Yuhuatai, located in the south of Tianjing City, is a small hill with an altitude of 100 meters and an area of only a few kilometers, the top of the mountain is flat, like a bowl upside down on the earth, but it is a natural fortress fort.

The protracted and sloppy meeting of the high-level of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom caused Chen Jiong's precious half a day in exchange for his life to turn into ashes, and the Taiping army failed to send troops in time to seize Yuhuatai, and was finally completely occupied by the Shanghai army.

The Shanghai army captured Yuhuatai and deployed more than 100 cannons on it, and the muzzle of the cannon directly faced the Tianjing Jubao Gate, which was condescending, and the shells could easily fall into the Tianjing City.

"Give me a bang!"

Ascending the Yuhuatai, Li Weiguo suddenly shouted and ordered to fire artillery into Tianjing City.

It is no wonder that Li Weiguo was furious, the Shanghai army paid a huge price of more than 1,000 casualties in order to attack Yuhuatai, although it eliminated more than 20,000 elite Taiping troops, but such a large number of casualties was unprecedented in the Shanghai army since it became an army, and it was the first time that the casualties exceeded 1,000.

Take revenge!

Not only Li Weiguo, but also the entire Shanghai army officers and soldiers are in this mood at the moment.

Not to mention, more than 100 cannons of the Shanghai army were erected, and the first thing to do was to bombard Jubaomen.

Knock knock!

The cannon roared, resounding through the sky, and one shell after another whistled towards the treasure gate.

Boom!

The moment the shell hit the ground, it exploded with a bang. In an instant, the masonry crumbled, dust flew, and countless fragments flew in all directions. The Taiping army guarding the Jubaomen was suddenly killed, and was blown up so that people were on their backs, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.

When the Shanghai army attacked Jubaomen before, because the artillery could only shoot directly, all of them were blocked by the city wall, so that the Taiping army hidden in the cave behind the city wall was unscathed, and could continue to reinforce the city wall to block the Shanghai army from attacking the city.

Now the situation has reversed, and the artillery of the Shanghai army is condescending, although it is still firing directly. But the cannonballs shot out from the Yuhuatai, drew arcs in the air, and fell directly into the inner side of the treasure gate, even the Taiping troops hiding in the Tibetan Soldier Cave were not safe, and they withdrew from the Tibetan Soldier Cave one after another.

The artillery fire was full of fire, the men and horses were boiling, and thousands of Taiping soldiers turned into ants on a hot pot in an instant, holding their heads and scurrying around.

"Steady!"

"Give me all back to the walls!"

"Violators will be killed!"

At the critical moment, Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, led his army to Jubaomen. He was ordered to lead an army of 10,000 to recapture Yuhuatai. But as soon as he arrived near the Jubao Gate, he saw that the guards of the Jubao Gate were killed, and the soldiers scattered and fled, so they hurriedly pressed it.

At this moment, a cannonball fell into the third wall and exploded, and the red-hot explosive iron slice through an ammunition box, instantly detonating the entire ammunition depot.

"Bang Bang

The ammunition depot exploded in an instant, like a volcanic eruption, and the earth could be felt shaking within a radius of more than ten miles. People and animals were unsteady on their feet, and some fell to the ground. The thousands of Taiping soldiers closest to the ammunition depot were instantly engulfed in flames wrapped in the blast wave, screaming and screaming, like hell on earth.

The cruelty of war. At this moment, blood is dripping in front of people's eyes.

Qin Rigang's mount was frightened and threw him off his horse, and before he could stand up, a sandstorm from the blast wave swept in. Devour him.

The entire Jubaomen, four gates, and three urn cities were all swallowed up by billowing smoke in an instant, covering the sky and the sun.

Old for half a day. Qin Ri just groped out of the thick smoke, and the whole person was already like the situation of just taking a sauna and falling into the ash heap and then crawling out again.

"Mom-cough-cough-of-"

Qin Rigang's mouth was full of ashes, and he was so angry that he scolded his mother, and the 10,000 brightly dressed elites of the Taiping Army he brought with him had all become dirty beggar disciples at this moment.

If Li Weiguo really wanted to capture Tianjing City at this time, only 3,000 elite soldiers would be enough to wipe out these Taiping troops and occupy Jubaomen.

Unfortunately, Li Weiguo's strategy was not to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and after the Shanghai army captured Yuhuatai, they defended Yuhuatai and only shelled Tianjing City, and did not send ground troops to participate in the battle.

After ten rounds of shelling, the Shanghai army stopped its action and deliberately let the Taiping army rest and recuperate, because the Taiping army was blown up and ran everywhere, and the effect of the shelling was no longer obvious. The Shanghai army hoped that the Taiping army would assemble again, and it would be valuable for people to get together and shell again, otherwise a shell would only blow up a few city bricks, which would be too much of a loss.

If Qin Rigang knew that Hu Jun was thinking this way, he would probably be angry and vomit blood immediately!

Qin Rigang was frustrated at Jubaomen, because the Jubaomen guards were killed, Qin Rigang had to suspend the plan to go out of the city to attack Yuhuatai, first rectify the city gate defenders, and repair the two city walls destroyed by the Shanghai army's cannons.

Next to Yuhuaquan in Yuhuatai, Li Weiguo took a sip of a bowl of sweet spring that had just come up from the spring and sat aside to rest.

This is Chen Jingnan walked over, and said with a happy face: "Congratulations to the lord, Hong Xiuquan has sent three holy decrees out of the city in a row, this time Shi Dakai has to return to the army, otherwise Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing will think that Shi Dakai has the intention of rebellion and will kill Shi Dakai." ”

Li Weiguo nodded, which was expected by him, but it was just a little later than the expected date.

Chen Jingnan continued: "Next, if the expectation is not bad, the Taiping army will find a way to recapture Yuhuatai, we only need to thwart their attack fiercely, so that they understand that these tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Tianjing City alone will not be able to take back Yuhuatai, then they will stay in Tianjing City honestly, waiting for Shi Dakai's reinforcements, and the lord can leave a soldier and horse as a suspicious soldier, and lead the main force to Liyu Mountain to ambush Shi Dakai's reinforcements." ”

Li Weiguo shook his head and said, "I can't leave, because if I leave, it will arouse Shi Dakai's suspicion." Therefore, the matter of going to Liyu Mountain to ambush was handed over to Zhang Xiaoliu to lead the troops, and Mr. Chen could give him advice. ”

"Young master, no!"

"Not in the Lord!"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan objected in unison, and the former said: "Young Master, you are too dangerous here, you should send someone to pretend to be Young Master!" ”

Chen Jingnan also said: "Although the Lord staying behind can indeed deter the Taiping Army, but if the Taiping Army in the capital is dispatched to attack Yuhuatai one day, the Lord will not be in danger." ”

Li Weiguo said with a smile: "You, the great strategist, have said that they only need to repel the attack of the Taiping army once, and they will not dare to come out of the city." If that's the case, then what am I afraid of? ”

Chen Jingnan smiled bitterly: "Having said that, but you are the Lord, we can't let you get into danger!" ”

"Yes, young master. If you're not afraid of 10,000, you're afraid of what if!" Zhang Xiaoliu hurriedly said.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Okay, little Liuzi, Mr. Chen, even if you go to Liyu Mountain to ambush Shi Dakai, you don't have to worry about me here." Even if it happens, I have two legs and won't run. You don't think I'm the kind of person who can't be fooled enough to stay here, do you? ”

This said to Chen Jingnan and Zhang Xiaoliu's hearts, Li Weiguo is indeed not that kind of pedantic person. If the situation is not good, Li Weiguo is afraid that he will be the first to run away.

Although there are still some worries, if Li Weiguo is in Yuhuatai, he can indeed deter the Taiping army in the city, as long as the Taiping army thinks that Li Weiguo is in Yuhuatai, they will not believe that the main force of the Shanghai army on Yuhuatai has actually withdrawn. On the other hand, with Shi Dakai's shrewdness, if he knew that Li Weiguo was gone, he would definitely not come back to help. In that way, the plan to ambush Shi Dakai would be in vain, and with such efforts and sacrifices, we must not allow mistakes to be made on the last small issue.

As the so-called most of the plug (harmony word please understand) note has been put in, and the hole cards are about to be revealed. It would be a shame to give up at this time.

This is obviously not Li Weiguo's style, Chen Jingnan and Zhang Xiaoliu both understood it, so they had to obey orders.

Early the next morning, Qin Rigang really led 10,000 elite Taiping troops to launch a fierce attack on Yuhuatai.

The Taiping army was not afraid of death. However, the Shanghai army was condescending, building fortifications and firing volleys of guns. Repelled Qin Rigang's onslaught again and again.

Qin Rigang concentrated all the remaining guns and artillery in Tianjing City, and he could shoot at the Shanghai army at first, but the guns and artillery made by the Taiping army themselves were really backward, and the guns were arquebus, far inferior to the British muskets of the Shanghai army; Artillery is the kind of antique general cannon, huge size, not easy to move, small caliber, small power, short range, or solid bullets, limited lethality to the Shanghai army, on the other hand, the British artillery of the Shanghai army, small size, flexible change of position, not easy to be hit by the Taiping Army shells, at the same time large caliber, great power, long range, or flowering shells, extremely strong lethality.

Whether it was a gun battle or an artillery battle, the Taiping army was in a disadvantageous position, and the Taiping army was still attacking one side, and the Shanghai army relied on the fortifications to wait for work.

However, the Taiping army was still very tenacious, they did everything they could, tried all kinds of methods, and once again they all carried the wooden chips of the door panel on their heads, marched in a snake, braved the rain of bullets and bullets to rush to the Shanghai military barracks, and almost succeeded for a time. However, they soon found that the Shanghai army fortifications were too insidious, digging deep trenches in front of the position, inserting spikes upside down, the Taiping army fell into it without noticing, and the death was terrifying, and the Taiping army finally pushed the corpses of their comrades into the ditch, stuffed the grass bundles, and then stepped on the grass and rushed over, but there were few people at that time, and they were directly shot by the Shanghai army.

The battle between the two sides was in full swing, and the Taiping army added new strength. Yang Xiuqing, the king of the east, knew the importance of Yuhuatai, so he personally led his own guard army of 10,000 to arrive and immediately threw himself into the attack on the Yuhuatai Shanghai army.

The Taiping army used guns and cannons, dug tunnels underneath, and used all kinds of strange methods, forcing Li Weiguo to draw out thousands of Shanghai troops and thousands of heavy men to resist the Taiping army's open attack and covert excavation.

That night, the Taiping army used gunpowder to blow up the two camp walls of the Shanghai army, and the artillery and guns were fired in unison. Seeing that the thousands of shouting Taiping troops were about to enter the camp, the Shanghai army was red-eyed, knowing that today is either you die or I die, but no one escapes, but all the shouts come forward to see, holding swords and seeing red.

Both sides were red-eyed, and the fighting was at a fever pitch.

In the end, the Taiping army rushed back and forth five or six times, and finally was not allowed to enter. The Taiping army also used tunnels to attack the Shanghai army, and the Shanghai army also dug to dug each tunnel, or smoked poisonous smoke, or poured fire oil to ignite, or used wooden stakes to block the hole, so that the Taiping army's tunnel warfare was finally declared invalid.

The two sides fought until dawn, and the foreign guns and cannons of the Shanghai army once again exerted their power and repelled the Taiping army.

After a day and a night of bloody battles, Qin Rigang's 10,000 Taiping troops folded more than 7,000, Yang Xiuqing's 10,000 Taiping troops folded more than 4,000, the two of them did not dare to taste their families, and secondly, they couldn't fight the foreign guns and foreign artillery of the Shanghai army during the day, and they couldn't bargain for attacking at night, and it was futile to fight again, and there were not many troops in Tianjing City, so they didn't dare to consume anymore, so they were unwilling to withdraw to Tianjing, waiting for Shi Dakai's reinforcements to arrive and then try to recover Yuhuatai.

After a day and a night of fierce fighting, Li Weiguo once again saw the power of the Taiping Army, and secretly begged that the power of faith was really magical, and his heart was more determined.

On the third day, the Taiping army had retreated into Tianjing City, Li Weiguo knew that the Taiping army did not dare to attack Yuhuatai easily, so Chen Jingnan and Zhang Xiaoliu could also leave with confidence, they led 15,000 Shanghai troops to leave, Li Weiguo commanded the remaining 5,000 Shanghai troops, bluffed, and continued to stay in Yuhuatai. (To be continued......)