On the 23rd day of the sixth lunar month in 1863, more than 13,000 Taiping troops of the Luoyang Department gathered under the city of Chengdu, Sichuan, eager to try, all kinds of artillery, foreign guns, guns, knives and guns, weapons, etc., were ready, especially the kind of large-caliber short-range flying thunder cannon, but also a gate standing under the city, eyeing the tiger, wearing a sunshade straw hat The Taiping soldiers were full of ambition and pointed out the country, and they all felt that Chengdu City was already in control.

Luo Yang also saw it this way, so he scattered his troops, but focused on the south of the city, preparing to break the city in one fell swoop.

Although Shi Dakai said that he would not interfere with military command, he was also extremely worried, and personally rushed to the position to observe, while Luo Yang was extremely welcome, because he was not sure of modern military command, and greeted Shi Dakai respectfully, so that Shi Dakai also had some smiles on his face.

"Wing King, you are in full command, and I am responsible for the artillery bombardment, what do you think?"

"This, that's fine!"

According to estimates, the Qing army had 14,500 regular troops, 7,800 people from the regimental training villages, and nearly 10,000 young and middle-aged people who were forced to defend the city.

However, the battle of the Dadu River completely changed the contrast between the strategies and morale of the two sides, and the Qing army won first and then lost, suffering heavy casualties, and had to retreat on all fronts and flee to Chengdu.

During the reconnaissance outside the city, the captured Qing army reconnaissance personnel, Luoyang Army found that the Qing army had Hunan troops, Sichuan generals, and the main generals were Liu Rong, Tang Yougeng, Cai Buzhong, and Yang Yinggang, which were basically the remnants of the Dadu River interception force, plus local regimental training.

At 9 o'clock in the morning, the Luoyang army sent more than 200 troops to the city gate to test, just entered the moat not far away, was sniped by the Qing army's foreign guns, in the smoke of gunpowder, the Qing army's iron cast artillery began to bombard, so that the Taiping army's forward troops, had to flee in embarrassment.

Shi Dakai is in charge, Luo Yang dispatches and commands, as for the specific tactics, Luo Yang feels that it is really simple, and many precautions are reminded by Shi Dakai, and he can do it with all his strength.

Shi Dakai and other senior generals in the inner world, there is another abacus, they all feel that it is difficult to really confront the Qing army, it is difficult to get much cheap, the Qing army occupies the geographical advantage, people, and quantity, and its commander Luo Bingzhang and others, all are veterans of the army, old treacherous and cunning, the combat effectiveness of the Hunan army and the Sichuan army is also quite strong, and there are quite skilled artillery in the city of Chengdu.

All the Taiping soldiers and Shi Dakai and others had different thoughts, because they had absolute trust in Luo Yang, and they had already mythologized it, and as long as Luo Yang was there, they would definitely win the battle.

Before and during the battle, Luo Yang always dispatched a large number of propagandists to encourage and advocate to the troops and establish confidence in victory. This is just a tradition of attaching importance to ideas handed down during the Red Army period, and Luo Yang carried it forward, and as a result, the morale of the soldiers of the Taiping Army was extremely high.

"Rush into Chengdu City and capture Luo Bingzhang alive."

"Break the city of Chengdu and make a fortune and marry a beautiful girl!"

"Raid the whole of Sichuan, open a new chapter in heaven!"

Luo Yang himself summed up a few exciting slogans, and instructed his subordinates to use their brains well and conceive realistic content, especially the point of marrying a Jiao Niang, which is very vulgar, that is, many Taiping Army generals are dissatisfied, Luo Yang still insisted.

Luoyang's inspirational slogan is, win the battle, get rich, share beauties, and be a big official!

Not to mention, although the shouting of these pragmatic slogans made many veteran generals of the Taiping Army uncomfortable and felt that it violated the dogma and military discipline of the Kingdom of Heaven, the soldiers were happy to crook their mouths.

Of course, in terms of encouraging the morale of soldiers, Luo Yang is not without a bottom line, he resolutely demanded that the implementation of the previous policy absolutely not allow the slaughter of the city, indiscriminate killing, and robbery, but to ensure that after the city is broken, all the property and family members of the Qing Dynasty officials, including some rich people, will be levied and distributed to everyone.

Perhaps, in the eyes of the soldiers of the Taiping Army, it is not only the anger of revenge, but also the light of gold, silver and beautiful women?

Luo Bingzhang, the governor of Sichuan of the Qing army, personally led the troops, climbed the city to watch the battle, and he was seventy years old and strong, and he was really a very human being, he personally handled the sword, put on armor, and encouraged the fighting spirit of the officers and soldiers. And those Hunan officers and soldiers were even more indignant, and vowed to fight to the death with the Taiping army - their great Hunan army general Hu Zhong and his eldest brother were arrested by the Changmao army and taken to the city to threaten and lure, and then hacked to death!

The three trial infantry operations did not achieve any practical results, and more than 40 brothers were lost in vain, but in Luo Yang's view, this was indeed a major practical effect, at least, he had an understanding of the tightness of the Qing army's defense and the position and density of artillery.

The Taiping army did not lack weapons and ammunition, especially muskets, because of the large loss of their own numbers, the large number of captured Qing troops, in the process of the Taiping army going north, it was logical to recruit many lost people more than 5,000 people, still a pattern of fewer guns.

"Kill!" Luo Yang personally came forward and gave an impassioned speech to the Qing army under the city, hoping that the Qing army would put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha, abandon the corrupt, brutal and shameless Manchu government, and switch to the hopeful Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. He also briefly recounted the experience of several battles before and after Zidadi, intimidating the Qing army.

There was no effect, the Qing army did not react, the only reaction was that as soon as he finished speaking, a burst of artillery fire came, causing a rather serious threat.

Luo Yang also knew that the Qing army would not give in easily, so he ordered two captured Qing army generals, a Sichuan governor Hu Zhonghe and a pine forest Tusi Wang Yingyuan, to be beheaded in front of the battle.

Blood splattered, followed by the warm cheers of tens of thousands of Taiping Army soldiers and the lamentations of the Qing army's city defense troops.

Shi Dakai and the others shook their heads a little, they couldn't understand Luo Yang's intention to arrange it like this, killing the enemy general before the battle, although it can deter the enemy, but sometimes it can stimulate the fighting spirit of the enemy, and the so-called mourning soldiers will win.

However, to the surprise of Shi Dakai and others, the Qing army originally did not move at all, and after listening to the cheers of the Taiping army, there was a sudden chaos, and then, the city gate was opened, and thousands of troops crowded out like a tide.

The elite cavalry was the vanguard, and then the infantry, spearmen, and small-caliber Western cannons took the city as the background, facing the Taiping army, and put on a decisive posture.

Luo Bingzhang and the others were observing and waiting early, and their faces were pale and serious to the extreme.

The failure of the Dadu River interception surprised him, Hu Zhong and more than 3,000 Hunan army main force elite annihilation, let him feel heartbroken, the whole process of the Dadu River battle, can be described as twists and turns, he thought about it repeatedly, decided to stick to Chengdu, never retreat. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, those who withdrew from the provincial capital in the war without an order from the imperial court were considered to have lost their land and were to be killed.

Under the principle of sticking to Chengdu, the cunning Luo Bingzhang decided to implement a tactical counterattack. Because, he still has a back hand, somewhere outside Chengdu, more than ten miles away, there is an ambush of a Qing cavalry unit, which is his long-planned fist.