"Kill! Brothers in Heaven, kill me! Kill the demons! Only forward, not backward! Even if I'm injured, I have to crawl forward! ”

Shouting, Li Kaifang's general Li Tianyou led the army to the opposite Qing army position for the sixth time, and the road of the charge was full of corpses, all of which were the remains of the Taiping warriors who died under the guns of the Qing army before, and the red blood was splashed on the thick snow, one by one, shocking, but Li Tianyou and the Taiping soldiers still kept moving, and continued to charge one after another.

Li Tianyou had no other choice, Li Kaifang gave him the task of leaving the city from the south gate of Tianjin, and returning to the west gate of Tianjin to attack the flank of the main force of the Qing army, and contain the Qing army from delaying the speed of the Qing army entering the city from the west gate. Li Tianyou also did not know that the Qing army had not only taken the important place of the Drum Tower in the center of the city, but basically controlled the west city of Tianjin, and Li Tianyou only knew how to carry out the order and fight for Li Kaifang and the Northern Expedition army of the Heavenly Kingdom to keep the hope of keeping the city of Tianjin.

It's a pity that the first five charges were all failed, the damned Qing demon seized the favorable terrain in advance, relying on the ruins of the houses and courtyards in the castle town to fortify, the number of arquebuses and guns was large, and the number of troops was as many as 3,000 people, and also obtained a reinforcement, and Li Tianyou commanded only about 1,000 Taiping soldiers, the enemy had to force the charge to break through, the first five charges in addition to the sacrifice of more than 200 Taiping warriors in vain, almost no gain.

This time was different, hearing the violent explosion in the center of Tianjin, Li Tianyou, who was red-eyed, directly shouted the slogan of preferring death to retreat, and the soldiers of the Taiping Army, who knew that the situation was critical, also forgot their lives, and charged forward with red eyes at any cost, even if they were shot, they would never take half a step back, and they relied on this courage and ruthlessness that was not afraid of death, and finally rushed to the front of the Qing army's defense line, wielding knives and spears and stabbing the Qing soldiers who were loading and reloading bullets, and won the opportunity to fight with the Qing army in close combat.

The Qing army was most afraid of the bayonet white-knuckle battle, the anxious Taiping soldiers had already given up everything, not much time passed the sword and gun fight, the Qing soldiers of the first line of defense were defeated, the Taiping soldiers did not stop, expelled the Qing soldiers to play the free vanguard, and the second and third lines of defense of the Qing army were broken like a bamboo, and after paying a heavy price, they finally broke through the interception position of the Qing army, and killed the open place behind the position, and the long-suppressed cheers quickly echoed on the battlefield.

"Master Shuai, another demon is coming!"

Li Tianyou's cheers were interrupted by a reminder from his subordinates, and when Li Tianyou quickly turned his head to look, he saw that in the distance of the road, which was still drifting with sparse snowflakes, there was indeed a Qing army lining up to kill. But it's very good, judging from the number of torches, the number of Qing troops on the opposite side should not be very large, and at the same time, the terrain ahead is open, which is an ideal battlefield for charging and raiding, so Li Tianyou did not hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, follow me!" Kill the Qing demon in front! ”

Shouting, Li Tianyou led the army to charge again, and continued to rush to the front with the first soldiers, and the Taiping soldiers behind did not hesitate to follow, and the morale was like a rainbow to charge to meet the enemy in front. However, to Li Tianyou's great surprise, after seeing the self-army charge, the Qing army on the opposite side not only did not panic at all, but also accelerated its speed, and the attitude was equally resolute to directly meet the Taiping soldiers, so brave that it was not at all as familiar as the Qing army that Li Tianyou was familiar with.

It doesn't matter, although he is a little surprised, but the experienced Li Tianyou does not mind whether the Qing army on the opposite side rushes or runs, and still believes that as long as there is a dozen hand-to-hand combat, the self-army will immediately be able to kill the enemy on the opposite side like chopping melons and vegetables. But what surprised Li Tianyou even more was that it was still behind, the distance between the two armies was less than 100 paces, and even the officers and men of the Taiping Army couldn't help but pull the trigger of the arquebus one after another and shoot one after another, and the enemy on the opposite side still didn't fire a single shot, still maintaining a dense formation and striding forward. Surprised, Li Tianyou recalled carefully, and a thought that made his soul fly suddenly appeared in his mind, "Is it ......?" ”

"Bang bang!"

It was too late to react, less than fifty meters apart, the Qing army on the opposite side suddenly pulled the trigger one after another, and in the gunshots like bursting beans, the dense bullets hit the Taiping soldiers quickly and accurately, and in the blink of an eye, there were countless Taiping soldiers screaming and snorting and turning over and falling to the ground, Li Tianyou, who was rushing to the front, also felt that he was stabbed twice in the stomach one after another, so that he couldn't help but take a step back, and the blood on his lower abdomen was gushing like a spring.

The terrible degree of the enemy on the opposite side is still above Li Tianyou's imagination, after a wave of four-stage shooting, in the case that the Taiping army has not completely collapsed, the Qing army on the opposite side did not continue to shoot, and directly launched a charge with a bright bayonet, and a lot of black and slimy things flew out of the Qing army during the charge, and it fell into the crowd of the Taiping army with a terrifying loud sound, sending out a huge shock wave and flying out countless shrapnel, one of the explosions also occurred around Li Tianyou, In the blink of an eye, it blew up the remaining Taiping soldiers around Li Tianyou, and the air wave also knocked Li Tianyou directly to the ground.

The best military shoes stepped on Li Tianyou one after another, and when he was dying, Li Tianyou vaguely heard a vaguely familiar voice roaring, "Quick!" Fast! Get out of town! Get out of town! Fast!! ”

"Beyond the little demon, why are you in a hurry to get out of the city?" With this strange question, Li Tianyou closed his eyes forever, and unfortunately became another famous general of the Taiping Army who died under the butcher's knife of the executioner Wu Chaoyue.

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The heavy snow has stopped, the dusty fine snow is still sparsely sprinkled, before it lands, the fire has melted and vaporized, the city that was once occupied by the Taiping army and the Qing army in turn has long been turned into a sea of fire, most of the military tents have been burned into ashes, but the baggage carts and the wooden city wall are still burning, melting the snow in the city, the snow water flows, and countless blood convergence, in the low-lying accumulation of blood cement pools, the corpses in the blood water are horizontal, dense, layer upon layer, some are the corpses of the Taiping soldiers, but most of them were the corpses of Tianjin Xiangyong, and the air was full of the stench of burnt meat.

Most of the Taiping soldiers had already withdrawn from the city, but some Taiping soldiers were searching for the remnants of the enemy in the city, and there were one or two dying screams from time to time amid the crackling sound of wood crackling. Every time she heard such a voice, Feng Wanzhen, who was hiding under a broken car, couldn't help but feel her heart skip a beat, for fear that the voice was from her father, Feng Sanbao.

Sweat and blood have covered Feng Wanzhen's pretty little face, and the cute double ponytails have also been scorched a lot, Feng Wanzhen is tightly holding a lancet picked up on the battlefield in her hand, as if holding her life, the knife is stained with blood, there is the blood of the Taiping soldiers, and the blood of Tianjin Xiangyong - in the chaos, a Tianjin bastard who has long coveted Feng Wanzhen seized the opportunity and tried in vain to drag Feng Wanzhen to a hidden place to commit violence, but unfortunately the bastard didn't know that Feng Wanzhen, who was only thirteen years old, was young, But he started practicing martial arts at the age of five, and he was already able to shoot a bow and hunt more than a year ago, and Feng Wanzhen suddenly stabbed out with a knife during the pull, and the bastard didn't even have a chance to react, and he was directly stabbed in the stomach.

There was also a Taiping soldier who underestimated Feng Wanzhen, although the masses of the Taiping Army were strictly disciplined, and even the Manchu officials had to write a comment on the recital to the Wild Boar Skin IX, "Thieves are not good for adultery", but in the melee, after the red-eyed Taiping soldiers touched Feng Wanzhen, they still cut down without saying a word, but unfortunately the Taiping soldiers were extremely unlucky to meet Feng Wanzhen, Feng Wanzhen not only rolled on the spot to avoid the knife, but also cut the Taiping soldier's thigh with a backhand. When the thunderous Taiping army was looking for Feng Wanzhen for revenge, Feng Wanzhen, who was short and nimble, had already disappeared into the depths of the sea of fire.

Even though she escaped the catastrophe twice, Feng Wanzhen still suffered a lot of minor injuries in the escape, her hands and feet were scratched in many places, her clothes were ignited by flames several times, and she was almost hit by a stray bullet once. And Feng Wanzhen is still a little Luo Li who admits death, the wooden wall that originally went out of the city has been burned down in many places, Xiao Luo Li has had the opportunity to escape several times, but Xiao Luo Li has taken the initiative to give up the opportunity to escape every time in order to find her father and other Xie Zhuang companions who were separated in the chaos, and has always rushed left and right in the smoke of the fire to find her father's whereabouts, and has never been able to escape to a relatively safe field.

Another Taiping soldier appeared near Feng Wanzhen's hideout, but fortunately, the enemy only took a cursory look at the surrounding situation, and made up for a villager who was not yet dead, and then hurried to the distance, and Xiao Lili was quietly relieved.

Xiao Luoli regretted that she did not insist on her position, did not insist on preventing her father from being a townsman to the monk and the prince, since that incident, Xiao Luoli has no good impression of the monk and the prince, but her father insisted that she could not hold a grudge, and wanted to serve the court and do things for the court. The result also made Xiao Lili understand that she was right, most of the people under the command of the monk and the prince were really not good things, those thief-eyed Xiangyong kept talking to her, and the two officials also directly found her father, and wanted to buy her for ten taels of silver to give away, and directly explained that she was going to give it to the monk of the imperial court, after her father categorically refused, the two officials were not noses, and their eyes were not eyes, this time the long-haired siege of the city, her father was sent to the front line.

The most incomprehensible thing for Xiao Luoli is still to come, after the long-haired killing in and out of the city, the monks and princes took the lead in escaping for their lives, why did they deliberately set fire to the only way out of the city? Deliberately not giving the villagers in the city a chance to escape? After her father returned to Xiao Luoli covered in blood, Xiao Luoli asked her father this question, and her father had no way to answer, so he only said, "I didn't expect the monk to be such a person." ”

"I knew he was such a person!"

Xiao Luoli thought hatefully, remembering the shameless face of the monk and the prince when she went to sell swans in the restaurant of the monk's brother-in-law more than a year ago! Then naturally, Xiao Luoli suddenly remembered the thin Brother Wu, and she couldn't help but have some regrets in her heart, "Brother Wu, why didn't I have a chance to meet you again, and tell you in person, I blamed you before?" ”

Regret is useless, the wooden wall out of the city near Xiao Luoli hiding can't withstand the raging fire, and suddenly collapses, and between the sparks, a large piece of broken wood also smashed into the broken car where Xiao Luoli was hiding with flames, and the blazing completely destroyed the hiding place that Xiao Luoli had finally found, forcing Xiao Luoli to quickly climb out of the car. However, unfortunately, as soon as she climbed out of the car, the Taiping soldier who had already walked away just now heard the sound and turned around, and happened to see her, and immediately rushed over with a shout, "Stop! Dog Qing Demon, stop for Lao Tzu! ”

As a last resort, Xiao Lili had to quickly flee in the opposite direction, and the enemy behind was in hot pursuit, and at the same time, when he went out of the city, there were suddenly gunshots, and obviously there was a new battle, and then, there were many Taiping soldiers with red turbans rushing in and out of the city from a gap not far away, still shouting, "Beyond the little demon is coming!" Come on! Beyond the little demon is coming! ”

Who is the Transcendence Goblin? Xiao Luoli didn't know, and she didn't have time to think about it, she just tried to run for her life, but the enemy behind her chased after her like Wang Ba who had eaten the scales, and at the same time, other Taiping soldiers who went out of the city also found Xiao Luoli's traces, and several people immediately rushed over. Xiao Luoli had no way to go up to the sky and no way to go to the ground, so she could only grit her teeth and simply run to the north, to the gap out of the city where there were many figures shaking.

Bang, I don't know who fired the shot, Xiao Luoli only felt that the calf seemed to have been hit by something, and she stumbled and fell to the ground, after falling, Xiao Luoli hurriedly looked at her right calf, and saw that blood gushed out there, obviously she had been shot. Xiao Lili wanted to cry without tears, so she could only quickly cover her injured leg and crawl forward, crawling as far as possible towards the gap out of the city that was not far away and a large number of figures were shaking, and shouted for the first time from the mouth that did not admit defeat, "Help!" Help me! ”

"Wanzhen! Wanzhen! Wanzhen, where are you? ”

In the continuous gunshots, an unexpected shout vaguely came into Xiao Luoli's ears, so that Xiao Luoli couldn't help but flutter, almost suspecting that she had heard it wrong, but she still involuntarily shouted, "I'm here!" I am here! ”

Whew, a knife suddenly slashed from the side, the perennial martial arts Xiao Lili reacted very quickly, a roll to dodge the knife, but this angered the enemy even more, roaring, the enemy was another knife down, forcing Xiao Lili to roll in the sea of blood, water and fire one after another, and finally when she couldn't dodge, Xiao Lili had to reluctantly raise the single knife in her hand to parry, but she was not only young but also a girl, and then had the talent to practice martial arts in the strength is also at a disadvantage, between the two knives collided, although the enemy's knife was temporarily blocked, The single knife in Xiao Lili's hand was chopped out and fell directly into the fire.

"Stinky girl, if I don't kill you today, I won't be surnamed Liu!"

Roaring, the enemy suddenly stepped on Xiao Luoli's injured calf, lifted the sharp knife with both hands, and stabbed Xiao Luoli in the chest, Xiao Luoli could neither dodge nor resist, she could only close her eyes in resignation, and familiar scenes flashed in her mind, Xie Zhuang's mountains and rivers, strict father, kind mother, villagers in the village, playmates from childhood to adulthood............

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The death of resignation did not come, but at the last moment, on the contrary, five rapid gunshots came into the ears of Xiao Li, who opened her eyes in surprise, but saw that the enemy holding the knife in both hands was bleeding from his chest and face, and was slowly falling. Then, some familiar anxious shouts came into Xiao Lili's ears again, "Wanzhen! Wanzhen! Wanzhen is not you? ”

Struggling to sit up, to Xiao Lili's disbelief, the man who ran over with a revolver, the man with smoke and fire marks all over his face, was the thin young man she had only seen twice, and had the audacity to send someone to her house to propose marriage. Then, the tears of grievance in the two lines immediately poured out of Xiao Li's bright eyes, "Brother Wu, it's me, why are you here?" ”

The thin young man rushed over with cheers, and directly hugged Xiao Luoli in his arms, although Xiao Luoli had never felt anything about this thin young man, but at this moment he was held in his arms, and heard his tired and hoarse cordial greeting, Xiao Luoli's psychological defense line still collapsed, and she couldn't help but hug the thin young man, and she cried loudly, "Brother Wu, I ......, I miss you so much." ”

"I miss you even more!" Wu Chaoyue patted Xiao Luoli's cute double ponytail that was much scorched, and said very apologetically: "Wanzhen, it's me who is not good, I didn't know you were here, if I had known that you were here, you would never have suffered so many grievances, it's me who is not good, it is me who is not good." But rest assured, from now on, you will not be in any danger. Trust me, you'll be fine. ”

"Brother Wu." Xiao Luoli buried her cute face tightly in Wu Chaoyue's arms, and cried and said, "Brother Wu, I believe in you, I will always believe in you!" ”

The fire was still burning, and the sound of guns never stopped, but snuggled in Wu Chaoyue's arms, Xiao Luoli was like being in heaven, and even the pain in her legs was completely forgotten......

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At the same time that Wu Chaoyue rescued Feng Wanzhen from the fire out of the city, Ji Wenyuan had also personally cut down the monk banner of Monk Greenqin, and the Taiping soldiers entered the Chinese camp of Monk Greenqin like a tide. As for our monk and prince himself, he withdrew to the left camp early with Yin Xin and his own soldiers, saying that he wanted to organize the army to prepare for a counterattack, but in fact, the Qing army officers and soldiers soon saw with their own eyes that a large group of Chahar cavalry had withdrawn from the left camp cluster and disappeared into the open space in the east.

paid a price that was definitely not small, and finally took the camp of Seng Lingqin, but Ji Wenyuan, who commanded the battle, had no joy on his face, and when he turned around and saw the growing fire in Tianjin City in the north, Ji Wenyuan's face was still full of worry.

At this time, the general Liu Ziming rushed to the front of Ji Wenyuan, and said quickly while saluting: "Prime Minister, we have taken the camp of the Qing Demon, the situation in Tianjin is very critical, the last general asks the order to be the vanguard, and leads an army to return to Tianjin immediately, please allow Prime Minister Ji!" ”

"No!" Ji Wenyuan flatly refused and said, "I can't go back to the teacher!" Immediately sweep away the remaining demons in the camp, and then collect all the grain, grass and baggage that the demons can collect, and put them in the car for later use! ”

"What about Tianjin City?" Liu Ziming hurriedly asked.

"If there is any hope that Tianjin City can be saved, Prime Minister Li Cheng will naturally order us to return to help." Ji Wenyuan shook his head with a painful expression, and said helplessly: "But Prime Minister Li has not given this order until now, which is enough to show that Tianjin City can no longer be saved, and we can only take precautions and prepare for retreat first." (To be continued.) )