The capital city of Leizhou in the night is destined to be uncalm. The soldiers and young men at the head of the city gathered densely together, staring blankly at the rout of the city. The generals followed behind the general soldier Gao Jinku, talking in a low voice. Their discussion revolved around only one thing, and that was the Taiping Army's frenzied attack on the Ming Army throughout Guangdong.

Xianqiyu was defeated, Zhang Yue was defeated, Wang Han was defeated, Fengzheng Boxiong Chaozuo was defeated, Ye Biao of Song Guogong was defeated, and Shi Shangyi, the Duke of Daiguo, was defeated

In less than half a month, the twenty or thirty thousand Ming troops scattered in western Guangdong were either annihilated by the Taiping army or surrendered to the Taiping army, and now only the southernmost Leizhou and the two prefectures of Qinzhou behind them are still under the control of the Ming army, but the soldiers who fled back from the city told them that I am afraid that the loss of the capital city of Leizhou will not be too long.

A Taiping cavalry of more than 100 people drove hundreds of Ming troops from the Jinbao to the city of Leizhou in one breath like a duck, and they teased the routs like cat and mouse, only driving them down the city, but not killing people. But if the rout ran slowly, and asked them to catch up, the saber in his hand would not hesitate to swing down.

With the threat of the Taiping cavalry, the defenders did not dare to open the city gate at all, they only dared to drop hanging baskets from the city one by one, and pull up the rout soldiers who were crying to open the door and let them in.

After the officers in the rout were pulled up to the city, they immediately found the chief soldier and told them in detail about the loss of the bag, but they were still in shock.

The fact that more than 2,000 soldiers, plus the same number of regiments and young men, were captured by hundreds of Taiping troops in one fell swoop, made Gao Jinku and his subordinates speechless. They knew that the Taiping army could fight, otherwise they would not have defeated the Manchu and Mongolian army led by Prince Jidu of Qing Jian, but they didn't expect that the other party would rely on a few hundred people to take down a bag with several times more troops than them. No matter how bad the soldiers of the Bag are is, there are more than 4,000 people, and there are the cities of the Bag to rely on, how can they be broken by hundreds of soldiers!

Gao Jinku couldn't believe it, he was famous for being good at guarding, when he was in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, he broke Li Chengdong's tens of thousands of soldiers with thousands of soldiers, but now, it is his turn to be hit more with less?

The defeated soldiers under the city were pulled up the city wall one by one by hanging baskets, but a few were saved. The cavalry of the Taiping Army, who were chasing ducks all the way, saw that the defenders in the city were prepared, and they could not take advantage of the chaos to seize the city, so they were no longer polite to those routs. Although there were only more than 100 of them, they killed hundreds of routs until only a few dozen people were leaning against the wall and screaming and crying. The defenders of the city did not even have the courage to open the gates and let their own people in, so they only took bows and arrows in horror and shot them indiscriminately at the city. In the darkness of the night, I can shoot a few more.

There were bold officers who shouted to open the gates and let them in, but the generals who had already learned about the defeat of the Trick would let them do so, and did not hesitate to stop them. Their reasons are very sufficient, all they can see in the Ming Li is these hundreds of Taiping cavalry, but who knows if there is a large group of Taiping troops lurking in the night, just waiting for the city gate to open and kill immediately.

The cavalry of the Taiping army outside the city left the range of the defenders, and the city of Leizhou was unharmed, but the morale was extremely low. The rout soldiers who were dragged up to the city infinitely exaggerated the strength of the Taiping army, saying that it was countless times more fierce than the Qing army, and this rumor suddenly made the defenders even more panicked. The defenders have families in the city, and they secretly go back to tell their wives and children to hide in fear, so that everyone in Leizhou City can no longer sleep peacefully in the dark night, and they inquire about each other's movements outside the city, and all of them are circulating a sentence - "A more powerful soldier and horse than the Qing army is about to come to attack Leizhou City!" If the defenders do not open the city and surrender, after the city is broken, the chickens and dogs will not be left! ”

In this tense atmosphere, the sky gradually became brighter, and as the line of sight became clearer, those soldiers standing at the head of the city finally saw the outside of the city clearly, it was really just a hundred and ten Taiping Army cavalry, really just such a few people, there was no brigade of people lurking!

Suddenly, the Ming army in the city became disturbed, and some generals began to shout that they wanted to go out of the city to destroy the hundred and ten brave Taiping troops.

"My lord, send troops out of the city, otherwise the morale of the army will not be raised!"

"The Taiping army has one hundred and ten people, and we also have cavalry, send out the city to defeat them in one fell swoop, lest the Taiping army think that we have no one in Leizhou!"

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The serious generals advocated that they should not leave the city, but the bold generals clamored to leave the city. The general soldier Gao Jinku was also conflicted in his heart, although he knew that there were only one hundred and ten cavalry under the city, but the news that came from yesterday was too terrifying, and the situation was very clear, the Taiping army's brigade had already landed, and without the gateway of the Treasure House, they must have rushed to the city of Leizhou. Now, I'm afraid that I am on the way, if this will send troops out of the city to fight, in case the Taiping army is killed

Thinking of this, Gao Jinku shuddered, but seeing that the eyes of his subordinates seeking war were eager, and then looking at the low morale in the city, he was shaken, knowing that he had to send troops to fight, otherwise the morale of the army would be irretrievable.

"Fight, fight quickly!"

After the chief soldier spoke, the generals who asked for war were all overjoyed, shouting to grab this credit, and then heard the chief soldier say again: "Be careful after leaving the city, see that the situation is not right, come back immediately!" ”

"Wow!"

When the Qing army had been in power for a long time, the two generals who had only changed into the clothes of the Ming army for a few months habitually replied heavily, and then ordered men and horses to rush out of the city gate.

Four hundred cavalry is the largest mobile force in the hands of Gao Jinku, and it is also the largest capital, looking at Leizhou, who else can have so many cavalry except him Gao Jinku!

Four hundred cavalry who followed Gao into the warehouse to pacify Nanchang, fought Ganzhou, and went all the way to Guangdong, shouted and killed the position where the 100 Taiping troops were, they screamed, and they looked so brave.

After discovering that hundreds of cavalry were suddenly killed in Leizhou City, the hundred and ten Taiping cavalry were not afraid, but everyone was in high spirits, and the corners of their mouths showed a long-awaited smile. Their guard, the Manchurian Gurma, smiled at the one hundred and ten Mongolian soldiers under him: "The southern barbarians in the city are out of the city, follow me to kill them all and win this merit!" ”

After speaking, Gurma drew his sword and rushed towards the hundreds of Ming cavalry. The Mongolian cavalry roared and followed, wielding knives and drawing arrows, and their bravery was no less than those of the Ming cavalry. Although those Ming cavalry were the elite of the former Green Battalion and also had an advantage in strength, the advantage was not so obvious against these Mongolian cavalry. The two sides fought each other, and it was inseparable. Gao Jinku in the city could see clearly that his subordinate cavalry seemed to be inferior to those Taiping cavalry in horse warfare.

At this time, the Ming army at the head of the city was stunned to watch the cavalry on both sides fight, although the number of people fighting on both sides was not much, but the tragedy was not lower than the big war. After two rounds of fighting, the Ming army at the head of the city was shocked to find that their cavalry had lost the upper hand, and although there were still more people outnumbered than the Taiping cavalry, more people died.

It's a Mongolian soldier!

Gao Jinku finally discovered that the Taiping cavalry was not Han, but Mongols, because their roaring sound was so familiar. In the chaos, he even heard the voice of the Manchurian uncle.

At this time, Gao Jinku didn't understand what was going on, he was also living in vain, obviously, there were many Manchu soldiers and Mongolian soldiers in the Taiping Army, and why these Manchu and Mongolian uncles joined the Taiping Army to work for the Han people, but there is no need to guess at all, there is only one answer, that is, those Han people in the Taiping Army are more powerful than them.

Call!

Gao Jinku let out a long breath, he could understand why the Jinbao Institute was defeated so badly, because just these more than 100 Manchu cavalry were not something that his subordinates could resist, not to mention the Taiping army that had not yet appeared.

Gao Jinku's face was bitter, and the two subordinates who were fighting with the cavalry of the Taiping Army secretly complained bitterly, obviously having an absolute numerical advantage, but they couldn't end the battle as soon as possible. It was thought that as long as they rushed over with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, they would be able to drive away the more than 100 Taiping cavalry, and then strangle them one by one. Unexpectedly, these more than 100 Taiping cavalry not only met them, but also were so capable of fighting and very skillful. They either swam there with bows and arrows to shoot, or they took up sabers and fought face to face. In short, whatever is beneficial to them, they will fight, stirring up the whole city is full of smoke and dust, although it is only a battle of a few hundred people, it looks like it is fighting with thousands of troops.

Time kept passing, but the other party was brave in the Vietnam War, and there was no sign of collapse at all, the hearts of the two Ming generals immediately sank, and they looked nervously to the south, they were afraid, afraid that the Taiping army's brigade would suddenly appear under their noses. When the time comes, in the face of the thunderous blow of the Taiping Army Brigade, how long can they withstand it!

"Withdraw, withdraw!"

The two Ming generals gave the order to retreat, and they just wanted to leave the battlefield and return to the city as soon as possible. It's a pity that when people are unlucky, they can choke to death when they eat, and just when the Ming cavalry was about to retreat, another team of cavalry rolled up dust and appeared in their sight.

Not good!

Whether it was the Ming army at the head of the city or the Ming army under the city, their hearts suddenly cooled, and they saw that the Taiping cavalry who arrived was black and pressed towards the city. At this time, the Ming cavalry under the city had long been dragged by those Taiping cavalry and were exhausted, and in the face of the opponent's large reinforcements, they could still resist there, and where did they dare to resist, they fought their horses and turned around and ran back, regardless of whether their backs were exposed under the opponent's knife.

Gao Jinku did not order anyone to open the city gate and let his subordinates in, although he had just said that they would run back when they saw that the opportunity was wrong, but now he still ruthlessly closed the city gate, and refused to open it no matter how they beat outside. Gao Jinku was afraid, he was really afraid, when he faced Li Chengdong's tens of thousands of troops in Ganzhou, he was not as afraid as he is today.

The Taiping cavalry who arrived chased the Ming cavalry all the way to the city, and then released a few rounds of bows and arrows at the Ming army who knocked on the city gate, and then left far away. Watching the cavalry below fall one by one, the generals of the Ming army in the city only felt cold in their hearts. Since entering Guangdong from Ganzhou with Gao Jinku, they have not experienced this kind of scene for a long time. They were also afraid.

After half a pillar of incense, Tie Yi, the general and commander of the second town of the Taiping Army, finally appeared on the horizon with the three brigades of the main force of the second town, and the black pressure was approaching the capital city of Leizhou. Seven or eight thousand men marched across the wide plains, and the sight was daunting to look at from afar.

In addition to a large flag embroidered with the three words "Taiping Army" at the front of the Taiping Army, there is a large flag embroidered with the word "Zhou", followed by a large flag with the word "Ming", and there is a large flag embroidered with the word "trapped" in many flags, which is particularly dazzling among many flags, which is the military soul of the second town.

The Ming Army flag played by the other party, and the Ming Army flag was also played by his own family, what the hell is this forgedness!

The generals of the Ming army in Leizhou City looked at each other, and the depression made none of them speechless.

Gao Jinku's face tightened, motionless looking at the Taiping troops who were approaching Leizhou City, and only thought about one thought in his heart: Can I hold this city?

After surrounding the city of Leizhou, the Taiping army rushed out of the formation and approached the city, and the knight above took out the longbow behind his back, took out the arrow from the quiver, and shot an arrow towards the city with a "whoosh". A white cloth was tied to the arrow, and six words were written on it - "If you don't open the city, you will slaughter it." (To be continued.) )