Time back to Kashgar City half an hour ago, at the "Koziqiya Beshi Lane" in the south of the city.

Luo Qiongshu was covered in blood, and his original dark gray uniform had turned dark black at the moment. A breach in the southern wall of the city is located next to this "Koziqia Beshi Lane". Hearing that a gap in the southern wall of the city was broken, Luo Qiongshu was shocked at the time, and hurriedly led the troops down the city tower to come to the rescue, and spent more than 300 soldiers to capture the price of the army and finally plugged the gap.

The Kokand soldiers outside the city tried to kill through the gap in the city wall several times in a row, but Luo Qiongshu simply sat here, personally led the troops to guard, and blocked the enemy army outside the city.

But at this moment, the Kokand soldiers, who had been in a stalemate outside the city, suddenly became full of fighting spirit and their morale soared. Immediately afterward, the Kokand soldiers outside the city launched an even more fierce attack than the previous ones. Both sides were completely suicidal attacks and defenders of the city, but on the side of the Fifth Division of the Captive Army, there was no ammunition for a long time, and it lost the advantage of muskets, so it could only fight with a short bayonet and fierce Kokand soldiers, which was a great loss, and it did not take long to lose more than 100 people.

At this time, the staff officer of the division headquarters came to report that the city wall had also launched a fierce attack one after another, and the soldiers in the city were already insufficient, and there were many loopholes in the defense of the city wall, so he asked Luo Qiongshu to send troops to support.

Luo Qiongshu couldn't help but smile bitterly: At this time, where are the extra soldiers to go to support the city walls elsewhere? Not to mention supporting other places, the gap in front of him was about to be breached, and he urgently needed support, but he knew that he had no new force in his hands.

The soldiers on both sides were already desperately fighting to the death at the gap, and the new Kokand soldiers outside the city quickly followed, and they had already piled up corpses more than one person high at the gap in the city wall, swarming in. However, the soldiers of the capture army in the city have no additional soldiers, and the soldiers of the Fifth Division have lost too much, and there are only more than 3,500 soldiers left in the city who can still fight on the city wall. Where is the person to plug the gap at this moment?

Seeing that the situation was very critical, in desperation, Luo Qiongshu held a card knife in his hand and personally led the division headquarters herald company, the cooking logistics platoon, and the staff officers of the division staff headquarters to press all this last bit of strength and prepare to resist with his body. Luo Qiongshu took the lead, and as soon as the card knife in his hand was flipped, he cut off the neck of a Kokand soldier. Even the deputy chief of staff of the division, who had always been weak, stepped forward and stabbed forward with a spear in his hand, but unexpectedly a strong Kokand soldier held the spear and slashed it on the shoulder with a backhand, and the deputy chief of staff screamed miserably and turned over and fell.

The deputy platoon commander of the cooking platoon was stabbed twice, but he ignored it completely, and his hands tightly hugged the thigh of another Kokand soldier who wanted to rush into the city, making it difficult for him to move, and he was struck to death by another cook with a large iron spoon......

Although Luo Qiongshu and the division personnel fought bravely to kill the enemy, they were slowly killed by the more crazy Kokand soldiers into the city wall. Luo Qiongshu cut down several enemy soldiers one after another, and even he himself was slashed several times, stained with blood, but he couldn't stop the defeat. Seeing that a group of subordinates bravely stepped forward only increased casualties, Luo Qiongshu's heart was painful, he knew that Kashgar City could not be defended, and the entire Fifth Division was afraid that it would also face the end of the entire army. It's just that even if you want to die in battle, you have to make the enemy pay a heavy price.

Just as Luo Qiongshu and the others were about to die for their country, a thunderous sound suddenly came to mind outside the city, and the earth began to shake one after another.

"Division commander, there should be a large force of cavalry killed! Could it really be reinforcements? A herald beside him swept away several enemy soldiers and ran to Luo Qiongshu's side to report.

Luo Qiongshu also slashed an enemy soldier to death, nodded excitedly, he was already weak and paralyzed, and his whole body was full of strength in an instant, and he shouted very excitedly: "Brothers, reinforcements have arrived!" We are saved! Cheer up Lao Tzu and resist it! ”

The already desperate soldiers of the captives applauded, cheered up, and struggled to kill the Kokand soldiers who had entered the gap in the city wall. At this time, hundreds of soldiers on the west city wall also rushed to support under the leadership of a deputy regiment commander, and the gap in the southern city completely turned from dangerous to safe.

Luo Qiongshu finally settled down, walked up to the city tower again, and took the telescope to observe, he was very curious, who those reinforcements were. Originally, when he heard about the reinforcements, he thought that Liang Litai of Ili had sent a part of the Fourth Infantry Division to come to the rescue, but the reinforcements were a large force of cavalry, and they came from the southeast, so he knew that this reinforcement could not be the Fourth Infantry Division of Ili. But if it was other reinforcements, how to get here in just a few months, he couldn't figure it out.

Beneath the city walls, there was chaos, and thousands of Kokand soldiers had been crushed, driven and pursued by a strange troop of cavalry. Through the binoculars, Luo Qiongshu found that these cavalry were not Han army at all, they all wore big scarves on their heads, and they turned out to be a foreign army that he had never seen at all.

In a short time, the entire Kokand soldiers outside the southern city gate had been defeated and fled to the northwest.

Luo Qiongshu guessed who these foreign cavalry were and wondered why they would help him, and at the same time hesitated to go out of the city to pursue the enemy army with them. In the end, for the sake of conservatism, let's defend the city of Kashgar first. What if this alien reinforcement also has bad intentions?

At this moment, a small group of cavalry appeared under the city wall, and the leader came to the city tower a few dozen meters away and shouted: "The city is the brother of the Fourth Division of the Infantry of the Chinese Imperial Capture Army?" Please also come up to the peak and speak. ”

The person who came spoke authentic Chinese!

Luo Qiongshu looked down, and although the cavalry was all tanned, it was obvious that it was a Han face. Great, it's your own people! When he looked closely, he immediately recognized that the person who shouted was Shi Xiangzhen, the former national sect of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the brother of the righteous king Shi Dakai.

Luo Qiongshu was overjoyed, and before you had time to think about why this Shi Xiangzhen was here, he shouted happily: "It is Luo Qiongshu, the commander of the Fifth Infantry Division!" Dare to ask the city, but Shi Xiangzhen and Shi brothers? ”

When the cavalry captain saw Luo Qiongshu at this time, he immediately recognized it at a glance, took a few steps forward, and said happily: "Senior Commander Luo, it is the junior brother Shi Xiangzhen." On the order of King Yi, he came to inform Master Luo: His Majesty received an urgent report from Master Luo and sent King Yi to lead 20,000 elite soldiers to help. After months of traveling, with the help of the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab, King Yi ordered me to lead a corps of 4,000 horses, together with 5,000 Sikh cavalry, to rush to the vanguard as a vanguard. Now that we have arrived with the forward horse team, Division Commander Luo will wait a little longer, and when we have cleared all the enemy troops, it is time for King Yi to arrive and enter the city to meet again. ”

Luo Qiongshu knew that the first priority at this time was to kill the enemy, although he also wanted to lead the troops to pursue, but considering that the soldiers had fought continuously and suffered heavy casualties, he was already powerless at the moment, so he nodded and said, "Okay!" Then there are Brother Lao Shi and the other brothers! After cleaning up the remnants of the enemy, Luo Mou will welcome the righteous king into the city again! ”

The battle outside the city was for most of the day, until it was late, and Luo Qiongshu in the west with a telescope in the city tower found that a large group of cavalry was rushing to the city tower from the west, kicking up the dust, and even the brick walls on the city tower were a little loose, and the broken soil blocks fell down one after another.

A sentinel in the city had already greeted him, and after a little questioning, he would report with several cavalrymen from the other side: "Report to the division commander, the main force of the reinforcements led by King Yi has defeated the enemy, and he and the main generals will arrive at the west gate in a moment." ”

"Get ready for the righteous king!" With Luo Qiongshu's order, the west city gate was slowly opened, and dozens of torches were lit on both sides of the city gate and above the city tower, illuminating as if it were day.

To the northwest of the city, thousands of cavalry slowly approached the city walls. Hundreds of horsemen came first, Luo Qiongshu hurriedly led several regiment leaders to meet him, and the person riding a brown horse in the middle was none other than Shi Dakai, the righteous king.

"Qiongshu greets the righteous king! Thank you King Yi for leading the troops in time to save the soldiers of my Fifth Division, Qiongshu is unforgettable! Luo Qiongshu stepped forward and fell to the ground.

"Brother Luo, please get up!" Shi Dakai turned over and dismounted with a beautiful light longitudinal, walked a few steps quickly, and helped Luo Qiongshu up, "This king is just following His Majesty's orders to carry out military affairs." However, this king wants to convey to His Majesty that he would like to thank the brothers of the Fifth Division for fighting for the country without fear of life and death, and the brothers have worked hard! ”

Shi Dakai arched his hand to the east, signaling his respect for the emperor, and beckoned to the side, a cavalry sergeant leading a bearded man wearing a large scarf.

Shi Dakai introduced: "Brother Luo, we were able to arrive in time this time, thanks to the assistance of the Sikh Kingdom of Punjab, they provided tens of thousands of horses. Also, this is their cavalry leader, Akshay, leading the brave Sikh cavalry regiment to assist the king in his westward expedition. ”

It turned out that this was the case, and Luo Qiongshu understood why there were so many aliens. He was out on the march and had no dealings with the Indian soldiers who had surrendered.

It turned out that after the emperor received Luo Qiongshu's urgent report, he sent the righteous king Shi Dakai to lead the troops to rescue. Because the current Sikh Maharaja Samit Kumar was once a spy of the Secret Service, Shi Dakai personally returned his wife and two children to him, and publicly stated that, given his current status, he could no longer obey the orders of the Secret Service and return the rest of his family to him later. Moreover, as long as the Sikh Kingdom is willing to send troops to help, the Chinese Empire can sell some firearms to them at a low price.

Samit Kumar was so moved that he immediately publicly declared that the Sikhs would never oppose the Chinese Empire, and that the Sikh State would always be the nominal suzerainty of the Chinese Empire. Moreover, despite the war with the British on the Eastern Front, Samit Kumar promised to send 5,000 elite Sikh cavalry to help rescue the western frontier, and also collected tens of thousands of war horses and hundreds of ships from the Punjab for the use of the captives for the march.

At this time, Shi Xiangzhen came to report the battle situation: "King Yi, Division Commander Luo, the main force of our army, together with the Sikh cavalry regiment, has already defeated all the enemy troops in Kokand who will invade Kashgar City, killing more than 9,000 enemy troops and capturing more than 10,000 prisoners. The siege of Kashgar has been lifted! Our army lost more than 700 killed and nearly 2,000 wounded. The Sikh cavalry suffered 1,500 casualties, and 6,000 of the 9,000 enemy soldiers killed were killed by them. These Sikh cavalry are really brave. ”

Shi Dakai nodded and said, "Fortunately, these Sikh cavalry, as the main attack vanguard, broke up the enemy's formation, otherwise, the soldiers may have suffered even greater losses." These Sikhs are really brave and good at fighting, and they are not weak when used well! Master Luo, take a good rest for a few days, Your Majesty said that this Kokand Khanate, as well as the masters behind them, must be taught a good lesson. This blood feud, this king must get it back for everyone! ”