Cutting 1719

Chapter 361 Fatal Strike

The Qing army camp was full of flames, gunshots and explosions were everywhere, and most of the soldiers of the Qing army were crying and shouting for their mothers. In the face of the sudden attack of the Han army, their morale almost completely collapsed. No effective counterattack was formed at all, and more people were lying on the ground and pretending to be dead.
I have to say that Man Bao, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang of the Qing army, and the general soldiers below seem to have never considered the fact that the Fuhan army would attack the camp at night, but this is also because the Fuhan army has seldom attacked since the war. This kind of night attack was carried out during the day and defeated the Qing army with dignity, so that many Qing army generals mistakenly believed that the Fuhan army was not good at night attack.

In fact, this is completely a big misunderstanding. The Fuhan army is not only very good at night attack, but also fights very fiercely after full preparation, just like a warrior in armor with a long sword in his hand , There is almost no weakness, and it can be said that it is incomprehensible in front of the Qing army.

Since Qian Ying started preparing to lure the enemy into battle, he has already made multiple preparations. First, he sent two regiments to the south with great fanfare. However, after occupying Qingxi Town, most of the soldiers of the Fuhan Army began to They hurried back quietly, but all the way they stayed at night and went out at night, and blocked the main roads along the way, so that the Qing army didn't find out about it at all, and the Fuhan army left a battalion in Qingxi Town Troops, send troops out of the town every day, and then quietly return at night, pretending that the main force is in Qingxi Town, in order to catch the big fish of the Qing court in Shaozhou Prefecture.

Of course, it’s fine if it’s just like this. In fact, even the reactions of Guan Yuanzhong and Manbao have been taken into consideration. He will use the spy buried beside Manbao—that is, Huang Guocai, to use his influence on Manbao to persuade Manbao to send troops.

That's right, when Huang Guocai was in Fujian, he had already taken refuge in the Military Intelligence Department of the Fuhan Army. His purpose of staying by Manbao's side was to mobilize the two sides. The method was completely kneaded together, including persuading Manbao in Huizhou to garrison Shaozhou, which was also his handwriting.

Up to now, it's finally done. The 6000 Green Battalions in Shaozhou Prefecture have been completely wiped out, and all of them are besieged under the Baisha Castle. Just waiting for the Green Battalion to launch a general attack, the [-] people can be completely wiped out.

Man Bao looked at Sun Wei, the chief soldier of Jieshi Town who was kneeling in front of him, but his face was blank. He really didn't understand what happened, so he said in a trembling voice, "What happened?"

Sun Wei mournfully said, "My lord, just now I was patrolling the night with General Yang, but unexpectedly Chu Ni came over all night. They fired a large number of projectiles from the artillery, killing General Yang. The last general also escaped by chance. Now the whole battalion The pot exploded from top to bottom, and the army is no longer safe."

Man Bao's face was as white as paper. He listened to the movement outside the tent, and subconsciously raised his hand, "General Sun, hurry up and organize people to escort the governor away."

In the end, Manbao didn't care how many green camps died. After all, they were all Han Chinese, but he couldn't die in this chaotic army. How many important things did the court need to use him for? How could he die in this wild place? ?

But before Sun Wei agreed, a bomb happened to hit the tent. After an explosion, both Manbao and Sun Wei were killed, leaving only two tattered corpses.
Since no one really commanded the camp of the Qing army, it was completely scattered in front of the Fuhan army. At dawn, the battle situation completely ceased. The green camp with more than 3000 people died and injured as many as 8000. , Thousands of people disappeared, and the remaining more than [-] people all became prisoners of the Sixth Division of the Fuhan Army.

At dawn, Dai Xu, head of the third regiment of the Sixth Division, held a top helmet in his hand, and entered the camp of the Chinese army with a face full of excitement. Eager to speak, he picked up the large bowl on the table and gulped it down, letting out a contented sigh.

"Heh, you always look like this when you are wearing a madman. How can you not salute when you enter the general's tent?"

Qian Ying stroked his beard and smiled, although he was not polite at all, he soon revealed his true feelings, he slowly approached Dai Xu, with a look of expectation on his face, and said with a smile: "This time I will catch you!" A big fish?"

"Hehe, how can this big fish be so easy to catch?"

Dai Xu said carelessly, ignoring Qian Ying's darkening complexion.

"Even if the governor didn't get caught, the governor and the general soldier didn't get caught either?"

"One was never caught."

"Well, you are crazy! It's a good thing you said before the war that none of them could run away, but now you are so cheeky. In vain, I will look forward to you so much, but you are so ignorant, even a decent big fish I didn’t catch it, how do you want me to communicate with the privy envoy? How to communicate with the emperor?”

Qian Ying is worthy of being a man who once worked in the green camp. When he spoke smoothly, he almost gave Dai Xu an unpardonable crime. However, Dai Xu was not afraid at all, instead he kept winking at the side.

"Master, since we praised Haikou before the war, we naturally have an explanation. It is true that this big fish did not catch a few alive." Dai Xu sighed lowly, as if he was quite sorry, "How many dead fish are there?" There is really no way to give it to the division commander to celebrate. Our artillery's hands are a little raw, and they killed the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, Manbao, and the two chief soldiers, and we can't bring them back to life."

Dai Xu was still chattering there, but Qian Ying's face became beaming, and his eyes were fascinated, as if he saw the scene where the unsmiling privy envoy Ning Zhongyi was awarding him an honor. Great work.
Ning Zhongyi, who was supervising the battle under the city of Huizhou, suddenly sneezed and murmured: "What happened today, is it possible that someone is still thinking about us?"

Cheng Ming, the commander of the Third Division on the side, had a smile on his face, "I'm afraid the Privy Envoy has something good to come to the door. Right now, we haven't made a breakthrough in Huizhou, and I'm afraid there has been movement in Shaozhou."

Ning Zhongyi frowned slightly, looked at the city wall of Huizhou for a long time, and then nodded lightly, "Huizhou is indeed a bit tricky here. As for Shaozhou Prefecture, even if they can win, I'm afraid they won't be able to deal with it in a while. I have to fight hard."

Cheng Ming was a little surprised, but suddenly remembered something, and asked in a low voice, "Could it be the soldiers from Guangxi?"

"That's right, according to the new news from the Military Intelligence Department, the Guangxi green battalion that set out very early is probably already pregnant. It's not far from the Guangzhou mansion. At least for the Qing army, they don't have to worry about Guangzhou. defense."

In fact, Ning Zhongyi still has some regrets in his heart. If he can really take Guangzhou directly, the overall situation may be settled, but in his heart, this battle alone is not enough, and the soldiers from Guangxi must also be dragged in. Otherwise, we will have to play another game in Guangxi.
"Since there is no way for Shaozhou to provide support, our Huizhou side must also move. I will order the whole army to attack the city. We must take Huizhou before sunset today, otherwise there will be no changes in the battle situation. There are going to be some problems"

"and many more."

After Cheng Ming finished speaking, he wanted to go out, but was stopped by Ning Zhongyi, so he had to stop, looking back at Ning Zhongyi curiously.

"Huizhou. Just maintain the current pressure and don't mess up the position. The real killer move I arranged is not Qian Ying's sixth division."

"The first division has arrived at Yahai?" Cheng Ming was both surprised and delighted. He didn't know the specific details of the sea crossing operation before, so he never thought about it, but now he feels that Ning Zhongyi is implying something.

"Yes, that was the real fatal blow I arranged for Guan Yuanzhong!"

Looking at the soldiers of the Fuhan Army who were landing, Ning Tieshan couldn't help but sighed softly. For this battle, the First Division has always maintained a spectator attitude from the beginning to the present. Among the battle reports, they wanted to obtain some front-line information, but what they wanted most in their hearts was naturally to be able to go to the front line in person.

But this plan was proposed by Ning Tieshan himself, and now he naturally needs to take the lead in fulfilling such responsibilities, and now he has managed to stick to it until today, for the moment of successful landing.

Everyone thought that the Fuhan army had landed from Yahai once, and would not land a second time at the same place, so Guan Yuanzhong only sent some sentries to Yahai, and did not pay much attention to it. However, before this landing, the Fuhan Army's Military Information Department had already suppressed Yahai, and many Qing army sentries were intercepted and killed, so that Guan Yuanzhong did not get any more useful things, and Yahai became a new place. Mysterious.

After the Fuhan army re-landed on Yahai, the Qing army did not find it immediately. Therefore, according to Ning Tieshan's estimation, when the Qing army discovered it, the intermediate time was enough for the Fuhan army to clear the Xinhui city. The army launches a surprise attack, and can even wipe them all out.

That's right, this tactic actually followed the scene under the White Sand Castle, and launched a surprise attack on the Qing army's camp by cooperating with the inside and outside, so as to launch a devastating blow to the Qing army's camp with superior firepower, and wipe out the vitality of the green camp to the greatest extent. This trick is almost time-tested.

Under the leadership of Ning Tieshan, the four regiments of the first division landed in Yahai in the fastest time, and after forming their formation, they rushed towards Xinhui City. The news was hardly noticed by anyone.

When the first division of the Fuhan Army was less than ten miles away from Xinhui, the sentries of the Qing army finally discovered the scene in front of them. They saw countless soldiers of the Fuhan Army heading towards Xinhui City along the road As soon as he went, he realized that something was wrong, and regardless of the hidden problem, he rode his horse and ran towards Xinhui City.

Ning Tieshan couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he saw the sentry of the Qing army in the distance. It seems that Guan Yuanzhong is indeed much stronger than Manbao, so he stopped hiding his whereabouts and ordered the cavalry company of the division to launch a pursuit , Try to intercept and kill the sentries of the green battalion, and at the same time order the whole division to stride forward, ready to attack Guan Yuanzhong's whole army.

"Clap clap."

The sentries of the Qing army are usually in a team of ten, so although the Fuhan army tried their best to intercept and kill them, there were still a few fish that slipped through the net and fled to the vicinity of the Qing army's camp, which was only two miles away from the Qing army's camp. However, the cavalry company didn't dare to pursue in depth, so they had to watch the spies flee into the camp, then turned and left.

"Report to the general, Chu Ni's army is no more than ten miles away from our army, and there are at least ten thousand people."

Out of breath, the sentinel fell into Guan Yuanzhong's handsome tent, and intermittently uttered a piece of news that shocked everyone.

"What? Where is Chu Ni? Isn't Chu Ni already under control? Could it be that they still have the ability to clone themselves?"

Kong Yuxun, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, turned dark all of a sudden. The Qing army had been in trouble these days, and he was holding back his anger. Now that he heard such news, he couldn't help but explode.

The sentry inspector lowered his head firmly, not daring to look at the adults present, so he could only mutter: "The villain is in the same team as the scouts, seven of them died, and two of them went back to the camp with the villain. Summon."

"Hmph." Kong Yuxun just snorted coldly when he saw what Sensei said.

Guan Yuanzhong was not annoyed by Kong Yuxun's attitude, he put a lot of emphasis on sentry, "Where did these Chu Ni come from?"

"Reporting to the general,...it seems to come from Yahai."

Hearing what the whistle said, Guan Yuanzhong's face became a little gloomy. He will never forget where the Fuhan army in Xinhui came from. There are only three divisions of the Fuhan army, one in Xinhui and one in Xinhui. One is in Huizhou, one is in Shaozhou, where did this come from?If it is a new army, why hasn't the slightest news been received before?

No matter how puzzled Guan Yuanzhong was, he still had to face what he had to face. On the one hand, he ordered the army to retreat, and on the other hand, he sent a large number of spies to prevent surprise attacks. The performance was still very appropriate, and there were no loopholes, which made Guo Ding'an, who had been watching the movement of the Qing army, couldn't help but sigh.

It's time to fight hard!
Ning Tieshan squinted his eyes and watched the movement of the Qing army. If it weren't for the fast running of those sentries, he might be able to win a battle this time. It's a pity that there is nothing to do, so he can only fight hard.

With the sound of drums, the soldiers of the Fuhan army formed a square formation and began to march towards the Qing army's position. A large number of artillery pieces were also pushed to the front of the formation. A quiet face.

At the same time, under the leadership of Guo Dingan, the Second Brigade of the Imperial Guards in Xinhui City also began to prepare to go out of the city to fight side by side. Although the current Second Brigade has lost more than 1000 people in repeated battles, there are still a few left. There are more than 6000 soldiers in combat strength, so they should not be underestimated.

The current Fuhan army is still at a disadvantage against the Qing army, with 6000 people against more than 4000 people, but neither Ning Tieshan nor Guo Ding'an will think that the Qing army will be their opponent Well, since this battle is going to be fought directly, the Qing army will be completely defeated.

(End of this chapter)