When Zeng Guofan heard that Sun Kaihua led the cavalry to retreat into Tianjin City, he sat down on the chair in shock, too fast!

From Sun Kaihua's departure from the city to his return to Tianjin, it was only one day, leaving the city in the afternoon and returning to the city in the afternoon of the next day, in just one day, the 3,000 cavalry suffered more than 1,500 casualties, a fiasco! A complete fiasco!

This is a cavalry, can't you run if you can't beat it?

"Sun Kaihua, are you a dead man? If the war is unfavorable, won't you run? You're leading cavalry! ”

Zeng Guofan said angrily. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Di Shuai, I want to retreat, who knew that foreigners were so powerful......"

Sun Kaihua said astringently: "My 3,000 cavalry couldn't get close to the ranks of the foreigners, and their infantry blocked the route of the charge with muskets, and their men suffered heavy casualties, and they had to retreat and push back, just out of the range of the muskets, we were attacked by the opponent's rockets again, and fires were ignited everywhere, but the cavalry trampled on each other and only we suffered more than two hundred casualties!" I galloped all the way, out of the battlefield, before I had time to catch my breath, I was attacked by the foreign cavalry, the opponent's cavalry was too powerful, shooting on the horses, were far more accurate than our infantry shooting, a large number of soldiers were shot by the foreign cavalry in the process of pursuit, we had no power to fight back......"

Zeng Guofan's heart shook, it was so powerful, the army of foreigners was so powerful!

"Di Shuai, I'm afraid that our Tianjin city can't be defended, the foreigners' strength is full of forty or fifty thousand people, and the main losses of our Hunan army and Huai army are too serious, and it is absolutely impossible to resist the attack of the foreigners just by relying on the city wall of Tianjin......"

Sun Kaihua said bitterly.

Zeng Guofan's heart was bitter, this battle ruined his reputation and humiliated the country......

Zhang Shusheng on the side replied: "Di Shuai, if we give up Tianjin City, there is no large city as a support for field battles, and we are not the opponent of foreigners, just artillery, we are too far behind......"

Everyone got involved and started a heated argument, Zeng Guofan rubbed his forehead vigorously, where to go? Go!

Just when Zeng Guofan was hesitating, there was a rumbling cannon sound outside the city!

Boom Boom Boom ......

Everyone could feel the shaking of the house, like an earthquake!

Everyone was shocked, and hurriedly ran to the courtyard, only to see that the city of Tianjin was already in flames!

"Impossible! When pigs fly! ”

Sun Kaihua roared frantically: "It is absolutely impossible for foreigners to run so fast, when we fought, they were still more than fifty miles away from Tianjin City, it was only half a day, unless they had wings, otherwise they would definitely not be so fast, and they rushed to the outside of Tianjin City!" ”

Sun Kaihua was a little crazy, he was shocked a little crazy, indeed, the daily infantry march, one day and one night, only sixty or seventy miles, not that it couldn't go fast, but because a large number of baggage and artillery would slow down the speed of the march, even if the artillery and baggage were abandoned, it would only look like a hundred miles in a day and a night, after all, there were no cars and trains in this era.

"Okay, it can't be, where did the cannon sound come from outside the city?"

Zeng Guofan didn't have a good airway.

It was at this time. A Hunan army rushed straight in from the outside!

"Dashuai, it's not good, it's not good, it's not good!"

Zeng Guofan raised his eyebrows and shouted, "What happened?" ”

"On the Haihe River outside the city, seven or eight gunboats sailed over, and launched an artillery bombardment on the Haihe River towards Tianjin City, at least there are dozens of artillery, and a lot of houses in our city have been destroyed!"

Haihe!

Zeng Guofan's heart was shocked, yes, it must be a foreigner's gunboat sailing upstream along the estuary of the Haihe River and sailing to Tianjin!

The sea at the mouth of the Haihe River is wide, although it is not deep, and it is impossible to guarantee the cruiser's movement, but the small gunboats are still not a big problem, and the fleet going against the current is naturally much faster than the Franco-Spanish infantry marching by land!

"Order, order the defenders at the head of the city to return fire immediately!"

Zeng Guofan was in a hurry, and hurriedly shouted.

After that, he turned his head and shouted, "Let's go, let's all go to Nancheng and watch the enemy!" ”

Soon, everyone followed Zeng Guofan to the top of the southern city of Tianjin, holding a telescope and looking into the distance, above the Haihe River, seven or eight naval guns were launching an artillery bombardment on Tianjin City, and the sparks spewed out from the muzzles of the artillery in the distance were clearly visible!

One shell after another landed in the city of Tianjin, and many houses had been blown into powder!

Hiss......

The group gasped, what a powerful artillery fire! No wonder in less than a day, more than half of the artillery on the Dagukou Fort was destroyed!

Everyone looked at each other, and Zeng Guofan shouted: "Fight back, fight back!" In any case, expel the foreigner fleet on the Haihe River for me first! ”

In the south of Tianjin, an artillery battle was immediately launched, but unfortunately, the artillery on the head of Tianjin is an old-fashioned invincible general, with limited power, although the range is enough, but the power of the cannonballs is too far, even if it is concentrated on the gunboats, these gunboats can not be helped!

Just when everyone was in a hurry, a Hunan army ran over and said urgently: "Big handsome, big handsome!" A telegram from the capital! ”

Zeng Guofan raised his eyebrows and shouted: "Read! ”

"Prince Gong telegraphed, on February 13, more than 60,000 British and Japanese troops attacked Weihaiwei, and Gao E, the general soldier of the Lu army, and Weihaiwei Fort rose up to resist, sinking five Anglo-Japanese warships, and Weihaiwei was impregnable; The Anglo-Japanese coalition attacked fruitlessly, and instead attacked Rongcheng Bay, attempting to land, the general soldiers of the Lu army, Long Tao and Zhang Suimou, set up an ambush with Rongcheng Bay, and fought fiercely with the British and Japanese coalition forces for several days, and the general soldier Zhang Suimou was killed in battle, and then the Anglo-Japanese coalition forces were severely damaged, killing more than 12,000 Japanese soldiers, killing more than 4,000 British troops, and countless wounded, and the British and Japanese coalition forces had no choice but to retreat! ”

Yes......

Everyone was surprised, they didn't expect that while the foreigners attacked Tianjin, they had already taken the lead in launching a big war in Shandong, and it was the British and Japanese forces that shot together! There are more than 60,000 people, which is stronger than the foreigner army of Tianjin Wei!

"Good, good, good!"

Zeng Guofan's beard trembled, although he was defeated, but the Lu army played the prestige of the Chinese! "Lu Jun, Lu Jun, Guo Ye, worthy of Guo Ye! All right! ”

"Di Shuai!"

Bao Xin said astringently: "It is gratifying that the Lu army has won, but our pressure is indeed greater, the Shandong Lu army is only more than 10,000 troops, plus the artillery of Weihaiwei Fort, there are not many people in total, and they have withstood the attack of more than 60,000 British and Japanese forces." We have a strong army, and we have indeed lost consecutive battles, and now Beitang and Dagukou have been lost one after another, and most of Tianjin City will not be able to be saved, how can we explain to the imperial court......"

(To be continued.) )