The platoon commander of the sixth company on the city wall saw this man and immediately shouted: "Quickly cut down the ladder and release the huge wood and rolling stones!" ”

But although he shouted like this, a few strong men carrying logs next to him stood in place with panicked faces, and they didn't dare to come up.

Seeing this, he strode forward, directly picked up a stone on the head of the city, and then threw it down the ladder fiercely, nearly a hundred catties of stones rolled down the ladder, only to hear the Taiping soldier who was climbing after a scream, he fell from mid-air, not only him, but several Taiping soldiers behind him who were climbing also fell down one after another.

The same happened in several other places at the head of the city, where none of the ladders were successfully climbed up the walls, although several ladders were erected.

At this time, Shi Langyi also discovered the crisis under the city wall, and at the same time, the dozens of Taiping musketeers and archers who were shooting at them in the distance were almost dead and wounded, so he immediately ordered to transfer firepower.

With the volley of muskets firing one after another, the Taiping soldiers under the city wall often fell in pieces before they got close to the city wall.

When there was a fierce battle under the city wall, Dong Yanghong looked at it with an angry face in the distance, in his sight, his soldiers were constantly falling, it was only two quarters of an hour before and after the siege, but at least nearly 100 people had been killed and wounded, such casualties were unacceptable for Dong Yanghong.

In the battle last day, he already knew that the Qing demon in the city was not easy to gnaw, so he stopped the attack after he tried to attack, and used a night to build many shields and ladders, and at the same time took advantage of the night to transfer the main force to the south city gate, trying to fight a surprise attack here.

At the beginning of the attack, he did find that there were only less than 100 Qing demons on the south city gate, and he had nearly 400 people in his hands, so he did not hesitate to order the whole army to launch a fierce attack.

In his opinion, although the Qing Demon in Changxing City has sharp muskets, as long as his troops climb up the wall, then the victory or defeat will be clear.

His prediction was right, in fact, the Yuyao County Yongying as a standard recruit unit, has not experienced actual combat at all, which can hide in the city and shoot a row of guns, it is not bad, really let the Taiping Army those hand-to-hand combat veterans climb the wall, waiting for the Yuyao County Yongying is a fiasco.

But although Dong Yanghong had this hope, he really didn't expect that these demon firepower in Changxing County would be so sharp.

His troops began to charge from more than 400 meters, and before they could reach the bottom of the city, more than 50 people had fallen, and although the battle under the city walls lasted less than a few minutes, his musketeers and archers had already been lost, and now the soldiers who were crowded under the city walls were directly exposed to enemy fire.

This attack was lost!

Dong Yanghong sighed deeply, this Changxing is much more difficult to fight than he imagined!

Damn, there is such a difficult Qing demon out there, although I don't know how good their hand-to-hand combat ability is, but their muskets are too sharp, and they have fallen so many before they have rushed up, how can this battle be fought?

For Dong Yanghong, today's battle is even more terrifying than yesterday's, yesterday's temptation has already let him know that the muskets of these demons on the opposite side are sharp, but today he intuitively felt the sharpness of the muskets of these demons on the other side, according to their firepower, if his men and horses want to rush to the city, they will have to leave hundreds of people behind.

Now he was very angry about the current loss of troops, but as a veteran general who had fought for many years, he also knew that today's war could not be carried on no matter what, so he ordered the herald to blow the horn of withdrawal.

When Lin Zhe hurriedly arrived at the South City Gate with the second company, he was a little surprised by the scene he saw, originally he thought that the South City Gate had fallen into a predicament, maybe the enemy had already climbed to the top of the city, but after arriving at the South City Gate, he found that the battle seemed to be over, although the sixth company on the city head had a lot of casualties, but they still held the city wall.

And then look outside the city into the eyes are full of corpses, the open space outside the city, full of dead and wounded of the Taiping Army, some have died, and some are injured and made a ** sound, roughly counting, I am afraid that there are at least nearly 100 dead and wounded outside the city.

Even if he had already experienced a battle yesterday, Lin Zhe couldn't help but be shocked when he saw the dead and wounded all over the ground outside the city today.

"Xiangzhi, good fight......" Lin Zhe showed a look of approval while being horrified in his heart.

Shi Langyi hadn't recovered from the tension just now at this time.

In fact, he was even more frightened than Lin Zhe!

Like other officers in the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, he Shi Langyi was just an ordinary scholar before, although he had the scholarly ideal of fighting with a sword and leveling the world from childhood to adulthood, but when he really faced the war, he actually didn't transform his identity.

Facing the onslaught of the Taiping army, he could only command the battle according to the tactics of Professor Hunter William, ordering the soldiers to shoot and shoot again!

The knife in his hand was not stained with the blood of the enemy, and the enemy did not even approach him, but when the smoke of gunpowder on the top of the city cleared, and he looked at the dead and wounded of the Taiping army who fell to the ground outside, he realized that what he had just done was no longer a paper battle, but a real battle.

Seeing that Shi Langyi's face was a little strange, Lin Zhe took two steps again: "Xiangzhi, are you okay?" ”

At this time, Shi Langyi came back to his senses, and immediately said respectfully: "Daoxian, the department is fine!" ”

Lin Zhe understood his loss of consciousness, and it was difficult for anyone to remain calm when he went to the battlefield for the first time and killed and injured nearly a hundred people at one time.

He just walked two steps, and then patted Shi Langyi, who was two years older than him, on the shoulder: "Your sixth company fought well today, the thief army retreated, you immediately took the first credit!" ”

For this unexpected victory, Lin Zhe naturally will not be stingy with his rewards, as long as the officers under his command can continue to win battles, he will always be able to ensure that they are promoted and rich.

Hearing Lin Zhe's words, Shi Langyi's expression also became excited, who doesn't like to be promoted and make a fortune!

At this time, Hunter William also stepped forward in time, and then whispered to Lin Zhe: "General, now that the morale of the enemy army is on the verge of collapse, I suggest that we take the initiative to attack and strive to completely defeat them!" ”

Lin Zhe said cautiously after hearing this: "Take the initiative to go out of the city to fight?" Can you be sure? ”

Hunter Wilhelm said: "Now that the enemy has lost not only its troops and long-range troops, but their morale is already very low, if we are careful, we can use the range advantage of our rifles to defeat them completely!" ”

After several months of fortifications with Hunter William, Lin Zhe knew that this Hunter William was a cautious person in military affairs, and when the Taiping army first came, this Hunter William was built to defend the city passively to reduce unnecessary risks.

Now that he has taken the initiative to go out of the city, he should also think that he can defeat the Taiping army outside if he is sure to go out of the city and fight in the field.

Lin Zhe didn't speak after hearing this, but turned his head to look at the other company commanders, among them, Shi Langyi looked a little excited, probably thinking about being promoted and making a fortune after the war, while Xu Pengan, the company commander of the second company, was excited, maybe he felt that going out of the city to fight could make him a huge battle.

After being silent for a moment, Lin Zhe took a deep breath and said, "Order the whole army to go out of the city and attack the enemy army!" ”

As Lin Zhe's order was passed on, the soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County were quickly integrated under the leadership of the company commanders and platoon commanders of each company.

Only half an hour later, outside the South City Gate, the five infantry companies of the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County left the city one after another.

Hunter William played an extremely important role in the formation and training of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, and Hunter William completely trained the Yuyao County Yong Battalion as a yellow-skinned British army, so he also guided the Yuyao County Yong Battalion in all aspects of the battalion regulations and tactics very similar to the contemporary British army.

For example, many people in contemporary times think that the tactics of columns and scattered lines adopted by the French are the most advanced tactics, but the contemporary British army still stubbornly uses horizontal team tactics, which also leads to the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County under the influence of Hunter William, a former British ** officer, is also stubbornly using horizontal team tactics.

As soon as the five infantry companies that left the city left the city, they formed a horizontal formation one after another, and then advanced step by step to the beat of the drums of the military band.

Behind the infantry company were about 20 cavalrymen of the personal guard led by Lin Zhe himself.

The sound of drums and the formation of horizontal formations can easily lead people to mistake this for the army of Western countries, of course, provided that you don't look at the Manchu uniforms of these soldiers, and don't bother with the braids wrapped around their heads.

First of all, an infantry battalion in each country, whether it is a battalion of six companies, eight companies or ten companies, will have a grenadier company and a chasseur company (skirmisher company).

Ordinary line infantry companies are equipped with smoothbore guns with poor range and accuracy, while chasseur companies are equipped with rifled rifle guns with long range and accuracy, and rifled rifled rifle guns are mainly used for long-range killing.

However, this is not the case in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, because the rifled rifle guns they are equipped with are all Minian rifle guns, and the range of Minnie Bu guns is almost several times that of smoothbore rifle guns.

And this also brought about a change in infantry tactics, that is, there was no need to say that the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County had set up a chaser company at all, because in a certain sense, their six infantry companies could be regarded as chasseur companies.

In addition, due to the small scale of the Yongying in Yuyao County, the scale of the cavalry and artillery is too small, and the cavalry only has a personal guard of more than 20 people, and as for the artillery, there are only three small cannons that have not been fired so far.

It can be said that in the current Yongying camp in Yuyao County, the strength of artillery and cavalry is negligible, and the only thing that can be relied on is infantry, and this phenomenon is almost impossible for the contemporary Western army.