"Tianjin City! Of course, Ben Shuai wants Tianjin City! Go and tell Weiting to send troops to attack Tianjin City immediately! Ben Shuai personally raised troops to help him fight! At all costs, Tianjin City must be taken! ”

When Shengbao shouted out this sentence with excitement on his face, the Taiping army had already entered the Qing army from the front out of the city, more than a dozen pioneer warriors burst into the smoke and fire, shouting from the gap in the burned wooden wall, slashing and killing with red eyes, although Tianjin Xiangyong also showed amazing courage and fighting spirit to resist desperately, but the equipment and experience were too far away from the elite of the Taiping army, and they were defeated and retreated before the crazy impact of the Taiping army, and there was no way to fight back. Successfully seized a position in the city.

Originally, the gap opened by the Taiping army was not large, and there were not many Taiping soldiers who took the lead in entering and leaving the city, if the soldiers of the Eight Banners under the command of Qingqi fought back with all their might, with their numerical advantage and better equipment than the Taiping soldiers, it was not impossible to kill the Taiping army to seal the gap. But it's a pity that the monk and the prince cherish the master's good servants, and there has been a secret order for Qingqi to give up going out of the city if necessary, and the warriors of the Eight Banners can receive the hard-earned money scavenged by the Qing Dynasty from the people of all ethnic groups in China every month, and they also cherish their precious lives, so at this critical moment, Qingqi not only did not lead the army to launch a counterattack, but also immediately organized the Eight Banners soldiers to retreat to the south gate, leaving Tianjin Xiangyong to continue to fight hard with the Taiping army in the burning city. Take the life of Tianjin Lian Yong to buy time for the Eight Banners warriors to retreat.

This is not over, Qingqi and the others will run, but in order to squeeze out the surplus value of the Xiangyong in the city to the greatest extent, the monk also ordered Qingqi to block the other city gates out of the city in advance, leaving only the south gate passable, and at the same time let Qingqi prepare a large amount of firewood and grass next to the south gate of the city in advance, and when the Qing army retreated, he quickly pulled the firewood and grass cart to the south gate to block the road. Then put on a fire, and Tianjin Xiangyong, who went out of the city, had only one choice left to fight to the end with the Taiping army. And because Qingqi had let the Eight Banners soldiers take over the south gate of the city early, it wasn't until a fire broke out at the south gate that Xiang Yong, who was fighting fiercely with the Taiping Army in front, was stunned to find that they had nowhere to escape if they wanted to.

Snowflakes are flying, and the fire is blazing. The cries and angry scolding of Tianjin Xiangyong came and went, and there were those who fled in all directions, but there was no way out; In order to open the way for the main force to enter the army, the Tianjin Xiangyong who had laid down his arms was also slashed with a knife, forcing Tianjin Xiangyong to cry and run in the sea of fire, there was no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground.

Meanwhile. The Taiping army, which was divided into two ways to go out of the city, had already met outside the south gate of Tianjin, and took a look at the blazing Qing army out of the city, for the safety of the main road, Ji Wenyuan did not hesitate to order to kill the Qing demons in the city. Then immediately led the army south, lined up to kill the camp of Seng Lingqin ten miles to the south, and the Taiping army vanguard who set off first also successfully bit the tail of the Qing army's Qingqi department, and the Qing army started a fierce battle in the snowflakes.

The monk and the prince, who had already personally put on his horse, cherished the warriors of the Eight Banners very much, and heard that Qingqi's defeated army had been bitten by the Taiping army. Monk Lingqin didn't even blink an eyelid, and immediately sent five hundred cavalry out of the camp through the side gate. Rounded back to rush the flank of the vanguard of the Taiping army, and received the retreat of the Qingqi army to the camp. Not to mention, the Chahar cavalry, which attacked urgently, really entangled the flank of the Taiping army, forcing the Taiping army to stop and engage the Qing cavalry. Then the Qing cavalry also relied on good mobility to quickly get rid of the entanglement with the Taiping army and successfully withdrew to the camp.

The successful withdrawal of the army outside the camp was only the beginning, and for Seng Lingqin, the real test was still to come, after the 20,000 Taiping troops were killed near the camp of the monk and the prince. Ji Wenyuan only left 5,000 troops to protect the rear as a reserve, and then immediately divided the troops into three routes, and at the same time stormed the camp of the monk and the prince of the east and west, the monk and the prince hurriedly ordered the Qing army to open artillery, the cannon rumbled, and the snowflakes where the shells landed were like sand, but they could not stop the advance of the Taiping soldiers at all. Experienced Taiping soldiers advance and retreat in an orderly manner, hear the sound of the cannon to avoid the artillery, the cannon just stopped immediately got up and charged, successfully killed near the camp, not to say anything is to throw out the fire bomb to burn the Qing army's antlers, at the same time slid into the trench to avoid the Qing army's guns, there is a chance to climb to the opposite side of the trench to continue to advance, no chance to seize the time to destroy the antlers in front of the horse, the Qing army in the camp to shoot and fire endlessly, but with little effect, can really kill and kill the Taiping army soldiers are not few.

The fifth and fourth trenches that had just been dug half were quickly occupied by the Taiping soldiers, and then the third trench was also declared lost. However, the wind and snow are too strong and the north wind, the snowflakes continue to blow their faces, and the monks and soldiers who are fighting against the wind have a clear vision, resulting in the power of long-range weapons being reduced again and again, and the blocking effect is pitiful, and the Taiping soldiers are constantly advancing with the advantage of the tailwind, and many of the vanguard warriors have also entered the second trench, and at the same time, the Taiping soldiers behind have also quickly laid trenches, racing against time to fill the trenches with earth and stone snow, and open the way for the main force to advance.

"If that dog slave deliberately doesn't send rescuers, then Ben Wang's camp will definitely be in danger!" The monk and the prince complained bitterly in his heart, and at the same time he couldn't wait to start thinking - if his camp was really broken by the Taiping army, how to impeach Shengbao for the crime of not saving him and taking revenge for personal gain?

At the same time, Shengbao's order was finally sent to Wu Chaoyue's face, and then Wu Chaoyue didn't even blink his eyelids, and with a wave of his hand, he let the self-army practice Yong who had already been lined up set out, and the five battalions of Wu Jun Lian Yong wore tattered clothes, and the soldiers were divided into three ways from the three camp gates out of the camp, and quickly met in front of the main gate, and then Wu Chaoyue gave an order, Wu Jun Lian Yong immediately strode forward, one battalion was in front, and four battalions were in the back in the shape of a field, and rushed to the west gate of Tianjin against the wind and snow. Later, Bao Huan, Gui Liang and Da Ming'a also raised their troops out of the camp, and then rushed to not mention it.

When there were still two miles away from the west gate of Tianjin, Cao Yanzhong's troops of the Wu army battalion who served as the vanguard first encountered the enemy, and in the wind and snow, the 2,000 Taiping troops standing in formation next to the moat could not see the enemy's flag at all. Cao Yanzhong commanded his officers and men to maintain formation and continue to advance. It was not until he was within 40 meters of the enemy that Cao Yanzhong yelled and gave the order to shoot, and the five hundred Wu troops practiced Yong's four-stage round shooting, which immediately caught the Taiping army on the opposite side by surprise. In the blink of an eye, he lay down a large area, and Wu Jun Lian Yong continued to stride forward while loading the bullet, and when he reached within twenty meters, Wu Jun Lian Yong suddenly threw out a full fifty bitter acid grenades!

Fierce explosions exploded one after another in the crowd of the Taiping army, flames burst out, shrapnel flew sideways, and the soldiers of the Taiping army fell to the ground one after another, and finally understood how terrifying and terrible the enemy on the opposite side was, and countless Taiping soldiers screamed and turned back and turned around. Wu Jun Lian Yong continued to stride forward, rushing quickly to the rear of the Taiping army that was lined up next to the moat, and then opened fire and then threw bombs, harvesting the enemy's lives like chopping melons and vegetables. The Taiping soldiers guarding the bridge across the river were in chaos, countless people ran away, screaming and fleeing for their lives, while many more fled in the direction of the city gate.

The fighter plane was fleeting. Cao Yanzhong, who finally snatched the vanguard task from Huang Dasha, did not dare to delay the slightest, and shouted loudly to order Wu Jun to continue to advance. Risking the danger that the ice could break at any time, he stepped over the moat, seized the position on the opposite bank while firing his guns, and then threw the precious bitter acid grenade to the enemy's dense place in front of the city gate as if he didn't want money, and raced against time to disperse the enemy who stood in his way.

At this time, the defenders of the city, who had already discovered that something was wrong, had already concentrated their firepower to entertain Cao Yanzhong's troops, but the excessive wind and snow were beneficial to the Taiping army Ji Wenyuan who was on the offensive. It was also beneficial to the frontal attack of Wu Jun Lian Yong, who could not see the situation and position of the enemy clearly, and the effect of the Taiping army's guns and artillery was also very small, which could not stop Wu Jun Lian Yong's advance at all. Wu Jun Lian Yong took the opportunity to continuously throw grenades and shoot at the city gate, quickly killing the defeated Taiping army soldiers who were silted in front of the city gate. Forcing them to flee for their lives on both sides, to make way in and out of the city.

Finally cleared the remnants of the enemy in front of the gate, Cao Yanzhong loudly ordered the demolition team to attack, and thirty Wu soldiers practiced Yong to protect the demoman strode forward, and the news that suddenly appeared on the west gate of Tianjin was finally sent to Li Kaifang, who was watching the battle from the south gate tower.

"Firepower? Accurate and fast shooting? And throw iron bullets that can explode? Not good! ”

Although he had never seen Wu Jun Lian Yong use a grenade, Li Kaifang had already discovered that the situation was wrong just by intuition, and vaguely guessed that the army had been tricked, and Tianjin Ximen was already in danger! Then Li Kaifang didn't even blow up his eyelids, and immediately ordered the reserves in the city to open to the west gate, and at the same time hurriedly went down the city, preparing to personally lead the reserves to the west gate for reinforcements.

When Li Kaifang walked down the steps of the city wall, the Wu army blasters had already piled up the picric acid explosives package in front of the city gate of Tianjin, and quickly lit the fuse and immediately retreated.

"Boom!"

Finally, when Li Kaifang rode his war horse at the south gate, the explosives bag that Wu Jun Lian Yong had piled up finally made an earth-shattering loud noise, which shook the earth slightly, and the snow on the city wall and the houses in the city slipped down in large swaths. After the smoke dissipated, the strong city gate of the west gate of Tianjin had already turned into powder, and at the same time, the Taiping soldiers who were dying at the city gate were all shocked to death, Wu Jun Lian Yong cheered in unison, Cao Yanzhong roared loudly, and took the lead in killing the west gate of Tianjin.

Tianjin, the city is broken!

Following the Wu army Lian Yong who rushed into the city, as well as Huang Dasha and Wang Hammer, the artillery battalion led by Meng Yu also entered half of the people, and Wu Chaoyue took the remaining one and a half battalions to guard outside the city - it was not that Wu Chaoyue was afraid of death and did not dare to enter the city to fight street battles, but to protect the road into the city and leave a reserve for just in case.

Of course, it is impossible to take Tianjin City with more than 1,000 people, but fortunately, seeing that Wu Jun Lian Yong has taken the lead in entering the city, greedy for burning, looting and war rewards after entering the city, the Qing army under the command of Da Ming A and Bao Huan not only did not have an army afraid to enter the city to fight, but also rushed to enter the city, and finally the closest Bao Huan Department from Wu Jun Lian Yong entered the city first, and then 2,000 people under the command of Da Ming A also rushed in, and quickly increased the number of Qing troops in the city to more than 6,000 people.

The gunfire and artillery were loud, Wu Chaoyue was of course very concerned about the self-army training courage in the first street battle, for fear that they would not adapt to the street battle and suffer any losses, and their heads were hot after breaking the city, forgetting their prior instructions, failing to seize the key points in time and missing the fighter, or when they heard the dense gunfire on the city wall. Wu Chaoyue breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that Huang Dasha had not forgotten his order, and immediately went to the city to seize the position at the head of the city after entering the city.

At this time, Shengbao also believed that he personally came to the west gate of Tianjin with more than 10,000 main forces of the Qing army, and after seeing that the west gate of Tianjin had indeed been opened by the Wu army, Shengbao of course laughed. couldn't wait to give Wu Chaoyue a bear hug, and Wu Chaoyue struggled and urged: "Dashuai, don't be happy first, enter the city quickly, let your soldiers and horses enter the city, only by completely controlling the west gate of Tianjin first, we will have a good chance of winning!" Otherwise, once we let Longhair drive our soldiers out of the city, we will lose all our efforts! ”

listened to Wu Chaoyue's urging. Shengbao finally let go of Wu Chaoyue, and while giving a loud order to arrange for the follow-up army to enter the city, he shouted: "Pass the order, after the city is broken, the brothers who have made meritorious contributions can spend a day in the city!" If you want to get rich, give Lao Tzu his life! ”

With Shengbao's promise, of course, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army are all green. Howling and scrambling to be the first to rush to the city gates. As a result, it was also at this time that Gui Liang seized the opportunity to remind Shengbao: "Dashuai." The battle on the monk's side is fierce, do you send him a reinforcement army? ”

Shengbao didn't hear Gui Liang's reminder, but just gave a loud order, asking Dexing Abe Rang outside the northern city to launch an attack on the north gate of Tianjin, so as to contain the Taiping army's strength, and at the same time ordered Tuo Ming'a to transfer all the rear troops in the camp. Set up an interception position in the southwest corner of Tianjin City to prevent the Taiping army from returning to the division to counterattack or send troops from the south gate to save the west gate. After a period of time, the Taiping army really sent an army from the south gate and went to the west gate to surround Wei to save Zhao. The Qing army, which had been prepared for a long time, relied on the advantages of terrain and the number of troops to hold the position, and did not give the Taiping army a chance to cut off the Qing army's road into the city from the west gate.

At the same time, Ji Wenyuan, who had already killed the fence of the monk's camp, finally found that something was wrong in the rear, looking at the expanding fire at the west gate of Tianjin, Ji Wenyuan hesitated, not only wanted to go back to the division to save Tianjin at full speed, but was unwilling to give up, and at the same time he was afraid that the retreat would give the monk the opportunity to fight back with all his strength - although this was obviously a vain worry. After hesitating for a long time, Ji Wenyuan gritted his teeth and made up his mind, determined to continue to storm the camp of the monk and prince with all his strength at any cost, and continue to entrust the defense of Tianjin to Li Kaifang.

Li Kaifang, who was urging the army to fight fiercely in the city, was also hesitant, although he wanted to order Ji Wenyuan to withdraw his troops to save Tianjin City, but retreating from the battle was a taboo for soldiers, and a slight carelessness could lead to the collapse of the whole army. Therefore, after hesitating again and again, Li Kaifang still made up his mind and ordered Ji Wenyuan to attack the position of the Qing army's southern line with all his might, without an order, not to retreat back to the division, and to defend Tianjin with the strength of his own army, and strive to kill the Qing army retreating into the city through street fighting, and keep the city and the mountains of grain and grass in the city.

From the standpoint of the Taiping Army, Li Kaifang and Ji Wenyuan's decision-making is naturally too correct - even if they really lose Tianjin City, as long as they take the camp of the monk and the prince, it is equivalent to opening the way to the south, at least if they want to run, there is still a place to run, which is better than betting all the bets on the side of keeping Tianjin City. It's just that in this way, it will undoubtedly suffer our poor monk and prince.

In the earth-shattering sound of gunfire, the Taiping soldiers followed one after another, stepping on the corpses of their companions and constantly storming the fence defense line of the monk prince, although the monk Wang Ye yelled with red eyes, desperately urged the soldiers of the self-army to come forward to block, and also cut down two Qing soldiers who fled timidly with his own hands, but still could not change the fact that his soldiers and soldiers fled backwards scattered, and the fence defense line of the monk army was crumbling and could collapse at any time.

Finally, the first row of fences collapsed under the burning of the fire and the impact of the Taiping soldiers, revealing a gap no less than five zhang wide, the Taiping soldiers cheered when they entered the monk's barracks, but what they didn't know was that at the same time, the banner of Wu Jun Lian Yong was finally inserted into the tower of the west gate of Tianjin, announcing that Wu Jun Lian Yong had taken the west gate of Tianjin and completely guarded the road of the Qing army into the city.

The sky has already been completely dark, and the snowflakes are gradually getting smaller, but the Tianjin battlefield is still full of war, the sound of guns and cannons is endless, north to the Tianjin North Gate Battlefield, south to the camp of Seng Lingqin, the North Gate Battlefield, the West Gate Battlefield, the battlefield in the city, the battlefield in the southwest corner of the city, the battlefield out of the city, inside and outside the camp of Seng Lingqin, everywhere is shouting to kill the sky, the head is like an ant, hundreds of thousands of people cannons come and go, knives and spears see blood, and the fight is inextricable.

On the battlefield in the city. If it weren't for Wu's training to fight bravely, the Taiping army would have had a good chance of expelling the Qing army from the city and retaking the west gate of Tianjin. But there is no way, it is Wu Jun Lian Yong who fights in the vanguard, although he has never fought in a street fight, but Wu Jun Lian Yong only remembers the guidance of foreign instructors. Lined up on the street to fight, and at the same time divided troops to seize the intersection of the alleys on both sides of the road, intercepting the enemy outflanked from both flanks, at the same time, Wu Jun Lian Yong also continued to throw grenades at the crowded places of the Taiping Army, and never gave the Taiping Army a chance to charge in clusters, so no matter how the Taiping Army frantically charged and counterattacked, it was impossible to break the interception position of Wu Army Lian Yong, on the contrary, it was also slowly advancing Wu Jun Lian Yong to kill and constantly retreat, and the other Qing troops continued to expand to both sides. During the seizure of various small alleys, many Qing soldiers could not wait to enter the house and rob, killing people and setting fires.

Halfway through the first shift, the Qing army had basically controlled the main road of West Street in Tianjin, as well as the small alleys on both sides, although it was difficult to continue to advance for the time being, and was forced to fight hard with the Taiping army that held the center point of the drum tower, but it was definitely a firm foothold in the city. At the same time, the recruits of the Taiping Army, who had not been tested by the war, also began to flee one after another. The morale of the Taiping army had begun to panic, and it was only a matter of time before Tianjin was lost.

But it's okay. At this time, Ji Wenyuan sent someone in time to send the news that he had entered the camp of Seng Lingqin, Li Kaifang was a little relieved, and quickly ordered the backbone team to carry ammunition and food as much as possible to prepare for retreat, and at the same time arrange the team behind the palace to prepare to flee out of the city and south.

Finally. Relying on the help of grenadiers, Wu Jun Lianyong, who had fought hard for a long time, finally blew up the remnants of the Taiping Army defenders on the Tianjin Drum Tower, took the Drum Tower and seized the commanding heights in the city, cutting off the north-south connection of the Taiping Army in the city. And when this important progress was sent to Wu Chaoyue, Wu Chaoyue, who had already memorized the terrain in Tianjin, was relieved. also quietly wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and said secretly: "I hope that Lao Tzu's Lian Yong casualties are not too big, otherwise it will be a big loss." Also, Li Kaifang, Ji Wenyuan, run, don't let down Lao Tzu's kindness to you for deliberately releasing water several times. ”

"Get out of the city! Hurry up and get out of the city! The brothers who left the city are about to die, why don't you hurry up and rescue the city?! Official, go and rescue the city! ”

The sudden crazy roar interrupted Wu Chaoyue's muttering, and when Wu Chaoyue followed the sound, he saw a person in the distance behind him who was yelling under the obstruction of the Qing soldiers, and there was still a cry in his voice, "Old man! Why haven't you rescued the city? Our brothers are almost being killed by the hairy hair! ”

Hearing this cry, Wu Chaoyue, who was wolf-hearted, of course turned a deaf ear, and it was rare to pay attention to it at all, and Shengbao also pretended not to hear it, but the man's next roar made Wu Chaoyue and Shengbao, the two bad species, prick up their ears at the same time, "Master Jun, please, save the city!" The people of the monk and the prince deliberately blocked all the roads out of the city, and deliberately let us kill the long hair in the city, our people are dying, please! Please! ”

"Deliberately blocking the road? Good chance of impeachment! Wu Chaoyue and Shengbao's eyes lit up, and then they shouted in unison: "Bring that person over!" ”

The man was finally brought in front of Wu Chaoyue and Shengbao, although the man was already covered with blood at the moment, and his whole body was covered with traces of smoke and fire, Wu Chaoyue didn't recognize him for a while, but the man immediately recognized Wu Chaoyue, who was as thin as firewood, and shouted loudly: "Lord Wu!" Kure-sama! I finally saw you, do you remember that I don't, I'm Feng Sanbao! I'm Feng Sanbao! ”

"Feng Sanbao?!" Wu Chaoyue finally recognized the person who came, and asked in surprise, "Uncle Feng, why are you here?" When did you come? ”

"Lord Wu, it's been ten days since I came to Tianjin." Feng Sanbao said quickly: "I also lived in your camp for one night, but you were busy with military affairs, and I never saw you, and then Wanzhen and I entered the Lianyong team under the command of the monk and the prince, I should be Lian Yong, and Wanzhen will cook for us!" ”

"Wanzhen is here too? There she is? ”

Wu Chaoyue's joy is not trivial, but what Wu Chaoyue didn't expect was that after asking this question, the iron-clad Feng Sanbao actually shed tears, cried directly, and cried: "She and I were separated out of the city, and now I don't know if she is still alive, is she still out of the city?" ”

"Wanzhen's whereabouts unknown?!"

Since the start of the war, it is the first time that Wu Chaoyue, a small comprador who has done a lot of evil, has panicked in his heart, his hands and feet are cold, and he is so nervous that he almost forgets to breathe! - Evil is rewarded! This is deliberately ignoring the retribution of the Southern Front! (To be continued.) )