Guo Xing'a looked at the dust falling from the beams and glanced at his mouth. Tunneling and then using * to blow up the city wall was a common method used by the Taiping army in the siege of the city. When there was a serious shortage of artillery in the early stage, every fortified city conquered by the Taiping army was basically played in this way. However, Huang Daping spent nearly a month to blow up Qiqiao Town, which was really a bit unthinkable.

It is not clear how hard he excavated the earth, but it is certain that his casualties will not be great. * can also blow up the city wall, and it is basically hopeless to blow up the city gate building. And because it is not very powerful, the city wall will only collapse because the foundation is damaged, and it is definitely not like it was blown up as imagined. The wall more than three meters high collapsed, and the most people on it were to break their arms and legs, and the chances of death were not very high.

As for the impact of the collapse of the city wall, Guo Xing'a didn't care too much, but there was just an extra city gate. After all, the Qing army had been fighting with three gates open for several days, and now it was just another one. And there was no one in the city before, but now it is estimated that thousands of people have gathered at the landslide, and Huang Daping came in to die.

The Taiping army used to blow up the city wall because the only thing the defenders in the city relied on was the city wall, and once the city wall was broken, the defenders facing the Taiping army would inevitably survive. And this time it was useless, because the combat power of the defenders in the city was not weaker than that of the Taiping army. Although going out to fight, the Qing army and the people are a bit choking, but entering the city is different. The Taiping army could not all enter with more than 3,000 people at once, but also had to line up and advance little by little, so as to fight more and fight less, and the Taiping army had no chance of winning. After all, the Qing army defending the city in the past wanted to run for their lives, but now the people in the city are desperate.

Guo Xing'a didn't even go out, and after a burst of gunfire, Fuquan came in to report that the Taiping army had been beaten back, and the process was a bit lackluster.

As soon as the city wall collapsed, the Taiping army, which had been dormant for a long time, dispatched thousands of people to take the gap in the city wall, intending to establish a stronghold and take the opportunity to break into the city. However, as soon as they were halfway through the charge, they were fired by more than 20 Napoleonic cannons on the wall of the Qing army's urn city, and the speed of the charge dropped again and again, and the casualties were quite heavy. However, the stoic Taiping soldiers were also extremely tenacious, and they rushed through the moat of Qiqiao Town, which was a bit of a joke, despite the bombardment of artillery.

However, on the slope after the collapse of the city wall, someone has already set up a defensive line. The 300 muskets of the musket team in Qiqiao Town, as well as the five six-pounder cannons of the Qing army, were a bombardment against the Taiping army crossing the river. The Taiping army, which had been wiped out, had no choice but to retreat, and on the way back, it was bombarded by the artillery at the head of the city. After running back and forth, only more than 600 people ran back to the camp.

The Taiping army once tried to take back the dead and wounded, but as soon as they appeared, they became the target of the city's artillery to practice accurate shooting. Seeing that the Qing army at the head of the city was willing to open fire against three or five people, the Taiping army could only stop and wait for night to fall before recovering the corpse of Paoze. The worst are the wounded who did not die, after breaking their arms and legs, they can only lie on the battlefield and wail, and no one cares about them on either side. There was neither a robe to come to the rescue, nor an enemy to come to make up for it, so he could only wait for death in great pain. The militiamen went out of the city to collect a wave of heads, but they did not dare to go far, and most of the wounded did not even have a chance to die.

Time began to turn again, and the days became dull, Huang Daping completely became a gatekeeper, and blocked the door motionlessly. After another half a month, the underground fortress of Qiqiao Town began to take shape, and the recruit company managed by Fuquan also appeared, and Guo Xing'a's biggest worry still came. The special operations team that sneaked out of the sentry outside the city brought back the news that more than 5,000 Taiping reinforcements had arrived with artillery, 60 miles away from the city, and they could reach the city within three days.

"Come with us! There's still a chance! Goxinga persuaded for the last time.

"Your Excellency, let's go! We'll give you a broken queen! Yu Wendao said with a smile, he was already very familiar with Guo Xing'a.

"Let's go together, after I take people to break off, I have a lot of cavalry under my command, and it is a trivial matter to buy you a few days." Guo Xing'a was very reluctant to Wendao.

"Reluctantly! Not to mention the countryside, we can't bear this authenticity! It's been digging for almost a month, and it's all our hard work! Yu Wendao still shook his head.

"You come with me!" Guoxing Allah held Yu Wendao's hand.

"I'm the patriarch, I can't go, I have to look at the ancestral tablet." Yu Wendao shook Guo Xing'a's hand, but still shook his head with a smile.

"I am thirteen years old this year to fourteen, and now I am in the third grade, I will fly Huang Tengda one day, if I have the day of the frontier, you must come to me." Guo Xing's extreme reluctance pulled Yu Wendao, this was the first talent he discovered in this world, but unfortunately he did not have the spirit of a king, attracting him to his side.

"I can't read the Four Books and Five Classics well, and I can't be an official!" Guo Xing's sincerity can be felt by Yu Wendao.

"Then be a carpenter, and there are many things to build. You dig holes so happily, in the future, my territory, you can dig as you like! "Guo Xing'a really doesn't know how to say it, he can't directly invite Yu Wendao to build New China with him.

"With great gratitude, if I live to that day, I will go to you." Yu Wendao didn't know whether to comfort or really agree.

"Mountains and rivers meet, we are destined to meet again!" Guo Xing'a arched his hand to Yu Wendao and walked away without looking back.

"Precious!" Yu Wendao's feelings for Guo Xing'a are a little complicated.

That night, Guo Xing'a ordered the Qing army to prepare for departure, and at the same time sent five artillery pieces that should be promised to the militia to Yu Wendao. Early the next morning, the Qing army handed over the defense of the inner and outer urn city to the militia of Qiqiao Town, and then opened the west gate for Wendao to build two wooden bridges to cross the small river. After that, the special operations squad and the assault company opened the way in front, with the baggage, direct subordinate troops and cavalry in the center, and the infantry broke off and quickly ran westward.

After figuring out the location, Xiande and others suggested that the troops go northwest and defect to Yixing, which was still under the control of the Qing army. However, Guoxing Axin is not the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, if the Taiping army comes to chase, the combat effectiveness of the Yixing Qing army is estimated to be inferior to the people of Qiqiao Town. It is not cost-effective to seek asylum, but it is not cost-effective to add a burden. Guo Xing'a didn't say hello to anyone all the way, and now he goes out to beg for help, and it is estimated that he will not be able to get any benefits, so he still relies on his own insurance. Anyway, Qiqiao Town has Yu Wendao to delay the Taiping Army, so it is better to take a shortcut and flee all the way west directly back to the nest. There are bunker fortifications in the base camp of the deserted village, and it is close to the Jiangnan camp, so there is no need to be afraid of the Taiping soldiers, and if there are many people, the Jiangnan camp does not dare to sit idly by.

At first, the road was difficult to find, and it was difficult for the cart to walk, but after dozens of miles, the Qing army found the old road again, and the speed immediately increased. Rushing all the way, rushing day and night, running wildly for two days, and finally walked more than 150 miles. Bypassing Liyang City and taking the road to the north, he finally got to the distance between Lishui and Jintan, a little closer to the base camp, and Guo Xing'a dared to order the troops to rest and camp.

After two days of marching, Guo Xing'a changed horses several times, and finally understood why the Chinese could not look at the tall European and American BMW horses. Peter the Great and the Bearded rode on tall and handsome European horses, and after the Bearded Men were shot by Goxinga, their horses became Goxinga's trophies. Guo Xing'a naturally changed his mount to a bearded two-meter-tall horse as soon as possible. Before, I was just walking around the city of Qiqiao Town, and the tall horses were handsome. But this time he really started to march, and Guo Xing'a understood a profound truth - Shuai can't be eaten.

The Mongolian horses mainly used by the Qing army were not good-looking, and they were nearly 50 centimeters shorter than the European horses. However, Mongolian horses have unimaginable endurance, they do not pick what to eat, they are not surprised on the battlefield, and they are extremely brave, which can be called a model of military horses. And Guoxing Ashuai's high-headed horse, although the short-distance speed is excellent, but the endurance is poor, and the infantry is not tired, this livestock is not good. Eating even more excessively, he is even more picky than Guo Xing'a, and he is really a difficult guy to serve. Forcing Goxinga to change several times along the way, he finally returned to the dwarf Mongolian horse.

Guo Xing'a secretly decided that when he had the opportunity, he must improve the horse breed, which could neither be as small as the Mongolian horse nor as delicate as the European horse. This Guoxinga knows a little more, because the place where Guoxinga lived in the previous life is the place where New China cultivated excellent horse breeds, whether it is a horse or a war horse, Guoxinga has seen it in his previous life. And now the horses used in Guoxingala's car are some kind of heavy horses in Europe, and Guoxinga is happy when he looks at these giant beasts, and the horses of more than a ton are too exciting. In the future, it will be perfect to mix with Mongolian horses and combine the characteristics of two good horses.

"Do you want to hurry tonight, sir!" Fengsheng Ah came to ask for instructions.

"I'm not leaving, I'm too tired, so I'll stop here today. Yu Wendao is much stronger now than we were at the beginning, and there are walls and tunnels, Huang Daping can't easily deal with him. We can't spend it there, Yu Wendao can consume Huang Daping to death. Long fur can't easily catch up. Tianni filled Guoxing Ah with cigarettes, and Guoxing Ah was wandering and spitting out the clouds.

"Hey, I'm going to set up camp!" Feng Sheng'a is also used to calling me in front of Goxing'a.

Hearing the order to camp on the spot, the Qing army cheered and ran for two days in a row, and finally could take a good rest. After the camp was ready, the soldiers of the Qing army were playing happily.

"My lord, report urgently!" Guo Xing'a had dinner and was watching the Tianni sisters make the bed, when Fuquan rushed in.

"Fuquan, I found that it's not good to see you recently!" Fuquan has been in charge of the recruit company recently, and he is not often around Guoxinga, only when something happens, he will repay him.

"My lord, Huang Daping brought more than 2,000 horses to catch up." Fuquan was in no mood to laugh.

"What?" Guo Xing's thousands of calculations did not expect that the content of the emergency report would be related to Huang Daping.

"Changlu saw Huang Daping in the telescope, he couldn't be wrong, it was indeed Huang Daping who brought more than 2,000 people to catch up." A lot of seizures have been seized in Qiqiao Town, and Changlu doesn't need to borrow Guo Xing'a's telescope now. After the troops rested, Changlu only breathed a sigh of relief, and then took a few personal soldiers to the rear sentry.

"Huang Daping can fucking fly!" Guo Xing'a was actually more worried about Yu Wendao in his heart, Huang Daping appeared behind him so quickly, what happened to Yu Wendao? You won't be killed as soon as you leave! Could it be that there is a traitor under his command.

"Longhair is also a day and night journey, and it is only forty miles away from our army." Fuquan also felt that Huang Daping simply flew over.

"Run! My uncle! Guo Xing'a stood up helplessly.