Changsha city has become a hell on earth at this time, the Qing army who flocked into the city saw people killed, whether it was wrapped in a red turban or not wrapped in a red turban, but anyone with long hair, no braids, regardless of men and women, all killed, the whole Changsha city was full of fire, corpses were everywhere, and blood flowed like a river. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

A group of generals of the Eight Banners Green Battalion did not restrain their subordinates, and allowed their officers and soldiers to wantonly slaughter and loot, and recovered the provincial city of Changsha, which is a great achievement.

On the top floor of Tianxin Pavilion, the monk Greenqin who came to the front line to command held a telescope to observe the situation in Xicheng, Changsha has nine city gates, Xicheng has four city gates because of the most prosperous in Xiangshui, accounting for almost half, at this moment, the Taiping army and a large number of people who are fighting and retreating are rushing out of the city from the four large and small city gates of Xicheng, but because there is only one pontoon bridge leading to the water and land, a large number of people are stranded by the river.

Putting down the binoculars, Seng Lingqin pointed to Xicheng and said in a deep voice: "Order, Xiang Rong and He Chun quickly outflank up and down, and flank the bandits on the shore of Xiangshui in Xicheng!" ”

Before the words fell, the guards came to report, "Zeng Guofan and Jiang Zhongyuan asked to see each other outside, saying that they had important military reports. ”

Monk Lingqin said slowly, "Let them in." ”

After Zeng Guofan and Jiang Zhongyuan came in to greet them, Jiang Zhongyuan said directly: "Lord Wang, bandits have always had the habit of breaking through overnight, and they must be prepared for the bandits of the Hexi camp to break through overnight. ”

Overnight breakout? How dare the Taiping Army take such a risk? Monk Greenqin was a little suspicious, looked him up and down, and said, "Is it your suggestion to give up Changsha and encircle and annihilate the bandits in Changsha?" ”

"It's Xiaguan." Jiang Zhongyuan hurriedly bowed slightly.

"Will the bandits really break through overnight?" Monk Greenqin glanced at him and said, "The bandits are a rabble, and if they break through at night, they won't worry about being dispersed?" ”

"Back to my lord." Jiang Zhongyuan said in a deep voice: "The bandits especially like to choose to break through at night, and they have repeatedly succeeded, the main reason is that the green battalion is afraid .....of fighting at night. ”

"Hindsight." Monk Lingqin said unceremoniously: "Why didn't you speak earlier? In this situation, how can we allocate troops to strengthen the defense of Hexi? ”

Jiang Zhongyuan said in a deep voice: "The soldiers are fine, not many, Hexi is already besieged by heavy troops, what is lacking is only the elite who dare to fight at night and dare to fight bloodily, and the lower officials secretly think that having the Eight Banners New Army to reinforce Hexi is enough to block the Taiping Army from breaking through." ”

"In the night battle, the combat power of the Eight Banners New Army cannot be brought into play." Monk Greenqin said without thinking, he was telling the truth, but it was difficult to give full play to the combat power of the Eight Banners New Army in the night battle, and besides, he was also worried about the night battle, the new army was too damaged, as the saying goes, the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, the rabbit was anxious to bite people, and the Taiping Army broke through overnight, it must be desperate, and he didn't want the Eight Banners New Army to have big casualties.

Jiang Zhongyuan was stunned, and then he also reacted, the Mini gun of the Eight Banners New Army could not exert its due power at night, so he had to watch the Taiping Army break through again?

Not allowing him to think too much, Monk Lingqin had already asked, "In which direction is it possible for the bandits to break through?" ”

"The bandits have captured Ningxiang and Yiyang some time ago." Jiang Zhongyuan said slowly: "The possibility of escaping Yiyang is very great, once the bandits arrive in Yiyang, they can either transfer to the mountains of Xiangxi or go to Changde...... Xiangxi is full of mountains, and Changde's troops are empty ....... ”

The problem of the emptiness of Changde's troops is not big, and reinforcements can be mobilized in time, but if the Taiping army enters the mountainous area of Xiangxi, it will indeed be a big trouble! Monk Greenqin led the 10,000 Eight Banners New Army to the south this time, not only to recover Changsha, but to exterminate the Taiping Army to prevent future troubles, although the first battle to recover Changsha, but the main force of the Taiping Army did not suffer heavy losses, but there are some fly in the ointment.

Seeing that he was silent, Jiang Zhongyuan hit the railway while it was hot: "The bandits are especially good at escaping, and if they flee from one place, they will harm one place, if they can't be encircled and annihilated in one fell swoop, Hunan and the surrounding provinces will be ....... rot." ”

Firework! Seng Lingqin suddenly thought that the Nanyang Navy had repeatedly used fireworks in night battles, and Changsha was already rich in fireworks, so he ordered: "Immediately send people to collect a large number of fireworks and send them to Hexi, in addition, arrange ships to transport the new army and Xiang Rong and Hechun across the river!" ”

Hearing this, Zeng Guofan and Jiang Zhongyuan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly bowed down and said, "The lower officials obey the order." ”

In the west of the city, on the shore of Xiangshui, the Taiping army stranded on the shore of Xiangshui had no intention of fighting, and only wanted to retreat to the land and water continent as soon as possible.

However, for most of the hour, the river on the east bank of Xiangshui was stained red with blood, and the pontoon bridge connecting Shuiluzhou and Changsha was also poured with oil and burned.

Looking at the billowing smoke on the east bank, Yang Xiuqing sighed secretly, the pontoon bridge leading to Shuiluzhou was burned, and the Taiping army in Changsha City was in a desperate situation, and he groaned slightly, before he ordered in a deep voice, "Order the soldiers and horses on Shuiluzhou to retreat to the Hexi camp immediately!" ”

After a short time, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, hurried over and said, "King Dong, the Qing demon is crossing the river upstream and downstream to increase troops to the west of the river, it seems that it should be expected that we will break through overnight." ”

Hearing this, the hearts of several people present sank, the camp in Hexi was already besieged by heavy troops, and now the Qing Demon has increased troops to Hexi in a big way before the war in Changsha City has ended, clearly to trap them to death in Hexi!

"In my opinion, there is no need to wait until dark, take advantage of the fact that their reinforcements have not yet arrived, and break through first!" Xiao Chaogui said in a deep voice: "The new Qing Demon Musket is powerful, but there are not many of them, and most of them should be used to attack Changsha City......." ”

Yang Xiuqing took out a pocket watch and saw it, if it was dark today, there was at least an hour before the sky was dark, if the other party transferred thousands of new troops of the Eight Banners to reinforce Hexi, even if it broke through overnight, I was afraid that it would have to pay a heavy price, the other party's musket was too powerful!

Can't delay! Yang Xiuqing immediately made a decision, and said in a deep voice: "Gather the team, go to the northwest, the combination of the two Qing Demon Divisions, and forcibly break through!" ”

Monk Greenqin's boat had just arrived in the center of the river, and he heard the dense gunfire on the other side, and his heart was tight, the Taiping army forcibly broke through?

The Taiping army broke through, the consistent style is to dare to fight the elite who dare to fight and dare to fight to concentrate in the forward, every time the siege, the encirclement and suppression of the green battalion is afraid of too many casualties, do not dare to pick up its edge, but scramble to pursue the tail, hit its rear army, which is also the fundamental reason why the Taiping army has repeatedly been able to break through.

This time, Yang Xiuqing is still using the consistent dispatch, the brave and good at fighting, the courage to charge into battle Xiao Chao Guibu as the forward, the direction of the charge is the Qing army in the west, the combination of the northern battalion, Seng Lingqin in Hexi arranged three thousand eight banners of the new army, three sides of the encirclement, one side is a thousand people, although the Taiping army chose the combination of the two battalions, but also encountered fierce resistance, the Minnie gun ultra-long range of the charging Taiping army like cutting wheat piece by piece.

Knowing that they would be annihilated if they could not break through the siege, the Taiping army sang poems praising the Worship of God and praising Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother and Sect Leader Hong Xiuquan, while going forward one after another, charging bravely as if they were dead, ignoring the bullets fired from the opposite side, they firmly believed that as long as they rushed to the front, the Qing Demon would become a pile of chickens and dogs.

Although the training of the New Army of the Eight Banners is strict, after all, it has never experienced actual combat, and where has it ever seen such a battle and shouting strange things in their mouths, not afraid of death at all, rushing forward without dying, one by one panicked and a little timid, mechanically listening to the order to shoot and reload and shoot, but they have not even played half of the level of training on weekdays.

In the blink of an eye, the Taiping army swept over the forefront of the position like a tide, although the Eight Banners New Army was a recruit, but it was not cowardly, listening to the order to load the bayonet and prepare to start hand-to-hand combat with the Taiping Army, but in the forefront of the trenches, the officers and soldiers of the Green Battalion, who had always been most afraid of hand-to-hand combat, saw this situation but collapsed instantly, one by one only hated their father and mother for missing two legs, and rushed to climb out of the trench and flee backwards, seeing this situation, the Eight Banners New Army was also stunned, and before they could react, the rout broke up their formation, Drag them all the way backwards or run in both directions!

It's just that at the cost of more than a thousand elites, the Taiping army vanguard broke out of the encirclement, and the brigade of men and horses roared and turned to the direction of Ningxiang. Tail pursuit, this is almost all the officers and soldiers of the green battalion forte, see the Taiping army break through, military attachés at all levels have led their soldiers to pursue.

Monk Greenqin saw this scene clearly with a telescope on the boat, and he was so angry that he almost didn't turn his back on it, he finally understood why the Taiping army was able to break through smoothly repeatedly, and in the face of the Taiping army's fearless charge, the green battalion didn't dare to intercept it head-on!

At this moment, he clearly realized that the Green Battalion was indeed useless, and he had to change this practice of dividing and mixing troops, the Eight Banners New Army could not be mixed with the Green Battalion soldiers, not to mention being burdened by the Green Battalion soldiers, what he was most afraid of was that after two wars, the Eight Banners New Army that had been trained hard was scrapped by the Green Battalion!

Wusong, Baoshan County, Baoshan Machinery Factory.

In the tall and wide forging workshop, a craftsman in his early thirties was engrossed in forging a pair of scissors, yes, scissors, and there were seven or eight craftsmen in their thirties next to him, and Yi Zhi, who was wearing a canvas overalls, also stood aside with great interest.

The craftsman who forged scissors is called Zhao Yunsheng, and Zhang Xiaoquan, a famous scissors maker, is from the same school, Zhao Yunsheng's scissors and 'Zhang Xiaoquan scissors' can be said to be from the same source, easy to be content to spend a high price to invite it, of course, it is not just a pair of scissors, even if Zhao Yunsheng's scissors can surpass Zhang Xiaoquan's scissors, he will not have much interest.

He is interested in Zhao Yunsheng's craftsmanship, Zhang Xiaoquan's scissors are the biggest feature of the steel embedding process - that is, a piece of steel is embedded into the iron block, and then fused at high temperatures, steel is the blade, and iron is the blade, but this is not what he likes, he likes is the process of steel selection, forging, quenching, etc.

At present, the shelves of Baoshan Iron and Steel Plant have been built, but at present, converter steelmaking technology has not yet appeared, and it is impossible to produce steel in large quantities.

In addition, through Zhao Yunshan, he also invited Zhejiang Longquan, Yunhe steelmaking experts with high salaries, because Zhao Yunshao made scissors steel is selected from Longquan, Yunhe good steel, now it is the initial stage, he has to slowly accumulate talent training for the steelmaking plant, once it can produce steel in large quantities, Yuanqi's starting point is much higher than Europe.

With the end of the forging of "Ding Ding Dong", Zhao Yunshao carefully quenched the scissors, while carrying out a skillful operation, he explained without reservation, and when all the processes were completed, he tried the edge of the edge, and felt satisfied.

Yi Zhizu smiled and took the scissors, looked at them, and then said: "There are many types of steel, and the uses are different, to make scissors edges, to be hard, to make guns and cannons, to have high strength, high toughness, so as to withstand the high pressure generated by gunpowder, shells, especially flowering shells, require high strength, low toughness, so that it is easy to break, and to build ironclad ships, to resist fighting, to have good toughness, but also to resist corrosion, because the corrosive nature of seawater is very strong......."

Steelmaking, I am a layman, but I know that in order to get a variety of steels with different properties, in addition to reducing the impurities contained in the steel itself or adding trace amounts of rare metals, the rest is nothing more than different high temperatures, low temperature cooling, tempering, quenching and so on.

This is a broad and profound knowledge, which is worth your whole life to explore and study, why can Master Zhao's scissors be so good? I hope you will carry forward this spirit and develop all kinds of special steel with great practicability that are urgently needed as soon as possible. ”

Listening to this, a group of craftsmen understood that they were originally allowed to observe the development of various special practical steel for making guns and guns, and they couldn't help but be excited, and everyone knew in their hearts that Yuanqi's reward was not a reward in the general sense, it was a real, lifelong reward, because Yuanqi's craftsmen implemented a rating system, and the salary was directly linked to the level.

Just when Yi Zhishu was about to talk to the craftsmen in detail, Lin Meilian, who was also wearing a work uniform and a hat, walked in quickly and said, "Big shopkeeper, someone from the house, it is Mr. Please return to the house as soon as possible." ”