Luo Sanyuan hurriedly reported the news from the east of the city to Zhang Zongyu and said, "Division commander, what should I do, do you want to put down the east city first" Zhang Zongyu looked at the hand-drawn topographic map and thought carefully, and decisively said, "No, we can't disperse our forces."
There are still more than 10,000 elite Taiping troops in the north of the city, if this worry is not solved, the two sides are horns of each other, and it will be even more difficult to clean up at that time. ”"But there are still thousands of people in the academy, if you let the marshal know, he will definitely be unhappy."
Luo Sanyuan was a little hesitant."
You take a look here, the people are mainly concentrated in the front yard, we can find a way to directly attack the backyard, then we can take advantage of the situation to launch an attack, how much can be saved, even if we retreat now, the lives of those people may not be saved."
Zhang Zongyu pointed to the map to Luo Sanyuan, and remembered the sheep herding baby who could throw stones."
It doesn't seem to be easy," Luo Sanyuan looked at the map and frowned, and continued, "After several months of construction by the Taiping Army, the academy has long been as strong as a fortress, and the backyard has dug a protective ditch more than a zhang deep relying on the river in the city, which is not conducive to our large-scale deployment of troops. ”"Don't worry about this, you can go down now to stabilize the Taiping army, lead the troops to ambush near the front yard, and I will send you a god to help you."
Zhang Zongyu prayed secretly in his heart, and hurriedly left the camp with Luo Sanyuan and acted separately.At this time, it was still an era dominated by cold weapons, and any defense of troops was also carried out in accordance with the tactics of cold weapons.After killing more than 100 people, the Taiping army settled down and waited for the response of the Qing army.After Luo Sanyuan hurriedly arrived across his horse, he hurriedly ordered all the soldiers to secretly retreat to the defense, and sent someone to call the Taiping army to say that they had agreed to their request and asked them to release the innocent people immediately.After the secret outpost of the Taiping army checked, they found the Qingzi army fruit and then withdrew, but they were not fools, and naturally knew the price of letting go of the chips in their hands.So he replied that he would wait for the Qing army to completely withdraw from Dongcheng after dawn, and then release the people.The moon was in the sky, and the streets were silent in the dark night.From time to time, there were a few night owl whining, and people shivered all over their bodies.Suddenly, from a distance, an army of twenty or thirty men came.In groups of two, holding something like an iron cylinder in their hands, and carrying bags of marching bags, they were carefully arranged in the backyard of Huzhou Academy."
Sanduo, it's all up to you, victory or defeat is all in one fell swoop."
This team is a mortar led by Xu Sanduo, Zhang Zongyu looked at the dozen or so iron pipes nervously, and still felt a little unreliable in his heart."
Don't worry, Commander, just take a look."
Xu Sanduo smirked, revealing his two rows of front teeth, which were still so white under the moonlight.Zhang Zongyu nodded in his heart, and after the artillerymen calibrated the firing angle, he finally gritted his teeth and gave an order.With the sound of a whistle of "whirring", just like fireworks during the New Year, more than a dozen whistles were heard in an instant, leaving a bright flame in the sky and accurately falling in the backyard of the academy."
Boom, boom, boom."
The sound of a huge explosion pierced the entire night sky, and the bunker camp where the Taiping army was stationed in the backyard instantly burst into huge flames, and the explosion was even more shocking than the sound of field artillery.At the same time, there was a dull explosion outside the front door of the academy, which instantly blew the brick walls wrapped in the front yard into debris."
Brothers, rush."
Shouts rang out, torches reflected the sky, and I don't know how many Qingzi troops lined up in a neat queue and rushed into the academy.After a night of fighting, more than 5,000 people of the Taiping army defending the academy were killed by shells on the spot, and more than 1,000 people were killed by the Qing army in the chaos, and the remaining Taiping troops finally retreated to a dirt hill in the academy.The soil mountain is only a dozen meters high, but it was piled up with bricks and stones by the Taiping army, becoming an insurmountable and strong fortress.The Taiping army condescended on the earth hill and opened fire.In the middle, there was a rumbling cannon sound from the mountain, and the Qing army was suddenly at a loss, and at a place 100 meters away from the dirt mountain, they set up a fence and surrounded it."
Xu Sanduo, it's really yours, thanks to you last night, you'll have to show your face again later."
Zhang Zongyu entered the academy with artillery, and the people captured by the Northern Taiping Army were also evacuated safely, except for more than 100 people who were accidentally injured by shells, all of them were rescued safely."
Commander, I'm not bragging, in fact, it's the same as throwing stones, but throwing stones is by hand, and it is by this iron pipe."
Xu Sanduo heard Zhang Zongyu's praise, raised his head proudly, and followed him to the outside of the hill of the academy."
Sanyuan, what's the situation" The sun rose in the east, and the smoke of the battlefield last night had not completely dispersed, and there were ruins and broken walls everywhere.Zhang Zongyu came to the front line, and Luo Sanyuan was nervously asking people to shout to the Taiping Army."
Commander, you're here.These long-haired thieves are too stubborn, and they refuse to lay down their weapons after shouting several times, but they are now unable to fly, and they will starve to death in less than three days. ”Luo Sanyuan smiled excitedly."
It won't take three days, you let people inform them, just a stick of incense, after a stick of incense, if they don't surrender, let them live here forever."
Zhang Zongyu picked up the binoculars and looked at it, gave a faint order, turned around and ordered Xu Sanduo to set up the artillery and wait for the order.Xu Sanduo finished firing 20 shells last night, because there was an explanation above, the more than 200 mortars who went to Huzhou City had to be fired once without live ammunition, so Xu Sanduo brought all the artillery in the battalion, except for the 20 shells used last night, a total of more than 100 rounds were prepared for the Taiping army on Tushan, which was enough to blow this Tushan to the ground."
Long live the King of Heaven, the Qing Demon will die, Long live the King of Heaven, the Qing Demon will die."
After Luo Sanyuan shouted, the military flags on the mountain suddenly waved, constantly echoing the roar of the Taiping Army, and the misery was mixed with an incomparably magnificent taste."
Hey, why bother."
The corners of Zhang Zongyu's mouth twitched, and he waved the order flag at Xu Sanduo."
Left United ready.""
Right Wing ready.""
Fang" Xu Sanduo looked straight ahead, and gave the order loudly in his standard Henan dialect.The whistling sound of "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh" sounded again, and in the mild sunlight, the cannonballs could be seen clearly, like birds, getting smaller and smaller, and finally turned into black spots, and fell down on the dirt mountain."
Boom, boom, boom" instantly dusted and the earth shook.It was as if the entire earth mountain was experiencing a huge earthquake, and for a while there was only the rumbling sound of cannons, and the ears of the people who shook it were buzzing.All the soldiers were speechless in surprise by the scene in front of them, in the shock wave of the dense explosion, the Taiping army had no room to dodge at all, and did not know how to dodge, just instinctively scurrying.In the end, the flesh and blood were blurred by the rapidly spreading shrapnel, and when the cannon fell, the earth mountain was as quiet as death, and there was no longer a single sound."
Mighty, mighty, mighty."
In an instant, the cheers in the Qingzi army drowned out the heavens and the earth, and after the generals reacted, they all waved their foreign guns and shouted at the mortars with fanatical faces, and Xu Sanduo was lifted up by the excited soldiers and thrown high into the sky.In the first battle of the academy, only the government area of the northern city was left in Huzhou City, and the rest of the place was owned by the Qing army.Zhang Zongyu also strengthened all the field artillery on the city wall in accordance with Qiao Zhiqing's order, and organized the people in the city to build the city wall, and transferred a large amount of rice from Suzhou City to the city to relieve the people.At this time, it was the sixth day of the siege, and Zhang Zongyu's heart became more and more curious about Qiao Zhiqing's strange order, and he was suspicious and inexplicably looking forward to it."
Report, big handsome, good news, good news has come."
Huzhou Mansion, Huang Wenjin's handsome tent, a young man rushed into the tent after the report, panting excitedly, took out a rolled letter from the whip, and handed it to Huang Wenjin.Huang Wenjin had obviously lost a lot of weight at this time, and his face was no longer as fierce as before, and he seemed to be ten years old in a few days, and even his forehead was full of wrinkles. ”Great, the sky will not die, my Taiping Army, you go to the army to spread the word to all departments, just say that Li Dashuai sent troops from Jiaxing Mansion to rescue. ”Huang Wenjin read the secret letter with trembling hands, and shouted excitedly, and the wrinkles on his brows suddenly relaxed.Li Xiucheng came to Huzhou, and he also brought 100,000 soldiers and horses.He didn't come to rescue Huzhou, to be precise, he was on the way.His Jiaxing City was besieged by Li Hongzhang's Huai Army, Li Hongzhang was recuperating in Shanghai, and his momentum was not the same as in the past, and he was an army of 150,000 as soon as he struck, all with foreign guns and artillery.And Li Xiucheng's 100,000 soldiers and horses defending Jiaxing were just a ragtag army with more than half of the people, and the soldiers with combat effectiveness were not even 50,000.When the Huai army and Liu Xiucheng's Taiping army handed over, the gap between the two sides was instantly revealed, and the Taiping army had no ability to resist at all, even if they wanted to fight hard, they couldn't get to the close range of the Huai army.In an instant, they were beaten by the Huai army on the dividing line between Jiaxing and Shanghai, and only more than 1,000 of the more than 10,000 people sent out fled back with their armor lost.Just when Li Xiucheng was desperate to live and die with Jiaxing City, the spies suddenly came back, according to reliable information, Li Hongzhang only surrounded the south, north and east gates of Jiaxing City, and there was no trace of Huai army activities around the west gate.After repeated investigations, Li Xiucheng finally discovered that this was by no means a lack of three in the power of war, but that Li Hongzhang left him a way out.As for why he left Ximen, Li Xiucheng is also a smart person, so he naturally knows what Li Hongzhang means, that is, to tell him to go west.To the west is Huzhou, where the Qing Zijun and Huang Wenjin are fighting a hot battlefield.After three days of exhausting escape, the vanguard took the lead in entering the territory of Huzhou and stationed in Shuanglin Town, which was more than 100 miles away from Huzhou City.Li Xiucheng was not so stupid as to find a lion as soon as he jumped out of the tiger's mouth, Huzhou was by no means his final destination.He waited for Li Shixian's army in Hangzhou to mix in Shuanglin Town, and the real destination this time was Nanjing, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.That day, he was squeezed out by Hong Renji, and this time he naturally went back with the army, which was the oath he made in his heart, and he had been waiting for this day for many days and nights
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