Chapter 111 Fight to the death
Sure enough, similar to Hong Xuanjiao's conjecture, the number of Xiaodao and the Qing army was about five to one, but it had less than half the upper hand!
On the one hand, the equipment of the Little Knife Society was extremely inferior, on the other hand, the Qing army's weapons were mainly flintlock pistols and arquebuses.
And the Little Knife Society is a rabble, mainly urban homeless, landless peasants and members of the local underworld, the army has been formed for a short time, and it is too late to integrate training, while the green battalion soldiers are corrupt and degenerate, but they still have the most basic military qualities.
On the other hand, and the most critical point, these Qing troops were all brought by Xiang Rong from Hunan, and at this moment, they are all in the grief and anger of being deceived and about to die in a foreign land!
While the Qing army was running back, it gradually formed a three-horizontal line, separated by forty or fifty meters, arquebuses and flintlock pistols fired together, and after three rounds of shooting, hundreds of people were piled down on the spot, and their spirits were suddenly lifted!
Their only thought was to fight one by one before the Taiping army outflanked them, so they rushed away with bayonets in their hands!
The white-knuckle battle is extremely tragic, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, often the joy of stabbing the enemy has not yet dissipated, and he is shot in the back!
The Qing army and the knife will fight a mess, the corpses are stacked layer by layer, and the blood is also flowing all over the ground, Liu Lichuan was stunned, this is not the result he wanted, his calculation is to drive the Qing army to attack the Taiping army's position, after the Taiping army is disorganized, lead the Xiaodao people to kill the concession, burn and loot, and immediately follow back to Fujian, Guangdong and other areas where the Qing court rule is relatively weak.
It's just that the reality is extremely cruel, the Qing army can't rush over, and they turn around and fight with themselves, and they are brave!
Seeing a soldier fall in a pool of blood, Liu Lichuan's heart is also dripping blood, every time one more person dies, it means that he loses one more point of strength, but the Taiping Army did not move, and put on a posture of standing by!
"Fuck! We ventured out of the city to help the Taiping Army kill the Qing Demon, he was good, rolled up his sleeves and looked at the excitement, I said that the Taiping Army was unreliable, if this is the case, we have no relatives with him, why did he run to the rescue? There must be no intentions! No, the fox's tail is exposed, right? At this time, Lin Afu's face was full of resentment and cursed non-stop!
Chen Alin frowned and hesitated: "Maybe we shouldn't go out of the city, the Taiping army is fully capable of suppressing this Qing army, as soon as we come, the situation will become chaotic, how do you say the Taiping army should respond?" Shooting with a gun from a distance, will he beat our brothers, rush forward to fight hand-to-hand, and now the battlefield is red-eyed, and he is idle and has nothing to do to send his warriors to death in vain? ”
"Chen Alin, are you still speaking for the Taiping Army?" Suddenly, Lin Afu said solemnly: "If you hadn't brought someone to Shanghai a few years earlier, I would have thought you were a spy of the Taiping Army!" ”
"The surname is Lin, you have the courage to say it again!" This is Chiguoguo's slander, Chen Alin couldn't help but be angry, and took a step forward without showing weakness.
Liu Lichuan had already seen that Chen Alin and Zhou Xiuying were not of the same mind as himself, and he also had the intention of secretly designing to get rid of them once he broke out of the encirclement, but now he had to say two fair words, so as not to split first.
"Alin, don't be excited!" Liu Lichuan waved his hand: "Ah Fu also saw that we died so many brothers before he didn't choose to speak, you don't have to worry about him, between our brothers, we know each other with all sincerity, I don't believe who else can you trust?" ”
Zhou Xiuying also nodded and said: "Okay, don't quarrel, no one wants to have an accident, but the accident just came, can the quarrel kill the Qing army?" Come, don't stand, let's go up too, kill one by one! ”
After speaking, Zhou Xiuying rushed into the battlefield like a whirlwind with a big knife, her kung fu was like a man, hard chopping and slashing, tiger and tiger, in the blink of an eye, there were already six or seven Qing soldiers who did her sword soul!
Even if it was Liu Lichuan, he couldn't help but praise: "It is said that the Qingpu Zhou family is famous for its knife skills, and today I can see Xiuying's knife skills, and it really deserves its reputation, I am afraid that Su Sanniang of the Taiping Army is no different, how can our eldest man let a woman be beautiful?" Come on, all on! ”
In addition to Liu Lichuan, the leaders of the Little Knife Club also picked up knives, guns and sticks to join the fight.
Although the Qing soldiers were desperate, they obviously suffered a small loss in hand-to-hand combat, and it didn't take long for the defeat to appear, Hong Xuanjiao couldn't help but say: "Wang Feng, I'm afraid that the Qing army will be wiped out, should we rescue some of them?" ”
"Hey~~" Wang Feng sighed, shook his head and said, "What's the use of saving it?" This Qing army has already developed hatred for us, Sister Xuanjiao, haven't you seen their powerful combat power burst out? Surprised, right? This is the expression of hatred, save it, it will only be a time bomb, the human heart is always the most elusive, and the hatred is the most difficult to extinguish, it's not just that we treat him well, do you know when he will take revenge on you? Let it go, it will spread hatred for us again, and the matter has come to this point, so we can only let it go! ”
The soldiers around him have shown unbearable color, Wang Feng's soldiers are almost all from the Qing army, the tragic death of this Qing army makes them have a sense of sadness to avoid death, according to the predetermined plan, is to surrender the four thousand Qing army, which will make the number of the whole army exceed 10,000, if the knife will be incorporated again, that is 20,000 horses, placed in the sequence of the Taiping army, it is also a force that cannot be ignored, not to mention that the equipment and Su zhì on their side are generally stronger than the king's descendant troops.
In the Taiping Army, the Qing army's pawns were called stubborn sons, who had no status, and could only rely on their own strength to gain status, and this qiē had been completely destroyed by the reckless attack of the Little Knife Society.
However, the soldiers also understood that Wang Feng's decision not to save them was really helpless, and it was better to let them die than to get some people who hated and hostile to them around.
Everyone understands the truth, but it's uncomfortable to see it!
"Huh!" Lu Dayou sighed heavily, his face full of unwillingness!
Wang Feng had a blank face, and said in a tone without human feelings: "Lu Dayou, I understand your feelings, and I don't feel good in my heart, but we are soldiers, we must be iron-blooded and ruthless on the battlefield, we must learn to give up, and even when necessary, we will not hesitate to sacrifice ourselves for victory!"
In the future, we will fight against the Qing army for a long time, and today's incident may still occur, if you are the commander of the army, if the same situation happens, any of your women's kindness will bring disaster to the soldiers!
Taking a step back, can you expect the Qing army to surrender without a fight every time? The Qing court should have realized the corruption of the green battalion, and soon a new army would be formed to fight with us, and at that time, it would be a hard battle, and we were too smooth during this time, and even the foreigners suffered a big loss, but in fact, smooth sailing is not a good thing, and today's reckless attack of the knife club and the desperate resistance of the Qing army sounded the alarm for us!
At all times, we must be worried, and we must be vigilant enough in the face of unknown forces! You can't compare your heart with your own subjective consciousness, and people's hearts are the most unpredictable! ”