The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 123 I, Bai Siwen, blew up the Bull Demon King! (asking for monthly votes)
"Kill the Qing monsters! Divide the land! Kill the Qing monsters! Go to heaven! Kill the Qing monsters"

The Taiping Army’s slogans have resounded throughout the battlefield!

The three to four thousand Heavenly Kingdom soldiers from the four brigades that had followed the Qing army all the way were organized into sixteen "groups" and rushed towards the open Huangdao Gate one after another!

All lecturers and speakers are holding red flags and rushing to the front!
In addition, there were some scattered Taiping cavalrymen who used firecrackers and spears to drive dozens of buffaloes with huge horns, rushing in front of all the Taiping infantry, and chasing the elite Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp of the Qing army, which was already in chaos, towards the Huangdao Gate!
The defeated Qing army in Gansu and Shaanxi also seemed to be in a daze, and they fled while shouting: "The Bull Demon King is coming! The Bull Demon King is coming!"

Someone on the Huangdao Gate Tower had already noticed something was wrong.

"Sheng, Lord Sheng, something seems wrong, close the city gate quickly!"

An old lieutenant general of the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp, with the help of the dim morning light, finally saw the status of the two armies that were chasing each other, and immediately realized that the 1,500 Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp soldiers commanded by Fu Cheng and Yin Lipei were not faking defeat at all - they were so badly defeated that most of the soldiers probably lost their weapons, so what was the point of faking?
It was a complete defeat! The team had completely lost its organization. It would take a lot of effort to gather these remnants. It was impossible to get them to participate in the next battle.

The Taiping Army's infantry were still in groups, with some holding red flags in front of them. Occasionally, one could hear the harsh sound of suona and the dull sound of drums, which clearly showed that the army was still well-organized and well-managed. Based on this alone, the Taiping Army outside the city was stronger than all the Qing troops still alive.

On the other hand, all the elite Qing troops from Gansu and Shaanxi had already been scattered by the pursuit and were just rushing towards Huangdao Gate, without any sign of Fucheng and Yin Lipei.

The remnants of the army were shouting as they ran. Listening carefully, it sounded as if they were shouting "The Bull Demon King is coming". They seemed to have lost their minds, but not completely. It seemed as if some buffaloes were being driven by the Taiping cavalry to push the fleeing Qing army's buttocks.

After realizing that something was seriously wrong, the old lieutenant general of the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp plucked up his courage and, with a trembling voice, proposed to Lord Sheng Baosheng to close the city gates.

"Nonsense!"

Shengbao was still in high spirits and naturally refused to close the city gates.

What's the matter with closing the gates now? Are the more than 1,000 Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp outside the city just given to the Taiping rebels to kill for free?
Moreover, the ambush inside Huangdao Gate has been arranged! 1,500 elite soldiers from Gansu and Shaanxi, 1,000 elite troops from the Eight Banners, and 1,000 "holy bombs" made by the craftsmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. No matter whether there is a "Bull Demon King" among the long-haired people who attack tonight, they must die!

Thinking of this, Shengbao glared at the lieutenant general and shouted, "Tell your men to prepare their muskets and lie in wait inside the city wall. When the demons enter the city, we will shoot them with our muskets from a high position!"

"Yes." The lieutenant general couldn't persuade Shengbao, the leader of the Eight Banners, so he had to bite the bullet and accept the order, and ran down to command the musketeers under his command.

Shengbao stood alone on the top of the city wall, squinting his eyes, watching the defeat of the second most elite army of the Qing Dynasty, the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp, and consoled himself in his heart: "It was just a fake defeat, just a fake defeat, and it was quite convincing."

"Kill the Qing monsters and divide the land! Kill the Qing monsters and go to heaven."

Zhu Ba's First Brigade of the Upper Army was part of the first wave of attacking troops. They were divided into four groups - originally they should have been "square formations", but after a night of chasing, the team inevitably became scattered, so they became "groups". However, it was not a big problem, because the horizontal formations, vertical formations, and square formations passed down by Luo Yaoguo were meant to be used in conjunction with flintlock rifles to exert their power.

But now the entire upper army can only gather more than a hundred flintlock rifles, which are barely enough for the female shooters under Su Sanniang. The other troops can only use muskets, and even the number of muskets is not enough. A soldier has more than 200 people, and is equipped with only 40 to 50 muskets. The firepower is really weak.

Fortunately, after the Taiping Army captured medium-sized cities such as Daozhou, Guiyangzhou, and Chenzhou, the production of "Hundred-Step Bullets" finally increased, and each musketeer could be given ten or twenty "Hundred-Step Bullets".

Now all the Taiping Army's musketeers have loaded a 100-step bullet, and the fuse has been lit. They are ready to launch a powerful attack on the Qing soldiers who are blocking their way at any time!

Zhu Ba was still holding a long spear with a red flag hanging on it, rushing to the front of the first brigade of the previous army, leading the way alone!
In front of him, there were a dozen frightened buffaloes with firecrackers wrapped around their tails. After the crackling sound, they mooed forward, chasing the hundreds of Green Camp soldiers who were almost exhausted from running, and rushed to the suspension bridge over the moat and rushed towards the open Huangdao Gate!

"It's done!"

Shengbao saw with his own eyes Zhu Ba, wearing a bull helmet, and a group of buffaloes with firecrackers hanging on their tails rushing into the Huangdao Gate - this "multiplication by ten" report meant that the Bull Demon King had fallen into Shengbao's trap!

"Bombs, bombs, throw the bombs quickly." Shengbao shouted as he ran from the outer side of the Huangdao Gate wall to the inner side. He looked towards Huangdao Street and saw that the end of Huangdao Street had been blocked by a pile of tables, chairs, benches, and a thousand Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp soldiers.

In the shops on both sides of Huangdao Street, there should be a thousand elite Eight Banners soldiers lying in ambush, each with a "holy bomb" in hand. Only these Eight Banners soldiers can take advantage of the moment when the long-haired thieves and the "Bull Demon King" are blocked, light the bombs and throw them out, and they will win! "Here he comes, here comes the Bull Demon King, hurry up, hurry up, get out the holy bombs! Fire, fire sticks."

In a shop on Huangdao Street, Bai Siwen, who was on the battlefield for the first time, was already shouting and screaming. In fact, he had already practiced the steps of throwing the "holy bomb" for a long time. It was the Tu Lama who taught him step by step. He practiced it over and over again for no less than 200 times! He was also very strong. He could throw the "holy bomb" weighing more than a pound far away with just one effort.

But he didn't know what was going on. Seeing countless soldiers and a dozen frightened cows rushing in from outside the city like the wind, his whole body began to tremble. He seemed to have forgotten all the bomb throwing skills he had practiced so well!
Should we drop the bomb first or ignite the fire first? Yes, we should ignite the fire first!

Thinking of this, Bai Siwen immediately snatched a fire starter from an Eight Banners soldier beside him, and immediately lit the fuse of a "holy bomb" in his hand. Then he bravely rushed out of the store, put the holy bomb between his neck and shoulder with his right hand, leaned back slightly, used his waist and arm strength, swung his left arm to borrow more strength, and suddenly threw a holy bomb weighing one and a half pounds with a lit fuse at the crowd running on the street.
"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the holy bomb exploded among the crowd!
This was a bomb designed by Tupolev Lama and carefully crafted by skilled craftsmen from the Imperial Household Department under the personal supervision of Tupolev Lama, Bai Siwen and Wenxiang. The surface of the cast iron was covered with deep "cross" patterns, so the shrapnel produced was particularly numerous and evenly distributed. One bomb exploded in the crowd and knocked down seven or eight Qing soldiers who were running!

"Something seems wrong!" Bai Siwen reacted quickly. As soon as the bomb exploded, he realized something was wrong. It was the wrong target!

But what if the bombs you throw and the water you spill go to the wrong place? You can't take them back, and you can't admit it, or you might end up being court-martialed!
In fact, accidental bombing and shooting on the battlefield are not a big deal, but Bai Siwen was on the battlefield for the first time, and he immediately panicked to the extreme, fearing that Shengbao would find him and arrest him for his crime. In order to cover up his "crime", he came up with a quick idea and shouted: "I, Bai Siwen, blew up the Bull Demon King!"

His shout immediately boosted the morale of the group of Eight Banners soldiers lying in ambush in the shops on both sides of Huangdao Street, and they cheered along without knowing it.

"The Bull Demon King is dead!"

"Bull Demon King was killed by Bai Siwen."

"Throw the bomb quickly."

"Boom! Boom! Boom"

Amid the cheers, a group of Eight Banners soldiers who were caught in the smoke did not see the situation clearly and threw bombs in a daze. Most of them hit the heads of the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp who had finally escaped into the city.

However, the Taiping Army that followed the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camp into the city did not have an easy time either, because the twenty or thirty buffaloes were frightened by the fireballs that suddenly appeared in front of them - there was danger ahead and the lives of the buffaloes were at stake, so they all turned around and rushed towards the Taiping Army.

Zhu Ba, who was leading the charge, was caught off guard and was hit by a frightened buffalo, knocking him to the ground and causing him to be dizzy. Before he could recover, he suddenly heard the sound of gunfire and the occasional screams of his fellow Taiping Army soldiers.

It turned out that the Eight Banners soldiers who were ambushed in the buildings on both sides of the street and the Gansu-Shaanxi Green Camp on the Huangdaomen city wall opened fire!

"Boom boom boom"

"Master Jiu, thunder roared! Changsha City was breached!"

On Taiping Street, upstairs of Chunfengdeyi Building, Master Zhu Jiu has now changed into a dragon robe made from a stage costume. He is holding an apricot-yellow flag in his hand, which also looks like it was taken from the stage. The braid on the back of his head has been cut off, and he is wearing a paper helmet on his head, which was also taken from the stage.

Surrounded by a group of Chu Yi Tang "big brothers" such as the Double Flowered Red Sticks, the Second Master of Loyalty, the White Paper Fan Military Advisor, and the Left and Right Vanguards, he stood on the small stage in the lobby of Chun Feng De Yi Building. However, he was not there to perform, and the two or three hundred strong men standing below were not there to listen to the show. Half of them were the personal soldiers of Master Zhu Jiu, and the rest were sent by the nine major halls under Chu Yi Tang to obey orders.

Now seeing that Master Zhu Jiu had already dressed up, the group of strong men all knelt on one knee and said in unison: "Master, please give your orders!"

Master Zhu Jiu raised the banner in his hand high, pointed in the direction of the governor's office, and shouted: "The red flag is flying, heroes are recruited, the emperor from overseas, come and destroy the Qing monster!

The Tiandihui Jingchu Loyalty Headquarters, today we rise up in rebellion! Kill the Qing demons, seize Changsha! Restore our Han country!"

(End of this chapter)