Nearly a hundred muskets opened fire in unison, giving the Taiping soldiers directly in front of them the most violent salvo at a distance of between ten and twenty meters!

Hardly a single bullet missed, and the conical bullets all hit the row of Taiping soldiers in front, and seventy or eighty people fell almost at the same time.

But soon some Taiping soldiers wearing Taiping army uniforms and holding unified swords and spears rushed up, and the distance of ten meters was almost a few seconds, and soon they rushed to the chest wall.

It is a pity that this breastwork is a full 1.5 meters high, which is an obstacle that they cannot directly cross for the contemporary southern soldiers, who are generally only between 1.5 and 1.6 meters tall.

However, soon some soldiers tried to climb up with the help of their companions, but often before they could get close, they were stabbed by the bayonets of the bayonets of the condescending soldiers of Yu Shengjun.

Hand-to-hand combat, which is more than musket shooting, is more than musket fire to compete with the training and discipline of the soldiers on both sides, as the bayonets continue to stab, a large number of Taiping soldiers fall, although the Taiping soldiers will also use swords and spears to counterattack, but in the face of the condescending Yu Sheng soldiers, they caused limited casualties.

In less than thirty seconds, these Taiping troops who rushed over under the powerful firepower of Yu Shengjun collapsed, and they were not repelled by Yu Shengjun's shells and bullets, but by the neat rows of bayonet forests!

As this enemy force collapsed, Song Yangqing jumped directly out of the chest wall and slashed his command knife forward: "Bayonet charge!" ”

In the next moment, nearly 100 soldiers of the 6th Company climbed over their breastwork in unison, and then lined up in a neat formation with bayonets and rushed towards the retreating enemy troops on the opposite side!

Those Taiping soldiers who had already retreated did not have the courage to resist at all, and those who ran slowly were immediately stabbed to death by the bayonet forest, and the remaining hundreds of Taiping soldiers ran back without looking back at all.

At the same time, Qu Panyun, the commander of the fifth battalion in the distance, was already holding his command knife high: "The whole battalion charges!" ”

In the next moment, the other five infantry companies of the fifth battalion also rushed out with bayonets in their hands, and the Taiping soldiers in front of them, who had been hit by Yu Shengjun's multiple rounds of salvos, saw Yu Shengjun rush out on his own initiative, and they didn't know who shouted to flee.

Immediately afterwards, the thousands of Taiping soldiers in front forgot what a heavy price they had paid to rush to within a distance of tens of meters, and they all turned around and fled!

There is nothing more capable of completely destroying the morale of the enemy than charging the enemy with a bayonet at close range!

Seeing that the soldiers who had finally rushed to Yu Shengjun's camp in front of him retreated again, the angry Wu Ruxiao couldn't hold back anymore, and scolded directly: "Damn, these bastard things, give Lao Tzu to resist, don't retreat!" ”

It's a pity that his anger can't reverse the retreat of the Taiping army, if it was the kind of previous that only sent a few phalanxes to attack at one time, he could still have a large number of troops to suppress the rear, so as to stop the retreat of the soldiers in front, but just now in order to conquer the camp of the Yusheng army in one fell swoop, he had already ordered the whole army to charge, and most of them, including nearly 10,000 regular soldiers, had already stepped forward.

It's a pity that Yu Shengjun's camp is small, and tens of thousands of people can't attack Yu Shengjun at the same time, in fact, there are only more than 10,000 Taiping soldiers fighting against Yu Shengjun head-on, and most of the other soldiers are crowded in the rear.

Now those soldiers in front of them have retreated and turned and fled, which naturally affects the soldiers in the rear.

Because the collapse of this kind of thing has always been led by a point, and this is the case with the current Taiping army, although Wu Ruxiao still has a large number of troops to fight, but once the front troops collapse, the soldiers in the rear will inevitably be disorganized, and then join the ranks of fleeing.

At this time, no matter how Wu Ruxiao stopped, it could not change the collapse of the entire Taiping army.

At this time, Yu Shengjun had already taken the initiative to jump out of the chest wall, and stepped forward with bayonets to launch a counterattack, the speed of their counterattack was not fast, but it gave the Taiping troops who were fleeing under great psychological pressure, as long as they turned their heads and looked, they could see thousands of Yu Shengjun soldiers in the rear holding shiny bayonets, and quickly rushed towards them in a neat formation.

I dare to stay there, I can't wait to run faster!

Looking at the retreating Taiping army in front, Lin Zhe breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he was victorious in today's battle, and now it is time to reap the fruits of victory!

"Let the 1st Cavalry Company attack, try to drive the enemy to the left and right, and don't let the enemy flee back into the city!" Lin Zhe continued to order:

"Order the artillery units to shell the rear positions of the enemy troops at maximum range, forcing them to change the direction of the rout!"

It was not easy to defeat these Taiping troops, Lin Zhe didn't want them to escape back to Suzhou again, and when the time came, he might have spent a lot of thought and time attacking the city by himself.

So this time, Lin Zhe did not ask the troops to kill and injure many enemy troops in pursuit, the main purpose was to defeat them and defeat them again, not to give them time to integrate, and at the same time to force them to change the direction of the retreat, and not let them all withdraw to the city.

After Fu Linyang received the order, he immediately ordered his artillerymen: "Solid ammunition loading, firing range of 1,300 yards, target the direction of Suzhou City Gate!" ”

On the other side, Qian Niubei had already roared out with the First Cavalry Company, and they did not chase the enemy behind like the infantry, but quickly bypassed from the left side of Taiping, that is, to the west, and then went straight to the direction of the city gate, where they were to intercept and drive away the Taiping army that was trying to return to the city.

In the face of the artillery bombardment of Yu Sheng's army, the rear of the Taiping army was more dangerous than the front position, especially the closer to the city gate, the more intense the artillery bombardment, and it is not known when a cavalry of Yu Sheng's army had already crossed them and appeared in their rear direction.

Although they only had two hundred horsemen, these Taiping troops had completely collapsed, and there was no organization at all, and after the few hundred people who ran the fastest were attacked by the cavalry led by Qian Niubei, the Taiping soldiers who ran back from the rear would still try to escape past these cavalry and flee to the city gate.

Their survival instinct made them take the initiative to separate on both sides, some to the east, some to the west, and the Taiping army in the rear routs followed the soldiers in front of them to flee according to inertia, so a very strange scene appeared, these routs were divided into two under the city of Suzhou, running towards the city walls on both sides, but no one tried to cross the cavalry of Yu Sheng's army and return to Suzhou City.

Seeing that the rout of the Taiping army took the initiative to avoid their own cavalry troops, Qian Niubei also breathed a sigh of relief, he only had two hundred cavalry, although the momentum was not small while maintaining a high speed of running, but it was completely incomparable with the momentum of the rout army of tens of thousands of people.

If the Taiping army was determined to attack their cavalry, even if the whole army was destroyed, it was estimated that they would not be able to stop them from returning to the city.

The rout of the Taiping army was divided in two, bypassing the gate of Suzhou and continuing to flee to the east and west, and Yu Sheng's army was not idle, and their cavalry and infantry continued to pursue.

In particular, the cavalry of Qianniubei relied on their rapid mobility and were strongly deterred by the cavalry, and repeatedly forced the more than 30,000 Taiping troops retreating to the east to change their direction completely, and finally drove them to the direction of Changzhou County like driving sheep.

And there, there is the first mixed regiment of Yu Shengjun!

In the evening of the same day, the 30,000 Taiping Army, which had been driven to the north, collided head-on with the first mixed regiment of Yu Sheng's Army in Mojiabin, more than ten miles north of Suzhou.

Soon after, the first cavalry company of the Yu Sheng Army, as well as more than 1,000 infantry and baggage soldiers of the Sheng Army, also launched a large-scale attack on their backs.

Under the front and rear attacks, Wu Ruxiao finally gave up those cannon fodder and ordered the cannon fodder troops to drag the enemy, while he led more than 3,000 old backbone troops under his command to flee to the northwest at high speed.

The commander fled, and also took a large number of backbone regular troops, most of the remaining nearly 30,000 Taiping soldiers belonged to cannon fodder soldiers, and there were not even senior generals of the Taiping Army to lead them to fight, so before Yu Shengjun launched a formal attack, they broke and fled again, this time their rout was in all directions, many people took off their military uniforms, abandoned their weapons and fled alone.

As for the other more than 10,000 Taiping soldiers who fled westward outside Suzhou, they were pursued by Lin Zhe himself, and these people retreated even more unbearably because they did not have the leadership of Wu Ruxiao, the commander, and they were completely dispersed after a while.

The defense of Suzhou City and the subsequent pursuit lasted almost a whole day, and most of the time it was Yu Sheng's army chasing the rout of the Taiping army, and the time for the two sides to really fight head-on was actually only about half an hour at the beginning.

In the evening of the same day, the vanguard of Yu Shengjun's army entered the city of Suzhou without hindrance, and the first thing they did after entering the city was to quickly control all the important places in the city, including the yamen stations of various official offices, various warehouses, and the former garrisons of the Taiping army, because these places were generally places where the Taiping army stored materials and property.

When Lin Zhe entered the city of Suzhou, what he saw was not the famous city of Gusu, but the ruined walls, especially the houses near the city wall, which were almost demolished, and now the city head is still full of bricks and stones and giant trees obtained from the demolition.

And then entering the main street of the city, Lin Zhe, who was riding on a horse, could not see any people on the street except for his own soldiers of Yu Shengjun, as if the whole city was shrouded in a black fog, there were many blood stains on his face, and occasionally he could see corpses that had not had time to move.

Looking at such Suzhou, Lin Zhe shook his head gently, after the war, Suzhou did not give him the charm of the ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River, nor did it give him the noise and vigor of a prosperous city, but only a gloomy feeling, as if hell on earth!

This Suzhou can be regarded as ruined!