Chapter 189: The Decisive Battle of Shi Dakai (Part II)

The situation on the battlefield of Wuxue is still the Hubei New Army, even if only five battalions are actually dispatched to participate in the battle, the Hubei New Army still beats the Taiping Army ten times its size, but even Wu Chaoyue himself knows very well that the development trend of the war is actually becoming more and more unfavorable to the Self-Army - there is no way to deal a fatal blow to the Taiping Army, and the Hubei New Army is destined to be dragged to death by the Taiping Army!

Shi Dakai also saw this very thoroughly, and after withstanding the first round of onslaught after the rotation of the Wu army, Shi Dakai smiled, and said with a smile to Zhang Suimou and Zeng Jinqian and other strategists next to him: "There is hope for this battle, although the price paid is definitely not small, but at least it is not much of a problem to hold the camp of the Chinese army, and it will also consume a lot of strength beyond the little demon." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"There is still a lot of hope for a miracle on the side of the water master." Zhang Suimou smiled and said: "As long as we break through the iron cable defense line of the Qing Demon and fight a close-port battle, our army's sailors will win, and it is not impossible to completely annihilate the sailors who surpass the little demons." ”

Thinking of the more favorable situation of the Wuwangmiao water and land battlefield, Shi Dakai of course smiled even more happily, but at this moment, Shi Dakai's corner of his eyes suddenly saw that the reserve team behind the left was stationed in that position, and he didn't know why there was some commotion suddenly.

At first, Shi Dakai thought that he was dazzled, but when Shi Dakai took a closer look, he opened his mouth and saw that a group of Taiping soldiers who had removed the red cloth on their heads were actually slashing and killing their companions with red cloths wrapped in their heads and striding towards their banners! Shi Dakai was taken aback, and couldn't help but blurt out: "What's wrong?" Whose subordinates are that?! ”

The incident was too sudden, and Shi Dakai was not allowed to send someone to investigate the truth, and the group of chaotic soldiers with scattered hats had already killed in front of them, shouting and slashing the guards directly under Shi Dakai who protected the flag array, and Shi Dakai's guards were even more caught off guard, and in a blink of an eye, they were cut down and many people were cut down, and the gang of rebels drove straight forward and quickly killed the near of the flag array. As a result, it was only at this time that Shi Dakai finally saw the leader of this gang of rebels clearly-it was Shi Dakai's newly incorporated Luzhou Mansion celebrity Liu Mingchuan on the road!

Seeing clearly that the leader of the rebellious soldiers no longer had any effect, in the roar, Liu Mingchuan, a martial arts expert, rushed to the handsome platform with an arrow step, and the steel knife waved like the wind, and he immediately cut down a Shi Dakai soldier in front of him, and then cut directly at Shi Dakai, and yelled in his mouth, "Shi Rebellion, suffer death!" ”

It is also thanks to Shi Dakai who is also a martial arts expert and is good at poking foot boxing, and then he was caught off guard and gave birth to a natural reaction between the electric light and flint, a nest popped back, dodging Liu Mingchuan's fatal knife, Liu Mingchuan yelled, the knife was as fast as lightning, Shi Dakai was in a hurry and couldn't even find the opportunity to pull out the revolver, he could only dodge left and right, and in the end he could only dodge but a harrier turned over and jumped backwards off the platform, and then ran into the crowd of pro-soldiers for protection. Liu Mingchuan, who had fallen short, shouted in annoyance, and angrily slashed at Shi Dakai's handsome flag flagpole, the knife broke over the pole, and Shi Dakai's Holy Spirit Dentong Army's main general, Yiwang Daqi, also fell to the ground.

At the time of the fierce battle, the handsome flag of the main general of one side was suddenly broken, and the impact was naturally extraordinarily huge, seeing Shi Dakai's handsome flag suddenly fall to the ground, the soldiers of the Wu army, who had already shown a little fatigue, were of course cheering like thunder, and their morale was greatly boosted; The soldiers of the Taiping Army screamed one after another, the morale of the army was frustrated, and when they saw the heads shaking and blood splashing on the platform of the Taiping Army, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were even more shocked, and the army was in turmoil, "What happened?" What happened to the Winged King at the age of 5,000? ”

In fact, Shi Dakai had already turned the corner and was protected by his own soldiers, and at the same time, Shi Dakai's direct pro-army had immediately launched a counterattack after surviving the initial panic, relying on a few revolvers and numerical advantages to quickly control the situation, and killed and hacked many of Liu Mingchuan's subordinates one after another. Liu Mingchuan saw that the situation was not good, so he could only quickly jump off the platform and quickly break through with the chaotic soldiers.

Liu Mingchuan's more than 300 people said that it was not much, but it was said that it was a lot less, and the weapons and equipment were almost all cold weapons, and in this era when firearms were becoming more and more popular, they basically did not play much role in the frontal battlefield, but they suddenly attacked on the battlefield in the camp with a narrow space, and suddenly attacked in the defenseless interior of the Taiping Army, which still played a huge role in pulling out thousands of catties. The main force of the reserve of the Taiping Army has been taken out of the Chinese army camp by Li Wenju, and the remaining two reserves have been killed by Liu Mingchuan's shameless sneak attack.

With the appearance of such a good fighter, if the Hubei New Army did not know how to seize it, of course it would be too sorry for Wu Chaoyue's large investment in them, and under the excitement of the army, the two battalions of the Hubei New Army rushed and attacked again, throwing the precious bitter acid grenade bombs into Shi Dakai's Chinese army camp as if they didn't want money, jumping on the sheep and horse wall and shooting at the enemy behind the wall, and killing them with bayonets. The Taiping army was panicked and demoralized, and could no longer guard the fence and the sheep and horse wall defense line without distraction, and the defense line that had been stabilized was quickly crumbling by the Wu army, and it could collapse at any time.

In the end, it was still Liu Mingchuan's group that helped the soldiers of the Wu army successfully enter the camp of Shi Dakai's Chinese army, and in the rush, Liu Mingchuan and his group successfully rushed to the gunpowder storage place of the Taiping army, but they threw a torch into the tent where the gunpowder was stacked, and the gunpowder warehouse of the Taiping army immediately broke out with an earth-shattering loud noise, and the huge explosion shook the ground slightly. The soldiers of the Taiping Army screamed in unison, and the soldiers of the Wu Army took the opportunity to cross the sheep and horse wall from the gap in the fence and successfully entered the Chinese camp of the Taiping Army.

The situation on the battlefield suddenly and completely reversed, seeing the chaos in the camp of the Chinese army, Li Wenju's troops, who were worried about Shi Dakai's safety, were forced to give up the plan to attack the Wu army's main formation, and hurriedly returned to the reinforcements to meet Shi Dakai.

Unlucky is also Hu Yihuang's army, which originally only dealt with one battalion of Wu Army, not only did not protect itself, but also appropriately launched a counterattack to entangle the battalion of Huang Dasha, the fierce general of the Wu army, so that Huang Dasha could not participate in the battle against the camp of the Chinese army. However, the Chinese army camp was suddenly in chaos, and Hu Yihuang's military morale also suffered a major blow, and he was slammed by the Wu army officers and soldiers in a hurry, retreating and shrinking one after another, and Hu Yihuang himself was even more at a loss, not knowing whether to continue to fight according to the established plan, or hurry back to the Chinese army camp, and was in a dilemma.

When the Taiping Army was in complete chaos, the treacherous smile that had been lost for a long time naturally returned to the faces of the unscrupulous partners of Wu Chaoyue and Zhao Liewen, and fortunately Liu Mingchuan succeeded in the incident, Wu Chaoyue decisively ordered the two battalions of the Qing Army Green Battalion in the rear to attack, so that they could give full play to their expertise in fighting tailwind battles and share a little pressure for the Hubei New Army.

Wu Chaoyue did this is also a superfluous move, after the Wu army successfully entered Shi Dakai's Chinese army camp, the Taiping army's last psychological defense line has completely collapsed, the soldiers have no fighting spirit, and they have no intention of fighting back in front of the criminal butcher's knife of the Wu army, and they just run back in the direction away from the Wu army's soldiers, and the generals of the Taiping army can't be restrained at all, and the defeat is already doomed.

Shi Dakai still wanted to die and struggle, but the Dao order he issued basically couldn't even find the recipient, and in the end, Shi Dakai had to grit his teeth and stomp his feet, shouting: "The whole army retreats!" Retreat back and forth, it is important to keep the army first! ”

Shi Dakai's order is also redundant, can not withstand the huge psychological blow, in the case of not being attacked by the Wu army, the Taiping army's battalions and auxiliaries have already begun to retreat on their own, at first or in twos and threes alone, and then more and more people fleeing, and finally the whole army and the whole army fled for their lives, and the defeated soldiers of the Taiping army in the flight tore down the military tents, overturned the fence, filled the trenches, and destroyed the strong fortifications that they had painstakingly built. The flow of people fleeing for their lives quickly blocked the flat official road, trampling on each other, and countless people died.

During the period, the most unlucky is still Hu Yihuang's army, originally as the only Taiping army that maintains a complete structure, Hu Yihuang can first arrange the palace army and then retreat calmly even if he retreats, but seeing the auxiliary troops fleeing one after another, the main soldiers under Hu Yihuang's command also began to flee quietly in a panic, and when Hu Yihuang found out about this situation, the soldiers had already fled a lot, and at the same time, Huang Dasha's army had successfully entangled Hu Yihuang's army.

When Hu Yihuang received the retreat order again, it was impossible to arrange the palace, so he could only flee east in a mess with the army that could still be restrained, because Hu Yihuang entangled the Huang Dasha army, who had never been able to enter the camp of the Chinese army, was angry, and vented all the anger that could not establish the first merit on Hu Yihuang, chasing Hu Yihuang's ass and stabbing and slashing, Hu Yihuang's army was even more chaotic, and when he left the camp, he pushed and trampled on each other in order to fight for the camp gate, and the soldiers who died under the straw shoes of their companions were countless. And when Huang Dasha's army threw a large number of grenades into the dense crowd of Hu Yihuang's army, Hu Yihuang's casualties rose in a straight line, and the panicked crowd tore down a large area of fences in order to flee for their lives, and the dead and wounded soldiers quickly filled the trench, and finally Hu Yihuang simply stepped on the corpse layer of the soldiers of the army before escaping from the camp.

escaped from the camp and did not get rid of the danger, Huang Dasha, who broke out in the small universe, had already set his eyes on the yellow general uniform on Hu Yihuang's body, and took the soldiers of the Wu army to hold on to Hu Yihuang's ass, saying that he would catch Hu Yihuang over with a thousand knives and vent the hatred that was entangled by Hu Yihuang before. During the pursuit, Hu Yihuang's soldiers also found that the situation was wrong, and they were very smart to escape from the pursuit of the Wu army, resulting in fewer and fewer people around Hu Yihuang, and finally only a dozen pro-soldiers were left to protect Hu Yihuang and fled east in a hurry.

Seeing that Hu Yihuang was about to be spared, a miracle appeared, Chen Yucheng, who had been defeated by the Wu army, worked hard to collect the defeated soldiers and reorganize into an army, and happened to appear in front of Hu Yihuang. Chen Yucheng didn't hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Protect the country and wait to leave, leave it to me here!" ”

Repeatedly crossed Chen Yucheng's position with gratitude, and turned around to see that Chen Yucheng's army had indeed temporarily stopped the Wu army's pursuers with the cover of earth and stone, Hu Yihuang was relieved, but at this time, a general in Chen Yucheng's army suddenly led a few companions to chase after him, and shouted from afar: "Protect the country, wait a minute!" Chen Jian has something to tell you! ”

has temporarily gotten rid of the chasing soldiers, of course Hu Yihuang temporarily stopped and waited, and his own soldiers also hurriedly wiped the sweat, dust and gunsmoke on his face and eyebrows, but when the general rushed to Hu Yihuang, Hu Yihuang suddenly found that the person on the other side seemed to be a little familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, Hu Yihuang asked suspiciously: "Are you ......?" ”

"Ding Ruchang!"

Ding Ruchang agreed loudly, and suddenly slashed down, the knife flashed, Hu Yihuang's head fell to the ground, Ding Ruchang didn't say a word, ripped off the revolver on Hu Yihuang's waist, lifted Hu Yihuang's head with one hand, and led a few cronies to stride away. As a result, it was at this time that Hu Yihuang's soldiers, who had been stunned, came back to their senses and exclaimed: "This person is crazy? Why kill the Protector? Why do you want to kill the protector?! ”

After striding away with Hu Yihuang's head, Ding Ruchang of course fled directly to Wu Chaoyue's home formation, and loudly said that he was here to surrender from afar, and after getting permission from Wu Sergeant to approach, Ding Ruchang was quickly led to Wu Chaoyue. Ding Ruchang did not hesitate, immediately knelt down on Wu Chaoyue's knees, and said loudly: "Lord Futai, the guilty general is here to ask for death!" The night before yesterday, the sin general was indeed instructed by Chen Yucheng to surrender to you and deceive you! Sin will deserve death, let it be beaten and punished, and never frown! ”

"Whose head did you bring?" Wu Chaoyue asked quietly.

"The former king of the thief army, now protecting the country, Hu Yihuang!" Ding Ruchang replied loudly, first said that Hu Yihuang forcibly snatched Wu Chaoyue's favorite gun to him, and then Ding Ruchang kowtowed and said: "Sin will kill Hu Yihuang, but he is angry that he doesn't treat Sin General as a person, Sin will tie his head to the belt of his pants and give them his life, but he forcibly snatched the beloved short gun that Lord Futai gave to Sin General." Sin will not take revenge on this, I really can't swallow this breath! ”

Wu Chaoyue got up, walked in front of Ding Ruchang, picked Ding Ruchang up with his own hands, and said with a serious expression: "Ruchang, Changmao doesn't treat you as a person, I treat you as a brother, from now on, we are brothers who share life and death!" ”

Ding Ruchang's lips trembled, and he knelt down on Wu Chaoyue's knees again, knocking his head three times.

At the same time that Ding Ruchang returned anyway, the Taiping army had all been defeated and fled from the camp, and the Wu army was in hot pursuit, and Wu Chaoyue immediately ordered the Wu army and the green battalion soldiers to pursue with all their might, seize the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and hand over the work of cleaning the battlefield to the artillery battalion and armed people. Then Wu Chaoyue turned his gaze to the west, gnawed his nails and said: "It's up to the water master next, I hope Wang Fu will fight and seize this opportunity to give me a victory." ”

After receiving Shi Dakai's order to attack the iron cable defense line with all his strength to prevent the Wu army from crossing the river, Shi Zhenlun, who led the Taiping Army Water Division, even though he knew that this was doomed to huge losses, still ordered the main force to attack and storm the Wu army's iron cable defense line.

Shi Zhenlun's order, of course, made the Taiping Army Naval Division become a live target of the Wu Army's Naval Division, under the command of Wang Fu, the Wu Army's naval division warships lined up fired a hundred cannons, and successively poured cannonballs into the sea of Taiping Army's ships, and because the Taiping Army ships were too dense, relying on Mengdu to have a high hit rate, a single shot hit can basically make a Taiping Army small boat directly scrapped, but the Taiping Army's huge fleet is suffering from weak firepower and iron cable blockage, unable to fight with the Wu Army's naval division in close combat, Almost all the time, he was beaten and could not fight back, and the losses were very heavy.

There are also Banbishan Fort and the cable mines arranged in front of the Wu military also played a huge role in the battle, the battery continued to open artillery bombardment, and the mines exploded one after another when the Taiping warships approached, which also sank and injured many Taiping warships, delaying the Taiping army's destruction of the iron cable.

What's more, after relying on the big axe of the Hong furnace to finally destroy the two remaining iron cables of the Wu army, the Taiping army fleet has just begun to cross the iron cable defense line to prepare for the attack, and the Wu army naval division has also turned around and prepared to flee north, but the clipper ship has sent the news that the Taiping army land division has been defeated. Shi Zhenlun almost vomited blood, although he wanted to charge for revenge, but seeing that all the Wu army warships had turned around and fled, Shi Zhenlun knew that even if he chased and killed, it would not be of much effect, and a little carelessness might turn the Taiping Army Sailor into a lone army.

At the critical moment of testing the command ability and judgment, Wang Fu, the commander of the Wu Army's naval division, made the right choice, without receiving the Wuxue battle report and Wu Chaoyue's order, just based on the news of the sudden retreat of the Taiping Army's naval division, Wang Fu guessed that the land must have won a great victory, and risked ordering the naval division to turn around again and chase and kill, seizing the rare fighter plane that the Taiping Army was boarding on the shore and reaping huge results with artillery bombardment. At the same time, Wang Guocai was also very competitive and personally led the green battalion soldiers to launch a counterattack, the Taiping army was defeated by land and water, and fled downstream in a hurry, and the Wu army sailors took the initiative to cross the remnants of the iron cable defense line to launch a pursuit, carefully maintaining the distance from the Taiping army sailors and constantly firing cannons, reaping a big victory, and pursued and killed until the Wuxue directly and Wu Chaoyue's division.

If it weren't for Shi Dakai's smart way to take off the eye-catching Ming Huang royal robe early, change into the clothes of a soldier and flee, then maybe Shi Dakai would have been directly killed by the Wu army in this battle. Because the Taiping army's hasty retreat this time was too chaotic and hasty, the generals and ordinary soldiers fled all over the mountains, and the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the soldiers, and they could not organize the team behind the palace to stop the wolf-like Wu army chasing the soldiers. The soldiers of the Wu army, who had long been prepared for continuous combat, gritted their teeth and pursued them all the way to the end, and pursued the Taiping army day and night until they stopped near the Xinkai Road on the border between Hubei and Jiangxi, and the Taiping soldiers who were killed and captured along the road could not be counted at all.

The news on the water was transmitted quickly, and on the second day of the Battle of Wuxue, the news of the Wu army's victory had been sent by water to the small town of Wucheng, which was located in the middle of Poyang Lake. Hearing the news, and roughly understood the battle, Zeng Guofan, who had a gloomy face, did not say anything for ten minutes, and when he finally opened his mouth, Zeng Guofan directly spurted out a mouthful of blood, and stepped forward to inquire about the situation in shock, but Zeng Guofan pushed them away, and said weakly: "Defeat the teacher like killing a pig and a dog, and being defeated by a student like chopping melons and vegetables, I, a teacher, will have no face to see people in the future." (To be continued.) )