In the Jingwu Army, Li Yongji's authority is already unambiguous, once he makes a decision, no one can stop it.

Although the whole army was ordered to attack, because the elite army is a very complex combat group, it is constantly corrected according to the modern infantry drill code, and after long-term and strict closed training, discipline and order have become a habit of theirs, which has penetrated deep into their bone marrow, so everything is done at a glance, step by step, and all actions are very precise, which is completely different from the state of swarms of other troops.

The first was the dispatch of cavalry, whose task was to drive the refugees in front of the camp and clear the way for the large army to move.

So far, in addition to the guard battalion, there are three cavalry regiments, namely the first cavalry regiment, the second cavalry regiment and the third cavalry regiment.

Cavalry regiments are different from infantry regiments, and the number of cavalry in each cavalry regiment is 1,000, usually one person with two horses, that is, 3,000 men and 6,000 horses.

For the work of expelling refugees, cavalry is the most suitable to do it.

When a group of cavalry riding tall horses rushed over, nothing else, just the momentum of thousands of horses galloping, ordinary people have nothing to be afraid of, and it would be good if they didn't pee their pants. At this time, the cavalry on the horse shouted with a loudspeaker and drove away with a leather whip, which was much easier to do, and much easier to use than a simple infantryman.

It didn't take much, just a regiment of the 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1,000 people, and it took less than ten minutes to disperse the refugees at the camp gate.

And in the air where the cavalry dispersed the refugees, the brigade of the elite army had also been assembled, and then the main infantry was dispatched.

According to the order, the infantry took the company as the basic unit, lined up in a neat phalanx, walked in a uniform pace, accompanied by the rhythm of the "Hunting March" by the later musician Hisaishi, and carried a rifle with a good bayonet, and slowly walked out of the camp gate.

The first to be dispatched was the 1st Infantry Regiment, and when the 1st Regiment was all out of the camp and formed a battle formation, marching forward along the path opened up by the cavalry, the 2nd Infantry Regiment followed closely.

After the second infantry regiment was dispatched, it was the third infantry regiment, the second cavalry regiment, and the third cavalry regiment, which were all the main forces of the Jingwu Army and the main force of this battle.

As for the defense of the camp gate of the Jingwu Army, it was handed over to Li Yongji's Chinese Army Guard Unit, the Independent Artillery Battalion, and other logistics baggage troops left behind to defend.

In other words, although the 123rd Infantry Regiment and the 123rd Cavalry Regiment took the initiative to attack this time, it seemed that the whole army was dispatched, but in fact all the soldiers were dispatched, and others, such as logistics troops and sanitary troops, were left in the rear battalion.

To put it simply, the Jingwu Army is divided into two corps, a mobile attack corps and a battalion gate guard corps.

Among them, the mobile attack corps is basically a combat soldier, and the attack power is impeccable; Although most of the battalion gate guards are auxiliaries, they are basically equipped with a Sharps rifle, plus there is also a separate artillery battalion equipped with a modified version of the Napoleonic gun, and a reinforced guard battalion equipped with 56 assault rifles, 56 machine guns, grenadiers and mortars, so there is no need to worry about the defense.

Where the guard battalion is, the commander is there, which means that Li Yongji did not participate in the attack corps. The reason why this is so, in addition to security considerations, is the most important thing is to facilitate command.

As mentioned above, the elite army is different from other troops of this era, in addition to having a large number of advanced weapons, the biggest feature is that it is equipped with a large number of wireless communication devices.

In the Jingwu Army, wireless walkie-talkies have been equipped to the company, and the battalion level is also equipped with repeaters, plus Li Yongji also has wire-guided reconnaissance balloons and multi-functional wireless command devices, and other high-powered telescopes, laser rangefinders, etc., are also equipped, although in terms of command compared with the modern army in the 21st century, but in this era, it is definitely ahead of its time.

It is precisely because of this that Li Yongji'an sits in the command center and plays a greater role than going to the front line in person, and with the equipment of the elite army, as long as he does not make a big mistake, he will definitely win.

When the troops began to leave the barracks, the reconnaissance balloon was raised early, and because the weather was not very good, Li Yongji did not dare to let the reconnaissance balloon fly too high, only 80 meters, but this height was enough to overlook the whole field.

All walkie-talkies have a positioning system, that is to say, when the reconnaissance balloon is raised, Li Yongji's multi-function radar display shows the branch points of all his troops, plus the communicator, Li Yongji can easily and directly command each company, plus the angle of view is wider, wider and clearer, this battle has not yet been fought, and he has won half of it by relying on intelligence alone.

According to the reconnaissance of the reconnaissance balloon, the Taiping army was divided into three routes, that is, divided into three attack clusters, and gradually approached the camp of the Jingwu Army from three directions.

Among them, the central road has the thickest troops, and there is also Li Xiucheng's banner, which should be the main force of Li Xiucheng's Chinese army.

To this end, Li Yongji divided the attack corps into three parts, each part was equipped with an infantry regiment and a cavalry regiment, and the three divisions advanced together in a zigzag shape, aiming directly at Li Xiucheng's Chinese army.

The first regiment was in the center of the Pinzi formation and was the main attacking force, while the second and third regiments on both sides were mainly responsible for maintaining the two wings, and the cavalry was in the center.

Seeing that the Jingwu army actually gave up the camp and went out of the camp to fight, Li Xiucheng was also overjoyed, and immediately ordered his Chinese army to attack to meet the enemy.

In his opinion, his Chinese army has 50,000 people, and most of them are elite veterans, and they have captured a large number of guns and copper cannons in the previous battles, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly enhanced, and their strength should be far stronger than that of this regiment.

In addition, there are 10,000 people of Chen Kunshu and 12,000 people of Lu Shunde on the two wings, and the combat effectiveness of these two troops is also quite good.

Although Li Xiucheng did not have a radio communication system, and because the distance between him and the troops on the two wings was too far, he could not give orders to the troops on the two wings in time, but he believed very much in the command ability and battlefield sense of Chen Kunshu and Lu Shunde, and believed that in this case, as long as he moved, the two troops would inevitably follow after seeing it, and automatically attack this self-defeating elite army from the flank.

At this point, he was very confident, after all, he had not cooperated with these two men once or twice, and he trusted the abilities of these two commanders very much.

In this way, the two sides gradually approached, and judging from the high-altitude reconnaissance of the reconnaissance balloon, the attack corps of the Jingwu Army had all gathered together and had gradually entered the encirclement of the Taiping Army.

In other words, Li Xiucheng's Chinese army, Lu Shunde and Chen Kunshu's partial division have surrounded the attack corps of the Jingwu Army from three aspects. The attack corps of the Jingwu Army was the closest to Li Xiucheng's Chinese army, and the farthest from Chen Kunshu.

At this moment, the vanguard of the Jingwu Army could already see the Chinese army line of the Taiping Army, which was pressed by a row, and in terms of distance, it was about 1,200 meters.

After receiving the news, the attack corps of the elite army immediately stopped advancing and deployed on the spot, specifically, the infantry in front, the artillery in the center, and the cavalry in the rear.

Immediately afterwards, the mortar units of each regiment began to quickly deploy mortars and calculate the distance, and after three minutes, when the Taiping army approached two miles, that is, about a thousand meters, the first round of artillery salvos began.

This time, due to the emphasis on mobility, the artillery was only set up to the regiment, and the mortar platoon was no longer set up at the battalion level. That is, a regiment has only one artillery battery armed with 18 W87-mm mortars of the 81 type, and the three regiments together have only 54 mortars in total.

Although the mortar configuration at the battalion level was reduced, this time the shell belt was larger, and the rate of fire of the W87 81mm mortar mortar mortar was 30 rounds per minute.

However, because the level of the artillery of the Jingwu Army is not enough, it cannot reach the rapid fire of 30 rounds per minute, and can only achieve a rapid fire of 20 rounds per minute, and this time because the distance is too far, in order to save shells, the artillery of the Jingwu Army implements a standard fire of 10 rounds per minute.

In this way, the three regiments of the Jingwu Army, with a total of 54 guns, projected a total of 1,620 shells at Li Xiucheng's Chinese army cluster in just three minutes, at a rate of ten shells per minute!

More than 1,600 shells, separated by a thousand meters, were projected in just three minutes, and they were all modern high-explosive shells, with a large number of fragments, and the killing radius was more than 13 meters.

The concentrated fire of modern mortars is definitely not something that ordinary cold-weapon troops in this era can withstand, even Li Xiucheng's elite troops were beaten by this artillery all of a sudden, and the strikers were immediately dispersed.

However, after all, Li Xiucheng's troops were too numerous, the depth of the formation was too thick, and with Li Xiucheng personally pressing the formation in the rear, the forward collapsed, and the people behind did not know the situation.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the two armies are too far apart, and the Jingwu army is still in place and does not take the opportunity to counterattack, if the Jingwu army is chasing after the Taiping army's scattered forwards at that time, and constantly creating chaos, then at this moment, even if Li Xiucheng's troops are not completely dispersed, at least they will have to be defeated and lost.

However, although Li Xiucheng stabilized his position, it was obvious that the Taiping army was frightened by the previous artillery, so he could only stop and no longer dared to take the initiative to approach, but let his artillery units fire at this side from a distance.

Most of the artillery of the Taiping Army is an old-fashioned front-loading gun taken from the former Jiangnan battalion, and the shells are also solid shells, although in terms of range, they can barely hit 1000 meters away, but the accuracy is not at all, and the power is even more negligible.

Although the accuracy is not good, but the shells have no eyes, there is always a case, so seeing the Taiping Army open artillery, the artillery of the Jingwu Army decisively and strictly implemented the system of artillery drills, gave priority to attacking the enemy's artillery fire, adjusted the parameters in time, and fired again at the artillery positions of the Taiping Army.

Another three-minute rapid fire, this time the Jingwu Army fired more than 2,000 shells, instantly flattening all the artillery positions of the Taiping Army, and by the way, also blew up the infantry next to it.

Seeing that if they continue to be bombed like this, there is no need to wait for the engagement, and relying on this kind of artillery fire alone, the Taiping army will collapse again.

Once it collapses again, the blow to morale will be fatal, and if the elite army takes advantage of the situation to cover up, then Li Xiucheng's team will be finished, which he absolutely cannot allow.

Seeing this situation, Li Xiucheng was also ruthless, knowing that his artillery fire was not good, he immediately transferred 3,000 infantry, charged with all his strength in a large-scale straggler formation, and started a crowd charge.

Li Xiucheng wanted to take advantage of his numerical superiority and stick it up to fight hand-to-hand with the elite army to avoid this unfavorable situation of being passively bombed.

The distance of 1000 meters is not far, and it is only three or four minutes to sprint with all your strength, but generally speaking, the troops do not sprint with all their strength at this distance, because the full sprint consumes too much of the body, and after running a thousand meters, there is not much strength left to fight, so generally when it is a thousand meters, it is a slow walk, and then a full sprint is carried out after about two hundred meters.

However, at this time, Li Xiucheng couldn't take care of it, the artillery fire of the Jingwu Army was too fierce, and he couldn't just wait to be bombed, so he could only rely on his own number to charge the infantry in advance.

When the infantry charged, Li Xiucheng began to mobilize his cavalry troops again, and these 3,000 cavalry were his real elite and his real killers!

Although the infantry rushed for a thousand meters, the cavalry was still fine. Therefore, the three thousand infantry who charged were nothing more than cannon fodder, their role was to consume the enemy's artillery fire and create chaos, and his real rear hand was the cavalry.

Li Xiucheng counted on relying on the impact of the cavalry to tear open the mouth of the Jingwu army, knock out the opponent's artillery position, and make it impossible for the opponent to open the cannon safely, so that his army could take advantage of the situation and drown this strange force by numbers.

It's a pity that Li Xiucheng miscalculated the resilience and firepower density of the Jingwu Army, the Jingwu Army not only has a mortar as a big killing weapon, but his light weapons are even more terrifying.

In other words, Li Xiucheng's troops are nothing more than ancient troops with a bloody courage, while the elite army has already crossed the threshold of modern troops, and its weapons are equipped with many modern weapons, and the comparison of strength is not at all on the same order of magnitude.

When the 3,000 infantry of the Taiping Army began to roar and charge with all their might, the soldiers of the Jingwu Army just coldly put their guns down and waited for them under the orders of the non-commissioned officers.

In the process, the mortars did not stop shelling, but fired at a rate of 20 shells a minute, creating a net of death at a distance of between 1,000 and 700 meters.

When the Taiping army finally braved the artillery fire and rushed to a distance of 400 meters from the Jingwu army, a large number of riflemen of the Jingwu army opened fire.

Because the opponent's formation is very scattered, and the muskets of the Jingwu Army are all rear-loading guns, the shooting is accurate, and the rate of fire is extremely fast, so the Jingwu Army's shooting this time is free fire, in order to maximize the range of their weapon advantages, and kill the enemy to the greatest extent.

The intensive firing of the Jingwu Army immediately formed an invisible net of fire, and the soldiers of the charging Taiping Army immediately fell to the ground one by one like cutting leeks, and could no longer get close to within three hundred meters.

If it was another army, it would have been dispersed at this time, but this is Li Xiucheng's elite after all, so even if they suffered heavy casualties, they still continued to charge with casualties one after another!

Of course, it may also be that they themselves were stunned and lost their minds, so they rushed forward in the face of casualties.

It's a pity that flesh and blood can't match the steel after all, and when they finally rushed to 300 meters, the grenadiers also followed suit, and quickly exploded within 300 meters.

Moreover, at 300 meters, the accuracy of the Sharps rifle immediately increased significantly, and most of the soldiers of the elite army were accurate shooters who had been fed with bullets for a long time, so it was not difficult to shoot at a cluster target of 300 meters.

In this way, 300 meters became a veritable line of death, and the Taiping army could not break through the 300-meter line at all, and most of them were shot between 400 and 300 meters.

Even if there are some fish that slip through the net, they can't rush to 250 meters, and the best result is a small Wu Chang, where he was killed, only 248 meters away from the Jingwu Army, this is the best result of the Taiping Army's charge.

This is an incredible thing in this era, even in the troops of the Western powers, even if they are generally equipped with mini rifles, the effective firing distance is only between 100 meters and 200 meters, and the line of death is only about 50 meters.

In this way, the battle only lasted less than three minutes before it ended, and the elite infantry of the three thousand Taiping Army, after leaving more than seven hundred corpses in front of the elite army, finally completely collapsed and had to flee backwards, in terms of casualty ratio, this army can definitely be called a strong army!

But such a strong army also ended up hating, and what about the damage they caused to the elite army? Zero casualties!

Seven hundred to zero! This is no longer a battle, but a bloody massacre!

This one-sided slaughter scene shocked both sides, and the Jingwu Army had been mentally prepared for this because they had taken similar theoretical classes before, and it was the perpetrator of the violence, which was a little better, but the Taiping Army, as the bearer, was not so comfortable.

None of the front-line soldiers who saw this scene were not frightened, and their morale immediately fell to the bottom.

Although the Taiping Army is equipped with a lot of guns and artillery, in the final analysis, it is still an ancient army dominated by cold weapons, not to mention a modern army, not even a modern army.

This kind of ancient army, which was dominated by cold weapons, had a loose organizational structure, and the most important thing was morale, and once the morale was defeated, the whole army would immediately collapse, and no matter how many people there were, it would only be the merits of others.

What's more, the elite army and cavalry, once the whole army is dispersed, people will follow and kill, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

The so-called morale in the ancient army was about one blow, and if the first attack failed, the second and third times would only be even more successful. It was precisely because of this understanding that Li Xiucheng had no choice but to admit defeat, and no longer sent cavalry troops to make a fearless sacrifice for a second charge, but ordered the whole army to retreat.

It was also because the distance was far enough, the distance between the two sides was up to one kilometer, that Li Xiucheng dared to order a retreat, and if the distance between the two sides was less than two hundred meters, he would definitely not dare to give the order to retreat. Of course, if he really reached that distance, he would order the whole army to charge, and then it would be difficult to say whether he would win or lose.

All in all, the Jingwu Army and the Taiping Army finally fought, and in the first round of the battle, it ended with a comprehensive victory for the Jingwu Army!