Fight hard! The only option is to fight hard!

In fact, the Eight Banners New Army has been fighting since the beginning of the Huaxian battle! The artillery team is fighting, the infantry is fighting, and the cavalry is fighting even more! But...it really can't beat the Taiping Army! In terms of equipment, there is not much difference between the two;

In terms of bravery, the Taiping Army clearly had the upper hand; in terms of tactics, the Eight Banners were rigid, while the Taiping Army was flexible and changeable; in terms of numbers, although the Eight Banners had the advantage, the Taiping Army's backup could arrive on the battlefield at any time!

More importantly, there are 40 million Han people behind the Taiping Army, but less than 2 million bannermen behind the Eight Banners...

This is not a fight, it is obviously suicide!

"It's definitely not possible to fight from the front. The soldiers of the Cantonese bandits are indeed better than ours."

This is a fact. Even if Senggelinqin doesn't admit it, he has to admit it. If you compete with troops to kill in line, the Eight Banners New Army will definitely lose.

"Fortunately, we have more cavalry than them! We also have more people than them. We can use our cavalry to attract them and then use our cavalry to bypass the Cantonese bandits. This way we can win."

Is it really possible? In fact, Senggelinqin only plays drums in his heart, but apart from this style of play, which seems to be a viable one, other styles of play are definitely not hopeless.

"Nibele, how many cavalry teams are dispatched this time?" someone asked.

"Send out as many as there are!" Seng Gelinqin took a breath, "Life or death depends on this. If we delay any longer, we're afraid reinforcements from the Cantonese bandits will arrive... Jingxuan, I'll leave this place to you to command!"

I will lead the cavalry myself!"

Each of the six banners of the Eight Banners New Army in Huaxian County has two horse teams. There are 12 leagues in total. Each league has 4,000 people. If it is full, there should be 48,000. However, we lost a lot in the melee with the Nian Army before. We just made two sudden advances.

, Zhengbai

The flag cavalry lost nearly 2,000. The blue flag cavalry lost about 2,300. However, the cavalry of the 12 associations currently has about 38,000 troops. Compared with the Taiping cavalry on the battlefield, it has an overwhelming numerical advantage!

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"Dong Wang, the Eight Banners troops are not very good at fighting. They are worse than the Hunan Army, but they have too many cavalry, tens of thousands of them. Now we are afraid that they will use the cavalry to coordinate with the troops to attack us from front to back."

At the same time, Yang Xiuqing was discussing the military situation with several generals. The battlefield was temporarily quiet. It seemed that both sides of the war had a tacit understanding: they were tired from fighting and it was time to take a breath.

"I suggest temporarily retreating 10 miles, setting up camp, and waiting for Hu Yihuang's reinforcements to arrive before fighting Qingyao decisively."

Zeng Tianyang's plan is equivalent to giving the Eight Banners' new army a way to survive. Yang Xiuqing, Li Kaifang, Zhang Lexing and other generals shook their heads. The Eight Banners' elite are all in Huaxian. If they cannot gather and annihilate them here, let Seng Gelinqin return to Beijing, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will try again.

It will be extremely difficult to capture the city of Beijing.

As for Hu Yihuang's army, it must be on the way now, and it will arrive in a few hours at most. In other words, as long as Seng Gelinqin's army of hundreds of thousands is left for a few more hours, this battle will be won.

Got it!

"If we want to fight, we must guard against Monk Gelinqin using his cavalry to cut our retreat." Seeing that no one supported him, Zeng Tianyang expressed his worries, "Qing Yao has at least thirty to forty thousand cavalry. If we take a detour

Behind us..."

Next, Senggelinqin will definitely not take any action on the front. He should take a defensive position first, then use the cavalry to go around the Taiping Army. Then cooperate with the troops to attack from both front and rear.

Yang Xiuqing supported her chin with one hand and squinted her one eye. She was silent for a long time before slowly speaking: "In this battle, we must have the will to fight to the death! Seng Gelinqin wants to use his cavalry to attack my flank, so I will use my cavalry to defeat him."

troops, and then turn back to fight his cavalry!"

Everyone was startled. This strategy was a gamble! Bet that the Taiping Army's troops could defeat the opponent's troops before the Qing Army's cavalry completed their roundabout!

"There is no need to send out all the troops, just use foreign guns to protect the flanks of the army and camp. The army on the east side of the palace will protect the flanks."

There are still between 31,000 and 32,000 foreign gunmen in the left and right armies, and 5,000 in the military camp, totaling less than 37,000. And Seng Gelinqin’s troops number at least more than 80,000!

"When will the artillery be restored?" Yang Xiuqing suddenly asked again.

"It will take at least an hour." Zeng Tianyang replied.

"Okay, there's no need for cannons!" Yang Xiuqing smiled, "It's a waste of time to fight monsters with cannons. It's better to fight with foreign guns. What I mean is that the whole force of the foreign gun team is pressed up, and they fight with volleys of guns. Tianyang, fire.

Fang, what do you think?"

Cavalry detours are not accomplished overnight. As mentioned earlier, cavalry operations must always consider the physical strength of the war horse and cannot overuse it. Therefore, during the detour process, one must either lead the horse on foot or "walk", which is how Mongolians walk on horseback.

The most common state is that the speed is around 20 miles per hour. At this time, the horse's physical strength is not very exhausted, but after "walking", it still needs to continue its energy before it can start a sprint.

"If Seng Gelinqin wants to make a roundabout way back to my rear, plus the remaining time, it will take at least half an hour, which is enough for us to defeat his troops!" Yang Xiuqing said with confidence.

At this moment, the commanders of both sides have made up their minds. It can be said that the outcome of the battle in Huaxian has been decided. Now that the bet has been placed, the cards have been taken, and we are waiting for the moment of announcement!

"Warriors of the Eight Banners, crush the heads of the Cantonese bandits with your iron hoofs! Let's move!"

Thirty-eight thousand cavalry surged toward the south from the east of Huaxian County like a torrent. The leader, Seng Gelinqin, shouted at the top of his lungs, receiving a thunderous response from the Eight Banners disciples.

"God bless us! The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will win! Kill the demon! Go to heaven..."

Almost at the same moment, more than 30,000 Taiping Heavenly Kingdom warriors also let out a roar that shook the earth, marched forward, and pressed towards the formation of the Manchu Eight Banners.

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The first formation of the Taiping Army was still launched by the light infantry commanded by Li Xiucheng. About 1,500 people pulled out a long snake formation and walked in front of the Taiping Army's horizontal formation. It was not a tight formation, but a sparse and scattered formation.

Troop line.

"Hurry up, the riflemen go up!"

Several deputy commanders of the Eight Banners New Army all issued the same order. These Taiping light infantrymen were frightened of them. These cunning and cruel enemies must not be allowed to get close!

Soon, less than two thousand Eight Banners New Army riflemen came forward in the same loose formation. When the two sides were about 300 steps apart, both sides opened fire almost at the same time. More than three hundred Eight Banners soldiers fell, and the Taiping Army's

The losses on the side were relatively small, with only about a hundred people shot.

"What's going on? This marksmanship is not as good as others..." Fu Fang, who had regained consciousness, was helped by a Gesheha and climbed to the top of Huaxian City to watch the battle - his right arm had been completely sawed off! He probably wouldn't be able to do it again in this life.

Maybe he'll go to war again.

He didn’t know that what made the Eight Banners riflemen inferior to their opponents was not their marksmanship but their psychological quality. The Taiping Army’s light infantrymen were the elite of the Taiping Army’s foreign riflemen. They were all old brothers from Guangxi. They believed in God and heaven and were not afraid of death at all!

The riflemen of the Eight Banners were anxious and uneasy when they went to the battlefield. The tenth cost during training was good, and now they can perform at 20 to 30%, which is already good.

"Kill the demon! Go to heaven..."

The performance of the light infantry naturally greatly boosted the morale of the Taiping Army, and shouts resounded throughout the battlefield.

"Calm down, calm down, don't shoot from 30 steps away!"

The shouts of the Eight Banner Leaders and Assistant Leaders also came one after another. The order to shoot at 30 steps was given repeatedly by Seng Gelinqin before he led the cavalry to make a detour. He didn't expect it to be done, but it was better than not giving it at all, right?

"Stop!"

But this time, the Taiping Army stopped at a distance of about 70 steps.

"Squat in the front row! Stand in the middle row! Hold the gun... level! Aim... and release!"

Tens of thousands of foreign guns fired at the same time, and the metal bullets gathered into a torrential rain of death and swept across the front row of the Eight Banners New Army. Thousands of people immediately fell to the ground, and many died before they even had time to scream.

The fight started at seventy steps? Why do these rules keep changing!?

The Eight Banners commanders and subordinates commanding from the front were immediately dumbfounded. What should we do about this? Should we still fight?

Just when they were considering this issue, the Taiping Army on the opposite side was already loading bullets!

"Squat in the front row! Stand in the middle row...Quick, quick, raise the gun level!"
Chapter completed!