"Day. Damn, are the artillery team blind, how can they shoot at us! ”

The sudden artillery bombardment stunned Lin Jinzhong, who was leading his troops to slash and kill the Taiping army, thinking that it was his own artillery team that fired indiscriminately, and scolded his mother when he opened his mouth, but soon found that the sound of artillery was not coming from his own artillery team, but from the woods on the opposite side of the Lutou River.

Not only that, but there were also rows of Taiping troops holding firearms in the opposite woods, and they stepped out of the forest in a neat queue, forming a formation of dozens of zhang long, densely packed I don't know how many.

After these Taiping soldiers walked out of the forest, there was a sound of suona, and with the sound of suona, those Taiping soldiers actually marched directly into the Lutou River.

The water of the Lutou River is not deep, and it reaches the waist of a person!

That's impossible!

Lin Jinzhong's scalp was numb, how could the water of the Lutou River be so shallow as shallow as a person's waist, he had brought people here in the past, and the water in this river was obviously more than seven feet deep, but now it is only more than two feet!

It's not good, it's a trick!

The damn Taiping army blocked the upstream, and that thief Xiucai had already set up an ambush in this Lutou River!

Damn thief Xiucai!

Lin Jinzhong came to his senses.

"Retreat, retreat!"

The cannons that kept falling around him and the Taiping army that was crossing the river made Lin Jinzhong reappear the shadow of the Xinhui fiasco, he trembled, he was afraid. He ignored his subordinates who were still fighting with the Taiping army, and ran back on horseback.

The green battalion soldiers who were chasing and killing the Taiping Army were already stunned, and there were cannonballs whistling over their heads from time to time, and large iron balls were wreaking havoc everywhere in the crowd without eyes. The severed limbs and stumps screamed.

After the sound of the retreat of the chief soldier sounded, the battalion soldiers came to their senses, they were not chasing and killing the fleeing Taiping army. Instead, they fell into an ambush by the Taiping army.

"Run!"

The constantly falling shells caused the battalion soldiers to collapse in an instant, and they fled frantically towards the back road, they could no longer bear the shells raging above their heads, and they could not endure this instantaneous situation.

The battalion soldiers of Guangzhou Mansion in front ran back, and immediately the governor and the pacesetters who followed closely behind were also in chaos, and the guns of the Taiping Army were like long eyes, where to ask you whether you were a battalion soldier or a pacesetter. When a cannon falls, the corpse can fall into a circle, even if the ancestral tomb is smoking.

The Green Battalion soldiers who were fighting with the Taiping Army by the river were also panicked, and they had to face the relentless artillery fire of the Taiping Army when they ran back. Rushing forward and unable to extinguish the stubborn Taiping army in front of them, not to mention that the other side's reinforcements are crossing the river, once those soldiers come ashore, the huge disparity in strength and the change of the battlefield situation will make them, the most fierce Qing army, die without a place to be buried.

"The official ran away. Let's not run. I can't go back, so let the brothers save their lives! ”

There were battalion soldiers in the crowd shouting for surrender.

The Taiping army by the river heard the Qing army shouting for surrender, and hurriedly shouted: "The brothers of the green camp hurry up and surrender, our Taiping army will not kill prisoners, brother, I used to be from the green camp of Xiangshan!" ”

After being stunned for more than ten seconds, except for a thousand generals who were unwilling to surrender and ran back with more than a dozen personal soldiers, the rest of the hundreds of battalion soldiers threw their weapons in front of the target who was still slashing just now.

"I will surrender, but I will live!"

The rout of the Green Camp also made Zheng Guodong's horse team helpless. Fatally, they now had to choose between running and not running, as a cavalry appeared on the other side of the Lutou River, less than a mile to their right.

"Go back first!"

Zheng Guodong was not sure that he would be able to hold off the cavalry of the Taiping army in the event of a rout of the infantry of the Green Battalion. But he was confident that he would have no problem getting the team out in its entirety.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the horse team withdrew, the cavalry of the Taiping army came up, and they did not take advantage of the situation to attack the main force of the Qing infantry that was retreating, but followed Zheng Guodong's horse team towards the hillside where the Qing artillery team was located

"Fire! Fire! ”

Niu Gensheng roared so much that his throat was hoarse, but his face was red from overexcitement. On both sides of the Lutou River, he had already measured more than a dozen times according to the requirements of the military commander, and he also fired artillery again and again to verify, and finally determined the shelling circle.

Originally, he thought that it was unnecessary to plan the shelling circle, but now he felt that the commander could not be more wise, and it was precisely because of the earlier measurement and preparation that those gunners who fired the artillery could now drop the cannon on the head of the Qing army even if they closed their eyes. This is a change from the past, where there will be such a painful and accurate shelling, at least three or four percent of the artillery will fail.

"Happy, happy!"

Seeing that the Qing army was crushed by the artillery bombardment, Qi Hao also shouted with joy. He's been waiting impatiently!

After the soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the Right Battalion of the Infantry Army who had just arrived drove out of the woods, Zhou Shixiang no longer hid in the forest, but rode a big green horse to the river, looking at everything in front of him across the river, and at the same time felt a sense of accomplishment and heartache, because the rout of the left battalion of the infantry on the other side of the river was not a feint designed by him, but a real rout.

The Qing army in Guangzhou came too quickly, and for two days of holding Zengcheng, the left battalion of the infantry army was reduced to as many as 3 guards, and then it was hard to support under the pursuit of the Qing army, and they could not get rid of the pursuit of the Qing army and retreat to the ambush circle predetermined before the battle of Yinping Mountain, which made Zhou Shixiang forced to adjust the pre-war deployment and re-select Lutouhe as the battlefield for ambushing the Qing army. Otherwise, the left battalion of the infantry army is likely to be completely annihilated.

For this reason, not only did the artillery battalion have to move forward, but the right battalion of the infantry army stationed in Liangzi Township also urgently transferred 2 brigades and 1,200 soldiers to the Lutou River, while Zheng Tiezhu's brigade, which was sent to Panyu before the war to confuse the Qing army, had to bear the heavy responsibility of resisting the Qing army on the left flank.

The tragic situation of the left battalion of the infantry army after the artillery bombardment of the Qing army made the Taiping army in ambush on the other side of the river angry. Shao Chengguo asked for battle, Tie Yi asked for battle, and Shao Jiugong also led his own military camp to respond, but they were all suppressed by Zhou Shixiang.

The sacrifice of the left battalion of the infantry army was worth it, and they used their corpses to attract the Qing army to the preset battlefield.

The survival of the fittest, the road to a strong army has to pay countless costs.

Recruits who have not experienced brutal battles and have not climbed over the mountain of corpses in the sea of blood are definitely not credible, not to mention that the left battalion of the infantry army is still full of a large number of surrendered troops. These surrendered troops of the Qing army not long ago, and in the face of the crisis, they instinctively chose to hide or surrender, just as they surrendered to the Taiping army.

The fact is indeed as Zhou Shixiang expected, after the artillery bombardment of the Qing army, the reluctantly integrated infantry left battalion was immediately dispersed, hundreds of recruits hugged their heads and scurried, no matter how the officers could suppress it, and finally the whole battalion was forced to flee to the river, doubling the casualties.

A battle of equal strength can prove who is stronger, and only then can it expose problems that cannot be discovered on a daily basis.

Everything is worth it, as long as the Taiping Army can be truly built, Zhou Shixiang doesn't care how many bones are filled in under the military flag.

This era is inherently cruel

The artillery team was just about to open fire, but Li Blind grabbed Hu Qili's hand that he was about to wave, and said hurriedly: "My lord, this cannon can't be hit!" ”

"Why can't you fight, if you don't fight again, Taiping Kou will rush over!"

Hu Qili regretted that his intestines were green, he had known that the thief Xiucai had set up an ambush on the other side of the Lutou River, so he would not let the main force go out, and now that the green camp was defeated, this battle was lost. The only thing that can reduce losses is to prevent the Taiping army from pressing up, so that most of the soldiers and horses can be withdrawn, otherwise, I am afraid that I will really have no face to go back to see the governor.

Li Blind Man persuaded: "Fire now, our people will also be beaten!" It doesn't matter if you lose those battalions, but if you lose the horse team, how can you explain it to the governor? ”

was reminded by Li Blind like this, Hu Qili suddenly remembered that Zheng Guodong's horse team had not been withdrawn yet, if this cannon was a hit, it would not be divided between you and me, and he really wanted to fold the horse team built by the governor with a lot of money, could he have Hu Qili?

instructed the blind man Li: "You quickly bring someone up to pick up the horse team back, and don't let Taiping Kou rush to our side!" ”

"Wow!"

Blind Li is also the master of his life, and when he heard this, he immediately lit up Hu Qili's pro-army team and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, let Taiping Kou taste our power!" ”

(To be continued.) )