After the Eight Banners on all sides charged the Taiping Army, Rong Lu personally commanded this improvised patchwork of foreign spears to rush to the front line, and after several rounds of impact, the foreign spearmen gradually entered the state.All actions were under the command of the team leader, and the rows of guns were fired in an orderly manner, preparing, and reloading.The effect was immediately apparent, the chaotic arrow array of the Taiping army was torn to pieces by the dense bullets fired by the foreign spear team a hundred meters away, and after the archers counterattacked, the Eight Banners Army was not within the range of the bow and arrow.The battle situation was also reversed for a while, but the Taiping army panicked.Some generals even opened the gate of the village and rushed forward with the Taiping army to meet the rain of bullets from the foreign guns, but they were all in a pool of blood after only a distance of more than ten meters.The 1,000 foreign spearmen in the Taiping army were weak, and they charged in line in the face of more than 5,000 foreign spearmen of the Eight Banners, without any desperate strength.Seeing that the city was about to be lost, the leader of the Taiping army finally ordered a breakthrough and rushed out towards the weakest point of the Eight Banners' attack.The situation that happened below must have made Rong Lu vomit blood, obviously the Eight Banners Army had occupied an absolute advantage, and it was possible to achieve victory, who knew that the Taiping Army was holding the posture of a fish dying and breaking the net, and launched a breakthrough without his life, facing an enemy several times his own, desperately slashing and killing, and tearing a bloody road from the dense crowd.Where did the masters of the Eight Banners withstand the impact of this kind of life-playing, and they hurriedly hugged their heads and fled in all directions.Rong Lu organized the pro-soldier supervision army behind him, and as soon as he saw the spreading team, he stepped forward to slash and kill, which stabilized the morale of the army a little.They surrounded the Taiping army again, but none of the teams dared to chase and intercept them head-on, just watching the Taiping army that broke through from the flanks waving their flags and shouting, but they were all pretentious, and no one dared to rush forward.Rong Lu completely lost confidence in these Manchu soldiers, and it was only less than two hundred years since the ancestors entered the customs, and these descendants completely wore off the blood on their bodies.If Qing Taizu had a spirit in the sky, he would definitely jump out of the grave angrily when he saw today's battle.However, the power of the foreign spear team this time was greatly unexpected by Rong Lu, and the reason why the Manchu army did not use foreign guns was that they only felt that this thing had the same range as bows and arrows, and it was quite difficult to build.But Rong Lu's feelings are quite deep, archers have too high requirements for the quality of soldiers, not everyone can shoot a distance of 100 meters, but foreign spearmen only need one person to pull the trigger in their hands, and the training is not the same.At this moment, I suddenly understood why Qiao Zhiqing's Qingzi army was able to win all battles, it was nothing more than strict military discipline and the use of foreign guns to fight.This also strengthened Rong Lu's determination to establish a foreign gun army of his own, and one day even Qiao Zhiqing will not be his opponent.Anyway, the first battle was successful, Rong Lu hurriedly sent someone to the capital to play a fold, the battle was mixed and vinegared again, originally he killed and injured tens of thousands of people, but only killed more than 2,000 Taiping army defeat, but changed to kill 10,000 enemies, long-haired thieves fled in despair, now Gourong City has been conquered, and after the whole army will be marched towards Nanjing.However, the South Road army led by Duolonga was really a big victory this time, at the beginning of the attack the cavalry impact method, directly tore the Maoxi Town camp defended by the Taiping Army from the middle, and then the infantry attacked around, although it was also the same as Ronglu's side, it was scattered by the Taiping Army many times, but Duolonga was very majestic in the army, he personally attacked in front, that there were generals who dared to retreat privately, and they could only fight with the Taiping Army, and finally killed more than 8,000 Taiping troops, and more than 2,000 Taiping troops broke through, Flee towards the city of Gourong.If this is calculated, Rong Lu is not a bully, and the enemy army killed is indeed tens of thousands, but Gourong City is still in the hands of the Taiping army.Rong Lu thought that it would take three days to rush to the capital for 800 miles, and within three days, he should have taken down Gourong City.Rong Lu was like a-stirring stick, instantly breaking the defensive posture around Nanjing City.Originally, the defense of Nanjing City was mainly focused on the Hunan army, and the Qing army seemed to have formed a tacit understanding, anyway, since the Qing army occupied Zhenjiang, there was no movement to use troops in Nanjing.Hong Renji understands Qiao Zhiqing's thoughts best, if the Qing army attacks Nanjing with all its might, I am afraid that Nanjing City will not be able to hold out for even a month, but because of the internal power disputes of the Qing army, it can be seen from the deployment of troops that Qiao Zhiqing mainly used his energy to prevent Li Hongzhang and Zeng Guofan, and was not so enthusiastic about the Taiping army, so the eastern defense of Nanjing City did not send too many elite soldiers.However, Rong Lu's agitation immediately attracted the attention of Nanjing, and the blind man could see that Rong Lu was preparing to take Gourong City and march towards Nanjing from the east.The east side of Nanjing City is almost unsafe, and if Gourong City is lost, then Nanjing City will also be in danger.At this time, Li Xiucheng took the more than 200,000 troops scattered from Huzhou City and returned to Nanjing to rest for more than three months.Sure enough, as he expected, as soon as he returned to the city, he was reused by the king's relatives.For a time, the military and political power was once again in his hands, and Hong Renji was once again squeezed out of the decision-making level.This time Rong Lu attacked Gourong City, which just angered Li Xiucheng, who was sharpening his sword, and after he came back, he fought with Zeng Guoquan in Yuhuatai a few times, but the result was always the same, because the waterway was completely controlled by the Hunan army, so as long as Zeng Guoquan's supply could not be cut off, then Yuhuatai could not be recovered.After Li Xiucheng sent back the military information from the spies, he found out that the Eight Banners in the east dared to besiege Nanjing City.In a fit of rage, he hurriedly sent Li Shixian to lead hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops to garrison Gourong City and recover Weigang Town and Maoxi Town, which were taken away by the Eight Banners.The news of Li Shixian's increase in troops to Gourong City was quickly learned by Qiao Zhiqing, but he still did not move, and only let the Qing army stationed in Zhenjiang and Danyang City prepare for defense.Rong Lu also received the news of the long-haired thief's increase in troops, but he had just sent it back to the imperial court, if he did not take Gourong City as planned, it would be a crime of bullying the king, and there were many generals in this army who stared at him and laughed.Rong Lu had no choice but to hold the determination to break the cauldron and attack Gourong City.When he and Duolonga's southern army launched a flank attack on Houzhen, they did not expect to encounter a large-scale Taiping army that took the initiative to counterattack.Li Shixian couldn't defeat the Qing Army, but he was more than capable of dealing with these Eight Banner Army, even if he had led the troops for many years, he had never won every time he fought with the Taiping Army.Li Shixian directly sent troops to Houzhen and attacked the enemy in two ways.He brought tens of thousands of foreign spearmen from Nanjing City, as well as 200 field artillery, and did not take Rong Lu seriously at all.The armies of the north and south fought with the Taiping army at the same time, and they made a decisive decision.Rong Lu almost didn't do anything, so he took his own soldiers to sit in the back, as long as there were deserters who tore them down, they were killed on the spot.This battle was also quite bloody, which completely changed Li Shixian's understanding of the Eight Banners.Especially in the face of the foreign gun formation formed by the Eight Banners, I thought that the Qing Army had sent troops to help.However, after only a few rounds of fighting, it was found that the orders of the foreign gun formation were not uniform, and the formation was often in disarray, and as long as the slightest intensive bombardment of field artillery was used, the formation would immediately collapse.After discovering this weakness, Li Shixian knew that the other party's will to fight was not strong, and he just relied on the majesty of the coach to gather together.This allowed the same number of foreign guns to face each other, all using the same weapons and lining up in the same formation.At a distance of 200 meters, casualties were immediate.Pieces of soldiers were beaten into bloody holes and fell to their feet, and then the soldiers of the other faction were replenished.When the two sides each hit another 100 meters, the Eight Banners Army finally broke up and completely lost control.Even if Rong Lu slashed everywhere like crazy behind him, he couldn't stop the flow of people fleeing.The Taiping army took advantage of the situation to pursue, killing countless people along the way, until the pursuit reached the realm of Danyang, as if they had discussed it, and immediately stopped the pursuit.At this time, the army of the North Road led by Rong Lu was killed about 30,000 on the spot, 10,000 soldiers and horses were missing, and only more than 10,000 people remained by Rong Lu's side.After the Taiping army launched an attack, Duolonga still relied on cavalry to intersperse around, even in the face of the Taiping army's foreign gun formation, he did not flinch, but when he met the opponent, the Taiping army did not have so many ways to retreat, and they were all desperate to meet the enemy.The bloody battle with the Eight Banners led by Duolonga reached the night, Duolonga also lost the best opportunity to break through, and was surrounded by the reinforcements that Li Shixian rushed back from the North Road, the two sides were red-eyed, and the Taiping army saw that the Manchu Eight Banners Army did not have the habit of being captured, whether they surrendered or not, they were all killed on the spot, and finally Duolonga desperately broke through the siege, and fled to the territory of Danyang City with only more than 500 cavalry.Rong Lu tossed for nearly a month, and finally returned.Looking at the corpses all over the battlefield, the young man finally collapsed and vomited blood, fainted on the ground, and was carried by his generals on a stretcher all the way, and then withdrew to the garrison of Jinkui City.After Yan Yuting sent the military report to Qiao Zhiqing's table, Qiao Zhiqing smiled bitterly after seeing it, and sweated for Rong Lu in his heart, because the imperial court's edict had just been issued, and Rong Lu was specially appointed as the general soldier of Jiangsu, and Qiao Zhiqing was responsible for the siege of Nanjing City.Unexpectedly, there were only more than 10,000 remnants of the Jiangsu army left at this time, and if the imperial court knew, he would definitely have the heart of Rong Lu alive, and it would be up to Cixi to be reluctant.After receiving Rong Lu's grace and victory, Cixi praised Rong Lu in the court with a spring face, and called on all the ministers to learn from Rong Lu's loyal and patriotic spirit.Ci'an and Prince Gong were also happy with Cixi, after all, they were all Manchu who made great contributions, since Rong Lu took charge of the army, I don't know how many times stronger than Shengbao, and there was finally a man among the Manchu generals who could fight.Therefore, the Military Aircraft Department drafted a decree to promote Rong Lu to the general army of Jiangsu, which was regarded as a reward for Rong Lu.On the one hand, it was also to hold Qiao Zhiqing's military power hostage to prevent him from arbitrarily ruling in Jiangsu
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