Looking at the tens of thousands of Taiping troops swarming out of Suzhou City, Rao is Lin Zhe, who had already personally led Yu Sheng's army to fight many battles, couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

When he ordered: "The whole army is lined up to meet the battle!" He didn't know it, and there was a tremor in his voice.

Most of the other Yu Shengjun generals also looked suspicious, although they had expected to face many Taiping troops before arriving in Suzhou City, but only looking at the tens of thousands of enemy troops on paper and seeing tens of thousands of people rushing towards them in reality, the feeling was completely different.

Shi Langyi, Shen Chiyun, Xu Yanqing, Qu Panyun and other senior officers above the battalion and regimental level in Yu Sheng's army rode around Yu Shengjun one by one, and issued many orders loudly.

"The whole team!"

"Quick, quick, run for Lao Tzu!"

Under the orders of many high-ranking officers, many junior officers at the company level commanded their companies from a column on the march to a horizontal formation.

In the end, several large horizontal phalanxes were formed, mainly battalions.

At the same time, the artillery units in the rear also quickly unloaded the artillery under the command of the artillery officers, and some of the artillerymen led the many horses of the artillery company to the rear, while the artillerymen shouted and put the artillery in place.

Fu Linyang, who had been temporarily appointed by Lin Zhe as the commander-in-chief of the artillery, put down the binoculars, and then did not dismount, but took out a small notebook and wrote and drew with a pencil, and from time to time several artillery officers around him talked in a low voice.

Due to the haste of the incident, the artillery unit did not have time to build an artillery position, so it could only be deployed on the spot, but fortunately, there was a vast flat land outside Suzhou, and there would not be much problem in deploying it in place.

Just when these artillery officers were busy measuring Zhuyuan and preparing to carry out the artillery bombardment, Wang Luyun and Qian Niubei's cavalry troops had already moved forward!

At this time, although the two sides have already acted, the distance between them is still relatively far, and there is still a distance of about two kilometers.

Two kilometers is not far away, but it is not close, and for the large number of infantry of the Taiping Army, it will take at least ten or twenty minutes for them to rush over.

As for the cavalry of Qian Niubei and Wang Luyun, they currently need to go forward to hinder their rapid approach, and at the same time, they also need to be tested to see how powerful these Taiping troops who rushed out in chaos are!

Just when Yu Shengjun was busy up and down and hurriedly formed a team to meet the battle, on the tower of the Suzhou City Gate in the distance, a middle-aged military general about forty years old and wearing a battle robe blocked the sun with his hands, squinting at Yu Shengjun in the distance, and after half a ring, he retracted his gaze and smiled: "It seems that it is Yu Shengjun!" ”

Several military commanders next to him, the division commanders also nodded in unison, and one of them, a slightly older and about fifty-year-old military marshal, said: "It should be right to look at their banners, it is the Yu Sheng army in Huzhou before!" ”

"Looking at it this way, is it really different from other Qing Demons, the formation change is fast enough, but with just three or four thousand of them, they also want to block the pace of our forty thousand heavenly soldiers, it's ridiculous!" A military commander on the side showed a sneering tone: "And this Qing Demon Class is armed with muskets, and there is no sword and shield hand and spearman, it can be seen that they are afraid of the enemy like a tiger, and they dare not fight bloodily, so they can only shoot muskets from a distance to strengthen their courage!" ”

However, as soon as these words came out, Wu Ruxiao in front of him immediately turned around and immediately snorted coldly: "Hmph, if they are really as wimpish as you say, then more than 10,000 people in northern Zhejiang will not be damaged in their hands, and Lin Chengting will not return with hatred!" ”

Compared with the many subordinates who were full of confidence in their hands and despised Yu Shengjun extremely much, Wu Ruxiao looked at the orderly movements in the distance, and Yu Shengjun, who quickly changed from a column in a marching state to a horizontal team, began to frown.

In the face of the impact of tens of thousands of troops on his side, he was still as stable as Mount Tai, and there was no panic between the formations, just for this reason, Wu Ruxiao knew that this Yu Shengjun was worthy of his reputation.

The Taiping Army's southward march to northern Zhejiang twice last year and this year was blocked by Yu Shengjun, and each time Lin Chengting's troops were almost wiped out, which has attracted the attention of many high-level bigwigs of the Taiping Army.

Many of the high-ranking generals of the Taiping Army already regarded Yu Shengjun as the biggest obstacle to their southward and eastward advances.

As one of the inspectors of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Wu Ruxiao was already a high-level general in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, although he had not been in contact with Yu Shengjun, but he did not know much about Yu Shengjun, and knew that although the troops of the Ministry were small, they were absolutely idle.

According to Lin Chengting and other Taiping generals who fought with Yu Shengjun, Yu Shengjun Qing Demon is especially good at firearms, and his subordinates are armed with muskets and giant cannons.

When he learned that more than 10,000 elites led by Lin Chengting went south to northern Zhejiang, not only failed to capture Huzhou, but was wiped out at Baiyun Bridge in the north of Guangde, so that less than 3,000 of the 13,000 elite divisions before the battle were left, Wu Ruxiao was very surprised.

Lin Chengting is not a descendant of the upper-level bosses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, he can only be regarded as a peripheral general of the Taiping Army, and he has never even been to Tianjing in the southern Anhui region on the periphery of Tianjing, but this person's ability should not be underestimated.

Since Lin Chengting returned from northern Zhejiang last year, he changed the mode of wandering and fighting, successively won Jianping, Xuancheng, Ningguo and other cities, and completely expelled the Qing army from the area of Ningguofu, and later followed the Western Expeditionary Army to participate in the battles with the Qing army in Taipingfu, Chizhoufu, Weizhoufu and other places in southern Anhui.

By the summer and autumn of this year, the more than 10,000 people under his command had already made a name for themselves, and they all had a certain reputation within the Taiping Army, otherwise when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented the southward strategy, they would not have let Lin Chengting, an unworn military commander, go.

Although Lin Chengting's official position in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not high, and he is not like others who command, inspect and even prime minister, Wu Ruxiao knows that Lin Chengting, the military marshal, is not an ordinary military marshal, and his low official position is just because he is not a descendant of the upper echelons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, otherwise he would have been inspected a long time ago.

Lin Chengting, who was born in a side line and could raise tens of thousands of elite soldiers on his own without the support of the upper-level bosses, and was rampant in southern Anhui, was defeated under Yu Shengjun, and Wu Ruxiao had no reason to despise Lin Zhe and Yu Shengjun.

When he learned that Yu Shengjun had arrived in Wujiang and was about to arrive in Suzhou, he changed his previous practice of capturing a place, sacking it and then holding the people to continue to advance, but stopped in Suzhou for two days, preparing to see the situation before deciding on the next move.

Now sending these more than 40,000 people to fight is a temptation of his!

40,000 people, which sounds like a lot, but in fact, there are only more than 1,000 of his old troops, and these more than 1,000 people are the kind who are pressing the formation in the back and acting as the supervising team, and the 40,000 people who are really ready to charge into battle and test the reality of Yu Shengjun with their lives are ordinary people who he has been wrapped up in during this time.

These people who are wrapped up, no matter how many people die, he will not be heartbroken, and the Yu Shengjun on the opposite side wants to kill them cleanly, how many bullets and shells do they need to use, and it is cost-effective to exchange one person for one bullet.

Moreover, after these 30,000 or 40,000 cannon fodder are cleaned up, thousands of veterans who can fight can always be trained, and these veterans can be supplemented to his backbone troops at that time.

This method is the most commonly used by the rogue army to raise the army by war!

If the first 40,000 people died, the Dingkou of Suzhou Mansion would be millions, and then a few tens of thousands of strong men would be able to replenish it, and Wu Ruxiao would have no loss at all.

Wu Ruxiao sent more than 40,000 strong men who did not even have weapons to test the attack, although Wu Ruxiao did not expect anything from them, but it still brought great pressure to Yu Shengjun on the opposite side.

This pressure is psychological, when watching the tens of thousands of people rushing towards him on the opposite side, the officers of Yu Shengjun, who were extremely calm in the past, became nervous one by one, and a young lieutenant company commander took a deep breath while wiping the sweat from his forehead with his white-gloved hand.

On the one hand, the sweat was swayed by the sun overhead, and on the other hand, he was frightened by tens of thousands of people on the other side.

But despite his youth, he held fast to his accusations, and saw him riding in front and behind his infantry company, saying, "It's all loaded!" ”

"The formation is tighter, and they are all stable!"

There were also several other officers who raised their morale: "Those are just outcasts, they don't even have bows, arrows and muskets, as long as we strictly guard the formation, the victory will definitely belong to our Yu Shengjun in the end!" ”

"Since my Yu Shengjun became an army, I have moved to the three provinces of Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Anhui, and I have not tasted a hundred battles in dozens of battles, and today, I will not fail either, and Yu Shengjun is invincible!!"

At the same time, several heralds also passed on Lin Zhe's latest instructions: "The commander has an order, and all departments must strictly listen to the order, and those who violate the order will be beheaded immediately!" ”

In this situation of the enemy's heavy pressure, Yu Shengjun not only needs to be boosted in morale, but also needs to remind the officers and soldiers at all times that Yu Shengjun also has the most stringent military law, and any disobedience to the order will be punished with the simplest and only punishment: execution on the spot!

This is especially important for the officers, but there is no need to worry too much about the soldiers, who have basically developed an instinctive reaction to orders after a long period of training, and unless the troops suffer heavy casualties and the whole army collapses, these ordinary soldiers will not actually turn around and flee.

On the contrary, those officers who came from the camp academy, these officers learned all kinds of tactical skills, and did not receive brainwashing training like soldiers, so if they escaped, these officers were more likely to escape.

Just when the infantry urgently lined up and loaded the bullets in advance, Wang Luyun and Qian Niubei's cavalry had already moved forward, but in the face of a large-scale charge of tens of thousands of people, even the arrogant Wang Luyun did not have the courage to rush out directly with the cavalry, and could only carry out harassing shooting from a distance, but the effect was quite good, but once it was put on the huge base of tens of thousands, then it would be found that the harassment shooting of the cavalry troops did not set off too many waves.

When the cavalry engaged these Taiping soldiers and civilians who charged, Yu Shengjun's artillery was also urgently and completely prepared, and with Fu Linyang's words: "All of them are there, shoot with all your might!" ”

Immediately after that, the company commanders of each artillery company issued specific orders one by one: "Solid ammunition loading, 1,300 yards ahead, rapid shooting!" ”

"Grenade loading, a thousand yards ahead, rapid fire!"

"Grenade shotgun loading, 800 yards ahead, shoot with all your might!"

After nearly 30 artillery pieces rumbled, dozens of solid bullets mixed with a lot of grenades and grenades flew into the crowd of Taiping troops thousands of kilometers ahead, and the solid shells fell into the crowd, first killing several people and then touching the ground, then picking up and hitting several people, and then falling to the ground and rolling forward, wading a bloody way in the dense crowd.

The grenades fell into the crowd because the fuse was not very reliable, some fell into the crowd and did not explode, while some exploded in mid-air in advance, and some exploded after bottoming out.

There are also grenades, although they cannot be made to explode on time on the top of the enemy's head because of the unreliable fuse, but only one explosion can envelop a large area below, which is much larger than the grenade in terms of personnel damage.

Although these shells set off waves in the Taiping army of more than 40,000 people, they still could not stop the more than 40,000 people from continuing to rush towards the phalanx of Yu Shengjun.

At this time, Hunter William once again proved by his actions that he was a qualified and brave professional soldier, just as in the battle of Si'an, I saw him riding to the front of the 1st Battalion, holding his command knife high, and then shouting loudly in a slightly calm tone: "Fire!" ”

At the same time, the other officers of Yu Shengjun also shouted 'fire'!

In the next moment, since Yu Shengjun formed an army, the most intensive salvo was to shoot out!