temporary lancer, and then galloped out in a neat formation, and they wanted to go to the absolute inferior forces to attack the flank of the enemy cavalry.

The soldiers of the baggage regiment and the personal guard team quickly went forward to meet the battle, and the second infantry regiment in front was also organized into a column and quickly rushed to support.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army, which caused this qiē, kicked up a cloud of smoke and dust at this moment, and then rushed directly towards the position of the Second Artillery Company and the place where Lin Zhe was.

Although the current army has entered the era of muskets and artillery, the time and mode of engagement are not much different from the era of cold weapons, and a large-scale battle with thousands or even tens of thousands of people often only takes a few hours to determine the winner and loser.

Far from being the case with the wars after World War I, any random battle can last for days, and a large-scale battle can take months to determine the winner.

The same is true of the current battle between the Yongying and the Taiping army in Yuyao County, which began with the rapid march of the Yongying Tongguò in Yuyao County and the sudden attack on the Taiping army camp, which lasted only half an hour.

However, now only half an hour later, the battle between the two sides has reached the most fierce stage, and the winner can be determined at any time, no matter who wins or loses, this war will be decided in the next half an hour, or even five minutes.

The most important thing now is that the more than 800 cavalry of the Taiping Army led by Dong Yanghong attacked the rear of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, that is, where the Second Artillery Company and Lin Zhe were.

If they can defeat the interception of the baggage regiment and the personal guard in one go, the Second Artillery Company and Lin Zhe and other senior generals will be in danger, not to mention, in fact, there is a more important point.

At that time, Dong Yanghong's cavalry will completely appear in the rear of the First Infantry Corps and the Second Infantry Regiment, and then Dong Yanghong only needs to turn his horse's head and then charge the First Infantry Corps.

Even if the combat effectiveness of the First Infantry Corps is strong, they only have more than 600 people, and the artillery of the First Artillery Company is only more than 700 people, so it is absolutely impossible for them to be able to counterattack with 4,000 enemy troops in front of them and 800 cavalry to attack in the back.

After the collapse of the First Infantry Corps, the remaining Second Infantry Regiment was not far from being destroyed.

And this possible situation is absolutely not allowed by Lin Zhe, in order to establish the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, he spent more effort than others can imagine, not to mention the tens of thousands of taels of money invested for this, Lin Zhe in order to build this Yuyao County Yong Battalion, almost from the beginning of the day stayed in the barracks every day to train troops.

This Yuyao County Yong Battalion is the starting force on which he has high hopes, and he also expects to rely on the Yuyao County Yong Battalion to develop and grow step by step, and finally split the territory and raise the banner of rebellion.

How could the Yuyao County Yongying fail today!

Absolutely not!

He Lin Zhe does not allow it!

At this moment, Lin Zhe watched the enemy cavalry rush coming, gritted his teeth, although the development of the battle situation was a little out of his control, but he still made the last effort: "Immediately send an order to the Second Artillery Company, immediately turn the fire to intercept the enemy cavalry charge!" ”

When the soldiers of the baggage regiment ran to the front and bottom of the artillery company's position in a panic, the gunners of the 2nd Artillery Company, under the command of the officer, began to turn the muzzle of the gun, and then began to fire shells at the rushing Taiping cavalry in a guò rapid fire.

The first round of artillery shells was still fired, but the impact distance of the enemy cavalry was already about 800 meters, and relying on the impact speed of the enemy cavalry, by the time the enemy artillery carried out the second round of firing, I am afraid that the people had already rushed to within 500 meters or even 3 or 400 meters, so the officers of the second artillery company decisively issued an order to change the ammunition type.

"Swap shots!" The officers shouted loudly, and the loader in the artillery carried a round shotgun over, and then quickly stuffed it into the muzzle.

Just as the rear artillerymen were loading their shells, the soldiers of the baggage regiment in front of the 2nd Artillery Company were already in formation.

The officers were on horseback and gave all sorts of orders!

"Steady, line up closer!"

"Good bayonet!"

The voices of the officers continued to echo, and although the officers still seemed relatively calm, many of the soldiers of the baggage regiment had already begun to tremble with their hands and feet, and many of the soldiers made mistakes when loading.

When the baggage regiment was making the best preparations, Dong Yanghong had already launched the final charge with the cavalry under his command, if the horses under the crotch just now were just trotting forward, then now their war horses have mentioned the speed of the charge, eight hundred cavalry, divided into several rows before and after, each row is about 100 people, and each row is separated by dozens of meters.

The smoke and dust rolled up by the front and rear rows of cavalry covered the sky and the sun, and at a glance, you couldn't even see how many cavalry there were behind!

In the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, Fei Qunyang, the commander of the baggage regiment, held his command knife tightly, and he was extremely nervous in his heart, and stood on the side of the team on horseback, when he saw that the enemy cavalry was already within five hundred meters, he immediately waved the command knife: "Shoot!" ”

"Shoot with all your might!"

At this time, he did not stubbornly ask the soldiers to fire a complete salvo, because he had found that many of his soldiers were already in a panic, and after many soldiers fired the first shot, the action of continuing to reload became slow, and even some soldiers even fell to the ground with bullets in their hands because of nervousness.

In order to fire as many bullets as possible, Fei Qunyang issued an order for all to shoot freely, and even if the soldiers of the more than 300 baggage regiments were inferior to the regular infantry in all aspects, these more than 300 Mini rifles still caused a lot of casualties to the charging Taiping cavalry.

When the soldiers of the baggage regiment opened fire, the 2nd Artillery Company on the hillside above also began a new round of shelling.

As the artillery officer's command knife was waved down, and shouted: "Fire!" Then, six twelve-pounder guns once again emitted thick white smoke, and in the white smoke, a round shotgun flew towards the enemy cavalry in the distance, and then exploded with a thud.

Scattered the fragments of the shells that dispersed after the explosion, and the steel balls flew out in all directions, and then harvested a large area of life.

As the most powerful type of ammunition in the era of front-loading guns, although the range is short, and the damage to the life of the gun is relatively severe, its power is absolutely speechless.

Especially at a distance of five hundred yards, each shot of scattered shells could reap the lives of a large number of enemy troops, and the lethality of the six twelve-pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company was far greater than that of the more than 300 Mini rifles of the Baggage Regiment when they fired scattered shots through rapid fire.

Although more than half of the cavalry in the first row of cavalry at the front were killed or wounded, the Taiping cavalry in the back rows still rushed forward, stepping on the corpses of friendly soldiers, no longer caring about the body of the war horses, and charging towards them with the highest speed.

The shells fired by the Second Artillery Company of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County and the bullets fired by the Baggage Regiment continued to fall into these Taiping cavalry, taking away the lives of one cavalry after another.

But they did not stop the pace of the charge!

Just when the cavalry in the front two rows was about to be lost, Dong Yanghong showed a hideous smile and waved the saber in his hand: "Kill!" ”

At this time, they were less than a hundred meters away from the Qing Demon on the opposite side!

He could already clearly see that the Qing Demon on the opposite side had begun to waver, many soldiers were flustered and could not be loaded, and even some soldiers had quietly retreated a few steps, as long as they rushed down again, even if they suffered greater casualties, he could still win.

Eighty meters, sixty meters, closer!

He has already seen the dawn of victory!

And Fei Qunyang also began to take a deep breath, he knew that the enemy army was already close at hand, and after firing another round of guns, there would be no way to continue to reload, and then he would fall into the danger of hand-to-hand combat.

At this time, the cavalry of the Taiping army at the forefront had advanced to about forty meters, and if these cavalry were traditional Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, then they would begin to turn their horses' heads and start turning, and then use their bows and arrows to start shooting arrows at the soldiers of the baggage regiment in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

How did the more than 10,000 Mongolian cavalry in the Battle of Bali Bridge fight in history, and they braved the shells and bullets of the coalition army to rush to a distance of about forty or fifty meters in front of the coalition army, and then what did they do?

Bend your bow and shoot an arrow, or simply dismount and shoot with a shotgun!

They did not directly impact the phalanx of the enemy troops, why? Because they are traditional Eastern cavalry and light cavalry, there has been no tradition of charging with cavalry since the Mongol era.

So they suffered heavy casualties and rushed to about forty or fifty meters, and continued to be hit by others as targets!

However, these Taiping cavalry in front of them are not regular traditional oriental cavalry and light cavalry, this is not to praise them, but the time for the rise of the Taiping army is too short, and to be honest, the cavalry is very demanding for cavalry, and the Taiping army does not have the background to form a cavalry brigade.

What type of cavalry are they?

It's actually a group of infantry on horseback, and you can't let them fight in a mounted shooting style, so their tactics are simple and crude, which is to rush up and fight hand-to-hand.

In all fairness, if this group of cavalry encounters cavalry, it will definitely die a miserable death, but if they encounter the Yongying camp of Yuyao County, then the effect is definitely much better than that of cavalry archery.

Because if the enemy cavalry rushes to a distance of forty or fifty meters and then shoots at the Yuyao County Yongying, regardless of whether it is a bow and arrow or a musket, the Yuyao County Yongying can beat the opponent out, and the range and power of the Minnie Bu's gun are not blown, and the loading speed is much faster than the previous smoothbore guns due to the use of fixed paper shell bullets.

Of course, more importantly, the Yongying camp in Yuyao County was originally a modern army that pursued the tactics of queuing and shooting, and the army in the era of cold weapons shot at them, compared to the army's discipline and the ability to withstand casualties, this is not nonsense!

However, the Taiping cavalry on the opposite side was not regular cavalry cavalry, they were just a group of mounted hand-to-hand infantry with all kinds of messy weapons, so they did not stop at a distance of forty or fifty meters, but continued to rush up.

The distance of tens of meters was only a few breaths for the speed of the cavalry, and when the soldiers of the baggage regiment released the last round of shooting, those Taiping cavalry had already rushed into the array of the baggage regiment with various cold weapons such as sabers and spears.

Lin Zhe, who was in the rear, watched the enemy cavalry rush into the array of the baggage regiment, and he closed his eyes!

He knew that the baggage regiment was over! xh118