Looking at the messy artillery position, Lin Chengting's face was full of iron, and the generals of the Taiping Army on the side looked at Lin Chengting's appearance, and they were also cautious and did not dare to make a sound.

couldn't help but be afraid, in the past, if Lin Chengting was angry, he would usually scold directly, but in the past, it was estimated that Lin Chengting would directly scold his subordinates.

But now Lin Chengting has been blackening his face and has not scolded for a long time, which makes people feel a sense of parallelism before the storm, and this kind of calm can be suffocating.

It's just that the current Lin Chengting is not brewing any storm as he and his subordinates think, and now he is still recalling the scene just now.

The more than 600 people who were deployed behind the artillery team were swept away by the autumn wind like dead leaves in late autumn under the impact of Yu Shengjun's second cavalry, and the main force of his brigade was unable to return for a long time, so he could only watch as Yu Shengjun's more than 200 cavalry rushed into the artillery position behind the military formation.

Although the rescuing infantry rushed over to reinforce in just a few minutes, a few minutes was enough for Yu Sheng's cavalry to destroy the entire artillery position.

Countless artillery pieces were slashed and killed by enemy cavalry, and many more powder kegs were deliberately ignited, resulting in a massive explosion that destroyed several nearby artillery pieces.

Fortunately, except for a few cannons close to the gunpowder pile that were blown up, most of the artillery was still intact, after all, it only took two or three minutes for Yu Shengjun's cavalry to rush in and slash, and these cavalry were actually in high-speed movement all the time, and they only used swords, so they couldn't destroy these steel-made cannons at all, and it was not easy to ignite some of the powder kegs.

However, although the artillery was not damaged, the artillery suffered heavy casualties!

There is no difference between artillery without artillery and scrap copper and rotten iron, and now that there are so many dead and wounded artillerymen, you let Lin Chengting go there to find so many qualified artillerymen?

You must know that the artillery in these years is not easy to train, even if you use a quick way to train ordinary gunners, it will take at least one or two months, as for the gun commander, it takes time and a large amount of live ammunition to accumulate, this year's artillery commander relies on experience and intuition to aim and open artillery, except for using a large number of live ammunition shooting, there is no way to take advantage of the quick success.

Now the artillerymen, including the artillery commander and many artillery officers, have suffered a large number of casualties, so that Lin Chengting has no way to find many qualified artillerymen to replace him in a short period of time.

Then, the role that this artillery team can play will decline rapidly, which is a mortal threat to the siege of the Taiping army.

Without a large number of artillery suppression, then the Yu Shengjun at the head of the city can hide on the city head unscrupulously to hunt their own soldiers, without artillery to collapse the city wall, the Taiping army can only use the traditional way to climb the city wall, and it is impossible to rush directly through the smashing gap.

Lin Chengting still didn't open his mouth to scold anything, but looked back at Huzhou City and sighed deeply.

This Huzhou city is even more difficult to bite than he imagined, he led more than 13,000 troops, if you add those strong men who were captured on the way south, the total number of people before and after exceeded 17,000.

And how many Yu Shengjun are there in the city?

There are only 1,800 people when they are full, and as for those green camps and people, they were directly ignored by Lin Chengting.

He led his army to attack an ordinary city with ten times the strength, but it took four or five days to take it down, and if he couldn't take it, he would forget it, but he still lost troops under the city.

Not to mention those strong men, no one cares how many people died, but among the more than 13,000 people he brought from southern Anhui, more than 1,000 people have been killed and wounded before and after, and more than 200 cavalry alone have been lost.

In yesterday's moat filling and today's siege, at least a thousand soldiers have been lost.

Coupled with the enemy's sneak attack on the artillery team, the two attacks of the enemy cavalry killed and wounded at least more than 300 people, most of whom were artillerymen.

All these things add up, and the 13,000 men and horses he brought have already killed and wounded more than 1,500 people, which is a very large number of casualties for his army.

Fortunately, these casualties are cumulative casualties many times, and neither the officers nor the soldiers have much intuition, and they have been killed and injured more than 10% before they know it.

Seeing Lin Chengting withdraw his gaze from the artillery position, several people on the side glanced at each other cautiously, and one of them said stubbornly: "Now that the artillery team will be afraid that it will be difficult to resume the shelling for a while and a half, marshal, do you see if we are ......?"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Lin Chengting waving his hand: "Wouldn't we not fight without artillery, I think back then, not only did we not have artillery, but we didn't even have knives and guns, but we only used hoes and sickles to beat these demons and abandon their armor." Now it's just that the artillery can't be used for a while, we still have siege vehicles, 4,000 musketeers, and more than 10,000 soldiers, can't we take a single Huzhou city in this area? ”

When Lin Chengting spoke, he showed his previous arrogance and self-confidence: "After the order, continue to attack the city, and the first hundred soldiers to climb the city will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver." The chief general of the army will be promoted to one level, and the reward will be a thousand taels of silver! ”

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Lin Chengting didn't believe it, he promised a heavy reward, and these soldiers didn't have to use their lives.

However, he stayed in the rear of the Chinese army, and he couldn't understand the mood of the Taiping soldiers in front of him who were charging forward with bullets.

Under the feet of the corpses of the Taiping soldiers and civilians who fell by filling the moat two days ago, they staggered forward and continued to run, but the comrades around them would suddenly fall to the ground, and then become a new corpse under the city of Huzhou.

Yu Shengjun's firepower was always aimed at the Taiping soldiers who rushed to the front, and when the hundreds of Taiping soldiers in the front row were fired at by Yu Shengjun's intensive fire, they almost fell one by one.

If you just see an ally get hit and fall, then nothing, you'll muster up the courage to keep rushing forward, but when you see the allies in the rows in front of you get hit and fall, and you become the soldier in the front row, then the psychological pressure is completely different.

When they rushed to a distance of about 100 meters and crossed the moat filled with sand and gravel and corpses, the fire they encountered from Yu Sheng's army became more and more intensive.

At a distance of three or four hundred meters, perhaps the Mini rifle still needs to rely on the platoon of guns to supplement the lack of accuracy, but at a distance of 100 meters, a well-trained soldier can already aim and hit the enemy.

Although the rate of fire remained at only about three rounds per minute, the accuracy of the large margin also meant that Yu Shengjun's hit rate increased greatly.

The hit rate of bullets fired per unit of time has greatly increased, which also means that the casualty rate of the Taiping army under the city has greatly increased.

Rushing to the city wall at the risk of death and injury, the first to come into contact with Yu Shengjun was not the soldiers who were holding cold weapons and carrying ladders and continuing to advance, but those musketeers.

One by one, they lined up under the city under the leadership of the Taiping army officers, and then began to load, trying to suppress the fire of the Yu Sheng army at the head of the city with their musket fire.

Seeing this situation, Shi Langyi at the head of the city immediately said: "Order, give priority to attacking the enemy musketeers!" ”

The Taiping musketeers outside the city are the first time to experience this kind of formation, carrying the enemy's bullets, and then loading and shooting, many people are already trembling hands and feet, many people look at the many corpses under their feet and begin to retch, this grinding for a long time still did not complete the first round of reloading.

At this time, Yu Shengjun at the head of the city had already aimed his guns at them, and with the orders of officers at all levels, the crackling sound was crisp and intensive, and after the gunshots, the Taiping army muskets under the city were all brushed and fell.

Seeing their comrades-in-arms fall in pieces, these Taiping soldiers became even more panicked, and some of them who had completed the loading first couldn't bear it and shot first.

Of the 2,000 musketeers, only about 1,000 of them could complete the loading and shooting, but the bullets fired by these people did not know where they had flown to.

This is related to their short training time and poor su zhì, but also to blame the guns in their hands, most of the Taiping army is equipped with captured and self-made arquebuses, and only a few hundred are purchased from foreigners to fire smoothbore guns. Those hundreds were purchased

's foreign guns are still centrally equipped with a brigade, and this brigade serves as Lin Chengting's pro-army on weekdays.

In today's war, that brigade is still in the Chinese army, and the four brigades that came to fight under the city walls are naturally still using those old shotguns.

Not only can only shoot one shot a minute, the most important thing is that the range and accuracy are too poor, more than 1,000 people shot at the city head more than 100 meters away, and the results achieved were few, this accuracy was poor enough, plus the Yu Shengjun was hiding behind the city wall to fight, only exposing a head and muzzle in the gap, unless it was directly the head, otherwise it was difficult to kill and injure the soldiers of the Yu Shengjun.

The first round of counterattack did not kill or injure a few Yu Shengjun soldiers, but by the time the Taiping officers shouted for the musketeers to reload and prepare to fire the second shot, Yu Shengjun's second salvo had already arrived.

A salvo took the lives of at least 200 of the Taiping musketeers.

Before the Taiping army could reload the second shot, Yu Shengjun's third salvo came again, and this time the hit rate was not bad, killing and wounding at least 200 Taiping musketeers.

After three rounds of salvo fire in less than a minute, the entire musket phalanx of the Taiping Army was already full of holes, with at least five or six hundred dead and wounded, and the casualty ratio exceeded 30 percent.

Even if the casualty rate is high, even if you are still being beaten, you have no way to take the enemy, and in this case, the collapse of the Taiping Army musket team is not surprising.

Being able to withstand Yu Shengjun's three rounds of volleys before collapsing can be regarded as well-trained, of course, it cannot be ruled out that they were completely stunned, and their brains were blank so they didn't run away immediately.

In this case, if it is a field battle, Shi Langyi will wave his command knife high and order the troops to launch a bayonet charge, not to mention the total annihilation of the enemy, but it is easy to defeat the enemy.

But now, seeing that the musketeers of the Taiping Army barely held out three volleys, they turned around and ran away one by one, and he didn't have the time to deal with these musketeers who turned around and fled, but instead ordered the soldiers to aim their fire at the soldiers who had already run to the foot of the city.

However, these Taiping soldiers under the city who had no shelter were exposed to the range of tens of meters of Yu Shengjun's firing range, and there was no support from long-range artillery and musket fire, so their fate had already been decided.

Although they were very tenacious, for example, some Taiping army warriors ignored the death of their comrades, with knives in their mouths, and climbed with both hands and feet, trying to climb the ladder to climb the city wall, but they often did not reach the ordinary height, and were either hit by bullets fired by Yu Shengjun's soldiers, or hit by stones, fire oil, and giant trees pushed down by the people led by Qu Shengchao at the head of the city.

There were also people standing on Gundam's siege engines, trying to hunt the defenders on the castle with muskets and bows and arrows, but they quickly fell under the guns of the remaining victorious army one by one.

A few minutes later, a Taiping general dressed as an officer was covered in blood and shouted something, but there were no more soldiers in front of him and behind him who were listening to his orders to rush forward.

At this time, he looked back, and saw that a large number of Taiping soldiers who had discarded their swords and armor were fleeing from the wolf, and when he looked down, he saw that there were corpses covering the entire ground, and these corpses on the ground were stacked and intertwined, so that people could not find an air raid that could be put down.

Looking up again, the white mist on the top of the city was filled by the continuous firing of muskets, coupled with the flashes of fire from time to time, as if it was a fairyland on earth.

He waved the knife in his hand and shouted loudly, 'Kill the demon' and continued to stagger forward, perhaps because he had tripped over the corpse, perhaps because the soil was soaked in blood and slippery, or maybe he had been hit by Yu Shengjun's bullets.

In the next moment, he fell to the ground, lying on top of countless corpses, and his knife was also inserted into one of the corpses, and the red and white blades on the hilt fluttered in the wind.

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