After the canal pontoon bridge was destroyed, the Qing army's infantry brigade was suddenly blocked on the east bank of the canal.
Manchurian Governor Dase and Mongol Ezhen and Ke could not lead their troops to cross the river to reinforce Tong Guogang, so they had to order the soldiers to repair the pontoon bridge while supervising the soldiers to strangle the Ming army that was fighting for the East Fort.
Although the ironclad soldiers of the original Zheng Army who were fighting a bloody battle with the defenders of the East Fort, they retreated to the river after holding out for a while because there were too many Qing troops who had been reinforced, and the main general Yu Xin was killed in battle.
The riverside was full of muddy ground, which was not conducive to the withdrawal of the Ming army, nor was it conducive to the pursuit of the Qing army, and in the end, more than 300 Zheng troops successfully withdrew to the ship.
This was the only offensive that the Qing army had achieved since the beginning of the war to force the Taiping army into an organized formation, and it won a great battle.
Guo Faguang, the former general of the Zhejiang Army, saw that the Qing army was rushing to repair the canal pontoon bridge, and hurriedly led the warships of the naval division of the department to break into the mouth of the canal and prevent the Qing army from rushing to repair the pontoon bridge with artillery bombardment.
The warships of the right battalion of Guo Faguang's naval division are all large ships, which are suitable for action on the river, but they are not suitable for action in such a narrow area as the mouth of the canal, and it is very inconvenient to move and turn, and in some places the water depth is less than three or four meters, and once the big ships sail in, they are easy to run aground and become a live target for the Qing army artillery on the shore.
However, in order to prevent the Qing army from rushing to repair the pontoon bridge, the sailors could not take care of it, Guo Faguang personally led a boat to break into the estuary, and dozens of large and small artillery pieces on several boats bombarded the Qing soldiers who were rushing to repair the pontoon bridge.
Seeing this, the Qing army on the east fort on the earthen dam also frantically shelled the Taiping Army sailors on the river, because the distance was too close, three sailor warships were hit, one sank on the spot, and two were also lost their mobility.
Guo Faguang raised the flag and ordered the artillery to bombard the pontoon bridge, and at the same time organized artillery fire to suppress the Qing army in the East Fort, and the two sides exchanged artillery above the mouth of the canal.
The infantry brigade of the Qing army under the command of Dase also carried a large number of artillery, and at this time they also pulled up one after another, and shelled the bamboo forest not far from the river bank towards the mouth of the river.
The warships of the Taiping Navy Division that entered the estuary could only be hit there because of their inconvenience, and from time to time the warships were hit by the Qing army's artillery.
Every time a cannonball landed on a Taiping warship, the Qing soldiers on the shore would burst into cheers.
But Darse and Ehok were cloudy, for they knew that the key to the battlefield was not at the mouth of the river, but on the west bank.
No matter how fierce the artillery is here, even if all the Taiping warships are destroyed, as long as the west bank is lost, the battle will be lost.
There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Dase awarded a heavy reward, and directly threatened, more than 300 northern battalion soldiers rushed to repair the pontoon bridge under the cannon of the Taiping army.
From time to time, cannonballs fall on both sides of the pontoon bridge, like a meteor swarm falling from the sky above the canal.
Everywhere there were columns of water, everywhere there were wailings.
Several iron bullets on the Taiping warship smashed directly on the bridge deck, either taking away several lives or smashing a big hole in the bridge deck.
On the west bank, the destruction of the pontoon bridge made it impossible for the infantry brigade to cross the river to come for reinforcements, which made Tong Guogang complain.
The situation on the battlefield had rapidly turned against the Qing army, and the advantage of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry was being diminished with the continuous arrival of Taiping reinforcements.
The battle had become a stalemate, and the maneuverable advantage of the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry interspersed and rushing was gone, and they were instead caught in the attacks of the Taiping army in all directions.
Zhou Shixiang has already gone ashore, and he is on the west fort at this moment.
Although he did not know which soldiers and horses destroyed the pontoon bridge, he had decided that after the battle, he would reward the warriors who broke the bridge and make great contributions to them.
Zhou Shixiang's handsome flag was planted at the top of the West Fort, and the bright yellow banner clearly told everyone on the battlefield that he was there.
On the river beach, groups of Taiping troops dressed in red uniforms jumped off the boats in a steady stream, and then dozens of people in a group, or hundreds of people, led by officers and military flags, rushed forward.
The horses were also lowered from the ship, and the Mongol soldiers, who were not accustomed to boating, were still a little dizzy after coming ashore, but after adjustment, they quickly turned on their horses and rushed towards the battlefield with the sound of Han and Mongolian shouts of killing.
"Queue" Liu Bangdong shouted loudly, and the more than 200 soldiers under his command immediately lined up in five horizontal columns in the direction of the standard-bearer.
The An army made Lu Yi stand beside Liu Bangdong with a knife, and the 20 guards directly under the soldiers formed a single team.
In the team, Guo Cheng, who was nicknamed "Guo Lao Dao" by his comrades, clenched the long knife in his hand a little nervously.
"Forward" With Liu Bangdong's order, Bingwei strode forward under the guidance of the standard-bearer.
On the far right side of the team is a soldier blowing suona, accompanied by the sound of suona, and the 245 people of Bingwei, including officers and soldiers, are like one person, straight forward.
In front of them, on the left and right, a phalanx of guards was also striding forward.
"Release" After stepping into range of the Qing army's bows and arrows, Liu Bangdong pointed his long knife forward.
In an instant, the forty soldiers in the first row fired the guns in their hands in front of them, and quickly crouched down after the fight, followed by the second and third rows In the sound of "bang", the Qing troops in front of them kept falling from their horses, and the people neighed on their horses, mixing together.
"Rush" The spear-wielding phalanx on the other side shouted and rushed towards the Qing army with their spears diagonally held after the guards had released a few rounds of guns.
Rulin's spear kept stabbing the Qing soldiers on the horse, knocking them off the horse one by one.
Within a few square kilometers, there were counteroffensive Taiping army formations everywhere, and the balance of victory was sharply tilted in favor of the Taiping army.
Wang Fuchen, a white-robed and yellow-robed horse, had led his troops to rush back and forth in the Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry twice, and no one could stop him when the spear arrived.
Tong Guogang saw Wang Fuchen in the capital, and knew that he was powerful, so he didn't dare to fight the Malay war at all, so he kept waving his flag and ordered the Mongolian soldiers to block Wang Fuchen.
The 800 ironclad soldiers led by the blind Li became the last straw that overwhelmed the Qing army.
Eight hundred ironclad soldiers slashed at the Qing soldiers in the middle line like no man's land, and the Qing army was helpless against these ironclad soldiers, and there was no empty space around them to fight and drag down the physical strength of these ironclad soldiers, so they had to block it head-on.
But these ironclad soldiers are hoplites, and the Manchurian cavalry is light cavalry, and they can't be crushed at all.
The Taiping army, which was originally cut by the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry, relied on the advantage of strength to surround the Qing army in reverse at this time, cutting thousands of Qing troops into battle circles ranging from hundreds to dozens of people.
The Qing soldiers, who had no advantage in mobility, were passively beaten like horseless cavalry.
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Finally, the Qing army could not hold on, the Mongol soldiers galloped towards the canal, and the Manchurian soldiers abandoned the enemy in front of them and fled to the canal.
Some of the battalion soldiers of the Duobi Division also ran towards the canal together, while others threw away their weapons and surrendered on their knees.
However, they did not receive forgiveness from the Taipings, and they were cut to the ground one by one.
"Chase, drive the Tartar down the river" Tie Yi, who had almost half of his subordinates killed, gave the order to pursue with red eyes.
Everywhere there were fleeing Qing troops, and everywhere there were chasing Taiping troops.
Tong Guogang fled to the canal, looking at the pontoon bridge that had not yet been repaired and despaired.
He wanted to fight his horse and turn back to fight with the Taiping army, but there were countless broken troops in the rear.
The defeat was like a mountain, and it was impossible for him to regroup his troops and horses and turn back to fight a bloody battle.
The banks of the river were crowded with cavalry, looking at the wide canal, and the Qing army looked at the river and sighed.
Some Mongolian soldiers hesitated for a moment, beat their horses and ran towards the river, and the people on the shore looked at their hearts and raised their voices, and finally, the Mongolian soldiers disappeared in front of everyone's eyes with their horses.
In the rear, a killing frenzy is underway.
One after another, the Qing soldiers were stabbed from their horses by the vengeful Taiping army, and then they were stabbed together.
The Qing army, who were anxious to flee for their lives, continued to rush forward, so that the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were the first to reach the river and hesitate to stop were squeezed down the river one after another.
The sound of falling water came and went, and the Qing infantry on the other side of the river watched everything that happened on the other side of the river in amazement.
More than a dozen Yangzhou soldiers who knew how to swim jumped up, and then desperately rowed their arms, successfully swimming to the opposite bank two miles away, which inspired the Qing army.
Soon, it was no longer the Manchu soldiers who were squeezed into the river who "plopped" into the water, but the Manchu soldiers who took the initiative to dive.
However, the Manchurian soldiers soon discovered that they could not actually swim When hundreds of people were submerged in the canal, the tumultuous riverbank finally calmed down, except for the unlucky ones who were squeezed into the river from time to time, the rest of the Manchurian soldiers pressed their toes against the riverbank, lest they would be squeezed down.
On the other side of the river, Dase and Eheke finally reacted that the pontoon bridge could not be repaired, and the top priority was to immediately find a boat to go to the other side to save people.
A group of Qing soldiers ran upstream in a panic to find boats, and Tong Guogang's personal soldiers on the other side were lucky to find three fishermen's fishing boats.
They protected Tong Guogang on the boat, and the three small boats were crowded with Manchu and Mongolian generals who were eager to cross the river and flee for their lives.
Seeing this, some Manchu and Mongolian soldiers rushed forward to get on the boat, but the Manchu and Mongolian generals on the ship did not let them get on at all.
The Manchurian soldiers clung to the side of the boat, so that the boat could not hold out at all, but only swirled there.
In the distance, the shouts and killings of the Taiping army were getting closer and closer, and the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who were squeezed down the river also came more and more.
"Chop off their hands, cut off their hands" Tong Guogang shouted frantically, wielding a knife and cutting off the hands of a Manchurian soldier holding the side of the boat, the Manchurian soldier screamed, fell down, and waved the severed limbs of his hands in the water and struggled there, and finally "grunted" and sank to the bottom.
Cutting with knives and spears, the Manchurian generals who were eager to flee for their lives frantically slaughtered their subordinates, just for themselves to be able to escape.
"Take us, take us, Lord Totong" Tong Guogang's personal soldiers had dozens of people, and it was impossible for all of them to get on the boat, and at this moment, they were begging Lord Dutong to take them with him in the water half a waist deep.
Some Manchurian officers were also begging in the water, but Tong Guogang was as hard as iron, even if there were red belts among these people, he couldn't care about it "Tong Guogang, Manchuria can't spare you, and the emperor can't spare you" The abandoned Manchurian officer cursed loudly as he watched as the three surviving boats drifted farther and farther away.
"Down, down" The Mongol soldiers on the shore suddenly shouted, and immediately all the Manchu and Mongol soldiers shouted surrender.
Tong Guogang listened in the center of the river, gritted his teeth, didn't say a word, and his face was pale.
"We surrender, don't kill us" The Manchurian cavalry dismounted and knelt down one by one to surrender, and looking at the past, there were no less than thousands of people densely packed.
"Whoever fights and surrenders, kills" Wang Fuchen smiled and waved his hand, and thousands of cavalry roared forward, slashing wildly at the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry who were so crowded that they couldn't move at all.
The Taiping infantry army that followed also used broadswords and spears to harvest the lives of these Manchurian soldiers who had no will to fight.
The desperate Manchu soldiers had no choice but to jump into the river, and they found anything that could help them cross the river, and from a distance it looked like dumplings.
The Taiping army, who walked through the corpses of the Manchu soldiers to the river, still did not let go of the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who fell into the river, they beat them with firearms, shot with bows and arrows on the bank, and even the soldiers with spears rushed directly into the river, and stabbed the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers who only showed their noses but did not dare to go any further, and constantly drove them into the river.
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