Considering Wu Chaoyue's treacherous and cunning, before the implementation of the blasting tactics, in fact, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao and other Taiping Army generals were already mentally prepared for the failure of the plan, but what Lin Fengxiang and others never expected was that the tunnel blasting tactics would be so smooth and successful, so smooth that Lin Fengxiang and other Taiping Army generals couldn't believe it.

It doesn't matter if you can't believe it, seeing that the Jiangyin city wall was blown out of a gap five zhang wide, and quietly pinched his thigh to verify that he was not dreaming, Lin Fengxiang did not hesitate to give the attack order, and the siege assault team composed of six hundred elite soldiers served as the vanguard, and under the leadership of the general Wang Yizhong, the first charge was launched to the gap in the city wall, and then there were 1,500 auxiliary troops carrying flying ladders to charge, responsible for the ants attached to the city and sharing the pressure for the commando, and a large number of archers and musketeers followed, Responsible for long-range attacks to suppress the Qing Army archers in the city.

The Qing army on the city wall was obviously caught off guard by the Taiping army, and while the Taiping army's artillery continued to roar, none of the Qing artillery on the city wall fired back, and at the same time, Wu Chaoyue's big banner of Wu characters with teeth and claws did not appear on the city wall, and it was obvious that he had not had time to fight in the city. Seeing this in the telescope, Lin Fengxiang was of course secretly happy in his heart, knowing that the heaven-sent opportunity had arrived, and there was already hope for revenge from the army.

When the Taiping commando team rushing to the side of the moat at full speed, sporadic gunfire rang out on the Jiangyin city wall, and several Taiping warriors were miraculously killed and wounded, but the fighters were rare, and the Taiping soldiers still did not flinch and timid, and risked their lives at any time to set up four trench bridge vehicles on the moat one after another, and built four temporary river bridges. When Wang Yizhong gave another order, more than 500 Taiping warriors opened the way with shields. Defend your head and chest and stride across the moat, rushing up the remains of the walls that had been blown down by gunpowder. strode into Jiangyin City, and the cheers of the successful assault suddenly echoed in the Taiping Army commandos.

At the same time, seeing the soldiers of the self-army rushing into Jiangyin City on broken bricks and broken walls like a tide, a big stone in Lin Fengxiang's heart suddenly fell to the ground, and his resolute face showed a rare smile of relief, and muttered, "Go beyond the little demon, move slowly." The slower you move, the better our hopes of breaking the city! ”

The speed of the Qing army's response once again made Lin Fengxiang overjoyed, in the shout, the Taiping Army ant team has already used the trench bridge car to build many bridges across the river, the Qing soldiers on the city wall still have not launched a strong counterattack, watching the Taiping Army's ant warriors carry the ladder across the river one after another, one after another put the ladder on the head of Jiangyin City, the ecstatic Taiping soldiers continue to step on the ladder and go up............

"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”

The sudden roar of artillery completely shattered the dream of the Taiping soldiers to take Jiangyin City in one fell swoop, and the sound of artillery fire. One after another, the shells accurately hit the artillery team of the Taiping Army, and the shells bounced off on the ground, jumping in all directions, killing and wounding many Taiping gunners. He also smashed the gun emplacements of two Taiping Army guns. Then, where the Qing army's shells landed, four violent explosions sounded one after another. When the flames burst out, many of the Taiping gunners were blown off the ground by the air waves. There was even a martyrdom of a Taiping Army artillery, and the Taiping Army artillery team, which was still extremely well-organized just now, was also in chaos.

"How is that possible?!"

Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao exclaimed at the same time. An ominous premonition immediately enveloped the hearts of Lin and Wu, "Qing Demon, how come it seems to be well prepared?!" ”

There is indeed a very adequate preparation, at the same time as the cannon at the head of the city, the head of Jiangyin, which was originally few defenders, suddenly surged with people, and a number of big trees smashed to the top of the Taiping army's flying ladder, knocking several Taiping army flying ladders backwards and falling over, and the Taiping soldiers who were stepping on the ladder were caught off guard, and they all screamed and fell into the moat, either falling to death, or falling into serious injuries.

At the same time, there are also hail raindrops of lime bottles and sheep's head stones, the quicklime powder that continues to pour down like haze shrouded the heads of the Taiping soldiers, the eyes are sprinkled with quicklime and cannot see, the mouth and nose are sprinkled with difficult to breathe, and the Taiping soldiers who are hit by the sheep's head stones are either dead or injured. At the same time, there were many muskets firing at the Taiping soldiers who were climbing, and the Taiping soldiers who were shot and wounded one after another, and the Taiping army's ant offensive was suddenly crippled.

Compared with the commandos of the Taiping Army, the ants of the Taiping Army are actually lucky, and the really tragic is the Taiping Army Commando, which seems to have successfully entered the Jiangyin City, just heard the sudden cannon fire at the head of the city, the experienced Wang Yizhong already suspected that the self-army had been ambushed, and the result was not surprising, and the Taiping warriors who rushed in front soon shouted, "It's a plan!" Fence ahead! There are also sheep and horse walls and trenches! ”

When the tiger's body shook, Wang Yizhong just wanted to rush forward to check the situation, but the screams sounded first from the side and back, Wang Yizhong quickly turned his head to look, but saw that in the open place behind the city wall, a deep pit suddenly appeared, and several Taiping soldiers were shouting loudly, "It's a trap!" A brother has fallen! ”

In fact, this trap was not deliberately dug by Wu Chaoyue, but the deep pit dug by Wu Chaoyue when he set up the ground before, and determined the location of the tunnel of the Taiping Army.

The situation was critical, of course Wang Yizhong didn't have time to check the life and death of the fallen soldiers, but he hurriedly stepped forward to see the Qing army's fortifications in the city, and what made Wang Yizhong gasp was that his army not only had an insurmountable deep and wide trench in front of him, but also dense antlers and strong fences, behind the fence was a chest-high bulletproof sheep and horse wall, and behind the wall was the strict Wu army Lianyong. At the same time, in the key points of the road in the city, there is also a half-high earthen platform, and there is also Wu Jun Lianyong standing on the platform.

Didn't wait for Wang Yizhong to continue to take a closer look, Wu Jun Lian Yong behind the sheep and horse wall had already begun to raise his gun to shoot, although Wu Chaoyue in order to save bullets, let these self-army Lian Yong guarding the fortifications in the city all use carbines, the rate of fire is far less fast than the firing pin gun, but in the case of the sheep and horse wall to protect most of the vital points of the body, this weakness has been completely offset, no matter how slow the carbine is, as long as it hits, it can also cause huge casualties to the Taiping army. However, most of the musket bullets fired by the soldiers of the Taiping Army hit the sheep and horse walls, which basically did not pose any powerful threat to Wu Jun's training and bravery. The musket shot at Wu Jun Lian Yong still had the upper hand, and continued to beat the Taiping army.

The fierce musket battle lasted less than ten minutes. The Taiping commandos were already unable to parry - the casualty figure quickly reached 100, while the Wu army Lian Yong behind the sheep and horse wall had less than 10 people, and at the same time, several Taiping warriors who ventured to cross the deep trench and melee also gave their lives in vain, either failing to jump over the deep trench and falling in, or barely jumping over the deep trench but were immediately knocked over by Wu Jun Lianyong's musket. Seeing this scene, Wang Yizhong could only hurriedly order, "All enter the room, hold the positions in the city first, and wait for reinforcements!" ”

Command delivery. The soldiers of the Taiping Army quickly smashed the doors and windows and rushed into the neighboring houses, and although these brick and wood houses have a mediocre bulletproof effect, they can also play a good hiding effect, so that Wu Jun Lianyong can no longer accurately hit the Taiping soldiers hiding in the room, and at the same time, the Taiping soldiers can also hide behind the window and shoot back, which somewhat saves some of the situation.

Seeing this situation behind the sheep and horse wall, Zhao Liewen of course hurriedly suggested that Wu Chaoyue immediately set off rockets and burn to death those Taiping soldiers hiding in the houses, Wu Chaoyue replied with a smile: "What's the hurry? Let the long hair be happy first. Wait for their follow-up reinforcements to enter the city again, won't we be able to catch more big fish? ”

was expected by Wu Chaoyue, and after learning about the situation in the city, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao really refused to give up and immediately ordered the troops to be withdrawn. It was only that another 1,000 infantry was immediately sent forward, carrying digging tools and light trench bridge trucks to reinforce the city, in a vain attempt to break down the inner city fortifications in Jiangyin City, which were not very strong. Do your best to break the city.

At the same time, the battle on the ant-attached battlefield is also in full swing. In order to share the pressure on the commando, the soldiers of the Taiping Army were hindered in their advance. Still one after another continue to ascend to the city, like a single-celled animal, they continue to put the ladder on the city wall, and unswervingly step on the ladder to climb the city. The Qing army, on the other hand, relied on its height advantage to fight back frantically, constantly smashing the stone ash bottle on the heads of the Taiping soldiers as much as possible, and the sound of shouts and guns was earth-shattering and resounded in the sky.

During the fierce charge, the follow-up reinforcements of the Taiping army finally rushed into the city wall through the gap, and quickly joined Wang Yizhong who was hiding in a private house. Seeing that the time had come, Wu Chaoyue was not polite, and immediately waved the order flag to send a signal, and the Qing army reserves on the city wall immediately rushed to the gap with the sandbags that had been prepared long ago, and threw sandbags to seal the gap, creating a favorable situation of closing the door and beating the dogs. The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who were ascending to the city with ants, saw that the situation was not good, and they rushed to kill more fiercely, and the intensity of the battle increased again.

At the same time, Wu Jun Lian Yong behind the sheep and horse wall finally shot the first wave of rockets, and the four mortars that had been arranged in the city also fired at the same time, hitting the bitter acid cannonball in a parabolic line on the head of the house where the Taiping soldiers were hiding.

Since the Jintian uprising, the soldiers of the Taiping Army have probably never encountered such a vicious and vicious enemy as Wu Chaoyue - they had expected that they would hide in civilian houses to hide from guns, and they had already hidden firewood and grass in their rooms that had been doused with fire oil and sulfur! The soldiers of the Taiping Army were simply caught off guard when the fire broke out, and countless people were burned to death and burned in the sea of fire, and they rushed out of the house with smoke and fire and had to be hit by Wu Jun's trained carbine as a live target, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no door to go down, the screams and cries were endless, and the scene could not be more miserable.

Rockets continued to shoot on the roof, high-velocity mortars also continued to fire shells, the number of houses that were not very large gradually rose one by one, and gradually turned into huge fires, the helpless Taiping soldiers were completely confused, some sacrificed their lives to impact the fence defense line of Wu Jun's practice bravery, some turned around and fled to the way they came, and more were like headless flies running around in the sea of fire, no matter how much Wang Yizhong shouted and roared, he could no longer control the situation.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army, who tried to get out of the city from the way they came, soon became completely desperate, in the face of the ever-increasing pile of sandbags, their way of coming had long been cut off, and they barely climbed up, and the soldiers of the Qing Army, who had been prepared, continued to throw gunpowder and poured fire oil and already lit bundles to the gap, the flames were blazing, and the gunpowder exploded, burning the Taiping soldiers who climbed up to the ground, burning either dead or wounded, and there were very few Taiping soldiers who could really escape over the sandbag pile.

There is no escape. Advancing and retreating are dead ends, and the voice of the Taiping army, which has always been strong-willed, rarely sounded in the ranks demanding surrender. Wang Yizhong was completely helpless about this, and in the end he could only grit his teeth and stomp his feet. He drew his sword and hacked to death several wavering people who knelt on the ground and surrendered, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, advance and retreat are death!" Rush with me, fight one is enough, fight two to earn one! Kill! ”

"Kill!"

The cohesion is worthy of admiration, although it is known that it is a suicidal charge, but there are still five or six hundred Taiping soldiers who followed Wang Yizhong to grit his teeth and rush to the Wu army's fence defense line. There was also a sad and indignant military song, "Thieves are officials, officials are thieves, and the Qing court is pitch black." Bone ****, skinny bones, Jintian will soon have a new gentleman! Thieves are officials, officials are thieves, and the Qing court is dark. Bone ****, skin and bones. Jintian is about to have a new gentleman out! ”

No matter how tragic and heroic it is, it has no effect, in front of the inner city fortifications charged by the infantry, the warriors of the Taiping army like moths to the fire one after another, and were constantly knocked down by the Wu army behind the sheep and horse wall. The hastily built bridge over the trench was fragile and thin, and it was simply impossible to allow a large number of Taiping warriors to cross the trench quickly, and countless Taiping soldiers were shot on the thin trench bridge. More warriors fell into deep trenches, and occasionally a few grenades fell into the crowd of Taiping warriors. Waves of bright blood waves, bright and poignant blood waves.

Only a very small number of Taiping soldiers were able to cross the deep trenches. But before they could destroy the antlers and reject the horses, and before they even touched the fence, they were knocked down and knocked over by Wu Junlianyong's revolver. The corpses of the Taiping warriors behind the trenches were stacked on top of each other, and the trenches were also full of the corpses of the Taiping warriors and the seriously wounded who were dying. Seeing this scene, Wang Yizhong, who had less than twenty people left around him, had no hope, so he could only put his waist knife across his neck, shouted Long live Heaven, and then cut his carotid artery............

Coincidentally, Wang Yizhong's action of killing himself with a horizontal knife happened to be seen by Wu Chaoyue behind the sheep and horse wall, and saw that the enemy general was desperate to kill himself, but Wu Chaoyue's thin face was not half happy, on the contrary, he quietly recited the lyrics of the military song of the Taiping Army, "Thieves are officials, officials are thieves, and the Qing court is pitch black." Bone ****, skin and bones, Jintian is about to have a new gentleman out of ....... ”

"Brothers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, compatriots of the Taiping Army, you are right in everything, but the last sentence is wrong, that Hong Xiuquan in Jintian is not a new monarch who can change this dark era, or a dou who can't be supported. Otherwise, I'm more willing to follow you and help you kill the demons! ”

In the end, less than 20 of the 1,600 Taiping soldiers who entered the city were able to escape from the city alive. Hearing the bad news that these defeated soldiers brought back, Lin Fengxiang stayed for almost three minutes, and finally came back to his senses, just opened his mouth, Lin Fengxiang spurted out a mouthful of blood, and the person also fell off the war horse at once, Wu Ruxiao and others hurriedly picked up Lin Fengxiang, although his face was gloomy and his chest was churning with blood, Lin Fengxiang still ordered with difficulty: "Mingjin, collect the troops, don't let the brothers die in vain." ”

The golden gong sounded, the Taiping army ant attached team that was struggling on the battlefield of the city wall quickly retreated like a tide, and also left corpses and seriously wounded people all over the ground under the city, the Qing army cheered like thunder, desperately opened fire and fired artillery to expand the results of the battle, the Taiping soldiers were gone and never looked back, and finally escaped to the range of artillery, and many Taiping soldiers cried out of their voices, crying bitterly for their own brothers who died in the city, unwilling but helpless, they could only return to the camp with the main force dejected.

Seeing this situation on the city wall, Zhao Liewen, who was the best at capturing the psychology of others, immediately said to Wu Chaoyue: "Comfort Ting, the morale of the long hair has been depressed, and I am afraid that he will soon withdraw from the siege." ”

Wu Chaoyue nodded, and also believed that the morale of the Taiping army had been exhausted, and then Wu Chaoyue said: "But it is still uncertain whether Changmao will take the initiative to withdraw from the siege, after all, Changmao's overall strength is still above us, and it is possible to get follow-up reinforcements, so for the sake of insurance, we still have to find a way to give Changmao another heavy weight, forcing them to withdraw quickly." ”

was guessed by Wu Chaoyue, despite the painful defeat, the morale was seriously frustrated, and the soldiers were afraid of war, but Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao still didn't want to withdraw the army - the current Wu Jun Lian Yong is already so difficult to fight, if Wu Jun Lian Yong does not seize the opportunity of Wu Jun Lian Yong's lack of ammunition to break the enemy, so that Wu Chaoyue waited for the ammunition and weapons purchased from the foreigners, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao would not dare to imagine how difficult it would be for Wu Jun Lian Yong to fight at that time.

Fortunately, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao still had the last hole card in their hands that had not been played, and after carefully discussing for a long time after collecting the troops and returning to the camp, Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao finally made up their minds and decided to let Liu Lichuan, who had secretly surrendered to the Taiping Army, pretend to escape back to Jiangyin, lurk into the city to contact the remnants of the Liu family army in the city, and try to open the gate of Jiangyin to welcome the Taiping army into the city.

In order to leave the Taiping Army, Liu Lichuan of course agreed to Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao's arrangement, and patted his chest and promised to open the city gate to let the Taiping Army enter. Lin Fengxiang and Wu Ruxiao both saw that Liu Lichuan was not very reliable, but Lin and Wu did not break it, but Wu Ruxiao came forward and warned Liu Lichuan with a smile: "Liu Checkpoint, I know that you and the Transcendence Demon are world friends, but don't forget, what the Qing Demon Court hates the most is the Heaven and Earth Society that opposes the Qing Dynasty and the Restoration of the Ming Dynasty, if you play any tricks, even if you surpass the Little Demon and can tolerate you, the Qing Demon Court will not tolerate you." ”

The horizontal flesh on his face twitched a few times, Liu Lichuan didn't dare to say anything, but just lowered his eyebrows and said: "Prime Minister Lin can rest assured, Liu Jian can rest assured, the little one must be loyal to the kingdom of heaven, and he will never dare to play any tricks." (To be continued.) )