At just after four o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Zhe ordered the troops to stop the march early and began to camp for the night, at this time the Yongying camp in Yuyao County was only about six kilometers away from Si'an, and the cavalry of the pro-guard team had made contact with the enemy's scouts many times, but the cavalry on both sides seemed to have some scruples, although they were far away, but there was no fierce fighting. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

That night, in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy at night, Lin Zhe ordered the officers of all departments to do it themselves, set up sentinels on the periphery, guard and other work.

But it is obvious that Lin Chengting is not stupid enough to play night raids directly, before modern warfare, playing night raids was an ultra-high-risk tactic:

Half of the 100 night raids will get lost at night, and the remaining 30% will barely find the enemy, but find that more than half of the people who participated in the night raid are left behind, and the last small part will arrive at the enemy camp with a complete force, and 8 '9 out of 10 will also be a fiasco.

And the only successful one in the thousands of night raids is definitely a classic battle example that will remain in the name of the eternal and will still be talked about thousands of years later, and when people talk about these successful night raid examples, they will never think of countless failed night raid examples.

Therefore, the night attack tactics in ancient or modern times mostly appear in romance novels, as for actual combat, there is no absolute certainty of the premise: who uses who is stupid!

Obviously, Lin Chengting is not stupid, so Yuyao County Yongying did not suffer any night attack, but spent the night quietly!

But early the next morning, Lin Zhe had just gotten up and finished freshening up, and was having breakfast, when Wang Lu Yun walked in in in a hurry.

"My lord, the thief army has already begun to move!" Wang Luyun just came in and said so.

Lin Zhe put down his chopsticks and said, "How far is the distance, and how is the deployment of the enemy army?" ”

"At present, there are still six miles away from our army, and according to the reconnaissance of the brothers, the enemy army has at least 6,000 people, including nearly 1,000 cavalry, at least ten cannons, and many musketeers!" Wang Luyun reported simply, and in his words, he already revealed a trace of nervousness.

Lin Zhe heard in his heart the deployment of the enemy's troops, and he had expected that the enemy army would be as high as 6,000, but he was a little surprised to hear that the enemy army had nearly 1,000 cavalry, and at least ten or more artillery pieces, when did these Taiping troops have such a large cavalry force.

As for artillery, the Taiping army has never had many guns, how can there be more than ten artillery pieces this time?

Lin Zhe didn't know that Lin Chengting went south to northern Zhejiang this time, in order to be the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, and he was naturally thoughtful before setting off, knowing that the Yongying in Yuyao County had sharp firearms, so he specially transferred at least fifteen or more guns, although these artillery pieces are all small and medium-caliber artillery, and the caliber is not as good as the twelve-pounder artillery equipped in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, but it is not artillery.

In addition, almost all the muskets in southern Anhui were collected, so that the number of musketeers under Lin Chengting's command reached more than 1,000.

Lin Zhe was not afraid of the musketeers, artillery and a large number of cold-armed infantry in the Taiping army, and the previous battles of Changxing and Guangde had fully demonstrated that the Taiping army, which was backward in all aspects of weaponry and training system, was basically impossible to do any practical damage to the Yongcheng in Yuyao County.

This is also the reason why Lin Zhe dared to leave Guangde with less than 1,800 people and rescue Changxing, it was not that he did not know that he might encounter the main force of the Taiping Army on the road, but because Lin Zhe felt that even if he encountered the main force of the enemy, with the combat effectiveness of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, it was completely enough to defeat them in the field.

When the equipment and training are better than the enemy in all aspects, the difference in numbers is no longer so important.

Being able to defeat the enemy, Lin Zhe firmly believes in this.

It can be said that the two battles of Guangde and Changxing gave Lin Zhe great self-confidence, in fact, not only Lin Zhe himself, but also the officers and ordinary soldiers in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, after the two wars, the morale of the army was also greatly increased, and the morale was very high, and they believed that no matter how many enemy troops there were, they would fall under their guns one by one.

Here, Lin Zhe, ordinary officers, and even ordinary soldiers, although they knew that there were enemy troops several times larger than themselves not far away, they still kept their composure.

The only thing to worry about now is that the enemy's nearly 1,000 cavalry may cause some trouble to themselves, and victory is certain, but the casualties will be too heavy under the impact of the enemy's cavalry, which is also worth the loss for the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

"Send the order, speed up the meal, build fortifications, prepare for battle, and your personal guards must also keep a close eye on the enemy's movements, and notify me as soon as there is a situation!" After Lin Zhe said that, he let Wang Luyun go out, and he continued to use his breakfast.

Not only did Lin Zhe continue his breakfast, but the ordinary soldiers also completely ignored the threat of an enemy army several kilometers away, and continued to eat.

This is not because Lin Zhe is arrogant, but because he knows that it will take a certain amount of time for this battle to start, and when the enemy army lines up in front of their formation, it will take an hour to say the least, and he will make himself so nervous that he won't even eat breakfast, and it will be difficult to fight hungry.

The army several times larger than itself is about to approach, but nothing has happened on the side of Yongying in Yuyao County, the meal that should be eaten, the chest wall that should be dug up, and the atmosphere of the approaching war can not be seen at all.

This made Lin Chengting, who was observing the Yongying in Yuyao County with a single-pass telescope several kilometers away, frowning slightly, during this time, he had heard countless descriptions of the Yongying in Yuyao County from Li Cong'an, Dong Yanghong and others, and the most said was the sharp firearms of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

However, it is rare to talk about the discipline of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

Not to mention anything else, just because they continue to eat when the army is pressing down on the border, this kind of discipline is not comparable to ordinary armies.

At this moment, Lin Chengting didn't know that the Yuyao County Yongying was a modern army completely modeled after the British colonial army, and what satisfied Lin Zhe the most was not how advanced the Mini rifle and twelve-pound artillery were equipped in the Yuyao County Yongying, but the discipline.

As a modern unit trained by the main tactics of queuing and shooting, the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County needs to maintain a tight formation in battle and even on the march, ignoring the fall of the comrades around them in the process of combat, and continuing to advance and shoot in the face of the enemy's bullets.

And to do this, what is needed is strict discipline!

As early as when Lin Zhe personally trained soldiers, he pursued the principle that 'a soldier who has not been beaten is not a good soldier', and after Hunter William took over the training affairs of the troops, he trained soldiers in accordance with the British Army in all aspects.

This leads to the harsh military law in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, the slightest inaccurate movement in the marching army column will usher in whipping, and if you do not obey the officer's orders during the battle, you will be shot on the spot the next moment.

The greatest purpose of this kind of training is to erase the autonomy of the soldiers, to turn them into stiff and rigid war machines, with instinctive reactions to orders, without them having to think about what the orders represent.

After months of training, the Yuyao County Yongying has already turned into a typical modern army!

Lin Chengting was observing the Yongying in Yuyao County, and the other generals of the Taiping Army were also observing this strangely dressed Qing demon in the distance.

"Lin Shuai, the enemy's camp is quite unfavorable to us in terms of terrain, the few small hills in front are enough to block the impact of our army, and the enemy is condescending, their artillery can hit farther!" Li Cong'an on the side said cautiously to Lin Chengting.

"To be able to connect Changxing and Guangde, this Lin Zhe is naturally not a mediocre talent, and this camp will naturally choose this terrain that is conducive to defense!" Lin Chengting didn't care.

What if the terrain is good, this time his main force is exhausted, and there are more than ten artillery pieces and nearly a thousand cavalry to help, he doesn't believe that he can't take this Yuyao County Yong Battalion with only 1,000 people.

However, after listening to the battle reports of the two battles of Changxing and Guangde in detail, especially the details of the battle of Guangde, Lin Chengting was also wary of some tactics of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

For example, the most profound impact on the Taiping Army was the musket salvo of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

Muskets, this thing is no stranger to everyone, Lin Chengting's own troops have thousands of musketeers, but the muskets used by the two sides are very different, the muskets of Yongying in Yuyao County don't know why, they can form dense firepower three hundred steps away, Lin Chengting is puzzled by this.

However, it's okay if he doesn't understand why the muskets of the Yongying in Yuyao County will hit so far, what he needs is tactical restraint against the ultra-long range of the muskets of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

If you want to defeat the Yongying in Yuyao County, in Lin Chengting's opinion, there is only the old way, that is, still use melee hand-to-hand combat!

Of course, he would not be stupid enough to let the soldiers charge directly from hundreds of meters away, but let the enemy be used as a target, the battle of Guangde has already proved that it is impossible to launch a hand-to-hand charge directly against the musket array of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

In this regard, Lin Chengting has already come up with several methods, and later, he will use the tactics he came up with to launch an attack on the Yongying in Yuyao County.

Time passed little by little, and the Taiping army led by Lin Chengting lined up several huge phalanxes and gradually approached, and the Yuyao County Yongying also ran out of breakfast unhurriedly, and then the soldiers of each company lined up under the leadership of the officer, and successively lined up in two classic horizontal columns, waiting for the Taiping army on the opposite side to attack.

However, the infantry on both sides continued to wait for the distance to be shortened, but the artillery on both sides, especially the artillery of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, was in a state of early combat.

"Distance of 1,500 meters, live loading, free fire!" The first to fire were the six twelve-pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company, and although the enemy was still far away, Fu Linyang, the company commander of the Second Artillery Company, had already given the order to open fire early.

As the six twelve-pounder guns opened fire one after another, six solid iron balls also crossed the sky and then fell into the phalanx of the Taiping army.

However, due to the long distance and the fact that it was the first time to fire, the first round of firing of many of the six guns did not achieve actual results, and the dew point of the shells was far from the enemy's phalanx.

However, the commanders of each cannon have already begun to rest their ballistics according to the landing point of the shells, and it is believed that it will not be long before the shells they fired will accurately fall into the enemy's phalanx.

As for the small guns of the First Artillery Company, because of their small caliber and short firing range, they did not deploy the First Artillery Company together on the small high ground in the rear, but were directly retreated to the front of the formation, although their firing range was short, but they were also several hundred meters away, and if they were close to the deployment and firing shells, they would cause great damage to the enemy's infantry phalanx.

At 8:40 a.m., as the six 12-pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company of the Yuyao County Yongying opened fire one after another, the war between the 6,000 Taiping Army led by Lin Chengting and the 1,700 Yuyao County Yongying led by Lin Zhe officially began. xh118