The Qing Dynasty is about to end

Chapter 179 God is here, please don’t hurt my son!
More than 2,000 Eight Banners cavalry bypassed the square formation where Hu Yihuang was located and rushed towards the beach where Hong Xiuquan was. The deafening sound of hooves resounded throughout the battlefield, and the ground trembled slightly. In a blink of an eye, Senggelinqin had rushed to the vicinity of the large ship where Hong Xiuquan was standing.

And under the big ship, there suddenly appeared a small spear formation consisting of several hundred people. They looked very determined. A large red flag stood in the center of the spear formation with many words embroidered on it. Senggelinqin could not see clearly on the bumpy horse back, but one thing was certain, there must be a big hairy leader there.

If Senggelinqin had the opportunity to take a closer look and ask someone if he didn't understand something, he might have given up the idea of ​​leading the "Eight Banners of Smoke" in Jingzhou to attack Hong Xiuquan.

Because the words on this flag are: The True Mandate of Heaven, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, passed down the True Divine Will of the Heavenly Father, the Lord, the Supreme God, the Holy Spirit, the Left Assistant, the Chief Military Advisor, the Rear Advisor, the Central Army and the Right Army, the King of the East, Nine Thousand Years Old!

It turns out that the man standing under this big flag is Yang Xiuqing, the Yang God! He is also the "Holy Spirit" among "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"! This "Holy Spirit Wind" is actually the translation of "Holy Spirit" by British missionary Robert Morrison.

A holy spirit who can perform the skill of God's possession has now come down in person to protect Hong Xiuquan, the second son of God. It will not be easy for Senggelinqin to lead the Eight Banners cavalry, whose energy has worn out, to win!
Under the fluttering red flag of "Heavenly King", Hong Xiuquan stared ahead. The white smoke that rose from the firing of the musketeers and spearmen on both sides flowed slowly in the air, blurring his vision and casting a bit of "fairy air" on this bloody battle on the bank of the Xiangjiang River.

Through the thin smoke, on the long battle line, the number of Taiping troops waving red flags and wearing red scarves on their heads was increasing.

They came not only from the wooden boats that rushed onto the beach, but also from the west and south of Hengshan City. Twenty Taiping Army brigades rushed into the battlefield one after another. In fact, each of these Taiping Army brigades had only 300 people, and the 20 brigades totaled more than 6,000 people, like a red tide, violently attacking the increasingly weak defense line composed of two or three thousand Green Camp soldiers.

As long as this thin line of defense is breached, the Qing troops who dared to offend the majesty of the Second Son of God would be attacked from all sides, and even if they were not destroyed in the end, they would suffer heavy losses!
Hong Xiuquan, who was standing at the bow of the boat, showed great satisfaction on his face at this time!
After thinking for a moment, he finally nodded and said, "To lead millions of soldiers, to march across the world, to be invincible in battle and to conquer everything, that is a true hero!"

Under Hong Xiuquan's boat, three hundred Heavenly King's guards and Eastern King's guards had formed a small hollow square formation.

This kind of "hollow square formation" is actually not exclusive to Western line infantry. Infantry from both Eastern and Western countries would deploy such a hollow formation to protect baggage and commanders when fighting against enemy cavalry.

Yang Xiuqing, a self-taught military expert, could also set up this kind of formation. However, he could not quickly change common formations such as columns, horizontal rows, and solid squares into hollow formations. The Taiping Army he trained was slower in deploying its troops.

Fortunately, the Qing cavalry also watched from the side for a long time, until Yang Xiuqing transferred the troops off the boat and transferred some people from two wooden boats that were washed ashore nearby, and finally formed a hollow formation. The Eight Banners soldiers then thought of charging, and their formation was still loose, but there were too many of them.
"Dong, King Dong, there are so many Qing Yao cavalrymen!"

The voice of Meng De'en, the second commander on the right side of the palace beside Hong Xiuquan, suddenly rang out, sounding a little trembling.

Yang Xiuqing ignored him and just stood there without moving. Something seemed wrong!
"Dong, King Dong, the Qing Yao's cavalry is approaching."

Just as Meng De'en was about to ask "Should we let the shotguns fire?" Yang Xiuqing suddenly spoke in an extremely majestic and somewhat hoarse voice: "I am not the Holy Spirit, I am the Supreme God. I have come down to earth today to stop the Qing demons from harming my son."

God has come down to earth?
Meng De'en was stunned for a moment, then he reacted immediately and shouted, "The Heavenly Father, the Emperor God, has come down to earth! The Heavenly Father, the Emperor God is here!"

"May God bless you, my Father!"

The personal guards of Hong and Yang shouted in unison!
Almost all of Hong Xiuquan and Yang Xiuqing's personal soldiers were from Guangxi who were born in Zijing Mountain. They had firm faith and believed in Heavenly Father, Heavenly Brother, and angels descending to earth. Many of them had even witnessed the angels descending to earth with their own eyes!

Now that God has come down in person to help the Heavenly King kill the demons, then victory is a sure thing. Thinking of this, everyone straightened their chests, they were fearless, as if they had turned into a copper wall to protect God and the Heavenly King.

At this time, the majestic Hakka accent of "God" sounded again: "All musketeers, listen to my orders. Do not fire without my order!"

"By the true will of God!"

Every guard of the Second King holding a musket or a flintlock rifle shouted in unison again. Each of them tightly grasped their guns, looked ahead, and was extremely resolute.

Senggelinqin, who was jogging on his warhorse, suddenly realized that something was wrong with the long-haired soldiers in the small square formation in front of him. Why did everyone stand straight, like a sword out of its sheath, and seemed to be full of fighting spirit? Even Senggelinqin felt a little frightened.
He looked up again at Hong Xiuquan standing on the bow of the ship. He was like a statue of a god, high above, looking down on all directions!
Senggelinqin couldn't help but compare his master Xianfeng with that man, and it seemed that even if he smoked a lot of foreign cigarettes, he couldn't compare with him!

Feeling uneasy, Senggelinqin involuntarily slowed down his horse. Immediately, dozens of Khorchin cavalrymen jumped in front of him and protected their master.

Bater, a brave warrior from the Khorchin grassland, waved the heads of his companions' horses left and right, with his thick, greasy braids swinging in the air behind his head, and uttered strange cries that the grassland men used to drive away sheep and scare away hungry wolves, accompanied by the sound of artillery and musket fire in the distance, and the increasingly loud shouts of the Taiping Army.

However, Bater, who had heard stories about how the Mongolian cavalry trampled on Han people's land and plundered Han people's wealth since childhood, did not think that the Qing army would lose in the battle on the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, nor did he think that the square formation of two or three hundred infantrymen in front could withstand the impact of two thousand cavalrymen. Although those infantrymen were still standing firmly, they would soon collapse completely under the might of the Mongolian cavalry and the Eight Banners cavalry, and then be trampled to death by the cavalrymen of the Manchu and Mongolian warriors.

The cavalry quickly entered the square formation formed by the personal guards of King Hong and King Yang, less than 150 steps in front of it, but the Han army formation in front remained motionless!
These southern barbarians seem to be quite fierce!

Battelle and his companions have already taken horse bows and light arrows in their hands and started the final acceleration sprint!
They were Mongolian cavalrymen from the Khorchin grassland. Everyone of them was skilled in archery and horse riding. Of course, they would not charge into the Han army formation head-on. They would only use their superb riding and archery skills to shoot them to death one by one.

Bater's horsemanship was amazing. Although he was riding on a galloping horse, he was able to skillfully shrink his body, lie on the horse's back, and hide his body on the left side of the warhorse, while preparing to shoot arrows. He stared at the square formation in front of him, and the distance was quickly shortened, one hundred steps, ninety steps, eighty steps, fifty steps, forty steps, thirty steps!

The Han infantry phalanx in front hasn't opened fire yet?
Are those muskets in their hands? Or are they fire sticks?
Never mind, I’ll shoot first!
Thinking of this, Bater suddenly straightened up, shot a light arrow with the fastest movement, and then retracted it.

There were thirty or forty other people shooting arrows with him. Thirty or forty arrows landed in the Taiping Army formation, and six Taiping Army soldiers were shot. One of them was shot in the throat, and he let out a scream as if something was stuck in his throat, and then fell down. The other Heavenly Kingdom holy soldiers who were shot by arrows were all like statues, motionless.

Several arrows also fell at Yang Xiuqing's feet, but he did not move.

He is now the Father and the Holy Spirit. If the Son can be added, it will be the Trinity. Why would he be afraid of humans shooting arrows?
"hair!"

Yang Shangdi shouted loudly, and more than 30 muskets and flintlock rifles in the hollow square formation facing the Eight Banners cavalry fired at the same time! What they fired were "hundred-step bullets"! They could hit the enemy at a hundred steps, let alone at only twenty or thirty steps?
Bater suddenly heard a loud bang, as if a cannon had been fired on the opposite side. Then he felt his body sinking suddenly. Then the horse under his crotch seemed to lose its strength all of a sudden, and fell to the ground with a thud. It also threw him heavily out. After flying for a distance, it fell heavily to the ground again. He fell with stars in his eyes and soon lost consciousness.

From where Yang Xiuqing was standing, half of the dozens of cavalrymen who were at the front of the Eight Banners Cavalry were "dropped" at once, and the remaining cavalrymen did not dare to charge directly at the hollow square where Yang Xiuqing was, but circled to the sides.
Yang Xiuqing laughed up to the sky: "Hahaha, God is here, who dares to fight?"

(End of this chapter)