Chapter 88 Living up to this life

Chapter 88 Living up to this life

Chapter 88 Living up to this life
The reason why Shao Quanzhong did not send scouts to discover Deng Guangming's ambush was because the team he led was already small, close to the size of a scout.

When he arrived at the stopping place, he personally used a telescope to scout. Only when he was sure that there were no enemy troops within the danger range did he feel at ease to watch the battle.

In fact, this was true. There were more than 500 enemies, and the distance between the ambush site and Shao Quanzhong's location was beyond the battlefield alert range.

Otherwise, with the accuracy and firepower density of 500 quick-firing guns, a concentrated salvo would not have killed only a dozen people, because the shooting distance was too far.

The Taiping Army's quick-gun team originally had 2,000 men, but with the losses in combat, it became difficult to replenish them, and now there are only 500 left.

They were reluctant to use this type of exploratory siege, so they ambushed the flanks to prevent troops from inside the city from harassing the flanks of the siege troops.

Deng Guangming discovered that a small enemy reconnaissance force appeared in the distance, but he didn't pay attention to it at first.

When he observed through the telescope, he found that all the reconnaissance troops were dressed as foreign soldiers and carried rapid-fire rifles. He became excited.

We are going together, and there are not many of them. If I kill this team, I can seize more quick-firing guns.

He immediately ordered everyone to concentrate their fire, followed by a bayonet charge, with the main goal being to seize the enemy scouts' rifles.

The Taiping Army's quick-gun team set up an ambush, concentrated their fire from a distance, and then charged directly.

Shao Quanzhong made a quick decision, "Retreat!"

The soldiers under his command turned around and retreated at a run.

When two brave men meet in a narrow road, the brave one wins. Use the few to defeat the many and use the elite to destroy the enemy?
Stop talking nonsense. Wars are fought with logistics and firepower density. Otherwise, where does the fear of insufficient firepower come from?

The Taiping Army is a group of veterans who have been tempered in truly brutal wars, and their fighting spirit is by no means inferior to that of the Huai Army.

If both sides have the same weapons and their numbers are five times yours, why don't you just run and wait to be captured?
The Zhongzi Battalion was the longest-trained team in the Huai Army. Their retreat was well-organized. If one was running and the other was chasing, they should not be able to catch up.

After running for a while, Shao Quanzhong looked back and got angry. "Fuck, the enemy also has a troop."

The Quick Gun Team was the core of the Taiping Army, selected from the elite who had fought in hundreds of battles, and their soldiers were much better than those of the Loyalty Battalion of the Huai Army. Of the 500 soldiers under his command, more than 200 had basic skills in Qinggong.

Liao Tianyan was also a martial arts master. His specially trained subordinates, although not as good as Shao Quanzhong's scientific training, were much faster. They were basically a primitive version of special forces.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, Shao Quanzhong waved his hand and said, "Turn around, lie down, aim and shoot, and knock down their arrogance."

Lying down to aim the gun helps increase the accuracy of aiming. Everyone lay down and waited. When they saw the enemy approaching the optimal shooting distance of 100 meters, Shao Quanzhong waved his command knife and said, "Fire!"

White smoke rose up and more than twenty enemies in the front fell.

This is a moving target, which means that the enemy has no awareness of skirmish lines and does not bend over when charging, so it is relatively dense, which is why this effect can be achieved.

Shao Quanzhong chuckled, "We've made enough money back, let's retreat!"

You have to stand up to load bullets into a muzzle-loading rifle, and the speed is slow. There is no point in firing another round, and then you have to fight with bayonets. It is better to just fire once and run away.

This wave of head-on attacks really stunned the Taiping Army's quick-gun team. Their speed slowed down and the vanguard stopped.

Deng Guangming saw that the enemy fought back and shot more accurately than his side, so he thought that the other side knew they could not escape and was ready to fight to the death. Before the close combat, the enemy could still fire one round of gunfire. By then the distance would be closer, and he was afraid that thirty or forty people on his side would die, which would be a huge loss.

Immediately give the order, "Load the bullets--"

The Taiping soldiers began to load bullets. Deng Guangming looked from a distance and was shocked. Damn, they fought and ran away again!

The order could not be changed immediately. Deng Guangming waited for everyone to load the bullets, then waved his command knife and shouted, "Shoot!"

In this wave of shooting, only two of Shao Quanzhong's men fell.

The last time the enemy shot was a surprise attack on a fixed target. This time, although the distance was closer, it was not only a moving target, but also a line of skirmishers crouching in front of us.

Deng Guangming had never seen troops running all over the mountains and plains like this before. It was no wonder that he was so ignorant. The British and French troops that were now rampant in the world also did not understand the skirmish line.

The first skirmish line tactic in Europe was adopted by the Prussians in the Franco-Prussian War, which defeated the French army with superior firepower and made them cry for help.

The Franco-Prussian War was still nine years away, and Prussia's elite soldiers had already begun training in skirmish lines, but the French had not yet learned their lesson, let alone the Taiping Army.

Although the number of enemies killed was very small, they must have run out of bullets, so the Taiping Army's quick-gun team continued to pursue them.

As they were chasing, they suddenly saw a group of Qing soldiers turn around and stop running after being shot. The enemy had sent out a rearguard unit!

Seeing that there were only about thirty people left, Deng Guangming gritted his teeth and shouted, "Charge!"

At this distance, the enemy only has a chance to launch a wave of bullets. If you can hold on, you will have to fight with bayonets. You can't waste any more time.

Why did Shao Quanzhong's men leave the rear? They were not sent by Shao Quanzhong.

The Taiping Army's volley of fire only killed two soldiers from the Loyalty Camp, but one of them happened to be in front of Shao Quanzhong's left.

He was knocked down and the gun fell out of his hand and was thrown in front of Shao Quanzhong.

Shao Quanzhong reacted quickly and dodged the falling gun, then - he twisted his foot.

He was running with a limp, and his speed suddenly slowed down.

Zhang Siwen ran to Shao Quanzhong and crouched down, "Brother, I'll carry you on my back!"

This is a brother. Shao Quanzhong said nothing and lay on Zhang Siwen's back. Zhang Siwen was as strong as an ox and he ran not slowly even with him on his back.

Seeing that the enemy was getting closer and closer, the company commander Zhang Wushuan shouted, "First platoon, follow me and cover your retreat!"

A row of soldiers were all from Jiangyan. More than thirty of Shao Quanzhong's fellow villagers turned around without hesitation, faced the Taiping Army that was rushing towards them, and calmly loaded their bullets.

Shao Quanzhong heard more than thirty gunshots behind him, followed by screams in his hometown accent. He fell on Zhang Siwen's broad back, his eyes a little wet.

"Shao will never let down his fellow countrymen from Jiangyan, and will never let down his brother Sven in his life."

He didn't say this out loud, but he remembered it deeply.

On Deng Guangming's side, at the cost of more than 40 lives, he wiped out a platoon of the Huai Army's rearguard troops, and his morale was greatly boosted, and he continued to pursue Shao Quanzhong.

The Taiping Army was not afraid of sacrifice. This time they had obtained more than fifty high-quality quick-firing rifles. The sacrificed soldiers could be replaced, and the size of the Taiping Army's quick-firing team could be expanded.

Deng Guangming’s plan was to stop chasing the group of people after they reached seventy steps beyond the city wall, so as to avoid being hit by the Qing army’s muskets on the city wall.

Before that, try to maximize the results.

Seeing that they were still far away from the city wall, all the soldiers who were fleeing in front suddenly stopped and began to reload bullets.

Wow, if you cut off your tail and survive again, you can still run away one-third of the way. Now won’t the whole army be wiped out?
Deng Guangming swung his sword and said, "Charge forward and wipe out all the enemies!"

Nearly five hundred Taiping troops howled and rushed towards Shao Quanzhong and the remaining sixty or so soldiers.

The bullets here were not loaded yet, and the Taiping Army was less than fifty meters away.

The sixty or so people could already see the enemy's face clearly and hear their slogans of "Fight the Hu in obedience to Heaven and share peace."

These elite soldiers of the Taiping Army, who had experienced many battles in their careers, had fierce eyes, red scarves wrapped around their heads, and wielded shining bayonets. They would rush to the front in a dozen seconds.

(End of this chapter)