The 140 guns were originally placed in the front line by Zhou Shixiang to delay the Qing cavalry to block the enemy, and there were no support forces on the left and right flanks, so after the Qing army rushed over, these soldiers of the guard battalion, who could no longer open their guns, could only face the slaughter of the Qing cavalry.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Qing army had rushed over, the dozens of gunmen at the forefront knew that they could not escape, and they also knew that they could not live, so they waved the guns in their hands one by one and shouted and rushed towards the Qing army, hoping to use their own sacrifices to buy time for the rear brigade to set up defenses, and also to exchange hope for the parents, wives and children in the city.
The heroic deeds were quickly crushed under the hooves of the war horses, and the time was so short that it could be described as a few breaths, but the sacrifices of these warriors made the Taiping soldiers who had been deployed in the rear have the fighting spirit of mourning and the will to fight to the death, and also made the dozens of Qing soldiers who rode at the front instinctively reined and pounced on their horses, so as not to trip over the corpses on the ground.
"Open the gun, open the gun, let Lao Tzu kill these bitches raised demons" Seeing dozens of subordinates rushing towards the Qing army without hesitation, the bald Jiang and his eyes were red, he roared loudly, and there was a crying sound in his nose.
He screamed so hard that his throat broke, but his voice was quickly drowned out by the sound of the hooves and shouts of the Qing army approaching.
The long knife kept swinging, the corpses of people kept separating, and the people kept wailing and falling to the ground.
The meager troops, the almost powerless guns, were slaughtered in an instant.
"it, I'm fighting with you" The death of his subordinates made the bald man go crazy, and he couldn't roar anything, and he screamed in his mouth and pounced on a galloping war horse with a voice that he couldn't understand.
The knight on that horse was a young Qing soldier, and when he saw a bald man who looked like an officer of the Taiping Army rushing towards him, he smiled contemptuously, did not swing his sword, and rushed towards the bald man with his legs on the belly of the horse.
Seeing that the bald man was about to be hit by the war horse, a man on the side jumped and pounced, grabbed the mane on the horse's head with both hands, and was startled that the horse neighed, and jumped twice in a row, and also shocked the Qing soldiers on the horse to change color, and when they re-stabilized the war horse, they found that the bald man of the Taiping army had been pulled back by his subordinates.
The first to lead the troops to rush to the Taiping Army was Zeng Shicheng, the leader of the blue flag, who was a native of Gaizhou, Liaodong, and was just an ordinary vest soldier before entering the customs.
He is in the prime of life, and his physical strength is strong, even if he has more layers of iron armor than his subordinates, it will not affect his flexibility on the horse.
After dodging the thin firearms of the Taiping army in front, Zeng Shicheng cut off the neck of a Taiping army with a perfect slash.
When the Taiping army was unwilling to fall to the ground, Zeng Shicheng was full of admiration, this was the first person he had seen since he went south and dared to rush towards him bravely, instead of only knowing how to escape, completely ignorant of the back.
After crushing and killing these dozens of very brave Taiping soldiers, Zeng Shicheng waved his sword and led his subordinates to rush towards the Taiping troops who were fleeing to the rear.
The successful breakthrough in front and the retreat of the Taiping army made Qin Guocheng overjoyed, and those flag soldiers who were hiding behind the fence and the mound also saw the successful breakthrough of their own soldiers in front, and one by one they shouted as if victory was in sight, and they all shouted and killed the Taiping army with their own soldiers.
However, most of these banner soldiers were physically exhausted due to the many battles with the Taiping army before, so even if the morale of the army was greatly boosted, they could not run, and could only follow their own soldiers far behind and rush forward.
Kill and kill all these southern barbarians, for the sake of the Qing Dynasty, for the sake of the prince, and for the prestige of the heavenly soldiers Qin Guocheng was excited, this feeling of galloping on the battlefield and chasing and killing opponents was too exciting, he had had enough of the kind of battle to storm and climb the city, in his opinion, the kind of war that completely took human lives to consume was not the work of a wise general.
When a smart general fights a war, the first thing is to play to his strengths and abandon his weaknesses, and His Royal Highness the Prince is still too anxious and too tender.
"Sure enough, it was the strongest army under my Pingnan Domain, and the thieves were unbearable."
Ban Zhifu, who was closely watching the soldiers of his own family, saw the scene of his soldiers showing their majesty from the clairglass mirror, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the soldiers of this family fought the Taiping army, then there was no need to worry about the thief Xiu taking advantage of the retreat of the army to attack and kill behind.
The cavalry of the Qing army succeeded in a blow, and continued to chase and kill along the rout of the front team of the Taiping army, and everyone on the horse was invincible, as if the Taiping army in front of them was waiting for them to cut off the heads, but they didn't see it at all, although the Taiping army was nervous and scared like a lamb to be slaughtered in their eyes, but it was orderly under the command of the officer to establish a line of defense based on various terrains.
Fences, ditches, mounds, thistles, tents, vehicles In the shortest possible time, Zhou Shixiang used all the available terrain on the battlefield to deploy all the Taiping troops that could be used, and the biggest advantage of the Qing army is the cavalry, which is also the biggest threat to the Taiping army.
Zhou Shixiang did not have a cavalry force that could compete with the other party, and what he could do was to use the conditions that he could use to weaken the advantage of the Qing cavalry as much as possible.
Obviously, on a battlefield full of corpses and trenches, the terrain is the largest and the most accessible force.
Reinforcements, reinforcements The pro-soldiers around him were sent out one by one, some went to the river, and some went to the south to trap the camp, Zhou Shixiang urgently needed the support of the living forces, especially the Jiangshang Water Division.
He knew that even if he could make the most of the favorable conditions on the battlefield, if there were no reinforcements, the final result would still be defeat, because the cavalry had a natural and huge suppressive force against the infantry.
His subordinates did not have rifles in their hands, but broadswords and spears, and even bows and arrows did not have the terrain to delay the speed of the Qing army, and the so-called defense line could only delay the Qing army, and the Taiping army had no ability or conditions to inflict heavy casualties on these Qing cavalry.
Sailor, you go ashore quickly, Lao Tzu can't hold it anymore Looking at the direction of Tan Jiang, Zhou Shixiang was so anxious that he was about to cry.
"Run, run" "Brothers of the Guards Battalion, run this way, quick" Less than thirty men of the Guards Battalion rushed backwards under the leadership of Jiang He, a hundred households, behind them were the roaring cavalry, some people kept falling behind, some people kept falling, and the rest of the people couldn't care about those fallen companions, just ran forward like crazy.
Jiang He also ran out of breath, he didn't think that instead of running like this, it would be better to go out and turn around and fight to the death with the Qing Demon, but reason told him that he could only die in vain if he turned around now, and he would not avenge any of his brothers.
Stay in the green mountains, not afraid of no firewood, Qianhu and other brothers are waiting for the demon in front The Southern Barbarian wants to run Zeng Shicheng was chasing and killing vigorously, where could he allow the remnants of the Taiping army in front of him to escape, but he was also smart, and wanted to take advantage of the situation to follow behind these fleeing Taiping troops and disperse the few teams of soldiers they had gathered, so the general trend was decided.
Driving the defeated soldiers to rush into the enemy's formation, this is a means passed from the Manchurian Eight Banners Army, which has been tried and tested many times in the past, and it is also used today.
However, as those defeated soldiers chased for hundreds of steps, Zeng Shicheng found that these defeated soldiers were too cunning, and they actually bypassed from both sides together, instead of rushing straight ahead.
When Zeng Shicheng rushed closer, he suddenly reined in his mount, and his face became very ugly, and he cursed in his heart: The southern barbarians are really hateful, when did they dig so many ditches oshow7 t1706231537: