After Jiangxin Island in North Xinzhou was captured by the Taiping army, the water camp of Qinggua Prefecture was forced to retreat to the port, and it was no longer able to compete with the Taiping army for control of the Yangtze River. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the imminent worry of crossing the river by the Qing army in Jiangbei, Zhou Shixiang decided to solve the Qing army in Jiangnan and completely recover Jiangnan. He set the deployment, first to fight Liang Huafeng, and then to fight allegiance.

Zhou Shixiang personally commanded the Iron Man Guard, commanding a brigade of the Sixth Town, the Third Town, and more than 3,000 troops from Nanjing to attack Changzhou from the direction of Zhenjiang Danyang; King of the Harrier. The auxiliary minister led Xinyi Town to launch an offensive from the direction of Liyang, Nanjing, and after capturing Yixing and Wujin, he joined forces with the main force under the city of Changzhou.

After Liang Huafeng received the news of the Taiping army's large-scale invasion, he did not choose to stick to Changzhou, because he knew that the Guan Allegiance of Suzhou could not come to save him, and if he was trapped in Changzhou, the final outcome could only be to sit and wait for death. After discussing with Esehei, he led his troops to the Benniu River, the main road from Zhenjiang to Changzhou, and took the initiative to meet the battle, while Esehei held on to Changzhou.

Liang Huafeng can no longer care about the Taiping army attacking from the direction of Liyang, and his only chance now is to be able to defeat the Taiping army coming from Zhenjiang, so it is possible to lead the army back to help when the Taiping army of Liyang is near the city of Changzhou.

In addition to the 4,000 main forces of the Han army he brought from Nanjing, the Qing army brought by Liang Huafeng to the Benniu River also had more than 3,000 Changzhou Qingzhuang forcibly requisitioned. The Qing army went all the way to Latin in a big way, and when they arrived at the Benniu River, there were more than 10,000 horses.

Liang Huafeng arrived first, he ordered his subordinates to demolish the stone bridge over the Benniu River, and divided his troops to guard the two ferries upstream and downstream, trying to stop the Taiping army in the west of the river.

After the sixth town of the Taiping army arrived, the town general Suna observed the camp of the Qing army on the other bank, and ordered to immediately cut down trees and weave them into rafts to force them to cross. Because there were not many woods near the left, in order not to affect the army to cross the river, the Taiping army demolished hundreds of houses of ordinary people living by the river, just to obtain wood on the beams of the people's houses, which left thousands of people homeless and full of mourning.

After Zhou Shixiang arrived, he immediately ordered people to resettle these homeless people in Lucheng Town, and later the Zhenjiang Government allocated special funds to rebuild houses for these people, and gave them two liters of rice and one silver penny every day, so that the people would not be frozen and starved in the cold wind.

The sixth town was organized into hundreds of rafts, each of which could carry eight to ten people. Suna ordered a forced crossing, and the deputy general Manchurian Edo personally led his troops across the river.

After discovering that the Taiping army had forcibly crossed, Liang Huafeng immediately commanded the Qing army to block it. The Taiping troops on the raft were all wearing double armor and having large shields, and the Qing army lacked long-range artillery, which made it difficult to prevent the Taiping army from forcibly crossing. In the end, after paying dozens of casualties, the Eduobu crossed the Benniu River and then fought with the Qing army that had killed them. With a large number of thunderbolts carried, the Eduobu dispersed the Qing army and occupied an open space on the east bank of the Benniu River.

At the same time, the second group of Taiping troops who crossed the river had reached the middle of the river. Liang Huafeng knew that he could not let the Taiping army cross more men and horses, so he personally led his 800 Han cavalry to rush to the Taiping army on the river beach. Eduo led his troops to fight back desperately, and the sound of guns and explosions was endless, and they actually blocked the two attacks of the Qing cavalry, which surprised Liang Huafeng, because the elite ironclad soldiers of the Zheng army only lasted for a moment under his attack that day, and the Taiping army not only did not collapse, but repelled him twice, which made him frown, realizing that he may not have the possibility of defeating the Taiping army at all.

The sixth town is composed of the Qing army of the original Chaozhou Wu Liuqi Department and the captured militia Qingzhuang, and is not one of the old four towns of the Taiping Army. The initial combat effectiveness of the whole town was relatively low, but no matter how weak the soldiers and horses were, after thousands of miles of conquest, they also became strong soldiers. When in Hunan, the sixth town is known for its barbarism and ferocity, the town was stationed in Jingzhou during the killing of countless people, under the guidance of the slogan of "killing and robbing the light, burning it all", the town created countless tragedies, and its town general Wang Tai (Sunahan name) can make children stop crying. After that, he went all the way north from Guangdong to Jiangxi and thousands of miles to Nanjing, and the slightly weaker soldiers would not appear in front of the Qing army at this moment. The first batch of people to cross the river were the best soldiers among the elite soldiers, and it was a matter of course for Liang Huafeng to hit a nail.

Liang Huafeng did not dare to come hard, he ordered his cavalry to try their best to harass the Taiping army, and when they were close to the range of the Taiping army's guns and bows and arrows, they suddenly beat the horses and swirled, hoping to lose the Taiping army's medicine and arrows.

I never thought that this Taiping army was not only brave, but also strict in military discipline, without the order of the officer, the soldiers would not fire a single sword, not shoot an arrow, and would not throw the powerful thunder out casually. After two times, not only Liang Huafeng was discouraged, but those Qing cavalry were even more discouraged, because no matter how fierce they behaved, those Taiping troops just ignored them. If they are bold enough to advance a little further, they will immediately be struck by a gun.

"My lord, you can't fight like this, if you do this again, the horsepower will be exhausted!"

Liang Huafeng shook his head, knowing that he couldn't go on like this. In sight, the second group of Taiping troops who crossed the river had already come ashore, which made the number of Taiping troops crossing the river reach more than 1,000 people, and it was impossible for the Qing army to destroy them.

Liang Huafeng shook his head, and the Qing army shook his head even more.

On the west bank, the Taiping army was still organizing river crossings with great fanfare. As soon as the raft returned from the other side, there were immediately a line of Taiping soldiers rushing onto the raft, behaving in an orderly manner without confusion. The red military flag swayed in the middle of the river and on both sides of the river.

I don't know if it's deliberate, the Qing troops of the former North New Prefecture who shook the raft showed their strength one by one, shouting in unison, and rowing the wood pulp in their hands hard, making the raft go hand in hand, just like a dragon boat race!

Today, I'm afraid I can't stop them!

The morale of the Qing army has long been wiped out, even Liang Huafeng himself has no will to fight a decisive battle with the Taiping army, and he has already retreated.

Liang Huafeng wanted to leave, but Zhou Shixiang wouldn't let him go. The banner of attack was fought, and the sixth town on the opposite bank immediately switched from the defensive to the offensive.

The Taiping army roared and rushed straight to the Qing army, and the two armies fought bloodily together. The Taiping army who crossed the river jumped off the raft before it could reach the shore and rushed up to the shore with knee-high water. The Taiping Army's offensive was like a tide, slapping forward one after another, without giving the other party a chance to breathe!

Liang Huafeng can't withdraw, if he withdraws at this moment, he will be defeated, and the tens of thousands of people he brought are afraid that only the hundreds of cavalry can return to Changzhou with him.

"Kill!"

Liang Huafeng gritted his teeth to meet him, took out the courage to go out of the city to attack the Zheng army that day, and rushed forward. The Ming and Qing dynasties scuffled and fought everywhere, and human lives could not be stopped.

After more than an hour, the battlefield fell silent.

The Qing army was defeated, and Liang Huafeng ran away.

On the river beach, the smell of blood was so thick that even the wind could not blow it away. The corpses were piled up one after another, and the Qing soldiers kneeling on the ground were group after group.

(To be continued.) )