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Three hundred and sixtieth eight chapters do not move like a mountain

The three-day war breaking period soon came. During these days, the people in Taizhou besieged were living like years, like a death row prisoner who was sentenced to death but had to wait until the death row in the autumn. In addition to despair, his thoughts gradually increased.

From the next day, there were a lot of notices in the city for no reason, and it seemed that they had been posted all over the streets and alleys overnight. The notices were nothing more than the Taiping Army persuaded the soldiers, civilians and the people in the city to surrender.

This made Dahonga very angry. After killing three Qianzong who were patrolling that night, he ordered people to raise the city's ropes. He knew that there must be detailed works by the Taiping Army in the city. Many suspicious people were arrested, but Dahonga did not examine it carefully, and all cut off their heads and hung them on the top of the city for public display.

But a day later, the notice that shook the morale of the army was posted all over the streets and alleys. At the same time, the notice was extremely arrogant and warned Dahonga not to kill innocent people, and said that Dahonga could not catch them.

Dahong A was so angry that he had been fooled like this? Moreover, the Taiping Army did not seem to have any intention of persuading him to surrender. He planned to denounce the rebels when someone came to persuade him to surrender, but there was no word in the notice that he was persuaded to surrender from beginning to end. At the same time, the Taiping Army never sent anyone to persuade him to surrender again, so that the righteous words prepared by Dahong A were useless.

After finally waiting for the fourth day, Dahonga, who was full of anger, ordered the entire army to have a meal early. Then he wore all over, even his ancestral sword, and stood majestic on the top of the city to command the city defense. It seemed that he had made up his mind to give the Taiping Army some color even if the city was broken.

But unexpectedly, at dawn, after thinking about the three-way cannons on the Taiping Army's position, more than a hundred ragged Qing army prisoners were driven out of the position again. These people were holding wooden signs with the same sentence on it: "The soldiers and horses are tired, stop fighting for another three days!"

Dahong A watched these Qing army prisoners wandering around the city with wooden signs. They were so angry that they were furious that the three gods returned to their positions. They snatched an iron bow from their personal guards and shot them. The Qing army prisoners did not expect that they would come out to wander with the signs of stopping the battle and would be attacked by their own families in the city. Dahong A was skilled in bowing and horses and shot down with pearl arrows. The Qing army prisoners were caught off guard and were shot at the three of them. The rest ran back as they shouted.

Dahonga was furious and ordered the soldiers to shout in unison: "Rebel Li Kaifang, if you want to fight, you will fight. If you are timid, you are not a good man!" After shouting like this several times, there was still no movement in the Taiping Army.

Dahong A was very discouraged and sat dejectedly on the Grand Master's chair downstairs in a daze. When Wang Youling saw it, he stepped forward and said, "Sir An, since Changmao is afraid of being afraid to fight, then we should keep our energy well. Maybe in a few days, the army of Li Junmen will arrive and the Taizhou siege will be lifted."

Hearing this, Dahong A suddenly jumped up. It was so scared that Wang Youling was shocked. Dahong A was shocked with a pale face and said loudly: "Why didn't I expect that Li Kaifang would surround him without attacking him, just to wait for the reinforcements from Li Junmen on the way! Hehe, what a cunning thief!"

Wang Youling said oh, and then he understood the intention of the Taiping Army. He then frowned and said, "Sir An, it has been three days since then. The reinforcements are probably coming soon. If Changmao is ambushed, I am afraid that they are now..." He didn't say it, but Dahong A understood his words, which 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. The sun shone on a field outside Daxi Town, but the heat brought by the sun was blown away by the bitter cold wind in the air. The thick smoke surrounding the air covered the sky and the strong smell of blood in the air made people disgusting.

Chen Alin, the commander of the First Infantry Regiment of the newly formed First Division of the Taiping Army, stared at the Qing army corpses and many unowned war horses running around in front of the trench. The cigarettes in his hand stopped in the air for a long time and did not put them down.

The First Regiment was ordered to block the Qing army reinforcements on the plain south of Daxi Town, while the commander of the First Brigade Pan Qiliang led the remaining cavalry and infantry regiments to cut off the rear routes of the Qing army reinforcements. Since the First Regiment captured Daxi Town two days ago, it has digged trenches around the town with Daxi Town as the center, arranged camps and prepared to block the 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 number of the First Regiment was not large, only more than 1,300, and the Qing army reinforcements were more than 20,000. Therefore, the Qing army commander naturally did not take the more than 1,000 long hairs seriously in Daxi Town. At the beginning, they planned to defeat the Taiping Army with the advantage of numerical powers. Unfortunately, they kicked the iron plate this time.

Chen Alin's first regiment was best at earthwork. The fortifications outside the town were well built with layers and structures. The trenches, barbed wire and many fire explosive packs and earth mines were laid out outside the town, which made the Qing army suffer a lot.

Since the war started, there have been fierce battles for several hours. The Qing army on the opposite side charged in turn towards the Taiping Army's positions from several directions, with heavy casualties. However, after Li Tingyu's Fujian army was trained by Li Tingyu for more than a year, the combat effectiveness was quite strong. Although the Taiping Army was densely equipped, it was gradually driven by the Qing army with the advantage of the number of people to approach the trench several times.

Then their bird guns and bows began to cause casualties to the Taiping Army, but they were all repelled by more than ten artillery pieces in the Taiping Army Town. The Taiping Army's positions were piled up like mountains, and the Qing army suffered three or four thousand casualties, but they did not retreat or bypass Daxi Town. The Qing army commander seemed to be furious and vowed to kill all the long hairs in the town without leaving any left.

Seeing the Qing army's red battle flags flying in the distance, another group of Qing army began to complete the team. Chen Alin knew that they were about to start charging again. Li Moquan, the regiment instructor, said in a hoarse voice: "Captain, there are not enough artillery shells. Each cannon has only a few shells, and there are not many muffled thunders that did not explode on the outside. Fortunately, there are enough rifles and bullets, but there are too many people on the opposite side, so I am afraid that I can't stop rushing when rushing. Qing Yao wants to rely on many people and keep charging to defeat us."

Chen Alin took out a Swiss-imported pocket watch from his arms and looked at it. He said indifferently: "It's enough to hold on for another half an hour. He ordered the battalions to give up the front line, shrink the front line, and shoot when they are close. Do not place empty guns randomly to save ammunition!"

Amid the shocking shouts, the Qing army's outlaws took off their upper clothes in front of the formation, and everyone had a big knife in their hands. After drinking a big bowl of wine, they howled like wild animals and started charging again.

The soldiers of the Taiping Army were a little surprised. Many of them were veterans from Changsha to southern Jiangsu with the King of Western powers. Have you ever seen the Qing army fight so hard? In fact, as the war continued, the Qing army's green camp soldiers or other soldiers began to improve. The war was indeed a catalyst. It made the Qing army gradually become resistant to fighting. It was no longer the Tofu Army, which had not experienced the collapse of the formation for many years.

The Taiping Army's circular defensive positions shrank backwards, and the personnel were arranged more densely. Within two hundred steps, the Taiping Army infantry began to shoot. Many of the Qing army's brave and brave men were killed in front of the trench. Following the others, they jumped into the trench to avoid it. It seemed that they calmed down after this rain of bullets.

These suicide squads were suppressed in the first trench. The Taiping Army also gave up the unnecessary waste of ammunition under the rebuke of the generals, but everyone was aiming at the trench. As soon as the Qing army emerged, several snatches would definitely ring at the same time.

Seeing that his own people could not rush up, the Qing army commander began to organize the second group of people to respond immediately, and followed the orders for the cannons in the army to fire.

Seeing the Qing army's cannons roaring at this time, Chen Alin also admired the patience of the Qing generals on the other side. He had never exposed the location of his cannons, as if he knew that the Taiping Army cannons were vicious. Therefore, they used human lives to fill the pits, and refused to waste cannon ammunition and exposed the location of the cannons.

The Taiping Army had not fired artillery for a long time, which made the Qing generals on the opposite side think that the Taiping Army's artillery shells were used up, so they decisively ordered people to fire artillery. With the cheering of the cannons, the Qing army rushed up as if they were injected with chicken blood.

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

The artillery of the Taiping Army is a technical branch. The artillery generals and soldiers are familiar with ballistics. From the direction of the Qing army's artillery shells, they can roughly calculate the position of the Qing army's cannons. At that moment, more than ten cannons shot out the remaining few shells. Sure enough, after a dense burst of gunpowder, the Qing army's cannons were not as arrogant as before, and only a few sparse cannons were still ringing.

However, the Qing army infantry took advantage of this shelling and rushed to the second trench of the Taiping Army. The Taiping army soldiers had already used bayonets. After a bright charge, the Taiping army soldiers shouted and jumped out of the trench and fought with the Qing army infantry.

The swords were flying, the bayonets were stabbed, and thousands of people in the trench fought. After the hand-to-hand combat, the new weapons no longer had much effect. The two sides fought with the original assassination skills and courage. Fortunately, the assassination cooperation between small groups of the Taiping Army was skillful, and the three-person sting teams resisted the sabers and spears of the Qing army's infantry several times. The Qing army's infantry relied on their personal courage and rarely cooperated with teams, so they were gradually suppressed by the Taiping Army.

When the Qing generals saw this situation, they knew that there was nothing to keep at this time. The scarlet battle flag was raised high, and the remaining more than 10,000 Qing troops began to charge, and he wanted to crush the Taiping Army in one fell swoop.

Seeing the Qing army's gray number clothes surged like a gray tide, colliding with his green defense line, his eyes heated up, and he shouted at the artillery regiment led by Li Moquan behind him: "Order the artillery to take up weapons, let's rush forward! Victory and defeat will be here!"

The artillery shells of the artillery regiment were exhausted. Hundreds of artillerymen picked up their rifles and followed Chen Alin and Li Moquan toward the first line of defense. More than 300 artillery soldiers rushed into the battle group and slightly stabilized the front line. Chen Alin knew that at this time they were fighting for physical strength and will. If one side did not support it, they could only wait for failure.

The Qing army was always crowded with people, and the defense circle was getting smaller and smaller. Chen Alin shouted loudly: "Fight to the last person! Our newly-organized First Division of Taiping was not killed by anyone from the back!" The more at this time, the courage a military chief brought to the soldiers was huge. If the Qing army had been moved, at this time, the chief officer of the army might have run away long ago, and the soldiers under his command had already collapsed and fled in the face of such fierce and cruel hand-to-hand combat. At this moment, the Taiping Army was fighting with the Qing army several times its own, without deserters or wavering. The daily strict assassination training and physical training of the Taiping Army allowed the Taiping Army infantry to support them.

The crisis finally came, and the Qing army tore a hole in the east of the defense circle, and the other Qing troops shouted and charged towards the gap. Chen Alin's heart slowly sank, knowing that the last moment was coming, there was no tactic at this time. I just hoped that he could support it for a longer time. If he persisted, he might have a miracle.

At this moment, a loud charge in the distance resounded throughout the fourth field. The officers and soldiers of the First Regiment were all inspiration when they heard this. Chen Alin looked up and saw a crowd of green grass coming from afar. A huge Western Hall flag was erected on the field behind him. It was the cavalry of the Taiping Army!

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

The soldiers of the Taiping Army looked at each other and saw thousands of cavalry rushing over from their side. They didn't know where they got their strength and shouted to fight harder.

The Taiping cavalry did not fire the rifle again, but rushed directly into the enemy formation with their sabers. In an instant, a blood mist was raised. The Qing army that wanted to stop was killed and scattered. Instead of chasing the fleeing Qing army, the Taiping cavalry continued to rush forward and broke through the Qing army's encirclement in one fell swoop.

After a quick kill, and with the counterattack of the first regiment of infantry, more than 15,000 Qing troops were defeated and fled in scattered. The Taiping cavalry who came to support divided several cavalry and chased the fleeing Qing troops.

Chen Alin looked at the Taiping cavalry who was chasing the Qing army like mercury pouring down the ground, and exclaimed in his heart. Dozens of Taiping cavalry rushed to him. The dust raised up made him unable to open his eyes. After slapping the dust a few times, Chen Alin saw that the cavalry who was leading the cavalry was wearing the uniform of the Taiping general. The man looked cold and saluted to him. He slowly said: "Zhang Wenxiang, the commander of the first cavalry regiment of the new Second Division of the Taiping Army, was late to rescue. Please forgive him!"

Chen Alin said ah and replied with a bow, "So you are the famous Zhang Wenxiang. If you hadn't arrived in time, our first group would have been left here."

Zhang Wenxiang smiled slightly and said, "There are also the First Cavalry Regiment of the First Division. They have also brought people to chase and kill the Maozi cavalry. The Second Infantry Regiment is stuck on the way to Wenzhou. This time, no reinforcements from Qing Yao will go back."

Chen Alin looked at Zhang Wenxiang's frosty face and laughed and said, "Let's go into the town. The original Qing demon in the town has left a lot of good things, hahaha." Amid the laughter, Chen Alin took Zhang Wenxiang to Daxi Town. At this point, more than 20,000 reinforcements from the Qing army were killed and collapsed. The Qing army in Wenzhou suddenly lost more than 20,000 people, and the entire Wentai defense line had already collapsed. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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