The period of the three-day strike soon came, and these days the people in the siege of Taizhou lived like a year, like a death row prisoner who was sentenced to death but had to wait until the autumn to be beheaded.

From the next day, there were a lot of notices in the city for no reason, which seemed to have been posted all over the streets and alleys overnight, and the notices were nothing more than the Taiping army persuading the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender.

This made Da Hong'a very angry, and after cutting down three thousand generals who were on patrol that night, he ordered people to raise the city, and he knew that there must be a Taiping army in the city. A lot of suspicious people were arrested, and Dahonga did not interrogate them carefully, and all of them cut off their heads and hung them in the city.

But a day later, the notices that shook the morale of the army were posted all over the streets and alleys, and at the same time, the notices were extremely arrogant warning Dahonga not to kill innocents indiscriminately, and said that Dahonga would not be able to catch them.

Dahonga was furious, when had he been tricked like this? And the Taiping army didn't seem to have the intention of persuading himself to surrender at all, he originally planned that when someone came to persuade him to surrender, he would reprimand the thief, but there was not a word in the notice from beginning to end to persuade him to surrender, and at the same time, the Taiping army never sent anyone to persuade him to surrender, so that it was useless to let Da Honga prepare a righteous rhetoric.

Finally waited until the fourth day, Da Hong'a, who was full of breath, ordered the whole army to eat a full meal early, and then he was draped all over his body, even the ancestral sword was also brought, and he stood majestically at the head of the city to command the defense of the city, it seems that he has made up his mind that even if the city is broken, he will give the Taiping army a little color.

Unexpectedly, when it came to dawn, after thinking about the three-way cannon on the Taiping army's position, more than 100 ragged Qing army prisoners were driven out of the position, and these people were holding wooden signs, on which the same sentence was written: "The soldiers and horses are tired, and the battle will be fought for three more days!" ”

Dahonga watched as these Qing captives wandered around the city carrying wooden signs. Furious, he jumped like thunder, and the three gods returned to their positions, snatched an iron bow from the guard beside him, and shot with the bow open. Those Qing prisoners didn't expect that they would come out and wander with a sign of boycott, and they would be attacked by their own families in the city.

Dahong'a was furious and ordered the soldiers to shout in unison: "Traitor Li Kaifang, if you want to fight, you will fight, you are not a good man!" After shouting like this a few times. There was still no movement on the side of the Taiping army.

Da Hong'a was very discouraged, and sat in a daze on the Taishi chair under the city tower, Wang Youling stepped forward and said: "An Shuai, since Long Mao is afraid and doesn't dare to fight, then let's take care of our strength." Maybe in a few days, Li Junmen's army will arrive, and the siege of Taizhou will be lifted. ”

Hear this. Dahuna jumped to his feet. Wang Youling was startled, only to see Da Hong'a with a pale face and exclaim loudly: "Why didn't Ben Shuai expect that Li Kaifang besieged and did not attack, just wanted to wait for the reinforcements who ambushed Li Junmen halfway!" Hey, what a cunning thief! ”

Wang Youling sighed, and only then did he understand the intention of the Taiping Army. Then he frowned and said: "An Shuai, it's been three days, I'm afraid that this reinforcement is about to arrive, if there is an ambush for Long Hair." I'm afraid, I'm afraid of the ...... now," he didn't say, but Dahonga understood what he said, which meant that he was afraid that there were no reinforcements now.

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More than 100 miles away in Daxi Town, it was already afternoon at this time, and the sun shone on a field outside Daxi Town, but the heat brought by the sunlight was blown away by the cold wind in mid-air, and the thick gunpowder smoke in mid-air covered the sky and the sun, and the strong smell of blood in the air made people sick.

Chen Alin, the commander of the First Division of the Taiping Army, was stunned to see the corpses of the Qing army and many ownerless war horses running around in front of the trench, and the cigarette in his hand stopped in the air and did not put it down for a long time.

The 1st Regiment was ordered to block Qing reinforcements on the plain south of Daxi Town, while Pan Qiliang, commander of the 1st Brigade, led the remaining cavalry regiments and infantry regiments to cut off the rear route of Qing reinforcements. Since the 1st Regiment captured Daxi Town two days ago, it has taken Daxi Town as the center, digging trenches and arranging camps around the town, preparing to block the Qing army reinforcements.

This morning, the Qing army reconnaissance cavalry began to appear, and then a large number of Qing infantry began to besiege Daxi Town, because the number of the first regiment was not much, only more than 1,300 people, and the Qing army reinforcements were more than 20,000 people.

Chen Alin's first regiment was best at earthwork, and the fortifications outside the town were built in a very hierarchical and orderly manner, and the trenches, barbed wire, and a lot of explosives and earthen mines were laid outside the town, which made the Qing army suffer a lot.

Since the start of the battle, it has been a fierce battle for several hours, and the Qing army on the opposite side has charged the Taiping army's position in turn from several directions, and has suffered heavy casualties. However, Li Tingyu's Fujian army has been trained by Li Tingyu for more than a year, and its combat effectiveness is quite strong, although the Taiping army has dense firepower, it is still gradually rushed to the trench several times by the Qing army relying on the numerical advantage.

Their shotguns and bows and arrows then began to inflict casualties on the Taipings, but they were all repulsed by more than a dozen artillery pieces in the Taiping town. The corpses piled up in front of the Taiping army's position, and the Qing army suffered three or four thousand casualties, but they did not retreat, nor did they bypass Daxi Town, and the Qing army commander seemed to be mad and vowed to kill all the long hairs in the town.

Seeing the red battle flags of the Qing army flying in the distance, and another group of Qing troops began to form a team, Chen Alin understood that they were about to start charging again, and Li Moquan, the regimental trainer on the side, said in a hoarse voice: "Regiment commander, there are not enough artillery shells, there are only a few shells per cannon, and there are few muffled thunders that have not exploded on the periphery, fortunately, there are enough rifle bullets, but there are many people on the opposite side, and they can't stop them even if they rush up. ”

Chen Alin took out a pocket watch imported from Switzerland from his bosom and looked at it, and said nonchalantly: "Just hold on for another half an hour, and order all battalions to abandon the trenches on the first line, shrink the front, and fight again when they get closer, and don't let empty guns indiscriminately to save ammunition!" ”

In the earth-shattering shout, the outlaws of the Qing army stripped off their upper clothes in front of the battle, everyone had a big knife in their hands, and after everyone drank a large bowl of wine, they howled like wild beasts and began to charge again.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army were a little stunned, many of them were veterans who fought with the King of the West from Changsha to southern Jiangsu, once upon a time had they seen the Qing army so desperate? Actually, as the war continues. The green battalion soldiers or other soldiers of the Qing army began to improve, and the war was indeed the catalyst, which made the Qing army slowly become resistant to fighting, and it was no longer the tofu army that had not experienced a battle for many years.

The Taiping army's circular defensive position shrank back, and the personnel were arranged more densely, and within two hundred paces the Taiping infantry began to shoot, and many of the Qing army's self-proclaimed brave men were killed in front of the trench. They jumped into the trench with the others to take refuge, and it seemed that they had calmed down after the rain of bullets.

These death squads were crushed in the first trench, and the Taiping army also gave up the unnecessary waste of ammunition under the reprimand of the generals, but everyone aimed at the trench. As long as the Qing army shows up, there must be several robberies at the same time.

Seeing that his own people could not rush forward, the commander of the Qing army began to organize a second group of people to immediately come forward to respond, and followed the artillery in the command army to open fire.

Seeing that the artillery of the Qing army was only sending the shells roaring at this time, Chen Alin also admired the endurance of the Qing generals opposite. He never revealed the location of his artillery, and it seemed that he also knew that the Taiping artillery was vicious. It's all about filling the pit with human life. Instead of wasting cannon ammunition and revealing the location of the cannon.

The Taiping army had not fired artillery for a long time, which also made the Qing generals on the opposite side think that the Taiping army had run out of shells, and it was only then that he decisively ordered people to fire artillery. With the help of cannons, the Qing army rushed up with a roar as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Chen Alin frowned slightly, and said to Li Moquan without hesitation: "Let the artillery finish the rest of the shells." Be sure to shut up the demon's cannon! ”

The artillery of the Taiping Army is a jishu branch, and the artillery officers and soldiers are familiar with ballistics, and the position of the Qing army's artillery can also be roughly calculated from the direction from which the Qing army's artillery flies. Really. After a burst of dense gunpowder explosion, the artillery of the Qing army was not as arrogant as it was just now, and only a few cannons were still ringing.

However, the infantry of the Qing army still took advantage of this burst of artillery bombardment and rushed to the second trench of the Taiping army, and the soldiers of the Taiping army had already put on their bayonets.

The knives flew, the bayonets stabbed, and thousands of people in the trenches fought, and after hand-to-hand combat, the new weapons no longer had much effect, and the two sides fought for the primitive assassination jishu and courage. Fortunately, the assassination cooperation between the small groups of the Taiping army was skillful, and the three-person stabbing team resisted the sabers and spears of the Qing infantry several times, while the Qing infantry relied more on individual bravery, and there was little cooperation between teams, so they were gradually suppressed by the Taiping army.

Seeing this situation in the distance, the general of the Qing army knew that there was nothing to keep at this time, the scarlet battle flag was raised high, and the remaining more than 10,000 Qing troops all began to charge, and he wanted to crush the Taiping army in one fell swoop.

Seeing the gray livery of the Qing army coming like a gray tide, colliding with the green defense line on his side, his eyes were hot, and he shouted at the artillery regiment led by Li Moquan behind him: "Order the artillery to also take up arms, let's rush forward!" Victory or defeat is here! ”

The artillery regiment's shells had already been fired, and hundreds of artillerymen picked up their rifles and followed Chen Alin and Li Moquan and began to rush towards the first line of defense. More than 300 artillery soldiers rushed into the battle group and slightly stabilized the battle line, Chen Alin knew that at this time it was all about physical strength and will, and whichever side did not support first could only wait for defeat.

The Qing army was always outnumbered, and the defensive circle was getting smaller and smaller, and Chen Alin shouted loudly: "Fight to Zuihou alone!" Our Taiping New Division has not been beaten to death from behind! "The more at this time, the courage that a military commander brings to the soldiers is enormous, if the Qing army is in a different place, at this time, the commander of the army may have run away, and the soldiers under his command have already collapsed and fled in the face of such a fierce and cruel hand-to-hand combat. At this moment, the Taiping army is fighting hand-to-hand with the Qing army several times its own, no desertion, no wavering, and the strict assassination training and physical training of the Taiping army in daily life have made the Taiping infantry have been struggling to support.

The moment of crisis finally came, the east of the defensive circle was torn open by the Qing army, and the rest of the Qing army shouted and charged towards this gap, Chen Alin's heart slowly sank, knowing that the time of zuihou had come, there was no tactic at this time, I just hope that it can be supported for a long time, and there may be a miracle if I hold on.

At this time, the loud charge horn in the distance resounded through the four fields, and the officers and soldiers of the first regiment were all in good spirits when they heard it, Chen Alin looked up, only to see the grass-green crowd in the distance, and a huge West Temple military flag was erected on the field behind him, it was the cavalry of the Taiping Army!

Chen Alin was overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers, our cavalry is here!" ”

The soldiers of the Taiping Army looked over one after another, and sure enough, they saw thousands of cavalry on their side rushing over, and they didn't know where the strength came from, shouting and fighting harder.

The cavalry of the Taiping Army did not put the horse pistol again, but brandished the saber and rushed directly into the enemy formation, instantly raising a blood mist, between the stumps and broken arms, the Qing army that wanted to intercept was killed and scattered, the Taiping cavalry did not chase the fleeing Qing army, but continued to rush forward to kill, breaking through the encirclement of the Qing army in one fell swoop.

After a quick slashing and slaughter, coupled with the counterattack of the first regiment of infantry, more than 15,000 Qing troops were defeated and scattered and fled. The cavalry of the Taiping Army who came to help divided into several cavalry routes and pursued the fleeing Qing army.

Chen Alin looked at the Taiping cavalry who were chasing the Qing army like mercury, and shouted happily in his heart, only to see dozens of Taiping cavalry rushing to his side, and the dust raised made him unable to open his eyes, and after fanning the dust a few times, Chen Alin saw that one of the cavalrymen in front was wearing the uniform of the Taiping Army general, the man had a handsome and cold face, and saluted himself and said slowly: "Zhang Wenxiang, the head of the first cavalry regiment of the new second division of the Taiping Army, is late for rescue, please forgive Commander Chen!" ”

Chen Alin sighed, saluted back and said: "It turns out that you are the famous Zhang Wenxiang, if you hadn't arrived in time, our first regiment would have been here." ”

Zhang Wenxiang smiled and said: "There is also the first cavalry regiment of the first division is also here, they led people to chase and kill the Maozi cavalry, the second infantry regiment is stuck on the way to retreat to Wenzhou, this time none of the Qing demon's reinforcements want to go back." ”

Chen Alin looked at Zhang Wenxiang's weathered face, and said with a smile: "Let's go into the town, the original Qing demon in the town has left a lot of good things, hahaha." In the midst of laughter, Chen Alin took Zhang Wenxiang to Daxi Town. So far, more than 20,000 reinforcements of the Qing army have been killed and scattered and collapsed, and the Qing army in Wenzhou has lost more than 20,000 people at once, and the entire Wentai defense line has shown a trend of collapse. (To be continued......)