Wu Liuqi fell to the ground, but he was not dead, Zhou Shixiang's gun was not hit on his chest, but on the lower part of his neck, which would make the blood flow uncontrollably, and he couldn't breathe. The soldiers hurriedly untied the armor on his body, trying to plug the wound of the Admiral with a cloth, but they couldn't stop it, so they could only watch the Admiral's mouth blister, neck blood, and his body twitch and twitch.

Shameless!

Wu Liuqi knew that his life was short, he couldn't breathe, struggled to look up at Zhou Shixiang who was looking at him, he really hated to kill this thief in front of him, but his body didn't listen to the call, and gradually became weak, and he couldn't lift it in one breath, and his hands on the arms of his own soldiers slowly fell down.

When he died, his eyes were still open, he really didn't blink his eyes, he thought that he Wu Liuqi had a good skill when he was young, the people in the rivers and lakes called him "Qi Beggar", and the army called him "General Vigor", and now he is the governor of Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty, the prince Shaobao, under the stick, I don't know how many Ming generals were killed, and Chaozhou didn't know how many Diao people were killed, and countless people's blood stained the top of the head.

"Lord Admiral is dead, Lord Admiral is dead!"

Wu Liuqi's own soldiers wailed, and a group of Chaozhou soldiers also screamed miserably as if they had lost their father. The Taiping army was greatly boosted by Wu Liuqi's death, and everyone fought bravely and rushed to kill the Qing army.

Zhou Shixiang ordered his guards to snatch Wu Liuqi's body, but Wu Liuqi's personal soldiers carried his corpse and ran down the mountain, obviously not wanting the body of Lord Admiral to fall into the hands of Taiping Kou. The guards had to give up because it was inconvenient for them to chase after them in iron armor.

The morale of the Teochew soldiers was low. The army had no fighting spirit, and after a while, they retreated down the mountain, and this retreat was suddenly like a defeat and a mountain. No more of the previous offensive. As soon as the Chaozhou soldiers retreated, the Zhending soldiers and Tongzhou soldiers of Zhili suddenly leaked on the flanks, and Zhou Shixiang led his personal guards to gather hundreds of soldiers from the first town to kill the Tongzhou soldiers from the hillside.

The general army of Tongzhou couldn't bear it, and retreated down the mountain despite the fact that the Zhending soldiers were still on top, and Jiang Fan, who was originally surrounded by him in this retreat, suddenly got out and concentrated his forces to attack the Zhending army. In the chaotic battle, Yang Zhenwei, the chief soldier of Zhending, was brave. But after all, he was also old and lacked strength, so he asked a nobody of the Taiping army to hit his left leg with a spear. This spear made Yang Zhenwei feel pain to the heart, and he swung his knife to cut off the spear body, and asked his subordinates to support him.

There were Taiping troops above, and there were Taiping troops on the left and right. The Tongzhou soldiers who were originally answering below retreated, revealing a big gap. Zhou Shixiang, the commander of the Taiping Army, personally led people to fill this gap and surrounded the Zhending soldiers in an area of less than 100 zhang.

The three divisions of the Qing army retreated two, and the marshal personally led the troops to kill, and the morale of the first brigade was greatly boosted. Zhending's deputy general Wang Guoquan was killed in battle, the guerrilla Li Shizhong was killed in battle, and the general soldier Yang Zhenwei was injured again, although there were still more than 1,000 people, but in an instant, the dragons were leaderless. They can only fight on their own. Under the pressure of the Taiping Army, the space for the activities of the Zhending Army became smaller and smaller.

I knew that the battle was lost. Yang Zhenwei struggled to hold on to a thousand generals, and commanded him with difficulty: "Quickly take people down, you can't fight anymore, retreat quickly..."

That Qian Zong originally had the intention of retreating, and he dared to fight again after getting the order of the general army, shouting and leading his troops to retreat, but the back road was blocked by the Taiping army.

Jiang Fan was unwilling to let Zhendingbing run away like this, and led his troops to chase after him all the way from behind, biting Zhendingbing dozens of meters away from the foot of the mountain. One side pursued and killed from top to bottom, and the other side only cared about escaping below, and the result was that the Taiping army slaughtered Zhending's soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables. The overturned Zhending soldiers kept rolling down the hillside, and the foot of the mountain was full of wounded soldiers rolling and screaming. If it weren't for the urgent arrival of the two Niulu Mongol soldiers, who fired arrows on the mountain on their horses to curb the Taiping army's offensive, the Taiping army would probably be able to take advantage of the situation to scatter the Zhending soldiers, Chaozhou soldiers, and Tongzhou soldiers.

Jiang Fan did not dare to lead his troops to fight with the Mongol cavalry, so he had to lead his people back to the mountain. In this battle, half of his more than 2,200 soldiers were killed and wounded, and one battalion was even left with only a small flag officer and a dozen soldiers, and the entire battalion was almost wiped out. This battle also made the Taiping army re-understand the combat effectiveness of the green battalion soldiers, and these green battalion soldiers from the north were indeed more capable of fighting than those from the south. Zhou Shixiang judged the combat effectiveness of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Green Battalion that followed Wu Sangui into Yunnan from these Zhili soldiers.

The Zhili battalion soldiers and the Chaozhou soldiers who retreated to the foot of the mountain looked at each other, wanting to cry without tears, and there were only six or seven hundred of the more than 1,700 Zhending soldiers, and the Tongzhou soldiers were better, but they were less than a thousand. In this short period of time, 15,600 soldiers of the Zhili battalion were killed, one general was wounded, one deputy general was killed, two guerrillas were killed, and several people below the 1,000 general were killed. The Chaozhou soldiers also suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, and the most fatal thing was that the death of the main general Wu Liuqi made the Chaozhou soldiers lose their backbone, which would make a group of officers surround the body of the Admiral and don't know what to do.

There were more than 100 wounded soldiers who fled, most of them were lightly wounded, and those who were seriously wounded were either because relatives and friends were snatching them down in the army, or they were officers, otherwise no one would risk their lives to carry them down. Minor injuries can be bandaged as long as the wound is not inflamed, and most of the seriously injured can only be left to fate.

Looking at the blood gushing from the wounds, the wounded soldiers who were so painful that they couldn't scream could only watch blankly, or close their eyes and sit down weakly on the ground, slowly waiting for the god of death to take them away.

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old Tongzhou soldier suddenly burst into tears, but it was his uncle who stabbed him for the Taiping Army in order to save him, and told the Taiping Army to cut off his head in front of him. The soldier was frightened at that time, and was dragged down the mountain by his companions, but he didn't even grab his uncle's head.

The cry of this young soldier spread like a plague, and everyone on the Chaozhou soldier's side was already choked up because of the death of Admiral Wu Liuqi, and they didn't immediately howl when they heard this cry. The life and death of Yang Zhenwei, the chief soldier of the Zhending Army, is unknown, and he has the most serious casualties, and he is also crying with affection. The general soldier of Tongzhou knew that he would not be able to cry, but he could control the soldiers under his command, how could he manage the Zhending soldiers and Chaozhou soldiers, and he was so anxious that he didn't know what to do.

Xu is really miserable just now, and he left his hometown to work in this foreign land, no one knows when he will die, and the Tongzhou soldiers also cried, at first they choked and cried, and the officers could still hold it down at first, but after a while, they couldn't hold it down. Looking at the red eyes of his soldiers, the officers were panicked.

The Han army and Mongolian soldiers who were still attacking the mountain pass with all their might were the first to hear the cry from the left flank, and the cry was obviously not from the Taiping army on the mountain, so the Han army and the Mongolian soldiers were stunned, and subconsciously retreated and broke away from contact with the Taiping army. As soon as they retreated, the Henan soldiers, who were already a little unable to work, also hurriedly retreated as if they were fishing for straw.

There was silence on the side of the Chinese army's large array, and the passionate drumbeat had long since stopped, and it was obvious that the Qing army had admitted the defeat of the attack.

Jiang Fan reorganized the remnants and transported the wounded and undead Taiping soldiers to the rear, collecting weapons for another attack by the Qing army. He organized the remaining soldiers into a battalion, and the rest were included as his direct soldiers, and in order to prevent a repeat of the previous rout, Jiang Fan ordered some deserters to be pointed out, and ordered to be executed despite their wails. Before they died, two Han soldiers were told that not only their heads would be cut off, but their family members in Guangzhou would also be killed, which made the two Han soldiers remorse and their bowels were blue.

Looking at the corpses all over the mountains and smelling the smell of blood in his nose, Zhou Shixiang looked at the movement of the Qing army opposite, and wondered if Jidu would organize another attack. More than half of the casualties of the First Brigade were lost, and if the Qing army's next attack was even more fierce than this one, it was difficult to guarantee that the Qing army would not attack. He doesn't have any mobile forces at hand except for the iron man guard stuck on the official road, if Jidu really comes out, even if he can survive, the first town is estimated to be abandoned.

Looking around, I found that the surviving soldiers had a look of pride on their faces in addition to the excited expressions of the rest of their lives, and they couldn't help but feel a little relieved, as before, the soldiers who survived the battles would really become a member of the Taiping Army and become the backbone of the Taiping Army. Zhou Shixiang thought deeply that Jiang Fan had issued a practice of connecting his family, if this was the case, he could not make these Han soldiers desperate for their lives, and they must always know the consequences of not selling their lives!

When the Zhili battalion and Chaozhou soldiers retreated, Jidu knew that the attack had failed, but he couldn't give up, and he had no choice, because his grain route was stuck by the Taiping army, and if he didn't break through Xuanwu Mountain, tens of thousands of Manchu and Mongolian troops would run out of food in ten days.

Seeing that the morale of the Green Battalion was low, the commander Yiertu was afraid that the attack today would not be effective, so he might as well rest for a day and regroup tomorrow before attacking, but Jidu gritted his teeth and ordered the forward battalion to prepare for the attack.

Yiertu couldn't help but take a breath of cold air when he heard this order, the Qing Dynasty used the usual troops, the green battalion was in front, the Han army followed, the Mongols were again, and the Manchurian soldiers were the last, only when the green battalion, the Han army, and the Mongolian soldiers could not be defeated, they could call the Manchurian children into battle, otherwise the Manchurian soldiers would be used as a supervisor, kill those deserters, and never go into battle easily. Now that the Green Battalion attack has failed, and the Mongol soldiers have not yet arrived, Prince Jian has asked the Manchurian children to sell their lives. Moreover, before leaving Beijing, the emperor had a clear edict that the forward battalion should not fight, and this time he went south to Guangdong only to strengthen the army's might, is it not against the holy order that Prince Jian did this?

Yiertu considered the Manchurian children and naturally dissuaded him, but Jidu did not listen to his advice and insisted on ordering the forward battalion to go out. Hearing this order, Dueryou, Nahai and other Manchurian generals rushed to dissuade them, but Jidu was determined to do so, and the Mongolian generals wished that Jidu would not let them be cannon fodder, and their faces were heavy, but their hearts were happy. (To be continued.) )