In the Yunfeng Temple in the southwest of the foothills of Elephant Trunk Mountain outside Guilin, Chen Yucheng stood on top of the temple in a military uniform and sword, and after looking around the temple, he sighed and said: "I can't imagine that Ben Shuai will have a day to revisit his hometown." ()”

On the side, Chen Alin sighed and asked, "Did Chen Shuai come to this Yunfeng Temple back then?" ”

Chen Yucheng turned around and smiled slightly and said: "Senior Commander Chen joined the Kingdom of Heaven in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, I don't know it's not surprising, when we fought with the King of the West to attack Guilin, this Yunfeng Temple was the commander-in-chief camp of the army. ”

Chen Alin suddenly realized, after he joined the Taiping Army, he had also heard of the Taiping Army's previous war history, when the Taiping Army was established in Yong'an, after the Taiping Army was established in Yong'an, after the bloody battles of Longliao Ridge and Datong, he jumped out of the encirclement of the Qing Army, and then attacked Guilin, but he didn't think that the commander's camp of the Taiping Army attacking Guilin was also located in this Yunfeng Temple.

Chen Yucheng looked at the bricks and trees on the temple and seemed to return to the old memories, "I remember that our army fought a bloody battle under Guilin City for 33 days, when I was just a tail card, Guilin City is dangerous, the Li River is in the east, the south of the Yang River, around the west city and the east into the elephant trunk, the cockfighting hub water mouth atmosphere is condensed, the situation is looping, and the mountains and rivers are strange in the world." The city walls are strong and tall, and the underground is full of solid stones, and it is impossible to attack the city from the ground, and the twenty-four battles of all sizes are filled with human lives. In the end, even we, the tail boys, carried the planks and attacked the city, and I will never forget the bloody scene. ”

Chen Alin personally commanded the Battle of Guilin, and was deeply impressed by the danger of Guilin City, and said with a slight bow: "Not bad." The city of Guilin is surrounded by water and mountains, and the city is high and strong, and our firearms were not sharp in those years, so it really did not occupy the territory. ”

Chen Yucheng said slowly: "It's not just not about occupying potential. At that time, it was the rainy season, and the water of the Li River and other rivers was soaring, and it was not timely. Moreover, at that time, our army had only just risen, and there was not much publicity, and the king of heaven had baptized in Yong'an at that time, which made all the gentry in Guangxi Province fearful, and they compiled four-character slang to slander our army, printed thousands of papers, and spread them widely in all towns and villages, so that everyone could recite them. Our army lost people inside and outside Guilin, and even the poor civilians ran away when they saw us. The time, place and people are not in me, how can I attack the city and defeat the enemy? ”

Chen Alin smiled and said, "But now it's all upside down." Now in the depths of winter, Guilin's water is depleted, and although the weather is colder, fortunately every day is warm. Just in time for the siege. Even the fog is very little, and the weather is on me. After we arrived in Guilin, we went through more than ten days of hard fighting, successively conquered the high points outside Guilin such as Elephant Trunk Mountain, Guniu Mountain, and Tiefeng Mountain, and transported artillery to the mountains to bombard Guilin City. Nowadays, our artillery is no longer the kind of earthen artillery that was self-made or captured by the Qing army, and the artillery of our army can be extremely far, and the entire city of Guilin is under the muzzle of our army's artillery, which occupies the terrain. As for the people, the Qing Demon is in order to resist the eastward advance of our army. Fishing in the dry waters, burning forests and hunting, forcibly conscripting the people and strong men. Extortion of money and donations, the people's hearts have been lost, and even the gentry in the countryside have helped us a lot, how can the demons not be defeated? ”

Chen Yucheng laughed, broke away from the past feelings, and said with a smile: "Yes, now the times are changing, and if you take down the iron seal mountain yesterday, Guilin City will be broken." ”

Before the words fell, a staff officer walked quickly into the report: "Qi Chen Shuai, the east gate of the town was opened by the young men in the city, our army broke into the city along the lì, and the rest of the outer city gates were also conquered one after another, the army is attacking and advancing towards the city, and the Qing demon seems to shrink its forces to the inner city." ”

Chen Yucheng and Chen Alin glanced at each other and laughed together, Chen Alin said: "I heard that the inner city of Guilin was the Jingjiang palace back then, and there were no ordinary people living there. ”

Chen Yucheng nodded and smiled: "Exactly, it just so happens that we can also try the power of the new firearms that have been newly shipped." ”

Chen Alin sighed, frowned slightly, and said, "Chen Shuai is talking about the newly arrived Type 1856 rocket?" ”

Chen Yucheng said slightly: "Yes, this kind of rocket is the Jiangnan Ordnance Bureau's imitation of the British's Congreve rocket, but it has been slightly improved, using a new type of gunpowder, the maximum range can be up to three miles away, the rocket warhead can be equipped with ignition gunpowder or blasting gunpowder, the most important thing is that this rocket has added a copper tail positioning, which is much more accurate than the British rocket, and what is more rare is that this rocket is lighter than artillery, and it does not require too many manpower to shoot, which is very suitable for mountain combat." ”

Chen Alin touched his chin and said with a smile: "These people in the Ordnance Bureau are really better than the blue when they imitate other people's weapons, and a new firearm will come out every once in a while, and the Qing Demon will not be able to catch up with us." ”

Chen Yucheng also said with a smile: "Exactly, this is still the reason why King Xi's unique vision, when Sufu New Deal, all kinds of factories and workshops of all sizes rose up in the forest, and now everything on us soldiers is from the hands of these factories and workshops." ”

Chen Alin said with a smile: "The Qing Demon has suffered a lot, let's try the power of this rocket." ”

At that moment, the two of them issued an order to let the troops from all walks of life into the city slow down, deliberately so that the Qing army could withdraw to the inner city to gather, and the army slowly advanced to consolidate the position, alternately advancing, absolutely not allowing the Qing army to have a chance to break through, and discharged more than 1,000 people to escort the new 1856 Taiping rocket into the city, ready to be used for the first time in actual combat.

Chen Yucheng left three cavalry regiments to cooperate with He Gou's more than 10,000 righteous troops to continue to besiege Liuzhou, while Zhang Wenxiang led the infantry division to attack Xing'an Town on the mountain road, encircled and annihilated the town's soldiers, and he led hundreds of guards to Guilin to take command.

After arriving in Guilin, Chen Yucheng did not interfere too much in Chen Alin's deployment to attack Guilin, but only arranged soldiers and horses to block Peng Yulin's Qing army. After conquering Tiefeng Mountain yesterday, a batch of new equipment arrived at the front line in Guilin, a total of 8,000 new 1856 Taiping rockets, and at the same time Chen Yucheng received a letter from the King of the West, asking him to make good use of this rocket, so Chen Yucheng thought of trying the power of the rocket in actual combat.

Along with the rocket came a group of reinforcements and other personnel, and there were not many reinforcements. There were only more than 500 people, all of whom were soldiers who were familiar with rocket operation, and they naturally came to teach the artillery units of the First Army how to use rockets. And the members of the rest of the entourage are complex. There are condolence groups, war correspondents, and even civil officials such as Fei Chengli, the newly appointed county warden of Guangxi County.

Fei Chengli is the old department of the East Palace, he escaped the Tianjing Incident in his grandfather, this person is a native of Guilin, and after the civil training of the Ministry of Officials, he is very familiar with the gist of the new policy of Sufu. At the same time, he has other brilliant views on the country's industry, agriculture, business and other government affairs, which is very appreciated by Xiao Chaogui, and Guangxi is about to recover. So he ordered him to take a new training of officials to Guangxi to take up their posts, and once the war was over, he would begin to build and consolidate Guangxi.

In the evening, Chen Yucheng, Chen Alin and other generals in the army hosted a banquet for Fei Chengli and others in Yunfeng Temple. During the banquet, there were also representatives of major businesses in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who came with Fei Chengli and others. They came to inspect Guangxi's commercial market. There is also a condolence group led by Jiang Enmei, one of the four talented women of Tianjing, who arrived early, they are all women's soldiers, and they are the first batch of people sent to the front line by the War Propaganda Division.

The banquet is naturally very lively, but Yunfeng Temple is a temple, not suitable for wine and meat, so the vegetarian banquet arranged, but the guests and hosts are still very lively, during the banquet Jiang Enmei and other condolence groups also performed a newly rehearsed Kunqu opera repertoire "Fishing and Killing Home". It pushed the atmosphere of the banquet to a high point.

The repertoire of "Fishing and Killing Families" exposes the cruelty of the exploitation of the feudal government and the darkness of the feudal government's protection of officials and the collusion of officials and gentry, and expresses the theme of "punishing evil". It sang the praises of the resistance and struggle of the oppressed people, and won a lot of applause and applause.

After the repertoire was finished, Jiang Enmei's Guiying role did not take off her clothes, and walked up to Chen Yucheng with a smile and said: "Chen Dashuai, after our repertoire is finished, we will perform in various military camps later, what does Chen Dashuai think?" ”

Chen Yucheng laughed and joked: "This repertoire is good, but there are so many female soldiers in our military camp at once, I am afraid that these big-headed soldiers under my command will drill under your performance stage all day long, and I am afraid that I will frighten you when the time comes." ”

Jiang Enmei didn't feel embarrassed at all, but smiled sweetly: "Chen Shuai, if we can win the favor of the front-line soldiers, our errand will be completed." They are all their own soldiers, what are they afraid of? Speaking of this, Feng Feng smiled and said: "It's our female soldiers who performed a play, I heard that Chen Shuai had a rumor of Kunqu Opera performance when he was talking about martial arts, why don't Chen Shuai give us a paragraph?" ”

Before the words fell, Fei Chengli applauded and smiled: "Chen Shuai is young and promising, and when he was talking about martial arts, he didn't know how many young soldiers and female generals he had fascinated, and his subordinates naturally had amazing karma, so you might as well show your hand to everyone." ”

Chen Yucheng just took a sip of tea and almost squirted out, this Jiang Enmei is not only beautiful and talented, but also has sharp words, and really deserves to be one of the four talented women in Tianjing, it seems that she has spoken out tonight, and she has offended her a little, so she is so squeezing herself, and this Fei Chengli is also a restless master, it seems that he likes to watch the excitement.

Chen Yucheng laughed dryly, and when he was about to shirk it, a staff officer came in and hurriedly whispered a few words in Chen Yucheng's ear, Chen Yucheng's eyes lit up, and he stood up with a slight smile and said: "Since Miss Jiang wants to see our performance as a soldier, then Ben Shuai will arrange a play for people to watch, everyone please move and come with Ben Shuai." ”

Fei Chengli, Jiang Enmei and others didn't know what medicine was sold in Chen Yucheng's gourd, so everyone followed Chen Yucheng, Chen Alin and other generals out of Yunfeng Temple and walked on the mountain road to Elephant Trunk Mountain.

Every ten steps on both sides of the mountain road, there is a Taiping army soldier holding a torch to illuminate, all the way up is not as good as and difficult to walk, to a Taiping army artillery observation post in the middle of the mountainside, only to see more than ten artillery staff officers, infantry staff officers gathered here, all pointing at Guilin City in the distance.

After Chen Yucheng arrived, he smiled faintly and said to the left and right staff officers: "Signal them to start!" A staff officer shouted the order and turned to let a few soldiers set off the salute and sound their arrows.

I saw three ceremonial arrows flying into the air and exploding, followed by several gates in Guilin City were lit bonfires, followed by a swishing sharp whistle, several city gates, only to see a long flame of fire dragons like sharp arrows, overwhelmingly flying straight to the inner city of Guilin, followed by the entire inner city of Guilin was shrouded in flames and flames rising from the explosion, the scene was touching and shocking.

These arrow-like fire dragons lasted for a long time before stopping, and Jiang Enmei's little face was a little pale and pointed to the inner city of Guilin, which had turned into a raging fire, and said, "Will anyone survive there?" ”

Chen Yucheng didn't know much about the actual combat effect of the rocket, so he arranged a salvo of 3,000 rockets at one time, and he didn't expect that the effect of 1,500 incendiary warheads and explosive warheads would be like this, and he said in a daze: "I don't know ......" (to be continued......

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