Chapter 196 End of the Glorious Victory

Chapter 196 End! Glorious victory!

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

This high platform was also built very skillfully, using the slope angle to effectively resist artillery fire.

Also, it was outside the precise strike range of artillery.

He also had a cigarette in his mouth, also a painting of Fushan Spring Residence, although he had little cultural cultivation and didn't know much about Huang Gongwang.

But now the whole city of Tianjing only recognized this cigarette.

It was also specially supplied by Su Ye, and only fifteen people in the entire Taiping Heavenly Kingdom wanted to enjoy it.

What made Shi Dakai angry was that his quota in the Heavenly Kingdom could only rank sixth.

It was simply too much.

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

What do you mean?

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

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

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

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

Directly divide the troops into two routes.

One part attacked Suzhou City.

The other part attacked Su Ye's new army camp.

The siege tactics were also old routines.

On the surface, he used human sea tactics to attack the city wall frantically.

Secretly, he dug tunnels under the city wall and used explosives to detonate the city wall. This trick was really tried and tested, and even in Guangxi, in that geological environment, it was used.

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

Su Ye won many victories and created many miracles.

However, Shi Dakai did not take it too seriously.

The most soldiers Su Ye commanded from beginning to end were only a few thousand people. And he, Shi Dakai, commanded hundreds of thousands of people.

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

Of course, he also had reason to be proud.

Before he left, Shi Dakai was indeed like a god of war, with an astonishingly high victory rate in large-scale battles.

"Boom boom boom boom..."

The Taiping Army's artillery bombarded wildly.

At this time, Shi Dakai had much more artillery in his hands than Su Ye and Xu Youren combined.

Moreover, there were various models.

Bought from foreigners, captured from the Qing army, and also cast by themselves.

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

Moreover, every time they attacked a place, they first controlled the artillery bureau and pharmaceutical bureau there.

Hundreds of artillery fired together.

For a time, the momentum of Su Ye and Xu Youren was completely suppressed.

Under this kind of bombardment, Su Ye's camp and position had almost no reaction, and no counterattack.

Just quietly waited for this wave of bombing to end.

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

Specific to the location of each artillery, and immediately draw a map.

Straight-line distance, angle, etc.

This is a very dangerous position because it needs to be on a high place.

After a round of crazy artillery bombardment!

Su Ye's position, and even the Suzhou city wall, looked a mess.

Shi Dakai was quite satisfied that this round of artillery bombardment formed an overwhelming momentum.

The Taiping Army began to charge in groups.

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

And at this time!

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

This is different from the Taiping Army's bombardment.

It is a precise point kill.

"Boom boom boom..."

And several artillery, a saturation attack on a certain artillery position of the Taiping Army.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

Shells fell one by one.

After the explosion.

The artillery positions of the Taiping Army were directly overturned.

All of a sudden, the Taiping Army was shocked.

What the hell?

So accurate?

Caught off guard, the Taiping Army's artillery was directly destroyed by more than a dozen.

"Move, move, move!"

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

However, most of their artillery was bulky, especially the artillery they cast themselves, which was powerful, but too large to move.

And Su Ye's artillery continued to kill accurately.

All of a sudden, Su Ye suppressed the Taiping Army's artillery with less than a quarter of the number of artillery.

However, after this round of artillery fire.

Su Ye's artillery also exposed his position.

The Taiping Army also began to depict Su Ye's artillery positions, but their professionalism was much worse.

Accurate maps cannot be drawn, just a rough outline.

A certain direction, about how far away, etc.

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

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

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

His artillery was a quick-firing cannon, and a few people pushed it and it went straight away.

The Taiping Army had finally moved its artillery position with great difficulty, but it was exposed again when it opened fire.

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 for Su Yi to fight 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 is 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 tragic.

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.

In the face of this loss, there is no intention of retreating.

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 Toming'a'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, Give it to Li Xubin and Li Hongzhang to 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 please send several waves of envoys, and be sure to pass your message to my master."

Next, the envoy devoured the food and immediately rushed 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 for a while, 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 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 was red, and I didn’t know whose blood it was.

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 power 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-shattering 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?

He, Su Yi's new army, had never faced several times as many enemies in a field battle before.

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 8,000 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 defeat 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.

Not moving.

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.

Killing all the time, dying all the time.

Everyone looked at this scene with horror.

Including Su Ye, he could not hide his shock.

It turned out that after the number of troops increased, the line-up shooting tactic was really useful.

Every time Su Ye used the line-up shooting tactic before, the effect was not very good, which made him doubt it.

But at this time, the effect was surprisingly good.

When the firepower density reached a certain level, a qualitative change occurred.

The Taiping Army, who were not afraid of death, fell in groups.

Su Ye's new army also fell in groups.

However, the casualties of both sides were very different.

Su Ye's new army square formation was even more difficult to charge than the city wall.

The Taiping Army rushed to the Suzhou city wall again and again, but... they could not get close to Su Ye's new army.

And the Taiping Army's artillery, because it was blocked by Suzhou City and the angle was tricky, could not defeat Su Ye's new army.

Instead, Su Ye's artillery began to fire fiercely.

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

On the ground, the bodies piled up like a mountain.

This became a contest of absolute will.

Su Ye's new army just remained motionless.

No matter how many people fell, they did not move, as still as a mountain.

The Taiping army's crazy charge was like a storm, shattering it again and again.

Countless blood flowers splashed.

In this almost crazy fight.

Finally...

The Taiping army's morale collapsed and disintegrated!

Even if they were brave and fearless, they completely collapsed in the face of such a terrible battle.

So, the Taiping army began to retreat on a large scale.

Shi Dakai called back his troops.

Full retreat.

The war was over.

The result of this battle was really different from what Su Ye had imagined.

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At the same time, the battlefield in Yangzhou.

It was almost as tragic as the battlefield in Suzhou.

The fighting power of the Jiangbei camp was not as good as Zhang Guoliang and his men.

However, there was a good thing.

Shi Dakai had 80,000 troops, but Chen Yucheng had only 50,000.

The Yangzhou garrison had more than 20,000.

Ronglu's new army was strong, but not as strong as Su Ye's new army.

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

But even so, it was still dangerous.

After three days of fierce fighting!

Ronglu's will was close to collapse.

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

Because he knew that he could not hold it.

Chen Yucheng was too fierce.

However, just when he decided to give up breaking out, Wang Youling came out with 7,000 people to support him.

The battlefield was reversed.

Ronglu decided to stay and fight again.

But Chen Yucheng was too powerful, and just two days later.

The balance of victory was completely tilted towards Chen Yucheng again.

More than half of the more than 7,000 people brought by Wang Youling were killed or wounded.

Most of the defenders in the city were also killed or wounded.

Ronglu decided to withdraw his troops again. The precious new army could not be sacrificed here.

But it was at this time that Shengbao led 40,000 troops into the battlefield.

The fierce Chen Yucheng was still unwilling to give up.

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

One part attacked the city, and the other part fought against Shengbao.

Another two days of fierce fighting!

Both sides suffered countless casualties, and Chen Yucheng could not bear the astonishing casualties.

Moreover, Yangzhou also has rich water systems, and Chen Yucheng's luck is not as good as Shi Dakai.

The dozen tunnels he sent people to dig all collapsed.

He knew that he could not take Yangzhou.

So he retreated angrily.

So far, the Battle of Yangzhou ended!

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Note: I found that I could not finish the Suzhou Battle 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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