"These demons are so weird, why do they look so similar to those foreign devils?" One of the bearded soldiers asked, puzzled.

"The outfit is a little weird, and you look at their muskets, tsk, no wonder some people say that this Qing Demon Firearm is sharp, and they look like they have a musket in their hands!"

"Hmph, what are the muskets afraid of, there are many of those demon muskets we encountered before, but it's not that we collapsed as soon as we rushed!"

After whispering a few words, the men quietly retreated, and then went to a small dense forest behind each of them to lead their horses, and then rode their horses directly to the west.

However, at this time, several cavalrymen of the Yongying Battalion of Yuyao County not far away also discovered them, and those cavalry immediately rode their horses to chase after them.

"Damn, they were discovered by the Qing Demon, don't fight with them, let's go!"

The cavalry of the Taiping Army rode their horses and galloped, and the cavalry of the Yuyao County Yongying Guards in the rear was also in hot pursuit, but because the distance between the two sides was relatively far at the beginning, it was difficult to catch up with this chase, and after chasing out a few miles, a cavalry non-commissioned officer of the Yuyao County Yongying Battalion who led the team was afraid of meeting the Taiping Army's brigade in front, so although he was unwilling, he still took the initiative to give up the pursuit and retreat back.

It didn't take long for Lin Zhe to learn about the situation!

"Looks like they already know we're coming!" Lin Zhe was not surprised by this, as the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, it was only a matter of time before his own unit was discovered by them.

At the same time that the other party found himself, the reconnaissance cavalry from the Yongying camp in Yuyao County also found most of the enemy's location!

Half an hour, after bypassing a small hill, Lin Zhe's telescope could already see Guangde City in the distance and the Taiping army outside the city.

At this time, for both sides, the battlefield situation is already quite transparent, each can see each other with the naked eye, and the next battle is very likely to be a face-to-face hard battle.

"At this time, the distance between our two sides is no more than three miles, general, I have better order the troops to eat and rest now, and restore the body!" At this time, Hunter Wilhelm fully played his role as a private military adviser and proposed to Lin Zhe in a timely manner.

Lin Zhe nodded: "It's okay, let the brothers eat and drink well, and we'll have a big fight in the afternoon!" ”

Naturally, it is impossible to cook directly in the pot when eating on the battlefield, whether it is soldiers or officers, they all take out the dry food and water they carry with them and start eating!

Even the cavalrymen who were on guard on the periphery dismounted and ate on the spot.

At this time, it was more than one o'clock in the afternoon, and the summer sun was hanging high overhead, making Lin Zhe's forehead sweat!

Another half an hour later, the Yong Battalion of Yuyao County, which had been resting for a short time, finally began to move, and they still marched in a column, and began to walk into the battlefield with steady steps!

Yuyao County Yongying moved, the Taiping army on the opposite side also moved, even if it was far away, you could hear the drums on the opposite side, a large number of Taiping soldiers began to line up, this Taiping knew at a glance that it was not a bandit and a homeless person, but a well-trained army, and the line was fast and neat.

As time passed, the officers on both sides of the team on horseback also clenched their command knives one by one, and their tension was not much less than that of the soldiers.

In the Yong Battalion in Yuyao County, only the deputy company commander and above are considered officers, the platoon commander is only a non-commissioned officer, and only the company commander and deputy company commander are officers in a company.

Except for Wang Luyun, all the other officers were trained by themselves in the camp school, and the school system of the camp school was relatively short, only one and a half months. However, although many students who have graduated from the Suiying Academy have already taken up their positions, they still need to go to the Suiying Academy to listen to classes in order to improve their tactical literacy.

The number of students in the camp school is not large, the first phase of enrollment is only more than ten people, the second and third phases of enrollment are only more than 20 people each, the fourth phase of enrollment is a little more, there are more than 30 people, but the enrollment requirements are relatively high, in addition to the physical element, age requirements, but also the cultural quality zhì requirements are extremely high, do not require you to be admitted to Xiucai but also to be able to casually talk a few words.

Because of the high level of education, the camp academy does not need to teach them cultural content, and can directly teach military knowledge.

The first three phases of graduation were assigned to various units, but except for a small number of officers who participated in the Battle of Changxing, in fact, most of the officers did not participate in the battle.

In essence, they are still scholars!

From the perspective of the officer group, it is very appropriate to say that the Yongying of Yuyao County is an army led by scholars, which is very similar to the contemporary Huai army.

When these scholars first came to the battlefield, they naturally became more nervous in their hearts.

When the marching column of the Yongying in Yuyao County was already about a kilometer away from the enemy, with Lin Zhe's order, the companies under the first step corps in front also began to change from columns to horizontal formations.

Subsequently, the soldiers of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, also under the command of the officers, began to form two rows in a company unit.

When the infantry changed formations, the artillery in the rear was even busier, driving the horses to pull the only six twelve-pounder guns down in front of the formation, and then unloading the guns, the auxiliary artillerymen pulled the horses to the rear, while the gunners began to prepare for the bombardment in a hurry.

At this time, the formation of the two sides has basically been rectified, and then there is no scolding in front of the battle in the romance novel, and there is no ** general who rushed up to fight it alone, with Lin Zhe's order, the artillery company of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County did not hesitate to open fire.

The solid shells flew across the battlefield and then landed on the dense Taiping array, and although only one live shell accurately fell into a phalanx of the Taiping army in the first round of shelling, the only shell was through almost the entire Taiping army's ranks.

Wherever the shells passed, there was almost a bloody path, and the Taiping soldiers who were hit by the shells were either short legs or severed hands, and there were almost no complete human appearances.

As the artillery began to bombard, the Taiping army on the opposite side also launched two small cannons, but they did not fire, it was obvious that they also knew that their artillery range was not enough, and they could not hit the soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, which were thousands of kilometers away.

In the rumbling of artillery, the military band of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County also beat the drum, and the soldiers began to step on the drum!

Looking at the tactics carried out by the Yong in Yuyao County now, in fact, it is completely a copy of the British army made by Hunter William, and the tactics of the Yong Battalion in Yuyao County have not changed much because of the large-scale equipping of the Mini Infantry gun.

The Taiping army on the opposite side also reflected at this time, but it was not their infantry that was the first to fight, but cavalry, to be precise, archers or musketeers.

I saw a group of cavalry of about 200 people galloping from the left flank, and when they rushed over, Shi Langyi, who was commanding the troops in front, was still a little nervous, because he was afraid that these cavalry would directly attack his flank!

Immediately, the soldiers stopped advancing, and then quickly ordered the three companies on the left flank to change their formation into a hollow phalanx.

Only this time the battle seemed to be a repeat of the Battle of Changxing, when the cavalry of the Taiping Army reached about five hundred yards, and before they even launched a charge, the soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County had already begun to fire a salvo under the command of individual officers.

With a bang, a burst of white mist floated in front of the soldiers of the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County, and the cavalry of the Taiping Army five hundred yards away had already been hit by several people.

However, although it caused a small commotion among these Taiping cavalry, their attack did not stop, but continued to move forward!

So, the soldiers of the first regiment repeated the shooting under the command of the officers, reloading this action, and after hitting out one volley after another, when the Taiping cavalry on the opposite side found that they could not shoot at all, the distance from which they could shoot and shoot the bow.

When the comrades-in-arms around him fell one after another, especially when one of the leading brigade commanders was also hit by a bullet and fell off his horse, these cavalrymen of the Taiping Army turned around and ran backwards as when they came.

Looking at this scene, Shi Langyi, who was commanding the battle in front, breathed a sigh of relief, aren't these cavalry as terrifying as he imagined!

As the drums beat again, the soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Regiments continued to march forward!

In the Taiping army formation opposite, several generals of the Taiping army saw that their cavalry had been repulsed without even advancing at a distance of three hundred meters, and when there were at least forty or fifty dead and wounded, their faces turned dark, and Dong Yanghong on the side sighed even more.

As early as before the war, he stopped and said that he should not let the cavalry play mounted archery, because he had already played it once when he was in Changxing, and the result was a fiasco!

Now, as he expected, even if there are more than 200 cavalry on his side, they still can't break through the enemy's bullet interception, and if they insist on continuing to rush, it is estimated that most of them will be killed or injured if they can rush to the front of others.

The only way to win now is to rush up in one go, forcing the Qing demon on the opposite side to play hand-to-hand combat with himself, as long as he can rush up, then he can still win today.

If he couldn't rush up, then Dong Yanghong could already imagine waiting for his own soldiers to be shot one by one by the Qing Demon on the opposite side.

As the distance between the two sides got closer and closer, eight hundred meters, then six hundred meters, then five hundred meters, and then four hundred meters, at this time, the drumbeat of Yongying in Yuyao County suddenly stopped.

The officers on horseback began to wander in front of the formation, shouting one by one: "Ready! ”

At this time, Dong Yanghong already felt very bad, but he remembered that when he was in Changxing before, these Qing demons started firing at this distance.

Immediately, he hurriedly said: "It's now, you have to rush up quickly, otherwise you will be a target for others!" ”

As soon as his words fell, Shi Langyi, the commander of the first regiment in the Yongying camp in Yuyao County opposite, waved the saber in his hand: "Fire!" ”

The sound of crackling sounded in unison, and the two infantry regiments, up to more than a thousand muskets, opened fire in unison, and the sound caused was even more violent than the fire of the artillery just now.

As the gunshots rang out, the Taiping soldiers lined up in a dense formation on the opposite side fell down in large numbers, at this distance, although the accuracy of the Minnie Bu's gun was not too high, but there was no need to aim at so many enemies, just hit the crowd directly.

Coupled with the salvo of more than 1,000 Minnie rifles, a barrage was formed, and the combined hit rate was quite impressive.

Seeing his soldiers fall, the Taiping Army generals on the opposite side finally knew that something was wrong, Dong Yanghong was right before, and the Qing Demon Firearms on the opposite side were really sharp.

But what about sharpness, as long as your own troops rush up, maybe you don't have to rush to their front, and these Qing demons on the opposite side will have to collapse!

So immediately gave a decisive order: the whole army charged!

In an instant, those Taiping soldiers were shouting and screaming and rushed directly towards the Yongying military formation in Yuyao County on the opposite side.

Seeing the enemy rushing over, Shi Langyi took a deep breath, it was not the first time he had faced the enemy's charge, when he was in Changxing, a company under his command was facing the enemy's charge of at least three hundred people.

But today it is not just a few hundred people who are charging at him, but thousands!

More than a thousand people rushed towards him, and the momentum was enough to make Shi Langyi feel like his heart was about to jump out.