The most glorious battle of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom star Shi Dakai: Hukou massacred the Hunan army, Zeng Guofan was defeated

After the Battle of Tianjiazhen, Yang Zaifu, an important general of the Hunan Army Navy, stayed in Wuxue to recuperate. Peng Yulin became the former enemy commander-in-chief of the Xiang Army Navy. Peng Yulin is good at planning, but his ability to face battles is not as strong as Yang Zaifu, and he is arrogant and impatient by nature. These weaknesses of Peng Yulin will be fully utilized by Shi Dakai in the upcoming war.

After learning that the Xiang Army navy had moved eastward, the Taiping Army prepared more than 100 small boats on the upper reaches of the Ganjiang River, piled up firewood in the boats, scattered gunpowder in the middle, and poured lamp oil. When the Xiang Army navy advanced to the mouth of the lake, the Taiping Army set ablaze these ships, let them go down the river, rush out of the lake, and crash into the Xiang Army navy. Soldiers of the Taiping Army's water camp piloted warships, followed behind these ships, and launched rockets and fireballs to attack the Hunan Navy's navy.

The Hunan navy soldiers saw the fire boat rushing towards them, quickly picked up the Penny and pushed the fire boat to the middle stream. As a result, all the fireboats of the Taiping Army went down the river and failed to burn the warships of the Hunan Army. The attack of the Taiping Army water camp soldiers was also resolved by the Hunan Army. In the battle of Hukou, the Hunan Army won the first confrontation with the Taiping Army.

Since then, the Taiping Army launched a psychological war against the Hunan Army in response to Peng Yulin’s impatient personality weakness and Zeng Guofan’s eagerness to win. Every night, the Taiping Army sent more than a thousand people to throw rockets and fireballs at the Hunan Army warships on the shore and shouted loudly. As a result, the naval officers and soldiers of the Hunan Army were completely unable to sleep and their mental state was very poor. Peng Yulin gritted his teeth, wishing to swallow Shi Dakai alive.

In addition to psychological warfare, the Taiping Army also set up a number of wooden sledges at the mouth of Poyang Lake to counter the Xiang Army naval attack. Mucheng is surrounded by Mucheng, and in the middle is a watchtower. Muyan, Mucheng, and watchtower are combined together, like a castle floating on water, very majestic. Behind the Mu Yan is a new warship built by the Taiping Army imitating the Hunan Navy naval warship.

The well-designed fortifications of the Taiping Army blocked the advance of the Hunan Navy Navy. Peng Yulin was anxious, he didn't think about eating and drinking, but he still couldn't wait for the news of victory.

Until January 23, 1855, Peng Yulin received good news. In the battle on this day, the artillery fire from the Hunan Army hit the powder box on the wooden hairpin of the Taiping Army by accident.

With a loud noise, the fire rose into the air and quickly burned the enemy side of Mu Yan. But on the back of Mu Yan, the heroic Taiping soldiers still fired. The soldiers of the Taiping Army who stood upstairs next to Mu Yan stood still, fighting the attack of the Hunan Army bravely. It wasn't until the wooden 簰 was burned out and the watchtower was overturned that these Taiping soldiers jumped into the water and swam back to the shore.

Battle of Hukou In the second confrontation between the Hunan Army and the Taiping Army, the winner is still the Hunan Army. Every time the Hunan Army wins, the eagerness to win strengthens. This is what Shi Dakai wanted!

After Muyan was destroyed by the Hunan Army, Shi Dakai quickly took action and ordered the ship to be scuttled and sealed off the mouth of Poyang Lake, leaving only one pass for entry and exit.

On January 29th, Xiang Army naval commanders Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng led more than 120 long dragons and sampans, carrying 2,000 men, and patrolled outside the lake. Suddenly, they discovered that there were a lot of Taiping troops in the lake ahead.

Before, Peng Yulin suggested to attack the Taiping army's grain ships in Poyang Lake to cut off the food supply of the Taiping army in the lake, so that they would collapse without fighting. But this strategy was opposed by other Hunan generals. Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng have always regretted that Peng Yulin's strategy was not implemented. Therefore, when they faced the Taiping Army's grain ship, they did not hesitate to choose to follow Peng Yulin's strategy. One hundred and twenty Hunan warships and two thousand Hunan soldiers were taken by Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng and rushed into Poyang Lake from the pass.

Seeing the Xiang Army naval division was killed, the soldiers of the Taiping Army hurriedly drove the food ship to escape. Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng led his troops to pursue quickly. In a short while, the fleet of Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng went deep for more than 20 miles and came to the Gutang area.

At this time, Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng had a foreboding that the grain ship in front of them might be bait, the purpose of which was to lure them to go deeper and then trap them. So they rushTightly lead the fleet to retreat. But at this time, everything is too late! The Taiping Army has blocked the pass and deployed a tight firepower net at the exit. Xiao Jiesan and Huang Yisheng, along with more than 120 Hunan warships, and two thousand Hunan navy soldiers, were all trapped in Poyang Lake!

From then on, the Xiangjun navy was divided into two branches: the outer river and the inner lake. The Hunan warships on the Waijiang River are mainly large ships such as long dragons and fast crabs that are mainly used to carry supplies. These ships cannot fight alone without the assistance of sampans.

Shi Dakai seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break the enemy. He ordered some subordinates to drive dozens of warships to besiege the large Hunan ships anchored in the Yangtze River. He also ordered other subordinates to drive dozens of small boats into the Hunan camp and set fire to the Hunan ships. At the same time, Shi Da ordered the Taiping troops stationed on both sides of the strait to throw spray canisters to assist the water camp.

This evening, the Taiping Army won a complete victory and burned dozens of Hunan warships. The Hunan navy was forced to retreat to the surface of the river near Jiujiang.