Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 52 Li Yi: The stupid way is to get closer and fight!
Xiao Chaogui, riding on his horse, turned his head to look at the direction of Li Yi's troops on the left wing. He couldn't help but frowning, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Three rows in a horizontal formation?

interesting!
The Western method of training troops that Li Yi was using was actually not a secret. At least, most of the high-ranking officials in the Heavenly Kingdom knew about it.

Although it is somewhat taboo to privately change the military system.

But it also depends on who did it.

If an ordinary person did this, there is no doubt that he deserves the death penalty for privately changing the military system.

However, Li Yi is not an ordinary person, he has a background.

With Feng Yunshan's endorsement, Li Yi's private reform of the military system naturally became a trial-and-error move to contribute to the military reform of the entire army.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is full of curiosity about Western things and has no resistance to them.

They all wanted to see what results Li Yi could achieve by training his troops using Western methods.

Therefore, in this battle with the Qing army, Xiao Chaogui specifically asked Li Yi's troops to be under his command, and let them be responsible for the battle on the left wing of the battlefield, preparing to test their effectiveness.

If Li Yi's troops have outstanding combat effectiveness, then needless to say, Xiao Chaogui will ask his own subordinates to try to learn from them.

But if Li Yi's troops' combat effectiveness is poor...

Haha, then it’s no wonder that Xiao Chaogui confronted Feng Yunshan and wanted to punish Li Yi for the crime of privately changing the military system.

To put it bluntly, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only acquiesced to Li Yi's behavior, rather than agreeing with it.

If a reason is found, Xiao Chaogui will definitely not miss the opportunity to weaken Feng Yunshan.

"All troops attack, soldiers, follow me!"

"Kill the Qing demons and there will be peace!"

Xiao Chaogui withdrew his gaze from the left wing of the battlefield and shouted at the top of his voice.

As Xiao Chaogui shouted, he even rushed to the front line of the battlefield and personally led his men to charge.

……

Boom! Boom!
The sound of cannons rang out, and shells cut through the sky and shot towards the Taiping Army.

However, most of the artillery used by the Taiping Army were light artillery. Even if they fired, at most they would make a loud noise and could not hit the Qing army's formation at all.

But even so, the Taiping Army's gunners continued to fire.

It was not for anything else, simply to let everyone know that when facing the Qing Yao's artillery, they were not just being beaten unilaterally, but were also fighting back.

To put it bluntly, it is to boost our own morale.

There was constant sound of artillery fire at the mouth of the Dahuang River, and the Taiping Army charged forward under the Qing army's artillery fire.

As the distance between the two sides shortened and the Qing army's artillerymen began to load more gunpowder under Ulan Tai's order, the Qing army's artillery began to really show its power.

A cannonball flew over, penetrated the Taiping Army's formation, and ricocheted and tore into the bodies of several people.

Broken limbs and arms were flying everywhere, and blood and flesh were splattered everywhere.

Screams and wails continued to sound.

In the blink of an eye, seven or eight people were killed or injured.

Seeing this scene, the Taiping Army's originally high morale instantly froze, as if a basin of cold water was poured into boiling water.

Several artillery shells were fired in succession, causing considerable casualties to the Taiping Army.

Seeing this, Xiao Chaogui had no choice but to lead the team to the front in order to boost morale.

Just at this moment, a shell passed by him, making a humming sound as it broke through the air.

The next moment, the body of a Taiping Army soldier next to him was smashed to pieces, and warm blood splattered all over him.

From a distance, Xiao Chaogui, covered in blood, looked like a devil crawling out of hell, but Xiao Chaogui was not afraid at all and continued to lead his men to charge forward.

Such a Xiao Chaogui greatly boosted the morale of the Taiping Army, which was inevitably somewhat low under the bombardment of the Qing Army.

After all, even a big shot like Xiao Chaogui is not afraid of death, so what else do they have to worry about?
"Kill! Charge!"

"Kill the Qing monster and go to heaven!"

"If we charge forward, the Qingyao's artillery will be useless! Brothers, follow me!"

“……”The scene was similar on Li Yi’s side.

It was just that because his formation was rather loose, the effect of the Qing army's artillery fire was not very obvious.

After several rounds of artillery fire from the Qing army, only six or seven people in Li Yi's troops were killed or wounded.

As time goes by, the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.

In addition to the sound of artillery fire on the battlefield, gunfire also began to be heard.

The Qing army and the Taiping army began to shoot at each other with muskets from a distance of about a hundred meters.

The only difference is that the Qing army shot while standing still, while the Taiping army shot while charging.

The sound of gunfire continued to ring out, and the battlefield was soon filled with smoke.

People were constantly hit by bullets, blood splattered on their bodies, and they fell to the ground, wailing.

In addition to bird guns, some people also use raised guns for shooting.

Once a bullet weighing half a pound hits a human body, it can even make a hole the size of a bowl in the body.

The Qing army and the Taiping army shot at each other, and both suffered casualties.

Upon seeing this, Li Yi did not order his men to follow the others in firing, but instead shouted at the top of his voice.

"Everyone, get your formation in order and keep moving forward!"

"No one is allowed to open fire without orders. Anyone who disobeys orders will be executed!"

Although Li Yi's troops were equipped with a batch of foreign rifles, it was useless to have good rifles alone; one also needed good marksmanship.

However, since the training time was still short, Li Yi actually had no confidence in his men's shooting skills.

So Li Yi made a decisive decision to use a stupid method and get closer before fighting!

Accompanied by bursts of shouts, Li Yi's troops formed three rows and continued to advance forward.

From time to time, a shell would pass through the array, taking away a few lives.

Or bullets fly and knock people down.

Li Yi stood in the front row, and the whistling sound of bullets passing by him continued to be heard.

Li Yi's heart beat faster and faster, and he couldn't help feeling a little scared.

But he also understood that at this moment he must not retreat behind everyone when there was danger.

The people under his command were originally just a group of new recruits who were slightly stronger than a mob.

If it weren't for the fact that he, as the leader, had stayed on the front line, led the troops and shared life and death with everyone to boost morale, even if the team didn't collapse, I'm afraid it would not be able to maintain its formation and continue moving forward.

Therefore, under the current circumstances, even if Li Yi is afraid of death, he cannot retreat.

"Hold steady, maintain the formation!"

"Don't panic!"

Li Yi shouted to maintain order while encouraging himself.

Soon, except for Li Yi's troops who needed to maintain their formation and moved slowly, the rest of the Taiping Army had already begun fighting with the Qing army.

The Taiping Army charged towards the Qing army in front of them like a tiger descending from the mountain.

It is very obvious that the Taiping Army was suppressing the Qing Army.

The front row of the Qing army was constantly being forced back.

However, Ulantai was not a pushover, and he gave orders.

"Supervisory team, go ahead, anyone who retreats in battle will be killed!"

"Be sure to hold on until reinforcements arrive!"

The fighting capacity of Guangdong Green Camp was not as good as that of Taiping Army.

But under the suppression of the supervision team, no one dared to retreat for a while. The two sides fought fiercely and the battle situation briefly fell into a stalemate.

(End of this chapter)