After receiving the good news of seizing Caoqiao, Wang Kefan immediately ordered the Chu army to retreat on all fronts and get rid of the entanglement of the Qing army.

The sudden defeat of the Chu army, which was still stubbornly resisting just now, made Geng Zhongming overjoyed, although this change was a bit abrupt, he didn't care about figuring out the reason, and immediately waved his troops to rush forward and join forces with the trapped Luck Dehun.

When the two armies met, there was a thunderous roar of joy, and Leke Dehun grabbed Geng Zhongming's arm, vibrated it twice, and then shouted loudly to the surroundings: "Huaishun Wang Bingfeng pointed out, the southern thief collapsed, I really deserve to be a famous king of the Qing Dynasty!" ”

"Good at fighting! Good at fighting! The Heavenly Blessing soldiers shouted in unison, and their morale shook the sky.

"This king is just a pawn, Dorobelle is the first hero to win this battle, and he can be called the world's best and most handsome!" Qi Jian Po Mu, the most refined in the army, is a sentence in the enlightenment reading book "Thousand Words", referring to Bai Qi, Wang Qian, Lian Po, Li Mu four famous generals in the Warring States Period, although Geng Zhongming is a military general, he also knows this sentence.

"Qi Jian Po Shepherd, unparalleled handsome!" The Eight Banners raised their arms and cheered, and the wind and clouds changed color.

The scene of the meeting of the army was so spectacular, the officers and soldiers of the Qing Dynasty were all enthusiastic, and it seemed that they had trampled the enemy into powder with iron hooves, and no one paid attention to it, and a military academy with an anxious face squeezed into the crowd and whispered something in Geng Jimao's ear.

The smile on Geng Jimao's face suddenly disappeared, and he took two steps forward to Geng Zhongming's side, and whispered, "Father, Caoqiao and Shigu Mountain are lost. ”

Geng Zhongming was suddenly stunned.

Lucked froze.

The surrounding generals were also stunned.

The pro-soldier military academies on the periphery were stunned.

It was as if it had suddenly turned into winter. The atmosphere suddenly froze, expanding in circles, and tens of thousands of Qing soldiers closed their mouths. They looked at each other blankly, at a loss......

Since that night, the sound of artillery on Shigu Mountain has not stopped.

The Chu army suddenly seized across the steaming river, seized Shigu Mountain, and jumped behind the Qing army, and the supply line of the 50,000-strong army was threatened by Yanzhòng, and Luckdehun was even more arrogant. Don't dare to risk sitting idly by.

According to his original intention, he was to divide his troops into two routes, and launch an attack on Caoqiao along both banks of the Steaming River at the same time with the cooperation of the water division. However, the Yuezhou battalion and the Puqi battalion of the Chu army were all eyeing the flanks, and the pontoon bridge became a heavy burden again.

If there are too few troops left on the north bank, they will become the target of the Chu army. If there are too many troops left. Unable to ensure the safety of the grain route on the south bank, Luckedhun had no choice but to leave a partial division, build a camp and repair the village in front of the pontoon bridge, and temporarily take a defensive position, but most of the main forces retreated across the steaming water river and launched a fierce attack on Shigu Mountain.

At the beginning, the main force of the Qing army had not yet arrived, and Luck Dehun hurriedly ordered the Qing army in Hengyang to attack. The Chu army relied on the eight captured red-coated cannons, plus the superior strength of the Gongyi battalion and the Tongcheng battalion. Light yì repelled Jin Li's attack.

The next day, the Eight Banners and Tianyou soldiers who withdrew to the south bank arrived one after another, and the Qing army's offensive was extremely fierce, but the Gongyi Battalion and the Tongcheng Battalion gritted their teeth and did not retreat, and they have been sticking around Shigu Mountain.

The Tianyou soldiers immediately set up cannons and fiercely bombarded the positions of the Chu army, and the Chu army also used the red-coated artillery to return fire, and the two armies launched a fierce artillery battle.

The sailors of the Qing army rushed to support.

The artillery of the Chu army also rushed to support.

There is a grass bridge connecting the two banks of the steaming water, the artillery of the Chu army came to Shigu Mountain in a steady stream, almost occupying this hill, and the later ones could only build artillery positions under the mountain, they have been spectators in the battle in the previous few days, and they have long held back their fighting spirit, and the artillery hit hard and accurately.

There are more and more warships of the Qing army, and there are more and more cannons in Shigushan, and the stone mountain is much stronger than the wooden boats after all.

On the land side, the artillery of the Tianyou soldiers concentrated all the artillery, and several Shenwei general guns fired continuously day and night, but the artillery of the Chu army occupied a geographical advantage and could fully support it in the counter-fire. Among them, Du Chengbiao, who had just surrendered, was particularly outstanding, and he was not merciless in the face of his old boss in the past, and he broke two great generals' cannons, and Tianyou had no choice but to take the artillery position back a thousand steps, although he became safe, the threat to Shigu Mountain was much smaller.

After three consecutive days of fierce fighting, Shigu Mountain was firmly in the hands of the Chu army, and Geng Zhongming could not hold on and withdrew his troops from Luckdehunti.

"The southern thief and a tiger have entered Hengyang, the forward is less than twenty miles away from Zhaojiawan, and it can be rushed to the battlefield in one day and one night, the battle situation in Hengyang is already irreparable, it is better to take advantage of the fact that the southern thief has not yet been encircled, and withdraw the soldiers and horses to Changsha......" Geng Zhongming said more and more quietly, for fear that the arrogant Luck Dehun would be angry, and lowered his head and did not dare to look at his eyes.

Unexpectedly, Luck Dehun did not burst into a rage, and it took a long time to hear him mutter: "Changsha, Changsha, can withdrawing to Changsha turn the tide of the war?" ”

Geng Zhongming looked up and saw that Luck's eyes were bloodshot, his former heroic face was full of ashes, and his lips were covered with burning bubbles, and he couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh, why are you so sick!" ”

"I'm not sick, I'm just exhausted." Lucke shook his head with a wry smile: "The generals are incompetent, tired of the three armies, I am the same as Zhao Kuo who talks on paper, I was originally a mediocre talent, and I saw Wang Kefan repeatedly defeated, so I am not worthy of being the commander of the three armies at all." ”

Rigid is easy to break, Luck Dehun is a young man, smooth sailing, almost no setbacks, and now facing the inevitable defeat, his mind is suddenly chaotic.

"Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, although they are defeated today, they will make a comeback tomorrow, and then they will fight with Wang Thief, why should Baylor care, he should still evacuate Hengyang at the moment......" Seeing that he was so depressed, Geng Zhongming sighed in his heart, and hurriedly persuaded him. The general has the courage of the soldiers, and the commander has lost his fighting spirit, and the morale of the 50,000-strong army will immediately plummet, and this battle will be even more impossible to fight.

"No, I'm not leaving!" Luck Dehun suddenly exclaimed excitedly: "I am deeply favored by the emperor and the regent, and I led tens of thousands of Eight Banners to march south to Huguang, but in the past three years, I have not built an inch, and I have lost my troops and generals, so why do I go back like this!" If a tiger comes, let's come, let He Tengjiao also come, Ben Beile will fight to the death with it, and he will be ashamed! ”

No matter how Geng Zhongming persuaded him, Luck Dehun was resolutely unwilling to escape, since he couldn't defeat the Ming army in Hengyang, what was the difference when he arrived in Changsha, it was better to stay here and fight, and it was better to survive in death, maybe there was still a possibility of victory.

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After taking a look, the number of monthly tickets has now reached 107, except for when the monthly ticket was doubled, the book had hundreds of monthly tickets for the first time, and I would like to bow and thank you deeply.

Not counting the chapter that made up yesterday in the early morning.,Today's three mores.,Three more a day is nothing to Kuaishou.,But for me, this hand handicapped is an unprecedented "feat".,How much can I express my gratitude.,Thank you again for your support! (To be continued......)