The King of the East is dead! The King of the West is dead!

The Qing army shouted these words loudly, and tried their best to drive the Taiping army out of the city, and the Taiping army was in a commotion, and with sharp eyes, they turned their heads and saw the fire on the river, their faces were like earth, and they muttered: "The king of the east is dead, and we are defeated." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Several people dropped their spears, turned and fled, like a chain reaction, clanging, and more and more people dropped their weapons and turned to run. Before the military judge could drink, he was trampled under the mud by the people who turned and fled one after another, and fell to the ground, and he was not known.

One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion. The Taiping army that had already attacked the city wall of Wuchang panicked, some jumped off the city tower directly, some knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, and some started a game of eagle chasing chickens with the Qing army on the city wall.

Xiang Rong on Hongshan, he hasn't slept much in recent days, his eyes are full of bloodshots, the soldiers have just sent dinner, Xiang Rong looked at the vegetarian dishes of green vegetables and tofu, he had no appetite at all, waved his hand, told the soldiers to retreat, held his head with his hand, and sighed.

This Taiping rebel surrounded Wuchang City like an iron bucket, and he rushed back several times by the rebels, so he could only watch and worry about it on this Hongshan, and Wuchang City could hold it, if he couldn't keep it, the first vegetable market to ask and cut himself at that time was his own! The crime of "delaying the fighter plane, waiting and seeing" is a sure thing, and the end of the nail will be nailed, and you can't turn it over!

Xiang Rong looked at the hard-earned top in his tent, his eyes were sour, and at the depressed stage when Xiang Rong had nothing to do, the pro-soldiers who had just been driven out by himself stumbled in again, Xiang Rong was disturbed by his troubles, his face was pale, and he was just about to scold.

"My lord, the pontoon bridge on the rebel river is on fire, and there seems to be a riot!" As soon as the words of the pro-soldier fell, he found that his adult had run out barefoot.

The soldiers took a breath, quickly turned around and followed Xiang Rong, only to see their own general looking at the fire on the river, in a daze, his face changed violently, his eyebrows locked, he stomped his feet suddenly, turned around, and shouted loudly: "Gather quickly, let's rush down, look at the pontoon bridge and kill!" Kill the majesty of the rebel a few days ago! ”

"But my lord, maybe this is a traitor's trick to lure the enemy?"

"I don't know," Xiang Rong turned around and put on his boots in the tent and came out to kindly remind his own soldiers, "but waiting here is useless!" It's better to rush forward, if the guards against our rebels are loose, then presumably for the long-haired rebels, the raging fire on the pontoon bridge will not be a good fire! ”

Xiang Rong straightened his soldiers and horses, and took the lead in galloping down under the moonlight and the flickering fire in the distance.

"The King of the West is dead! The King of the East is dead! On the pontoon bridge, more and more Qing troops shouted this slogan, and more and more Taiping soldiers also chanted this sentence in their mouths, as if there was magic in general, these few words made the Taiping soldiers on the pontoon bridge confused, in the face of the Qing army like a dragon and a tiger retreating, they couldn't organize a few decent counterattacks, and the Qing army shouted a rush into battle, and all of them were scattered. The Qing army was like sharks invading a school of sardines, baring their fangs with impunity.

The gate of Wuchang City has been opened, and Shuangfu rushed out with hundreds of horsemen, followed by the infantry shouting wah, driving the defeated Taiping army to catch up with the pontoon bridge, making the pontoon bridge even more people on their backs.

Xiang Rong had just killed the card position set up by the Taiping Army in order to defend himself, only to see the figures in the camp panicked, and the lights were bright, Xiang Rong knew that there was indeed an accident on the pontoon bridge, otherwise the left-behind troops far outside Wuchang City could not be so impetuous, Xiang Rong had an idea, and shouted loudly: "Jiangxi's 100,000 army has arrived here, and the traitor is not happy to die!" ”

The cavalry behind him also shouted: "Jiangxi's 100,000 army has arrived here, and the traitors are not about to die!" ”

"Die quickly!"

"The demons have come to rob the camp!"

There was a panic in the camp of the Taiping army that prevented Xiang Rong's troops, and they shot a few arrows weakly, and when Xiang Rong's prancing horse jumped into the gate blocked by the antlers, the Taiping army in the camp shouted, resisted in twos and threes, and was rushed by the cavalry of the Qing army.

Xiang Rong laughed, pointed diagonally at Shuai Ying with his blood-stained saber, and shouted: "Little ones! Set fire to the tent! Destroying this part today, and then catching up with the pontoon bridge to kill for a while, is a great achievement! The whole army does not seal the sword! Self-sufficiency in gold and silver! ”

Hearing the news that the sword was not sealed, the cavalry of the Qing army was red-eyed, screamed, rushed forward, and killed people everywhere and set fire.

Yang Xiuqing received the report from the signal soldier, and couldn't believe his ears, the king of the west was killed with a knife? And chopped off your head? The fire on the pontoon bridge was caused by the explosion of the Qing Demon Fire Boat? Yang Xiuqing felt a little dizzy, and her mind was blank.

"Report!" Another herald rushed into the tent of the commander of the East King, knelt down on one knee, and reported in a trembling voice, "Wuchang City has been guarded by the Qing demons!" The fire broke out on the pontoon, and our heavenly army was in turmoil, and the Qing demon shouted that the king of the west was dead, and the king of Chang couldn't restrain him, and he had been defeated and returned to the front of the pontoon! ”

"Report, the camp of the Xiangrong dog thieves on the Hongshan Mountain saw the fire and the shouting of killing, and the third commander called me to report to the military division, over there..... There's no way to resist it! ”

Yang Xiuqing was hit by the successive bad news, and her heart hurt, and she vomited out a mouthful of hot blood and sprinkled it on the vermilion dragon robe she was wearing.

The relatives on the side hurriedly supported Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king of the military division, Yang Xiuqing calmed down, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand, grinned, and the blood between his teeth was extremely terrifying, "Hehe, I didn't expect that there were masters in the Qing army, I used the iron chain link strategy to make the pontoon bridge like walking on the ground, and the carriages and horses could be safely passed, but I didn't expect him to use the fire attack plan, Wuchang City, Tongtian pontoon, and Hongshan three places together, and gave me such a ruthless blow!" Okay, well, we'll see in the future, herald! The rear army is changed to the front army, the former army is changed to the rear army, and retreat immediately! The Chinese army remains unchanged, stabilize the morale of the army, and immediately go to the south! Go to Huanggang! ”

"Strategist, this situation is not yet time to withdraw!"

"You don't understand! The army's heart is in turmoil, under the city of Wuchang, above the pontoon bridge, those brothers are thinking that they are afraid that they will be cut off from the back road, and they will inevitably rush back to the north! In addition, the king of the west is dead, there are those demons who set fire to the pontoon bridge, the situation is probably even more unbearable, if you don't retreat quickly, the rear army will be rushed by the defeated heavenly soldiers and generals in front, I'm afraid we and the heavenly king will die here! Go now, go now! ”

"Yes!"

Yang Xiuqing was helped on the horse by his own soldiers, looking at the east and running, his strategy of retreating was already a strong man breaking his wrist, the best way to rescue, in terms of strategic vision, Yang Xiuqing deserved to be the first person in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Yang Xiuqing coughed and rode forward, turned his head to look at the raging fire and violent explosions on the river between the three towns of Wuhan, his eyes were full of ruthlessness and unwillingness: "It's not over yet!" Qing Demon, let's wait for the next fight! ”

On November 18, the second year of Xianfeng, 800 miles rushed from Deshengmen into Beijing, and Wuchang was victorious! Kill 30,000 enemies! The pseudo-king of the West, Xiao Chaogui, awarded the head!

As soon as the news came out, the world shook!

In the original history, Hong Yang estimated that the enterprising and wealthy Jiangnan was not short of grain, grass, gold and silver, and the only thing lacking was soldiers, so he recruited troops in Wuchang City. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first gathered residents in Yuemachang, Wuchang to "reason", and "reasoning" was a system established by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom since the founding of the worship of God, and its form was relatively complex, and its content was roughly equivalent to what is called political mobilization and ideological education today. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first mobilized the masses in Wuchang ideologically, telling the truth that the Heavenly Father sent the Heavenly King to save the world, and that the people of the world should obey the Heavenly King's decree and work together to exterminate the demons, and denounced the Manchu Qing Dynasty's national oppression of the Han people and the unscrupulous corruption of officials. In the end, it was announced that everyone should follow the military guard to destroy the demons, and those who disobey are demons, at least the accomplices of demons. In this way, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used both soft and hard measures, persuasion and bluffing, half mobilizing and half threatening, and basically incorporated the residents of Wuchang into the army. When they descended from Wuchang to Anhui, they carried more than 500,000 people, and now, the Taiping army has less than 100,000 troops down the river, and the rest of the main force of 30,000 or 40,000 people were buried in the water fire in the three towns of Wuhan.