Chapter 42: Luring into the Valley
About a mile or two ahead, Qing musketeers slowly appeared in a line, followed by ordinary soldiers armed with swords, spears, bows and arrows, and behind them, artillery carriages and cavalry.
Wang Feng immediately waved his hand: "Line up, load bayonets, and load bullets!" ”
In the mixed army of Wang Feng and Hong Xuanjiao, there were a total of 1,300 flintlock pistols, 800 of which were taken away by Hong Xuanjiao, and the remaining 500 male and female soldiers with guns quickly stood in three rows, drew bayonets from their waists and skillfully installed them, and then began to load bullets again.
This is obviously going to be shot in line, Wang Feng didn't understand it before, but after crossing over, he understood, first of all, the loading ammunition must be filled standing up, and secondly, the fire rate of the rifle is slow, and the skilled soldier only has two shots a minute, and the accuracy is insufficient, and he will often approach fifty or sixty meters before shooting, and the two sides will immediately enter the stage of white-knuckle combat after one or two rounds of mutual fire, standing and loading bullets and then lying down to shoot, will lose the first hand of fighting bayonets.
The Qing army continued to move forward, and as the distance got closer and closer, the artillery at the end of the team could already see that it was the Francophone cannon, and Lu Dayou couldn't help but remind: "Division commander, the Qing army pushed the cannon up, and it was likely to fire shotguns!" ”
Wang Feng nodded and said: "Dozens of cannons fire solid bullets, it all depends on luck to kill people, if you want to kill a large number of people, you can only rely on shotguns, but shotguns can't hit far, you must get close, the French Emperor Napoleon's best tactic is to push the cannon up, and launch shotguns within twenty zhang, which can bring a lot of casualties to the enemy, this is the purpose of my earthen wall."
Although we are luring the enemy, we can't keep a shot, and we have to prevent the Qing army from firing shotguns, so we can only hide behind the earthen wall when he fires the cannon to minimize casualties. ”
Just as he sighed, there was a sudden shouting in the Qing army's formation, and the musketeers accelerated their march, and Wang Feng immediately called: "Up!" ”
Five hundred musketeers advanced behind the earthen wall and took aim with their guns.
"Bang bang bang ~~" both sides shot almost at the same time, the battlefield was full of green smoke, there were not many people killed on the spot, although some soldiers were hit by bullets, but not fatal, however, relatively speaking, the casualties of the Qing army were much greater than the Taiping army, although they had many guns, but the Taiping army had chest-high earthen walls to cover it, which could block part of the bullets, and more importantly, the Qing army lacked training, morale was low, and it took a lot of courage to line up to shoot, and cowardice would only die faster, but Wang Feng's brows were still wrinkled.
This is not that he is dissatisfied with the result, but Wang Feng found that the flintlock pistol will emit a strong flash of light at the moment of firing, and the soldiers will subconsciously look away or squint out of the instinct of self-preservation, which invisibly lowers the rate of mission.
'It seems that you have to take down Su Xichang as much as possible and open your own arsenal! Wang Feng secretly calculated the certainty of attacking Su Xichang, but the key was whether he could incorporate the Little Knife Society, and he didn't know what kind of person Liu Lichuan was, so he could only take one step at a time, and if necessary, he had to use dishonorable means.
Wang Feng cast his eyes on the battlefield again, the musketeers on both sides were loading bullets, and the rest of the swords, spears, bows and arrows did not take advantage of the gap to rush forward to kill, Wang Feng was here to lure the enemy, there was no need to be entangled with the Qing army, and the Qing army's Franc machine gun had already been pushed up.
"Lie down!" Wang Feng shouted fiercely, and the soldiers hurriedly fell down at the foot of the earthen wall, accompanied by the sound of words, the rumbling cannon exploded, and they saw that the black spots in the sky were scattered like hailstones, if they were not prepared, this round of shelling alone could bring heavy casualties.
The steel ball rubble hit the earthen wall and made a swishing sound, although the momentum was amazing, but in fact it was useless, and a Qing army general hated and scolded: "Damn, do you really think we can't help his earthen wall?" My lord, go out of the cavalry, the bandits will be defeated! ”
"No!" Fuxing shook his head and said, "Have you forgotten our purpose? It is to drive the bandits to flank the front and back, and although the cavalry charge can win, it will bring unnecessary casualties. ”
As soon as these words fell, a strange cry came from the Taiping army on the opposite side: "Brothers, the Qing demon has artillery, all of them should be withdrawn by Lao Tzu!" ”
The soldiers of the Taiping Army spread their legs and ran back, running all over the mountains, Fuxing saw that there was no need to change the shells, and immediately shouted: "The whole army is pursuing, and no one will be spared!" ”
The sound of horses' hooves sounded suddenly, and five hundred light horsemen took the lead, followed by foot soldiers, but the Taiping army did not run along the road, but ran to the mountains and retreated under the cover of the woods, so that the Qing cavalry was useless, and there were people who turned around from time to time to put cold arrows and cold guns, although the casualties were not large, but they were heartwarming enough.
Fuxing's eyes were on fire, and he urged repeatedly!
Unconsciously, a valley appeared in front of him, and the Taiping army swarmed in, Fuxing hesitated for a moment, the valley has always been a good place to set up ambushes, and the gun carriage is the slowest, far at the end of the line, in a short time, it is impossible to push up and open the way with cannonballs.
Another general persuaded: "My lord, don't hesitate, there are only about 2,000 bandits, how can there be more than one manpower to set up an ambush?" If they are allowed to escape, it will not be easy to encircle and annihilate them! ”
Fuxing also felt that he was suspicious, the Taiping army had never suffered defeat since Wuchang marched eastward, and the Qing army was defeated and retreated.
Fuxing no longer delayed, and shouted: "All into the valley, give this official a hard chase!" ”
The Qing army drilled into it one after another.
Fuxing brought out 4,000 troops, 500 horsemen went around the front to set up an ambush, and the gunners of 50 guns plus the escort had 500 men, in addition to these divided troops, a round of queue shooting plus scattered casualties lost about 100 people, that is, about 2,900 people entered the valley.
Standing on the top of the mountain, Hong Xuanjiao silently counted the number of people, and couldn't help but nod and said: "Wang Feng didn't disappoint this girl, and sure enough, he lured the Qing Demon in, passed the order, and detonated the explosives!" ”
A female soldier pointed to the outside of the valley and reminded: "Chief, there is still the Qing Demon artillery team behind, do you want to wait for them to come in together?" ”
Hong Xuanjiao shook her head: "Those hundreds of people can't make the climate, and it's the same if you go back and clean up!" ”
"Yes!" The female soldier rushed to the short distance to give the order, and a moment later, there was a loud rumbling sound, and several large rocks were blown down, blocking the valley mouth!
In an instant, the riot of the Qing army spread rapidly like ripples, "My lord, we are ambushed!" How can this be? ”
Fuxing looked back and saw that it was the general who persuaded him to enter the valley, and immediately kicked it hard, and said angrily: "It's all your bad idea, give it to the official, you are the first, rush out and the official doesn't care about you!" ”
'It's not that you agree who's going to come in?' The general muttered to himself in dissatisfaction, but he could only get up, gritted his teeth and rushed forward.
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