Chapter 699: Bloody Battle in Southern City
North Side. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Today's Cai Dexing has never understood what the other party's generals are crazy about, not attacking in broad daylight, but attacking non-stop at night, which is really depressing.
However, if the Qing army does not stop attacking, how can Cai Dexing dare to relax? Cai Dexing had to constantly mobilize the Taiping Army to defend, although he could still hold it now, but it was already in danger.
At this critical moment, suddenly a Taiping soldier hurriedly ran over, panting and shouting: "General, general, it's not good, the Qing demon raided Nancheng, Nancheng is in a hurry!" ”
Cai Dexing's head buzzed, and he almost fainted, and Nancheng was in a hurry? What's going on? Isn't there no water master for the Qing Demon, how can he still launch an attack from the Yangtze River?
"Bastard! Where did the Qing Demon come from? Isn't there no water master for the Qing Demon? Are they flying towards the southern city? ”
Cai Dexing roared.
"General, the Qing Demon didn't know where to mobilize dozens of big ships, went straight down the Yangtze River, and launched an attack directly, all of them were foreign guns and rockets, we didn't have firearms, we couldn't resist it at all! Please send reinforcements to support the general! ”
"Dozens of big ships?"
Cai Dexing's head buzzed, dozens of big ships went straight down the Yangtze River, needless to say, this is a ship from the wharf of Wangjiang County upstream, in order to be able to strengthen the defense, he specially transferred the troops around Anqing Mansion, but he didn't expect to bury such a big hole for himself!
It's just that at this time, it's obviously too late, such a big thing happened in Wangjiang County, damn it, and no one reported it, but now it's been pitted to death!
Cai Dexing was so angry that he sent troops to help? Where are the reinforcements? There are more than 7,000 troops in the entire Anqing City, and now the casualties have exceeded 2,000 people, and there are less than 5,000 people, 3,000 troops are guarding the north city, and the other 2,000 troops are stationed in the east city, the west city and the south city.
It's just that if you don't transfer troops to support Nancheng now, Nancheng will also fall into huge trouble, Nancheng only has a thousand troops, and they are all second-line troops with cold weapons, so it is impossible to withstand the Qing Demon for too long! If you don't send reinforcements now, if the southern city is lost, the northern city will also not be able to hold it!
"Order, transfer a battalion of troops from each of the east and west cities, gallop to the south city, resist, you must hold out until tomorrow day, and you must not let the Qing demon climb to the top of the city!"
Cai Dexing gritted his teeth and shouted!
The herald hurriedly jumped on his horse and flew to deliver the order to the East and West Cities.
It's just that Cai Dexing couldn't imagine that the Qing Demon's attack in Nancheng was so strong, and he didn't even have time to send reinforcements to help defend himself, Cai Dexing's order had just arrived in Dongcheng and Xicheng, and he mobilized two battalions of troops, and before he could reach Nancheng, Nancheng had already fallen.
Nancheng only left a thousand troops, if the cavalry of the Lu army did not land, then it could still hold the position, after all, the cavalry attacked on the ship, it was very inconvenient, not to mention that the cavalry in the north was not good at water warfare at all, and even half of the combat power could not be exerted, and if they could not approach the city wall, they could only stare dryly.
But the unfortunate Taiping army actually let the rocket they brought up at the most critical time to pit, Congreve rocket detonated the rocket of the Taiping army, as a result of blowing out the gap in the city wall, and the first battalion of cavalry took the opportunity to board the southern city.
In just a quarter of an hour, a battalion of cavalry rushed up more than 100 people, and held the gap to the death, not only defended, but also fought the Taiping army was defeated and retreated, you must know that when it was just on the boat, the cavalry of the Lu army was already aggrieved, and they did not dare to move, for fear of accidentally planting it into the Yangtze River, then it would be a ghost who died unjustly, even so, the cavalry still fell into the Yangtze River and drowned under the waves of the Yangtze River! The cavalry who climbed to the top of the city vented all their anger on the Taiping army who launched the charge, and more than 100 people chopped more than 200 Taiping troops into scattered and fled with a single sabre, and they couldn't withstand the violent cavalry at all!
By the time Xu Maoshan led the Taiping army behind him to rush up, the entire battalion had all climbed into the gap, and the cavalry standing in the position no longer wielded their sabers, and took off their horse pistols one after another and fired intensively.
"Bang bang bang!"
At such a close distance, even if the Taiping army is strong, it will definitely not be able to drive the cavalry of the Lu army off the city, not to mention that there are only more than 600 people in the entire southern city now, let alone a battalion of cavalry!
Later, He Tengjiao saw that the first battalion had successfully gained a firm foothold, and he was overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted: "Order, the second and third battalions are all pressed on me, control the southern city in the shortest possible time, and march towards the northern city!" ”
More than a dozen big ships in the back rushed towards the city of Nancheng, and the cavalry on the big ship kept firing guns, suppressing the defense of the Taiping army, and in an instant, more than a dozen big ships rushed to the city wall of Nancheng in Anqing!
Xu Maoshan was completely panicked, just one battalion of cavalry was not something he could resist, and there were more than a dozen big ships rushing over from behind, and there were almost thousands of troops on it!
"Block, block! As long as we hold on to a stick of incense, our reinforcements will arrive, and then it will be our chance to counterattack, and we will drive all the demons into the Yangtze River to feed the crocodiles! ”
Xu Maoshan roared hysterically, boosting the morale of the Taiping Army, of course, Xu Maoshan knew in his heart, not to mention that it was impossible for reinforcements to come over so quickly, even if they rushed over, without more than 2,000 troops, they would definitely not be able to withstand the current attack of the Qing Demon, the opponent was too strong!
Under the all-out attack of the first cavalry battalion, the Taiping army was not able to hold out for long at all, and the formation was completely disrupted by the dense bullets, and the panicked Taiping army began to retreat one after another, even if Xu Maoshan commanded with all his might, it still could not stabilize the situation!
At this time, the cavalry of the two battalions behind has also rushed to the south of the city, and began to join the war group, shooting with guns at a distance, cutting with knives at a distance, even if the cavalry is now fighting on foot, there is no war horse that depends on fame, it is still brave, the reputation of the elite of Baoding Town is definitely not blown out, more than a thousand elite cavalry in Baoding, besieging the Taiping army of five or six hundred people, it is simply as easy as chopping melons and vegetables, without much effort, the entire Taiping army was completely submerged, and the southern city was completely lost!
In just over half an hour, more than half an hour, the unlucky Taiping army lost the southern city under the fierce attack of the cavalry of the Lu army, scattered and fled, and the major general Xu Maoshan was also directly chopped into meat paste by the cavalry with a saber! (To be continued.) )