The failure of the attack on Dagukou had already made Yang Yuanqing lose face, and when he learned that Shida Kaitun Army Grain City was actually a fake news, Yang Yuanqing was even more ashamed, and the whole Taiping army also questioned Yang Yuanqing's commanding ability, and secretly scolded Yang Yuanqing for being stupid and incompetent. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Fortunately, thanks to the timely rescue of the monk and the prince, the Taiping Army's losses in this battle are not too great, and the most critical steam gunboat fleet also has the strength to fight, and at the same time, Zhu Xikun, a veteran of the Taiping Army who strongly requested to enter the army as soon as possible, can also take the blame for Yang Xiuqing, so Yang Yuanqing was not polite, and immediately put all the responsibility for the defeat on Zhu Xikun, and beat Zhu Xikun with a hundred military sticks in public.

Then, after retreating to Qikou Sow Port with the fleet, Yang Yuanqing of course immediately sent someone to find and contact Shi Dakai's army. However, it is a pity that because of the strict blockade of the Qing army and the fact that the Taiping army could not support the people of Zhili, Yang Yuanqing only found out that Shi Dakai's army had advanced westward to the hinterland of Zhili, but he was never able to get in touch with Shi Dakai, so Yang Yuanqing could only scold Shi Dakai in Sow Harbor while waiting for Shi Dakai to go east to meet with little food for the army.

At the same time, although the problem of insufficient military food for Shi Dakai's army has not been completely solved, and it is impossible to know the accurate information of Yang Yuanqing's army, it is estimated that Yang Yuanqing must have arrived at the estimation time, and Shi Dakai's army has also consciously moved eastward, collecting grain and grass with all his might, and trying to collect information about Yang Yuanqing's army. The result was also lucky, Li Kaifang's Taiping cavalry inadvertently intercepted a Qing army official document, so that Shi Dakai knew the news that Yang Yuanqing was currently stationed in the sow port, and then Shi Dakai did not hesitate, and immediately rushed to the sow port from Anzhou with the main force to meet.

Shi Dakai's eastward movement certainly made the Manchu court panic, and on the premise that Luo Bingzhang's strategy could not be used to severely damage the Taiping army's naval division, the Manchu court naturally did not want to see Shi Dakai and Yang Yuanqing join forces. Therefore, Ci'an, Cixi and Guizi Liu did not hesitate, and immediately dispatched the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry of the monk prince to the south, and appointed the monk prince as the minister responsible for presiding over the overall situation, preventing Shi Dakai from meeting with Yang Yuanqing.

So it's our turn to show our brilliant monk and prince, with more than 10,000 cavalry just started to go south, the monk immediately ordered as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, asking Shengbao to lead the cavalry back to the front to intercept Shi Dakai's main force, for the Shandong New Army and the Zhili Qing Army Chen Guorui to return to Shi Dakai to buy time, and then the three armies joined forces to intercept, and when he led the army to arrive, and then Shi Dakai fought a head-on decisive battle.

"Monk Greenqin, I'll fuck your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor! Will you go to war at all? Tell Lao Tzu's cavalry to fight a positional battle and intercept it head-on, how can you call Lao Tzu to stop it? Dismount and dig fortifications to intercept? Or is it intercepted by the main brigade that is head-on with a long-haired assault? ”

The clever command of the monk almost didn't make General Shengbao faint, but there was no way, the monk was now the commander of the whole army of the minister, and the general of Defeat Bao offended the monk and the prince when he wore a pair of pants with Wu Chaoyue, and if he dared to disobey, he would only give the monk the opportunity to take the opportunity to march in vain. Therefore, Shengbao had no choice but to give up the tailgating and harassment tactics pointed out by Luo Bingzhang, and returned to Shi Dakai's front at full speed to fight Shi Dakai head-on.

"The head of the Qing Demon Cavalry is in the water? Dare to grab the frontal interception of our army? Isn't this a gift to this king?! ”

Completely contrary to General Shengbao, Shi Dakai raised his hands in support of the tactics of the monk and the prince, and after cheering, Shi Dakai, who had not been able to seize the opportunity for field warfare, was unceremonious, and immediately commanded the army to attack the defensive position formed by Shengbao with cavalry.

Although the more than 6,000 troops under his command were all cavalry, they had not yet changed their advanced weapons, and at the same time they were not good at hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat, so they could only take turns shooting within nearly fifty or sixty meters with primitive arquebuses.

The worse is still to come, after a fierce battle for most of the day, aiming at the opportunity of the decline in the physical strength of the cavalry of the Shengbao Army and the slight confusion when the rotation of the combat army, Shi Dakai gave an order, and more than 2,000 Taiping cavalry under Li Kaifang's department immediately launched a charge, and attacked the chaotic Qing cavalry team from the flank.

The overall quality of the Taiping army is indeed declining, and the Qing army, which has seriously degenerated, has indeed gradually recovered in actual combat, but no matter how one is eliminated and the other is eliminated, in the aspect of hand-to-hand combat, the Taiping army is still obviously much better than the Qing army, so soon, General Shengbao, who wanted to defeat the Taiping army, was defeated by the Taiping army in turn, and fled in embarrassment by scolding the blind command of the monk and prince.

However, General Shengbao did not work in vain, relying on the blocking and sluggishness of the Qing cavalry, the Qing infantry also chased behind the main force of the Taiping Army, and Shi Dakai, who did not know the intentions of the Qing army, was also ready to turn around to face the battle, but the strategist Zhang Suimou reminded: "Yiwang, what if the Qing demon is like before, what if the Qing demon runs away as soon as it fights?" Instead of wasting time, it is better to let the cavalry rear and the whole army continue to march eastward, and first meet with Yang Guozong. ”

Shi Dakai wisely adopted Zhang Suimou's suggestion, and as a result, he inadvertently bought the jackpot of the two-color ball - the Shandong New Army, which was hostile to Shi Dakai, did not dare to disobey the decree of the monk and the prince, and was forced to advance at full speed and detour back to Shi Dakai's front to intercept it head-on. Then, of course, Shi Dakai yelled with red eyes, "Pin Gun Team, on!" Avenge Lao Tzu! Avenge! ”

It was the turn of Zhang Guoliang and Yuan Baoheng, who led the Shandong New Army, to cry without tears, although the Lizhi rifle equipped by the Shandong New Army was rifled guns, the shooting accuracy was higher than that of the firing pin gun, and the Kulikov bullet used was also more advanced than the olive-shaped warhead of the firing pin gun in terms of shape, but because it was a front-loading gun, it was thrown off eighteen streets by the firing pin gun in terms of rate of fire.

In the fierce battle, the officers and men of the Taiping Army only lined up in two rows and took turns to shoot, and the firepower completely suppressed the Shandong New Army that used three-stage shooting, and many officers and men of the Shandong New Army only got one chance to shoot, and were put down by the intensive fire of the Taiping Army's firing pin guns, and countless soldiers of the Shandong New Army were hit by the Taiping Army's needle guns when they were loading gunpowder, and more Shandong New Army soldiers were killed by the Taiping soldiers when they kept their standing posture and pushed bullets with special sticks. Shi Da, who had his wish fulfilled, laughed openly, but Zhang Guoliang and Yuan Baoheng kept greeting the monk and the prince's mother with tears.

In the end, after killing more than 800 people, the Shandong New Army did not even dare to charge, and directly retreated and fled, Li Kaifang laughed and led the Taiping cavalry to launch a charge and pursuit, frantically slashing and killing the Shandong New Army that could not be loaded with ammunition in the run, and used the current deformed version of the anvil hammer tactics popular in the Western army without a division, and directly defeated the Shandong New Army. also forced Shengbao to hurriedly bring the Qing cavalry over to cover the escape of the Shandong New Army, and was forced to fight with Li Kaifang in a hand-to-hand white-edged battle that the Qing cavalry was not good at.

Although Shi Dakai's key main target was the old enemy Shandong New Army, and it was Li Shixian of the Taiping Army who was responsible for dealing with them, and the pressure was relatively small, but after seeing the defeat of the Shandong New Army, Chen Guorui's department, which was affected by the army's morale, was also quickly killed by Li Shixian, and the loss was also not small.

Afterwards, after interrogating the captives and learning the reason why the Qing army suddenly went crazy to fight in the field, the first thing Shi Dakai, who had never believed in worshipping God, did was to pray to the heavens, kneeling and begging the Heavenly Father to bless him with his supreme divine power, so that the monk prince would always be the commander of the Qing army, and let the Manchu court better assign the Qing army in the capital to the command of the monk prince, a good friend of the Taiping army.

is still completely opposite to Shi Dakai, but Shengbao, Zhang Guoliang, Yuan Baoheng and others wrote an excerpt with tears and blood, strongly asking the Manchu court to remove the monk and change the prince and change another reliable commander.

Thanks to the blessing of the monk and the prince, after the lucky heavy blow to the Shengbao Army and the Shandong New Army, which had been haunted, the Taiping Army's eastward advance speed was greatly improved, and it took only three days to enter the territory of Tianjin Mansion from Baoding Mansion to the east. In the end, it was because the monk personally led the army to block the road, and Shi Dakai's army was forced to stop on the west bank of the canal, and confronted the monk and the prince's army in Tang Guantun, Sheng Bao and Zhang Guoliang and others followed, and the troops were behind the Taiping army.

At this time, the Manchu court also replied to the blood letter of Shengbao and others, but it was a pity for Shengbao and others - considering the noble bloodline of the monk and his great contribution in the Qixiang coup, Ci'an, Cixi and Guizi Liu and others decided to give the monk and the prince one last chance, and still let the monk and the prince continue to serve as the commander-in-chief of the Zhili anti-bandit war, and prepared to wait until the battle of Tangguantun was over.

"There's no way, it seems that we can't stop the long-haired master, I just hope we have better luck, don't be cut off by the long-haired head for the night pot."

Sheng Bao, Zhang Guoliang, Yuan Baoheng and Chen Guorui and other Qing army generals all thought so, but there was no way, in the case of being completely brainwashed by the Manchu Qing servitude policy, Sheng Bao and others could only obediently accept the command and dispatch of the monk and obey the orders of the monk and the prince.

Not to mention, the monk prince's tactical arrangement for the battle of Tangguantun is actually quite reliable - in view of Shi Dakai's eagerness to advance eastward and meet Yang Yuanqing, the monk decided to adopt a tactical plan of half-crossing and attacking, deliberately letting a part of the Taiping army cross the canal first, and then dispatch the Manchurian cavalry to raid, forcing the Taiping army to continue to cross the river to rescue, and after the rear of the Taiping army is empty, then let the Shandong New Army charge from the back front, Shengbao and Chen Guorui charge together from both wings, and attack the Taiping army from all sides. However......

However, the monk forgot one thing, the canal is not the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, or even an ordinary river with a rapid and slow flow, but an artificial river with a gentle flow, which is suitable for crossing everywhere. At the same time, it is also an abandoned canal that has greatly reduced the amount of water due to the diversion of the Yellow River! So......

Therefore, when the soldiers of the Taiping Army, under the command of Shi Dakai, threw a large number of earth, stone and sandbags into the canal to fill in the river section, the monk was dumbfounded, "Directly fill in the river to build a road?!" Shi Dakai, a mud-legged brute, can actually come up with such a solution?! ”

Thanks to the monk again, in order to prevent the Taiping army from filling the river and building roads, the monk sent his Manchu and Mongolian cavalry to the bank of the canal to shoot, and the Taiping army fought a long-distance battle, which not only took the initiative to expose the important situation that his army had been equipped with a large number of Western weapons, but also gave the Taiping infantry the opportunity to shoot without worrying about being attacked by cavalry - to exchange infantry for cavalry, Shi Dakai was of course a hundred willing, ten thousand willing.

The matter is not over, the monk and the prince soon found that his beloved Manchu warriors could not even shoot muskets against the Taiping army - although not as rigorously trained as the snipers of the Wu army, but after years of actual combat training, the Taiping army still emerged a lot of sharpshooters and skilled marksmen, and the marksmanship and archery skills were more than eight streets away from the pampered Manchu and Mongolian uncles under the command of the monk and the prince, plus the monk and the prince looked down on the bunker sheep and horse walls that the Wu army and the Taiping army liked to build, and the cavalry of the Qing army lacked earth and stone cover to block the gun……

So across the river, the monk and the prince are still giving Shi Da a head.

In the continuous gunfire like popping beans, the cavalry of the Qing army who took turns to charge forward and shoot were like the original battle of Bali Bridge, and they were constantly knocked down and knocked over by the muskets of the Taiping army, and people shouted and neighed and howled. The guns fired in the charge were either 108,000 miles away from the target, or hit the ground, in the river, and in the sky, and posed little threat to the Taiping soldiers who were hiding behind the dirt and rocks and sandbags and shooting. Shi Dakai and the generals of the Taiping Army were all smiling, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army were also pleasantly surprised, and there was no one who was not grateful to the monks and princes who commanded the Qing army on the other side of the canal.

But it doesn't matter much, the monk still has enough cannon fodder to use, after an order, Sheng Bao, Zhang Guoliang and Chen Guorui and other Qing generals had no choice but to attack the Taiping army position again with tears, and were forced to fight a decisive battle with the main force of the Taiping army that surpassed their own strength.

Then naturally, Shi Dakai took the firing pistol team to take a bad breath for himself, and once again taught the Shandong New Army who had made him disgraced; Zeng Lichang greeted General Shengbao with bullets and bayonets, causing General Shengbao to hit his head again and break the bloodstream; Poor Chen Guorui and Chen Zongbing were pinched by the persimmons of the Taiping Army, first stepped on the ground by Wei Jun and rubbed to his heart's content, and then ran away by Li Kaifang.

The result of the battle of Tangguantun was that the Qing army was surrounded by four directions, and the four roads were defeated -- after filling the canal with earth, stone and sand bags, the Taiping army, which strode across the river, walked and fought, repelled the charging and shooting of the monk and the prince many times in succession, and almost swaggered eastward. Yang Yuanqing, who was waiting for the fire in his heart, also sent an army to the west to respond, and joined forces with Shi Dakai to let the monk know how to write the word dead.

After the victory in Sow Harbor, the Taiping army on land and sea was of course thunderous and morale-boosting, but what Shi Dakai never expected was that when the Taiping soldiers continued to cheer, Yang Yuanqing had already taken out Yang Xiuqing's edict of the East King, and couldn't wait to announce his control and command of Shi Dakai's army.

After listening to Yang Xiuqing's edict read aloud by Yang Yuanqing, the muscles on Shi Dakai's face twitched for a long time before calming down, and he kowtowed extremely reluctantly, and then Shi Dakai said in his heart: "Count me back Yang Axiu's favor, who called Yang Axiu helped me so much after the defeat in Shandong last time, and gave me the army and ammunition and weapons." I also hope that Yang Yuanqing will be more courageous, and don't waste the favorable situation that I have fought so hard. ”

Only two days after the end of the battle of Tangguantun, Wu Chaoyue's old boss Guan Wen hurried to Tangguantun with the holy decree of the Manchu court, and read aloud to the benefactor monk of the Taiping army, the monk Greenqin, in front of the generals of the Qing army......

"Fengtian carried the emperor, and the edict said: The minister of Qincha, the king monk of Horqin County, is of great use, and he can serve the country, but he is suffering from foot disease, struggling, and difficult to do his job, so he will be transferred back to the capital to recuperate, in order to show his pity. The troops and horses of the department were immediately transferred to the command of the ministers of the guard, and the power to control the soldiers and horses of all walks of life was also handed over. Chin this. ”

"The minister and monk Greenqin received the decree to thank you, long live the emperor, long live, long live!"

After quickly thanking the favor, the monk who was suffering from foot disease rushed out of the big tent with a blue face, and his footsteps were faster than the speed of speaking. Zhang Guoliang, Sheng Bao, Yuan Baoheng and others were in tears, and they kowtowed to the official document holding the holy decree again and again, crying silently, "Long live the emperor, long live, long live...... ”

"Generals, please hurry up, I will rely on you for everything in the future, you can rest assured, I will definitely respect your opinions, I will never blindly command and fight wars, and I will never let you suffer the slightest grievance."