Chapter 154
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In the sky, gloomy clouds moved heavily, slowly. In the east, the gray sun, which had lost its former brilliance, also seemed to have no rest all night, and from time to time it lazily peeked down through the cracks in the dark clouds.
Nearly 20,000 Suzhou soldiers and horses commanded by Yu Wanqing were completed at this time. This flat, wide plain is a good place to use soldiers. Yu Wanqing, who had been noisy all night, was not in a daze for a while until early in the morning, and finally had a stable breakfast. Immediately after breakfast, he ordered the whole army to put away the camp tents and go straight to the front of the Taiping army camp, in his words, this is a battle of breaking the cauldron and sinking the ship, either to open up the connection with Wuxi, or to shroud the horse leather.
Tong Guò recognized the logo of the army flag, he had already stared at the Taiping army camp in front of the fang, which was the location of the commander of the Taiping army opposite, and he was going to start from here.
Qin Rigang did not continue to stick to the camp as Yu Wanqing imagined, but also organized half of the men and horses out of the camp to line up. The Qing Demon, who was eager to rescue Wuxi, but did not dare to fight at night, gave him a chance to get support, and before the early morning, Chen Yucheng's teaching brigade had quietly entered his camp.
Yu Wanqing looked at the Taiping soldiers and horses who were less than 5,000 on the opposite side, although he had an absolute advantage in numbers, he didn't feel a little relaxed. The number of long-haired people is obviously at a disadvantage, but they are still in good spirits, and the formation is neat, without the slightest fear. Look at his subordinates again, it has only been a night of tossing, and they are all gray as if they are malnourished, and there are actually people yawning with their mouths wide open. He couldn't understand how the same people could be better than the stinky mud poles that had just put down their hoes and handles for a few days.
Yu Wanqing sighed secretly in his heart, and with a wave of the flag, the war drums of the Chinese army suddenly sounded.
As soon as Du Wenqian of the front army heard the sound of drums, he immediately sent two battalions of men and horses to rush straight into the battle formation of the Taiping army, in an attempt to disrupt the Taiping army's position from the middle.
The vanguard general of the Heavenly Army, Luo Qiongshu, the prime minister, immediately commanded the bow and crossbow and spear team to counterattack. The Qing soldiers crashed into a wall, falling to the ground one after another in the fierce rain of arrows and fire, and the infantry who could not get close to the heavenly army were defeated.
After the first defeat, Du Wenqian was not discouraged. He was also a temptation. Now, he drew his saber from his side and shouted, "Victory or defeat is here, and whoever dares to retreat will die, and there is still a way to live if you advance, brothers, kill me!" With the rumbling war drums, all the front troops of Du Wenqian were dispatched, and they rushed towards the Taiping army who were waiting for the battle.
Qin Rigang was happy. Qing Demon's first tentative attack, he didn't order artillery interception, just waiting for Qing Demon to know what to do. With the fluttering of the command flag in his hand, the cannon of the heavenly army rang out. In an instant, the area between the two armies was flooded with artillery fire, and the dense charging formation of the Qing army was cut into two sections.
Seeing that there was a splash of dirt everywhere in front of him, as well as the limbs of his subordinates, Du Wenqi, who had seen the power of foreign cannons with his own eyes, felt a chill in his heart, how could there be so many foreign cannons with long hair? I can't control so many of them first, the most important thing is to get closer and long, as long as I get closer, no matter how powerful the artillery fire is, it will lose its meaning.
Du Wenqian gritted his teeth and cut down the two routed soldiers who had fled, and shouted in a hoarse voice, "Brothers, don't be afraid, rush over and win!" He stomped his foot and rushed forward with the battalion behind him in the face of the flying artillery fire.
After a period of resistance from the crossbow and spear-carrying teams, Luo Qiongshu's front team and the Qing soldiers came into close contact. The dark clouds in the sky are getting thicker and thicker, and the sun has already quietly flashed behind the clouds, as if they don't want to see this scene of human fighting on the earth.
Yu Wanqing has been watching the progress of the battle situation of the former army. He saw that Du Wenqi's banner had been mixed into the Taiping army's formation, and the two wings of the Taiping army began to move, and a part of it was split to support the center, and he felt that the opportunity had come. He hurriedly mobilized Song Fengyu's men and horses behind him to follow Du Wenqi's front army, and on the other hand, he ordered the left and right flanks to quickly outflank the opponent, and he wanted to destroy this Taiping army outside the camp.
The earth-shattering sound of artillery and shouts of killing outside the city had already alarmed the defenders in Wuxi. In the past few days, the defenders of Wuxi, who have become frightened birds, have not eaten a solid meal and slept peacefully in the face of the non-stop "offensive" of the heavenly army. It can really be said that the eye sockets are collapsed, and everyone's eye circles are blue. Their only hope now was that the governor of Suzhou would send reinforcements to relieve the disaster.
The reinforcements finally came, although the number of defenders in Wuxi City was not much, but the excitement of the moment still made them put together more than a thousand men and horses, carrying all kinds of burning things, and opened the city gate to kill. Their purpose was very simple, that is, to take the opportunity to set fire in the camp of the Celestial Army and disturb the Celestial Army from behind the Celestial Army, which was engaged in the battle with the Suzhou reinforcements.
Zhu Xikun's eyes were about to turn red when he was waiting at this time. He was promoted in April this year to the third inspection point of the left of the palace, relying on his military exploits. The army in front is fighting with the Qing demon reinforcements from Suzhou, and the Red Army Teaching Brigade in the camp is also waiting for the best opportunity to attack, only he has been given the task of monitoring Wuxi, if the defenders in the city are timid, they really give you a turtle with a shrunken head, but they don't come out, then they will come here for nothing. Just when his heart was itching and uncomfortable, the city gate of Wuxi on the opposite side opened, and a large group of demons poured out. Even though it was broad daylight, these demons still bowed down to the cat's waist and didn't say a word, and they had the potential to cover their ears and steal the bell.
Zhu Xikun is like eating dumplings during the New Year, and the beauty is amazing. Don't worry, don't worry, let them get closer, farther away from the city, since they're here, don't think about going back to Lao Tzu. Looking at the Qing Demon of about a thousand people, Zhu Xikun temporarily changed the tactics he had prepared in advance. He ordered to go down and send a man and a horse as soon as he engaged in the battle, and immediately copied the back of the Qing Demon out of the city, two thousand to one thousand, and he wanted to completely wrap these Qing Demon dumplings.
Du Wenqi's men and horses and Luo Qiongshu's men and horses collided and killed in one place. Qin Rigang saw that the Qing demons were gathering more and more, and although there was some support on the left and right flanks, the front army was gradually at a disadvantage. He looked at the Western pocket watch on his body, and then looked up at the gloomy ghost sky, damn it, why did time pass so slowly today! He was originally very rough, but he rarely liked to speak foul language, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart at this time. He looked at the commander of the guard brigade beside him, hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth, "Go up, kill from the side, you must beat the momentum of the Qing Demon and stabilize the position of the front army!" ”
The men and horses on the left and right wings, he couldn't move anymore, and he saw that the two wings of the Qing Demon had also begun to outflank him, and the guard brigade was the only force he could move. Watching the guard brigade drive up, he felt a little relieved, but at the same time, his heart felt as if he had been cut by a knife. "Open the cannon, fire the cannon on both sides for me, and intercept the Qing Demon!" Qin Rigang shouted as he glared at the pocket watch that seemed to have stopped.
Qin Rigang is a brave general, and he also has some strategies, and he also has one problem, that is, he is selfish. He likes military exploits, because he is a general, and only with military exploits can he be promoted. But he was reluctant to put the old book into it like this. is also the chief general of the first army, and the weight of his speech depends on strength. Now he feels that he, the best official of the Celestial Empire, in the mind of His Royal Highness King An, it is estimated that he may not even be able to catch up with a small Chen Yucheng, let alone Lin Fengxiang of the Red First Army. If people are to be defeated again, then it is really a phoenix that has fallen into the water and is not as good as a chicken.
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