The light cavalry of the Taiping Army, led by the "mad dog" Chen Yucheng, bravely pursued in the direction of the British army's escape.

If you calculate the time, it will not be long before they will catch up with the British army, as long as the thought of being able to slaughter the British army with impunity, Chen Yucheng's blood is boiling.

So, he led his army to chase forward for a while, and suddenly heard the sound of artillery, and then saw the commander of the forward battalion hurrying towards him, and then reported that he had encountered the British artillery, and was caught by surprise and suffered heavy losses.

When Chen Yucheng heard this, he was furious and asked what was going on.

The commander reported that their vanguard had suffered heavy losses due to the enemy's artillery fire in the course of the pursuit, and that the enemy's artillery fire was so heavy that the forward battalion had now stopped the pursuit and was waiting for Chen Yucheng's order.

Chen Yucheng was already on fire in his belly, and when he heard that the forward battalion had stopped pursuing, he was even more furious, and he loudly asked the commander of the forward battalion why he stopped the pursuit, and the commander of the forward battalion of course knew what kind of person Chen Yucheng was, and he did not dare to refute it, so he could only listen to the scolding resignedly.

And when Chen Yucheng scolded enough, the commander of the forward battalion asked again whether to continue to chase.

Although Chen Yucheng was crazy, he was not so crazy that he risked the lives of his soldiers, he ordered the army to suspend its movements, and then ordered the forward battalion to find a way to deal with the artillery in front of them in a short time.

The commander of the forward battalion was given the order and went to make arrangements.

At the same time, Chen Yucheng asked people to go to reconnoiter to see if there were other roads to detour, but the final result of the reconnoitration, there was a road in Huashan ahead, and there was no other way to go.

In other words, they had to get rid of the cannon in front of them, or they would have to stay here and not move.

This was obviously very bad for the Taiping army.

And Chen Yucheng got this information. He was even more anxious in his heart, and he kept sending people to urge the forward battalion, ordering it to immediately deal with those annoying cannons no matter what the price was, and if the forward battalion couldn't do it, he would go on it himself.

Since Chen Yucheng's words have come to this. What else can the forward battalion say, it can only take down these roadblocks at any cost and clear the way for the advance of the army.

Finally, after paying a heavy price in casualties, the forward battalion finally managed to get rid of the British artillery team, and the Taiping cavalry was able to continue to advance.

Along the way, the British set up many obstacles to prevent the Taiping cavalry from charging forward, and it was for this reason. Every time the Taiping army passed, it would waste a lot of time, but it would also kill a considerable number of British.

The light cavalry of the Taiping army ran all the way like this, killing all the way, almost all the way, killing all the way, and then they cleared up the obstacles set by the British, but. In the end, he failed to catch up with Montgomery I and Wallace.

So, where did Montgomery I and Wallace go?

And according to the detectives. Montgomery I and Wallace had returned safely to the Anglo-Indian garrison.

After Chen Yucheng heard the report, he simply had the urge to vomit blood, it was obvious that he was deceived by these two Brits, and in a fit of anger, he really wanted to devour these two Brits alive.

But. If he used the cavalry he led to attack the Anglo-Indian garrison, it would be a fool, although Chen Yucheng was angry, he would not recklessly go to such a tasteless thing.

Therefore, Chen Yucheng could only order the army to suspend its operations. and sent scouts to continue to inquire about the news.

At the same time, he reported the current situation to the East and awaited further instructions.

The price paid by Montgomery I and Wallace was enormous, except for their own personal guards, and all the English troops who followed them this time were finished.

It turned out that Wallace's original proposal to Montgomery was to sacrifice the lives of some 70,000 British troops in exchange for them to escape back to the garrison safely.

This building is indeed too bold, even a little cruel.

It takes courage to do so.

Eventually, however, they did, for a high-sounding reason.

However, having said that, these two Britons are indeed not simple, and not everyone who breaks their wrists does what they say and do, but they can, and they do it so absolutely, it is indeed admirable.

In short, they used the 70,000 British troops to set up layers of obstacles in the path of the Taiping light cavalry to slow down the advance of the Taiping light cavalry, thus buying time for them to escape.

In the end, they escaped along the way, while the British were all done.

That's why Wallace would say that they can only do so for the good of India as a whole.

Not a bad reason!

Shortly after Montgomery and Wallace fled back to their station, Ali Khan and Singh arrived, but they fled alone, and even the guards were defeated, and they were worse off than Montgomery.

And speaking of the defeat of the battle, almost the same as Montgomery, however, they are better than Montgomery's experience, counted, can also be regarded as twists and turns, they were first forced by Zuo Zongtang, helpless, they struggled to resist, had to leave one-third of the men and horses and escaped, and then encountered the attack of the Taiping army led by Zeng Sansuo, and lost one-third of the men and horses, and finally thought that they could take the last remaining third back to Dazhai, I never thought that I would be caught by the advance of the reserve army led by Huang Xu, and under the attack, the remaining men and horses of the Indian army were also lost.

If Ali Khan and Singh hadn't taken advantage of the chaos to run fast, I'm afraid they wouldn't have come back.

However, Zeng San led a heavy cavalry ambush, which makes sense, because they had already arranged to ambush the British and Indian troops, so as to atone the credit, but where did Huang Xu's reserve army come from, didn't he lead the army to lure the enemy there.

It turned out that after Huang Xu completed the lure of the enemy, he handed over the task of attacking to the eastern and western armies, and he himself led the reserve army to attack the garrison of the Anglo-Indian army, preparing to take the garrison and then join the other two armies.

Who would have expected that he had not yet rushed to the Anglo-Indian army station, the Anglo-Indian army had already been defeated, and he was just in time for the Indian army that was defeated by the Taiping army, so he took the opportunity to join in the fun, killing the remaining one-third of the Indian army, which can be regarded as a pleasure.

In addition, the 200,000 Indian troops who are still under siege naturally cannot escape the fate of being surrounded and annihilated.

In this battle, the Anglo-Indian army suffered heavy losses, including the dead 20,000 British cavalry and 70,000 other British troops and 510,000 Indian troops, and the Anglo-Indian army lost a total of about 600,000 horses, which was indeed an unprecedented defeat, and the Anglo-Indian army had never suffered such huge losses.

Soon after Montgomery and others returned to their garrisons, the three armies led by Huang Xu and others also followed, and finally joined forces outside the British and Indian garrisons.

However, unlike the previous meeting, the Anglo-Indian army still had the capital to compete with the Taiping army, but this time, they could only hide in the garrison and survive.

The speed with which the facts change is truly unexpected.

The Taiping army was strong at this time, and there was no need to worry too much, so Huang Xu didn't plan to plan any more plans or strategies, he directly ordered to attack the British and Indian army's garrison.

In the face of the attack of the Taiping army, the British and Indian troops in the garrison repelled many attacks of the Taiping army with strong fortifications, sufficient food, grass and weapons, and stabilized the defense of the garrison.

The strong attack was unfavorable, and the Taiping army could only temporarily stop the battle, and then find other ways to break through the defense of the British and Indian troops and seize this station, so as to end the meat grinder-like battle of Abdullah. (To be continued......)