Shi Langyi felt as if he had returned to the time when he was on the Changxing City Wall, facing the enemy who was rushing towards him under the black pressure, the shouts and screams of the enemy in front, the rumbling sound of his own artillery firing in the rear, and the shouts of the officers at all levels around him commanding the battle seemed to have all disappeared.

Now in his eyes, all he thinks about is the enemies in front of him who are rushing towards him!

At this time, the two sides were only a few hundred meters apart, and they were already completely in formation, and the next thing was actually very simple, the soldiers of the Yong Battalion in Yuyao County only needed to keep loading and firing under the command of officers at all levels, and the cycle continued until the enemy army was defeated.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, your side is not enough to block the enemy's charge, and finally the enemy rushes up and then engage in hand-to-hand combat, and once the hand-to-hand combat occurs, it is difficult to say who will win and who will lose.

Time on the battlefield seems to pass very slowly, Lin Zhe in the rear is holding a monocular and observing the battlefield, thousands of meters away his soldiers are carrying out simple and primitive actions under the command of officers at all levels, they shoot, reload and repeat, but in the face of the large-scale charge of many enemies, Lin Zhe can already see that quite a lot of soldiers are very stiff in their loading movements, and many people have begun to make mistakes.

Among them, the recruits of the 2nd Infantry Regiment were especially serious, many of them were already pale, their legs and feet were shaking, and a few of them even wanted to turn around and run away, but as soon as they turned around, they were rushed up and cut down by the cavalry of the pro-guard team who supervised the battle.

Lin Zhe's personal guard team has also expanded in the expansion of the army during this time, and the number of cavalry has expanded from more than 20 people to more than 50 people, and the expanded personal guard team is still captained by Wang Luyun, with three cavalry platoons under it.

The primary task is to serve as Lin Zhe's battlefield guard, flee with Lin Zhe at the critical moment, and the secondary task is to act as a reconnaissance cavalry, providing peripheral reconnaissance and vigilance for the troops, and once again have to charge on the battlefield when necessary, tear through the enemy's queue to chase and kill the fleeing enemy, and finally shoulder the role of the battlefield supervision team.

In addition to the Western-style slashing sabers with uniform equipment, they usually carry a Mini rifle so that they can dismount and fight at any time, and the baggage battalion also carries spears up to several meters long, after changing to spears, they can be transformed into hand-to-hand cavalry that can directly charge on the battlefield.

Now, this small cavalry is walking behind the first and second regiments, and they draw their sabers, but they are not aimed at the enemy, but at their own deserters, they are the superintendent of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County.

Speaking of personal combat effectiveness, in fact, Lin Zhe's pro-guard team is the best in the Yong camp in Yuyao County, and the recruits of the pro-guard team are all directly recruiting people who are skilled in equestrianism, and they do not refuse, and even welcome those skilled bandits to join the army, most of them are ruthless characters who kill people without blinking.

After the Battle of Changxing, the personal guards were responsible for cleaning the battlefield, and those cavalrymen faced the wounded soldiers of the Taiping Army who were begging for mercy and suffering at the same time, and they didn't even frown and went down with a bayonet.

When necessary, these ruthless characters can directly launch a hand-to-hand charge against the enemy under the leadership of Wang Luyun!

When dealing with their own deserters, such a personal guard naturally did not hesitate to wave the saber, often just a soldier turned to run away, but in a few seconds a knight would pass by him, and the saber would fall down with a gentle slash through a huge head, and the blood spurting out of the major arteries stained the entire sky red.

Using the most elite combat power to serve as a warlord is something that countless generals throughout the ages have loved to do.

"The commander has an order, and those who flee before the battle will be killed!"

"The commander has an order, and those who kill one enemy will be rewarded with ten taels!"

The cavalry of the Guards roamed the rear to monitor and slash the deserters at any time, while shouting various slogans in an attempt to intimidate the soldiers from fleeing and boost their morale.

Although there are some deserters now, but for thousands of troops participating in the battle, it is not much, after all, although the current Taiping army has launched a charge, but the enemy has not rushed to the front, and the soldiers do not directly feel the threat of death, so the vast majority of people are still able to reload and shoot these actions in the commanders' commands and machinery.

If you look down from the sky at this moment, you will find that on this small plain, thousands of Taiping soldiers shouted various slogans, and then rushed towards the line of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, they did not care about the comrades around them fell one after another, they just rushed forward blindly until the bullet hit them and fell to the ground.

On the other side, the two infantry regiments of the Yongying battalion in Yuyao County formed a long two-row horizontal formation, only two rows of horizontal formations looked extremely thin, and the Taiping army on the opposite side believed that as long as they rushed in front of them, then they could tear their queues apart lightly, and then cause the entire collapse of these Qing demons.

However, are these seemingly thin rows of horizontal lines so easy to get close?

The first round of salvo, the second round of salvo, the third round of Qi, when the three rounds of salvo fire, the infantry of the Yongying in Yuyao County was already covered with thick white smoke above their heads, and even the soldiers were blocked by the smoke and could not see the Taiping soldiers in the distance.

However, if they can't see it, they don't have to face their fear directly, and they can continue to mechanically reload and shoot, while the officers on horseback have much better sight.

In modern times, when the army is playing in line to shoot, why do front-line officers like to ride on horses so much, not because they like to be targets, nor for the sake of being able to escape faster when they flee, on the one hand, officers need to show courage at all times, give their company soldiers confidence, and improve morale.

In addition, it is better to ride on a horse and see better, with ** when the modern musket that fires the charge, it will be accompanied by a large amount of white smoke when it is fired, and it will be shrouded in smoke before a few rounds of formation, and if you don't fight higher, you can't observe the enemy's situation at all.

At this time, in the eyes of Xu Peng'an, the commander of the second company of the first regiment, the Taiping army in front of him was continuing to rush towards him, and now the distance was only about two hundred meters, and the road of the Taiping army's charge was already covered with corpses!

Seeing that the soldiers of his second company were still nervously loading, he was estimating the time it would take to reload on the one hand, and the distance of the Taiping army on the opposite side on the other.

The distance is closer, Xu Pengan is looking at the Taiping army getting closer and closer, and he is very anxious, when he saw his deputy company commander Lin Dabiao reminded his troops that the latest round of loading has been completed, he looked left and right, and finally waved the command knife in his hand and shouted: "Fire!" ”

As his words fell, there was another crackling sound, and his second company opened fire next to him, and it seemed that both companies were aimed at the same enemy.

At a distance of about 180 yards, there is basically no hit rate for those old-fashioned smoothbore rifles, and there is no way to rely on character, but for Mini rifles, this distance can be said to be a close-range killing distance.

The limited range of the Mini Infantry gun was about 500 yards, and considering that the Mini Infantry guns equipped by Lin Zhe were all modified from smoothbore guns, the performance was reduced, but it was not a problem to maintain it at 450 yards.

This is also the reason why the Yuyao County Yongying began to shoot on a large scale at a distance of 400 to 500 yards, because this distance was enough for the Minnie Bu' gun to mass-kill the enemy.

If you put it within 200 yards, you don't even need to aim, you just shoot!

As the gunfire of the second and third companies rang out, a large number of Taiping troops on the opposite side fell in an instant, and almost all the soldiers in the front row of the Taiping army who rushed towards the second and third companies were hit, and then all fell to the ground, and this round of volleys killed and wounded at least seventy or eighty Taiping soldiers.

Almost let the charging Taiping army have a vacancy in the front due to widespread casualties!

"Li Shuai, you can't rush anymore, if you rush again, the brothers will all have to ......" Dong Yanghong looked at the front of his troops and fell again, and said to the middle-aged coach beside him with red eyes.

That Li Shuai was also pale at this time, and his clenched fists were angry, and he interrupted Dong Yanghong's words without hesitation: "Retreat now?" Can I still get a refund? At least 30% of the dead and wounded have been killed and injured so far, if you return it now, can you return it? ”

"Now the only way for us to win is to rush through, just rush through! As long as you can rush through! When Li Shuai said this, it seemed that he was saying it to Dong Yanghong, more like saying it to himself.

What Li Shuai said was right, rushing to the present, although the troops had not yet rushed in front of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, they had already rushed into a distance of about two hundred yards, and in order to rush here, they had already paid at least three or four hundred casualties.

Now if you turn around and retreat, let alone want to win, even in the process of turning and fleeing, the Yuyao County Yong Battalion will continue to shoot, if the commander of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion is brave enough, then it will launch a bayonet charge, and then it will be a big rout.

The only way to do this is to continue to stare at the bullets and continue to rush forward, as long as they rush up, then there is still a glimmer of hope for victory.

Although the battle was only halfway through, now Li Shuai already secretly regretted it in his heart, he knew that the firepower of those Qing demons on the opposite side was so sharp, he would definitely not rashly launch a charge of the whole army!

The Taiping army hoped to continue the charge and tried to get close to the rear to launch hand-to-hand combat, while the soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County opened fire and reloaded as always.

At this moment, the war is very simple for the soldiers of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, they only need to keep reloading and shooting, plus the large smoke in front of the battle, in fact, many of the soldiers of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion are completely unaware of how far the Taiping Army on the opposite side is from them and what the situation is.

The Taiping army continued to charge at the risk of death, although the number of dead and wounded continued to increase, but they still continued to charge!

Lin Zhe, who was in the rear at this moment, also felt a little numb in his scalp when he looked at such a Taiping army, and it was really difficult to deal with the Taiping army that could beat the Qing army and lose its armor, and it was absolutely impossible to replace it with his own Yuyao County Yong Battalion alone.

It's closer, it's only a hundred yards or so now, and after a few more shots, maybe it's going to be a real hand-to-hand fight!

Standing beside Lin Zhe, Khan William also had a fine sweat on his forehead, in his opinion, the Taiping army on the opposite side was completely barbarians, he seemed to remember the time when he fought in Africa, and those African barbarians at that time were also so unruly and brutal.