Li Chendian held a long knife in his hand, looked at the Taiping army lined up fifty meters in front of him, and reminded loudly: "Everyone pay attention! This guy is really unusual! ”

A Hunan army sentry couldn't stand this solemn atmosphere, and an enemy soldier in front of him was still vulnerable, and shouted: "Long hair suffers death!" ”

After speaking, the sentry officer in his twenties led his brothers to rush to the Taiping army formation.

Liu Songshan was shocked, and hurriedly shouted to his nephew: "Along the river! Come back! These are all Guangxi pawns! ”

"Kill the demons!" The Taiping army shouted in unison, facing the Hunan army, poor Liu Yanjiang just killed three people, they were divided by the blade, more than 100 brothers under his hands only did not form a formation, they fought separately, they were besieged by dozens of times the force, only held on for a few breaths, and the whole army was annihilated.

Seeing his nephew die in battle, Liu Songshan was stunned and angry, and couldn't help shouting: "Kill!" ”

Li Chendian saw that many of his subordinates showed fear, and sighed secretly, if they formed a formation to defend themselves, I am afraid that if they could not support the arrival of reinforcements, some people would collapse, and he didn't have time to think about it, so he also ordered loudly:

"Kill!"

The Taiping army has less than 2,000 people, and the Hunan army of nearly 3,000 people are on par, there is no step back, within a radius of a few hundred meters, thousands of people are fighting desperately together, the Hunan army did not expect this group of long hair to be so able to fight, more fierce than expected, many people are afraid, hiding behind, just waving the flag and shouting cheers, although the killing sound is shocking, but it still gradually falls into the downwind, and more than half of the people who fall to the ground are Hunan soldiers.

"Musketeers! Musketeers! Feeling a burst of retreating soldiers, Li Chendian was in a hurry, slashing and slashing, while shouting to the left and right.

Li Minghui heard his uncle's shout, pulled back, and only gathered more than a hundred gunmen. led them to the flank, but the battlefield where the enemy and the enemy were staggered was easy to hurt their own people, and with a whim, he used his native dialect to make the Hunan army in front retreat to both sides, looking at the long hair that wanted to pursue, Li Minghui loudly ordered to shoot.

"Bang bang!"

"Bang bang!"

After only two rounds, the Taiping army suffered nearly 100 casualties, and the Hunan army took advantage of the situation to press, and the Taiping army finally fell into disadvantage and was divided and surrounded in two places. You can only retreat and defend yourself.

Looking at the bloody ground like the Shura field below, Ji Wenyuan was shocked and frightened, he hoped to defeat the Hunan army in one fell swoop like the previous two times, but he didn't expect his most elite men and horses. Instead, they were divided and surrounded by the Hunan army, and watched them fall one by one. Ordered his men to respond. was frightened back by a burst of gunshots, Ji Wenyuan was completely lost, and he didn't know what to do.

Yang Fuqing persuaded: "It's better to give up the front army, give those camps to the Hunan army, and let's concentrate our forces to fight a decisive battle with them on the mountainside!" ”

Hearing this, Ji Wenyuan immediately nodded, and loudly ordered the soldiers below the mountain to retreat.

"My lord! The long hair is gone! Liu Songshan has a mixture of joy and sorrow. Most of his battalion suffered casualties, and these brothers were either his sons and nephews, or relatives and friends.

Li Chendian didn't answer, and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and count the numbers." What are the casualties of our army? ”

Liu Songshan replied first: "The front battalion suffered 312 casualties, and 245 capable fighters!" ”

The commander of the right battalion replied loudly: "The right battalion has 243 casualties, and 321 are capable of fighting!" ”

"The left battalion suffered 256 casualties, 233 capable fighters, and the sentry officers suffered all casualties, and no one survived! There are eighteen more officers! ”

"There were 156 casualties in the rear battalion, and 378 people were able to fight!"

Zhu Xinkan, the commander of the middle battalion, replied after the most recklessness: "There are 333 casualties in the middle battalion, and 134 people are capable of fighting!" There is only one sentry left, and there are only five officers! ”

Li Chendian secretly calculated for a moment, but he was still stunned in his heart, and only replied after a while: "There are more than 1,300 people left who can fight, and most of the casualties?" ”

Liu Jintang comforted: "Brother Li don't be surprised, we have annihilated nearly 2,000 Guangxi veterans, this is a great victory!" The handsome man knows the way, and there is no reason to be surprised, haha I didn't expect Long Hair to be so unbearable, if Lord Xianfeng knew about it, Brother Li would at least be promoted to a political envoy, and even the governor would be just around the corner! ”

Li Chendian didn't care about this, he was still nervous in his heart, all he brought was the elite of the Jizi Battalion, Zeng Guoquan's baby bump, there were so many casualties in this battle, I don't know how he, a grumpy old commander, would react.

Liu Songshan saw the crowd in the rear, and stepped forward to remind Li Chendian: "My lord, Lord Bao, they are here!" ”

"I know it!" Li Chendian cheered up, greeted Bao Chao and others, bowed down and said: "Thank you to Lord Hongfu, I am fortunate to be humiliated!" ”

Bao Chao picked up Li Chendian and praised: "Sure enough, he is worthy of Lao Jiu's favorite general, this battle is well fought!" After this battle, Long Hair will inevitably lose his courage, and Zunyi Mansion is at his fingertips! ”

Li Chendian sighed: "The brothers still have too many casualties, I didn't expect the long-haired Guangxi veteran to be so brave, and he fought to the last one, and none of them surrendered, I'm afraid that this time I will be punished by the ninth master!" ”

Bao Chao didn't think so, only thought that this was Li Chendian's self-humility, and said with a smile: "If Lao Jiu is to blame, I will say that you will be the first credit for capturing Zunyi Mansion!" ”

"Thank you, sir!" Li Chendian was relieved.

Liu Jintang stepped forward and asked, "Will our army continue to attack?" Willing to take the lead! ”

Bao Chao shook his hand, took out a battle report from his arms, and said with a smile: "Just now the left and right armies came to report, they have surrounded Zunyi from the east and south, how dare they continue to defend the city after this battle, this official expects that they will retreat overnight, everyone will rest for a while, let's intercept halfway, kill him without leaving a piece of armor!" ”

"Your Excellency is wise!" Liu Jintang, Li Chendian, Jiang Zhongjun and others complimented in unison, and commanded their men and horses to set up camp.

As expected, Ji Wenyuan heard that the Hunan army had two troops and horses surrounding Zunyi Mansion, and immediately had the idea of abandoning the city and leaving, secretly thinking that a Hunan army would be so difficult to fight, even if all his subordinates were gathered together, they would not be able to eat the men and horses under the mountain, let alone three.

"Now the situation is critical, the Qing Demon is besieging on three sides, and it can withstand one way, but it can't block the remaining two roads, let's break through the siege, what do you think, Brother Yang?" After all, Ji Wenyuan was afraid of Yang Fuqing's prestige in the army, and he had to ask for his opinion.

Yang Fuqing persuaded: "Zunyi is an important town in Guizhou, if the Qing demon gains a firm foothold in Zunyi, the local gentry and toast will inevitably respond to the wind, and we will become lost dogs, I still think that we should stick to Zunyi and wait for the reinforcements of the Huang brothers!" ”

Ji Wenyuan secretly smiled bitterly, if Huang Weijiang was besieged, he would not send troops to rescue him.

When he captured Guizhou, because of the dispute between the leaders, he and Huang Weijiang parted ways, although they did not openly oppose each other, but they did not communicate with each other.

Huang Weijiang drove the Han envoy out of Guiyang, and he also put the Han envoy under house arrest in Zunyi Mansion, which was in line with the idea of dominating Guizhou rather than the head of the chicken rather than the phoenix tail, who knew that in less than half a year, he was drunk head-on, and the Han army actually captured Beijing, and all battlefields were steadily gaining the upper hand, and the trend of unifying the whole country was becoming more and more obvious.

Yang Fuqing saw that Ji Wenyuan's face showed a strange smile, inexplicable, reflected on what he said, and continued: "Now that the Hunan army is desperately attacking Guizhou, it is not without the intention of using Guizhou as the rear to resist the Han army. ”

Ji Wenyuan shook his head slowly, and said bluntly: "When we were in Bauhinia Mountain, a few of us arrested and killed His Royal Highness the King of Han, the first time he besieged Changsha, the East King Palace offended His Royal Highness the King of Han again, and then the brothers captured Guizhou, and we all accepted the canonization of the King of Han, but we have no eyes, seeing that the King of Han and the Qing Demon won a decisive victory in the Central Plains, the outcome is unpredictable, and the Governor Hu was placed under house arrest, hehe...... Do you say that His Royal Highness the King of Han will forgive us! ”

Yang Fuqing said secretly: It's not that you and Huang Weijiang are distracted, no one controls it, the ambition has swelled so fast, and it is impossible to dominate Guizhou, but it has offended the Han State, otherwise the Hunan army will attack, and the Han State will already send troops to contain it, how can there be a dilemma now.

Ji Wenyuan saw that Yang Fuqing was silent, only when he had been persuaded by himself, he reluctantly smiled and said: "Since the brothers are no longer opposed, inform the brothers in the city, let's retreat overnight, let's go to Sinan Mansion to wait and see, if Brother Huang sends troops, we will attack on both sides, if that guy doesn't care about our life or death, hehe!" Then don't blame me for being ruthless! Guiyang was beaten down by me, why let him sit back and enjoy it! (To be continued......)