Goxinga adjusted the combat policy this time, changing annihilation to defeat, and it was not easy to kill thousands of coalition troops in one go, and it may also attract the attention of the coalition forces too early. Guo Xing'a went out to work just to seek wealth, and the work of fighting with the coalition army was still done by Monk Greenqin.

Guo Xinga knew that the Qing Dynasty would lose the war no matter what, even if he completely annihilated the landed coalition army. 20,000 men was just a drizzle for Britain and France, and if you lose 400 people, you can recruit 20,000 people, and if you kill 20,000 people, you can't recruit 400,000 people. Now is not the time to be enthusiastic and foreigners, the Qing Dynasty needs time to awaken, and Guoxinga also needs time to accumulate strength and develop science and technology to reform society. When you have enough capital in your hands and can take out an aircraft carrier, it is the time for foreign devils to know that heaven is a good reincarnation.

The second battalion of Duo San was still sent to the northeast of Hexi, but this time it was not to chase and kill the fleeing foreign soldiers, but to ensure that they could not take the supplies with them. The assault mission of the night attack no longer uses a battalion of Shirab, but is personally handled by a professional reconnaissance battalion, and Shirab is under the command of Tan Shaoguang, ready to enter the city to fight in the streets after the reconnaissance battalion takes the city gate. Bi Yuntao's infantry regiment did not participate in the battle, but set up a blocking position in Gaocun, ten miles southwest of Hexiwu, ready to give reinforcements to the coalition forces that rescued Hexiwu.

Guo Xing'a didn't choose any more dinner time, but obediently stayed up until the second half of the night, and only at a quarter past three in the morning did he give the order to attack. Harbara, who had just defeated the veterans of the Eight Banners in the company commander competition, personally led two platoons of scouts to the top of the city.

Harbara had followed Changlu in Jiangnan and touched several Taiping cities, and he was very familiar with this kind of assassination work of climbing in the dark, and he had practiced countless times in training. But he was still a little nervous, firstly, this was the first time he was in charge of commanding, and secondly, the arming method of foreign devils was also quite strange, which was very different from the previous encounters with the Taiping Army.

* With the cooperation of the dagger, everything went very smoothly, and the scouts easily solved the defenders' sentry posts and occupied important areas such as the city gates. Halbara was just about to breathe a sigh of relief when a gunshot broke the silence of the night, and the bullets flew past his scalp.

The coalition army did not remember the bad habit of eating, and Guo Xing'a killed more than a dozen of their sentinels in the last sneak attack, which was a huge loss that would not be seen in the field battle of thousands of Qing troops. Although Gohinga was misjudged as part of the sneak cavalry, the coalition forces strengthened their guard. Although the high-tech of light and dark whistles has not yet been developed, the officers of the coalition forces have also consciously hidden themselves, and one officer hides in the shadows tightly, avoiding the butcher's knife of Halbara and others. Immediately after noticing that the men in black had dispersed, the officer pointed his pistol at the leaders of the men in black and warned the sleeping coalition soldiers through the sound of gunfire.

"!" Harbara jumped on the waist of the cat, and instinctively returned his hand and shot an arrow with *, which hit the throat of the hundred-man officer in the shadows.

"Open the gates, set up the defenses, quick!" Halbara secretly complained in his heart, how could this kind of unfortunate thing always happen to him, and this mission made half inside and half outside.

"Damn, what the hell, the whole army is attacking!" Hearing the gunfire at the head of the city, Gohinga knew that Halbara was exposed, and immediately ordered a general attack.

Fuquan sent a red flare into the sky, ordering all the troops to go into battle.

"Halbara, this shit, fucking screwed up again!" Changlu, who had already taken the whole battalion to the city, cursed Harbara in a low voice, and at the same time commanded the troops to quickly rush into Hexi Wu from the city gate. Hillab's first battalion of light cavalry was the lead, and Tan Shaoguang also commanded more than 2,000 people under his command to rush to the gate of Wudong in Hexi.

The defense of the British army was still in a certain order, not only the guards under the city and in the towers, but they also set up barricades in the streets and walls of the city. However, most of these barricades consisted of only three or five soldiers, and when they heard the gunshots, they leaned out in surprise and looked for reinforcements, and then they were killed by the sudden light of the fire in the dark night. ** It has an absolute advantage at close range, a scout can kill all the defenders with a few shots when he gets close to the barricade about 30 meters. And the sleepy-eyed coalition soldier didn't even have a chance to reload the Enfeld P1853 breech gun, and his life was ended by the oncoming rain of bullets.

The Guoxing Asuo Department was too familiar with Hexiwu, and before entering the city, each company commander got a map of Hexiwu, which had already marked the positions they needed to occupy, and even clearly drew the route of the march. Therefore, after Tan Shaoguang commanded the army to enter Hexi, the troops quickly deployed, and the map clearly appeared in the minds of each company and platoon commander, and they could find where they should go with their eyes closed.

However, the coalition forces were not as easy to deal with as the Taiping army, they were well-trained and did not panic at night. When the shots rang out, they knew the battle was coming. Under the command of the officers, they occupied favorable terrain and quickly formed a phalanx. Moreover, after the last sneak attack, the coalition army built a low wall near their station, and the soldiers covered by the low wall were even more confident in defeating the weak Qing army. The 5th Infantry Battalion of the British and Indian Army, which had just run out of the barracks, was a little nervous, they could not see the shadow of the enemy in the dark night, but they could hear the dense footsteps, and they knew that the enemy was coming.

"Shoot!" The officer judged the enemy's distance by his voice, and then gave the order to shoot decisively.

After the dense gunfire of "bang......", the soldiers were a little puzzled, the darkness made them not see the results of the battle, but this time they did not even hear the screams of the enemy who were shot.

"Shoot continuously!" The officers also found something unusual, and they changed the way they shot.

Instead of firing volleys, the Coalition soldiers alternated their shots like drums and flowers, sparse fire, but guaranteed that one or two bullets were flying towards the enemy at all times. There was still no sound coming from the other side, as if the enemy had been repulsed.

"Keep shooting! They want to sneak in! "The officers have all seen the tenacity of the elite of Manmeng, these people have superhuman perseverance, they must be carrying the casualties, trying to get up and fight for the opportunity to fight hand-to-hand.

The opposite side of the "Bang ......" finally began to return fire, and they were at the end of the street, about a hundred meters away, and there were only about 200 people. But judging by the spark of the muzzle, these people seem to be lying on the ground, these timid and cowardly Oriental barbarians. It seems that they are only going to shoot once, otherwise how will they reload when lying on the ground!

"Lower the muzzle, they want to crawl over!" The officers again gave a sensible order.

However, when they looked back at their troops, their hearts also fluctuated, and the continuous firing revealed the position of the coalition forces, and the bullets of the Qing army took the lives of dozens of soldiers.

"Bang bang bang bang......" The shooting of the Qing army did not stop as the officers expected, and they began to shoot continuously. Their guns were very chaotic, not salvo but free fire, but this chaotic shooting, very fast.

"There are thousands of them!" After analyzing the density and rate of fire of the Qing army, the British major had a new judgment in his heart.

In the rain of bullets on both sides, a platoon of scouts crawled forward on the ground, holding ** in their arms and a few * in their hands. After a long and painful crawl, they finally advanced to within thirty meters of the coalition forces. The platoon commander gently touched the soldier next to him with his foot and asked him to pass the password down, and after a long wait, the soldier touched him again, and the whole platoon was ready.

"Walk you!" The platoon commander shouted violently, pulled away the * in his hand, and threw it at the coalition forces with all his might.

The British Major was startled by the roar not far away, and then saw a hundred small mallets with sparks flying towards him in the air. Although I have never seen modern times*, there are still spherical primitive * in Europe, and the fireworks on * speak for themselves. The Major didn't figure it out until he died, there was no open flame, and that's how these guys ignited*, but the violent explosion made him stop thinking.

At the first explosion, the Scouts rushed to their feet, and they ran to the bottom of the low wall. When the explosion ended, they quickly straightened their bodies, and they were beaten up against the bombed coalition forces. After running out of bullets, they all put on *, but it didn't make sense anymore. In front of them, apart from the Indians who raised their hands in surrender, there were only corpses.

A similar plot was played out in the Hexi Interior, with the * and * of the Goxinga Division, having the upper hand in the street fighting, and the British Enfield P1853 being beaten to the ground. Except for more than 400 coalition troops who reacted very quickly, they escaped, and all the 500 elites of the coalition army stationed in Hexi were annihilated. When there was a hint of ruddy in the east, Guo Xing'a walked into Hexi, which returned to the Qing Dynasty.

"How's the seizure?" Seeing Tan Shaoguang, Guo Xing'a asked about the seizure in the first sentence, he needed money too much now.

"Twenty-seven artillery guns have been captured, and two thousand to three thousand rifles! The specific number has to be counted again, and others such as food, medicine, ammunition, and clothing are also very large. "Tan Shaoguang is very organized.

"What about the gold and silver?" Goxinga is now mainly short of money.

"Nope!" Tan Shaoguang replied very simply.

"Ahh Goxinga's jaw was about to fall to the ground.

"This is a military warehouse, there is nothing but military supplies!" Tan Shaoguang spread his hands.

Guo Xing'a, who still didn't give up, went to the warehouse to check it out in person, and the things were exactly the same as what Tan Shaoguang said. Among the guns were three Armstrong six-pounder guns, five Armstrong twelve-pounder guns, thirteen Napoleonic guns, and a rear-loading nine-pounder rifled gun that Goshinga could not name. Rifles, medicines, food, and everything else Guo Xing'a likes, but he really doesn't have a dime.

"Search for me, dig three feet into the ground and find it out for me, foreign devils have robbed the place, and looted so many people in our Qing Dynasty, how can there be no money!" Goxinga is already out of control.

Tan Shaoguang and the others looked at Guo Xing'a very suspiciously, usually at this time, Guo Xing'a should be most concerned about weapons, especially the Armstrong cannon that he mentioned several times. Guo Xing'a should be intoxicated with a cannon now, why is he looking for money with red eyes and keep talking?

After some searching, only some pocket watches, binoculars, gold rings and other things were recovered, and a large amount of money was not found.

"There are 30,000 taels of silver in the treasury of Hexi Banknote Pass, and the merchants in the town also have some gold and silver at home, but the foreign devils have not moved!" Seeing that Guo Xing'a was about to run away, Changlu came over and whispered in Guo Xing'a's ear.

"Aren't they all robbed by foreign devils?" Guo Xing'a gritted his teeth and looked at Changlu.

"See, understand!" Changlu nodded.

Facing the morning sun, Guo Xing'a happily withdrew with his troops, and he seized a large number of military supplies and more than 80,000 taels of silver. However, among these silvers, 30,000 taels of boxes had seals from the Qing Dynasty's household department, and 50,000 taels were stained with some blood and tears that should not be there.