Tuqing: My first love was Cixi

Chapter 196 ends! Brilliant victory!

On the high platform, Shi Dakai's handsome flag stood high.

This high platform was also built very skillfully, using the slope angle to effectively withstand shelling.

Moreover, it is also outside the precise strike range of the artillery.

He also had a cigarette in his mouth, and it was also a picture of Spring Residence in Fushan. Although he had no cultural background, he didn't know much about Huang Gongwang.

But now the entire Tianjing City recognizes this smoke.

It is also a special offering from Su Yi, and only fifteen people in the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can enjoy it.

What makes Shi Dakai angry is that his quota is only ranked sixth in the Kingdom of Heaven.

It's simply too much of a lie.

The first five people are Hong Xiuquan, Hong Renfa, Hong Renda, Lin Qirong, and Lin Shaozhang.

What do you mean?

I, the King of Wings, should be ranked second, below one person and above ten thousand people. How dare you rank me sixth?

Siege tactics are also the same old routine.

Part of them attacked Su Yi's new army camp.

Straight line distance, angle, etc.

What is carried out is precise point killing.

Directly divide the troops into two groups.

Guangxi has a typical karst landform. The rock layer beneath the ground is very hard, making it difficult to dig tunnels.

This is a very dangerous position because of the need to be at height.

What he didn't know was that he would soon be ranked seventh because Hong Rengan had already returned to Tianjing.

And some observers, regardless of their own safety, began to record the location of the Taiping Army's artillery positions.

The Taiping Army's artillery bombarded them indiscriminately.

"Boom boom boom..."

Of course, he has reason to be proud.

Su Yi commanded the largest number of soldiers from beginning to end, only a few thousand. And he, Shi Dakai, commanded hundreds of thousands of people everywhere.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

This is different from the Taiping Army's indiscriminate bombing.

And this time, the tactics he adopted were simple and direct.

Before running away, Shi Dakai was indeed possessed by the God of War, and his winning rate in large battles was astonishingly high.

In terms of the scale and number of battles, Su Yi was still a child in front of him, Shi Dakai.

For a moment, the momentum of Su Yi and Xu Youren was completely suppressed.

However, Shi Dakai didn't take it seriously.

After a round of crazy bombardment!

The Taiping Army began a group charge.

Part of the attack was on Suzhou City.

At this time, the proportion of firearms in the Taiping Army may not have reached its peak. In another two years, many of the weapons in the hands of the Taiping Army were even more advanced than the Hunan Army, and they purchased massive amounts of arms from foreigners every year.

Just wait quietly for this wave of bombing to end.

At this time, Shi Dakai had many more artillery pieces than Su Yi and Xu Youren combined.

Shi Dakai was relatively satisfied. This round of shelling had created an overwhelming momentum.

Su Yi's position and even the walls of Suzhou City looked like a mess.

Moreover, every time we attack a place, we must first control the artillery bureau and pharmaceutical bureau here.

Su Yi won many battles and created many miracles.

The entire ground began to tremble, sweeping in like a dark tide.

Under this indiscriminate bombardment, there was almost no response or counterattack in Su Yi's camp and position.

And this time!

The artillery on Su Yi's position began to show its power.

Cannons bought from foreigners, captured from the Qing army, and made by ourselves.

On the surface, they used the human sea tactic to attack the city wall crazily.

Hundreds of artillery pieces fired together.

Moreover, various models are available.

So Shi Dakai secretly vowed to capture Jiujiang in the future, and then there would be as many good things as he wanted.

Moreover, several cannons were used to conduct a saturation attack on a certain artillery position of the Taiping Army.

The location of each artillery piece was detailed and drawn immediately.

Secretly, they dig tunnels under the city wall and use explosives to detonate the wall. This trick has been tried and tested, and it is even used in Guangxi, under the geological environment.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

Cannonballs fell one after another.

After the explosion.

Each artillery position of the Taiping Army was directly overturned.

For a moment, the Taiping Army was shocked.

What the hell?

Hitting so accurately?

Unable to reach the defense, more than a dozen of the Taiping Army's artillery pieces were taken away.

"Shift, shift, shift!"

With an order, the Taiping Army's artillery positions began to move.

However, most of their artillery is bulky, especially the self-cast artillery. The power is not small, but it is too big and difficult to move.

Su Yi's artillery continued to kill accurately.

In an instant, Su Yi suppressed the Taiping Army's artillery with less than a quarter of its artillery.

However, after this round of shelling.

Su Yi's artillery also exposed his position.

The Taiping Army also began to describe Su Yi's artillery positions, but their level of professionalism was much lower.

You can't draw an exact map, it's just a rough map.

Such and such direction, approximately how far away, etc.

By the time it was almost calculated, a long time had passed.

Then, they also covered Su Yi's artillery position with firepower.

But... Su Yi's artillery had already been moved at this time.

His artillery were all fast cannons, and a few people just pushed away and walked away.

The Taiping Army finally moved the artillery position with great difficulty and painstaking efforts. This firing exposed it again.

Then, Su Yi's artillery fired another precise round of kills.

The artillery positions of the Taiping Army suffered heavy losses again.

Shi Dakai was about to explode with anger. He had never fired like this before. The artillery that was several times his own was completely suppressed.

The indiscriminate bombardment just now seemed extremely powerful, but in fact the results were very few.

Because the defenses on Su Yi's army were too complete.

The troops are all in bunkers and trenches, unless they are very unlucky and are directly hit by artillery shells.

All I can say is, sir, times have changed.

The artillery of the Tianjin New Army are so brave, let alone Su Yi's artillery.

However, the Taiping Army's suffering was only the beginning.

The tactic they are best at is charging in a sea of ​​people.

Use three times the force to charge Su Yi's position.

Just those networks?

It's useless.

Can you stop us?

But wait until the rush arrives.

The Taipings discovered that these networks were a nightmare.

They are so densely packed that there are countless layers.

Can't climb over.

You can't drill through it.

It’s also difficult to cut.

Even if you cut off one of them, it would be useless because you don’t know how many of them are intertwined.

At this time, Su Yi's advanced foreign guns began to show their power.

Stand in the trench and shoot like crazy.

At this moment, it was simply a one-sided massacre.

This battle was really much better than the battle at Jiangbei Daying Fairy Temple two years ago.

Facing three times as many enemies, he still has an overwhelming advantage.

"Burn!"

"Burn!"

The Taiping generals immediately ordered the iron thorns and giant vine nets to be set on fire.

But there is not enough tung oil, how to burn it?

If you burn it directly with a torch, it won't burn at all. These things are soaked in water.

In this way, the fierce battle lasted for half an hour.

The iron fences in front of Su Yi's position were full of blood and corpses.

The Taiping Army simply couldn't break into Su Yi's camp.

I don’t know how many lives it cost, but I just can’t get through it.

Finally, feedback came to Shi Dakai.

"Trash, trash, how many nets have stopped you? Even the city walls can't stop you, but how many nets have blocked you?"

"Blow it up with artillery, blast it with artillery!"

Next, the Taiping Army belatedly realized and bombed these iron fences indiscriminately.

There is some effect, but not too much.

Because these nets are elastic, unless the pillars holding the nets are blown up, the shock waves will dissipate and will not be lethal.

If there are enough artillery pieces to plow the entire position, that's fine.

But now the Taiping Army has few artillery pieces.

Moreover, Su Yi's artillery fired for a while, then moved to another place and continued to kill the Taiping Army.

The precious artillery pieces of the Taiping Army were being used less and less.

Shi Dakai was almost furious. He had never fought such a useless battle.

Since he started the war, the artillery force has not suffered such losses.

"King Yi, we focus on attacking Suzhou City. When the city is broken and we occupy Suzhou Strong City, Su Yi's army will be useless."

Then, the Taiping Army immediately changed their strategy.

It's so difficult to fight Su Yi here, so I won't fight him yet.

Just send troops to contain them, and use more troops to attack Suzhou City.

Suddenly, the pressure on Xu Youren in Suzhou City increased greatly.

Countless Taiping troops rushed up like a tide.

Time and time again, they rushed up the city wall.

Even the entire city wall was like ants climbing a tree, densely packed with siege ladders and Taiping troops.

Su Yi's artillery immediately turned around and bombarded the Taiping Army attacking Suzhou.

But at this time, the lethality of artillery against an enemy of this size is very limited.

There are simply too many enemies.

Following the order, Su Yi's new army moved forward.

Keep moving forward along the trench.

Shoot the Taiping troops attacking the city.

But the effect was still limited. The Taiping Army attacked the city from three sides, and Su Yi could only support one side at most.

He wanted to set up camps on both sides of Suzhou City, but the conditions on the other side simply did not allow it.

Therefore, the next step is to look at the Qing army in the city.

Xu Youren, Zhang Guoliang, Feng Zicai, it’s time for you to fight hard.

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Xu Youren, who was on the top of the city, saw everything and immediately understood everything.

The Taiping Army felt that Su Yi's side was difficult to attack, so they stopped attacking and focused on attacking the city.

If you have the ability, Su Yi's new army will abandon their camp and defense line and come out to fight with us.

But at this time, Su Yi's army will never leave their position.

There are still too many Taiping troops at this time. Once they leave the camp, they may really be killed by these countless Taiping troops, which would be a tragedy.

Next, the Qing army in Suzhou City must eliminate enough Taiping troops to reduce the Taiping troops to a certain number before Su Yi can fight out of the position.

Xu Youren yelled: "If you want to be saved, you must save yourself first."

"The reinforcements are right next to us, we can see them."

"As long as we hold on long enough, as long as we kill a certain number of enemies, Master Su Yi's new army will rush out, attack us from both inside and outside, and eliminate the rebellion."

"Remember, the moment Master Su Yi's new army comes out, we will win!"

"Before this, not only how many people die, but no matter what the cost, please support me!"

"Xu Zhenyi, fuck me, fuck me too!"

Xu Zhenyi, son of Xu Youren, was a scholar.

After hearing his father's voice, he also picked up a knife and rushed to the top of the city.

"Zhang Guoliang, Feng Zicai, you guys all come to my rescue. If you die, I will come to you personally!"

Zhang Guoliang, the admiral of Jiangnan, and Feng Zicai, the commander-in-chief, personally led the army and rushed to the front line.

In an instant!

Killed until the sky was dark and the earth was dark.

Su Yi also saw a thrilling scene inside the camp.

The overall combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the Jiangnan Camp was not as good as that of the Taiping Army, but those who survived the fierce battles along the way were considered elite.

At this time, it was already a desperate situation.

What's more, several generals take the lead.

Therefore, they also fought bravely to kill the enemy.

It can be said that if Su Yi's reinforcements were not on the side, the Suzhou defenders might not be able to hold on at this time.

In this way, the fierce battle started from dawn to dusk!

The Taiping Army rushed to the city walls of the Taiping Army countless times, and the Suzhou defenders pushed the Taiping Army down countless times.

After dark!

Ming Jin withdraws his troops.

The entire city wall was covered with corpses.

All of a sudden, it was impossible to estimate the casualties.

But Xu Youren estimated that the defenders in the city would suffer over 10,000 casualties.

As for the Taiping Army, Shi Dakai estimated that the casualties exceeded 20,000.

So you can imagine how fierce the battle was today.

What makes him most heartbroken is that more than half of the artillery he brought has been lost.

The casualties on Su Yi's side were minimal.

But Shi Dakai on the battlefield was still extremely determined.

Faced with this loss, there was no intention of backing down.

At this time, night is a good time to dig tunnels.

Thousands of engineers from the Taiping Army were digging tunnels at the same time, hoping to dig directly under the city wall and then blow open the city wall.

The ground here is soft and easy to dig.

However, there is too much groundwater. Once you dig a place, it will quickly become filled with water.

While digging, you must also drain the water.

Moreover, it collapses at every turn.

Nineteen tunnels were dug at the same time, and most of them have collapsed. It is unknown how many Taiping soldiers were buried.

"Keep digging, keep digging!"

"Anyone who has not dug under the city wall before noon tomorrow will be beheaded!"

Following Shi Dakai's order, these tunnel diggers dug even more frantically.

Soon, another tunnel collapsed, burying the soldiers inside.

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At this time, an envoy risked his life and came to Su Yi's camp from the north. He was Wang Youling's staff.

"Commander, my master has sent more than a dozen waves of people to ask you something."

"Chen Yucheng's 50,000 troops surrounded Yangzhou City. At this time, there were more than 20,000 Yangzhou defenders, including Ronglu's nearly 3,000 new Tianjin troops." The envoy said: "My lord can send 5,000 reinforcements, do you want to send them?"

Wang Youling came over and asked if he wanted to save Yangzhou?

According to the mood, it is definitely not to save, let Chen Yucheng attack Yangzhou, destroy Tominga's Jiangbei camp, and destroy Ronglu's Tianjin new army. However, according to Su Yi's interests, this cannot be done.

Now he wants to work hard to improve the honor and combat effectiveness of Ronglu's new army.

In this way, the emperor would have enough confidence to break the contract with the foreigners, and then have enough confidence to start a war with the foreigners again.

Otherwise, if the emperor joins forces with foreigners to deal with Su Yi, there will be trouble.

If the emperor closed his eyes and recognized all the contents of the Tianjin Treaty, he would not break the treaty.

Then...Su Yi will be in big trouble.

All plans were ruined.

In order to drive the emperor to a dead end, he must be inflated.

Therefore, Ronglu's new army cannot be destroyed, but must be allowed to win.

Su Yi said: "Immediately tell your master that he will not only go to support Yangzhou, but also come out in full force. He will also immediately send people to inform the Shengbao army to leave Luzhou alone and come to support Yangzhou first and attack Chen Yucheng's troops. After Luzhou is handed over, Let Li Xubin and Li Hongzhang fight."

"We must defeat Chen Yucheng in Yangzhou within a short period of time, and then give all the credit to Ronglu."

The envoy said: "Yes, I will tell my master immediately. But I am afraid that I will not be able to return to Huai'an alive, so I ask you to send several waves of envoys, and be sure to pass your message to my master."

Next, the envoy wolfed down a meal and immediately flew north to return to Huai'an.

Su Yi also sent several groups of envoys northward.

Although the Battle of Suzhou is not over yet, the plan to oust the emperor is about to begin.

Of course, the top priority now is the battle of Suzhou.

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It's dawn the next day!

The shocking war drum sounded again.

Shi Dakai continued yesterday's strategy, focusing on attacking Suzhou City and sending some troops to contain Su Yi's army.

After a night's rest, the Taiping Army attacked the city even more frantically.

One wave after another.

Almost half an hour after attacking the city, a large number of them had already rushed onto the city wall.

Moreover, a qualitative change soon occurred.

It was already difficult for the defenders on the city wall to completely push the Taiping Army off the city wall.

And the Taiping troops below were pouring up in a steady stream.

The entire city wall became a battlefield.

At this time, the Suzhou defenders had to face four times or even five times the number of enemies.

"Sir, the young master...died in battle!" Suddenly his subordinates came to report.

Xu Youren's body shook, and his vision went dark.

"If someone dies in battle, then he dies in battle. If others can die, why can't he die?" Xu Youren roared angrily, "What kind of retribution are you here to retaliate?"

"Sir, the defense line of the west city wall has been breached!" Another bad news came.

Xu Youren shouted: "Go to the reserve team, go to the reserve team!"

The person next to him whispered: "Sir, there are no reserve teams, everyone is on board."

Xu Youren trembled and said: "Is there no reserve team? Then... then we will be the final reserve team."

He suddenly drew his sword and shouted: "Follow me!"

Then, the Jiangsu governor led the governor's guard and rushed towards the gap in the defense line in the front city wall.

And at this time!

From underground, there were sounds of tears of joy.

"It's dug through, it's dug through..."

These engineers of the Taiping Army worked tirelessly to dig tunnels.

Sixteen of the nineteen tunnels have collapsed.

According to the order of Yi Wang Shi Dakai, if the city wall is not dug through before twelve o'clock at noon.

Everyone, behead them all.

The military order is like a mountain. If it says beheading, it must be beheaded.

Finally, half an hour before the deadline, the tunnel was dug.

Then, a large amount of gunpowder was transported in along the tunnel.

Tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder.

Then, dozens of leads were used.

As long as one of them succeeds, it will detonate.

Light the fuse.

These engineers fled desperately toward the outside of the tunnel.

And this time!

Xu Youren was killing with all his strength with a knife.

He is a man of letters and a mathematician. He is not very good at martial arts and only hacks randomly.

Everything in the field of vision is red, and I don’t know whose blood it is.

Zhang Guoliang, Feng Zicai and others were also covered in blood and scarred.

On the city wall, the Taiping Army almost outnumbered the Suzhou defenders.

Under the city wall, the Taiping Army was still climbing up through the siege ladder.

At this time, it was no longer despair.

There was no choice but to continue killing like this mechanically.

Many people looked at Su Yi's camp.

Su Yi's military strength was almost intact, but he remained motionless at this time.

Because it is not yet time, the Taiping Army is still too numerous.

And at this time.

"Boom boom boom..."

There was an earth-shaking explosion.

The whole ground was shaking.

Many people nearby were blown away.

A section of stone strip on the city wall seemed to be lifted up and torn apart by a giant!

Tens of thousands of kilograms of gunpowder beneath the tunnel detonated.

A huge gap was opened in the Suzhou city wall.

At this time, Xu Youren, the governor of Jiangsu, Zhang Guoliang and Feng Zicai and other generals in the Jiangnan camp were really desperate.

The wall is broken.

That Su Yi wouldn't even come to the rescue.

There are too many Taiping troops. If you come to rescue them at this time, you may be buried in them.

According to Su Yi's plan, there were still so many Taiping troops left, so Su Yi shouldn't go to war.

The Taiping Army really has too many left.

The fighting effectiveness of the Suzhou defenders was still not good, but they did try their best.

Do you want to leave the camp? Do you want to abandon the defense line and fight out?

Do you want to gamble?

Su Yi's new army has never faced several times as many enemies in a field battle.

It would be really dangerous, and you might even get yourself killed.

However, after the fall of Suzhou.

Xu Youren died in battle. Does this mean that his plan was ruined?

There is no moment in life when everything is certain. The critical moment is when you have to risk your life.

Su Yi took a deep breath and shouted: "Attack!"

Following Su Yi's order, the charge horn sounded.

Su Yi's new army of eight thousand people poured out along the north exit.

Kill towards the back of the Taiping Army.

At this time, Xu Youren, Zhang Guoliang, and Feng Zicai on the city wall had tears in their eyes.

The blood boils all over the body.

"Lord Su Yi is dispatched, dispatched!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The defenders on the city wall were inspired, and their morale suddenly surged.

Su Yi's new army.

After breaking out of the camp's defense line, Shi Dakai was overjoyed.

Su Yi, you finally came out of that turtle shell.

You are asking for death.

Without the protection of a defensive line, how can you beat me?

Following Shi Dakai's order, more than two or three times more enemies rushed towards Su Yi's eight thousand new troops.

Suddenly, the pressure on the Suzhou defenders was greatly reduced.

Su Yi gritted his teeth, the real hard battle was coming, the real hard battle was coming.

"Line up, line up, line up!"

"Hold still, don't move!"

Eight thousand new troops formed their formation as quickly as possible.

Arranged neatly.

There are no fortifications.

Two or three times the number of Taiping troops came like a tidal wave.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

With an order.

Su Yi's new army opened fire intensively.

Real queuing to kill, line tactics, appeared on the Chinese battlefield for the first time.

This is a contest of iron wills.

like a statue.

Just keep firing.

"Bang bang bang bang..."

A gorgeous scene.

A heroic scene.

Su Yi's marching formation was as solid as a mountain, with four-stage and five-stage firing.

The Taiping Army, on the other hand, showed no fear of death, charged wildly, and kept firing.

At this time, the Taiping Army had half firearms and half cold weapons.

They don't line up and shoot, they just shoot instinctively.

Just like that, keep rushing, keep rushing.

Keep dying, keep dying.

Everyone looked at this scene with horror.

Even Su Yi couldn't hide his shock.

It turns out that once the number of troops is increased, the tactic of queuing to kill is really useful.

Every time Su Yi used the tactic of queuing to kill before, the effect was not very good, which made him suspicious.

At this time, the effect was surprisingly good.

After the intensity of firepower reached a certain level, a qualitative change occurred.

The Taiping Army, which was not afraid of death, fell in pieces.

Su Yi's new army also fell in pieces.

However, the casualty ratio between the two sides was very different.

Su Yi's new army formation was actually more difficult to break than the city wall.

The Taiping Army rushed to the Suzhou city wall again and again, but... they were unable to get close to Su Yi's new army.

The Taiping Army's artillery, blocked by Suzhou City and at a tricky angle, could not defeat Su Yi's new army.

Instead, Su Yi's artillery began to fire violently.

Everyone watched in amazement as countless Taiping troops charged, but... they never came within ten meters of Su Yi's new army formation.

On the ground, densely packed corpses piled up like mountains.

It became an absolute contest of wills.

Su Yi's new army remained motionless.

No matter how many people fall, they won't move. They are as motionless as a mountain.

The Taiping Army's crazy charge was shattered again and again like a storm crashing into the sky.

Countless blood splashed.

In this almost crazy fight.

at last……

The morale of the Taiping Army collapsed and disintegrated!

Even if they were brave and not afraid of death, they would completely collapse in the face of such a monster battle situation.

As a result, the Taiping Army began to retreat on a large scale.

Shi Dakai raised gold and retreated his troops.

Full retreat.

The war is over.

The outcome of this battle was completely different from Su Yi's imagination.

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At the same time, Yangzhou battlefield.

It was almost as tragic as the Suzhou battlefield.

The combat effectiveness of Jiangbei Camp is not as good as Zhang Guoliang and others.

But, the better part is.

Shi Dakai had an army of 80,000, but Chen Yucheng only had 50,000.

There are more than 20,000 Yangzhou defenders.

Ronglu's new army is very strong, but not as strong as Su Yi's new army.

But Yangzhou was better because it had more artillery, and Ronglu's new army also had the advantage of defending the city.

But even so, it is still full of dangers.

After three days of fierce fighting!

Ronglu's will was also close to collapse.

He had decided to break through and give up defending the city.

Because he knew he couldn't hold on any longer.

Chen Yucheng is too fierce.

However, just when he decided to give up the breakout, Wang Youling led 7,000 people and came out to support him.

The battlefield has reversed.

Ronglu decided to stay and fight again.

But Chen Yucheng was too good, only two days later.

The balance of victory was completely tilted towards Chen Yucheng.

More than half of the more than 7,000 people Wang Youling brought with him suffered casualties.

Most of the defenders in the city suffered casualties.

Ronglu once again decided to withdraw his troops, and the precious new troops could not be sacrificed here.

But it was at this time that Shengbao entered the battlefield with an army of 40,000.

The tough Chen Yucheng is still unwilling to give up.

There were more than 30,000 troops left, divided into two parts.

Part of them attacked the city, and part of them fought and defended it.

Another two days of fierce fighting!

Both sides suffered numerous casualties, and Chen Yucheng could not bear the staggering casualties.

Moreover, Yangzhou is also rich in water systems, so Chen Yucheng is not as lucky as Shi Dakai.

All the dozen or so tunnels he sent people to dig collapsed.

He knew that Yangzhou could not be taken.

So he retreated angrily.

At this point, the Battle of Yangzhou is over!

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Note: As I was writing it, I realized that I couldn’t finish the Battle of Suzhou in half a chapter, so I tried my best to compress the Battle of Yangzhou and still finished the plot in one chapter.

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