Because the character of the generals of the Wu army has always been too bad, when Li Kaifang convened the generals of the Taiping army to discuss the rescue of Wuhu, some people even suspected that this was the Wu army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and wanted to deceive the defenders of the East and West Liangshan to reinforce Wuhu, and then the Wu army could take the opportunity to sneak attack the East and West Liangshan and take the last dangerous barrier in the upper reaches of Nanjing.

After suffering Wu Chaoyue's big losses many times, Li Kaifang certainly did not dare to rule out this possibility, so the result of the discussion was a compromise, Li Kaifang led the men and horses of the headquarters together with Huang Deyong to reinforce Wuhu in the south, and Huang Chongfa and Chen Guanyi and other troops continued to guard the East and West Liangshan to prevent the Wu army from taking the opportunity to sneak attack the East and West Liangshan.

Fortunately, Dongliang Mountain is only less than 40 miles away from Wuhu, and even if a little time was wasted during the meeting, Li Kaifang and Huang Deyong, who were urgently dispatched, still rushed to Wuhu before sunset, and did not give the Wu army too much time to land and prepare for war. However, when they arrived in the area of Goji Mountain, where the Wu army landed, Li Kaifang and Huang Deyong all gasped, and a chill suddenly surged into their hearts.

What shocked Li Kaifang and Huang Deyong was the momentum and scale of the Wu army, not to mention Huang Deyong, who stayed in Nanjing all the year round, and Li Kaifang's army, which had been active on the edge of the Wu army's control for a long time, had never seen so many Wu army soldiers wearing white hats on a battlefield at the same time, let alone so many huge sailor fleets with Wu army's flags.

Beside the riverbank, more than ten temporary wharves have been basically built, thousands of Wu army and civilians are busy on the wharf and in the shallow water, dense small boats are busy transporting all kinds of materials ashore, six sail battleships like water fortresses have their gun windows fully opened, and countless dark guns are aimed at the shore road, eight steam gunboats are lined up in front of and behind the fleet, and the sound of boiler operation can be heard clearly, like eight tigers on the water, which may burst out at any time to swallow people.

There are also a large number of officers and men of the Wu army who have already landed on the river bank, set up temporary defensive positions to protect the landing beach, flags fluttering, snow-bright bayonets in rows, reflecting the sun dazzling and painful, even if they have come from a long journey and have just abandoned the ship to land, they are still orderly and majestic, showing the demeanor of a strong army.

Diametrically opposed to the Wu army is the Wuhu Taiping Army farther away, although it is also regarded as the second-line main force in the Taiping Army, and the equipment and training are by no means comparable to the ordinary rabble, but compared with the Wu army soldiers who have landed on land, the Wuhu Taiping Army has completely become a group of messy sheep, only daring to hide far away in the south and wandering, not daring to go north to get close to the Wu army's position for half a step.

At this time, a fast horse far bypassed the position of the Wu army and ran in front of Li Kaifang and others, it turned out that Chen Panwu, the chief general of the Wuhu Taiping Army, invited Li Kaifang and Huang Deyong to join forces with the army to launch an attack, wanting to take advantage of the fact that the Wu army's dock had not yet been built and the opportunity to carry the field heavy artillery onto land to drive the Wu army back to the water.

Considering that it would definitely be more difficult to deal with after letting the Wu army land on a large scale, Li Kaifang had the courage to agree to Chen Panwu's request, and decided to let Huang Deyong and Chen Panwu join forces to launch an attack with infantry, first entanglement the Wu army guarding the defensive position, and then personally lead the cavalry to launch a surprise attack.

A moment later, the Taiping army's attack was prepared, and when the flag waved, Chen Pan's Wujun and Huang Deyong's army went out together to attack from the southwest and northeast sides that could avoid the Wu army's water artillery fire.

Having heard of the powerful firepower of the Wu army, Chen Panwu and Huang Deyong both used the Hundred Bird Formation straggler line to attack, and used 25 people as a team to distance themselves and charge each other, in a vain attempt to weaken the power of the Wu army's artillery. However, Chen Panwu and Huang Deyong soon found out that they were too naïve.

"The first team of grenadiers, out of line! Free Fire! ”

In the sound of the order, no less than 50 grenadiers rushed out of the Wu army's position and fanned out, and the Wu army's grenadiers, who had received strict training, quickly determined the distance between the incoming enemy by triangulation method, loaded and fired, and then the shells continued to smash into the head of the Taiping army squad as if they had eyes, and the explosions were repeated and the Taiping soldiers screamed and fell to the ground one after another, and almost in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people lay down, and countless wounded were countless.

Even though the Taiping army squad that rushed to the front had basically broken down, and the rear team stopped in fear, it was no longer worth continuing to fire artillery, but the Wu army's grenadiers still fired shells one after another, not considering the problem of ammunition consumption at all, and blindly bombing the Taiping soldiers who had already collapsed.

Unable to parry such fierce firepower, Chen Panwu of the Wuhu Taiping Army, who had never fought with the Wu army, took the lead in retreating, shouting and fleeing back to the self-army brigade, and the Taiping army under Huang Deyong's command was no better, and only lasted a few more minutes before scattering. The Wu army was unceremonious, and immediately sent two sentry troops to launch a pursuit, charging and shooting the defeated Taiping army.

"Opportunity! Xie Jinshan, take a cavalry battalion up! ”

Unexpectedly, the Wu army would take the initiative to leave the defensive position to launch a pursuit, Li Kaifang didn't think much about it, and immediately commanded the cavalry to charge, in a vain attempt to attack and kill Huang De's defeated Wu army's infantry flank, and use the cavalry advantage to make a good start. But what made Li Kaifang want to cry without tears was that the cavalry led by Xie Jinshan had just rushed to within a hundred steps of the flank of the Wu army's infantry, and the Wu army's infantry at that post suddenly and immediately contracted, and almost in the blink of an eye, a small hollow phalanx was formed.

Rushing too fast to forcibly rein in the horse, the Taiping cavalry can only detour around the hedgehog-like Wu infantry phalanx, but the Wu infantry is calmly shooting, constantly shooting at the Taiping cavalry with a high rate of fire pin gun, the Taiping cavalry is constantly shot, people shout horses neighing, and soldiers constantly fall from their horses, all of them are embarrassed, and there is no trace of invincible majesty in the Central Plains.

Huang De is good with this side, and the cavalry of the Taiping Army has no way to take the hollow hedgehog array of the Wu army, at least it also drags the pursuit of the Wu army. Although there were hundreds of Taiping troops who lined up to intercept the pursuing soldiers of the Wu army, when they competed with the infantry of the Wu army with all the firing guns in their hands, they were still hung and trampled by a sentry Wu army with only a hundred people.

The infantry of the Wu army also shamelessly used the tactics of lying on the ground that had gradually developed in the era of reloading guns, all of which were lying on the ground and shooting, reducing the possibility of being shot to a minimum.

In the end, it was only when the cavalry of the Taiping Army hurriedly came to reinforce and forced the Wu soldiers to take a phalanx to guard against the cavalry, that Chen Panwu's army barely got rid of the pursuit of the Wu army, and the Wu army, which was not only a sentry, directly impulsively moved. However, even so, Li Kaifang was still drenched in cold sweat on his forehead, and secretly complained in his heart, "Oh no, I have met the elite main force that surpasses the little demon, and it is impossible to drive the demon soldiers back to the water, so I can only count on defending the city." ”

After seeing the more terrifying field combat ability of the Wu army, Li Kaifang also died of the heart of fighting with the Wu army again, and immediately made an adjustment to the defense, and decided to let Huang Deyong lead the army of his headquarters into Wuhu to help Chen Panwu defend the city of Wuhu, and he led the only cavalry with a slight advantage to garrison outside the city, so as to rescue Wuhu City at any time and share the pressure for the defenders of Wuhu. Make up your mind to hold Wuhu City with all your strength first, and wait for reinforcements from Shi Dakai and other places.

When he hurriedly adjusted his army and retreated, he was not stopped by the Wu army, and Li Kaifang was a little happy for a while, thinking that the Wu army might have to spend some time preparing for the siege, but Li Kaifang soon found that he had underestimated the arrogance and ferocity of the Wu army. After carrying the heavy weapons ashore that night, the Wu soldiers did not even build and strengthen the camp, but only hurriedly prepared for half a day, and launched an attack on Wuhu City in the afternoon of the next day.

In the siege battle, the artillery fire of the Wu army quickly helped Li Kaifang solve a puzzle that he had been puzzled about these days - why were the elites of the Taiping army under the command of Shi Dakai, Lin Fengxiang and Huang Wenjin so vulnerable in front of the Wu army? Why did Peng Ze and An Qing lose so quickly?

The terrifying artillery fire shrouded the head of Wuhu city from both land and water directions at the same time, like a thunderbolt from the sky, constantly smashed into the city inside and outside the city, and bombarded the small city of Wuhu in this era as a county to a thousand holes, the sun and the moon were dull, and the bitter acid shells caused the fire in the city to continue, so that the Taiping army could hardly accommodate even if they hid in the city, and the city head position that was focused on by the Wu army's artillery fire was filled with gunsmoke, the fire was soaring, and there were many old city walls that were not repaired enough began to collapse.

Wuhu City in this era is too small, the whole city is within the coverage of Wu Army's amphibious artillery, even if there is not even a urn city, as a result, this is also greatly convenient for the Wu Army's blasting tactics, only to prepare for more than an hour, after easily leveling the Taiping Army's weak fortifications outside the city, Wu Army Demoman under the cover of self-army artillery fire, with Dana explosives directly exploded the north gate of Wuhu Lake, opened the road directly into the city.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Li Kaifang could only lead the army to charge, in a vain attempt to storm the flank of the Wu army to share the pressure for the defenders, and buy time for the Taiping army in the city to block the city gate. However, what made Li Kaifang desperate was that in addition to the fierce bombardment of the Wu army's grenadiers, his cavalry charge attracted the fierce bombardment of the Wu army's grenadiers, and the elite Wu army still charged at the same time as facing him, and directly entered the city like a bamboo, and quickly captured the north gate city wall position of the small city of Wuhu.

If you continue to fight, you will be sent to death in vain, Li Kaifang understands this truth, and Chen Panwu and Huang Deyong, who are all second-line troops under their command, understand it better, so before the Wu army infantry entered the city to start a street battle, the Taiping army in the city had already opened the east gate and the south gate to escape, and Li Kaifang, who was still counting on the Wuhu city defense to fight for a few days, scolded him, but he had no choice but to stop the charge that was already doomed to be useless, and withdraw his troops to find Chen Panwu and Huang Deyong to settle accounts.

"King Jing, it's not that we don't try our best to defend the city, it's that you have also seen how powerful the demon soldiers' foreign artillery and bombardment are, the soldiers dare not stop it, they all run out of the city, we can't stop it!"

Huang Deyong and Chen Panwu shouted grievances together, Li Kaifang originally wanted to continue to investigate, but unfortunately after the Wu army had confirmed that he had taken Wuhu City, he had already divided his army to chase and kill, Li Kaifang had no choice but to take the only cavalry with a little advantage to cover the transfer of the defeated army to the direction of Taipingfu.

On that day, the Wu army pursued more than 20 miles to the north, killed countless enemies, and captured more than 2,000 Taiping troops who had lost their fighting spirit.

The next day, the Wu army sailors made a big move, stormed the Yongjia Town stronghold in the lower reaches of Wuhu, the Taiping Army guarding Yongjia Town Shuangtianlu could not resist the enemy, could only abandon the position and fled to Xiliang Mountain, the Wu army divided three battalions to garrison Yongjia Town, cut off the grain road from the hinterland of Anhui to Nanjing in one fell swoop, and directly threatened the Taiping Army's largest grain and grass transfer place Yuncao Town.

Cao Yanzhong, the Wu army that seized Wuhu City, was like a nail, directly staring at the throat of the Taiping army, which not only directly threatened the safety of Nanjing City, the Taiping army's old nest, but also directly cut off the water connection between the small court of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and various places upstream, so that the Taiping army was like a fish in the throat, and also completely disrupted the overall strategy of the Taiping army.

"At all costs, we must recapture Wuhu and kill all the demon soldiers there!"

After Hong Xiuquan, who had learned some geographical knowledge, issued this supreme instruction in Nanjing, the major corps of the Taiping Army, which had planned to wait for work in various cities along the way, changed the direction of their march one after another, and attacked the Wuhu battlefield from all directions, and Shi Dakai, who was also deeply shocked, had to give up the strategy of meeting the enemy with the defense as the mainstay, and was forced to personally lead the main force of the Anhui Taiping Army to the Wuhu battlefield to preside over the overall situation, and an unprecedented strategic decisive battle was about to unfold in Wuhu.

While Cao Yanzhong's army almost contained all the main forces of the Taiping army, Wu Chaoyue also crossed Poyang Lake for the first time after many years, stepped on the land west of Poyang Lake, and personally presided over the battle to seize the important land of Hukou, preparing to take Hukou first, and then seize the cities along the river in the upper reaches of Wuhu, so as to open up the connection with Cao Yanzhong's army.

Out of admiration for Lin Qirong, the defender of Hukou, even if he didn't hold out any hope, Wu Chaoyue still sent envoys to the city to recruit surrender before the siege, promising to give Lin Qirong a high-ranking official and persuading Lin Qirong to take the initiative to open the city and surrender.

It's a pity that Lin Qirong really categorically rejected Wu Chaoyue's surrender, but for the sake of once fighting against the Qing Russian combined fleet side by side with the Wu army, Lin Qirong did not kill the envoy of the Wu army, and asked the envoy to bring back a sentence to Wu Chaoyue, "Come on, as long as you have the ability to take Hukou City, my head is yours." ”

Lin Qirong's answer made Wu Chaoyue sigh, but Wu Chaoyue could not give up the siege or waste time because of his admiration for Lin Qirong, Wu Chaoyue just let the soldiers of the Wu army play the banner of surrender and not kill at the gates outside Hukou City before the siege was launched, and clearly told the Hukou Taiping Army, which had had many dealings with the Wu army in Jiujiang over the years, his attitude and position, and then he did not hesitate to order an attack.

Cao Yanzhong's department is the elite of the Wu army, and there are superior sailors to help, even in the face of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's fallen soldiers, they dare to pat their chests and say that they have the power to protect themselves. Wu Chaoyue had his own direct corps at the bottom, and Wu troops from Hunan and Guizhou were cannon fodder, and it was only a matter of time before he captured the cities along the Yangtze River, which had in fact been isolated. Only the Wu army in Shanghai is here......

Wu Chaoyue can only count on a miracle, and he is already mentally prepared to be an unfilial grandson and an incompetent father.

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