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Qu Bo did not expect that the Taiping army on the opposite side would come so quickly and fiercely, although he also received information from the Intelligence Bureau and the Military Intelligence Bureau that the main forces of the Taiping Army in Hejian Province and Montenegro Province were making secret moves, but at the same time, the intelligence department also reported that the Kaman people were making large-scale adjustments in Qinghe Province, which seemed to give a message to the northwest that the Kaman people seemed to be going to do something against the Taiping people again, and the military movement of the Taiping people was just a kind of pre-deployment in response to the military attack of the Kamans, plus the Taiping people had uprooted the landlord and gentry forces in Heshuo, especially in Longquan and Longquan Prefectures of Montenegro, which caused some shortcomings in the accuracy and detail of the intelligence obtained by the Northwest intelligence service. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Almost no one in the northwest believed that the Taiping people would shake hands with the Kamanites in such a short period of time, and even Situ Jun joined this front half-coveredly, if it was together with the Maqi Khans in the upper south, this anti-Li front seemed to have taken shape.

Looking at the banners and dense spears of the Taiping army under the city of Qinghe Mansion, Qu Bo was very worried, he was not worried about himself and Tianshui Mansion, although the city defense facilities of Tianshui Mansion were average, but Qu Bo was full of confidence in the first army in the northwest that was incomparable to the powerful and incomparable in the hand, although the enemy army under the city could see from the number and posture that the Taiping Army had concentrated at least 120,000 troops, but Qu Bo believed that his first division and a garrison wing in the city could support at least a few days, and a few days were enough to get a reply from his boss。

Whether it is to defend or withdraw, there can always be a conclusion, defend, hold on for four to five days is estimated to be not much of a problem, but in the face of more than five times their own enemy army, even if the opponent's combat effectiveness is far inferior to their own, but the power that erupts under the instigation of religious fanaticism is sometimes not able to be calculated by common sense, and the losses brought are immeasurable。

Qu Bo was more worried about Pinglu Mansion in the north, and the Taiping army dared to mobilize more than 100,000 troops to invade Tianshui, which shows that the Taiping army was not worried that the Kamans in the northwest would invade Montenegro, and the center of the empire still had more than 100,000 troops in the east to defend the dangerous pass, and the target of the Kaman army assembled in Qinghe Mansion was likely to be Pinglu Mansion that had just been pacified. The coach of the Kaman people is not a mediocre person, judging from the early actions, almost every step is planned and then moved, and the moves are directed to the key points, except for the sneak attack in the northern part of Pinglu and the failure to be planted in the hands of the Northwest Army, several major moves in the northern plains have been a complete success. This time, Jian Feng pointed out, I am afraid that he also came with the heart of victory, and Pinglu also has three main divisions in the northwest with 20,000 rangers, I am afraid that this battle of life and death is inevitable.

The Taiping Army's offensive this time can be said to have been gathering momentum for a long time and fierce like a tide, and the 180,000 people (cavalry) team has exceeded half of the entire Heshuo Taiping Army, obviously trying to swallow the entire Tianshui. The vanguard mobilized 60,000 troops to take turns to attack, although the ladders and elevated vehicles were somewhat backward and rudimentary compared with the various advanced siege weapons of the Maqihans on the southern front, but the role played by the 60,000 people assembled was not reflected by equipment alone. The Taiping sect also clearly knew their weaknesses in attacking the city, and selected 15,000 archers with excellent arm strength, equipped with Knox (Kaman's place name, famous for producing excellent longbows) longbows produced in Kaman, using the longbow's long-range range to make up for the disadvantage in height, although the accuracy was not as good as the ordinary short bow, but the amazing lethality of the 15,000 archers forming a bow and arrow phalanx also made the first division suffer a big loss.

Qu Bo stood behind the pheasant moat with some annoyance and watched the wave after wave of attacks launched by the Taiping Sect under the city, the enemy occupied a considerable advantage in the archers, and the dense arrow rain fell on the city like raindrops, although the soldiers were closely protecting themselves with the help of pheasants and shields, but when the offensive under the city was launched at the same time, the soldiers had to brave the rain of arrows to raise their knives and guns to prepare for the arrival of a new round of charge, and this is often difficult to protect themselves, from time to time arrows drilled in through the gaps, and the soldiers let out a deep howl, and like a flood overflowing the embankment, The Taiping Sect soldiers, who braved the lime bottle and lime bag to attack, immediately started a fierce battle with the soldiers of the Northwest Army who met at the head of the city.

Although the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Taiping Army cannot be compared with that of the First Division, their fierceness and fear of death shown in face-to-face hand-to-hand combat still bring a lot of trouble to the First Division, often stabbing or cutting down the opponent, but the other side will fight to the death before the temporary, and many Taiping soldiers even hold the idea of dying together, ignoring the blade stabbing their body, allowing themselves to suffer death and also give the other party a fatal blow, which makes many Northwest Army soldiers who did not expect this situation pay a heavy price。 Of course, the soldiers of the First Division of the battle formation quickly adapted to the opponent's tactics and quickly adjusted their tactics, often forming a small battle combination with a three-talent formation or a mandarin duck formation to strangle the surrounded Taiping soldiers.

The Sancai Array and the Mandarin Duck Array use the mutual cooperation of several soldiers' swords, shields, guns and spears to form a small combat entity, the formation is flexible, and the movement is fast, which not only avoids the casualties caused by the enemy's desperate efforts, but also gives full play to the advantages of various attack weapons, and is most suitable for dealing with this kind of Taiping soldiers who do not have much combat experience and completely rely on the courage of blood and qi to charge, after a few rounds, the city wall has been filled with the corpses of Taiping soldiers, and the red plasma has soaked through the cracks in the bricks of the entire city wall. Sweat and blood are intertwined at this moment, everyone's sweat seems to have turned into a dazzling red, sprinting, slashing, blocking, slaughtering, killing, beheading, all kinds of actions and behaviors have become the most realistic interpretation of hand-to-hand combat on the city wall, whether it is the soldiers of the Taiping Army or the soldiers of the first division at this time, there is no other idea left, only the purest and most instinctive idea, kill each other, save yourself.

Several waves of crazy offensives were successfully contained by the first division, and the commander of the Taiping army also became extremely cunning and cruel, often using the soldiers who climbed the wall to climb the city wall and fight with the soldiers of the Northwest Army not long after, they ordered the archers under the city to cover it with a rain of arrows, which killed and injured their own soldiers in large numbers and also brought great damage to the soldiers of the Northwest Army. However, Qu Bo was already a little worried, the Taiping army was too desperate, desperately rushing regardless of all casualties, purely relying on crowd tactics to consume their own troops, and if this development continued, the first division was afraid that it would be difficult to hold out until the expected five days, and it was already a rare performance to be able to hold out until three days.

Just as the Taiping army was charging without uniting Heshuo, the Kamanes' army also began to quietly move westward. When the Royal Guards Regiment, which had been wandering around the edge of Cangzhou Mansion, quietly slipped into the territory of Qinghe Mansion to take over the defense of several corps under Nick's command in Cangzhou, the four corps of nearly 300,000 troops attacked Pinglu Mansion with two combined hook fists, one left and one right.

The fierce offensive of the Kamans surprised Shanzhu, Long Zi, and Mao Jin stationed in Pinglu Province, who were already suspicious when they received the secret assembly of the Kaman army in Qinghe, but they were not sure whether the Kamans wanted to raid Montenegro or advance westward, especially at the same time that the Taiping Sect was also making large-scale military adjustments. However, the sudden westward division of the four corps of the Kamans shattered their illusions, if the four corps were allowed to form a siege smoothly, with the existing fortifications of Pinglu Province, they were afraid that it would be difficult to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements, so the three of them came up with a response plan in the shortest possible time.

The 3rd Heavy Cavalry Division led by Mao Jin fully demonstrated the strong style of the 1st Heavy Cavalry Division in the Northwest, and in the face of the absolute superiority of the Kaman army, he led more than 20,000 iron cavalry to go against the trend and launched a heroic encounter with the 3rd and 5th Corps of Kaman who swooped in from the southern flank of Pinglu, which was called the Battle of Xueshuitan by later generations.

When the two light cavalry 10,000 cavalry of the 3rd and 5th Corps of Kaman, who had marched all the way to the west along the Xueshui River, the Kaman people obviously underestimated the determination and fighting spirit of the Northwest Army to dare to fight against the trend, and when the two cavalry torrents, one light and one heavy, advanced relatively fiercely for less than ten miles, the scouts on both sides had time to transmit the information that they had discovered the enemy's attack to the main generals of both sides, but at this time, the distance of only ten miles had made the two sides have no choice, and the face-to-face charge became the only choice.

The light cavalry of the Kamans had obviously suffered a small loss in this wave of impact, although they knew the power of the enemy's heavy cavalry, but they could not get out of the way in terms of momentum and honor or in order to buy time for the follow-up troops, and the narrow valley of the cave water bank made it difficult for the more than 40,000 cavalry to complete the dislocation in a short time.

Chopper vs. spear, light leather armor vs. heavy armor, this short battle didn't last long, and when the two torrents with great acceleration collided together, they each ran along their own tracks while rolling up countless blood swirls. The Third Heavy Cavalry Division led by Mao Jin was like a giant axe that split 20,000 Kaman light cavalry in half, and while breaking through this cavalry team, it inevitably collided with countless sparks, and the overwhelming sound of horses' hooves and the crisp or dull impact sound and earth-shaking shouts made everyone immediately deaf at this moment, and the blood mist within a radius of several miles was immediately filled with the Wushui River beach.

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