1850 American Gold Baron

Chapter 374 Shaggy has a kind heart

"We are outnumbered, and the outcome has been decided. You are a Han, so why do you work for Xianfeng, the Manchu demon leader in the capital?

The fact that you can bring out such soldiers shows that you are not a mediocre person. A good bird chooses a tree to roost in, and a good minister chooses his master to serve. Why don't you abandon darkness and turn to light, join the King of Heaven, and under the guidance of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother, jointly create a heaven on earth?

, let everyone in this world enjoy peace under the protection of Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother.”

It is not that the Taiping Army has no precedent for incorporating the Qing army. Except for the Eight Banners Soldiers and other Qing demons whose bloodline is too pure, the Taiping Army has accepted them all, whether they are Green Camp or Xiang Yong.

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

Wei Jun hoped to persuade them to surrender and take them for his own use.

The best strategy is to subdue the enemy's troops without fighting.

Many of the soldiers Wei Jun and his brother Wei Changhui brought to recapture Yangzhou City were the elites of the Han and Zhuang tribes in Guangxi who had followed them from Guangxi to Tianjing. They were the essence of the Right Army.

This country warrior looks like a tough nut. If he tries to gnaw this tough nut, Wei Jun thinks that although he can gnaw it down, he will inevitably lose some of his troops.

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

"What kind of bullshit, Heavenly Father and Brother, the god of foreign devils, can still control our territory in China and bless you bunch of magicians?" Liang Shaoqiong sneered at this and said sarcastically.

"That bastard king of yours destroyed saints' temples and burned saints' books all the way from Guangxi to Jiangning, causing complaints from all over the place. Could it be that he was just trying to vent his anger at not being able to pass the examination as a scholar in his thirties?

Although I am stupid, I was selected as a scholar at the age of 21. My third nephew is smarter and was born in Xiangshan County at the age of 17. As a scholar, Hong Xiuquan did not gain any fame in his thirties and turned to the crooked ways of foreigners.

Heresy, how pitiful!

Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, these pretentious people, you actually listen to him, you are not only pathetic, but also pitiful, and there is no cure."

Liang Shaoqiong was a serious scholar, that is, a disciple of Confucianism.

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

In this expedition, the banner of Guangdong Yong is to defend the way of the sages and cleanse the evil cults.

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

From the perspective of a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Xiuquan was just a complete loser.

The teachings of Confucius and Mencius are the science of Chinese governance, and the landlords and gentry are the foundation of Chinese governance.

Emperors from ancient and modern times who came from a rough background had to win the support of scholars, landlords and gentry if they wanted to achieve anything.

Hong Xiuquan directly stood in opposition to the scholars and landlords and gentry, using the foreigners' crooked theories as the basis for founding the country, and deceiving the public with his monstrous words.

Therefore, in Liang Shaoqiong's view, Hong Xiuquan was not a person who could achieve great things.

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

This is Liang Shaoqiong’s view.

Liang Shaoqiong's reputation as a scholar was not very good in his own circle, but in front of Hong Xiuquan, a scholar who had not even been admitted as a scholar, Liang Shaoqiong was still full of a sense of superiority.

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

The recruitment standard of the Yue Yong is to give priority to those who can write and calculate, and scholars with meritorious honors are given preferential treatment and trained as officers. Therefore, although the Yue Yong is a new army, its cultural level is the highest among the Qing armies.

The existence of Qi Juechen.

There are also several deputy sentry officers among the Yue Yong who have the reputation of being scholars. They agree with Liang Shaoqiong's rhetoric and are full of pride in their actions to defend the Tao.

"How presumptuous! How can you slander the King of Heaven! The King of Heaven disdains the reputation of Qing Yao, and wants to open a subject to get scholars by himself!" Wei Jun was furious when he heard this, and then left a harsh word.

"I will give you half an hour to think about it. Within half an hour, if you want to survive, raise the white flag and surrender. If you don't surrender, I, the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with one hundred thousand heavenly soldiers, will trample you to dust in a moment!"

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

After Wei Jun returned to the formation, Liang Shaoqiong breathed a sigh of relief and was glad that he had not lost his composure just now.

He picked up the monocular telescope given to him by Liang Yao. He had to say that this foreign instrument was quite useful.

At first, he used a telescope imitated by a Guangzhou optician. Although it worked, it could not see as far as the telescope given to him by Liang Yao, and it was not as clear as the telescope given to him by Liang Yao.

Through the telescope, 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 will be no borders; if there are more than ten thousand soldiers, there will be no borders.

What caught Liang Shaoqiong's eyes was an endless sea of ​​people.

The long-haired troops, numbering over 10,000, looked very mammoth from a distance.

Most of these long-haired men wear short clothes and their heads are wrapped in red scarves. Their clothes are very complicated and they do not have such a uniform uniform as the Yue Yongs.

Many of the long-haired ones were still wearing Green Camp clothes, but with the hems cut off, and some had yellow cloth strips wrapped around their arms. Those with better conditions wore half-arm styles and vest uniforms over the Green Camp uniforms to distinguish them.

Friend or enemy.

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

From a distance, they look like a ragtag crowd.

Liang Shaoqiong guessed that some of the shaggy ones wearing Green Camp clothes were surrendered shaggy Green Camp soldiers, and some were wearing clothes ripped off dead people or rummaged from the treasuries of Nanjing and Zhenjiang.

"Changmao still hopes that we can surrender. He gave us a full half hour."

After seeing clearly the situation of the Taiping Army, Liang Shaoqiong put down his telescope and issued the order.

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

After receiving the order, the Yue Yong soldiers, under the command of the sentry officers and commanders, took sandbags from the baggage trucks, took off the ordnance shovels from their waists, and filled the sandbags with the sand on the ground.

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

Not only was the weapon sold to Yue Yong a full-blooded version of the Walter M1851 rifle for his own use, but he was also taught all his own tactics.

How the California Infantry Regiment drills is how the Yue Yong trains.

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

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

Therefore, these Yue brave men are not without any combat experience.

At least these battalion officers and sentry officers followed Liang Yao and defeated Colonel Mason's infantry regiment in Los Angeles. They went on an expedition to the Japanese shogunate to defeat the feudal and shogunate soldiers of the Hizen Saga Domain in Japan. After the squadron returned to California, they also went to Oregon and the Indians.

I have eliminated the Bernat gang. I have quite a lot of combat experience.

There are also mercenary artillerymen in the artillery corps. Many of them have serious military backgrounds, and many of them have also fought in battles.

"The Longhairs are not kind-hearted. They don't look like a professional army, more like a group of farmers with weapons. It takes time for them to organize an attack."

Wang Shu observed the situation at the Taiping Army and said.

Although the Taiping Army formation was relatively chaotic and disorderly, Wang Shu could still barely tell that the Taiping Army was gathering forces to prepare for an attack.

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

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

Tens of thousands of shogunate soldiers from the Tokugawa shogunate rushed directly to the formations of the two regiments, but in the end, none of them managed to reach their formation.

Regarding the defensive style of play, the California Infantry Regiment has always fired artillery first. When the enemy infantry comes within the effective range of the rifle, its own infantry opens fire after receiving the order. Finally, it uses bayonets to fight hand-to-hand with the remaining enemies rushing in front of them.

Unfortunately, Wang Shu has not yet encountered a situation where the enemy's infantry remnants were able to rush to their formation.

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

The California infantry's hand-to-hand combat therefore only occurred when pursuing enemy troops encountered sporadic resistance.

The 100,000 troops Wei Jun mentioned was just an imaginary number. Counting the auxiliary soldiers and civilians, the opponent might have 10,000 men.

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

Wang Shu had seen a larger formation in Kanagawa. He later learned that the shogunate army that besieged them had 21,000 people.

The leading force of the Taiping Army in front of us was slightly smaller than the shogunate army in Kanagawa.

With these 10,000 men, the Taiping generals seemed to have to keep a reserve force and select only some of them for the attack.

It seems that my chances of winning are still very good.

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

Liang Shaoqiong called Wang Shu forward, dismissed the soldiers around him, and asked Wang Shu in a low voice: "Is Wang Yingguan confident of defeating the enemy?"

Liang Shaoqiong's reputation as a successful candidate was his pride, but it was also his flaw.

If it were an ordinary farming and studying family, a candidate would be like smoke rising from the ancestor's grave.

But the Liang family is not an ordinary family, and their reputation is still a bit unsatisfactory.

Moreover, his father Liang Weiming was tainted by the scientific examination fraud case. If the Liang family wanted to turn around in the Qing Dynasty, they had to find another way.

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

Success or failure depends on this battle!

It's just that Liang Shaoqiong has never fought a serious war after all. He has only read some military books and the drill manual given to him by Liang Yao.

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

"Whether we can defeat the enemy depends on you." Wang Shu said.

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

"Me?" Liang Shaoqiong asked.

"The first battle for my subordinates was in 1850 AD. At that time, I was still General Liang's bodyguard. In that battle, we defended General Liang's house in Sacramento from an attack by bandits.

At that time, the gangsters were very powerful, and the enemy was outnumbered. General Liang had never fought before, but he lived and died with us guards and miners, fighting together in the house. Seeing that General Liang did not leave, we were willing to

Fight to the death with General Liang.

The subordinates and sentry officers are only the backbone of Shanzi Camp. The bones move with the soul, but you are the soul of Shanzi Camp.

The success or failure of this battle all depends on your thoughts." Wang Shu replied.

"The bones follow the soul, that's right." Liang Shaoqiong nodded very firmly, "Go and do your business. You can only win this battle! You can't lose! If you lose, there will be no more Yue Yong in the world."

"I obey my orders."

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

"My brother has been a soldier. He said that when facing a battle, the most important thing is to conserve your physical strength and be in the best condition to fight the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. It's better for us that we don't take a good rest to conserve our physical strength before the battle. Instead, we

Digging the earth here is a waste of energy, and the long hairs are about to rush up. Can the earth wall built with these sandbags stop the long hairs?"

One soldier complained.

As soon as he finished speaking, a gunshot was heard behind him, and the complaining soldier lost consciousness.

The soldiers followed the sound and saw a stern-faced Wang Shu holding a six-gun revolver with smoke still coming from the muzzle. He shouted loudly: "If anyone disrupts the morale of the army again, he will be killed without mercy! Changmao."

If you want to come forward or not, first ask the guys in your hands if they agree!"

There is no problem with Guangdong Yong's equipment, and the training was done by Wang Shu himself.

What Yue Yong lacks most now is practical experience and high morale and confidence.

These two things cannot be given to them by Wang Shu and can only be obtained from actual combat.

Just like the California Infantry Regiment, America's famous combat effectiveness is not drilled, but fought.

What Wang Shu can do now is to stabilize Guangdong Yong's military morale.

If this battle is won, Shanzi Camp can transform from an ordinary rural warrior camp into a truly elite camp.

Seeing that the talkative companion was directly executed, the rest of the Yue Yong immediately fell silent, stopped talking, and buried themselves in shoveling dirt into the sandbags.

It only took less than an hour to construct a rough fortification, which replaced the original carriages and horses and became the new bunker for the Cantonese braves.

The artilleryman also filled the gun chamber with ammunition, and adjusted the shooting direction and pitch angle through the gun carriage. He only waited for an order to fire the gun.

After the agreed half hour passed, war drums were sounded in the direction of the Taiping Army on time. This was a prelude to the Taiping Army's attack.

Through the telescope, Liang Shaoqiong could confirm that this was a vanguard force moving forward lightly.

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

This gave Liang Shaoqiong added confidence in scoring points.

"The artillerymen listen to Captain Jorgensen's orders! The enemy will open fire as soon as they enter the range. Without my order, even if the barrel is red, there will be no ceasefire!"

Cavalry Captain Wang Xiao obeys the order! Cover the artillery. Anyone who dares to retreat will be punished as a deserter! No need to ask for instructions, he will be shot on the spot!"

Liang Shaoqiong put his hands behind his back and gave orders to the captains of the cavalry and artillery teams with great enthusiasm.

"I obey my orders!"

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

Liang Shaoqiong asked the soldiers for a long gun and an ammunition belt filled with ammunition.

Like an ordinary soldier, he tied up his ammunition belt, gritted his teeth, and entered the bunker with a bayonet-mounted rifle in hand.

"This battle is our Yue Yong's first battle, and it is also a life and death battle. If we win this battle, our Yue Yong camp will become famous all over the world and enjoy endless glory and wealth. If we lose, the Yue Yong camp will cease to exist.

Today Liang will live and die together with all the good brothers and fight to the end with this long-haired rebel! Wang Ying Guan, how this battle is fought is under your full command, I am just a pawn in Shanzi Camp now."

After saying that, Liang Shaoqiong skillfully opened the safety on the gun, took out a copper edge needle bullet from the ammunition belt and quickly stuffed it into the chamber of the gun.

He is very interested in weapons. Not only is he good at using short spears and long spears, he even plays with cannons on a daily basis.

Liang Shaoqiong has already figured it out. He has never fought in a war. Instead of watching from behind and talking about war on paper, it is better to go to the front and fight directly to boost morale.

Directing the specific operations will be left to the more professional Wang Shu.

As for undermining the authority of the coach, it would be undermining the authority to survive this battle first and then talk about the authority of the coach. To blindly command from behind and plunge the whole army into chaos.

Wang Shu, Wang Shu, I have put my life in your hands. I will trust you for once today. The long hair cannot rush in front of our formation. If we win this battle, I will give you a kowtow later.

Success! Liang Shaoqiong murmured to himself in his heart.

"I obey my orders!"

Wang Shu yelled, his voice choked with sobs, and his eyes became moist. Of course, the courage on his shoulders also became heavier.

He did not expect that Liang Shaoqiong would trust him so much and give him such great power.

(End of chapter)