"The Taiping army has gone out of the city, and this is a good opportunity for our army to go ashore to attack the Tartars, and please give the general an order, we will fight to the death!"

"General, let's get on! If you don't go ashore now, it'll be too late for the Tartars to come back to their senses! ”

"General, the sons and daughters are all holding back their strength to go ashore and fight hard with the Tartars, and the subordinates are not afraid of death, and please give the general an order to let the sons and daughters go ashore and see the Qing army!"

Since the Taiping army in Xinhui City suddenly went out of the city to pounce on the Qing army, Chen Qice's sailors and generals on the ship had already asked for battle. By the time the Taiping army reached the riverside and fought with the Qing army, dozens of naval officers had come to Chen Qice's general ship to ask for battle, and many of them hurriedly rowed in small boats to ask the commander for battle.

"General Chen!"

Qi Hao also clenched his fists, looking at the white-haired veteran Chen Qice expectantly, excited and nervous. Excited was that Zhou Shixiang led the Taiping army out of the city for a decisive battle, and the generals of the naval division asked for battle, but they were nervous that Chen Qice would not send troops ashore.

Chen Qice's staff, Hu Deyu, the former magistrate of Taishan, was also infected by the atmosphere of the generals inviting the battle, and he also stepped forward to speak, he said: "General, the military heart is available. ”

Chen Qice put down the clairvoyant mirror and shook his head, and did not look at the emotional generals, only muttered in a low voice: "Wait, wait..."

"Wait?" Hu Deyu was stunned.

Chen Qice smiled bitterly, his voice was a little bitter, and he said in a low voice: "The sailor is just such a belonging, the old man really doesn't dare to Meng Lang, he doesn't dare to Meng Lang...."

"The Taiping army was attacking fiercely, and the students could see clearly that the Qing army's resistance was weak, and although it was deployed layer by layer, it was broken layer by layer, and if it continued like this, the Qing army would be defeated. The general could take advantage of the situation to wave his troops ashore and attack the Qing army with the Taiping army. This is the first major contribution since the fall of Guangdong Province. ”

Hu Deyu is the former magistrate of Taishan County, but now he has no official position in the Yongli Imperial Court, and only works as a staff member under Chen Qice, who is neither a master nor a servant, and has no relationship between the upper and lower levels, so he calls himself a student. He spoke earnestly, since the Qing army entered Guangdong, the Ming army fought with it He had won a battle, that is, last year the king of Xining raised a large army to come, and in the end it was not a vain return. Now that the Qing army on the shore is obviously not supported, if Chen Qice waves his army ashore and the Taiping army is flanked inside and outside, it is impossible to say that he can really win a big victory, and then General Ling Hai's prestige will be heard all over the world, and his staff will also have a bright face. Even if there is no big victory, there are warships to rely on, and the sailors can still be destroyed, and it is a big deal to retreat back to Shangxiachuan Island, why did the old general delay in issuing an order to go ashore to fight?

Hu Dequan couldn't understand what Chen Qice was thinking. I couldn't help but feel a little anxious in my heart, fearing that this veteran would miss the opportunity, so I persuaded a few more words at the moment. I didn't want Chen Qice to be unmoved, and still didn't give the order. And so it goes. The generals, Qi Hao, and Hu Deyu in the cabin were all anxious.

"General!"

The general Zhou Sheng and the Qing army had a grudge against the door, and they were most eager to fight, so they were so anxious that they screamed at the moment, and the generals also shouted.

Chen Qice's body moved. But he turned around and shouted: "When to send troops, the old man has his own decision, what are you doing here." All scattered, all scattered, each returned to his own ship, waiting for the old man's order! ”

Hearing this, Zhou Sheng's face turned red in a hurry, but he didn't dare to disobey Chen Qice, clenched his fists and said "sigh", and had no choice but to return to the cabin. Seeing this, the generals had no choice but to leave, and only the unwilling Qi Hao and Hu Deyu with an uncertain face were left in the cabin.

Chen Qice also ignored the two of them, and only continued to hold the clairvoyant mirror to watch the battle on the shore from a distance.

The river breeze swept down, but it could be seen that the veteran's body trembled slightly, but he didn't know why he moved.

………

Smoke rose outside Xinhui City, shouting to kill the sky.

The southern defense line of the Qing army has been completely broken through and collapsed by the Taiping army, the green battalion of the Qing army along the river defense line in the west is struggling to support under the fierce attack of the Taiping army, and the main banner soldiers of the Qing army in the east rely on the third line of defense to compete with the Taiping army. The Qing army on the northern defensive line was not attacked by the Taiping army, but it fell into civil strife due to the sudden withdrawal of the banner troops of the Jingnan Domain.

Almost at the same time as the Taiping army left the city, Geng Zhongde had already summoned the Han army under his command to retreat with the yellow banner, fearing that he would be blocked by Shang Zhixin's Han army with a blue flag, Geng Zhongde bypassed the east road and retreated directly north, wanting to detour to Zhaoqing and return to Guangzhou.

At the beginning, the Qing army battalion soldiers stationed on the northern defense line did not know that the Zhenghuang banner soldiers had decided to retreat, but they said that these Zhenghuang banner soldiers were ordered to reinforce the eastern defense line, but unexpectedly, these flag soldiers did not look back and went straight to the north, and by the time the battalion generals came to their senses, these Zhenghuang banner soldiers had already disappeared under their noses.

"Damn, the Yellow Flag Soldier ran away, the Yellow Flag Soldier ran away! Send someone to report to the camp, hurry! ”

The first reaction of the general of the green battalion after discovering that the Zhenghuang flag soldiers had run away was to quickly send someone to report to the prince of Pingnan, but no one was sent there, but the governor and the pacesetter stationed in the camp also left the camp. When the flag soldiers ran, they were still waving the flag, but these governors and pacesetters ran away without even playing the flag. I don't want anything from the camp except the guys in my hands.

What happened?!

The green battalion soldiers of Guangzhou Prefecture and County, who were still in the dark, were all stunned by this sudden scene, and they watched stupidly as the supervising pacesetters ran north.

"him. Damn, the sons have been abandoned! ”

Guangzhou Luying Xiangshan County was the first to understand the general Chen Wu, stomped his feet and scolded his mother, and then took his mount with lightning speed, and shouted at the men behind him who were still stupid: "Don't fuck yet, run with Lao Tzu!" ”

"Huh?!"

The battalion soldiers stared at their generals with their mouths wide open, half loud, bang, and one by one they raised their feet and ran away.

"Run, run, whoever doesn't fucking run is stupid!"

"The flag soldiers have run away, don't want our battalion soldiers, don't want us battalion soldiers!"

"I can't stop it, this battle is lost, it's lost, brothers, run!"

The battalion soldiers, who had long been demoralized due to the lack of food and the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming army, blew up the battalion after the Han army banner and the commander-in-chief fled north, and almost instantly, the nearly 3,000 battalions stationed on the northern defense line scattered and fled one after another.

Seeing this, the generals who were still sober knew that something bad was going to happen, but all the battalions were running, especially the fact that the flag soldiers had run away, so that they couldn't suppress the scattered soldiers under them, and in the end, they could only run with them. A few generals who still wanted to serve the Qing Dynasty ran to the eastern camp with a small number of personal soldiers, and the rest ran behind the governor's pacesetters like sheep. From the head of Xinhui City, the original intact northern defense line will be a chicken, a dog jumping, and there are still people.

The dramatic collapse of the Qing army on the northern defense line made Song Xianggong's eyes stunned, and only after half a sound did he laugh out loud, and then slammed the drumstick in his hand into the cowhide drum.

"Knock knock!"

The drum sounded again, followed by the voices of countless men, women, and children on the city: "The Qing Demon is defeated, the Qing Demon is defeated!" (To be continued.) )