The morning sun pierced through the sky and jumped up, like blood squeezed out of a wound, and the crimson shrouded the entire battlefield outside Huzhou City.The flag covers the sun, and the sound of killing shocks the sky.The Taiping army of more than 300,000 men and horses surrounded Huzhou City on all sides.From a high vantage point, it looks like a swarm of crumbs of bread gathering from all directions.In the sound of drums, the shouts and the sound of the pounding converged, and the earth shook with it.Li Xiucheng didn't want to delay in Huzhou City for too long, and after making preparations for the siege, he swarmed up the army with no room for it.Zhang Zongyu stood on the city wall, his eyes narrowed into a straight line, looking at the dense crowd like ants, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his face was full of cold color.After the Taiping army entered the range of field artillery, they decisively waved the command flag in their hands, and the rumbling cannon sound sounded on all sides of the city wall.Plumes of smoke and dust instantly rose everywhere in the Taiping army, and everywhere was accompanied by heart-rending screams, and broken flesh and stumps flew sideways.Most of the Taiping soldiers newly recruited by Li Xiucheng in Zhejiang had never even seen the appearance of foreign guns and cannons, and yesterday they were peasants who were still cultivating in the fields, and today they are fighting hard here with hoes and shovels.When he saw the cannonballs flying, he had no sense of dodging at all, and he was stunned and greeted him.A large-caliber field cannon can reap the lives of dozens of people at will.But these casualties were soon swallowed up in an endless sea of people, and dense crowds of people still surged towards the city walls."
This Li Xiucheng really doesn't take the lives of these soldiers seriously."
Luo Sanyuan stood behind Zhang Zongyu with his eyebrows, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and couldn't help but clench his fists."
One will succeed and ten thousand bones will wither, it seems that what the marshal said is right, Li Xiucheng really doesn't want to stay in Huzhou City for a long time, so he is so eager to fight, and wants to swallow us in one go."
Zhang Zongyu's expression was cold, and he was full of contempt for Li Xiucheng in his heart, glad that he did not join the Taiping Army with his uncle."
It's really crazy, it's really unheard of to rely on the number of people to fight hard."
Luo Sanyuan thought for a while, and then scolded angrily."
Yes, I don't know if our ammunition can last for three days, the commander must still be moving.You should stop firing the artillery brothers first, and it may be of great use to leave some shells behind. ”Zhang Zongyu thought in his heart, he couldn't smash all the ammunition into it at once, Li Xiucheng may be looking forward to doing this, he must have a second move."
Command."
Luo Sanyuan answered, and hurriedly went down to prepare.After a while, the sound of the cannon gradually stopped, but it gave the Taiping army infinite encouragement, and bursts of cheers came from the crowd, chanting the slogan of "victory", carrying ladders, hitting wood, and speeding up the pace of the charge.Unbeknownst to the Taipings, the real massacre had just begun.By the time the cannon fire stopped, the Taiping army had already broken into the city wall, and the gun array that had already been laid out was within range.At a distance of two hundred meters, there were suddenly rows of gunfire on the city wall, and for the crowd that was charging densely, it was possible to shoot directly forward without aiming at all to hit one person.After a burst of gunfire, the first wave of people who rushed to the front rolled to the ground in an instant.The crowd behind him was caught off guard and continued to pour up on the corpses.In the face of the dense rain of bullets, the first wave of people was like tissue paper, torn apart without any protection.The surging sea of people was finally firmly blocked by the firepower net woven by the rain of bullets a hundred meters away, and they were never able to advance a meter ahead.One crowd surged up, and another fell.After an hour's attack, the piles of corpses piled up on top of each other, more than a meter thick.Under the city walls, it was like Shura's purgatory, blood stained the earth red, and the grim roar of death.The barrels of the guns of the soldiers on the city walls had been beaten red, and in the face of naked killing, some people had even vomited, but the gunfire did not stop for a moment.At the same time, in the direction of the Chengbei Prefecture, an even bloodier massacre has just begun to be staged.After Huang Wenjin heard the gunshots outside the city, he knew that Li Xiucheng had sent troops to attack, and took the opportunity to lead the last more than 10,000 elites equipped with foreign guns to echo in the city and launch a fierce attack in the direction of the north gate.Zhang Zongyu had already sent troops to dig ditches and set up fences in the north of the city to besiege the government in all directions.Huang Wenjin sent feints to attack everywhere, and the main force of 5,000 was concentrated to tear a gap to the north.If you pass through an official road in front of you, you will see the north gate.The official road is about 30 meters wide, but it is only a kilometer away.The houses on both sides have been strengthened by Huang Wenjin to look like a city bunker, and there are no doors on the street.Huang Wenjin was surprised to find that there was no large-scale defense of the Qing Army on the street, but a row of sacks filled with sand and gravel piled up at the street entrance.There was an iron pipe with a black non-slippery device erected on it, and only twenty or thirty men and horses of the Qing Zi Army were defended behind it."
Brothers, victory is at hand, rush over, kill all the Qing army, and welcome King Zhong into the city."
Huang Wenjin raised his arms and shouted, and his brothers also shouted, skillfully forming a neat array of guns and charging towards the street.The Qingzi army at the entrance of the street faced the Taiping army, which was hundreds of times larger, and was not afraid, and when the distance between the two sides was 200 meters, it was still lying behind the sack and did not move."
What you can't do, relying on this person wants to stop grandpa, and see that grandpa doesn't kill you alive."
Huang Wenjin sneered, and couldn't help but mock in his heart.When they were a hundred meters apart, the two sides suddenly burst into gunfire and pulled the trigger almost simultaneously.What Huang Wenjin didn't expect appeared in front of him without warning.It was only a moment's effort, and the inconspicuous iron pipe on the top of the sack seemed to have hundreds of bullets spraying out of it.I don't know how much more powerful the bullet is than a foreign gun, and the mouth of the pipe is like a poisonous snake spitting fiery red snake letters."
Boom, boom, boom" After a burst of crackling sounds, the Taiping army's neatly arranged foreign gun array was peeled off layer by layer like an onion.In the face of the rain of bullets coming out of the iron pipe, the corpses fell in waves after waves.Huang Wenjin roared angrily, waved the order flag, and commanded the Taiping army to continue the attack.None of these old brothers who had been with him for more than ten years retreated, and all of them screamed with distorted faces, pulled the foreign guns in their hands and walked forward.After five or six waves of guns in a row, Huang Wenjin, who had always been calm and at ease, was already soaked with cold sweat on his forehead at this time.The Qingzi army didn't know what demon magic they had used, and after the iron pipe was activated, the rain of bullets flying out of it never stopped.The Qingzi army hid behind the sandbag, and although the guns of the Taiping army continued to fire dense bullets, they had no effect on the Qingzi army at all, but were exposed to the guns of the Qingzi army one by one and became a moving target.Half an hour later, more than half of the people fell under the fire dragon that spat out from the iron pipe.The corpses piled up on the not wide official road were already covered with two thick layers, emitting a disgusting smell of blood."
Dashuai, withdraw quickly, the brothers are almost exhausted."
A general in front found Huang Wenjin covered in blood, kneeling on the ground and crying silently.Huang Wenjin was stunned, seeing that the soldier at the front had rushed to a place not far away fifty meters, and at this moment, like a gambler who pressed all the chips, he kicked the general fiercely, and roared, "Go back, and then retreat lightly, there will be no mercy." ”"Subordinates receive orders."
The general gritted his teeth and wailed, picked up the foreign gun in his hand and led the team to rush over."
It's going to be successful, one more meter, another meter" Huang Wenjin clenched his teeth, his eyes were round, staring at the last group of Taiping troops swarming up.Victory seemed imminent, but it was so insurmountable.At this time, from the direction of the street and the end of the street, there was already a shout of the Qing army's encirclement, and the only remaining wave of Taiping troops was like completing his fate, and the last person carrying the handsome flag was left."
Qiao Zhiqing, Lao Tzu won't let you go if you're a ghost."
Huang Wenjin looked at the corpses all over the street in a daze, and cried miserably.His legs went limp, and he fell to his knees on the ground.The man with a distorted face, after gritting his teeth and scolding, pulled out the saber on his waist and wiped it fiercely towards his neck."
Division commander, Huang Wenjin committed suicide, and the north of the city has been completely taken down by us."
After Luo Sanyuan heard the news, he hurriedly ran over excitedly and shouted behind Zhang Zongyu.On the battlefield outside the city, the battle has entered a white-hot stage, and the Taiping army seems to have no idea what life and death are, no matter how many brothers in front of them have fallen, they just step on the corpse and bury their heads and continue to rush forward.The sun is approaching dusk, and the remnant sun is like blood.There was no more open space on the battlefield, and the dense crowd was all covered with bloody corpses."
Got it, transfer the left brigade and the machine gun wing to the city wall, I want to see how long this group of Taiping troops can last" Zhang Zongyu calmly ordered, the Taiping army is now at the end of the crossbow, and he wants to give the last blow to this group of people who have fallen into madness."
Yes, my subordinates will do it."
Luo Sanyuan bowed down easily.After all the remnants of the enemy in the north of the city were completely wiped out, the left brigade and the machine gun wing immediately supplemented the battle sequence on the city wall according to Zhang Zongyu's arrangement.All 12 expeditionary machine guns of the machine gun wing were pulled to the east gate where the battle was most intense, and they were scattered and placed on the 200-meter-wide city gate tower.With Zhang Zongyu's order, the wildly beating bullet spewed out again, without any scruples, like a locust sweeping the realm, and swept away all the living creatures in front of it in an instant.The last straw in the hands of the Taiping army finally sank, and the great retreat occurred without warning, like the ripples in the water suddenly contracted, and quickly retreated towards the original point.The generals of the Taiping army roared and cursed in the back, and even threatened with bullets from foreign guns, but they were quickly drowned in the vast crowd
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