It was a gloomy morning, the sky was cloudy, and I didn't know when it would rain. In Yuanjiang Prefecture in central Yunnan, on the battlefield of the Xianghuai Army and the Taiping Army. One yellow and one green, distinct. If you look down from the top of a certain high mountain, you can see that the two sides of the battle line are like two huge yellow and green beasts, and the dense soldiers are moving on the earth, like countless ants and insects wriggling on the vast land. Shredded light flickered between the scales of the behemoth, the chill of swords, guns, bayonets, and cannons.

Shi Dakai has completely withdrawn from Guizhou, the strength of the Southwest Taiping Army in its heyday covered most of Yunnan and Guizhou, and the troops penetrated into Guangxi and Sichuan, and several years have passed, the strength of the Xianghuai Army has been increasing, and batches of Taiping troops with foreign guns and foreign artillery have continued to retreat.

The terrain in the southwest is complex, and the movement of guns, especially artillery, remains unchanged. If it is in the plain area, the Xianghuai army has already leveled Shida's opening department.

Yang Wuba in Yuanjiang Prefecture, since the defeat of the Taiping Army in the First Battle of Tonghai Lake, Shi Dakai can no longer stay on the front line of Qujiang to block the enemy. Hexi, Tonghai and other places fell into the hands of Liu Mingchuan, and the Taiping army retreated to the Yuanjiang River and arranged defensive positions in Yangwuba again.

Liu Mingchuan and Zhang Shusheng's headquarters were located on an unnamed hill. Ahead of this is a relatively open area, which will be the first battlefield in the Battle of Yangwuba.

The main force of the Qing army was 20,000 Huai troops, and the army led by Liu Kunyi and Feng Zicai behind them was still in Xinping.

Looking at the other party from the high ground where Liu Mingchuan was, the movement of the Taiping army loomed, and the clouds and mist obscured people's vision. But the layout of the Taiping Army's position, Liu Mingchuan and Zhang Shusheng still saw it clearly.

On the left flank of the Taiping Army, the right army commanded by Tang Diankui, the general of the Ming Army, was the main attack. Tang Diankui had eight infantry battalions, two horse battalions and one artillery battalion, totaling more than 7,000 troops. More than half of the infantry was armed with Martini rifles and Snyder rifles [Imperial].

On one side of the right army is Luo Guozhong's Zhongzi 2nd Battalion and Rongzi 2nd Battalion, and in the rear is Zhang Guifang's Guizi 3rd Battalion. Luo Guozhong's four battalions would attack with all their might while the right army launched a fierce attack to contain the Taiping army in front of them. Zhang Guifang's ministry is just in case.

The artillery units deployed at the front of the entire position were not just a battalion head of the Right Army, but a full forty Krupp steel guns. On the attack surface, which was less than two miles long, the Huai army erected a total of 70 cannons, and the density was quite amazing. Although there were 40 Krupp steel guns, the remaining 30 were breech guns, more than half of which were Hanyuan II guns that Liu Mingchuan bought from Liu Xian in the past two years.

On the opposite side, the artillery team of the Taiping Army had as many as 100 guns. But there are very few breech guns, and even the breech guns of the Han and Yuan cannons are not many, and more are old-style heavy guns and mountain-splitting guns.

However, the terrain of Yangwuba is steep, and the artillery effect is not very good, and the artillery can only be used as an auxiliary. The main force of the battle is still infantry, and this is also the main mode of the southwest battlefield since the Qing army introduced breech guns on a large scale.

Looking at the Taiping Army position opposite through the telescope, the corners of Liu Mingchuan's mouth showed a subtle smile. The cannons of the Taiping army were picked up from east to west, and they looked quite spectacular. However, the actual combat effectiveness is really vulnerable. The war has been fought so far, and the war potential of the bandits is really about to be exhausted.

At the beginning, although the guns of the Taiping army were backward, there was plenty of gunpowder. Grenades, gunpowder packs and small mountain-splitting cannons really made the Xianghuai army suffer in the southwest, where the terrain was complicated. Although the explosion rate of the artillery shells is not ideal, there are a lot of them. From the beginning of World War I to the end of the war, it was always a flowering bullet. And now, there are very few flowering shells fired by the opposing artillery. Some of the small mountain splitting cannons are mostly gravel.

The Huai army opened fire.

In the telescope, at the front of the position, fire and white smoke came out of the muzzles of the cannons, and the scorching shells streaked through the air a long trajectory if a line of fire fell from the sky.

Shells swept under the low clouds and fell in the direction of the Taipings. Then, the thunderous sound of cannon rolled across the sky, and the explosion was incessant.

Ballistic tracks visible to the naked eye filled the entire sky, and the sound of cannons was like countless thunderbolts, crushing through the air, the earth roaring, and the sky echoed.

Behind the Taiping Army front, Chen Decai silently looked at the one in front of him. This is not the first time that the Taiping army has endured such a dense artillery fire. In the Battle of Zunyi last year, the Xianghuai army used more fierce artillery fire than now to smash Shi Dakai's last counterattack. Since then, the Taiping army has been declining day by day, and it is no longer able to shake off the general trend of the entire war.

Chen Decai's ten fingers were clenched tightly, and his knuckles were white.

A Taiping soldier was beaten in two, a heavy cannon was overturned to the ground, and two wheels each jumped out more than ten meters away; A flowering bullet fell in the middle of the trench, and four or five Taiping soldiers were engulfed in smoke, and their flesh and blood were like papier-mâché, shattered into many pieces in the firelight.

After the shelling, the war drums of the Huai army were beaten, and the troops that had entered the attack formation moved forward one by one and strode forward.

The shelling was always going on, all the artillery of the Huai army roared, and white smoke covered the entire forward position. The violent shaking of the ground, the huge sound in the air, the tide poured into the command post. In the sound of cannons that shook the eardrums, Liu Mingchuan and Zhang Shusheng still seemed to be able to hear countless moans and screams.

The artillery of the Taiping army also began to counterattack. The shells of those heavy artillery pierced through the Huai army's assault infantry like sharp blades through paper, mercilessly tearing and cutting the qiē that they encountered, heads, arms, legs and feet, and even the soldiers' bodies in two, wading out of the bloody alleys in the Huai army's assault procession. It's just that the shells are too scarce, so that although the Huai army's shock queue began to scatter, some soldiers even slowly retreated. But in the end, most of the shock soldiers made it through most of the battlefield, and then they accelerated and began the final charge.

The Taiping Army's mountain-splitting artillery began to wield its might. And before countless cannons and locusts hit the Huai army, bullets also rained down on the head of the Taiping army.

Breech guns are just better than breech guns. Soldiers can also reload while running. When countless bullets hit the artillery forts on the Taiping army's position, the Taiping army's artillery fire was immediately stopped.

Most of the Taiping Army artillery teams are still old artillery, and the range of the cannon is not much stronger than that of breech guns. When the Huai soldiers rushed into the killing distance of the Taiping artillery team, the rifles in their hands could almost hit the Taiping army.

Bullets and shells alone could not defeat the Taiping army in the trenches. The Huai army must also have hand-to-hand combat. The soldiers of the Ming Army, who had been trained by Biner, were not afraid of hand-to-hand combat.

Countless green and yellow figures twisted together. The soldiers of the two armies beckoned the enemy with bayonets, rifle butts, waist knives, spears, axes, stones, etc., with a hard object that they could find.

The bayonet stabbed into the body, pierced the organs, and made a popping sound; The butt of the rifle and the axe smashed on the human body, and the crisp cracking sound of the bones was so clear. The corpses piled up quickly, blood flowing down the slope, in front of the trenches, at the bottom of the trenches, converging into blood-colored ponds and streams.

Countless severed limbs were kicked around at their feet, and every now and then a human head was kicked.

The green tide hit the Taiping army's positions one after another, endlessly. From morning to afternoon, the yellow figure became less and less, and finally completely drowned in the yellow crowd.

The first battle of Yang Wuba ended, and the battle for this position ended in the victory of the Huai army. The collapsed Taiping soldiers retreated from their positions like a flood, and the battlefield was covered with the remains of soldiers on both sides. The Taiping lost most of their heavy firepower, and out of hundreds of artillery pieces, only a few of the mountain-splitting guns were taken back by them.

Chen Decai's eyes were full of sadness. Without breech guns, without breech guns, the Taiping army concentrated most of the heavy firepower and elite at hand, but it could not even support the one-day onslaught of the Ming army. They're really at their wit's end.

Two days after the battle, Shi Dakai, who was sitting in Pu'er, ordered someone to invite William. Alfred - a visitor familiar to the upper echelons of the Taiping Army. In the past two or three years, British businessmen who have often come to the Taiping Army are in fact people who serve the British government.

"Your Royal Highness, Honored Wing King, you have made a wise decision. It will not only save your career, but also send you to an unrivaled height. "Hand over the agreement, William. Alfred had a smile on his face. Three years of hard work have finally not been in vain. When the Taiping army was declining, had been defeated, and was about to be cornered, Shi Dakai finally agreed to the conditions of the British Empire.

Shi Dakai's face was twilight. He knew what he was doing today. The conditions of the British were extremely harsh, and the treaties they signed were no better than those of the Qing Demons. But the British are really the only straw for the Taiping army now.

"From today on, the Taiping Army is no longer the original Taiping Army......"

His Royal Highness the Wing King, who controlled the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people in the Taiping Army, was stunned. From now on, he will become a dog of the British, a dog with the name of 'wild dog' but specially to make trouble for the Qing demon.

Shi Dakai certainly knew what the reasons for the British were doing this. Having been in the southwest for so many years, he knows every move of the British in Burma. Of course, more importantly, as long as you persist in the southwest for one more year, you can drag the pace of the Qing demon for a year, and you can consume a cent of China's national strength.

Shi Dakai said from the bottom of his heart that he didn't want to do this. However, the Taiping Army was really exhausted and did not accept the 'support' of the British, and he could not hold out even for this year.

The person who saved his 'fate' back then was a mysterious comer, and now the person who saved his 'fate' is an upright Englishman. R1152