The animal world of the head of the village

Chapter 464 Allied with the Taiping Army to Attack Bozhou
There are natural dangers outside Weiyang City, so the march was much slower than before. After the chasing Qing army arrived at Weizhou City, it was already five days later.

Weizhou City is easy to defend and difficult to attack, mainly because of natural dangers, and the heavy siege weapons that the attacker cannot advance normally.After Huang Xiaohu surveyed the terrain, he decided to camp five miles outside the city.

The Qing army retreated to Weizhou City, fortified the walls and cleared the fields. It seemed that they were preparing to defend the city to the death, and they definitely had no plans to rush out of the city to fight.

After some investigation, Huang Xiaohu decided to repeat the old tricks, find the help of field mice, open up the underground passage leading to Weizhou City, and then carry out a surprise attack.

Three days later, the voles had opened up two tunnels, both leading to Weizhou City, not even very far from the city gate.

One night, Huang Xiaohu personally led two groups of soldiers, each with 30 soldiers, to drill into the city through a tunnel, then directly touched the city gate and opened it.

As soon as the city gate was opened, Huang Xiaohu's tens of thousands of troops rushed directly into the city.

There was a chaotic battle in Weizhou City, Huang Xiaohu took the lead and almost resisted hundreds of defenders by himself.

The armies of the two sides quickly started fighting, but it was obvious that Huang Xiaohu's fighting spirit was stronger and his combat effectiveness was stronger. Under Huang Xiaohu's leadership, tens of thousands of troops quickly captured the city of Weizhou, and the battle began immediately. street fighting.

Most of the Qing army began to flee, and a few recalcitrants were quickly beheaded by Huang Xiaohu's army, and the rest could only surrender on their knees.

As soon as the sky was bright, Huang Xiaohu's army had already captured Weizhou City, and even started the work of counting and cleaning the battlefield.

Half of the [-] defenders of the Qing army ran away, killing and wounding more than [-] people, and more than [-] surrendered.

After Huang Xiaohu captured Weizhou City, he was not in a hurry to move on. Instead, he ordered the whole army to rest for two days.

The reason why Huang Xiaohu did not choose to continue sending troops to Bozhou was because he had discussed with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to jointly attack Bozhou City, so at this time Huang Xiaohu of course wanted to wait until the Taiping Army approached Bozhou City before making any plans.

Two days later, Huang Xiaohu received a report from the spies, saying that the Taiping Army had arrived in Bozhou City and was camping outside the city.

Huang Xiaohu left more than [-] soldiers to garrison Weizhou, and at the same time ordered Jia Lin to lead [-] soldiers to escort the surrendered army back to the barracks, while he personally led more than [-] people to march towards Bozhou.

Two days later, Huang Xiaohu's army arrived outside the city of Bozhou, and successfully joined forces with the Taiping Army.

The main general of the Taiping Army this time is Li Xiucheng, so Huang Xiaohu chatted with Li Xiucheng for a while.

Huang Xiaohu said: "General Li, after taking down Bozhou City, I hope you can hold it. Don't be like last time and be taken back by the Qing army soon."

Li Xiucheng said: "Bozhou City is the place where the Qing army must pass through when going south, and it is also the throat. I am afraid it is much easier to fight than to hold it. The chairman did not dedicate Bozhou City to us last time. Just can't keep it."

Huang Xiaohu said: "What's so difficult about defending the city? It's just that I don't want to waste time and energy here. General Li, what's the progress of the Xilongshan treasure you asked for me?"

Li Xiucheng said: "I have already started looking around for Fu Shanxiang's whereabouts. It will take some time, so please wait patiently, Chairman."

Huang Xiaohu said: "General Li leads the troops personally this time. I don't know if there is any clever plan to capture Bozhou City?"

Li Xiucheng said: "The king of heaven ordered me to assist the chairman to attack Bozhou City. It seems that he hopes that the chairman will take the lead and our Taiping army will be the assistant. When the chairman asked me this, I felt a little at a loss. Could it be that the chairman Is there no way for the adults to capture Bozhou City?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Since you are here to assist us in attacking the city, it means that you must obey my arrangement, right?"

Li Xiucheng said: "How will the chairman arrange it?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "It's simple, you go to lead the battle first, I want to see how powerful the defenders of Bozhou City are."

Li Xiucheng said: "It's not difficult to take the lead, but if you accidentally capture Bozhou City directly, who will get the credit?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "If you can directly capture Bozhou City, I will lead my troops to attack Tianjin City. I will give you an explanation from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. How about that?"

Li Xiucheng said: "The chairman has always been a man of his own accord, so I can only be respectful rather than obedient."

Li Xiucheng led a large army to attack Bozhou City, and the tactics were extremely advanced. First, after a round of artillery bombarded the city wall, the siege soldiers came to Bozhou City with siege vehicles.

Huang Xiaohu saw Li Xiucheng's bravery in fighting and charging forward without thinking about his own body, so he even sweated for him.

The Taiping army stormed Bozhou City. After a hard fight, they finally broke through a city gate, but encountered stubborn resistance and obstruction from the Qing army, so after a day of fierce fighting, they were still unable to enter Bozhou City.

At night, Li Xiucheng ordered the troops to retreat, and the Taiping army retreated to the camp for repairs. At this time, the Qing army did not dare to pursue rashly, so they could only watch the Taiping army withdraw from the battlefield.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Huang Xiaohu directly led the army to the city gate, and Huang Xiaohu rushed in by himself, killing only the Qing soldiers guarding the city.

Although the Qing army was extremely brave, they were no match for Huang Xiaohu, and they couldn't even stop Huang Xiaohu from rushing into the city, so Huang Xiaohu's army took advantage of the chaos to enter the city and began to fight with the Qing army.

Li Xiucheng had already withdrawn his troops, but after discovering that Huang Xiaohu's army had rushed into Bozhou City, he immediately ordered the whole army to continue to attack Bozhou City, and they also rushed into the city smoothly.

There are more than 8000 defenders in Bozhou City, but there are more than [-] people on Huang Xiaohu's side plus Li Xiucheng's [-] army, so the number is actually not too big a disadvantage, and Huang Xiaohu's army is brave and invincible. Xiaohu himself is like a god coming down to earth, so the Qing army can't resist at all except for its defeat.

After Li Xiucheng's army joined the battle, the Qing army was even more defeated. A large number of Qing troops fled outside the city, and all those who resisted were beheaded, and countless Qing troops surrendered.

Huang Xiaohu and Li Xiucheng agreed not to kill the surrendered soldiers, so Li Xiucheng did not kill innocent people indiscriminately. After the city of Bozhou was broken, Li Xiucheng was busy counting and cleaning up the battlefield, while Huang Xiaohu's army began to escort the surrendered soldiers back to Weizhou.

At noon the next day, Huang Xiaohu and Li Xiucheng's army completely captured Bozhou City, and Huang Xiaohu also abided by the agreement and directly handed over Bozhou City to Li Xiucheng, preparing to lead the army back to Weizhou.

Li Xiucheng said: "My lord, the city of Bozhou is broken, why don't you stay and rest for a few days before leaving?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "I didn't intend to waste too much time in Bozhou City, and I have other important things to do, so Bozhou City belongs to you now, and I have to go."

Li Xiucheng said: "Don't you want to know the whereabouts of Fu Shanxiang?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "Didn't General Li say that he is still investigating? Could it be that General Li already has detailed information?"

Li Xiucheng said: "In fact, Fu Shanxiang is already in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Some people say that she appeared in Hangzhou, so if the chairman is interested, you can go to Hangzhou to try your luck."

Huang Xiaohu said: "I thought that General Li was planning to find the treasure in Xilong Mountain and return it to me directly, but it turned out that General Li just wanted to tell me some news, and I still have to find things by myself, right?"

Li Xiucheng said: "Actually, I am just worried that the chairman will misunderstand. If I send someone to investigate the whereabouts of the treasure in Xilong Mountain, in case something goes wrong, I am worried that the chairman thinks that someone Li is obstructing it, or that it is Li. Someone hid the treasure privately, so I am very willing to accept the chairman to find out the whereabouts of the treasure in person."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Okay, since you said so, I will take some time to go to Hangzhou. I don't know if Hangzhou is now under your Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or the Qing Dynasty's sphere of influence?"

Li Xiucheng said: "Of course it is within the scope of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so you don't have to worry about the chairman. If there is an accident, as long as you report the name of King Yi or me, someone will definitely give the chairman face."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Okay, let's talk about it first, I will go to Hangzhou to find that Fu Shanxiang, but if there are other conspiracies and tricks in it, once I find out, then you Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will be finished. "

Li Xiucheng said: "How dare we play tricks on the president of the Dragon Society? The president will know everything when he goes to Hangzhou."

After Huang Xiaohu said goodbye to Li Xiucheng, he immediately returned to Weizhou City.

After arriving in Weizhou City, Huang Xiaohu left behind a regiment commander and general, and then left behind [-] soldiers and horses, and ordered the regiment commander to station in Weizhou, and return to Weiyang if the situation was urgent.

After leaving the defenders, Huang Xiaohu led the remaining soldiers to escort more than 6000 surrendered troops to the barracks.

At the barracks, Huang Xiaohu met Jia Lin, and after dealing with half of the surrendered troops, he led the army to escort the remaining surrendered troops to Qingyuan.

When Huang Xiaohu returned to Qingyuan City, Luo Hongfan personally led the team to welcome Huang Xiaohu's army into the city.

After returning to Qingyuan, Huang Xiaohu didn't go back to the mansion directly, but held a meeting with Luo Hongfan and others to discuss the next thing.

Huang Xiaohu said: "This time the siege of Weiyang City was solved, and we pursued the Qing army and captured Weizhou and Bozhou, but Bozhou City was directly handed over to the people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to take over, and Weizhou City left behind [-] defenders. , but once the Qing army counterattacks, I am afraid that Weizhou City will not be able to defend."

Luo Hongfan said: "Wing King Shi Dakai has a letter, please read it."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Just open it and read it to me. Forget it, Mr. Luo, after reading it, tell everyone."

After Luo Hongfan opened the letter, he looked at it carefully, and then said: "Yi Wang Shi Dakai invited the chairman to Anqing for a meeting. It seems that he wants to negotiate with the chairman face to face."

Huang Xiaohu said: "Even if he doesn't want to see me, I still have a plan to meet Yi Wang Shi Da once. Since he took the initiative to invite me this time, I should reply him quickly and say that I will go to Anqing for the appointment in a month."

Luo Hongfan said: "Master President, are you really going to see that Wing King Shi Dakai?"

Huang Xiaohu said: "What's wrong? Master Luo, he invited me to meet him on his own initiative, and he didn't have any malicious intentions. Do I have the nerve to refuse him?"

(End of this chapter)