The source of Hong Tiangui's wry smile was not the enemy, but the obvious weakening of his own firepower. This is also a big battle with no choice, a long and rapid march, and a hasty investment of all troops, and the later stage of the artillery is extremely burdensome. Although the Kingdom of Heaven can imitate cannonballs, it is not in sufficient quantities, after all, it can only be produced with a large amount of silver invested in white flowers. Moreover, the production process of the Kingdom of Heaven is quite backward, many aspects require manpower to do it, and the proficiency of craftsmen is not high, so the production capacity is naturally limited. The reason why it has been able to hold on until now is that the seizure from Shanghai accounts for the lion's share.

Although Hong Tiangui gave the order for the artillery to attack with all his might, the British king Chen Yucheng, who was in command at the front, obviously changed his methods. Artillery is so important to the Wehrmacht that if it runs out of ammunition, it will have a great impact on the entire Wehrmacht, and may even affect the victory of the war.

Also extremely sensitive to Wehrmacht artillery fire was Tsang Kuo-fan. He silently calculated the density of the Taiping Army's artillery, and said in a deep voice:

"The enemy's artillery fire has sparsed a lot, it should be that there is not much ammunition, and I ordered all battalions under Hu Linyi to launch a major counterattack, so as to repel the enemy and buy time for the army to cross the river."

The Hunan army's sudden large-scale counteroffensive really caught the Wehrmacht by surprise, but then the Wehrmacht's artillery fire suddenly became twice as dense, and even stronger than before, and the momentum of the Hunan army was beaten back.

Zeng Guofan's face on the other side changed, and he muttered to himself in his heart, could it be that he made a mistake in judgment?

Hong Tiangui, who was in the rear, was also nervous, and he knew that the consumption of the shells by the sudden outbreak just now was amazing. It may not be easy for the Wehrmacht artillery to maintain the intensity of their previous attacks.

Facts proved Hong Tiangui's conjecture, and the artillery of the Wehrmacht declined after the outbreak, maintaining a minimum scale of firepower.

Although Zeng Guofan guessed this possibility, he no longer had the courage to try the whole army, and his Lao Xiang battalion left five hundred people to protect himself, and the rest were filled into this bottomless pit. Even if his own brother is still alive, it is uncertain.

The strangulation between the two sides continued, and the Hunan army began to surrender in formation, and these surrendered troops were not sent to the rear, but were forced to turn their guns against the Hunan army with bayonets ordered by the British king.

The biggest consequence of this was to create panic, and some Hunan army officers were encouraged to kill 10 enemy soldiers or capture 10 prisoners of war after receiving a promise from the Wehrmacht generals that they would not be prisoners of war.

On the Ganjiang bridge, the withdrawal of the Hunan army became chaotic.

"King, the heavy artillery is ready, will you bombard the bridge?"

"Ordered the artillery regiments to prohibit the bombardment of the bridge, while the enemy dog hurriedly jumped over the wall. The muzzle of the gun was lowered and the resisting Hunan army was bombarded. ”

The orders of the British king were well executed, and the lethality of the heavy artillery to the Hunan army was huge, and the Hunan army appeared in a large-scale mutiny and surrender. Some Hunan soldiers turned around and jumped into the Gan River, trying to swim across the river themselves.

In the big tent, Zeng Guofan's face was ugly, and his whole body was trembling.

It's over, his Hunan army is over!

An army of 100,000! At present, just over 20,000 people have been able to cross the river safely.

"Big brother, the old Xiang camp has been defeated, let's evacuate quickly!" Zeng Guoquan, who was covered in blood, was carried back, half of his arm was blown up, and there was blood everywhere on his body, looking like a bloody man.

"Ah Quan, you're still alive, it's great, it's great!" Zeng Guofan grabbed his younger brother's intact right hand, and the panic on his face slowly disappeared.

He straightened up, his expression became suggestive and resolute, and he gave an order in a deep voice: "The old Xiang battalion will cross the river with the commander, and leave the commander's flag here, so as not to shake the army's heart, and at the same time let Hu Linyi organize the attack." Ben Shuai met him on the other side of the river. ”

After giving the order, Zeng Guofan led people to escort Zeng Guoquan to cross the river first. They were wearing ordinary Hunan army uniforms, and they were escorted by the people of the old Hunan battalion around them, and they crossed the Ganjiang River unconsciously.

When Hu Linyi received the order, his face was full of disbelief. The marshal actually fled first, didn't he know that the battle had reached the end, the artillery of the Taiping army was already unsustainable, and although the Hunan army was defeated and surrendered, it was far from being able to hold on.

Hu Linyi's first thought was to block the news, otherwise the Hunan army would probably collapse without a fight. After all, the Hunan army under their command has grown up in the past two years, and although its combat effectiveness is good, it is not an old Hunan battalion that cannot be defeated after all.

But what scared him the most happened, and suddenly there was a shout on the battlefield.

"Zeng Dashuai has crossed the river!"

"Zeng Dashuai fled!"

"Zeng Guoquan escaped!"

"Hu Linyi fled!"

All sorts of shouts came and went. Originally, it was used as a psychological warfare that did not enter the stream, but it directly hit the soft underbelly of the Hunan army. Hu Linyi hurriedly appeared to refute the rumors, and his area quickly settled down, but other areas did not, especially the big tent of the Chinese army, Zeng Guofan did not show up at all.

"The old Xiang camp is gone!" A soldier of the Hunan army who was close to the tent of the commander of the Hunan army shouted, and the news quickly spread to the whole army, and the entire Hunan army was in an uproar, and the soldiers of the Hunan army, who were still hesitating to surrender, immediately and decisively threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands. A feeling of betrayal permeated the entire Hunan army, and no one wanted to confront the Taiping army.

Hu Linyi's face was ugly, he understood that the general trend had gone, and immediately let his subordinates and cronies control and take the lead to ensure that the battalions under his command crossed the river. In order to keep this last road, Hu Lin's wing even killed Pao Ze, who was also a Hunan army.

Messy .......

The sound of the battle was noisy, and the Hunan army and the national defense army, the Hunan army and the Hunan army, were fighting each other in chaos. When the national defense army captured the central camp of the Hunan army, there was a roar on the Ganjiang bridge.

Blow up the bridge!

It was not the Wehrmacht who blew up the bridge, but the Hunan army on the west bank of the Gan River.

The Hunan soldiers who remained on the east bank of the Gan River became outcasts, and except for some people with good water qualities who crossed the river, the others surrendered to the Wehrmacht one after another. There were prisoner camps everywhere, and everywhere you could see a soldier of the Wehrmacht escorting more than a dozen defeated Hunan troops, and there was also a person escorting dozens of people, his face full of pride.

The British king did not participate in the cleaning of the battlefield, and the Wehrmacht had its own methods of calculating military merits and cleaning the battlefield, and there was no need for the British king to do anything at all.

To tell the truth, this battle can be said to have brought the Wehrmacht's firepower advantage to the limit, and by the end of the battle, almost all the ammunition of the artillery was exhausted. Even if the Hunan army holds out for a while, I am afraid that it will be the Wehrmacht that will lose, after all, the enemy's strength is more than three times that of the Wehrmacht, and although the weapons and equipment are not good, the soldiers under his command are all soldiers who have gone through the war and have a certain combat effectiveness.

At the meeting of senior officers of the National Defense Forces, Hong Tiangui, who was full of spring breeze, smiled and promulgated the will.

"In this battle, the Wehrmacht defeated the strong with the weak, and in addition to relying on the superiority of weapons and equipment, the greatest credit should belong to one person." Hong Tiangui smiled and paused. All eyes were on King Chen Yucheng.

Chen Yucheng's face showed a look of nervousness.

"That is Zeng Guofan, the commander of the Hunan army! If it weren't for his decisive evacuation under the command of the British King, where would we have been able to win so heartily. ”

All the officers were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.