After another attack of the Qing army was repelled by the remnants of the rear battalion with earth-shattering thunder, Zhao Hu, the general banner who had no time to catch his breath, saw Zhao Sihai in front of him suddenly fall to the ground, he was taken aback, rushed forward to take a look, and saw that the upper part of Zhao Sihai's right leg was oozing blood.

"Baihe, you're injured!"

Zhao Sihai's wound was blurred with flesh and blood, and the naked eye could vaguely see several grains of lead embedded in it, Zhao Hu took a breath of cool air, and while tearing off his sleeves to wrap Zhao Sihai, he was in a hurry to call someone to come over and carry Zhao Sihai down.

"I'm fine, I told the gun to hit it, and I was injured and I couldn't die."

The injury on his leg made Zhao Sihai's forehead full of sweat in pain at the moment, he endured the great pain, signaled Zhao Hu not to ask someone to carry him down, and then asked him: "How are the brothers killed or injured?" ”

Hearing Zhao Sihai ask about the casualties, Zhao Hu's face suddenly darkened, and he said in a low voice: "Now there are only more than 100 people who can move, and there are only more than 30 of our old brothers left, all of whom are injured. ”

"More than a hundred left?"

Zhao Sihai sighed, there are only more than 100 men left in the back camp of more than 2,000 men so far, and this battle is not not tragic.

Seeing Zhao Sihai's gloomy expression, Zhao Hu hurriedly comforted him and said: "We have suffered more casualties, but the Tartars have not been pleased, and they have asked us to retreat after rushing us several times, and no less than two hundred corpses have been thrown away, we will not lose this battle." Besides, the reinforcements of Lord Qianhu are coming to the mountain, looking at the situation of the Tartars retreating just now, I estimate that they will not dare to fill us with people anymore, otherwise, I am afraid they will have to be dumplings by Lord Qianhu! ”

"You also said that the reinforcements of Lord Qianhu have not rushed up yet, but we only have more than 100 people left, if Lord Qianhu can't catch up, and the Qing army rushes up again, what should we do?"

Zhao Sihai is not as optimistic as Zhao Hu. He also saw that although the Qing army was also the end of the crossbow, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse. As long as the reinforcements did not rush up the hill for a moment, the situation in the rear camp was not optimistic. If the generals of the Qing army are desperate, they must first take down the enemy in their backs. I'm afraid that these more than 100 people really won't be able to support the arrival of reinforcements, and then the thousands of old, weak, women and children in this hall will all fall into the hands of the Qing army. Most of the families of the soldiers in the front battalion are in the back camp, if the wife and children fall into the hands of the Qing army, I am afraid that the military spirit of the front battalion will collapse in an instant, and this battle will not be able to be fought.

"We still have more than 100 brothers, and there are four earth-shattering thunders, it's a big deal to fight the brothers to all die, and the day is going to be bright. The Tartars are not beaten with iron, and they can't bear it even if they kill them all night, and when the Lord of the Thousand Households leads the army up, the Tartars will retreat if they don't retreat. ”

Zhao Hu still insisted on his opinion, they couldn't hold it, and the Tartars couldn't hold it anymore. After the death of so many people, he also let it go, if nothing else, he died for his own men, and he also had to fight with the Qing army to the end. Otherwise, there is no face to meet them!

"Tell the brethren to hold on no matter what. What we compare with the Tartars is who has more breath, whoever has more breath can live, and if there is less, they will die! ”

Now that the matter can only be fought to the end, Zhao Sihai thought to himself that everything he could have done had already been done, if God didn't let them live and couldn't wait for reinforcements to come up, then there was nothing to say. He gritted his teeth and stood up, the injury on his leg causing his leg to shake a little involuntarily. I was about to discuss with Song Xianggong to see if I could organize some women to come up, but I heard someone in front of me shouting: "Qinggou is coming up again!" ”

As soon as I heard that the Qing army came up again. The exhausted remnants of the rear battalion rose from the ground, although they were too tired to walk. But he gritted his teeth and stood at his post. Many people will inadvertently turn their heads when standing on the defensive line, and their eyes will scan the dense crowd of old and weak women and children, their eyes full of concern and determination.

Zhao Sihai also walked over with the support of Zhao Hu, and sure enough, the Qing army was killing the whole team to the hall again, but this time it was different from the previous times, the Qing army seemed to have all pressed up, and there was no longer any backhand, and the flag soldiers who also played with firecrackers during the previous two attacks also abandoned the firecrackers, and everyone held a big knife in their hands.

It seems that the Qing army is going to fight for the last time!

Zhao Sihai squinted, and his heart jumped involuntarily: survive this time, live; Can't hold on, die!

Zhao Hu saw that there was silence all around, and couldn't help but wave his knife and scold: "Damn, killing one is enough, killing two to earn one, let Lao Tzu and Qinggou make a bang today!" Brothers, if I, Zhao Hu, walk in front, everyone will remember to spend the New Year and holidays in the future, and burn some paper money for Lao Tzu, so that Lao Tzu will not be happy below! ”

A middle-aged Kujun in his forties listened to Zhao Hu's words, raised the knife in his hand, and shouted at everyone: "After drinking Meng Po soup, I will be reincarnated in the next life and make Tartars, I don't believe it, this dog Tartar can occupy the country of our Han people!" ”

"The brothers in the front camp are desperately rushing up the mountain, and the brothers in our back camp are not raised by the back mother, they all cheer up, call Qinggou, and tell the brothers in the front camp to see, our old and young men in the back camp also have birds!"

“”

Listening to the heroic words of the remaining soldiers, security guards and treasury soldiers, Zhao Sihai's heart hurt terribly, these men's words were heroic, but they made people sad and angry, obviously, everyone realized that this was the last fight of the Qing army, and it was also their last fight.

"Brothers, fight with Qinggou!"

"Fight with Qinggou!"

"Dog Tartar, dare to stand in the way of your Ge Ye, see how Lao Tzu cuts off your head! Brothers in the shock camp, kill Lao Tzu! ”

Ge Zheng, whose eyes were red, was the first to break through the Qing army's defense line in front of Guifeng Pavilion, and in the frightened gaze of those Qing soldiers on the opposite side, he rushed towards them with a long knife. Behind him, more than two hundred sharp spears.

At three o'clock, the Zhenyu battalion, which had paid half of the casualties of the whole battalion, finally repelled the Qing army in front of it and rushed to Guifeng Pavilion first. At the same time, Shao Jiugong's majestic battalion also attacked the top of the mountain, and under the ferocious offensive of the Taiping army's front camp, the Qing army could not reach, and changed from the previous retreat while fighting to a disorderly retreat.

Seeing that he could not resist the attack of the Taiping army, he saw that there were more and more Taiping troops attacking the mountain, but the general soldier did not send reinforcements for a long time, and he also left dozens of subordinates who were still resisting and turned around and fled. Zheng Wansan's escape instantly caused the Qing army to collapse collectively, and Lin Youxian, who was still trying to collect the remnants of the army on the other side, could only lead his troops to flee for his life when he saw this.

In the process of rout, some Qing troops were really unable to run anymore and surrendered to the Taiping army. The Taiping army, who was bent on rescuing the rear camp, did not care about guarding these surrendered soldiers, and under the command of Ge Zheng and Shao Jiugong, they crossed the Guifeng Pavilion and went to the center of Yutai Temple to kill.

Wu Jinzhong, who was concentrating all his forces to make a final fight, heard that Zheng Wansan and they did not hold the Guifeng Pavilion. Now that the thief brigade had rushed up the mountain, it was immediately shocked by the combat effectiveness of the thief soldiers, and in a hurry, Lu Yongxiang rushed to lead his own personal army to suppress the defeated soldiers and organize resistance. He gave Lu Yongxiang a death order: the thieves must not be allowed to rush to the Daxiong Palace, otherwise. Failed side.

When Lu Yongxiang led his troops to Qianjutang, he met Zheng Wansan and Lin Youxian, who fled in a hurry, and saw Zheng Wansan running at the forefront, Lu Yongxiang didn't say a word, pulled out his waist knife, and cut Zheng Wansan's neck with a knife in the stunned eyes of Zheng Wansan's subordinates and Lin Youxian.

"Those who trespass are killed!"

After killing Zheng Wansan, Lu Yongxiang's personal army beheaded several more battalion soldiers. The shock caused the rest of the deserters and Lin Youxian to stay there.

"The chief soldier has an order, and those who retreat without permission will be killed, and they will all go back to me!"

Lu Yongxiang roared, kicked a few stunned battalion soldiers, and forced them to turn around and go back. Under the coercion of the pro-soldiers and Lu Yongxiang, Lin Youxian had to lead these routs to turn around again, and collided with the oncoming Taiping Army's shock camp.

It was already a defeated army, and the green battalion soldiers who had no fighting spirit were stabbed to death by spears in an instant, and the rest no longer ignored the bullet pressure of the pro-soldier team, and scattered in a hurry. Lin Youxian saw that the situation was irretrievable, so he pretended to be dead while people were not paying attention.

Lu Yongxiang was Wu Jinzhong's hardcore brother in the army back then, and his own soldiers were all veterans who had fought for seven or eight years. Although the number of people was only a few dozen, they were not afraid of the shock camp, and under the short knives one after another, the two sides fought together, the knives rose and the spears fell, and from time to time someone screamed and fell to the ground.

The Zhenyu battalion marched rapidly for several days, rushing to Guifeng Mountain, which was already overwhelmed, and after a bloody battle, rushed to the top of the mountain at the cost of nearly half of the casualties. At this moment, it is difficult to meet a strong opponent. Fortunately, the Xiongwei battalion arrived in time. Relying on the strength of the troops, Lu Yongxiang's troops retreated precariously. That's what Rao is. The fierce Lu Yongxiang still gritted his teeth, intending to buy time for the Qing army in the Daxiong Palace.

Lu Yongxiang's ferocity aroused the fierceness of the equally fierce Ge Zheng, and he killed him with a long knife.

"Kill!"

Ge Zheng roared and slashed with a long knife, Lu Yongxiang was not to be outdone, he also shouted loudly, and greeted him without fear.

"Bell!"

The two knives slashed, and both of them retreated, and before Ge Zheng swung the knife again, Lu Yongxiang abandoned him and led the remaining more than ten personal soldiers to run behind the Thousand Hands Hall.

Ge Zheng was suspicious, and when he looked back, he laughed out loud, it turned out that Tie Yi led the trap camp to arrive, and the soldiers in the trap camp at the front were holding fire guns, and the guns of the black hole were pointing ahead, and anyone who saw them would run.

After Lu Yongxiang fled to the Daxiong Palace, Wu Jinzhong knew that the general trend had gone, although Su Xianting's banner soldiers had broken through a gap in the Daxiong Palace, but the thief brigade had arrived at the Thousand Hands Hall, and they would rush over at any time, at this time, the thieves in the hall were no longer important, he just rushed in, and the thief brigade would immediately follow in. In order to avoid the annihilation of the whole army, he immediately made a decision and immediately ordered all his troops to gather and break through to the bottom of the mountain.

The Qing army, who was overjoyed by breaking the mouth of the thief, was stupid when they heard the order, and when they heard the sound of the thief shouting from the direction of the Thousand Hands Hall, they immediately understood: The thieves under the mountain have been killed, and if they don't leave, they won't be able to leave!

Wu Jinzhong's order was for the whole army to gather together to break through the siege, but Su Xianting did not obey this order, but fled with his banner soldiers to the back mountain first. He won't be stupid enough to break through from the front, and the trail in the back mountain is a ready-made escape route!

After learning that Su Xianting led people to run to the back mountain, Wu Jinzhong was so angry that he scolded, that trail can only accommodate one person up and down at a time, and he Su Xianting only cares about his own life and doesn't care about whether everyone lives or dies!

As soon as the Han army flag ran, the green battalion soldiers didn't know the situation, and some people also ran to the back mountain, but they didn't know that the back mountain trail couldn't allow them to go down the mountain at all. As a result, as soon as these battalion soldiers who didn't know the situation ran with the Han army flag, the other battalion soldiers didn't know what was going on, and they also ran wildly. In the end, Wu Jinzhong could only gather less than 300 people in hand, and he had no choice but to lead these remnants to escape to Qianshan Hall, trying to take advantage of the unknown terrain in the temple of the thief brigade to find an opportunity to go down the mountain.

The remnants of the rear battalion, who already had the heart to die, saw the Qing army retreating, and their sharp-eyed eyes saw their own battle flags rushing towards the direction of the Thousand Hands Hall, and immediately shouted excitedly to the worried crowd in the hall: "The Tartars are defeated, the Tartars are defeated, our reinforcements are coming, the reinforcements are coming!" (To be continued)