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Volume 1: Fierce Battle in Changsha Chapter 368: Unmoving as a Mountain

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    The three-day strike period is coming soon. In these days, the people in the besieged city of Taizhou are living like a year. They are like a death row prisoner who has been sentenced to death but has to wait until the autumn to be executed. In addition to despair, there are slowly more thoughts.

    Starting from the next day, there were a lot more notices in the city for no reason. They seemed to be posted all over the streets overnight. The notices were nothing more than the Taiping Army urging the soldiers and civilians in the city to surrender.

    This made Da Hong'a very angry. After killing three Qian Zong who were patrolling that night, he ordered people to raise a rope to the city. He knew that there must be a Taiping Army in the city.  A lot of suspicious people were arrested, but Da Hong'a didn't examine them carefully. They all had their heads chopped off and hung on the city wall for public display.

    But a day later, the notices that shaken the morale of the soldiers were posted all over the streets. At the same time, the notices extremely arrogantly warned Dahong'a not to kill innocent people indiscriminately, and said that Dahong'a would not be able to catch them.

    Dahong¡¯a was furious. When had he ever been teased like this?  Moreover, the Taiping Army did not seem to have any intention of persuading him to surrender. He originally planned to scold the rebels when someone came to persuade him to surrender, but there was not a single word in the notice to persuade him to surrender. At the same time, the Taiping Army never sent another  People came to persuade him to surrender, but the righteous words prepared by Da Hong'a were of no use.

    After finally waiting for the fourth day, Da Hong'a, who had held his breath, ordered the whole army to have a good meal early. Then he was fully clothed and even brought his ancestral sword, and stood majestically at the top of the city to command the defenders.  It seems that he has made up his mind to give the Taiping Army some color even if the city is destroyed.

    Unexpectedly, at dawn, after the Taiping Army's three-way cannon thought about it, more than a hundred ragged Qing prisoners were driven out of the position. These people were holding wooden signs with the same sentence written on them.  : "The troops and horses are tired, let's stop fighting for three more days!"

    Da Hong¡¯a watched these Qing army prisoners wandering around the city carrying wooden signs.  He was so angry that he flew into a rage. The three gods returned to their positions, grabbed an iron bow from the bodyguard beside them, opened the bow and fired.  The prisoners of the Qing army did not expect that they would be attacked by their own people in the city when they wandered around holding a strike sign. Dahong'a was skillful with his bow and horse and shot down arrows continuously. The prisoners of the Qing army were caught off guard and were shot at three people.  The rest of the people ran back when someone shouted.

    Dahong'a was furious and ordered his soldiers to shout in unison: "The traitor Li Kaifang, if you want to fight, fight him. Being timid is not a good man!" After shouting this several times.  There was still no movement from the Taiping Army.

    Dahong'a was very discouraged and sat slumped on the Taishi chair under the city tower in a daze. Wang Youling saw him and stepped forward and said: "Commander An, since Changmao is too scared to fight, let's recharge our batteries. Maybe we can pass."  When Li Junmen's army arrives in a few days, the siege of Taizhou will be lifted."

    Hear this.  Dahon'a jumped up suddenly.  Wang Youling was so frightened that Dahong'a exclaimed loudly with a pale face: "Why didn't I expect that Li Kaifang surrounded and refused to attack, because he just wanted to wait for the reinforcements to ambush Li Junmen halfway! Hehe, so cunning.  Thief!"

    Wang Youling said oh, and then he understood the intention of the Taiping Army.  Then he frowned and said: "Commander An, it's been three days. I'm afraid the reinforcements will arrive soon. If Changmao has an ambush. I'm afraid, I'm afraid now" He didn't go on, but Dahong'a understood.  What he said meant that he was afraid that the reinforcements were gone now.

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    It was already afternoon in Daxi Town, more than a hundred miles away, and the sun was shining on a field outside Daxi Town. However, the heat brought by the sun was blown away by the biting cold wind in mid-air.  The smoke of gunfire covered the sky and the sun, and the strong smell of blood in the air made people sick.

    Chen Alin, the commander of the First Infantry Regiment of the newly formed First Division of the Taiping Army, was dumbfounded as he looked at the corpses of Qing soldiers and many ownerless horses running around in front of the trench. The cigarette in his hand stopped in mid-air for a long time without putting it down.

    The First Regiment was ordered to block Qing reinforcements on the plain south of Daxi Town, while Pan Qiliang, commander of the First Brigade, led the remaining cavalry and infantry regiments to cut off the retreat of Qing reinforcements.  Since the first regiment captured Daxi Town two days ago, it took Daxi Town as the center, dug trenches and set up forts around the town, preparing to block Qing army reinforcements.

    This morning, the Qing army's reconnaissance cavalry began to appear, and then a large number of Qing army infantry began to besiege Daxi Town. Because the first regiment had a small number of people, only more than 1,300 people, and the Qing army reinforcements numbered more than 20,000 people.  , so the general in charge of the Qing army naturally did not pay attention to the more than a thousand long hairs in Daxi Town. From the beginning, he planned to defeat the Taiping Army with their numerical advantage. Unfortunately, this time they kicked the iron plate.

    Chen Alin's first regiment was best at earthworks. The fortifications outside the town were well-organized and well-organized. There were trenches, barbed wire, and a lot of pyrotechnic explosives and home-made landmines laid outside the town, which the Qing army could eat.  All the hard work.

    The fighting has been fierce for several hours since the war began. The Qing troops on the opposite side took turns charging at the Taiping Army's positions from several directions, causing heavy casualties.  But Li TingAfter more than a year of training by Li Tingyu, the Fujian army was quite powerful in combat. Although the Taiping army had intensive firepower, they were gradually defeated by the Qing army, relying on their numerical advantage to charge into the trenches several times.

    Subsequently, their shotguns and bows and arrows also began to cause casualties to the Taiping Army, but they were all repelled by more than ten artillery pieces in the Taiping Army town.  Corpses piled up like mountains in front of the Taiping Army position. The Qing army suffered three to four thousand casualties, but they did not retreat or bypass Daxi Town. The Qing army commander seemed to be driven crazy and vowed to kill the long-haired people in the town.  Kill them all without leaving any one behind.

    Seeing the red flags of the Qing army flying in the distance, another group of Qing troops began to form. Chen Alin understood that they were about to charge again. The regiment instructor Li Moquan said in a hoarse voice: "Captain, there are not enough artillery shells. Each gun  The cannon only had a few shells, and there were not many muffled thunders that did not explode outside. Fortunately, there were still enough rifle bullets, but there were many people on the opposite side, and I was afraid that they would not be able to stop them if they charged. Qingyao wanted to rely on the large number of people and keep on attacking.  Charge and defeat us.¡±

    Chen Alin took out a pocket watch imported from Switzerland and looked at it. He said in a neutral tone: "Just hold on for another half an hour. Order each battalion to abandon the trenches on the front line, shrink the front line, and then fight when they are closer.  Don¡¯t discharge empty guns randomly, save ammunition!¡±

    Amidst the roaring shouts, the desperadoes of the Qing army took off their upper body clothes in front of the formation. Everyone had a big knife in their hands. After everyone drank a large bowl of wine, they howled like wild beasts and started again.  Charged.

    The officers and soldiers of the Taiping Army were a little stunned. Many of them were veterans who fought with the King of the West from Changsha to southern Jiangsu. When had they ever seen the Qing army fight so hard?  In fact, as the war continues.  The Qing army's green battalion soldiers and other soldiers began to make progress. The war was indeed a catalyst. It gradually made the Qing army become more resistant to fighting. It was no longer the tofu army that had not experienced a battle for many years and collapsed at the first touch.

    The ring-shaped defensive position of the Taiping Army shrank back, and the personnel were arranged more densely. Within two hundred steps, the Taiping Army infantry began to shoot. Many of the Qing army's elite men who relied on their bravery were killed in front of the trench.  Following the others, they jumped into the ditch to take shelter. It seemed that they had calmed down after the hail of bullets.

    These suicide squads were tightly suppressed in the first trench. The Taiping Army also gave up the unnecessary waste of ammunition under the scolding of the generals, but everyone was aiming at the trench.  As soon as the Qing army shows up, there will definitely be several attacks at the same time.

    Seeing that his own men were unable to charge forward, the Qing army commander began to organize a second group of people to immediately come forward to respond, and followed the command to fire the cannons in the army.

    Seeing that the Qing army¡¯s artillery was whistling and sending shells at this time, Chen Alin also admired the endurance of the Qing general on the opposite side.  He actually never revealed the location of his cannon. It seems that he also knew that the Taiping artillery was vicious.  Therefore, human lives are used to fill the holes from the very beginning.  Rather than waste cannon ammunition and expose the position of the cannon.

    The Taiping Army had not fired artillery for a long time, which also made the Qing general on the opposite side think that the Taiping Army had run out of artillery shells, so they decisively ordered people to fire artillery.  With the help of artillery, the Qing army rushed forward roaring like a chicken blood.

    Chen Alin frowned slightly and said to Li Moquan without hesitation: "Let the artillery shoot all the remaining shells. Be sure to shut up Qingyao's cannon!"

    The artillery of the Taiping Army is a technical branch. The artillery officers and soldiers are all familiar with ballistics. The position of the Qing army's artillery can also be roughly calculated from the direction in which the Qing army's artillery shells flew. At present, more than ten artillery pieces fired at the remaining artillery shells.  They were all beaten out.  really.  After a burst of intensive gunpowder explosions, the Qing army's artillery was not as arrogant as before, and only a few sparse cannons were still firing.

    However, the infantry of the Qing army still took advantage of this burst of shelling and rushed to the second trench of the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army soldiers had already fixed their bayonets. After a bright charge, the Taiping Army soldiers shouted to stand up.  With their bayonets shining brightly, they jumped out of the ditch and started fighting hand-to-hand with the Qing infantry.

    With swords flying and bayonets stabbing, thousands of people fought in the trench. After the hand-to-hand combat, the new weapons had no effect. What the two sides were fighting for was primitive assassination technology and courage.  Fortunately, the Taiping Army's small groups of assassins cooperated skillfully. The three-person assassination team withstood several times the sabers and spears of the Qing infantry. The Qing infantry relied more on individual bravery.  There was little cooperation between the teams, so they were gradually suppressed by the Taiping Army.

    Seeing this situation in the distance, the Qing army general knew that there was nothing to save at this time. The scarlet battle flag was raised high, and the remaining more than 10,000 Qing soldiers all began to charge. He wanted to crush the Taiping Army in one fell swoop.

    Seeing the gray uniforms of the Qing army coming in like a gray tide and colliding with his own green defense line, his eyes heated up and he shouted to the artillery regiment led by Li Moquan behind him: "Order the artillerymen to also take up weapons, let's  Charge forward! Victory or defeat depends on this!"

    The artillery regiment¡¯s shells have been fired, hundreds ofThe artillerymen picked up their rifles and followed Chen Alin and Li Moquan and began to rush towards the first line of defense.  More than three hundred artillerymen rushed into the battle group and slightly stabilized the battle line. Chen Alin knew that the battle at this time was physical strength and will. Whichever side failed to support first would have to wait for failure.

    The Qing army was always outnumbered, and the defensive circle was getting smaller and smaller. Chen Alin shouted loudly: "Fight to the last man! No one in our Taiping New First Division was beaten to death from the back!"  At this time, the courage a military commander brings to the soldiers is huge. If the Qing army had moved to another place, at this time, the military commander might have run away long ago, and his soldiers would be brave enough to face such a situation.  The fierce and cruel hand-to-hand fight had already broken down and escaped.  At this moment, the Taiping Army was fighting hand-to-hand with a Qing army that was several times their own. There were no deserters or wavers. The Taiping Army's rigorous assassination training and physical training kept the Taiping Army infantry struggling to support them.

    The moment of crisis finally came. A hole was torn open by the Qing army on the east side of the defense circle. The rest of the Qing army shouted and charged towards the gap. Chen Alin's heart slowly sank, knowing that the last moment had come. This  At that time, there was no strategy to speak of. I just hoped that I could support it for a longer time. If I persisted, maybe a miracle would happen.

    At this moment, the loud charge horn resounded in the distance. The officers and soldiers of the first regiment were all excited when they heard it. Chen Alin looked up and saw a crowd of green grass coming from a distance, with a huge West Palace military flag behind him.  Standing on the field, they are the cavalry of the Taiping Army!

    Chen Alin was overjoyed and shouted: "Brothers, our cavalry is here!"

    The soldiers of the Taiping Army looked around and saw thousands of cavalry from their own side charging towards them. They didn't know where the strength came from, and they shouted and fought harder.

    The Taiping cavalry did not fire their carbines again, but brandished their sabers and rushed directly into the enemy formation. A cloud of blood instantly rose up, and the broken limbs were flying. The Qing troops who wanted to intercept were killed and dispersed. The Taiping cavalry did not pursue them.  Instead of killing the fleeing Qing army, they continued to charge forward and broke through the Qing army's encirclement in one fell swoop.

    After an immediate attack and a counterattack by the first regiment of infantry, more than 15,000 Qing troops were defeated and fled in all directions.  The Taiping cavalry who came for reinforcements separated into several lines of cavalry and chased the fleeing Qing troops.

    Chen Alin looked at the Taiping cavalry chasing the Qing army like mercury falling on the ground, and he cried out in joy. He saw dozens of Taiping cavalry running in front of him. The dust raised choked him so that he could not open his eyes and slapped him several times.  After the dust cleared, Chen Alin saw that one of the leading cavalrymen was wearing the uniform of a Taiping Army general. The man had a handsome face and saluted him with a military salute and said slowly: "Commander of the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Taiping Army's newly formed Second Division."  Zhang Wenxiang¡¯s rescue is late, please forgive me, Captain Chen!¡±

    Chen Alin said ah, returned the salute and said: "So you are the famous Zhang Wenxiang. If you hadn't arrived in time, our first group would have been abandoned here."

    Zhang Wenxiang smiled slightly and said: "The First Cavalry Regiment of the First Division is also here. They led people to hunt down the Maozi Cavalry. The Second Infantry Regiment is stuck on the way back to Wenzhou. This time there is no reinforcement from Qingyao.  Don¡¯t even think about going back.¡±

    Chen Alin looked at Zhang Wenxiang's weathered face and said with a smile: "Let's go into the town. The original Qingyao in the town left a lot of good things, hahaha." Amid laughter, Chen Alin took Zhang Wenxiang there.  Go to Daxi Town.  At this point, more than 20,000 Qing reinforcements were killed and scattered. The Qing army in Wenzhou suddenly lost more than 20,000 people. The entire Wenzhou defense line has shown a trend of collapse.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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