"Master Shuai! Let Brother Karl continue to fire, and this time I'll take the brethren on it! Kong Guodong was eager to try, and his relationship with Liu Ju could be described as friend and foe. If Liu Ju suffered such a big loss in normal times, Kong Guodong would probably be watching the joke on the side. But this time the Qing demon hurt his brother, and Kong Guodong must avenge Liu Ju.

Huang Daping looked at Guoxing's defense line and was silent for a long time, and thought again and again: "I can't gnaw anymore, don't be in a hurry for a while, let the brothers slow down." Let's fence it off first! Brothers, recharge their batteries first, and then go down tomorrow morning! ”

"Okay, let's use this time to observe the enemy's defense, they must have loopholes." Carl agreed.

The Taiping army gathered its position, still stationed in the bandits' old camp, and divided two groups of 500 men each to surround the deserted village from both flanks. After the three places were set up in their respective camps, Huang Daping took Carl and the main generals on horseback and circled around the deserted village, looking for loopholes in the Goxing'a defense line.

"This village is a high ground, our front is the only road, and the focus of the Qing Demon's defense is also here. There are no roads on the other three sides, and in addition to the natural slope, the Qing Demon has also erected obstacles, which makes it more difficult to attack! After walking around, Carl summed up unhurriedly.

"A frontal feint, there must be a chance in other directions!" Kong Guodong felt that the main reason for Liu Ju's defeat was that he was caught off guard by the Qing army.

"How many troops does the Qing Demon have?" Huang Daping ignored the two and turned to Liu Ju to ask.

"The Qing Demon stationed here is the Eight Banners, and there is a leader, but there are more people, about four hundred. Some of them were knocked out by us before and after, and there were still 300 people who died in the back. Liu estimated.

"It seems like there's more to it than that. Judging from the density of the enemy's firepower just now, they have invested at least 300 or more troops, and they have reserves that have not participated in the battle, so their strength should be more than 500 men. Carl, in order to prove that he had better observation skills, took out his monocular.

"Have any reinforcements arrived recently?" Huang Daping also felt that the Qing army was by no means more than 300 people.

"Definitely not, if the Qing Demon Jiangnan Camp has a move, we won't be unaware. However, recently there was a bandit who was collecting food nearby, and then disappeared inexplicably. "Liu Ju is still very confident in his own intelligence sources.

"Bandits? Qing Demon ate that bandit? Kong Guodong wondered.

"Eight Banners, no!" Liu Ju muttered. If the Green Battalion or other regiments are trained to the point that it is possible to recruit bandits, the probability of the Eight Banners recruiting outsiders is too low.

"Regardless of him, there is no big mistake in being careful, just when the Qing Demon collects the bandits, it is right to deal with 800 people." Huang Daping didn't want to underestimate his opponent.

"If we assume that the enemy has 800 people, the strength of the four defense lines can be divided into about 200 people, and a feint attack is advisable!" Karl did not reject Kong Guodong's suggestion of feint attack because Kong Guodong had just opposed him.

"Early tomorrow morning, Brother Carl and I will make a feint at the entrance of the village, Brother Liu will go to the east of the village, Brother Kong Guodong will go to the west of the village, and then arrange an ambush in the north of the village." Huang Daping arranged it while thinking about it.

"Master Shuai, who of us will be the main attack!" Liu Ju and Kong Guodong asked at the same time.

"You're all feints." Huang Daping said deeply.

"The ambush soldiers in the north of the village?" Karl wondered.

"It's also a feint." Huang Daping's smile was even more unfathomable.

Seeing that the Taiping army surrounded three and left a road behind the village alone, Guo Xing didn't feel any surprise. Ancient Chinese sieges were generally fought like this, and Guoxing'a had foreseen it. Although there is no city in Guoxing, there is still a dirt fence! As for the Taiping army's use of the siege to shake the morale of the Qing army, Guo Xing'a is not worried, the political cadres of each company are working hard to fool around! Moreover, his own family has just won the battle, and there is a rule that the fugitive is immediately beheaded, so a fool wants to be a deserter! Guo Xing'a also made a bet with Saishan'a, and gambled ten taels of silver, and there must be an ambush behind the village.

In addition to the division of troops of the Taiping army, the Qing army adjusted its defensive deployment. The Qing army didn't do anything all afternoon, Guo Xing'a personally led the team, and all the stupid boys of the Qing army went on a blind date, lying on the wall, watching Huang Daping and the main generals of the Taiping Army walking outside. Changlu once proposed that the reconnaissance platoon send a few top soldiers out to carry out a beheading operation. However, Guo Xing'a felt that the success rate was not high, so he gave up after thinking about it.

After nightfall, the Qing army could not leave the Taiping army outside and go back to the barracks to sleep, so they could only spend the night in the trenches. However, except for the sentries who stood guard on duty, everyone slept very soundly. Finally, there is no need to worry about Guoxing's emergency assembly in the middle of the night, no matter how crazy Guoxing'a is, he will not conduct exercises at the current time of the enemy. If there is a real emergency, it is really a fight.

Early the next morning, when Guo Xing'a was sucking half a bowl of millet porridge, the Taiping army launched an attack. A heavy artillery salvo disrupted the tranquility of the early morning. Although the Qing army had already developed a good habit of squatting in the trenches when nothing was right at the request of Guoxinga. But there was still a sundries soldier who came to deliver breakfast, with two buckets of millet porridge, and was blown up by * together. The golden millet porridge drew a golden waterfall in midair, and the soldiers on the ground had been blown in two. One leg was torn off alive by the terrifying power of the explosion. There was only a bloody hole left near the hip bone, and blood trickled like a stream mixed with internal organs.

"Anti-artillery!" This time, there was no need for Guo Xing's greeting, the platoon commanders on the defense line shouted, and everyone quickly curled up into the trenches, and then looked at the bloody handymen in a daze.

The "whoosh, whoosh......" artillery platoon was not suppressed by the artillery this time, and two * launchers quickly counterattacked in the constructed trenches.

However, *'s accuracy was still painful, not only did it fail to suppress the Taiping army's artillery, but even the Taiping army's infantry was not greatly affected. Of the four in the first wave*, only one hit the crowd, and the other three were all deflected by dozens of meters. However, it has also had a certain effect.

The Taiping army no longer relied solely on artillery, and at the same time as the artillery began to bombard, 300 musketeers lined up in three neat phalanxes and pressed towards the defense line of the village entrance of Goxinga. There was no drum music common in European battlefields, but the pace of the Taiping army was neat and steady. The three phalanxes finished in a zigzag formation, covering each other and supporting each other, apparently after a long period of training.

"! Line up to shoot! Guo Xing'a couldn't help but scold. The formation of the Taiping Army, Guo Xing'a is very familiar. This formation has appeared countless times in various film and television works that Guo Xing's preferences. If you change the Taiping Army into a red uniform and add a bagpipe version of the background music, this is a Red Shirts.

The Taiping army somewhat disappointed Guo Xing'a, and failed to advance to about thirty meters like the Red Shirts, but stopped at about eighty meters. In the middle of the line, a Taiping army who looked like an officer raised his waist knife, and the Taiping army in the first column raised his musket and began to aim. With the swing of the waist knife, the dense lead bullet struck the head and face. After a round of shooting, the first column of the Taiping army quickly retreated, and the second column was replenished, and another round of intensive bullets rained. In this way, each phalanx has five columns of Taiping troops, skillfully completing the shooting action. Moreover, the Taiping troops of the three phalanxes formed a crossfire, and there were almost no dead ends. The earthen wall defense line has experienced the baptism of bullets rain after rain.

"One to four rows of alternate shots!" Without Gohin's fingers, Acton had already ordered the company stationed in the earthen wall defense line to start firing back.

The Qing army still alternated the fire of each platoon to form a continuous firepower. Although the firepower density was lower than that of the Taiping army, fortunately, Guoxing'a had trained live ammunition without hesitation, and the shooting accuracy of the Qing army was much higher than that of the Taiping army. A round of musket bombardment between the two sides ended, and the battlefield was filled with white smoke produced by *. However, the results of the exchange can still be seen, and almost all three phalanxes of the Taiping army have lost their first column, and there are more than a dozen people lying in the trenches on the Qing side.

There were not many people killed directly on both sides, more than a dozen in the Taiping army, and only two in the Qing army. But the treatment of the wounded who fell could not be seen in the same way, and the wounded of the Taiping Army could only wallow in the mud mixed with their own blood. As soon as the wounded of the Qing army fell, a medical soldier from the miscellaneous service team rushed over to nurse them, fed them with a painkiller, and carried them directly out of the trench to a relatively safe house behind for treatment. Although the Qing army did not have surgeons, the wounded could stop bleeding and bandage, and they could eat some opium to make it less painful. The final outcome of the wounded is resigned to fate, to see if God can give them a life. However, the Qing army had opium to relieve their pain and clean beds to lie on, so the Taiping army could only roll in the blood and mud. Moreover, the Qing army does not have to look at the wounded comrades-in-arms wailing, and the psychological pressure is less, so the Taiping army has to face the bloody truth.

The front-line command of the Taiping Army was obviously battle-hardened and quickly adjusted its formation. The three phalanxes have been adjusted from the original five columns to three columns. And there was no longer alternate firing in columns, but a salvo of one phalanx after another. The density of firepower in a single direction has been terrifyingly increased in an instant. The earthen wall was full of debris, and the Qing army was completely pressed and couldn't raise its head, and Guo Xing'a could only lie behind the earthen wall and scold the idle street.

Obviously, this set of line tactics of the Taiping Army is not the first time to meet people, and it has also been tempered in actual combat. When facing an inferior enemy, take multiple columns in a phalanx to take turns to shoot and continuously suppress the enemy with firepower. If there is a balance of power between us and the enemy, quickly adjust to three volleys to strike the enemy with maximum firepower. At the same time, the cooperation of multiple phalanxes is used to make up for the gap in the firepower and ensure the continuous pressure firepower.

"Fuquan, let Hatan transfer a platoon!" Guo Xing'a estimated that with this kind of firepower density, it would be impossible to shoot at the Taiping army for more than 100 meters. As long as the fight lasted a little longer, and the casualties of a company reached a certain level, the Taiping army would charge. If you don't arrange reserves to participate in the war, I'm afraid you won't be able to withstand it.

Fu Quan ran down the traffic trench to deliver the order, and Guo Xing'a began to observe the casualties of the first company. In the rain of bullets, there was no sorrow in Guoxing's imagination. To be exact, there were almost no casualties in the company. Except for the dozen or so unlucky people who were carried down after the first round of shooting, everyone in the company was like quails, safely curled up in the trenches.

"Volley back!" Gohinga also figured out the situation, and Acton had given the order to return fire again.

"Bang, bang......" Under the cover of firepower, Guo Xing'a also took a look at the environment of the Taiping Army outside. The uncovered Taiping army was shrunken to avoid the bullets that could not be seen, just like the people who were hiding from the rain under the eaves. After a salvo, nearly 50 more Taiping soldiers were left on the spot.

"Trenches!" Guo Xing'a slapped his head hard. That's not! is also shooting, his own people are hiding in the trenches, but the Taiping army is standing and beaten without cover, how can he forget about it.

If you look closely, although the firepower of the Taiping army is strong, most of them hit the earthen wall, and the others don't know where they flew. The Qing soldiers who were busy loading ammunition in the trenches had nothing to do.

"Lao Tzu has a trench, hahahaha!" Guo Xing looked up to the sky and smiled.

"Boom!" Before Guo Xing'a finished laughing, a solid cannonball hit the earthen wall, directly making a gap in the earthen wall. Behind the earthen wall, a Qing soldier who was growing up was directly hit by a cannonball. The terrifying solid iron ball flew out with the upper body of the Qing army, leaving only his hip bones and two legs in the trench. Goxinga could even see that in the abdominal cavity of the stump left in the trenches, there were still intestines wriggling and trembling.