Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qingfei fought hard, only then did they escape the pursuit of the cavalry battalion, snatched two horses, galloped all the way to the west, and ran back to the Taiping army's camp in one day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the Taiping army and the Lu army were still fighting fiercely.

On the first day, the Taiping army was beaten in a mess and rested for a night, and the second day the Lu army continued to attack the Taiping army, Shi Dakai had to adjust the position, and the foreign gun battalion was constantly mobilized to the two flanks to prevent the Lu army's impact on the flank position.

In order to be able to exert the greatest pressure on Shi Dakai, Guo Ye gave up the attack on both flanks, and under the cover of the six artillery battalions, all the sixteen Green guns went into battle, advancing towards the Chinese army battalion, sixteen tongues of fire spit wantonly, and the artillery team continued to advance alternately!

The Taiping army is now miserable, where can its own artillery still play a role? Under the precise strike of the Lu artillery, the 60 artillery pieces of the Taiping Army have now been damaged by more than one-third, and more than 10 can not be put into battle, only less than 30 can fight normally, even if these 30 guns, they still can't exert all their combat power, because the artillery of the Taiping Army can't withstand it, and the artillery is under the blow of the Lu artillery, the casualties are even heavier, and the artillerymen hear the sound of the artillery on the army artillery position, and they don't dare to show their heads at all, for fear of encountering accidents, the opponent's artillery is too accurate, and there are almost no bullets!

Without the threat of the Taiping artillery, the attack of the Green Artillery was even more unscrupulous, constantly moving forward, and the spit bullets continued to take away the lives of the Taiping soldiers.

On the first day, Shi Dakai's first line of defense was defeated, on the second day, the second line of defense was defeated, and on the third day, the second line of defense that was re-assembled was defeated again! Not only that, but when the sky was about to dark, the third line of defense was also unable to withstand the attack and collapsed!

Fortunately, Guo Ye did not persecute the Taiping Army to the death, he still wanted to solve Shi Dakai peacefully, and the casualties brought to the Taiping Army should not be too large, he only needed to completely deter the psychology of the generals of the Taiping Army, and let them know how far away the Lu Army on the opposite side was, it was enough, if he really attacked with all his strength, under the cover of artillery and Green artillery, the army would directly charge, and it would definitely be able to defeat the entire Chinese army in one day, Guo Ye definitely had such confidence!

Even so, the Taiping army still suffered heavy casualties, and the artillery fire of the Lu army was too fierce, and the suppressed Taiping army couldn't raise its head at all!

Just when Shi Dakai was trying his best to resist the attack of the Lu army, Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qingfei ran back.

The two of them could no longer sit firmly on the horses, and just came to the edge of the Taiping army's position, they fell down heavily, first with the cavalry battalion, and then escaped from the water, soaked in the Qinhuai River for most of the day, and after grabbing the horses, they ran wild for most of the day, and ran out of seventy or eighty miles in one breath, even if Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qing were not iron men, they would definitely not be able to withstand such a toss.

The Taiping soldiers who saw it hurriedly helped the two people up and brought the two people to see Shi Dakai.

The two of them were completely carried by the Taiping Army, and it was a little difficult to walk, their legs were constantly trembling, and when they saw the embarrassed appearance of the two people, Shi Dakai knew that it was over, and it was a failure! The baggage of the Qing army in hand was finally snatched back by others! My response is still a little slower!

"Qing Teng! Why do you look like this? Didn't you rob the Qing Demon's baggage and are on your way back? ”

Long Kaisheng's face was incredible, and he exclaimed.

"Winged King, General! We failed......"

Huo Qingteng said astringently: "We have already successfully robbed the baggage of the Qing Demon, and the ammunition in it is enough to last us for a month, in order to be able to return to the camp as soon as possible, we didn't even unload the baggage, and went straight along the Qinhuai River upstream, but as soon as the fleet arrived at the Tianzhen Bridge, we encountered the resistance of the Qing Demon." The other side dispatched two or three thousand cavalry in one breath to launch a siege on the bridge and both sides of the river. We couldn't repel our opponents, so we had to force our attack on the Tianzhen Bridge, hoping to rush through their firepower network and shake off the pursuit of the cavalry, but this group of Qing demons was too desperate, risking our foreign guns, jumping straight from the bridge to the merchant ship, even if we were killed and injured in the air, we didn't care, and when they got on the boat, we were not anyone's opponent at all, a thousand troops were wiped out, and only the two of us jumped out and escaped......"

Burst......

Shi Dakai was angry and anxious, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and his body fell backwards, for the mountain nine thousands, the success fell short, without the follow-up arms support, even if he was able to pass the sky, he was not the opponent of the Lu army, it was only two days, two days! The ferocious artillery fire and foreign gun firepower of the Lu army have already brought tens of thousands of casualties to the Taiping army, even if he has an army of 70,000 people, plus the surrounding troops, as high as 100,000 people, he is definitely not Guo Ye's opponent, and he can't withstand such a fierce attack by the Qing army!

"Winged King, Winged King!"

Several people hurriedly supported Shi Dakai with all hands and feet, Huo Qingteng and Qiu Qingfei knelt down, and said astringently: "Wing King, we are incompetent, we have failed the trust of Wing King, please punish the prince!" ”

Shi Dakai waved his hand slowly, and said astringently: "Okay, I don't blame you for this matter, even if I am on the spot, I can't grab anything better than you, hehe, I dare to jump ship directly against the attack of our foreign guns, these Qing demons must be Guo Ye's henchmen, tough, really strong, we are convinced of the loss, don't be unconvinced, we are 100,000 Taiping Army, which general dares to give such an order?" Which unit would dare to jump ship under the direct threat of foreign guns? No, absolutely nothing! ”

Long Kaisheng and the others were dejected, what the Wing King said was right, this test is not only the courage of the generals, but also the courage of the soldiers, even if one aspect is not enough, such a feat will definitely not be completed.

"Send an order to Zhang Suimou and Ji Qingyuan, immediately lead the troops to retreat and defend Huainan City!"

Shi Dakai insisted on standing up, barely supporting and said.

Long Kaisheng sighed and said: "Lord Wang, we are defending Huainan City at this time, but it is very dangerous, once we are surrounded, once there is a situation in the west and in person, we will not be able to rush to the rescue......"

"Rush?"

Shi Dakai smiled bitterly: "It's good that we can protect ourselves now, you still want to help others, don't dream, now our hope is on Xidaying, I hope they can draw all the strength to help us......"

(To be continued.) )