The officers of the Taiping army at all levels shouted all kinds of slogans and led the soldiers to run wildly one by one, they were only more than 400 meters away from the city wall at this time, and it did not take long to charge with all their might.

Listening to the earth-shattering shouts outside the city, especially the few words 'no knife for three days' scared Qu Shengchao almost didn't stop, these thieves, this is planning to slaughter the city after the city is broken!

Facing the Taiping soldiers who had already charged, Shi Langyi's face was still calm, and now he had ordered to shoot with all his might, and if there were no accidents and changes in the future, then there would be no tricks, only the morale and will of both sides.

All Yu Shengjun has to do now is keep firing until the Taiping army outside the city collapses, or until he collapses!

The sound of cannons, gunfire, and shouts continued to sound, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army quickly approached the city wall with countless friendly corpses, while the soldiers of the Yu Sheng Army numbly repeated the actions of loading, aiming, and shooting.

The soldiers of the Taiping army, driven by officers at all levels, pushed the siege equipment close to the city wall, and more soldiers had already run to the city wall with ladders, and many musketeers followed, who would shoot at the city head to provide fire cover for the siege soldiers when they reached the city wall.

At this time, three kilometers north of the city, Qian Niubei and Wang Luyun put down the single-pass telescope one after another, and Qian Niubei said: "Brother Wang, I think it's almost time now, it's time for us to appear!" ”

Wang Luyun nodded: "Yes, without further ado, let's start acting!" ”

After the two glanced at each other, and then each rode their horses and ran to their respective cavalry companies, Qian Niubei led the cavalry to the east, while Wang Luyun led his second cavalry company to step forward slowly, and finally under a sparse low wood, Wang Luyun turned over and got on his horse: "All on horse!" ”

No one in the entire cavalry company spoke, and one by one they silently turned over and got on their horses!

"Draw your sword!" Wang Luyun shouted again.

Immediately, the cavalrymen drew their sabers one by one and put them on their right shoulders!

"Slow on!"

Immediately, the cavalry began to drive the war horses under their crotch to walk, the speed of the war horses was not fast, they just walked gently, but soon they approached the edge of the low woods, at this time Wang Luyun shouted again: "Trot forward!" ”

Immediately, the two hundred war horses of the second cavalry company were already trotting with the cavalry, and the sound of the war horses running was like a drum and thunder, even if it was just a trot, but those Taiping soldiers hundreds of meters away still heard a huge sound.

As the distance got closer and closer, Wang Luyun looked at the Taiping soldiers who were already panicked, snorted coldly, and then shouted: "The whole army charges!" ”

As the words fell, he swung his saber off his right shoulder, pointing forward!

At the same time, the other cavalry officers also repeated Wang Luyun's order one by one: "Charge the whole army!" ”

The horsemen's horses began to gallop, their sabers already lowered and pointed forward, their shining sabers dazzling in the sun!

The charge of the 2nd Cavalry Company was not like that of the Taiping Army, shouting all kinds of slogans, and even they did not carry out pre-battle mobilization, telling the cavalry about what honor, duty, and other things to boost morale.

They didn't have any excited or excited expressions on the way to charge, they just urged the horses under their crotch to rush forward, and when they fought with the other soldiers of Yu Shengjun, most of them were expressionless, as if they were living dead, just silently obeying orders.

The soldiers of Yu Shengjun, whether they were infantry or cavalry, were silent when they fought, no matter what they thought in their hearts, but only on the surface, they had no excited looks, no expressions of fear, as if they were just a group of living dead people who only had their combat instincts left.

The modern army is different from the ancient army and the modern army, although most of them pay attention to responsibility or honor, but for the modern army, these things are secondary, and the most important thing is discipline and training.

Soldiers are brainwashed with training and discipline day after day, and any personal subjectivity is erased until there is an instinctive reaction to the officer's orders.

Therefore, when they fight, they just mechanically and passively obey the orders of the officers, and then carry out their own tactical actions according to the previous training.

Therefore, when Yu Shengjun was fighting, they never saw any exciting scenes, they would not shout to fight for the motherland or the people, nor would they shout to fight for Lin Zhe or his hometown, family and the like.

They fought only because the officers ordered them to fight.

The thunderous cavalry did not shout all kinds of charging slogans, but just rushed forward with their heads bored.

Even when they rushed in front of the Taiping soldiers, waving their sabers and slashing at one Taiping soldier after another, there was still no excitement or fear in the bodies of these cavalrymen, and even the blood of the enemy splashed on their faces did not move in the slightest.

Looking at these Yu Shengjun cavalry who were silent and speechless, just charging and slashing with their heads bored, a Taiping army brigade commander who commanded the Taiping soldiers to resist desperately said secretly in his heart: "Are these cavalry monsters or people?" ”

The silent 2nd Cavalry Company was like a thunderbolt in the daytime, directly tearing through the rear defense of the Taiping, and then heading straight towards the artillery position in the rear of the Taiping Army.

The position of the Taiping Army, Lin Chengting looked at the cavalry of the more than two hundred victorious troops suddenly appearing in his rear formation, and frowned.

If his guess was correct, then this cavalry was the one who left the city the day before yesterday, and it seemed that they had been waiting on the periphery for two days, waiting specifically for their own large-scale siege before attacking him.

"Go and stop them!" Lin Chengting looked at Yu Shengjun's two hundred cavalry, he didn't worry too much, although his rear formation was weak, but there were thousands of people, even if the two hundred or so Shengjun cavalry rushed in, they could be consumed in the formation.

However, it was just said that the infantry would resist, and the casualties would be too great, so Lin Chengting sent Dong Yanghong.

Although the infantry phalanx was very effective against the onslaught of the cavalry, the best way to intercept the cavalry charge was actually to send his own cavalry to counterattack.

Dong Yanghong immediately said: "The ministry is ordered!" ”

After that, he quickly galloped to the front of the cavalry of the headquarters and shouted: "Sons, follow me to kill the demons!" ”

Immediately, the cavalry of the 800 Taiping Army galloped out from the rear of the Chinese army.

The gallop of eight hundred cavalry was very large, even much greater than the charge of thousands of infantry, as soon as they moved, Wang Lu Yun behind them was discovered, and the enemy's cavalry came forward to intercept it was also expected.

Looking ahead, there are more and more Taiping soldiers gathered, although it is said that his second cavalry company is still charging, but if it continues, it is very likely to be consumed alive.

Once their cavalry loses the high-speed charge, then they will fall into a state where they can only swing their swords and slash on the spot, and then the enemy cavalry will rush again, and then they will be dead.

Calculating the time, Qian Niubei's side should be no different, and it's time for him to withdraw.

Immediately, he held his command knife high and gave another order: "Turn left and rush out!" ”

As his order was issued, the other cavalry officers of the Second Cavalry Company also repeated Wang Luyun's order loudly, and the next moment, this group of cavalry turned directly to the left, and then the soldiers of the Taiping Army rushed out in a bloody way.

Dong Yanghong, who was in the rear, saw that Wang Luyun was leaving, so he was naturally not willing to let Wang Luyun's cavalry come to kill for a while and then leave intact, and immediately led the cavalry to chase after him.

However, this time he was much smarter than the day before yesterday, and he did not drag the formation too loose in order to catch up, but in order to maintain a relatively tight formation, he ordered the cavalry in the front row to slow down several times.

chased him out at a speed that was neither fast nor slow.

However, when Dong Yanghong led the cavalry of the Taiping Army to chase Wang Luyun, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the north direction, and when he looked back, Lin Chengting saw about 200 horsemen rushing directly towards his artillery position from the north.

For a while, he was a little stunned, these cavalrymen who rushed towards his artillery position knew that they were the cavalry of Yu Shengjun.

Yu Shengjun's military uniform is quite conspicuous and distinctive in this era, not only different from other Qing and Taiping armies in China, but even different from those foreigners' armies.

Even if you can't see the specific style of the military uniform from a distance, as long as you see that they are wearing dark blue military uniforms, then you can basically conclude that they are Yu Shengjun.

Because only Yu Shengjun's military uniform is all dark blue.

"Aren't there only two hundred Qing Demon cavalry out of the city? Why did two sets come successively, which adds up to four hundred! At this moment, Lin Chengting thought of a very bad possibility: "Could it be that the main force led by Lin Zhe has arrived in Huzhou?" ”

But it's not right, the main force led by Lin Zhe personally has thousands of soldiers alone, and at the same time, Yu Shengjun also hired and recruited more than 1,000 people to carry the baggage with the army. When marching, I didn't run to places with poor mountains and bad rivers and no people, and I walked all the way on official roads.

The spies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom followed Lin Zhe all the way from the time he left Shanghai, and although it was impossible for these spies to get close to obtain detailed military information, the general situation was still known.

According to Lin Chengting's knowledge, at present, the main force led by Lin Zhe is still in the Jiaxing area, and has not yet entered the boundary of Huzhou Prefecture, and it will take at least two to three days to reach Huzhou.

It was precisely because he knew that Lin Zhe was about to arrive that Lin Chengting would launch a large-scale siege today, trying to devote most of his troops to conquer this Huzhou city at one time.

However, Lin Chengting also thought that it was possible that a large number of Lin Zhe's Chinese troops were still on the way to Huzhou, but they sent cavalry to arrive in advance.

For the northern Zhejiang and southern Jiangsu regions, basically the spies of the Taiping army and the Qing army are all over each other's control areas, and perhaps small-scale military movements cannot be known, but large-scale military movements that do not specifically cover up their tracks are often easy to be known by the opposing generals.

When Lin Chengting went south to northern Zhejiang, he was not known by Yu Shengjun early.

Through these news, combined with the second cavalry that suddenly appeared now, Lin Chengting can be said to have guessed the deployment and transfer of Yu Shengjun.

However, for now, none of this mattered, the important thing was to stop the second cavalry that rushed in. It's a pity that he sent Dong Yanghong's cavalry out to pursue the enemy cavalry just now, otherwise it would have been much easier.

Now, only the infantry and artillery themselves could resist, but after the onslaught of the enemy cavalry on the front, a large number of infantry in the rear had been moved to the west, and the main force of 3,000 was five or six hundred meters away from the artillery positions in the rear.

In the early stage, if you want to hold the artillery position, you can only rely on the hundreds of infantry and the artillery themselves who are left behind, and can they be blocked by their words alone?