"My lord, just a little medicine, we have to put off the fire after three shots!"

At the head of the city, Niu Gensheng, who was originally the leader of the Han Army with a blue flag and is now the chief flag officer of the Taiping Army Artillery Battalion, looked at Zhao Sihai of the hundred households who were in the city to supervise the battle with some nervousness.

Zhao Sihai glanced at Niu Gensheng and the Han army banners behind him, twitched his nose, spat on the ground, and scolded: "Open the cannon, didn't you hear Lao Tzu's words clearly!" No matter how much medicine you have left, shoot me at it, and you all me out of the city when you run out of it! ”

Hearing this, Niu Gensheng's eyelids jumped, and he hesitated: "My lord, our brothers are all gunners, this is a matter of going out of the city."

"What, cowardly?" Zhao Sihai glared at him and sneered: "Don't you want to fight against the water?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the soldiers and the old Taiping soldiers in the artillery camp that Zhao Sihai brought to the city immediately drew their swords and looked at those Han army flag gunners angrily, as long as Zhao Sihai gave an order, they could immediately chop up these gunners.

This battle made Niu Gensheng's heart tighten, and it also made those Han army flag gunners tremble.

Niu Gensheng smiled bitterly and laughed at himself: "What my lord said, is it possible to turn against the water in the current lowly rank?" In the past few months, there have been quite a few Qing soldiers who have died under the guns of our brothers, but I am afraid that even if they are against the water, they will still end up with two corpses. ”

"What about a bird? Without these cannons, you can't kill anyone! Zhao Sihai snorted, deliberately provoking Niu Gensheng to surrender the Han army flags, he pointed to the city with a grin, and shouted: "It's all fucking nonsense with Lao Tzu here, the Lord of Qianhu has already gone out of the city, you hurry up and fire the cannon for me, after the cannon, fucking and Lao Tzu will go out of the city to find the Qing demon desperately!" I don't believe that you guys are really so cowardly, and you can't cut off people's heads without the cannon! ”

"Don't worry, my lord, the brothers can still cut people!"

Niu Gensheng turned his heart sideways, and the moment the Taiping army opened the city gate, he knew that the battle of Xinhui was also his mother's time for the final decision. The Taiping Army is really going to be defeated, no matter what he thinks, it's useless, and now he and his brothers' lives are tied together with the Taiping Army, and the left and right are all fighting, not as good as his mother's man!

With a hard "phew", he ordered to the gunner: "Listen to my orders, fire!" ”

When the gunners heard the order, they hurriedly lit the fire rope, and in an instant, the sound of "boom, boom" cannon resounded in the sky of Xingao.

"Which a**?!"

The sudden sound of the cannon made Shang Zhixin, who was depressed, pause, and thought that it was the sailor of the Ming army on the river who opened the cannon, but when he heard the sound of the cannon, the direction was clearly from the head of Xinhui City. Don't wait for him to send someone to find out. There was a hissing shout of killing in my ears

"The soldiers of the Taiping Army follow me to punish the demons!"

Zhou Shixiang took the lead and led more than 2,000 Taiping troops to fight bravely against the Qing army camp.

Seeing the black and oppressive Taiping army rushing out of the city and killing them like a lifeless kill, the army's heart suddenly collapsed, and no one thought of intercepting the Taiping army at all, but turned around and ran to the rear, and even some officers were running away. The soldiers have no fighting spirit and no will to fight, which can be said to be the best portrayal of the current Qing army.

The Taiping army broke through the first line of defense of the Qing army almost without much effort. This greatly boosted the morale of the military. Seeing that the Qing army was so unbearable, Zhou Shixiang was also excited, knowing that he had made the right bet, and the Qing army, which had besieged him for several months, had already been strong from outside. As long as the Jiangshang Naval Division can send troops ashore in time to respond, this is the best opportunity to break the Qing army.

In order to expand the results of the battle and destroy the Qing army's defense line to the greatest extent, Zhou Shixiang ordered the Zhenying camp and the Xiongwei battalion to follow the fleeing Qing army to attack the second line of defense of the Qing army directly ahead. The Hujie battalion attacked the Qing army stationed along the river to the west, so as to get in touch with the naval division on the river. The trapping camp attacked to the south, and the three sides attacked at the same time. Do not make the Qing army divide and defend the various departments to echo, so that they can be broken through. He led the Guards Battalion to go deep into the rear of the Zhenyu Battalion and the Xiongwei Battalion, while receiving the surrendered Qing soldiers, while monitoring the movements of the entire battlefield, and providing support to all parties at any time.

The trapped camp took advantage of the situation to attack inward after seizing the east and west forts of the Qing army, and the Qing army either fled or surrendered along the way, except for a very small number of Qing soldiers who resisted stubbornly, the enemy in front of the trapped camp had almost no resistance.

The east and west forts of the Qing army were blown up by the dead soldiers of the Taiping army, and then rebuilt, but after the reconstruction, the east and west forts were not as good as before in terms of the number of artillery and the quality of the gunners, because the Taiping army suddenly went out of the city and acted quickly, and the Qing army of the first line of defense collapsed instantly, so that the east and west forts did not have time to send a cannon to the Taiping army and were lost. In order to effectively use the two forts of the Qing army, Tie Yi ordered someone to spread the word to the city, asking Zhao Sihai to quickly take over the east and west forts with the artillery battalion.

After receiving the news, Zhao Sihai, who had already led the artillery battalion out of the city, was overjoyed, and hurriedly rushed to the east and west forts of the Qing army with the artillery battalion.

The Qing army, which had not recovered from the nightmare of the first line of defense being easily broken through by the Taiping army, was soon hit by its own batteries, and it has to be said that Niu Gensheng's Han army flag gunners had strong artillery skills, and under several rounds of shelling, the Qing defense line in the south and east directions was blown to pieces, killing and injuring hundreds of Qing troops.

Near the Taiping army's attack of breaking the axe and sinking the boat, there was a blow of artillery fire from afar, coupled with the Qing troops who withdrew from the front, and before half an hour after the start of the war, the entire Qing army's defense line was cut into several pieces by the Taiping army, which could not be connected to each other, let alone the situation of the other party, and was about to fall into a state of shaking and collapse on the whole line.

In the chaos, the Qing generals on the second and third lines of defense had to constantly send people to the camp for help, in addition to crushing the defeated soldiers on the one hand and desperately filling the gaps broken by the Taiping army.

Shang Zhixin's head was also blinded at the beginning, and he couldn't figure out what the situation was now. But under the sobbing and pleading of the messengers for help, he suddenly realized that something was wrong. After ordering those generals who asked for help to defend the defense line, he hurriedly sent people to summon Ban Zhifu and Qin Guocheng, wanting to order Ban and Qin to mobilize elite flag soldiers to surround the Taiping army out of the city in the defense line, and take advantage of the situation to transfer troops to raid Xinhui City. According to his judgment, there are not many Taiping soldiers in Xinhui City, and now they suddenly go out of the city to attack the Qing army's defense line, and launch it everywhere at the same time, instantly break through the first line of defense, and are attacking the second line of defense, then it is obvious that the thief Xiu used all the men and horses of the Taiping army, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve such a big momentum.

The thief Xiucai did this, firstly, it is likely to be launched at the same time as the Ming army and naval division on the river, and secondly, it is also very likely that he can't wait to be forced out of the city for a decisive battle, no matter what purpose the thief Xiucai is for the decisive battle in the city, there will definitely not be many soldiers and horses left behind in Xinhui City. Just now blocking the Taiping army's offensive from the second line of defense, with a much more force advantage than the other side, Shang Zhixin is absolutely sure to take advantage of the situation to attack and occupy Xinhui City. At that time, without Xinhui City as a backing, the Taiping army that attacked the city will not be able to last forever, and the final winner can only be his Shang Zhixin!

The only trouble is that I don't know how many soldiers the Ming army and naval division will send to go ashore, but no matter how many people the Ming army naval division sends ashore, Shang Zhixin also made up his mind to ignore it, and it is impossible for him to transfer the green battalion stationed along the river to let the thief Xiucai's plan succeed. (To be continued.) )