Qin Rigang found out that the closest to Qingxian County was Dacheng County in the northwest. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, the detective horse detective found that the 30,000-foot cavalry army led by the demon head monk Greenqin had approached the boundary of the city.

For this famous Qing Demon Fierce General, although Qin Rigang is not afraid, he can avoid it and is unwilling to take the initiative to provoke. Therefore, he chose to lead his troops into Jinghai County, which was more than 70 miles north of Qingxian.

The people of Jinghai received the news before the Taiping army attacked, and those who could escape immediately fled north to the city of Tianjin, where at least the walls were too high to conquer.

And those who dragged their families and couldn't escape, they all chose to resist to the death with the Jinghai County Order. In particular, more than 300 Hui people from Tianjin Prefecture took the initiative to rush to Jinghai from various prefectures and counties and Tianjin Prefectures with weapons in hand, found Jinghai County Order, and took the initiative to ask for assistance in defending the city and resisting the long-haired thief army.

When asked why, the leader of the Hui people explained that the long-haired thieves were devils from hell and were so sinful that they defied their Allah and destroyed their three mosques in Shenzhou, Xianxian and Cangzhou, slaughtered their Hui brothers and burned their scriptures.

Jinghai County was overjoyed and recruited all the Hui people to defend the city together. However, there are only more than 2,000 people left in Jinghai City, how can they hold it?

After two forcible attacks, most of the Hui people defending the city were killed and wounded, and the county commander was also killed by the Taiping army.

In mid-September, the Northern Expeditionary Army of 40,000 people easily captured Jinghai County, supplied a lot of gunpowder and birds, and was preparing to continue to attack Tianjin Fucheng, just at this time, a continuous heavy rain flooded the entire Jinghai County into a Ze country.

A white expanse of water leaves the prospectors who are not familiar with the terrain without direction. This delay provided the Manchus with an opportunity to besiege them.

Originally, the 30,000 Qing troops led by Shengbao, who had been dragging behind, rushed up day and night, divided into two battalions, and stationed in the area of Ziya Town and Zhaojiawan, twenty miles west and south of Jinghai, blocking the way for the Taiping army to flee west and south.

The monk Lingqin, who rushed to Bazhou from Baoding Prefecture, also ordered the commanders of his battalions to lead 23,000 infantry, including the Jianrui Battalion, the Outer Firearms Battalion, the Two-Wing Forward Battalion, the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, the Fifth Patrol Battalion, and the local green battalions in Henan and Zhili, to rush to Yangcun in the northwest of Jinghai, set up a chain of large battalions, and blocked the road from Jinghai to Jingshi.

And Seng Lingqin himself, personally led 18,000 cavalry, rushed to the northeast of Dangcheng, Danan River and other places, so far, the Qing army completed the encirclement of Jinghai. Except for the seaside land leading to the east, the rest of the directions were surrounded by Qing army companies and camps.

At this time, the Taiping army, because of the water in Jinghai, was still in the dark, the water receded, and the horse was returned, and the entire Northern Expedition army was surrounded by the Qing demons.

Qin Rigang directly executed all the horses before he calmed down the depression in his chest a little.

He knew that he couldn't defend Jinghai County, but he was besieged on several sides, except for the uninhabited saline-alkali land by the sea in the southeast, but if he retreated there, how could he supply without human population? Once you get to the beach and are trapped on the saline-alkali tidal flats, it is even more dead, it is better not to escape, first hold on to help, and survive the cold winter.

But the 40,000-strong army can't trap Jinghai County, and the small city can't accommodate so many people, and it will be passively beaten. Therefore, Qin Rigang ordered that Ji Wenyuan lead the left wing to garrison Duliu Town in the north, and step up the construction of wooden cities, trenches and other fortifications; Zhu Xikun led the right wing to Yekouzhuang in the west, and also built fortifications to share the pressure of Jinghai County, while he himself guarded the county seat and jointly assisted in the defense of the three places.

Not long after the Taiping army laid defensive fortifications, the Qing troops, who had already settled down, launched the first wave of offensives.

Monk Lingqin personally supervised the battle, and nearly 20,000 people from the Jianrui Battalion, the Outer Firearms Battalion, the Two-Wing Forward Battalion, the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, and the Five Patrol Battalions approached Duliu Town step by step, and ordered the Mongolian Iron Cavalry to block the road between Jinghai County and Duliu Town.

Jianrui Battalion is a special type of troops specially set up for siege in the Eight Banners, equivalent to the siege troops, a total of more than 3,000 people, mostly cloud ladder soldiers, is the elite unit of the Qing army, participated in many suppression of rebellion campaigns, and has made great achievements. However, since Jiaqing, among the banner soldiers of the Jianrui Battalion, laziness and arrogance have been pervasive, military training has been abandoned, and there is no longer the courage of the Eight Banners in the past. But no matter what, it was still one of the most elite troops of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At this moment, the Jianrui battalion obeyed the arrangement of Seng Lingqin, ambushed on the north side of Duliu Town, and waited for the battle to start, then set up a ladder and attacked the two-person high earthen wall of Duliu Town.

There are more than 4,000 soldiers of the Eight Banners in the outer firearms battalion, more than 2,500 shotgun guards, more than 800 artillery armor, and nearly 1,000 nurturing soldiers (reserves).

The Taiping army that attacked Jinghai this time, in the arrangement of Seng Lingqin, the outer firearms battalion was the main combat force.

The two wing forward battalions and the Eight Banners Guard Battalion, a total of nearly 5,000 people, were all selected from the Eight Banners Manchurian and Mongolian soldiers to form the Royal Praetorian Guard.

The Forward Battalion and the Guard Battalion had been guarding the palace all the time, taking turns to be on duty; When Xianfeng is on patrol, he also has to be escorted. Unexpectedly, this time Xianfeng even assigned these two battalions and handed them over to Seng Lingqin for unified command, it seems that the Northern Expedition of the Taiping Army has made Xianfeng frightened, and he had to send the most pressing guard battalion around him to come to encircle and suppress.

The patrol five battalions are all green battalion soldiers, originally composed of about 11,000 people, but Monk Greenqin does not look down on the green battalion soldiers formed by these Han people in his heart, in fact, these people can only bully some of the people in Beijing, this time only 7,000 soldiers and horsemen were drawn to participate in the encirclement and suppression of the Taiping army, and the defenders continued to garrison in the capital.

Seng Lingqin was not in a hurry to attack, but just besieged the Taiping army in Duliu Town, and waited for more than 10,000 cavalry of Shengbao to rush to Duliu Town to attack again.

At this time, Ji Wenyuan, who was stationed in Duliu Town, led the left flank Northern Expeditionary Army with a total of more than 6,000 people, and realized that he was besieged.

Unfortunately, Duliu Town had been blockaded by the Mongol iron cavalry, and the distress messenger sent by Ji Wenyuan was chased and shot by the Mongol cavalry not far from the city. Duliu Town, which is less than ten miles away from Jinghai City, has become an enclave.

Qin Rigang in Jinghai City deduced the intention of the Qing soldiers from the Mongolian cavalry raging outside the city: Duliu Town must have been besieged.

At the same time, he himself led 20,000 infantry and more than 1,000 cavalry, walked slowly, went out of the city gate, and attacked the Mongolian iron cavalry outside the north of the city, flanking in three directions and crushing the enemy head-on.

Seeing that most of the Taiping army was infantry, he despised it, set up a figure-eight formation, and directly charged the Taiping army with saber cavalry.

Qin Rigang, who had been in a bloody battle for a long time, put the veterans of Guangxi and Munan in the forefront, relying on grain trucks and artillery as obstacles to block the cavalry, holding rattan shields and extended spears to form a strict spear forest, as soon as the Mongolian cavalry rushed into the side of the grain truck, the war horses were either tripped and hit by the grain truck, or were poked by spears stuck upside down in the mud, and fell to the ground one after another.

And the cavalry that charged at high speed behind with superb riding skills, swept in front of the Taiping army formation thirty paces, holding bows and arrows, just shot, then heard the bang gunshot, the Taiping army array, countless bird guns and sub-mother cannons, have fired, the earth-shattering sound frightened the war horses, dense guns and cannons will hit the cavalry in front of the formation, two pillars of incense, the Mongolian cavalry has lost hundreds of people.

And the rain of arrows shot by the Mongol soldiers also killed and injured many of the Taiping troops.

But the princes who commanded the Mongolian cavalry were distressed, and hurriedly Mingjin withdrew the iron cavalry. (To be continued.) )