Anti-Qing: Starting from the Jintian Uprising

Chapter 56 Feng Yunshan: I have never seen such a shameless person!
However, before Li Yi's troops could launch a breakout to the north.

The Qing army's encirclement suddenly tightened, and countless Qing troops rushed up from all directions.

Li Yi's troops were surrounded.

Li Yi's troops could only resist with difficulty under his command.

If it weren't for the fact that the Qing army in Guangdong was so weak and hadn't been frightened by the defeat just now.

Faced with the Taiping rebels who had previously suppressed them, they could only encircle them and did not dare to launch an attack rashly. Li Yi's troops might have been completely submerged in the crowd of Qing troops.

Suddenly, Li Yi seemed to remember something and turned to ask his guard company commander Li Kangdao.

"Li Kang, where is the box I gave you earlier?"

Li Kang is Li Yi's cousin, five years older than Li Yi, and the son of his second uncle.

Because of this relationship, he was deeply trusted by Li Yi and was appointed as Li Yi's guard company commander.

Before this battle, in order to prevent any accidents from happening, Li Yi exchanged a good thing from the system in advance, put it in a box, and handed it to Li Kang for temporary safekeeping.

Prepare to use it as a backup!

Now, I hope it comes in handy...

Li Kang was stunned when he heard this, then he said.

"Please wait a moment, General. I will get it for you."

After the Jintian Uprising, Li Yi was also promoted from a military commander to a general.

The actual power has not changed, but the name sounds better!
But this did not prevent his subordinates from calling him the General Governor.

Li Kang turned and left, and soon returned with a rectangular box.

Li Yi took out the key, opened the box, and lifted the covering cloth. He saw a Barrett gun with a cold metallic glow underneath.

Li Yi exchanged this thing from the mall, to put it bluntly, he was preparing to snipe the enemy generals on the battlefield.

If he could kill the Qing general with one shot, so that the Qing army would be leaderless and in disarray, then they would have a chance to break out...

As for why not get a Gatling gun to shoot at the Qing army?

How to say it, firstly, the use of Li Yi’s golden finger is limited.

There is a monthly limit of only 10,000 taels of silver, and the higher the technological content of something, the more expensive it is.

The Gatling gun is easy to buy, only five hundred taels of silver each, Li Yi can afford it if he grits his teeth.

But this thing has an extremely fast firing rate. Each bullet costs one tael of silver, but hundreds or even thousands of them can be fired in the blink of an eye.

Li Yi doesn't have enough money to play like this now.

Secondly, no matter how powerful the Gatling gun was, it could only shoot ordinary soldiers and could not reach the main general of the Qing army.

To put it bluntly, it doesn’t really matter how many ordinary soldiers die.

Even if you can kill as many babies as possible, as long as the one in charge is not dead, it will be difficult for the enemy to collapse.

The fierce battle between the Taiping Army and the Qing Army just now is the most typical proof.

The Taiping Army was suppressing the Qing Army throughout the battle, causing heavy casualties to the Qing Army.

But so what?
After Ulan Tai led his troops back to the camp, didn't he quickly reorganize the Qing army to continue fighting the Taiping Army and insist on guarding the camp?

But if the Taiping Army had just killed its main general Ulan Tai, would the Qing army be able to reorganize itself?

The main general is dead, how can he still organize the army? !
Therefore, Li Yi prepared a Barrett in advance as a backup.

The gun cost one thousand taels of silver, and the bullet cost five taels each.

This thing has a maximum range of over three thousand meters, and an effective range of one thousand five hundred to two thousand meters.

With the battlefield scope of this era, basically the entire battlefield is within its range.

And no carbon-based organism on land can withstand a single blow from it.

Even though Li Yi's marksmanship was not particularly good, he had practiced shooting after all, so if he fired a few more shots he would probably hit the target once.

...Taiping Army’s Central Army!
As Xiang Rong led the cavalry to launch a surprise attack, the rear army and female camp led by Feng Yunshan were dispersed.

Feng Yunshan attempted to organize resistance but failed.

In desperation, Feng Yunshan could only take in as many defeated soldiers as possible, fighting while retreating to join the main force of the central army.

But just as Feng Yunshan joined the main force of the central army, he received bad news.

The rear four armies led by Li Yi were used as scapegoats by Xiao Chaogui and abandoned in the encirclement of the Qing army!
Now I'm afraid the entire army has been wiped out!
Feng Yunshan's eyes immediately turned red, and he shouted angrily at Xiao Chaogui who was leading his troops to support the central army.

"Xiao Chaogui!"

"Li Yi is my man, and the rear four armies are also my deployments. Why do you leave them behind in the encirclement of the Qing army as scapegoats?!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chaogui said with a cold and expressionless face.

"Your rear army has been defeated, and the Heavenly Kingdom's central army is in distress. If I want to lead troops back to support as soon as possible, I can only leave someone behind to cover the rear."

"And judging from the battlefield situation at the time, the most suitable one would be the Rear Fourth Army that was previously dispatched to lead the attack."

"At that time, the rear four armies had already rushed into the Qing demon camp and penetrated very deep. Even if they wanted to withdraw, they certainly couldn't do so."

"Rather than letting them be caught up and destroyed by the Qing army's pursuers during their retreat, it is better to let them use their remaining energy to cover the rear of the main army."

"You should understand the truth that kindness is not the key to success in military operations, Feng Yunshan!"

Throughout history, retreat has always been a touchstone for testing the quality of an army.

Because during the retreat, an army's morale will be at its lowest and its combat effectiveness will be its weakest.

If the enemy seizes this opportunity to pursue, the retreat can easily turn into a rout.

Not to mention, the situation that Li Yi's troops were facing at the time was that they were fighting alone deep in the enemy camp, with enemy troops on all sides.

Under the circumstances at that time, even if Xiao Chaogui notified Li Yi to retreat, Li Yi would most likely not be able to do so.

Because the Qing army would never watch Li Yi's troops retreat leisurely, and pursuit was inevitable...

Xiao Chaogui knew that what he did was not fair, but being unfair did not mean it was wrong.

From his point of view, abandoning Li Yi's rear four armies and letting them cover the rear of the main army was indeed the best choice at the time.

Also, Xiao Chaogui is not just trying to prove that he is not wrong.

He even secretly put the blame on Feng Yunshan!
Because according to Xiao Chaogui, it was because Feng Yunshan's rear army was defeated that he needed to withdraw from the front line urgently to provide support.

Then, Li Yi's troops would be abandoned.

In other words, it was Feng Yunshan who killed Li Yi's troops.

Well, although Li Yi’s troops are still resisting, in the eyes of Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan and others, they are actually no different from dead people.

Because they really couldn't see the slightest possibility that Li Yi's troops would survive...

Feng Yunshan was so angry that he almost fainted when he heard this.

"Xiao Chaogui, you are so shameless."

"You killed my men and pushed the blame onto me. I have never seen anyone as shameless as you!"

Upon hearing this, Xiao Chaogui was not one to suffer a loss, so he opened his mouth and prepared to fight back.

Yang Xiuqing stood up and said.

"Alright, alright, Yunshan, Chaogui, both of you should stop talking!"

"Could it be that with such a powerful enemy at hand, you are still going to engage in internal strife?"

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