Chapter 150: Breaking the City
When the explosion sounded, the Taiping soldiers on standby behaved in the same way as the Qing army in the city, and almost half of the soldiers were stunned by the loud noise and the sight in front of them, and they looked at the city wall that had disappeared out of thin air in disbelief.
Many recruits even fell to the ground in fright when the explosion sounded, and there were not a few who trembled, after all, this kind of terrifying feeling of shaking the earth was something they had never experienced in their lives, and the lightning and thunder in the sky were not as shocking as it. In the face of a power that has never been perceived in his life, there is no shame in the instinctive fear of human nature.
"Collapsed, collapsed, the walls collapsed!"
Because he was too excited, Ge Zheng's face appeared on his face in an extremely strange form, and when most of the soldiers behind him were still immersed in the horror of the explosion, he had already swung his sword and rushed towards the city wall.
"Storm into Xinhui City and kill all the Tartars!"
"Big brother!"
Seeing his brother rushing forward alone, Ge Yi was suddenly startled, and hurriedly picked up a knife and followed. As soon as the two of them moved like this, the officers and soldiers of the shock battalion suddenly came to their senses: the city has collapsed, how long will it take to rush!
"Storm into Xinhui City and kill all the Tartars!"
One, two, three, countless soldiers of the Earthquake Battalion followed behind them and rushed towards the bombed Xinhui City. The soldiers who were lying on the ground also jumped up from the ground, and they knew that if they didn't rush at this time, they would be fools, and if they couldn't rush in, they would be fools! Without the protection of the city wall, Xinhui City is a stripped girl, anyone can fucking go up!
The hardest working people in the charging crowd were the green battalion soldiers who had just surrendered, because they knew how strong this Xinhui City was, and they also knew how Li Dingguo's army looked at the city last year and sighed, and they were forced to surrender the Taiping army, and they all thought that the Taiping army would use them as cannon fodder when attacking the city, and it was impossible to capture Xinhui City. Who would have thought that this city wall would be blown up by the Taiping army!
The moment the city fell, the soldiers were dumbfounded, the moment they charged. But no one is left behind, what are the good things in Xinhui City. They know better than the Taipings!
As soon as the Zhenyu battalion moved, the three battalions of Xiongwei, Hujie, and Guards also reacted immediately, and at this time, there was no need for any command at all, and everyone raised the weapons in their hands and instinctively rushed towards the city wall. Looking down from the city of Xinhui, more than 2,000 soldiers of the Taiping Army gathered together like countless streams, and the blades pointed directly at the gap in the city wall
"My lord, the walls have collapsed and the shelling has been overturned. We can't hold it anymore, let's go! ”
The remnants of the Qing army on the wall of the east gate were terrified after experiencing a horror that they had never experienced in their lives, and they couldn't imagine how the Taiping army outside the city blew down the impregnable city wall, and it was even more difficult to imagine how the black smoke rising in front of them was formed. All they knew was that the city wall had collapsed, countless brothers had been buried alive by the collapsed wall, and a cannon had been blown up into the sky, and then smashed heavily on the city wall.
Flying rocks, falling cannons, stumps, black smoke
The eastern city wall is already like hell, and no one wants to live in hell. The Qing army collapsed without incident, and they ran desperately down the city with shouts and screams, and no one tried to stop the Taiping army that was swarming outside the city. Young people are running. The green battalion soldiers are running, and the flag soldiers who operate the cannons are also running, they no longer have the courage to hold on, and the loud noise has robbed them of their hearts.
Looking at the dense Taiping army that rushed into the city from the gap, Su Xianting collapsed to the ground in despair, his mind was blank, and he muttered two words "over" in his mouth.
This time, there was no such loyal slave as Zhao Quan who desperately protected Su Zuoling and fled, and after the Taiping army rushed into the gap, Su Xianting couldn't run if he wanted to. At this juncture, he was also determined to be loyal to his master, so he gritted his teeth and jumped off the city wall.
This jump. Protect not only his loyal name of Su Xianting, but also his Su family!
The first to storm Xinhui City was the Earthquake Camp. As the vanguard of the Taiping Army, it is equipped with all the armor of the whole army, and the combat effectiveness of the Zhenyu Battalion can be the first among all battalions.
Before the war, Ge Zheng received the task of attacking the city first after the explosion, killing all the Qing troops in the city who dared to counterattack, and firmly controlling the gap for the follow-up teams to follow.
After the battle order was issued, the whole camp fell silent, both officers and soldiers, and they all knew very well what it meant to be the first to attack the city. One
The first team to rush will definitely have to withstand the fiercest counterattack of the defenders, and after a battle, I don't know how many people will be killed or wounded, and even the whole battalion may be destroyed. However, to the ecstasy of the entire camp, including the green battalion soldiers who had been filled with it, the defenders of the city did not fight back at all, no shells came from the charge, and no guns or arrows flew under the city walls, and they rushed into the city almost without any casualties.
After rushing out of the smoke and discovering that they had arrived in the city, the eyes of the Taiping army became crazy. The sky in the east is still white, but the city of Xinhui is now full of fire, shouting and killing, fire, and screaming up and down with each other. As with any city breached, chaos inevitably occurred in Xinhui City.
Zheng Guodong at the moment when the city wall collapsed, he led the horse and ran towards the south gate, he knew that the city wall was broken that the general trend had gone, there were no elite soldiers in Xinhui City, and the battalions that could fight were all called Wu Jinzhong to take to Guifeng Mountain, and now where can the more than 1,000 troops in the city block the attack of thieves. However, he said that Zheng Guodong fled without soldiers, but it was better to say that he was scared away, because the previous explosion really shocked him.
Because he was in a hurry to flee for his life, Zheng Guodong didn't even send someone to spread the word to the rest of the Qing army, let alone try to gather the remnants of the soldiers and flee together, except for his relatives, the Qing army in the city, including those flag soldiers, were ruthlessly abandoned by him. In the eyes of General Zheng Zheng, no matter how precious the life of the flag soldier is, it is not as important as his Zheng someone's head.
After the Zhenyu battalion entered the city, Ge Zheng led his troops to advance into the city, Ge Yi led people to guard the gap, with the influx of Hujie, Xiongwei, and the three battalions of the guards into the city, Xinhui City finally fell into the hands of the Taiping army, and the remaining remnants of the Qing army's resistance could be ignored.
Unfortunately, when Ge Zheng led his troops into the city, he encountered several Qing troops who were eager to flee for their lives, and as a result, they couldn't clean it up, and then they killed every person, causing many remnants of Xinhui to escape the knife of the Qing army, but they died under the knife of the Taiping army.
The collapse of the defenders of the east gate made the Qing army in the city no longer able to rely on the strong city to hold on, Zheng Guodong's escape made the Qing army lose command, after Zheng Guodong ran out of the south gate, the defenders of the south gate also followed out of the city, and the west gate because the city gate was blocked by boulders, the Qing army could not escape from the city gate, so they had to hang themselves from the city with a rope, and more than a dozen people were killed. (To be continued)