Chapter 31 is a great victory

Liu Changqing is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield, and at a critical moment, he calmed down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info He asked the Qing army to abandon the baggage trucks and sub-mother cannons, and ordered a general to burn all the baggage trucks to the ground. Under the protection of hundreds of guards, with dozens of war horses in front of the road, he personally led the main force of the Qing army to kill the rear camp step by step, wanting to use the impact of the war horses and the fierceness of the guards, and concentrate the soldiers who were divided into strands.

"Since the thief army has blocked and ambushed at both ends of the official road in the river valley, and so many elite thieves have rushed out of the mountains and forests and rivers on the west bank, the east bank of the Xiaoshui River is the weak point of the thief army! There must be no ambushes on the east coast except for those artillery. While rushing forward to kill, Liu Changqing, who had figured out the key to the battlefield, slashed hard with the waist knife in his hand, cutting most of a saint soldier's neck in half, and stabbing an elderly saint soldier who attacked him from the side.

The guards beside him also cooperated with the up and down slashes, and at the cost of losing more than 20 guards, they slashed and killed more than ten Holy Army soldiers, and finally got a little respite.

However, this is only a little respite! The sturdy sword and spear soldiers led by Lin Fengxiang have killed not far from the red satin and golden dragon banner of the Qing army, and they are only dozens of steps away from the main general Liu Changqing. Seeing that the Qing Yong who resisted Lin Fengxiang's sword and spear soldiers suffered heavy casualties, there were fewer and fewer Qing soldiers who dared to fight head-on.

At this time, to add insult to injury for the Qing army, hundreds of Taiping holy soldiers wearing light-colored horse coats and red buns on their heads came out of the bushes on the side, which were the shotgunners led by Tan Shaoguang. Tan Shaoguang took the lead in squeezing into the side and back of the friendly saber spearman, half-squatting to hold the shotgun in his hand, and did not aim carefully, it was a slam shot, and the two Qing soldiers in front of him fell to the ground and rolled in response, one of them was shot in the head, and the side face was bloody and blurred, which was the general who was about to burn the baggage cart. He had just led a few Qing soldiers to light the arquebuses on several baggage trucks, and the other end of the arquebuses was put into the barrels loaded with gunpowder on the vehicles, and before he could escape, he was shot by Tan Shaoguang's bird gun more than 30 paces away.

At the same time, hundreds of shotguns followed by Tan Shaoguang opened fire one after another, and the Qing troops around the red satin golden dragon banner were shot and fell to the ground. With the help of the shotgunners, the sword and spear soldiers led by Lin Fengxiang were like tigers, and they swarmed up and cut down the red satin and gold dragon flags planted on the flag cars of the Qing army. The Qing army has completely lost the strength and courage to resist, some of them are afraid of death and kneel on the ground and beg for mercy, and some are looking for directions to hold their heads and run around, but they are either cut to the ground by spearmen or shot into a sieve by shotguns.

Liu Changqing turned his head and looked, his face was full of ashes! Lost so fast! At the moment, even the hope of rushing to the rear camp is impossible to realize, and the resistance of the Qing army is getting weaker and weaker, there is nothing else to think about, if you don't leave, you can't escape!

Hurriedly led the guards, drove away the few remaining war horses, and took the initiative to rush to the riverside Li Kaifang and others, who were fighting with a small number of Qing soldiers. While resisting the short spears stabbed by the Taiping Holy Soldiers, all the guards shouted in unison: "There is an order at the military gate, everyone rush across the river to the opposite side!" ”

The Qing army, who was chased and killed by Lin Fengxiang and others behind them, saw Liu Changqing rushing to the river, and heard the shouts again, and immediately mustered up their last hope and strength, and they all wanted to rush to the river. But the thousands of Holy Army warriors led by Li Kaifang by the river were soaked in blood and river water, and they were soaked, which made people shudder. They had just eliminated a group of Qing soldiers who had turned back to resist the blockade, and when they saw a large group of Qing soldiers rushing to the river, they hurriedly stepped forward to intercept and kill.

Lin Fengxiang saw that there was a group of elite Qing soldiers in the Qing army, surrounded by a military general wearing a lion uniform, and was rushing towards a gap in the Taiping army by the river, and hurriedly led some swords and spearmen to chase forward.

And Tan Shaoguang, who was behind him, also saw this scene. He threw away the shotgun in his hand that had not yet been filled with gunpowder projectiles, snatched the shotgun of a holy soldier beside him, and took a slight aim, and was about to shoot. Suddenly, there were two loud bangs in quick succession, and the powder keg on the baggage cart not far behind him exploded violently, followed by three explosions in a row. However, it was the Qing army that lit the fire rope and burned it into the powder keg without being found, although Tan Shaoguang and others extinguished a few fire ropes, there was still something missing, and the gunpowder was detonated, and a strong explosion occurred.

More than 20 soldiers of the Holy Army were blown up along with several Qing soldiers. Tan Shaoguang was also swept to the ground by the explosion of the air wave, very good, the distance was not too close, and he was not actually injured, but he still shook his heart, and his ears were ringing for a while.

Fortunately, these explosions were all on the same baggage truck, and did not cause other gunpowder chain detonations. Otherwise, it wouldn't have been such a few people who were killed.

Those who were a little closer to the explosion, whether it was the Taiping Holy Army or the Qing Army, couldn't help but hold their weapons, and their movements paused for a moment. Many Qing troops who saw that the opportunity was not good, took advantage of everyone's stunned efforts and rushed to the river.

When Li Kaifang and the others heard the explosion, they couldn't help but look around. As for Liu Changqing and others, he asked someone to do the ignition of explosives, so he had already made preparations. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he rushed into Hanoi through the intercepted gaps.

In this valley, although the water is not particularly turbulent, the flow rate is still not slow due to the rapid rise of the river. As soon as several Qing soldiers rushed into the water, they were carried away by the current, and a few hands stretched out of the water and flapped a few times, and then disappeared.

Liu Changqing and the others were already prepared, he and the guards grabbed the saddle of the war horse that rushed in front, some pulled the reins floating in the water, the war horse puffed up its belly, the horse's head floated on the water, the speed was not fast, although it was carried by the current to more than 100 meters downstream, but they were also sent to the other side of the river.

Tan Shaoguang led dozens of shotguns to the river, and hurriedly shot into the river, but the distance was too far and he had lost his accuracy and power. Li Kaifang took more than 100 people, dragged several baggage trucks on wooden planks, and rushed into the river, but was stirred by the river and could not cross the center of the river, so he could only watch as the Qing army escorted the military generals who were serving the lion and fled into the distance.

As soon as Liu Changqing and others fled, the remaining Qing troops completely lost their heart of resistance.

Lin Fengxiang shook his head, cleared away the adverse effects of the explosion on him, and saw that those red-eyed holy army sword spearmen were still preparing to slaughter the Qing soldiers who had completely given up resistance and only cared about begging for mercy. ”

Seeing that the holy army was no longer approaching to slash and kill, the Qing soldiers were relieved, and they threw down their swords and guns one after another, and surrendered. In fact, if you don't want to die, you can't help but surrender.

They were divided into several groups of dozens or hundreds of people, surrounded by the Taiping Holy Army with murderous intent and a little madness, surrounded to death. Seeing that the soldiers in the outer circle were killed one by one, the fear of death has always shrouded the hearts of every Qing soldier and cannot be dispersed. There was no way out for them but to surrender.

Soon, the war was over. This ambush was the first operation of the Taiping Holy Army since its establishment. Although it was an ambush, it was also engaged in a frontal battle with the Qing army, and it was extremely difficult to win such a victory.

In the woods, on the official road, and by the river, there were young Taiping Holy Army soldiers, squatting on the ground and vomiting. These newly joined Taiping Holy Army, who had never seen blood, calmed down from the frenzied fighting, and finally couldn't help but vomit because they couldn't stand the strong smell of blood on their bodies, coupled with the corpses of broken arms around them.

Li Kaifang and Lin Fengxiang looked at this scene with smiles. At the beginning, Li Kaifang ran out of his hometown with Lin Fengxiang, and was robbed by bandits on the road, and the two struggled to resist, and after the first killing, they also vomited like this for a long time. Now, the two are looking at each other and smiling again!

Li Kaifang took out half of the Guilin cake that had been crushed and deformed from his arms, tore it in half with his bloodstained hands, looked at it, and handed the smaller one to Lin Fengxiang. Seeing that he frowned and waved his hand to refuse, Li Kaifang didn't speak, threw two pieces of Guilin cake into his mouth, and ate them cleanly.

A few hours later, the entire battlefield was cleared. Even Chen Defeng on the mountainside on the east bank led the people to push down the mountain artillery. When he saw a group of fleeing Qing soldiers on the mountain, he fired more than a dozen cannons at them, killing and wounding more than 30 Qing soldiers.

The results of the battle statistics were soon reported to Feng Shaoguang. In this battle, the Holy Second Army and the Holy Third Army killed more than 300 people and injured more than 1,100 people, of which 200 were seriously injured. A total of more than 900 Qing demon soldiers were killed, more than 2,400 Qing soldiers were captured, and less than 200 people escaped with Liu Changqing.

Such a result can be regarded as a complete victory.

Despite the victory, Feng Shaoguang was still not satisfied. You know, this is an ambush prepared in advance, and it is an ambush that is carried out under the condition of occupying a good terrain. Nearly 10,000 people ambushed 4,000 people, and as a result, more than 500 combat forces were reduced.

You must know that many of the newly recruited holy soldiers are Orion of Yaoshan and members of the Anti-Qing Heaven and Earth Society, and their individual combat ability is not bad, but they lack actual combat and have never been on the real battlefield. It is believed that after this ambush battle, each holy soldier will personally experience bloody battles on the battlefield, and his combat effectiveness will be improved, and the cooperation between different arms will gradually become proficient.