Fang Juntai led his master to the Danyang City Defense Bureau, and asked several of the regimental training leaders to send people to inquire in the direction of Lucheng Town on the south side of the canal, and then sent people to the Jiangbei camp in Zhenjiang Fucheng to ask for help. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After the arrangements were made, several leaders of the regimental training went out separately.

In the afternoon, Fang Juntai drank two cups of tea, and when the time was almost up, he was about to lead him to the city wall to see the city defense situation, and only then did he walk out of the gate of the city defense bureau, and he heard a regimental leader hurrying to report: "County master, the big thing is not good, at noon, Feng Zhaofan fled from the north gate with several carriages of gold and silver treasures, and more than 100 family members. ”

"What?" Fang Juntai's lungs exploded, and he shouted angrily: "What about those city gate guards? And Tuan Yong of the City Defense Bureau, are they all blind, why don't you stop him? ”

The leader of the regimental training said resignedly: "The city gate guard is a thousand general masters in the Hezhou town army. That Feng Zhaofan gave him a box of jewelry gold beads and a box of silver ingots, he pulled out the knife and said let go, who would dare to say a word? He also specially sent five officers and soldiers to escort Feng Zhaofan to Dantu. ”

"Bastard! This gang of bandits, Danyang City is going to be bad in their hands! Fang Juntai was furious, but he didn't dare to go to Ji Shun, the chief soldier of Hezhou Town, so he had to ask the leader of the regiment to strictly guard the city gate.

Fang Juntai considered that there were no sailors in the city, so he could not defend against the water thieves who came from the canal to attack the city. Therefore, he ordered the city defense bureau to command the people in the city to close the north and south water gates, and seal the stagger gate with stakes and stones.

In the evening, the group came to report that many wealthy merchants and squires had fled from Danyang City with their families, and thousands of people were also clamoring to leave the city at the city gate.

At this time, Fang Juntai couldn't sit still, he knew in his heart that without these rich merchants and squires, there would be no money and food to defend Danyang City, and without these people, there would be no people to help defend the city.

So, he hurriedly led hundreds of regiments to the north gate with the largest number of escapees. Fang Juntai ordered that the squires and people in the city could only go out of the city by women, the elderly and children, and the young and strong were not allowed to go out of the city, so they could only stay in Danyang City and assist the government in defending the city.

The elderly, weak, women and children can only take their clothes and belongings with them when they leave the city, and it is forbidden to take gold, silver, money, etc. out of the city, and the rest of the grain is not allowed to be carried out of the city except for the small grain and rice such as the ration of each person, and all the grain, rice, gold and silver of those who violate the order are confiscated.

At this order, chaos suddenly erupted at the city gate. The people have rumored that there is a shortage of food in Danyang City, and the government confiscates the people's property and blocks the city gate to rush out of the city. Fang Juntai hurriedly asked for help from the green battalion soldiers of the Qing army stationed in the city to disperse the besieged people.

In the evening of the same day, due to the rumors of the people, Tuan Yong and the green battalion soldiers also thought that the food in the city was insufficient, coupled with the weak defensive forces, the soldiers in the city began to rob the people's property, and also grabbed strong men everywhere and sent them to the city tower to assist in the defense, and the city of Danyang was suddenly in chaos. And the people have nowhere to go, they can only endure being bullied by the group braves, complaining, and miserable. As a result, the people who were originally said by the government to be afraid of the thieves were now the most afraid and hated of the officers and soldiers, and they still had the idea that it was better to let the thieves occupy Danyang City earlier.

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On the morning of the next day, seven or eight miles outside Danyang City, on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, a dense burst of war drums and horns sounded.

Escorted by dozens of warships in front, the troop transport ship leaned to the left bank of the canal, and the officers and men of the 1st Volunteer Division, who had rested in the cabin for the night, went ashore with weapons in their hands under the leadership of their own officers, and marched in a vast array in the open space on the bank of the river.

Shi Fengkui put on a red robe and held a long knife, majestic and majestic.

"Report, Deputy Division Commander Shi, Division Commander Shi received an order from Division Commander Lin, the commander of the Northern Expedition, that the task of our Yiyi Division is to set up a defense line in the area of Jiangjia Mountain in the northwest of the city by detouring to Quanzhou Town, nine miles west of Danyang City, to intercept the Qing demons fleeing to the west and north. And Deputy Division Commander Shi, the 4,000 soldiers on the left flank of our Yiyi Division, are under your command, and the task is to block the area from Donggangtou to Quanzhou Town in the southwest of Danyang City. However, Division Commander Shi specially explained that because the friendly 3rd and 6th Divisions were still behind and still needed more than half an hour to arrive, the officers and men of the left wing needed to wait an hour before they could officially set off. A herald ran to Shi Fengkui to pray.

Shi Fengkui, as the deputy general in charge of the left wing of the Yiyi Division, had to listen to the dispatch of his younger brother Shi Zhenji.

"Ben knows! You go back to the Commander of the Stone Division, and the left wing promises not to let a Qing demon escape. After Shi Fengkui finished speaking, he turned around and ordered the soldiers on the left wing of his Yiyi Division to integrate the four thousand soldiers under him.

After waiting for half a pillar of incense, Shi Fengkui became impatient, thinking that according to that information, there were more than 5,000 Qing demons in Danyang City, but he was afraid that he would not dare to leave the city at all. He still led people to seize the area from Nadong Gangtou to Quanzhou Town earlier to complete the blockade.

Anyway, even if the Qing Demon dares to go out of the city, there are not many of them, and his four thousand soldiers will not be afraid of him?

So, Shi Fengkui ordered 4,000 soldiers on the left flank to march to the northwest.

After walking a little forward for three or four miles, when I just passed a cottage called Qianzhao Village, a large group of Qing demon soldiers suddenly appeared in front of me. Shi Fengkui was overjoyed when he saw the hunt, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to meet him and intercept and kill.

Unexpectedly, although this Qing demon is only 3,000 people, the soldiers who killed at the front are all strong, they seem to be Miao soldiers, fierce and abnormal, and they are not afraid of death. Shi Fengkui's subordinates still held the blades of the Taiping Army, most of them were knives and spears, and there were not many shotguns, so they could only rush up and kill them, wanting to engage with the Qing Demon Soldiers.

Unexpectedly, the other party was the Danyang general Deng Shaoliang led the three thousand Xiangxi Yongshun soldiers, all the way to follow Xiang Rong from Guangxi to Jiangnan, are the Qing army in a hundred battles, the most elite troops, in addition to the front equipped with knives and spears, there are more than 1,000 musketeers behind, everyone is armed with bird guns, the firepower is sharp, the left wing of the Yiyi Division who wants to rush to kill the past can not raise their heads, it is difficult to rush over.

Only then did Shi Fengkui realize that he was careless! In the left wing led by him, 1,000 of them were the elite of the original Wing King, and the other 3,000 people were under Yang Fuqing and Tu Zhenxing, but they were also the elite soldiers of the Taiping Army, but he never expected that in this small Danyang City, the army of the Qing Demon would be so fierce, to be honest, even if the other party's musket was not so sharp, it would be difficult for his 4,000 Taiping soldiers to win.

Finally, Shi Fengkui took advantage of the fact that the opponent's musket was changing dressings and the gunfire was not so dense, so he launched an offensive and rushed to the opponent's position. But then, what surprised him even more was that the more than 1,000 Miao soldiers who stood up in front of the Qing Demon on the opposite side were naked, slashing and slashing with their knives like crazy, and the murderous spirit was taken away, and more than 1,000 Miao soldiers actually resisted the attack of Shi Fengkui and their left-wing soldiers.

And the rows of shotgunners behind the Qing Demon who had loaded the gunpowder and relieved their breath turned back to the side and began to put their guns in a dense manner.

For a time, the left-wing soldiers were killed and wounded by the Qing army, and Shi Fengkui, who came to his senses, regretted it and hurriedly ordered to retreat.

The Qing army on the opposite side was willing to let go easily and took advantage of the situation to chase after them.

Shi Fengkui led the remaining more than 3,000 left-wing soldiers to travel back for two miles, and suddenly there was a neat and thunderous sound of footsteps in front, and when he looked up, it was a large group of begging soldiers in uniform gray uniforms who were killing.

Shi Fengkui was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered to gather the left-wing soldiers, dodge aside, and make way for the passage.

It was the 6,000 captive troops of the 3rd Division B, who came to the rescue under the personal leadership of the division commander Lin Qirong.

Shi Fengkui finally stopped his soldiers and prepared to attack the Qing army from the flank in a roundabout way.

But he heard a fierce rushing sound that shook the sky, and when he looked up, he found that on the battlefield on the side, the soldiers of the 3rd Division B were already facing the Qing Demon who was chasing over.

Obviously, the Qing Demon also wanted to defeat the captives in front of him like attacking the Yiyi Division. Several rows of shotgunners were gathered in front of them, and on the back were more than a thousand topless Miao soldiers, rushing towards them with a rainbow of momentum.

With a burst of gunfire like thunder, both sides opened fire at the same time, but with very different effects. On the side of the captive army, the smoke after the musket was fired, and it was completely impossible to see what the situation was, but on the side of the Qing demon, it fell in rows like cut leeks. The spearmen of the Qing Demon were frightened, and they didn't dare to rush forward anymore, and wanted to retreat, but they were piled up by the thousands of seedling soldiers who rushed from behind, and they had to scatter on both sides.

And on the side of the smoky begging army, there was still a dense burst of gunfire, and in the half-pillar of incense, it did not stop at all, and tens of thousands of gunshots covered the area of the Qing army, Shi Fengkui only heard that the original majestic shouting and killing of the Qing demon was gone, and it turned into all kinds of screams and cries.

Seeing that some of the remnants of the Qing Demon Musketeers wanted to flee to the side, Shi Fengkui hurriedly led his men to stop them, preparing to intercept and kill these defeated Qing Demon soldiers.

Unexpectedly, another dense burst of gunfire rang out, and before the Qing demon soldiers could run to them, they were already scattered, hundreds of people turned into corpses or poor bloody people struggling and wailing, and the remaining more than 1,000 Qing soldiers abandoned their swords and guns on the spot, either crawling on the ground and shouting surrender, or trying to flee back.

However, at some point, from the back of the Qing Demon, thousands of captives were surrounded and blocked the retreat of the Qing Demon. And the 1,000 vigorous Miao soldiers, seeing that the retreat route was blocked, were like crazy, and desperately rushed to the begging army formation that had just dispersed from the gunsmoke, trying to desperately break out.

However, the next moment, Shi Fengkui saw this menacing topless Miao soldier, which turned into a terrible joke. They were like straw men, falling down as the gunfire rang out, and before they could rush to the front of the captive army, more than half of them were killed or wounded. The rest of them were stupid this time, and retreated, but as soon as they turned around, they were covered by a rain of bullets from front and back.

Human life is like a mustard! Even Shi Fengkui, who killed the enemy like hemp, felt a chill in his heart. He found that this group of Qing demons, in the eyes of these murderous machine-like captives, were not living people at all, but grass targets.