Faced with the aggressive attack of the Celestial Army, Zeng Guofan had no choice but to send his entire family to the battlefield, stationed in various strategic points, and defended Changsha, the last fortress of the Manchu Qing forces. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among these people, the most important is the second uncle Zeng Dingzun, who sent him to Xiangtan to sit in town.

Zeng Dingzun is both civil and military, Xiangtan is the throat of Changsha defense, is the gateway to the south of Changsha, and there is no room for loss.

Zeng Guofan knew the importance of Xiangtan, and of course Mai Ke knew it, so he sent the general Feng Yunshan to capture Xiangtan.

Feng Yunshan received the order, and without delay, he immediately attacked in a big way!

He first relied on the information provided by Wu Renxiao's intelligence agency to take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness to make a long-distance attack!

When they arrived outside Xiangtan City, they immediately connected with the beggars of the world, and used them to go deep into the city.

He went against the norm, and after coming from afar, he did not stop, and immediately launched a siege battle.

His intention was to take the enemy by surprise, and without giving the defending enemy troops any time to prepare, he came up and started fighting.

Not only did it start immediately, but it was also the three armies of the land, water and air force at the same time.

The Air Force is the Celestial Air Element Flying Squadron, with a total of four companies and a total of more than 400 people.

They fly high in the air, and the enemy is unlikely to know about their existence.

This air force unit has no fixed position except for being above Xiangtan, which can ensure the suddenness of the attack.

The waterway is the naval warships that accompany the army, as well as the elite soldiers of the marines.

But this ostensible fleet is still average, and what is powerful is that there are ambushes underwater.

They approached Xiangtan along the Xiang River, not only threatening the enemy troops defending the city from the waterway, but also completely cutting off the enemy's escape route.

Make them feel isolated and dead.

Then there is the army, that is, the main force of the heavenly army.

They also have specialized siege units.

These people are well-trained and experienced troops who are in charge of attacking fortifications.

The warriors of these units not only climbed the walls as fast as apes, but were also equipped with special tools to destroy the city gates.

The best thing is that they can make holes, make a way out of the ground, and attack the city by surprise.

What makes them even more powerful is that these punching measures also have an additional attack ability.

This is why they can use bombs, and after they have made a hole, they put a bomb in it, and some powerful city defense will be killed.

If one doesn't work, then two!

Feng Yunshan's tactics are the most effective first, very ruthless, and never dragging the mud and water.

He knew that the city defense commander in it was Zeng Dingzun, the second uncle of Zeng Guofan, and it was also extraordinary, and the siege was the most powerful trick at the beginning, and it was a three-pronged approach.

There were 80,000 siege troops, and 20,000 men were in charge of each of the four gates.

The city wall of Xiangtan is tall and majestic, has a long history, and is surrounded by forty miles of borders, Zeng Dingzun has assigned the main force of his defending troops to each city gate, each city gate has 15,000 people, and his son and nephew lead the defense.

The all-out attack of the siege troops put the defending soldiers under great pressure!

But they are also fierce and abnormal, with the help of strong city fortifications, they will not retreat!

Those children of the Zeng family took the lead and stuck to the front line, which greatly encouraged those Hunan soldiers.

In fact, all the soldiers of the Hunan army were somewhat related to each other, so everyone put others before themselves, and did not have the bad habit of greedy for life and fear of death like other Manchu troops.

In this way, under the first round of onslaught of the Heavenly Army, the Hunan Army paid the price of more than 10,000 dead and wounded and held the city gate.

In comparison, the death toll of the Celestial Army is even higher!

However, the forces of the Celestial Army had a great advantage, and the second wave of the offensive did not stop, and immediately continued to attack.

The stalemate on the city wall does not count, another siege weapon of the Celestial Army shows its teeth!

The special unit specializing in earthwork is activated!

They were spread out in the four gates, went straight to the base of the wall, and began to dig holes!

Hearing the sound of excavating the city wall, the faces of the Hunan soldiers on the city wall changed color.

They have long been familiar with the combat methods of the Heavenly Army, and the city walls that are still good at this time will go to heaven once those excavations are completed!

Ineffable. They will also go to heaven together!

However, the biggest problem now is that the city wall has not collapsed, and the confidence of their soldiers defending the city has collapsed first.

Originally, they were all warriors who regarded death as their home, but this threat of bombardment into the sky frightened them into the six gods, and they had to flee in all directions.

But here are the children of the Zeng family leading the troops, and there is also the overseer team!

No sooner had the frightened soldiers raised their feet to run, when a merciless punishment fell on them.

More than a dozen Hunan soldiers were headed!

Two of them were just stunned for a moment, and they were affected by the pond fish.

At this time, only cold-blooded means can suppress the morale of the army.

Zeng Dingzun knows the three flavors well, and he is not soft in enforcing military discipline, and he would rather overdo it than let the arrogant soldiers go.

It was at this time that another blow came upon their capitals.

The air force units of the Celestial Army have entered the war!

Not all of the 400 flight experts went to battle, only 200 people were divided into four groups and rushed to the four city gates.

Above the four city gates, the children of the Zeng family were suppressing the panicked military hearts, and those military law members were killing those cowards, and a greater punitive force suddenly descended from the air!

Caught off guard, two of the generals of the four gates were killed and two were captured!

Those law enforcement officers were all captured alive!

The rope sleeve in the hands of the air force warriors is even more powerful than the legendary fairy rope, and those military judges who were originally very powerful did not have the strength to fight back at all, and they were captured alive by all the members.

In fact, they are so busy killing people that they don't even notice the killer in the sky, so they don't have the consciousness to fight back.

The enemy lost its leader, and immediately greatly weakened the strength of the city defenders, and those siege heavenly troops, which were already on a par with the defenders, immediately gained the upper hand, and a large number of soldiers climbed the city and fought with those Hunan soldiers.

At this time, the Celestial Air Force withdrew with the captives.

The troops who dug the walls continued to dig, but the blasting stopped.

You can't blow up your own people as well.

While the siege of the land and air forces was in full swing, the sailors drove over.

The water surface of the Xiangjiang River is full of sailors of the Heavenly Army, and after breaking through some defensive facilities on the periphery, it is gradually approaching the economic center of Xiangtan.

Here is the internal test of the Xiangjiang River, a row of slippery wharves are implemented, each wharf has its own area, in front of the Xiangjiang River water, where the necessary facilities are prepared for transport ships to dock.

Later, ancillary services are implemented, such as the docks where the goods are unloaded are the warehouses, and the inns are behind the docks where the passengers get on and off.

Such a wharf and attached area are called "total", and there are a total of ten total along the Xiangjiang River, each of which is occupied by a powerful merchant.

Feng Yunshan did not expect that he would encounter the strongest resistance here.

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