Chapter 156: King Xi dies in battle

Seeing that Lin Fengxiang and Li Kaifang were about to attack Changsha City, Xiao Chaogui, who was pressing the formation behind, was overjoyed, and he clenched his fists excitedly, this time Changsha City was really at his fingertips.

"King of the West, it's not good, a cavalry of the Qing army came from the east." A guard next to him pointed to the cloud of smoke and dust that burst in to the east and shouted.

Xiao Chaogui was blindsided, he never expected that there were Qing soldiers outside Changsha City. In order to rush to the battlefield as soon as possible, Bao Qibao abandoned the slower infantry team and set off with a thousand cavalry, and finally arrived at this extremely urgent moment.

This cavalry team galloped forward and crashed headlong into the waist of Lin Li's team, and it was about to cut off the Taiping army. Lin Fengxiang, who was charging forward, looked back, and couldn't help but be shocked in his heart, and his shoulder was caught by a cold arrow from the Qing soldiers, and he stumbled and almost fell.

Governor Luo took advantage of the temporary confusion of the Taiping army and led the reserve team to come to the rescue, and under the intensive fire of the Qing army's gun-carrying team, the Taiping army's team that rushed into Changsha City was forced back again. ,

"Damn it!" Xiao Chaogui was on fire, and it seemed that he was about to succeed, but he was disrupted by the Qing army from nowhere. Unwilling to fail, he led the Chinese army to rush forward. This time, the Taiping army was pressed by the whole army.

The cunning Bao Qibao did not fight hard with Xiao Chaogui, he used the mobility of the cavalry to swim around the Taiping army, and used the gap between the front and rear of the Taiping army to attack the disjointed place.

At the gap in the city wall, Li Kaifang escorted the injured Lin Fengxiang and retreated, seeing that this siege was about to end in failure.

Xiao Chaogui remembered the Haikou boasted in front of Yang Xiaoshan, this opportunity was too rare. Now that there have been reinforcements from the Qing soldiers outside the field, it means that there are follow-up teams behind, and if you want to attack the city again next time, I am afraid it will be more difficult than this time.

"No, you can't give up, you must capture Changsha this time." Xiao Chaogui secretly made up his mind.

"Kaifang, you take the team to protect my back, and I'll lead the team to rush." Xiao Chaogui asked Lin Li's team to withdraw and ordered his own team to go up.

"King Xi, be careful, the firearms of the Qing Demon are very fierce, be careful." Li Kaifang said with concern.

"This king knows, you let the archers aim at those cavalry, don't chase them, and don't let them stick to them." Xiao Chaogui handed over his back to Li Kaifang, and he was very relieved.

"Oh no, the bandits are coming again." Governor Luo, who had just breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly found that another Taiping army was rushing towards the gap here. And Bao Qibao's cavalry was blocked by the archers of the Taiping army, and the Taiping army was prepared at this time, and it was not so easy for him to launch a surprise attack.

The banner of the king of the west came to the city of Changsha, and there were no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and the fierce former army soldiers went to the battlefield like a surge, and their morale was quite high.

"The King of the West is here, kill the demons!"

"The King of the West has arrived, and the Qing Demon is finished!"

The flying banner of the West King regained the confidence of the Taiping army, and there were shouts of killing demons everywhere, and the Taiping army's counterattack was extremely fierce this time, and soon the soldiers who broke forward came to the gap in the city wall.

Xiao Chaogui was even more arrogant, a machete flew up and down, and everywhere he went, the Qing soldiers turned on their backs and fell to the ground one after another. I saw that he was killing and rising, screaming again and again, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and he was brave. Frightened, the surrounding Qing soldiers scattered, threw away their armor, and the tide generally receded.

"No retreat, no retreat!" Governor Luo ordered loudly, but at this time, no one could stop the rout in front, Xiao Chaogui and his guards had already rushed into the gap, and this time Changsha City seemed to fall into the hands of the Taiping army again.

"Gun team, gun team!" Governor Luo shouted in a panic, this is the last card in his hand.

As soon as he finished speaking, before the gun-carrying team released a few shots, he was rushed to the front by the fierce Taiping army, and cut the gun-carrying team that was still loading to pieces, and in an instant, Governor Luo's gun-carrying team was finished.

"My life is at my disposal." Governor Luo was desperate, it seemed that this time he was going to bury his old bones in Changsha.

"Boom, boom." Before the artillery from other directions could be sent to the city wall, seeing that the Taiping army was about to rush in, the artillery commander ordered his artillery to fire at the gap at this time.

After a burst of gunsmoke, Xiao Chaogui, who was holding a big knife high, covered his chest and roared bitterly: "The clear demon of the dog day! The bowl-sized cannonball passed through his chest, and Xiao Chaogui stared at the tiger and fell in a pool of blood. The soldiers behind him hurriedly came over and tried to pull him up, but Xiao Chaogui was already exhausted, his chest was soaked with blood, and his eyes that didn't close seemed to be spewing unwilling anger.

"The King of the West has been hit by a cannonball!"

"The King of the West is dead!"

"The King of the West has returned to heaven!"

The entire battlefield shook, and all the Taiping soldiers were stunned by the news. The wails spread throughout the army, and for a time the Taiping army was in chaos.

And Governor Luo, who escaped death, was overjoyed, and he didn't expect that the god of luck finally helped him at a critical moment. The commander of the Taiping army fell to his position. He hurriedly commanded the Qing army to roll back, and Bao Qibao outside the city seemed to smell the abnormality of the Taiping army, and led the cavalry to turn back and cover up again.

Under the attack of the Qing soldiers, the Taiping army, which had lost its commander, had no intention of fighting. Their king of the west died, and the undefeated god of war, who was brave and strong, had a strong personality, a fierce fighting style, and possessed the body of a heavenly brother, actually died. This was a heavy blow to the spirit of all the former soldiers, so there was never a major rout, and the Taiping army, which had no will to fight, was defeated by the Qing army with one blow and was killed on the battlefield one by one.

If it weren't for Li Kaifang and the wounded Lin Fengxiang desperately taking their own soldiers to cover, these 5,000 people would have almost been wiped out under the city of Changsha, and finally they were defeated and retreated to the Myokoling camp, and only half of them remained. Governor Luo, who accepted it when he saw it, did not dare to attack, and retreated to Changsha City with Admiral Bao.

The corpse of King Xi, which everyone desperately snatched back, was placed on the wooden bed of the camp, and King Xi's blood had been drained, and his face was pale.

"King of the West! What to do? How good is that? Lin Fengxiang, who was still bleeding from his shoulder, wept bitterly, hugged Xiao Chaogui's body and cried.

All the Taiping soldiers in the camp knelt down in front of the corpse of King Xi, tears rolled down, everyone hugged together, and there were heart-wrenching cries everywhere.

In the end, Li Kaifang, who was still older, finally stabilized his mind, he pulled up Lin Fengxiang, who was almost crying and fainted, and said sadly: "Hurry up and report to the East King, let the army come to Changsha as soon as possible and avenge the West King!" We want to avenge the king of the west! ”