1850 American Gold Tycoon.

Chapter 374
"I am outnumbered, the winner has already been divided, you are a Han, why do you work for Xianfeng, the head of the Manchurian Qing demon in the capital.

You can bring out such a soldier, which shows that you are not a mediocre person. A good bird chooses a tree to live in, and a good minister chooses a master to serve.Why don't you abandon the darkness and turn to the light, go to the king of heaven, and under the guidance of the heavenly father and brother, jointly create a heaven on earth, so that everyone in the world can enjoy peace under the protection of the heavenly father and brother. "

It is not that there is no precedent for the Taiping army to recruit the Qing army. Except for the Qing monsters with too pure blood like the Eight Banners soldiers, the Taiping army has accepted both the green battalion and the village brave.

This township army is well-organized, well-equipped, and strong. It is the best Qing army that Wei Jun has ever seen.

Wei Jun hopes to persuade them to surrender for his own use.

The best strategy is to be able to subdue the enemy's soldiers without fighting.

Many of the soldiers Wei Jun and his elder brother Wei Changhui brought to recover Yangzhou City this time were the elite of the Guangxi Han and Zhuang clans who followed them all the way from Guangxi to Tianjing.It is the essence of the right army.

This Xiangyong seems to be a hard bone. If he gnaws on this hard bone, Wei Jun thinks that although he can gnaw it off, he will inevitably lose some people.

This is why Wei Jun hopes to persuade Liang Shaoqiong to surrender.

"What kind of shit father and brother, the god of foreign devils, can still control our Chinese territory, bless you group of gods?" Liang Shaoqiong sneered at this and mocked.

"Your godly king of Laoshizi destroyed the temples of saints and burned the books of saints and sages all the way from Guangxi to Jiangning, causing complaints from all over the world. Could it be that he wanted to vent his anger that he failed to be a scholar in his thirties?

Although I am stupid, at least I was selected as a scholar at the age of 21. My third nephew is smarter. He was a granary student in Xiangshan County at the age of 17.As a scholar, Hong Xiuquan did not gain any fame in his thirties, but turned to believe in the heresy of foreigners, how sad!

Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, these pretenders, you actually listen to him, you are not only pathetic, you are pitiful, there is no cure. "

Liang Shaoqiong is a scholar of the Eight Classics, that is, a child of Confucianism.

Naturally, Hong Xiuquan's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can't pee in the same pot.

In this expedition, the banner played by Yueyong is to defend the way of saints and sages, and to clean up heresy and heresy.

Liang Shaoqiong, who was born in a scholarly family and believed in the teachings of Confucius and Mencius since childhood, not only disdained to be with Hong Xiuquan, who was not even a scholar, but was also full of contempt and hatred.

From the perspective of a scholar in the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan was nothing but a complete loser.

The way of Confucius and Mencius is the study of governing the country in China, and the landlords and gentry are the foundation of Chinese rule.

The emperors who were born recklessly in ancient and modern times had to win the support of scholars, landlords and squires if they wanted to succeed.

Hong Xiuquan stood directly on the opposite side of the scholars and the landlords and gentry, and used the heresy of foreigners as the theory of establishing the country, and deceived the public with his false words.

Therefore, in Liang Shaoqiong's view, Hong Xiuquan is not a person who can accomplish great things.

It is true that the Qing Dynasty was corrupt, but Hong Xiuquan and his so-called Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not replace the Qing Dynasty.

This is Liang Shaoqiong's opinion.

Liang Shaoqiong's reputation as a scholar is not very good in his own circle, but in front of Hong Xiuquan, a scholar who didn't even pass the exam as a scholar, Liang Shaoqiong is still full of superiority.

As soon as Liang Shaoqiong said this, even the Guangdong Warriors couldn't help laughing.

Yueyong’s conscription standard is to give priority to recruiting those who can write and count, and scholars with fame are given preferential treatment and trained as officers. Therefore, although Yueyong is a new army, its cultural level is at the same level among all armies of the Qing army. The existence of Qi Juechen.

There are also a few deputy sentinels in Yueyong who have the reputation of being a scholar. They agree with Liang Shaoqiong's rhetoric, and they are also full of pride in their defense.

"Presumptuous! How can you slander the king of heaven! The king of heaven disdains the fame of clearing demons, and wants to obtain a scholar by himself!" Wei Jun was furious when he heard this, and then left a cruel sentence.

"I'll give you half an hour to think about it. Within half an hour, if you want to survive, raise the white flag to surrender. If you don't surrender, my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's [-] heavenly soldiers and generals will trample you into powder within a short while!"

After speaking, Wei Jun returned to the Taiping Army formation to report the situation to Wei Changhui, and prepared to organize an attack.

After Wei Jun returned to the formation, Liang Shaoqiong breathed a sigh of relief, thankful that he did not lose his composure just now.

He picked up the binoculars that Liang Yao had given him, and he had to say that this foreign utensil was still easy to use.

The first thing he used was a telescope imitated by an optician in Guangzhou. Although it worked, he couldn't see as far as the telescope Liang Yao gave him, let alone as clearly as the telescope Liang Yao gave him.

Through the binoculars, Liang Shaoqiong could clearly see the Taiping Army everywhere.

This was the first time Liang Shaoqiong saw the rumored long-haired army.

If there are more than a thousand soldiers, there is no border; if there are more than ten thousand soldiers, there is no border.

What caught Liang Shaoqiong's eyes was a boundless sea of ​​people.

The long-haired army with a population of over ten thousand is still very powerful from a distance.

Most of these long-haired people are dressed in short clothes and red scarves on their heads. The clothes are very colorful, and they don't have such a unified uniform as Yueyong.

Many of the long-haired bodies uploaded green camp clothes, but the hem was cut off, and some had yellow cloth strips wrapped around their arms. Those in better condition wore a half-arm style and a vest livery over the green camp uniform to distinguish them. Enemy.

As for the flags of the long-haired troops, it was even more complicated and difficult to distinguish.

From a distance, it looks like a group of rabble.

Liang Shaoqiong guessed that some of the long hairs wearing green camp clothes were green battalion soldiers who surrendered to the long hairs, and some were dressed in clothes pulled off from dead people or dug out from the treasury in Nanjing and Zhenjiang.

"Long Mao still hopes that we can surrender, and gave us half an hour."

After seeing the situation of the Taiping Army clearly, Liang Shaoqiong put down the binoculars and gave an order.

"In half an hour, it is definitely too late to dig trenches, but it is still too late to build fortifications with sandbags. Send the order to fill the sandbags with sand and build fortifications on the spot!"

After receiving the order, the soldiers of Yueyong brought sandbags from the truck under the command of the sentry officers and chiefs, took off the military shovel at their waists, and filled the sandbags with the sand on the ground.

Liang Yao's imaginary enemy is the American Army, Liang Shaoqiong and Pan Shicheng's Yueyong, Liang Yao can be said to be very kind.

Not only did the weapon sold to Yueyong be the full-blooded version of the Walter M1851 rifle for his own use, but he even taught him his own tactics.

How the California Infantry drills is how the Yueyong drills.

Even the instructor team, Liang Yao gave it directly to Liang Shaoqiong.

Wang Shu, the battalion officer of the Shanzi Battalion, was the company commander of the California Infantry Regiment before, and the sentry officers were also non-commissioned officers of the California Infantry Regiment.

Therefore, these Yueyongs are not without any combat experience.

At least these battalion officers and sentry officers followed Liang Yao to beat Colonel Mason's infantry regiment in Los Angeles, and went to the Japanese shogunate to hang and beat the vassal soldiers and shogunate soldiers of the Hizen Saga clan in Japan. Eliminated the Burnat Gang.Combat experience is fairly rich.

There are also mercenary artillerymen of the artillery team, many of whom are from serious military backgrounds, and many of them have also fought in wars.

"Long hair is not kind. They don't look like a professional army, but more like a group of farmers with weapons. It takes time for them to organize an attack."

Wang Shu said after observing the situation of the Taiping Army.

Although the Taiping army was relatively chaotic and disorderly, Wang Shu could barely see that the Taiping army was gathering troops to organize an attack.

Wang Shu, who had experienced several battles, was more calm than the commander-in-chief Liang Shaoqiong.

In Edo, Japan, he had seen battles bigger than this.

Tens of thousands of soldiers from the Tokugawa shogunate rushed directly to the formation of their two regiments, but none of them persisted to the front of their formation.

Regarding the defensive style of play, the California Infantry has always fired artillery first, and waited until the enemy infantry entered the effective range of the rifle. The own infantry opened fire after receiving the order, and finally used bayonets to fight the remnant enemy who rushed to the front.

It is a pity that Wang Shu has not encountered a situation where the enemy's infantry remnants can rush to their front.

Often after two or three rounds of free fire by the infantry, the morale of the enemy collapsed.

Hand-to-hand combat by the California infantry was therefore limited to sporadic resistance in pursuit of the enemy.

The [-] troops that Wei Jun mentioned is just an imaginary number. Counting the auxiliary soldiers and civilian husbands, the opponent may have tens of thousands of people.

This is Wang Shu's judgment based on his combat experience in Kanagawa, Japan.

Wang Shu had seen a larger formation in Kanagawa. He later learned that the shogunate army besieging them had [-] people.

And the vanguard of the Taiping Army in front of us is slightly smaller than the Shogunate Army in Kanagawa.

With these ten thousand men, the generals of the Taiping Army seem to have to keep a reserve team and only select some of them to attack.

In this way, it seems that his chances of winning are still very high.

He has trained Shanziying for so long, and today is the time to test his training results.

Liang Shaoqiong called Wang Shu to him, dismissed the soldiers around him, and asked Wang Shu in a low voice: "Can the Wang Ying officer be sure to defeat the enemy?"

It is Liang Shaoqiong's pride and flaw to raise people's fame.

If it were an ordinary farm-study family, it would be smoke from the ancestral grave to make a Juren.

But the Liang family is not an ordinary family, and it is still not enough to raise people's fame.

What's more, his father Liang Weiming was tainted by the scientific examination fraud case, and the Liang family had to find another way to turn around in the Qing Dynasty.

Today's battle is Liang Shaoqiong's first battle, and it is also a battle between himself and the Liang family in the Qing Dynasty.

Success or failure in this battle!
It's just that Liang Shaoqiong has never fought a serious battle after all, he has only read some military books and the drill manual Liang Yao gave him.

He has never experienced what war is like, and he has no idea.

"Whether we can defeat the enemy or not depends on you," Wang Shu said.

Wang Shu knew in his heart what Liang Shaoqiong, who had never experienced a battle before, was worrying about at this moment.

"Me?" Liang Shaoqiong asked back.

"The first battle of my subordinates was in 1850 AD, when I was General Liang's bodyguard. In that battle, we defended General Liang's house in Sacramento against the bandits' attack.

At that time, the gangsters were very powerful, and it was also a situation where we were outnumbered.General Liang had never fought before, but he lived and died with us guards and miners, and fought together in the courtyard. Seeing that General Liang did not leave, we were also willing to fight to the death with General Liang.

The subordinates and sentry officials are only the backbone of Shanziying, and the bones move with the soul, and you are the soul of Shanziying.

Success or failure in this battle is all in your mind. "Wang Shu replied.

"Bones move with the soul, well said." Liang Shaoqiong nodded very firmly, "Go and do your work, this battle is only allowed to win! No defeat is allowed! If you lose, there will be no Yueyong in the world."

"Subordinates obey."

Wang Shu took the order and went to inspect the construction of fortifications at each post.

"My brother was a soldier. My brother said that when going to battle, the most important thing is to preserve your strength, and fight the enemy in the best condition when fighting hand-to-hand. It's better for us. We don't take a good rest to save our strength before the battle. Digging the soil here is a waste of energy, and the long hairs have to rush up, can the earth wall made of these sandbags stop the long hairs?"

A soldier complained.

As soon as the words fell, there was only a gunshot from behind, and the complaining soldier lost consciousness with his head blown out.

All the soldiers followed the prestige, and saw Wang Shu with a stern face holding a six-shot revolver that was still smoking from the muzzle, and shouted loudly: "If anyone disturbs the morale of the army again, he will be killed without mercy! Come up if you want to rush, first ask the guy in your hand if he agrees!"

Yueyong's equipment is fine, and Wang Shu did the training himself.

What Yueyong lacks most now is actual combat experience, high morale and confidence.

These two things Wang Shu could not give them, they could only be obtained from actual combat.

Just like the California Infantry, the combat effectiveness that is famous in the United States is not practiced, but fought.

What Wang Shu can do now is to stabilize Yueyong's military spirit.

If this battle is won, the Shanziying can transform from an ordinary village brave battalion into a real elite battalion.

Seeing that his talkative companion was directly executed, the rest of Yueyong immediately fell silent, stopped talking, and buried their heads in the sandbags to shovel dirt.

In less than an hour, a rough fortification has been built, replacing the original carriages and horses, and becoming a new bunker for the Yueyongs.

The artillerymen also filled the gun chamber with ammunition, and adjusted the shooting direction and pitch angle through the gun carriage.Just waiting for an order to fire.

After the appointed half hour passed, drums were set up in the direction of the Taiping Army on time, which was the prelude to the Taiping Army's attack.

Through the binoculars, Liang Shaoqiong can be sure that this is a vanguard marching lightly.

There are only infantry and a very small number of cavalry, no artillery, and even the armor rate is pitifully low.

This added confidence to Liang Shaoqiong.

"The artillerymen listen to Captain Jorgensen's orders! The enemy fires as soon as they enter the firing range, and they are not allowed to stop firing without my order even if the barrels are turned red!
The captain of the horse team, Wang Xiao, obeys the order!Covering the artillery, anyone who dares to retreat will be punished as a deserter!No need to ask for instructions, shoot on the spot! "

With her hands behind her back, Liang Shaoqiong gave orders to the captains of the cavalry and artillery teams in a spirited manner.

"Subordinates obey!"

After receiving the order, the cavalry and artillery teams performed their duties.

Liang Shaoqiong asked the soldiers for a long gun and an ammunition belt full of ammunition.

Like an ordinary soldier, he tied his ammunition belt, gritted his teeth, and entered the bunker with a long gun with a bayonet attached.

"This battle is the first battle of our Yueyong, and it is also a life-and-death battle. If we win this battle, our Yueyong will be famous all over the world, and we will enjoy endless glory and wealth. If we lose, the Yueyong Camp will cease to exist.

Today Liang will live and die with all good brothers, and fight this long-haired rebel to the end!Wang Yingguan, how to fight this battle is up to you to command. Now I am just a pawn in the Shanzi Battalion. "

After speaking, Liang Shaoqiong skillfully opened the safety on the gun, took out a copper side needle bullet from the ammunition belt and quickly stuffed it into the barrel of the gun.

He is very interested in weapons. He is not only good at using short guns, long guns, and even cannons.

Liang Shaoqiong had already figured it out, he had never fought a war, so instead of watching from the back and talking about the war on paper, it would be better to go straight to the front to fight to boost morale.

Commanding specific operations is left to the more professional Wang Shu.

As for the damage to the authority of the commander, the authority of the commander can only be discussed after surviving this battle, and the authority will be damaged by commanding blindly and causing the whole army to fall into chaos.

Wang Shu, Wang Shu, I have put my life in your hands. I will trust you once today, kid. If the long hair can't reach our front, if you win this battle, I will knock you down later. to make!Liang Shaoqiong murmured in his heart.

"Subordinates obey!"

Wang Shu yelled, his voice was a little choked, and his eyes became moist.Of course, the courage on the shoulders has also become heavier.

He didn't expect Liang Shaoqiong to trust him so much and give him so much power.

(End of this chapter)