The distance is not too far, the sound of the cannon on the battlefield of Chopping Cables is also faintly heard outside the East Gate of Jiujiang, Shi Dakai frowned when he heard it, he was very unsure of what the consequences would be, and he only hoped that the sound of the cannons on the Cables Tsui battlefield could distract some of the attention of the Wu army for the self-army, and increase the chances of the self-army to break the city, and at the same time, he did not have any intention of giving up the siege, and was just waiting for the gunpowder to be placed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, news kept coming from the Chopping Cable, saying that the Wu army was only concentrating its firepower to bombard the fortifications of the Taiping army, and the infantry was always stationary, and the pressure was not too great for the time being. At the same time, the Wu army in Jiujiang City has also been standing still, obviously not daring to venture out of the city at night, the Taiping army's tunnel siege tactics have been going on step by step, and have not been affected in any way, Shi Dakai also dared to continue to take risks.

The sky was finally dark, and the moonlight was bright, which was not too bright, so that the city could see the situation in the distance, and it could also enable people to see nearby objects clearly without lighting torches and lanterns, which was the most suitable for night action, but it was also with God's help that the Taiping Army's gunpowder delivery operation went very smoothly, and it took more than an hour to basically complete the placement, and quickly entered the final stage of placing the lead and evacuating the personnel.

The tunnel situation was reported to Shi Dakai, and Shi Dakai was a little relieved in his heart, and after ordering the earth camp to step up his actions, he also said in his heart: "Whether you can break the city or not, you have to fight today no matter what, of course it is best to take Jiujiang, if you can't take it, you will go back to Hukou at dawn tomorrow, and you can't take the main force to risk it for a long time." ”

"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”

Suddenly there was another cannon sound from the east of the rear, Shi Dakai was shocked and was about to ask the reason, but a herald rushed in outside the tent first, and said: "The king of the wings is eight thousand years old, Meijiazhou came to report, and found that the demon soldier and sailor were approaching the mouth of Poyang Lake. ”

"Sure enough, it came." Shi Da was happy for a moment, and then asked angrily: "Why is it that the sailors who surpassed the little demon have already fired their guns, so there is news to report to me?" ”

"Huiyi King, the Demon Soldier Sailor is coming with four steamers, and the speed is too fast, so our scout ships don't have time to warn in advance." The herald explained.

"Only four steamers?" Shi Dakai was stunned again, and then his heart suddenly sank, and he said secretly: "Why did the sailor who surpassed the little demon divide his troops again?" Is there going to be something big tonight? ”

"Wing King, I'm afraid I'm going to make a big move tonight!" Zhang Suimou next to him also saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly said: "The sailor who surpassed the little demon would rather leave the red single boat sampan boat behind for our steamer to chase and kill, and first use their steamer to attack our ferry pontoon, obviously trying to cut off our retreat, and then take the opportunity to use the trick." ”

"What kind of ruse could it be?" Shi Dakai asked quickly.

"I don't know if it's ......." Zhang Suimou shook his head in embarrassment, and said suspiciously: "It stands to reason that there are no extra troops to eat us beyond the little demon?" The reinforcements in the rear are too late, and the main forces on the front line have not returned to Jiujiang? ”

"Could it be an empty city?" Zeng Jinqian put forward an optimistic possibility, saying: "Beyond the little demon wants to contain us at the mouth of Jiujiang Lake at the lowest cost, and is afraid that we will garrison outside Jiujiang City for a long time, which may not only threaten the defense of Jiujiang City at any time, but also interfere with and obstruct his contact with the outside world, so that he cannot command the overall situation in Jiujiang City, so he is suspicious, and wants us to think that Jiujiang is a trap, and trick us into retreating to Hukou and lifting the siege of Jiujiang by ourselves?" ”

With Wu Chaoyue's consistent character, of course he can do such things as scaring people with empty city schemes, but it is precisely because of this that Shi Dakai, who is already a little indecisive, has also completely fallen into a dilemma, and if he continues to fight according to the original plan, he may fall deeper and deeper in the Jiujiang trap; If you retreat quickly, you will not be reconciled, and you may be surpassed by Wu again. Dilemma, dilemma, there is no choice.

"The Winged King is eight thousand years old, the earthen camp is announced, the lead has been placed, and it can be ignited at any time!"

The earth camp also came to urge, and reported the news that the tunnel blasting was ready in time, Shi Dakai was in a dilemma, but after turning around the tent of the Chinese army commander with his back hand a few times, Shi Dakai suddenly remembered a major event - it was already dark now, and at the same time, the Wu army's naval division was already attacking the lakemouth pontoon bridge, and retreating at this time would not only definitely lead to chaos in the army, but also may be attacked by the Wu army's naval division during the hurried crossing of the lake, resulting in heavy losses!

Thinking of this, Shi Dakai, who had no choice, had no choice but to force himself to make up his mind, and shouted: "Attack the city according to the original plan, no matter what the little demon is going to do tonight, we will only fight according to our own plan!" ”

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At the same time, on the battlefield of Poyang Hukou, the four steam gunboats of the Wu army led by Xu Lai had already fought with the Taiping army on both sides of the ferry, and the sun and moon were dark. The Taiping army opened fire with shore guns, cooperated with the small boat to set fire to the side, and frantically prevented the Wu army's steam gunboats from approaching the pontoon bridge; The Wu army's steam gunboats responded with gunwales on the one hand, and on the other hand dealt with the nearboard point with muskets and grenades, and at the same time desperately fired at the Taiping pontoon bridge whenever they seized the opportunity, destroying the Taiping pontoon bridge at all costs.

Without a military sampan to protect the nearboard, and unable to give full play to the advantage of fast speed and large tonnage, the Wu Army's naval division once fought very hard, the wooden hull was ignited by the Taiping Army's rocket spray canisters many times, and the too scarce gunwales could not effectively suppress the Taiping Army's shore firepower, the hull was damaged many times, and at the same time, it was difficult to see in the dark night, and the shells from the heavy guns on the bow of the ship, not to mention accurately hitting the Taiping Army's pontoon, even if they hit the enemy's pontoon bridge, they did not know, and fell into a bitter battle.

But fortunately, Wu Jun's naval division also has an advantage is the water flow, with the water flow of Poyang Lake into the Yangtze River, the Wu Junshui division soldiers seized the opportunity to release the floating thunder, basically can encounter the Taiping Army's pontoon bridge exploded, the first pontoon bridge to bear the brunt of the mine explosion one after another, seriously injured, gradually close to scrapping.

Don't say that Xu Lai, the commander of the Wu Army's naval division, was going crazy, exchanging four precious steam cannon ships for the Taiping Army's three pontoon bridges, it was Wu Chaoyue's crazy tactics of self-abandoning martial arts that forced Xu Lai to this point.

After the main fleet has been transferred, the Wu Army's naval division under Xu Lai's command has little advantage in front of the Taiping Army's Hukou Naval Division, and if it rushes to Poyang Hukou with red single boats and military sampan clusters, it will definitely slow down the fleet and give the Taiping Army's steam gunboats a chance to catch up.

Then with the help of the Taiping Army's land shore artillery, the advantage of the Wu Army's naval division will be gone, and the Taiping Army's Hukou pontoon bridge is destined to pay more price, so in order to complete Wu Chaoyue's order to destroy the Taiping Army's pontoon bridge, Xu Lai has no choice but to use the steam cannon ship and the sail force separately, and use the high mobility of the steam cannon ship to impact the pontoon bridge first, and hit the Taiping Army Naval Division with a time difference. Fortunately, Wu Jun had a dock where he could repair the ship on his own, and as long as the steam gunboat was not directly sunk, there was no need to worry about repairing it.

Of course, there is also a danger in Xu Lai's arrangement, that is, the Taiping Army's sailors also have a choice to give priority to the sail force of the Wu Army's sail division, and then concentrate on killing the Wu Army's steam gunboats. Fortunately, Xu Lai had also considered this problem before, when the fireworks rose in the night sky in the rear to give an alarm, Xu Lai immediately commanded the Wu army's steam gunboat to turn around, and hurriedly rushed back to the rear team to meet the sailing fleet to meet the Taiping Army Naval Division, leaving the Taiping Army on both sides of the ferry to make a flute in the same place, I don't understand why the Wu Army Naval Division came to fight and ran away?

With the guidance of the fireworks that rose from time to time, the four Wu army steam gunboats that were moving at full speed soon met the sailing fleet of the Self-Army that was smooth sailing, and at the same time, the Taiping Army sailors who were chasing all the way were already in sight. ”

The flagships were flagged with torches, and most of the Wu army's sail warships turned around, cooperating with the steam gunboats of the self-army to meet the Taiping army's sailors, while the two red single boats and forty military sampans continued to advance under the leadership of Wang Pengnian, a fellow countryman of Wu's hometown, and continued to kill the Taiping army's Hukou defense line, which had been swept once by the Wu army's steam gunboats with large-caliber guns, and undertook the heavy task of completely destroying the Taiping army's pontoon bridge.

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When the Wu Army Sailor and the Taiping Army Sailor officially started to fight on the wide water surface of Poyang Lake, Shi Dakai also decisively gave the order to ignite the fire, and the lead at the entrance of the tunnel was ignited, and he quickly drilled into the depths of the tunnel with a sigh of joy, and Shi Dakai, who had already been on the front line to command the operation, also raised his heart to his throat, for fear that his old opponent Wu Chaoyue would make another strange move and destroy his tunnel siege tactics first.

Every minute and every second of time became extremely long for Shi Dakai, but fortunately, after a long tormented wait, Shi Dakai finally waited for the muffled thunderous noise, and at the same time, he clearly felt the ground under his feet jump a few times. However, Shi Dakai closed his eyes nervously, for fear of seeing the scene of the failure of the blasting - when the Taiping army attacked Changsha, there were several tragedies in which the detonation was successful but the city wall was not blown up.

"Collapsed! The walls of Jiujiang have collapsed! ”

Fortunately, the loud sound of the collapse of the city wall and the cheers of the Taiping soldiers successively drilled into Shi Dakai's ears, and when Shi Dakai raised the telescope to check in surprise, he was even more surprised to see that the Jiujiang city wall had been blown up by the self-army and a large gap of no less than six zhang wide, and the collapsed earth and stone also formed a ramp into the city on its own.

"Heavenly Father willing!" After cheering from the bottom of his heart, Shi Dakai did not hesitate, and immediately shouted: "Beat the drum!" Total Attack! ”

That's right, it's a direct general attack! Encountering such a despicable and vicious opponent as Wu Chaoyue, Shi Dakai knew very well that he would never have much chance to strike first, so he decided early on to go all out to attack as long as the blasting was successful, and do his best to kill people in the city and set fire, burn Wu Chaoyue's food, and ask for Wu Chaoyue's life!

"Kill!" With the shouts of thunder, the Taiping soldiers were divided into four routes, one was responsible for impacting the gap in the city wall, one was responsible for carrying gunpowder to impact the city gate, and the other two were carrying flying ladders to directly impact the intact city wall of the east gate of Jiujiang, and directly launched an ant-attached siege! At the same time, the heavy artillery of the Taiping Army, which had already been in place, also fired wildly, bombarding the large and small cannons at the head of Jiujiang City at a speed far beyond usual!

The gunfire on the city wall was sparse, and the well-prepared Taiping soldiers forgot their lives, one after another carrying ropes directly into the moat to swim across the river, and quickly built a series of pontoon bridges across the river on the moat, and the Taiping commandos who were responsible for impacting the gap and the Taiping soldiers who were attacking the city gate were risking greater danger to cross the river directly from the stone bridge, and rushed to their own targets more quickly.

In the telescope, the Taiping commando team successfully rushed into the gap in the city wall, and the demolition team quickly piled up gunpowder bags under the east gate of Jiujiang......

At the same time, the soldiers of the Taiping Army who crossed the river on the pontoon bridge also put the first flying ladder on the Jiujiang city wall, and the first Taiping warrior began to climb up on the flying ladder......

It was so smooth that Shi Dakai couldn't believe that this was true, but the beautiful facts quickly told him that he was not dreaming, and after another loud bang, the east gate of Jiujiang was opened, and the Taiping soldiers guarding the other side of the stone bridge cheered and thundered, and launched a direct charge towards the urn city at the east gate of Jiujiang without hesitation......

"Heavenly Father willing—!" Shi Dakai clenched his fists and waved them to the sky, and there were already tears flashing in his eyes......

"The Wing King is eight thousand years old, look! What is that?! ”

Zeng Jinqian's reminder made Shi Dakai end his excitement and look at the head of Jiujiang City, but he didn't need to raise the telescope at all, Shi Dakai clearly saw that above the night sky at the east gate of Jiujiang, a huge fireworks had bloomed at some point, red flame Venus, dazzling.

"Why are there fireworks? That's obviously a signal! An ominous premonition suddenly enveloped Shi Dakai's heart, like a rope, and suddenly strangled Shi Dakai to breathe......

"Truly, ......! Hahahaha......! Hehehehehehe......! ”

Shi Dakai was too far away to hear it, but the Taiping soldiers who rushed to the city to launch an ant-attached attack, as well as the Taiping warriors who rushed directly into the urn city at the east gate of Jiujiang, clearly heard a burst of strange laughter above their heads, lewdness with viciousness, evil mixed with cruelty, just like a long-entrenched poisonous snake saw its prey fall into a trap and spit out a sizzling sound from its split tongue......

Then, the bitter acid grenades that were so numerous that the Taiping soldiers could not believe that they suddenly fell from the sky, smashed into the city and exploded one after another, exploding one after another, countless shrapnel flew sideways, and the Taiping warriors who were launching the ant-attached siege to the city also screamed and fell into a pool of blood one after another......

The soldiers of the Wu Army not only threw down the grenades and ignited the mines planted in the city in advance, but also lowered the jack gate and cut off the retreat of the Taiping warriors in the city with a cruel smile......

In fact, the worst is the Taiping warriors who entered the city from the gap, after entering the city, they first rejoiced in the dark and uninhabited street dwellings, and then charged into the depths of the city, they were not only attacked by cold guns one after another, but also desperately found that they had been surrounded by a semicircular trench and a sheep and horse wall, and when the fireworks signal appeared in the sky, there were countless rockets falling on the houses around them, and those damn houses quickly ignited a skyrocketing fire for no reason, and under their feet, There are also constant landmines......

"We've been tricked! The demon soldiers have been prepared for a long time, and they are deliberately waiting for us to send us to death! ”

The desperate cry echoed under the east gate of Jiujiang, coming from the gap between the urn city and the city wall, although Shi Dakai in the distance couldn't hear these sounds, his heart was still like a knife, and his eyes were black one after another, if it wasn't for the great responsibility on his shoulders, Shi Dakai really wanted to faint directly, escape this cruel reality, and even more wanted to hide his face with his hands and cry loudly......

"Beyond the little demon, you are too poisonous! Cat and mouse play to this point, you can be considered the pinnacle! ”

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There was no agreement in advance, but it was a coincidence that when the Wu army in Jiujiang suddenly exerted its strength, the Daye Wu army on the side of the battlefield also suddenly exerted its strength, and suddenly hit a large number of grenadier shells on the other side of the river, and at the same time directly swam across the river to launch a charge, and quickly occupied the riverbank position while grabbing the pontoon bridge.

Seeing this scene, the Taiping army, which had been bombarded by the Wu army's steam gunboats, thought that it was a bargain to take advantage of, and mustered up the courage to quickly assemble an army to charge the Wu army's beachhead, wanting to drive the Wu army back into the river and try to eliminate the Wu army's soldiers, but they were not only bombarded by the Wu army's grenadiers one after another, but also extremely desperate to see that the Wu soldiers who rushed across the river actually all took out Henry's guns, lying on the ground and shooting at them again and again, and at the same time, in the darkness on the opposite bank, there were also cold guns. With the light of the picric flames, they hit their companions one after another with great accuracy.

"How did Lao Tzu run into the pro-military camp that surpassed the little demon?!"

After screaming in fear, Hong Ronghai, who was on duty at the cable chopping mouth, did not dare to hesitate, and immediately grabbed a personal soldier, and shouted with red eyes: "Go and report to the Wing King 8,000 years old, we have met the elite demon soldiers with repeating foreign guns, and it is impossible for the cable to hold for long, please get an idea!" ”

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On the third battlefield, the Wu Army's naval commando led by Wang Pengnian was also in full swing with the Taiping Army guarding the pontoon bridge. Although the assault team of the Wu Army's naval division only had two fragile old-fashioned red single boats that could output stable firepower, and the caliber of the gunwales was seriously not large enough, the land and shore guns of the Taiping Army had already been cleaned by the Wu army's steam gunboats, and the firepower had also been greatly reduced, and they could no longer deal with the old-fashioned red single boats as easily as usual.

The Red Single Boat was responsible for the artillery battle, and the 40 Wu Army Sampan Clippers were specially responsible for destroying the Taiping Army's water pontoon bridge, fighting fiercely with the Taiping Army's small boats with muskets, pistols and grenades, and at the same time, they seized the opportunity to place explosives on the Taiping Army pontoon bridge, and it was directly Dana explosives! In the rumbling explosion, the three pontoon bridges of the Taiping Army also collapsed and broke one after another, and unless they were repaired, there was no way for the Taiping soldiers to cross the river.

Of course, the Taiping Army still has a chance, that is, on the fourth battlefield, on the lake battlefield where the naval division will fight the decisive battle, if the Taiping Army's naval division can win, there is still hope to turn the situation around and cover the main force of the Taiping Army to calmly withdraw to the east bank of Poyang Lake......