Qin Rigang, who broke out of the blockade of the Qing army, led his Taiping army to the east, but ran into the reconnaissance horse sent earlier to collect intelligence. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

I saw that the two scouts also came over with a person who claimed to be a staff officer of the Fifth Division of the Capture Army.

"Capture the staff officer of the Fifth Division of the Army?" Qin Rigang was taken aback, "Capture the army? Isn't that the most recent name for the army of the King of the South? Could it be that the king of the south sent troops to fight here? And what is a staff officer? ”

The staff officer explained to Qin Rigang that they were indeed the sailors under King Nan, under the command of Luo Gang. He was ordered to come to meet the brothers of the Northern Expeditionary Army and lead them to Dagukou.

Yesterday, the 5th and 5th Divisions of the captured army, led hundreds of warships to raid the Dagukou Fort at the mouth of the Haihe River from the sea, and they actually succeeded in one fell swoop, occupying the Dagukou Fort and annihilating more than 100 Qing soldiers, while the remaining 7 or 800 Qing soldiers fled and moved to the Qing army camp in Tianjin and Jinghai.

After listening to it, Qin Rigang was overjoyed! There is hope for life again.

He was surprised that the soldiers under the King of the South were strong and strong, and even the sailors were so strong, they could actually attack Zhili from the sea! This is a threat to the Qing Demon from the root, no wonder those Qing Demon Heads hurriedly transferred 20,000 demon soldiers to the east to support.

Qin Rigang hurriedly asked this staff officer, how many troops did the brothers who came to support this time have?

The staff officer replied that there were only 20,000 men in all, and that there were only 3,000 or 4,000 men guarding the fort, and now they had rushed into the inland river in their warships and attacked the city of Tianjin.

Qin Rigang said busily, three or four thousand people, so how can the fort be contained? He wanted to go to support the brothers of the captive army and resist the demons together.

The staff officer hurriedly persuaded that Division Commander Luo had made arrangements to ask the Taiping brothers to follow him to the Haihe River quickly, meet with the main force of the captives along the river, take a warship, and rush to the fort to support the brothers who were holding out there.

Qin Rigang saw that the pursuers behind him were getting closer and closer, especially the Mongolian cavalry was already imminent, no matter which direction he fled, he couldn't get rid of this fierce cavalry. Qin Rigang hesitated slightly, and as a result, a thunderous sound came from behind him, and it turned out that the Mongolian cavalry had caught up with them.

Qin Rigang knew that he could not be dragged by these Mongolian cavalry, in this open field, once he was dragged by the Qing Demon, the Qing Demon in the back brigade would come forward one after another, and the Taiping soldiers who lacked gunpowder and lost their firearms would be unable to defeat the morale of the cavalry by simply fighting with swords and spears.

So, Qin Rigang ordered Huang Wenjin to lead 8,000 Taiping Army soldiers to intercept and cover the retreat of the main force of the Taiping Army. After the arrangement was completed, Qin Rigang and Zhu Xikun led the remaining nearly 20,000 Taiping soldiers and went straight to the east.

Monk Lingqin personally led more than 10,000 Mongolian iron cavalry, and Shengbao's 4,000 cavalry, rushed to the front. The unstoppable offensive made Huang Wenjin and others, who lacked cover, unable to stop.

In particular, the Mongolian cavalry, a round of cavalry shooting, tens of thousands of bows and arrows roared down from mid-air, falling into the heads of Huang Wenjin and other Taiping soldiers, even if some Taiping soldiers found some flags and rattan cards for cover, but still killed and wounded.

Originally, he could defend against danger, and used the characteristics of muskets with a longer range than bows and arrows to suppress the Mongol cavalry, and the dense firepower pressed the Mongol iron cavalry so that they could not raise their heads. But now that there is no gunpowder, the Taiping soldiers of the Northern Expedition can only wield swords, hold spears high, and hedge against the cavalry, but, how can this be beaten?

Soon, more than 8,000 Taiping soldiers led by Huang Wenjin were defeated, with countless casualties, and only more than 2,000 people were left under the leadership of Huang Wenjin, rushing out bravely and fleeing to the river.

And Qin Rigang and the others had only traveled a few miles along the river, but at this time, they were blocked by a team of cavalry, but it was Shengbao's 2,000 cavalry, who made a detour to chase here.

Qin Rigang was shocked when he saw that Huang Wenjin and others had returned in defeat, and saw that it was another group of cavalry blocking the way to the east, so he gritted his teeth and ordered Zhu Xikun to lead 7,000 people to the top and drag the Qing demon, while he and Huang Wenjin led the remaining main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army of 15,000 people and marched west along the river.

By this time, the sky was slowly dawning.

Qin Rigang and the others hadn't walked a mile before they suddenly heard a rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and even the earth shook. There is a large group of cavalry in front of you!

Qin Rigang's face was pale, and it was too difficult to escape from the cavalry, since this was the case, let's fight to the death!

Qin Rigang led the main force of the Taiping Army in the Northern Expedition, set up a position, backed by the river, holding swords and spears, and waited for the first charge of the cavalry.

Not long after, sure enough, several Mongolian generals wearing bright yellow iron armor waved their banners and rushed towards Qin Rigang's side, with bows and arrows in their hands on their strings, ready to run nearly fifty or sixty paces before making a beautiful roundabout charge and salvo.

Two hundred steps! One hundred steps! Eighty steps!

Just when Qin Rigang imagined that the soldiers of the Taiping Army would suffer heavy casualties and closed his eyes and didn't want to look at it anymore, suddenly, a rumbling but deafening but continuous cannon sound rang out, and hundreds of shells flew over their heads.

The Mongol cavalry, which was about to accelerate, was confronted with hundreds of shells like meteorites, and suddenly the flesh and blood were blurred, and some of the horses were frightened, half-leaning on their front hooves, but they were hit together by the cavalry that continued to charge forward.

Immediately after, hundreds of shells came in, each time killing and wounding hundreds of cavalry. Where did the Mongol cavalry still care about charging and cavalry shooting, and hurriedly dispersed, avoiding two miles away from the river.

Seng Lingqin and Shengbao also rushed from behind, only to see hundreds of warships across the Haihe River, and the guns on board were rumbling endlessly, and they were shocked: "When did the long-haired thief have such a powerful sailor?" He hurriedly ordered the cavalry to stay away from the river, so as not to be wounded by the guns of the warship.

At this time, behind the warship, hundreds of wooden sailing boats appeared, covered with sampans, and all the soldiers of the Taiping Army were brought on board. The two of them, Seng Lingqin and Shengbao, riding war horses, stood on a high slope and watched the soldiers of the Northern Expedition get on the boat one by one and leave the riverbank.

"Providence! Heaven will not die for them! Katsuho smiled bitterly.

Luo Xuan led the fleet, picked up everyone, and rushed back to the Dagukou Fort, ordering everyone to move all the small and medium-sized artillery that could be moved to the ship, and all the iron cannons on the fort that could not be moved were blown up or dismantled. Then, a part of the gunpowder captured in the fort was divided, and the soldiers were asked to bury a huge amount of gunpowder under the Dagu fort and blast it, blowing up the entire fort to pieces, preventing the Qing demon from continuing to use it.

The next day, the army of Shengbao and Seng Lingqin followed and immediately attacked the Dagu Fort, which was quickly recovered. Looking at the fleet of long-haired thieves and warships that were gradually moving away from the estuary, the two sighed depressedly, and let the long-haired thieves of the Northern Expedition escape, not knowing how the emperor would condemn him.

The two of them tightened their hearts, and hurriedly wrote: Successfully recovered the Dagukou Fort attacked by the thieves, and defeated the long-haired thief chief Qin Rigang and other troops on the whole line, and the life and death of the Qin thieves did not know. Then they each sent fast horses and immediately rushed to the capital to report to them.

This time, the two were surprisingly consistent.

And Qin Rigang, who was rescued, felt like he was in a dream, originally thought that it would be difficult to survive this time, but he didn't expect that this Nanwang's sailor, as if falling from the sky, suddenly appeared from the sea and miraculously saved him and his other brothers.

Qin Rigang was full of emotion! And Huang Wenjin and Zhu Xikun are even more so! When they learned that it was the sailor of the King of the South who rescued them, they were all shocked and didn't know what to think.