The reckless assault of the Taiping army finally paid off, and some Taiping soldiers rushed into the foreign spear team with broadswords and spears.

The foreign officers of the foreign gun team quickly installed bayonets on the rifles, but the Chinese soldiers in the foreign gun team did not have such military qualities, and they collapsed in the face of the bright blades of the Taiping army.

Bang Bang Bang!

The revolvers in the hands of the foreign officers kept ringing, and the panicked Chinese soldiers of the foreign gun team slowly calmed down under the blood and bayonets.

"Kill!"

The shouts of killing rushed to the sky, and more and more Taiping troops rushed into the foreign guns.

"Artillery, artillery, at any cost!" Wall yelled, the fierceness of the Taiping army beyond his expectations.

The artillery roared, and the attacking Taiping retreated in disarray, and an excellent attack was repulsed by artillery fire.

Li Xiucheng slowly retreated, with an ugly look on his face.

As long as it is pressed, Wall's foreign guns will inevitably perish.

Boom, boom!

There was a roar in the east, followed by a dense burst of gunfire, and the dull sound of horses' hooves rang out from all directions.

Li Xiucheng's face changed, and he quickly ordered the herald to send a flag to respond.

Sure enough, the Huai army launched an attack with 5,000 people, and the British and French troops of 3,000 people came out of the city and brazenly launched an attack on the Taiping army. The artillery of the Huai army and the artillery of the foreigners combined to carry out intensive artillery bombardment of the entire Taiping army's position.

"Order Mai Dongliang's army to block the Qing army's attack with all its might, and buy time for the Chinese army to encircle and annihilate the foreign gun team!" Li Xiucheng was also taken aback, although he knew that the Manchu Qing and the foreign army would not watch the foreign gun team be wiped out by the Taiping army, but the other party's rapid reaction speed was still beyond Li Xiucheng's expectations. Now that the Taiping Army has made huge sacrifices to continuously compress the living space of the foreign gun team, and the fall of the foreign gun team is imminent, Li Xiucheng will definitely not give up this golden opportunity.

The reason why Mai Dongliang's troops were responsible for resisting was that Mai Dongliang's troops were defeated by the foreign guns before, and at the moment when the foreign guns were besieged, Mai Dongliang's army was resting on the periphery, and it also became the only force in Li Xiucheng's hands that did not participate in the strangulation of the foreign guns, so it naturally needed to go up at this moment.

Mai Dongliang didn't dare to slack off, even if he knew that the result of his top was likely to be that most of the thousands of his men would be killed, but he would never dare to retreat at this time after seeing through the overall situation. Otherwise, not only will the foreign gun team not be able to exterminate, but even the entire Chinese army will be collapsed by the impact of the foreigners.

The battlefield was full of blood and rain, 3,000 British and French troops in front, 5,000 in the rear, and 8,000 enemy troops relied on superior firepower to continuously defeat the impact of the Taiping army, and unswervingly advanced in the direction of the foreign guns.

At the same time, the artillery of the Huai Army and the British and French forces continued to bombard, assisting the foreign guns to repel the attacks of the Taiping Army again and again.

The battle was stalemate, and a rash attack by the foreign guns turned into a decisive battle. Li Hongzhang, who was in Shanghai, made a quick decision, and removed a total of five battalions from the two battlefields in the north and south, and organized the elite and strong that the Manchu Qingshui Division had just sent into five battalions, and gathered 5,000 men to send to the battlefield.

Li Hongzhang had no choice, if this battle failed, it would be impossible for them to hold Shanghai City, and it would be useless to leave Jingzhuang.

The roar in the west of the city completely shook the city of Shanghai, and some forces in the city that had nothing to do with themselves became completely nervous. At that time, the Little Knife Society started from Shanghai, although it failed in the end, but the impact on Shanghai was huge, and the gangsters, wealthy merchants, and political leaders in the city were mostly close to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and if the Taiping army captured Shanghai, their end would definitely not be too good. Moreover, after Li Hongzhang served as the governor of Jiangsu, he always paid attention to public opinion propaganda, and the image of the Taiping Army in Shanghai was extremely bad, so the atmosphere in the city was extremely tense.

Just when Li Hongzhang was scratching his head because of the lack of troops, the presidents of the eighteen chambers of commerce in Shanghai came together, and they did not give Li Hongzhang a threat, but gave Li Hongzhang a big gift. Five thousand heavily armed sturdies, of course, these sturdies were not from the regular army, but were cobbled together. There are the guards of the Chamber of Commerce, the gangsters, the gangsters, and the fierce hooligans, as well as some desperate out-of-town elites.

Suddenly get 5,000 troops, Li Hongzhang looked overjoyed, although these troops lack training, but the weapons and equipment are not weak at all, Shanghai is the most advanced city in the East after all, and because the foreign garrison is here, all kinds of weapons trading is extremely hot, in Shanghai, only money, nothing is impossible, so most of these 5,000 people are armed by the Chamber of Commerce behind them, Li Hongzhang only needs to send officers to receive simple training.

Li Hongzhang didn't care about greetings, and immediately organized the 5,000 people into ten battalions, and then dismantled all the people of his personal guard team into each battalion to serve as officers, and then sent these ten battalions to the battlefield, and the person who commanded them was none other than Zhang Shusheng, who lost the first line of defense.

The acquisition of ten battalions in plain white gave Li Hongzhang great confidence, as long as he held out for one day, the second batch of reinforcements would arrive, and then it would be more difficult for Li Xiucheng to capture Shanghai.

The sky gradually darkened, because the Taiping army continued to draw the strength of the strangling foreign spear team to resist the attack of the Huai army and the British and French forces, so the attack power continued to weaken, and it was never able to break through Wall's foreign gun team, which made Li Xiucheng extremely angry.

"30,000 people besiege 3,000 men, and you can't take them for three hours, what use does this king want from you?" Lee so-sung roared.

The generals bowed their heads one by one, and some of them were still wounded. No one expected that the foreign rifle team would be so difficult, and the artillery was sharp, and the Taiping army launched hundreds of attacks, but they were all beaten back, and the corpses left on the front line were piled up high.

"Lord Wang, the sky is dark, and the enemy has stopped attacking! Shall we take advantage of the darkness of the night to fight again? Chen Bingwen said in a deep voice. The attack on the northern front also did not go well, and the Huai army used a river to stop Chen Bingwen, making it difficult for him to lose his troops but advance an inch.

"Don't be in a hurry, be careful to defend, after midnight, the whole army will attack, if you can't take the foreign guns, this Shanghai city will not fight!" After observing during the day, he found that as the war progressed, the combat effectiveness of the foreign rifle team became stronger and stronger, and the Chinese soldiers who would have been afraid were no longer afraid after the baptism of war, and the huge gap in weapons and ammunition between the two sides, the foreign gun team had the suppression of artillery, and also made full use of the positions left by the Huai army, so that the Taiping army's results were extremely limited.

"What if the enemy breaks through?" Chen Bingwen was puzzled, the foreign gun team had been surrounded, although the Taiping army could not help him for a while, but the opponent's troops were extremely consumed, and now it is estimated that there are not even a thousand people, and it is a matter of time before they are wiped out. If Chen Bingwen is Wall, he will definitely break through after dark.

"Then call me back! This foreign gun team is settled! Li Xiucheng roared.

Sure enough, in the night, the foreign spear team that had been cowering began to break through, but the Taiping army had sufficient troops, and regardless of sacrifice, they blocked it back. Wall's foreign guns left behind more than 200 corpses and retreated in disarray. Their strength was already less than 800 people, so naturally they did not dare to attack rashly, so they could only wait for reinforcements to break the siege of the Taiping army.