Although He Yunlong, the chief general of the Taiping Army in Chizhou, did not know how Lin Qirong defended Hukou City, and how he let the Wu army attack the city several times in vain, he also heard about the Wu army's attack on Peng Ze, and knew that the Wu army liked to attack the city gate and the city wall directly.

But there is a fly in the ointment, the Chizhou Taiping Army did not block the road into the city in advance, and after the hasty attack, the generals of the Chizhou Taiping Army led by He Yunlong were also more concerned about the battle situation in the city and town, and did not think of taking action immediately to plug the loopholes in the city gate that were most likely to be easily blown up by the Wu army's explosives.

Of course, if the Taiping army can hold the west gate of the city, then it doesn't matter whether the city gate is blocked or not, and because the Taiping army built some bunkers under the city, and because the streets under the city are conducive to street fighting, the Wu army's advance in the city town is not fast, and the Taiping soldiers who are familiar with the terrain rely on the cover of fortifications and ruined walls to kill and wound again and again, and it is difficult to give full play to the advantage of empty weapons, so they can only honestly compete with the Taiping army street by street and alley, and it is difficult to uproot the strong bunkers built by the Taiping army before the war. For a while, you won't even be able to touch the edge of the moat, let alone rush to the bottom of the city to blast it.

The good times did not last long, after all, the Wu army suddenly took the lead, first used flowering shells to beat the Taiping army under the city by surprise to the casualties, and the number of grenades in street warfare was sufficient, and when encountering difficulties, they immediately smashed grenades, and the Chizhou Taiping Army, which had never fought with the Wu army, was not suitable for such a battle intensity at all, and gradually gave way while constantly retreating, and there were constantly soldiers escaping from their positions, and the morale of the army continued to decline, and gradually showed defeat, It was gradually a matter of time before the castle town position was captured by the Wu army. ——This is also the reason why He Yunlong asked Huang Wenjin to immediately send troops to reinforce the castle town.

It's very bad, Huang Wenjin, who didn't want to fight a field battle with the Wu army at all, categorically refused to reinforce the battle situation under the city, and what's worse is that when Huang Wenjin's reply was brought back to He Yunlong by the envoy of the Chizhou army, the front team of the Wu army had already hit the edge of the moat, and the Taiping army in the streets of the city scrambled to scatter and flee for their lives, and the Chizhou Taiping army was still struggling to support a few bunkers and walls on the inner side of the moat.

"Fuck your mother's Huang Wenjin, don't save you when you die! Go on the scamp! Want to go into town, you dream! ”

After scolding the Huang family brothers for taking advantage of the fire to rob, He Yunlong, who has always liked to preserve his strength, was also ruthless, and immediately sent people out of the city to give orders to several camps that were not affected by the enemy, asking the Taiping army there to reinforce the battlefield under the city with all their strength to block the sudden and fierce offensive of the Wu army. But it's still a pity that He Yunlong, who has never fought with the Wu army, still didn't think of blocking the city gate immediately, and still pinned his hopes on the fortifications on the inner side of the moat, feeling that it was impossible for the Wu army to quickly rush across the moat and touch the city gate and city wall.

In fact, when the Wu army once launched a charge on the stone bridge across the river, it was quickly repelled by the fire of the Taiping army's bridgehead fortifications. However, the Taiping army under the city did this to fall into the evil of the Wu army, and after trying to charge and find out the position of the Taiping army's firepower, the Wu army's grenadiers immediately opened fire, throwing grenadier shells at the bridgehead fortifications of the Taiping army, and the Taiping soldiers who were hiding behind the wall and shooting were crying wolf, not to mention, the poisonous smoke emitted when the picric acid burned also smoked enough Taiping soldiers in the bunker. The Wu army assault team took the opportunity to charge forward in a scattered manner, pulled out the underground bunker of the Taiping army with grenades, threw up the remnants of the enemy behind the wall, and gradually touched the other side of the moat.

At this time, the envoy sent by Huang Wenjin in a hurry finally came to He Yunlong, gasped and introduced to He Yunlong the specific tactics of Lin Qirong when guarding the mouth of the lake, and suggested that Lin Qirong immediately start blocking the city gate, as well as the pointed wooden donkey that was ready to set fire to restrain the Wu army. As a result, He Yunlong was furious when he heard this, and he lost his temper and said, "Why didn't you say this before? Now tell me how Zhen Tianhou defended the city, how can I have time to prepare? ”

"It's General Fan Ruzeng who forgot." The envoy of the Huang army replied truthfully, and said: "Huang Chengxuan has already done it again, and he was seriously injured with his own hands. ”

"Forgot? Can you forget such an important thing? I think you deliberately forgot, deliberately to make me ugly! ”

He Yunlong still lost his temper, and questioned Huang Wenjin in person whether he deliberately wanted to make himself busy, but fortunately, the subordinate general next to him persuaded in time: "Zhongtianan, the war is urgent, other things can be said later, the most important thing now is to quickly block the city gate, otherwise, it will be a big trouble for the demon soldiers to blow up the city gate." ”

"Block the gates! Prepare bale torches and oil and gunpowder immediately! Powder keg! He Yunlong finally gave the order to block the door, but at the same time, the Wu army demoman had already been ordered to attack, and rushed to the moat bridge with the explosives on his back......

The Taiping army still has a chance, and the well-prepared Huang Wenjin has already sent an elite force to Huang Wenying to lead, and is hurrying to the battlefield under the city to reinforce it, but it is still a pity that the most vigilant enemy outside the city of the Wu army is the Huang Wenjin Department of the Taiping Army, so Huang Wenying with reinforcements has just rushed through the Xinghua Bridge of the Baiyang River controlled by the Taiping Army, and met a Wu army to intercept it!

"There's a demon soldier ahead!"

"There are not many demon soldiers, the hundred birds charge in formation, rush up and mix with the demon soldiers, don't give the demon soldiers a chance to shoot the demon cannon quickly!"

After seeing that there were not many enemies on the opposite side through the barely bright moonlight, Huang Wenying made the right choice, letting the soldiers distance themselves from each other, and launching a straggler charge with two horses as a unit, and it really received a satisfactory effect for Huang Wenying, so that the lethality of the grenadiers fired by the Wu army in the dark night was greatly reduced, giving the Taiping army the opportunity to quickly close the distance between the position of the Wu army. Huang Wenying was secretly happy when she saw it, and shouted: "Rush! Kill it and fight with the demon soldiers! ”

At a distance of about fifty meters, the gunshots finally sounded on the position of the Wu army on the opposite side, and the Taiping army, who was already very experienced in this regard, did not panic, while lowering the possibility of being shot, while continuing to move forward with a cat waist, and at the same time, there were also Taiping soldiers who were confident in their marksmanship half-squatting and ready to shoot back, but when these Taiping soldiers took a closer look at the muzzle flame of the Wu army, none of them were not dumbfounded on the spot - the Wu soldiers on the opposite side were all lying on the ground and shooting!

"How can a demon soldier crawl on the ground and shoot?"

Huang Wenying was also a little surprised, but what surprised Huang Wenying even more was still behind, those Wu soldiers who crawled on the ground and shot shot after firing a bullet, they actually fired a second or even third bullet in the blink of an eye, and the Taiping army who was advancing on the cat's waist was caught off guard, and was immediately killed and injured by the continuous fire of the Wu army, and fell to the ground continuously. Huang Wenying was shocked when she saw it, and blurted out: "A demon gun that can shoot continuously? How can it be? ”

The sound of ping-pong guns is as dense as firecrackers, continuous, bullets like a storm sweeping the battlefield, in the face of this incredibly dense and fierce firepower, Huang Wenying brought the Taiping soldiers no matter how experienced they are in a hundred battles are also completely helpless, pieces of Wu army bullets put over and over, dizzy by the Wu army's firepower wanton slaughter, no one can rush to the Wu army's position within 30 meters, and no one dares to maintain a standing posture, can only crawl on the ground and shout, hands and feet and crawl back again and again, Huang Wenying was also forced to crawl on the ground by his own soldiers after being shot in the thigh, screaming in disbelief, "What kind of demon soldier is on the other side?" What demon soldiers have we encountered? ”

At the same time, under the cover of Wu Jun's firepower, Wu Jun's demoman had already touched the city gate of Chizhou's west gate, and without saying a word, he threw the twenty-pound explosive bag under the city gate and pressed it tightly, and quickly placed the detonator lead, while the Taiping army in the city was firstly because the light was not bright enough and the smoke interfered with, and secondly, because the Wu army shooters on the other side of the moat suppressed the firepower, it was difficult to poke their heads out to observe the situation under the city, no one saw the insidious actions of the Wu army's demomen, and no one knew that the city gate wrapped in iron sheets had come to the last moment of their lives... …

In the corridor of the city gate behind the city gate, although the Taiping army has begun to block the city gate, the time is in a hurry, and the earth, stone and sandbags have not yet been piled up one meter high......

At the same time, the Taiping army, which had received the reinforcement order, had just begun to assemble and leave the camp......

Bang!!

Suddenly, the sound of the explosion suddenly sounded like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and suddenly filled the ears of every soldier on both sides of the battlefield, and the violent shock wave directly tore the west city gate of Chizhou into pieces, and the aftermath of the shock wave and the fragments of the city gate poured into the city gate and the road together, and the Taiping soldiers in the road were staggered, and they were covered with blood. And then, the Wu army's position naturally resounded with earth-shattering cheers, "Exploded!" ”

Although they didn't expect to blow up the city gate so smoothly in advance, the well-prepared Wu army still sent an assault team to storm the city gate at the first time, and the Chizhou Taiping army on the city wall had no experience in dealing with the Wu army's rogue tactics, and second, they did not prepare a powder keg for emergency use in advance like the Hukou Taiping army, so they couldn't think of any way to stop the Wu army's charge in a hurry, so they could only hurriedly shoot and fire cannons, throw bricks and stones, and watch the Wu soldiers rush into the city gate that has been shattered.

There is even more cheating, although the Chizhou Taiping Army also prepared a jack gate in advance and put it down in time, so as to temporarily block the footsteps of the Wu army into the city, but they abandoned a large number of earth and stone sandbags in the corridor before but became the best cover for the Wu army blasters, under the cover of the commando fire, the Wu army blasters crawled forward, and successfully touched the side of the jack gate by the cover of the earth and stone sandbags, and only used one blast to blow up the Taiping army's jack gate again.

Chizhou, which is not a famous city, does not have an urn city, and after the city gate and jack gate were blown up by the Wu army, the Chizhou Taiping Army had no way to prevent the Wu army from entering the city, so it could only hurriedly establish a position in the city to block it with firepower, but how could the Chizhou Taiping Army, which had not even a large number of flintlock guns, be able to block the Wu army commando team equipped with a large number of grenade shells? When grenades were thrown one after another, the weak defensive line that the Taiping army had no time to perfect quickly collapsed, and the Wu army commandos roared into the city and quickly captured a small part of the city's position.

During this period, of course, the Wu army had already invested in the follow-up army, while constantly entering the city through the city gate, while grabbing the pontoon bridge to launch an ant-attached attack, the poorly equipped and inexperienced Chizhou Taiping Army could not stop it at all, and some people shouted that the demon soldiers had entered the city, and they shook the morale of the army.

Things have come to this point, of course, He Yunlong, who has no choice, can only quickly send someone to contact Huang Wenjin, while begging Huang Wenjin to enter the city immediately for reinforcements, while personally leading the reserves to launch a counterattack, but what makes He Yunlong angry and helpless is that because the Wu army's long-range artillery has been concentrating firepower to bombard the city, the Taiping army's reserves are already in chaos, and the army is panicked, even if it reluctantly launches a counterattack, it can't play any momentum, and naturally it can't drive the morale of the Wu army commando out of the city.

When He Yunlong's envoy for help hurried to Huang Wenjin's camp outside the south gate, Huang Wenying's department had been killed by Wu Chaoyue's own military camp and returned defeated, but after hurriedly understanding the situation in the city and Huang Wenying's fiasco, Huang Wenjin, who had been trying to enter the city these days, was a little hesitant, and did not immediately agree to enter the city for reinforcements, but also temporarily sent the Chizhou military envoy out of the account, and hurriedly discussed with Huang Wenying lying on the stretcher: "Wenying, do you think there is any hope for Chizhou to hold?" ”

"If the west gate of Chizhou can still be blocked, maybe there is still a chance." Huang Wenying, who had lost too much blood, said in a weak voice: "But I'm worried that even if the city gate is blocked, Chizhou may not be able to keep it, after all, the demon soldiers can still dig the city wall to bury their ghost gunpowder, and the west gate is in chaos like that, and He Yunlong's soldiers want to prevent the demon soldiers from digging the city wall, it will only be more difficult than climbing to the sky." ”

Huang Wenjin nodded slightly, and after thinking for a while, Huang Wenjin made up his mind, first called the envoy of the Chizhou army back to the tent, and then said to him directly: "Please go back and tell Zhongtianan, just say that Chizhou City is impossible to defend, and we will only die in vain if we enter the city, so I decided to withdraw my troops to Tongling immediately and help Zhao Jinfu of Tianan defend Tongling." ”

"Huang Chengxuan, there is still hope in Chizhou City!" The envoy of the Chizhou army was shocked and shouted: "The demon soldiers just blew up the city gate, and there are not many demon soldiers who have not entered, Zhong Tian'an He is also leading our army to counterattack with all his might, as long as you go into the city to help, we have hope to drive all the demon soldiers out!" ”

"There's no hope." Huang Wenjin shook his head and said in a heavy tone: "I know too well how powerful the demon soldiers are, as long as they enter the city, it will be more difficult to drive them out than to ascend to the sky." And I'm sure the demon soldiers must already be digging the city walls, so even if we drive the demon soldiers out of the city at any cost, the demon soldiers will blow up the city walls and fight back into the city. ”

"Impossible! The position on the city is still in our hands, and we will not give the demon soldiers a chance to dig the city wall. ”

The envoy of the Chizhou army hurriedly insisted, but Huang Wenjin shook his head again categorically and said: "Needless to say, go back and tell Zhong Tian'an that if he is willing to go with me, he will immediately take his army and everything he can bring, and go out of the city from the south gate to Tongling, and I will give him the queen of his palace to cover his retreat!" ”

"Zhong Tianan will not go! We want to live and die with Chizhou City! ”

The envoy of the Chizhou army yelled, but Huang Wenjin ignored it, took out a pocket watch, looked at the time and said: "It's almost two o'clock in the middle of the night, I'll wait for you to wait until four o'clock, before four o'clock you go out of the city to transfer, I'll give you the queen of the palace, you still don't go out of the city at four o'clock, I'll go by myself!" The old brothers under my command can't die in vain, they can only go to Tongling to play a bigger role! ”

The envoy of the Chizhou army pleaded with tears, and knelt down to kowtow to Huang Wenjin, but Huang Wenjin, who knew very well the consequences of entering the city, was like a stone, and insisted on refusing to let go and agree to enter the city, the envoy of the Chizhou army scolded angrily, and Huang Wenjin also turned a deaf ear. In the end, the envoy of the Chizhou army had no choice but to cry and scold and stumble back to the city to report to He Yunlong, but Huang Wenjin shouted at his back with a firm expression: "Remember, four o'clock!" Before four o'clock, you retreat, I will give you the rear of the palace, and if you don't leave at four o'clock, I will lead the troops myself! ”

Huang Wenjin's reply of course made He Yunlong angry in the chest, and He Yunlong, who was indeed a man at the same time, also categorically rejected Huang Wenjin's proposal, and shouted: "Huang Wenjin doesn't keep it, I will keep it myself!" Command the whole army, defend to the end, and live and die with Chizhou City! ”

That night, the fire of Chizhou City reflected half of the sky in red, and the sound of dense guns and cannons resounded inside and outside Chizhou City, during which there were two violent explosions, and the two sections of the city wall at the west gate of Chizhou City were blown down by the Wu army successively, revealing two huge gaps of more than 20 zhang wide. Huang Wenjin's department never entered the city, and at four o'clock in the morning, Huang Wenjin did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.

However, at the same time as ordering the retreat, Huang Wenjin's eyes were also a little red, and he sighed when he looked at the city of Chizhou, which was already on fire everywhere, and said regretfully: "It's a man, but unfortunately, your courage was used in the wrong place, and it won't play a role in the kingdom of heaven." ”