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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 364: Qi Xu Rulin

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    On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month of the Jiayin year, thirty miles south of Taizhou City, the Wentai defense line at the gateway of the Qing army in Fujian, there was a dense forest. More than a thousand Taiping cavalry were waiting quietly in the forest. The trees here  The fallen trees and luxuriant branches completely concealed the figure of this cavalryman.

    Under a poplar tree, Zhang Wenxiang, a warrior of the Taiping Army, sat on the ground with an angry look on his face. He kept licking the green grass in front of him, and then angrily put it in his mouth and chewed it. Behind him, a red and black horse lowered its head to eat.  Touching the tender grass on the ground, "Captain Liu, you eat grass faster than your horse."

    Only then did Zhang Wenxiang come back to his senses, spit out the grass in his mouth with a few bah-baah sounds, and looked up, but it was Zheng Yantuo, the regiment instructor of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd New Division of the West Hall of the Taiping Army. This person  Having served as a clerk in the Western Prince's Mansion, he can be considered an old man in the Taiping Army. Zhang Wenxiang said sarcastically: "Zheng Xundao, please stop sarcastic me. Am I not impatient? What the hell is going on? We are all  I have been waiting here for three days, if we kill them early in the morning, those Qingyao gang will become real ghosts."

    Zheng Yantuo laughed, sat on the ground and said, "Aren't we waiting for Li Shangshu's general order? We will fight as soon as the order is received!"

    Zhang Wenxiang said depressingly: "The gangsters in the General Staff Office are always looking forward and backward, and they will not deploy until all the logistics materials are in place. Didn't you see the evil things these demons did in nearby villages along the way?  How many people have you killed?"

    Zheng Yantuo shook his head, glanced sideways at him and said, "I also want to say that you, the most outstanding person in the Shanghai Cavalry Division, know what it means to defeat the enemy with one strike. Soldiers have to obey orders as their bounden duty. Although Qingyao has done many evil things, we  We are soldiers, and the purpose of this battle is total annihilation, don¡¯t you understand?¡± Zhang Wenxiang is from Ruyang, Henan.  In the 29th year of Daoguang's reign, he went south to Ningbo to sell felt hats to earn a living, and he has been living in Ningbo ever since. He was also a small leader of Ningbo pirates.  After the Taiping Army conquered Ningbo, Zhang Wenxiang joined the Taiping Army. Originally, Zhang Wenxiang was in the navy, but Liu Lichuan saw that he was proficient in equestrian skills, so he let him join his cavalry team, and later he went to Shanghai to reorganize.

    Zhang Wenxiang studied very hard and conscientiously in the cavalry department of Shanghai Military Academy for more than half a year, and he seemed to be born to lead the cavalry.  Therefore, after graduating first among the thousands of cavalrymen, he was awarded the title of commander of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Division.  During this reorganization process, Xidian adopted the approach of not looking at past resumes but only looking at academic performance, and promoted a large number of new talents in an exceptional manner.  Zhang Wenxiang is the most dazzling one among them.

    Zhang Wenxiang lowered his head and said with a groan: "I know it too, but I just feel aggrieved. If we keep waiting like this, sooner or later the people will be killed by Qing Yao."

    Zheng Yantuo said calmly: "In a while. At noon, we can go out to fight."

    Zhang Wenxiang exclaimed and asked, "Will the noon hour arrive?"

    Zheng Yantuo smiled and said: "Staff Yang in the regiment made calculations yesterday. According to our transportation capacity, all logistics materials will be in place by noon today at the latest. Li Shangshu wants to fight a good battle. After the materials are guaranteed. You  Can the demon Qing be able to block our thunder strike?"

    Zhang Wenxiang turned his anger into joy and said: "If you hadn't told me earlier, I would have gone and prepared to go." After saying that, he arranged his grass green camouflage uniform, put on a green cotton armor, and put on a hat with  Yu Ling put on her iron helmet.  He smiled and said: "This is the first time that our Taiping New Army wears our own military uniforms to fight, so we can't be embarrassed."

    The equipment of the Taiping cavalry includes sabers, short carbines, cotton armor and iron helmets with feathers and awnings. It is not the cuirassier heavy cavalry of Britain and France, but light cavalry, because with the development of firearms, light cavalry is cheaper and more powerful.  Practical, bulky cuirassiers are just bulky targets on the battlefield, so the cavalry of the Taiping Army are all light cavalry.

    Zheng Yantuo also stood up and said: "But we have agreed first that you have to stay behind. I know your temper very well. When the bugle blows, you can rush faster than anyone else."

    Zhang Wenxiang's eyes widened and he smiled and said: "No, I will listen to you and stay behind obediently."

    While he was talking, a cavalryman came on horseback. He was also dressed in camouflage and wore an iron helmet with feathers. The horse, the cavalryman, and the helmet were covered with branches.  Since the beginning of the year, the Taiping Army has started producing iron helmets for cavalry according to Xiao Yungui's design. In this battle, all participating troops put on camouflage uniforms and iron helmets, finally getting rid of the Taiping Army's annoying uniforms.  Everyone seems to be in a lot of spirits, and their morale is even higher.  In Zheng Yantuo's words, you don't even need to mobilize to defeat the demons.

    The cavalryman rushed closer, dismounted, saluted the two men and said, "Report, there are more than 200 Qingyao soldiers outside Taizhou City escorting hundreds of civilians, marching on the plain ten miles away. It seems that they are being escorted somewhere.  Then executed."

    Zhang Wenxiang said angrily: "You bastard, you son of a bitch, give me the order to assemble." He turned around and looked atYantuo glanced at him and said, "Rescuing people is like putting out fires. You don't have to wait until noon."

    Zheng Yantuo pondered for a moment and gritted his teeth and said: "If the matter is urgent, let's go to war, be more clean and tidy. As long as we don't lose a clear demon, we won't scare the snake."

    Zhang Wenxiang said quickly: "If the cavalry of our second regiment allows Qingyao's infantry to escape, we brothers will have to wipe our necks. Let the third battalion and the third company take the lead, and the rest of the troops will form a fan-shaped surround. Remember to charge hard, Qingyao  If there are civilians in the team, they must rush forward and separate the Qing Yao from the civilians so that they can be annihilated and there will be fewer casualties among the civilians." The cavalryman took the order, mounted his horse and roared away.

    Zhang Wenxiang and Zheng Yantuo took the regiment guards, mounted their horses and led the rest of the troops to start walking north. A little further away, there was a sound of shouting. It was the officers and soldiers of the third battalion and the third company who took the lead and galloped away. The other soldiers and horses listened.  When they heard the shouts, they all silently urged their mounts to start moving quickly.

    Zhang Wenxiang rode on his horse and said to the messenger: "Send the message to the Second Infantry Regiment and the Artillery Regiment of the Second Division behind us. Our unit has begun to take over the battle, and let them follow up." The messenger roared away with the order.  .

    After leaving the woods, there was a plain. Zhang Wenxiang looked from a distance and saw a group of Qing troops escorting hundreds of people walking on the plain road. The Qing troops were very fierce. Anyone who fell behind would be killed with a knife.  Many corpses were left behind in the team, and the braids on the backs of the heads of those ordinary men were cut off.  At first glance, one can tell that the Qing army caught ordinary people and cut off their pigtails, intending to kill good people and take credit for them.  The people in the team cried and screamed, it was very miserable.

    Zhang Wenxiang¡¯s eyes were filled with tears. Since he arrived at the front line of Wentai, what he has seen and heard are all tragedies in the world.  The Qing army could not gain any advantage in the long-term confrontation, so they often raided nearby villages. Burning, killing, looting and looting were common. The Qing army called them to eliminate unruly people to prevent collusion with Changmao.

    The soldiers around Zhang Wenxiang were also extremely angry.  Their eyes were about to burst into flames, but they didn't move or even speak. The Taiping Army's military orders were very strict, and the soldiers could only bury their anger in their hearts.  Slowly saving up, waiting for the order to be issued.  The anger in his heart was about to be vented on these Mao Zi soldiers.

    The soldiers of the cavalry regiment were covered with branches.  In addition, the camouflage uniforms and cotton armor were all camouflaged with branches. From a distance, it looked like a moving forest, but it was as silent as a forest, and the chilling atmosphere of the forest slowly emerged.

    The third battalion and the third company received the order first and urged their horses to rush out of the woods.  The new breech-loading short carbine in his hand was already gripped tightly, and he was galloping towards the marching Qing army.

    Qian Zong, the marching Qing army, was a vicious man who committed murder and arson. He was accustomed to the weakness of the common people, and he never expected that there would be a large number of Taiping troops ambushing him near Taizhou.  Although Fujian Admiral Li Tingyu was based in Wenzhou and had put various cities on the Wenzhou-Taiwan defense line on alert, the Qing troops in these places did not believe that the Chang Taiping Army would launch a large-scale attack in winter, and their alerts remained lax.  At this time, Mr. Qian was thinking that after killing all these people, he should be able to find a lot of valuable things from them, and there were also many beautiful women in the team. He was very excited when he thought of this.

    When I was happy, a soldier next to me shouted: "It's strange, God, look at that forest moving!"

    Mr. Qian turned his head to look, and sure enough he saw a large group of green branches moving quickly towards his team, with a large amount of dust rising behind them. Mr. Qian was stunned, and after a while he roared:  "It's not the woods, it's the cavalry, it's the cavalry. Where did they come from?"

    All the Qing soldiers also saw it, and they were all anxious and asked repeatedly: "What should we do?" These Qing troops were recruited jointly by Li Tingyu and the local regiment training. Li Tingyu gave them names, and the local regiment trained themselves to arm them.  , guarding the countryside near Taizhou. The Qing troops here are considered bandits and can deal with ordinary people with ease, but in the eyes of the Taiping Army, they are no different from ordinary bandits.  Moreover, the Qing army had never seen such covert cavalry tactics. They saw a large forest approaching them as if flying. They felt it was so spectacular that they didn't know what to do.

    Mr. Qian knew something about military affairs, so he quickly shouted and told his men to gather together. More than two hundred Qing troops lined up in a rough formation to resist the enemy, with spears in front and daggers behind, ready to resist the enemy.  Because they were armed themselves, the weapons in their hands were all kinds of, and some even used sickles.

    When the commander of the Taiping Army cavalry company of the third battalion and third company saw that the opponent had formed a horse-rejection formation, he shouted. More than 120 cavalrymen of the third company raised their repeating carbines and gave an order. The moving woods  Suddenly, flames burst out, gunshots sounded like fried beans, and gunpowder smoke filled the air for a while.

    At one time, dozens of Mao Zibing soldiers were shot and fell to the ground. Mr. Qian was so frightened that he had never seen a carbine shoot so far. At a distance of hundreds of steps and on a bumpy horseback, these cavalry could still shoot.  ThisExactly, he forgot that his team was lined up in a dense formation to resist horses.

    The Taiping cavalry generally used semi-rotational tactics in battle, that is, charging - shooting - turning - loading - charging again. However, the Qing army in front of them was too weak. Just one charge made the battle no longer suspense.  The Taiping Army's Yu Ling cavalry raised their sabers high, and the Qing army dispersed in a panic, ignoring the people they were escorting, and fled in panic towards Taizhou City.  Unexpectedly, there were other cavalry surrounding them. Dozens of Qing soldiers could only kneel on the ground in despair, holding up their weapons and begging for surrender.

    When Zhang Wenxiang and Zheng Yantuo arrived with their troops, the battle was over. There were no casualties in the third company, which made Zhang Wenxiang very happy. The cavalry untied the common people and gave them some water to eat and drink. These common people  They all stared with wide eyes, looking at these soldiers who spoke with accents from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huguang and other places and wore strange clothes. They did not believe that they were soldiers and horses of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, until the cavalry took off their iron helmets, revealing short hair, and counted.  Only then did hundreds of people cheer with tears in their eyes.

    The third company commander ran to Zhang Wenxiang and asked: "Captain, we have captured sixty-three demon-clearing soldiers, what should we do?"

    Zhang Wenxiang spat and said harshly: "Do you still have to ask? Kill them all."

    Zheng Yantuo smiled slightly and said: "It is ominous to kill and surrender in the first battle."

    Zhang Wenxiang's eyes widened and he said, "Are they going to be let go? We don't have anyone to guard them."

    Zheng Yantuo sneered and said, "Tie them all up and send them to the common people for disposal."

    Zhang Wenxiang understood and chuckled, "Zheng Xundao, I didn't expect you to be so cunning."

    Zheng Yantuo snorted and said, "It's good to let the people vent their anger."

    After a while, the angry people beat dozens of Maozi soldiers to death, leaving no one alive. The cavalry regiment asked the people to follow, mobilized the troops and horses, and the Taiping Army's flags in the west hall were unfurled, and they marched toward Taizhou City in a mighty manner.  go.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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