In June, Xinhui attacked the fortified position, in order to take Xinhui City in one go, Shang Kexi had personally ordered his own soldiers to fight, but thousands of Qing military service made more than 30,000 people build Xinhui Jiancheng but smashed the Qing army's own feet, and the soldiers of this family were able to fight, and they were helpless in the face of Xinhui Jiancheng, and hundreds of Liaodong children of their own families were killed and injured. After defeat after defeat, not only did Shang Kexi realize that this fortified city, which even Li Dingguo, whom he was most afraid of, could not be captured, but also made his own soldiers stagnate from the south with the arrogance of thinking they were invincible.

After that, the Qing army changed from offensive to defensive, and firmly built three lines of defense along the outside of Xinhui City, surrounding Xinhui City like an iron bucket, intending to starve and trap the Taiping army in the city, so as to recapture this prohibitive fortified city without spending a single soldier. During this period, the soldiers have not been used passively, Shang Zhixin has not used his own soldiers in several small-scale raids and harassment operations of the Taiping Army, so that the strength of the soldiers has been preserved, and its supply is also the most in the whole army, even if the food and grass are not enough, the battalion soldiers are hungry, the soldiers are not only well fed, but even the war horses are constantly chewing, so that the battalion soldiers are not as good as animals.

After the letter from Hong Chengchou from the five provinces, Ban Zhifu suggested that Shang Kexi transfer his own soldiers from Xinhui, and then transfer a flag soldier and Zhaoqing general soldier Xu Erxian went west to Gaozhou to explore the reality of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

This policy is deeply in line with the meaning of Shang Ke's preference for great merit, but unfortunately it has not been implemented, and the bad news of the water division being burned and the grain and grass being cut off came from Xinhui. For the prestige of his son, and for the sake of the smooth road to the west, even if he knew that this move was not in line with the military morals, Shang Kexi, who had no choice but to acquiesce in this matter, ordered Ban Zhifu Pegasus to go to Xinhui to help the son, after all, it was difficult for a Ming army nailed under the nose of Guangzhou to let his old man rest assured that the main force would be all the western faction.

In Shang Kexi's view, the Taiping army trapped in Xinhui City is a dead horse. There is no need to worry about him affecting the overall situation, but the current situation is that once the siege is lifted, this dead horse will become a live horse, and the salted fish will turn over. So no matter what, Shang Kexi can't let the Taiping Army turn over, otherwise Li Shutai, who has always been against him, will send an excerpt to Jingshi, and he Pingnan King will still have a face?

In a word, no matter whether the Taiping army continues to entrench in Xinhui City or wanders around Guangzhou, he Pingnan Wang will not agree!

In this case. It was useless for Ban Zhifu to make any further persuasion, and after arriving at the Xinhui, he also tried his best to cooperate with His Royal Highness the Prince, but he could not attack three times in a row, and he could not help but make Ban Zhifu prepare early.

Preserving the strength and vitality of the soldiers is the bottom line of Ban Zhifu, the battalion soldiers can be defeated, the flag soldiers can be defeated, only the soldiers of the family can not be defeated, let alone not!

Under the joint efforts of Ban Zhifu and his own soldiers to command Qin Guocheng, sure enough. Shang Zhixin's thoughts of wanting his own soldiers to attack the city were dispelled by the two of them several times, but now, the two of them have the same idea of using their own soldiers to fight.

The soldiers of this family are the elite of the field under the Pingnan Domain, the head of the whole army. As long as it is not a stupid battle like attacking the city, whether it is Ban Zhifu or Qin Guocheng, they never thought that their soldiers would be defeated. In particular, this soldier is fighting the battle that he is best at!

Geng Zhongde's Zhenghuang Banner and Hu Qili's Guardian Withdrawal Battle have announced the collapse of Xinhui's defense line, and it is unnecessary to force it to hold on, after sending His Royal Highness the Prince away safely. Qin Guocheng mobilized his own soldiers to launch a counter-charge against the Taiping army as discussed in advance, which did not seek to defeat the Taiping army, but to severely damage the field force of the Taiping army out of the city, so that the Qing army would not suffer too many casualties when it collapsed. After that, the cavalry of his own family soldiers was used to cover the orderly retreat of all departments and prevent the Taiping army from biting behind.

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After Qin Guocheng went to transfer his own soldiers to fight, Ban Zhifu suddenly turned his head and glanced at Xinhui City, nervous and hopeful at the same time, he had made all the arrangements he could, and now whether he can withdraw the army smoothly depends on his own soldiers, if Qin Guocheng can't stop the Taiping Army, then the consequences will be...

What the consequences were, Ban Zhifu didn't continue to think about it, because he didn't dare to think about it, and even more because he never thought about it.

This family soldier, the strongest army under the Pingnan Domain, has never been defeated for a while!

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Shang Keyuan, who acted separately from Ban Zhifu, was also relieved after announcing the retreat order, and galloped to the front of the barracks of his own soldiers with a few Goshha, and said to Qin Guocheng, who was wearing armor: "I hope that Qin Dutong can show the majesty of my Qing soldiers!" ”

After a pause, he glanced at the soldiers and vests who were busy putting on their armor, and whispered to Qin Guocheng in a heavy tone: "Dutong must be careful when he goes, if the thieves are defeated, Dutong will collect his troops and slowly retreat, and he must not chase and kill the thieves, so as not to be dragged by the Ming army on the river." Whether the Qin capital can retreat safely or not, please be careful! ”

"Brother Shang, don't worry!"

Qin Guocheng tightened his armor with the help of Goshha, and then patted the heart shield on his chest, and said confidently: "My own soldiers can kill the enemy when they get on the horse, and they can charge the battle when they get off the horse, and the prince has raised soldiers for a thousand days. If you lose, you don't need to ask the prince about the crime, I, Qin Guocheng, will wipe my neck myself! ”

Shang Keyuan heard this, he knew Qin Guocheng, and knew that he was not the kind of person who opened his mouth and bragged about the sky, since he was so confident, and his own soldiers were indeed the strong army of the Pingnan Domain, and the cavalry was charged, he was definitely undefeated. At the moment, he said in a condensed voice: "Okay, then I'll go first and wait for Qin Dutong Jiayin at Sanjiangkou!" ”

Qin Guocheng nodded heavily, took a step forward, turned back and shouted to the soldiers of his own family who had finished wearing armor: "Sons, dare to rush into battle with the general!"

"Dare! Dare! Dare! ”

More than 500 soldiers of the family clapped the iron armor on their chests and roared heroically.

"Come with me!"

Qin Yincheng inhaled sharply, waved his hand, and took the lead in rushing forward.

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The progress of the second battalion of Hujie and Xiongwei in front was not smooth again, Shao Jiugong had already organized several charges and was repelled by the Qing army, Zhou Shixiang no longer hesitated when he heard the news, led the guards battalion to press up, and personally organized a charge, but was still repelled by those flag soldiers behind the fence, which made Zhou Shixiang angry and anxious and had to admire the strong combat effectiveness of the Qing army's Han army banner, if the Qing army on all the defense lines was as difficult to fight as the Han army's flag soldiers, I am afraid that the Taiping army would have been pressed back to Xinhui City, and even the Qing army had taken advantage of the situation to seize the city.

The Taiping army suffered heavy casualties in successive rushing and counter-killing, and the Qing army was no better, and the battlefield was full of corpses. Zhou Shixiang, who has not been able to get the news of the landing of the Jiangshang Navy Division for a long time, has locked his brows, this will be a wise way to suspend the attack to receive the Navy Division ashore, anyway, the Qing army's defense line has been broken through three, no matter how tenacious the Qing army is in front of him, it can't change the reality that the Taiping Army has broken the blockade, but Zhou Shixiang still wants to fight again, but for some reason, his eyelids have been jumping.

Isn't this a good sign, damn, the sailors on the river all eat dry rice, they can't see that Lao Tzu has won!

Zhou Shixiang hated and secretly scolded the sailor for refusing to go ashore, and was scolding, when the sound of a horn came from the Qing army's defense line opposite, and then he saw that a group of soldiers and horses suddenly moved slowly to the front of the Qing army, and heard the muffled sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground. (To be continued.) )