After the siege of Guoxing'a for three days, and the artillery of the Taiping army joined the battle sequence, the one-sided slaughter on the battlefield of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion finally ended. After the Taiping Army's twenty real heavy artillery pieces of more than 8,000 catties bombarded the defense line of the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, Li Xiucheng could not find the Qing army in the telescope.

The Taiping army launched the first attack with a scale of more than 10,000 people, but before the attack was launched, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng repeatedly told Wu Ruxiao, who commanded the army, to be cautious. The famous generals of the two were not sealed by themselves, of course, they were very real, and they saw through the trick of the Qing army to pretend to die at a glance.

Although the heavy artillery of the Taiping Army was sharp, it was also a domestic product during the Qianlong period, and it was not fired*. The Qing army that hid believed that they were killed and wounded a lot, but they didn't see the crowd of Qing troops fleeing at all, could they all be shocked to death, and the solid shells didn't have this ability at all. The only possibility is that after the Qing army was damaged, they began to pretend to be dead, trying to lure the Taiping army to attack and kill and injure the living forces of the Taiping army again. Although they saw through the trick, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng still ordered an attack, because they also had their magic weapon to win.

The two famous generals can be described as brilliant, of course, there are also things they didn't expect, that is, the Qing army was not damaged at all, let alone killed, not even injured. The Qing army's defense line completely copied the field fortifications of World War II standards, and even * was buried, only replacing the barbed wire with horses and antlers. The bunker fire points of the Qing army were all built with bricks and stones with a protective wall as thick as one and a half meters, and the upper layer was covered with wood and mud for three or four layers. The roofless trenches were also reinforced with masonry and wood, and there were individual potholes with anti-artillery guns. The Qing army demolished the houses of the Dragon and Tiger Camp in order to obtain wood and masonry.

This level of fortification, even the use of * blasting shells, must fall right in the trenches to be effective. Not to mention that the Taiping army only flew a big iron ball, even if the whole artillery flew over, don't want to hit people. Unless Li Xiucheng can get a large-caliber high-explosive bomb loaded with *, or directly ask Chiang Kai-shek to borrow a few 32 times 15 grenades, the artillery bombardment of the Taiping army can only be a lively one.

Wu Ruxiao, who understood the intention of the leadership, took every step with great difficulty, the Taiping army had suffered a lot in the Dragon and Tiger Camp in the past three days, and now he knew that the Qing army was hiding in the shadows and preparing to carry out a sneak attack, how could Wu Ruxiao not be nervous. The musketeers of the Taiping Army fired aimlessly in the direction of the Qing army's defensive line, saying that it was okay to prepare for fire, or to give themselves courage. Looking at the corpses covered in robes, not to mention the soldiers, even Wu Ruxiao felt a little weak in his heart.

Anyway, being caught by Li Xiucheng was the fate of becoming dumpling filling, Guo Xing'a put down all his concerns, and in order to increase the psychological pressure of the Taiping Army as much as possible, he issued a very cruel order, not allowing the Taiping Army to collect corpses or treat the wounded. Taiping soldiers who were killed or wounded in the attack fell completely. Whether the Taiping army used a large number of personnel to rescue them, or a small group of troops to carry them, the Qing army shot them all, even under the white flag. Those who entered a closer distance were fired with muskets, and those who were farther away were bombarded with artillery, and even if the Taiping army only sent three or two people, it would become the target of Napoleon's artillery. The precision strike capability of Napoleon's cannon to shoot and kill the standard-bearer from 1,600 meters away is really not boastful, and the Taiping army will have to take more than 70 people into it if they snatch back 100 corpses. The Taiping army, who had no choice, could only grit their teeth, curse the brutal Qing army, and temporarily gave up the body of the robe. Therefore, on the way of the Taiping army's attack, thousands of robed corpses were densely covered, and the once vivid bodies covered the ground like cold floor tiles.

When the Taiping army was still nearly a mile away from the Qing army's defense line, the Qing army's artillery and even muskets began to shoot, because there were too many Taiping troops this time, and the Qing army did not have the courage to put them close and fight again. The distance of the Taiping army was almost the limit of the effective range of the Qing army's muskets, but the Taiping army had a large target, and the Qing army could almost give up aiming, and just reload the ammunition as fast as possible, trying to fire as many bullets as possible before the Taiping army charged. Although the distance of nearly 500 meters reduced the hit rate of the Qing army, the gunners fed by hundreds of bullets were really too accurate, and the forward of the Taiping army still fell again and again with hundreds of people. The Napoleonic cannon was even more at an excellent firing distance, with spherical solid bullets, explosive bombs and even shotgun bombing, and the Taiping soldiers who bombed again and again turned on their backs.

"Hit the mountain!" Chen Yucheng found that his artillery did not pose a threat to the artillery in the Qing army's bunker, and the infantry suffered a large number of casualties, so he hurriedly ordered heavy artillery to bombard the main artillery position set up on the hillside of Guoxing'a.

The eight guns in the bunker of the Qing army were mainly to make up for the lack of infantry firepower, and the target was mainly the Taiping soldiers who reached the close defense line, most of them were flat fire, so they could hide in the bunker. The artillery on the hillside bombarded the rear of the Taiping Army at a distance in order to shoot at a large elevation angle, and of course they could not fire in a covered environment, so although an artillery fortress was also built, there was no protection overhead. If the Taiping army's big iron ball hit the artillery position by falling from the sky, it could really pose a threat to the Qing army's artillery. However, the answer of the artillery commander of the Taiping Army made the British King Chen Yucheng a little broken.

"Your Highness, I can't reach it!" The veteran artillery commander, who had joined the Taiping Army since Guangxi, was a little ashamed.

"Let's figure it out!" Li Xiucheng expressed his understanding, after all, the Taiping army's main formation was nearly five miles away from the Qing army's hillside position.

"Your Royal Highness, you have to go at least two miles to get hit." The old artillery commander gestured to the position of the Qing army for a long time, pondered for a while, and then said with some uncertainty.

Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng naturally had no opinion, and hurriedly mobilized men and horses to help advance the artillery. It is not easy to move tens of thousands of catties of artillery, and the Taiping army does not use gun trucks, but grinding disc gun carriages used only on the forts, and it is a waste of countless time to need to split and move.

These cannons were also captured by the Taiping army from the Qing army, and they were basically heavy artillery used in the city defense, and the firepower was quite powerful. However, the weight of these things is too large to be used in field battles, but the Taiping army values their strong firepower in siege warfare, and generally likes to carry them even if it takes time and effort. In fact, these big guys can't be regarded as Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng running around, and they were originally placed in Liuhe and Pukou City to defend the city. However, Huang Daping repeatedly emphasized that Guoxing's artillery was sharp, and for the sake of insurance, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng took great pains to invite them out.

These big guys are about the equivalent of sixty-eight-pounder cannons in the West, and they all fire super large iron balls, and the countless large craters smashed by them in the Dragon and Tiger Camp Village are a testament to their power. The range of the big guy with a huge charge could have reached more than five miles, but there were some problems with the Taiping Army, so that Guoxinga did not taste the taste of the super big iron ball.

The Taiping Army and the Qing Army used *, and they were also prepared with the formula of "one nitrate, two sulfur and three charcoal". This formula will have certain changes according to the different uses, and the saltpeter composition is high, so the explosive power is strong and the combustion is poor, which is suitable for doing *; On the contrary, it is suitable for making projectiles*, and the explosives* and launchers* made by Goxinga are based on this principle. However, if the proportion of sulfur is low, there will be a lack of launch thrust, and the range and penetration of such a * projectile will be greatly reduced.

* Of the three ingredients, only the sulphur Taipings are not self-sufficient. Charcoal can be burned by itself, saltpeter can be boiled and refined from the bricks and soil of old houses and old walls, and there is no other way to buy finished products by removing sulfur. Under the blockade of the Qing army on all sides, the Taiping army often had to reduce the proportion of sulfur in the *, which resulted in the consequences that the guns could not hit far and could not penetrate, so the firing range was as high as five miles, and the reduced * could only hit about three miles.

When the Taiping army was busy carrying the huge cannons, Wu Ruxiao was really powerful, and used Li Xiucheng's magic weapon to stabilize the Taiping army's front. Li Xiucheng's magic weapon for winning is also artillery, and he painstakingly collected more than 200 artillery pieces of various types, and this time he allocated 50 pieces to Wu Ruxiao. In the face of the Qing army's shooting, the Taiping army under the command of Wu Ruxiao not only used muskets to return fire on the spot, but also began to deploy artillery to bombard the defense line of the Qing army's Dragon and Tiger Battalion.

These artillery pieces of the Taiping Army are enough to open a museum, not only with a variety of calibers, but also with domestic and imported ones, and the age span is also very amazing. The domestically produced ones from the Ming Dynasty, the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, Kangxi, Qianlong, and Daoguang are complete from generation to generation, and the imported ones are also from the American Independence, the Napoleonic Wars to the Crimean War. If Xing'a could see these cannons clearly in the telescope, he would definitely give Li Xiucheng a knock on the top of the mountain, big brother, you are really not easy!

The projectiles fired by the Taiping Army's artillery are also shocking enough, there are not many small iron balls, and there are really a lot of sundries. Anyway, it's not accurate, it's all about probability, of course, shotgun is king, so the Taiping Army is also based on shotgun. However, they don't have the patience of Guo Xing'a, and making small iron balls one by one is not their style. On the battlefield, the Taiping army came over with a cannon, stones, nails, and metal scrap, which was called a mess. Moreover, the Taiping army also had a considerable amount of artillery, and they directly made cannonballs with copper coins, and after a cannon, Brother Kong Fang flew all over the sky, like money darts. Although the money was flying all over the sky, the Qing army did not dare to pick it up, so they could only rely on hiding in the trenches, which was really deadly money.

Although the reloading speed of the Taiping army is not at the same level as that of the Qing army, it can't stand up to the many cannons! Wu Ruxiao pushed these artillery pieces and rushed at the same time, and the speed of advance was extremely fast, except for the bunker fire point, he could also counterattack, and the Qing troops in the trenches were all beaten and couldn't raise their heads.

Guo Xing'a, who supervised the battle on the top of the mountain, couldn't sit still at that time, although the Qing army had already overthrown thousands of Taiping troops, but the Taiping army still had nearly 9,000 troops. If the infantry firepower continues to be suppressed, Li Xiucheng can pull Chen Yucheng to start making peace, the Taiping army will break through the Dragon and Tiger Battalion, and Guoxing'a will become the meat filling of the dumplings for the two of them as soon as they go up the mountain. Guo Xing'a threw off his cloak, carried a telescope, and personally rushed to the artillery position to direct the artillery to bombard Wu Ruxiao's artillery.

In addition to the ferocity of firepower, the accuracy of the Napoleonic cannon was also the pinnacle of the smoothbore gun era. A distance of 1,600 meters can hit a single target, not to mention Wu Ruxiao's artillery in a group of three or five people, the target is large and close, and it is simply accurate to hit one by one. After three rounds of firing by the Qing artillery loaded with explosive shells, Wu Ruxiao's artillery charge came to an end, and all 50 artillery pieces of the Taiping Army were scrapped. However, the Taiping army still took advantage of this opportunity and rushed into the defense line of the Qing army's Dragon and Tiger Battalion at a distance of about 150 meters. He was about to command the artillery to chase after the poor Guoxing'a, when his eyes swept over the rear of the Taiping Army, he suddenly found a few big guys.

"I'll go!" Raising the binoculars to take a closer look, Guo Xing'a gasped.

Although the specific situation of the Taiping Army's heavy artillery could not be seen clearly through the binoculars, it could be seen that it was a 68-pounder cannon or something big. Guo Xing'a really didn't expect that Li Xiucheng mobilized these big guys to come for himself, and he thought that Li Xiucheng was going to use the empowerment offensive to deal with the bunker firepower of the Qing army! The so-called palm technique that falls from the sky is a good palm technique, and the empowerment attack is the death hole of the fortress, no matter how hard your king is in the shell, Lao Tzu will directly lift the cover for you, and how many world-famous fortresses are broken by this style of play. For example, the German legendary cannon Gustav wiped out the ammunition depot of the Sevastopol fortress with one shot. If the simple bunker of the Qing army was really hit twice by these dozens of catties of big iron balls with meteor-like potential energy, it was estimated that it would be enough to choke.

"Kill the big guys!" Goxinga hurriedly ordered the artillery to turn the muzzle again. But at this time, the Taiping army, which launched the charge, had already relied on the superiority of troops, rushed through the firepower network of the Qing army, which lacked a large amount of artillery fire, and broke into the Dragon and Tiger Battalion.