The Hunan army was waiting for the battle, and the Hunan soldiers had sneers on their faces. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked Anqing City dozens of times, and Anqing is still firmly controlled by the Hunan army. Moreover, the Hunan army relied on the advantage of Anqing City's high guns and thick guns, and advanced and retreated freely, so that Chen Yucheng's many attacks were fruitless, and even lost troops under Anqing City, paying the price of blood.

And now it is no exception, the siege of the Taiping army is doomed to failure.

The logistics of the Hunan army were sufficient, and after Emperor Tongzhi succeeded to the throne, Prince Gong of the General Military Aircraft Department? It showed great support for the Hunan army, not only allocating a large amount of military salaries, but also allowing the Hunan army to recruit soldiers in Hunan, Hubei, and Sichuan provinces, so that the Hunan army could obtain a steady stream of troops and materials.

Originally, the generals led by Zeng Guoquan in the Hunan army were not satisfied with fighting in Shoucheng, but asked the Hunan army to take the initiative to attack, defeat Chen Yucheng's troops head-on, and go down the river to smash Tianjing City.

The other faction is dominated by Hu Linyi, who believes that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom cannot be exterminated overnight, and should be steadily advanced step by step. There is not much difference in the strength of the two factions, Zeng Guofan weighed the pros and cons and leaned more towards the Hu Linyi faction, firmly entrenched in Anqing City, and constantly consumed the vital strength of the British King Chen Yucheng.

Zeng Guofan did not go to the city, as the commander of the Hunan army, he attached great importance to the Taiping army's invasion once or twice, and he came every three or five times, and he was a little unbearable to stare at the city every day. Fortunately, the soldiers of the Hunan army have long been accustomed to the Taiping army attacking the city, and they also have a complete way to deal with it, as long as they send a general to defend the city.

Now guarding the city is Zeng Guoquan, the tiger general of the Hunan army. A few days ago, Zeng Guoquan's two battalions were deceived by Chen Yucheng with a trick, and although the rescue was not fully explained outside the city in time, most of them were also damaged, and the two battalion officers were killed and wounded. Not only did he not get the battle exploits he wanted, but he was also scolded by his brother Zeng Guofan because of his losses, and even made Hu Linyi and other cowards laugh. This made him breathe in his heart. Now that Chen Yucheng's army is coming to attack the city, Zeng Guoquan took the initiative to ask Ying to avenge the revenge of one arrow.

Zeng Guofan is naturally indispensable, although Zeng Guoquan's personality is hot, but he is not a brainless person, the Hunan army is brave and good at fighting under his leadership, and his subordinates are also the strongest combat effectiveness among the Hunan army. Those who have him defend the city are naturally foolproof.

But although Zeng Guofan was at ease with Zeng Guoquan, just in case, he still asked Hu Linyi to secretly strengthen his vigilance to deal with possible accidents.

Everything seems to be the same as before, waiting for a big war to come.

The sun was rising, and the flag of the Wehrmacht appeared in the sight of the Hunan army.

The generals of the Hunan Army were quite surprised by the strange banner of the Wehrmacht.

"Wehrmacht, which long-haired unit is this?" Zeng Guoquan looked stunned, and after more than half a year of entanglement, the Hunan army was extremely familiar with Chen Yucheng's subordinates, and the national defense army that appeared in front of him was definitely not any of the Taiping army.

"Second brother, could it be that Changmao changed his name to make a fool of himself?" Zeng Guobao said in a deep voice. Although the Taiping army was tightly organized, its number was quite chaotic, which was also a common problem of the peasant armed forces. There is nothing impossible for the Taiping Army to change its number.

But soon, Zeng Guoquan's brows furrowed.

This army is different from the previous Taiping Army, their clothing is uniform, and the military uniforms of this period are very different, but somewhat similar to the military uniforms of foreign devils, but this kind of military uniforms look extremely neat, and the most important thing is that these people are carrying rifles with bayonets, which is unimaginable in current China.

These soldiers stopped outside the range of the Hunan army, they calculated the distance very accurately, and the Hunan army's guns could not threaten them at all.

Soon, there was a roar from the Wehrmacht, and one by one the black hole guns appeared in the sight of the Hunan army, and the exaggerated muzzle and the black hole gun body looked extremely extraordinary.

"Oh no, that's ...... Foreigners' cannons! Zeng Guoquan's face changed greatly, if he had been extremely contemptuous of the Taiping Army before, but now he was shocked.

There is no cannon of such caliber in the Hunan army. Even the earthen artillery did not know such a large caliber.

Boom!

The heavy artillery fired, and a hole of more than half a meter was suddenly opened in the city wall, and the soldiers of the Hunan army on the entire city wall were shaken and staggered.

Boom Boom!

Twelve heavy artillery shells bombarded a section of the city wall with thousands of holes, as if it would completely collapse in the next moment.

The Hunan army panicked, the enemy was out of their range, and even if they wanted to fight back, they were unable to catch it.

In Anqing City, Zeng Guofan was also taken aback, he rushed out of the government office regardless of his image, and ran towards the city wall while wearing official robes.

What happened? Why is the entire Anqing City so shaken?

When Zeng Guofan rushed to the city wall, without him asking, the section of the city wall that was bombed with thousands of holes collapsed, and a gap of dozens of meters appeared on the Anqing city wall.

The Wehrmacht did not move, the giant cannon raised its muzzle, boomed, and fell into the crowd of Hunan troops in the city.

The sound of the explosion was accompanied by a terrible scream, and the surviving Hunan soldiers quickly withdrew from the city wall, their faces frightened and inexplicable.

The Wehrmacht's heavy artillery power is truly astonishing. The city wall was blasted, and a huge gap appeared in the barrel-like defense of the Hunan army.

At the same time, behind the cannons, a hundred guns showed their hideous faces. These 80 to 90 mm guns may not be good for siege, but covering infantry attacks is indeed a super weapon.

Under artillery fire, no one in the Hunan army dared to take the lead.

In the past, Chen Yucheng had to consume hundreds of casualties to approach the city wall, which was not at all met with decent resistance from the Wehrmacht.

The loud sound of the bugle remembered that the Wehrmacht soldiers had launched a charge in a zigzag line.

Rushing into the city wall, the artillery appeared dead, and the Hunan soldiers finally had the ability to counterattack.

But I'm sorry, I want to fight with the Wehrmacht soldiers with bayonets and dodge the grenades thrown by the Wehrmacht.

It has to be said that the gap in combat effectiveness brought about by the gap in equipment is extremely large, not to mention the fact that a unit that attaches importance to firepower and a unit that attaches importance to individual bravery are completely different. The Wehrmacht took the gap in the city wall as a breakthrough and expanded the results of the battle at an extremely terrifying speed, and the entire city of Anqing fell into a war.

The Hunan army hid in the house and wanted to hit the Wehrmacht's black guns, but what was waiting for them was a grenade emitting black smoke, and the Hunan army squad wanted to use the terrain to ambush the Wehrmacht, but what was waiting for them was the ubiquitous artillery fire of the Taiping Army.

Hong Tiangui began to be a little excited, but slowly he was a little disappointed, the gap was too big, the performance of the Hunan army was indeed brave, but whether it was weapons and equipment or tactical level, the old army of the Hunan army had fallen behind in an all-round way.

"Raise the banner of surrender and don't kill, surrender and avoid death!" The soldiers of the Hunan army are basically strong, and it is a pity to kill them like this.

In Anqing City, Zeng Guoquan, who was covered in blood, was carried by his men and retreated. Zeng Guofan's face was pale, and there was still unspeakable fear in his eyes.

Is this the army of long-haired people? Why is it more fierce than the Anglo-French forces? If all the long-haired troops had the firepower of this army, such a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would simply not be able to resist.

Zeng Guofan understood that this national defense force was not something he could resist, and at this time he suddenly thought of the strange unit of the Taiping Army mentioned in Li Hongzhang's war report, the mysterious force that suddenly appeared to occupy Shanghai during the battle between the Huai Army and Li Xiu.

"The ...... It doesn't mean that this Wehrmacht is that army, right? Zeng Guofan has deep regret. At the beginning, Li Hongzhang's war report focused on the fact that this mysterious unit obtained weapons and equipment from the British and French forces in Shanghai, and its strength was extremely powerful. It's just that it didn't attract Zeng Guofan's attention at that time. Now that I think about it, it's too late.

"The army of 50,000 is gone!" Zeng Guofan's heart was like a knife. In the past two years, by virtue of the war with the Taiping army, his Huai army expanded extremely rapidly, with a total strength of nearly 300,000 and 100,000 elites. With the help of Anqing City, Zeng Guofan transferred the Hunan army to fight Chen Yucheng in turn, constantly sharpening the battle of the Hunan army, and preparing to wait until the elite of the Hunan army grew to 200,000 and marched east to destroy the heavenly kingdom. It's just that I didn't expect that there was such a terrifying army in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which not only broke through the city wall in a short time, but also used the advantage of artillery fire to defeat the morale of the army, and the 50,000 troops fought separately, and there were not too many who could escape from Anqing City.

Zeng Guofan is an extremely decisive person, and he knows well that he can stay in Qingshan without worrying about running out of firewood, as long as he and the 3,000 old Hunan battalions under his command are still there, the entire Hunan army will still be there. What's more, he still has more than 200,000 troops outside the city, as long as he is prepared, he will definitely not be so passive next time.

Before the Wehrmacht blocked the city gates, Zeng Guofan led his cronies to flee from Anqing City. The Hunan army in the city was leaderless, and soon there were people who surrendered, like dominoes, surrender would also be contagious, and soon the battle in Anqing City completely subsided, and a group of depressed Hunan troops left Anqing City under the escort of the Taiping army.

"That's it?" Chen Yucheng, who was pressing the formation in the distance, was completely stupid? The gaze at the Wehrmacht was first shocked, then ecstatic. As a general who commands the army, who doesn't want to have an invincible army under his command, at this time, he suddenly thought of Hong Tiangui's words last night, maybe he was still resistant before, but now it is completely gone, and even has the idea of looking forward to it.

The elite of the 30,000 British royal army also looked at this scene blankly, you must know that they have been fighting desperately for seven months, and Anqing City is still firmly on the way of the British army's advance, and even if they sacrifice a lot, the number of times they have attacked the city wall is only a handful. It can be said that the British army has long been filled with the news that Anqing City is unconquerable, but now that the unattainable city wall has been easily taken down, this is not only shocking but shocking to them.

"The captive has been handed over to you, the king! This king will lead the Wehrmacht to continue westward! Hong Tiangui said in a deep voice.