Boom Boom Boom ......

Countless fireballs suddenly rose in the center of the battlefield, drowning the five Taiping Army foreign spear phalanxes in a sea of fire.

"His Royal Highness the King of the East, the brothers of the foreign spear front army are finished......"

Heard the trembling voice of Yang Yiqing, the "national sect" who was in charge of commanding the three Eastern Temple armies. Yang Xiuqing turned his head sharply and shouted angrily: "What are you panicking about, the army in front of the foreign guns has collapsed, and there are still the Chinese army and the rear army of the foreign guns!" As long as you can break through the enemy formation and behead the Zhu demon, the whole world will be heavenly! ”

Yang Yiqing muttered in a low voice: "One regiment of them can break one of our armies, and there are at least 6 infantry regiments and 1 cavalry regiment under Zhu You, where is it so easy to break?" Even if it can be broken, Zhu Demon Head will still escape, and he still has 2 armies in Henan! ”

Yang Xiuqing was furious and glared at Yang Yiqing fiercely: "I still have 5 horse army and 60,000 cavalry, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to catch him?" As long as my cavalry returns, the 20,000 and thousands of Zhu Demon will be wiped out! ”

Yang Yiqing lowered his head and didn't dare to speak. At this time, a burst of shouts and killings resounded in the sky came from the front, Yang Xiuqing calmed down, forced himself to regain his composure, he raised the telescope to see clearly, the smoke had not yet dissipated, and he couldn't see clearly. However, there was no flickering fire, which indicated that the two sides had begun to fight hand-to-hand. This made him breathe a sigh of relief, he had been worried that the two armies in front and behind the foreign guns would be destroyed by the Ming army's rifles and grenades, but now it seems that they have persevered.

He was still very confident in the elite hand-to-hand combat ability of the Taiping army, and the Ming army seemed to be only strong in firepower, and he had never heard that they were good at hand-to-hand combat. And no matter how good the Ming army of a regiment is, it is impossible to defeat at least one and a half armies of the Taiping army in hand-to-hand combat, right?

In the middle of the battlefield filled with gunsmoke. A northwest wind blew, and the smoke of gunpowder slowly drifted to the southeast, revealing the tragic scene of the two armies fighting at once. The ten phalanxes of the Taiping army and the two horizontal formations of the Ming army have long been out of shape, and there are only more than 10,000 people fighting together. Bloody melee battles have begun, and the battle line is filled with soldiers on both sides, with little room to dodge and simply exchange lives. The 2nd Guards Regiment of the Ming Army had lost only a few dozen men in the previous battle, but now it was caught in a truly brutal battle, and was broken through the line by the overwhelming Taiping army, and the melee was a mess. But these Guards infantry are also good. The fight to the death did not retreat, and he was stunned to drag more than 10,000 people of the Taiping army.

More than 2,000 men of the 1st Guards Regiment had already been reinforced by this time, and they were still advancing in two horizontal formations. After Li Kaifang, the general of the Taiping Army who commanded at the front, noticed that the Ming army had reinforcements coming up, he immediately dispatched more than 3,000 light infantry, which he used as a reserve, to resist. He didn't want the Ming army to throw grenades into the Taiping army's crowd again.

However, the more than 3,000 light infantry had not yet formed a formation. Suddenly, it was shelled by the Ming army. It turned out that the cannon of the Ming army had already moved into place and began to fire Hochsky shrapnel grenades. This kind of shell, filled with a small amount of A-oil explosives and hundreds of small steel balls, was shocking to the infantry in dense formation, and only one salvo could crush the light infantry of the Taiping army. And at this time. The Second Guards Regiment commanded by Shi Dakai finally couldn't resist and retreated, and the reinforced First Guards Regiment couldn't care about throwing grenades, so they could only join the battle group to reinforce the Second Guards Regiment, and the two sides screamed loudly and killed together.

The scuffle in front finally made Zhu Jishi realize that the winner of today's decisive battle was about to start in the middle lane. Hurriedly ordered the howitzers that had been transferred to the left flank back to the middle - I have to say that Yang Xiuqing's battlefield intuition made Zhu Jishi's arrangement fall through, if Yang Xiuqing mainly attacked the left flank of the Ming army, the 36 12-pounder howitzers and 24 24-pounder howitzers of the 4 howitzer battalions had already blown the Taiping attack troops into slag with Hochsky howitzers.

At the same time as the artillery was brought back, Zhu Jishi once again sent 2 regiments of reinforcements to the front line, and now that the front was in a melee, he could not expect to win by relying on the firepower of the Besemai rifles, and he had to invest enough troops. And the reinforcements of these two regiments almost arrived at the battlefield at the same time as the reinforcements of the Taiping army, both sides did not hesitate, the Ming army immediately joined the white-knuckle battle group after throwing a round of grenades, and the reinforcements of the Taiping army were not to be outdone and immediately engaged in hand-to-hand combat, and a larger-scale white-knuckle battle was immediately launched, relying on the numerical advantage, the Taiping army endured huge casualties and the four regiments of the Ming army became a group. At this time, there were only 2 infantry regiments left in Zhu Jishi's hands, and Yang Xiuqing still had three armies available in his hands!

"We're going to win! If you win......" Yang Xiuqing stood on the horse pedal and shouted loudly while watching the battle, "Yang Yiqing, throw two more armies in, this time you must crush the Zhu Demon, you must crush them!" ”

"Yes! His Royal Highness the King of the East, the last general will personally lead the troops up! Yang Yiqing's spirit also came up, and he immediately saluted Yang Xiuqing and quickly went to send reinforcements.

And on the front line of the battle between the two armies, Shi Dakai was already covered in blood, I don't know if Lu Dao is his or the enemy's, and his Colt pistol has lost where Lu Dao is? The six bullets inside killed at least four Taipings. Now use a katana to fight the Taiping army again, this knife was given by his partner Zheng Yongyi in Vladivostok, it is said to be the masterpiece of a famous knife maker, but in Shi Dakai's view, it is a little sharper than an ordinary steel knife, and it does not have much advantage over the brown bass with a bayonet inserted on it, especially when there are several bayonets piercing him at the same time! The comrades around him fell one by one, although the casualties of the Taiping army were greater, but they also had more people, and the balance of victory was indeed tilting in favor of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom!

"Kill the pig demon and protect the kingdom of heaven!"

Another earth-shattering slogan sounded. Shi Dakai's heart was shocked, he guessed that the new force of the Taiping Army came up again, listening to this voice, maybe there were 20,000 people! This battle won't be lost, right?

Just when he was worried about losing, 60 12-pounder and 24-pounder howitzers were placed in the open space less than 200 paces behind him. The muzzles of the guns were raised high, aimed at the rear of the Taiping army's pile in the center of the battlefield.

Zhu Jishi was also standing on the horse's pedal at this time, stretching his neck to watch the battle, and his palms were full of sweat. He didn't expect the Taiping Army to be so able to fight, so that his guards had the slightest possibility of being defeated!

"Has the cavalry arrived?"

"Not yet."

"What about howitzers? When will it be able to fire? ”

"It's all in place, and we need to test fire first and then bombard the Taiping army with a salvo."

"Let the artillery be faster, it's all up to them now."

At this time, several huge fireballs had already risen on the battlefield, just west of the hand-to-hand combat groups of the two armies in the middle of the battlefield.

Witnessing this scene, a cold sweat broke out on Yang Xiuqing's forehead, and he remembered that the Ming army had a powerful flowering bomb! If those few flowering bombs just now had fallen into the pile of the Taiping army, wouldn't they have killed hundreds of people?

"Order Gong Deshu's horse team to charge and rush to the artillery position of the Ming army!"

Yang Xiuqing hurriedly threw more than 10,000 cavalry of Gong Deshu on the right flank to rush to the artillery of the Ming army. However, the Ming army had long been on guard against this hand, and a Guards Infantry Regiment set up a large hollow phalanx next to the Ming artillery position. Where does Gong Deshu dare to rush up recklessly? He knows how far the range of the Beise Maiyang gun is! Besides, there are still a few 9-pounder cannons on the north side of the Ming army's hollow phalanx! So a horse team of tens of thousands of people lingered north of the Ming army's front.

The battle seems to be about to reach a stalemate!

"Your Majesty! Our Guards have arrived! ”

Luo Xuan's roar suddenly sounded in Zhu Jishi's ears, he turned his head to look southeast, and saw the snow and dust rising from the sky, and the ground trembled faintly.

"King Dong, our horse team is back!"

At the same moment, Yang Xiuqing also heard the cheers of the generals around him.

Yang Xiuqing turned his head to look, the look on his face was relaxed, and now he has become evenly matched...... Although the casualties on his side are several times that of the Ming army, as long as he can kill Zhu Jishi, he will return to his roots! Now Zhang Lexing has come back with Ma Jun, and he has won!

"Order, the whole army assaults!" Yang Xiuqing shouted excitedly, "Heavenly Father bless us, Taiping Army warriors, rush!" (To be continued......)