Chapter 456: Staying up and facing the enemy? What kind of tactic is this? (Please order, please vote)

November 10, 1854 AD, in the afternoon.

East of Banzhang Mountain and north of Qianshan River Road.

After most of the marching, the Qing army of more than 14,000 people commanded by Ye Mingchen finally arrived at the battlefield from Xiangshan County, where they set off this morning, and then began the early tactical actions. The 4,000 Guangdong regiments were trained in battalions, and ten teams were set up in front of the main force of the Qing army to cover the main force behind. Each battalion head opened special rewards and recruited some dead soldiers to harass the crusaders with cross flags flying in front.

These "dead soldiers" still don't dare to die, and they all set fire guns at the crusad positions from afar. The gunshot sounded sparse, just like a group of children playing with firecrackers, rising and falling one after another.

The Xiangshan County Magistrate was not idle either. He brought two or three thousand people to the top. Behind the Qing army brigade, leaning against the two villages of Tan Jiawei and Xiao Changwei, there was a small river flowing into the front mountain and waterway. He set up camps for the Qing army men and set up fires to cook. He was like a group of nanny and old mothers, and he was very busy.

And the remaining Eight Banners and the Green Camp soldiers, they were in the large paddy fields south of Tanjiawei and Xiaochangwei, scattered like headless flies, and groups of them all looked for small paths or dry places in the fields, lying there to suck opium, and they looked like a group of addicts who had found paradise.

Jirhanga and Ye Mingchen had no such "hobby". Under the protection of Goshha and several confidant generals, they sneaked up on the front line, and took out the Western monocular telescope and looked at the cross flag like a thief. When they looked, they were so confused, because they didn't see any of their enemies!

Ye Mingchen put down his telescope and asked the leader of the group training beside him. Guangxi Censor Zhang Jingxiu: "Depu, where is the enemy? Why are there only flags but no people? Could it be that he is playing the empty city plan?"

Zhang Jingxiu was a middle-aged man who was as thin as a maroon. He was a big landlord in Dongguan, Guangdong. His Keyuan was one of the four famous gardens in Guangdong. This man had money and had no place to spend it, so he bought an official in front of him. He and Su Sanniang and Luo Dagang were still familiar with each other. When the two rebelled in Guangxi, he happened to be an official there. He relied on the trick of "taking ten rewards for merit" to be promoted from the magistrate to the magistrate. Later, Su Sanniang, who was "suppressed" by him once, Luo Dagang ran to Hong Xiu again.

Quan, together, started the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Guangxi. When he saw that Guangxi was in chaos, he used the excuse that his younger brother died of illness and went home to "Ding You" - "Ding You" for his younger brother. The brother's relationship was really gone. Not long after he "durned" at home, he saw that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was about to leave Guangxi, so he quickly recruited 300 Dongguan fellow villagers, patted his butt and ran to Guangxi to make contributions. Because he "recovered" a lot of territory, he has now worked as a Guangxi censor and has gained a reputation as a good fighter.

Ye Mingchen was overwhelmed by the Taiping Army and the Red Soldiers a while ago, so he seconded the local regiment training leader in Guangdong and asked him to command the regiment training to help. A while ago, he followed Jierhanga to "win" in Shaozhou...

At this moment, Zhang Jingxiu, who could "receive ten merits" and heard Ye Mingchen's question, his eyebrows were twisted. He thought to himself: Isn't this a good thing if I didn't see the enemy? If there were enemies in front of me, how dangerous it would be!

"Report to the army," Zhang Jingxiu didn't dare to tell the truth to Lord Ye, so he pointed to a "short dam" that he didn't know who had piled out, saying: "Did you see the short dam in front of you? It's long and looks like a river embankment. The cross thieves are hiding behind it! Take a closer look, there are two rows of fence-like things in front of the short dam, which are refusing torches, specifically to prevent our cavalry from rushing over."

"Is that true?" Ye Mingchen hurriedly raised his telescope and looked at it. It seemed that this was the case, but he looked at it and felt something was wrong: "That dam looks too short, and it's not okay to hide behind and squat! Could it be that he is lying down and waiting for us?"

Jirhanga, who was standing beside him, was watching there with a telescope. When he heard Ye Mingchen's words, he burst out laughing: "How can you meet the enemy while lying down? Could it be that you are like a turtle and shrinking your head?"

As soon as he finished speaking, several muzzle flames suddenly flashed behind the low dam opposite, and then he saw two Guangdong gangs shooting with smoothbore guns falling to the ground as if they were being sucked.

This time, Jillhanga was also very amused and put down his telescope and muttered: "There are really people lying down to meet the enemy! I am convinced of this tactic!"

Ye Mingchen frowned: "The Crusaders were lying on their shores and guns. It seemed that our people couldn't hit them. What should we do?"

"Hey," Gilhanga smiled, "How to load bullets while lying on the lie? Even if their barrel is shorter, at least they have to squat to load bullets. How to install them while lying on the lie? Even if they can, they have to install one shot for a long time, which is a big deal."

As if to serve as a "support" for Jirhang'a's words, the Crusaders behind the earth dam in front fired more than a dozen shots. Although they were quite accurate, they knocked down seven or eight Guangdong regiments, but the firepower was as tickling as it was, and the Guangdong regiments were completely incomparable to the Guangdong regiments that raided them. The Guangdong regiments fired four or five shots, so that the opponent could fight back.

Gilhanga observed for a while and turned to Ye Mingchen and said, "Ye Zhijun, is it almost OK? Ask the brothers to withdraw, push the cannons up, and blast him... When the Lord Mi who hit England, who occupied the Banzhang Mountain Highlands, we will let the brothers from the Genghis and the Green Camp charge in turn." As he said that, he pointed to the two rows of horse-rejecting rifles in front, "As long as the brothers and the Green Camp cleared some of the horse-rejecting rifles and opened a gap, my cavalry would be able to rush up happily. Leaning on the ground, I can't stop my cavalry team!"

Ye Mingchen didn't know much about war, so of course he heard what Guangzhou General Jierhanga said. He nodded vigorously and said to Zhang Jingxiu: "Liaofu, ask your people to retreat first, guard the formation, and cover the artillery team!"

"twitter!"

With Jierhangan'a's order, it seemed like a thunder thunder tearing the sky, and the artillery battle on the front line north of the Qianjiang River officially started without warning!

Twenty-one nine-pound foreign cannons pulled from Guangzhou with difficulty were now pushing onto the battlefield along the road between the official road and the fields by everyone to the battlefield. Each cannon was like a beast ready to go, with its muzzles pointing to the "short dam" in the south and the low mound behind the "short dam", as if it would razor it to the ground in the next second.

The Eight Banners and Green Camp gunners who had already absorbed the smoke were full of madness and excitement in their eyes, and they were all full of energy. Their hands were trembling, and they quickly pushed the round shells into the barrel, and then, they lit the fire line at the tail of the barrel without hesitation. In an instant, each muzzle was like an evil dragon spitting out flames, and the roar made people's ears hurt.

The Qing army's artillery team was arranged at a close distance less than two miles away from the "Short Dam". They thought they occupied an excellent position, but they did not know that although the Crusaders' Type 1851 rifled rifled guns could not threaten them at this distance, their direct aiming artillery fire was also difficult to touch the Crusaders squatting in the trench. How could direct firepower hit the enemies in the trench? It would have to be a curved cannon, but the Qing army would not operate that thing at all.

Therefore, although these twenty-one cannons were thundering, the scene seemed to be full of wind, but most of the shells were just whistling past the heads of the crusaders in vain. Only a few shots were lucky enough to hit the cannons made of sandbags, but what's the use? The nine-pound cannonballs hit the thick sandbags, just like stones sinking into the sea, and were "swallowed" in, and even a little bit of slag could not be blasted out.

The Qing army's artillery lasted for about an hour, and a thousand shells were released. In the blink of an eye, more than half of the ammunition they carried to Xiangshan was consumed. At this time, the artillery positions were filled with ammunition boxes printed in English, and it was a mess. Suddenly, a sharp and harsh sound of gongs suddenly sounded, and the sound of artillery gradually subsided.

The leader of the group trainer Zhang Jingxiu waved his sleeves suddenly, and his movement seemed to have a thousand pounds of force. Several strong men with green cloth and baotou around him immediately understood and quickly raised a huge "Zhang" banner. At the heads of the battalions, the team officials saw the banner, and saw a trace of ruthlessness flashed in their eyes. They pulled out their waist knives and pointed forward with force. In an instant, the group members behind him surged out like a tide, rushing forward with a fierce momentum.

In the front mountain and waterway position, Luo Yaoguo and Maria squatted together in an extremely strong cannon building. The cannon building is extremely strong. Not to mention the nine-pound smoothbore cannon, even the eighteen-pound smoothbore cannon with doubled power, it would be difficult to cause any damage to it.

However, at this moment, Luo Yaoguo carefully poked out half of his head from behind the sandbag, but his brows frowned tightly. There was almost no wind in the front mountain channel today. The thick smoke produced by the Qing army's artillery just now was not easy to dissipate. The entire battlefield was covered with smoke and could not see anything clearly. He could only hear the shouts of "Du Lei Lao Mother" like surging waves from the opposite side, and the sound seemed to shake the world.

The Crusaders in the trench ahead had already quickly climbed up and steadily set up rifles. But they were disciplined. Although the enemy's shouts were getting closer, no one opened fire without authorization. The officers kept running back and forth on the positions, loudly reminding the soldiers below: "No order is allowed to open fire!"

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Fortunately, the smoke gradually dissipated a little. When the crusaders finally saw the formation on the opposite side, everyone couldn't help but take a breath.

The number of enemies is beyond imagination! The vast area opposite is full of green cloth Baotou, and the Qing army in the titular clothes. Eight dense infantry phalanxes are almost tightly attached to each other, forming a terrifying "infantry sea". The entire battlefield is almost filled with these tides of soldiers. It is roughly estimated that the number is at least four or five thousand!

Behind these regiments, there were more Green Camp, Eight Banners soldiers, and even hundreds of cavalrymen who were ready to charge. They rode tall horses, and their long swords flashed in the sun, as if they would step on everything in front of them into powder at any time.

Luo Yaoguo stood in the fortress, looking at the thrilling scene ahead, and couldn't help but mutter in a low voice: "Wow, you can do it in one go!"

"Your Highness, look there!" Maria's voice suddenly sounded, with a hint of nervousness. Luo Yaoguo turned around and saw her pointing to Banzhang Mountain in the east. He saw that a bunch of fireworks exploded one after another over the top of the mountain, which was particularly eye-catching in the dark sky.

Luo Yaoguo knew that this was the British who were releasing their Confrig rocket! This meant that the Banzhang Mountain Highland had fallen under the control of the British army!
Chapter completed!