Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 53 Victory in the first battle
At this time, Li Yi's troops were also advancing steadily.

Bai Yuanqin was holding a foreign rifle. As the platoon leader, he stood in the first row of the team, with his chest held high and his head held high, and walked forward.

As he watched the enemy getting closer and closer to him, his breathing began to become increasingly rapid.

The sound of bullets breaking through the air continued to ring out.

One hundred meters, eighty meters, fifty meters...

As he got closer and closer to the enemy, Bai Yuanqin's palms were filled with sweat, and even the gun in his hand had become wet and sticky.

The saliva surging in his throat and the constant swallowing of saliva also showed how nervous he was at the moment.

At this moment, a sharp and penetrating copper whistle sounded.

Bai Yuanqin subconsciously looked in the direction of his battalion commander and saw the command flag waving in his hand.

Then the company commander shouted at the top of his voice.

"Raise your guns, everyone, raise your guns! Aim!"

Bai Yuanqin followed the order and, according to muscle memory, raised the loaded rifle in his hand and aimed forward.

Soon, there was another shrill copper whistle.

"Fire! Shoot!"

Snapped!clap clap!clap clap clap!

The noise made by hundreds of foreign guns firing at the same time was almost as loud as the roar of artillery.

In just a moment, the front row of the Qing army in front of them fell down in a row as if wheat was being cut.

In an instant, there were nearly a hundred casualties!
If these nearly 100 casualties occurred one after another, it would actually be nothing.

In a battle on such a large scale, the casualties of a hundred or so people wouldn't even cause a splash.

But the terrifying thing is that under the salvo fire from Li Yi's troops, these nearly a hundred casualties occurred instantly.

This is really scary!
At this moment, the battlefield was almost silent.

The Qing army's originally relatively tight formation suddenly had holes in it.

However, due to the thick smoke, the Taiping Army could not see the scene on the opposite side clearly.

They still began to prepare for the second round of shooting in an orderly manner.

"Load!"

"Everyone, load up!"

The company commander's shout was heard again. Bai Yuanqin tightly gripped the foreign rifle in his hand and began to load it.

First, tear a small hole in the tail of the paper shell bullet, pour the gunpowder inside into the gun chamber, then stuff the bullet and the paper shell into the gun chamber together, and press it down with a cleaning rod...

Finally, it is time to replace the primer.

After completing the reloading, Bai Yuanqin raised his gun and aimed forward again.

However, he did not pull the trigger and shoot directly, but waited for the order to shoot.

This is how queue shooting works. It doesn't mean you can start firing immediately after you finish loading. You have to wait for others to finish loading, and then you can fire together.

Because only volley fire can cause the greatest damage to the enemy.

Soon, after everyone finished reloading, they raised their guns and aimed forward.

The shrill copper whistle sounded again.

Bai Yuanqin pulled the trigger subconsciously.

Clap clap clap!

A burst of orderly gunfire rang out on the battlefield again.

Just at this moment, a gust of wind blew from the direction of the Dahuang River mouth, blowing away the smoke on the battlefield.

Bai Yuanqin and others happened to witness the scene where a large number of Qing troops on the opposite side fell down again.

But soon, the shrill sound of a copper whistle woke them up.

Start reloading the rifle in your hand again!
But just as Li Yi's troops were reloading their foreign rifles, a deafening roar resounded throughout the battlefield.

Li Yi subconsciously looked in the direction of the explosion, and saw a cloud of black smoke rising from the direction of the Qing army's artillery array.

When a cannon exploded, the cannon and several gunners were blown into the sky...

Immediately afterwards, the heavy cannon fell from the sky and landed in the Qing army's formation, killing several people.

……

Seeing this scene, Xiao Chaogui's eyes lit up instantly and he shouted loudly.

"God bless us, and let the Qing demon's artillery explode. Brothers, kill them!"

"Kill the Qing monster and go to heaven!"

Amid shouts and cries of killing, the Taiping Army launched a fierce attack on the Qing army in front of them.

Seeing this, Li Yi seized the opportunity and gave the order.

"Everyone, put on bayonets, charge!"

"Brothers, follow me and kill!"

After saying this, he stepped out of the crowd and led his team to kill the Qing army in front of him...

……

While the Taiping Army's vanguard was making great progress on the front line, the main force of the Taiping Army was also moving towards the mouth of the Dahuang River with their families.

Once the vanguard breaks through the encirclement and blockade of the Qing monsters at the mouth of the Dahuang River, they will be able to go down the Xunjiang River and directly into Guangdong.

Yang Xiuqing was riding on a horse, looking at his own troops moving forward and backward, his face looking a little solemn.

The Taiping Army is good in every way except that there are too many old, weak, sick and disabled people in the team, so the marching speed is too slow even if they bring their families with them.

Even if the vanguard can break through the Qing monsters' blockade, they are still at risk of being caught up by the Qing monsters' pursuers.

However, Yang Xiuqing had no good solution to this problem.

The old, weak, sick and disabled people in the Taiping Army now are basically the families, wives and children of the soldiers.

If we really abandon these old, weak, sick and disabled people, the morale of the Taiping Army will be broken and collapse will be a matter of seconds.

Although you, Yang Xiuqing, are an orphan without a father or a mother, we express our sympathy.

But if you want everyone to become an orphan like you, that is definitely impossible.

"How is the battle going at the front? How long will it take Xiao Chaogui to break through the Qing monster's blockade?"

Yang Xiuqing asked with something on his mind.

Upon hearing this, one of Yang Xiuqing's personal guards clasped his fists.

"Replying to the military advisor, according to the latest news reported by the vanguard, our army has won the first battle and won a great victory in the field battle."

"But after the Qing monsters found that they were no match for our army in a field battle, they chose to retreat into their camps and put up a desperate resistance. If our army wants to break through the Qing monsters' blockade, it will take at least half a day."

Upon hearing this, Yang Xiuqing sighed.

"Send a message to Xiao Chaogui, asking him to lead the vanguard to intensify the offensive, defeat the enemy as soon as possible, and open up a passage for our army to march eastward to Guangdong."

"Send a message to Feng Yunshan, asking him to lead the rear army and the female battalion to speed up their march and catch up with the main force as soon as possible."

In the current Taiping Army, although Feng Yunshan is also the commander of the rear army and the deputy military advisor of the front army.

But her main responsibilities in the army are actually the women's battalion and logistics.

Therefore, Yang Xiuqing asked Feng Yunshan to lead the female battalion behind to speed up the march and keep up with the pace of the main force of the army.

……

At the mouth of Dahuang River, on the battlefield!

After defeating the Qing army in a field battle, the Taiping Army's vanguard units immediately launched a pursuit.

But in the end, the Qing army managed to escape back to the camp.

The Taiping Army's vanguards gathered outside the Qing army's camp, deployed their battle formations, and prepared to launch a general attack on the Qing army's camp.

Li Yi, wearing a cotton armor that he had just seized, rode on horseback and looked at the Qing army camp ahead, wondering how he would fight the next battle if he were Xiao Chaogui.

(End of this chapter)