It was the fourth watch of the night, and more than 200 elite soldiers of the Taiping Army attacked the camp of the Qing army at night. After touching * by mistake, it was fired by a company of Qing infantry and the whole army was annihilated.

Bi Yuntao, who won the battle, almost set up a tablet for Guoxing A to worship in the morning and evening, it was too godly. Guo Xing'a knew that the Taiping army's attack on the camp was not blind, but it was not that he expected things like a god. You must know that his nominal father Huiyang was killed by the Taiping Army's night attack, and Guo Xing'a of course has to prevent the Taiping Army from repeating his old tricks.

The next day, Guo Xing'a did not rush to attack, but had a good time to eat, and then began to smoke in a hurry. Lazily watched the Taiping army strengthen the fortifications, as if he really wanted to wait for the Taiping army to be ready for another open-board duel. In fact, Guo Xing'a waited for Huang Daping to abandon the city and flee.

There's no way, there's not enough troops! Goxinga did not have enough troops to encircle the town, so he could only attack from one direction, and the cavalry arranged on the periphery was purely lucky. If Huang Daping breaks through now, Guo Xing'a can easily find him, although Huang Daping is also easy to escape in the field, but the target is more obvious. And Huang Daping was defending in the city, and when Guo Xing'a conquered the town, there were fleeing Taiping troops everywhere, and it was more difficult for Guo Xing'a to find Huang Daping.

However, Huang Daping seems to have been born to disgust Guo Xing'a, and the more Guo Xing'a wants him to break through, the more he gritted his teeth and wants to defend it. In fact, Guo Xing'a also wanted to be blind with a good pair of eyes, he himself felt that he was strong, but Huang Daping didn't think so, because the two sides had different ideas. Guo Xing'a thought that he had eight artillery pieces and 400 elite musketeers, while Huang Daping thought that Guo Xing'a had less than 600 people. One thinks about weapons, the other thinks about troops, and of course they can't think of going together. It was almost time to prepare lunch, and Guo Xing'a knew that Huang Daping would not let him get his wish, and there was no need to wait any longer.

"Tell Kong Zhen to start shelling." Impatient, Goxinga finally gave the order to go to war.

The roar of the "Tong, Tong......" artillery rang out sparsely, and after Kong Zhen simply measured the distance, he fired several times with a six-pounder gun and corrected the angle of the shot. Three shells, two of which landed in the town, exploded with a puff of smoke and dust. One shot hit the city wall directly, shattered a few pieces of masonry, and then landed outside the city and exploded.

"Seven hundred and fifty meters!" Kong Zhen, who also got a pair of monoculars, thought for a while. In the last battle, only one pair of binoculars was captured, and of course it was taken by Goxinga for himself. Kong Zhen's telescope belonged to Nimashan, and after Guoxinga ran away from Nimashan, Fuquan seized it when he cleaned the room where Nimashan lived. Kong Zhen is now the only person with a telescope other than Guo Xing'a.

After listening to Kong Zhen's order, a soldier of the artillery platoon pulled out a cigar-shaped wooden message, which was engraved with numbers like the scale of a syringe, and the soldier found the scale of seven hundred and fifty, took out a large pair of scissors and cut it, and then inserted the remaining part into the shell.

The artillery fired again, this time right in the battlements of the wall, and the shells exploded after falling into the battlements. For a while, the flesh and blood on the city wall were flying, and the brilliant firelight mixed with the flesh and blood bloomed cruel flowers on the city wall.

"What is Kong Zhen rubbing? What about playing artillery sniper? Let him be happy, and then rub me to let him play artillery charge. Guo Xing'a was already impatient, and he had a hunch that this time Huang Daping would only leave him with a back.

After the artillery fire was fully fired, the city defended by the Taiping Army almost became the scene of a large area of the United States, and the sound of explosions continued to sound, and there were scattered stumps and broken arms everywhere. The solid masonry was shattered by artillery fire, and the flying rubble could penetrate the human body at any time. The musket troops, who had suffered huge losses, took up their bows and arrows to prepare for the Qing charge, but all they could reach was artillery shells.

The heavy firepower of the Taiping army has all fallen into the hands of Guoxing'a, and a few old domestic artillery pieces have barely been scraped together from the city, and they are all small guys like mountain-splitting cannons. In the face of the fierce firepower of the Qing army, the Taiping army was powerless to fight back. If the six-pounder cannon can still rely on the city defense to resist, the twelve-pounder heavy cannon is definitely a nightmare for the Taiping army. The huge explosion shattered the battlements where the Taiping army was hiding, and the artillery at the head of the city flew up like dead branches, and several people were stoned to death when they fell. The shockwave was not visible to the naked eye, but the limbs that flew down to the city proved his presence.

"Chengtai! Get ready to go! Whether there is a company commander or not, it's up to you! Changlu also brought people up, don't be left behind! "After twenty minutes of shelling, the artillery needed to dissipate heat, and Goxinga prepared for the assault company to storm the city.

"Don't worry, sir!" Chengtai bowed down and returned the telescope that Goxinga had lent him to observe the situation, and then walked out of the headquarters and began to attack his subordinates.

"Brothers, it's up to you whether we can produce a company commander in Qiding, how does Brother Chengtai usually treat everyone? Earn a breath for Brother Chengtai! Bannerman, the first bannerman to be the company commander! Brothers, look at you! A few flagmen who had just followed Chengtai and heard Guoxing's reward shouted loudly in the assault company.

At present, among the cadres above the company level, Actun, Hatan and others have no rank, but they are not bannermen, they are all from specialized backgrounds. Although Zhuan Da is not an official, he is not an ordinary person, they are also people who belong to the management. After the reform of Guoxing'a, although some people were promoted, the officers were still officers, and the soldiers were still soldiers, and this still did not change. Most of the people promoted by Guoxinga are concentrated at the level of specialization, which can only be regarded as pulling up the people at the bottom of the management.

Although many outstanding bannermen were later expanded and also became platoon commanders, the platoon commander was not an official in the hearts of everyone, but could only be regarded as a soldier. Moreover, this has also formed an unspoken rule, cadres above the company level or platoon commanders from specialized backgrounds generally call themselves "subordinate officials" or "subordinates" in front of Guoxinga, while platoon commanders from Qiding can only call themselves "slaves". Guo Xing'a never cared about these things, and some Han soldiers called themselves "me". But the flag people care, if they say something wrong, they will be reprimanded behind their backs.

In the eyes of the bannermen, the company commander is a hurdle, and after it passes, it is equivalent to a carp jumping over the dragon gate, and it has been reborn since then, and this kind of thinking has gradually spread to the Han soldiers. In the past, everyone never dared to think about it, but today Guo Xing'a personally promised to Qiding Chengtai, and Qiding finally had a company commander. This is a collective honor, but also a kind of hope, today Chengtai can be the company commander, tomorrow maybe I can too.

"Kill!" Not only the assault company, but even the soldiers of other nearby companies shouted in unison when they heard it. The soldiers clenched the muskets in their hands, as if they were holding the hope of the future, and looked fiercely at the head of the city defended by the Taiping army.

"Pay attention to alternate cover, life is more important than whether the company commander is or not!" After giving the order to attack, Chengtai reprimanded his subordinates in a deep voice, but his voice still couldn't hide the joy of longing.

"One-company, two-company fire cover!" Feng Shenga watched the assault company enter the attack position and ordered the infantry to start firing.

The Taiping army, which finally survived the artillery fire, did not have time to rejoice in the aftermath of the disaster, because they knew that the Qing army was about to attack. Without muskets, they waited for a long time at the head of the city with bows and arrows, but they did not see the sea of people in their impressions pressing up.

They won't see it, Chengtai doesn't have the bravery of Hatan, and he is not as cautious as Duosan, he is just a good student, a good student of Guoxinga. After becoming a platoon commander, he had the opportunity to listen to Guo Xing's class, and Chengtai, who was too complicated to read, could not understand it, and the best thing he learned was that the infantry squad cooperated with the infiltration assault attack.

Therefore, the current assault company did not rush like a swarm, but after looking at the terrain well, it began to sprint for a short distance. Alternately covering one class at a time, using the ridges, trees, and rocks of the rice fields as cover, they quickly approached the city wall.

When the Taiping discovered the assault company, the advance of the assault company was already less than fifty meters away from the city wall. The arrows of the Taiping army had not yet left the bowstring, and a dense rain of bullets had already descended on the city. The Taiping army who dared to show their heads was either blown off their skulls by bullets, or there was an inexplicable hole in their chests, and then they collapsed by the women's wall.

The sparse bows and arrows could not stop the assault company in cotton armor at all, and the vanguard quickly advanced to the city. The Taiping Army's ash bottles and thunder stones had not yet been thrown, and a few * had already been thrown up, and with the explosion of *, the only ladder of the assault company was set up at the head of the city.

The peculiar gunshots like small cannons resounded through the city......, and Chengtai personally led a platoon to climb the city wall. The orderly firepower formed a fire net, and the forward position was quickly established. The follow-up men of the assault company climbed the city wall in a steady stream.

The Taiping army was overwhelmed by the rain of bullets, and when the only energy they had was also restrained by Chengtai on the east side, a group of moving grass and trees approached the city wall on the west side. Like elves formed by grass and trees, they silently stuck to the city, and then several soldiers quickly threw off their camouflage and tied their horses against the city wall. Their companions stepped on their arms, stepped on their shoulders, leaped up with their strength, and climbed the walls with their bare hands. Their martial arts were by Mu Shun's own hands*, their tactics were formulated by Guo Xing'a himself, and their commander was called Changlu, who was the first special force of the Qing Dynasty.

The Taiping soldiers hiding under the women's wall suddenly noticed that there were several strange figures around them, but before they could make a sound, a pair of powerful hands had already broken their necks. Without firing a single shot, Changlu's special forces squad had already occupied the western section of the city wall with only daggers and hand-to-hand combat, and they did not alarm anyone.

"Good! Changlu did a good job! In the telescope, Guo Xing'a, who had been watching Changlu's every move, smiled excitedly. Touching the top of the city when the two armies were facing each other in broad daylight was more difficult than touching a sentry post at night to infiltrate, and Changlu was able to do it, proving that the special forces of Guoxinga had been trained.

"My lord, the assault company and the special operations team have landed in the city, let's attack!" Xiande suggested.

"Good! …… Wait a minute! The complacent Guoxing'a suddenly noticed a change that made him depressed, and the city head in the direction of Changlu on the west side suddenly had a faint fire, and the assault company on the east side also had a stagnant attack.

"My lord, there are ambushes in the city for Long Hair, and the assault company and special squad are all blocked, do you want to launch a general attack to support?" Bi Yuntao ran in in a hurry.

"Let them get down!" Guo Xing'a also saw the situation clearly through the binoculars, the Taiping army may have left reserves on the inside of the city wall, and Changlu's attack was forced back by the tactics of the sea of people. As soon as there were more people in the city, Changlu was naturally exposed. Although the Qing army still had the advantage, Goxinga did not want to fight. Because after all, there is no burst weapon, and the rate of fire of the front-loading gun pit father will definitely not be able to form an effective fire blocking, and once it falls into hand-to-hand combat, Guoxing Ake is reluctant to suffer casualties.

"My lord, the situation is very good! It's a shame to take it down. "Bi Yuntao is also an experienced person, as far as the siege is concerned, the current situation of the Qing army is very good, as long as the support keeps up, it will definitely be able to break the city. If such a great opportunity is given up, it will not be easy to hit the city again.

"Withdraw!" Guo Xinga didn't have a good airway.

"Your Excellency!" Bi Yuntao was too reluctant to give up this God-given opportunity to break the city.

"Withdraw!" Guo Xing'a ignored Bi Yuntao this time, but asked Fuquan to convey the order.

The clarion call for retreat sounded, and the Qing army at the head of the city threw out * cover, and then retreated in a gloomy manner.

"My lord, what a godsend!" Bi Yuntao almost beat his chest.

"Forget it, I'll take you to see the gods in a while, don't be so depressed!" Guo Xing'a also knew that Bi Yuntao had good intentions, and comforted him.

"Look at the gods?" Bi Yuntao, who sighed, was stunned by what Guo Xing'a said.

"That's right! Go see the god of war! Guo Xing'a smiled and patted Bi Yuntao's shoulder.