Li Xiucheng's participation in the war made the artillery position precarious, and the artillery fire was amazingly powerful when it assisted the infantry, but the artillery had a range, and it was pressed too tightly by the enemy, and the power of the artillery was greatly reduced, not to mention that in order to compete for time, where could the soldiers of the Taiping Army still care about dodging the artillery, and the whole army rushed over like a tide, and even some soldiers were stained with a lot of flesh and blood of their comrades who were killed.

Fierce drumming came out from the rear of the army, and King Chung himself beat the drums, showing his determination to do whatever it takes. The Taiping Army's divisions and brigades also used their lives.

The Anglo-French forces were also crazy, and they also understood that if they lost their artillery, they would lose the ability to suppress the Taiping army, and even their entire army could be surrounded and killed by the enemy.

The Anglo-French army invested all its forces, and the Taiping army did the same, and the all-out engagement of 50,000 or 60,000 elite troops expanded the battlefield to a radius of three miles.

The intersection of rifles, artillery, bayonets, broadswords, spears, and cold ** made the battlefield full of severed limbs and convulsive corpses, and the blood stained the entire earth red.

Boom, boom!

The position of the cavalry of the Taiping Army was captured by the British and French forces, and all 500 elite cavalry were killed. However, the British and French forces still did not make peace with their artillery, but the French artillery suddenly fell silent, and a quarter of an hour later turned its guns to bombard the British artillery positions.

Fools can see that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has captured the positions of the French artillery regiments, and is now using the French artillery to attack two British artillery regiments.

"Damn! The French were pigs, could not hold even their own artillery regiments, and also fell artillery into the hands of the enemy. The British and French generals cursed in their hearts, but at this time there was no other good way than to storm onslaught.

Half an hour later, the Anglo-French forces finally managed to merge one artillery regiment with the help of artillery fire, while the other British artillery regiment was finally caught in flames, followed by a shocking explosion.

The British may not be as strong as the French, but when it comes to pride, the British are definitely superior to the French in the Far East. They knew very well that the reason why the British Empire was strong was because of its advanced weaponry, so the British Army had long stipulated that if it was defeated, it must destroy its advanced weaponry to prevent the enemy from mastering advanced weapon-making technology.

Therefore, the roar on the positions of the British artillery regiment was the last minute of the British to blow up their own artillery with explosives that had been prepared long ago.

With the loss of two artillery regiments, the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces was like ashes, and their artillery shells were running out, and the divisions suffered extremely heavy battle losses due to successive battles, and their weapons and ammunition were almost exhausted.

In the face of this situation, the Anglo-French coalition forces really couldn't fight.

The Taiping army was also uncomfortable, although the army of the king of the king took the initiative to defeat, but the troops were confused, and they were temporarily unable to launch a large-scale counteroffensive, and the king only sent his personal guards to cooperate with the first division of the rebel army to contain the British and French forces.

The attrition of Li Xiucheng's army is also extremely staggering, after all, the gap between the two sides in terms of weapons and equipment is here.

The king fought resolutely enough before to make the enemy mistakenly think that it was Li Xiucheng's main force, and finally made the main force exhaust and built a fighter plane for him. Now Li Xiucheng secretly rejoiced, fortunately he had rejected the battle plan of the two armies to jointly attack the British and French forces, otherwise it would not have been possible to achieve the current result.

At this point in the battle, no one wants to withdraw from the battlefield on their own initiative, because withdrawing troops means defeat.

If there were no accidents, the battle situation was so deadlocked, and the Taiping army would have a better chance of winning.

But soon the scouts came to report that the Huai army flag was found on the periphery of the battlefield, and there were traces of the enemy's army reinforcements.

Li Shixian, who received this battle report, decisively ordered the withdrawal of troops in order to avoid fighting on two fronts, ordered Fan Ruzeng to lead the troops to break away from contact with the British and French forces, and at the same time reported the battle report to Li Xiucheng.

Li Xiucheng also understood that the Huai army had arrived, and the enemy had the strength to turn the tables, and if he continued to fight, it would be a great disadvantage to the Taiping army. Therefore, he also chose to evacuate on his own initiative like a king.

The Anglo-French forces did not pursue, and they were afraid that the enemy would be strange again. The strange behavior of the Taiping army has already made them suffer enough.

After half an hour of guidance, the Huai army arrived, and they realized that the enemy had really retreated, and it would be too difficult to pursue it at this time.

The battle was the defeat of the Anglo-French forces, who not only turned their own Taiping army, but now lost three artillery regiments, one of which was their only remaining heavy artillery regiment.

General Steveri ordered the coalition forces to repair on the spot, count battle damage, and treat the wounded.

Soon the battle damage report was delivered to General Steveri, and his eyes were dark, and the whole person fainted.

The headquarters of the coalition forces was in chaos, and the French general Gronan was also pale and covered with cold sweat, if it wasn't for the secretary next to him to support him, I am afraid he would have fainted in fright like General Stevery.

Today, from the outbreak of the great war to the voluntary withdrawal of the Taiping army, there were two decisive battles in which the two sides invested all their forces, and they had not yet been aware of the tense battles before, and now it seems that the great losses of the coalition forces have greatly shaken their foundation.

When the coalition army was sent to Shanghai, there were 25,000 men, but now the entire coalition army is not even 10,000 people, and it has lost 15,000 men. Nearly 10,000 of them are British legal persons. More than half of the 8,000 Indian troops were lost, and the rest were wounded. If there was some morale in the Indian army before the war, it has now been completely lost. The atmosphere of homesickness in the Indian military camp is extremely strong, and some Indian soldiers have taken the lead in asking to return to India, waiting for this news to quickly spread to all the Indian military camps, making the Indian military camp turbulent, and the British ** officers dare not show up easily.

"The last general, Zhang Shusheng, has seen several generals!" Zhang Shusheng, who was dressed in military uniform, said with his fists cupped. He has nothing to respect for these foreigners. What's more, the foreign devils are arrogant but fight like this, Zhang Shusheng and other Huai army generals don't know how to despise them in their hearts.

"General Zhang, where is Lord Li Hongzhang?" Although General Steaveli's face was ugly, in the face of the Huai army that finally broke the siege, he forcibly squeezed out a smile, but this smile was more ugly than crying.

"Master Li didn't come, but ordered me to come for reinforcements." After Zhang Shusheng finished speaking, he told Li Hongzhang's guess about the battle situation.

Steveli's translator translated Li Hongzhang's analysis into English and told General Stellvili, which made the British general's face unusually red.

"Lord Li has analyzed very well, but I wonder when Lord Li will be able to come and join us?" General Steveri asked with great concern.

Zhang Shusheng secretly despised in his heart, wasn't it time to ignore the Huai army and drive them to the rear to protect the baggage?

Although he was in his heart, he still made a look of surrender on his face.

"Lord Li said that the enemy's situation is unknown now, and if his army comes, it will be easy to be led by the neck by the Taiping army, and Lord Li has already controlled the entire logistics route, and he will definitely protect the needs of the army." Zhang Shusheng said in a deep voice.

Zhang Shu was born a little late, when the war had ended, the coalition forces were cleaning up the battlefield, and the battle damage was definitely a secret of the coalition forces, and it would never be leaked. Therefore, Zhang Shusheng did not know that at this time, the Anglo-French army had lost the inability to fight again, and the most important thing was the loss of artillery, the Anglo-French army no longer had an overwhelming advantage in the face of the Taiping army, coupled with repeated defeats, the morale of the army was extremely low, the soldiers homesick, and even the British and French soldiers were affected.

General Steveri glanced at General Gro, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "The coalition forces have fought repeatedly, and the weapons and ammunition have to be planted, so we must rest well. In this battle, the Taiping Army's Li Xiucheng and Li Shixian's troops were all severely damaged, and it was difficult to set off any storms in a short period of time, so we were ready to retreat for the time being, and then continue to participate in the suppression of bandits after the rest was completed. ”

Zhang Shusheng's face changed, the coalition army would choose to retreat, could it be that their losses were really so big?

"General, it is precisely because of the enemy's heavy losses that it is all the more necessary to crush the opponent in one go. This time, I brought ten battalions of troops, and Lord Li will send them in a steady stream, and we should definitely not retreat at this time. Zhang Shusheng said in a deep voice.

Although his words were extremely correct, he got the wrong person to speak. For the Huai army, the Taiping army is their fateful opponent, and they must fight to the death when they meet. However, the coalition forces did not have much ill feelings towards the Taiping army, and the reason why they helped the Manchus to suppress the Taiping army was, in the final analysis, because of the benefits, and when the benefits obtained were far below the danger level, the coalition forces naturally retreated.

"General Zhang, it is up to our coalition headquarters to decide whether to march or retreat, and in addition, Lord Li, we hope that he can lead his assistant to the west to sit in the town and buy time for us to rest and recuperate."

Zhang Shusheng's face was a little ugly, and the foreign devil really made up his mind to retreat. Why exactly? Could it really be that the soldiers killed in the battle with the Taiping Army had shaken the foundation of the coalition army, as had been guessed in advance? Thinking of this possibility, Zhang Shusheng's face became even more ugly.

Like the coalition army, the Taiping army also withdrew, and this time the evacuation was very simple, directly retreating to Suzhou City, and the Shiwang army also came to meet the peace, and the two armies merged into one, with a large number of wounded soldiers into Suzhou City.

The originally empty city of Suzhou suddenly became crowded, all the Langzhong in the city were concentrated, and even the apprentices who had just studied medicine were driven to the shelves to treat the wounded. Even so, many seriously wounded people die every day in Suzhou City, and the trolley pulling corpses every day has become the most feared thing for the wounded soldiers.

"The battle damage results are out! We had the initial success, but the damage ratio was more than double what we expected. Uncle Zhongwang, I suffered a big loss this time! Li Shixian said with a wry smile. With an army of 30,000 on his back, there are only 10,000 left in his hands so far, and there are only 8,000 soldiers in battle, and the remaining 2,000 are lightly wounded, which will take a certain amount of time to recover.

"The Anglo-French alliance is too strong, it is a hard bone to gnaw, even if the two armies are united, we lack a good mouth to swallow them, but unfortunately, if the King's Wehrmacht is here, with the equipment of the Wehrmacht, it will definitely be able to say that the Anglo-French Allied Army will be completely annihilated." Li Xiucheng sighed and immediately took the battle damage report.