Admiral Yu Wanqing was apprehensive about the Han army, and objected: "I think it is still a strong wall, continue to besiege the first, Nanjing City lacks food and wages, and it will definitely not attack itself, and then our army will take the opportunity to recover Nanjing, wouldn't it be safe." ”

Jill Ahang pointed at him and scolded: "You abandoned Houxiang and abandoned the city and fled first, causing me to lose Zhenjiang later, if it weren't for Lord Qincha's magnanimity, I would have impeached you for being greedy for life and afraid of death." ”

Yu Wanqing also felt that he was guilty, although Xiang Rong saw that half of the food and salary in the Jiangnan camp were provided by him, and he did not punish him.

Xiang Rong felt that he couldn't let them talk anymore, and said: "The emperor has issued an order to let us recover Nanjing, this time the holy decree is unprecedentedly harsh, this time we can't be fooled, so we will attack Zhenjiang according to what the governor said, if we can conquer Zhenjiang, we will have an explanation to the emperor." ”

Xiang Rong thought for a moment and ordered: "Gilhang'a led an army of 10,000 green battalion soldiers to attack Zhenjiang, and Admiral Yu Wanqing sat in the high-level battalion as a follow-up response, and Hechun led the troops to attack Wuhu to block the Anhui anti-thieves from going south, and the rest of the people guarded their respective camps, and they should not be slack." ”

"Obedience"

On June 1, Zhenjiang Ling 18 received an order from Nanjing to attack the Jiangnan battalion, leaving only 2,000 men for Chen Chengying to defend the city, and the remaining 8,000 plus 200 musketeers supported by Nanjing attacked Gaozi Town in the west of the city.

Ji Ahang didn't expect that as soon as he arrived at Gaozi Town, the Han army surrounded Gaozi, but the main force that planned to attack the city was still in Longtan, and Gaozi Town only had 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Ling 18 and others observed the reality of the Qing army on the high ground outside the town.

Bai Yinwu said: "It's better to lead the foreign spear team to open the passage into the town for the army." ”

Why did His Highness send a group of baby soldiers over, could it be to monitor the Fifth Army, but they couldn't be on a business trip, Lin Shaozhang said with a smile: "Battalion Commander Bai, you just came to Zhenjiang from Nanjing, let's take a rest first, our Fifth Army has been holding back in Zhenjiang for two months, just waiting for today." ”

I don't know that Li Yunzhong was very nervous about the foreign gun team, and selected many people in the first, third, and even fourth armies to contact foreign guns to fire, but not many people can master foreign guns, either they can't hit the target, or they move too slowly, and they accidentally found that the boy scouts around them can get started quickly, and they immediately trained 500 people led by Chen Yucheng, Huang Jinwen, Bai Yinwu, and Tan Shaoguang.

Ling Eighteen also thought that the two hundred foreign spear team would not play much role in the fight of tens of thousands of people, and pointed to the camp north of Gaozi Town and said to Lin Shaozhang: "You send 1,000 people to attack the least camp of the Qing army first, and see how the Qing demon reacts." ”

Lin Shaozhang chose the head of the regiment, Huang Bo, as the pioneer, and he personally led 500 people to respond to it.

Huang Bo looked at the 500 soldiers under his command and said loudly: "Brothers, we lost the battle in Changzhou a few days ago, and the military commander did not punish us. ”

"Kill ......" Huang Bo shouted at the camp 300 meters in front of him, and rushed up with the team.

The camp guard here is a thousand generals, there are only more than 800 people under his command, seeing the fierce thief army, he hurriedly shouted his subordinates to step forward to meet the enemy, in an instant, the sword light and sword shadow, Huang Bo has rushed to the front line at this time, and the Qing army is desperately fighting for the gate of the village, only to feel that the Qing army seems to be inexhaustible, one person fell, and made up for one, Huang Bo was also ruthless, no longer care about the guards behind him, straight to open the way with double knives, step by step to the village to kill.

Lin Shaozhang saw that the vanguard had already entered the village, and the Qing army defending the village had all been mobilized, so he immediately led the remaining 500 people to go around the flank and storm it, and suddenly broke into the village.

The Qing army was attacked on both sides and scrambled to flee, Lin Shaozhang joined Huang Bo and followed closely behind, and entered the town of Gaozi, Gilhanga did not expect the camp outside the town to break and flee so quickly, and hurriedly sent 1,000 people to intercept it.

Bai Yinwu was young and vigorous, seeing that the Fifth Army looked down on the foreign spear team, he snorted angrily and led people to the flank of Gaozi Town, wanting to attack alone, he told his subordinates about his thoughts, and these young men who were not afraid of heaven and earth all said that they wanted to do a good job and let the Fifth Army see.

After waiting for a long time, seeing that Gaozi Town was finally in chaos, Bai Yinwu sent people to greet Ling Eighteen, and ordered foreign guns to line up and attack the flank, the defenders were caught off guard, and saw a group of people with fire commands attacking them, and they actually fled. Bai Yinwu didn't expect to attack the town after only a few shots, and he didn't hesitate, and went straight to the Zhaimen and Lin Shaozhang to attack back and forth.

Ling 18 heard that the foreign spear team attacked without authorization, and he was afraid that they would not be able to explain to Li Yunzhong if they made a mistake, and he thought that there were only three or four thousand people in the village, so he ordered the army to attack on all fronts.

The Qing army in the town was in chaos, many people fled from the team, and Jill Ahang personally supervised the battle in the rear, shouting: "Resist...... Resist. ”

"My lord, it's not good, there are anti-thieves coming over in the back, let's retreat first." His own soldiers stepped forward to grab Jir Ahang and persuaded him to retreat to the camp behind him and continue to hold on.

Gil Ahang said angrily: "As soon as the town gate is lost, more than 20 camps of our army will lose contact with each other, and they will inevitably be broken by the anti-thieves one by one, and the anti-thieves must be blocked in ......." ”

I only felt a pain in my chest, Jir Ahang reached out and touched it, his hands were full of blood, and he fell down unwillingly, and the surrounding Qing troops saw this situation, and shouted while running: "The governor is dead, and the camp is broken......

The Qing army in the town did not understand the situation, and when they saw the rout in front shouting 'The Lord is dead', they all panicked, and the rout did not care about them, and continued to run backwards, finally causing the whole battalion to disperse.

Ling 18 was very satisfied with the first battle of Gaozi Town, and his own casualties were only 100 people, and he defeated more than 20 Qing army camps, captured nearly 2,000 people, killed more than 500 people, and only a few hundred escaped.

After cleaning up the battlefield, Bai Yinwu's foreign spear team came to Ling Eighteen, looking at these excited teenagers, Ling Eighteen couldn't help but be impressed by them, two hundred people dared to attack the Qing army camp, which not many people in his Fifth Army dared to do such a thing.

"Breaking the high-level town is considered a contribution to your foreign gun team, do you dare to fight again." Ling Eighteen Dao, he also thoroughly understood the power of the foreign spear team.

Bai Yinwu was provoked by this, and said loudly: "Why don't you dare, I just hope that the Qing Demon will not be as vulnerable as just now." ”

Ling Shibai said with a smile: "Okay, I plan to continue to attack the Qing army in the area of Qiaotou Town, open the passage back to Nanjing, I will let your foreign gun team be the vanguard, our whole army is behind, as long as you attack the Qing army camp, the rest will be handed over to us." ”

Yu Wanqing received that Gilhanga was killed in battle, and Gao Zi fell, like a thunderbolt from the sky. There were more than 3,000 people stationed in Gaozi Town, but it fell under the first wave of anti-thieves, and the governor was killed in battle, and less than 200 people escaped. He hesitated in his heart whether to retreat to the Longtan camp in the rear, and was afraid of Xiang Rong's punishment, so he decided to hold on first and then retreat.

The Fifth Army rushed to the Qing army camp at Qiaotou without stopping, and Ling 18 did not give the Qing army time to prepare, and immediately ordered the army to follow the foreign gun team and slowly approach the Qing army camp.

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