Lin Zhe, who blocked the main force of the Taiping Army under Lin Chengting's department, was now watching the battle very leisurely

At this time, the Yongying battalion of Yuyao County had completely set up a posture, and the two infantry regiments were blocking the front of the people and slowly advancing, using the range of the Mini musket to fire round after round.

In the rear of the infantry, there were two artillery batteries, of which the twelve-pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company continued to fire solid shells at the rate of fire of one round per minute towards the Taiping Army more than 1,000 meters away, while the small-caliber guns of the First Artillery Company were pushed into the infantry array, acting as fire support at medium and close range.

At this time, the Yongying camp of Yuyao County put on a typical and complete offensive formation, harvesting the lives of the Taiping army in the distance over and over again.

At this time, the Taiping army camped in the valley had fallen into a lot of panic, at first in order to avoid the artillery bombardment of the Yongying in Yuyao County, they began to pour out of the camp in large numbers, trying to take the initiative to launch a counterattack, but they were soon repelled by the intensive fire of the two infantry regiments of the Yongying in Yuyao County.

The Taiping soldiers who were beaten back would not stupidly stand in place and let the enemy shoot them one by one, all looking for obstacles to dodge, but because the Yuyao County Yongying came too quickly, the Taiping Army was originally in a state of opening, and before they could react, they were hit by the intensive fire of the Yuyao County Yongying, which made them quickly fall into a state of panic.

Countless Taiping generals shouted to gather their troops and take refuge with a cover that could be used.

This kind of scene made Lin Zhe in the rear seem to his troops as if they were slaughtering a group of unarmed civilians, and the other party had no power to resist at all.

However, what made Lin Zhe a little puzzled was that the battle had been going on for half an hour, but what about the cavalry unit on the other side?

Lin Zhe's doubts did not last long, and soon a cavalry of the personal guard team hurriedly ran to the rear, only to see him gallop to Lin Zhe and the others, and he didn't have time to catch his breath and hurriedly said: "A large number of enemy horsemen have been found in the northwest!" ”

"Is it yesterday's cavalry?" Although Lin Zhe had already guessed, he still asked.

"The enemy cavalry is about eight hundred, and the banner is 'Dong', and it is about a quarter of an hour away from us!" The detective did not directly answer Lin Zhe's question, because he himself could not be sure, so he could only truthfully tell the information he knew.

"The number and the flag are right, it should be the enemy cavalry from yesterday, I said where they went!" Lin Zhe seemed to be saying to the people around him, as if he was talking to himself.

At this moment, Hunter William, who was also the interpreter beside Guò, got the words of the detective, and immediately said with a cautious expression: "General, we need to take precautions immediately!" ”

Without being reminded by Hunter William, Lin Zhe already knew that he was now encountering the biggest crisis since he led his army north.

Because he did not know that the enemy's cavalry was not in the camp, the tactics formulated were quite simple, that is, to approach the enemy camp and use firepower to suppress the enemy troops and prevent them from rushing out.

Once the morale of the enemy army falls to the bottom, the collapse of the soldiers will be logical, and then it will be the time for the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County to charge!

At that time, Lin Zhe was fully confident that he would completely defeat the enemy army with his strength of only more than 1,000 people, so as to win the victory in this battle!

Now, however, the enemy's cavalry has appeared in the northwest!

Once they are allowed to approach and attack, the current formation of the Yuyao County Yong Battalion will inevitably be chaotic, although the modern troops are strong, but it is impossible to withstand the impact of the enemy from the flank when they are fighting head-on.

"Immediately order the 2nd Infantry Regiment to make a detour to the left flank to block the enemy cavalry!" After Lin Zhe said this, he looked at Wang Luyun again: "The personal guards are ready to charge!" ”

Wang Luyun immediately said: "The ministry is ordered!" ”

At this time, Hunter William on the side also said: "General, the Second Infantry Regiment has been formed for a short time, and the preparation of the soldiers is not enough, so I will build a baggage regiment to reinforce the Second Infantry Regiment!" ”

Although the baggage regiment is used as an auxiliary force in the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, due to the small number of troops in the Yuyao County Yong Battalion, the baggage regiment has been far out of the category of auxiliary forces, and has begun to undertake some second-line combat tasks, such as escorting supplies, garrison guards, etc., so that the regular infantry of the two infantry regiments can concentrate their forces for front-line battles to the greatest extent.

In yesterday's battle of Si'an, in the face of the attack of more than 6,000 enemy troops, Lin Zhe put his baggage regiment into the frontal battlefield as infantry for the first time.

Today, the soldiers of the baggage regiment are not ordinary auxiliary troops, but serve as the reserve of the whole army after the first regiment and the second infantry regiment have been deployed in succession.

And now, faced with the threat of enemy cavalry, Hunter William is the builder of Yì Lin Zhe to put this reserve into the battlefield as well.

However, Lin Zhe did not plan to put the only reserve in his hand 'Baggage Regiment' into the battlefield now, what is a reserve, it is used to prevent accidents, and it must not be used until the last moment, otherwise there will be temporary changes again, and Lin Zhe, who does not have a second reserve at hand, will be in a dangerous situation.

As Lin Zhe's order was conveyed, the 2nd Infantry Regiment, which was engaged with the enemy in front, began to temporarily retreat, and then regrouped and moved forward to the right, and the soldiers trotted out, ready to begin to form a horizontal formation facing northwest.

With the departure of the 2nd Infantry Regiment, the pressure on the 1st Infantry Corps increased greatly, and in order to relieve the pressure on the 1st Infantry Corps, the artillery company of the 1st Artillery Company once again ventured forward and prepared to go forward to give the 1st Corps more powerful fire support!

The infantry of the Yongying battalion in Yuyao County was transferred a regiment, and this situation was immediately known to the generals of the Taiping Army on the opposite side, and when Lin Chengting saw that the Qing Demon on the opposite side had transferred a large number of troops to the right flank, he knew that Dong Yanghong was finally here!

"Let the artillery brothers hurry up and prepare, and when the cavalry hits their right flank, we will immediately charge!" Lin Chengting knew that the situation was already very critical now.

Don't look at the current strength far more than the Qing demon on the opposite side, but after these two days of fighting, Lin Chengting already knows that his many forces have not brought much strategic advantage to himself, and even tactical advantage has not brought much, and the two battles from yesterday to the present can be said to have been unilaterally attacked by his own side, and his own soldiers have not even had a chance to get close to the enemy, let alone cause casualties to the enemy.

This kind of situation where they are beaten by themselves, but they can't hit the enemy, even if their own casualties are not much, but the blow to morale is fatal, once the morale is reduced, then the soldiers will be afraid of the enemy and even turn around and flee.

Once the troops appear to be fearful of the enemy on a large scale or even flee, the forces that have always appeared to be large will collapse.

Just now, his own troops were quickly approached and attacked by the Yongying camp of Yuyao County, it can be said that this situation occurred, Lin Chengting had more than 5,000 troops under his command, but he was blocked in the camp and couldn't get out.

Because once they go out, they will be hit by the enemy's fierce firepower, although these soldiers of the Taiping army are taller than the Su zhì of the Qing army, but in the final analysis, they are just a feudal cold weapon army, but there is no way to continue to charge with the same casualties as those modern troops.

There were many dead and wounded in front of them, and the soldiers refused to continue to rush forward even if they said anything.

But if you continue to hide in the camp, the consequences are not good, people's artillery has been firing, every round of shelling will bring a lot of casualties to the Taiping army, although these casualties are nothing in the whole army, but the blow to the morale of the army is quite large.

Some people may wonder why they didn't retreat from the rear and just run away!

Those who dare to say this have never experienced war, and it is far more difficult to turn around and leave in such a fierce battle than it is to directly attack and defeat the enemy army head-on.

Once Lin Chengting gave the order to retreat, he promised that it would not take a quarter of an hour to retreat, and the difference between retreat and retreat was a world of difference.

In the original battle of Guangde, how was Li Cong'an defeated, when he launched an attack on the Yongying camp in Yuyao County at the beginning, although the casualties were also large, he still maintained the most basic organization, but later after the Yuyao County Yongying launched a bayonet charge and collapsed, it caused the rout of the whole line, and most of the casualties of the Taiping army of more than 1,000 people were led by the pursuit after the rout.

Lin Chengting is a battle-hardened general, and he knows that no matter how much pressure he has at this moment, he can't retreat, because once he takes the initiative to retreat, and then it is very easy to completely collapse under the pursuit of the enemy, then his thousands of troops will be over.

So he chose to resist hard, even if he suffered continuous casualties, even if the morale of the army plummeted, but he still forced the troops to continue to resist hard, and he had to wait until Dong Yanghong's cavalry came back.

And now that he saw that the Yongying Battalion in Yuyao County had drawn a large number of troops to move to the right, he knew that Dong Yanghong was coming!

If Dong Yanghong's cavalry can break through the enemy's blockage, he will be able to launch a counterattack at that time, who dares to guarantee that it will not be him Lin Chengting who will win a complete victory?

Even if Dong Yanghong can't break through the enemy's blockade in a short time, as long as he entangles more than half of the enemy's troops, then Lin Chengting is sure to break through the enemy's interception and join Dong Yanghong's cavalry, which can be regarded as an escape.

And whether this qiē can be made depends on when Dong Yanghong's cavalry troops come, and whether they can break through the interception of the Second Infantry Regiment of Yongying in Yuyao County.

At this moment, the huge frontal battlefield could no longer attract the attention of Lin Zhe and the others, and now he had set his sights on the right flank, on the right flank, the soldiers of the Second Infantry Regiment were running forward in a slightly scattered horizontal formation, and they adjusted their formation in order to concentrate their fire on the northwest side, ready to deal with the onslaught of the enemy cavalry.

When the soldiers of the Second Infantry Regiment were maneuvering in companies, on a gentle hillside thousands of kilometers away in the northwest, many cavalry of the Taiping Army also appeared one after another, and the first thing that appeared in everyone's sight was a four-foot yellow flag, like most of the Taiping Army flags, with a triangular tip, and a big black spot on the flag: Dong!

Under the military flag, Dong Yanghong, who was wearing a suit of armor, brandished a thick-backed saber, didn't know what to drink, and rushed towards the flank of the Yongying camp in Yuyao County with the cavalry behind him like a torrent.

The rumbling horses' hooves were deafening, and even drowned out the sound of gunfire! xh118