Chapter 431: Kefu (First Update)
"Onward!"
The cavalry knife in his hand pointed straight ahead, Ding Yujie seemed to have forgotten everything else, forgot the requirements of the battle order, he just kept shouting, ordering his subordinates to charge forward with him. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoWhen an enemy appears in front of him to block him, he will immediately raise the cavalry knife in his hand, gently slash through the enemy with the help of horsepower, and raise the saber again in the midst of the flying flesh.
It seemed that those enemies would only flee, and of course many more had already died - the naval bombardment behind the walls was catastrophic, and he even saw hundreds of enemies pressed under the broken walls of fallen houses on the side of the road.
As a cavalryman, after the infantry tore through the city wall and made a breakthrough, Ding Yujie immediately led his cavalry battalion and the cavalry company to which the two infantry regiments belonged, and nearly 400 cavalry quickly advanced into the city of Nanjing, and launched an attack on the Taiping army along the roads in the city, their goal was very simple - forward!
For the Taiping army in the city, these cavalry rushing into the city was undoubtedly disastrous, the cavalry on horseback was close to the saber and far away with a pistol, easily destroying the resistance of the Taiping army, in fact, at this time they were more often chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, and the enemy in front of them was almost crushed at the touch of a button.
"Onward!"
At this time, for the cavalry on horseback, their task could not be simpler, only to tear apart the resistance of the Taiping army in the city, behind them, more and more comrades-in-arms have poured into the city, and soon, they will be able to capture Nanjing. Ding Yujie, who was galloping in Nanjing on horseback, was suddenly frightened by the scene in front of him when he turned the corner. Hundreds of meters ahead, Huang Tengteng's group of Taiping troops blocked their way - thousands of Taiping troops lined up with guns in their hands, and the muzzles of their guns were pointed at this side.
“……”
Gao Yongkuan, who was in the middle of the road, listened to the foreigner next to him give orders, and he held a revolver in his hand.
"Lingli, how about it, can we stop the Han Demon?"
When Gao Yongkuan asked nervously, he nodded and said.
"No problem!"
Fiercely reined in the war horse, looking at the enemy who had formed an array hundreds of meters away, Ding Yujie's eyes stared, beside him, the cavalry who had originally charged with him stopped their horses one after another, and the war horses that were originally indulging in flying would all make a rapid gasping sound, and even the horse's hooves would kick the ground from time to time.
When the sound of horses' hooves behind him came, the corners of Ding Yujie's lips lifted slightly, and a sneer appeared on his face.
"Get out of the way!"
"Ready!"
At this time, the atmosphere was extremely tense, Gao Yongkuan almost watched the cavalry of the Han Demon seem to be adjusting the queue, just when he thought that the other party was about to attack, but saw that the cavalry suddenly gave way to both sides of the road, and the next moment, he saw two carriages rushing to the front of the cavalry one after the other, just when he didn't understand what was happening, the running carriage stopped, and under the cheering of the hand, the carriage pulled by four horses turned around.
What's going on?
Not only Gao Yongkuan was stunned, but even Lingli was stunned, carriage? Why are there horse-drawn carriages?
Just as they were stunned as they looked at the carriage, the three volunteer soldiers behind the carriage operated a shining bronze object and aimed at the Taiping troops blocking the road.
This is a "hitchhiker" unique to the two rebels!
The soldier operating the Gatling gun turned the handle on one side of the gun before the enemy could react, and the gun rotated with his operation, and after half a turn, the gun went off.
"Tom, tom......"
The silence was broken by the rapid gunfire, and in the rush of gunfire, the Taiping army column, which had been standing in the middle of the street to block the way of the cavalry, became a target completely, and fell under the muzzle of the gun before it even had time to shoot in a hurry.
The Heavy kept turning the wheel, and the loader kept loading the bullet into the drum, and a hot bullet continued to eject from the muzzle of the gun.
This is the first real combat machine gun!
The thousands of Taiping soldiers in front of them had no power to fight back, and they fell to the ground in an instant, and hundreds of people died in an instant under the strafing of machine guns.
And Gao Yongkuan fortunately counter-emergency, almost crawled the side of the road with a roll, and ran towards the roadside alley, his escape drove other people, those Taiping soldiers who were originally standing in line like Western soldiers in the road, also fled, but many of them were not as lucky as Gao Yongkuan, when they fled, the cavalry made a charge, the cavalry shouted and charged forward along the side of the road, and the machine guns in the road pursued the enemy who turned and fled with bullets.
At this point, this is no longer a battle, but a one-sided slaughter!
The sharp saber slashed a white light in the air, slashing on the body of the fleeing Taiping army, under the impact of the war horse, the Taiping army suddenly headed two places, in that cloud of blood mist, the cavalry raised the knife again, the cavalry howled excitedly, slashing and fleeing the enemy, at this moment, the battlefield seemed to have become a stage, a stage for cavalry and machine guns.
Just after defeating this group of Taiping troops, just as Ding Yujie was about to tear the way forward with the help of machine guns again, he saw a white flag raised in front of him/
White flag?
The cavalrymen with the white flag who suddenly appeared on the battlefield were stunned, and what surprised them even more was that the Taiping army with the white flag brought a news - the king of heaven has descended!
The King of Heaven has descended!
In just an instant, the news spread in the fierce city of Nanjing, and the imperial guards sent from the Heavenly King's Mansion conveyed the will of the "Heavenly King" - the surrender of Kaesong!
In fact, there is no need to open the city at all now, because the city has already been conquered, and if it is said that before the city is breached, the king of heaven will give this will, and there will be people to ask and question, but at this time, there is no doubt.
The city is broken!
"It's a ruined city!"
When the news of the surrender of the Heavenly King came from the front, Lin Yuqing scolded a little depressedly.
The reason why he scolded this was a ruined city was because half an hour earlier, he had received a telegram from the lord that the kingdom of heaven would surrender, and he should seize the opportunity to take control of Nanjing.
"Give me another five hours, no, three hours at most, and I will be able to take Nanjing down!"
Yes, you don't need any internal surrender at all, you can take Nanjing!
In fact, Nanjing has almost been defeated!
But now, Hong Xiuquan has surrendered!
He just surrendered!
Not to mention that this was beyond Lin Yuqing's expectations, but also beyond the expectations of others, Lu Shunde, who withdrew from the city with his subordinates, was like a thunderbolt when he got the news.
It's down!
The King of Heaven has descended!
At this moment, his whole person completely collapsed, from the mountains of Guangxi to Nanjing, the tearing and bloodshed, along with the will of the Heavenly King, completely came to naught.
Under the will of the King of Heaven, even the few resistance in the city was declared over, only a very small number of people chose to commit suicide, and the vast majority of people chose to surrender, they took off the red turbans on their heads, and threw away the swords and guns in their hands, just like that, in just a few hours, more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing surrendered like this.
As for the kingdom of heaven, at this time, no one cares about him, and he has descended!
The King of Heaven has descended! Who cares what happens to him?
The surrendered Taiping army was escorted from the inner city of Nanjing to the outer city of the school and other places. If there are any changes in Nanjing under the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is that there are large areas of open space in the outer city and inner city. The buildings that once stood in the open space were demolished to build the palace, and the open space naturally became the barracks of the Taiping army, which in turn became a prisoner of war camp.
Because the old, weak, women and children in Nanjing were all Taiping soldiers, with their surrender, the city was almost empty, and there was not even a single figure on the street, and it became more and more frighteningly quiet.
As the new governor of Jiangsu, Li Ziyuan and more than a dozen officials, escorted by a platoon of guards, entered the city of Nanjing. In fact, except for a few key locations, the rebels in Nanjing did not immediately patrol the city. There was only the sound of horses' hooves. Here, there have been shelling, and some houses have been blown down, and some have been shattered so crookedly that it feels as if they will collapse to the ground if they are pushed by their hands. On the streets and at the doors of households, in addition to corpses and bloodstains, there are more burdens, pillows and broken shoes left on the ground.
You can imagine how people left here -- people left in a hurry.
They were eager to find someone and inquire about the situation, but they were disappointed after visiting several houses. They turned the corner and headed south, and a few wild dogs, startled by their footsteps, suddenly sprang up and sprang down another street.
The whole city seemed even more deadly silent.
"There's someone here!"
Suddenly, a man screamed.
Li Ziyuan hurriedly rushed over to take a look, and it turned out that there was an old woman with a white cloth wrapped around her head lying in a dilapidated room without a door panel. She seemed to hear the noise and sat up slowly, looking at the men with a look of horror in their eyes.
"Auntie!"
A young official jumped off his horse and was the first to step forward and shout cordially.
The old woman may have seen the military uniforms they were wearing, and she also saw the official uniforms on Li Ziyuan and the others, and suddenly she burst into tears.
In the old woman's cry, Li Ziyuan barely knew her grievances, her husband was taken by the Taiping army to repair the palace, and her two daughters were captured by the Taiping army's military commander, she has been waiting here, waiting for her daughters to come home. But she couldn't wait, and her daughters hanged themselves after a few months of being plagued by long hair!
"All dead, all dead......"
The old woman cried out aloud,
"All of them died, and they all let the longhair kill ......"
Li Ziyuan, who was pale, pointed to the wound on her head and asked:
"What's wrong with you?"
"They were the ones who wounded them."
"Who?"
"Those long-haired ...... who have lost their conscience"
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