Chapter 837: Scalp Falls to the Ground (1st Update)
When the fire in the forest was set in the woods, he knew that something was wrong. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 The flames were blazing in the woods, and the battalions fled from the forest, fleeing like headless flies, followed by pieces falling down and begging.
In his sight, Zhuo Lik Tu couldn't see the figures of Zhao Guohua, Zeng Zifeng and other generals of the green battalion, nor could he see their flags, so he knew that the green camp was over. He also had no fighting spirit, so he ordered a retreat, turned his horse's head and beat the horse to flee to the camp at the mouth of the Bian family. Unexpectedly, two miles to the northwest, a cavalry of the Taiping Army, led by a white-robed and yellow-horse general, galloped towards his side.
Shocked and unwilling to fight, he fled in the direction of the camp under the protection of his own soldier Goshha. King of the Harrier. The assistant minister led his troops in hot pursuit, and Zhuo Liktu drew his horse whip violently, and stepped off the big red horse and ran wildly.
On the surface of the canal, a flotilla of boats came from the south. The boats are not very small, similar to the merchant ships that walk on the canal all year round, but each boat has artillery. The Taiping troops on the ship fired their cannons on the shore together, causing heavy casualties to the fleeing Mongol soldiers. Zhuo Lik Tuta Bu Nang finally escaped back to the camp at the mouth of the Bianjia River, and the three armies of the Taiping Army, the land and water cavalry, surrounded the Bianjia estuary.
Looking at the Mongolian cavalry of the Zhuolik Tuta Bubao Department who fled back in embarrassment, Diksoni panicked, the loss of nearly 10,000 cavalry in this battle, and a third of the soldiers and horses were broken at once, and the mouth of the Bianjia River was surrounded by the Taiping Legion, he had to command the soldiers and horses to defend to the death, and at the same time quickly asked for help from the Qing army of Aobai and other departments in the north.
The sailors of the Taiping army jumped over the Qing army camp along the canal and went straight to the north, where the pontoon bridge was destroyed, making it difficult for many Qing troops on both sides of the canal who wanted to reinforce the mouth of the Bianjia River to cross the river. After learning that the Bianjia estuary was besieged, Ao Bai immediately led more than 20,000 Mengjing horsemen to rush to the Bianjia estuary.
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Late at night, the town of Bianjiahekou was brightly lit, crowded, and there were people running around. The hundreds of people who lived in the town were either killed or driven away by the Qing army. The town is like a big military camp.
Diksoni ordered the reinforcement of the fortifications of the large camp. The Manchu and Mongolian Qing troops, as overseers, held torches and urged the green battalion soldiers to hurry up. Under the supervision of the Manchurian soldiers, these green battalion soldiers worked very hard, digging trenches and ditches, reinforcing fences and setting up obstacles. The whole town is like a big construction site, with wooden fences erected one by one, and many watchtowers have been erected. The watchtower was immediately filled with Manchurian soldiers, all with bows and arrows, and kept looking into the night in the distance. The deer bars were also dragged over, and they were heavily knocked into the soil, and between several deer barges, they were also tied together with iron chains, so that it was difficult for the cavalry of the Taiping army to rush in.
Outside the town, a fiery dragon coiled there. Under the firelight, the cavalry of the Taiping army quietly dismounted and waited there, and the battle-hardened Mongolian war horses did not neigh, but also waited quietly beside their masters.
The blind man Li sat lazily on the ground, and hundreds of ironclad elite soldiers also sat on the ground. However, behind each Iron Armor soldier, there is an auxiliary, and the task of these auxiliaries is to complete the Iron Armor for these warriors as quickly as possible when the Iron Man Guard attacks.
Around each campfire, a large cauldron is propped up by an iron frame, and the soup in the pot is boiling, so that the air is filled with the smell of meat.
Zhou Shixiang's banner of King Qi was erected on a high ground southeast of the town, and dozens of bonfires were burning under its banner.
Zhou Shixiang was riding on a horse, although he was far away, he seemed to be able to see everything in Bian's town in the distance.
He was wondering if he was going to storm it.
The Qing army operated the Bianjia estuary like a fortress, and if it was attacked, the casualties of the Taiping army were bound to be very large, but if it only surrounded three sides and gave the Qing army a way out, then a large number of Qing troops were bound to flee north from the mouth of the Bianjia River. It is obviously impossible to only surround and not fight, and the Qing army at the mouth of the Bian family is like a nail, if they are not pulled out and detoured north, the Taiping army will fall into the flank of the Qing army in front and behind. Moreover, detailed intelligence shows that in the Gaoqiao area, not far from the mouth of the Bian family, there are still more than 20,000 Manchu and Qing soldiers led by Ao Bai himself, so there are not many options and time left for Zhou Shixiang, and in the end, he decided to attack. No matter how many people die, we must pull out the Qing army at the mouth of the Bian family and never let anyone go. Otherwise, next time, he will pay for even greater casualties.
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Diksoni stood on the top of the watchtower, staring at the fire dragon of the Taiping army in front of him. Twenty years ago, the Bianjia estuary was a commercial center with heavy traffic on the canal, but now, it is just an ordinary town. The stiff night wind blew on Diksoni's face, and there were bursts of cold stinging. As far as he could see, the canal was very busy, and he knew that it was the sailors of the Taiping army who were transporting the ordnance for the siege from the ship. When those ordnance is in place, maybe it's time for the Taiping army to attack.
Tong Guogang, Duobi, Eheke and other generals stood under the watchtower, each other's faces were not good-looking, if Ao Bai could not lead the troops in time, the scene that happened in Guazhou was likely to be staged here again.
Miles away, smoke was still rising from the woods that had been set on fire during the day, sparks were coming out from time to time, and from time to time there was the sound of a burning tree branch. A gust of wind blew, and the sparks in the woods fluttered like sparks in the wind. Bursts of black smoke with sparks blew through, making it look like fireworks from a distance.
In the forest, outside the forest, there are corpses. The charred corpses in the forest exuded the smell of meat and burnt paste, but no one could have an appetite for the Qing captives sitting on the ground outside the forest with their heads down. There were corpses everywhere, and there were even Qing soldiers who were not dead struggling on the mud not far from the captive, but no one cared about him. Let him slowly lose consciousness under the cold and freeze, slowly numb, until he dies.
The captives included the Green Battalion, the Manchurians, and the Mongols. They were not slaughtered by the Taiping army after surrendering on their knees, but were ordered to sit on the ground, bound with thick hemp ropes on their hands and legs. The surroundings were full of Taiping soldiers with knives and spears, and every pair of eyes under the reflection of the firelight was so hideous, as if they would go up at any time and frantically slash with big knives and stab with spears.
The captives did not know what their fate would be, and the Manchu soldiers trembled, fearing that the Taiping would suddenly pick them out of the crowd and drive them down the river like that, or behead them one by one in front of the green battalions.
Fortunately, none of this happened, at least they had been sitting here for more than two hours, and the Taiping army had not taken any action against them.
Until, hundreds of Taiping soldiers picked dozens of large baskets from the boats on the canal. The captives in front could see clearly, and those big baskets were full of clothes, red clothes.
Shang Keyuan picked up a military uniform from the basket and looked at it, then waved his hand, and immediately hundreds of soldiers rushed into the group of captives with short knives, causing the captives to scream and make a commotion, until they found out that these Taiping soldiers were not here to kill them, and the commotion calmed down.
"Keep your head down!"
A Guangxi wolf soldier named Pan Mengzi grabbed the braid at the back of a Manchurian soldier's head, and then violently cut off the Manchu soldier's braid with a dagger. Pan Mengzi didn't care if the dagger would cut the scalp of the Manchu soldier, so he only slashed it off, but when the braid fell to the ground, the blood on the back of the Manchu soldier's head was surging, but a piece of flesh the size of a palm was cut off.
screamed one after another, and the braids with the scalp were cut off by Qi Gen. Under the firelight, the blood-stained braids were as terrifying as black snakes. One after another, the scalped Qing soldiers hung their heads and wailed, and some soldiers wanted to touch the back of their heads, but they couldn't move because their hands and feet were tied. They could only feel their necks warm at first, and then cold and cold, and the pain they felt would never forget.
"Take off their clothes!"
Shang Keyuan turned a blind eye to the tragic situation of the Qing soldiers in front of him, and ordered the soldiers to take off the prisoners' clothes. Because the captives' hands and feet were tied, it was difficult to take off their clothes, so the soldiers who wanted to save trouble directly cut the captives with knives, and dragged them fiercely while cutting. The stripped captives were naked, covered with knife cuts, and some people couldn't help but scream in pain, only to be cut again by the Taiping army with daggers. Seeing this, the people behind gritted their teeth one by one and didn't dare to make any more noise, even if it hurt their bodies.
More than 4,000 captives, stripped of their clothes and covered in blood, were ordered to sit on the ground, endured by the cold wind, and there was no warmth in their bodies. The "creaking" of the teeth can be heard from afar.
After about a pillar of incense, Shang Keyuan waved his hand again. So the captives were dragged from the ground in groups of 100 people, and after untying the ropes, they were ordered to take a garment from the basket and put it on their bodies.
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