When the Third Brigade rushed to the river bank and launched a charge towards the Qing army, which was preparing to cross the river on the river bank, the Qing army was completely unprepared. They felt that the Merchant Army was like a divine weapon that came from the sky, and suddenly rushed to the front of them, so they were immediately disrupted. The Merchant Army soldiers did not need to shoot at all, but just held a rifle with a bayonet, chased a Qing army, and then stabbed him, and then went to find the next target regardless of his life or death. Only when they found many soldiers crowded together, they threw a grenade into the crowd. One explosion occurred.
After a while, Buqing Jun's body lay down on the river bank, and the blood quickly dyed the beach by the river red.
The remaining soldiers fled around the river bank like headless flies. The soldiers with a little water jumped into the river and swam to the other side. However, most Qing soldiers could only desperately crowd the wooden bridge, hoping to escape to the west bank of Xishui, so they also squeezed the wooden bridge full and almost splashed water.
However, the width of the wooden bridge was difficult and it was temporarily built. It was not very solid. It was better when there were fewer people. When there were too many people, not only did the entire bridge deck collapse, but it also shaking. There were no railings on both sides of the wooden bridge. Therefore, many Qing soldiers were squeezed and fell into the river. Some were washed away by the river, and some were tightly grasping the wooden bridge deck, squatting, etc., while more soldiers were desperately crowding towards the wooden bridge.
When there were more soldiers falling into the water, there were still people in chaos, even grabbed some bridge soldiers' legs and pants, and they were still trying to climb up. As a result, many bridge soldiers were pulled into the water. Later, the Qing soldiers on the bridge were anxious. Whenever they saw the soldiers in the river reaching out to grab them, they would raise their swords and guns in their hands and attack them. In the process of tearing each other up, the entire wooden bridge became shaky.
As a result, with a sudden "click", the entire wooden bridge was broken into three or four pieces. The Qing soldiers on the bridge immediately "thumped" and "thumped" like dumplings, all of them fell into Xishui. Before that, many wooden bridges were not crowded and were chased by the merchant army and had no way to go, so they had to escape into the river. The Xishui River was not a big river, and thousands of people were immediately crowded. They were all crowded with Qing soldiers struggling to swim towards the west bank of Xishui. Moreover, many Qing soldiers fought for a driftwood and threw their weapons, and then they punched and kicked, hitting their heads and biting their teeth just to compete for the chance to survive.
Many soldiers from the merchant army chased to the edge of Xishui, and then began to raise their guns and fire into the river, making only splashes in the river. Because Xishui was overcrowded at this time, the hit rate was extremely high. Even if the part that was hit was not a fatal part, it made the Qing soldiers feel unbearable pain and it was difficult to maintain balance in the river water, and then fell into the river water. The dark red blood color continued to gush out of the river water, gradually dyeing all the nearby river water into a brown-red color.
Shang Shan, Ahanikan and other generals were also stunned on the west bank of Xishui, but at this time the wooden bridge was broken and they had no choice but to do anything. Of course, even if the wooden bridge was not broken, they would not be able to rescue the Qing soldiers in the east bank and the river. Now they can only try their best to rescue the Qing soldiers in the river first, and how much they can save them.