After that row of gunshots, smoke and flames flew everywhere.The Taiping army that was impacting was completely covered by bullets, and all of them were shot and killed without any suspense.The corpses were strewn all over the ground, and the blood gushing from them stained the fields beside them red."
Why do you have to kill yourself" Brigade Commander Zhang Derivation put down the binoculars in his hand and let out a long sullen breath.Of course he didn't know that all this was given by Tong Ronghai and his party.These more than 1,000 Taiping troops were originally locals, and they only heard that the Huaxing Army burned and looted all the way, but they didn't know that their own people stationed in the county town did it.Some soldiers' homes had just been looted, and their parents had just sent a message to them and cried.At this time, when I met Hua Xingjun, I hated to give up my life and let out this sulk.Tong Ronghai didn't want to do things too desperately, if he didn't resist too fiercely, he could try to show mercy to his subordinates without killing.Along the way, except for looting some things, I basically didn't kill a few people.But Rao is like this, and it also spreads the notoriety of the Huaxing Army, which attracts the attention of the Huaxing Army in Chongqing."
You now know what the consequences of Li Shixian marrying us are, if the people are afraid of us like tigers, they will fight us to the death.It didn't do much, but it did add to the killings. ”Wu Xuming sighed with emotion, and despised Li Shixian in his heart.Except for a little trick, this person is far from the kind of brightness that Shi Dakai has.The three brigade commanders on the side all nodded secretly, and let out a sullen sigh.After Da'an Town was taken, the news quickly spread to Yongchuan County.Tong Ronghai didn't think about it, so he let his subordinates take enough food and grass and hurriedly retreated west, if Li Shixian learned the news at this time, he would definitely want to break Tong Ronghai's body into eight pieces.He invested in Tong Ronghai, and more than 5,000 people gave grain and grass, and replaced foreign guns.As a result, he made a loss-making deal, which really underestimated the IQ of Tong Ronghai and his party.After the Huaxing army launched an attack on Yongchuan County, the gate of the county was open, and there was not a single soldier to defend it.Wu Xuming thought that the Taiping army had set up an ambush in the city, and he was careful after entering the city.In the end, a servant was arrested, and then I learned that the Taiping army had eaten and drunk in the city for a few days, and then they all retreated westward.In order to redeem the reputation ruined by the Taiping army, Wu Xuming immediately opened a warehouse to release grain to show goodwill to the people in the city.lest all the people think that the Huaxing Army is a demon who kills people without blinking, and each of them closes its door, like a bandit committing a crime.To Wu Xuming's surprise, the county order of the county government was still an official of the Manchu Dynasty.The Taiping Army's foothold in Sichuan was not stable, and the original county orders were still used in many places.It's just that when paying taxes and food, it was not given to the imperial court, but to the Taiping army.This county official also looked like a knowledgeable person, and Wu Xuming didn't embarrass him, but just asked him to continue to manage Yongchuan County, and continued to chase west with soldiers and horses.The army led by Tong Ronghai seemed to have discussed it with the Huaxing army.Always every time he arrives, as soon as the front foot goes, Hua Xingjun's back foot follows.The people were stunned for a moment, and they couldn't tell which army was at all.I only know that the army wearing green flowers, everywhere it passes, it scatters wealth and food, claiming to be the Huaxing Army.But even this Huaxing Army, a few days ago, did all kinds of evil, burning and killing bandits who looted.After a day of pursuit, the two armies finally met in Longchang County, a hundred miles away.The advance force sent by Li Shixian, more than 10,000 horses led by Huang Chengzhong, the commander of the Left Army, has arrived in Longchang County.Tong Ronghai cried for his father and called his mother for help on the city wall, claiming to have failed the trust of the king.Without holding out for three days, Yongchuan County had fallen.Huang Chengzhong is an upright person by nature, and he has also heard of the heroism of the Huaxing Army.Without thinking about it, he believed Tong Ronghai and let him go into the city.Wu Xuming immediately lined up his troops ten miles outside the East City Gate, preparing to forcibly attack the city.Longchang County is also a small city with stone piles, and the city wall is only two or three meters high, and you can climb it with your bare hands.Huang Chengzhong is not a timid person, he knew that he could not defend the city, so he took the initiative to deploy troops and horses outside the city, wanting to see how powerful the legendary Huaxing army was.The more than 10,000 soldiers and horses he brought with him were all equipped with foreign guns.After the formation of foreign guns outside the city, it was divided into dozens of rows before and after, each row stretched for a mile.It's like a big bird's wings stretched out, wanting to wrap Huaxingjun inside.Wu Xuming raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, this kind of foreign gun formation was often used by him as a small soldier in the past.Because when a foreign gun is reloaded with bullets, the steps are very complicated.Before a shot is fired, you must squat in a semi-crouching position, first use a strip to stab a paper bullet wrapped in kraft paper into the barrel, then fill the powder pool with gunpowder, and finally pull the trigger and ignite the gunpowder with flint before the bullet can be fired.Moreover, the foreign guns did not have a aiming device, and once the gunpowder was fired, it would emit a dazzling smoke from the medicine pool.When shooting, you have to put the foreign gun on your waist, and if you aim and shoot, you will be blinded.Therefore, this kind of foreign gun formation is very dependent, and it must rely on dense formations, dense shooting accuracy problems, and time differences wasted on replacing bullets.The rear-mounted firing pistol used by the Huaxing Army can be loaded with five rounds at a time.There are not many requirements for the shooting posture, whether it is lying on the stomach shooting, or half-squatting shooting, standing shooting, you can achieve accurate aiming.The two sides seem to have the same number of people, but almost every soldier in the Huaxing Army can exert their due combat effectiveness at the same time.However, the Taiping army only exerted one-third of its combat effectiveness, because one platoon had to be designed, one platoon was prepared, and the last platoon was replaced with bullets.It was the first time that the left division faced such a large-scale foreign gun battle, and Wu Xuming only adopted a defensive position for the sake of safety.At the sound of an order, the Huaxing army quickly dug a bunker with a sapper shovel.According to the staggered formation, they were lying on their stomachs behind the bunkers in three rows, and they were deployed in turn in the position.The mortar battalions were also deployed sequentially every ten meters, at the back of the line, in groups of two, ready for firing.I don't know which country's instructor taught the foreign guns of the Taiping army, but there were soldiers with gongs and drums on their backs at the back of the line, beating gongs and drums.The soldiers bravely stepped on the drums of gongs and drums, all of them held foreign guns at their waists, and marched forward step by step.When the two sides were 500 meters apart, Wu Xuming decisively gave an order to the mortar battalion.I only heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom" resounding in the position, and one shell after another flew into the sky, crossing a perfect parabolic curvature, like hail falling from the sky, densely smashed into the Taiping army's gun array."
Boom, boom, boom."
Suddenly, on the 500-meter-wide position, an earth-shattering sound broke through the sky, and a roar sounded outside this quiet small county.Gunsmoke is everywhere, flying sand and rocks.Because the formation of the Taiping army was too dense, after each loud noise, several people were blown up by shrapnel and their flesh and blood were blurred.The mortar battalion was equipped with 200 artillery guns, and after the horizontal formation was deployed, the shells completely covered the Taiping formation.At this distance, the Taiping did not even have the slightest room to dodge.The wails immediately spread throughout the battlefield, but the formation of the Taiping army did not disperse, and they still stepped on the drum and marched forward.Because of the ammunition problem, each mortar was fired only three times, but more than 3,000 Taiping soldiers were killed on the spot.Wu Xuming stared at the front with a telescope, and secretly cheered for the team in front of him.He had fought several shootouts with Qiao Zhiqing before, and few teams could still be in formation in this kind of carpet bombing.When the two sides were two hundred meters apart, Wu Xuming once again waved the order flag to shoot at the brigade commanders."
Ready, shoot.""
Ready, shoot."
The sound of orders kept coming from the position, only to hear the friction of the bolt being pulled apart.The soldiers looked ahead and, after a loud shout from the commander, all pulled the triggers in their hands."
Bang, bang, bang."
A burst of firecrackers-like sounds instantly sounded on the position that stretched for thousands of meters, and no other sounds could be heard on the wide position.Bullets rain down and dense as a forest."
Whoosh" made a roar in the air, and in the blink of an eye, it was like a hurricane sweeping across the territory, knocking down the first row of the Taiping army's gun array.Huang Chengzhong, who was commanding in the back, almost widened his eyes to the extreme, if the mortar just now could still make him accept, what happened at this time was completely unexpected.Two hundred meters is not long, but short is not short.From a distance, a person is only the size of a finger, how can he shoot so accurately."
Shoot, shoot, shoot."
Huang Chengzhong hurriedly roared and kept waving the order flag in his hand.The Taiping army immediately formed a half-crouching posture and picked up the foreign gun in his hand, but before he could pull the trigger, the second wave of bullets from the opposite side flew again."
Brush, brush, brush."
At the front of the gun array, there was again a row of fallen ones."
Get down, there are ghosts, there are ghosts" I don't know who shouted, on the battlefield, there will always be people who roar like this when faced with something unexplainable.No matter how brave the Taiping army is, it can't resist the deterrent power brought by the flying bullets.Driven by the first row of soldiers, several rows of soldiers behind him also followed one after another, where could they still care about shooting back.Bing Yong, who couldn't react, was still looking up, and suddenly heard a whistling sound passing by his ears, and he felt a burst of heat in his chest.Looking down, the blood flowed like an infusion, and the skin was open.Suddenly, his head sank, and he fell heavily to the ground, without even exclaiming.After all the soldiers of the Taiping Army lay down, the gunfire of the Huaxing Army's position suddenly stopped.At a distance of 200 meters, it is really impossible to aim at the person lying on the ground."
Woo, woo, woo, woo."
The horn of the shock sounded in the positions of the Huaxing army."
Rush" The generals all took the lead in jumping out of cover and rushed forward with foreign guns.The soldiers rushed out, densely packed as if they were tigers slaughtered."
Withdraw, withdraw."
At this time, less than half of the Taiping army was left, Huang Chengzhong hurriedly roared, and there was a sound of retreating horns on the army formation.The soldiers received the order, and the girl fled towards the county seat.Hua Xingjun chased and shot, and those who ran at the back became live targets to block bullets, and some of them yelled anxiously and squeezed out tears.Huang Chengzhong was the first to retreat to the vicinity of the city gate, but saw that the city gate was closed.Smoke rose from the towers, as if they had been ransacked, and no one opened the door
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