Chapter 205: A Pocket Array That Has Remained Unchanged for Ten Thousand Years
If one day, justice that is forever long overdue occupies the world, what Guo Xing'a did in Hexi will be made public, and he will also be firmly on the pillar of shame in history. But at the moment, Guo Xing'a is not worried about this at all, and is still complacent about what he has done.
The first major crime of Guoxinga is to make the country rich. When the foreign invasion of the country was at the head, he used the name of fighting against the foreign tribe to rob the treasury and people's property that the foreign devils were embarrassed to plunder. Although he put all the dirty water on the heads of the British and French troops, the people who were robbed could clearly see that it was not whites or blacks who robbed them, but yellow people like himself. Of course, Goshinga's men did not wear their distinctive uniforms, and the people and coalition forces regarded them as bandits. The coalition forces also did not believe that the Qing army would not even let go of their own country's treasury. Of course, in fact, they should be glad that it is Guoxing, because if it is really another Qing army, they will not only rob money, but also engage in adultery, and then set fire to it by the way.
The second major crime in Goxinga was the torture and murder of prisoners of war. The brave whites in the street battles either had oil on the soles of their feet or fought to the death, but a large number of Indians surrendered to Goshinga. It's not because the whites are brave, but because most of the coalition troops stationed here are Anglo-Indian troops, and there aren't many whites among them. Guoxinga was still good to Ah San, first preaching his own prisoner policy, and then asking them to dig a big pit to bury the coalition soldiers who died in battle. However, after the pit was dug, Guo Xing'a was buried directly alive and dead. The objective conditions made it impossible for Goxinga to contain the prisoners, and because of certain prejudices, and the Indians were indeed too dissatisfied, Goxinga was very cold-blooded and acted in vain.
The first two charges can be said to be forced by the situation, and the third beggar-thy friendly army is completely Guoxing's lack of virtue. His retreat route did not point to Gu'an, but to the north, pointing in the direction of Caiyu. If the coalition forces fail to catch up with Goxinga in the first place, then they will follow this route to find Seng Lingqin in surprise. Monk Lingqin has the responsibility and obligation to resist the coalition army head-on, and it is understandable that Guo Xing'a will make a fortune behind enemy lines, and it is understandable to expand the team. But the work of enduring hardships and being scolded was done by Seng Greenqin, and Guo Xing'a only squatted behind to pick up the cheap, and Guo Xing'a's character was really inferior. Chinese gentlemen pay attention to virtue, but Guoxinga only has a chicken thief and lacks virtue, and is bound to be despised by traditional morality.
"My lord, more than 700 cavalry of the coalition army are chasing from the direction of Yang Village!" Guo Xing Ah was strolling and making out with Armstrong, and the queen of the palace sent someone to send a warning message.
"Occupy the high ground ahead, dismount the whole army, and set up to meet the enemy!" Guo Xing'a was still hugging Armstrong and kissing him, Tan Shaoguang didn't bother to pay attention to him, and made a deployment to meet the battle after looking at the nearby terrain.
"Don't fight, let's run, these people let Yuting deal with it!" Guo Xing'a shook his hand at Tan Shaoguang.
"Just seven hundred cavalry, what are we running?" Tan Shaoguang didn't understand it very much, he was absolutely sure to defeat the enemy army.
"Brother Tan! It's not time yet, don't expose our strength too soon! Foreign devils can accept ambushes or sneak attacks, but they definitely can't accept being defeated head-on, and they can't be scared, let alone lure their main force over. Guo Xing'a let go of the cannon, turned over his mount, and said to Tan Shaoguang with a smile.
"Speed up the march, bypass Caiyu, and return to Gu'an." Goxinga urged the horse to run.
Early in the morning, the coalition army of Yangcun received the news of the sneak attack on Hexiwu, and hurriedly asked for help from Junliangcheng and Tianjin on the one hand, and sent a Sikh cavalry regiment to reinforce Hexiwu on the other. The Sikh cavalry met the second battalion of light cavalry of Duo San on the road, but Duo San led his own retreat without making contact, and the Sikh cavalry, who were eager to reinforce Hexi, did not pursue them. But when they arrived at Hexiwu, they regretted it very much, they should have caught up with those cowardly eastern cavalry just now, and then broke them to pieces. Because they saw not only the looted warehouses, but also the Indians buried alive. The outstretched hand in the floating earth proves that these people were absolutely alive when they were buried, these cruel barbarians. The enraged Sikh cavalry, raising their sabers of hatred, followed the trail of Goxinga's retreat, and chased them down.
"The thousand-year-old king and eighty-thousand-year-old turtle, the unchanging Guodahandi ...... for 10,000 years" Bi Yuntao, who was squatting in Gaocun, chattered, venting his dissatisfaction with Guoxing'a in his heart.
"Tuanza!" Acton complained and called Bi Yuntao.
"The turtle has a long life, I wish the adult a long life!" Guoxinga is easy-going on weekdays, and everyone often jokes. As long as it doesn't involve military affairs, everyone is used to it, and it's not a big deal for Bi Yuntao to complain a few words.
"Tuanza, it will affect morale!" Acton was also a little helpless.
"Don't let me say it yet! You are my chief of staff, you come to me as a staff officer, how to carry out this order given to me by my lordship. On the terrain of this horse Pingchuan, what kind of pocket array do adults have to do, how to do it? He'll be able to pocket a pocket array for the rest of his life, right? As soon as Bi Yuntao mentioned Guo Xing's order, he was angry, Guo Xing'a was dead-eyed, he must put up a pocket formation, how Bi Yuntao explained the terrain problem, he refused to listen.
"Didn't we get it out too!" Acton smiled innocently.
The infantry regiment has not done anything since it was in position last night, and has been digging trenches on both sides of the main road. * A huge arc-shaped trench circle was created on a shovel.
"It's called a pocket array, huh? This is the arc fortification, which is completely devoid of terrain conditions. Outflanked by the enemy, our army can still turn to meet the battle, but what if the enemy escapes! We simply have no way to intercept it. "Since Bi Yuntao followed Guo Xing'a, every time he put out a pocket formation, even if he couldn't completely annihilate the enemy army, he could eat most of it. In this case, it's good to be able to take a bite, and you can't eat people at all.
"Tuanza, my lord is asking for the defeat of foreign soldiers!" Acton was still smiling.
"No matter what kind of pocket formation, we have more than 2,000 brothers, and we can't meet the enemy in the field. Besides, there are five battalions brought back by adults, and there are only as many foreign soldiers as there are. Bi Yuntao didn't know Guo Xing'a's train of thought, he was just very disgusted with Guo Xing'a's behavior of preserving his strength and using Monk Greenqin as a shield.
In Bi Yuntao's heart, everyone is an official army of the Qing Dynasty, and Guoxing A should not be so gloomy and let Seng Lingqin bear the pressure of the coalition army alone. If you don't have the strength, it doesn't matter, Guoxing A is obviously strong, but he wants to hide himself, only take advantage and not suffer. If Guo Xing'a could unite with the Monk Greenqin soldiers, and then contribute the secret of arms production to the imperial court, he would have destroyed the foreign devils a long time ago. But Guo Xing'a refused to live or die, Bi Yuntao mentioned it twice, but he was scolded by Guo Xing'a, so Bi Yuntao was already dissatisfied with Guo Xing'a. But Bi Yuntao also knew that Seng Lingqin could not compare to Guoxinga at all, and the pillar of force in the future of the Qing Dynasty would be Guoxinga, and he himself was the happiest with Guoxinga, so he could only hide this dissatisfaction in his heart for the time being. Guo Xing'a is a loyal and good general of the Qing Dynasty, and Bi Yuntao is Guo Xing's pawn, and Bi Yuntao has not wavered in this.
When the pocket watch given to Bi Yuntao by Guo Xing'a reached half past eight, Guo Xing'a's team arrived at Gao Village. The elated Guoxing Arang Brigade went first, stayed behind to inspect Bi Yuntao's defense line, and praised Bi Yuntao and Acton before leaving with a smile. Acton's soldiers were on the road when they picked up a white note with a large red seal, and Acton burned it after reading it. He knew that Guo Xing'a was lawless again, this kind of thing must not be seen by Bi Yuntao, if Bi Yuntao knew, he would definitely go to Guo Xing'a to quarrel.
No sooner had Acton disposed of the note than the Sikh cavalry had already rushed to the high village like a gust of wind. They were so eager that they didn't observe the surrounding environment at all, and rushed straight into Bi Yuntao's defensive circle. But their speed was so fast that Bi Yuntao didn't even have time to convey the order, so he could only take out his pistol himself and shoot two shots first, which was considered a signal for the start of the attack.
The soldiers, who had been waiting in the trenches for a long time, pushed away the grass and wood bunkers that covered their heads, raised their rifles and began to shoot at the Sikh cavalry. The Schneider rifle had a rate of fire of up to eighteen rounds per minute, freeing the troops from salvo fire, and they had enough fire density and accuracy that they no longer had to fight for probability.
The dense rain of bullets never seemed to stop, and the Sikh cavalry was caught in crossfire on both flanks, and people were constantly hit and dropped from their horses, and even killed along with their horses. Bi Yuntao also had his own plans, he was powerless to intercept the retreating coalition forces, but he left a bait for the coalition forces, so that the coalition forces had one more option besides retreating.
Now the coalition forces have three options, one is to rush at the enemy who is attacking them, but judging by the density of fire, this choice is tantamount to suicide. The second is to retreat the same way, but it is likely to be pursued by the enemy's cavalry. The third is to continue to rush forward and use speed to break through the enemy's fire network. There were no enemies on the main road to intercept the advance of the coalition forces, there were no trenches or other obstacles, and it seemed that the enemy had missed something.
"Rush forward, rush forward!" Bi Yuntao stared at the coalition army and kept chattering, as if he was cheering up the coalition army.
Guo Xing'a once asked not to use machine guns as much as possible, because the soldiers' rifles are good and can only hit soldiers and hurt horses less, unlike machine guns that burn jade and stones in the past, and some war horses can be captured without machine gun fire. And it can not expose its strength too early, if the foreign devils had known about the Guoxinga machine gun earlier, they would definitely study countermeasures. However, Bi Yuntao engaged in flexible operation, and he did not arrange machine guns in the trenches, so he deployed all the twelve machine guns of the whole regiment near the main road. If the Sikh cavalry were to rush forward, twelve machine guns would kill them in a minute.
"Fuck, coward!" After the coalition forces paused, they quickly fled back the same way, and the angry Bi Yuntao cursed.
"Clean up the battlefield, cover up the traces, retreat, hurry!" Acton wasn't as disappointed as Bi Yuntao, their mission had been accomplished, and it was time to pack up and go home.
The results of this battle were not bad, the Sikh cavalry left nearly 300 corpses and more than 200 war horses, and there were also a lot of small items such as pocket watches.
"Mu Daxia's heavy cavalry battalion, this time it can almost be replaced with a Yanmar!" Acton is still very concerned about people.
"Let's go back! Alas! Bi Yuntao was very frustrated. In this battle, he saw the power of Schneider's rifle, and his confidence in defeating the foreigners was greatly increased, but it was a pity that Guo Xinga refused to help Monk Greenqin.