The unlucky Wall and Pan Dingxin were directly caught up by the angry Wall, and the two of them took thousands of people and looked at each other, what is the matter, the location here is more than 30 miles away from Hangzhou!

Wall is wilted now, there is no way, no matter how horizontal the Americans are, they can still cross the British?

Pan Dingxin said speechlessly: "Damn, Huaer is still thirty miles away from Hangzhou City, what should we do?" Okay, enjoyable, right? ”

Wall said hatefully: "Okay, don't give me any nonsense, immediately run towards Hangzhou, isn't it thirty miles, you can always reach it in one day, and order all the people to move towards Hangzhou City at full speed!" ”

There is no way, and there is only that, because of a few words, these thousand elites, who are equipped with five or six hundred muskets, can only run forward, and once and again, it will be delayed for at least a day!

However, the Hunan army and the Huai army delayed time, the march of the Taiping army was very fast, from Xuancheng to Hangzhou, it was only two or three hundred miles away, Shi Dakai had already issued an order for reinforcements from the beginning of the war, and in a few days, the army of twenty battalions of the Taiping army was killed from Xuancheng to Hangzhou.

Twenty battalions, that is 10,000 troops, plus more than 20,000 troops brought by Shi Dakai, now the Taiping army has reached 30,000 troops, the strength of the Taiping army has increased greatly, and the morale is even higher.

Shi Dakai gave an order, put all the troops into the attack, Shi Dakai is very clear, as the capital of Zhejiang, the Qing court will definitely not sit idly by and watch the fall of Hangzhou, and will definitely send reinforcements, whether it is Shanghai, or Suzhou There are a large number of Hunan troops and Huai troops, all of which are not far from Hangzhou, close at hand, if Hangzhou cannot be captured in a short time, when the other party's reinforcements arrive, it will be even more troublesome!

Today's British ship is proof of this, if the guess is right, it is the rescue soldiers brought by Zuo Zongtang, but they didn't expect the Taiping Army to dare to use artillery to fight back, without the slightest preparation, they used the artillery battalion artillery to scare the two warships away, however, soon, the Qing demon's reinforcements will arrive, and they must hurry!

Shi Dakai put all the artillery into the battle, and launched a fierce offensive towards the southern city of Hangzhou, injuring his ten fingers, it is better to cut off one of his fingers, as long as the southern city is broken, then the entire Hangzhou city will be shared by the Qing army and the Taiping army, even if the Qing army has Zuo Zongtang personally in charge, it has absolutely no ability to turn the tide!

Dozens of artillery launched an attack together, even if the city wall of Hangzhou City is strong, it is absolutely impossible to resist such fierce artillery fire, after most of the day's fierce bombardment, the southern city wall of Hangzhou City, finally collapsed by the Taiping Army a corner, nearly 100 Qing troops fell from the city wall, embarrassed, dead and wounded!

Offensive!

Shi Dakai sent out his only horse team, because most of the Taiping army were southerners, and there was a shortage of war horses, even this horse team was given to Shi Dakai by Zhang Luoxing of the Twist Army, in order to show the submission and alliance of the Twist Army to the Taiping Army, three hundred people, and very few troops.

But at this critical moment, the role of the cavalry appeared, the horse team was like a whirlwind, rushed to the city wall of Hangzhou, rushed to the city, the Qing army stationed in the south of the city was shocked, desperately resisted, but, the opportunity has been lost, the cavalry rushed up, the Qing army was completely contained, the Taiping army behind is like a tide, constantly launching an impact on the south city, and finally climbed to the head of Hangzhou City!

Attack, attack!

A group of Taiping troops rushed into Hangzhou City and began to fight frantically, Zuo Zongtang also went out at this time, personally commanded the army to supervise the battle, and the two sides began a tragic battle in Hangzhou.

It's just that now the Taiping army has completely occupied the advantage with the help of artillery and foreign guns, plus the green battalion soldiers have broken down, and even fled in groups to desert, even if the Chu army is brave, such pig teammates can't escape the end of the army's discouragement, the army's heart is unstable, Zuo Zongtang tried hard to try to redeem the defeat, and even personally killed several fleeing Qing soldiers to no avail, and still couldn't stop the decline of the Qing army!

Even if the Huai army that arrived immediately after it was put into the war, it also did not show obvious results, and a thousand Huai troops in front of the defeated army seemed too small, not to mention that now the strength of the Taiping army's foreign gun battalion even exceeded that of Wall's foreign gun team, inspired by high morale, although the combat power was not as good as the foreign gun team, but this spirit of not fearing death was indeed not possessed by the foreign gun team, and the foreign gun team and the Huai army could only be coerced by the Chu army to retreat!

Two days, two whole days, under the personal command of Zuo Zongtang, the Chu army only struggled for two days, and the army was defeated like a mountain, unable to stop the rout in the city, and had to withdraw from Hangzhou City and rout in the direction of Jiaxing Mansion!

After Shi Dakai occupied Hangzhou, he still did not give up, struck while the iron was hot, launched a large army to continue to pursue the Qing army, and pursued it for more than 30 miles, Zuo Zongtang barely repelled the pursuit of the Taiping army with the help of the Qing army who came to help.

The green battalion soldiers plus the Chu army, a full 50,000 people before and after, were defeated by Shi Dakai in one fell swoop, and the green battalion soldiers have already run away, as for the Chu army, the current Chu army is added together, but there are only more than 10,000 people left, with heavy casualties, and most importantly, the city of Hangzhou was lost, as the governor of Zhejiang, the city of Hangzhou was lost, which is a serious crime!

Zuo Zongtang was so angry that he vomited out a mouthful of blood, fainted on the ground, and the surrounding generals Liu Zhan, Liu Songshan and other generals surrounded Zuo Zongtang and hurriedly rescued him.

Liu Songshan said urgently: "Ji Shuai, now that Hangzhou is lost, what should we do?" ”

Zuo Zongtang said with difficulty: "Order, the army immediately retreats towards Jiaxing Mansion and retreats to Jiaxing, this is our last barrier, we can't lose it no matter what, and immediately repair the book to Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang, ask them to help, rush to help!" ”

Saying this, Zuo Zongtang rolled his eyes and fainted again, in the past ten days, Zuo Zongtang has fought repeatedly, and he can't rest at all, he is already fifty years old, of course, he can't bear such a hard time, plus the Chu army that has been trained for many years has suffered more than half of the casualties in one day, and the pain is extreme, where can he bear it?

Li Songshan glanced at Zong Yue and shouted: "Zong Yue, you came to protect your lordship, ordered the army to retreat towards Jiaxing Mansion, and ordered someone to send a letter to Shanghai and Suzhou immediately, asking Zeng and Li to rush to help!" ”

Zong Yue hurriedly lifted Zuo Zongtang, and the army retreated towards Jiaxing Mansion.

As for Shi Dakai, now he has snatched Shaoxing and Hangzhou, the two important towns in Zhejiang, and his strategic intentions have been fully realized, so he is naturally complacent, temporarily holding the pace of attack, reorganizing the army, and brewing a more violent attack! (To be continued.) )