Early the next morning, Yan Chunyu mobilized his own army and threw himself into battle!

"Order the three artillery battalions, concentrate firepower, and fiercely bombard the southerly direction of Tianjing West City, where the fortifications are the weakest, and some of the shells of the Hunan Army's naval division have hit there, take the opportunity to open a gap for me as quickly as possible!"

Yan Chunyu gave the order for artillery bombardment, and the three artillery battalions all pulled up and began to launch a fierce attack in the southwest direction of Tianjing City. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Today's main forces of the Taiping army are all in the east and south of the city with the Hunan army, the Huai army to fight to the death, the west city and the north city of the defense is the weakest, especially the west city, only left more than 1,000 people to defend, after all, it is difficult to occupy now, Wang Haiyang does not dare to waste too many troops in the west city, must concentrate the main force to deal with the main force of the Hunan army and the Huai army in the east.

The Hunan army and the Huai army put the main direction of attack in Dongcheng, in the eyes of the Taiping army, they would definitely not divide their troops to attack at this time, it would be more than worth the loss, but what they absolutely didn't expect was that the Lu army would take Anqing so quickly, and then go all the way down from Anqing, and in a few days they arrived at Tianjing City, not to mention Wang Haiyang, even Shi Dakai didn't expect this Yan Chunyu to do such a play!

The defender of Xicheng is the brigade commander of the East Battalion, Major General Xiao Changhong, who has just come to the city to inspect the night, and before he can figure out what the situation is, he was stunned by a sudden wave of shells!

"What's going on, what's going on? Where did the shells come from! ”

Xiao Changhong's face was full of horror, and he shouted angrily, this cannonball is too dense, in just a moment, it is dozens of cannonballs, much faster than the firepower of the Yangtze River Water Division! Xiao Changhong had an ominous premonition in his heart!

"Report to the general, I don't know when, a Qing army suddenly appeared in Xicheng, and now a fierce artillery bombardment is being launched in the southwest direction of us!"

"How is that possible?"

Xiao Changhong roared angrily and rushed to the head of the city, and then looked down under the cover of the battlements, sure enough, now the flag is waving under the city, and there are almost nearly 10,000 troops! How could it be that if the Hunan army carried out such a large-scale mobilization, it would be absolutely impossible to hide from the Taiping army in the city, how did these people arrive, and the firepower was still so fierce, looking at this way, I am afraid that there must be fifty or sixty artillery pieces, even the entire Hunan army may not have so many artillery!

Xiao Changhong almost cried, the house leak happened to be rainy, at this time, the Hunan army and the Huai army in Dongcheng alone were difficult enough to deal with, and now the Qing army that has always been so elite has come out, isn't it fatal?

"Quick, quick, all the troops will immediately go to the city and prepare to fight back! Send someone to send a letter to the general immediately, nearly 10,000 Qing demons raided Xicheng, please send troops to support the general immediately! ”

Xiao Changhong's eyes were about to pop out, but he also understood very well now, this time Tianjing City was afraid that it would really fall, just the Hunan Army and the Huai Army, the Eastern Battalion could hold out for a while, waiting for the Wing King to lead the army back to help, but now, another elite came to attack Tianjing City, the East Battalion would not be able to hold on no matter what, the city was broken, and it would definitely not be able to hold on to the return of the Wing King!

Yan Chunyu ordered the artillery battalion to continue to carry out artillery bombardment, followed by three infantry battalions to charge in the southwest direction, trying to hit the Taiping army by surprise, however, the combat power of the Taiping Army's eastern battalion is second only to the Chinese army battalion, following Shi Dakai to continue to fight with the Hunan army Huai army, the combat effectiveness is quite strong, although the artillery bombardment just started to blow up the Taiping army, but soon the Taiping army soldiers under the command of Xiao Changhong, reacted, and hid behind the battlements, and shot at the city, condescending, Suppressing the charge of the infantry!

The three infantry battalions of the Lu army immediately returned to color, and dense gunfire rang out one after another, and under the western city, the battle became fierce.

In the east of the city, before the Hunan army and the Huai army had time to attack the city again, they faintly heard the sound of dense artillery in the west.

Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang frowned, shelling? Where did the shelling come from at this time? The two of them haven't given the order to attack yet! Could it be that the Hunan Army Naval Division launched an attack?

It's not like ah, just the Hunan Army Naval Division, there is no such large-scale artillery at all, the cannon sound is too dense!

"Shaoquan, what's going on? You gave the order to attack? ”

Li Hongzhang shook his head in astonishment and replied, "Teacher, how come?" Haven't I always been there for you? I'm afraid it wasn't Huanfu's order, he has always been more anxious......"

While the two of them were suspicious, the Hunan army cavalry scouts outside broke in, "Report to the two adults, Tianjing Xicheng doesn't know when there was suddenly an additional Qing army, with a strength of about 10,000 people and excellent weapons, and suddenly launched an attack on Tianjing City at dawn today!" ”

It's Tianjing Xicheng, not an attack launched by the Hunan Army's naval divisions!

Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang were shocked, such a huge Qing army suddenly appeared in Tianjing City, and they didn't even notice it! Hell yes!

"Teacher, isn't it Guo Ye from the north who led the army to fight? It's impossible, isn't he still confronting Shi Wei in the Huainan area? How could it have come so quickly? ”

Zeng Guofan was about to speak, Zeng Guoquan ran in from outside in a rage, and shouted: "Big brother, Shaoquan, something happened!" ”

Zeng Guofan's face sank, and he shouted: "Something's wrong, don't worry, say it slowly!" ”

Zeng Guoquan said hatefully: "I just received a report from the sailor, a large number of Qing troops appeared in Xicheng, and launched an attack on the south side of Xicheng, according to reconnaissance, the other party has at least fifty or sixty artillery pieces, all foreign guns, launched a comprehensive attack on Xicheng, and now Xicheng is crumbling!" I think that there is no other person's army with such strength other than Guo Ye in the north! ”

"Could it really be Guo Ye? Impossible, right? ”

Zeng Guofan said in a deep voice: "No, if Guo Ye arrives in person, he will definitely send someone to inform us, this is the rule of officialdom, it is impossible for him not to even have this scruples!" There is a good chance ......"

"It's the Lu army's partial division,"

Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice: "Teacher, Huanfu, I heard that the Lu army sent a brigade of partial divisions to move towards the western part of Anhui, could it be that they killed me?" ”

"Oh, two, don't guess!"

Zeng Guoquan shouted: "Hurry up and order a general attack, otherwise, the credit for the capture of Tianjing City will be robbed by the Qing army, we have wasted half a day's strength, and we won't even be able to drink soup at that time!" ”

(To be continued.) )