The whole army formed six main brigades and four garrison brigades.

The main brigade, three basic squadrons, consists of two musket squadrons and one rattan armor hand-to-hand combat squadron. Under the condition that the original brigade structure remained unchanged, one garrison squad and one baggage squad were assigned, with a total of 500 people.

The three basic squadrons of the garrison brigade consisted of a musket squadron, a rattan armored hand-to-hand combat squadron, and a non-armored hand-to-hand combat squadron. The rest of the subordinates remain unchanged, maintaining the structure of the main brigade, but the proportion of muskets belonging to the garrison squad and the baggage squad under the direct jurisdiction of the brigade commander has dropped significantly, and even completely cold weapons.

Four of the captains of the six main brigades have been decided, naturally Qi Dalin, Zhou Jun, Xiang Fa and Zhang Zhongkui. The four of them have high qualifications and merits, and they are willing to spend effort to study new methods of warfare, and Liu Xian has no reason to kick the four of them away.

The captains of the four garrison brigades also identified one - Chen Bo.

Before the battle in Sichuan, the previous siege of Dingyuan and Xixiang, Chen Bo was outstanding, not afraid of his life, and charged all the way in hand-to-hand combat. But Chen Bo, the captain of the garrison brigade, is guaranteed, and if he wants to further become the captain of the main brigade, he needs to make persistent efforts in the following days.

Half of the ten captains were vacant, and Liu Xian was waiting for a vacant position, so it was up to everyone in the next battle.

The 5,000 troops were crossed out, and among the remaining troops, Liu Xian drew out two hand-to-hand combat squadrons in rattan armor and a musket squadron, plus a cavalry squadron, to form an artillery garrison brigade, which was under the command and dispatch of Kong Lingren. The only requirement of its mission is to ensure the safety of the artillery units.

Among the remaining people, except for the teaching team of 100 people, which is still led by Liu Zhuo, and the baggage team supervised by Fan Debang, all the remaining troops are integrated into Liu Xian's garrison brigade.

As a result, the total number of troops clearly exceeded seven thousand. But because Liu Xian was full of confidence in victory, he counted the part that came back to join the army after the war.

In fact, if it weren't for the lack of talent, Liu Xian would have taken the opportunity to get out of the gendarmerie unit. Now that his stall has just expanded, he really can't spare the manpower to do this. The garrison forces of the ministries could only be given certain gendarmerie powers.

The time for the adjustment of troops was only two days. On the third day, 30,000 or 40,000 Lan Zhou rebels and a small Taiping army appeared outside Xie Gong Town.

If Liu Xian's army had been formed by the Qing army or the Hunan army, such a large-scale adjustment would never have been made in two days. But it is now Liu Xian's army, and there is only one leader in the whole army - Liu Xianam, not the old-style troops of a big warlord with a group of small warlords, this kind of squadron-based adjustment, two days is enough.

On the third day, 500 people from the first part of Liu Xian's army and the Gucheng Righteous Battalion abandoned Xie Gong Town and retreated to the county seat.

On the fourth day of the great readjustment of the whole army, that is, on the 14th day of the first lunar month. On the bank of the Huangshui River, three miles east of Chenggu City, that is, the former site of the East Camp of the Taiping Army, on that open field, there were more than 4,000 Liu Xian's army and more than 1,000 Chenggu Volunteer Battalion, a total of 6,000 troops to meet the Lan Zhou Righteous Army on the opposite side at least five times their own and a Taiping Army of about 1,000 people.

The sky is particularly low in the cloud layer.

The dark white clouds filled the field of vision, and the sky was still gray, although the sun was still hanging. But at this time, the sun is like a poor egg who has lost the essence of light, listless, and lazily hanging in the middle of the day.

Dark clouds moved heavily, slowly across the sky.

The cold wind was unstoppable, driving straight in, mixed with a menacing whistling sound, so that the fields after the year continued to show the emptiness and roughness of winter.

From time to time, leaves and straw are blown over by the strong wind, and the big trees try their best to stand firm in the howling winter wind. Let your branches make noise and shake with the wind, and sometimes you can hear the "click" of the branches.

Huangshui Town, Huangshui River, an ordinary town, an ordinary small river. Because of the stationing of the Taiping army, they have left a mark on the books of history, and because of today's battle, this shallow mark will be much worse.

Liu Xian, who was unable to look at the overall situation of the world, did not know what important the meaning of today's war was in the eyes of Liu Rong, Chen Decai and others. He only knew that winning this battle cleanly and neatly was enough to discourage any enemy from holding on to the city.

This will be his promotion to the post of Hanzhong General Army, and another important achievement after Lianke Dingyuan and Xixiang.

The low and majestic war drums rumbled, and a leader of the rebel army in uniform rode on a tall war horse, drew his waist knife and swung it forward. The thousands of rebel soldiers who were waiting for the battle suddenly rushed forward like a flood that burst the embankment, and the shouts, war drums, and neighing of war horses mixed together and resounded in the sky.

Knowing that the heavy artillery and firearms were not as good as the Lan Zhou Righteous Army of Liu Xian's army opposite, Xie Huayao and Li Keqing used the tactics of crowd of people.

The most unsophisticated, only blindly relying on the tactics of a large number of people. Compared with the crowd tactics of the Celestial Empire Volunteers on the Korean battlefield, the word 'tactics' is completely blind. It should only be said that it is a 'sea of people'.

Looking at the rebels who were screaming and rushing up, Liu Xian pursed his lips disdainfully. Such an old method of warfare is purely seeking death when used on the banks of such a flat river where the power of firearms can be fully exerted in the face of an enemy with strong firepower. There are a full eighty light and heavy artillery pieces in front of him, even if all the rebels in front of him rush over, it is still easy to win.

Not far after the battle is the Huangshui River, which is the source of water, which can maximize the effectiveness of the artillery in Liu Xian's hands.

The generals of the rebel army on the opposite side may have only seen the harm of Liu Xian's backwater array.

"Order the artillery team to open fire when the enemy advances a hundred feet. First the Iron Bullet, then the Shotgun and the Flower Bullet. Liu Xian asked people to send an order to Kong Lingren, he was really afraid that the opponent would not be able to stand too many casualties, so he retracted his claws and ran away after shouting. So he gave the order to get closer.

As for the time when the enemy continued to advance to the front of the battle in the face of artillery fire, the shotgunners in the army were not blind in vain, and the small mountain splitting guns and mortar cannons displayed in front of the battle were not eating rice.

"Yes!" After receiving the order, the correspondent immediately rushed to the artillery team and immediately conveyed the order to Kong Lingren.

"The enemy is one hundred and fifty zhang."

"The enemy is one hundred and twenty feet."

"The enemy is full of troops, open fire." The lookout quickly reported the distance of the rebels.

"Fire!" Kong Lingren calmly gave the order, still holding up his monoculars and looking at the black pressure on the opposite side to suppress the rebel army. After many wars, he can be regarded as an old bird.

It is not enough to say that he is free on the battlefield, but it is no longer the trembling he was at the beginning.

The rebels he saw on the camera were already dead in his eyes, beside him, twenty-four light and heavy iron cannons, sixteen three-hundred-pound and two-hundred-hundred-pound heavy mountain splitting cannons, and forty artillery pieces lined up in a long line, and the barrels glowing with dark green luster exuded a dark and deep light under the illumination of the lazy sun, dignified and cold. Now that the qiē is ready, it is waiting for the righteous army to send it to the door to drink.

The muzzle of the gun was not moved in the slightest, because they had already adjusted the angle in the previous preparations. To adjust it again, you need to base the shell landing point and operate it slightly.