Chapter XXVII

Shi Langyi, who was on the front line, looked at the enemy troops who were already close to a hundred yards away, and took a deep breath, he knew that today's hand-to-hand combat was inevitable.

After another round of volleys, the Taiping army that rushed to the front fell a large number of pieces in unison, and the distance between the two sides was only a few tens of meters at this time, and a small number of Taiping archers and musketeers had already opened fire one after another, causing a small number of casualties to the Yongying camp in Yuyao County for the first time.

At this moment, the battle situation has reached the most critical and critical moment!

Shi Langyi even rode a horse and shouted in front of the battle: "All steady, all steady!" ”

The distance was closer, looking at the Taiping army who could already clearly see their expressions, Shi Langyi knew that his troops only had time to shoot one last time, and then they needed to engage in a bayonet hand-to-hand fight!

Xu Peng'an on the other side and Qu Panyun, the commander of the third company not far away, glanced at each other, and they both saw the perseverance in the other party's eyes!

Then the two of them waved their sabers together: "Fire!" ”

After the last round of salvos was fired, Xu Pengan didn't have time to see how many people had fallen from the Taiping army on the opposite side, he just spoke: "Bayonet ready!" ”

After shouting, he looked at the Taiping army on the opposite side, and the salvo just now hit almost all the bullets of the enemy army, and hundreds of enemies fell in that instant.

The huge casualties made the Taiping Army's charging array almost appear a huge blank, only a few scattered people blindly looked left and right, and at this moment there were no comrades around them!

Keep rushing? This is the common thought in the hearts of many Taiping soldiers at this moment!

However, in the next moment, as the supreme commander of the first regiment, Shi Langyi had already decisively waved the saber in his hand: "The whole regiment charges!" ”

As Shi Langyi's order was conveyed, the other officers of the first regiment also shouted in unison: "Rush, kill!" ”

The soldiers of Xu Peng'an's second company also shouted in unison with bayonets under the order, and Xu Peng'an, an officer who was only a scholar a few months ago, also brandished his saber and rushed out with his own company!

Seeing the countless Qing Demon soldiers rushing towards them with bright and dazzling bayonets, those Taiping soldiers who had experienced a rain of bullets and bullets to rush to the front collapsed for the first time.

Except for a few people who shouted and continued to rush over, most of them stagnated, and some people began to turn and run away!

"Kill!" Xu Pengan shouted, controlled the horse and jumped up, and the next moment his saber was slashed at the neck of a Taiping army, driven by the power of the war horse, it didn't even take Xu Peng'an's own strength, his saber directly cut the Taiping soldier in half.

At the same time, the soldiers of the second company also stopped their bayonets and stabbed at the Taiping soldiers who had begun to disperse on the opposite side, and the sound of the bayonets penetrating into the flesh was like the most beautiful piano music on the battlefield, which stimulated the nerves of every soldier on both sides of the war.

The bayonet stabbed and pulled back, and what came out was blood gushing out!

In the moment when the two sides met in close combat, blood spilled over almost the entire front, dyeing not only the land red, but also the entire sky.

In less than a few seconds, the Taiping soldiers on the opposite side suffered heavy casualties under the bayonet forest, and in the next moment, countless Taiping soldiers began to throw down their swords, guns and shields, and then turned around and ran in unison.

They did not collapse in front of the bullets of the Yuyao County Yongying, but collapsed in front of the bayonets of the Yuyao County Yongying, which had to be said to surprise Lin Zhe very much.

Lin Zhe, who was worried on the hill in the rear, was greatly relieved when he saw the Taiping army collapse and flee, he knew that today's battle was won, and it was not just a victory, but a big victory!

On the other hand, Li Shuai and Dong Yanghong and other Taiping Army generals on the opposite side were already facing ashes at this time, and Dong Yanghong even said: "Li Shuai, it's too late if you don't leave at this time!" ”

And a young general next to him had a hideous face: "Escape? By no means, we still have two hundred elite riders, as long as we put in it now to rush into it for a while, there may not be no chance of turning the tables! ”

Dong Yanghong said: "These two hundred elite cavalry are our last belongings, and now they absolutely cannot take risks, they still have a reserve of at least three hundred people, and their cavalry team has not been in battle, it is absolutely impossible to risk letting the cavalry fight!" ”

Although the more than 200 cavalry of the Taiping Army failed in the initial attack, they still retained the main force, so when the Yongying of Yuyao County launched a charge, they also left three companies of reserves in case the enemy's cavalry launched a flank raid.

In addition, the more than 50 cavalrymen of the personal guard who had previously been the superintendent of the war team also urgently replaced the cavalry spears on the side, carrying hollow spears more than three meters long.

As long as the enemy's cavalry strikes again, in order to prevent the opponent's cavalry from attacking the infantry that is fighting on the other side, it is best if the three infantry companies of the enemy's reserve can maneuver in place in time and intercept the enemy's cavalry, if they can't stop it, then this personal guard, which has only more than 50 men, has to act as the last shield, charging up with spears and sabers to intercept the enemy's cavalry.

The infantry in front of the Taiping army was being routed on all fronts, facing a bayonet charge of nearly 1,000 people, and the Taiping infantry, who had already suffered heavy casualties, could not stop it at all, most of them turned around and ran, while a small number of soldiers tried to resist the fight, but soon died under the bayonets.

Li Shuai in the rear watched this scene, took a deep breath and closed his eyes, and opened them again after a few seconds: "Let's go!" ”

No one knew that he had secretly made an oath in his heart just now, he would not cut Lin Zhe with a thousand knives in the future, and he Li Cong'an would never rest.

Li Cong'an took the only guards and cavalry, left behind the hundreds of soldiers who were still fighting the battlefield, and fled!

As soon as he left, the front line had already collapsed, and the Taiping army, which had only a small number of soldiers still resisting stubbornly, completely collapsed.

The ensuing battle was almost a one-sided slaughter, with even the Guards, who were the last reserves, rushing forward to slash and slash the routers.

The time of the head-to-head battle between Li Cong'an and Lin Zhe was actually very severe, and it was only a few hours if the prelude time was counted, and the time for the real fight was less than half an hour, and in just half an hour, the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County completely defeated a Taiping army of more than 1,500 people.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, after the last infantry company that chased and killed the rout returned, Bi Yutong arrived in front of Lin Zhe with a report on his face.

"My lord, this battle is a great victory, our army has killed and wounded at least 1,000 enemy soldiers in the front and back battles, captured dozens of horses, and countless swords and shields!"

For the outcome of the battle, Dalin Zhe had already predicted, the enemy had collapsed, and the subsequent battle was almost a one-sided slaughter, if the result was not big, it would be impossible, but compared to the enemy's casualty figures, he was more concerned about the casualties of his own troops.

"What about our casualties? Is it statistical? ”

Bi Yu said: "At present, each company has reported the casualty figures, and our army has killed 16 people and wounded 28 people!" In addition, according to the reports of front-line officers, these casualties occurred in hand-to-hand combat! ”

Only sixteen killed and twenty-eight wounded?

Lin Zhe's face was already unbearable ecstasy after hearing this number, originally he thought that there would be at least hundreds of casualties in the final hand-to-hand combat stage, but he didn't expect that the total number of casualties in the end was only more than forty people, which was much beyond his imagination.

The comparison between more than 40 people and more than 1,000 casualties, if you say this, I'm afraid no one will dare to believe it!

What made Lin Zhe happier than the casualty figures was that he originally thought that the hand-to-hand combat ability of his troops was very poor, but what he didn't expect was that although his troops were only trained for a few months, the army formed by using the modern training model was different, and it was far better than those feudal cold weapon armies when playing with bayonets.

After the two wars of Changxing and Guangde, Lin Zhe believes that his army has fully grown into a qualified modern army.

That night, Lin Zhe had already swaggered into Guangdezhou City, and naturally there were a large number of Yongying soldiers in Yuyao County who marched with him.

In the afternoon, when they were about to proceed, they frightened the Qing army in the city, you must know that the battle between the Yongying camp in Yuyao County and the Taiping army under Li Cong'an was just outside the field, and there were countless Qing troops and gentry watching the battle on the city wall at that station in the afternoon, and the sharp combat power of the Yongying in Yuyao County can be said to have completely subverted their impression of regimental training and the Qing army.

This Yuyao County Yong Battalion can't be described as being able to fight, but instead using the killing god to describe it, in just two quarters of an hour, it is to kill and wound at least a thousand Taiping troops, which makes them unable to believe their eyes at all.

And when there were thousands of soldiers in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County, they asked the city to open the city gate and let the army enter the city, which made the Qing army officials and gentry in the city very embarrassed, on the one hand, they were afraid that these god-like soldiers would loot after the process, but on the other hand, they

I didn't dare to refuse.

The other party is under the banner of Yuyao County's Yongying, but it doesn't look like an army belonging to the imperial court, not only does it use foreign guns, but even the military uniforms are strangely shaped, and it looks like a foreign devil.

In the end, after struggling for a long time, the officials and gentry in the city still decided to open the city gate, because they wanted to block it and couldn't stop it, if they annoyed the killing gods outside the city, if they attacked the city directly, they would never be able to stop it.

Not only that, the officials and gentry in the city were highly unified, and in a short period of time, they made up a large amount of grain, chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, fruits and vegetables and other military supplies to send to Yuyao County to sacrifice the army, in addition, they also generously sent 3,000 taels of silver, saying that it was to help the military resources.

Lin Zhe naturally wouldn't be polite, he smiled generously, he was in a good mood after winning the battle today, so he didn't embarrass the officials and gentry in the city too much, otherwise, according to his way of doing things in Changxing, it is estimated that Guangde will never give up if he extorts a thousand taels of silver.

After the process of the army was settled, Lin Zhe began to write a battle report to Huang Zonghan, and he won a big victory today, and he couldn't help himself if he didn't report the victory, but on the other hand, the results of today's battle were too amazing, and he killed and injured more than 1,000 enemy soldiers at the cost of more than 40 people, which he didn't believe in it, let alone let others believe it.

Therefore, Lin Zhe felt a little embarrassed, should he shrink the results of the battle, otherwise the superiors would think that he Lin Zhe had lied about the results!

As everyone knows, when he had already sent the battle report after the reduced results to Hangzhou in the rear, it still caused an amazement!