Qingpu is only more than ten kilometers away from Songjiang Fucheng, Yu Shengjun pulled out from Songjiang in the morning, although the army was delayed by artillery and baggage troops, and the marching speed was very slow, but at two o'clock in the afternoon, it still arrived three kilometers outside Qingpu City. [ads:This site has a new URL,Shorthand method:,.]

The forward cavalry company of Yu Shengjun's army had already arrived a kilometer away from Qingpu, and a large number of cavalry supporters were a middle-aged cavalry officer wearing a double-breasted military uniform and a major's epaulettes.

This person's name is Qian Niubei, who is about 40 years old this year, he was a Jiangyang thief in his early years, and later, like Wang Luyun, he was recruited by the Lin Mansion to become one of the Lin Mansion Guards, and married a wife and had children.

At the beginning of the year, he was one of the several bandits who followed Wang Luyun to rush into battle.

Later, Lin Zhe prepared to build Yu Shengjun, he joined the pro-guard team like several other bandits, although he was not a cavalry in the traditional sense, but he showed great courage in the battle against bandits, and after joining the pro-guard team, he served as the deputy captain of the pro-guard team and became Wang Luyun's deputy.

In order to learn those cavalry tactics, he was stunned to go to the camp school every day to listen to lectures, and even held the cavalry textbook dictated by Hunter William, and the cavalry textbook compiled by the translator asked other scholars and officers word by word, so although his tactical level did not improve much, he knew a little about the tactics of modern cavalry.

In the first battle of Si'an, more than 50 cavalry of the pro-guard team launched an almost mortal repeated charge towards 800 enemy cavalry, three in and three out greatly delayed the pace of Dongyang's red cavalry attack at the same time, the pro-guard team also suffered heavy casualties, no more than ten people survived after the battle, Wang Luyun was seriously injured in the battle, although he saved his life, but now he can only recuperate in Huzhou, and he can not recover at all without a few months of hard work.

Qian Niubei fought bravely in the First Battle of Si'an, and after Wang Luyun was injured, he became the only remaining cavalry officer in Yu Sheng's army, so Lin Zhe promoted him to major and made him the commander of the newly formed cavalry company.

Judging from Qian Niubei's military rank, it can be found that his military rank is actually the same as that of the commander of each infantry regiment, Yu Shengjun is also a company commander, but the commander of the infantry company, the commander of the artillery company, and the commander of the cavalry company are all different.

In Yu Shengjun, the commander of the infantry company is a lieutenant, and the commander of the artillery company is a captain, but the commander of the cavalry company is actually a major, and this seemingly unequal military rank setting is also related to the current actual situation of Yu Shengjun, why, because there is such a cavalry company in Yu Shengjun, and the commander of the cavalry company is actually the highest cavalry officer of Yu Shengjun, plus for Yu Shengjun, it is more difficult to form such a cavalry company than to form an artillery company.

Lin Zhe had great expectations for the cavalry company, and it was reasonable for the officers of the cavalry company to have a high military rank.

In fact, not only the cavalry officers have a high rank, but in fact, the salary of the cavalry is much higher than that of the artillery and infantry, and it is the highest paid service.

In Yu Sheng's army, the salary of the horsemen and men in charge of auxiliary affairs ranged from about three taels of silver to four taels per month, while for soldiers, the monthly salary of baggage soldiers and infantry was four taels of silver, and that of artillerymen was four taels of silver.

However, the salary of the cavalry was five taels of silver per month.

Qian Niubei looked at these cavalry under his hands, revealing a trace of dissatisfaction!

Along the way, the cavalry under his command looked quite bad, and even the most basic reconnaissance cavalry frequently made mistakes, not to mention any queue charging and slashing and killing, but fortunately, this time in Jiangsu, it was impossible to encounter a large-scale Taiping cavalry unit, otherwise it would be difficult for the cavalry company to be competent for the task of resisting the enemy's large-scale cavalry in its current state.

However, he didn't have a good way to deal with this qiē, because most of the cavalry under his command were new recruits, and they had just been trained intensively for more than a month.

In order to reorganize the cavalry troops, Yu Shengjun recruited skilled cavalry almost throughout northern Zhejiang, and even in order to recruit enough cavalry in a short period of time, Yu Shengjun even lowered the requirements for new recruits for a time.

As long as you are good at equestrianism, it doesn't matter if you were a homeless or a bandit or a green battalion soldier or even a Taiping army, Lin Zhe wants it!

Lin Zhe didn't have enough time to recruit ordinary good people, and then train for a few years, what he needed was cavalry that could form combat effectiveness in a short period of time.

As for whether this cavalry will become chaotic because of the recruitment of overly complex recruits, Lin Zhe is not worried about this, the most yankuai treasure of his training army is not preaching, nor faith, but strict military discipline.

Disobedient recruits will naturally be obedient after being beaten several times with a leather whip, and as for those who think that they are born with pig's feet, and put on a stinky fart and coax to resolutely disobey the officer's discipline, they will first be beaten hard with a leather whip, and if they can still hold on under the leather whip and shout: "Beat well, beat comfortably!"

In this case, if it is changed to a brain-dead novel or some film and television drama, Lin Zhe will see a baby and exclaim: Wow, big brother, you are so awesome, let's worship the son as a brother!

And the reality is that Lin Zhe usually shot him directly!

In Lin Zhe's barracks, there is no room for any disobedient soldiers!

However, in any case, at present, the cavalry company has just become a company, and it has not even had time to go to Shanghai after complete training, and Niu Bei knows that this combat effectiveness has a penny, so he is not arrogant enough to directly take the cavalry to attack the city.

Instead, after observing the military situation in Qingpu from afar, he sent the relevant military information to Lin Zhe in the rear.

Behind the cavalry company, the infantry and artillery companies of Yu Shengjun continued to march forward, and on the side of the road, Lin Zhe and a group of officers from the battalion headquarters rode horses and talked slowly.

"According to the information we have obtained in the past few days, there are not many enemies in Qingpu, I estimate that it would be good to have a thousand people, and it should not be a problem to take Qingpu!"

The person who spoke was Xu Peng'an, the new assistant of the Supervision and Training Department, who was originally the company commander of the First Infantry Corps, and later because of his excellent appearance, and when this person continued to study in the camp school, he understood all kinds of tactics very quickly, Lin Zhe had the heart to give him a bigger stage, so he was transferred to the Supervision and Training Department as an assistant.

Shi Qingxuan, the former deputy director of the Supervision and Training Department, has also been promoted to the general office of the Supervision and Training Department, and has become Yu Shengjun's 'supervision and training officer', and is currently in charge of the training of the Huzhou garrison troops in Huzhou.

As for Lin Zhe himself, with the expansion of Yu Shengjun, various affairs have become busier, so naturally he has no time to personally serve as a supervisor.

"Playing a Qingpu is just a practice, and playing Shanghai is the main thing!"

Maybe the knives in Qingpu and other cities outside Shanghai will not be able to be defeated by the Qing army, and Xu Naizhao is helpless against them, but it does not mean that Yu Shengjun has no way to take them.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Yu Sheng army, he went north to Changxing and Guangde and the Taiping army fought several times, and its opponents were all real Taiping troops, not some hooligan bandits, and in the face of the main force of the Taiping army, Yu Shengjun could win successive battles.

Now facing these homeless bandits of the Little Knife Society, Lin Zhe has nothing to worry about!

And it is true, when Lin led the army to arrive outside Qingpu City, at first, the members of the Little Knife Society in the city saw only a thousand Qing demons, and thought that Lin Zhe's Yu Shengjun was the same as Xu Naizhao's Qing army.

He even wanted to send an army to take the initiative to meet him, and he didn't know what to say when he saw them go out of the city to take the initiative to meet Lin Zhe, he had seen the Taiping army with strong morale, but he had never seen such a thief army.

Without much effort, and before they even entered the range of Yu Shengjun's rifles, the twelve-pound and six-pounder guns of the Second Artillery Company and the Third Artillery Company in the rear opened fire one after another, and only two rounds of artillery test firing were fired.

Instead of retreating, they ran straight back into the city, and their escape was so fast that Qian Niubei's cavalry could not even reflect in time.

When Qian Niubei's cavalry company reacted and wanted to pursue, they had already run away!

As a result, Yu Shengjun won the easiest victory since the formation of the army, only half an hour before and after, the infantry did not fire a single shot, the artillery only fired two rounds of artillery, and it was only a test fire of the nature of proofreading, killing and wounding no more than ten enemy soldiers, that is, easily repelling the Xiaodaohui army of more than 1,000 people.

"That's a win?" Lin Zhe, he still couldn't believe his eyes!

"It's hard to guarantee that the enemy army is not cheating, maybe they are waiting for us to enter the city and launch a fluctuating attack!" Hunter William, who was on the side, gave full play to his role as chief of staff, and proposed such a possibility to make Lin Zhe more cautious.

Lin Zhe nodded, although he didn't think that the knife in Qingpu City would pose any threat to his Yu Shengjun, but it was still necessary to be cautious and cautious to sail the Ten Thousand Year Ship.

So next, Yu Shengjun did not rush directly into the city, but as always, he put on a posture and prepared to attack the city!

To tell the truth, this is still the first siege battle of Yu Shengjun, in the past few battles they fought, one was a defense battle, and the remaining two were field battles, this siege is the first time.

After the formation was set up under the city, it was still the artillery unit that opened fire first, and the twelve-pound and six-pounder guns fired shells one after another and smashed on the city walls, so that the knife members at the head of the city could not rise at all.

Under the cover of artillery, the 1st Infantry Corps slowly advanced, but they did not go straight forward, but stayed at a distance of about 400 meters and fired suppressively at the wall with muskets.

The knives in the castle would initially fight back with loose bows and arrows, but the archers were quickly killed by cannonballs or bullets.

It's a boring and boring siege battle!

After fighting for half an hour, Lin Zhe saw that there were no enemy troops on the head of the city, and the city wall had been bombarded by his own artillery for a while, so he began to order the troops to carry out a tentative siege.

Under Lin Zhe's order, most of the troops of the First Infantry Corps continued to suppress the fire on the city, and only one infantry company broke away from the brigade, and then quickly rushed towards the gap in the city wall that had been blasted open.

Seeing his own troops charging, Lin Zhe also looked stern, if the enemy troops in the city had any counterattack, in order to avoid unnecessary casualties of the attacking troops, then he would definitely order the charging troops to retreat as soon as possible. xh118