"Life is a hero, death is also a ghost!"

"Brothers, kill with me!"

Li Weiguo shouted violently, threw away his rifle, drew out the stainless steel sword he carried with him, and led the remaining hundreds of Shanghai officers and soldiers to fight fiercely with the Taiping army that swarmed up.

Li Weiguo is like a mad lion, with his superb fighting skills, slashing left and right, all the enemies who are close to him and want to kill him as the king and worship the prime minister are either in a different place, or missing arms and legs, they are all slashed by his fierce sword.

Li Xiucheng, who was injured and watching the battle from a distance, couldn't help but gasp, and was also shocked by Li Weiguo's brilliant swordsmanship and fierce momentum, and admired it in his heart.

"It's a pity!"

Li Xiucheng suddenly said with a wry smile, and a feeling of heroic pity rose in his heart.

Bang bang bang!

At this moment, Li Xiucheng suddenly heard a row of guns behind him, and when he looked back, he was immediately taken aback, only to see that the mountains were full of Shanghai soldiers, waving flags, and there was no boundary.

The Taiping army is cavalry, with most of the broken Shanghai soldiers killed, the Taiping army only a small number of cavalry continue to surround Li Weiguo and others on the hill, most of the remaining cavalry is either resting and treating wounds, or is crazy to rob the Shanghai army The dead officers and soldiers left behind all kinds of weapons, especially the Shanghai army's sunglasses, armed belts, military boots and other supplies, which made the Taiping soldiers red, for which they even fought with each other for the sake of grabbing, making the original establishment a mess, in order to grab things scattered in all directions.

Once the cavalry stops and loses the speed of its impact, it is equivalent to no threat.

Therefore, when a large number of Shanghai troops suddenly appeared on the battlefield, the Taiping army suddenly fell into chaos, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and they would not be able to find the soldiers.

"What's going on?"

"Why did you suddenly kill so many Shanghai troops?"

"What are our sentinels doing?"

Li Xiucheng was shocked and angry, this sudden killing of the Shanghai army. Looking at this posture all over the mountains, I am afraid that there are no less than 10,000 people. He had obviously sent a large number of sentry horses to post sentry along the way, the farthest distance was more than five miles, but he had not received any advance warning, which was really hateful.

The Shanghai army marched in formation, the drums were loud, and they marched in a neat pace, raising their guns, aiming, and shooting in one go, and then the front row retreated and loaded ammunition, and the back row stepped forward to fill the position. Repeating the actions of raising the gun, aiming, and shooting.

Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!

Rows of muskets fired volleys, and the oncoming Taiping cavalry was instantly beaten on their backs, with countless casualties, which aggravated the chaos.

"General, there are musketeers of the Shanghai army all over the mountains, and they are about to cut off the rear road of our army and encircle and annihilate our army, let's withdraw quickly!" A lieutenant general hurriedly came to persuade him.

Li Xiucheng is capable of becoming a general in commanding the army. He could see at a glance that this suddenly killed Shanghai army should be the defender of the nearest Jiangnan camp, because this Shanghai army only had muskets firing, no artillery, and only came to rescue Li Weiguo in a hurry.

"Don't panic! Speed assembles at the back. Let the war horses run, interspersed with detours from the wings to their rear, I expected that they were here to save Li Weiguo, and there was absolutely no rear team to respond. It can be decided by the first war. ”

"Whoa!" The adjutant general gave the order to prepare quickly.

Li Xiucheng turned to Li Weiguo's side again and snorted coldly. Leave a group of cavalry behind, and then attack the hill with all your might, in order to capture or kill Li Weiguo as soon as possible.

"Kill!!"

"Kill!!"

At this moment, there was a burst of cheers, and I saw a group of cavalry suddenly slaughtering from the official road, and the dust was flying.

These cavalrymen were all women, each dressed in red, holding a bright sabre, and came straight to the small hill where Li Weiguo was.

The leader is also a female general, I saw her dressed in a snow-white samurai uniform, a white horse and a silver gun, and a heroic appearance, it was Su Sanniang.

I saw that she looked anxious, and wherever she passed, the spears swept away, and the Taiping cavalry fell off their horses one after another, unable to stop her opponents. Behind her, a group of female cavalrymen fought no worse than the male soldiers, sabers flew up and down, and the enemy soldiers who killed them flipped on their backs, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Li Weiguo, who was fighting, looked at it fixedly, and saw that it was Su Sanniang who led the army to help, and his heart was moved, although he didn't know why she was not in Hangzhou and suddenly appeared here, but he didn't think much about it, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, the sky will not kill us, the reinforcements are coming, follow me to the south to kill!" ”

The arrival of reinforcements suddenly made the hundreds of Shanghai officers and soldiers who were under siege ignite their survival, and the originally exhausted strength came back in an instant, and they rushed south with Li Weiguo, preparing to join Su Sanniang's reinforcements.

Li Xiucheng was suddenly shocked, he recognized Su Sanniang, whether it was her strength or beauty, it made Li Xiucheng's heart move, and he never forgot it.

Seeing Su Sanniang on such an occasion at this moment, as a hostile party, Li Xiucheng felt very complicated.

Just when Li Xiucheng hesitated, the female cavalry led by Su Sanniang had already entered the encirclement and quickly converged with Li Weiguo and others.

Su Sanniang rode a horse and rushed to Li Weiguo's side, picked up four Taiping army soldiers, and relieved the siege for him, and at the same time shouted: "Weiguo, get on the horse!" ”

Li Weiguo hurriedly grabbed Su Sanniang's hand, turned over on the horse, and said at the same time: "Sister, I thought I wouldn't see you again!" ”

Su Sanniang saw that although Li Weiguo was covered in blood, he was not injured, and she suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, and hurriedly said, "Hold me tight!" If you have something to say, tell me again! ”

Li Weiguo hurriedly hugged Su Sanniang's thin waist, as if the boat in the storm had suddenly found a safe harbor, but seeing that the Shanghai soldiers around him were still desperately covering him, he hurriedly said: "Sister, these people follow me to the end, please save them too!" ”

Su Sanniang stabbed down the Taiping soldiers who tried to get close with a shot, and was about to break through immediately, after hearing Li Weiguo's words, she couldn't help but glance at Li Weiguo, nodded slightly, and immediately shouted: "Sisters of the women's battalion, each bring a Shanghai army brother to kill together!" ”

"Order!"

All the female horsemen shouted in unison, scattered one after another, each pulled a Shanghai soldier on his horse, and then converged and rushed out together.

At this time, Li Xiucheng also reacted, but he had missed the opportunity, and he couldn't help but hang his chest and regret it greatly.

Li Xiucheng commanded the Taiping army to chase and kill with all his might, and saw Su Sanniang rescue Li Weiguo and others and retreat into the infantry phalanx of the Shanghai army.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army, which lost the surprise attack, encountered the musket phalanx of the Shanghai army, which was waiting for it. There's no bargaining anymore.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Li Xiucheng was worried that there would be more Shanghai troops to come to help, so he did not dare to stay for a long time, so he immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army.

In this battle, the cavalry of the Taiping Army raided, and the 5,000 personal soldiers with Li Weiguo were severely damaged, with more than 2,000 casualties. If it weren't for Su Sanniang to come to the rescue, I'm afraid Li Weiguo would have to get in himself.

This is also the largest casualty in a single operation since the debut of the Shanghai Army, and after Li Weiguo was safe, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in his heart. Shi Dakai is worthy of being Shi Dakai, and a generation of famous generals is not called in vain.

This time, Li Weiguo has paid enough tuition, and he should take it as a warning in the future, and dare not underestimate the world's heroes.

Returning to the camp in Jiangnan, Li Weiguo couldn't wait to ask Su Sanniang, asking her why she was not in Hangzhou, and suddenly came to rescue her, if it was a clever plan.

"You are a sister, I am a god. It's also a clever calculation! Su Sanniang chuckled and explained: "I didn't know that you led an army to raid Tianjing in Hangzhou, but a few days ago, some of my sisters from the Heaven and Earth Society left the Taiping Army to find me in Hangzhou, and wanted to continue to follow me. It was they who told me about the battle in Tianjing and the news of Shi Dakai's Eastern Expedition. I have been in the Taiping Army for several years, and I still know a little about Shi Dakai. This person is like a god with soldiers, knowing that you are besieging Wei to save Zhao, even if he gives up Dantu and returns to Tianjing. It will never make you feel better. ”

Li Weiguo suddenly smiled and said: "So eldest sister, you guessed that Shi Da would send cavalry to raid me, so he came to rescue me in person thousands of miles away, eldest sister, you are really good to me." The little brother couldn't repay it, so he promised it with his body! ”

"Don't you want to be beaten again?" Su Sanniang glared at Li Weiguo fiercely, but she was not unhappy, and continued: "I didn't guess that he would definitely raid you, but I don't have to worry about you, come and have a look." Unexpectedly, you really don't make people worry, and you really let people raid! ”

Li Weiguo was suddenly embarrassed, and he couldn't be blamed for this, he was already very careful.

However, in front of Su Sanniang, Li Weiguo didn't want to be looked down upon by her, so he said: "Although Shi Dakai raided me with a small victory, it was too early for Shi Dakai to be happy, maybe now he has the heart to cry to death!" ”

Su Sanniang looked puzzled, she didn't know that Li Weiguo also sent an ambush to attack Shi Dakai's main force, so Li Weiguo explained it to him, which immediately made her beautiful eyes shine, staring at Li Weiguo, and Li Weiguo himself was a little embarrassed.

"It's a surprise that the two of you attacked each other at the same time!"

~~~~~~~~~

In Liyu Mountain, Shi Dakai sat in the middle army and was leading the army to prepare to pass through the valley.

"Come on, can you send someone to explore the valleys on both sides?"

Shi Dakai called the deputy general to ask, he was always strategic, a cautious one, and saw that Liyu Mountain was dangerous and easy to ambush, so he was very vigilant.

The lieutenant general replied: "Your Royal Highness the Wing King can rest assured, you have already sent out sentry scouts to go to the valleys on both sides to investigate!" ”

At this time, a soldier came in to report that he saw the sentry on the valley waving a flag and that everything was safe.

Shi Dakai and the deputy general suddenly came outside, took out a monocular, and saw that sure enough, it was the Taiping Army soldiers standing on the top of the valley, waving flags to inform everyone that they were safe.

"But the soldiers you sent?" Shi Dakai still asked cautiously.

The adjutant general took the binoculars, looked at them for a while, and then nodded: "That's right, they are the sentinels under the tent of the last general, they are all veterans and very experienced, His Royal Highness the Wing King can rest assured!" ”

Shi Dakai nodded, since there was no problem, he immediately ordered the whole army to pass through the valley quickly, after all, Tianjing was still very dangerous, Shi Dakai didn't want Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing to go crazy, it was not good for him, so he had better go back early.

However, calculating the time, at this moment, Li Xiucheng and Chen Yucheng are afraid that they have launched a surprise attack on Li Weiguo's main force, and the odds should be very high, Shi Dakai can even imagine the picture of Li Weiguo being killed or captured, and the Shanghai army being defeated and suffering heavy casualties.

On the valley, after several Taiping Army veterans finished waving the flag, they saw that there was no movement around, so they sat down to rest, and one of the veterans got up to pee.

But what he never expected was that just below the grass where he was urinating, there was a hidden pit, and a Shanghai scout was hiding under it.

At this time, the Shanghai soldier was lying on his stomach in the pit, his face was painted with camouflage, his head was covered with mud, and it was covered with weeds, and it was impossible to see from the outside that there were people hiding below.

The urine just poured on the head of this Shanghai soldier, which made him feel extremely disgusted and angry, he once wanted to burst out and kill people, he could have killed this Taiping army in an instant, but he finally endured it, he knew that the task on his body was arduous, so he didn't dare to move.

He was waiting, waiting for orders and signals for action.

Soon, the advance army of the Taiping army passed through the valley.

At this moment, there was a sudden roar, and a rocket shot into the sky and exploded with a snap.

The Taiping Army sentries standing on the top of the hill all looked at the sky and felt incomprehensible about this sudden fireworks.

"Action!"

At this moment, there was a loud shout, and more than a dozen Shanghai soldiers suddenly stood up under the surrounding stone piles, among the grass, and near the dead trees, and rushed to the Taiping army sentry one after another.

The sword flashed, and I saw that these Taiping Army sentries were wiped off their necks one after another, and they didn't make a sound until they died, which shows how agile these Shanghai soldiers are.

The reason why these Shanghai soldiers hid until now and did not make a move was because they were afraid that they would startle the snake by killing these Taiping army sentries in the first place.

"Let's all take our places, hurry up, there's not much time left for us!"

At this time, the front army of the Taiping army has passed through the valley, the Chinese army brigade is marching in the valley, and the rear army is waiting outside, the best moment for the official ambush battle.

More than a dozen Shanghai soldiers, none of whom were carrying a Patriotic rifle, quickly moved into their firing positions.

With a dozen of them alone, even if they used advanced patriotic rifles, it was impossible to pose a threat to the 70,000 or 80,000 Taiping troops.

These people had only one purpose, and that was to detonate the explosive* that was buried under the boulder halfway up the opposite side of the mountain, with the precision of the Patriotic rifles in their hands and their superb marksmanship.

"Number one is in place!"

"Number two is in place!"

……

"The fifteenth is in place!"

"Ready—hands-on!"

At the captain's command, fifteen patriotic rifles opened fire at the same time.

Bang bang bang!

One bullet after another was fired at the explosive point on the opposite side of the valley, detonating hundreds of kilograms of explosives one after another

Boom!

The explosive* exploded, creating a huge cloud of fiery red mushrooms.

In an instant, the mountains shook, the giant trees broke, the rocks crumbled, and the dust flew up.

Thundered! Thundered!

The explosion site was a landslide, and countless boulders tumbled and fell from the mountainside.

The Taiping army, which was passing under the valley, was suddenly in chaos, and was hit by rocks one after another, and people turned on their backs, suffering heavy casualties. (To be continued......)