Chapter 684: Bloody Battle (2)
Zhang Hexiang gave an order, and the first battalion of cavalry urged the mount to rush onto the bridge quickly, occupying the bridge deck At this time, Xiao Jianli's two battalions had almost all jumped down, and more than a dozen merchant ships all had a different number of Lu cavalry, and began to fight fiercely with the Taiping army on the ship. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The dozen or so merchant ships behind them also began to cross the Tianzhen Bridge, and when they rushed over, even if they wanted to snatch control of the fleet, they had no chance!
Jump!
Now it's the most critical time, where can I take care of my life or not?
One by one, the cavalry began to jump again towards the big ships behind.
Fortunately, in this fleet, the Taiping army was mainly concentrated on the dozen or so big ships in front, and the Taiping army did not have many troops on the big ships behind, and the big ships in front were now caught in a melee, and there was no effort to shoot in the air.
Without the threat of heavy musket bullets, only some of the cavalry battalions had broken their legs, and most of them landed unharmed on the ship.
Fierce battles, fierce battles unfolded above the fleet!
The two cavalry battalions in front suffered heavy casualties when they jumped, and they were only able to barely support the Taiping army and ensure that they would not fall behind; But these big ships in the back were unlucky because of the small number of troops of the Taiping Army!
Today's cavalry has already killed red eyes, and hundreds of comrades have been beaten into a sieve in the air by long hair, how can they not be heartbroken to the extreme?
The cavalry even directly abandoned their horse pistols, and rushed towards the Taiping army with their sabers, their hands rose and fell, and their heads fell to the ground, and the fierce cavalry was not at all able to resist the Taiping army behind, more than a dozen big ships were only standing with a hundred and ten people, where could they stop the attack of hundreds of cavalry?
More than 100 people, almost no one left, all of them were ghosts under the sword of the cavalry, and only a few of them were a little excited, jumped into the Qinhuai River, and escaped with their water skills!
The first battalion of cavalry forced the boatmen to approach the fleet in front of them rapidly, and the front was still in fierce fighting, and the two cavalry battalions suffered more than 500 casualties, only less than 400 people, and fought fiercely with a thousand Taiping troops.
The cavalry were full of anger one by one, and it was completely a desperate way of fighting, even if the troops were at an absolute disadvantage, they still blocked the attack of the Taiping army, and the two sides were inseparable.
However, when he saw that hundreds of cavalry jumped on top of the fleet behind him, Huo Qingteng panicked, he knew that just with the more than 100 Taiping troops in the fleet behind him, the Jedi would not be able to stop the attack of hundreds of people! Those big ships must fall back into the hands of the Qing Demon, and once the Qing Demon masters those ships, he will definitely attack the engines of these ships in front of him.
When the time comes, two pinching attacks, and a thousand or so people will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of others!
Gradually, the huge fleet has left the Tianzhen Bridge, and the fleet behind has also approached the big ship in front, and one by one, the cavalry, when there is still a distance of three or four meters from the big ship, has already jumped towards the depth of the big ship by running away!
Don't die, don't die at all!
Three or four meters may not be too far, but this is not flat ground, but a fast-moving boat on the river, and there are enemies on board? However, this can't withstand the anger of the cavalry to kill the enemy, the soldiers trained by Guo Ye have always advanced and retreated together, and they will never abandon their brothers!
More and more cavalry jumped on the ships in front of them, participated in the battle, the situation began to show a one-sided posture, the Taiping army gradually couldn't parry, no way, on the quality of individual soldiers, the cavalry was far above the Taiping army, on the tacit understanding, it was not the Taiping army that could match, in the face of increasing pressure on the cavalry, the Taiping army began to collapse!
Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qingfei's hearts were cold, for the sake of the mountain, they fell short, this place is less than eighty miles away from Huainan, just because of the entanglement of this deadly cavalry, it fell short!
Qiu Qing was not as smart as he was, and he definitely didn't expect that these cavalrymen would dare to give up their cavalry superiority and jump straight from the bridge onto the merchant ship! This is not just a matter of courage to be able to do, yes, the Taiping army in that short moment, killed no less than two or three hundred cavalry, and many people were seriously injured and fell into the river, life and death are unknown, but even if they know that the front is a dead end, they still resolutely jump down, if it rests on the Taiping army, no general dares to give such an order, even if the order is issued, no one may dare to jump into the river directly with a bullet!
This is the gap, this gap is not only that the weapons are inferior to others, the kung fu is inferior to others, and the most important thing is that the courage is inferior to others! Even if there is an abyss in front of them, this group of people dares to jump in!
"General, abandon all ships, quick, abandon all ships, let's move forward with all our might, maybe we can get out of their attack!"
Qiu Qingfei immediately made a decision and shouted at Huo Qingteng.
Now there are more than 100 people on their ship, and at that time, only a dozen cavalry fell into their ship, so naturally they could not stop the ships of the main force of the people, and in the face of ten times their own strength, no matter how much the cavalry could fight, they could not turn the situation around, they could only lose, and now the battle is over.
At this time, give up other ships and run for your life alone, maybe you can still escape, Huo Qingteng suddenly realized, retreat, retreat immediately!
Huo Qingteng ordered the boatmen to urge the big ship forward with all their might, in order to be able to escape, but he forgot one thing, the boatmen on the boat were the old boatmen on Caoyun, not ordinary fishermen, all of them were registered on Caoyun, helping Longhair escape, they had been thinking about getting out of the government's wanted all their lives! Moreover, who knows if after helping Longhair escape, they will cut themselves and others with a single sword?
The boatmen saw that now the long hair had all fallen into the downwind, and they were afraid that they would not be able to escape, so they made a look one by one, and jumped into the Qinhuai River while the Taiping Army was distracted.
Without the posture of the boatman, Huo Qingteng and the others were all dumbfounded, how good is the water nature of each of them, how many people in the south are not water-based? However, knowing how to water is not the same as making a ship, especially such a large merchant ship!
There was no one to make the rudder, and it didn't take long for the big boat to cross the river, floating and immovable, Huo Qingteng almost died of anger, and he was so unlucky that he drank cold water and stuffed his teeth!
For now, there is only one way to escape!
Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qingfei glanced at each other, turned over and jumped into the water, swimming into the distance, saving their lives first!
(To be continued.) )