In Gaoyou County, Shi Dakai rode his beloved war horse "lightning" on the stone road in this small county. This Yangzhou battle made Shi Dakai very satisfied. He first concealed the world with one move, and then he invited you into the trap. Yangzhou and Jiangdu attacked each other, and Jiangbei camp had collapsed. Qi Shan rushed north in a hurry, and Gaoyou broke it without attacking, but Shi Dakai always felt that something was blocking his heart and it was difficult to remove it.

Dada, a fast horse rushed to Shi Dakai, and the man jumped down quickly.

"Wing King, Taizhou War Report." The visitor presented a letter.

Shi Dakai took the letter, opened it and smiled at his left and right, "Okay. Lai Hanying is a good person. He wiped out the green camps in Taizhou and Suzhou."

"What else does General Lai have to say?" Shi Dakai asked the sender:

"The general said that he would attack Taizhou early tomorrow morning, please rest assured by the Wing King."

"How many enemies are defending in Taizhou? Who is the defender?" Shi Dakai continued to ask:

"There are more than a thousand enemies in the defense, and the guardian general Xu Ming is the prefect of the Qing Dynasty. The Suzhou guerrilla Yang Yi should also be in Taizhou." The soldier who sent the letter replied:

After hearing this, Shi Dakai's expression suddenly became very strange, as if he remembered something, and suddenly said "Oh!!"

"No, Lai Hanying will suffer a big loss. Why did I forget him?"

"Wing King, what's wrong?" The left and right asked quickly:

"It's better not to order the troops as I thought, and rest immediately. Leave three thousand troops to collect high mail. Other troops will set off at the fifth day of tomorrow and rush to Taizhou." Shi Dakai ignored the inquiries and immediately issued an order.

Outside Taizhou City, Lai Hanying concentrated all the artillery at the west gate, and there were more than 30 artillery large and small lines in a row.

"Fire the gun." The order was given.

"Chi Chi Chi Chi." The lead makes a sound of death when it burns.

Yang Yi, who was standing on the city tower, discovered the movements of the Taiping Army through a telescope, and quickly ordered.

"Order the troops to evacuate and hide. The thieves are about to bombard the artillery. Order the artillery in the city to counterattack the thieves."

"yes!!."

"Boom, boom, boom." A series of shells fell on the city wall, and the shells hit the city wall made of bluestone, splashing small pieces of stone.

"Fortunately, it's a solid bullet." Yang Yinian muttered

"Boom." At once, a shell hit the city tower and continued to fly back through the roof of the city tower. The broken tiles and dust fell down, making Yang Yi and the others all over the body.

"General, please come down here, it's too dangerous." Li Zhuzi, the commander of the guard company, shouted:

"It's okay, the shells that can kill me have not been built yet." Yang Yi joked, "Hahaha" and the soldiers around him laughed.

"Is it funny? Drag the general down." Li Zhuzi not only did not laugh, but also raised his face to scold his subordinates.

"Boom boom boom" several shells fell on the city wall next to the city tower. After a battlement was hit by the shell, broken stones flew everywhere.

"Boom boom boom." Several more shells fell on the city wall, and the shells exploded several pits on the city wall.

"Damn it, there is actually a flower bullet." Yang Yi cursed.

Yang Yi regretted it now. At that time, he thought that the foreign devils' cannons were too expensive and could not bear to pay money. He wanted to build it himself in the future. He thought that with Jiangnan and Jiangbei camps, it would not be his turn to go to the battlefield to fight the Taiping Army for a while. Who knew that his troops would fight the Taiping Army so quickly. At present, Taizhou City only had a few old earth cannons, and there was almost no way to suppress the Taiping Army's firepower. If I had known, I would have gotten more than a dozen cannons to use them first.

"General, fire fiercely, go down quickly."

"Boom boom boom boom." The earth cannons on the city also began to shoot in the direction of the Taiping Army, but it seemed that the range was limited, and the shells landed weakly far away from the Taiping Army.

With a "boom", a local cannon was hit by the Taiping Army's fire. Several regiments who were firing the artillery suddenly became a mess and dodged everywhere.

"Damn it!!" Yang Yi cursed, and was forced down from the city tower by the brothers of the guard company.

The shelling stopped after ten minutes.

"General, the thief starts attacking again."

"General, there are also thieves coming up to the south gate."

“There are also North Gate”

This time, Lai Hanying made up his mind and divided his troops into three groups to charge towards Taizhou. The Taiping Army, who were carrying the shield and carrying the ladder, rushed to the city of Taizhou frantically.

When the Taiping Army approached, the company on the city stood up one after another. After throwing out the last dozen grenades, they picked up the rifle and shot violently. The shields used by the Taiping Army to block bows and arrows lost their function at this time. The charging Taiping Army kept falling down, but they seemed to have no idea that their companions around were constantly lying in pools of blood, and continued to stubbornly approach the city wall and set up a ladder.

Although the officers and soldiers of the first company were shooting desperately, there were too many Taiping troops swarming in, and they were not afraid of death. The Taiping troops climbed up the city wall of the West Gate. The Taiping troops who climbed up the city wall waved the big sword and spear in their hands, shouting and killing the soldiers of the first company. The defense of the West Gate was broken through several gaps.

"Get the bayonet and hit them down." The company commander Liu Shuigen shouted, and led a group of soldiers to kill the gap with the bayonet rifles.

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"General, I can't hold it back for a long time. I'll send a thief to the city wall." The messenger of the first company reported to Yang Yi.

"Fourth Company, follow me." Yang Yi picked up a rifle in his hand, so he had to take the fourth company to go up to the city wall.

"General, you can't go up. Li Zhuzi, hold on to the general." The fourth company commander shouted: Several soldiers from the guard company immediately stopped Yang Yi.

"General, I believe that brothers will not embarrass you." After saluting Yang Yi, the fourth company commander shouted loudly: "Brothers, go and kill the thief with me." After that, he was the first to rush up to the city wall.

Through the telescope, Lai Hanying saw his soldiers killing the city wall, and a stone in his heart fell to the ground. It seemed that the shelling was effective, and his tactics were also right. The South Gate and the North Gate were just feint attacks, and the West Gate were the main attack direction.
Chapter completed!