Once the trapped camp can break through the third line of defense, the entire Qing army's defense line will be broken through a big hole, and the Qing army's encirclement that has prevented the Taiping army from leaving the city for several months will now exist in name only.

At the same time that Tie Yi successfully broke through the Qing army's defense line garrisoned by the green battalion in the south, Qin Zhisheng in the west also led the Hujie battalion to successfully break through the first line of defense of the Qing army, and is now fiercely attacking the second line of defense of the Qing army. Just now, Qin Zhisheng sent someone to report to Zhou Shixiang, the resistance of the green battalion soldiers in front of him was not fierce, and the casualties of the Hujie battalion were not large, it seemed that it would not take long for him to break through the second line of defense and force the third line of defense of the Qing army.

If the naval division can send troops ashore to attack the Qing army from the back at this time, it will form a front and rear attack on the Qing army along the river together with the Hujie battalion, so that the Qing army's defense line along the river can be broken with a snap of a finger. However, to the disappointment of Zhou Shixiang and Qin Zhisheng, the Taiping army and the Qing army on the shore were inextricably fought, but there was still no movement on the side of the sailor.

Zhou Shixiang was worried about the immobility of the sailors, but he was helpless, after all, this Jiangshang sailor was not the soldiers and horses of his Taiping army, he could not command, and he could not understand what the generals of the navy division thought. All he could do now was to send an order to Qin Zhisheng, asking him to desperately break the Qing army's defense line along the river at all costs, and even if he fought to the last soldier, he would successfully clear an area for the Jiangshang Naval Division to land.

In this way, even if the Qing army cannot be defeated in one fell swoop, it can break through the Qing army's defense line, so that Xinhui City is no longer a dead city surrounded like an iron bucket.

Compared with the sailor division, which still stood still, what worried Zhou Shixiang even more was the progress of the Zhenyu and the Xiongwei Second Battalion.

Before the war, the Qing army adopted a posture of encirclement of Xinhui, the main force of the Qing army Han army flag was concentrated in Dongcheng, the northern line was garrisoned by a flag soldier and the elite of the Guangdong green battalion, and the west of the defense line along the river and the south of the defense line were dominated by the green battalion soldiers of various prefectures and counties in Guangzhou. It's also the hardest bone to gnaw.

The direction of Dongcheng was originally garrisoned by the main force of the Qing army, although the Qing army used the Han army flag in the first few siege battles, but the Taiping army killed and injured more of the Guangdong green battalion soldiers and horses as cannon fodder, so Shang Zhixin brought his soldiers and horses from Guangzhou The loss is not serious, far from the point of breaking the muscles and bones.

Moreover, the banner soldiers under Shang Zhixin's command are all veterans brought by Shang Kexi from Liaodong, and their combat effectiveness is far superior to that of the green battalion, and the will to fight is not comparable to that of the green battalion, so after surprisingly capturing the first line of defense of the Qing army in one fell swoop, the Qing army stationed in the second and third lines of defense immediately reacted and drove out the Taiping army that had successfully broken into it several times. For this. The Zhenju and Xiongwei 2nd Battalion paid hundreds of lives.

The battle in the east has become a stalemate, and the Taiping army is taking human lives to fill every step forward, and the trenches covered with bamboo tips are full of corpses, including the rout of the Qing army and the attacking Taiping army soldiers.

The combined strength of the Zhenyu and Xiongwei Second Battalion is only a thousand people, how can they fight this kind of war that consumes people's lives, as a last resort, Zhou Shixiang ordered Zhenyu and Xiongwei Second Battalion to give up and have already gained several footholds, and the combined forces of the Second Battalion broke through from a breakthrough in the southerly direction. At the same time, he sent someone to pass the order to Tie Yi. Let him try to mobilize all the men and horses that can be mobilized to detour to the rear of the Qing army from the south, whether it is to cooperate with the Zhenyu and Xiongwei second battalions, or directly attack the Qing army camp, or attack and disturb the rear. In short, Tie Yi must try his best to stab the Qing army in the rear, forcing the Qing army to be unable to concentrate on the attack of the Taiping army in front of him.

Zhou Shixiang also had a guard battalion as a general reserve. But until the end, he will not press the guard battalion. Although this trip out of the city was a desperate battle, it was going smoothly in the west and south directions. Under the favorable conditions of breaking the encirclement of the Qing army, Zhou Shixiang still reserved it slightly, in his opinion, without the cooperation of the naval division, it would be impossible to defeat the Qing army alone with the strength of the Taiping army.

Tie Yi, who received the order, was leading his troops to clear the remnants of the Qing army in several lines of defense, and except for some Qing troops whose strength was unknown, they escaped and captured more than twice their own strength. Although these captives laid down their arms, their large numbers forced Tie Yi to be cautious, and sent a team of soldiers to keep these captives in a Qing army camp on the second line of defense.

After learning that the progress in the east was not going well, and Lord Qianhu was going to trap the camp and bypass the rear of the Qing army to sabotage and harass, Tie Yi frowned slightly, and after a little thought, he gritted his teeth and called his subordinates to try Zheng Tiezhu, and ordered him to lead two teams of men and horses to drive these prisoners to the Qing army's defense line in the east. He personally led the remaining three teams of men and horses to attack from the rear of the Qing army.

Hearing the order, Zheng Tiezhu was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what the Lord of the Hundred Households wanted him to do with the prisoners, and as soon as he responded to the order, he called the two general flags and ordered them to go down.

Soon, the Qing prisoners who were firmly guarded in the camp were driven eastward by Taiping soldiers with swords and guns.

The captives soon understood the intention of the Taiping army to drive them eastward, but just as they had no intention of putting down their arms before, even though they knew that the Taiping army wanted them to be cannon fodder, to fill the trenches and traps in the defensive line, to break up their own defensive lines, these prisoners still ran eastward.

Thousands of Qing prisoners rushed towards the Qing defense line that was still resisting at the same time, which immediately shook the Qing defense line that was fighting with the Taiping army. At first, the Qing army flag soldiers in the defense line shouted at the prisoners, telling them to turn around and run in other directions, but when they found that the prisoners had no intention of turning around at all, but instead roared forward like despair, the flag soldiers in the defense line stepped forward to kill these green battalion soldiers without saying a word.

The captives kept falling, and some people kept stepping on the corpses of their companions and moving on. In the front, there are the spears of the Qing army, and in the back, there are the broadswords of the Taiping army. Advancing is also death, and retreating is also death, there is really no way to go to heaven and no way to go down.

Zheng Tiezhu's action of driving the captives to storm the Qing army's defense line quickly achieved results, and the second line of defense was quickly broken through by the Taiping army, and the remaining Qing army immediately retreated to the third line of defense, under the command of several Han army banner leaders and assistant leaders, in an attempt to contain the Taiping army's offensive before reinforcements arrived.

Wang Baoguo is the general of the Qing army who retreated into the third line of defense, and in his early years he was the personal soldier of Wang Pu, the general soldier of Datong, and then Wang Pu participated in the Battle of Songshan with Hong Chengchou, and as a result, after the Ming army hoarded grain and Bijia Mountain was occupied by the Qing army, Wang Pu actually led his troops to flee the night before the decisive battle of the whole army, and as a result, more than 100,000 Ming troops fled at the same time, resulting in the defeat of the Ming army in the Battle of Songshan. The Ming army was defeated, and the captured Wang Baoguo and a group of Ming soldiers were assigned to the Han army flag by Hong Tai, and then Wang Baoguo was swept away by Shang Kexi's blue flag, and then he has been fighting under Shang Kexi, and has been promoted to the co-leader.

Seeing that the Taiping army was about to attack this last line of defense, but His Royal Highness the Prince had not sent reinforcements for a long time, Wang Baoguo was anxious and sent people to the camp for help. But after going to a few groups of people, the reply they got was that His Highness ordered them to hold the line of defense and never take a step back, but they did not mention when the reinforcements would arrive.

"it, Nanban, it's dead!"

There was no exact news of reinforcements, Wang Baoguo was angry and anxious, but he didn't dare to scold His Royal Highness the Prince of Pingnan, so he had to sprinkle the fire on those Taiping soldiers, scolded a few words in his stomach, and muttered: "If you want Lao Tzu's life, you have to see if you have this ability!" ”

He wiped the blood on his face, waved his knife at the subordinates who were hesitating, and cheered them up: "It's all damn spirit, His Royal Highness has already sent reinforcements over, this time it's just the Southern Barbarians returning to the light, don't look at them coming fiercely, but Lao Tzu can see clearly, there are only a thousand people left and right, what waves can people turn over at this point!" As long as the brothers raise their anger and grit their teeth for a moment, this southern barbarian is looking for death by himself! ”

There was an old soldier in the crowd who had followed Wang Xieling for almost ten years, so he boldly shouted: "My lord, when will Your Highness's reinforcements come, the brothers will not be able to hold on!" ”

"Huh?!" Wang Baoguo glared at the old pawn and scolded: "If you can't hold it, you have to hold it!" The prince brought you from Liaodong, delicious food and drink, women can play hard, now is the time to serve the prince and the Qing Dynasty, you fucking touch your own eggs. Look, it's not hard! ”

The old pawn was also a ruffian, licking blood on the head of the knife, and laughed when he heard this: "It's hard, the small crotch is very hard!" ”

Wang Baoguo scolded with a smile: "It's hard to be good, I'm afraid that you are a fucking soft product, and you have to ask Lao Tzu for help when you have a baby in the future, where can Lao Tzu come from so many ways to help you!" ”

These words suddenly made a group of somewhat timid flag soldiers laugh loudly, and this laugh, the flag soldiers who had been frightened by the Taiping army's lifeless attack suddenly became much more courageous.

Some other co-leaders and assistant leaders saw that Wang Baoguo's side could cheer up his soldiers, and they all did the same, and some even moved out the gold and silver, but the promise broke the Taiping Army, and the girls in the city let their mothers ride, and they were all fucking chopped after riding.

The morale of the army was barely restored, but seeing that the Taiping army on the opposite side was about to attack again after regrouping, the Qing army generals still had no bottom in their hearts. At present, in addition to some of the original flag soldiers in this last line of defense, the rest of the men and horses have been withdrawn from the front, and many people have called the Taiping army to be afraid, which will be even if the morale is boosted, but it can only barely last for a while, after all, the flag soldiers have not eaten for several days. How much strength does it take to fight this fierce battle, and how much strength is left?

If the Taiping army really attacked hard regardless of casualties, I am afraid that this line of defense will still not be able to hold. At present, the key is to transfer the elite soldiers and guards of His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, and it is really not possible to transfer some battalions from several other defense lines. This just made the brothers grit their teeth and hold on, but they didn't see reinforcements to count it as a ball thing? His Royal Highness the Prince of the World asked us to drag the Southern Barbarian for him and run away by himself? (To be continued.) )