Seeing the brothers around him continue to fall in rows, the Qing soldiers who blocked the gap were frightened. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info ants are still stealing life, who is not afraid of death?

Chu Yong is better, the green battalion soldiers in Nanchang City are not so brave.

They were unwilling to stay in the poisonous smoke for a long time, and with Jiang Zhongyuan's departure, and there were no strict people to restrain them, I don't know who shouted, and the green battalion Qing soldiers at the gap immediately scattered and fled.

As soon as the green battalion soldiers ran away, Jiang Zhongyuan's personal soldiers cut down a few people in a row, but the smoke was thick, and everyone couldn't see it clearly, thinking that it was the captives outside the city who rushed in, not only failed to stop the deserters, but also fled even more.

Moreover, in the smoke, some of the extremely nervous Green Battalion soldiers even raised their shotguns in their hands and fired at Jiang Zhongyuan's own soldiers who were wielding knives. I don't know if they mistakenly thought it was the captive army who rushed in, or if they were not used to seeing the deliberate guns fired by their own soldiers.

Suddenly, the gap in the green battalion Qing soldiers was completely unrestrained, and the generals themselves were still slow to escape, just thinking about how to run away with their little silver.

The captives continued mechanically, repeating two rows of firing and the other two reloading.

The Qing soldiers blocked at the gap were quickly swept away, and even the Qing soldiers who were originally behind the bunker ran away, leaving only more than a hundred disciplined Chu Yong and Xiang Yong, who were still blocked behind the two rows of city walls in the gap.

But this number is too small, what else can it do? Soon, the soldiers of the captives entered the gap, and although they were also choked by the poisonous smoke, the smoke slowly began to thinn. It turned out that it was at the entrance of the tunnel, and when he learned that he had entered the city wall, he extinguished the poisonous smoke and stopped the blower.

These more than 100 Chu Yong and Xiang Yong, under the leadership of a Jiang Zhongyuan's clansmen, flashed out from the corner of the city wall, and first fired a shot at the rushing begging army with a shotgun, because of the close distance, they also shot more than 10 people and wounded more than 20 begging soldiers, and it was too late to reload, so they abandoned the shotgun and rushed towards the begging army with a waist knife in hand.

But with the short interval of the captive army lined up with foreign guns, these more than 100 Chu Yong were shot by foreign guns before they could rush a few steps.

The gap in the city wall is so big, as long as you hit along the lack of **, you can always shoot, and the captives line up to shoot, the firepower is intensive, and the volley is over, and the Chu Yongs who rushed over can't hide at all.

Where is this rushing to kill, it is simply rushing to death, rushing over and being shot.

It is also extremely simple to say, the two main regiments of foreign guns of the capture army, one regiment and one gap, stepped all the way, shot all the way, and entered the city.

Jiang Zhongyuan, who was waiting for the tower of the East Gate City, heard that the soldiers had come to report that the Cantonese thieves had entered the city, and he was so shocked that he almost fell off the city wall.

He didn't understand why hundreds of people with shotguns didn't plug a small gap!

The gap is so big that no matter how many people there are, it is useless. Half a month ago, the long-haired thief also exploded the gap, and nearly a thousand people wanted to rush into the city through the gap, but under the desperate interception of his two hundred Chu Yong, they couldn't enter the city.

Why did you enter the city so quickly this time?

But right now, it's too late to think about that. He hurriedly led his own soldiers down the city tower, gathered men and horses, and fought bravely against the Cantonese thieves who attacked the city at the gap.

Soon, Jiang Zhongyuan finally understood why his Chu Yong couldn't stop the gap.

I saw that the smoke had slowly dispersed, and hundreds of Cantonese thieves, stepping on neat steps, like beasts and puppets, mechanically moved forward, and the firearms in their hands kept shooting, reloading and firing, fearless.

And in front of this mechanical thief army, his own Chu Yong, the brave soldier who was originally proud, was so vulnerable at this time that he was about to collapse.

Jiang Zhongyuan took a look and understood the root of the problem. The thieves lined up, walked five or six steps, and then stopped and fired, without aiming at all, but due to the dense formation, the number of lines made the musket bullets dense and continuous, shooting Chu Yong in front of them.

At this time, even if the distance was as high as a few dozen steps, even the bird guns in Chu Yong's hands could shoot at the Yue thieves on the opposite side, but Chu Yong looked chaotic in comparison, and the firepower could not be concentrated at all. Moreover, some of them fired early in the morning, and when they entered the effective range, they did not have time to reload the gunpowder.

Jiang Zhongyuan saw Chu Yong, who had always been brave, rushing towards the thieves with a waist knife in his hand, but twenty or thirty steps away from the thieves, they fell down one after another, and he couldn't help but feel heartache.

It can be said that without these Chu Yong's disciples and soldiers, there would be no Jiang Zhongyuan today, and it would be impossible for him to be promoted from a seventh-grade magistrate to the current second-rank governor in just over 2 years.

No, it can't go on like this. Jiang Zhongyuan quickly ordered the Qing soldiers outside the city to return to the city to support, and at the same time ordered the small artillery on the city tower to turn the muzzle and open artillery bombardment at the Cantonese thieves who were constantly rushing into the city at the gap.

He also led the Chu Yongs, who had been slaughtered to the point of only four or five hundred, and withdrew to the city, preparing to intercept the Cantonese thieves in the streets and alleys.

Soon, though, he realized he was wrong.

Many of the artillery on the head of the city are garrisoned by the green battalion soldiers of the city defense, as soon as these people saw the thieves entering the city, they thought that the city of Nanchang had been broken, and they had no intention of fighting again.

And these Cantonese thieves, as soon as they entered the city, began to line up in groups, and they were not in a hurry to rush into the center of the city. Instead, they slowly expanded their area forward, capturing the Qing troops on the city walls while waiting for a steady stream of reinforcements to follow.

Jiang Zhongyuan was helpless, he could only rely on Chu Yong's bravery, and all Chu Yong in the city and in the city attacked the Yue thieves who entered the city, wanting to withdraw from the attack.

However, he soon found that even if he rushed to the side of the thief because of the large number of people, he would not be able to get any benefit. The thieves were also very fierce, and behind the foreign spearmen, a long spear soldier came out, ignoring it, and roared neatly to attack and kill: "Kill!" ”

It was a row of spears like a forest that suddenly stabbed out, mixed with the foreign guns hiding behind and fired, and as soon as Chu Yong approached, he was slaughtered.

Finally, Jiang Zhongyuan knew that it was difficult to hold Nanchang City, so he absolutely ordered the evacuation of Nanchang. They were originally here to support Nanchang City, and they didn't have to defend Nanchang to the death, and by now, his Chu Yong had lost nearly half, which was already unbearable.

As for Zhang Fu, the governor of Xixi, he still kindly sent more than 100 Chu Yong to protect his escape.

As a result, the north gate of Nanchang City was opened, and countless Qing soldiers fled one after another, mixed with many gentry and officials and officials of the yamen everywhere.

Soon, Taqibu, who was lying on the bed, with the help of Chu Ruhang, also led a cadre of Xiangyong to escape from the north gate.

Some of the remaining green battalion soldiers in Nanchang City were like headless flies, running in all directions, but they were captured and annihilated by the soldiers of the 7th and 4th Divisions guarding outside the city.

The captive army concentrated its forces in the south of the city, and did not deploy troops in the north of the city, but let the Qing soldiers escape from the north gate unusually smoothly.

This is also the result of Peng Yulin's deliberate arrangement. It is far easier to leave a way for the Qing soldiers to survive than to force them to resist desperately. Anyway, as long as Nanchang City is occupied, next, slowly drive the Qing soldiers out of the surroundings.

In this way, the city of Nanchang was occupied by the captives. (To be continued.) )