Although he knew that Shi Dakai had fallen for Wu Chaoyue's agitation plan, he made the decision to cross Poyang Lake and attack Jiujiang, but there was no opposition among the civil and military forces under Shi Dakai's command, and they all thought that they should do this and should seize this opportunity to fight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because this opportunity of the Taiping Army is too rare, the main combat force of the Wu army has entered Pengze Anqing in the east, and the partial division of the water division was contained in Poyang Lake by the Hukou Water Division of the Taiping Army, and it must be divided into troops to garrison Bali River and Xingzicheng and other important places on land and water, Wu Chaoyue's troops have only about 4,000 people left, of which 1,500 people are only the second-line army of the Wu army with relatively poor equipment, and the strength is already at an absolute disadvantage in front of the Taiping army at Hukou.

This is not counting, because the Wu army still has a steam gunboat and a large number of ships left on the Jiujiang wharf, Wu Chaoyue also has to draw a part of the 4,000 army to protect the fleet, which further weakens the combat force in his hands. As expected, the main force of the Taiping Army had just crossed Poyang Lake, and the Wu army fleet on the Jiujiang wharf immediately left the port and withdrew to the direction of Tianjia Town, and was forced to withdraw the last water combat force to preserve the fleet, and also took the initiative to give up the opportunity to escape from the water en masse.

There is a more critical point, with the three pontoon bridges at the mouth of Poyang Lake protected by Shizhongshan Fort, even if the main force of the Taiping Army makes unfavorable progress on the Jiujiang battlefield, the main force of the Wu army that marched east to Pengze and Anqing will return to Jiujiang, or the follow-up army of the Wu army will come to Jiujiang from Huguang to reinforce Jiujiang, and the main force of the Taiping army can also quickly withdraw to Hukou through the pontoon bridge, and the possibility of the destruction of the whole army is almost non-existent.

In the face of not many enemies, the back road is guaranteed, so the main force of the Taiping army crossed the lake with high spirits, and even as early as the crossing of the lake, both sides of the lake mouth and the pontoon bridge were already full of majestic slogans of 'stepping on Jiujiang City' and 'capturing the little demon alive', and the morale of the army was also high, and Shi Dakai, who had been gloomy since the fall of Peng Ze, also swept away the gloomy mood, and was refreshed, as usual.

There is also something that excites Shi Dakai and the soldiers of the Taiping Army, the Taiping Army confirmed in detail that after the Wu army fleet withdrew from the Jiujiang wharf, Wu Chaoyue once again appeared in public outside Jiujiang City, encouraging the Jiujiang army and people to unite as one and fight with the Taiping Army to the end, and also took the initiative to tell the Taiping Army that he was still on the Jiujiang battlefield.

If it is said that Wu Chaoyue is still on the battlefield in Jiujiang just to make the Taiping army excited, then the defensive deployment of the Jiujiang Wu army is simply to make Shi Dakai and other Taiping army generals ecstatic - it may be that considering that there are still a large number of people and materials in the lower town of Jiujiang City that have not been transferred, the Jiujiang Wu army has not completely withdrawn to the city to defend the city, and still retains a camp on the lotus hill six miles southeast of Jiujiang City, leaving about 800 people to garrison it, as a barrier to the outer boundary of Jiujiang to block the footsteps of the Taiping army. Buy time for the transfer of people and supplies to the castle town.

"Beyond the little demon, it's really arrogant, really this king is not sure to annihilate your army outside the city? Do your troops outside the city still have a chance to withdraw to the city? ”

After sneering, Shi Dakai immediately turned to the generals of the Taiping Army who were eager to try in front of him, and asked loudly: "Who dares to lead the elite of the headquarters to win the lotus fortress that surpasses the little demon for this king?" ”

"The last will go!"

The generals of the Taiping Army answered with their fists almost in unison, and then Ji Qingyuan, Peng Dashun, Fu Zhongxin, Huang Guisheng and other fierce generals scrambled to say: "If you don't win, dare to ask for military law!" ”

After thinking about it for less than half a minute, Shi Dakai handed over the task of attacking the fortification to the three generals Ji Qingyuan, Fu Zhongxin and Huang Guisheng, and ordered: "Your headquarters will attack the lotus hill from the east, west and south directions, and make an appointment to start together, there is no primary and secondary, and there is no main attack feint, whoever rushes to the lotus hill first will be the first merit!" ”

Ji Fu Huang San General cheered and agreed, and Shi Dakai arranged for his most trusted general Lai Yuxin to lead two thousand troops as a reserve to prevent the Wu army from going out of the city to rescue and to intercept and kill the Lotus Ridge Wu Army who abandoned the camp and fled, and then said to Ji Qingyuan and other generals who were in charge of attacking the fortification: "Before the afternoon Shen Shi, if you can't take the Lotus Ridge, you will be questioned by military law!" ”

Ji Qingyuan and Huang Guisheng and other generals cheered and agreed together, and hurried down to organize the army to attack first, while Shi Dakai led the main force to advance slowly, preparing to wait for Ji Qingyuan and others to successfully take the ideal location of the Lotus Ridge, and then establish a large camp of the Chinese army in the Lotus Ridge in order to launch a siege war, and at the same time send many scouts to closely monitor the surrounding movements without mentioning it.

The vanguard of the three Taiping armies that marched lightly was very fast, and just after ten o'clock in the morning, they hurried from Meijiazhou to the outside of Jiujiang City, and immediately rushed to the Wu army's Lotus Ridge camp isolated in the open outside the city, and agreed that Ji Qingyuan would be responsible for attacking the southern front of Lotus Ridge, Shi Dakai's nephew Huang Guisheng would be responsible for attacking the east, and Fu Zhongxin would be responsible for attacking the west.

In addition to the official road that happened to block the Taiping army's march into Jiujiang, the lotus ridge actually did not have any value worth holding on to for a long time, the terrain was seriously not high enough, it could easily go up and down on all sides, and the camp fortifications were not very strong, except for the ordinary trenches, sheep and horse walls and fences, there were not many barracks for the soldiers to rest, and there were only eight gun emplacements that had tamped the ground, not so much a barracks, but a temporary camp that could be abandoned at any time.

It is precisely because of this that the three generals of the Taiping Army, who led more than 1,000 elites and were responsible for capturing Lotus Mountain, were so confident, but considering the terrible firepower of the elite of the Wu Army, Ji Qingyuan, Huang Guisheng and others still did not dare to underestimate the enemy, and they all chose to attack with a hundred bird formations similar to the straggler line, and opened the formation to avoid excessive casualties.

The general of the Wu army who is responsible for guarding the lotus hill is no one else, it is Wu Dadao, the oldest lackey with Wu Chaoyue, who has followed Wu Chaoyue to fight in the south and the north for so many years, although Wu Dadao has also grown a lot and learned a lot of things, but the innate lazy character is that he can't change anything, and he has intensified without Wu Chaoyue's constraints, even if the three Taiping armies have entered the position, Wu Dadao is still humming a lewd *** tune, and he doesn't take the enemy four times as many as himself to heart at all.

“…… Reaching out and touching my sister's buttocks, it seems to raise the big white cotton. Reaching out and touching my sister's thigh, it was like a winter melon with white silk ....... ”

When he was humming vigorously, a Taiping soldier who came forward with a white flag from the Jiqing Yuan army suddenly interrupted Wu Da's Yaxing, and was very unwilling to give up the fantasy of touching the beautiful girl's white knees. But fortunately, after being nurtured by Wu Chaoyue for so many years, Wu Dadao quickly guessed the reason, and immediately said: "Who dares to bet with Lao Tzu?" They came to recruit and surrender, saying that we had been given up by the king of Zhennan, and persuaded us to lay down our arms and surrender quickly, even if we did not succeed, it would hit the morale of our army. One or two silver is the starting bet, and there is no cap. ”

There are really a few soldiers of Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks who are not afraid of death who took out the silver to bet with Wu Dada, Wu Dada laughed and accepted the chips, and ordered the Taiping army envoys to approach the position of the army and shout.

“…… Listen to the demon soldiers on the wall, the little demon who surpassed the little demon didn't want you to go back alive at all, you have also been surrounded by us, if you are smart, immediately lay down your weapons and surrender! Spare you from dying! Otherwise, the chickens and dogs on the lotus ridge will not be left! ”

The Taiping soldiers with white flags shouted loudly, carrying out Ji Qingyuan's order to recruit and bewitch the Wu army's military heart in the lotus wall, but this unlucky Taiping soldier was soon extremely dumbfounded to see that the Wu soldiers behind the sheep and horse wall actually laughed one after another, and many soldiers put two fingers in their mouths and whistled, making a lot of noise as if listening to lewd songs in the Qinglou flower boat.

Only the few Wu soldiers who didn't know how to die and dared to bet on Wu Dadao scolded loudly, and Wu Dadao scolded while smiling and smiling the silver into his pocket, and at the same time instructed several Wu army snipers next to him: "Guess the boxing yourself, whoever wins will shoot, hit the reward of three taels, and if you don't hit, take three taels of silver out for a treat." ”

"Eight horses! Five Leaders, Four Seasons Wealth! Hexachlorocyclohexane! ”

After a contest, a Wu Army sniper became the lucky one, and immediately raised the love gun carefully selected from a large number of Minnie guns to aim, and the companions who lost the guessing fist made bad interference and bluffed loudly, trying to deliberately distract him, but unfortunately this Wu Army sniper did not move at all, and immediately shot after aiming!

The gun rang out, the person fell, and the unlucky Taiping envoy still rushed blood arrows from his heart!

When the sniper of the Wu army, who killed the enemy with one shot, smiled and accepted the reward, Ji Qingyuan also took out his pocket watch with a blushing face to check the time, almost staring at the hand until eleven o'clock, and then Ji Qingyuan waved his hand, and the three hundred soldiers of the Taiping Army immediately stepped forward in two units, keeping a distance and rushing to the Wu army's lotus hill position. The field mountain splitting artillery brought by the Jiqing Yuan army also opened fire at the same time, bombarding the Wu army's position.

Of course, there were two Taiping armies of Huang Guisheng and Fu Zhongxin, who also sent 300 soldiers to step forward, rushing to the Wu army's position with primitive skirmishment line tactics, preparing to rush to the vicinity of the Wu army's position first, and set up temporary bulletproof fortifications with door panels, earth and stones, etc., and fired to suppress the Wu army's firepower and cover the rear army's charge.

"Sniper, free fire."

After Wu Dada's lazy order, more than 100 Wu army snipers immediately shot their own guns, and then, so that the Taiping army was dumbfounded, in the sparse gunshots, their cat-waisted soldiers actually seemed to be in the middle of the evil, one after another screams and fell, either directly shot to kill, or was hit in the shoulder and cheek, screaming in pain. The Taiping soldiers in the rear screamed again and again, but the Taiping soldiers who charged with the cat's waist were all scattered, and they screamed even more, "What's the matter? How could the marksmanship of the demon soldiers be so accurate? ”

The snipers of the Wu army who spent money were still sneering and shooting, and the gunfire continued, and the Taiping soldiers who rushed from three directions simply became a group of moving targets, and were accurately hit by the bullets of the Wu army snipers one after another, with continuous casualties and screams, and before they could approach the Wu army's position, deserters had already begun to appear.

"How is this ......?!"

The most stammering were of course the Taiping generals such as Ji Qingyuan, Huang Guisheng and Fu Zhongxin, who were still full of confidence before, and they couldn't understand how the Wu army could have so many sharpshooters who could shoot and kill soldiers from a long distance one after another like a roll call. But at this point, it was obviously impossible to collect the troops and return to the team, so in desperation, Ji Qingyuan and others could only shout loudly to speed up the drums, force the front team to speed up the attack, and order the soldiers who fled from the front to be executed on the spot.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who were advancing in three directions, of course, could only continue to move forward, and in order to close the distance as soon as possible, they all accelerated their speed, and while constantly paying for casualties, they finally rushed within 60 meters of the Wu army's position.

At this time, the soldiers of the Wu army guarding behind the sheep and horse wall finally opened fire, and one by one the soldiers looked relaxed, aiming as much as possible and then calmly pulling the trigger, pulling the trigger one after another - pay attention to the succession!

The Taiping soldiers who were forced to charge close to the Wu army's position all suspected that they were having a nightmare, and the enemy behind the sheep and horse wall on the opposite side had obviously fired a shot, killing and wounding his companions, but the muzzle of the gun was not rotated at all, and immediately fired a second, third, or even fourth shot, and the bullets fired one after another as if they could never be finished, and it was like a raging storm that continued to harvest the lives of the soldiers from the army, and many Taiping soldiers who were hit by bullets maintained a horrified expression until they died. I couldn't believe what was happening.

"Demon soldiers' guns will fire in bursts?! Can't finish the shot?! ”

Ji Qingyuan, Huang Guisheng and Fu Zhongxin and other Taiping Army generals also suspected that they were in a nightmare, and pinched their thighs more than once, and they were so shocked that they forgot to stop and investigate even the defeat and escape of the front team of the army, and they each had the same thought in their hearts, "This time I kicked not an iron plate, but a red-hot steel plate!" ”

The soldiers of the Taiping Army who fled one after another quickly shook and hit the morale of the three Taiping armies, and also made Ji Qingyuan, Fu Zhongxin and others completely lose the courage to continue the attack, but Wu Dada, who had learned from Wu Chaoyue and was full of bad water, was keenly aware of this opportunity, and decisively ordered a sentry reserve team to charge with a Henry serial gun full of bullets, and killed Huang Guisheng's headquarters of the Taiping Army, which was in the most serious formation chaos.

Holding a 16-round Henry serial gun in his hand, the officers and men of the Wu army certainly did not use the tactic of lining up to shoot when charging, and directly used the tactics of a straggler line with a group of five people, resulting in a charge of more than 100 people still being huge, and after rushing into the range of fire, they were very shameless to shoot in a lying position, reducing the possibility of being shot as much as possible, and at the same time maintaining a lying position and continuing to shoot without changing bullets.

As Shi Dakai's nephew, Huang Guisheng's Taiping army was not poorly equipped, including modern weapons such as flintlock pistols, mini guns and carbines, and even a small number of screeching pistols, and their firepower was actually stronger than that of the second-line main army of the Wu army. In the Taiping Army, which has no stable source of advanced weapons, it is even more like a flock.

However, when he met Wu Chaoyue's personal barracks, which was all equipped with Henry bead guns, the Taiping soldiers under Huang Guisheng's department were desperate to find that what they were holding in their hands was purely a burning stick, even if it was the fastest rate of fire of the pin gun, it also turned into a turtle gun when it met Henry's bead gun, and before even the residual paper shell in the barrel was taken out after one shot, the Wu soldiers on the opposite side had already fired two shots in succession, and the Taiping soldiers who were replacing the bullets of the firing guns were stacked in a pool of blood.

In the face of the ultra-high rate of fire of the Wu Army's Henry Spear, the Taiping soldiers who kept a squatting position and shot fell in rows like cutting wheat, and the screaming voice continued to rise and fall, "Run, the demon soldier's demon gun will fire continuously, and the gun can't finish shooting!" ”

In less than five minutes after the exchange of fire, Huang Guisheng's Taiping army had already collapsed on all fronts, and fled to the far east with rolling and crawling. The sentry of the Wu army who attacked was still unsatisfied, and rushed to the Taiping army Ji Qingyuan in the south with Henry's continuous gun, Ji Qingyuan plucked up the courage to urge the army to fight, but unfortunately he was already frightened Ji soldiers but had no fighting spirit, either panicked and shot indiscriminately or subconsciously retreated again and again, no matter how the leading generals shouted, kicked and beaten, they did not have the courage to rush forward and fight with the Wu soldiers.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Lai Yuxin, the general of the Taiping Army who was pressing the formation in the back, hurriedly sent a army to reinforce him, rushed from the flank to help Ji Qingyuan catch the Wu army charge, and barely relied on the numerical advantage to stabilize the position.

Under the command of Wu Dadao, the attacking Wu army sentinels fought and retreated, gradually retreating to the front of the self-army position, and unknowingly lured the Taiping army to the vicinity of the self-army position. Then Wu Da waved the command flag again, and the Wu soldiers who were ambushed behind the sheep and horse wall suddenly opened fire together, and the snipers of the Wu army, who had already aimed at their own targets, shot together, pouring all kinds of bullets on the heads of the Taiping army like hail raindrops, and the Taiping army was caught off guard and fled in a big way.

Seeing that the enemy's morale was exhausted, the Wu army immediately sounded the trumpets and drums, and the Wu soldiers in the east, west and south directions abandoned the formation and attacked together, holding the Henry spear to charge, the Taiping army was horrified, shouting and screaming and rushing to run first, the Wu army soldiers chased after each other, directly kicked off the position of the Jiqing Yuan army, and expelled the defeated soldiers of the Taiping army to impact Lai Yuxin's position, Lai Yuxin commanded the army to hold on, but he was first disrupted by his own defeated soldiers, which severely damaged the already shaken military heart, and was shot by the Wu army's Henry serial gun, It also collapsed quickly, scrambling up and down to flee in the way it came, throwing down corpses and seriously wounded people all over the ground, as well as countless weapons and flags.

More than 5,000 well-equipped elite troops were defeated by the Wu army, which only had about 800 men, and fled! After receiving this report, Shi Dakai couldn't believe his ears at all, and yelled and asked Lai Yuxin, Huang Guisheng and others what they were eating? And when he carefully understood the situation of the war, Shi Dakai was only silent for a moment, and soon roared with a blue face: "Give this king a careful investigation, what is the origin of the demon army on the lotus hill?" Beyond the command of the little demon, how many such demon soldiers are there?! ”