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Chapter 589 Allowing mistakes

Not to mention, although Feng Sanbao, Li Hezhang and others misunderstood the tactical intention of the Wu army commander Huang Yuanbao, and some suspect that the situation outside was not ideal, the reinforcements wanted to hurry up and respond to the self-broken breakthrough, and once had the idea of ​​taking the initiative to give up Yuhuatai's main strength. However, Feng Sanbao's army tentatively launched an attack behind Fengtai Gate, which was stationed heavily in the Taiping Army. After cooperating with Huang Yuanbao's army to attack the Taiping Army Zhong Wanqing and He Mingliang, they still shared a lot of pressure for the Wu army soldiers who were working hard to attack, reducing the casualties of many Wu army soldiers.

The help Feng Sanbao's army provided to Huang Yuanbao's army was mostly psychologically. In order to prevent Feng Sanbao's army from breaking through, the Taiping Army of Fengtaimen also built solid fortifications facing Yuhuatai. Even if it was replaced by the elite Wu army under Huang Yuanbao's command, they could only be sure of breaking through but could not guarantee when they could break through, let alone Feng Sanbao's army, whose weapons and equipment and soldiers were inferior.

However, it doesn't matter. As long as Feng Sanbao's army cooperated a little, the Wu army of several battalions carefully launched an attack on the Taiping Army's position. Zhong Wanqing and He Mingliang, who were afraid that Feng Sanbao and Huang Yuanbao would attack him with all their strength, still went out to fight with all their strength, and did not dare to use all the mobile troops on the southern front battlefield. They also prepared to give up the trench position and defend the solid camp wall early. As a result, when the troops were too cautious, they attacked the Wu army's Huang Yuanbao's troops naturally caught the opportunity, rushed more fiercely and fiercely, and broke through the third trench defense line of Zhong He's two army at the fastest speed and approached the fourth trench of the Taiping Army.

When they reached the front of the fourth trench defense line of the Taiping Army, they rushed too fast and had no time to dig trenches to build roads. They all rely on trench bridges and pads to cross the trench. There were very few trench tools left on the front line. In addition, the battalion walls that were too close to the Taiping Army were bombarded by the Taiping Army ambushed under the battalion walls. The Wu army's offensive was once again curbed, and they could only shoot in the trench with the Taiping Army as before. Fortunately, the four battalions, rear troops who were invested too early, stepped forward in time. While desperately digging the occupied trench ramps, they opened up the trench ramps to the friendly troops rushing in front, and then pushed the Wu army's offensive up.

During the fierce battle, the Taiping Army's guns and bullets were as dense as hail and raindrops. If the Wu army soldiers who forced to attack the tough were not careful, they could be shot and injured or even killed at any time. The Taiping Army's mountain-splitting cannons hiding under the village wall did not explode, and shot out shots made of stones and iron horns to sweep the battlefield like a storm, and shot and killed the Wu army soldiers who were unfortunately covered by the shotgun. The Wu army's army attacking troops, which were too tactical, were a little dense, so the casualties were quite large, and even a Wu army barracks officer was hit by a stray bullet and was forced to temporarily take over and command by the deputy barracks officer.

The Wu army was difficult to fight, and the Taiping Army was actually even more painful. Although the Taiping Army soldiers on the trench positions had trenches and sheep and horse walls to protect the front, they might be hit by the Wu army's guns and bullets. The helpless Wu army's bitter sore grenades can be thrown, and grenade can be shot in a curved manner. The elite battalion of the Wu army under Huang Yuanbao's troops has never regarded these precious weapons as the lifeblood. They would smash grenades and grenades as long as they saw the opportunity. In addition, the power of bitter sore weapons is far greater than that of black gunpowder weapons, so even if there are fortifications to be used, the Taiping Army's casualties are not smaller than that of the Wu army, and the mortality rate is even higher than that of the Wu army.

Not good at hand-to-hand combat also destined the failure of the Taiping Army. Even though Zhong Wanqing and He Mingliang, the two Taiping Army, were already elite under Li Xiucheng's command, they were just bullying the army that started with the Qing army in the Southeast. They had serious lack of experience in fighting tough battles. They could fight beautifully on the Shanghai battlefield because the Wu army in Shanghai had been deteriorating for many years. After meeting the elite Wu army who had experienced many battles, Zhong He and the other army were still the target of the elite Wu army in hand-to-hand combat. Therefore, as the Wu army soldiers gradually rushed through the deep trench and carried out bloody hand-to-hand combat with bayonets, the Taiping Army guarding the fourth trench gradually could not support it. While retreating step by step, they asked for help from the camp, "Send troops to help, we can't hold on! We can't hold on!"

Hundreds of Wu army's rifled cannons were watching Dandan in the distance. Zhong Wanqing and He Mingliang would continue to send troops to the battlefield outside the camp without gun evasion fortifications unless their heads were in water. Therefore, the answers given were all asked to hold on to the soldiers outside the camp. The positions were in their positions, and the positions were dead! Unfortunately, such empty slogans did not play any role at all. The terrified Taiping soldiers either fled back to the walls for protection, or fled to the two wings of the camp to avoid the Wu army's edge. The Wu army soldiers were unstoppable and quickly seized the fourth camp protection trench of the Taiping Army, and pointed directly at the solid camp wall of the Taiping Army.

The war has come to this point. If it were other Wu army commanders, they would have immediately withdrawn the first round of attack troops, which had many wounded soldiers and began to show signs of fatigue. The four battalions that went up behind had all their strength to open the road, open multiple solid roads that reached the wall of the Taiping Army camp, establish temporary ammunition evasion fortifications, and then launch a calm attack. Huang Yuanbao, who was not blindly able to do it, was also preparing to do this, but coincidentally, just when Huang Yuanbao was about to order the withdrawal of the first round of attack troops, the Yuhuatai, which was only more than ten miles away, suddenly made a loud noise of cannons, and the intensity of the war suddenly increased. Huang Yuanbao did not dare to neglect, so he quickly swallowed the order to withdraw the troops back into his stomach, raised his telescope and looked at the situation on the Yuhuatai.

The distance is still a bit too far, and it is blocked by the Yuhuatai high ground. Even in the telescope, it is impossible to see clearly what happened in the Yuhuatai battlefield. However, judging from the vaguely visible smoke and cannon sound, Huang Yuanbao could conclude that the Taiping Army was launching an attack on Yuhuatai. As a result, Huang Yuanbao, who was furious, was also a little worried and said intimidatingly: "Changmao shouldn't take advantage of Feng Sanbao and his team to take over us and attack Yuhuatai with all his might? The terrain in this area is only the Yuhuatai high ground. If Feng Sanbao and others voluntarily give up Yuhuatai in order to break through in a hurry, it would be a pity, but if they want to get it back, they will definitely suffer too much casualties."

After reaching this conclusion, Huang Yuanbao made a quick decision after a moment of judgment and shouted: "Send orders to the front line, the four battalions that went up first were excavated on the spot to cover firepower! The four battalions that went up came forward and were responsible for attacking the Changmao Camp wall!"

"General Huang, we have not dug out our road yet, so we will launch an attack directly, which is easy to get out of touch?" his subordinates reminded in fear.

"I'm afraid of a ball! Changmao dares to come out and cut off our contact with the front, and Qianwei will deal with it!" Huang Yuanbao cursed and shouted again: "Go and send an order immediately, give up digging the road, and hit Changmao camp directly!"

The change in the battle situation was developed in the direction Li Xiucheng hoped because of Huang Yuanbao's reckless decision. The Taiping Army attacked from Shuangqiaomen and other places, attacking Yuhuatai fiercely. Feng Sanbao, who did not know Huang Yuanbao's intention, was dizzy. He did not understand what Huang Yuanbao's tactical intention was, and he did not dare to give up Yuhuatai's heavy area at will. He could only give up the battalion army to cooperate with Huang Yuanbao to attack the Fengtaimen Taiping Army, while allowing the battalion troops to fight the five enemies attacking Yuhuatai. At the same time, he sent people to try every means to break through, want to contact the reinforcements, and understand whether the tactical intention of his reinforcements wanted to open up contact with him or to meet his own breakthrough so that he could arrange his own tactics. Of course, if he did this in broad daylight, the Wu army messenger of Yuhuatai wanted to contact the outside world, and the chance was naturally as small as winning the first prize of the lottery.

On Huang Yuanbao's side, the first company violated tactical principles. First, he first entered the reserve team early, causing the front line to be crowded. Then, when the army was exhausted and wounded, the four battalions in the first round continued to fight tough battles, and the four battalions in the second round gave up the tunnel road and directly entered the battlefield to attack the Taiping Army's walls, increasing the difficulty of maneuvering on their own, giving the Taiping Army a god-given opportunity to cut off the Wu army and the Wu army in the rear. So before the news was reported to Li Xiucheng, the Taiping Army Cai Yuanlong, Wang Haiyang and Deng Guangming on both wings of Fengtai Gate were already cheering ecstatically, and they all said: "Okay! The demon soldiers made a mistake! There is something to fight in this battle!"

Distance issues, Li Xiucheng grasped the changes in the Fengtai Gate battlefield one step earlier than Wu Chaoyue, and found that the Wu army commander made mistakes one after another and took crazy adventures. Li Xiucheng was of course even more ecstatic and slapped his legs and shouted: "Good opportunity! Call Cai Yuanlong, Wang Haiyang and Deng Guangming to send troops to plagiarize the demon soldiers on the attacking camp, cut off the connection between the front-line demon soldiers and the rear, and join forces with the Fengtai Gate army to kill the demon soldiers on the attacking camp!"

Due to the reason, Wu Chaoyue learned about Huang Yuanbao's repeated risks one step later than Li Xiucheng. As a result, before Wu Chaoyue spoke, Dai Wenjie, who was gradually familiar with the military, was already shocked and exclaimed: "Huang Yuanbao is too risky! The eight battalions he sent first were in danger of being surrounded by long hair! King Zhennan, should I send someone to Huang Yuanbao to remind me?"

"King of Zhennan, the last general asks to lead his army to reinforce Fengtai Gate!" Bi Jinke, the youngest general of the Wu army, also jumped out and asked for orders.

Unlike the anxious Dai Wenjie, Bi Jinke and others, Wu Chaoyue seemed very calm and asked clearly that six of the eight battalions sent by Huang Yuanbao were elite soldiers he brought from Moling Pass. Wu Chaoyue waved his hand and said, "No need, let Huang Yuanbao continue to torture. I promised to hand over this battle to him. Before defeating the battle, there is no need to interfere, and there is no need to rush to send reinforcements to him."

"But Huang Yuanbao's tactics are too risky?" Dai Wenjie quickly reminded: "Although Qian Wei is guarding his wings, he can send troops to intercept Changmao reinforcements at any time, but if Changmao reinforcements suddenly take action, they will rush to the trench battlefield of Fengtai Gate before Qian Wei, rely on Changmao fortifications that have not been destroyed, or Changmao temporarily restrains Qian Wei by splitting troops, and the main force will circulate the rear of our front-line army..."

"The absolute strength is here, and mistakes are allowed." Wu Chaoyue shook his hand and interrupted Dai Wenjie's reminder, and said with a smile: "And Huang Yuanbao can't be a complete mistake when he acts like this. At least it can have the effect of luring Changmao to attack in large numbers, so maybe after this battle, we will gain more than we expected before the war."

Seeing that Wu Chaoyue was so confident, Dai Wenjie, Bi Jinke and others dared not talk too much, so they could only respond obediently. After careful consideration, Wu Chaoyue ordered: "Go and send an order to Qian Wei, telling him not to just stare at the Changmao reinforcements that had already left the camp. The Changmao army on both sides of Fengtai Gate. If there are too many troops and the camp is empty, you might as well consider exploding the Changmao Camp Gate directly, killing in, grab grass and hitting rabbits, and then pulling out a Changmao Camp."

The personal soldiers agreed and quickly sent someone to take Wu Chaoyue's flag to find Qian Wei to pass the order. Dai Wenjie, Bi Jinke and others next to them looked at each other and muttered in their hearts: "Our King Zhennan is even more crazy about military tactics than Huang Yuanbao."

Unfortunately, in order to ensure that the connection between the Wu army in the attacking camp and the rear was cut off, the Taiping Army Cai Yuanlong, Wang Haiyang and Deng Guangming, who were ordered to attack, indeed chose to attack separately. Deng Guangming, who was closest to the Fengtaimen battlefield, rushed directly to the trench fortifications that the Wu army voluntarily gave up but could still use. Wang Haiyang Army resolutely rushed to the right army of Qian Wei, who was watching the den of the Wu army in the south. Cai Yuanlong, who was in the west of Duzhen, did as usual, divided his troops to intercept Qian Wei's left army, and went directly to copy the rear route of the Wu army in the attacking camp.

Relying on a little advantage in distance and the preemptive initiative, they successfully achieved tactical goals. While stopping Qian Wei's army, they also successfully cut off the connection between the attacking Wu army and the rear. The Taiping Army Zhong Wanqing and He Mingliang in the Fengtai Gate camp took the opportunity to counterattack and cooperated with friendly troops to attack the Wu army. When the battle reached this point, Huang Yuanbao did not dare to take any more danger. He could only leave some troops to protect the artillery array while personally leading the troops forward and attacking Deng Guangming and Cai Yuanlong's troops together with the attacking army.

The chaos on the Nanjing battlefield has thus reached an outrageous level. In the north of Yuhua, five Taiping Army attacked Feng Sanbao's camp of Wu's army; Feng Sanbao, who was not clear about the situation of friendly forces, could only fight while defending the camp, and split his troops south to attack the northern position of Fengtaimen Taiping Army; while Fengtaimen Taiping Army resisted Feng Sanbao's attack, he also sent troops to attack the Wu army south; the Wu army was attacked and was forced to take a defensive position; it was too bold

Huang Yuanbao, who made a tactical mistake, personally led his army north to fight part of Deng Guangming and Cai Yuanlong of the Taiping Army; Qian Wei's army dealt with Wang Haiyang while dealing with part of Cai Yuanlong. On the battlefield with a radius of more than 20 miles, there were me and I among the enemy. They fought everywhere, and they could not fight each other. The sound of fighting, explosions and guns and cannons were intertwined. Even in the Tianwang Mansion in Nanjing City, and in the Dasheng Pass camp of Wu Chaoyue, you can hear it clearly.

Also, less than thirty miles away, the main force of Cao Yanzhong's army in Wu's army was also attacking the Fangshan camp of the Taiping Army. Huang Chengzhong, the general of the Taiping Army guarding Fangshan, struggled to support him, relying on the fortifications to grit his teeth and hold on, and kept shouting loudly when the Wu army's artillery fire was interrupted, "Fangshan is here! We are here! Fangshan is dead! We are dead!"

The complexity of the battle situation has reached the point where the scouts and messengers cannot report clearly, but it is not bad for the Taiping Army. The geographical and fortifications are generally very biased towards the Taiping Army. Therefore, Li Xiucheng was anxious to force the scout Kuaima to believe in the details of the battle situation, and also generously ordered the detective responsible for the scout: "The battle situation is too chaotic, so there is no need to report it so carefully, just tell the general situation."

According to Li Xiucheng's request, the Detective Officer did not submit too subtle military information reports one by one. It was only after nearly an hour that the Detective Officer reported to Li Xiucheng with a newly received war report: "Reported to King Zhong Qiansui, Cai Yuanlong sent a battalion to intercept the troops on the flanks of the demon soldiers to fight unfavorably, and was defeated by the demon soldiers, with great casualties."

"How come Cai Yuanlong always drags my back?" Li Xiucheng was very dissatisfied and shouted: "Give him orders and ask him to send troops to fight again. You must not let the demon soldiers on the flank reinforce the Fengtai Gate battlefield."

After the order was issued, the detective quickly sent bad news, saying that Huang Chengzhong, who was guarding Fangshan, was too stressed and asked Li Xiucheng to send troops to reinforce. Li Xiucheng was even more dissatisfied and shouted: "Call Guo Pulin, who is stationed in Tushan, sends a team to reinforce Fangshan."

The order was issued again, but before Li Xiucheng could put away his anger, the detective came in with a frown and said, "Reported to King Zhong Qiansui, Wang Haiyang and Wang Tianyi were also defeated, and more than a thousand elite troops were lost."

"Wang Haiyang was also defeated?" Li Xiucheng's eyelids began to stumble, and after a while, he said with a gloomy face: "He was forced to fight against demon soldiers in a field. It's not surprising that he was defeated. He can't blame him. He asked him to go back and fight again, continue to restrain the demon soldiers on the opposite side, and buy time for Deng Guangming and the others."

The messenger went out again, but after a while, the detective walked in quietly like a cat, and said with a trembling voice: "Report to King Zhong Qiansui, General Cai sent the rear army and was defeated by the flanking demon soldiers. Also, Deng Guangming and Deng Tianyi and his army were also defeated by the demon soldiers, and the losses were great. Now the demon soldiers behind have reconnected with the demon soldiers in front."

"What?!" Li Xiucheng was shocked and shouted: "Didn't Deng Guangming and others take the trench position first? There are trenches and sheep and horse walls to defend, why do you still lose so quickly?"

"Returning to King Zhong Qiansui, the demon soldiers attacked too hard." The whistle detective said with a sad face: "I heard that Huang Yuanbao, the demon soldiers' main attack, led the team to charge. The demon fire cannon and the thunder in the palm of the palm smashed like hail raindrops. Although Deng Tianyi and the others tried their best to resist, they still couldn't stop it. Deng Tianyi was seriously injured..."

With a bang, Li Xiucheng punched the table hard, his chest fluctuated violently, but it was raining all night long. A personal soldier's head suddenly came into outside the tent, and he whistled in a low voice to the detective to go out to listen to the report. Li Xiucheng was in a very bad mood and became even more angry when he saw it, and shouted: "Is there any military information? Ask the messenger to come in and report directly!"

The personal soldiers agreed and soon led a Taiping Army messenger covered in sweat and dust. The messenger knelt down and said, "Reported to King Zhong Qiansui, Fang Shan lost, General Huang Chengzhong was killed by the demon artillery shells of the demon soldiers. Our army was completely disintegrated, and no one could control the situation."

If Huang Chengzhong had not been killed in battle, Li Xiucheng would have been able to order Huang Chengzhong, who had made a mistake last time, to be killed directly! But just when Li Xiucheng had a blue face and ordered Tushan reinforcements to stop advancing to Fangshan and Suo Luo's defeated soldiers still returned to Tushan's position, another messenger came in outside the tent, and he knelt down to Li Xiucheng with a pale face and said, "Report to King Zhong Qiansui, the demon soldiers rushed into General Cai Yuanlong's camp, and the Yuhuatai Western Front position was in full swing, and there was a possibility that the demon soldiers would directly break through."

"What?!" Li Xiucheng couldn't believe his ears at all. He overturned the table in front of him and shouted: "How did the demon soldiers enter Cai Yuanlong's camp? He has so many troops and flowering bombs, how could the demon soldiers enter so quickly?"

"When King Zhong Qiansui returned to the camp by the defeated soldiers killed by the demon soldiers Huang Yuanbao's troops, General Cai happened to send him out for the second time to intercept the army on the flanks of the demon soldiers, and was also killed by the demon soldiers on the flanks." The messenger put his forehead on the ground and said tremblingly: "General Cai's two defeated soldiers rushed back to the camp, crowded in front of the camp, blocking the artillery fire for the demon soldiers. The demon soldiers took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and followed our defeated soldiers and rushed into General Cai's camp together..."

With another bang, Li Xiucheng sat back on his handsome chair with a gray face. After a long time, he smiled bitterly, "I didn't expect that the demon soldiers would be angry, but I still couldn't beat him, but I still couldn't beat him."
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