With fearless courage, Wang Luyun led the charge of 700 horsemen to once again prove that his nickname 'Wang Madman' was worthy of his name.

Seven hundred cavalry used the standard dense charge formation to rush towards the oncoming four hundred Taiping cavalry, and as before, these Taiping cavalry were still not professional cavalry, just a group of mounted infantry, although their individual horsemanship and courage may exceed the cavalry of the Chinese army.

Even the speed at which they hedged was a little faster, but under the impact of the Second Cavalry Regiment which seemed to be slow, but the whole regiment was like a whole, and the four hundred cavalry were completely crushed in just one shot!

In the many cavalry battles between the Chinese army and the Taiping army in the past, the cavalry of the Chinese army was in a state of disadvantage most of the time, but most of the time they were able to win the charge.

And this time, the cavalry led by Wang Luyun was almost twice as large as the enemy army, and this victory was almost certain!

When Wang Luyun rushed out of the chaotic Taiping cavalry with his own cavalry, less than half of the Taiping cavalry behind him was left, and they were all scattered.

They simply failed to entangle the Chinese cavalry in a melee as they had previously envisaged, so that the infantry could catch up with them and support them in the battle.

The cavalry charges of the Chinese army never played melee, and often rushed to the end, with the main purpose of breaking the enemy's formation.

Therefore, the charge between the two only lasted for a very short time, so fast that even the infantry phalanx of the Taiping Army could react, and the first battle between the cavalry of the two sides was over!

However, Wang Luyun obviously didn't plan to rush once, only to see him raise his saber again, shout and kill, once again lead the cavalry back, and then once again rushed into the remnants of the cavalry of the Taiping Army

The cavalry of the Taiping Army, who finally survived the first cavalry charge of the Chinese army, saw the enemy behind them turn back and kill back, and they dared to continue to resist one by one, and directly urged the horses under their crotches to flee forward.

This time, the cavalry battle under the nose of Li Xiucheng's nearly 20,000 troops ended with the Taiping Army's 400 cavalry being almost wiped out!

After Wang Luyun led the cavalry to launch two consecutive charges, because the horsepower of the war horse had dropped and some of the wounded were also in urgent need of treatment, he subsequently led the Second Cavalry Regiment to temporarily withdraw from the battlefield!

In this battle, which lasted less than ten minutes, the cavalry of both sides fought from beginning to end, and because the Taiping cavalry failed to entangle the second cavalry regiment in the melee, the Taiping infantry in the rear did not have enough time to run up to support them.

As a result, a large number of infantry of the Taiping Army watched as their more than 400 cavalry troops were wiped out!

"Let the war horse rest first, and put the injured brother in place!" Wang Luyun also dismounted at this time, wiping the blood on his face while giving orders to the cavalry officers under him.

"The scout should keep an eye on their movements at all times, let's rest and find a chance to him again!" Wang Luyun continued: "Our task now is to hold them back and wait for the main force in the rear to arrive!" ”

When Wang Luyun led the Second Cavalry Regiment to frequently attack Li Xiucheng's army, trying to slow them down, Shi Qingxuan also hurriedly arrived in Danyang with the Third Division.

The continuous rapid march made the soldiers of the Third Division exhausted one by one, and since he learned that the reinforcements of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had changed to Jurong, Shi Qingxuan led his troops to quickly pursue and intercept them.

On the way, he also received the latest order from Lin Zhe, Lin Zhe ordered him to catch up with and annihilate the Taiping army that dared to go deep alone, and at the same time, Lin Zhe transferred a regiment of the Fifth Division back to defend Danyang, and urgently sent orders to the remaining troops in Danyang, Jintan, Changzhou and other places in the rear, asking them to prepare for a surprise attack by the enemy.

At the same time, the Second Division, which originally planned to march north to Tianjing, also stopped going north and went south to pursue!

From a certain point of view, Li Xiucheng's sudden southward march and march into Jintan must have contained a large number of troops of the Chinese army and greatly reduced the threat to Zhenjiang, but on the other hand, Li Xiucheng's risky tactics also made him deeply surrounded by the Chinese army.

Once the momentum of their advance is stopped, the only way awaits them is destruction!

On March 14, Shi Qingxuan led the headquarters of the Third Division, together with a regiment of the Fifth Division, and the Third Defense Division, a total of more than 18,000, finally caught up with Li Xiucheng's headquarters 20 kilometers southeast of Danyang!

The reason why he was able to catch up with Li Xiucheng so quickly was inseparable from Wang Luyun's Second Cavalry Regiment firmly entangled Li Xiucheng's army.

Because Wang Lüyun was the most decisive attack at the beginning, he completely annihilated the 400 cavalry of the Taiping army at the cost of more than 50 cavalry, and lost the cover of the cavalry, although Li Xiucheng's army was empty of 20,000 people, but the overall marching speed dropped to an unbearable level.

After all, there is a force of more than 600 enemy cavalry next to you, and if you march normally, people will probably attack a certain section of your marching army.

If you want to guard against these cavalry, you have to use a more rapid and dense battle formation, and you can't expect to be able to go fast in a battle formation.

This is not fast, and it is not surprising that Shi Qingxuan caught up!

Li Xiucheng looked at the large number of Chinese troops in the field behind him, he sighed deeply, the situation was much worse than he expected, originally he thought that he could hide from the Chinese army, and he would not conquer Danyang, which was a heavy soldier, and directly detoured to attack Jintan, and did not stay after he succeeded, and continued to enter Changzhou eastward, all the way to Shanghai.

But I didn't expect that they had been entangled by the cavalry of the Chinese army for the past two days, which greatly delayed their marching speed, and they had already been caught up by the main force of the Chinese army before they arrived at Jintan.

Now, the attack on Jintan has turned into a bubble in the air, and there is no way to retreat, Li Xiucheng's only choice now is to stop advancing, and then fight a frontal field battle with Shi Qingxuan in a dignified manner, if he wins, then the whole situation can be reversed, and he can enter Jintan or Danyang again.

If defeated, a qiē Hughti!

Li Xiucheng, who was caught up, was forced to fight, which was in Shi Qingxuan's arms!

"If you continue to run away, maybe I won't be able to catch up for a while, and I really can't help you! But now you actually stopped to fight in the field with my Great China King Division, hmph, if I don't give you some color to see, you won't know how powerful my Great China King Division is! ”

Since the beginning of the Yu Shengjun era, the Chinese army has been best at not defensive operations, nor offensive operations, but field battles, to be precise, frontal battles in the field.

It's just that people who have fought with the Chinese army in the past know that the Chinese army is sharp in field battles, and they will not choose to fight field battles with the Chinese army at all, Lin Chengting is like this, and Wu Ruxiao is the same.

However, this Li Xiucheng has never fought against the Chinese army, so he dares to fight a field battle with the Chinese army head-on!

If it is said that Lin Chengting is here, it is estimated that Lin Chengting will immediately escape with the army, and he will not fight the Chinese army in the wilderness if he can escape!

It's just that Li Xiucheng is not Lin Chengting, the so-called ignorant are fearless, after Li Xiucheng put the 20,000 people in his department on a posture, he didn't wait for the Chinese army to take the initiative to attack, but took the initiative to launch the order to attack!

Seeing that the Taiping troops on the opposite side, who were armed with various cold weapons, as well as a small number of muskets, small-caliber lifting guns, mountain splitting guns, etc., dared to take the initiative to attack, Shi Qingxuan just shook his head slightly, and then sentenced them to death in his heart.

At the same time, the artillerymen of the 3rd Division began to reload their shells at the urging of the officers, and with a sound of order, the guns of the 3rd Division were fired one after another.

All kinds of shells fell into the array of the Taiping army one after another, setting off a sea of blood!

The next battle was like a military walk for the Chinese army, and in the face of the heavy artillery bombardment of the Chinese army, the Taiping army had not even entered the musket range of the infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, and it was already disrupted and showed signs of collapse.

Then the infantry of the Chinese army began to slowly move forward, adopting the mode of gradual shooting, and before they could charge with bayonets, the Taiping army on the opposite side had completely collapsed!

This battle was a disaster for Li Xiucheng's Taiping army from beginning to end, and they didn't even have the slightest strength to fight back, they were already completely collapsed!

The cold-weapon army is as fragile as a papier-mâché window in frontal field battles against modern troops, and it will be broken with a single stab!

In this battle, which lasted for two hours, the Chinese army completely defeated 20,000 people under Li Xiucheng's command with a small casualty of less than 400 people, killed at least 3,000 Taiping troops, and counted the wounded, and tens of thousands of people surrendered and were captured on the spot, including the chief general of this Taiping army, Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

When Lin Zhe from Zhenjiang received Shi Qingxuan's good news, he finally breathed a sigh of relief, not only for him, but also for Shi Langyi.

The encirclement and reinforcement strategy he formulated was fine at first, but when Li Xiucheng suddenly led the army south to attack Jurong, there was a change, fortunately Wang Luyun entangled Li Xiucheng, and Shi Qingxuan also caught up with Li Xiucheng at a gallop in the starry night, which made the changed encirclement reinforcement tactics finally successful.

"In the future, Zhenjiang can't delay any longer, it's easy to change if it drags on for too long!" Lin Zhe already felt a trace of anxiety in the face of Zhenjiang, which had been unable to attack for a long time.

For the Chinese army, which was almost pouring out, the delay in conquering Zhenjiang was a huge blow to the morale of the army, and it was easy to produce unplanned changes if it dragged on.

On March 18, the Chinese army, reinforced by the 3rd and 5th Divisions, gathered more than 40,000 people, and with the cooperation of more than 10 warships of the navy, launched the first general attack on Zhenjiang! (To be continued.) )