A prestige arc cannot be stringed, and there is no peace of mind. The blood flowed across the valley, and the jackals ate each other.
The emperor came from the north, dying for a long time. Under the Qiliang, he crossed the desert descendants.
"Send Fan Twenty-Three to Serve the Judge in Hanzhong"
Tang Dynasty: Du Fu
—I am the dividing line —
However, the first to make a sound before these riding brigade was the cavalry squadron that lined up staggeredly on the banks of the Han River and rushed to roar. In an instant, the iron balls that pierced through the air bombarded Nanzheng City one after another. Among the officers and soldiers who hurriedly bypassed the city to fight, they blew up a slab of dirt and gravel wrapped in broken limbs. It also caused their momentum to attack suddenly to stagnate.
Then, I saw the Taiping Tuqi headed by Li Hanzhi, already immaculately gripped with a spear and a knife. In an instant, the horses and horses neighed and roared and howled and staggered into the sky, the struggling human body was picked up in the air and rolled in the crowd, cut off, and sliced bloody arms and heads; or was shocked again. He screamed and was stepped down, trampled under his horse's hooves.
It was just a short while before they met each other. The officers and soldiers who rushed to the east gate of Nanzheng City to rush into the battle had already been pierced by the first two groups of Taiping Turks and broke through into a mess that couldn't be ignored. It was like being driven away by a knife and a gun, instinctively scrambling to flee under the city wall, seeking shelter behind the wall of sheep and horses built along the trenches;
But in the midst of panicking, pushing and trampling, they knocked down, overturned, and stuffed the surrounding fortifications that had been so hard for the boss to arrange. However, the riding camps of the Taiping Army also followed. Just outside the range of the bow and crossbow on the wall, they dropped their horses in a row to expel a spread of crane wings, and set them up on the specially trained saddles. Fire guns.
In the next moment, they faced the officers and soldiers who rushed out to meet the city gate, staggered several rows in a half-month arc, and turned back and forth again and again. Then there were a few soldiers with special equipment. After they arrayed, they set up the flying thunder and bamboo rails that were put down on horsebacks, and many elongated smoke trails were soaring;
After slowly traversing many particularly tortuous arcs, they landed near the city gate and exploded a cloud of smoke or a burst of fire, spreading and enveloping those officials who could not dodge or had nowhere to dodge. . A bloody wounded person or a burning human body was left behind. The so-called counter-attack and response forces were also naturally defeated, but they were cut off by the city gates and crying that were once again confined.
At this time, the main formation of the Shu army from the north of the city, under the guidance of the three-legged Xichuan Golden Crow and the "Gao" handsome flag, flooded the countryside. It was as if the previous defeats of the leading troops and the defeat of the city's response failed to produce any impact at all. They still stepped on the drum beats unhurriedly and steadily, and stepped forward in unison.
Even the Taiping Turks headed by Li Hanzhi, who wandered outside and regrouped, used several tentative offensives to contain and harass; they were also repeatedly shot by the neat and dense strong bows from the main formation of the Shu army. Staying in the battlefield without gain, instead was constantly squeezed and driven to the edge of the battlefield.
Then, as if moving the whole body by pulling a start, even the soldiers in the riding camp began to re-mount their horses amidst the sound of suona and whistle, and when the Shu army was able to reach close range, they retreated even more leniently. The frontal battlefield is coming.
Following these ebbs, the riding battalion soldiers diverged from the two wings, but they revealed the main formation of the Shannan Fiesta Army, who were already lined up in a large array inside and out, and were still carrying out civil engineering work in front of the formation while the sand was flying.
At this moment, the defenders standing on the head of Nanzheng City can clearly see the interlaced blue-gray base tone, which resembles the shining array of Taiping army on the lake surface; and bright pale yellow and orange red robes. The Xichuan army and horse formation of the first-level replacement; like two giant beasts each roaring relative to each other, they are watching each other vigilantly and cautiously, constantly approaching.
If the lineup of the Shu army is like a raging red flame, or a towering stand drenched in the mountains in late autumn; then the Taiping army’s position is like a deep and waveless lake or a sea wave supported by the breeze. There is a huge horror and mighty power that is contained and bred in the vastness of the tide.
As the two armies are facing each other closer and closer, the suicide and threats rushing straight into the sky suddenly make the defenders on the city head unconsciously hold their breath, and it seems that they are being held back by some invisible force. , And there is a sense of suffocation. Then, the re-beating drums from the top of the city were like some kind of battlefield catalyst that suddenly joined, awakening the two giants facing each other.
Amidst the yellow and red Shu army, there were a lot of dense flares. It was the most developed long-range weapon in the cold weapon era; many winch crossbows and large wooden single crossbows, large bamboo crossbows, and votive crossbows were hidden in the army formation. The distant crossbow, at the same time, radiated a grand occasion; however, from within the cyan Taiping army array, it did not show any weakness that the fireworks and dust fired by the size of the thunderous cannons were swept up.
As the artillery roared into the sky, Ge Congzhou, the commander in charge of watching and commanding the battle on the high trolley of the Taiping Army, also exhaled a sigh of foul breath with complex heart. As a middle-level and high-level general who has the opportunity to be on his own, he has naturally had all the longings and expectations of being in the middle of strategizing, and at the same time using ingenuity and bravery to make a decisive victory.
However, in fact, since the size of the firearmed units under the Taiping Army surpassed 10,000, the daily combat mode has easily changed from quantitative to qualitative change; it reduced to a repeated cycle of "artillery bombardment, cavalry charge, and infantry cover-up". Something boring. The only difference is that the face of the enemy is different, and the order of these three axes has been adjusted.
Especially this kind of mutual offensive and defensive, the Shu army has the advantage of relative scale and the important geographical change of Guanlei city, while the Taiping army has occupied the advantage of equipment and logistical support. Under the situation of mutual confrontation and stalemate, except for Ge Apart from the guard battalion and the auspicious soldiers (reserves) in Zhou's hands, there is basically no room for him to play more personal characteristics and advantages as a master.
Therefore, he can only maintain sufficient caution and meticulousness, and in the specific encounters and battles, as much as possible to consume and deplete some of the enemy's active forces. But now the secret spy from Nanzheng city of changes and civil strife gave him a chance to break the deadlock.
The man who likes to form joint camps with relatively superior forces, and is also good at using troops to run and maneuver support to maintain flexible defensive tactics; and has repeatedly blocked and repelled the Taiping Army’s key breakthroughs, Gao Renhou; at this moment for Quickly took over the turmoil in Nanzheng City, and only brought a small half of the troops of Baocheng Xichuan Army.
This was enough to allow him to confuse the formation with a small number of three teams to cooperate with a large number of on-the-spot recruits of auxiliary soldiers and husbands, put on the uniforms of soldiers and put on the banner of the regular army, to liquidate and expel those local tyrants with great fanfare. While gathering all the power and materials in his hands between Baocheng and Nanzheng, he embarked on this desperate military adventure.
Of course, Ge Congzhou does not expect to be able to defeat or defeat in one go, the famous "benevolent envoy of Nishikawa"; but the saying is that "it is better to break five fingers than to break one." As long as it can severely injure or even annihilate some of its existing troops, it is enough to change the situation in Xingyuan Mansion where the Taiping Army is relatively limited and insufficient to attack the fortress. Most of the time, it can only be on the defensive.
Just as Ge Cong Zhou Panhuan was thinking about gains and losses, before each other's battles, flesh and blood flew around under alternate bombardment, and new gaps in the corpses continued to appear in the array. However, it is clear that the Taiping Army’s artillery team is better at long-range projection damage, and the strong bows and large crossbows in the Shu Army are obviously weakened under constant damage and casualties, and speed up the initial charge. speed.
However, the flying thunders that rose in the air again, the kerosene tanks thrown by the small catapults, and the gunpowder tanks filled with iron slag and broken pottery pieces; once again came to these Shu army’s first outbursts. In the midst of the battle, a short-lived block of fireworks was formed in the midline of the battlefield; and then, to greet the Shu army commander who had rushed out and became very sparse, it was a pouring lead rain radiated by several rows of fire guns.
Soon these are like being combed by dense grate, and there are only two or three kittens left behind the Shu army commander, and there is again a fierce golden drum; then with the fire and smoke that are constantly being suppressed Traces, many yellow-headed soldiers holding large shields trot with all their strength against the sparse loading interval of the barrage, and they rushed to the distance of only twenty or thirty steps.
Then, before the next round of ping-pong’s approaching radiation, suddenly all the shields fell to the ground and crouched down; although a few figures fell between the sawdust and debris splashing, but the front row of victims were used as shields. The remaining yellow-headed soldier suddenly threw down the big shield and screamed and rushed through the last distance, and then hit the tip of the crouching white soldier's diagonally raised spear.
Suddenly, many more yellow-headed soldiers pierced their chests and thighs, and their voices let blood and organs flow all over the place, but there were also brave men who rushed into the white spear through the gap, and they fought and fought one after another. At this time, the whistle in the back row of the white soldiers sounded again, and a row of explosive bombs was thrown unevenly, which blasted into the yellow-headed army who followed up.
The sharp fragments and iron slag entrapped in the gray clouds and air waves suddenly dripped the blood from the yellow heads from the back and sideways, and on the spot, they were driven out of the white soldiers' queue by the spiked guns again, and they were approaching again. They were knocked down by the flaring light.
However, the sudden rain of arrows once again pierced through the enemy and us, and nailed them to the ground; but it was the main formation of the Shu army who was slowly advancing, and the sacred crossbowmen who had reached a sufficient distance began to launch their arrows. The arrow covered them; then, they once again called the artillery team from the Taiping Army to shoot high and curved, with more precise and concentrated projection, and they were successively smashed into a wave of blood and red pits of broken limbs.
And the drum horns on the edge of the battlefield once again made great noises, but those few Taiping Tussiu riders who wandered outside finally found an opportunity to launch a decisive assault on the heavy weight of the Shu army and the equipment team where many large crossbows were located; During the horse galloping, one by one arson oil bombs were thrown into the sweeping array.
Then there was the sound of the golden board, but it was the support soldiers and horses detouring from other gates in the city. The large hollow array composed of flatbed trucks was intercepted by bunkers and bombarded by firecrackers. Under the bombardment of several cannon shots that suddenly appeared in the array, they retreated one after another.
This battle lasted for most of the day and the sky was darkening when I saw it; I saw that the enemy and I were tired and the fighting was going on. Suddenly, there was a burst of noise and exclamation from the city head of Nanzheng East Gate; then the flag representing the Dasanguan Camp and the Xiongwu Army was suddenly cut off and fell down and reinserted. There was a slightly damaged Taiping Green Flag.
And this is like pouring down a handful of ice water in a hot battlefield. Suddenly, the Shu army, which was struggling to fight with high benevolence and means, was amidst a burst of noise and exclamation; there was a morale collapse visible to the naked eye. . . .
Looking at the Shu army camp in groups leaving the battlefield and fleeing towards the north and east. Li Hanzhi, who looked like he had just been fished out of the blood, and his robe and armor had been chopped to pieces, sat on the side of the battlement and the piled corpses with a cruel grin. And a stern smile came. (End of this chapter)