The defeat outside the city made Dong Yingkui, the political envoy of Guangxi's right cloth, Zhang Zichang, the political envoy of the left cloth, Xu Wenxiu, the inspector Zhang Suoyang, and Zu Zehao, the prefect of Wuzhou, who watched the battle at the head of Wuzhou City, tremble.
According to the inspector, Xu Wenxiu was ruthless to take the only remaining more than 1,000 battalions out of the city to rescue the defeated army, and responded to the capital commander Dai Liangchen and other troops to retreat to the city, but how dare those battalions go out of the city.
Xu Wenxiu believed that there would be brave men under the heavy reward, but the battalion soldiers were not at all moved by the boxes of silver in front of them.
The silver is good, but there must always be a life to take it, and the fight outside the city is so bad, they don't have many lives on top.
The soldiers in the city did not dare to go out of the city, and the soldiers outside the city were defeated again, Dong Yingkui even thought of his fate after the city was broken, Zhang Zichang and others may be able to save their lives to surrender the Ming army, but he was born in the Han army with a yellow flag, and it can be good in the hands of the Ming army Patrol Zhang was also born in the Han Army Banner, and he was also very scared at this moment, but he was not as desperate as Dong Yingkui, but gritted his teeth and pulled Zu Zewei, the son of Zu Dashou and the prefect of Wuzhou, to get off the city, and seize the time to mobilize the people of the city to go to the city to help defend.
Now there are more than 1,000 battalions in the city, if you don't organize young and strong people to go to the city to help defend it, once the Taiping army attacks the city, how can there be enough troops in the city to defend.
In order to let the people contribute, Zhang Suoyang and Zu Zehui sent people everywhere in the city to preach that the Taiping army was bandits, and they would slaughter the city after entering the city.
Under their deception and intimidation, the people of the city had to organize young and strong people to go to the city to help defend it, so that the city head could be added by thousands.
Outside the city, the Taiping army was completely devastating the Qing army's defeated army, fighting until the evening, the Taiping army finally collected its troops, and finally fled back to the city only the Han army was under Dai Liangchen's department, and there were some remnants of the green battalion, adding up to less than 2,000 people.
The Guilin soldiers under the command of Li Bensheng of Cangwu Dao were all wiped out, and his whereabouts were unknown in the chaos.
Zhang Jizeng, the commander of Xunzhou, Tian Shenglong, the deputy general of Nanning, and other generals were also killed, and the soldiers they brought were also killed and wounded by the Taiping army, and more than 10,000 Qing troops were killed and captured.
The victorious Taiping army did not immediately attack the city, but began to clean up the battlefield, and forced those prisoners to start digging trenches, looking as if they were planning to besiege Wuzhou for a long time, which made the Qing troops at the head of the city breathe a sigh of relief.
They were not afraid that the Taiping army would besiege Wuzhou City for a long time, because the food in the city was enough for them to hold for more than half a year.
They were only afraid that the Taiping army would take advantage of the victory to attack and not give Wuzhou any respite.
Dai Liangchen, the commander of the Han army, did not see it that way, he looked at the Taiping army cleaning up the battlefield with torches in the night, and looked at the defeated soldiers who were desperately digging with shovels issued by the Taiping army, and his heart sank to the bottom.
He didn't believe that the generals of the Taiping army outside the city would be stupid and would do anything about the long-term siege after severely damaging the main force of the Qing army in Wuzhou, because the purpose of their coming from Guangdong was to save the Ming emperor in the southwest, and time was very precious to them, so they would not waste their time on any siege at all, so they must have other intentions in driving the captives to dig trenches.
But what was the intention, Dai Liangchen didn't think of it for a while.
Ma Xiong's death made Dai Liangchen the highest general in Wuzhou City, although there were two political envoys in the city, but they were civil officials, so Dai Liangchen could only be responsible for the defense of Wuzhou.
Dai Liangchen's only hope now was that Chen Weixin, the governor of Guilin, would immediately send reinforcements after receiving the news of the defeat in Wuzhou, and at the same time send an 800-li urgent express to the Admiral Line Guoan who had entered Yunnan, asking the Line Governor to immediately lead his division back to help.
In this way, the war in Guangxi can still hold on, as long as the Taiping army's road to Qinwang can be blocked, the Yunnan side can be divided into winners and losers in half a year at most, as long as Zhu Youlang is captured, the Taiping army will be defeated if it is not defeated.
On the contrary, if the Taiping army captured Wuzhou, the whole province of Guangxi would collapse, because Ma Xiong in order to hold the important town of Wuzhou, 70% of the remaining troops in Guangxi were withdrawn, and if Wuzhou fell, the rest of the provinces in Guangxi would not have enough strength to stop the Taiping army from advancing westward.
After gaining Wuzhou, the gateway to Guangxi, the Taiping army could attack Guilin directly by land and Xunzhou and Nanning by water.
After the Taiping army that occupied Guangxi, it could use the Guangxi Prefecture as a springboard and directly appear in the rear of the Qing army entering Yunnan, so that the war in Yunnan would have to change.
Dai Liangchen has not figured out how many troops the Taiping army Qinwang has so far, but only judging from the combat effectiveness shown by the vanguard soldiers and horses outside the city, even if the main force of the Taiping army Qinwang is only 20,000 or 30,000 people, it will make the Yunnan war situation unpredictable.
The Taiping army is too capable of fighting, but if it can fight again, Dai Liangchen must defend it hard, and Wuzhou must not be lost At dawn the next day, Dai Liangchen's worries came true, and the Taiping army did not plan to besiege the city for a long time, but immediately organized a siege.
Qi Hao, the commander of the artillery town, personally commanded the artillery bombardment of Wuzhou City, and the sailors on the Xijiang River also transported the Franc machine guns on the ship to the shore, and drove the prisoners to pull the cannons weighing thousands of catties to the city little by little.
The captured Qing gunners were all picked by the Taipings, and whether they wanted to or not, they had to fire at their comrades in the city at the moment when the long knives were on their necks.
Hundreds of large and small guns lined up along the trenches dug by the captives last night, the gunners set up the cannons, built the civil fortifications, aimed the muzzles of the black holes at the head of the city, and then a Francophone officer took the tools in his hand and measured them at the head of the city, and finally ordered the gunners to fire the first shot.
"Boom", the roar of cannonballs sounded at the head of Wuzhou City, which shocked the Qing troops in the city.
Dai Liangchen's face was also extremely ugly, there were too many artillery pieces of the Taiping army, I really don't know where they got so many artillery.
The muzzle of the black hole in that door makes people really numb to watch.
After the test firing, the artillery of the Taiping Army began a general artillery bombardment of the city of Wuzhou.
All the cannons were fired, and the auxiliary gunners carried the solid iron ball back and forth.
The constant roar never stopped, and shells continued to fall on the city, overturning the Qing soldiers hiding behind the women's wall, or smashing the battlements to pieces with a "bang".
Iron bullets smashed on the city wall, making the Qing troops standing on the head of the city a little unstable, and they could clearly feel the vibration from the city wall.
The Taiping artillery bombardment did not kill or injure many Qing troops, because the shells were fired entirely at the city walls, but whether or not these artillery shells caused many casualties to the Qing army, it was a great blow to their morale.
Those young men who were hurriedly dragged up to the city were even more frightened to stand or squat, running around the city.
They only felt that the city was crumbling, as if it could collapse at any moment.
There was also artillery on the head of Wuzhou City, and after a burst of artillery bombardment by the Taiping Army, the Qing army also began to fire back artillery.
Although the number of artillery was not as large as that of the Taiping Army, and the momentum was not as fierce as that of the Taiping Army, the artillery fired from the city still gave the Qing army a trace of comfort and inexplicable hope.
The soldiers of the Second Town who had participated in the siege all crouched in the trenches dug last night, and listened to the cannon jumping overhead.
None of the unlucky eggs were hit, and gradually the Qing army in the city finally figured out why the Taiping army was digging those trenches.
The gunners of the Qing army also wanted to hit the shells directly in the trenches, but no matter how they operated, the cannons could not fall down.
"Boom", a big iron ball smashed from under the city was a cannon in the city, under the huge heavy blow, the cannon body immediately turned up and rolled in the air a few times, and then smashed on an unlucky Qing gunner, leaving his upper body and lower body at once, the unlucky gunner screamed and wanted to climb out from under the gun, but he couldn't climb.
In the eyes of his companions, it was another scene, a hapless guy with half of his body cut off and crawling out Dai Liangchen hid behind the battlements, his face covered with traces of gunsmoke, and around him were a few unlucky soldiers and young men.
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