The Wu army had sufficient support, and the experienced Shi Dakai certainly would not delay until dawn before breaking through and retreating, and quickly brought the necessary grain, grass and ammunition, and gave up all the baggage that could be given up and some too heavy artillery, Shi Dakai immediately issued an order to command the army to retreat westward from the southern road along the lake. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Walking in the forefront is the Taiping Army Lai Yuxin Division, responsible for opening the road and breaking through the Wu army's defensive position in Wu Heiwa, then the baggage grain team, the third retreat is the northernmost right wing army, the left wing of the Taiping army is the fourth retreat, Shi Dakai personally led the main force of the Chinese army to walk at the end, personally took on the heavy responsibility of the palace.

After Lai Yu's new army, the baggage ration team and the Taiping army on the right flank retreated westward, the Taiping army on the left flank had just begun to retreat, and the Wu army, which had greatly reduced the pressure, immediately launched a counterattack on its own, and immediately bit the tail of the Taiping army on the left flank and almost cut the Taiping army in two.

Fortunately, the experienced Shi Dakai made a quick decision, and immediately commanded the Chinese army to charge the pursuing Wu army, and at the same time ordered the army on the left flank to turn back and attack, plus the sky was too dark and the vision was difficult, the pursuing Wu army thought that the army had been ambushed and quickly retreated, and did not dare to resolutely get stuck between the fourth and fifth teams of the Taiping army, and missed the opportunity to make meritorious service in vain.

In addition, Feng Sanbao, the commander of the front line of the Wu army, also lacked some experience in commanding large-scale decisive battles, failed to detect the appearance of fighters in time, and also did not dare to resolutely intercept, the left wing army of the Taiping army was lucky to get rid of the pursuit of the Wu army and strode westward, Shi Dakai also took the opportunity to follow with the main force of the Chinese army, and miraculously kept the formation basically intact when retreating, and there were not too many routs.

It was still when the main force of the Chinese army of the Taiping army retreated to the flank position of the self-army that the inexperienced Feng Sanbao dared to basically confirm that the Taiping army was really retreating, and hurriedly sent troops to pursue At the same time, he hurriedly sent someone to report to the unworthy son-in-law who stayed in Jiangjiawan, so that Wu Chaoyue could prepare for interception as soon as possible.

Contrary to the inexperienced old man, Wu Chaoyue, who started by fighting on the battlefield, didn't need to think about it at all after receiving the report, and knew by intuition that it was too late to send troops from Jiangjiawan now, and it was difficult to stop the defeated brigade of the Taiping Army, which was definitely retreating quickly.

So after a little calculation, Wu Chaoyue only made two arrangements, the first was to immediately send 2,000 troops to go through Guanzhou Village to bypass the mountainous area, and detour back to Wu Heiwa to reinforce the Wu army Liu Mingchuan who was fortified there; The second was to send someone to contact the Wu Army's naval division Xu Lai's department, and ordered Xu Lai to lead the naval division to rush to Wuhei Au for reinforcements by water, and share the pressure on Liu Mingchuan with gunsoft firepower.

After making these two adjustments, Wu Chaoyue smiled at the Wu army generals who were eager to try in front of him and said: "Don't worry, there is a chance for you to make meritorious contributions, and when the direction of Changmao's breakthrough is confirmed, this king will give you a chance." ”

Wu Junzhong agreed, Wu Chaoyue nodded with satisfaction, and then frowned slightly, and said to himself: "But this king is still a little worried, there are two highlands not far from Wu Heiwa that can be defended according to danger, one is Tuanshan and the other is Maoshan Mountain. If Changmao fails to break through and go to Tuan Mountain, we are not afraid, our sailors can easily cover the entire Tuan Mountain, we are afraid that Chang Mao will go to the top of Mao Mountain, where not only the terrain is precipitous, but there is also a water source ...... on the mountain. ”

Obedient and listening, Wu Chaoyue's purpose was immediately seen through by the generals of the Wu army, and Wu Zifa, the general of the Miao nationality with the same surname, also stood up immediately, clasped his fists and said: "King Zhennan, rest assured, the last general will please order the people and horses of the headquarters to go out to seize the head of Maoshan for the prince in advance, and not give Changmao a chance to go up the mountain!" ”

Wu Chaoyue rarely hesitated a little, and said: "General Wu, although your soldiers and horses are all from the mountains and are used to crossing mountains and mountains, you are not familiar with the terrain in this area?" Entering the mountains overnight to seize the heights of Maoshantou, can you do it? ”

"Please rest assured that the last general dares to say such a thing, and he will be so sure." Wu replied spontaneously and confidently.

Wu Chaoyue laughed when he heard this, and said: "Okay, you go, it is also to bypass Guanzhou Village and go around to the area of Xiao Li's house to enter the mountain, and from there it is much closer to Maoshantou." ”

Wu spontaneously agreed with joy and hurriedly received the order, and Wu Chaoyue asked Wu to immediately send two local guides to Wu Spontane, who had already been prepared, before smiling and saying, "General Wu, it's up to you." ”

Wu spontaneously stopped talking, just solemnly saluted, and then immediately turned to leave.

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Meijiazhou is not far from the mountainous area east of Wu Heiwa, the Taiping army fled faster than a rabbit, Wu Chaoyue sent to Liu Mingchuan The reinforcements have just come out of the camp, Lai Yuxin led the Taiping army front team has rushed to the intersection of the south of the mountain, quickly seized the danger to protect the Shannan road, and then immediately strode westward, along the road shallows in the south of the mountain area to Wu Heiwa, the Taiping army's baggage grain team and the third team quickly followed, the fourth team and Shi Dakai personally led the palace army also rushed to come, Methodically entered the narrow land in the south of the mountain.

The road was narrow, and no matter how tightly the Wu army brigade led by Feng Sanbao pursued, it would never be able to intersperse in a roundabout way, and the heavy burden of blocking the Taiping army's westward escape road was also placed on Liu Mingchuan's army. However, the more this happened, the more excited Liu Mingchuan, who had been waiting in Wu Heiwa for a long time, was so excited that his face was full of pockmarks, and he kept shouting between the patrol and blocking positions, "Brothers, the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune has come!" Hold Wu Heiwa, don't let a long hair pass, everyone has a heavy reward! ”

"General, Long Hair is here!"

The sudden exclamation interrupted Liu Mingchuan's excited yell, and when Liu Mingchuan quickly turned his head to look in the southeast direction, he saw that the area around Budaichong was brightly lit, and there was really a large group of people and horses coming with torches. Liu Mingchuan also immediately scolded a dirty word, "The dog has long hair, it comes so fast!" ”

Fortunately, the Wu army has long been ready to intercept, no matter how fast the Taiping army comes, it will not be able to kill the Wu army by surprise, and at the same time, there is no need for Liu Mingchuan to give an order, the Wu army officers and soldiers who have already been in place have already been ready for battle, and are waiting for the arrival of the Taiping army.

The Taiping army was far more calm than the Wu army imagined, and after rushing across the cloth bag into the relatively open Liujiawan area, Lai Yuxin, who led the Taiping army's front team, did not rush to wave the army to attack, but first adjusted the army slightly, and also did a certain amount of pre-war mobilization, and then commanded the army to attack, or the troops were divided into three ways to advance at the same time, the brigade attacked the front of the Wu army's position, each flank had a small army, one to seize the high ground next to Wu Heiwa, all the way from the shallow water area to advance, detour back to copy the Wu army's position, In vain, they tried to break through the interception position of the Wu army with the tactics of outflanking on both flanks and frontal attack.

"Kill the demons and take my life! Slay the demons and take my life! Slay the demons and take my life! ”

Amid the rhythmic slogans, the Taiping soldiers marched in a scattered line in a hundred bird formations, first in small steps, and then gradually accelerated, and gradually turned into a charge. Liu Mingchuan's troops, who had already received countless actual combat experiences in the Battle of Southern Jiangnan, were calm and patiently waiting for the Taiping army to rush into range before suddenly firing together.

The sound of ping-pong gunfire was endless, and occasionally there was a roar of artillery, and many of the Taiping soldiers who rushed forward screamed miserably, but when the soldiers of the Wu army calmly took turns to shoot, strange things appeared, and the Taiping soldiers on the opposite side actually crawled on the ground and crawled forward in the dark. Do you want to climb over and fight in close combat? ”

At this time, the Taiping army split mountain cannon that suddenly exploded and killed the Wu army by surprise, scattered bombs were scattered, many Wu soldiers who could not dodge were shot one after another, and also screamed, the Taiping soldiers who were crawling forward suddenly burst out, roared and rushed to the Wu army's position, I didn't expect the Taiping army to come to such a hand Wu army soldiers were a little hurried for a while, unable to form a dense firepower to effectively hit the enemy, and suddenly gave many Taiping soldiers the opportunity to fight in close combat, He was even more scrambled by the Taiping commandos with melee weapons in their hands.

Then, the rear team of the Taiping Army, which had already been ready for battle, also immediately charged, roaring and striding forward, directly putting on a posture of filling the breakthrough road with human lives. Seeing this scene, Liu Mingchuan, who was somewhat inferior to the enemy because of the geographical advantage, couldn't help but complain, knowing that this battle was by no means as easy to fight as he imagined.

Liu Mingchuan's army did fight very hard, although Liu Mingchuan, who relied on cutting people to eat before joining the Wu army, attached great importance to melee training, and the soldiers of the department had rich experience in white-knuckle warfare, but the Wu army suffered a loss in the case of firearms warfare was attacked by the enemy, and it was difficult to quickly change into melee weapons to meet the enemy in a hurry, so it was naturally quickly impossible to kill the Taiping commando. In this era when cold weapons are gradually approaching obsolescence, he fought hand-to-hand white-knuckle combat with the Taiping army.

"The dog grows hair, and suffers death!"

"Demon soldiers! Die! ”

In the roar of thunder, the soldiers of the Wu army and the soldiers of the Taiping army are intertwined, no longer competing for what firepower rate of fire cannon caliber, each carrying a knife and axe is just a competition of who is fierce and who is the fastest, the machete cuts the human body and blood is sprinkled, the axe splits the bones, the sound makes people's scalp numb, crazy and crazy regardless of the enemy and I cut and stab the soldiers on both sides are not a few, in the screams, people continue to be cut off their arms and heads, blood splashed half a day high, the slasher is immediately cut by someone, and the murderer is killed by others in the blink of an eye, The severed heads and limbs rolled on the battlefield until they were trampled alive into meat sauce.

Thanks to Liu Mingchuan's attention to white-knuckle warfare, otherwise if it was replaced by other second-line troops of the Wu army, I am afraid that it would have been directly defeated by the Taiping army, but even so, when the Taiping army squad attacking from the left flank detoured back to the back of the Wu army's position from the shallow water, Liu Mingchuan still had to rush up with the reserve team to help in person, and was forced to give up the command and personally enter the battle.

The battle on the battlefield on the high ground on the right flank was very fierce, and although the officers and men of the Wu army, who had fortified high on the side of the road in advance, had a position to defend and had a condescending advantage, it was not so easy for the Taiping army to rush up and fight a white-knuckle battle. However, when the Taiping army continued to invest troops into the right flank battlefield at any cost to launch a charge, the more than 200 Wu soldiers on the high ground were gradually unable to effectively suppress the enemy's charge with firepower.

"Hold on! Resist Lao Tzu! Hold on for a while, and our reinforcements will arrive soon! ”

Liu Mingchuan, who regretted that he was too light on the enemy, didn't dare to say anything big, but while yelling and boosting morale, he personally swung his knife to kill the enemy, and constantly fought to the death with the enemy in front of him. But unfortunately, the first to arrive was the reinforcements of the Taiping Army.

"Up! Fight your way out! ”

Without any hesitation, the third team of the Taiping Army immediately charged to join the battlefield of close combat, and was determined to fight out of the encirclement with swords, guns and cold weapons, and grabbed the way to escape, which once again increased the strength advantage of the Taiping Army, the battlefield was full of knives, axes, guns and spears, and there were also soldiers of the two armies who caught and killed each other, and the Taiping Army continued to push forward like a tide, and the position of the Wu Army was crumbling, gradually showing signs of collapse.

Fortunately, when it was almost five o'clock, the two thousand reinforcements sent by Wu Chaoyue to Liu Mingchuan finally arrived at the Wuhei Cave battlefield, and Lei Zhenxing, the general of the Wu army from Hunan who led the team, saw that the situation was not good, and saw that Liu Mingchuan's army had been stirred into the battlefield of close combat by the Taiping army, and he did not dare to expect to break the enemy with firearms, so he could only quickly send two battalions to replace melee weapons and rush forward to help in the battle, reinforcing the high ground with one battalion, leaving only one battalion as a reserve to rescue the emergency.

At the same time, the fourth team of the Taiping Army has also moved into the open land of Liujiawan, and Peng Dashun, who was originally leading the team, also led the army to join the battlefield immediately, but Lai Yuxin grabbed him and said: "The troops in front are already too dense, and it won't play much role if you go, let our soldiers in front continue to fight, and when the demon soldiers are almost exhausted, we will join forces to attack and give the demon soldiers a fatal blow." ”

Looking at the dense mess of torches and figures in front of him, Peng Dashun also nodded, and immediately changed his words and asked the army to temporarily line up and rest in the open field, waiting for the fighter to appear. At the same time, Lai Yuxin sent someone to contact Shi Dakai and asked Shi Dakai to temporarily block the pursuing soldiers for a moment to buy time for his own army.

Looking at the pocket watch nervously, Lai Yuxin originally planned to charge again when the sky was twilight at six o'clock, but the sudden whistle sound on the lake made Lai Yuxin dispel this idea, first ordered his reserve team and Peng Dashun's army to approach the battlefield in formation, and then urgently sounded the golden gong to command the front army to retreat and make room for the charge.

The sudden sound of the golden gong on the side of the Taiping army first relieved the soldiers of the Wu army who had fallen into a bitter battle, but the Taiping army in the vicinity had not yet withdrawn, and in the haze, more soldiers of the Taiping army suddenly rushed straight in a dense formation, and the soldiers of the Wu army suddenly panicked, and Liu Mingchuan had no choice but to shout: "Brothers, go!" Keep up withstanding! ”

"Up!" The Wu army reserve Lei Zhenxing Department in the back had no choice but to charge collectively and was forced to join the white-knuckle battlefield to help Liu Ming's army resist the offensive of the Taiping army.

At the critical moment, some of the freed up Wu soldiers threw a large number of grenades to help the Wu army, effectively disrupting the dense formation of the Taiping army, and also counteracting the charging momentum of many Taiping troops, forcing the Taiping army to rush forward in close combat with a straggler line.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Although the distance was far away, the Wu army's gunwald artillery could not hit the Taiping army located in the open land of Liujiawan, but the fierce artillery fire unceremoniously covered the Shannan road, hitting the head of Shi Dakai's army, which was relying on the narrow terrain to effectively block the pursuit of the Wu army, and could not withstand the artillery fire of the Wu army's water division.

At this time, the sky was already dark, and the fierce battle in the area of Wu Heiwa was still evenly divided, but more than 10,000 Taiping troops had all been forced into the open land around Liujiawan, and the situation became more and more clear - if the Taiping army could break through Wu Heiwa before the next batch of reinforcements from the Wu army arrived, then it would be easy to say anything; But if the Taiping Army can't do this, then the Taiping Army will have only one end, and the whole army will be annihilated!

Shi Dakai, who knew this, pinned all his hopes on Lai Yuxin and Peng Dashun, but when he climbed to a high place and raised his binoculars to look at the battlefield ahead, Shi Dakai saw in despair that although Lai Yuxin and Peng Dashun had successfully rushed into the Wu Heiwa position and fought hand-to-hand combat with the Wu army, the Wu army did not show any signs of collapse, and was still fighting frantically with the soldiers of the self-army, refusing to take a step back.

"If we can't break through Wu Heiwa before the demon reinforcements arrive, then we will be all finished. But Wu Heiwa's demon soldiers fought so tenaciously, what if they really couldn't break through? ”

In order to prevent accidents, Shi Dakai can only consider other retreats in advance, and immediately gave birth to the idea of finding a place to stand if the breakthrough is not successful, and quickly raised the telescope to observe the surrounding terrain and look for a temporary foothold.

Tuanshan in the southwest of Liujiawan is undoubtedly a good place, surrounded by water on three sides, easy to defend and difficult to attack, but that broken place is all covered by the fire of the Wu army's naval division, and the escape there is purely to find artillery bombardment. So naturally, Maoshan Tou to the north has of course become Shi Dakai's best choice.

"If the king remembers correctly, it seems that there is a water source ...... there. Yes, that's right, when Zhang Blind reported to me the terrain in this area, he said that there was a water source at the head of Maoshan Mountain! ”

It is also a coincidence that Shi Dakai has just made up his mind, and in the direction of the road leading to Jiujiang in the northwest of Wuheiwa, there has already been a Wu army team, and then the Wu army banner has also appeared directly north of Wuheiwa, and it is obvious that the Wu army of Jiujiang and the Wu army of Gaojiawan have sent reinforcements to reinforce Wuheiwa.

"I didn't have a choice."

With nothing to do, Shi Dakai could only grab his nephew Huang Guisheng, pointed to the Maoshan Mountain not far to the north and shouted: "Immediately take your headquarters and go to take down the highest mountain, seize the danger, and wait for me to take the army up for a while!" ”

Huang Guisheng, who has always been extremely obedient, did not immediately clench his fists to receive his life, and looked at the Maoshan Mountain in the north blankly, Shi Dakai was furious and roared: "Deaf? Didn't hear? I'll tell you to go and take that high ground right now! ”

Huang Guisheng still didn't agree, just pointed to the north with a trembling and said, "Uncle, look at ......." ”

Sensing that the situation was wrong, Shi Dakai hurriedly turned his head to look at Maoshantou, but he didn't need to raise the binoculars, Shi Dakai had already opened his mouth and saw that on the waistside of Maoshantou, which was empty just now, several Wu army flags and many Wu army soldiers wearing white hats had appeared, and they were moving quickly towards the top of the mountain......

"How is that possible? Why did the Transcendence Demon get ahead of me again? Could it be that even this king can go to Maoshan to temporarily gain a foothold in this point, is it all in his expectation? ”

was stunned for a long time, and after finally coming back to his senses, Shi Dakai directly kicked Huang Guisheng and shouted: "Go and fight me, take advantage of the demon soldiers who haven't seized the danger yet, go and get Maoshantou back for me!" ”