After gathering the defeated troops, Hechun asked the guide again and learned that only the way to Shanghai county town was through Yunzaogang, but there were already long hairs guarding the other side of Yunzaogang, and there were many firearms, and there were many ports in Yunzaogang River Bay, which was difficult to break through. After pondering for a while, Hechun gritted his teeth and ordered people to report to the Guangdong naval commander Chen Guotai, and ordered him to lead the navy warships upstream into the inland river channel of Yunzaogang to support him. Hechun believed that as long as the navy assisted the battle, the long hairs on the south bank of Yunzaogang were low, and the inland river of Yunzaogang is one of the few rivers in the suburbs of Shanghai except the Yangtze River and Huangpu River. Even if a medium-sized red single ship comes, it will definitely be able to pass on it.

After receiving the general order with Chun, Chen Guotai and other Guangdong naval generals argued in two factions. One faction was led by Lai Zhenhai and Li Xinming. They believed that the red single ship was best not to enter Yunzaogang. Although it could also be navigated large cargo ships, it was not as wide as the Huangpu River, and it would be difficult to protect the fleet if it was attacked. Chen Delin and Ye Changchun of the other faction believed that they should cooperate with the mainland division to attack Shanghai at the moment. As long as the Shanghai water and land passages are opened, reinforcements can enter Shanghai, they can complete the imperial decree. If they procrastinate for a long time, it would be difficult to guarantee that there would be no accidents in Suzhou. If Suzhou falls and Changmao draws more troops to aid Shanghai, the rescue of Shanghai will be even more distant. At that time, I am afraid that the court will blame it...

Chen Guotai finally decided to send Ye Changchun to lead ten red single boats and twenty fast crab boats with several sand boats and sampans to enter the Yunzaobang waters to support the land division.

Another Qing army had more than 2,000 people from the Qing army landed on the east fort and rushed to Gaoqiao. Chen Zhiming's troops personally pointed at the outside of Gaoqiao, using board doors, rafters, millstones, wine jars, boxes, window lattices, etc. to build camps, and used trees, wine jars, clay pots and other objects to disguise them as large and large cannon positions to confuse the enemy. The camp was piled up in the camp and killed soil outside. It was seven feet thick, with three layers in total. The third layer was first built with guns and cannons, and the cannons could not be defeated. There were six gates in the ring camp, and a seven-foot-wide protection river was dug around, which was digging the river water inside. Bamboo sticks were planted by the river and mines were buried.

Chen Zhiming stationed more than 800 main forces in the camp outside Gaoqiao. In the villages of Fanjiazhai, Nancun, Beicun, Lingqiao Village, Gujiazhai, Beiyangjiazhai and other villages along Gaoqiao and Huangpu River, eight small camps were built and connected with each other, with more than 100 people defending each other. The Qing army relied on the power of red single-ship artillery in the river and attacked several small camps along the river. Chen Zhiming stayed in the camp with fewer people, which was easy to avoid, but the losses were not great. After the artillery fire, more than 2,000 Qing troops attacked Nancun, Beicun and other places. The Qing army took turns to fight, but the Taiping Army defended fiercely. As soon as the red single-ship artillery fire passed, Chen Zhiming led people from the camp to support. The artillery in the camp only bombarded the Qing army on the shore. The Qing army suffered heavy casualties.

The stalemate of the Qing army was He Lomba on the east coast, commanding the Qing army to attack Gaoqiao from the northwest and southeast respectively. The Guangdong Navy obtained another batch of cannons. They placed eight thousand kilograms of cannons on the largest large red row ship, and then drove to the shore to bombard the Taiping Army camp. Many houses, towers, camp tents and other places were destroyed. The Qing army carried tables, chairs and wooden boards and attacked the outer small camp under the cover of artillery fire. The Taiping Army fought back fiercely. Chen Zhiming looked at Nan Village. The two small camps in Bei Village could not be saved, so he had to order everyone to actively shrink the front line and guard the camp outside Gaoqiao with all their strength.

On that day, the Qing army broke through six camps of Taiping Army, but they had obtained very little, and even the local people did not see anyone. One day later, two local Qing army local regiments from Jinshan County and Jiashan County arrived and went to Helongba camp to serve. Helongba transferred 5,000 kilograms, 8,000 kilograms, and 5,600 kilograms of cannons, totaling twenty cannons, and bombarded the Taiping Army camp outside Gaoqiao. The Taiping Army occupied the Gaoqiao River embankment and camp to fight to the death.

Second, Helomba attacked again, and Chen Zhiming divided his troops to meet the enemy in four directions. In the fierce battle, Chen Zhiming was shot in the face and injured. For two consecutive days, the Qing army launched another fierce attack, and the battle became more and more intense.

During the battle, the Taiping Army continued to promote slogans such as "kill officials but not harming the people" to the local people, "only kill corrupt officials, evil soldiers, not harming the people, as usual, buying and selling in moderation." In addition, the military discipline of the Qing army was abolished, and the people nearby were miserable by disasters, and many people secretly joined the Taiping Army.

On this day, Helongba took more than a hundred Qing troops and took a sand boat to the small river northwest of Gaoqiao to check the terrain. Taiping Army discovered that it attacked in three ways. The Qing army's Jinshan County and Jiashan County Qing army trained a total of about 2,000 people and hurriedly fought. The two sides fought until dusk, and the Taiping Army pretended to be defeated and retreated. The Qing army's deputy general Tong Jian pursued. In order to prevent the Taiping Army from retreating into the camp, Pegasus seized the hanging board outside the camp, but did not want to slip on the hanging board and was surrounded by the Taiping Army's card knife hand. During the melee, Tong Jian

He was killed by the Taiping Army's card knife hand. The leader of the Qing army's Jinshan County regiment trainee led troops to rescue him. The horse was trapped in the mud and was stabbed by Taiping soldiers Wang Xiaosi and Zhao Duyan with long spears. The leader was shot seven times and died. The Qing army retreated. This battle was the biggest victory since the Taiping Army defended Gaoqiao. It killed more than 1,000 Qing soldiers, three 3,000 kilograms of cannons, five 500 kilograms of cannons, more than 20 kilograms of guns, and more than 70 short guns.

Under the afterglow, the smoke of gunpowder was still filled with smoke. The Taiping Army swept away the haze that was surrounded and beaten, singing a song to withdraw the troops back to the camp. When they arrived at the camp, Chen Zhiming, who was still wrapped in gauze, had witnessed the entire battle process and personally shouted in front of the Taiping soldiers, and praised Wang Xiaosi and Zhao Duyan, which made Wang Xiaosi and Zhao Duyan very embarrassed. Finally, Chen Zhiming inspired the soldiers again, and everyone's fighting spirit recovered a lot.

Helongba finally escaped and lost nearly 2,000 people in the whole army, with more than half of them already in casualties. If it weren't for the support of the navy, Helongba would have been unable to hold on. The Taiping Army was afraid of Jiang Zhonghong's single ship and did not dare to send troops to attack the Qing army camps in Nancun, Beicun and other places. At the stalemate, Helongba had to ask for help from the Jiangnan Admiral and Chun in Yunzaobang.

Helongba didn't know that Hechun was also in a state of trouble. That day, Ye Changchun led ten red single boats and twenty fast crab boats to supplement several sand boats and sampans to enter the Yunzaobang waters to support him. Hechun was overjoyed and attacked the Nan'an Taiping Army on the same day.

What surprised Hechun was that the south bank was empty this time. After climbing to the south bank, the Taiping Army arranged a lot of traps and earth thunders in the reed marsh on the shore, and the Qing army caused some trouble. The south bank was empty without a single hair.

But after it was dark, the Taiping Army troops launched a night raid in different waters and land routes. Many rafts floated down the upstream of Yunzao Bang, which were filled with objects to attract fire. After approaching the Red Single fleet in Yunzao Bang, the Taiping Army's death ignited the objects to attract fire on the ship and then jumped into the river.

After the Qing army's red single fleet of Yunzaoba discovered the fire ship, they sent a small boat to desperately stop it. However, because the river surface in Yunzaoba was narrow and the small boats and big boats were mixed together, it was difficult to turn around. When the small boat sailed out of the big boat, the fire ship was already approaching.

Just when Ye Changchun ordered the ship to fire artillery and sink these fire ships, the artillery arranged by the Taiping Army in the reed marsh on the shore opened fire. The firelight of the fire ship reflected red across the entire river. The gunners of the Taiping Army bombarded fiercely under the firelight.

As soon as the Taiping Army's cannon sounded, the Taiping Army ambushed on the shore began to assault the Qing army on the south bank. The Taiping Army soldiers lit torches were everywhere in the dark. More than a thousand Qing troops on the south bank of the Qing army only resisted for half an hour and were defeated and fled. Many Qing troops jumped into Yunzaogang to swim and fled to the north bank. Most of them were killed in the water by the Taiping Army's bows and arrows and muskets.

The Red Single fleet in the water is not much better. Under the attack of fire and the attack of shore artillery, many ships turned around and wanted to withdraw from Yunzaoban, but because of the narrow river surface, many ships were congested together, becoming living targets for Taiping Arm artillery.

After a hard battle for an hour, Ye Changchun broke through the encirclement with red eyes and the remaining red ships. After walking for about a mile, he was stopped by the Hengjiang iron lock that had been hidden in the river at some point. The red ship could not rush over. When Ye Changchun was about to send a water ghost to the water to dig the iron chain, another Taiping army cannon on the shore began to roar.

Ye Changchun's face was ashamed, and then he realized that the Taiping Army had set up an ambush early in the morning and wanted to plot against the Guangdong Navy. Fortunately, Chen Guotai did not send more ships, otherwise the losses would be even greater.

After a moment of fierce battle, most of the red single ships were destroyed, and several others were stranded on the shallows on the shore. Ye Changchun finally got on a small boat and boarded the north shore before he escaped.

He Chun was attacked at night and was anxious. As soon as the sky was clear, he wanted to rescue the four red ships stranded on the shore. But before he set off, news came from Baoshan County that a large number of long hair attacks were attacking in Jiading. Baoshan was the rear barrier of Wusong Fortress. He Chun must not be able to make any mistakes. He had to lead his troops back to Baoshan County to guard.

In the battle of Yunzaobang, Lin Qirong commanded the enemy and lured the enemy into the deep, and sent Li Tianxi and other generals to raid the Qing army at night, and then raided the Guangdong Navy fleet in Jiangnan with artillery formations lying on the shore. Finally, he ordered Zhou Lichun's troops who retreated to Jiading to attack Baoshan City overnight. He and the Qing army on the north bank of Yunzaobang had to retreat in panic.

After the Qing army retreated, Lin Qirong and Li Tianxi and other generals came to the shore with a smile. The Yunzaogang River was covered with Qing army corpses, broken canvas, wood and other debris floating. Many red single boats and fast crab boats were sunk in the river water, some of which were raised high, and four red single boats were stranded on the shore.

Lin Qirong laughed and waved his horse whip and said, "Send your good brothers to the water to go into the water and pick up the cannons and muskets that were sunk in the water. The four red ships were lying in the nest and sent troops to cross the river to snatch them for me. If there were still boatmen on the boat, sailors should not kill them at will."

Li Tianxi took the order loudly. After he personally led the team across the river, he rushed towards four stranded red ships. The Qing army on the four red ships had already fled, leaving only the red ship workers. The sailors were reluctant to leave their ships. Hundreds of Taiping soldiers flocked to them. These boatmen, the sailors' courage had dissipated. Amid the Taiping Army's shouting "Surrender to avoid death!", the four red ships had to surrender obediently. (To be continued...)
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