Tan Shaoguang also said: "What are you afraid of, the Holy King still has a secret weapon hidden in our Ninth Division that has not been used." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info is just right, and then let the brothers open their eyes! His words aroused everyone's interest, and they asked what the secret weapon was. Tan Shaoguang spread his hands and refused to say more.

Everyone turned their heads to look at Feng Yunshan, Feng Yunshan smiled slightly, and said a little mysteriously: "I'll know then." ”

Zuo Zongtang was a little clear, knowing that the Holy King didn't want to reveal it in advance, so he changed the topic and said: "The number of Qing Demon troops is a lot, but you don't have to worry. ”

"Although the Qing Demon's troops in Beijing are numerous, the deployment is extremely scattered, and its duty is heavy, it is impossible for all of the Qing Demon's troops to be used for conquest, and it is already very good to be able to have half of them really fight. What's more, these Eight Banner soldiers are masters in Beijing, and they are used to walking dogs, raising birds, and visiting kilns, what kind of battles can they fight? Don't worry, no matter how many of them there are, they will be local chickens and dogs. ”

Zuo Zongtang's words made the generals whisper, and they began to be interested again.

The Holy King usually doesn't have much of a shelf, and these generals are all old brothers who follow him to raise troops, so they are convened to discuss military affairs, and they are also carried out in a free and relaxed atmosphere, and everyone expresses their opinions and is not very restrained.

Feng Yunshan saw that everyone was clear about the deployment of the Manchu Qing's troops, so he concluded: "The most powerful armies of the Qing Demon are actually in two places. First, the Mongolian cavalry stationed in the western suburbs of Tongzhou by Monk Lingqin guarded the road into Beijing; The second is the Eight Banners Forbidden Army stationed in the capital. Moreover, they did not join forces together, and our captive army should concentrate its forces and annihilate them in batches, so that they could complete their work in one battle, lest the Qing demons scatter and flee privately. ”

At that moment, Feng Yunshan told the army to capture more war horses and form horsemen. He introduced Napoleon's tactics of "cannon bombardment, cavalry assault", of course, at present, because of the lack of war horses, the only way to use artillery bombardment, musketeers to press the formation of dense charge.

As for the question raised by Liang Peiyou, commander of the 5th Division, that if the war dragged on until the cold winter, Feng Yunshan had actually considered it, but because of the urgency of time, it was too late to prepare too much. Moreover, in the city of Tianjin, although the Qing soldiers set fire to it, they still captured thousands of military jackets, and it is believed that the capture of Tongzhou, the camp of the Qing army garrison, and the entire Manchu warehouse center, will also seize a lot of military supplies.

What's more, Feng Yunshan has already started the idea of the Old Summer Palace on the outskirts of Beijing like the Western invaders in later history. The world-famous world's largest royal garden, not to mention the six thousand Eight Banners troops stationed inside, once breached, the treasures do not know how much, and I am afraid that there will be no warm clothes?

Besides, this is all under the premise that the capital cannot be captured in a month. In fact, Feng Yunshan knew that in the history of the British and French coalition army, after the Battle of Bali Bridge, the Qing army was defeated, and after the news was returned, the next day, Xianfeng fled from the Old Summer Palace to the Rehe Palace in Chengde.

Subsequently, the news of the emperor's escape caused the defenders in the capital to lose all their lines, and the Qing army outside the city retreated without a fight.

Although it was a foreigner, with the mind of the Manchu princes and nobles, it was determined that the foreigners would not occupy the capital for a long time, and as long as they paid the price, they would always call for peace to succeed, causing them not to resist desperately, but even so, it proved that these Qing soldiers guarding Beijing were powerless and vulnerable at all. Otherwise, the Manchus would not have just relied on the Mongol cavalry of Seng Lingqin.

Thinking that Xianfeng was likely to flee to the Rehe Palace as in history, Feng Yunshan had a very good idea, and after he waited for the other generals to leave, he left Shi Dakai and Tan Shaoguang behind, and discussed secretly for a long time, Shi Dakai and Tan Shaoguang both left with excitement.

At noon on the second day of the tenth lunar month, the two forward divisions of the captive army, the first division and the ninth division, were divided into left and right wings and approached Qiaozhuang.

Xiling'a, the commander of Chahar to the south of Qiaozhuang, led a team of 3,000 Chahar horses, together with 2,000 full-banner horsemen led by Ge Bandage, a staff leader to the east of Qiaozhuang, rushed out of Qiaozhuang, rushed out of the small forest on the road where the captive army marched, brandished spears, sabers, bows and arrows, and killed the 1st Division on the left flank.

When the 9th Division heard that the friendly forces on the east side were attacked, it hurriedly turned 90 degrees, stepped on the muddy dirt road, and rushed to the east to rescue. The subsequent artillery and other artillery were delivered to the Chinese army's Eighth Division, which was slowly advanced.

More than 10,000 officers and men of the First Division of A, divided into three forces, under the command of division commander Lin Fengxiang, arranged a fan-shaped defensive formation, the front was 2,000 spearmen and 1,000 sword soldiers, and the rear, there were 6,000 musketeers densely arranged, and finally the division headquarters and two regiments of artillery.

Xiling'a still used the most conventional method of Mongolian cavalry to deal with infantry, with 1,500 cavalry on each wing sweeping from the flank to carry out cavalry shooting, and when the enemy's formation was chaotic, the 2,000 cavalry in front of him brandished their sabers and charged and slashed head-on.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he rushed into the distance of 100 paces, he remembered the dense sound of gunfire, and the guards beside Xi Ling'a were shot and fell from time to time. By the time they rushed into a distance of thirty paces, nearly 1,000 people had been killed or wounded.

Finally, a round of galloping fire was released, the thieves did not panic at all, the formation did not change, but the sound of guns and cannons was more intensive, and the 3,000 cavalry who waited for the cavalry to shoot swept away from the side, and found that nearly half of them had been lost, leaving only more than 2,000 horsemen.

And looking at the bow and arrow shot at the thief soldier, it was like a hungry and thirsty stone thrown into the lake, and it disappeared in an instant. On the front, 2,000 sabre cavalry had already rushed halfway through.

On the side of the First Division of the Capture Army, the soldiers of the Capture Army in the camp are far from being as calm as they seem on the outside, just because of the long experience of war, the discipline of the Capture Army is strict. The cavalry and archery skills of the Mongolian cavalry did not pull down, and the two rounds of arrow rain in a row, shooting thousands of arrows, still shot more than 300 soldiers of the captured army. This is still because of the distance of the Qing cavalry, most of the shooting is concentrated in the front row of swords and spearmen, and most of the attacks are blocked by the rattan shields they erect, otherwise, the lightly dressed begging army will be more injured.

Fortunately, most of the captured troops who were hit by arrows passed through the first aid care of the medical platoon in the division headquarters and the medical squads of each regimental headquarters, and there was no major problem, but only more than 70 people were too unlucky to shoot the heart and throat and other vital points and could not be treated.

Waiting for the 2,000 sabers to rush over, the angry Lin Fengxiang ordered to wait for the Manchu cavalry to rush within forty paces before shooting, preparing to completely annihilate this cavalry.

Now, this cavalry is sad.

Six thousand musketeers, the angry Lin Fengxiang ordered to shoot freely, so the thousands of muskets that formed the scale were like a raging storm every time, only to see that after the continuous sound of dense gunfire, the 2,000 cavalry who rushed to kill kept being shot and fell off their horses, and before they rushed to the front row of the begging army crawling on the ground, the cavalry team was already sparse, only more than 1,400 horsemen.

The spearmen and swordsmen who crawled on the ground, with their spears inserted diagonally, were ready for the cavalry to automatically collide with the spears.

The muskets were still ringing out, and the chief of staff who was in charge of leading the charge turned pale, turned to the side, and followed the Mongol cavalry on both sides to run in both directions.

At this moment, on the flank of the captive army, several field mortars were ignited, and shrapnel was fired at the galloping cavalry, even the galloping cavalry was blown over.

At the same time, the 9th Division also arrived and attacked in formation, the first row of thousands of foreign guns fired in unison, and the Qing army suffered dozens of casualties, so the Qing army was defeated and fled in all directions without waiting for orders.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the staff leader Ge Tuo hurriedly ordered to retreat, but he happened to be injured by a grenade that exploded not far from him, fell off his horse, and was trampled by the chaotic horse's hooves, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

Seeing that the 5,000 cavalry, with only one charge, there were more than 1,500 casualties, and the chief general who led the troops, Xi Ling'a, hurriedly ordered the cavalry to retreat and retreat into the Qing army fortifications at Xiguan.