Liu Mingchuan looked at his henchman Ai Jiang who was seriously injured, and his distressed heart twitched, but the battlefield is the battlefield, and anyone can die at any time, not only Nie Shicheng, Bao Chao also has two wounds on his body, which are deeply visible!

Zeng Guofan, who had already rushed to Dongcheng, had a heavy face, thinking that Bao Chao could lead the army to repel the attack of the French army, and at the worst of all, he could withstand the attack of the French army and alleviate the current crisis. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Ge Buqi, Gong Yuan!"

Even if Zeng Guofan's kung fu is good, in the face of such a situation, he hates his chest, and he can't wait to tear the two of them apart, and he squeezes out two words between his teeth.

Now it's okay, the main force of the 8,000 Hunan army is gone, the 20,000 green battalion soldiers have completely collapsed, and the entire Tianjin city is now the Hunan army, the Huai army plus the green battalion soldiers, all the troops together, but there are still more than 10,000 people, how can they hold it in the face of the attack of tens of thousands of foreigners?

All the hearts of the people are heavy, how long can Tianjin City be held? No one counts in their hearts!

Just when everyone was at a loss, the cannon fire in Nancheng rang out again!

A Hunan army hurriedly ran over and shouted: "Great marshal, great marshal, the foreigners have launched an attack on Nancheng again, the artillery is fierce, the situation is critical, General Bao Xin asks your lord to come over and preside over the situation!" ”

Zeng Guofan and the others were shocked, the attack during the day had just stopped, and the attack at night had begun again!

Now Nancheng, with less than 4,000 people stationed, facing a Spanish army of 20,000 troops, and there are also ships and guns on the river to help, it can be imagined that Tianjin Nancheng is facing military pressure.

"Zhenxuan, immediately lead the tree battalion to aid Nancheng!"

Now Liu Mingchuan's inscription battalion has also suffered heavy losses because of the rescue of Bao Chao, and the casualties are very heavy, and only Zhang Shusheng's tree battalion is still complete in the entire Tianjin city.

"Huh!"

Zhang Shusheng agreed, led the Shuzi battalion to advance towards the south city, to assist in the defense of the south city, the south city, the Spanish army in their own artillery battalion and naval artillery under the cover of fire, launched an attack on the city of Tianjin, fierce firepower, so that the Hunan army on the head of the city could not raise its head at all, the south city was in danger!

Fortunately, the arrival of the Shuzi battalion temporarily lifted the crisis, and the Hunan army and the Huai army together had 7,000 people, which withstood the attack of the Spanish army to the death, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in Nancheng!

Zhang Shusheng and Bao Xin constantly commanded the soldiers under their command to fight, but although the Spanish Army was not as strong as the French Army, it was also a first-class strong army, and now the troops and firepower occupied an absolute advantage, and it was difficult to repel the attack of the Spanish Army.

The worst thing is that not only the Spanish attacked, but only two hours later, before it was early in the morning, the French army launched another attack on the eastern city.

Bazin held his breath, originally thought that he could take advantage of the chaos of the enemy army to take Dongcheng in a battle, and then take Tianjin City, but he didn't expect that he was unlucky to be beaten back by the Hunan army and the Huai army, which was a great shame for the French army! Absolute shame!

Originally, he was going to launch another offensive immediately, but after all, Bazin still held back, he had been fighting fiercely for a day, there was no need to attack immediately, let Spain fight in the south city for a while, and the defense deployment in Tianjin City was chaotic, and he was taking the opportunity to attack, and Dongcheng could be taken in one fell swoop!

The scheming Bazin reorganized his forces, recuperated his strength, and waited for the opportunity to attack again.

Finally, when the time was close to the early hours of the morning, the Spanish attack on the southern city of Tianjin had entered the most intense moment, and the Qing troops of all departments in Tianjin had already assembled towards the southern city.

Dongcheng, now there are only Liu Mingchuan's inscription battalion and Pan Dingxin's few Dingzi battalions stationed, and there are only more than 3,000 people together, looking at the French army under the city like a storm and waves, they have been frightened, even a fierce general like Liu Mingchuan is also a little numb, the offensive is too violent!

"Order, all the soldiers who can fight will be pressed to the top of the city and resist with all my might! Be sure to hold on until dawn! ”

Liu Mingchuan shouted loudly and personally climbed to the top of the city, holding a musket in his hand, and constantly shooting at the French army under the city!

It's just that the difference in combat power is too great, the French army's siege tactics are very clever, and the firepower of the artillery regiment behind it is too strong, it is not at all comparable to ordinary troops.

Coupled with the artillery attack during the day, now the city wall of Tianjin is on the verge of collapse, finally, still can't bear it, a large section of the city wall finally collapsed under the continuous bombardment of artillery, the city wall of about two or three zhang completely collapsed, giving the French army an excellent opportunity to attack, and a team of French troops launched a crazy impact to the vicinity!

Liu Mingchuan's heart was tight, it was broken!

Of course it's broken, now that the city wall has collapsed, there is a big gap of about three zhang, and the French army can even rush directly into the city, how to stop it?

"Zhang Xuan, lead your Tianzi battalion to block the gap for me, block it on the spot, and curb the attack of the French army no matter what!"

Liu Mingchuan burst into flames and roared madly.

Zhang Xuan hurriedly led a battalion of troops and pushed it against the gap, however, the strength of a battalion was barely enough to defend the infantry, but at this time, it was not only the infantry who charged, the rear, the chasers had already sent a flaw, and the chaser regiment roared straight to the gap, extremely fast!

The cavalry charged while carrying out intensive shooting, as if Mount Tai pressed the top, the Huai army was shocked, at first it was able to stabilize the position, when the cavalry hit the front, the Huai army shouted, and routed to the rear, hundreds of cavalry pressed up together, definitely not these two or three hundred Huai army can withstand it!

The Chasseur Regiment then swarmed in with this gap and rushed into Tianjin City!

Liu Mingchuan closed his eyes, it's over, it's completely over, so many cavalry rushed into Tianjin City, it was impossible to drive it out!

"Quick, send a letter to the marshal, the city of Dongcheng is broken, it is declared lost, please withdraw from Tianjin immediately! Withdraw from Tianjin! ”

After all, Tianjin City still collapsed in the hands of the French army, and the news of the destruction of Dongcheng City reached Nancheng, and the army of Nancheng was also panicked and had no intention of resisting, and the Spanish offensive was even more rapid!

"Withdraw the troops......"

Zeng Guofan's heart was full of bitterness, Tianjin City, fell!

(To be continued.) )