Chapter Seventy-Three: The Siege of Guilin
The more than 10,000 Taiping troops in Yulin and Wuzhou were completely dispersed by the Dragon God Sect. The remaining two or three thousand people finally had no way to be inspired and blessed by the King of Heaven and "God the Father", and fled into the mountains and forests, scattering as birds and beasts.
Only Feng Yunshan's younger brother Feng Yunshui was protected by thirty "immortal heavenly soldiers" and surrounded by thousands of troops.
The Dragon God Sect has sophisticated firearms, and as long as the commander is not brain-dead, he will naturally not choose hand-to-hand combat. All of a sudden, muskets and cannons beckoned towards them.
Boom, boom, boom.
In the smoke and artillery fire, except for a few of the thirty immortal heavenly soldiers who protected Feng Yunshui, the rest actually launched a brave charge! It can be seen that although this kind of demonic thing that comes back from the dead is terrifying and terrifying, it still has the most basic wisdom and thinking ability.
These things are so fast that they look like a sturdy cheetah. Sometimes you can avoid cannons and muskets!
In the blink of an eye, more than a dozen "immortal soldiers" were wiped out by the intertwined fire network of cannons and muskets. But there were still more than a dozen escapes, and they were in close contact with the soldiers of the Dragon God Sect. Fortunately, the troops under the command of the Dragon God Sect are all trained in modern science, and they are not chaotic in the face of danger, and they quickly enter the combat state. With the cooperation of each other, it took more than 200 casualties to take down more than a dozen ghost things that rushed out of the fire coverage area.
Otherwise, if it is a decaying army like the Qing army, which lacks long-range fire attacks and has poor discipline. When encountering the strange "undead heavenly soldiers" who have come back from the dead, I am afraid that a team of thousands of people may be killed by dozens - at least they will be scattered and flee!
Seeing that the black was pressing, the Dragon God Sect army that gradually surrounded it. Feng Yunshui knew that there was no possibility of escaping, and he was not afraid, but just looked up to the sky and laughed.
The army commander of the Dragon God Sect shouted: "Feng Yunshui, surrender immediately!" The Dragon God Sect will not mistreat prisoners. ”
Feng Yunshui's mouth opened, revealing a mouthful of white teeth, obviously a human but as if he was some kind of monster. Hehe smiled: "It turns out that it's not a Qing Demon, it's the Dragon God Sect." No wonder, no wonder...... Hehe, I said that it is impossible for the soldiers of the Qing Demon to have such sophisticated firearms and such strong combat effectiveness. Then he was slightly stunned, as if he suddenly understood something, and then laughed even louder: "Good calculation, good calculation!" Dragon God Sect, Dragon God Sect, my Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Qing Demon have actually been deceived by you. I thought you were just harmless wrecks, where did you think ...... It's really a wolf in sheep's clothing. Hahaha. But my worship of God is the Father's Father's own mission, and it is much more powerful than your dragon gods. Even if you have the advantage for a while, you will not escape the fate of becoming a part of the kingdom of heaven on earth! ”
At this time, Feng Yunshui was really like a heroic and fearless martyr. The righteousness is strict and the words are endless. But what he said was so crazy, and the contrast was great.
The officer who commanded the soldiers of Maoming and Yunfu on the side of the Dragon God Sect just wanted to make him stop talking nonsense, so he quickly tied his hands and arrested him. The guy held up a sharp dagger and plunged it into his throat. Blood splattered out, and he fell to the ground with a weird grin, dead.
"Damn! Sure enough, it's a cult or a religion. It's not like my Dragon God Sect is panicking about Chinese orthodoxy. Kill all these demons who have come back from the dead! ”
With an order, the remaining "immortal soldiers" were naturally turned into meat sauce under the siege of muskets and steel knives, and finally died completely......
At this point, the first confrontation between the Dragon God Sect and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom ended in the complete victory of the Dragon God Sect!
But what no one knows is that when all the thirty "immortal soldiers" are really dead. Hong Xiuquan, who was sitting alone in the Heavenly King's Mansion in Guiyang, slowly opened his eyes, and a blood-red demonic light flashed in his eyes.
With a compassionate expression on his face, he let out a long sigh: "My divine servants have all been killed. The strength of the Guangdong garrison is really strong. It's a pity that I don't understand the nature of making a servant of God now, otherwise ......"
He didn't say any more, just slowly closed his eyes again. The soft white light emitted from the whole body really bears some resemblance to the images of Christ Jesus or St. Peter and others on the murals of European churches......
After this war, Yulin and Wuzhou in Guangxi basically had no military strength, so the Longshenzong army of Yunfu and Maoming divided 2,000 troops to occupy the cities of these two counties to maintain local law and order and the people. The rest continued north to Hezhou and joined up with the brother legions from Zhaoqing to form a legion of nearly 30,000 men. easily took Hezhou again.
At this time, an order came from the governor of Hunan, ordering the Guangdong army to leave 3,000 people in Hezhou, and the remaining 25,000 people to be dispatched. and the Qing soldiers from Yongzhou and Shaoyang in Hunan to the south to flank the Taiping army in Guilin!
Guilin can be said to be the place where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom truly took off.
At the beginning, under the siege and interception of the Dragon God Sect, Hong Xiuquan still led less than 20,000 believers to meet the 50,000 Qing soldiers led by the governor of Guangxi, pushed all the way to Guilin. Accumulated forces to continue attacking other provinces. Therefore, the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also attached great importance to Guilin, not to mention the 50,000 troops stationed, and there were tens of thousands of worshippers of the God Worship, who could be used as militia to support the battle at any time.
After the 70,000 Qing soldiers and 25,000 Cantonese soldiers led by the governor of Hunan joined forces on the outskirts of Guilin, they immediately launched a fierce attack on the city of Guilin.
Although the Taiping army was inspired to worship God, they all fought to the death. However, under the overwhelming superiority of the Qing soldiers and the army of the Dragon God Sect, they held out for a week, and finally broke through the city gate......
The general of the troops sent to Guangdong this time was Lu Zhuang, who was covered in armor and rode on a black fierce horse. Walking side by side with Hunan Governor Lu Feijin, he slowly entered the gate of Guilin.
"General Lu, the Guangdong garrison is really brave and invincible. This time, you have made a great contribution to defeating the Taiping thieves, capturing Guilin, and even subduing the entire territory of Guangxi. When the time comes, I will naturally say a few kind words in front of Lord Mu Zhang'a, and then go to the court to show credit for you. Lu Feiying said with a smile, and there seemed to be a sense of wooing between his words-although his status was much higher than Lu Zhuang.
Lu Zhuang hugged his fists and said: "Lord Lu doesn't have to be like this, recovering the land from the hands of demons is also what our generals should do." ”
Lu Feiyi, who was already a little dizzy with joy, didn't hear the abnormality in Lu Zhuang's words at all-if it was the Manchu Dynasty, how could he say that he would recover the country? How did he know that the "demon" in Lu Zhuang's mouth did not refer to the Taiping Army at all...... (To be continued.) )