After besieging Changsha for three months, the originally well-repaired city wall was already dilapidated, and after the Hunan army occupied the Miao peak, it continued to bombard the south of Changsha with foreign cannons every day. Although there are still tall city towers such as Tianxing Pavilion in the south of Changsha City, the Taiping Army artillery in the East Hall is not as sharp as the new foreign artillery of the Hunan Army, and the Taiping Army artillery array in Tianxing Pavilion and other places was uprooted by the Hunan Army one by one, and the entire south of the city was shrouded in the artillery fire of the Hunan Army.

On the Tianxing Pavilion in the south of the city, Huang Yiyun wiped a handful of blood and sweat on his face, and couldn't tell whether the blood was his own or someone else's. His yellow turban was already torn, the long sword in his hand was raised, and he roared loudly: "The Qing Demon is coming up, the seventy-first siege of the city, hit the flying tiger flag, and let the brothers behind come up!" ”

In the siege that lasted more than 90 days, in order to avoid the superior artillery fire of the Qing army, the Taiping army always put the fresh soldiers and horses behind the city wall to prevent the killing and injury of the artillery fire.

Huang Yiyun's original name was Huang Yiyun, who changed his name to avoid Feng Yunshan, the southern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and one of the old brothers who participated in the Jintian Uprising in Guangxi, was a subordinate of Yang Xiuqing, who could treat acute diseases with herbal medicine. In March 1852, the first army was in danger and served as the supervising army. Spiral Mu Zhengmu is a superintendent of the army. Later, he went to Hunan to make the second general system of land extraction, and was left in Changsha by Yang Xiuqing to assist Lai Hanying to guard Changsha. In the following year, he was the commander of the right sixteenth of the Xuanqian Palace, and was later promoted to the deputy prime minister of the autumn office, and the Hu Hou was annihilated. In Changsha City, except for Lai Hanying, Huang Yiyun's official position is the largest.

Since the Hunan army captured Miaofeng, Huang Yiyun has been guarding the south of the city, and the Hunan army has the most offensive against the south of the city, but Huang Yiyun always persevers here, and the Hunan army is amazed.

After Huang Yiyun roared loudly, he found that there were no soldiers who could stand up in the ruins beside him, and he struggled to stand up. found that his left leg was injured by shrapnel from the Hunan army's flowering bullet, and half of his bloody leg was unconscious. Huang Yiyun gritted his teeth and came to the side of the Ling Banner Soldier, who had been blown into two, his stomach flowed to the ground, and he was holding the broken Flying Tiger Flag tightly with one hand.

Huang Yiyun didn't care about the nausea, he picked up the flying tiger flag and quickly raised it towards the city, after seeing the red flag flying not far from the city, he breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the ground and pulled a piece of cloth to wrap his injured leg, and found two short guns from the rubble. I looked at it and put on the medicine.

He put the short gun in his waist, picked up a spear and pestle and walked it to the edge of the battlements, raised his eyes and looked at Xiangxia, only to see the Hunan army wrapped in gray cloth like ants carrying a ladder and approaching the city wall quickly.

Huang Yiyun saw a fire thunder bullet falling at his feet, this fire thunder bullet was very simple. It's a jar of earthen with gunpowder in it. After Huang Yiyun picked up the fire and thunderbolt, he only heard the clanging of the battlements. A long ladder had hooked the battlements. Huang Yiyun didn't think about it, and lit the fire and thunder bullet and threw it down from the gap in the battlements. I could only hear an exclamation below, followed by a boom, and the ladder hung limply.

"There's still a living mouth on it, damn it, these long-haired thieves are really fatal!" "Jia Lao Er. Hurry up, don't! "Chen has always dead the ball, and the wooden ladder has broken the ball!" "Don't crowd here, get on!" After the Qing army panicked for a while. Another long ladder was quickly erected.

Huang Yiyun struggled and turned out another fire and thunder bomb, and was about to ignite it and throw it down, but saw a gray cloth head poking out from the mouth of the battlement, Huang Yiyun didn't have time to light the fire and thunder, the spear in his hand hurriedly stabbed it, and the gray cloth head was in front of the door, accompanied by a terrible scream, the man fell down the city.

"Jia Lao Er is dead, go on!" Another gray cloth head leaned out, but this time this person held up a rattan card, Huang Yiyun stabbed it with a shot, and was blocked by him, followed by this person jumped on the city wall very quickly, and the long knife in the other hand slashed quickly.

Huang Yiyun staggered back, hurriedly pulled out the short gun on his waist and blasted it, the Hunan soldier screamed, half of his face was beaten into a sieve, and he fell to the ground and saw that he was not alive. But taking advantage of this moment, two more Hunan soldiers rushed to the top of the city, viciously holding a long knife and slashing at Huang Yiyun.

Huang Yiyun abandoned the short gun, raised the long sword to meet him, and after barely stabbing one person, he was kicked to the ground by another person, and the long knife of the snow bright ran towards the door, Huang Yiyun also heard the cruel laughter of the Hunan soldiers: "It's a yellow scarf, and the head must be very valuable!" ”

Just when Huang Yiyun closed his eyes and waited to die, several spears flew and opened the long knife, and when Huang Yiyun looked back, it was more than 100 Taiping soldiers rushing up. Seeing his own people, Huang Yiyun breathed a sigh of relief, and an inspector supported him and shouted: "Lifesaving officer!" Hu Hou is injured, help him down! ”

Huang Yiyun looked at the Taiping army rushing to the city, grinned and said, "Why did you come up with such a few people?" ”

The inspector said gloomily: "The Qing Demon is attacking the city from all sides today, and the north and east of the city are also very tight, and Uncle Lai Guo has divided some people to go to the north and east of the city. ”

Huang Yiyun came to inspect the city in the morning, but he was blocked by the shelling and couldn't get out of the city, but he didn't know that the Qing Demon was so crazy today, and sneered: "Did the Zeng Demon head want to break the city in one fell swoop today?" Hmph, it depends on whether his teeth are good. While speaking, the life-saving officer came up to look at Huang Yiyun's injury, bandaged it briefly, and said with some embarrassment: "Kill Hu Hou, there is no Jinchuang medicine in his subordinates......"

The inspector scolded loudly: "Hurry up and find it, didn't you see that Hu Hou was so badly injured?" ”

Huang Yiyun smiled bitterly and raised his hand to stop, there was no medicine in the city and in the army, he knew better than anyone else, and said in a deep voice: "No need to look for it, today's Qing Demon offensive is fierce, hold it first!" After that, he reluctantly stood up and shouted, "Raise the flag!" Fight to the death! Thousands of Taiping soldiers shouted in unison at the head of the city, and the broken apricot and yellow banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was quickly erected.

On Miao Peak, seeing the apricot yellow flag in the south of the city erected again, Zeng Guoquan scolded angrily with a black face: "This Huang Yiyun dog thief can really fight!" ”

On the side, Rong Lu put down the clairvoyant mirror and said lightly: "Uncle Nine, let the artillery team fire!" ”

Zeng Guoquan exclaimed: "Our daredevils are still in the city!" ”

Rong Lu said lightly: "Since it is a person who dares to die, it is used to die with the enemy, it is rare to gather long hair, and it is worth exchanging one for a few." When they die, they should die for us. ”

Rong Lu's cold words and contempt for the lives of soldiers made Zeng Guoquan shudder a little, but he couldn't find the words to refute him, so he had to nod to the herald behind him and said, "Order the artillery team to fire cannons to the south of the city!" ”

Soon, the Tianxing Pavilion and other places in the south of the city were shrouded in artillery fire again. Red turbans and gray cloth wraps flew in the fire. Rong Lu put down the clairvoyant mirror, nodded with satisfaction, and said, "It seems that the city can be broken today." ”

Zeng Guoquan looked at this niece and son-in-law and didn't know what to say, so he turned around and asked: "Zhonghua, you were ordered to return to Beijing to report on your work this time, what should you do about your marriage with Ji Jing?" ”

Rong Lu turned sideways slightly and said: "This time the will is very urgent, and the little nephew can only temporarily put down the marriage, but the little nephew and Lord Yuezhang have discussed, Hengyang's marriage has been completed, and Ji Jing will go to the capital with me to complete the marriage later." ”

Zeng Guoquan frowned and said, "How could the imperial court be in such a hurry to recall you back this time?" ”

Rong Lu didn't hide it, and said with a slight smile: "The emperor wants to train the new army of Gyeonggi." The little nephew is going back to train the army. ”

Zeng Guoquan sighed, Rong Lu's return to Beijing to report on his work is actually another appointment, the new army of Gyeonggi is not comparable to the Hunan soldiers, although the Hunan soldiers are brave, but the money has always been self-raised. If the imperial court wants to train a new army, it must be rich in money. Thinking that this niece and son-in-law will be in charge of the capital in the future. He must become a man of high authority. The Hunan army has more foreign aid, and there are people in the DPRK who are easy to handle, and Zeng Guoquan is also happy for his eldest brother to find such a fast son-in-law.

In the rumbling cannon, Zeng Guoquan asked again: "The siege of Guangzhou City can be lifted so quickly, Zhonghua has made great contributions. ”

Rong Lu shook his head and said, "The battle of Guangzhou was not the official army's initiative to win. Instead, Changmao took the initiative to give up, and the long-haired besieged Guangzhou only fought for a month before taking the initiative to retreat, one went to Jiangxi, and the other went to Fujian. The soldiers and horses of Guangzhou were only enough to recover the old land, and they were not enough to catch up. ”

Zeng Guoquan Qi said: "The long hairs besieging Guangzhou are known as 100,000 people, why did they retreat so quickly? ”

Rong Lu sneered: "This is the masterpiece of the pseudo-king of the West, this guy sees things very accurately, those stragglers of the Heaven and Earth Society will definitely not be able to break the city when they besiege Guangzhou, and he is also afraid that after fighting Guangzhou for a long time, he will attract Yi people to interfere, and he can't send reinforcements to help, so he simply let these thieves retreat to the territory of Long Hair, which is really a good calculation." ”

Zeng Guoquan frowned and said, "This pseudo-king of the West is really a big trouble. ”

Rong Lu groaned: "Uncle Nine, the little nephew is passing through here on this trip to Beijing, by the way, visit Uncle Nine, after the battle of Changsha, Uncle Nine immediately waved his troops north, the three towns of Wuchang can fight, and if they can't fight, they will take Yuezhou to hold on. ”

Zeng Guoquan nodded, he also knew that the two families of the long-haired thief East King and the West King were facing each other, although the two families temporarily made peace later, but it could be seen that sooner or later there would be a big fight inside the long-haired army, and the Hunan army needed to wait for a new opportunity after taking Changsha, otherwise it would be no match for the Taiping army.

After the shelling, the city did not know how many people still survived, and the Hunan army swarmed up, but did not want the Taiping army to really seem to be unable to finish the fight, and drilled out of the rubble again, and fought until dusk, and the Qing army retreated slightly.

Huang Yiyun at the head of the city forced to count the men and horses, and found that there were less than 2,000 people left, and they were all exhausted and wounded, and they hurriedly ate some dry food, but saw that the Hunan army picked out the corpses and banners of the Taiping army that died in battle under the city, showing off his might, Huang Yiyun was angry and angry, and fought for a long time, and finally couldn't hold it and fainted.

In addition to displaying the corpses, the Qing army also sent people to escort the Taiping prisoners around the city holding a sign of "surrender to sincerity and avoid death", Huang Yiyun woke up and turned around, already knowing that the defeat was irreparable.

After a while, the Qing army stormed the south of the city, Huang Yiyun heard the news, endured the vicious pain from the wound on his leg, gritted his teeth and tightened the wound with a cloth bag, and the blood flowed for a while, and the guards on the side were shocked, and said: "Kill Hu Hou, I am only afraid that the wound will be injured and injured, I am afraid that I will not be able to walk in the future." ”

Huang Yiyun looked up to the sky and smiled, turned over on his horse with a long sword in his hand, pointed at the Qing army that rushed straight under the city and shouted: "His life is gone, what do you care about one of his legs?" May we give up our lives today, so that one day he can fulfill his dream of heaven, and even if the road is not passable, we must try to touch it. Brothers, let's fight all the way, have you ever been afraid of these demons on the other side? ”

When Huang Yiyun heard this, the more than 100 remnant Taiping sergeants around him were all enthusiastic, and they all drew their long knives and shouted together: "No! ”

Huang Yiyun's eyes were cold, but looking at the soldiers around him were all ragged and their faces were withered, it was already at the end of the crossbow, and many people were still injured, but none of them had fear in their eyes, and their hearts were also full of pride, and they shouted: "Raise the flag!" The two guards beside him hurriedly erected the apricot yellow flag, on these two flags, one side reads: "Fengtian punishes the demon" and the other side is "cut the evil and keep the right", but the blood marks and mud on it are polluted a lot, but it does not affect the power of the eight big characters on the flag at all.

Huang Yiyun and the Taiping soldiers looked at the words on these two big flags, and their hearts were full of heat, and Huang Yiyun waved his sword and shouted: "The matter has come to this, all brothers follow me to sweep away the demons again, and walk towards Kangzhuang for future generations, slay demons and eliminate demons and remove evil obstacles." One day, our descendants will build a heavenly kingdom, and we will meet again in heaven! Be a villain! Rush with me! ”

With tears in their eyes and long knives in their hands, the Taiping soldiers began the battle of Zuihou after they defended Changsha, and under the two huge apricot yellow flags, they followed Huang Yiyun, the commander of the town guarding the south of the city, to fight until a trace of blood was exhausted. Victory or defeat has no meaning at this moment, all they have to do is to fulfill the vow they have made - to sacrifice their lives to achieve the dream of heaven! (To be continued......)