Chapter forty-ninth
Zhou Xiuying is about seventy or eighty meters away from Wu Chaoyue's team training array. Although this distance is just a pediatric for the maximum range of 500 meters of the Dresse firing gun, the possibility of accurate hit is basically equivalent to throwing coins five times in a row and facing upward. However, the Minnie gun is completely different. The Minnie gun with the rifled inner line is not a problem at this distance. A rigorously trained shooter hits seven or eight shots in ten shots.
Of course, Wu Chaoyue was reluctant to use Minnie gun to snipe the beautiful Zhou Xiuying who could almost roll the sheets with him. However, Chen Mujin, the big thief in Jiading who had been entrusted in the court, actually jumped out by himself. Wu Chaoyue naturally had no need to be polite and immediately ordered his own captain and sniper captain Wu Dasai to shoot. As a result, Wu Dasai did not disappoint Wu Chaoyue's expectations for him, and finally repayed Wu Chaoyue's kindness for taking him to eat, drink, and gambling in the past few years.
"Brother Chen is shot! Brother Chen is shot!"
"There are sharpshooters in the government army! Brother Chen was hit!"
Wu Dasai rewarded Wu Chaoyue. As soon as he heard the gunshot, he saw Chen Mujin falling down with his chest, screaming and rolling on the ground. The two rebels, Jiading and Qingpu, were also in a panic. Zhou Xiuying, who finally understood that Wu Chaoyue could take her life at any time, had just come back to her senses. At the same time, Zhou Lichun rushed up and screamed with wide eyes, "How is it possible? How did the little slut named Wu hit Brother Chen at such a long distance? We also have muskets, it is impossible to hit so far?"
No one could answer Zhou Lichun's question, but Xu Yao threw himself on Chen Mujin, whose chest was covered in blood, hugged Chen Mujin, who was screaming and screaming, "Brother Chen, what's wrong with you? What's wrong?"
At the same time, when the Shanghai regiment training was in chaos, Chen Mujin, who had been shot, was surrounded by people. Brown, a veteran of the US who was voluntarily acting as tactical guidance for the Shanghai regiment training, was stunned and said to Wu Chaoyue: "Wu, do you Chinese have no military knowledge? You have seen that their companions have been shot and dare to gather in large quantities within our range. Are they not afraid of us taking the plane to shoot?"
"If they had such military knowledge, the Opium War would not be bullied so badly by your British cousin." Wu Chaoyue replied with a wry smile, then turned to Wu Dasai and others and shouted: "Sniper team, fire freely! Let's shoot out our might first! Others are not allowed to shoot without orders!"
With Wu Chaoyue's order, the twenty Wu army snipers who had been itchy and were not polite, and immediately aimed at the targets they found and pulled the trigger. As the ping-pong gunshots rang, more than a dozen members of the rebels fell to the ground one after another. The already chaotic rebels of Qingpu and Jiading were suddenly even more chaotic. Countless people shouted and ran away with their heads. The already messy queue was even more chaotic. On the contrary, the Shanghai regiment training side was full of joy and morale was greatly boosted. Because it was the first time to go to the battlefield, the general tension was greatly alleviated. Many Lian Yong began to gradually believe what Wu Chaoyue and Brown said before - they were actually very powerful, but they didn't even know it themselves.
After one round of shooting, the snipers of the Wu army seized the time to load ammunition, and the gunshots stopped temporarily. The rebels also shouted and reorganized the team again. After being held by Xu Yao, they took a step back. Chen Mujin, who was shot in the vital chest, had already rolled his eyes and died tragically in Xu Yao's arms. Xu Yao and other generals of the Jiading rebel army cried loudly. Zhou Lichun was also furious and shouted at Xu Yao and others: "Brother Xu, don't cry for a while, let's rush forward and fight with the Wu, and avenge Brother Chen!"
Xu Yao and others agreed with tears in their eyes. Zhou Lichun and Xu Yao immediately arranged a charge and attack, arranged for soldiers holding iron pots, wooden boards and vine shields to come forward, soldiers holding meshes, and then soldiers holding bows, arrows, swords and guns to charge together after hearing the order, and rushed to the front and practice close combat with the Shanghai regiment. After the final arrangement, with Zhou Lichun's order, while the gongs and drums were beaten, more than 4,000 rebels really shouted to charge towards the hedgehog formation trained by the Shanghai regiment. If Zhou Lichun did not have this organizational force, it would not have been possible to repel the attack of the Qing army's green camp twice.
In fact, during the formation of Zhou Lichun and Xu Yao, the Wu army snipers still had a chance to shoot and kill people, but Wu Chaoyue was afraid of scaring the enemy away and not having the chance to train the recruits in full, so he strictly prohibited the sniper from continuing to shoot. When he saw the enemy launching a charge from all directions at the same time, Wu Chaoyue was secretly happy and shouted: "No order, no one is allowed to shoot! When he hears the order, shoot together immediately! Except for the reserve team!"
More than 200 Wu army Jianyong agreed, each holding the weapons in his hands tightly, staring at the uprising soldiers rushing in sweat, and Brown, who had great battlefield experience, kept speaking tough Chinese and demanding that Jianyong be strict and must not leave his position without hesitation. Wu Chaoyue was also a little nervous, constantly turning his head to observe the enemy's situation, silently calculating the distance between the military formation and the enemy, and preparing to wait for the enemy to approach within 70 meters before ordering shooting. Originally, Brown suggested that Wu Chaoyue shoot within 50 meters of the enemy, but for caution, Wu Chaoyue, who was also on the battlefield for the first time, chose a relatively safe distance of 70 meters.
"Kill! Kill! Kill the dog official! Avenge Brother Chen!"
Amid the roars, the rebels rushed closer and closer. In order to avenge Chen Mujin and to show their courage in front of their sweethearts, Xu Yao, the second in command of the Jiading Rebel Army, rushed to the front with an iron pot, and the roaring sound was louder than anyone else. "Wu Chaoyue, take my life for me-!"
"shot!"
At the same time, Wu Chaoyue finally yelled the order to shoot. When he was too nervous, Wu Chaoyue even raised his hand and fired a shot at the sky with a revolver.
With the sound of bang and bang, the firing guns in Wu Jun Lianyong's hand also fired one after another. At this time, Wu Jun Lianyong finally showed their rigorous training results for nearly three months. The huge hedgehog array instantly turned into a huge fire-breathing hedgehog. The smoke rolled and the fire was sprayed. The continuous gunshots were more dense than firecrackers. The Wu Jun snipers inside the square array also pulled the triggers from the high place. More than 200 projectiles hit all directions one after another, and then, the continuous screams immediately came to Wu Jun Lianyong's ears from all directions.
Too nervous, many Wu Jun Lianyong made mistakes when changing paper-case ammunition, and even nervously dropped the paper-case bullets directly on the ground. The loading speed was far less rapid and fast than usual training. Brown was so angry that he cursed in English and kept yelling at Lianyong. However, Wu Jun Lianyong acted as a rookie, but the enemy on the opposite side was even more rookie. Seeing that his companions were shot and injured and even fell to the ground, many of the uprising soldiers were so scared that they screamed, and subconsciously stopped and stopped to wait and see, giving Wu Jun Lianyong more time to load bullets.
There are also many rebel soldiers who are still charging. Xu Yao, who was lucky enough to be hit by Wu Jun’s first round of training, continued to rush to the front and kept shouting: “Brothers, hurry up, don’t give Wu Gou Guan the time to replenish medicine!”
Although Xu Yao's order was extremely correct, many soldiers of the rebel army still charged and tried hard to narrow the distance with the Wu army's hedgehog formation. However, it was a pity that the distance of 70 meters was not reached in a blink of an eye. The speed of the bullet loading of the shot gun in Wu army's Lianyong's hand was far faster than Xu Yao and others imagined. When Xu Yao was more than 30 meters away from the Wu army's hedgehog formation, gunshots sounded again in Wu army's hedgehog formation, and the first shot hit the iron pot in Xu Yao's hand. The bang suddenly scared Xu Yao out of cold sweat. Then, more Wu army's Lianyong fired shots one after another, and because the distance was close, the hit rate was greatly increased. Basically, three or four shots could hit an enemy. The soldiers of the rebel army were shocked, and the pace subconsciously slowed down. Many people even began to turn around and run back.
Here we must praise Xu Yao and many uprising soldiers. When the charge was no longer as good as before, Xu Yao and some uprising soldiers were still plucking up the courage to charge forward, but it was still a pity that Wu Jun Lianyong, who overcame the first psychological difficulties, reloaded ammunition faster this time. When Xu Yao was more than ten meters away from the Wu Army's hedgehog formation, Wu Jun Lianyong pulled the trigger for the third time. After the Wu army's whistleman Huang Dasha and Deng Siyuan, who were equipped with revolvers, drew out the revolvers and fired the enemy after firing the third shot. Deng Siyuan's revolvers shot at Xu Yao, and the second shot hit Xu Yao's handsome cheek, knocking Xu Yao's teeth away, which made Xu Yao scream in pain, and then ran back - and then another shot was shot in the butt.
Several soldiers of the rebel army luckily rushed to the vicinity of the Wu army's hedgehog formation. However, before they could raise their swords and guns, there was a bayonet on the opposite side stabbing in the chest. Wu Jun Lianyong, who was half-squatting on the ground, also raised his gun and stabbed them with a bayonet in an extremely sinister manner, stabbing them in a hurry and unable to resist. They were either stabbed to death or were stabbed in a scream and backed away.
Gunshots continued to blow up the rebel soldiers close to the Wu army's hedgehog formation. The Wu army snipers hiding inside the hedgehog formation also shot accurately, knocking down the rebel generals one after another. Although the rebel soldiers holding the mesh rope gun in their hands also shot, they had not received strict training. In the tension, they basically knocked the bullets away from 100,000 miles away. Only three or two particularly unlucky Wu army was shot, and none of them were fatal.
The Wu army's hedgehog formation was already full of enemy corpses and wounded soldiers. The gunshots like firecrackers were still continuing, and the screams of ghosts and wolves were already rising and falling in the ranks of the uprising army. Countless soldiers of the uprising army threw down their weapons and ran away, scrambling to escape to the distance. Many soldiers of the uprising army who escaped slowly and were still in the range were still being shot, constantly making tragic crying and screaming, which further shook and attacked the morale of the uprising army, which was originally a mob.
Seeing that the situation was not good, many soldiers of the rebel generals had already rushed to the Huangdu Town to escape. At first, Zhou Lichun was still a little unwilling to give up, and kept shouting and shouting, asking his subordinates to stop and reorganize the team. However, seeing that more and more people were escaping and his subordinates became more and more chaotic, Zhou Lichun gradually panicked. In the end, he just pulled his daughter and ran away to the old nest of Huangdu Town. More than 4,000 people were defeated and fled everywhere.
It was Wu's turn to Jianyong to counterattack. Wu Chaoyue, who was half-tongued, could not teach Jianyong how to blow the charge horn, so he could only continue to use the Qing army's war drums to convey the charge orders. He also forgot to reorganize the formation and ordered the charge drums to be sounded. Even the war horses forgot to ride the cavalry, so he brought more than 200 Jianyong's chaotic foot charges. Brown was so angry that he cursed again, "SHIT! Wu, a commander like you, I promise you won't live for ten minutes when you arrive on the battlefield in the United States!"
Fortunately, Wu Chaoyue and Wu Jun Lianyong were rookies, and the two rebels in Qingpu and Jiading were typical mobs. They didn't know how to seize the opportunity of Wu Jun's army's chaotic army to launch a counterattack. They cried and howled, just fled to their future lives, and no one dared to stop and resist. As a result, at this time, Wu Jun Lianyong, who had to carry 50 kilograms and ran ten kilometers every day with a weight of 50 kilograms more than a month ago, also showed the results of hard training. The soldiers of the rebel soldiers who ran far faster than those of insufficient training in their running, easily caught up with many enemies, and then either shot or stabbed them by bayonets, forcing the enemy to run faster and more chaotic, without any power to fight back.
Continuously sprinting forward, absurd things happened. Wu army, who had been training for several months, had too outstanding motivation for training bravely, and rushed to the front. After finding that there was no one in front, they turned around and shot and killed the enemy behind. The soldiers of the rebel army who were blocked cried and cried, either kneeling down to surrender or running for life in other directions. Many people fled directly to their own villages. Wu Chaoyue also remembered the slogan of ordering soldiers to chant surrender but not kill them, and shot and threatened many enemies to abandon their weapons and kneel down to surrender.
During the pursuit, Wu Chaoyue naturally had to quietly search for Zhou Xiuying's whereabouts. He once vaguely saw a woman, but the distance was a little far away and could not tell whether it was Zhou Xiuying. When he found nothing in the end, Wu Chaoyue could only pray to God for blessing and never let Zhou Xiuying die unfortunately in the chaos - the most dangerous thing on the battlefield was the crowd and footsteps of the defeated army. The result was quite good, and Wu Chaoyue never saw Zhou Xiuying among the dead bodies on the road.
It was still when the final battle was about to end that Wu Chaoyue realized that he had done something stupid - to surrender too early, and more than 200 Wu army trained to bravely capture more than 1,000 prisoners. He had to guard these prisoners and had no extra strength to launch an attack on Huangdu Town, the old nest of Zhou Lichun, which was not far away.
The good grandfather Wu Jianzhang still did not abandon Wu Chaoyue, the unfilial grandson. Just as Wu Chaoyue was worried about the unguarded prisoners, hundreds of green camp soldiers came to the east of the official road, and the leader was the Shanghai garrison officer He Shu. Seeing the corpses and dense crowds of prisoners on the ground, He Shu, who had suffered a great loss from the rebel army north of the Wusong River the day before yesterday, was so shocked that his chin almost fell to the ground. As soon as he met, he bowed and bowed to Wu Chaoyue, and said repeatedly: "Mr. Wu, I am in my military service. I admire you so much that I admire you. I didn't expect that you only had more than 200 people, and you actually put..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Wu Chaoyue interrupted He Shu's compliment in anger and said quickly: "You were sent by my grandfather to help? It happened to be right. I guarded the prisoners and cleaned the battlefield for me, and then took the prisoners to Huangdu Town to meet me!"
He hurriedly assigned the task to He Shu, and Wu Chaoyue shouted loudly to gather, and continued to advance west with Lian Yong, and struck Zhou Lichun's old nest Huangdu Town while the iron was hot. As a result, it was at this time that Wu Chaoyue asked Lian Yong to line up at Brown's reminder, which also caused Brown's curse again, "Wu, if you meet the American army led by me, I guarantee that you will not be able to hold on in front of me for five minutes!"
He smiled and thanked Blan, who was kind-hearted, and when Wu Chaoyue led Lian Yong to Huangdu Town, it was too late. He stayed here and Zhou Lichun's remnants received news of the main force's defeat. He had already opened the town gate and fled in all directions, leaving only an empty town and some old, weak, sick and disabled people in the town. Wu Chaoyue, who originally wanted to practice the battle, was disappointed, so he could only go into the town to search for the remaining enemies. At the same time, he strictly prohibited burning, killing, looting, and killing the elderly, weak, sick and disabled people who could not escape.
At Wu Chaoyue's request, Wu Jun Lianyong quickly captured several soldiers of the uprising army who did not escape fast enough. Wu Chaoyue personally interrogated it. Only then did he learn that Zhou Lichun and his daughter had never returned. Wu Chaoyue was disappointed and breathed some relief, knowing that Zhou Xiuying was still alive. When he was searching Zhou Lichun's residence, Wu Jun Lianyong reported another news that made Wu Chaoyue angry and smoked his orifices - Zhou Lichun's house actually had a large amount of opium hidden. (This is not a slander of Zhou Lichun. The Qingpu County Chronicles clearly recorded that he intervened in the opium transaction.)
In a rage, Wu Chaoyue ordered Zhou Lichun's house to burn, but after the order was issued, Wu Chaoyue changed his mind and instead went to Zhou Lichun's house to explore the situation. He shamelessly entered Zhou Xiuying's boudoir, sat on Zhou Xiuying's bed, stroked the soft pillow with fragrance, and was fantasizing in his heart, "It would be great if the girl was still there. She shouldn't have been carried to bed at this time, right?"
In Huangdu Town, Wu Jun Lian Yong also found many food, weapons and supplies that the Qingpu Uprising Army had no time to take away, as well as some gold and silver. Wu Chaoyue was not polite and immediately ordered the gold and silver to be distributed equally to his Jian Yong. The food and supplies were left, and the weapons were sold for money, and the same reward was given to the soldiers who made meritorious service, which made Wu Jun Lian Yong's cheers shook the sky. Wu Dasai, who was beside him, quickly reminded: "Master Sun, what should He Shu do? They have helped us a little."
"Don't worry, they won't go in vain." Wu Chaoyue said angrily: "The prisoner was handed over to him, and the battlefield was also handed over to him to clean. Do you think he would give us the valuable things he found from the prisoner, as well as the swords, fuses and guns he picked on the battlefield?"
Chapter completed!