Battle flags, countless battle flags, are all Qing army battle flags in the field of vision, red, green, and other colors!

This is the true face of the Hunan army, where there are banners such as "Guerrilla Liu", "General Bao", and "Du Silin", and behind these battle flags, there are countless Hunan army troops and Jiangxi Tuyong.

Mighty, no weaker than the monk king horse team on the shore of the lake, Qu Jie glanced at it and said, "There are at least 10,000 people, right?" ”

"More than ten thousand!" Lin Mengchu next to him replied: "I estimate that there are 15,000 people, and the demon head Zeng has staked all the capital!" ”

"That's right, it's all the capital!" Qu Jie injected these people wearing uniforms through the telescope, and he saw countless large and small artillery, including mountain splitting guns, camp guns, and foreign cannons purchased by the Hunan army, and also saw that the originally heavily equipped bird guns and lifting guns were replaced with flintlock guns, and his eyes flashed with joy: "That's right, I'm just waiting for Zeng Demon Tou to make this earth-shattering gamble today!" ”

If the Hunan army did not take the initiative to attack in an all-out way today, he would at most retreat from under the city of Nanchang after completing the task of annihilating Li Xubin's troops, but today Zeng Guofan dispatched all the main forces and no less than 15,000 people to rescue Li Xubin, then Qu Jie's first army would have the confidence to inflict heavy damage on Zeng Guofan.

And Lin Mengchu observed in the telescope for a while before saying: "The team of the demon head Zeng is very disciplined, and it looks stronger than the team of the demon head of Monk Greenqin!" ”

Qu Jie also found some more details in the military telescope, although this Hunan army was mighty. More than ten miles outside Nanchang City are their battle flags, but it is not simple, unlike Shengbao, who only knows how to gather the infantry team in a group. In the end, it became the target of the rainbow army's firepower series of fire,

The Hunan army is now engaged in battle with a battalion of 500 men, and a battalion often forms several phalanxes that support each other. ”

However, Qu Jie said unceremoniously: "No matter how many ways they have, there is no other source today except to leave the corpse or surrender!" ”

As he was talking, there was already the sound of cannons on the surface of the Ganjiang River. Then the artillery sound became more and more dense and closer, this is the Hunan Army's Neihu Water Division is comprehensively rescuing Li Xubin's battalion, and Yang Fuqing and Yang Xiongqing, who are responsible for blocking them, are also trying their best to block their offensive.

It was only that further news soon came: "The sailors of the Qing Demon Peng Yulin poured out, with no less than 100 warships and hundreds of foreign artillery to attack our river defense line, and there were still dozens of large ships behind it, carrying seven or eight hundred land divisions, ready to land behind our flank at any time......"

No matter what the first division has about Qu Jie. It's been more than a year. Qu Jie can be regarded as having experienced countless ups and downs, so he did not panic after getting the news, but told Zhu Dun: "Today, Zeng Demon Head is definitely not trying to send him to death......

He just finished speaking. Zhu Dun and Lin Mengchu were both in good spirits: "It's here!" ”

That's right! The Hunan army had already begun to attack from the front, and their offensive was different from that of Seng Lingqin and Shengbao, although it was an extremely brave tactic. But it is to maintain the characteristics of steady progress.

They were infantry battalions or hundred-man units, covering one by one, advancing one by one, and sometimes making full use of firepower to attack, not to mention that they were inferior to the rainbow army in terms of the quality of their artillery, but in terms of quantity. But it has an absolute advantage.

They had countless mountain splitting guns, camp guns, and general guns, and these guns, which could only fire shotguns and solid shells, were concentrated in a surprising number. Often, there are dozens or even hundreds of doors as soon as they are dispatched, and shotguns and solid bullets bombard towards the defending rainbow army, even if there are no casualties, it will cause the defenders to misjudge to a certain extent. ..., and the Hunan army can also be said to be quite sophisticated in terms of fighting style, according to the estimation in front of the Hong army, they should have stormed from the front, but in fact they put five or six infantry battalions from the two flanks to cover and advance one by one, and the front is half-hearted, although the number is large, but there is not much real hard fighting.

It's just that now the whole line has been fired, and then bad news came from Li Xubin's camp, although there was no news between Zeng Guofan and Li Xubin, but as soon as Li Xubin heard such dense artillery fire, he immediately dispatched to launch a counterattack against his two lost camps.

And the attack force of the second division also immediately launched a-for-tat attack, but in this way, the main force of the second division was almost pinned down by Li Xubin, unable to take care of the main battlefield, and then Yang Fuqing's messenger told in an emergency: "There are nearly two hundred Qing demon warships, the gun positions are not counted, and our army's strength and artillery are limited, I am afraid that there is a danger of losing it!" ”

This cannot be blamed for their ineffective fighting, but Peng Yulin, a veteran of the naval division, will indeed play with his life, and the Neihu naval division under his command has hundreds of foreign cannons purchased by the Hunan army from Guangdong, which has an absolute advantage in firepower over an infantry regiment of Yang Fuqing and Yang Xiongqing, but worse news has already come: "The iron lock of our army has been broken by Peng Yulin's naval division, and now the Qing demon is trying to land with a land division, and our army will not retreat in a desperate battle......."

It was already very difficult to deal with the sailors, not to mention that there were seven or eight hundred land divisions on this ship, and after these Hunan army landed, Yang Fuqing would definitely be unable to parry, so Qu Jie immediately ordered: "Tell Yang Fuqing that I will immediately send an infantry battalion over to reinforce ......."

At this time, the surface of the Ganjiang River was already a stage intertwined with artillery and blood, and Peng Yulin shouted loudly on the boat: "Let the Lu Division go up, let the Lu Division go up!" ”

There were already some splints landing on the surface of the Ganjiang River, and with the absolute superiority of the naval division, the Hunan army had broken the iron lock that locked the Ganjiang River and successfully entered Yang Fuqing's defense line.

But after breaking this iron lock that locked the river, Peng Yulin found that Yang Fuqing and Yang Xiongqing still arranged a large number of water obstacles, and he had to break through the entire defense line to kill Li Xubin's camp.

But Peng Yulin didn't think that he had so much time, he gave the order loudly: "Lu Shi go ashore, Lu Shi go ashore!" ”

He clearly knew that now Yang Fuqing and Yang Xiongqing's river defense line had not been completely suppressed by the Qing army, and their batteries and fortresses were continuing to shoot, although without the support of the dragon gun battalion, but for the landing land division, this was simply a mortal threat.

But Peng Yulin did not consider the mood of the Hunan army and the land division at all, he had never been a good colleague, and under his orders, the civilian ships of the Neihu Water Division moved closer to the river bank, forcing the land division on board to prepare to attack the shore - if they did not assault, they would definitely be killed alive by the rain of guns.

They either took a small boat, or jumped into the river, or forcibly manipulated the warship to lean towards the river bank, and in an instant, there was already a tide of blood, and the battalion officer of the army scolded loudly: "Peng Xueqin, dog, I will settle this account with you after this battle!" ”

It's just that in such a desperate situation, they can only risk death to rush forward, but in a few moments, there have been more than 100 casualties, and the river is full of corpses and wounded of the Hunan army and land divisions, but they barely rushed to the river bank, and completed the most important mission - to attract artillery fire for the water division.

Seeing that the firepower of the forts and fortresses along the river was all attracted by the landing land division, Peng Yulin immediately shouted: "There is no advance or retreat, if this battle is won, the reward will be 50,000 taels, and the reward will be 50,000 taels!" ”

The Hunan army's naval division was also in great spirits, and the artillery rained down, and as soon as it was suppressed, the forts and fortresses on both sides of the strait were suppressed, and when they saw it, they were about to attack like a tide and reach Li Xubin's camp. ..., and at this time, the offensive of the Hunan army on land also entered the **, as Lin Chumeng said, "extremely orderly", the offensive tide after tide, one tide after another, one tide won the first tide, most of the Hongjun troops who resisted on the front line were newly attached to the Taiping Army, and many of them were miscellaneous Citi troops in the Taiping Army, so there was an unstoppable momentum.

Seeing such a scene, Zeng Guofan's interest was even higher, and he said loudly on the horse: "Everyone, you have to rescue Li Xubin today, the overall situation of Jiangxi Province is here!" ”

The generals also rubbed their fists and fought for a long time, and they had a high estimate of the Hong Army before, but in fact, it was only the level of the Taiping Army, but there were more foreign guns and artillery.

They didn't know that it was not the main force of the First Division that confronted them head-on, but the Taiping Army and the Citi Army that came from Linjiang County, although they changed their flags and were even equipped with some foreign guns, but their combat effectiveness did not change in essence because of the change of flags, and the real main force of the First Division almost did not move, and only a few companies participated in the battle.

But now in the eyes of Zeng Guofan and the generals of the Hunan army, they see the hope of a big victory, and they all say that the Red Thief Dragon Spear Battalion is so powerful, but today's battle is nothing more than that.

Just when the general of the Hunan army was about to open the wine jar to celebrate, Qu Jie had already stood up and asked Zhu Dun: "Zeng Demon Head's ability, there is only so little?" ”

Zhu Dun nodded, he agreed with Qu Jie's judgment: "That's right, at most, there are a few teams of pro-soldiers, or a few battalions of elites hidden as killer mirrors, but Zeng Demon Head's skills are just that." ”

He also saw that the offensive of the Hunan army seemed to be like a tide, simply wave after wave, but there was not much spare strength to fight now, and with the continuation of the offensive, the Hunan army almost put all its forces into it.

On the contrary, although the first division invested some artillery and infantry, there were still two whole regiments that were not used, so Qu Jie made up his mind: "Then let Zeng Demon Tou see the true skills of our first division!" ”

"Start the counteroffensive!"

Qu Jie gave an order, and the entire six thousand rainbow troops had already started to act according to his order.