Xiangjiang River, Hong Xiuquan's boat.
"Heavenly Father...Heavenly Father bless me, Qing Yao's cannon has misfired!"
Hong Xiuquan stood up with a shout, standing on the front deck of the ship that had several holes smashed by shells. He looked back at Hengshan County, then strode forward, walked up to the high point of the bow, and turned around. She looked at the courtiers who were still kneeling below.
At this moment, the river wind was blowing violently on the dragon robe and cloak of the Son of God, and the bow of the ship was rising and falling in the river, but the Son of God was standing in the wind and waves, motionless, looking extremely solemn and sacred.
Suddenly, Hong Xiuquan spoke again, using his Hakka accent and a somewhat divine tone, he recited a "Poem of Heavenly Father": "I am the second son of Heavenly Father. I have God to protect me. I am invulnerable and hard to be hurt. Why?" Afraid of the Manchu Yama demon!"
Yang Xiuqing, who was kneeling below, raised her arms and shouted: "Heavenly Father bless, long live the King of Heaven, the King of Heaven is invulnerable, and the King of Heaven is invulnerable to guns and cannons!" "Goddess Yang" took the lead, and others also cheered: "Father of Heaven, bless the King of Heaven," Long live!"
Hong Xiuquan suddenly raised his hand and pointed at Hengshan City with an angry face. He gritted his teeth and read another poem by the Heavenly Father: "The clear demon of Hengshan is so bold. It dares to bombard Heavenly Father and Son. Heavenly Father will not spare me and I will be angry. I vow to break through it." Hengshan City!"
Hong Xiuquan was issuing an edict.
"My brother respectfully accepts the imperial edict of the Heavenly King!" Yang Xiuqing bowed to Hong Xiuquan and immediately turned around and said to a guard: "Quickly, take a boat to the Wing Throne Ship and order him to board the west bank and lead the troops to attack Hengshan City!" "This time! There’s no need for our brothers to take action!” Hong Xiuquan looked at the top of Hengshan City with a cold face, “I will personally lead my army to attack Hengshan City!”
"King of Heaven, you can't do that..."
As soon as Yang Xiuquan's words to dissuade Hong Xiuquan came out, the aristocratic king snorted: "I have the protection of my heavenly father, and the cannonballs have to avoid me. How can the small town of Hengshan County block my heavenly power!" According to my decree, we will dock on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River. I will disembark and land to fight the Qingyao!"
If Hong Xiuquan had dared to interrupt "God Yang" so willfully before Luo Yaoguo "came down to earth", God would have come down to earth to spank King Hong Tian. But now "God Yang" has Xiao Chaogui and Luo Yaoguo's "true "Ji Du Combination", whose authority has declined, Hong Xiuquan must be coaxed.
Moreover, Luo Yaoguo's heavenly descent and later the "True Ji Governor descended to earth" also made Yang Xiuqing believe that Hong Xiuquan was the "son of the true God". In addition, Hong Xiuquan's "miracle of bullet avoidance" just now made Yang Xiuquan even more afraid to make mistakes. He had no choice but to obey the order obediently, and then ordered: "Quickly, go and pass on the imperial edict of the King of Heaven. All ships should dock on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River. All officers and men, regardless of their official position, will go ashore to kill the monsters!"
North of Hengshan City.
The person responsible for besieging Hengshan City today is Hu Yihuang, the Prime Minister of Chunguan. His Chinese army is positioned outside the north gate of Hengshan City.
Hu Yihuang has done the same thing several times along the way, and everything went smoothly without any accidents. So he inevitably took it a little lightly, and did not send an agent to sneak into Hengshan County for investigation in advance. He just had people outside the city. After looking at it, I concluded that Hengshan County would only close the city to protect itself.
As a result, just when he thought that the gentry regiments in Hengshan City would not be able to deal with the tens of thousands of Heavenly Kingdom troops, an unexpected surprise came, and a big one came.
The regiment trainer in Hengshan City did not know where they got more than 20 cannons weighing more than 1,000 kilograms. They fired hard at the Taiping fleet on the river, and they also targeted the luxurious ship that Hong Xiuquan and Dongwang Yang Xiuqing were riding. Fired the cannon and shot out at least twenty rounds in one go, and it seemed that twenty or thirty rounds were hit!
This made Hu Yihuang very anxious. If anything happened to the King of Heaven and King Dong, would he, the Prime Minister of Qinguanzheng, still be alive? Even if those two people have God's blessing and can turn disaster into good, they will definitely be frightened. Yes, this is also his responsibility!
In order to make up for his mistake, Hu Yihuang saw the artillery fire on Hengshan City and immediately ordered his men to attack the city!
But what he never expected was that the first wave of attacks he launched were easily repelled by the defenders of Hengshan City. This time he led eight divisions, a total of 10,000 Taiping troops!
Although there were only ten brigades in the first wave of attacks, with a total of more than 2,000 people, they were all based on old Guangxi as the backbone, plus the equally fierce new brothers from southern Hunan, and they also trained elite soldiers for two or three months. How could it be Is it comparable to ordinary group training?
Thinking back to the firepower of "bombarding Hong Xiuquan" on Hengshan City, Hu Yihuang immediately knew that he had encountered the main force of the Qing army! This was not the hot-headed training of local Hengshan regiments at all, but the elite of the Qing army!
So he hurriedly adjusted his deployment, stopped attacking the city, and switched to blockade and siege. But before he could complete the adjustment, the situation on the battlefield took a turn for the worse!
The originally closed Hengshan City Gate suddenly opened, and large groups of Qing soldiers came out from inside!
Looking at their uniforms, there are regiment drills, green battalions, and even Eight Banners cavalry wearing cotton armor and gun helmets who emerged from an unknown grave! How old are they? Why are there still Eight Banners soldiers like this?
What makes Hu Yihuang even more uncomfortable is that the team trainers at the front are still holding the banner with the word "Chu"! This is Jiang Zhongyuan's Chu Yong!
This is the most capable opponent the Taiping Army has ever encountered since the rise of the Jintian Army!
Knowing that things were going to be bad, Hu Yihuang asked his subordinates to set up defenses, and at the same time sent fast horses to the west and south of Hengshan City to mobilize troops for reinforcements - his 10,000 men were split into three parts, blocking the north, south and west sides of Hengshan City respectively. , the number of soldiers and horses following Hu Yihuang now is less than 4,000. And the number of soldiers and horses rushing out from Hengshan City is at least 10,000!
But before the more than 6,000 Taiping troops from the south and west of Hengshan City could arrive, the Qing troops rushing out from Hengshan City rushed to attack!
This is not the most common small-scale attack of hundreds of people in the past, but thousands of Chu Yong regiments pressing forward together, followed by a group of old-fashioned Eight Flags cavalry. Moreover, the Chu Yong regiment who was the first to charge was still moving forward. , while shouting in Hunan dialect: "Hong Xiuquan is dead!"
"Hong Xiuquan is dead! Hong Xiuquan is dead...
The Taiping Army in the north of Hengshan City witnessed the shelling of Hong Xiuquan's ship just now. Those old brothers from Guangxi who have strong beliefs will naturally not be gullible, but those new brothers from Hunan who don't believe in Heavenly Father are a little panicked. .
Now when I heard the shouting from the Hunan fellows opposite, my faith was even more shaken.
And the five thousand regiments under Jiang Zhongyuan had just received a heavy reward from Seng Gelinqin - each person received two taels of silver! Now they are shouting "Hong Xiuquan is dead", and their morale has naturally increased visibly to the naked eye!
As soon as the two sides collided, the Taiping Army under Hu Yihuang was immediately at a disadvantage and was beaten back steadily.
I only saw the west bank of the Xiangjiang River and the wilderness north of Hengshan City. Chu Yong of the Hunan Army in Baotou, with about 500 people in a square formation, spread out an extremely wide front, crowded with only more than 3,000 "red-headed men" Step by step, they retreated, gradually away from the north of Hengshan City, and retreated towards the bank of the Xiangjiang River.
And more Green Camp troops and Eight Banners cavalry troops continued to move out from the north gate of Hengshan City. Among them, the Green Camp troops went west to block the Taiping Army that was coming around from the west and south of the city.
As for Seng Gelinqin, the more than 2,000 Eight Banners cavalry led by Guan Wen were dressed like their ancestors. With the strength of their smoke, they howled the slogan "Hong Xiuquan is dead, the Qing Dynasty has won". Jiang Zhongyuan's Chu Yong slowly passed behind him and detoured back to the right wing of the Taiping Army.
Seng Gelinqin rode a Mongolian horse, escorted by dozens of Mongolian cavalry from the Horqin grassland, galloping in front of the team. When he circled the flanks of the retreating "red-headed men", what he saw in his eyes It seems that it is no longer the Taiping Army that made the Qing army fearful, but the Ming Army and King Li Chuang's Dashun Army that collapsed under the impact of the Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers more than 200 years ago.
The Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners seemed to be great again at this moment!
Thinking of this, Seng Gelinqin drew his saber, pointed forward, and shouted loudly: "Hong Xiuquan is dead, Eight Banners disciples... Charge! Kill!" "Eight Banners disciples, charge!"
Guan Wen, the deputy commander of the Eight Banners Soldiers in Jingzhou, pointed his spear in his hand and led his men on horseback... to charge slowly! Yes, charge slowly!
Although Seng Gelinqin and Guan Wen say "rush", they dare not "rush" in practice. If they don't rush, it will be quite scary. If they rush, the secret may be exposed.
Chapter completed!