Usurping the Qing Dynasty: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 106 Another brilliant victory! Save the Jiangbei camp!

After counting the casualties, Su Ye gasped in pain.

Fifty-nine people were killed, 152 were injured, and about 60 of them were seriously injured.

That is to say, after one battle, about 120 people lost their combat effectiveness.

This loss is really a bit big.

He has less than 2,000 people in total. If such losses come a few times, he can't bear it at all.

Of course, the results of the battle are also great. According to estimates, the Taiping Army suffered more than a thousand casualties, or even more.

This battle loss ratio is very beautiful.

But, it can't be seen that way.

This battle was almost one-sided at the beginning. Su Ye's new army suffered very few casualties, while the Taiping Army suffered huge casualties.

When the Taiping Army rushed into the defense line frantically, everything changed.

Almost all the casualties of Su Ye's new army occurred during that period, and in a very short period of time.

In fact, during that period of time, the battle situation was very dangerous.

If Su Ye had not arranged the ambush of the cavalry in advance and rushed out at the critical moment, even if this battle was won, it might have been a tragic victory.

Only when the battle really started did we realize that sometimes, victory or defeat was just a matter of a moment.

Su Ye felt that one reason for this situation was that the artillery had not been transported to the battlefield in time.

But... the Taiping Army did not have artillery either.

However, at this time, the soldiers of the new army were very excited.

Although they were also sad for their fallen comrades.

But in the final analysis, they were still excited.

"Great victory, a rare great victory!" Lin Li shouted: "Our new army has just been established for eight months, and we have such a great victory against the rebels. Who else can do it?"

Wang Shiqing was also very excited and trembled: "Wing Marshal, this is a real great victory. Compared with the battlefield where I suppressed the Nian Army, this is a real great victory."

"Wing Marshal, you don't know how cowardly we were in the battlefield of suppressing the Nian Army. There were a total of 20,000 troops, and most of the time we were running and chasing the enemy. Often, after a battle, we couldn't even kill a hundred people on the other side."

"And in today's battle, we killed thousands of rebels. It was a really hearty and great victory."

At this time, Su Ye certainly couldn't spoil the fun, and couldn't say with a straight face that you didn't fight well.

In fact, you didn't fight badly, and you didn't make any real mistakes.

And Wang Shiqing made the greatest contribution. He led the cavalry to fight at the critical moment. He led the soldiers and rushed to the front, and was unstoppable.

Even, Su Ye had to face a fact.

The army always has casualties!

Look at the Hunan Army, how many people died from the beginning to the end, how many brave generals, who were so fierce in the first few months and had just won several great victories, but died in the next month.

Even if there is a summary meeting, we will talk about it later. Now let's be excited with the soldiers.

But we must be very careful in the next battle.

Su Ye has only one goal, to recapture Yangzhou City.

So if there is a hard battle with heavy casualties next, we should avoid it if possible.

Before attacking Yangzhou City, we must pay attention to preserving our strength.

Wang Shiqing came to Su Ye and said, "General Yi, in fact, this battle alone is enough to satisfy the emperor."

He did not advise Su Ye not to attack Yangzhou, but wanted to vent his inner excitement.

Su Ye patted his shoulder and said, "Shiqing, you have made the greatest contribution in this battle."

Wang Shiqing said, "You can't say that, you can't say that. It was the brothers in the infantry who created the opportunity for us to fight at the critical moment, so it was the brothers in the infantry who made us successful."

"Wing Marshal, thank you, thank you." Wang Shiqing was so excited that he was not as calm as usual.

"Wing Marshal, you don't know what kind of battle it was when I followed Lord Guiliang to suppress the Nian Rebellion in Shandong. Once I led 800 cavalrymen and killed more than 60 people on the other side. It was the greatest achievement and the greatest contribution."

"I thought that the battlefield was like this, but I didn't expect that I would really experience what fighting is here."

Su Ye suddenly understood the subconscious thoughts in Wang Shiqing's heart.

Su Ye took the initiative to recommend him to the new army as a deputy commander. He was very low-key and studied hard.

At that time, he was afraid because Su Ye's new army was too new.

He tried hard to learn many things, but for him, it didn't seem to be the best.

He was afraid that he was outdated, because his strongest skills were hacking, archery, riding, etc.

But in today's battle, he found that he was not outdated.

He found that he was still useful and very useful to the new army.

"Boom boom boom..."

At this time, there were bursts of loud noises from the north.

Obviously, the real battle was in the camp of Shaobo Town.

The main force of the Taiping Army was there, and they wanted to destroy the main force of the Jiangbei camp in one fell swoop. It was a detachment that came here to fight Su Ye.

Wang Shiqing calmed down a little from his excitement and said, "Wing Marshal, do you want to support?"

Really?

Do you want to support?

The direct reaction is definitely not to support.

Because the main force of the Taiping Army over there is at least more than 10,000 people, or even more.

Su Ye occupied the camp, facing 3,000 Taiping Army, and still suffered such casualties.

If he went to support, it would be a field battle.

Of course, he could attack from both inside and outside with the main force of the Qing Army in Shaobo Town.

However, he knew the strength of the Qing Army.

If it collapsed, the Taiping Army would turn around and attack us, which would be very dangerous.

But...

If we don't go to support.

What are the consequences?

The morale of the main force of the Qing army in Shaobo Town was already very low.

If the Taiping army directly defeated the main force of the Qing army in this battle, the consequences would be terrible.

After the main force of the Qing army was directly defeated, Su Ye's army might be the only one left on the battlefield.

Will Su Ye withdraw or hold on?

Moreover, he had just defeated the Taiping army's detachment, and the main force of the Taiping army might come directly towards him.

By then, it would be impossible to recapture Yangzhou City.

According to the historical trajectory, after Qin Rigang broke through the Jiangbei camp, he just looted everywhere and did not kill the Jiangbei camp.

But the current battle situation shows that Qin Rigang has changed his strategy. His army not only firmly guarded Yangzhou City, but also sent nearly half of the army to attack the main force of the Jiangbei camp. It is obvious that he wants to completely annihilate it.

According to history, Qin Rigang will soon cross the south again to attack the Jiangnan camp.

Why didn't they do this? What changes have taken place?

There must be a reason.

And Su Ye also thought of this reason.

That is the return of Shi Dakai's Western Expedition Army.

Because the attack on Jiangbei Camp was much later than in history, the Taiping Army was more fully prepared.

In history, Qin Rigang did not want to annihilate the main force of Jiangbei Camp, but he could not. Because the troops in the south to attack Jiangnan Camp were not enough, Qin Rigang's tens of thousands of troops were needed to rush south.

In this world, Shi Dakai's tens of thousands of troops have returned.

Therefore, the troops in the southern battlefield are relatively abundant.

Qin Rigang can have more time to annihilate the main force of Jiangbei Camp.

In fact, there is another change here.

That is what Hong Renli brought.

Hong Renli went to Jiujiang after all, and he brought thousands of people with him.

After the failure of the Xiaodaohui Uprising, many backbones were exiled everywhere, and many followed him to Jiujiang.

There was no decent obstruction on the way from Shanghai to Jiujiang by boat.

After the main force of the Hunan Navy was destroyed last year, the control of the entire Yangtze River was very chaotic.

The waters east of Tianjing were generally controlled by the Qing court, but they were also very sparse and there was no decent navy.

The waters west of Tianjing were still controlled by the Taiping Army.

However, the Hunan Army was willing to spend money and had its own shipyard, so it recovered quickly.

In short, at this time, the Taiping Army had more control over the Jiujiang battlefield.

Moreover, on the battlefield in Hubei, because of Zhang Yuzhao's death, the Hunan Army leaders kept impeaching Su Ye, but the emperor did not punish them, making them more passive on the battlefield.

So Shi Dakai's Western Expedition Army was able to draw more troops back.

So, according to the new situation at the moment.

What to do?

History has changed to a certain extent.

Of course, the problem in front of us.

Should we support the main force of the Jiangbei Camp?

Once the Jiangbei Camp was completely defeated and annihilated, Su Ye actually had no choice but to evacuate immediately and return to Beijing by boat.

Although this battle seemed to be explained to the emperor.

But... for Su Ye, it was far from enough.

It was just a small victory, and it failed to turn the situation around.

More importantly, he kept saying that he would recapture Yangzhou City, but he didn't do it.

Then, go to support the main force of the Jiangbei camp?

Is it possible to support the main force of the Shaobo Town camp with only minor casualties?

Su Ye quickly took out the battlefield map.

It turned out that it was possible... it was really possible!

Because there was a big river to the south of the Shaobo Town camp, about 20 to 30 meters wide.

It was flood season, and the river was surging, making it difficult to cross the river.

There was only one stone bridge for a few miles of the river.

In other words, if there were no Taiping Army on the south side of the river, Su Ye could completely attack across the river.

The greatest advantage of his new army was that the rifles were advanced and the firepower was fierce.

The weakness was that the close combat was weak.

But there was a big river in the middle, so the Taiping Army could not rush over.

The only thing to defend was that stone bridge.

This... was too simple.

Under dense firepower, if they wanted to rush along a stone bridge, they would die as many as they came.

And the Taiping Army would most likely not deploy defenses on the Henan side, because there was no need at all.

According to the Taiping Army scouts, there were no Qing troops south of Shaobo Town, and the Fairy Temple camp was empty.

Who knew that Su Ye's army would suddenly descend from the sky, seize this place in advance, and defeat the detachment that came to occupy the camp.

So, Su Ye made a prompt decision.

He immediately sent scouts to investigate.

And he could not wait for the results of the scouts, so he immediately led his army north.

The military situation was urgent.

Because after the Taiping Army's detachment was defeated, it might report to the main force.

It was time to race against time again.

Su Ye left 500 troops to continue defending the Fairy Temple camp.

He led 1,000 people and went north immediately.

He also sent cavalry south and ordered the baggage troops to go north immediately to the Fairy Temple camp to carry the ammunition up.

After the Taiping Army's detachment was defeated, this area was temporarily safe.

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Su Ye led a thousand new troops and just ran four miles when the scouts in front came to report quickly.

"General Yi, there are no rebels guarding the open space on the south bank of the river in the Shaobo Town camp! Only dozens of rebels are guarding the stone bridge."

Su Ye was overjoyed when he heard this, God is helping me.

"All troops, full speed!"

Su Ye immediately ordered a thousand infantrymen to speed up and march again.

It had to be fast!

Because once the main force of the Taiping Army discovered them, they might immediately send a large army across the bridge to the south.

But Su Ye was not unprepared. After defeating the Taiping Army's detachment, he picked up many of their flags, so he let more than a thousand new troops hold high the Taiping Army's flags.

In this way, the main force of the Taiping Army would think that the detachment had gone north, and only when they were very close could they find something wrong.

Su Ye's new army was getting closer and closer to the river south of the Shaobo Town camp.

At this time, the sound of the charge in front was deafening.

In front of the Shaobo Town camp, there were densely packed Taiping troops, and no one knew how many there were.

Both sides had artillery and were constantly firing.

It was not clear from such a distance.

However, it was probably clear that the battle situation was very bad.

Although the Qing army built a good defense line in the Shaobo Town camp, with gullies and high walls.

However, it was clearly seen that the dense Taiping Army had already rushed to the camp.

According to the morale of the Jiangbei camp, once the front lines of defense were forced, they would collapse and flee.

Therefore, even if Su Ye came half an hour later, the Shaobo Town camp might have been defeated.

When Su Ye's thousand men appeared on the south bank of the river.

The Taiping Army was stunned at first, and then saw that Su Ye's new army was holding the flags of the Taiping Army.

They immediately cursed.

What are you doing?

Why are you here just now?

Does it take so long to occupy an empty camp?

Sure enough, they thought Su Ye was a detachment of the Taiping Army.

The Qing army in the Shaobo Town camp was already a little bit overwhelmed.

Seeing another Taiping army coming at this time, they were even more desperate.

When Su Ye rushed to the south bank of the river, the Taiping Army realized that something was wrong. The Taiping Army stationed on the stone bridge came over immediately to investigate.

"Fire!"

With Su Ye's order.

Hundreds of new army soldiers ran and shot at the same time.

This stone bridge is only four meters wide, and dozens of Taiping soldiers rushed over on it. What's the difference between that and giving it away for free.

It's so dense that you can hardly aim.

In a short moment, almost all the Taiping soldiers on the stone bridge were annihilated and fell into the river.

Then!

Su Ye's one thousand new soldiers immediately lined up on the south bank of the river, and there was no time to build any defense line.

Directly across the river, they shot at the main force of the Taiping Army.

"Bang bang bang..."

This time, it really felt like a line of execution.

The main force of the Taiping Army that was attacking the Shaobo Town camp was stunned.

Who...who is this?

Wearing such strange clothes?

Where did the army come from?

Hasn't it been checked long ago that there are no troops in the entire south?

Haven't our three thousand people already occupied the Fairy Temple camp? Why are there still Qing demon troops?

The main force of the Taiping Army was so dense that it was most suitable for the new army to annihilate it.

In a short moment, the battlefield fell one after another.

The Taiping Army commander discovered it and immediately shouted: "Send out 3,000 people to fight the Qing monsters on the other side of the river in the south."

Immediately, thousands of the main force of the Taiping Army immediately turned around and shot at Su Ye across the river.

However, the bows and arrows were not accurate enough.

The Taiping Army's muskets were not accurate enough.

It was difficult to hit across the river of dozens of meters.

And they were best at close combat, but they couldn't use it at all, because there was such a big river between them, and they couldn't rush over at all.

This... was too uncomfortable.

It was a completely passive situation.

So the Taiping Army ordered to cross the bridge and rush over immediately.

Suddenly, thousands of Taiping Army rushed along the stone bridge.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

The stone bridge, which was more than 30 meters long and four or five meters wide, was densely packed with Taiping Army.

Then...

Falling down in large groups.

Like cutting wheat, falling into the river.

However, they still rushed forward desperately.

Then, they fell down in large groups again.

Su Ye looked away directly, not wanting to watch.

But the same thing, in order to seize power and usurp the throne, to change the fate of the country.

He must do this.

Recruiting the elites of the Taiping Army, he must do it in the future.

Lin Shaorong, Zeng Tianyang, Shi Dakai, Chen Yucheng, Li Xiucheng, etc., he wanted to recruit them.

But now, that is a foolish dream.

Now for Su Ye, it is to survive, win first and talk about it.

A little mercy will kill the new army and yourself.

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In the camp of Shaobo Town.

The commander Tuo Ming'a was about to despair.

Because the offensive of the rebellion today was too fierce.

In less than an hour after the battle, the entire camp was almost broken.

It can be seen that the rebels are determined to win this time.

In one hour at most, the rebel army will break through the defense line of the camp and rush in directly.

By then, the soldiers with low morale will definitely be defeated!

The Shaobo Town camp is already their only large camp left.

Once it is defeated this time, the main force of the entire Jiangbei camp will be annihilated.

What will be the consequences for him at that time?

The only way is suicide.

Look at those frontier officials who lost their land, whether they are admirals, governors, or governors-general.

How many died? How many committed suicide?

Not to mention Weng Tongshu and Dexing'a, who were still impeaching him.

At first, Tuo Ming'a asked about Su Ye's situation and what happened in the Fairy Temple camp.

Su Ye was a close minister of the emperor, and Tuo Ming'a wanted to make friends with him.

But now he couldn't care about it.

He had said long ago that Su Ye, you have only trained the new army for eight months, and you shouldn't come to the battlefield in Yangzhou.

This is a Shura field, you should run as far as you can.

The Taiping Army seems to have sent a detachment to capture the Fairy Temple camp, and Su Ye's new army only has 1,600 people.

That must be the end.

It must be completely destroyed.

The emperor asked him, the commander-in-chief, to take care of Su Ye's new army, and he also wanted to do a favor, but now he can't protect himself at all.

If Su Ye's new army is destroyed here, then he must be even more finished.

He will definitely die.

Tuo Ming'a made up his mind desperately that if the camp was breached and the main force was wiped out, he would commit suicide.

But... he was too scared to do it.

And at this moment.

A personal soldier rushed in and shouted loudly: "Marshal, Marshal! Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming."

Tuo Ming'a was stunned?

Reinforcements? Where did the reinforcements come from?

The Jiangnan camp could not protect itself, and there was no possibility of reinforcements within a hundred miles.

The only reinforcement, Su Ye's new army, was probably destroyed.

"Marshal, the reinforcements are really here, and the situation is very good..."

Tuo Ming'a could not help but climb to a high place.

Then, he was stunned.

This... where did these heavenly soldiers and generals come from?

So fierce?

In the telescope, he saw Su Ye's 1,000 new troops, lining up, shooting wildly across the river.

The gunmanship was amazingly accurate.

The rebels fell in groups.

Especially the stone bridge, which was densely packed with corpses, and had already piled up high.

Whose army is this?

Could it be... Su Ye's new army?

How is this possible?

This is a new army that has only been trained for eight months?

They were all farmers before.

The key is that Su Ye's new army should be fighting against the rebels in the Fairy Temple camp at this time.

The main force of the Shaobo Town camp has obviously discovered the battle situation here.

Not only did the reinforcements appear, but they are so powerful?

They beat the rebels so badly?

Suddenly, the morale of the main force in the Shaobo Town camp was greatly boosted.

But...

Soon, the main artillery of the Taiping Army turned around and began to bombard Su Ye's new army.

What to do at this time?

Dodge, move?

No!

Still lined up neatly.

Continue to line up and shoot, motionless.

Because the Taiping Army's artillery positions are relatively far away, and most of them are solid shells.

It is difficult to hit accurately.

Even if you hit accurately. Then... resist!

Because Su Ye was a long snake formation, even if a solid shell hit him, the casualties would not be great.

Even if it was a shrapnel shell, the power was just average.

Because the Taiping Army had a limited number of artillery pieces, and they were not advanced enough.

The key was that the terrain was very favorable to Su Ye. There were embankments on both sides of the river, and there would be a slope.

When the shells hit, there was a high probability that they would bounce out directly.

But at this time, it would be a great test of the army's willpower.

And the Western army did this.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The Taiping Army's artillery opened fire.

Su Ye shouted loudly, and more than a dozen officers also shouted loudly.

"Don't move, don't move!"

"Keep shooting!"

Although Su Ye's new army was trembling all over.

But the supervision team was behind them. If they dared to run, they would be shot directly.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

More than a dozen iron ball shells flew across the sky.

They didn't hit it accurately.

They flew directly over several meters above their heads.

But this posture was amazing enough.

Thus, a very shocking scene appeared in the whole battle.

Su Ye's new army, across the river, kept firing.

The Taiping army kept falling, and still kept rushing along the stone bridge, and then died in large numbers.

Brave and fearless.

The Taiping army's dozen artillery pieces bombarded Su Ye's new army.

Su Ye's new army, still lined up and kept firing.

Facing the artillery, the formation was not messy, and they did not hide or run.

The Taiping army commander was stunned.

This... where did this Qing army come from?

Just facing the artillery?

Not only the soldiers did this, but all the officers, even the commander, were at the front.

Are you crazy?

How could the Qing army have such a brave army?

The main force of the Qing army in the Shaobo Town camp looked at this scene in disbelief.

This... is this the army of the Qing Dynasty?

It doesn't look like it at all.

So fierce?

So stunned?

If it were them, facing the artillery bombardment like this, they would have fled long ago.

In fact, the soldiers of Su Ye's new army were also afraid.

They were not only afraid, but also trembling all over. Some of them even peed themselves out of fear.

However, the commander Su Ye was at the front.

All the officers were also at the front.

The education officer was staring at the artillery fire and encouraging people everywhere.

Do you dare to run?

Moreover, at this time, they were actually confused.

Their minds were in chaos, and even the shooting movements were mechanical.

They were blank, but absolutely obedient.

This was the biggest advantage of the new army, strong discipline.

"Boom boom boom..."

Another round of artillery bombardment.

This time, there are shrapnel shells.

There are no shotgun shells yet, because the distance is too far and the shotgun shells cannot hit.

If you want to use shotgun shells, you must move the artillery position to the south.

"Boom..."

A shrapnel shell exploded suddenly.

Suddenly, the distance was less than ten meters.

A wave of air hit.

Suddenly, Li Liang could no longer hold on, and he urinated directly, and the whole person collapsed to the ground.

He didn't know if he was injured, but he just collapsed directly.

At this time, it was very dangerous.

If there is a leader, there may be a steady stream of people collapsing next.

Because after all, it is a new army.

At the critical moment, Lin Li, as an indoctrination officer, immediately replaced him and picked up Li Liang's rifle.

And the remaining dozens of indoctrination officers are ready to replace him at any time.

Lin Li's marksmanship is not good, but... at this critical moment, his action saved the whole situation.

He is a scholar, a civil servant, but he stood up at the critical moment without fear of death.

Are we soldiers worse than him?

The Taiping Army commander saw this and immediately ordered all artillery positions to move south.

Concentrate firepower to destroy the Qing army on the south bank.

Su Ye was anxious.

He knew that his new army had almost reached its limit.

There were casualties, but not very large.

And even if they continued to resist, the casualties might not be very large.

Because this terrain is very favorable, sloping.

The artillery of the Taiping Army is not advanced enough. It looks scary, but it is actually difficult to hit.

The only fear is the opponent's shotgun, which sweeps across on a large scale.

However, the morale of the new army has reached its limit.

It can't hold on any longer.

There can't be a situation where morale collapses.

Therefore, Su Ye ordered the new army to retreat to avoid the next artillery fire of the Taiping Army.

However, at this time!

A team of Taiping Army cavalry galloped over quickly. This was the opponent's messenger.

The messenger held something high and ran towards the Taiping Army commander on the high platform.

The Taiping Army commander took it and looked at it, and his face suddenly changed.

He looked at the Shaobo Town camp with reluctance, and then looked at Su Ye's new army on the south bank.

Unwilling, unwilling!

This battle was not successful!

Unwilling!

However, orders cannot be disobeyed.

Commander Qin Rigang loudly ordered: "Withdraw!"

Suddenly, dozens of flag bearers waved flags on high ground.

Sound the horn to withdraw the troops!

Sound the horn to withdraw the troops!

Then... countless Taiping troops retreated like a tide.

At this time, Su Ye's new army was extremely emotional and was about to collapse and sit down.

Some people even wanted to cry.

Damn, don't embarrass yourself at this time.

Hold up the shelf for me.

Dozens of education officers shouted loudly: "Don't move, don't move."

"Stand up straight, don't move, don't sit down, don't fall down."

After being so awesome for so long, it would be embarrassing to collapse at the last moment.

So, Su Ye's new army suppressed their extremely intense emotions, trembling all over, standing still, watching the Taiping Army retreat.

They will remember this moment for the rest of their lives.

They were just a little bit away from collapse.

In fact, the casualties were not great, far less than the battle at the Fairy Temple Camp.

However, the enemy's momentum was too amazing.

At this time, the main officers and soldiers of the Shaobo Town Camp were crying loudly.

Won!

Won!

This battle was really won, it was not easy, I thought it would be over today, I don't know how many people would be killed.

I never thought that I won.

This is the first victory of the Jiangbei Camp.

It was not easy to really repel the main force of the Taiping Army.

And Su Ye's new army was their lifesaver.

A few hundred meters away, the officers and soldiers of Jiangbei Camp waved desperately to Su Ye's new army.

Some bowed desperately.

Some even knelt on the ground and kowtowed desperately to Su Ye.

Thank them for saving their lives.

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An hour later!

Jiangbei Camp Commander Tuo Ming'a, led a dozen chief officers and went straight out of the camp.

Tears welled up in his eyes when he was far away from Su Ye.

When there were still more than ten meters, he opened his hands and ran towards Su Ye.

He shouted while running wildly.

"Brother Su Ye, Brother Su Ye!"

"My benefactor!"

"The savior of our entire Jiangbei camp."

"Six hundred miles of urgent work, report to the emperor immediately, I want to make Brother Su Ye's contributions clear."

"We jointly report, no one can take away Brother Su Ye's contributions!"

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Note: The first update is here, I wrote all night until eight in the morning, I hope this scheduled update is OK.

I'm going to sleep! Benefactors, do you still have monthly tickets in your pocket? Thank you!