Chapter 619: The Anglo-Indian Forces Withdraw

In the subsequent offensive process, Huang Xu and the generals discussed many methods.

For example, attacking by digging tunnels is a good strategy, and if it can be successfully implemented, it will definitely achieve good results, but the tunnels are only halfway dug before they are discovered by the British and Indian troops, and thousands of Taiping soldiers have been killed in vain.

For example, the Taiping Army directly used its super artillery attack capability to carry out indiscriminate and saturated attacks on the Anglo-Indian Allied Army's station, but the British and Indian Army had long been prepared for this, and they built a large number of bunkers in the garrison to deal with the artillery attack.

Under such an attack and defense, the Taiping army's attack is still no better, Huang Xu can't help but be a little angry, just imagine, straight to him came to this era, he has experienced no less than hundreds of battles, and he has encountered a lot of fortified cities, but in the end, they are all attacked, but now, his million army is blocked in such a small place, it is really unreasonable.

However, he really didn't believe that he couldn't take this place.

Therefore, Huang Xu gave a death order to the army, if he can come up with a good way, then use a good way, if he can't think of a good way, he will attack directly, and attack without interruption until he captures the enemy's station, in any case, they must capture the British and Indian army's station in a short time.

Huang Xu didn't believe it, the Anglo-Indian army could use more energy than the powerful Taiping army.

And Huang Xu was angry, and the generals were shocked and asked to fight to the death, and then, the Taiping army, under the command of Zeng Guofan, took turns to attack the British and Indian army garrisons.

In the face of the non-stop attacks of the Taiping army, the Anglo-Indian garrison was finally breached. But. When the Taiping army entered the city, they found that the main force of the British and Indian army had withdrawn in advance.

It turned out that in the last attack of the Taiping army, Montgomery I only left 50,000 Indian troops to defend the city, and before that, he had led the main army to withdraw from the garrison. and retreated towards the base camp of New Delhi.

This qiē was all planned, Montgomery calculated how many times he could withstand the Taiping army's attacks, and after that, they retreated directly, of course, this retreat was hidden.

Therefore, after withstanding the most powerful waves of attacks of the Taiping army, they took the opportunity to retreat the main force, of course. They also left behind 50,000 men in order to create the illusion of all-out resistance from the British and Indian armies, so as to create more time for the retreat of the main Anglo-Indian army.

In other words, the Taiping army only annihilated 50,000 Indian troops in this battle, and they paid a lot of price, which seems to be a bit more than worth the loss.

And Huang Xu was even more furious when he got the report, and the British and Indian troops dared to play them. Then there will be a price.

He expected that the British and Indian troops should not have gone far at this time, so he immediately ordered the Taiping army to ride out with light and heavy horses. A total of 50,000 light cavalry and 50,000 heavy cavalry were dispatched to pursue the British and Indian troops, and it was necessary to catch up with the British and Indian troops and deal a fatal blow.

Of course, being played by the British and Indian troops was not only Huang Xu angry. The generals were also angry, and they all asked for battle, asking to lead the army to pursue the British and Indian troops.

After discussing with the generals, Huang Xu finally decided to send Dongfang Bufu to lead the light cavalry. And he personally led the heavy cavalry to pursue.

And with such an arrangement, it seems that Huang Xu is really angry.

When the generals heard that Huang Xu was going to pursue the enemy in person, they were all surprised, and they thought that how could Huang Xu, as the emperor, do such a risky thing, of course not, so they all implored Huang Xu to consider it and send someone else to go instead.

However, Huang Xu was already determined to go.

Therefore, everyone had no choice but to let him act, but, for the sake of insurance, it was finally agreed that Zeng Guo's vassal relatives would lead a large army to respond from behind.

And after the agreement was agreed, Dongfang was not confused and led the light cavalry to go out first, and Huang Xu then led the heavy cavalry to advance.

The iron hooves are rolling, and people's hearts are like arrows.

Dongfang Bufu led the light cavalry, like a storm, and pursued the direction of the British and Indian troops fleeing at great speed.

The speed of the light cavalry was very fast, and they ran out of dozens of miles in the blink of an eye, according to their speed, even if the British and Indian troops retreated quickly, I am afraid that it would not be long before the British and Indian troops would still be caught up by the East.

After Dongfang Bufu set off with his light horse, he had already made up his mind that if he caught up with the British and Indian troops this time, he would definitely kill them, in addition to relieving the anger in his heart, but also to avoid future troubles and prevent the recurrence of other branches.

Therefore, Dongfang was not confused, but only led the light cavalry to chase wildly.

And just as he was chasing with great strength, suddenly an army rushed out in front of him and blocked his way.

Look at the costume, watch the movement, it's the cavalry!

The British cavalry, the last of the 30,000 British cavalry.

Here they intercepted the light cavalry led by Dongfang Bufu.

And how could these British horses be here at this time?

It turned out that they were the broken army left by Montgomery, and the main purpose of Montgomery I leaving them was to delay the advance of the Taiping army and buy time for Montgomery I and others to retreat.

To put it bluntly, they are here to die.

And with 10,000 elite British cavalry to drag the pursuers of the Taiping Army, Montgomery can really make a cost, but this is also where Montgomery is ruthless, he knows in his heart that under the current situation, the only thing that can win them a little more time is only these 10,000 British cavalry, no way, for the sake of the overall situation, it can only sacrifice them.

And since it is a dish sent to the door, of course Dongfang Bufu will not refuse, but he has also heard of the combat effectiveness of the British cavalry, Zeng San has suffered a big loss under them, and 10,000 British cavalry has almost exchanged for more than 40,000 Taiping light cavalry.

Therefore, Dongfang is not confused and does not dare to make a mistake, he has to have a chance of winning before attacking.

And the odds of victory in Dongfang's heart are the heavy cavalry of the Taiping army.

Perhaps the only one who could deal with the British cavalry was the Taiping army's heavy cavalry, but the speed of the heavy cavalry was relatively slow, and it was difficult to keep up with the pace of the light cavalry, so the heavy cavalry was still a long distance away from the place where the light cavalry and the British cavalry confronted each other, and if they waited for the heavy cavalry to come, I am afraid that the time would pass, and they would lose the opportunity to catch up with Montgomery and others.

But the East is not confused and unwilling to sacrifice the lives of so many Taiping light cavalry in vain, the war has reached this point, the Taiping army no longer needs to have a lot of fear of the British and Indian army as it did at the beginning of the war, and after this confrontation, the Taiping army has gained the upper hand, and it is not worth blindly sacrificing the lives of too many soldiers.

Therefore, after careful consideration, Dongfang Bufu decided to give up chasing Montgomery and the others, and instead continued to confront the British cavalry until the heavy cavalry came. Anyway, this is not their last battle with the Anglo-Indian forces, and it is not a good thing to have some strength.

And the East is not confused, and the British cavalry is not moving, and the British cavalry originally had the intention of dragging, and now since the Taiping Army light cavalry takes the initiative to drag, they are willing to cooperate.

However, such a confrontation is not easy, and both sides are nervous, for fear that the other side will suddenly start attacking.

The confrontation between the two sides lasted for more than an hour, and when the British saw that their set goal had been achieved, their positions began to loosen, and it seemed that they were about to withdraw.

But Dongfang Bufu still didn't move, since he didn't move first, and now it has lost its meaning to move again, so Dongfang Bufu simply didn't move to the end, and let Ying ride away.

Seeing that Dongfang was not confused and had no intention of attacking, the British cavalry turned the rear team into the front team and prepared to retreat.

The British cavalry didn't expect that this time the blocking battle would be so successful and perfect, they had already done the preparation for a death battle, but they didn't think that the Taiping army did not attack, maybe they had some scruples.

However, it was good that they could finally retreat safely, and the British cavalry could be regarded as relieved.

However, just as they were about to retreat, the shape changed again.

Behind the light horsemen of the Taiping army, the sound of heavy horses' hooves rolled like thunder, and the earth shook incessantly.

Dongfang was not puzzled to see this, and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

He knew in his heart that the heavy cavalry of the Taiping army had finally arrived, and the heavy cavalry had arrived, which meant that the light cavalry he led was about to start attacking.

Dongfang Bufu's eyes showed a little ruthlessness, only to see his right hand raised high, and then with a fierce wave, the Taiping light cavalry behind him rushed towards the British cavalry who was about to retreat like a tiger on the mountain.

Dongfang is not confused to believe that this time, the British ride is over. (To be continued......)