More than 40,000 Taiping troops shouted various slogans and rushed towards Yu Shengjun's phalanx with swords, spears, hoes, and even wooden sticks, and the dense sea of people rushed like a tidal wave.

The infantry phalanx of Yu Shengjun in front of this tens of thousands of troops, like a low embankment, would be overwhelmed by this huge crowd at any time.

At this time, in Yu Shengjun's wide and thin horizontal phalanx, many infantry officers on horseback also issued their combat orders in time:

"Fire!"

"Shoot with all your might!"

As the infantry officers at all levels of Yu Shengjun's infantry officers gave orders one after another, the soldiers in the horizontal phalanx of several infantry battalions pulled the triggers one after another, and with a huge recoil force from the rifles in their hands, a conical bullet shot out of the barrel, jumping out of the muzzle and slashing into the sky.

After drawing a subtle arc in mid-air that could not be seen by the naked eye, thousands of bullets fell into the tide of Taiping soldiers more than 300 meters away.

In the crisp and dense gunfire, the tide of the Taiping army rushing towards the opposite side seemed to stop, and I saw that the wave at the front suddenly disappeared.

Then, more than 20 artillery pieces of artillery units that had completed emergency reloading of scattered shells also fired scattered shells one after another, and the close-range scattered shell killing effect of more than 20 guns was more terrifying than the salvo of rifles.

Every time a scatter shot was fired, almost a large number of Taiping soldiers on the opposite side had to fall.

The Taiping soldiers in the back row were originally just blindly following the soldiers in front of them to run forward, but in the next moment, they found that the Taiping soldiers in front of them fell almost at the same time.

As if harvested by the sickle of death, the Taiping soldiers in the front row fell down one after another, and the Taiping soldiers who were directly beaten were okay but many of the Taiping soldiers who were injured but not dead all let out a terrible wail at the same time.

At that moment, perhaps because of the confusion of the unknown, perhaps because of the fear of death, perhaps the first impulse and the flame of passion has been extinguished.

They all stopped in unison, even if the Taiping troops in the rear who didn't know the situation were still pushing, even if they were pushed to stumble and fall, they still couldn't step over the corpses of the fallen soldiers in the front row.

At this moment, the wave set off by tens of thousands of Taiping troops seemed to disappear in front of Yu Shengjun's three hundred meters, and no matter how many people rushed up, they couldn't cross the death line.

As the Yu Shengjun soldiers in front fired another volley, thousands of bullets came over and knocked down hundreds of Taiping soldiers in the front row, and the Taiping army seemed to have a wave again.

Only this time, instead of continuing to rush forward as before, they didn't know who started first, so they directly threw down the swords and guns in their hands, cried and turned around and ran.

Many people are still shouting: "Defeated, run away!" ”

When the thousands of people in the front row turned around and fled, although the Taiping soldiers in the rear didn't know what was happening in front of them, they saw that the people in front of them all turned around and ran, and they all shouted words like "defeated" and "run away", their faces also began to panic, but they joined the ranks of turning and fleeing.

It fled frantically backwards even faster than they had rushed before.

Looking at the more than 40,000 Taiping troops who were rushing to escape, Lin Zhe finally breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and his left hand, which had been holding on to the reins of the war horse, was also slowly released.

Not only him, but the other officers and soldiers of Yu Shengjun were also relieved, when the Taiping army rushed over before, it brought them great psychological pressure, if this really made these more than 40,000 people rush over, even if Yu Shengjun can fight again, but I am afraid that the situation is not optimistic, and in the end, even if it wins the victory, it is estimated that it will suffer a lot of casualties.

Now that the Taiping army has taken the initiative to retreat, this undoubtedly makes these people breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, it also gives them a new understanding of these Taiping troops, and this new understanding is that although there are many Taiping soldiers on the other side, they are very weak, really weak!

I think that when Yu Shengjun and Lin Chengting's troops fought, although Lin Chengting's troops were finally defeated by Yu Shengjun every time, Lin Chengting's soldiers' fighting will is not comparable to these people, they dare to directly rush up against Yu Shengjun's firepower to play hand-to-hand combat, especially Lin Chengting's cavalry, although they are still in a very primitive era in terms of organization and tactics, but their fighting will is not weak, Dong Yanghong dares to lead the cavalry to attack the rear of Yu Shengjun, Even launched a face-to-face charge with the cavalry of Yu Shengjun's fierce men.

However, there were tens of thousands of people in front of them, but their will to fight was quite weak, and they would quickly collapse after being hit by heavy fire, especially the subsequent burst of fierce artillery shots directly destroyed their morale.

Judging from the battle just now, in fact, the casualties caused by the artillery of the Yu Sheng Army were more than the two long-range salvos of the infantry phalanx.

Because the infantry phalanx, in order to fire as many salvos as possible, fired the first salvo at about 380 meters, and the hit rate of this salvo was quite low, and more than 3,000 rifles hit only two or three hundred people at most.

The effect of the second salvo was better, because the Taiping army was closer, and the accuracy and power of the hit were much improved, so this salvo caused about three or four hundred casualties among the Taiping army.

The sum of the two is only about 600 people, and the casualties of 600 people are nothing to an army of more than 40,000 people, which is far inferior to the continuous fire of artillery.

Although the results of the previous long-range artillery bombardment were mediocre, due to the slow rate of fire of long-range fire, and the fact that the artillery did not attack a single point at the same time, it was difficult to shake the army of tens of thousands of people with only a few dozen shells.

When the artillery really made a big splash when the Taiping army rushed into a distance of 400 yards, the artillery troops began to rapidly load and fire shotshots, the rate of fire can reach four rounds per minute, and the lethality of the shotshots is huge, a shell goes down to the opposite side has to fall a piece, more than 20 artillery guns fire shots with all their might, the Taiping army on the opposite side can not hold even elite troops, not to mention that the opposite side is just a group of temporary strong men.

After seeing the horror of artillery firing scattered bullets at an average rate of four rounds per minute, Lin Zhe finally understood why some people said that artillery is the god of war, artillery can not only fire solid bullets and grenades from a long distance to destroy the enemy's phalanx, but also its close-range lethality is extremely terrifying.

And on the head of Suzhou City in the distance, Wu Ruxiao looked at his own soldiers who retreated like a tide and did not feel much surprise, today's battle is just a temptation, it is naturally the best to be able to win, but defeat is also a normal situation, if tens of thousands of strong men who do not even have regular cold weapons can defeat Yu Shengjun, then Lin Chengting will not return from northern Zhejiang.

It's just that this defeat is too fast, although there is half an hour before and after, but in fact, the time of engagement is only a few minutes, most of the time the Taiping army is on the way to rush over, and Yu Shengjun is changing formations and preparations.

"Sure enough, as rumored, the firearms of this Yu Shengjun Qing Demon are very sharp!" A military commander next to Wu Ruxiao couldn't help but gasp after seeing the terrifying scene of Yu Shengjun's musket and artillery salvos!

"Yu Yingqing's demon firearms are so sharp, I'm afraid that Fang Cai's temptation is one hundred and eighty steps and he can't rush through!" And another man said so.

"Not to mention one hundred and eighty steps, I think I have suffered heavy casualties before I can even rush to two hundred steps, and I think I lost at least two or three thousand people in the battle just now!"

However, some people shook their heads and said: "I think the loss is more than this, you see that it has just retreated now, and those Qing Demon artillery are still fighting, and do you see them?" They're going to chase and cover up! ”

Although the Taiping army has retreated, the battle will not end there, and the Taiping army's artillery continues to fire, from the scattered bullets just now to solid bullets or grenades.

However, after firing a third volley, the infantry phalanx was already marching to the beat of the marching band's drums under the orders of the officers.

For the sake of prudence, Lin Zhe did not order the whole army to charge, because for the Yu Shengjun who fought in the line, the formation was a qiē, unless it was the final hand-to-hand combat stage of launching a bayonet charge, otherwise it was necessary to maintain a complete formation at all times, whether it was a marching state or a combat state.

Now it was a pursuit, and the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun were much better than those hungry Taiping soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles, and after a sharp run, the distance was shortened, and the officers on the front line would order to regroup, then shoot, and then continue the pursuit after reloading.

Although the Taiping army ran very fast, but limited by physical fitness, they absolutely could not have used the speed of 100 meters to cross two kilometers and then enter the city, in fact, in addition to the first turn to run very fast, the later escape can basically only be a trot, Rao is like this, there are many people out of breath, unable to run.

However, Yu Shengjun benefited from the excellent physical fitness of the soldiers, and although they would stop to shoot and reload from time to time, they still chased after them steadily, and continued to inflict casualties on these fleeing Taiping troops.

The infantry pursued in the rear, and the two cavalry companies of Wang Luyun and Qian Niubei in front were not idle, although the two cavalry companies suffered a lot of losses in the battle of Baiyun Bridge, but Yu Shengjun captured more than 200 excellent war horses, and then urgently selected soldiers who could ride horses from Yu Shengjun to be transferred to cavalry.

Although dozens of cavalry were left in Huzhou, these two cavalry companies still maintained their previous full strength, but the combat effectiveness of dozens of newly supplemented cavalry was very reluctant, and at best they could only be said to be mounted infantry.

But with Wang Luyun, a fierce general who dared to take fifty horsemen to the enemy's eight hundred horsemen and three in and out, they still fearlessly rushed to these fleeing Taiping soldiers from the flank.

This time, they did not shoot far away from the fire with their guns, but directly brandished their sabers and rushed towards the more than 40,000 routs!

Four hundred horsemen charged 40,000 enemy troops, even though they had all collapsed, without any organization or courage to resist. But even so, 400 to 40,000 is still a desperate number, let alone 40,000 enemies, even if 40,000 pigs stretch their necks and let you cut them, you will have to cut them for most of the day!

Only this madman like Wang Luyun dares to do such a crazy thing, even if it is Qian Niubei, a bandit who has always called himself brave, he can only scold Wang Luyun in his heart, a bastard and a madman. Then he had to take his first cavalry company to keep up with the pace of the second cavalry company, he was not worried that Wang Luyun would be killed by the enemy, he was afraid that Wang Luyun would be exhausted to death!

Wang Luyun was the same as every time he led the charge in the past, as if he had taken medicine, his face was full of excitement, shouting "kill" and rushing to the front, and behind him were more than 400 knights of the victorious army, like a sharp sword, inserted into the 40,000 defeated troops of the Taiping army.

PS: I recommend a few books "The Richest Man in the Country", "Portable Browser in the Other World", and "The Strong Man Who Came Out of the Movie World", all of which are works by powerful authors, and students who like them can go and watch them!