Boom boom boom.
On the battlefield in Nanguantao Town.
Artillery bombardments came one after another.
Cries of death and gunshots also intersected on the battlefield.
At this time, the sky has gradually become clearer.
The sky in the distance has turned fish belly white.
In the early morning of January 14, 1794 AD.
Third watch time.
The Taiping Army began shelling the Ming Army's Nanguantao Town.
However, most of the Taiping Army's artillery were old-fashioned city defense artillery removed from city walls in various places.
This heavy cast iron front-loading smoothbore cannon is extremely bulky and difficult to move, and it can only fire solid bullets or shotgun shells - both of which can only be fired at direct aim, so it is difficult to threaten the Ming infantry squatting in the pit.
But the Taiping Army had a lot of artillery.
The centralized use of "technical equipment" such as artillery is also one of the basic military principles. Although the generals in Liu Zhixie's Taiping Army did not receive any orthodox military academy training like the officers of the Ming Army.
But they are all "streams of experience" gained through hard work on the battlefield, and in some cases they are even more flexible than those with professional backgrounds.
For example, today's Taiping infantrymen use wet quilts to throw themselves on the barbed wire fence, and then step on it through the infantry. Gradually, a road unobstructed by the barbed wire appears.
Although it is possible to break through the barbed wire with this crude method.
However, it was difficult to break through the firepower network composed of the Ming army's artillery and rifled guns.
Starting from the third watch.
The Taiping Army continued to attack. Although some soldiers once touched the front of the Ming Army's trenches, they were repulsed by raindrops of grenades.
The sky on the horizon turned fish belly white.
The fiery red sun emerged from the horizon, shining on the snow-covered North China Plain.
On the ground about a mile west of Nanguantao Town, there was a pile of corpses lying on the scarlet ground.
The mixture of blood and snow turned the entire land into mud.
"Master Marquis, we can't charge anymore! We are going to kill all our people!"
In front, a Taiping Army officer who was pushed back by a dense burst of grenades knelt in front of Taiping Army Tongzhou Hou Ran Tianyuan, who was supervising the battle on the front line.
His face, covered in blood and crimson mud, showed two clear lines.
Tears and snot flowed out together.
How miserable.
It's too awful.
Where in the world can there be such a war?
This is not a war at all.
This is letting people die in batches.
The fight lasted from early morning until dawn.
They didn't even touch the edge of the Ming army's trenches.
Such a speed of death made these heavenly warriors who came all the way to fight change their colors.
"The King of Heaven has ordered us to continue the attack. Anyone who refuses to advance after hearing the drum will be killed!"
Ran Tianyuan gritted his teeth and drew out his sword, leading the supervising team forward. After gathering the broken troops, they formed an infantry array and once again launched an attack on the Ming army's defense and land acquisition in front.
The Tuanlong Banner and the Sun-Moon Flag of the Great Ming Dynasty were flying high not far ahead.
This short distance of less than 500 steps was so close that it seemed that it could be crossed with just one charge.
And it seems so far away.
After paying such heavy casualties, they still could not make the Ming army on the opposite side pay a corresponding price.
"Just rush into the enemy's trench! In hand-to-hand combat, one out of ten will win!"
Ran Tianyuan gritted his teeth and thought.
This sentence.
Two or three hours ago, these were the fundamental reasons why many of the leading generals of the Kingdom of Heaven firmly believed that the Kingdom of Heaven would win this war.
Now.
I'm afraid it has become a belief that everyone is still struggling to support.
rush!
Rush over.
As long as you can rush into the enemy's trench, you win!
There are only five hundred steps in total. As long as you can hit it at full speed, it will take dozens of breaths!
"Rush! Charge again!"
"Quick, quick! Pick up the weapon!"
"Long live the Kingdom of Heaven!"
"If we win this battle, the Central Plains will be ours!"
"The King of Heaven has decreed that the families of all Heavenly Kingdom soldiers who are killed in battle will receive at least fifty acres of land as compensation!"
"Come on! There will be it in the fields! There will be it in the wealth!"
With the instigation of military officers at all levels.
The soldiers of the Kingdom of Heaven reluctantly lined up in a horizontal formation and rushed towards the Long Pond and Tiger Cave ahead.
greet them.
It was an endless barrage of shells and bullets.
This time.
He had barely taken a few steps before he was blown away by the cannonballs that fell from his head.
Snap, snap, snap.
The soldiers of the Ming army relied on the trenches, mounted their firearms on the sandbag wall, aimed and fired, and were shot to death more than a hundred steps away!
On the battlefield of the First World War.
The brutal trench warfare nearly bled all of Europe dry.
It was this type of war that consumed so many lives that forced the monarchs of various European countries to abandon the mercenary system and instead use nationalism to call on people to become conscripts.
And it was at the same time that the European monarchs deceived the people at the bottom that "the country belongs to the nation, and the interests of the nation are the interests of everyone" in order to fight the war, thus obtaining a large number of cheap conscripts.
These low-level soldiers who believed that "the interests of the country and the nation are closely related to me" turned around and began to question the legitimacy of the monarchy.
This will allow all European countries to become either republican or constitutional.
Anyway.
Changes in the war model gave rise to changes in the military service system, and changes in the military service system backfired on the power of those feudal monarchs.
The scene that is happening on the battlefield in the Central Plains now almost has the prototype of future generations.
In order to encourage the soldiers of heaven to fight.
The Heavenly King Liu Zhixie continued to increase the rewards, ranging from fields to personal power.
But even so.
The promises of the King of Heaven are becoming less and less valuable.
In front of life, everything is empty.
These days, the cannon fodder in foreign camps are also desperate after being repelled time and time again.
They looked eagerly at the old soldiers who had not yet gone into battle.
They eat better, wear warmer clothes, and have better weapons and equipment, but so far they have not yet gone into battle.
And now that the sky is getting brighter, the old camp in the rear has begun to prepare breakfast.
Let’s put aside the food treatment in the old camp and the foreign camp.
There's no sign of breakfast even being made in the outer camp yet.
Do you want everyone to go hungry and work hard?
When Ran Tianyuan once again asked these cannon fodder from the outer camp to continue charging.
Some people just threw away their weapons and started making noise.
"Damn it, let's go and charge, while those soldiers are sleeping in the back and having enough to eat and drink!"
"Heaven is not our heaven, so why should we fight to the death!"
"No more! No more!"
Suddenly, the morale of the army was shaken.
"Master Hou, what should I do?"
An officer looked at Ran Tianyuan with a panicked expression.
If excessive coercion causes the army to mutiny, that would be a serious matter.
Ran Tianyuan sighed.
"Go and report to the King of Heaven. We can't charge any further. Please withdraw the vanguard."
At this moment.
Liu Zhixie, whose face was ashen, stood on a lookout car, holding a telescope and staring at the battlefield ahead.
The morning sun has gradually turned from fiery red to scorching white.
The sky has completely lightened.
The night attack failed.
"Liu Zhixie can really endure this. He doesn't even send out his old soldiers."
In the central tent of the Ming army.
Zhu Daohua couldn't help but sigh.
It was a lively night of fighting last night.
But those dispatched by the Taiping Army were cannon fodder.
Liu Zhixie integrated the inner camp troops.
Among them, 30,000 musketeers and 30,000 cavalry were not dispatched.
Although corpses were left on the ground in front of the battle formation, they did not harm Liu Zhixie at all.
Such a result is not what Zhu Daohua wants to see at all.
In his opinion.
The war with the Taiping Rebellion should not be a war of attrition that consumes human lives.
Because what is flowing here is the blood of the Han nation!
The blood of Han warriors should not be shed on the battlefields of the civil war.
"Liu Zhixie will not easily dispatch his old camp. This is always the case in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wars. Otherwise, why would they need so many cannon fodder?" Tao Biquan said with a frown.
Zhu Daohua shook his head slightly.
If he was willing, with sufficient ammunition, he could rely on the trenches in Nanguantao Town to let the blood of hundreds of thousands of Gangtian Kingdom soldiers drain here.
However, hundreds of thousands of strong men were lost in one battle.
This is not a situation Zhu Daohua wants to see.
"There is no need to defend. I don't want to get entangled with Liu Zhixie here. I ordered the Guards Cavalry Brigade to move out on the left wing and dispatch the rocket artillery battalion to bombard Liu Zhixie's Chinese army and force his old battalion soldiers to fight. The artillery brigade dispersed the enemy's cannon fodder. Two The infantry brigade launches a full-scale attack and breaks through the enemy's infantry formation from the center!"
Zhu Daohua put down his telescope and gave the order.
With the strength of his Guards Corps.
Doing defensive operations is simply a waste of time and lives.
Rather than that.
It would be better to defeat the Heavenly Kingdom Army with a single thunderous strike.
Moreover, the tactics of the Ming army were also very simple.
It is to use the infantry line forward in the middle, use artillery to bombard the enemy's formation, and after gaining the advantage in the infantry battle, force the opponent to send cavalry to fight. Then it is the time for the extremely elite cuirassiers of the Ming Army to perform.
Cavalry, infantry, and artillery cooperate with each other.
and.
For the first time, new equipment such as rocket launchers was used on the battlefield.
A lot of rockets were captured from the British Navy after the Battle of the Indian Ocean.
After seeing the structure of the Congreve rocket, Zhu Daohua remembered a small change in the rocket in later generations, which made the rocket a truly practical weapon.
Later generations of bearded men in the Middle East could easily use Laiyang steel pipes to manufacture a large number of cheap, powerful, and highly accurate homemade rockets.
This small change is to set up three jets, and the three jets are at a slightly inclined angle, allowing the rocket to spin when it is launched, thereby obtaining a stable trajectory, thus abandoning Congreve With the huge balance rod behind the rocket, the stability and accuracy of the rocket trajectory will be higher.
Small technical improvements based on Congreve rocket technology were not difficult at all for Ming Dynasty's arsenal.
And using a rocket propellant mixed with white sugar and black powder can also give the rocket a greater range.
Just when Liu Zhixie was planning to reorganize the front army and prepare for a protracted war.
call out.
The sound of sharp rockets sounded from the Ming army's position.
The huge rocket dragged a trail of white smoke and headed towards Liu Zhixie's Chinese army.
(End of chapter)
