After Duobi was forcibly dragged across the floating bridge by his subordinates, more than 2,000 Yangzhou soldiers who were still fighting in the water camp were unwilling to fight again and retreated to the floating bridge. At this time, there were more than 1,000 Qing troops on the earth dam east of the water camp in Guazhou with their forts.

The earth dam was originally an old embankment of the canal mouth. It was built during the Yongle period. After two hundred years, it was already dilapidated. The dam was covered with reeds. Because the river water was soaked and muddy, it was difficult for people to walk on it. In addition, it was not open, which was not conducive to the operation of the large army. Therefore, the Taiping Army did not choose to land here, and only the navy suppressed it with artillery fire, which made the Qing army in the east battery far less pressure than the water camp and the west battery.

After Duobi was driven to the other side of the canal by his subordinates, he immediately asked Erfu and others to destroy the floating bridge to prevent the Taiping army from attacking the floating bridge. Erfu and others did not dissuade him at this moment and hurriedly ordered to destroy the floating bridge. Thousands of Yangzhou soldiers who were retreating to the floating bridge on the opposite side found that the floating bridge was being destroyed in front of him, and immediately cursed. Some Yangzhou soldiers who had already reached the bridge chose to save their lives, turned a blind eye to the actions of the Manzhou soldiers breaking the bridge and ran to the other side. Some Yangzhou soldiers went forward regardless of everything to stop the Manzhou soldiers breaking the bridge so that their fellow villagers and friends could escape.

One side wants to destroy the bridge, but the other side does not allow it to destroy it. Although the Yangzhou soldiers captured the mighty power of the Manzhou soldiers, there were only dozens of people at this moment, while there were hundreds or thousands of people on their own. So, under the leadership of several brave Yangzhou soldiers, a scene of killing each other was staged on the floating bridge. In order to survive, the Yangzhou soldiers were vicious and chopped down more than a dozen Manzhou soldiers in succession, which scared Erfu and others so much that they did not dare to break the bridge again, and hurriedly fled to Duobi.

Seeing this, Duobi actually ran to the fort on the earth dam and ordered the defenders to turn the gun and use cannons to bomb the floating bridge. The guards of the fort did not dare to violate the order and followed the order. Just when the cannon was about to fire, the sound of hooves in the east sounded. Duobi and others turned around and looked, but Manchu and Mongolian cavalry with the yellow flag arrived.

"Sir, do you want to explode this bridge?"

When the Qing army general of the East Fort saw the reinforcements arrive, he asked Duobi if he wanted to blow up the bridge. Duobi said he would not blow up. He wanted to destroy the bridge just now, but he was afraid that the Taiping army would rush across the canal to seize the East Fort and pursue them. Now that the reinforcements are coming, the bridge cannot be destroyed, because the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry had to rely on this bridge to rush over to strangle the Taiping army on the ashore and regain the water camp and the western fortress. Otherwise, let the Taiping army gain a foothold on the north bank, which would be a big trouble.

The first-class guard Tong Guogang led the Qing army cavalry to arrive. He was the first-class duke, the eldest son of the governor Tong Tulai, and his sister was the concubine Tong who gave birth to the fourth prince for the current emperor, so he was the emperor's brother-in-law and the fourth prince's uncle.

After receiving the emergency of Guazhou Water Camp, Oboi, who had just met his master from Yangzhou, led the Jiangbei Camp, immediately ordered Tong Guogang to lead 2,000 Manzhou cavalry and 4,000 Mongolian cavalry to reinforce Duobi. Oboi, who had fought with Taizong and Prince Su Haoge for many years, knew that Guazhou Water Camp must not be in trouble. For this reason, after Tong Guogang led the cavalry to reinforce Guazhou, he transferred more than 20,000 infantry soldiers, led by Manzhou governor Dase and Mongolian Ezhenleheke as support, and urgently drove to Guazhou. At the same time, he ordered the remaining large camp soldiers to prepare for sending troops and reinforce Guazhou at any time.

When Tong Guogang came, he thought Duo Bi was still in the water camp, but he didn't expect to be defeated. Seeing a defeated soldier on the floating bridge in the canal ahead, he was snatching the bee by the bee, Tong Guogang was furious and waved his hand and ordered the cavalry to rush forward, slashing the horse, hundreds of defeated soldiers stained the canal blood, and the corpse was hidden. Then Tong Guogang led the cavalry directly across the bridge and attacked the Taiping Army that was rushing towards him.

The arrival of reinforcements and the arrival of Manchu and Mongolian cavalry boosted the morale of the Qing army's defeated soldiers. Duobi seized the opportunity to summon the defeated soldiers, and gathered more than 3,000 soldiers and followed the Manchu and Mongolian cavalry and killed them again.

The two battalions of the A Brigade, who was chasing the Qing army's defeated soldiers, had already rushed to the west bank of the canal floating bridge, faced the Qing cavalry that suddenly rushed over, and did not set up the defense line in time, so they were instantly swept by the Qing cavalry, with hundreds of casualties, and the B Camp was almost wiped out. Qianhu Huang Sicheng was shot dead by the Qing army's bows and arrows on the spot, becoming the first senior general to be killed in the Taiping Army's battle to cross the river.

The Manchu and Mongolian cavalry succeeded in the first battle and were arrogant and roared and rushed around. The remaining battalion of the A Brigade, led by Cao Shou, was defending the Qing army camp, and at the same time sent a rescue signal to the rear.

The "swoosh" drilling dragon rocket rose from the shore from time to time, which is the most urgent means used by the Taiping Army to communicate. However, seeing this signal, either the entire army takes action or the entire army is in an emergency.

After seeing the signal, the navy on the river accelerated the transport of troops to the shore, while mobilizing warships to spread along the river in a shape, and hitting shells of different sizes onto the shore like flowing water. Under the shelling, the offensive of the Qing cavalry was stagnant, which allowed Tieyi to lead the B Brigade B to reinforce in time, and delayed the Qing cavalry with firearms and thunder.

After seeing that the Taiping Army on the river was still transporting troops on the shore and transporting war horses, Tong Guogang immediately ordered the Mongolian soldiers to attack the Taiping Army's defense line regardless of casualties in order to repel them, so as to regain the Western Fort and prevent more Taiping Army from landing.

The Qing army artillery on the western fort was fired again, but this time the Taiping Army was operating the artillery. Dozens of cannons that turned the direction and bombed the Qing cavalry, causing heavy casualties and injuries to the attacking Mongolian soldiers.

Tieyi issued a strict order, and no one could take a step back, and he would die here even if he died.

Under the crazy attack of the Qing army, the second town suffered an unprecedented blow, and the casualties were even heavier than the Chaohui War in that year. The main reason was that the two battalions of the A Brigade were severely damaged by the Qing army. The second town also undertakes two tasks of pursuing the Qing army and stabilizing the Western Fort, which leads to the inability to concentrate the troops. In addition, the Qing army retreated too quickly and the victory came too easily, so that the second town was a little careless, which led to the current unfavorable situation.

On the river, small boats were carrying the second batch of landing soldiers. Whether it was the officers or soldiers on the ship, they all looked at the shore anxiously.

Zhou Shixiang also held the Qianli Milestone tightly, and the camera had never been put down. If the second town could not stop the Qing army's counterattack, then this attack would be a failure. He would persevere for one more second, and one more soldier would die, because the limited means of landing in this era made this battle like a "fuel-adding" tactic. If the second town could hold on, then the added soldiers would be the new force. If they could not hold on, they would send the soldiers ashore for the Qing army to slaughter.

When he saw a red figure rushing towards the Qing cavalry with a medicine bag in his eyes, Zhou Shixiang put down the Qianli Milestone and ordered the blind Li to get off the boat with him immediately. He couldn't just watch it, he had to go up.

Guo Xiong, Gui Yongzhi, Dong Changqing and others were frightened at the time. They reacted and went forward to persuade Zhou Shixiang not to take risks easily. Zhou Shixiang said: "My life is important, but the lives of those soldiers are not important? I am human, and they are not human! Don't forget that this general is also from a sea of ​​corpses and blood! Blind, let's go!" (To be continued.)
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