In the mountains and forests on both sides of Tianshi Valley, soldiers from Lu Shaochuan's regiment opened fire.
Occupying a high point and launching an attack will always lead to disadvantage.
"Poof! Poof!!"
A series of bullets flew in the air and hit Taiping soldiers.
At this moment, the Taiping soldiers fell to the ground one after another like drunken people. While Li Xiucheng and Lu Shaochuan were fighting, Wu Qigong and more than ten soldiers were not noticed, standing alone inside the Tianshi Valley, like
He had been forgotten. But Li Xiucheng had no intention of letting Wu Qigong go. While retreating with his soldiers, he shouted: "Shoot, shoot Wu Qigong!"
The soldiers with their backs to the entrance of Tianshi Valley raised their guns, pointed them in the direction of Wu Qigong, and fired indiscriminately.
"Bang! Bang!!"
Continuous gunshots were heard, and Wu Qigong was shot four times.
Among them, Wu Qigong was shot twice in the chest, and once in the lower abdomen and thigh. Wu Qigong looked up at the attacking soldiers on the hillside, and then at the Taiping soldiers who had begun to retreat, and opened his mouth to speak. However,
, Wu Qigong failed to cheer up, and everything went dark before his eyes. He shook his body and fell to the ground. Qishan failed to complete his last instructions to Wu Qigong, so Wu Qigong was shot dead. Wu Qigong was killed, and more than ten soldiers were left.
He was killed in the blink of an eye.
Li Xiucheng got rid of Wu Qigong and continued to retreat surrounded by soldiers.
In about three minutes, the elite troops led by Li Xiucheng had approached the entrance of Tianshi Valley.
In just three minutes of fighting, Li Xiucheng's soldiers lost more than 800 people, which was close to one-third of their number. Dead soldiers could be seen everywhere on the roads of Tianshi Valley.
Seeing the blood flowing out, the screams of the soldiers were still ringing in my ears.
Such a huge loss made Li Xiucheng feel extremely confused.
This battle was fought too cowardly.
Li Xiucheng knew that the situation was critical and he had to withdraw from the forest as soon as possible in order to reverse the situation, so he kept running outside Tianshi Valley, trying to get rid of the ambush on both sides of the valley.
On the slopes on both sides of the Tianshi Valley entrance, Smith waited patiently like a cheetah. Seeing the Taiping soldiers approaching the entrance of the valley, Smith took out a grenade from his waist, pulled out the match rope, and threw it down the valley. The grenade was in the valley.
A parabola passed through the air and fell into the crowd of bandits who were rushing towards the mouth of the valley.
"boom!!"
There was an explosion, mud flew, and bodies flew everywhere.
Corpses fell to the ground, unrecognizable. Within four meters of the grenade, the Taiping Army soldiers were violently impacted. Some soldiers were blown to pieces, some were killed directly, and some were killed.
He was knocked unconscious by the explosion. It was just a grenade, but there were nearly a thousand people ambushing both sides of the valley entrance.
Among them, four hundred people quickly took out the grenades stuck in their waists, pulled out the match ropes, and threw the grenades. The grenades flew through the air and fell like raindrops.
"Boom! Boom!!!!"
The explosion was deafening and kept ringing at the entrance of Tianshi Valley.
Under the light of the fire, corpses flew up one after another, puffs of soil splashed everywhere, and large craters formed quickly. In short, Smith ordered the soldiers to use grenades to attack, causing huge damage to the Taiping Army. However, Smith
The attack is not just grenades, after all, grenades are not fast.
Smith asked 400 men to drop bombs, and another 600 to shoot.
Not only that, more than a thousand soldiers under Lu Shaochuan also opened fire.
Under the intensive fire suppression, the mortality rate of the soldiers under Li Xiucheng plummeted, and more than a thousand soldiers were soon lost. Most of these soldiers were blown up by grenades, and a few were killed by bullets. Li Xiucheng
They brought 3,000 elite troops, but before the battle with Li Zhen's army, more than half of them were dead, with more than 2,000 casualties, and only a few hundred people were left.
At this moment, Li Xiucheng wanted to cry but had no tears.
This battle was even more useless than the last time he led his army to attack Shanghai.
Anyway, last time I could shoot at Li Zhen and see Li Zhen, but this time I couldn't even find where Li Zhen was. Not only that, Li Xiucheng also felt the power of Li Zhen's weapon, which was far more powerful than Li Zhen's.
The equipment of his soldiers. Li Xiucheng relied on his soldiers to fight with their lives and finally broke out of Tianshi Valley.
Li Zhen took Lu Shaochuan, Smith and Zhu Wu down the hillside and began to chase Li Xiucheng.
Three thousand elite troops continued to cover up and kill Li Xiucheng's soldiers until they were completely defeated.
Lu Shaochuan followed Li Zhen and shouted: "Commander, isn't he just Li Xiucheng? You want to survive. If you don't stop it, the special forces of Jiandao Battalion will directly kill Li Xiucheng, and the bandits will definitely surrender automatically.
.Li Xiucheng is alive and kicking, and the backbone of the bandits is still there. It is very difficult for us to annihilate the bandits in one fell swoop."
Li Zhen said: "Why are you so anxious? This battle has just begun, and Yang Xiuqing's tens of thousands of troops have not yet been dealt with."
The army pursued them all the way from Tianshi Valley to the foot of the northern mountain of Yushan Mountain.
Li Xiucheng breathed a sigh of relief when he led the soldiers out of the forest.
So far, there are less than 500 soldiers under Li Xiucheng's command, and they have suffered heavy losses. All the way to escape, the soldiers' lives were used to clear the way. Li Xiucheng looked at the brightly lit military camp, but did not dare to enter
The military camp gave up the food and ordnance of the military camp and ran directly towards the county seat.
Li Zhen led his army out of Yushan. Seeing Li Xiucheng escape, he stopped the soldiers from pursuing him and only occupied Li Xiucheng's military camp. This order made both Lu Shaochuan and Smith feel it was a pity.
After finally setting a trap for Li Xiucheng to get inside, Li Zhen asked Li Xiucheng to leave.
This method of handling is the same as letting Li Xiucheng leave when he was in Shanghai, which is to let the tiger return to the mountain. The Jiangbei camp was breached by Li Xiucheng, and Wu Qigong was killed by Li Xiucheng. If Li Zhen had been killed in Shanghai
Li Xiucheng is likely to be in another situation. Qi Shan will not die, the Jiangbei camp will not be destroyed, and Wu Qigong will not be killed.
However, Lu Shaochuan and Smith did not know that this situation was exactly in line with Li Zhen's thoughts. For Li Zhen, the existence of Jiangbei Camp was a manifestation of the strength of the Qing Dynasty.
As long as Li Xiucheng was reused by Yang Xiuqing, he would continue to attack Manchu and Qing cities and continuously weaken the influence of Manchu Qing. Of course, Li Zhen also wanted to subdue Li Xiucheng, so he let Li Xiucheng leave.
Lu Shaochuan was impatient, with a face full of complaints, and said regretfully: "Commander, that's all if you don't let us snipe Li Xiucheng. But why don't we pursue him? We shouldn't let Li Xiucheng escape!"
Naturally, Li Zhen would not say what he was thinking. He just said lightly: "The purpose of releasing Li Xiucheng is to better deal with Yang Xiuqing. Now the pursuit may not necessarily capture Li Xiucheng alive. Even if Li Xiucheng is captured,
It may not bring Li Xiucheng back. When Li Xiucheng returns in embarrassment, Yang Xiuqing will be disappointed even if he doesn't express his feelings. Let's keep trying to create a separation, and the opportunity will come, and then we can successfully capture Li Xiucheng."
After Lu Shaochuan heard this, he was still a little dissatisfied.
