The Taiping Army's breakout operation was first initiated by the firearms battalion.

A round of artillery bombardment by the firearms battalion unexpectedly smashed the foreign devils and a lot of their equipment, and also beat the anger of the foreign devils.

Bush, the supreme commander of the foreign army, shouted angrily, he thought, he has not even made a move, but these Chinese have started to do it first, which is really unreasonable. Moreover, he believes that this Chinese is too unreasonable, he can go to war without declaring it, and the offensive means used are still sneak attacks.

Therefore, he must teach these Chinese a good lesson, at least let them know that offending the foreign army is the most wrong thing they have ever done.

As soon as the Taiping artillery fire stopped, Bush ordered the artillery team to return fire, and the target was the direction of the Taiping firearms battalion.

These cannons of the foreigners not only have a long range, but also have an absolutely low error rate.

In the end, nine out of ten of the shells fired by the foreign devils in this round of shelling were accurately dumped on the positions of the Taiping army, causing heavy losses to the firearms battalion.

Now that we have seen the power of Western firearms, let's talk about Bush, a foreign general.

Bush, an American, has been in the military for generations, and his family is well-known in the entire United States of America, and Bush is a veritable son of a family.

The illustrious family background did not make him develop a compassionate heart, but made him full of desire for blood. Since he was appointed commander of the Eight-Nation Alliance, he has been in a lot of blood debts on the land of China, and many Chinese have hated this murderous and unblinking demon.

Bush looked at the position of the Taiping Army's firearms battalion, which had been bombarded into a sea of fire, and couldn't help but let out a very relieved strange laugh, and then, with the command knife in his hand, Patton led a group of infantry with foreign guns out of the brigade, and then lined up to kill the Taiping Army's firearms battalion.

This stinky foreigner is also a soldier, and he did not attack with the whole army, but only divided Patton to lead a team of men and horses to attack the firearms battalion, and the others remained in place to prevent the Taiping army from taking the opportunity to break through.

This back and forth fully confirmed Huang Xu's idea, but what made him feel a little uncomfortable was that the foreigners did not attack the firearms battalion with the whole army, and a considerable part of the troops and artillery detachments remained in place, especially those ironclad vehicles, which were guarded on all sides like wild beasts, strictly guarding the only way for the Taiping army to retreat.

Huang Xu saw this qiē in his eyes, and he was also thinking about the confrontation between the two sides, although the current situation was not as good as expected, but after all, he still divided part of the foreigners' forces, which would still help them break through the encirclement.

After a little hesitation, Huang Xu waved his hand and resolutely gave the order to attack, so the Taiping army killed the foreigners according to the prior arrangement.

The drums were beating, the iron hooves were flying, and the two wings of the Taiping army were like a torrent, taking the first step to kill the foreigners.

"Hah, ha...... Well done!" Bush, whose eyes were red, couldn't help but shout when he saw the Taiping Army's iron cavalry coming.

He stared at the Taiping army rushing with great excitement, and he almost jumped up with joy, he had not experienced such a big scene for a long time, and his blood began to boil slowly.

Looking at the swarming iron cavalry of the Taiping Army, Bush pointed forward with his command knife again, and six of the ten ironclad vehicles were divided into two roads, and they respectively met the two iron cavalry of the Taiping Army, and behind the ironclad vehicles were foreign generals with loaded guns and ammunition.

The light cavalry of the Taiping army ran faster and faster, and gradually entered the range of the foreigners.

Suddenly I heard a bang, and the turret in front of the ironclad car was full of smoke, and then the Taiping army immediately turned over on their backs, screaming miserably, and the cavalry of the Taiping army was blown apart by artillery fire.

Immediately after, one after another banging gunshots rang out, and the foreigners' foreign guns also opened fire at the same time.

Foreign guns with foreign cannons have a huge lethality to the Taiping army.

The Taiping army was not intimidated by this might, but rushed even more urgently.

Bush saw that his opponent was not knocked down by a blow, and he laughed instead of being angry, he felt a little interesting, if the opponent was too weak, he would feel bored, and now that the opponent was stronger than he originally estimated, he felt full of strength.

Looking at the iron cavalry that was constantly galloping, Bush laughed gloomily a few times, and then the command knife in his hand moved forward again, and the foreign infantry who were attacking in front immediately retreated in an orderly manner.

They retreated behind the artillery and re-lined themselves.

It seems that the foreigners are going to attack with artillery.

Sure enough, after the foreigners' infantry retreated, the artillery was ready, and as the flag was raised, the raindrops of cannonballs were mercilessly smashed into the middle of the cavalry of the Taiping army.

The losses of the Taiping army this time were greater than the previous one.

However, the artillery fire still did not frighten the brave and fearless Taiping army, they still went forward to follow-up, and rushed to the foreigners without hesitation.

Huang Xu held the binoculars and carefully observed the shape on the battlefield, he looked calm, but he didn't know, but his heart had already turned up a huge wave.

He originally estimated that there would be some gaps between the Taiping army and the foreigners, after all, the weapons used by the two sides were not at the same grade at all, but who knew that as soon as he fought, he knew that the gap between the two sides was so big, and the flesh and blood of the Taiping army were like paper paste in front of the foreigners' foreign guns and cannons.

If this continues, not only will it become a luxury to break through the siege, but if it is not good, the Taiping Army's old capital will be lost here, which is Huang Xu, and it is also a burden that Heaven cannot bear.

As the commander of the Taiping Army, Huang Xu must and has the responsibility to come up with a way to crack it.

"Mr. Zhao, let the hoplites and other arms suspend the attack, where is the special operations detachment now?" Huang Xu thought about it and said to Zhao Xiaofeng, who was accompanying him.

"Don't worry, Master Pony, without your order, no one will move, as for the special operations detachment, according to the characteristics of their march, they should have been interspersed behind the foreigners, and they may be waiting for the opportunity to give the foreigners a fatal blow." Zhao Xiaofeng guessed in his heart what Huang Xu meant when he asked him, and said softly.

"I hope so, if we can't get rid of the enemy's artillery and those ironclad vehicles, I'm afraid it will become an empty phrase to break through, and the army is in danger." Huang Xu's tone was low and authentic.

His heart was heavy.

"Do you want to let the two light riders withdraw first?" Zhao Xiaofeng asked tentatively.

The light cavalry of the Taiping Army charged like this, which was no different from sending them to death, and it was not cost-effective to make such a senseless sacrifice, and it was also what Zhao Xiaofeng did not want to see.

"Okay, then Mr. Lao will give the order to let the two light cavalry retreat beyond the enemy's range and wait for the opportunity." Huang Xu also knew that he couldn't go on like this, he nodded and said to Zhao Xiaofeng.

When Zhao Xiaofeng saw Huang Xu nodding, he immediately ordered someone to blow the horn of retreat and ordered the light cavalry to retreat.

The light cavalry, who had suffered heavy casualties and was in a dilemma, heard the order to retreat and did not want to retreat, but the order was like a mountain, and they could only look in the direction of the foreigners' positions unwillingly, and then turned their horses' heads and retreated backwards.

Seeing that the cavalry of the Taiping Army had retreated, the foreigners' foreign spear team wanted to go forward in pursuit, but Bush waved his hand to restrain their impulse to pursue and ordered everyone to stay put.

Bush's ability to become the commander of the Eight-Nation Coalition Forces in China is not in vain, and he is indeed extremely incapable of military ability.

Bush is very clear about his bottom line. The main task of the foreign army at this stage is to hold the choke point of the retreat of the Taiping army, not to launch an active attack on the Taiping army, if it is launched. He needs to wait for the best opportunity to attack, and the best opportunity to attack in his heart is to attack the Taiping Army on both sides, which requires the foreign spear team led by Marshall to cooperate with him, so he can only wait. Wait for Marshall to arrive with his army.

Whoever said that foreign devils are pig brains, this Bush is very smart.

Huang Xu and Zhao Xiaofeng were relieved to see that the light cavalry had withdrawn to a safe area, but the news they got later almost made Huang Xu squirt out of his mouth directly.

In less than half an hour, the light cavalry of the Taiping army was damaged by more than a quarter, which was a huge loss that Huang Xu had never encountered since he left the army.

Huang Xu's heart ached.

"Master Pony, before the special combat team succeeds, it's better for us not to attack again." Zhao Xiaofeng was also very sad in his heart, and he euphemistically said.

"Hmm." Of course Huang Xu understands this principle.

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