Chapter 0127 Iron Wall Encircled
At three o'clock in the morning, five miles away from the east gate of Xi'an County, the fires in the Shanghai Army camp soared into the sky, and the shouts of killing were shocking.
Just ten minutes ago, Qin Rilie led more than 2,000 elite cavalry to attack the Shanghai Army camp again and succeeded in one fell swoop.
"Haha, it's said that the Shanghai army is invincible, and today it's still in my hands!"
Qin Rilie laughed loudly. He had never been so happy or excited. You should know that the combat effectiveness of the Shanghai army was dozens of times that of other Qing troops. Now the Shanghai army was defeated by Qin Rilie. Everyone in the world would remember Qin Rilie. He would be famous all over the world and be named king and marquis.
"Brothers, kill me! Kill them all! From today on, the Shanghai Army is bullshit, our Iron Bear Camp is invincible!"
"Iron Bear Camp is invincible!"
"Iron Bear Camp is invincible!"
Qin Rilie's subordinates were also screaming excitedly. They were slashing and slashing the "Shanghai Army" officers and soldiers who cried their parents, and avenging their companions in Meiling and announcing to the world that they were the strongest.
However, their excitement was quickly poured on cold water.
"Have you found that guy from Li Weiguo?"
"Report to General Qin, he did not find Li Weiguo, but he found a senior general of the Shanghai Army, who was a ten thousand men!"
Qin Rilie felt a little unhappy when he heard that he did not find Li Weiguo, but his subordinates captured a commander of the Shanghai Army, which was also a great gain, because Qin Rilie knew the military system of the Shanghai Army, the commander of the sergeant, the commander of the centurion, the commander of the thousand-man, the commander of the ten thousand-man, and then the supreme commander of the Shanghai Army. Capturing a commander of the ten thousand-man, the commander of the Taiping Army was equivalent to the commander of the Taiping Army, and it was also a great achievement.
Soon, the ten thousand-man commander of the Shanghai Army was taken to Qin Rilie by Taiping soldiers.
Qin Rilie asked, "What's your name? Do you hold any position in the Shanghai Army? Where is Li Weiguo?"
The chief ten thousand men was so scared that his legs were weak and he said in a crying voice: "Little man Wang Liang, have you seen Lord Qin!"
Qin Rilie was stunned and asked immediately: "Do you recognize this general?"
Wang Liang hurriedly said, "The villain dare not hide it. The villain confirmed that Lord Qin is because he had served as the military supervisor of the civil servant camp under General Qi Huan's tent. After the war in Meiling, the villain was captured by the Shanghai army. In order to control the civil servant camp, they did not kill the villain and appointed the villain as the chief of the ten thousand men. General Qin clarified the secret. The villain was also forced to helplessly. He was in Cao's camp and was in the Han Dynasty. The villain was always thinking about returning to the Taiping Army. Now General Qin led his army to break through the Shanghai army camp, and the villain was finally saved!"
Qin Rilie suddenly fell down. He thought that it would be a great achievement for not catching Li Weiguo and arresting a ten thousand-man commander of the Shanghai Army. However, he did not expect that the ten thousand-man commander who was arrested was actually the supervisor of the Taiping Army's own civil servant camp. It was so annoying.
"I will ask you, where is Li Weiguo? Who is the supreme commander in the Shanghai Army camp? Where is it now? As long as you answer truthfully, I will be able to open the door, even if you have lost your merits!"
At this moment, Qin Rilie had not forgotten to capture Li Weiguo, but he was already blinded by the victory in front of him.
Wang Liang hurriedly said: "The villain has never seen Li Weiguo. The highest commander in the Shanghai Army camp was named Zhang. I heard that he was Li Weiguo's confidant!"
"The surname is Zhang, and he is Li Weiguo's confidant. I guess it is Zhang Xiaoliu!" A Taiping Army general next to Qin Rilie suddenly interrupted.
Another general agreed: "Zhang Xiaoliu is the person Li Weiguo trusts the most. Where is Li Weiguo, Zhang Xiaoliu will definitely accompany him. If you find Zhang Xiaoliu's location, you will definitely be able to find Li Weiguo's location!"
Qin Rilie nodded immediately and asked hurriedly: "Where is that Zhang Xiaoliu?"
Wang Liang replied truthfully: "Report to General Qin, when General Qin came to rob the camp for the first time, Zhang Xiaoliu won a game and told the villain to come but not to go. He led all the main force of the Shanghai army to leave the camp quietly. He did not know where to go."
Qin Rilie was furious and said, "What? Zhang Xiaoliu didn't know where to go? What are you, the chief of men, who are doing? You don't even know where others go?"
"General Qin, please spare me, the villain really doesn't know!" Wang Liang was so scared that he kowtowed and begged for mercy.
"Wait!" Qin Rilie was about to draw his sword to kill Wang Liang, but suddenly stopped and asked, "Wang Liang, what did you say just now? Did you say that Zhang Xiaoliu left the camp with all the main force of the Shanghai Army?"
Wang Liang was dull and nodded only.
Qin Rilie continued to ask: "As far as I know, the main force of the Shanghai army who came to attack Xi'an County today had 20,000 troops. Except for the 5,000 troops taken away by Zhang Xiaoliu, the other 15,000 troops were all in the camp?"
Wang Liang nodded and said, "That's right. They are all in the camp, but--"
"It's just what?" Qin Rilie asked.
"It's just that today's 20,000 Shanghai troops attacking Xi'an County, only 5,000 of which were led by Zhang Xiaoliu, the original main force of the Shanghai troops, and the other 15,000 people were all from our civilian camp!"
Qin Rilie's face suddenly changed, and the generals on the side were the same. Someone couldn't help but shout: "Bold, do you know that lying about military information is a death sentence!"
Wang Liang was so scared that he kowtowed quickly and defended himself: "Every word of a villain is true, if there is half a false word, he is willing to die!"
A general suddenly said, "No wonder today 20,000 Shanghai troops were at the city, but only 5,000 Shanghai troops outside the East Gate launched an attack. The other Shanghai troops remained unmoved. It turned out that they were just laborers in the civilian camp, not really the main force of the Shanghai army!"
The other generals suddenly realized, especially Deputy General Liu hurriedly said: "General Mo was also wondering. When General Mo was stealing the camp before, the Shanghai army had very strong combat power, but when he came to steal the camp for the second time, the Shanghai army was vulnerable. They didn't even know how to shoot, they were just ordinary people. Now it seems that what Wang Liang said is true. This camp is not the Shanghai army at all, but the civilians pretend to be!"
Everyone was silent immediately. The question was that the Shanghai troops here were all fake, so where did the 20,000 Shanghai troops go?
Qin Rilie was the younger brother of King Qin Rigang of Yan. He had been through the battlefield for a long time and realized immediately.
"Not good! We're trapped! Retreat quickly!"
Just when Qin Rilie realized that he had been trapped, Li Weiguo stood with his hands behind his back on a hill two miles away from the camp, looking at the Shanghai Army camp in the distance, which had been burned half of the sky.
"It's time to order the commanders of each unit to start closing the net!"
"Yes! Sir!"
The messenger took the order and took out a cannon from his arms, lit it with a fire slap and then faced the dark sky.
Dong---Tap!
The fireworks bloomed in the darkness, and within a radius of more than ten miles, the 20,000 main forces of the Shanghai army who had already reached the vicinity had already started to take action. They surrounded the Shanghai army camp and built tens of thousands of sandbags that had been prepared into protective walls. Artillery was deployed in the middle to resist horses. The Shanghai soldiers stood behind the protective wall, raised their guns and formed an iron wall to encircle them.
As soon as the 20,000 Shanghai troops completed the siege, Qin Rilie led more than 2,000 cavalry to break out.
"fire!"
With a command, dozens of Shanghai army cannons fired volleys, and the fire at the muzzle shone, like a fire elves in the dark, revealing extremely terrifying.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
The sound of cannons roared, like thunder.
A series of artillery shells shot into the sky, and bright parabolas were drawn in the dark night sky, roaring at the Taiping Army.
Bang bang bang bang!
The shells exploded instantly, and the earth shook in an instant, and the flames soared into the air, and the explosion fragments shot into all directions. The cavalry of the Iron Bear Camp who was breaking through was immediately hit hard and was blown up.
The war horses neighed and rushed uncontrollably in the artillery fire, causing the originally regular cavalry to attack in a mess.
"Don't be confused! Don't panic! Bounce me!"
Qin Rilie gritted his teeth and was already panicked. He knew that he had fallen into a trap tonight. Two thousand iron cavalry were surrounded by 20,000 Shanghai troops, and his hope of breaking through was slim.
Qin Rilie was unwilling to give up, and he couldn't understand it. With Mr. Liao's wisdom, he set up a series of plans, which could be seen through by Li Weiguo. Not only did he fail, he fell into Li Weiguo's plan.
It is said that there are people outside of people and there is heaven outside of heaven. Qin Rilie has experienced it at this moment, but there is no medicine for regret in this world. I am afraid that I will have to pay too much tuition this time.
"Deputy General Liu, you will lead a thousand cavalry to break through to the left wing!"
At the critical moment, Qin Rilie was still very military-minded. He knew that the hero would cut off his arm, so he ordered Deputy General Liu to lead his men to break through to the left wing. In fact, he asked Deputy General Liu to die, attract the firepower of the Shanghai army, and cover Qin Rilie to break through from the other side.
Deputy General Liu did not hesitate and immediately led a thousand iron cavalry to the left wing, while Qin Rilie led the remaining more than a thousand cavalry to the right wing.
However, the theory is full and the reality is skinny. Qin Rilie thought that he could break through this, but he didn't know that Li Weiguo tried his best to set up such a big situation, so how could Qin Rilie easily escape?
Whether it was Deputy General Liu or Qin Rilie, when they led the cavalry to forcefully break through the Shanghai army's artillery strike range, they were stunned when they saw the temporary protective wall composed of sandbags and horse-resisting horses in front of them.
"I'm right next door! How can I rush over here!"
Qin Rilie cursed and immediately slowed down his horse.
However, the other cavalrymen of the Iron Bear Camp did not receive any orders and could only rush forward with a tough bullet.
Bang bang bang bang!
At this moment, the Shanghai soldiers behind the protective wall opened fire.
But rows of fires shining and countless projectiles were shot out. In an instant, a large number of cavalrymen of the Iron Bear Camp were shot and fell off their horses.
In the darkness, the Shanghai army wore sunglasses and fired, and the muzzle flames had no effect on their eyes. But the Taiping Army opposite was different. Neither their people nor horses could adapt to the sudden flash of fire in the darkness, which made their people and horses' eyes blur instantly, especially the war horses, which collided in panic, causing chaos in the entire cavalry formation.
The distance of just a few dozen meters has become an insurmountable barrier for the Iron Bear Camp cavalry that has been through the battlefield, and it is even a blockade of death.
Countless rays of light came, Qin Rilie was dazzled, and his chest was hit by a lead bullet, his heart and lungs exploded instantly, and his body fell off.
In the end, most of the more than a thousand elite cavalry died on the way to charge, and only a few lucky cavalry rushed to the protective wall. Unfortunately, they were either stopped by the rejected horse or stabbed by the Shanghai soldiers who knew it.
At the same time, on the other hand, Deputy General Liu's 1,000 Iron Cavalry ended up the same thing. How could a mere 2,000 Iron Cavalry break through the iron wall of the 20,000 Shanghai troops? The final result would be that the entire army would be wiped out. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!