Xiang Rong pulled the 2,000 people from the Qiqiao camp to support Zhenjiang, how could the astute Shi Dakai not notice this fighter? He bypassed Zhang Guoliang on the East Road and went straight to the Qing army camp in Qiqiao.

The Qing army left here was only 1,500 people, the total number was less than one-sixth of the Taiping army, and they were at an absolute disadvantage, but after all, they were veterans under Xiang Rong's account, and they had fought with the Taiping army for many years. At such a critical moment, the ruthlessness of desperate resistance and struggle before death came out.

Although the Taiping army surrounded them, the resistance they encountered was extremely stubborn, and they could not bite for a while.

Shi Dakai, who had been following the battle in the rear, couldn't wait, the fighter plane was only in an instant, and if others came to support, this opportunity would not be found in the future. So Shi Dakai personally led his troops to launch an attack on the Qing army at Qiqiao.

When Shi Dakai's golden handsome flag fluttered on the battlefield, the soldiers on the front line were immediately inspired and attacked the Qing army's camp even harder.

As soon as Shi Dakai went to the battlefield, he was like a dragon going out to sea, and the spear in his hand swept like a whirlwind, and it was unstoppable. However, after a while, more than a dozen Qing soldiers were stabbed to death by him. The "stone" banner was like no one in the crowd, and Shi Dakai and his soldiers forced the Qing army of Qiqiao into two sections and divided and surrounded them.

The army of the Wing King gradually closed the encirclement, hanging the last struggling Qing army like a python, and the twenty camps of the Qing army at Qiqiao were destroyed. The impregnable Jiangnan camp was forced out of a gap by Shi Dakai, cutting off the connection between Xiang Rong in the west and Zhang Guoliang in the east.

Shi Dakai's guess was right, Zhang Guoliang did lead troops to save the Seven Bridges, but it was too late, and when he arrived near the Seven Bridges, Shi Dakai had already begun to clean up the battlefield.

Zhang Guoliang watched the defenders of the Seven Bridges annihilated in despair, and couldn't help but show a trace of despair in his heart, he only had two thousand people, and if he continued to fight, he might end up no different from the people of the Seven Bridges.

"Everyone will withdraw from Nanjing with me and retreat to the vicinity of Wuhu to rest." Zhang Guoliang knew that big things could not be done, Shi Dakai broke here, and then he would definitely surround himself with his backhand, and he would have to die at that time.

"What about the Admiral?" The attendant asked.

"It is his business that he is willing to die for the Qing Dynasty, and he is a fool who does not understand that he will not accept foreign military orders, and he also handed the emperor a fold to withdraw the army. How could His Majesty agree? Let's leave him alone, it's important to save our lives first. Zhang Guoliang's small eyes revealed disdain for Xiang Rong.

Zhang Guoliang's retreat hastened the destruction of the Jiangnan camp, and Shi Dakai and Yang Xiaoshan, who had freed their hands, launched an attack on the remaining Xiangrong troops from the east and west at the same time.

After several fierce battles, the Qing army was outnumbered and finally defeated. Xiang Rong led the last few hundred remnants of the defeated army and surrounded Yang Xiaoshan in a small village.

"Lord Admiral, this battle can't go on, let's surrender." A bloodied lieutenant begged.

"Shut up, I have been deeply favored by the emperor for decades, and I will never surrender to Long Hair. Tonight, let's break through to the woods to the south, and live and die in peace. Xiang Rong didn't give in, he tried to struggle again, although he had injuries on his arms and legs.

On the third watch, the moon was blocked by clouds, and the night became darker.

The gate of the village was opened at this time, and Xiang Rong rushed out with the Qing soldiers, desperately trying to break through to the woods to the south.

How could Yang Xiaoshan let him go at this time, he had already made preparations and dug a deep ditch in the south to intercept Xiang Rong's way.

Xiang Rong kicked on the steel plate that Yang Xiaoshan had set up for him, and the south couldn't rush through at all.

The Qing soldiers were huddled together, panicking, and more and more Taiping troops were coming around, and their end was approaching.

Facing the countless torches of the Taiping Army, Xiang Rong finally felt the fear of death, the beads of sweat on his forehead rolled down, and the end of his life was approaching.

The disheartened Qing army despaired and began to surrender, and the battle soon came to the last moment.

The night was coming to an end, the sky was beginning to shine, and the Taiping army began to clean up the battlefield, they happily picked up guns, pulled horses, and collected equipment, but no one saw Xiang Rong, and no one found his body.

"Everyone take a look around, Xiang Lao Thief will definitely not go far." Yang Xiaoshan didn't want to let Xiang Rong run away again at this time, so he immediately ordered everyone. No amount of red tops here is as good as Xiang Rong's head.

Everyone carried torches and searched around the village for the old thief, but strangely, no one found his trace.

Yang Xiaoshan asked the captives to be interrogated, and no one gave Xiang Rong's hiding place.

"Hell, this deep no one, no dead corpse, does the old thief have the ability to go to heaven and earth? Surrounded by so many people, he was able to escape. Yang Xiaoshan, who was anxious, said secretly.

Suddenly, Yang Xiaoshan had a flash of inspiration, "Yes, it must be there!" ”

Yang Xiaoshan returned to the small village and finally found Xiang Rong in a cellar in the village. It turned out that when Xiang Rong knew that he couldn't break through, he slyly retreated to the village and hid in a cellar. I hope that after the Taiping army leaves, he will be able to escape calmly.

It's a pity that he didn't escape Yang Xiaoshan's pursuit despite all his calculations.

"Xiang-sama, come out." Looking at Xiang Rong's stiff and wounded body, Yang Xiaoshan knew that he had lost his ability to fight, and let the two heavenly soldiers put him out.

"It's you again, Yang Xiaoshan, I knew it was you." Xiang Rong pointed at Yang Xiaoshan and shouted, Yang Xiaoshan was his nemesis, and he was folded under Yang Xiaoshan's hands several times.

"Seeing our Yang Dashuai, don't you kneel down quickly." The Celestial Soldier next to him kicked him to the inside of his knee.

Xiang Rong staggered forward a few steps, but didn't kneel.

The heavenly soldier next to him wanted to force him to kneel, Yang Xiaoshan waved his hand and said, "Forget it, he is an old man who doesn't want to kneel." ”

"The old man Rongma has lived for more than 50 years, fought in the south and the north, exterminated countless thieves for the Qing Dynasty, and never served anyone. Yang Xiaoshan, you are the first thief that the old man admires. Xiang Rong trembled and said with a sad smile: "The old man has been fighting with you bandits for five years, where there is a fire, the old man will go, where there is danger, the old man will follow him, the old man will save people everywhere, but when the old man is in trouble, no one will come to save him." I, Xiang Rong, am worthy of the Qing Dynasty, Your Majesty, the old man is worthy of you! ”

Xiang Rong said that he was emotional, and the old tears were rampant. Then he raised his hand, took out a bottle of arsenic mixed with wine from his body, and poured it into his mouth.

His movements were too fast, and before Yang Xiaoshan could stop it, Xiang Rong's body was crooked, and he fell to the ground, bleeding to death.

The old opponent Xiang Rong finally died, Yang Xiaoshan looked at his corpse, sighed and sighed: "As a Han Chinese, I am willing to be a lackey of the Qing court, foolish loyalty, foolish loyalty." You put his body in a coffin and bury it, and don't let him be exposed to the wild. ”

The Jiangnan battalion, which had been entrenched in Tianjing for three years, was finally broken by Yang Xiaoshan and Shi Dakai together, and the old opponent Xiang Rong, who followed them all the way from Guangxi, was defeated and died, and the Hunan army retreated to Hunan, and there was no opponent around. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered the pinnacle of military power, with several provinces along the Yangtze River in its pocket, and the southeastern half of the country in its sphere of influence, and it was about to pull down the 300-year-old Qing Dynasty.