Chapter 265: The Generation of Willpower

Chen Degong has already understood the opponent's intentions, they are going to dig this tunnel as wide as the official road directly to the entrance of the town, and then break out, and there are rebel firearms on both sides of the road to cover alternately, and they must be stopped.

"Bring all the Flying Thunder God and Heaven-Shaking Thunder, and greet them in the tunnel, quick..."

What Chen Deyun thought of was what the attacking Dingwu army was doing at the moment, grenades and bullets like locusts flew towards the entrance of the town, and from time to time they were like thunder on the ground, and the earth was splashed.

Chen Degong's unit was immediately killed and wounded.

"Five-stage attack, all departments, march together, attack..."

The gunfire was loud, the explosion shook the sky, and the battle of Takahashi was destined to suffer heavy casualties.

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Wuxi City was completely breached after You Shiwei personally launched an attack, and Cao Shixiu led the only remaining men and horses of the Second Division to engage in fierce street battles on the two streets centered on Wuxi County Ya.

The Yulin border army had never fought street battles at all, and the cavalry had no way to give full play to their advantages on the streets, so You Shigong had to shoot at the firearms battalion and the Dingwu army.

Even the surrounding streets and rooftops are full of people, and both sides are doing everything to break the opponent's defenses.

"Our army suffered a lot of casualties."

You Shigong had just rushed back from Zhengqianmen Street, and he came to You Shiwei to transfer troops.

"Our firearms battalion is only 2,000 people now, and with the proportion of casualties, they are not having a good time."

The frowning You Shiwei was eager to scatter all the cavalry now, but because of the streets, the cavalry could only dismount and fight on foot.

"Attacked..."

I don't know who shouted in front of me, and the guerrillas in the front directly ordered to rush towards Zhengqianmen Street.

You Shigong turned around and was overjoyed: "Even if you want to take them down with heavy casualties, I'll go..."

Cao Shixiu couldn't sit still anymore after getting the loss of Zhengqianmen Street, and immediately took the guard regiment from the county government to prepare for battle, and the deputy division commander Gao Qingnian was commanding on Changjie at the moment, and he had not yet learned the news of the loss of Zhengqianmen Street.

"Division, heavy casualties..."

A regiment commander had a bloody face, and the regiment under his command had no organization, and there were only more than 200 people left.

Cao Shixiu's face was cold, and when he saw the soldiers who had retreated to the outside of the county office, he shouted: "Soldiers, you are all from Zhejiang, Grandpa Guo has given you the opportunity to rebuild, and now, the war situation has reached the critical point of life and death, this seat is here today to swear that I will never take a step back, and I will not retreat from the voice of the armed army..."

"No retreat..."

With the chorus roar of the guard regiment, the morale of the officers and men of the remnants of the First Division suddenly rose and their prestige was like a rainbow.

"Master, ammunition is running out..."

The second division actually carried a lot of supplies, but after being attacked, most of them were lost, that is, this day and night of offensive and defensive battles, because it was a new soldier, there was no way to achieve the original veteran's combat savings, after the first encounter used up most of the ammunition, at this moment the battle line has been all pulled to the city, and the consumption of ammunition under the street fighting is also increasing.

Taking a deep breath, Cao Shixiu took his Yanling command knife from the hands of his generals, and pulled out this long knife that had not killed the enemy for many years: "The whole army obeys the order, put on the bayonet..."

"There is an order from the division... Get on the bayonet, prepare for white-knuckle combat ...

"There is an order from the division... Get on the bayonet, prepare for white-knuckle combat ...

"There is an order from the division... Get on the bayonet, prepare for white-knuckle combat ...

With the transmission of the order, even the old army of Yulin on the front line also heard this hissing shout, and the pro-troops around You Shigong were gearing up one by one, and the enemy had already issued an order for white-knuckle combat, and it was obvious that the opponent's firearms had run out of reserve ammunition, and in the case of ammunition consumption, a firearm hand was not as effective as an auxiliary soldier of the soldiers.

After You Shigong got the news, his spirits were greatly lifted, and he immediately sent someone to spread the word to You Shiwei.

"White-knuckle combat?"

After You Shiwei received the news, the corners of his mouth finally rose, and the opponent finally chose a white-knuckle battle as a last resort, thinking that they were already at the end of the crossbow: "Pass the order, the whole army is ready, and all the pikemen are transferred to the front of the formation." ”

According to You Shiwei's assumption, it is impossible for a pure firearms unit to carry a large number of long weapons, and besides, when the city gate is engaged, there is no weapon that can be used by the rebels for white-knuckle warfare.

The officers of the Second Division were all veterans and had experience in engaging the enemy in close combat, but they had never really fought with spears and bayonets, and they couldn't help but feel a little frightened, but the current situation could no longer allow them to be stunned, so they took the only Yanling knife one by one to cheer up the soldiers who were trembling a little with bayonets.

Finally, the gunfire slowly stopped, and You Shigong knew that the opportunity had come, so after shouting to kill the enemy, he took the lead and rushed out.

Cao Shixiu had a kind of handcuffs that had not yet been fought together, and when he saw the officers and soldiers rushing at this moment, he fired a shot first, and then shouted: "Bayonet engagement, prepare..."

"Ready..."

Although he was a firearm hand, bayonet engagement training was also a daily subject, and now that all the ammunition had been exhausted, the officers and men of the 2nd Division had to fight with their opponents in a hand-to-hand battle, and in such a tense situation, anyone would be nervous.

The sergeants lined up in front of them held the spears and bayonets in their hands one by one, and prepared at an angle of 45 degrees, and the officers and soldiers who were killed in front of them held long knives and big axes one by one, although they were nervous, they did not move in strict accordance with the training manual.

You Shigong, who rushed to the front, felt that something was wrong, so he slowed down his pace, and let the pawns rush up to engage in the battle.

'Thorn...'

As the orders of the platoon commanders were issued, the uniform movements were like flowing water in the same row, and the bayonets stabbed out at the oblique upper corners were longer than the Yanling knives in the hands of the officers and soldiers, which was equivalent to a short spear, and immediately stabbed the entire platoon of officers and soldiers who rushed up.

After collecting their guns, the officers and men once again put on a posture of defending themselves against the enemy, preparing for the next round of onslaught.

'Thorn...'

After a few rounds, You Shigong found that the foot soldiers in front of him could not enter the opponent's body at all.

"Get out of the way, archers prepare..."

The crossbow was the main equipment of the border army, and the most important goal was to kill and injure the cavalry units of the ethnic minorities, but the officers and men of the 2nd Division in the front, under the protection of the plate armor, were fired by arrows in rows.

You Shigong was shocked, if it was a previous opponent, he would have broken and fled in such a battle damage, but the rebels in front of him did not move like a mountain, and still advanced neatly according to the military order.

Of course, You Shigong didn't know how terrible the white-knuckle warfare engagement method of the Dingwu Army was, but Chen Cao followed the standard tactics of the later empire on which the sun never set, that is, the musketeers walked up neatly with the opponent's firearms, and did not shoot until they were within thirty or ten steps at a close range, so that the opponent could only be beaten passively, and the British Empire also relied on this primitive and cruel tactics to fight the European countries that could not resist.

The main reason for this is the morale of the army, You Shigong thinks that he is the most elite Yulin veteran under his command, and he can't be compared, and he suddenly admires it.

The rebels in front of him were rushing up against the rain of arrows, not bothered by the fall of the robes beside him, but becoming more and more courageous.

After approaching, the archers were all assassinated by the uniform bayonets before they could retreat, and You Shigong hurriedly asked people to go to You Shiwei for help, until the arrival of the pikemen could stop the steps of the officers and soldiers of the second division.

The spears of the officers and soldiers are generally about three meters two, and the length of the flintlock pistol with the bayonet is only two meters one, which is not the opponent of the official army at all, but Cao Shixiu is still not worried, he still has a thousand guards under his command, and these people still have enough ammunition, and they can only hit their pikemen after the opponent takes it lightly.

After You Shiwei knew that there was not much gunpowder left under his command, he issued an order to solve the enemy in front of him as soon as possible with the tactics of white-knuckle warfare, and completely take the county seat of Wuxi.

However, the sudden burst of gunfire from the front position made his heart tremble, could it be that the rebels' white-knuckle battle was just an illusion?

Sure enough, You Shigong's messenger came to tell You Shiwei carefully, it turned out that the pikemen in front of the battle had crushed the opponent, and when he was about to launch the final blow, he didn't know that the opponent actually wanted firearms, and after a burst of random guns, he actually killed more than 300 pikemen.

"If the whole army presses up, it is to fill it with human lives, and all the rebels must be wiped out here."

At this moment, a herald ran to You Shiwei and knelt down in front of him: "Chief soldier, woe to you..."

You Shiwei's heart trembled, there is only one place that can cause trouble now, and that is Chen Degong who is guarding Gaoqiao.

Sure enough.

"General soldiers, the rebels counterattacked, broke through the high bridge by way of geotechnical excavation, General Chen could not resist, and the enemy army rushed in to the north of the high bridge, General Chen's department was defeated, and now it is retreating towards Wuxi, and the rebels are close behind."

You Shiwei clenched his fists, his eyes were red, he never imagined that Chen Degong would make such a low-level mistake, but he was more angry because Wuxi had broken the city in front of him, and the recalcitrant rebels in the corner were only one place in the county government, but it was always difficult for his side to completely lay this hard bone.

"Take them down no matter what..."

Chen Degong never imagined that his opponent would break through to the entrance of Gaoqiao Town by means of earthwork excavation, and the battlefield filled with gunsmoke after the indiscriminate bombing provided great protection for the rebels, so that he was hit by firearms before he could effectively command the resistance.

After a close fight with the rebels in the town, he found that his opponent had a numerical advantage in firearms and tiger squat cannons, and smashed the flying thunder god he trusted, and he could not safely start to retreat without the cover of the turtledove foot gun and the five thunder god machines.

More than 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command are Yulin soldiers, which are extremely valuable, but they dare not lose in Gaoqiao, and after seeing that Gaoqiao has no way to hold on, he ordered the whole army to move closer to Wuxi.

Song Che immediately led people to chase after learning that Gaoqiao was broken, and he had to arrive for reinforcements before the official army broke through Wuxi, otherwise with the combat effectiveness of the second division, it was difficult for him to imagine whether Cao Shixiu could hold on.