Chapter 18: The Bloody Battle

In the rear battalion, Lin Shaozhang's first four armies did not suffer much loss, and the short-term panic was quickly stopped by Lin Shaozhang, and a group of holy soldiers began to stand by in front of the battalion. Xu Zongyang tiptoed and looked at the Chinese army camp, the fire burning everywhere made him feel that the situation was not good, although he was glad that he was not in the Chinese army at that time, but the guilt of going out to the division was not small. Compared with Xu Zongyang, Lin Shaozhang's pressure is relatively small, after all, the first four armies under his management are unharmed, but he is still very worried about the situation of the Chinese army camp.

"My lord, let's send troops to the rescue." Lin Shaozhang asked Xu Zongyang.

"The situation is unknown, it is better to guard against the Qing Demon's sneak attack again, and send troops in a panic, you will only fall into the ambush of the Qing Demon!"

Hearing Xu Zongyang say this, Lin Shaozhang also felt that there was some reason, and quickly sent more people to find out the news.

Soon, some of the Chinese army's holy soldiers fled one after another, and the news of the explosion of the Chinese army's powder magazine, the inspection of Zhu Xikun, and the ascension of commander Huang Yiyun to heaven spread rapidly. Panic once again enveloped the front four armies, but no one was as frightened as Xu Zongyang, and collapsed to the ground after hearing the news. Zhu Huang and the two ascended to heaven, and he was the only one left among the three commanders, once the king of the east asked for the crime, he would not be blamed on the dead man, and he could only be punished Xu Zongyang!

Lin Shaozhang didn't know what to do, if the two commanders were killed in battle, it would be useless to lead the troops to rescue. Originally, Lin Shaozhang wanted to ask Xu Zongyang, but looking at his wilted appearance, he had to retreat by himself.

The rear army retreated without a fight and completely lost the possibility of turning defeat into victory, which made the Chinese army, which suffered heavy losses and was paralyzed in command, deeply plunged into the massacre of the Qing army......

Qing demon Wen Shaoyuan did not have many green battalion soldiers in his hands, but he gathered the county's regimental training, these soldiers fought hard battles, but at this time, the Taiping army was defeated like a mountain, Wen Shaoyuan allowed the official to reward the knights, how did the regimental training soldiers not work hard. This was an unequal massacre, the Qing army cut off their heads like leeks, most of the Chinese holy soldiers either died or fled, and the fighting gradually became sporadic and sporadic down.

Zhu Xikun is still fighting hard, although he is a checkpoint, but at the beginning of the Jintian Uprising, he was the commander of the army, from Jintian to Tianjing, the higher the official position, the fewer the charges. At present, the Chinese army is lost, and the rear army is lost, so the only way to gather the remnants of the army is to join the front army.

At this moment, most of the Second Left Army also fell into chaos, and after Wang Jingyuan took one part, the commander-in-chief Li Zhenhui and the army commander Peng Yisong also led a division to be stationed elsewhere. After the explosion of the powder magazine, only the supervising army Ning Zongyang of the Second Left Army was in the camp, and now he has lost his usual arrogance.

After Wang Jingyuan heard the explosion, he did not rush back to save the Chinese army, but immediately reorganized the army. There are many demons in the Qing Dynasty, and they are slashing everywhere, Jing Yuan judged that the Taiping army may have been cut into two parts, and it is convenient to be in the second half, and now the fog is heavy at night, so he can only retreat from the battlefield, and urgently order Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang to open the way.

Yuan Hongmo was really brave, wielding a big flower axe, killing people when he met people, killing gods when he met gods, and he was invincible. Hu Yongxiang followed, holding a mountain chopping knife, slashing horizontally and vertically, killing countless people. It was these two people who took the lead in opening the way for the huge regimental formation, breaking through the encirclement of the Qing army every time, and killing the Qing army in chaos. Jing Yuan had never seen such a formation of cold weapons fighting, and the smell of blood in the air made him breathe short, and he held the long sword in his hand tightly to protect Jiang Wan, who was also in the middle of the formation.

After sacrificing dozens of holy soldiers and killing several times the Qing Demon, the rear battalion of the Second Army on the left happened to encounter Li Zhenhui and Peng Yisong, who were also retreating, and at this time, the shouting of the Qing Demon came from the direction of the front army, and the various departments ran desperately to the rear.

It wasn't until dawn that Li Zhenhui, Peng Yisong, and Wang Jingyuan began to gather the rout. From the mouth of the rout, it was learned that Zhu Xikun had joined the front army and headed to the northwest, and Huang Yiyun, the commander of the sixteenth commander on the right side of the palace, had died in the explosion.

In the 19th century, when the industrial society had just begun, there was no greenhouse effect, and the nights in April were still cool. On the hill outside Liuhe City, Wen Shaoyuan, who won the sneak attack, stood on horseback, and he was the Liuhe County Commander of this district, the "Seven Sesame Officials", and he was not even a scholar who was not a donor official, but he did a big thing that no one could have imagined on this night. After the Taiping army broke through Wuchang, all the way east, the momentum was like a bamboo, Lianke Anqing, Jiangning two famous cities, Liangjiang Governor Lu Jianying, Jiangning General Xianghou, Anhui Governor Jiang Wenqing and other first- and second-grade feudal officials were killed one after another, Xiang Rong, who had tens of thousands of troops, did not dare to approach Jinling City, but he Wen Shaoyuan was able to hold the lonely city less than 100 miles away from Jiangning. Now that he has succeeded in attacking the Taiping army, he has slaughtered a large number of people, and this achievement is enough for him to be appreciated by the imperial court. It's a pity that the bandit leader fled to the northwest, which is the border of Anhui, and it is inconvenient for him to chase after him.

Wen Shaoyuan looked at the remnants of the army who were still fleeing in the direction of Pukou, and was quite high-spirited, wouldn't it be icing on the cake if he held some leaders, and ordered to continue to pursue the Taiping army.

In the face of the Qing army that pounced again, Li Zhenhui, Peng Yisong, and Wang Jingyuan temporarily decided to quickly move to the southwest. Li Zhenhui and Peng Yisong were responsible for opening the road, and Wang Jingyuan led the rear battalion to be responsible for the break. The battle mission has been decided, Wang Jingyuan danced a long sword in his hand, and ordered his generals to first resist the attack of the Qing army, and then seek an opportunity to retreat westward.

Although Yuan Hongmo was unwilling to be the queen of Li Zhenhui and Peng Yisong, he was still inspired by Wang Jingyuan's momentum, and he rushed towards the chasing Qing army with a long knife, and slashed at the Qing army Xiangyong. Hu Yongxiang had a spear in his hand, stabbed left and right, and then jumped into the crowd of villagers. Jing Yuan didn't have the slightest fear, the only thing he was a little worried about was Jiang Wan's safety, he used to protect him, but now he is facing a tough battle, and if he doesn't fight well, the whole army will be wiped out. Jiang Wan is a weak woman, she almost fainted on the battlefield, and she is not the same as the legendary heavenly heroines Hong Xuanjiao and Su Sanniang.

In desperation, Wang Jingyuan had to find Ren Guixin. The more than 100 right pawns were divided into two teams, one team was led by him to attack the Qing army and support the front team, and the other team was led by Ren Guixin to protect Jiang Wan and other division personnel and serve as a reserve. When Ren Guixin heard this, he immediately disagreed, on the grounds that Wang Jingyuan, as the commander of the first division, could not easily take risks.

For a long time, Wang Jingyuan thought that Ren Guixin was a veteran of the Taiping Army in Guangxi, with stubborn thoughts, but he looked at it differently, but he didn't expect that he was still very loyal to him at the critical moment. However, Wang Jingyuan still insisted on his own opinion and personally supported him. Ren Guixin saw that the commander insisted, and he did not want to stay as a reserve, but asked his subordinate He Mingming, a native of Hunan, to stay as a reserve. Wang Jingyuan personally handed Jiang Wan into He Mingming's hands, and assigned four division commanders to protect him, and then led more than 50 people from the right battalion to rush forward.

Long arrows flying in the air, whether it is the Taiping army or the Qing army, firearms are very scarce, and the guns and cannons that are slag are rare, and this ancient bow and arrow has become the only choice for long-distance warfare. Wang Jingyuan dodged a rain of arrows and rushed into the battle group. The front team had already scattered the formation, and the holy soldiers and the Qing soldiers were in a stalemate. The sudden addition of the division commander was like a stimulant to the holy soldiers, and their morale soared.

The first enemy Wang Jingyuan encountered was a hideous-looking man, and he mercilessly stabbed his long sword into the big man's chest, without the slightest pity for the enemy's helplessness and screams. In an instant, he pulled out his long sword and slashed at the enemy who took the opportunity to sneak attack, and suddenly blood gushed out, splashing all over Wang Jingyuan's body. The spicy blood made him extremely excited, "This is war!" Bloody contests! He muttered. Suddenly, a gust of wind stabbed from behind, Wang Jingyuan turned around and failed to block, and a spear stabbed steadily, and the fierce face of the enemy was covered with a smug expression. Wang Jingyuan closed his eyes and was about to bear the blow, but suddenly the laughter stopped abruptly, Ren Guixin's knife had cut off the enemy's head, the two looked at each other and smiled, and in an instant, they plunged into a bloody contest.

With the passage of time, the Taiping army gradually thinned out, while the Qing army surged. At this time, the west shouted to kill the earth, and reinforcements came. The former Fourth Army is Lin Shaozhang of the Yan Fourth General System!

After Lin Shaozhang quickly got out of the chaos last night, he did not return to Pukou as soon as Xu Zongyang intended, but set up an ambush, preparing to catch the Qing army's pursuing troops by surprise. However, he didn't wait for the Qing army, but he met Li Zhenhui and Peng Yisong, who were despondent, and when they inquired, there was still a team behind them to block the attack, and they immediately waved their troops to attack.

Wang Jingyuan had to thank the old supervisor for coming in time, if it was too late, he would have wiped out the whole army. After Lin Shaozhang killed and injured more than three or four hundred people, the Qing demon fled.

Jiang Wan was unscathed, and the moment she appeared in front of Wang Jingyuan, she pounced on her, beating her thick chest as if no one was around, crying and making trouble. Wang Jingyuan hugged her tightly, only to feel that the warm liquid kept sliding down his neck into his clothes, and he laughed quietly: "This is love!" ”

After hearing this, Jiang Wan broke free from Jing Yuan's embrace, and pretended to be disgusted and said, "Who is in love with you?" Then he clenched his small fist and hit Jing Yuan hard.

"Oh, it hurts!"

"Where? Where are you hurting? As soon as she heard Jing Yuan crying out for pain, Jiang Wan became anxious again, and hurriedly inspected the blood stains on his body.

Seeing her anxious look, Wang Jingyuan said calmly: "Teasing you!" ”

Wang Jingyuan gathered the remnants of the army, and there were less than 200 people left in the rear camp, but fortunately, Yuan Hongmo and Hu Yongxiang limped and came back with each other.

"Humble duty, thank you for saving the lord!" To Lin Shaozhang, Wang Jingyuan is very grateful.

"No courtesy, you are also meritorious in blocking this battle" Although the victory was still defeated, Lin Shaozhang also lost the temperament of Shangguan, and then said to Li Zhenhui: "This Northern Expedition is blocked, I want to lead the army back to Tianjing, and wait for the disposal of the East King, what do you think Brother Li thinks?" ”

Li Zhenhui lost most of the Second Left Army, and he didn't know what Ning Zongyang's situation was, so he had to smile bitterly: "What General System Lin said is very true, and it is appropriate to wait for the fate." ”

At the moment, Lin Shaozhang couldn't control Xu Zongyang's cowardice, and ordered to return to Tianjing.