"Kill the pig demon! Defend the kingdom of heaven! Kill......"

The earth-shaking slogan once again resounded on the front line of Xuzhou, and the first fierce general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the royal flag raised by King Zeng Tianyang of Lu had been inserted next to the chest wall of the outer defense line of Xuzhou City. After three days of bloody fighting, the Taiping army almost filled the four or five feet high rammed earth wall with corpses.

Zeng Tianyang was famous for being the first soldier in the Taiping Army to be shot in line, and his descendant Foreign Gun Left Army was also the number one unit in the Taiping Army that could fight tough battles, although two-thirds of the old brothers in the army were transferred to expand the new army, but the backbone was still there. The combat effectiveness of this army is naturally the strongest among the Taiping Army on the Xuzhou front.

Therefore, today's siege of Xuzhou they will play! Of course, Wei Changhui, the king of the north, is not good at pulling out a dime, and he took out his army in front of the North Palace, which is also a first-class elite. The weapons and equipment are also a water of foreign guns and cannons, which were sold to the Taiping Army by the British earlier.

Zeng Tianyang was the former enemy commander-in-chief of today's general attack, and he saw him holding a sword in his hand, and the yellow-robed dragon crown stood in front of his royal flag, raising his arms and shouting: "Foreign spear left army, advance!" ”

The sound of drums sounded, and in the past six months, there have been more foreign brothers serving the Taiping Army, most of whom are adventurers who have come to East Asia, and some of them have served in the Western army. With their help, the Taiping Army's foreign spear army has made a lot of progress compared to the battle of Zhihua County, and it will beat the drum and march in mightily. Moreover, the formation changes are more flexible and rapid, and the queue has really reached a strict level.

"Onward! Advance! Zeng Tianyang also carried his sword and began to move forward, and several of his own soldiers used their bodies to protect him from being injured by stray bullets.

Launched an attack with the left army of foreign guns. And with a shield on top. Carrying a bamboo ladder, he shouted loudly, "God bless." invulnerability" slogan forward cannon fodder. The distance between the breastwork wall and the Xuzhou city wall was only about three or four hundred paces, and there was a moat in the middle, but it had been filled in by the corpses and earth of the Taiping army who had attacked before. This wave of impact can go straight to the city! The attacking force was divided into two obvious waves, the first wave was the "cannon fodder", which was charged with all its strength by the foreign guns behind them. The artillery of the Taiping army also moved, and it was erected behind the chest wall, aiming at the head of Xuzhou City and bombarding it, causing the smoke and dust on the city wall to shake up. Gravel flying. The Miao army also began to counterattack, one by one rifles stretched out and began to shoot, and the cannons at the head of the city also bombarded the lower ground with shotguns. But it didn't seem to be too dense, the Taiping army's attack troops rushed to the bottom of the city wall in one go, and when they began to erect the ladder, there were obvious casualties, and the soldiers carrying the equipment kept falling, and the team looked a little chaotic, but soon there were still many soldiers holding shields to protect most of their bodies and then began to climb the ladder.

The foreign spear team of the Taiping army formed a dense two-column firing formation and rushed to the top of the city wall less than 50 paces away. Endured the opponent's fire, and used a platoon of guns to throw a rain of bullets on the city. In the previous attack on the breastwork outside Xuzhou City. Such a close-range gun platoon is still a magic weapon to win! War in this era is sometimes a simple math problem, a math problem of the ratio of firepower density to force density, the defender's firepower exceeds the attacker's strength, and the defense can be successfully defended, otherwise it will be broken through by the opponent! And as far as the current situation on the battlefield is concerned, the defender's firepower is very strong!

Zeng Tianyang was dragged to death by his own soldiers and did not let him continue to move forward - his bright clothes were really not suitable for the battlefield. At this time, he could only wave his sword and shout: "Rush, rush up, kill the pig demon, kill the pig demon!" ”

Suddenly there was a large puff of smoke rising from behind the city walls! Then the firepower at the head of the city also sparsed, Zeng Tianyang hurriedly raised the telescope to take a look, only to see the figure on the head of the city shaking, looking very chaotic!

"Follow me!" He pushed away the soldiers who were pulling him away, shouting forward. He knew that the Dao was the internal force in the city, and now was the critical moment to decide the victory or defeat of Xuzhou, if he could break the city and kill Miao Peilin in one fell swoop, Zhu Jishi would not be able to sit still anyway.

"The left army of foreign guns, go to the city! Ascend to the city! Zeng Tianyang rushed up and shouted, there are not many internal arrangements in Xuzhou City, such chaos will not last long, so now I don't care about fighting with the enemy, rushing to the city is the key to victory!

Under the leadership of His Royal Highness King Lu, the morale of the Taiping army rose sharply, and I saw an old brother wrapped in a red cloth and carrying a foreign gun standing up, shouting in Hakka dialect: "Emperor God bless us!" The slogan began to climb the ladder.

The aftermath lingers. In the rain of bullets, someone has already climbed the city! The brutal hand-to-hand combat began immediately, this is the strength of the berserkers of the Taiping Army, not to mention Miao Peilin's motley army, even Zhu Jishi's brocade guards may not be able to fight this group of masters who believe in God and don't want their lives.

"Attacked, actually attacked......" Wei Changhui, who was supervising the battle in the rear, couldn't believe the scene in front of him, Xuzhou City, which was like iron beating copper, was captured by himself like this? Incredible, right? Miao Peilin also has a reputation for knowing soldiers and guarding well, why can't he help fighting?

Qin Rigang beside him said with a smile: "King Bei, this can still be fake, the city walls have been boarded, and it is still the left army of foreign guns...... It really deserves to be the first elite of my heavenly kingdom! ”

Wei Changhui looked at it again, and saw that there were more and more soldiers on the head of the city, and a banner of King Lu of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had been erected!

"King Bei, let your subordinates lead troops to reinforce King Lu." Qin Rigang asked for battle. He had the best relationship with Wei Changhui, he was originally a miner in Guixian County, Guangxi, and he had a miner brother who was not afraid of death, so he had a very high status at the beginning of the Taiping Army uprising.

"Okay, there is Brother Lao Rigang." Wei Changhui said politely, "The army in front of the North Hall is also under the control of the Japanese brothers, so we must break the city in one fell swoop!" ”

Originally, Wei Changhui had no intention of breaking the city, although he had 200,000 people along the way, but most of them were rabble, and the elite was only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

"The gates were taken, the gates were opened, and the ...... was won"

Before Qin Rigang left, cheers rang out on the battlefield, Wei Changhui raised the binoculars to take a look, and sure enough, the west gate of Xuzhou was actually opened! This Miao Peilin was really confused, and he didn't seal the city gate with a stone.

"Emperor God bless us, rush with me!"

Zeng Tianyang shouted excitedly at this time, while mobilizing the elite of the foreign gun left army to enter the city, and he himself took his own soldiers to stride towards the open city gate.

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"Marshal, the Taiping Army Brigade has begun to enter the city from the West Gate!"

In the city of Xuzhou, in the yamen of the governor of Huaibei, which was built like a small castle, Miao Peilin's personal soldiers hurriedly came to report.

"Good! Lead them to the entrance of the school! Gather your troops and horses and fight off the enemy with me! ”

Miao Peilin never panicked at all, opening the door to lure the enemy was a plan that had been set a long time ago, and the Taiping Army's internal should have been cut off by him a long time ago.

"Let the ambushes on both sides of Ximen Street be hidden, and wait for the school entrance to start before shooting."

The entrance to the school field was found in every provincial town in this era, a bit like the city center square in later generations, surrounded by military camps, yamen, and an open space in the middle, which was used by senior officials to inspect the pro-soldiers and protect the army and hold various ceremonies. The Miao army had already built a barricade at the entrance of the schoolyard, arranged an elite foreign gun team, and waited for the Taiping army to rush over and send him to death. At the same time, on both sides of Ximen Street, where the West Gate entered, there were many fortified Tibetan strongholds with elite soldiers in ambush, and the ambushes were all over the place when the entrance of the school field began. In addition, there are tunnels under the Ximen Urn City, all of which are buried with explosives and gunpowder, which can be ignited and detonated at any time.

And all this arrangement, the warriors of the Taiping Army never dreamed that they would fight all the way, and the enemies they encountered were all stupid Eight Banner warriors, where was there such a treacherous and cunning opponent as Miao Peilin? Therefore, after entering the city, the Taiping army, in addition to seizing the West Gate Tower and the Urn City, went to the entrance of the school in a swarm...... (To be continued......)