Chapter 717 Disaster in Xiao Qiang (Part 2)
After the sky turned white again, the rising sun shone again in Chang'an City, where fireworks were rolling everywhere and the sound of fighting was shocking. Wang Shenchao, a native of Guangzhou who was promoted to the brigade's official service (official), also led a team of people to fight in a certain street in Shengpingfang, east of the city.
He held a three-eyed gun in one hand and held a ball sign in his hand, and jumped out from behind the half-cut wall like an antelope. He then turned serpentinely through the streets with continuous scattered arrows, and rushed to the wall at the intersection with his jingling tail feathers.
In an instant, Wang Shenchao quickly raised the three-eyed gun in his hand and hit the sharp edge of the group card with force. The smoke burst out with his fingertips and pushed an enemy soldier who leaned out from the knife, and his chest armor was cracking and then he fell back.
Then, he raised his sign like a conditioned reflex, blocking a spearhead that was stabbing from top to bottom, but his other hand flew out the three-eyed gun and smashed it towards the third enemy soldier who broke out. He saw red and white falling to the ground in response.
The successful impact he took the lead was like an invisible signal. In an instant, the whistle sounded loudly, more figures wearing blue-gray robes and armor climbed over the obstacles in the streets and the ruins of roadside houses, shouting and clamoring to kill and break through this enemy fortification intersection.
Under the cover of crackling sounds of muskets, the archers of the official army who were originally hiding along the streets, roofs and pavilions, but were exposed due to Wang Shenchao's tentative impact, also fell down like dead branches and leaves from Saul on the room, rushing to fall between the splash of debris and dust.
Therefore, after more than half an hour, the remnants of the official army entrenched in this street could only leave behind many bodies and injured prisoners in panic and helplessly, and fled to the street to seek support and shelter.
From Xingqing Palace and Anyifang near Dongshi City, they fought and retreated here. They fought in turn for two days and two nights; the flags and military horns of the official army that fought with them were cut down or seized more than a dozen sides.
In this complex environment where too many people cannot be invested at one time, but can only be relatively cramped in space and complex channels, forming street fighting conflicts; various firearms that can be thrown and radiated have played an unexpected role and become the backbone to support their battle.
At least compared to the spears, escalators, which are obviously unusable and the crossbows that are disturbed by the shooting world, the benefits of these firearms in portability, sustainability and durability in the fight are easily overwhelmed by the official army.
They can even rely on more than a dozen muskets of various types or a few explosive bombs and sulphur bombs to easily suppress and deter the officers and soldiers of the entire street from advance, or move forward easily and break the battle in the middle.
Sometimes they even have the illusion of several degrees. As long as there is enough supply of medicine and replacement of firearms, they can rely on exploration and arrangement of terrain to resist endless enemies.
Wang Shenchao thought so, swallowed a piece of hard compressed ration, and used his sour teeth to chew it and grind it raw. However, he was in a silence of exclamation and begging for mercy in a broken alley. Amid the begging, he ran into a group of people who were shabby and crouching on the ground and shivered;
Then, groups of fugitives who were constantly passing through the streets immediately attracted the attention of the Taiping soldiers who were standing, sitting or leaning against the eaves along the street and resting in the corridor.
The reason is very simple. Although these refugees are wearing old and torn clothes, their size is not suitable and their obviously slender hands and feet are showing that the "they" are covered with dust on their faces and exposed skin. Most of them are female surnames.
"What, these are all escaped from Pingkangli? The government army burned, killed and looted, and even these versatile and versatile people in the courtyard could not escape their harm?"
The captain who received the report then suddenly became a little strange, and even had a strange idea on the spot. Could it be that this guy was deliberately attracting people.
As a tradition in the Taiping Army, many middle and lower-class soldiers and old soldiers actually got the corresponding standards for starting a family and took the initiative to marry women from the Jiaofang Academy.
The reason is also very simple. Although they are generally humble and have fallen into the world, they have some good knowledge and a foundation for literacy and reading, and are more considerate, tactful and know how to serve people than most ordinary women.
Therefore, when they get rid of the morning and frivolous days and frivolous days due to the Taiping Army, welcome the fire pit of sending them, and regain the opportunity to have dignity and decent self-reliance, they can often have enough gratitude and long-term dependence;
Then, for Taiping soldiers who were also suffering from miserable backgrounds, they had both empathy for the same fate and tolerance of family harmony. Therefore, as long as they applied for a change of household registration, they would easily live together.
Putting aside the little episodes in the matchup, in the Mingde Gate facing Zhuque Street in the south of the city, Zhong Yi, the second general of the First Army, also looked at the second general of the Dispatch Army, Chai Ping, with an unexpected expression:
"Zhonglang, the defenders in this city are wastes that cannot be helped. I am afraid that they have all been cultivated by the comfortable life in this city and have no desire and fighting spirit."
"I had to hold the wall before and guard them, but I could barely deal with it. Now, when I heard that the Guangou came into the city, I threw the city defenses one after another and ran around, let alone working together to cooperate!!"
"Is it necessary for us to stay in this city and join it?... It is better to bring people who are willing to follow us to go early and protect more vitality. Don't be misled by temporary friendship and kindness."
"What are you saying? Stay in this city to help stabilize the situation. Isn't it for the arrangement of the Grand Commander?"
Before Chai Ping could speak, a military general beside him suddenly said indignantly as if he was blown up: But it was Meng Kai who had been with Chang'an City for a long time, and Zhang Guiba who had been able to return until the end.
"I naturally have nothing to say about the matter; the Grand Commander's foresight is naturally inferior to ours."
Zhong Yi also said unmoved:
"However, the situation and situation have changed now. Even if our army wants to continue to stabilize the situation, it must be a target of mutual assistance. Now three days have passed, and there is still such hope in Chang'an City?"
As soon as these words were said, there was a sudden burst of voice in the military tent; then Zhong Yi continued to say:
"I naturally know your worries and knots. There are still a large group of Hu Qi outside the city, and I am afraid that this journey will not be easy to go. But if Pan Henghe is delayed here, it will not only be some inevitable losses on the road, but also the disaster of overturning the inside and outside teams."
"Is this what you think and mean? It is a good choice and the best countermeasure."
At this time, Chai Ping finally spoke:
"However, this is only based on the selection and best results of the advance army itself; but it is not the best choice and result in the overall situation of Guanzhong in the Grand Governor's Office, do you understand?"
"The friendly forces of the Great Qi in the city may not be trusted or relied on, but you can still believe in the follow-up plan of the Grand Governor's Office, and believe that the temporary correspondence of the comrades in Lantian County and Wuguan Road to the south...."
"Well, my qualifications are limited and I can't be as far as you think. You are the leader appointed by the Grand Governor; then I will sacrifice my life to accompany the gentleman, so what will happen in the end?"
Zhong Yi was silent for a moment when he heard this, and couldn't help but sigh and retreated along the steps.
In another place, Empress Cao, who had originally wanted to stick to the big house, but was suddenly opened by someone to lead the troops in. In the end, Empress Cao, who had to lead the remaining troops to retreat here, seemed to be much older and no longer had the previous high spirits.
After all, among the generals left by Huang Wang in the city, Uncle Ge Cun hastily gathered to fight in his homeland, and was already dead on the spot and was rumored to be in front of the front. The ambassador and left-behind envoy of the gates, the young Yin Mengkai of Jingzhao was also unknown in the chaos.
As for another imperial city inspection envoy, the General of the Left Jinwu Guard, Bai Risheng; and the Luodu, who led the reinforcements of Kanto, remained at Huang Siye. Although he received her order, he had no intention of obeying it at all, and led his troops in the city to do his own thing.
As a result, the Tongzhou garrison commander who was still lying on the sickbed to recuperate, Meng Juehai, the general of the right-leading guard, stood up and brought his gathered guards to the death and scattered the eunuchs who were in trouble in the private enterprises near the Da Nei Zhonggong. He rescued the concubines and two little kings trapped in Wanchun Palace, and then took the lead and killed them together.
The result was that when he finally stopped, his whole body had become an absolute blood; although there were the flesh and blood of the enemy he killed, there were also the wounds that broke and soaked the blood of his body.
After such fierce fighting, this general who was a leader named Feishanhu, who had lost half his life if his old creation relapsed on the spot, could only lie on the bed and survive.
So, now she is surrounded by more than a hundred soldiers from Weihe Mansion and hundreds of Gongchen Army, the inner hall guard squad of Lizheng Hall and the Cao family's personal soldiers. Then the fate and future of the relatives in the palace headed by her and other elderly, weak, women and children, even hope to be in the hands of this Taiping Advance Army who came from afar.
"Come on, just follow me to dress up..."
Thinking of this, she made a decision and stood up again and yelled at the female official who was with her.
Then, Empress Cao washed off her dirty makeup and replaced her skirt covered in mud and scratched with ragged clothes. She came to another place on the city with plain faces, hugging her head and crying or sobbing at the concubines who were holding the child, and suddenly said sternly:
"Looking at your appearance, you will just sit and wait for death!!!"
"It would be better to leave you directly or let me send you on a journey before, than to fall into the hands of those enemies, and not to survive or die."
Hearing this, the women's crying and sobs paused as if they had been on a talisman; even the two little kings who would cry in the wet nurse's arms after they were young, couldn't help but lose their voices as if they were cold.
"I don't want to say the second time now. If I still want to survive and don't want to be abandoned, I will change this in-house etiquette that is in trouble."
Queen Cao then continued to sternly:
"It's here that I have someone erected the curtain to change it. Anyway, I won't lose any flesh if I look at it more. But if I lose my life because of this, I will lose all my hopes in the future."
And far away from the Zhuque Long Street, Cui Onqian, who had moved his tent to this place with the army and horses that attacked Danei, also said with dissatisfaction:
Chapter completed!