102 Retreat after the collapse of the Three Views
Bang bang
Hong Tiancheng looked at the front of the church square that was holding again, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, the Cossack cavalry could rush to the church square so quickly to attack the line of the elite musketeers of the guard battalion, which was completely unplanned, and the reaction speed of the Cossack rebels analyzed before was not so fast.
"Have you made contact with Zhao Remnant's people?" After Hong Tiancheng saw the Cossack cavalry being beaten back, he asked a personal guard battalion next to him.
"Returning to the Great General, the men under the command of Zhao and us are separated from us by a group of Cossack elite muskets, they are much more numerous than us, and we are powerless to attack."
"Oh, I see, you must hold your ground in the church square, believe me, it won't be long before we can reverse this unfavorable situation!" Hong Tiancheng said confidently.
It has been more than an hour since the Taiping army suddenly attacked, and special signal flares have also been sent, but the camp of the main force of the Taiping army is too far away from Kiev City, and it is impossible to rush without several hours of rapid march, because of this, the Cossack rebels dare to generously welcome 500 Taiping elite troops into the city.
The Cossack rebels could naturally think of such a thing as seizing the city gate, and if they were not completely sure, they would not have taken the risk of 500 people.
According to the normal way of fighting, even if 500 people suddenly attacked, in a matter of hours, thousands of Cossack rebels in Kiev would be enough to swallow them up.
It's just that the Crimean irregulars reduced this confidence of the Cossack rebels by a few points, but after a period of more than an hour of adaptation, the fighting qualities of the Cossack rebels were also reflected.
Heroic, fearless, ferocious, bloodthirsty Cossack warriors, even without the unified command of Colonel Bogon, still under the leadership of their respective officers and petty leaders, engaged in tragic hand-to-hand combat against any visible enemy, the combat zone of the city of Kiev, you can see everywhere the men who overlap white knives into red knives, and the Crimean irregulars, after passing the initial advantage, have been stopped by Cossack warriors!
After all, the soldiers of the Crimean irregular army were not as strong as the Taiping army's fighting will, and in the confrontation with the Cossack soldiers, due to the increasing losses, the morale became lower and lower, as if the Cossack rebels and the militia of Kiev City could not be killed, which greatly dealt a blow to the determination of the Crimean irregular army soldiers to resist.
But Hong Tiancheng didn't know this, or even if he knew, he wouldn't care, after he led people to clean up the church square and washed all the clergy and civilians in the cathedral of Kyiv City, Hong Tiancheng had already stepped into the threshold of victory with half a foot!
The reason is very simple, Hong Tiancheng still has 7,000 sin points that he has not used!
Soon, in the cathedral where the soldiers of the Taiping Army Guards Battalion were guarding, one after another the elite musketeers of the Taiping Army battalion stepped out of the church door in a neat queue.
7,000 sin values were exchanged for a total of 7 full-strength Taiping military battalion-level scales, a full-strength battalion plus civilian officials, a total of 525 people, and 7 full-strength battalions are 3,675 people!
The Taiping Army practiced no separation between military and government, and even the civilian deputy teachers and subordinates of the Taiping Army would use muskets and swords!
It can be said that after Hong Tiancheng's people cleared a large closed space that would not be seen by indigenous outsiders, the Taiping Army's numerical disadvantage did not exist.
"For the Great General! Kill!!! ”
The elite musket battalion of the Taiping Army, which walked out of the cathedral, was divided into 7 directions, centered on the church square, and launched a strong attack on the entire city of Kiev, and the street fighting really began!
At the head battery of Kyiv City, after a roar, pieces of small iron nails and small iron beads pierced into the human body, knocking down the besieging Cossack warriors in pieces, but this was also the last counterattack of the remnants of the Crimean irregular army.
After the intact Cossack warriors in the rear raised their scimitars and roared at them, the last remnants of the Crimean irregulars in the city's fort naturally surrendered......
Because they no longer have the strength and confidence to continue fighting!
However, the Cossack fighters, who had suffered heavy losses, did not need to go through the instructions of their superiors at all, and slashed at the Crimean irregular soldiers who had surrendered after a long battle, and killed them on the spot, leaving not a single prisoner!
More than an hour after the rebellion of the Crimean irregulars, such battles began to be staged in various Crimean irregular army towns.
Most of the Cossack elite were deployed around the city defenses, so they were closer to the rebellious Crimean irregulars than to the Taiping Guards battalion on the main road in the center of Kiev.
In the eyes of most Cossack officers, the city defense system was obviously more important than the melee in the city, and they believed that as long as the city walls were recaptured and all the gates of Kiev were closed, the Taiping army, which had only 500 men, would be closed and defeated, and victory would only be a matter of time.
As a result, the vast majority of the Cossack elite and the Kiev militia chose to attack the Crimean irregulars with all their might, and as a result, the 500 people of the Taiping Army personal guard battalion in the city suffered little losses, but nearly 1,000 Crimean irregulars were uprooted one by one and wiped out in the city!
After quelling the rebellion of the Crimean irregulars, Colonel Bogun finally reluctantly resumed command of the Cossack rebels in the city, but when he took command, he also learned that thousands of elite Taiping musketeers had suddenly rushed out of the church square.
When he got this news, Colonel Bogun felt a sense of despair about the collapse of three views, what was going on in Kyiv, and he couldn't be clearer as the main general, and it was impossible for thousands of elites of the Taiping Army to hide in it, that is, these thousands of people appeared out of thin air......
The result of this speculation was even more terrible than Colonel Bogun's all-out street battle with thousands of men, because he did not know how to fight the 'demons', let alone think that he could defeat Hong Tiancheng, the 'Satan' of the Taiping army.
Colonel Bogon's reaction soon spread to the entire Cossack rebel army, and the soldiers at the bottom did not know where the Taiping army came from, but they clearly felt the greatly increased strength of the Taiping army.
Under the fierce attack of the Taiping army, the Cossack rebels, who had little advantage in numbers, were defeated one after another, and Colonel Bogon, after struggling for a while, had to make full consideration for the future of the Cossack rebels.
"The hope of the Cossacks must not be lost in my hands, and the fire of the Cossack rebels must be preserved!" Colonel Bogun, under the pressure of Wan Jun, gave the order to retreat to the Cossack rebels who were still fighting in the city of Kiev!