The strength of the Qing army was actually not much. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the formation of the Jiangnan battalion, there were originally 30,000 Qing soldiers, and then they were transferred everywhere to support the Jiangbei camp to encircle the Northern Expeditionary Army before and after sending five or six thousand troops, and sent troops to support Nanchang to encircle the Western Expeditionary Army and successively sent three thousand, some time ago the knife will revolt in Shanghi, Xiang Rong sent the general soldier Hu Songlin with three or four thousand elite soldiers to Shanghi, and the whole army was annihilated, plus the three thousand Qing troops stationed outside the city stationed in Yuhuatai and Bao'en Temple to confront the three thousand Qing army, there are not many troops to send to attack the city.

Xiang Rongneng sent Zhang Guoliang and Deng Shaoliang to each lead 5,000 Qing troops to attack the city, which was already considered a wreck. Even the headquarters of his Jiangnan battalion only had 6,000 troops, and they all followed, ready to attack the city or respond at any time.

Zhang Guoliang saw that his subordinates led Feng Zicai to lead a thousand people to rush into the city like a tiger descending the mountain, and he was overjoyed, and secretly said that this time there was help from the city, and he really attacked the city.

immediately shouted: "Brothers, kill Lao Tzu, one long-haired ten taels of silver, five long-haired and one magistrate!" Most of the people who followed Zhang Guoliang were Cantonese veterans who followed him to fight in the southern provinces, fierce and abnormal, and when they heard this rich reward, they rushed in with a wolf howl.

Zhang Guoliang also rushed into the city gate with his subordinates, and just entered the city gate not far away, when he suddenly felt that something was wrong!

If you look closely, there is something wrong with the city gate.

Because the Qing army in the Jiangnan camp outside the city attacked Tianjing City from time to time, although it only completed the task as a meaning, it also gave the Taiping army in the city a headache. Wei Changhui, the northern king who was in charge of the defense of Tianjing City, raised all the walls of Tianjing City and narrowed all the thirteen main city gates, leaving only one horse and two or three people to enter and exit.

Zhang Guoliang attacked Shence Gate, Taiping Gate and this Chaoyang Gate several times, but it was extremely difficult to attack the city. After all, the city gate was narrowed, and even if the city gate was breached, the Qing soldiers outside the city could not rush in, and could only rush into the city gate one by one, while the Taiping soldiers were guarding the city gate, waiting to be strangled.

This question gave Zhang Guoliang a headache, and he was also deeply impressed by the city gate of the long-haired thief soldiers.

But now in this Chaoyang Gate, where are there still traces of narrowing? It has apparently been restored to the original width where two carriages could pass side by side.

Is this hairy thief so kind? Knowing that they would come to attack them, he deliberately widened the already narrowed city gate again, so that he could rush into the city faster and help him break the city?

Apparently not! So that's the only reason for them to do it?

It's a trap!

Thinking of this, Zhang Guoliang suddenly felt a chill on his back, cold sweat broke out, and he hurriedly pulled the reins to stop the war horse, and shouted: "Not good! Don't go into the city first, guard the gates, and investigate the ...... first."

Before the shouts fell, three drums were heard, and thousands of long-haired thieves appeared on the city walls and in the towers, armed with shotguns and firearms, and opened fire one after another.

Zhang Guoliang hurriedly jumped off the horse and hid under the horse's belly to avoid the fierce guns, but his heart was like falling into an ice cellar!

Sure enough, it's a trap! Even if Zhang Jigeng in the city was not a spy, he was used by the long-haired thieves. And judging from the arrangement of this long-haired thief, it is obvious that he wants to catch all the officers and soldiers such as himself, and he has to quickly withdraw from the city!

For a time, the gunfire of Chaoyangmen was loud, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the Qing soldiers near the city gate became the primary target, and after a round of gunfire, 300 people were killed and wounded. Zhang Guoliang's war horse was also hit by several projectiles, and after screaming twice, he fell to the ground and convulsed, flowing with horse blood and human blood, everywhere.

Taking advantage of the sparse gunfire and the gap between the long hair and the gunpowder, Zhang Guoliang yelled: "It's a trap laid by the long-haired thief, retreat!" He ordered his subordinates to retreat, and as for the vanguard Feng Zicai and other more than 1,000 Qing soldiers in the city, it was better to hear it, but not to hear it, and he couldn't care so much at this time.

Unexpectedly, the original more than 100 Taiping soldiers at the city gate who had already dropped their blades and surrendered on their knees suddenly picked up the card knife and spear on the ground at this time, and shouted: "Kill the demon!" "Block the way out of the city gates.

At this time, the Taiping soldiers in the Tibetan Soldier Cave, under the leadership of Tu Zhenxing and Chen Shizhang, abandoned the shotgun, armed with a big knife and spear, and rushed down from the city tower, and the two sides fought together.

And Feng Zicai, who rushed into the city, also heard three drums at the same time, and was stunned by the platoon of guns, artillery and stones that followed!

Feng Zicai's end is in an alley similar to an alley. One side is the outer city wall, the other side is the inner city wall full of the city, and the Taiping soldiers also specially blocked the inner and outer city walls with brick walls to form an urn city. In this way, Feng Zicai and the Qing soldiers became living targets, and they could only wander around the dead end, being shot by the Taiping soldiers on the city wall with shotguns, and stoned to death and injured.

On the outer city wall, originally according to the arrangement of Wei Changhui, the king of the north, a drum was set up every five meters, and a changing room was set up for inspection at ten meters. But in order to ambush the Qing soldiers, Yang Xiuqing deliberately arranged, three or four people accumulated on each meter of the city wall, and also hoarded a large number of stones, after a round of shotgun shooting, they began to smash down with stones, suddenly, the Qing soldiers in the city suffered heavy casualties, two groups of 500 Qing soldiers, all of a sudden, more than half of them were killed and wounded.

Feng Zicai's shoulder was also grazed by a stray bullet, fortunately, it was not serious, and he was in the middle of the crowd of Qing soldiers, but he was not hit by a stone, but the situation was also precarious.

He realized that he had been ambushed by the long-haired thieves, and knew that it was dangerous, so he hurriedly organized the remaining Qing soldiers to retreat sharply.

Maybe these Qing soldiers should not die, but at this moment it suddenly rained, and the shotguns in the hands of the Taiping soldiers on the city tower could not ignite the fire, so they had to be smashed with stones and thrown with spears.

Even if Feng Zicai was covered with injuries, there were fewer and fewer Qing soldiers around him. He shouted: "Brothers in Guangxi, rush out with me!" Most of the remaining Qing soldiers were also from the Tiandi Guild bandits in Guangxi, and their blood was surging, as if crazy, and they killed backwards towards the city gate.

Perhaps it was because of their Cantonese language that the generals of the Guangxi Taiping soldiers on the city tower hesitated, and did not order to go down to the city to chase and kill, and when they reacted, they pursued in the city, Feng Zicai had already led the remaining Qing soldiers to retreat to Chaoyangmen, and at this time, there were less than 200 Qing soldiers left around him.

The fighting was fiercest at the city gates.

Tu Zhenxing and Chen Shizhang each led 1,000 Taiping soldiers to intercept the Qing soldiers from the city tower, wanting to wipe out all the Qing soldiers in the city. The Taiping army fought very bravely, because they all knew that at this moment, the East King Jiu,000 years old was observing them with a telescope in the city tower!

And Zhang Guoliang and other Qing generals are even more crazy. They were desperate. If you don't fight hard, you will have to die here.

Tu Zhenxing held a card knife, slashed to death a Qing soldier general, just wanted to take back the card knife, a sharp knife wind behind the side with the smell of blood hit, he only had time to turn the side of the body, he was stabbed in the back, deep into the shoulder blades, and fell to the ground.

The one who stabbed him was Feng Zicai, who fought like a god descending from the earth.

At this moment, Feng Zicai, covered in blood, and his face was also covered with blood, like a demon, leading more than 100 Qing soldiers to rush outside the city gate.

Six or seven Taiping soldiers hurriedly protected Tu Zhenxing, seeing this, Feng Zicai did not stay any longer, and slashed two Taiping soldiers to death one after another, rushed out of the gate, and gathered with Zhang Guoliang.

At the same time, there was also a fierce battle at the Taiping Gate a little north.

Since there was no ambush of Taiping soldiers here, Yang Xiuqing personally went to the city tower to supervise the formation, and temporarily dispatched hundreds of people from the nearby Shence Gate and Chaoyang Gate to support.

Originally, it was possible not to open the gate of the Taiping Gate. But Yang Xiuqing, who wanted to win a big battle, made a bold decision: even if he did not prepare for an ambush in advance, he would open the Taiping Gate, concentrate his forces to block the Qing demon at the city gate, and wait for the Taiping soldiers at Chaoyangmen to defeat the Qing soldiers there, and then rush to the Taiping Gate from outside the city to surround the Qing soldiers here, flank and encircle, and eliminate the main force of the Qing soldiers in one fell swoop!

Now, it's a little irresistible!

Under the leadership of Deng Shaoliang, the Qing soldiers were very disciplined, and the attack was coordinated without the slightest flaw. Because of the rain, the bird guns could not fire, and the Qing soldiers were better at bows and arrows, which could be suppressed from a distance and shoot the Taiping soldiers blocking the city gate.

Yang Xiuqing saw that the Taiping army blocking the city gate was faintly showing signs of collapse, so he ordered his five hundred guards to go down to the city to join the war group, and personally beat the war drums.

Under his fierceness, the Taiping soldiers were crazy, everyone rushed forward bravely regardless of life and death, and adopted a life-changing style of play, and finally blocked the attack of the Qing soldiers, and the two sides stalemate at the Taiping Gate.

At this moment, there was a fire outside the city, and the shouts of killing rang out into the sky.

The Qing army in Chaoyangmen was defeated, and the Taiping soldiers, led by Tu Zhenxing and Chen Shizhang, took advantage of the situation to pursue and kill outside the Taiping Gate.

And the Qing army, which was fighting with the Taiping soldiers at the Taiping Gate, also received an order from the main general Xiang Rong to retreat at this time. But before he had time to withdraw, he was attacked by the murderous Taiping soldiers, and finally could not hold it and collapsed.

Although Tu Zhenxing was covered in blood and almost fainted, he still held a knife in one hand and slashed and killed. Under his leadership, the Taiping soldiers were extremely fierce and dragged the Qing troops who wanted to escape.

Yang Xiuqing on the city tower was overjoyed, finally blocked it, and defeated the Qing demon! He immediately ordered Wei Changhui, the king of the north, and Shi Dakai, the king of the wings, to lead the few elite soldiers of the palace in the city and Paiwei, together with Tu Zhenxing and Chen Shizhang and other Taiping elite soldiers, to go out of the city to pursue and expand the results.