Yuhuatai, located in the south of Tianjing City, is a small hill with an altitude of 100 meters and an area of ​​only a few kilometers. The top of the mountain is flat, like a bowl upside down on the ground, but it is a natural fortress fortress. (.)

The sloppy and sloppy meetings of the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom led to the precious half-day that Chen Jiong exchanged for his life and turned into ashes. The Taiping Army failed to send troops to seize Yuhuatai in time, and was eventually completely occupied by the Shanghai Army.

The Shanghai army captured Yuhuatai and deployed more than 100 cannons on it. The muzzle directly faced the Tianjing Jubao Gate and was condescending, so the shells could easily fall into the Tianjing city.

"Boom me hard!"

Upon climbing the Yuhua Platform, Li Weiguo immediately shouted and ordered the firing of the fire in Tianjing.

It is no wonder that Li Weiguo got angry. In order to attack Yuhuatai, the Shanghai army paid a huge casualty price of more than 1,000 people. Although it destroyed more than 20,000 elite Taiping Army soldiers, such a large number of casualties was something that the Shanghai army had never had since its establishment. It was the first time that the casualties exceeded 1,000.

Want to take revenge!

Not only Li Weiguo, but the entire Shanghai soldiers were in this mood at this moment.

Without saying a word, more than 100 cannons in the Shanghai Army were set up, and first they blasted towards Jubao Gate.

Dongdongdongdongdongdong!

The sound of cannons roared and ran through the sky, and a series of cannonballs roared at the Jubao Gate.

Bang bang bang bang!

The shells exploded with a bang as soon as they landed. In an instant, bricks and stones shattered, dust flew, and countless fragments flew in all directions. The Taiping Army guarding the Jubao Gate was immediately affected, and was blown up and overturned, with flesh and blood flying everywhere.

When the Shanghai Army attacked Jubao Gate, the artillery could only be shot directly and was blocked by the city wall, so that the Taiping Army hidden in the hidden military cave behind the city wall was unscathed and could continuously reinforce the city wall to prevent the Shanghai Army from siegeing the city.

Now the situation has changed. The Shanghai army's cannons are at a high altitude. Although they are still shooting directly, the shells cannons fire out of the Yuhua platform, drawing arcs in the air. They fall directly into the inner side of the Jubao Gate. Even the Taiping Army hidden in the Tibetan military cave is not safe and they retreat from the Tibetan military cave.

The artillery fire was everywhere. The people and horses were neighing, and thousands of Taiping troops instantly turned into ants on the hot pan, rushing around with their heads in their arms.

"Stay!"

"Go back to the city wall!"

"Do not kill anyone who violates the situation!"

At the critical moment, King Qin Rigang of Yan led his army to Jubao Gate. He was ordered to lead an army of 10,000 to regain Yuhuatai, but as soon as he arrived near Jubao Gate, he saw the guard general of Jubao Gate dead and the soldiers fled in scattered, so he hurriedly suppressed him.

At this moment, a shell fell into the third city wall and exploded. The red explosive iron piece cut open an ammunition box and instantly detonated the entire ammunition depot.

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang"

The ammunition depot exploded instantly, like a volcano erupting. Within a radius of more than ten miles, you could feel the earth shaking, and people and animals could not stand steadily, and some fell to the ground. Thousands of Taiping troops closest to the ammunition depot were instantly swallowed by the flames wrapped in the explosion shock wave. The screams were like hell on earth.

The cruelty of war was revealed in front of people at this moment.

Qin Rigang's mount was frightened and dropped him off his horse. Before he could stand up, the sandstorm caused by the explosion shock wave swept over and swallowed him.

The entire Jubao Gate's four city gates and three urns were swallowed by rolling smoke in an instant, covering the sky and the sun.

After a long time, Qin Ri had just groped and crawled out of the thick smoke. He was as if he had just washed a sauna and fell into a pile of soil and ash before crawling out.

"Mom's cough cough cough cough"

Qin Rigang's mouth was covered in dust and was so angry that he cursed. The ten thousand elite Taiping Army soldiers he brought, now they turned into dirty Beggars' Gang disciples.

If Li Weiguo really wanted to capture the city of Tianjing at this time, only three thousand elite soldiers would be enough to destroy these Taiping troops and occupy Jubaomen.

Unfortunately, Li Weiguo's strategy was not to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. After the Shanghai Army captured Yuhuatai, it occupied Yuhuatai and only bombarded the city of Tianjing. It did not send ground troops to participate in the war.

After ten rounds of artillery attacks of the Shanghai Army, they stopped their actions and deliberately asked the Taiping Army to rest, because the Taiping Army was bombed and ran away with its heads and was everywhere, and the shelling effect was no longer obvious. The Shanghai Army hoped that the Taiping Army would gather again and that people would gather together and then shell again were valuable. Otherwise, a shell would only blow up a few bricks, which would be too much of a loss.

If Qin Rigang knew that the Shanghai Army had this idea, he would have been vomited immediately!

Qin Rigang was frustrated at Jubao Gate. Because the guard of Jubao Gate was killed, Qin Rigang had to suspend his plan to go out of the city to attack Yuhuatai, first rectify the city gate defenders and repair the two city walls destroyed by the Shanghai army's cannons.

Next to Yuhuaquan on Yuhuatai, Li Weiguo took a sip of a bowl of sweet spring that had just been brought up from the spring, and sat aside to rest.

Chen Jingnan came over and said happily: "Congratulations to Lord, Hong Xiuquan, for sending three imperial edicts out of the city in a row, Shi Dakai must return to the army this time, otherwise Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing would think that Shi Dakai is willing to rebel and will kill Shi Dakai."

Li Weiguo nodded. This was as expected, but it was a little later than the expected date.

Chen Jingnan continued: "Next, if what is expected is not bad, the Taiping Army will find a way to regain Yuhuatai. We only need to defeat their attack so that they can understand that the tens of thousands of soldiers in Tianjing can't be able to regain Yuhuatai. Then they will stay in Tianjing City honestly and wait for Shi Dakai's reinforcements. The master can leave a soldier who thinks he is suspicious and lead the main force to ambush Shi Dakai's reinforcements to Liyu Mountain."

Li Weiguo shook his head and said, "I can't leave, because if I leave, it will arouse Shi Dakai's suspicion. So, the ambush at Liyu Mountain was handed over to Zhang Xiaoliu to lead the troops, and Mr. Chen could give him advice."

"Young Master, no!"

"Master, no!"

Zhang Xiaoliu and Chen Jingnan objected in unison, and the former said: "Young Master, you are too dangerous here, so just send someone to pretend to be the young master!"

Chen Jingnan also said: "Although the Lord stayed can indeed shock the Taiping Army, if the Taiping Army in the capital is dispatched to attack Yuhuatai one day, wouldn't the Lord be in danger?"

Li Weiguo smiled and said, "You big adviser, have said that if you only need to repel the Taiping Army's attack, they will shrank into the city and dare not come out. Since that's the case, what else am I afraid of?"

Chen Jingnan smiled bitterly and said, "After that being said, you are the master, we can't let you take risks!"

"Yes, young master, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of something!" Zhang Xiaoliu said hurriedly.

Li Weiguo waved his hand and said, "Okay. Xiaoliuzi, Mr. Chen, you can go to Liyu Mountain to ambush Shi Dakai. You don't have to worry about me. Even if it really happens, I have two legs and will not run away? You won't think I am the kind of foolish person who will stay here at that time, right?"

This was what Chen Jingnan and Zhang Xiaoliu said. Li Weiguo was indeed not the kind of pedantic person. If the situation was not good, Li Weiguo would probably be the first to run away.

Although he was still worried, if Li Weiguo was in charge of Yuhuatai, he could indeed intimidate the Taiping Army in the city. As long as the Taiping Army thought that Li Weiguo was in Yuhuatai, he would not believe that the main force of the Shanghai army on Yuhuatai had actually withdrawn. On the other hand, with Shi Dakai's shrewdness, if he knew that Li Weiguo had left, he would definitely not return to help. In that case, the plan to ambush Shi Dakai would be ruined, and such efforts and sacrifices would never be allowed to make mistakes on the last small problem.

As the saying goes, most of the bets (please understand the word "harmony") are thrown in, and the trump card is about to be revealed. It would be a pity to give up at this time.

This is obviously not Li Weiguo's style. Chen Jingnan and Zhang Xiaoliu both understood and had to obey the orders.

The next morning, Qin Ricong indeed led 10,000 elite Taiping troops to launch a fierce attack on Yuhuatai.

The Taiping Army was fearless in death, but the Shanghai Army was condescending, built fortifications and fired guns and cannons, repelling Qin Rigang's fierce attacks again and again.

Qin Rigang concentrated all the remaining muskets and cannons in Tianjing. At first, he could still shoot against the Shanghai army, but the muskets and cannons made by the Taiping Army were really behind. The muskets were fuse-strings, which were far inferior to the British muskets of the Shanghai Army. The cannons were the antique general cannons. They were huge in size, not easy to move, with small caliber, small power, short range, and solid bullets. They had limited lethality to the Shanghai army. On the other hand, the British cannons of the Shanghai army were small in size and flexibly changed positions, and were not easy to be hit by Taiping Army shells. At the same time, they had a large caliber, large power, long range, and still had flowering bullets, which had extremely strong lethality.

Whether it was gun battles or artillery battles, the Taiping Army was in a disadvantageous position. In addition, the Taiping Army was still attacking one side, and the Shanghai Army relied on fortifications to wait for work. As one went up and down, the Taiping Army suffered heavy casualties, but did not attack Yuhuatai once.

However, the Taiping Army was still very tenacious. They tried their best to do everything they could. Once again, they all walked forward snake-snake, braved the guns and bullets to rush to the Shanghai Army camps, almost succeeded. However, they soon discovered that the Shanghai Army's fortifications were too sinister. They dug deep trenches in front of the position and inserted sharp thorns. The Taiping Army fell into it without paying attention. They were terrifying in death. The undead Taiping Army finally pushed the bodies of comrades into the trench, stuffed the grass bundles, and rushed over on the grass. But at that time there were few people and were shot directly by the Shanghai Army.

The two sides were fighting in full swing, and the Taiping Army added another new force. Dong Wang Yang Xiuqing knew the importance of Yuhuatai, so he personally led his own guard to arrive and immediately launched an attack on Yuhuatai's Shanghai Army.

The Taiping Army used guns and cannons and dug tunnels down, with all kinds of strange methods, forcing Li Weiguo to draw out thousands of Shanghai troops and thousands of baggage civilians to resist the Taiping Army's open and secret digs.

That night, the Taiping Army used gunpowder to blew up the two walls of the Shanghai Army. The guns and guns and crossbows were fired at the same time. Seeing that thousands of shouting Taiping Army were about to enter the camp, the Shanghai Army was red in anger, knowing that today either you die or I die, but none of them escaped. Instead, they shouted and looked forward to see, holding a knife.

Both sides were red in their eyes, and the war once became fierce.

In the end, the Taiping Army rushed back and forth five or six times, but was unable to enter. The Taiping Army used tunnels to attack the Shanghai Army. The Shanghai Army also dug each other to dig. Each tunnel was smoked with poisonous smoke, ignited with tinder oil, or blocked the hole with wooden piles, which eventually made the tunnel warfare of the Taiping Army eventually invalid.

The two sides fought until dawn, and the foreign guns and cannons of the Shanghai Army once again exerted their power and repelled the Taiping Army.

After a day and night of bloody battle, Qin Rigang's 10,000 Taiping Army lost more than 7,000 Taiping Army, and Yang Xiuqing's 10,000 Taiping Army lost more than 4,000. Both of them dared not give up their assets. Secondly, they could not fight the foreign guns and cannons of the Shanghai Army during the day, and they could not get any advantage in attacking at night. It would be futile to continue to fight. Moreover, there were not many troops in Tianjing City and they dared not consume any more. So they retreated to Tianjing unwillingly, waiting for Shi Dakai's reinforcements to arrive before regaining Yuhuatai.

After a fierce battle day and night, Li Weiguo once again saw the power of Taiping Army. The power of secretly seeking faith was indeed magical, and he felt more confident that in the future, the Li family army would also have to establish a belief to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Li family army, otherwise it would be too disadvantageous.
Chapter completed!