Han’s Son is Not a Slave

Hu Qili's pacesetters of the direct line headquarters are the elites of the Green Camp established by the Governor of Guangdong, Li Suitai. Those who were full of money, now the coach has sent a message to them, and the 160 personal soldiers with guns on their backs and knives in their hands don't even frown, they fold their arms and go to work with Li Blind.

"It takes a thousand days to support the army! The brothers eat and drink well on weekdays, and the girls can be happy. Today, the general uses us, and no one can shrink their eggs. They all follow me!"

His personal soldiers also wore leather armor, but Li Blind rushed down the hillside with his shirtless. He can't ride a horse, and he doesn't use a sword in his hand, but like Xu Zhu, a hero in the Three Kingdoms, he uses a heavy hammer that weighs dozens of pounds. Can kill a tiger!

With Li Blind as an example, all the personal soldiers were also screaming, and their morale was not affected by the retreating Qing army.

Hu Qili was also relieved to see that his personal soldiers were so brave, but seeing that his own troops and horses on the Lutou River had already retreated, and the commander's pacesetters were also wrapped around by the retreating battalion soldiers and retreated, but his heart was relieved. If he didn't come down, he secretly complained that if it wasn't for the late arrival of the uncles from Han Junqi, how could he have been caught by the thieves and talents!

What Hu Qili can do now is to continuously send people to gather the defeated soldiers, and strictly order the pacesetters to stabilize their positions, so as not to let the Xinhui defeat repeat itself. At the same time, he even sent two groups of messengers to ask for help from Tong Erhan, the flag of the Han army behind, so that they must rush to the Lutou River immediately.

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Although Li Xianzi looks like a fool, he is actually very shrewd. After taking his personal soldiers down the slope, he did not rush to stop the Taiping cavalry, but instructed the personal soldiers to remove the fire gun on his back. , lit the fire and waited for the Taiping cavalry to come. He knew that the cavalry was naturally restrained by the infantry, so he rashly led someone down, not to mention blocking this group of Taiping bandits, I am afraid that he would not be able to drag them for a while. The only way is to use the hillside terrain to delay the Taiping bandits. So that they can't rush up the hillside, as long as the Taiping bandits' horses descend, they will become live targets for their own hunting.

After discovering that Li Xianzi led someone to stop him on the slope, Zheng Guodong also came over, and hurriedly led a cavalry around the side, exposing the Taiping cavalry who were chasing behind him to Li Xiazi's personal soldiers.

The Taiping cavalry did not notice the movement in front of them in time. When they found that there were Qing soldiers with fire guns in front, they had no time to change direction, so they could only bite the bullet and continue to charge forward.

"Release the gun!"

In the smoke of gunpowder, more than 40 Taiping soldiers who rushed in front fell from their horses. However, more Taiping soldiers rushed closer, but the speed of the horses slowed down significantly. In addition to the influence of the corpses of the fallen companions, only a few dozen people could rush directly.

The sources of the weapons of the Taiping army's cavalry are very complicated. They are not all sabres like the cavalry of the Qing army. They have long knives, spears, and long axes. Seeing dozens of Taiping cavalry rushing up, Li Blind didn't wait for his men to reload. With a loud roar, he picked up the big hammer and went forward to kill.

"The Taiping bandit can't run, brothers, copy the guy for me!"

Hearing Li Blind's shouting, all the personal soldiers threw the fire guns in their hands to the Taiping army. Then he picked up a long sword from the ground and used the hillside terrain to kill the Taiping army.

The Qing army horse team that went around to the left saw the Taiping army being dragged by the personal soldiers. Zheng Guodong also saw the fighter plane. After hesitating, he turned around and rushed down the slope.

There was a desperate interception by the Qing army before, and the flank was hit by the Qing army horses who were killed and returned to the carbine. For a time, the Taiping cavalry battalion, which could only be called horse-mounted infantry rather than real cavalry, was surrounded by a heavy siege.

The battalion officer Shao Guocheng's eyes almost bleed, since the establishment of the riding battalion. I have never suffered such a big loss. I was chasing Qing Yao, but now I am surrounded by Qing Yao, so I can't rush!

He couldn't bear to blame himself, and could only desperately lead his subordinates to retreat down the slope. Under the attack of the Qing army horse team and the personal soldiers, the cavalry battalion with more than 100 casualties retreated to the downhill, but the Qing army horse team was surrounded by the surrounding, and it was impossible to retreat.

Riding up and down the camp was like a **** man, and the battle was far more intense than any battle they had experienced before. Seeing those who were still alive and chasing Qing Yao with him just now, ah, the next corpses turned into cold corpses and lay down on the slope, Shao Chengguo's heart was like being stabbed by a needle.

"Kill, kill me!"

"The infantry brothers have already defeated the Qing Yao, and the Qing Yao here will run away sooner or later. Don't be afraid, brothers, hold on, hold on!"

Shao Chengguo kept cheering for his subordinates loudly, but more and more subordinates fell, and the encirclement was getting smaller and smaller, and only half of the Taiping army was left.

The battlefield situation presented two completely different situations. The thousands of Qing troops on the front were beaten by the right and left battalions of the infantry army crossing the river and could not retreat, while the cavalry of the Taiping army was surrounded by the Qing army.

The sound of the artillery was still roaring, but it had become less and less. After the Qing army completely retreated from the preset shelling circle, Zhou Shixiang ordered the artillery battalion to stop the shelling, and ordered Qi Hao to mobilize all the tiger squat cannons and pole guns to cross the river.

The tiger squat gun is extremely light, and three soldiers can carry it across the river, and the pole and gun are even lighter, and two soldiers can successfully wade through the water by holding it one after the other.

Neither of these two types of guns were fired in the previous shelling, because their range was extremely short. The tiger squat gun can reach four or five hundred meters, but the pole gun can only hit more than one hundred meters. This distance is obviously impossible. Hit the guns on the Qing army.

Now that the Taiping army has stabilized the line of defense and successfully repelled the Qing army, the retreating Qing army could not organize an effective attack again in a short period of time, and could not even regroup. When the army loses command, it will be severely damaged. At this time, the tiger squat gun and the pole gun can play a huge role - the two fired are not solid iron bullets, but dense lead. As long as these cannons with extremely powerful short-range lethality are transported up, Zhou Shi believes that the Taiping army will surely achieve a major victory.

On the other side of the river, accompanied by the sound of suona, the gunmen of the 2nd brigade of the right battalion of the infantry lined up in a phalanx and slowly moved forward under the command of the officer. Under his leadership, he chased and killed the retreating Qing army in skirmish formation.

During this period, the artillery of the Qing army fired several times, but UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com could no longer shake the formation of the Taiping army. Hu Qili ordered to stop the artillery fire, and the artillery team immediately transported the artillery to the rear, so as not to be captured by the Taiping Army when it was too late to retreat.

Zhou Shixiang saw Shao Chengguo's cavalry battalion being suppressed by the Qing army from the mirror, but he could not send troops to rescue.

Before the war, Zhou Shixiang gave Shao Chengguo the task of expelling the Qing army cavalry from the battlefield. If not, hold them back so that the Qing army cavalry would not have an impact on the right camp of the infantry crossing the river, but he did not want Shao Chengguo to kill the enemy. After leaving the Qing army cavalry, he even ignored the fact that his own strength was not enough to annihilate the Qing army cavalry. , with heavy casualties.

The Taiping Army still has one unmoved soldier, that is Shao Jiugong's personal battalion, but even if he saw soldiers falling from the cavalry battalion, Zhou Shixiang still had no idea of ​​sending his personal battalion to cross the river to rescue him, because he was very worried that the Qing army would be removed from the army. In addition to the troops appearing on the battlefield, there are backers, just like he buried an ambush on the other side of the Lutou River.

When the Qing army attacked Zengcheng, the left camp of the infantry found a Han army flag with a blue flag outside the city. Now, this Han army flag has never appeared on the battlefield. Zhou Shixiang must be cautious. The barracks were sent across the river, and once the Han flag joined the battlefield, the Taiping army would have no mobile force to deal with them.

The goal of attacking Zengcheng and grabbing food has been achieved. The battle of Lutouhe was just a final battle. Zhou Shixiang did not want to pay too much loss in this final battle. The goal he wanted to achieve was very simple, just force the Qing army to withdraw. (To be continued.)